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CHAPTER VII.
Stopping the Huns at Dixmude.

| SIOppihQ TIC T1unS DIT bfAIf1uucs
1 was standing in a communication
trench that connected one of our front
| line trenches with a crater caused by
| the explosion of a mine. All around
me men of the third line were coming
up, climbing around, digging, hammer
ing, shifting planks, moving sandbags
up and down, bringing up new timbers,
reels of barbed wire, ladders. cases of
ammunition, machine guns, trench
mortars-all the things that make an
army look like a general store on legs.
The noise of the guns was just deaf
ening. Our own shells passed not far
above our heads, so close were the
enemy trenches, and. the explosions
were so near ard so violent that when
you rested your rifle butt on something
solid, like q rock, you could feel 1t
shake and hum every time a shell
landed.
Our first line was just on the out
skirts of the town, in trenches that
had been won and lost by both sides
many times. Our second line was in
the streets and the third line was
almost at the south end of the town.
The Huns were hard at it, Smelling
the battered remains of Dixmude, and
to the right stretcher bearers were
working in lines so close that they
looked like two parades passing each
other. But the bearers from the COM
pany near me had not returned from
the emergency dressing station and
the wounded were piling up, waiting
for them.
A company of the 2me Legion Etran-
gere had just come up to take their
stations in the crater, under the para
pet of sandbags. A shell landed among
them just before they entered the era
ter and sent almost whole squad
west, besides wounding several others.
Almost before they occupied the
crater the wires were laid and reached
back to us, and the order came for US
to remain where we were until further
orders.
Then we got the complete orders.
We were to make no noise but were all
to be ready in ten minutes. We put
On goggles and respirators. In ten
minutes the bombers we're to leave the
trenches. Three mines were to ex-
plode and then we were to take and |
hold a certain portion of the enemy |
trenches not far off. We were all |
-eady to start up the ladders when |
hey moved Nig's section over to ours
ind he sneaked up to me and whis-
)ered behind his hand, "Be sport,
Doc; make it fifty-fifty and gimme
,hance."
I did not have any idea what he
meant and he had to get back to his
quad. Then the bombers came up to
he ladders, masked and with loaded
acks on their left arms. zone min
tie now" said the officers, getting on
heir own ladders and drawing their
evolvers- though most Of the officers ]
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Of the Legion charged with rife and
bayonet like their men.
Then-Boom Slam! Bang and
the mines went off.
"Allezl" and then the parapet was
filled with bayonets and men scram-
bling and crawling and falling and get
ting up again. The smoke drifted back
on us, and then our own machine guns
began ahead of us.
Up toward the front the bombers
were fishing in their bags and throw
ing, just like boys after a rat along
the docks. The black smoke from the
Jack Johnsons" rolled over us and
probably there was gas. too, but you
could not tell.
The front lines had taken their
trenches and gone on and you could
see them, when you stood on a para
pet, running about like hounds through
the enemy communication trenches,
bombing out dugouts, disarming pris-
oners-very scary-looking In their
masks and goggles. The wounded
were coming back slowly. Then we
got busy with our work in the dugouts
and communication trenches and fire
bays, with bayonets and bombs, dig
ging the Boches out and sending them
'west." And every once in while a
Fritz on one side would step out and
yell "Kamerad," while, like as not, on
the other side, his pal would pot you
with revolver when you started TO
pick him up, thinking he was wounded.
Then we stood aside at the entrance
to a dugout and some Boches' came
out in single file, shouting "Kamerad"
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MOTHER OF MEN
BY ALICE WARD BAILEY
of the viQiIantes.

VI thS vIAHdHtS~s
Mother of men, do not mourn,
They have said that your boys must go
And your empty arms
And your souls alarms
Are now all that life can show
But look at the flag so proudly bornel
Mother of men, do not mourn.
Mother of men, do not mourn.
They are taking your mirth and joy:
But gladness comes
With the roll of the drums
To the heart of each marching boy,
While Right and Honor aloft are bornei
Mother of men, do not mourn.
Mother of men, do not mourn.
They have broken your heart. you say
And the radiant CLEANS
OF our happy dreams
Have all been driven astray-
But for Heaven and Earth your cross fs
borne
Mother of men, do not mourn.
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ing clothes or sleeping or cooking or
doing thousand and one things. The
men were always in good humor at
such times and it seemed to me even
more so when the enemy fire was
heavy.
If man was slightly wounded down
would come the rifles to order arms
and some poilu was sure to shout,
Fright this way One franc" 1t was
a standing joke and they always did it.
The poilu who did 1t most was Swiss
and he was always playing joke on
somebody or initiating some one Of
us or making faces.
We were all sorry when this Swiss
"went west" AZ the Timevs say. and
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DEPEW GOES COVER THE TOP" AND GETS HIS FIRST
GERMAN IN BAYONET FIGHT.

synopss-Abert Depew story
officer frstcass The
discharge
determination enlist
assigned craftsmanship
his a
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Depew has an exciting expert
ence in a Zeppelin raid, ~ told
In next instalIment.
(To BE coNTTNUED.)

