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heard now. We've managed to keep
it pretty close, but it's all over the
place now. Yes, we entrain at day
break"
Sabre felt frightfully affected. He
could hardly speak.
The blessed gift in the war was to
be without Imagination. The supreme
trial, whether in endurance on the
part of thes who stayed at home, or
in courage on the part of those who
took the field, was upon those whose
mentality invested every sight and
every happening with the poignancy
of attributes not present but imag-
ined. For Sabre the war definitely
began with that visit to the Mess on
the eve of the Pink's departure. The
high excitement of the young men,
their eager planning, moved Sabre,
visioning what might await it all, in
depths profound and painful in their
intensity. His mind would not aban-
don them. He sat up that night after
Mabel had gone to her room. How
on earth could he go to bed, he hog
gishly sleeping, while those chaps
were marching out?
He could not. At two in the morn.
ing he went quietly from the house
and got out his bicycle and rode
down into Tidborough.
He was Just in time. The news
had been well kept, or in those early
days had not the meaning it came
to. have. Nevertheless a few people
stood about the High Street in the
thin light of the young morning,
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burst into the Pinks' familiar quick
step.
The Camp Town races are five
miles long,
Doo-dal Doo-da,
The Camp Town races are five
miles long,
Doo-da! Doo-da lDayi
Gwine to run all night. Gwine to
run all day.
/ bet my money on the bob-tail
nag,
Somebody bet on the bay!
He never in his life had expert
enced anything so utterly frightful
or imagined that anything could be
so utterly frightful. His throat felt
bursting. His eyes were filled. They
were swinging past hif, file by file.
Doo-dai Doo-dal Day He scarcely
could see them. They were march
ing at ease, their rifles slung. They
seemed to be appallingly laden with
stupendous packs and multitudinous
equipment. A tin mug and God
knows what else besides swung and
ratified about their thighs. The wo-
men with them were running to keep
up, and dragging children, and
stretching hands into the ranks, and
crying all crying.
:. Doo-da Doo-da!
The Camp Town races are five
miles long
Doo-da! Doo-da! Day!
He thought, Damn that Internal
music" He wiped his eyes. This
was impossible to bear Doo-da /!
Doo-da! A most frightful thing hap
pened. A boy broke out of the ranks
and came running, all rafting and
jingling with swinging acquire
ments, to the old woman beside Sa-
bre, put his arms around her and
cried in most frightful voice,
Mother! Motherw And a sergeant,
also rafting and clanking, dashed up
and bawled with astounding ferocity,
Get back into the bloody ranksp
And the boy ran on, rafting. And
the old woman collapsed prone upon
the pavement. And the sergeant, as
though his amazing ferocity had been
the buttress of some other emo
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CHAPTER "

The enormous and imponderable
world awfully unbalanced. Upside
down. Extraordinarily unreal. Furi-
ously real.
Life, which had been thing of
events in which there was no time,
only events.
Things began one day very shortly
after the declaration of war when,
passing the barracks on his way
home, Sabre was accosted and taken
into the Mess by Cottar, a subaltern
of the Pinks.
"You must come along inland have
a cup Of tea," young Cottar urged.
''We've got a hell of jamborino on
At least we shall have tonight. We're
Just working up for it. | can't tell
You why. You can guess"
Sabre felt sudden catch at his
emotions. 'Is the regimAnt going?'
They were at the door of the ante
room. Cottar swung it open. The
room was full of men and tobacco
smoke and noise. A very tall youth,
one Skies, was standing ont the table,
a glass in his hand. "Hullo, Sabre
Messman, one of those very stl11
Whistles for Mr.. Sabre - go on
Sabre, you must. Because" He
had not Cottar's reticence. He burst
into song, waving his glass-"Be-
cause
eve shan't be here in the morn
ing"
Otway came in. "Shut up, you
noisy young fools. What the"
Skies from the table. "Ah, Papa
Otway! Three cheers for Papa OF
way in very discreet whispers. Mess
man, one of those very stiff WHISTLES
for Captain Otway."
Otway laughed pleasantly. ''No
chuck it, Pm not drink. Hood,
want you; and you, Carmichael, and
you, Bullen." He saw Sabre and
came to him. "hullo, Sabre. You've
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co ON WITH the STORY.
She echoed the word. WAR;"
"Yes declared war y

