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CHAPTER TX.
Suicide Annex


I was in my first dugout and looked
around curiously. Over the door of
same was a 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 al the Suicide
Club"
That dugout was muddy. The men
slept in mud, washed In mud, ate mud,
and dreamed mud. I had never before
realized that 30 much discomfort and
misery could be contained In those
three little letters, M 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 a drip,
drip, drip. Suicide Annex was a hole
eight feet wide, ten feet long and six
feet high. It 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
or else he would "shoot the chutes."
The air was foul, and you could cut
the smoke from Tommy's Tags with a
knife. 1t 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 q miscellaneous assort-
ment Of equipment. The lighting ar
engagements 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 freside at
home, the fellow next to me, who vas
writing a letter, looked up and inno-
Gently asked, "Say, Yank, how do you
spell 'conlagration'?"
I looked at him in contempt and an
swered that I did not know.
From the darkness in n Of the cor
ners came q thin, piping voice singing
one Of the popular trench dittes en-
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lover the Top"
By An American Soldier
Who Went
ARTHUR GUY EMPEY
Machine Gunner Seroing In France
~(Copyright 1917, by Arthur Guy hmpsy)
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I-Fired by the news Of the
sinking Of the Lusitania by a German
submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Amer,
IAN, leaves his office in Jersey City and
goes to England where he enlists IN the
British army.
CHAPTER u-After a period of train
Ing, Empey volunteers for immediate serv-
ice and soon finds himself In rest oiiiets
''somewhere in France" where he first
makes the acquaintance Of the ever-pres-
,ent "cootiaa-" o.,
CHAPTER III-Empey attends his first
church services at the front while a Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation
CHAPTER Iv-Empey''s command goes
into the front-line trenches. and Is unoer
fre for the first time. =
-CHAPTER v-Entpey learns to adopt
the motto Of the British Tommy IT you
are going to get it, you'll get IT, SO never
worry" -.
CHAPTER vI-Back in rest billets. EN-.
pey gets his first experience as a mess
'eSgAPTER v11-Empey learns how the
RriNsh soldiers are LEU
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GUNNER, 5ERNNdMFRAhCE-
| @IS7 BY
IARTHR GUY Ef1pNI

Next morning the whole section went
over to say good-by to Pete, and laid
him away to rest.
After each one had a look at the face
of the dead, a corporal OF the r. A.
NJ. G. sewed up the remains In a blan-
ket. Then placing two heavy ropes
across the stretcher Ito be used in low-
ering the body into the grave), we lift
ed Pete onto the stretcher, and rev.
erently Covered him with a 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
fag-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 "attention"
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 a shell from the Ger
man lines would 60 whistling over the
village to burst in M 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
a 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 filed In
I could not bear to see the dirt thrown
on the blanket-coyered face Of my com.
rade. On the western front there are
no collins, and you are lucky to get q
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
candle In the machine gunner's dugout
Of the front-line trench I wrote two
letters. One to Pete's mother, the
other to his sweetheart. While doine
this I cursed the Prussian war goo
with all my heart, and I think that St
Peter noted same.
The machine gunners in the dugout
were laughing and Joking. To then
Pete was unknown. Pretty soon, in the
warmth Of their merriment, my blues
disappeared. One soon forgets on thu
western front.
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ments or camps by regularly paid
newspaper correspondents not in the
military service Their copy will
not be censored by military: author
ity, but the camp commander will
instruct them that they must rigidly
adhere to the requests for secrecy
with respect to information Of value
to the enemy, as defined in the
printed card sent out by the Com
mittee on Public Information. On
violation of these requests, the Of
Tending correspondent will be de.
prived of the privileges of the camp.
By order Secretary o. War.
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L 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 /
teamed up with another fellow and
went on guard with my head sticking
over the top. At ten o'clock I 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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HOW YOU CAN HELP
THE FOOD ADMINISTRATOR