Vanderhoof Herald-H you feel that
the whole world is against you, get In
line; the world may be right about 1t.
Boston Transcript
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CONSTR
And Sour St0uac... Caused This
Lady Much Suffering. Back
Draught Relieved.

Meadorsville, Ky.--Mrs. Pearl Pat.
rick, of this place, writes 81 was
very oonstipated. | he'd sour stomach
and wss so uncomfortable. went to
the doctor. He gave me some pills.
They weakened mo and seemed to
tear UP my DIGESTION They would
grippe me and afterwards it seemed
was more eonstiPatea than before
| heard of Black Draught and de.
cided to try It I found It lust what
needed. 1t was an easy laxative. and
not bad to avalon. Ny digestion soon
improved. got well OF tie goqr stom-
ach. my bowels soon seemed normal.
no more grlping. and I would take o
dose now and then, ana was ia good
shape
l cannot gay too much FOL Black
Draught for It is the finest laxative
one can use"
Thedford's Black.Dfanght has for
many years been found o} great valae
In the treatrn snt o. at0maca. liver and
bowel trouoie5 Easy to take, gentle
and reliable n its action, leaving no
bad after-etsects, Il has Won 10 praise
Of Thousands Ok people who have used
H. Ne.135
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MOVE CLOCKS BACK AN
HOUR ON OCTOBER Il

The hour which dropped from the
life of every man, woman and child
in this country at o'clock the morn
ing Of March 81 last will be handed
back by the United States govern
,ment at l o'clock on the morning of
Sunday, October q, when the day.
light saving plan comes to it's Off
cial demise for 1918.
Now that the outdoor weather is
about on the wane, the return to the
old schedule Of things will not be any
more of an Inconvenience than was
the adoption Of the new one. At ]
O'Clock the morning of October q
all the official clocks in the country
will be turned back at midnight and
thus the hour which was lost March
81 will be restored. No revision of
working schedules, meal schedules,
train schedules. etc. will be necessary.
The whole time schedule system will
merely be showed back an hour, and
solar, rather than governmental time
will again reibn.
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EoW's This ?

we offer One Hundred Dollars Re.
ward for any case of Catarrh that cam
not be cured by Hairs Catarrh Curell
Halls Catarrh Cure has been taken
by oatarrh sufferers for the past
thirty-hve years. and has become
known as the most reliable remedy for
Catarrh Hairs Catarrh Cure acts thru
the Blood on the Mucous surfaces. exe
pelling the Poison from the Blood ana
healing the diseased portions.
After you have taken Halls Catarrh
Cure for a short time you will see a
great Improvement in your general
health. start taking Halls Catarrh
Cure at once and get rid of catarrh.
Send for testimonials. free.
II. J. CHENEY 81 CO, Toledo. Ohio.
Sold by all Druggists 76c.
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HANOVER BASEBALL
DIRECTORS ARE SUED