She echoed the word. War;"
Eyes, declared war"
He was GREATNESS painting. She
said, Good graciousl Whatever will
. happen? Have you brought an eve
ming paper? Do you know the pa
pers didn't come this morning till"
He could not hear her out. "No, l
didn't wait. l simply rushed away.
he was close to her. He took her
hands. 81 say, Mabel, it's war" His
emotions were tumultuous and ex-
traordinary. He wanted to draw hef
to him and kiss her. They had not
kissed for longer than he could have
remembered; but now he held her
hands hard and desired to kiss her.
Il say, it's war;
She gave her. sudden burst of
laughter. "You are excited. I've
never seen you SO excited. Your col
lars undone."
He dropped her hands. He said
rather stupidity, "Well, it's war, you
know" and stood there.
She turned to he rdressin gtable.
well, I do wish you'd stay for a
paper"
Lying awake, he thought of Mona.
He had not written the letter to her
The appointed day was past and he
had not written. He would have
said, during that unutterable dark
ness in which he had awaited it, that
not the turning of the world upside
down would have prevented him writ
ing; but the world had turned upside
down. 1t was not board Pixies men
had swung around in that appalling
moment when he had watched them
appear on the balcony. 1t was the
accustomed and imponderable world,
awfully unbalanced. Mona would
understand. Mona always understood
everything. He wondered how she
had maintained this terrific day. He
was assured that he knew. She would
have felt just as he had felt. He
thought, with a most passionate
longing for her, that he would have
given anything to have been able to
turn to her when he had exclaimed,
"My God, war;" and to have caughe
her hands and looked into her beau
tiful face. Tomorrow he would send
the letter. Tomorrow? Why, yes,
today, like all todays in the removed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-07
WOME.N'S SAMPLE SILK
STOCKINGS SOC TO SI.95

Regular 75c to $500 pair. One
pair of each kind; beautiful
stockings in black, brown, white
and some gray; they always Sc
lect the best goods for the SAM
Piles, so come here and get your
hosiery while you can get them
at wholesale.
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HESTANDARD
ASTONISHING DRESSES
FOR GIRLS AT SIPS

Nrsh, gay frocks just unpacked for
6 to 14-year-old girls. Spring
schools days. Pretty striped and
checked gingham; also plain
colors IL the same sizes. Not
many mothers would care to
make them at any such price.
All sizes .-....-... .-...--.--$1. q
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@lQ1l ASMNuTcAINsoN

and placid light of all tomorrow's,
would be shown needlessly hectic.
Ten to one something would have
happened in the night to make today
look foolish.
III
When he went down into Tidbor-
ough in the morning it was to know
at once that this tomorrow gave no
lie to its precedent day. 1t intensi-
fled it. The previous day foreshad-
owed war. The new day presented
it.
He went into the office. The after
noon post had brought letters to his
desk. He turned them over without
interest, then caught up one-from
Mona.
Mako, this frightful war! have
thanked God on my knees for you
that last week you prevented me. If
had done it with this! Tony has
rejoined the Guards, he was in the
Reserve of Officers. And you see
that whatever has been, and is, dear,
he's my man to stand by IN this
Mako, it would have been too awful
if ! couldn't, and / thank God for
you, again and again and again.
Mona.
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BEAUTIFUL IMPORTED
DIVINITY AT 39c YD.

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children's dresses; the prettiest
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WOMEN'S BLACK SATIN
SLIPPERS AT S4.95

Black covered Baby French heels,
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MISSES AND CHILDREN'S
MERCERIZED SOCKS AT 2!

The greatest line shown in South
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all colors; they are the regular
39c to SOC Socks in regular
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TAX NOTICE

My books will remain open until May LIST. All cot
ton of 1919 and 1920 crops and money, notes and
you had JAM 1s 1922 subject to taxes. The
law requires all ladies give and pay poll taxes for
the year 1922 from Fl to SO years DID, Very respectfully
GEO. D. JONES' Tax Receiver, S. c.
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They were marching at ease, their
rifles slung.
and when, almost Immediately, the
battalion came swinging out of the
Market Place, many appeared flank
ing it, mostly women.
Here they Gomez
Frightful words! Sabre caughe
them from a young woman spoken
to very old woman whose arm
she held a few PAGES from where he
stood. Frightful words! He caught
his breath, and, more dreadfully
upon his emotions, as the head of
the column came into sight, the
band, taking them to the station,
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NOTICE.

A number of our citizens have 50
for neglected to pay their city taxes.
Fl fas have been issued against ev-
cry person who has not paid and
have positive instructions to levy, al
yertise and sell in every case in
which settlement is not made on or
before the 18th inst Please take no.
tice and be governed accordingly.
C. B. POUNCEY, City Marshal.
sat
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MISSES 81 SOCKS AT Soc

OF line merceriZedI cotton; all regu-
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Pair ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. SO,
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MEMS FINE SHIRTS
q o2 To 50 80

Remarkable Shirts for the price,
for they are in fine quality of
Imported Madras and Silk Strip
ed Shirtings; they are unusually
pretty stripes, and are worth half
as much again as our price.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
DON'T MISS THIS ART EXHIBIT.