Realize that the restrictions sug.
gested by the Food Administrators
are for the good OF NIL the people
and to win the war.
That those who are undertaking
to enforce the food regulations are
doing so from a spirit Of patriotism
and service to their country and
not for pay. .t.N
Observe the Wheatless and meat,
less days strictly, and see that 9th.
ers do so. These are most essential
Insist upon the wheatless and
meatless days wherever and when.
ever you eat.
Good intentions and promises
count for naught. Both preach and
practice home economics.
Talk food conservation:
Tell your neighbors Of a practi.
cal and appetizing recipe you have
yourself used that economies in
wheat, sugar and fats.
The food regulations are all sure
and patriotic, and ii you find your
merchants or eating houses are fail
ing to cooperate, report the facts
to the County Administrator and
give your trade to those who ap-
preciate the actual necessity for
recognized rules.
Women's clubs should discuss
practical household questions and
leave their Ibsen and Browning ev-
,enings until the boys "Over there"
return home.
When you use wheat see that it
is mixed with corn meal and other
cereals.
See that your neighbors ard par
ticularly your merchant is cooper
ing and is not asking unauthorized
prices for food-stuff.
Be Independent of the outside
world and provide your table from
your own field or garden. Have
food-stuff to sell, not to buy.
Remember that all you save in
wheat, fats and meats is for your
soldiers and their companions in
armies.
Be a soldier behind the lires for
half an hour each day, and spend
that time in seeing that food crops
are cultivated on your fields or cul-
tivate your own garden.
If it is not for you to be o. the
firing line, do your bit in saving
and producing food.
From August Kohn, State Chairman
Conservation and Production.
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Pack up your Troubles r. ysur oia M
Every now and then the singer
would stop to cough, cough, cough, but
it was q good Illustration Of Tommy's
cheerfulness under such conditions.
A machine-gun officer entered the
dugout and gave me a 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"
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COMMITTEE ON
PUBLIC INFORMATION

ooiiAiiS wiz ~ O'1 .4bS
/. All persons in the military
service are forbidden to act as paid
correspondents for or contributors
to any newspaper, magazine, or
other publication, or to receive any
payment or reward whatever from
any such publication for any letter
or item of news written or furnish
ed by them, whether the article in
question is sent direct to the paper
or periodical, or consists of private
correspondence which the writer
permits to be published.
2. Except as above prohibited,
there is no objection to the writing
of letters or the furnishing of news
items to newspapers, magazines, etc.
from time to time, or to the publ
cation, with the consent Of the wri-
ter, or personal and private cor
respondence, provided such activi-
ties do not interfere with the pro-
per performance of military duty,
and provided also that the following
directions are faithfully complied
with.
8. All letters containing matter
for publication, as above authorized,
must be sent through the officer,
hereinafter provided for, charged
with the duty of ~censoring letters
for publication. No letter designed
in whole or in part for publication
will be mailed otherwise than thru
the aforementioned officer, and
such letters will be always left un-
sealed.
4. The commanding officer of
every camp, cantonment, and train
ing depot or detachment in the
United States will detail a suitable
officer to perform the duties Of CEN
sor Of all matter intended for publ
cation and written by persons III the
military service. This officer will
delete all references capable of fur
nishing important information to
the enemy.
The commanding officer will also
call to the attention oil all persons
in military service writing for pub
LEGATION, or otherwise, the fact that
criticism of superiors and the spread
ing of false reports which would
tend to injure the military service
constitute breaches of military dis
cipline.
5. None of the foregoing applies
to troops in Europe. The Command
ing General, American Expedition
airy Forces, will establish such regu-
lations in this respect as the situa-
ton may seem to him to require.
The object of this order is to
satisfy. as far as compatible with
the protection of military interests,
the natural desire of the people to
keep in touch with their soldier rep
resentatives. 1t is, therefore, y
pected that all concerned will COM
ply with both the letter and the
spirit of it's provisions.
None of the foregoing applies to
press dispatches filed from National
Army or Ntional Guard CANTOR
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CREATES
 MERCHANT FLEET IN.
 VERY LIMITED TIME

NEW YORK, March 21.-America has created merchant shipping with in the past three years to the extent which ordinarily would not have been developed throughout a quarter of century had not Germany's sub marine warfare destroyed tonnage in quantities so vast as to create a crisis in the worlds maritime sit uation. This building of cargo ships which will restore the American Flag to the seven seas is today only in its infancy, and the preparing of young men to take their places as sailors and officers of these vessels. and on those which are to come, is the problem which the United States Shipping Board has agreed to solve. through Sea Training Bureau es- tablished by the Recruiting Service.
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RUDYARD KIPLINC
 DECLARES THAT THE & WAR MUST GO ON

FOLKSTONE. England, March 21. --'.Nothing else under heaven mat ters today except that the war shall go on to victory decalred Rudyard Kipling here today in striking and picturesque speech in advocacy of war savings. The money we loan to the government helps to set our land and our world free" continued MT. Kipling. Our security for our loan is not only the whole of the British Empire, but also the whole of civilization which has pooled it's resources in men, money and ma terial to carry on this war to vic tory"
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OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT = PRICES


 the
 
 Douglas Treadwl These week andw in from to the made prices in mark ,ss. ias, The retailer indicated the wholesale prices freight, wharfage should
 
  unreasonable
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One Piece
 Dresses That Are Different