Suit for the collection of $3.50 40,
with interest from September 1, 1917,
amounting to 1886, making the total
amount of the claim $624.76, was en-.
tered in Hanover Pa, by Herbert NJ.
Sterner proprietor of the Broadway
Garage that city, against d. Guy Hot-
linger, John S. Young, C. p. Wolcott,
James Smith and John E. Meisenheld.
er directors of the Hanover baseball
club of 1917 Steiner claims the
amount as due him for having con-
veyed the baseball team to different
points during the season of 1917.
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Miss Florence C. Thorne, who
has been on the personal staff of
Samuel Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor for several
years. has been appointed assist
ant director of the working con-
ditions service of the department
of labor Her duties will be to
investigate working conditions in
war industries and TO adopt rules
and means for enforcing certain
standards. :.
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was married in Cumberland, Md.
Monday to Mr.. r. Spriggs OF this
county. Mr.. Spriggs managed the
farming interests of Mrs. Cross in this
county for many years.
Miss Twilla Mcdowell. of Green
vile, Pa, has been employed by the
Poard of Education to teach biology
and chemistry in the High school
here; Miss Irene Rice, has been en-
ployed to teach in the commercial de-
partment.
Mr.. Ed Cunningham who is en-
ployed by the Pennsylvania railroad,
as fireman, is here visiting his fam
lily.
Rainy Day Visitors.
The rain driving the farmers srom
work on their farms, the visitors yes.
terday to town included Mr.. P. w
Mccoy, of Oakland district; Mr.. A.
r.. finger, fingers Store; Alec Gail
Mason, from the Johnson farm; D.
X. Dawson, Birch Grove; Jerry Am
brose and T. w. Miller, Oakland;
Matthias Barker and Bert Dawson,
Cliff and Floyd Michael, of Allen dis
trict.
Granted Absolute Divorce.
Mrs. Agnes Hamilton mas been grant
ed an absolute divorce from her hus-
band, Roy Hamilton by a decree Of
the Circuit Court, September term. 1t
I is reported that Hamilton. the hus-
band, deserted from the service of
the United States and is now serv-
ing a term in one of the military
prisons Mrs. Hamilton was also
awarded the custody of the infant
child of the couple.
Mrs. Comelia Thompson is visiting
friends in Hancock, Md.
Mr. J. A. Risinger, wro has been
Visiting friends in the county, return.
led home yesterday.
Frank Harrison, son of County
IlClerk NJ. S. Harrison, is now en-
ployed in Brunswick, Md.
/ Beverley Bayer, son of Attorney II.
w Bayer is NOW employed in Cum
berland, Md.
Mr. RAYMOND H. Ambrose, plumber
has go&e to Keyser, w. Va, to work
in the slops there.
Cleve Mitchem, mail clerk, is cir
oulating among his. friends.
Mr.. Robert poSan, continues crit
ically jill at his. home near town. No
hope, is entertained for his recovery,
Mr.. Harry Wolf, formerly in bust
ness here and now located at Everett,
Pa, spent several days here visiting
former friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Brieg, of
Pearee, Md areivisiting Mrs. Briggs
mother Mrs Annie Brieg. They will
shortly return to Florida for the Win
ter. @
Miss Ruth Brieg who has been WIS.,
iting friends and relatives in Cum
berland, Md, and points in West Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania, has returned
home
Miss Frances Ambrose has gone TO
Parkersburg w. Va, to enter bust
ness, college there.
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LITTLE GEORGETOWN. Sept u.
IA heavy rain fell in this section
last night, which Will temporarily
bold up the progress of cora cutting.
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1t is hard to suit the
tastes and the appetites of
everybody who must eat
away from their own table,
but we pride ourselves that
we do it better than any
body else in town.
We buy the best that we
can find in every line and
we charge as reasonable
a price as present-day cOndi-
tons will permit.
Come in and try some.
thing when you are look
ing for the best place to
eat.
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TRAINING SCHOOL FOR WIVES
Unfortunately, However, This Club
Has Produced No Weddings In
Five Years. Life.

To fit themselves to be wives for
men whom they have not yet found,
the members Of the Josephine club
are preparing to take courses in self
control, in first aid to the injured, In
literature and gymnastic work.
The organization Is composed Of a
large number of girls, all Of mar
riageable age, who are in the business
world. Every member Is unmarried
with the exception of Mrs. Josephine
Cohn, the founder and presiding Off
Ger of the club.
The club is five years old, and dur.
ing the period there have been no
marriages of its members. The aims
of the club are formally expressed
thus: "The social, moral and physi.
cal advancement Is to be accom-
plished by means of gymnasium work
to be undertaken, shortly. First-aid
work Is already being taught by DR..
Amelia A. Dranga. The self-control
Is being inculcated into the men,
bers, when necessary, in devious ways.
eve do not want to take u course
in courting until we have made our
selves efficiently acceptable to hus-
band" one member explained. She
added that If lone Of the girls" gets
married she will not be put out of the
club.-Plttsburgh Dispatch.
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"5UFFING" HURTS OLD PLATE
Modern Method Of Cleaning Destroys
Color and Removes Distinguishing
Marks, It Is Claimed.