Kenosha is going to have wonderful exhibit
of the works of a master painter of pictures
during the remainder Of the month and you
must not miss it, It is going to be made up
of wonderful pictures of nature done by the
most wonderful master in the world. 1t is to
be staged in Library park and there is no tick
ct to be handed in the door and no war tax to
be paid on admission It is as free as the air
and sunlight and it comes at season of the
year when its wonderful artistry will most APP
peal to you. The pictures will be true to ma
ture, done by master hand and mingling in
tremendous beauty all the colors Of the rain
bow There will be no splotches or blotches
ON the canvas
"Old Stuff" may be your comment. Yes,
old stuff-older than the canvasses of the old
est of the masters and yet pictures that do not
have to cleaned or oiled out.
Spring in Library park is worth while. It's
the beauty spot of the lake shore and worth
seeing. Of course you have seen them before
the splendid tulips in all their gorgeous col
or, the peonies, the lilacs and the mellow yell
lows Of the shrubbery but you want to see
them again.. Familiarity never breeds con-
tempt for these pictures. You may have come
to consider them as common place but the WIS.,
itor who drops into the city will never feel this
way about them Home town beauties Of seen
cry are often overlooked and forgotten but ii
can be said that if the same kind of a beauty
spot happened on your path in Boston or Phil
adephia you would be making picture post
cards of it to send them home to your friends.
Most people in Kenosha look at the beauties
of Library park without an appreciation Of
them. Few ever consider the fact that this
beauty spot in the very heart of a great grow
ing city is real influence on the people and
that it is every day suggesting something just
little better, something little brighter and
something which uplifts the community. It
may be that the average citizen who walks
through the park day after day does not see
this subtle influence but it is there just the
same. The beauty in this one particular spot
in Kenosha is having it's influence on thousands
of Kenosha people and it's worthwhile influ-
ence. You may not see much of this influence
but don't fail to see these wonderful pictures
during the next few weeks.
The characters of men and women and chill
dren are susceptible to the call of beauty The
beauty which is made by the air and sunlight
can be reflected in lives and it is on this account
that we contend that Library park is worth a
lot more than it ever did or ever could cost the
city.
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the home brewers made raw and very
strong colorless drink. Its base is
nearly always the alcohol from the po-
tato. It's strength and inspiring quail
ity may be judged from the fact that
once, when the. gasoline supply at Ufa,
on the Asian border ran out, the po-
tato alcohol was used to run the Am
erican Relief Administrations service
automobile and it ran it.
But it almost took a pair of special
policemen to watch the two Russian
chauffeurs, who no sooner was the stuff
issued, started little private bar for
their friends. , But Vodka and its po-
tato alcohol substitute are not gem
orally used in the sense that whiskey
and gins are used in England. Insofar
as strong liquor is concerned, Russia Is
ninety-five per cent "dry." Stores
which are now springing into being
rapidly display modest stocks of wine
chiefly red. The wine that is not
pre-war is imported, little by little
from the CausAsus.t
The Russian famine is coming I'M
der control. This must not be taken
to mean that there is no more mum
ger, privation1 or even death in the
famine zones, but it does mean that
the scores and hundreds of tons of
American foodstuffs that have been
pouring into Russia Under the direc-
ton Of the American Relief Admins
tEation are doing their work.
Adults who, without American aid,
would have died, are staying alive on
American corn, purchased in the Unit
ed States with the s20o0O,OO0 con-
gressional appropriation. Children who
would have died are being kept alive
on foodstuffs purchased with money
made available to the American Re-
lief Administration by the charity of
the American people.
The number being fed is steadily in
creasing. The program will come to
its crest about the middle of May
when approximately 100000 children
and 100000 adults will be reeeiv-
ing American food. The figures are
from Colonel William N. Haskell, d.
rector in Russia for the adninistra-
ton.
On April the Russian ruble sold
at the rate. of 100000 for the Amer
lean dollar-i.> e. at the rate of TWEEN
ty thousand for one American cent.
But the Russian ruble as an entity
vanished long ago. The smallest cur
rent printing is note of $4,000
rubles-one cent and a quarter. The
more common note is for 100000 rub
les-fve cents and the 100000 ruble
note-ffty cents--is very common. The
prices of goods to an Ameriean-sueh
as he can BUYS very low If he buys
rubles with his American dollars. The
price to Russians who earn only a
few million rubles per month, is very
high. It keeps the living of even the
moderately fortunate down very low.
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off of good concrete road into mud hole and
it isn't necessary.
Kensha, Racine and Walworth counties in
Wisconsin and Lake and McHenry counties in
Illinois have community of interest in the
working out of their road problems. There
should be closer cooperation between these
counties with a view Of having the road sys-
tenn of this section start somewhere and lead
somewhere
Interstate regulations of the railways has
not proved failure by any means and inter-
state improvement of the highways can be
counted >on to be just as successful.
It may be a new idea to ask Illinois and sur
rounding counties of Wisconsin to sit in on
the making of Kenosha county road plans but
when it's all said and done it would be worth
while. Good roads are planned for the great
est service to the greatest number Of people
and cooperation of the right kind will bring
this kind of service.
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Rail travel in Russia is q hazardous
but not an extra hazardous task. In
all outside countries the picture of
Generalization of rail transport SEEM
ed to me trife overdrawn. The first
American corn train out of Novoros-
sisk February 10, went to Ufa, fourteen
hundred miles distant in twenty-six
days-a trifle better than fifty miles
day.
This is not tremendously fine rec
ord in the terms of the performance
on American railroads, but it is a
performance that will, in spite Of diff
eulties, move the food that has been
landed in the ports. In some in
stances there has been heavy, but not
overwhelming congestion of cars at
division points. This congestion oc-
CURED, chiefly in the late spring, when
several unusually heavy SHOWS for so
late in the year blocked travel.
With. the thaws, the Transportation
difficulty will go from the railroads
to the horse transport from the rail
towns out into the country. But this
burden will be spread over a tremend-
Gus area and there will be tremend-
Gus number to cope with 1.-THE mil
lions who can have the corn to eat If
they will haul it to the distributing
points.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
INTER.COUNTY ROADS.

