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CHAPTER TX.
Suicide Annex.


I was in my first dugout and looked
around curiously. Over the door Of
same was little sign reading "Sui-
eide Annex" One Of the boys told
me that this particular front trench
was called "Suicide Ditch" Later on
I learned that machine gunners and
bombers are known as the "Suicide
Club"
That dugout was muddy. The men
slept in mud, washed in mud, ate mud,
and dreamed mud. had never before
realized that so much discomfort and
misery could be contained in those
three little letters, NJ q D. The floor
Of the dugout was an inch deep in
water. Outside it was raining cats and
dogs, and thin rivulets were trickling
down the steps. From the air shaft
Immediately above me came drip,
drip, drip. Suicide Annex was a hole
eight feet wi de, ten feet long and six
feet high. 1t was about twenty feet
below the fire trench; at least there
were twenty steps leading down to It.
These steps were cut into the earth,
but at that time were muddy and slip
perry. A man had to be very careful
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Or else ne would "shoot the chutes-
The air was foul, and you could cut
the smoke from Tommy's fags with a
knife. It was cold. The walls and
roof were supported with heavy square
cut timbers, while the entrance was
strengthened with sandbags. Nails had
been driven into these timbers. On
each nail hung a miscellaneous assort-
ment of equipment. The lighting ar
rangements were superb-one candle
in a reflector made from an ammuni-
ton tin. My teeth were chattering
from the cold, and the drip from the
airshaft did not help matters much.
While I was sitting bemoaning my
fate and wishing for the fireside at
home, the fellow next to me, who was
writing a letter, looked up and inno-
Gently asked, "Say, Yank, how do you
spell 'confagration'?"
I looked at him in contempt and an
swered that I did not know.
From the darkness in one Of the cor
lSIS CdllC q lulA, p1pAh6 'oASS oAhSAA6
,ne of the popular trench ditties en-
titled:
Pack up your Troubles in your Old Kit
Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile"
Every now and then the singer
would stop to cough, cough, cough, buS
it was a good illustration of Tommy's
cheerfulness under such conditions.
A machine-gun officer entered the
dugout and gave me hard look. 1
sneaked past him, sliding and slipping,
and reached my section Of the 'front.'
line trench, where I was greeted by
the sergeant, who asked me, where
in - ave you been?"
I made no answer, but sat on the
muddy fire step, shivering with the
cold and with the rain beating in my
face. About half an hour later l
teamed up with another fellow and
went on guard with my head sticking
over the top. At ten o'clock l was
relieved and resumed my sitting posi-
ton on the fire step. The rain sud-
denly stopped and we all breathed a
sigh of relief. We prayed for the morn
ing and the rum issue.
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SYNOPSIS.

/ CHAPTER I-Fired by the news OF the
isinking of the Lusitan1a by g. German
fe1bmarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Amer1.
kcan. leaves his Office In Jersey City ana
Exoes to England where he enlists In the
British army.
I CHAPTER II-After period Of train
ling, Empey volunteers for immediate serv-
ice and soon finds himself In rest bhletS
Estsomewhere in France" where he hrst
smakes the acquaintance OF the ever-pres-
Fent "cooties."
CHAPTER III-Empey attends his first
tchurch services at the front while Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER Iv-Empey's command goes
INTO the front-line trenches and is under
lire for the first time.
! CHAPTER V-Empey learns to adopt
itha motto of the British Tommy, IF you
lare going to get 1t, you'll get IT, so never
ii-GIAPrER VIBack In rest billets. EN-
new gets his first experience as a mess
lorderiy. n
British soldiers are fed.
5CHAPTER vII-Back In the front.lne
ttrench, Empey sees his first fraeno OF inc
trenches ego West"
! CHAPTER K-Empey makes ms nrst
visit to a dugout in Suicide Ditch.
CHAPTER x-Empey learns what con-
tstftutes a days work. in the front-hne
ttrArch. r.~sN
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CITATION NOTICE.