The value of old plate Is seriously di.
minished by methods Of cleaning at
present In common use. The removal
of the surface by the process known as
'bufIing" not only destroys the beauti-
full blue color which alone comes from
age and hand-cleaning but in great
measure also-the makers marks and
owners initials, which signify It's pro-
venance and guarantee its commercial
value. A certain lot of old family sill
yer in good condition was by Ill luck
given lately to be cleaned. 1t is now
unrecognizable and although having
a perfect "shine," the makers marks
Of the seventeenth century are almost
undecipherable. Were these pieces ex-
hibited beside some Of the beautiful
old silver now shown at the museum,
the extent Of the havoc wrought on
them would be surprise. Both for
the looks Of old plate and out of regard
for its worth in money, owners should
beware Of modern "bufIing."
If silver is badly furnished, one Or
two applications of metal polish used
for brass and copper will, with little
patience, remove the worst Of the tar
nish, when silver polish should be
used. Camphor placed with silver
when packed will prevent tarnish.-
Boston Fine Arts Bulletin.
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WARRING ON INFANT PLAGUE
Medical Scientists Place Themselves In
State of Preparedness to Repel
Advances Of Foe.

The best war news of home signifi-
canoe published the other day related
to the new state Of preparedness In
which our medical scientists find them
selves for the fight with infantile par
alysis and it's microbes, observes the
New York World. In case of fresh
advance by these foes Of childhood in
the coming summer, the prospects for
a distinct repulse are encouraging.
1t Is from the research forces Of the
Rockefeller institute that the bulle-
tins come of progressive readiness.
Not least encouraging among the
discoveries of the doctors Is the fact
that two centers Of generally efficient
defense. are characteristic Of the body
itself. One Of these IS In the secretiOns
of the nose and throat, the entrance
avenues of the microbes. The other Is
in certain membranes, when intact,
surrounding the spinal cord and brain.
A slight injury to these membranes
will let the virus in when the disease
germs have once passed the other bar.
riers. How frequently the defenses
succeeded all around is shown by the
record of last summers attacks, only
1.59 cases Of paralysis occurring to
every 1000 of population in this city.
This would mean about 16 cases to
city of 10000 people.
Passing from natural preventive to
discovered remedies, the doctors tell Of
a better serum and of methods Of ad-
ministration made more effective by
winters study and experiment. Alto
gcther the research bulletins go far to
strengthen the counsel, found to be
well based even in last summers epi-
demic, against panic and nerve-racking
worry
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Hooverized Country Breakfast.

Excerpt from the Hooverized food
experience of the man who edits the
Missouri Notes" column in the Kan
sas City Times:
"The friends who entertained us
warned us that they were living very
frugally and proved the assertion at
every meal. For example, for break
fast one morning we had nothing but
cereal and real cream, homemade
sausage, fried potato cakes, stewed
fruit hot biscuit, two kinds of pre-
serves and coffee. The menu for the
next morning, as announced the night
before, was nothing but waffles, and
that's all they had, nth the exception
of bacon and eggs and few little side
dishes. We Mortified our hostess that
morning by eating only 20 waf'les. Our
allotment was 81, and she said II was
unpatriotic not to clean the platter"
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Sensations Of Starvation.

Experiments in prolonged starva-
ton showed that after the first three
or four days of starvation, the sensa-
ton Of hunger was no longer felt. In
fve-day starvation experiment on
men there was no decrease In the hun
ger contractions. An increase In the
intensity Of the hunger cOntractions
was evidenced by the appearance OF
the incomplete hunger tetanus on the
fourth and fifth days Of starvation. On
the fifth day the continuous hunger
sensation was tinged with a peculiar
burning" sensation, probably caused
by acid stimulation of nerve-endihss
In the stomach. Instead of eagerncss
for food there was an almost total in-
difference to 1t.
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New Plating System.

Some Of the plating establishments
are introducing a new mechanical sys-
TEN which Is said to increase the out
put and make deposits Of more uni
form character. The machine con-
ssts of a series of tanks containing
the cleansing, rinsing, dipping and
plating solutions arranged in the form
of a circle. Over these there passes
a carrier system consisting of pair
of endless chains driven by small
electric motor and carrying number
of vertical rods from which the pieces
to be operated upon are suspended.
BY means Of a simple cam arrange
ment each rod Is moved forward,
raised or lowered as the occasion de-
mands. and so the work in hand pro-
gresses through all the processes OF
treatment, the completed work being
finally delivered at the starting point.
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Heaviest Man That Ever Lived.