The important thing about a good road is to
have it start somewhere and finish somewhere
"A lane built of gold leading from the back door
of millionaire ITO his lodge half mile away
is not of any great value to the general public
and q road which~just runs by the homes of a
few people, while valuable and convenient to
them is not of any great value to the general
public Roads to be of great value to the
greatest number must be through routes. The
Kenosha county highway commission has made
few mistakes in selecting roads to be improved
at the expense of the county and maintained
at the expense of the general public but the
system of roads could be made even more valu-
able by just little cooperation on the parts of
other counties and states Planning road
system is just like any other kind of planning
It means not only looking to the present but
looking to the future as well. The state high
way commission in Wisconsin is a forward
looking body. It's work has been of great val
ue in constructing a system of roads in Wis
consin which are second to none in the nation
The state commission gives much time and
study to the development of these roads but it
is not humanity possible for the state to work
out all of the inter-county and Interstate prob
lems
Kenosha will probably spend half million
dollars in the Improvement of county highways
in the next three years and every dollar Sworth
Of work done should be done along intelligent
lines Roads built south through Kenosha
county should be built to connect with i'm
proved roads to leading cities in Illinois and it
should be understood in advance that the nli-
nois cUuiity is going to improve the roads too.
Roads leading north and west should lead into
roads which have been improved by surround
ing counties.
Of course Kenosha can not dictate what
roads Illinois or Rock county will improve but
it would be an excellent thing to have con-
ference of the officials of southern Wisconsin
and northern Illinois and have an understands
ing as to road programs. 1t isn't nice to run
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symptom of local disorder but rath-
er that of blood disease or other
constitutional disorder.
There are several seats of catarrh.
The head, throat, stomach, and bowels
are usually the commonest.
Catarrh Of the head is chronic in
fammation of the membranes of the
nose. Sometimes this Inflammation is
due to lack of cleanliness and care;
sometimes to an atmosphere laden with
smoke and dust. Often it results from
the thickening and overgrowth of the
nasal membranes. Daily cold baths
and open air often effect a cure.
Catarrh of the throat is usually a
continuation downward of that Of the
"head." It is very difficult to cure.
The best results are obtained by NOV
ing to climate where the air is free
from dust and smoke.
Catarrh of the stomach usually re-
suits from such habits as indulgence
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on dry battery kills it quickly.
The Bureau of Standards at Wash
lngton has announced the development
OF radio receiving set thatAeliminates
the storage battery. But until this is
popula1zed on the market, the radio
amateur will have to content himself
with the storage battery.
Lead Batteries.
There are in general two very good
types of storage batteries-the lead
plate and the nickel iron-alkali cell.
Lead batteries consist of lead plates
immersed in 20 per cent solution of
sulphuric acid. The jar or container
for portable batteries used in radio
sets, is usually of hard rubber COM
pound.
The plates are usually of the "past-
ed" variety. They consist of a fat
frame or grid which is made of an al
10y of lead and anthony, into which
the active materials in form of a paste
made from the chemicals are pressed
The structure of the grid is such as
to hold the materials in place after
they have been cemented into a solid
mass. Plates which are made in this
way are then formed"
This consists of a/prolonged charge
from source of direct current which
exidizes the plates intended for the
positive until the active material of
the plate is transformed into a lead
peroxide-the familiar brown material
of the positive plate.
The negative plates are reduced
from the, oxide condition of the paste
to a spongy lead, which is of a dull
gray color.
In making a cell the required num-