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X' i iuajr f UUlULICl * V ? . fT^hG G fOUVL HOW I WEN Mrs. Hazel Carte twenty-two, whoso : of the United States Pershing expedition. Determined to acc form and fell in as i days at sea on the chance. After the a she was returned ho It la a it*ry *t romance, dramatic in it till la of real news value, since Mrs. Carte; voyage ul safe arrival first hand?one that COPYRIGHT. 1917. BY 71 TXohTTira little thing like that discourage you. honey. Go home and J* . take a run down to Kentucky to see mother. Tell her I am well and doing all right No boche bullet is going to !! get me. Then, if you still want to J come over. Join the Red Cross. I'll * work night and day to see you are sent somewhere near us. Be good, kiddie. ? Wait for me." I ? I don't know whether he said any v /more or not I was crying so hard I c couldn't hear. I ran to the rail. He ? was going over the side. He did not look back. He was a regular soldier. I understood. I fell in a heap on the ^ deck. After that I do not remember. 1 While 1 had been ?aying goodby ? to my husband on the deck of the 13 transport the guards turned their 8 backs and pretended to be busy. They a told me afterward that when they T saw me rush to the rail they bad the scare of their lives. They thought I was going to Jump over after him. They reached me Just as I crumpled up on the deck. The first thing I remember hearing was the voice of a seaman who had been sent on an errand for the "medic." v HA woman makes a h?1 of a soldier." n he was complaining. "If they ever got \ oat in a good, stiff battle and things b a 1_ M u Degan to IOOK luugu lur Uiem iue wuuib u d?d army would go to work and faint" d "What art you blowin' about?" said t one of my personal guards, who was k llways willing to give me all the best r ?f It 1 was his prisoner, and be was a C Boldler and didn't want an outsider s picking on me. "A lot of license you have to bawl out somebody. That time P the boys kidded you and said they w were going to draft the sailors into the n army and send them out first I thought a you had the ague." "I wasn't feelin' well. I had a chill." "Uh huh! A chill in your feet; that's f' what you had." s "Well, maybe 1 did. A guy's got a k right to his own idea# about fightin'. I H ain't afraid of no submarines nor any- S thing else on this here sea, but I ain't tl hankerin' to go chasin' Germans across No Man's Land nor none o' them tl strange places. If I'm gonna get mine ^ I want to get it on the ocean." c This is often the case. Sailors who h do not know the meaning of the word h fear on the water will back out en- 0 tirely when it comes to fighting on M land. Thev seem to be born to the sea. v A lot of soldiers, hate the water. They e would rather fight four years in the army than four days In the navy. ! b "The kid's all right." said my guard 0 to this sailor, recommending me. "She a made a darn good doughboy. If she h wants to take a flop because her old ^ man has to go out and maybe get bean- k ed by a piece of shrapnel or somethin' to let her do it." U It all came back to me then why I | was here, the goodby to my husband, b the failure of my plans Just when it tl looked as if I were going to get through S clean and maybe go with him to the f< front I guess I moaned. "She's coming to," said the "medic," 1c feeling for my pulse. "You'd better p clear out, all of you. I'll give her some- p thing to keep her quiet She'll feel bet j si ter after a good night's rest." I honestly did not know whether 1 d wanted to come to or not. Life looked n pretty hopeless with me back there on b ' the transport not knowing what was j h coming off at the camp. Then I thought of my husband. He told me to wait & for him. Well, I wouldn't disappoint fj him. tl Since I got back home I hare heard o of several cases where the wives or I: sweethearts of boys who have been j v called away committed suicide. This g Is hard to understand. If a woman is lucky enough to win the love of a man who will shoulder a gun and go out and fight for his country and her coun- a try she ought to have enough grit to 8 live for him and do her bit In the v ' meantime. He wants to come back | a and find his home or the girl he left j behind him waiting to welcome him. ^ This is one of the things which keep | ^ him going, the thought that the sooner' e It is over the quicker he will get back 0 home to her. a It didn't take me very long to 8nd v out the captain on the boat suspected I might be one of the quitters. From ^ the porthole in my room I could look ^ out and see the