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SPLENDID SERVICES.

Towards the end Of 1915 the French
splendid services of the West African
troops, decided to add Maagasy
contingent to the "Grundc Armee."
On the End Of October, 1915. Colone,
Br,n. Commander Of Regiment No.
of the "Tiraillenrs Malgaches."
decided to brigade or regiment with
the garrison Of Diego-SuareZ and Tan
anarivo to form the contingent for
European service. On the 9th of the
same month the brigade was review
ed by the Governor General of the
Island on its departure for France
This first contingent has been
joined by many fellow. countrymcn
and has emulatcd the troops from
other parts Of Africa in courage. in
discipline, and in loyalty to the great
country which knows how to trea:
all its subjects without distinction of
color or race.
Some Of the Malagasy units are in
the fighting line. while others are
employed at the dcpots and on the
lines of communication. This latter
employment does not always accord
with the warlike instincts Of an an
cient race Of fighters One ardent war
rior. disguised at being told to break
pebbles for the roads, deserted. TAX
ing his quick firing gun with him and
on the morning Of the 10th of April
applied to the Colonel commanding
Battalion No. -" to be employed to
gether with his gum
FIRST CALLED BATTALION
Volunteers for battalion for sew
ice In France were first called for in
February. 1916. Members of all class
&c Of society,". including sc:ons OF
the Annamite Imperial family at
once came forward in sufficient nun
hers to fill up the ranks. Officers
were suppl!ed by old Colonials. whom
long residence had made thoroughly
familiar with the character and GUS
toms Of the people, who rapidly in
culated the necessary discinline and
training. The Annamitcs. like their
near relation the Japanese are small
but full of intelligence. energy, and
courage, with remarkable artistic
ability. They have been constituted
into regular battalions and furnished
with the usual military weapons, and
are, therefore, considered to be com.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1918-02-09

Mr.. S. G. Burrell,
214 e. Leigh ST., Richmond Va,
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WEST INDIANS.

In the ranks of the Grand Armee
are many colored men from the
French West Indian Islands OF Mar
Unique and Gaudeloupc. and from
French Guiana on the South Ameri-
can mainland. These are French
citizens and in that capacity are en-
rolled in the European regiments on
footing of absolute equality with
their fcllow-citizens born in France.
The only difference made is that the
colored soldiers are sent into garri-
sons in Southern France or Algeria
during the winter. In all other re.
spects no distinction is made between
them and the white soldiers.
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IDEAL SOCIETY NOTES.

me National Ideal Benefit Society
Incorporated Holds series of Public
Meetings, much interest manifested
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LES SENEGALAIS.