The State of South Carolina
County of BAN berg-By J. J. Brab-
ham, Jr., Esq, Judge of Probate.
Whereas, J. H. Roberts, NJ. D., hath
made suit to me to grant him letters
of administration of the estate and
effects of Mrs. S. E. Roberts, deceas-
ed.
These are therefore to cite and
admonish all and singular the kin
dred and creditors of the said Mrs. S.
E. Roberts, deceased, that they be
and appear before me in the Court OF
Probate, to be held at Bamberg, on
Wednesday, March 27th,. next, after
publication thereof, at II o'clock in
the forenoon, to show cause, If any
they have, why the said administra-
ton should not be granted.
Given un Ter my hand and seal this
18th day Of March, Ammo Domini,
1918.
J.J. BRABHAM, JR.
Judge of Probate.
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CHAPTER x.
The Days Work"

I was fast learning that there Is a
regular routine about the work Of the
trenches, although it is badly upset at
times by the Germans.
The real work in the fire trench
commences at sundown. Tommy Is
like burglar, he works at night.
Just as it begins to get dark the
word "stand to" is passed from trav-
erse to traverse, and the men get busy.
The first relief, consisting of two men
to q traverse, mount the fire step, one
man looking over the top, while the
other sits at his feet, ready to carry
messages or to inform the platoon Off
Ger Of any report made by the sentry
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to the Front.
as to his observations in NO Mans
Land. The sentry is not allowed to
relax his watch for second. II he Is
questioned from the trench or asked
his orders, he replies without turning
around or taking his eyes from the ex-
panse of dirt in front Of him. The re-
mainder of the occupants OF his trav-
erse either sit on the fire step, with
bayonets fixed, ready for any emer-
gency, or If lucky, and dugout hap
pens to be in the near vicinity Of the
traverse, and if the night is quiet, they
are permitted to go to same and try
and snatch few winks Of sleep. Little
sleeping is done; generally the men sit
around, smoking fags and seeing who
can tell the biggest lie. Some Of them,
perhaps with their feet In water, would
write home sympathizing with the
s'governor" because he was laid up
with a cold, contracted by getting his
feet wet on his way to work in Wool
wich arsenal. If a man should manage
to doze off, likely as not he would wake
with a start as the clammy, cold feet
of a rat passed over his face, or the
next relief stepped on his stomach
while stumbling on their way to relieve
the sentries in the trench.
Just try to sleep with belt full of
ammunition around you, your rifle bolt
biting into your ribs, intrenching tool
handle sticking into the small Of your
back, with a tin hat for pillow and
feeling very damp and cold, with
"cooties" boring for oil in your arm
pits, the air foul from the stencil of
grimy human bodies and smoke from a
juicy pipe being whitfield into your nos
trils, then you will not wonder why
Tommy occasionally takes turn In
the trench for rest.
While in a front-line trench orders
(Tonfinuod IN Dapo e oOlumn \
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fdKINy FTOVISIOft
candle In the macn1ne gunner's dugout
of the front-line trench I wrote two
letters. One to Pete's mother, the
other TO his sweetheart. While doing
this I cursed the Prussian war god
with all my heart, and think that st.
Peter noted same.
The machine gunners in the dugout
were laughing and joking. To them
Pete was unknown. Pretty soon, In the
warmth of their merriment, my blues
disappeared. One soon forgets on the
western frent.
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TIL TOP
~
AN ANERICAN SOLDIER
WHO WENT " &
ARI1lUl GUY Fr[pF<Y.
MACHINE GUNNER SERVING M FRANCE
I @Is7 ~ !
iARTHuR GN EhFl

erently cOv""ed him with q large union
Jack, the flag he had died for.
The chaplain led the way, then came
the officers of the section, followed by
two of the men carrying a wreath. I'm
mediately after came poor Pete on the
flag-draped stretcher, carried by four
soldiers. I was one of the four. Be-
hind the stretcher, in column of fours,
came the remainder Of the section.
To get to the cemetery, we had to
pass through the little shell-destroyed
village, where troops were hurrying
to and fro.
AS the funeral procession passed
these troops came to the "attentlon
and smartly saluted the dead.
Poor Pete was receiving the only sa-
lutte a private is entitled to "some-
where in France"
Now and again shell from the Ger
man lines would 60 whistling over the
village to burst in our artillery lines
in the rear.
When we reached the cemetery we
halted in front of an open grave, and
laid the stretcher beside it. Forming
d hollow square around the opening of
the grave, the chaplain read the burial
service.
German machine-gun bullets were
cracking" in the air above us, but
Pete didn't mind, and neither did we.
When the body was lowered into the
grave the flag having been removed,
we clicked our heels together and
came to- the salute.
left before the grave was filled in.
could not bear to see the dirt thrown
on the blanket-coyered face Of my com
rade. On the western front there are
no coffins, and you are lucky to get a
blanket to protect you from the wet
and the worms. Several Of the sec,
ton stayed and decorated the grave
With white stones.
/! That night, in the, light Of a lonely
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To Cure a Cold In One Day.