deck. TTftnf: Under Guard. A sailor was walking guard up there He never took his eyes off the port- t hole. When he saw me come near the : t t opening he looked mighty worried, j The captain thought I mipht try to e jump overboard and drown myself. It ii would be up to this guard to dive over c and rescue me. f _ "Don't worry." I called to him. "I'm t lira/WBo 5tS A- -W )IER 50Y T-OVER THERE" WITH 'ffnr/*in nrrrrnmir nii\W3 uiviJiuiv AZEL CARTER r of Douglaa, Ariz., Is a young woman, foung husband, Corporal John J. Carter i army, was ordered to France with the ompany him, she obtained a soldier's unii private on his departure. She was five transport before discovered through a rrival of the famous division in France me against her wishes. s qualities, full of the soldier color and Is the first to relate the details of that made history. HE BELL SYNDICATE tof going to do tfie DutchT as we iaT q the army." "You'd better not," he grinned. "The vater is awful damp this evening." iut he kept his eye on the porthole ust the same. They brought me everything for dinler they thought would tempt me. I lid not touch it All I did was to ralk the floor. Most of the time I ried. For Gve days and nights I nevr slept or ate a mouthful of food. wpv rvf If choked me. A guard was stationed outside my j loor and another on the upper deck. ?he one at the door was a soldier and he one on deck a sailor. The soldiers elonped to the hospital corps. They re detailed to duty on the transports nd go back and forth with the ship to rhlch they are assigned. CHAPTER VI. Home Again, but Not Glad of It. yTOW all the troops were ashore. 1 spent most of the time allowed me on deck dally for exercise, patching and hoping for a glimpse of ay husband, eyes glued to the spot rhere I knew the camp to be. The oys must have been kept pretty close ecause I did not see them again. My husband had promised he would o everything in his power to get them o permit me to land. I knew he would eep his word. I still hoped they would elent and ! could go and join the Red Iross, even if I could not be a regular oldler. Every time a boat put out from the ler I held my breath and prayed it ?as some one bringing good news for le. Then when it didn't I was so disppointed 1 would start crying all resh again. Maybe you can imagine Just how I elt. TDere was tne snore, oniy a tone's throw away. I had braved all inds of hardships and dangers to reach My husband, the truest and best ammle that ever wore khaki, was Sere. And here I was a prisoner. A hundred times at night I walked to ie porthole and watched the lights tvinkling in the town. It seemed loser some way at night One evenlg the officer of the ship was walklg by with a soldier. My light was ut, and they could not see me. He ras apparently questioning the prlate. I did not recognize the silhoutte, so I took him for a rookie. "Carter said he tried to get her to go ack, but she wouldn't do it," said the fficer. "She's one of those babies who Iways have their own way. I wish she ad been my wife for about a minute. Phat he should have done was to nock her cold, call an ambulance and ike her to the hospital. Maybe after iat she'd listen to reason." "Yes? After that there would have een two or us in the nospitai,' i canea irough the porthole. "And Uncle am would have been minus one perjctly good soldier for awhile." The officer wheeled around. He >oked as if he would sell himself for a lugged penny. He started to beg my ardon, but I ducked back Into the tateroom In the dark and left him flat. My husband went ashore on Monay. Wedn. sday one of the boys told le he had been back on board the day efore, but the captain had refused im permission to see me. That night I kept my eyes on the ailors on watch. If one of them had alien asleep or gone Inside after some tiing I made up my mind I would go ver. take a chance and swim for it. f I had to wait for one of them to weaken I would die of old age. You've ot to hand it to them for that Soldiers Get Great Welcome. They told me the boys were having great time ashore. The people bad iven them the keys of the town and fere doing nothing but showing the ammies around. France was turning :self upside down to welcome them, 'he French girls were bombarding hem with kisses and good things to at, and the men were slapping them n tho l-ior-L- nnrl thpm rnmrnde nd more in French as best they could, fhlch was none too good. "Don't it get your goat to think maye one of them French dolls is plantag a kiss on your old man's brow?" aid the guard who brought me the ews. I knew he was trying to tease