or all the troops which France has
drawn from her various Colonies. it
10 beyond doubt that the Senegalais
Les Senegalais," have most struck
the popular imagination, and draw
the most regard in France, by their
union OF child-like simplicity with
so dierly qualities and indomitable
courage. Once trained and indred to
discipline. no troops are easier to
lead. Their discipline and sang-froid
are as great under fire as on parade.
and their devotion to their duty
knows no limit save death. What has
most struck those who have seen
them in actual battle has been the
spirit Of discipline which animates
their intrepidity and renders their
attacks so effective. To see them
carry n position by assault, then
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rather lead you past those places than
have you go over the edge she said,
because nobody could get you up or
even go down and bury you decently.
1t wouldn't be a bit nice. It's much
simpler to keep you on top"
He said something. but Billy Louise
could not hear what it was. She sus-
peeted him of swearing. She rode on
in silence.
Blues a dandy horse ON bad trails
and in the dark" she observed COM
~panionably at last. HE simply can't
lose his footing or his way"
yes? That's nice"
Billy Louise felt like putting out her
tongue at him for the cool remoteness
of his tone. 1t would serve him right
to ride on and let him break his neck
owe the bluff if he wanted to. She
shut her teeth together and turned her
face away from him.
So, in silence and with no very good
feeling between them, they went pre-
c~ariously down the steep hill (the hill
up which Marthy and the oxen and
Jase had toiled so laboriously twenty
seven years before and across the tiny
fiat to where the cabin window wink
ed a welcome at them through the
storm.
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Copyright by Little, Brown and Company
whatT" he asked and shut the door
behind him with the air Of one who is
ready for anything.
isn't the kind of man who wants to
hire out to do Chores Billy Louise
finished and looked at him straight.
Are you? Mommie wants to hire
you"
"Oh, well, l was just about TO ask
for the job, anyway" He laughed,
and the distrust left his eyes. "As a
matter of fact, l was going over to
Jim Larson's to hang out for the rest
of the winter and get away from the
lonesomeness of the hills. The old
Turks a pretty good friend of mine.
But it looks to me as If you two need
ed something around that looks like a
a man a heap more than Jim does. |
know Peter Howling Dog to a fare
you-well. You'll be all to the good if
he forgets to come back. So If you'll
stake me to a meal now and then and
a place to sleep III be glad to see you
through the winter or until you get
some white man to take my place"
He took up the two water pals and
waited, glancing from one to the other
with that repressed smile which Billy
Louise was beginning to look for in
his face.
Now that matters had approached
the point of decision her mother stood
looking at her helplessly, waiting for
her to speak. Billy Louise drew her
self up primly and ended by contra
dieting the action. She gave him a
sidelong glance which he was least
prepared to withstand, though, in jus
tice to Billy Louise. she was absolute
ly unconscious of its general effective
ness and twisted her lips whimsically.
Wen stake you to a book, a ban
mock and a bed if you want to stay,
Mr.. Warren" she said quite soberly;
"also to a %pitchfork and an ak, if you
like, and regular wages
His eyes went to her and steadied
there with the intent expression in
them. Thanks. Cut out the wages
and I'll take the offer just as it
stands" he told her and pulled his hat
farther down on his head. shes GO
ing to be one stormy night, lay-dees,"
he added in quite another tone on his
way to the door. Five o'clock by the
town clock, and al-lTs Welt" This
last in still another tone as he pushed
out against the swooping wind and
pulled the door shut with a slam.
They heard him whistling a shrin. roll
licking air on his way to the creek
at least it sounded rollicking the way
he whistled it,"
That's The Old Chisholm Trail he's
whistling," Billy Louise observed UNI
der her breath, smiling reminiscently.
1.-THE very song l used to pretend he
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Blue stepped n~onchalantly down into
the stream beside the strange horse
and went across without stopping to
drink. The strange horse moved on
also, as II that were the natural thing
to do-which 1t was, since chance sent
them travelling the same trail. Billy
Louise set her teeth together with the
queer little vicious click that had al
ways been her habit when she felt
thwarted and constrained to yield to
circumstances and Strengthened herself
In the saddle.
Looks like a storm" the fur coated
n observed, with a perfectly trans
parent attempt to tighten the awk-
wardness.
Billy Louise tilted her chin upward
and gazed at the gray sweep of clouds
moving s~ullenly toward the mountains
at her back. She glanced at the man
and caught him looking ~intently at her
face.
He did not look away Immediately,
as he should have done, and Billy Lou
Use felt a little heat wave Of embar-
rassment, emphasized by resentment.
Are you going far?" he queried In
the same tone he had employed before.
six miles," she answered shortly,
though she tried to be decently civil.
I've about eighteen" he said.
Looks like Wen both get caught out
In a blizzard"
Certainly he had a pleasant enough
Unfan and nftn. all H - IL
fault that he happened to be at the
crossing when she rode out of the
gorge. Billy Louise, in common jus
tiee, laid aside her resentment and
looked at him with a hint of a smile
at the corners of her lips.
That's what we have to expect when
we travel in this country in the win
ter" she replied. Eighteen miles will
take you long after dark"
well. l was sort Of figuring on put
ting up at some ranch il it got too bad.
There's a ranch somewhere ahead on
the Wolverine. isn't there?'
Yes Billy Louise bit her lip, but
hospitality is an unwritten law of the
West, a law not to be lightly broken.
That's where l live. Wen be glad to
have you stop there OF course"
The stranger must have felt and adj
mired the unconscious dignity of her
0 n and words, for he thanked her
simply and RETAINED from looking too
intently at her face.
Fine siftings Of snow. like meal flung
down from a gigantic sieve. swept into
their faces as they rode on. The man
turned his face toward her after a long
silence. She was riding with bowed
head and face half turned from him
and the wind alike.
You'd better ride on ahead and get
in out of this" he said CURLY. your
horse is fresh. It's going TO be worse
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and more OF It before long. This
cayuse of mine has had thirty miles
or so Of rough going"
II think I'd better wait for you" she
said primly. There are bad places
where the trail goes close to the bluff,
and the lava rock will be slippery with
this snow, and it's getting dark so fast
that a stranger might go over"
IF that's the case the sooner you
are past the bad places the better. I'm
all right. You drift along"
Billy Louise specialized briefly upon
the note Of calm authority in his voice.
He did not know evidently that she
was more accustomed to giving com
mands than to obeying them. Her lips
gave a little quirk of amusement at his
mistake.
"You go on. l don't want a guide
He tilted his head peremptorily toward
the blurred trail ahead.
Billy Louise laughed a little. She did
not feel in the least embarrassed now.
DO you never get what you don't
want2" she asked mildly. I'D a Lot
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Winnemucca Is Years Ago Today
From The Daily Silver State