The anonymous author of the recent
ly published book, "Lose Weight and
BE Well" has collected many stories
of persons Of abnormal weight. The
worst of these, she says, "was the clas-
sic case of Daniel Lambert, which l
came across in my reading. l had
heard said of garment that was I'M
mensely too large for Its wearer that
1t hung on him like Daddy Lamberts
waistcoat, but l had never known be-
fore the full meaning OF the saying.
Daniel Lambert, learned at this time,
was born in ITO and died in 1909 and
weighed at the time of his death 739
pounds! He was an Englishman, and
unfortunately for himself antedated
Banting and the latter's physician,
Doctor Harvey, who prescribed the
diet which reduced Banting so salts
factorily. Lambert was said to be the
heaviest man that ever lived"
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Eeats of Memory.

Alchelangelo had on his lips the
greater part Of the poetry Of Dante
and Petrarch and Galileo could repeat
most Of Ariosto, Petrarch and Berai.
Justus Lipsius knew Tacitus by heart
and could repeat any passage called
for. Locke states that Pascal knew
the whole of the Bible by heart. Leib-
nitz, even in old age, could repeat
nearly all the poetry Of Virgil, word
for word. Saunderson knew by heart
Horaces odes, CicerO's "Off1ces" and
a large part Of Juvenal and Persius.
Porson, the great English scholar, de-
clared that he could repeat Frederick
Random" from beginning to end.
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Ancestor of Telephone.

Walter Kellogg Towers tells of one
of the earliest methods recorded Of
signaling by sound.
ut was worked out for Alexander
the Great, and was considered one of
the scientific wonders of antiquity" he
says.
"This was called a stentorophonic
tube, and seems to have been Il sort
of gigantic megaphone, or speaking
trumpet.
1T is recorded that 1t sent the
voice for dozen miles. A drawing
of this strange instrument Is pre-
served In the Vatican. New York
Telegram.
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WOMEN TO HOLD VOTE POWER
When They Are Enfranchised They
Will Outnumber Men In the
United Kingdom.

Under the plans now contemplated
for the increase In suffrage in England,
Scotland and Wales the number Of per-
sons enjoying suffrage will be in
creased from 7,656,173 to 22,S4S,9O1.
About 100000 more men would he
enfranchised and the remainder would
be women. Even at the present fig
ures, women would hold the bal
ance Of power, for there would be
12O44,567 Of them voting against 49,
SO4,334 men. Ireland Is not included
In these figures. The new plans for
increased enfranchisement provide for
the granting of suffrage to virtually
every person of majority age in Eng
land, Scotland and Wales.
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Who Ara the Sane?

If the definition of insanity was
followed to the letter, were experts
appointed to examine all men, few
would escape the brand Of insanity
but who could qualify as an expert
since we may become insane upon the
subject of insanity All have their
predictions and prejudices, symp'
toms of q mild form of mental bias,
passing under the ambiguous name
of eccentricities; and some there are,
so erratic that we should call them
insane did they not POSSESS sufficient
sanity to dissemble their weakness
From the Medical Fortnightly. ..'
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AIbino.

The term Alblno was originally ap-
piled by the Portuguese to those ne
groes who were mottled with white
spots; but it is now applied to those
who are born with red eyes and white
hair. It is from the Latin word, al
bus, white. Albion, one of the names
of England, Is derived from the same
word; and 1t Is said to have been CIV
en- to the southern part of the island
by julius Caesar in allusion to the
white cliffs skirting the southeastern
coast where he landed on the occasion
of his first invasion in the year %
B. G.
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Marine Peculiarltles.

There are two natural phenomena
of quite regular recurrence which have
given unique fame to the Japanese bay
Of Toyama. The lightning cuttlefish is
a rather tiny species that emits Won
derful phosphorescence when aroused,
and while the fish is not confined to the
locality, it swarms along the coast In
April and May. As the fishermen seek
them with special nets the alarmed
creatures glow with exceptional brill
lance. The second phenomenon Is the
Shinkero or mirage. The mirage, seen
along the shore, begins as faint mist
and then develops into panorama for
est, castles, bridges and marching men
and hOrsemen.
Catoctin clarion., 1918-02-14
Beautiful Feet In Hartford.

We have observed that a large ma
jority of the men who traverse our
residential streets in this time Of snow
and Ice wear overshoes of some kind
and that the large majority Of women
do not. Whether II is woman suffrage
or plain recklessness that accounts for
this difference we cannot say. 1t can
not be because overshoes are unbe-
coming to woman. for those wearing
them look very trim.--Hartford Cour-
ant.