These dresses ar rived on the last boat from one of New York's biggest shops. The kind that you would be proud of wearing in a big city and knew you were dressed with the best. Foulard combinations, Taffeta and serges; only one of a kind, but we want you to see the garments before they are displayed.
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Price Raises So Far in War Are Mere Start Up the High Price Mountain

In first year of Amerca's s fight ing it took $300 to buy what $1.00 bought at wars outbreak-In Civ il war it took $500 to buy in 1864 what $1.00 bought in 1861, and it took 13 years for prices to set tie back to normal.
 Do the people of Alaska realize in this the first year of America's participation in the great Euro pean war that prices are about where they were in 1863 when the Civil War was about settling down to a stride?
 And do the people realize that the grooming they are doing now under their price burden is only about half of the grooming they will do if prices continue to go up through this war as they did in the War of '61.
 In many lines of goods it takes $3.00 now to buy what $1.OO bought in 1915. Just so in the Civil War, it took $3OO to buy in 1863 what it took $1OO to buy in 1861-and that isn't the worst of the situation.
 At the climax of the Civil War in 1864 it took $500 to buy the same amount of goods $300 would buy in July, 1863.
 A strange feature of the price freak of the Civil War days was that prices shot upward in almost straight line from Nov. 1862 to July 1863, while this line has almost been duplicated in the rise in prices from Nov. 1916 to the present date. This year if, prices climb as they did in 1917 the peo- pie should be paying $500 year from now for what they can now buy for $500.
 Taken from Babson Chart
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INTEND TO FORCE
 GERMAN CITIZENS ,..-.
 TO USE FRANCISE

NEW YORK, March 21 The Prussian Minister of the Interior. Dr. Drews, stated before the Fran chise Committee of the Prussian House of Deputies that the German government was considering the question of making the exercise of the franchise obligatory, according to German newspapers received here. The Cologne Gazette stated that, during the election for the Reichstag in 1912, 155 per cent. of the 14,- 442.000 of the voters refrained from voting. The newspaper added that the principle of obligatory exercise of the franchise introduced in 1894 in Belgium had proved success.
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NEW YORK: London copyright ed special to New York Sun says Germany is greatly disturbed by Japan's readiness to step into Si- beria and the public is kept in ig- norance of the real significance and importance of the Japanese move, German newspapers. inspired by the government, state that Japan's step is not aimed at Germany, but that in conjunction with the Allies she is about to seize the opportunity for self-aggrandizement and punsh Russia for leaving the ranks.
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EDDIE BARRY BURIED

Word was brought to Juneau that the funeral services over the remains of Eddie Barry, who was killed in the recent accident on the White Pass were held today at Skagway The services were under the auspic es of the Skagway Elks.
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MRS. PULLEN l. EXPECTS MANY
 SUMMER PEOPLE. Her Model Farm and Re-
 sort Near SkagWay
 Will Be Ready to
 Receive Thein. HEARS FROM HER SON He Has Been Commission
 ed a Colonel and Is with the Fighting Forces.
HEARS FROM HER SON

Mrs Harriet s. Pullen, of Skag- way, who is in the city guest at the Gastineau, believes that despite the war there will be a good many visitors to Alaska this summer, and she is preparing her model farm and resort to receive them, as well as Alaskans who may desire an outing.
 Mrs. Pullen has received a letter from her son, Dan Pullen, who has been commissioned a Colonel and is with the fighting forces in France. He is graduate at West Point and was instructor in military en- gineering before joining the army.
 Royal Pullen, another son, is in training at Camp Meade, Maryland.
 On her ranch at Sitka Mrs. Pul, len has 31 head of stock which were kept all winter on crops raised on the land. Eleven of these are milk cows. There are also chickens and all of the eggs and butter and milk used at the Pullen House are furn- ished by the ranch, besides veget- ables in season and strawberries.
 For the best fresh killed chicken, go to the Arcade.
 Dine at the Gastileau. Concert
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Japanese Lunch Cloths With the price
 of linens we'll up, these clothes have become very popular. Come in two sizes hem stitched, in variety of patterns.
 Priced $1.35 and $2.00.
 Napkins soc 1-2 Dog. New Silks The new Foulards of
 course hold first place but they are no means alone for there is much to be seen in taffetas, both plain and fancy
 Priced $2.00 to $3.00 yard.
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Sick Wife's Story Surprises
 Juneau