Take LAXATIVE BRoMO Quinine. It stops the
Cough and Headache and works off the Cold.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
e. W. GROVES signature On each box. 30c.
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The Cordova daily times., 1918-07-01
ALASKA'S EDIBLE
 HERBS AND GREENS

Cucumber plant, nettles, goose tongue, wild parsley. wild rice, nor thern willow herb. are among the ed ible herbs and vegetables found in goodly quantities in Alaska For years they have been eaten by the Russians and natives of the territory and are now familiar with their del icate flavor. The above greens make excellent substitutes for cultivated vegetables.
 Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, who has lived in Alaska all his life, has pre- pared an interesting article with reference 10 these edible herbs and greens which has been published by the Alaska bureau of publicity, cop ies of which may be had at the gov ernors office.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-07-01

wooden slats is sufficient. Place the jars so they do not touch each other and have the water cover the tops Of the. jars one inch at lsast, The time of cooking should be counted from the minute the water boils and continues to.boil.s This method has a great advantage over the others in that the fruit and vegetables may be packed away from the heat of the stove. Explicit directions for pro ceedings by the cold pack method may be found just now in almost any of the house or women's maga- zines with time tables for the cold pack method. s'~
 Some of us have departed from the ways of our mothers and grand mothers, who used to take a wonder ful and pardonable pride in their well stocked shelves of preserves. But these times urge us to put up as we never have before. Tin for cans IS scarce. and will no doubt be scacer. So we, the housewives. must step Tn. This is our province exclusively and this summer we must can as we never canned before. Can for our own sakes as well as for our families, can to save factory outputs for our men lover there" and can so that our allies. too. may have enough to hearten them for the struggle which those who know say will not soon be over.
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SATELLITES PAY
 FOR UNIQUE PRIVILEGE

For the benefit of those who are
 not able to keep up with the ever
 increasing lingo of the West, q Jay
 Walker is pedestrian who cuts the corners in crossing the street Seattle
 has a rigid traffic rule on this sub jeCt, and violatOrs are supposed to be
 haled before his honor" and tapped
 for g. fine. That it is no mean problem Is borne out by the fact that more than 26,00O Jay Walking tags V ere distributed by the police depart ment during the week of May 20th at the bargain price of soc per. This practical demonstration served dou- ble, purpose. for It Taught Seattle to cut her corners square and at the same time helped the war fund with many good natured contributions. Au- toists also cheerfuily donated sl each for the privilege of using the down town streets for the week. lncom- plete returns, with slow collections still being reported. show that Seattle paid between $27.OOO and $2S,OO0 fori a bright idea.--Red Cross Bulletin.
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ALASKA WHALE MEAT

Among the commodities exported from the territory during the month of May was 213. 100 pounds of whale meat valued at $7,45S.
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That little Lang range in the North western Hardware Company's window is just the thing for newlyweds.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-07-01

The Northwestern Hardware Com papy has the new "Hylo" and Lux gasfiled electric light globes.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-07-01

Your eyes fitted. Compound and' astigmaue lenses replacsds See O..
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-23
SAVING Time in ShipbuiIdino.

In place of using rivets to fasten the
plates and the framing of ship to-
gether, test is being made by the
Emergency Fleet corporation, at the
Federal Shipbuilding company's yard
in Kearney, N. J., in the use of cleo
trio welding. This test is to be con-
Quoted on a 40-foot length of a $500
ton cargo steamship. Both spot weld
ing and continuous arc welding viii
be used, the spot welding for connect
ing the frames and plates, and the arc
welding for joining the seams Of the
plates. The hull to be tested will be
filled with water and subjected to va
rious strains in order to judge of the
strength of the joints. Should the test
prove successful, it will result not only
in the saving Of 10 per cent of weight,
but also in a great economy of time.
1t will eliminate great deal of work
in marking out, punching, and fitting of
the members, as well as reduction in
the railroad transportation from the
rolling mill to the fabricating plant. 1t
is believed that the total saving will
amount to about $40 a ton of the steel
MISUNDERSTANDING American.
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Art Works in Demand in Japan.