A muchabused editor of a weekly paper in Ohio has drafted the fol-
lowing game laws, which should be printed and hung in every editorial
sanctum sanctorum.
Book agents may be killed from October 1 to September 1; spring
poets from March l to July 1; scandal mOngers, any time. The mar
who waits until the editor has gone from home and then sneaks in
and piles half a cord of elm wood slam up against the woodshed door
in payment for a years subscription, as well as the anuquated two
penny business man, who'thtnks it does not pay to advertise, may be
killed from January to December 81. without recourse or any relief
from valuation or appraisement laws.
Z
go 90
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lunged voice an old, old trail son
beloved of punchers the West over.
What did you say, Billy Louise?
I'm III it's a comfort to have him
here, and you see he was glad and
willing"
But Billy Louise was holding the
door open half an inch, listening and
slipping back into the child world
wherein Ward Warren came singing
down the canyon to rescue her. The
words came gustily from the creek
down the slope:
mo chaps. no slicker, and a-pourin' down
rain.
And 1 swear by the Lord I'll never night
herd again, |
Coma to vi youpy, youpy-a, youpy-a. f;
Coma to vi youpy, youpy-al !
Feet in the stirrups and seat in the
saddle,
I hung and ratified with them long-hornI
cattle, !
Coma to yi"- !
do shut the door, Billy Louiseii
What you want to stand there like
that for? And the wind freezing ev-i
erything inside! / can feel a terrible
draft on my feet and ankles, and you
know what that leads tor
So Billy Louise closed the door and
laid another alder o on the Goals in
the fireplace the while her mind was.
given over to dreamy speculations, and
the words Of that old trail song ran on
in her memory, though she could no
longer hear him singing. Her mother
talked on about Peter and the storm
and this man who had ridden straight
from the land of day dreams to her
door, but the girl was not listening.
"Now, amt you relieved yourself
that he's going to stayT'
Billy Louise, kneeling on the hearth
and staring abstractedly into the fire,
came back with a jerk to reality. The
little smile that had been in her eyes
and on her lips fed back with the
dreams that had brought it. She gave
her shoulders an impatient twitch and
got up.
"Oh, l guess he'll be more agreeable
to have around than Peter" she adj
AAAllC0 LdNAluAbA1B hhHNh Was as GlOS6
TO her real opinion of the man as a
mere mother might hope TO come.
When spring came at last and Ward
Warren rode regretfully back to his
claim on Mill creek he was not at all
the morose Ward Warren who had
ridden down to the Wolverine that
stormy night in January. The distrust
had left his eyes, and that guarded re-
moteneSs was gone from his
He thought and he planned as other
men thought and planned and looked
into the future eagerly and dreamed
dreams of his own, dreams that brought
the hidden smile often to his lips and
his eyes.
Still, the thing those dreams were
built upon was yet locked tight in his
heart, and no even Billy Louise. whose
instinct was so keen and so ure in all
things else, knew anything OF them or
of the bright hued hope they were built
upon.
ITO BE Continued
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always sang when he came down the
canyon to rescue me. But of course l
knew all the time he's a cowboy. 1t
said So
The whistling broke, and he began
to sing at the top of a clear. strong
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(TO BE CONTINUED
Old Enqiish Furniture.