The following has surprised wife suffered from dyspepsia and constipation for years. Although she dieted she was so bloated her clothes would not fit. ONE SPOON. FUL buckthorn bark. gIycerine. etc., as mixed in Adlar-i-ka relieved her INSTANTLY. Because Adler i-ka empties BOTH large and small intestine it relieves ANY CASE con- stipation. sour stomach or gas and prevents appendicitis. It has QUICKEST action of anything we ever sold.
 BUTLER-MAURo 6 CO.,. Druggists NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the undersigned has been ap- pointed administrator for the es- tate of Harry Stockman, deceased, and that all persons having claims against his estate are requested to present them, with proper vouchers. to the undersigned at the office of the c. w. Young Co.,, in Juneau, Alaska, within six months from the date of this notice.
 Dated February 2Sth. 1918.
 VIM. NJ. FRY,
 Administrator Estate of Harry
 Stockman. Deceased.
 First Publication Feb. 2S, 1918. Last publication March 21, 1918.
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TELEPHONE NUMBER. The telephone number of the Gift Shop is 25S.
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Private boxes and banquet rooms for parties. Alaska Grill. sss
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Best coffee on the market served
 with all meals at the Arcade Cafe.
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Buy War Saving Stamps
The New Spring Shoes

One that has just been received is a tobacco brown, high top lace then there is the black calf skin, patent leather styles, lace or buttoned cloth or kid tops, evening slippers various shades and the new combinations of grey lace; all at Department Store prices ts,
 Mems shoes, too, in all the late models, black or brown.
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Have You An Ample Supplyo of Skirts

Now that it is a settled fact that skirts are to be the popular garment for many oc- casions the coming season, you must early decide on the skirts you will need to wear with your waists. Already we have re- ceved many silks in plaid and black, to- gether with. many woolens
 Priced $6.50 to $17.50
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Buy af Tke Store Where Yonr Dollars Go Fa,fhesf B. M. BEHRENDS CO.,, Inc.
Slip Over Sweaters

In a striking novelty stitch; has a sailor collar with V-shaped front revers, in keeping with the overtime head idea. Colors are grey, brown, blue, green, maize and in combinations.
 Priced S9.50 to $20.0O
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Everybody reads THD DkPJWD he Ttme. When It 10 Nova
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VISIT OUR MILLINERY DEPARTMENT

Japanese Kimonos Made of Japanese
 crepe, the kind that will launder and not fade; colors such as rose, blue, pink and lavendar; embroidered in a variety of designs.
 Priced $3.5O to $500
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Going to Buy the Boy a New Easter Suit

Send his dad along with him; then you will be doubly sure that you will be pleased, father'll be satisfied and the boy himself proud of the selection. We urge you to select now, particularly in view of the full as- sortment of styles and sizes.
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NSHOES|Z1 5 S(-1
 so~ '.........- -....
For the Home Cretonnes

Especially appropriate for furniture cov- .erings, and hangings; printed on a heavy quality that is both dust proof and wash able. Choice of bold flower effects or con-
 ventional striped and figured designs.
 PRICED 35-5O-75-tO $1.00 Yard
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Dine st the Gastileau. Concert every evening.
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  altheyear round and every occasion
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one extreme to the other, either they are small or very large. Of course, the large type serve a double purpose these days for knitting needs-but there is any
 amount of the small envelope shape in all colors-$1.00 to $3.50
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STAFFORD SPRINGS

Only 42 voters took time to go to the polls to vote for borough officials Monday. There was only one ticket. the citizens, in the field and there was very little interest in the cleo tion. At the business meeting held after the polls closed tt was voted to make the tax rate four mills, the same as last year. The burgesses were in structed to purchase 8 steam road roller at 3. cost not to exceed 5000 and to pay the street commissioner a salary of S1200 year. The officers elected are: Warden. James Shep- pard, Jr,; burgesses, Arthur w Kingsbury, John Quinn and Hannibal Alden; clerk and treasurer, Charles Fl. Moore: collector, Patrick J. Mur- ray; bailiff. Thomas J. Hayes: asses sors. H. o. Butterf4ld, Charles P. Hodgson, Frank M. Barrett; board Of relief, George L. Dennis, Anthony Adams. George J. Frazier; registrars of voters, George Siswick, Patrick I. Murray.
 The attendance at the right school Is keeping up and the attendants are showing much interest in their stud ies. On account of several of the in- terurban cars being burned when the car barn a.t Rockville were destroyed Monday morning, persons going to Rockville had to ride in the side seat ed cars yesterday and were obliged tt change cars at Lipsic Lake.