Fabulous prices, as far as the deal
ings in works of art are concerned in
Japan, have been paid for rare master
pieces. At the Higashi Hongwanji
sales a pair of screens, with iris bios
SONS painted by Ogata Korin, fetched
100000 yen and created quite SEN
sation.
At Viscount Akimoto's sale an al
bum with eight small paintings, rep
resenting eight scenes of Shosho, by
Kefshoki, was sold for 10000 yen, and
scroll Of Eiga Monogatari, by Nobu-
zone, fetched 10000 yen. But this
record was broken when a kakemono
Changing picture) of snow land
scape, painted by Royokai, was sold
for 10000 yen. This was again broken
when a pair of scrolls with SO poems
by Nobuzane, in Marquis Satake's col
lection, was sold for the enormous sum
of 353, 900 yen. This is the greatest
amount of money paid in modern times
in Japan for a single work of art.
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LIKE THEIR DESERT
Bedouin Women the Possessors
of Savage Beauty.
5arbaric Ornaments, With Which They
Load Themselves, Do Not Seem
Out of PIace--Abandoning An
cient Customs.

All the women of the Bedouin village
came to see us, writes Elizabeth Coop
er in Asia. They had magnificent
physiques, tall and supple, and carried
themselves with stately grace. They
were dressed in long, straight cotton
gowns of blue or black, and many
colored sash was wrapped around the
waist. The only foot coverings were
the anklets of silver that fell down
over the instep. Over their hair, which
was braided in many braids, and In
which were plated small gold coins
that elinked unsteady as they moved
their heads, they wore wells of black
with a colored border, which added to
their dignity and beauty in q most
charming manner.
From the lower lip to the neck, and
lost in the coverings of the dress, were
three dark blue lines Of tattooing. This
tattooing is seen now only on the older
women, and is being thrown on the al
tar of modernity by the daughters of
the Bedouins who have peeped into the
outer world and are trying to be more
like their city neighbors. The hair Is
straight and black, and with many has
been given tinge of red by washing
it in henna. / saw no gray-haired wom-
en-, because those who have been
touched by the finger of time have
been allowed by kindly custom to dye
their locks, and there were many fam
ing heads above wrinkled faces. Hen
ma is also applied to the nails of the
fingers and toes, and the under side
of the feet and palms are not forgotten
by the Bedouin woman who has con-
served the customs of her mother and
has not yet relegated the henna pot
to the lumber room along with the tat
tooing ink.
Great masses of j4welry were worn
by all, not the diamonds and rubies
found in the cities. but the true orna-
ments of barbaric people. Hoops of
gold were in the ears-One hanging
from the top of the ear, another from
the lobe. The neck was covered with
chains formed of balls of gold or OF
coins, and on the arms were many
bracelets. In writing coldly Of the Bed
ouin woman, her tattooing. her henna
colored hair, her Northumberland eyes
and her massive chains Of gold and
ank1ets, of silver, it seems as if she
were still in an age of barbarism, yet
her ornaments are becoming to hel
| rich coloring and she is not over
| dressed Ornaments belong to the time
and thesplace, and are made for these
women, who need strong settings fol
| their own savage beauty.
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Center of Production.

The center of agricultural produc-
ton of the United States, according to
the value of crop and animal products
for 1917, is in west central Illinois, as
shown by a diagram just issued by the
department of agriculture. The states
of greatest production are: Iowa, ST.
320.000O00; Illinois, S1.255, OOO, 600 !;
Texas, s1.045, 100000; Missouri, $947,-
100000; Ohio. 1851, 100000; Nebraska.
774,OOO,O00; Indiana, s766, 100000;
Kansas, $735, 900. 900; New York, $780,
100000; Minnesota, .S646, 100000 Penn
sylvania, s636.000. 900; Georgia, $685.
O00O 600; Wisconsin, $4,000 600: Cal
ifornia, $4,000, 900; Michigan, s534,-
100000. and Kentucky. $52s,ooo. 900.
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Want to Build a Pyramid?