That fine old furniture is yet found in Britain in many unexpected places is said to be largely due to the stir ring up of the country that was given by the great exhibition at London of 1851. This was soon after the devel- opment of the railway system in Eng land, and there fiocked to London, a large number of squires and their wives. A new world had opened to the country danes. The new things had a wonderful fascination for them. On returning home they got rid of much of their old furniture and bought new. Much of the old furni- ture found its way to secondhand shops, and was sold to poor folk, who could not afford to buy new. This ac- counts for the finding today of much good old furniture in small houses in provincial towns and among country people.-Indianapol News.
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SPANISH INFLUENZA Do Not Fear When Fighting
 a German or a Germ!
By DIR. NJ. COOK.

The cool fighter always wins and so there Is no need to become panic stricken. Avoid fear and crowds. Ex- ercise in the fresh air and practice the three C's: A Clean Mouth, a Clean Skin and Clean Bowels To carry off the poisons that accumulate within the body and to ward off an attack of the influenza bacillus, take il good liver regulator to move the bowels. Such one is made up of May-apple, leaves Cf aloe, root of jalap, and is to be had at any drug store, and called Pheasant Purgative Pellets"
 If n bad cold develops. 20 to bed, wrap up well. drink freely of hot lemonade and take hot mustard foot-bath. Have the bedroom warm but well ven tilated. Obtain at the nearest drug store "Anuric Tablets to flush the kidneys and control the pains and aches. Take an "Anuric" tablet every two hours, together with copiOus drinks of lemonade. If true case of infu- enza. the food should be simple, such as hrOths, milk huttermilk and iee-cream; but 1t is important that food be given regularly in order to keep m patients strength and vitality. After the acute attack has passed, which is generally from three to seven days. the system should be built up by the use of a good iron tonic, such as "Irontic" tablets. to be obtained at snae drug stores, or that well known bleod-maker and herbal tonic made from roots and harks of forest trees-sold everywhere as pr. picrce'S Golden Medical Discovery.
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CHAPTER ".

