East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-07-22

country. many DeautlIul nttfe ldIInH
and villages. Their roads are excep-
tiona1iy good and believe me know
every rock and hole in some of them
as l have hotfooted over them
Leather is a very scarce thing In this
country as everyone here except sol-
diefs wear wooden shoes. II surely
looks funny to see women and chill
dren pIoddong along with wooden
shoes.
We had to leave our trunks and
are now many miles from them. All
we are allowed IS jus twhat we can
carry on our back. You can imagine
our disappointment in giving them up
as most of our things were in our
trunks. have managed to carry
"enuf' to get along with buf when
cold weather sets In 1t Is going 10 pc
some load. In some places we ofn-
GERS have paid as high as II francs
{ 1-2 r. to doilar) for q meal but
most of the time we eat with the men
and then 1t costs us about 50 cents
Il day. Candies and fruits are not
to be had at any price. Butter is sell
.1om seen. Tobacco is scarce but ]
still have some, much to my delight.
Last night some of the men got
new supply from Y. NJ. c. A. wagon
and they were pretty happy.
Getting mail is a serious matter.
Just think. we have only received
mail once since coming over. ] guess
Il is because we have been on the
move SO much. OF course you know
YOU are not allowed to send PACK
ages to us any more. They say it is
a new ruling because they were
swamped with them.
You are all anxious to know now
long the war will last. Well 1t Is the
same here. No one knows. as a mat
ter Of fact you get more war news
than we do. We simply know What
takes place in our sector. L am sure
we viii lick them but don't look FOR
me home in a month or so.
oh YES. the French farmers have
the best lot of farm horses have ever
seen. You seldom see a horse that
weighs less than 1900 pounds and
most of them weigh 1900 or better
The Frenchman loves his horses and
COWS and keeps them in the same
building in which he lives.
The farm machinery that 7 have
seen. which is very limited, is Amerl-
can made piows. seeders and binders
1 have never seen a threshing ma
chine of any kind.
Fuel is very scarce article, coai
being chiefly used, now it is about
SIS a ton. They also burn lots OF
peat which they gather from the
swamps-.
The French are also very con-
siderate people. For instance. they
,urv the aviators right where they fall
in their grain fields. front yards
streets. in face any place Each
yrave is carefully marked with
cross and in many places they have
n little fence around them. speaking
of graves, on our way up here we sa"
thousands of graves and when met
an Interpreter 1 learned that there
has been some fierce fighting over
his country for four years and that
at one time this wass headquarters
for the Germans.
In the next few days we will be
sent into the front lines ana snow
Terry what we can do The French
are wild over our boys and are anN-
,ous TO learn some Yankee tricks
about shooting. They, the French
are wonderful fighters but are poor
shots. They say they saw American
soldiers get after Jerry" and make
him run and when he is anywhere
from 200 to 800 yards away drop him
With one shot. while a French soldier
would chase Jerry that far and then
Use a hand grenade or shell. They
,annot shoot so well. Believe me,
Jerry is not wild about the
'Yanks." They just captured bunch
Of ferries" and the ferries sald
the "Yanks' were too much with the
rifle, one shot one dead Jerry, ana
they were not going to take any
chances.
lust received notice that some
horses have arrived. one for me
rhanks! 1 most surely am glad, but
walking does not bother me now and
10 miles is getting to be joke. Whe"
[ get home 1 will have to take Grand
pa L. on for a hike.
/ Imagine hay time is about on. l.
most surely hope crops are good this
year. The grain here is nicely head
ed out but it can not compare with
ours. judge 20 bushel per acre Is
4 big crop.
One thing sure, our Fourth of July
over here will be much more celebrat-
ed than over there as our noise MAX
ing outfits are getting some practice
not only days but nights and the fire
displays have seen are tame COM
pare to what / saw one night. oh, l
will have a lot to tell you when 1 get
back.
The health of our outfit is. wonder
fully good. 1 have about 1000 men
and not single case of serious
sickness. Had two cases OF scarlet
fever but got them early. slapped on
a strict quarantine and got no more.
Mumps are always present. Now
have seven or eight cases and a few
cases of tonsilitis. so you see we are
D. X.
Funny thing. when the firing ceas-
es for a few minutes, as it has done
a good many times the last few days
has a