If the great pyramid nf f,heops III
Egypt were to be built todaT it's total
cost would be not less than $3.50 n00,-
900, according to experts TThc have
studied the vast structure. ChcOps is
4S0 feet high and covers almost thir-
teen acres. Upward of 90,000,000 GU
bic feet of stone were used in building
this great pyramid.
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FERTILIZING SALT
Place Orders Now!

AS special inducement to place
orders early we offer fertilizing salt
at $6 per ton, F. o. B. Hyde Park.
pueq puooss u! On md S! lIes Sui
bags. The bags alone are worth fully
one-fourth the price asked for the
salt
Salt, like everything else, is adj
vancing.
Send check with order as at $500
per ton we cannot afford to open
accounts for salt. J.
CARROLL S. PAGE, -
Hyde Park, Vermont
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New Food for Horses.

A new substitute for oats made with
coarse treacle is given to horses in
Paris.
lss~asas,A-sa-sra-ls.
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WANTED-Table girls at the Cot
tage Hotel, good wages. 29tf
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WANTED-Master of cottage for
boys. Also herdsman. If married
wife to fill housekeeper's position.
Good salary paid in all positions. w.
g. Faneher, Supt., Lawrence, Mass.
I. 68-73
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WANTED.

ATTENDANTS wanted-Men and
women wanted at Vermont State
Hospital for the Insane, to take po-
sitions as attendants. For those who
SO desire, opportunity is offered to
snter training school for nurses. For
particulars apply Vermont State Hos
pital for the Insane, Waterbury, vt.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE OR RENT-The Peck
homestead at Railroad street. In
quire of C. E. Peck or G. w. Peck.
Sd t f
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FIR

Chance for good wages and ad-
vancemege for men between the
ages of eighteen and forty-ive years
in good physical condition. Apply
N. Y. N. H. & H. R. r. M. D.
Miller, Supt., Waterbury, Conn; c.
A. Mitchell Supt., Hartford, Conn.
E. E. Regain, Supt. New Haven
Conn.
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FOR SALE-A Sterling range cheap,
good as new, can burn wood or coal,
with hot water attachment. Tele.
Barnet 1876. 63tf
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Iron Rust.

Few stains are so obstinate as iron
rust is. They may, however, be re-
moved from delicate fabrics by cover
Ing the spot thickly with cream tartar,
then twisting the cloth to keep the tar.
tar on the spot itself. Put that part
into pan Of cold water, bring gradu-
ally to boiling point, and afterwards
rinse In the usual way.-Exchange
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FOR SALE-One pair of harness, a
sulky pillow. Telephone 74-41. 67tf
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FOR Stakeholder bantam corn,
20 cents dozen. S. K. Huse, St.
Johnsbury Center. Tel. 191-14.
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The Life OF John Buckley.

It was ancient history to some that
the ''Life Story of John Buckley" ed
tied by the well-known J. G. Buck
master of the South Kensington mu-
scum, London, was really the story Of
its editors life. 1t was one of the
books of its season in 1907, one of the
best bits Of biography we have in fact,
and am not surprised to find that the
question Of its authorship has bobbed
up once again in the old country.
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WANTED-Help at Brightlook hos
pital. Sc If
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FOR SALE-One Ford car, model
1916. Address F. M. Porter, q Main
Street. 71-83 pd b
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FOR SALE

1 set Simpson No. 70 Spring bal
ance scale, capacity 100 lbs. Have
been used but very little. In perfect
order. Look like new. Also one
nearly new one horse express wagon
Phone 324. French & Bean, St.
Johnsbury.
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Spasmodic Sermon.

A mans characteris determined by
what he does-his reputation by what
he gets caught at,
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FOR SALE--the w. E. Harvey prop
erty in Concord, 2 tenement house
and barn, acre of land. Price 5000,
part down. Tel. 1921.
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WANTED-Caretaker of small FAM
lily Of girls who is familiar with sew
ing. Can make and mend girls
clothing and boys shirts; also to
teach girls the art. Seamstress for
boys department, who understands
making and mending boys clothes.
Housekeeper dormitory. Good sal
airy paid in each department. w. G..
Fancher, Supt., Lawrence, Mass. g.
73. s8a re