And the years passed, and Mark Wallace grew grayer and older, and more set and dispirited, with long al- ternating intervals of resignation, when he took life as he found il and was satisfied. But he always came out of these into brief periods of un- rest, with the sense that he had awak- ened from some lethargy that was damning his soul as the alkali and the winds of the plains had scanned his face and taken the last particle of his youth away.
 Now in Texas, now in Arizona, now in some lonely border post in the freezing Northwest, he remained cap tain. He had no friends in Washing ton. In time-in long time he would reach his majority, no doubt, to be re- lieved soon after, and waddle, with stout old majors of his own age, into ornate clubs in army centers not quite so far removed from civilization. He looked upon this prospect with ironical patience, and now and then asked himself the unanswerable question why he had remained in the army.
 Eleanor was grown up and domiciled permanently in Colonel Towards town house, and her letters had grown more infrequent and perfunctory, until their arrival became a quarterly affair in- stead of a monthly event, and not al- ways that, either.
 And by and by the feeling came over Mark that if ever he were to see her again there would remain no com mon link between them. From doubt ing his future he had come to doubt himself. He doubted whether the des- ert life had not blunted him, blunted his finer instincts, and made him unfit for social life-certainly rendered him unfit for the guardianship of a young girl.
 But that he had relinquished to Col onel Howard-grudgingly but uncom- promislngly. Never in any of his let ters did he put forward the shadow of his former claim.
 Then, swiftly, and unexpectedly chance turned and beckoned him.
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when we go out together. And he watches me then, though he never at- tempts to speak to me"
 And you've told Miss Harper3"
 No, Uncle Mark. She would think I was hysterical," answered the girl. shrewdly.
 Mark could see that, but he was certain that 1t was hysterIa, that the idea had come to the child as the re- suit of breeding over the mystery of her percentage. The entrance of the lady principal put an end to their con- versation. Mark rose reluctantly. His visit had been all too brief, and 1t might be years before he saw the girl again.
 Well, Eleanor, this Is au revoir," he said. Perhaps for years"
 She looked at him in sudden alarm. "You are not coming back before you leave for the West, Uncle Mark?" she asked
 "They won't allow me the time. I have to go to Washington tomorrow, and then back to Texas"
 She returned no answer, but went with him to the house door, and turned and faced him there, pulling at the lapels of his coat.
 "Send me a new photograph, Cap tain Mark" she said. I'm not going to call you Uncle Mark any more"
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IMMORTAL SPIRIT OF FRANCE
Woman True Type of GaIIc charac. ter That Brute Force of Huns
 Could Never Crush.

A tired and dusty doughboy drew up in front of shell-battered house in Chateau Thierry and asked Frenchwoman if he could get drink of water.
 "Oui, mon garcon," said the woman. "You come right along with me-"
 After the soldier had obtained his drink and was about to depart, he re- marked that her house had suffered more or less from the guns.
 "Yes," was the reply "I used it as dressing station for the Americans who were wounded here and the Boches seemed to know about it. But it's all right. We will build it up again and everything will be the same.
 She explained in detail just how she would rearrange the architecture, how the windows would be built larger.
 "We will have to carry a lot of rock" she smiled. You see, those are all shot to pieces. But it's not far to the river"
 Then she turned and resumed her task of clearing away the debris that had once been the east wall of her house.-From the Stars and Stripes.
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"An older oneT' asked Mark, laugn- ing. though he had a strange sinking at his heart This child epitomized home to him, and he had been home less since boyhood.
 You must forgive me-" she said, little wistfuly. Captain Mark, there's something I want awfully to say to you, but it takes lot of cour- | age" she added.
 "Tell me just the same,' answered | Mark. You know, my dear, l want you ts have everything you wish for. And if Major Howard won't give it to you, you just let me know. He has as sumed the responsibility for your: up- bringing, and I'm going to have the fun of giving you pleasure"
 "Its something that Major Howard can't give me, Captain Mark"
 "Can I?'
 "Yes," she said in low voice, pull ing at his coat, and suddenly raising her eyes to his. Mark Wallace saw the soul of mature woman look out of the eyes of the child "When I'm old CT and have put my hair up and wear | long dresses-when I'm eighteen, say, IT want you to marry me, Captain Mark"
 She was gone in flash running along the corridor, while Mark Wal lace stood dumfounded at the door, hearing her footsteps grow fainter as she hurried into the recesses of the Misses Harpers' School for Select Young Ladies.
 Mark went down the walk like a man dreaming. It was absurd 1t Was perhaps, characteristic of the girls age and temperament; and yet in spite of the absurdity, Captain Mark Wallace felt as if he had suddenly regained the grimy little child whom he had found upon the hillside in front of Santiago, and lost again. As he reached the gate he saw a man watching him from the bend of the road. Something of furtivcness in the mans posture made him wheel sharply round; then he remembered Eleanor's words and started in haste toward him. But the man shambled off at q quick gait and when Mark reached the bend he could see no- body.
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