ae. "Goat nothing," I laughed. "Let hem go to it. A soldier deserves all he kisses he can collect" The fifth day after I said goodby to Qy husband 1 was up on deck watchug, as usual, for any sign of some one oming to get me when a transport arther along the line of ships began to aove_ out In a few minutes it was. fol lowed by anotherT That meant we were about to start our voyage back. My heart sank into my shoes. I would not see my husband again. I wa s not to go with the Red Cross and take care of the boys when they were wounded. Coming over the ocean did not seem so wide. Now it looked like a million miles across to me. "Our orders are to take you to your | quarters ana Keep you mere unai we j are safe outside," said o;ie of my guards. I don't remember how I got there. I guess they half led me and half carried me. I heard a bugle blowing somewhere over in the town. It was manned by an American. Every note came clear across the water. The next thing 1 knew I was on my berth with my fingers stuck tightly in my ears and my face burled iE> a pillow. The boat was moving out On the trip over I was not afraid of submarines. Now for the first time I was nervous about them. The ship seemed deserted. I paced the deck for hours at a stretch. My guard was always with me. the sailor on one side and the soldier on the other. I certainly looked like a popular lady. Many a. girl back home would have envied ir.e this escort from both branches of the service. I guess I almost walked the poor sentries to death. Once, after a long hike. I heard the sailor complaining: "If he don't put on the brakes my dogs are going to be worn oil right up to the ankle. I Joined the navy because walkin' never appealed to me. The way I'm goin' now I might ae well have signed up with the infantry." I was still "he" to the Jackie, One sailor in the gun crew on the way back kept complaining all the time because we did not meet up with a German sub. He was a nice boy, the one who had picked me out as a woman on the way over when be saw me trying to roll a cigarette, but kept it to himself. We got very friendly. "Why d<> you want to see a D boat?" 1 I asked him "Aren't you satisfied with the surface of the sea?" "We'd stay on top all right with that baby we've ?ot to shoot." he replied "All we want is Just a look at one You know the gun crew that sinks a submarine gets $5,000 from the government to be divided among nii:e men. I {mess my share of that wouldn't look good to me and my folks back in Iowa, besides the fun of nic king one." That boy typified itbe spirit of the United States navy -afraid of nothing, filled with supreme confidence in the ability of the men to shoot quick and straight. After 1 landed 1 saw him in Hoboken, and he was having a romance. "I've got to go up the street to meet my girl." he announced, proudly smiling. "Where is she?" I asked him. "She works up here at the vaudeville theater." he answered. "She gets through now pretty soon." I thought he had done pretty well, grabbing an actress. "They'll be calling you a stage door Johnny the first thing you know," I warned. He blushed. "Oh, she don't come out the> stage door." he defended. "She's an usher, and she's got my wrist watch. I only met her at 10 o'clock this morning, but I let her wear it today." "You're a fast worker." I suggested. "Oh, we've got to be in the navy," he answered proudly, "whether it's girls or submarines. We sailors don't stay In one place long enough to be slow." He went ofT up the street smillngfine boy, typical of the United States navy, clean and wholesome. The sentries were not snpposed to talk with me. but they were goodi fellows and didn't mind breaking a rule or two when it wasn't hurting anything to unbutton their faces and loosen up a bit. My doughltoy outfit was beginning to show the i^rain. I had worn it all the time since we left Douglas. It was cold, too, going back. I mentioned feeling cold to one of the sailors. Ele offered me an extra sailor suit he-had. It was warmer than the soldier's uniform. 1 put it on. It fit as though it had been made for me. They told me 1 made an even better Jackie than I did a Sammie. All the while I kept begging the guards to tell me why I had not beeu allowed to land. They always answered, "1 don't know," and then changed the subject. Finally, after we were out a couple of days, one of them came across. "I don't know for sure," he said, "but I heard it was General Pershing's or ders. He said It would set a bad ex ample." "I heard that, too," volunteered m> other escort, "but 1 also got a rumor it was the French authorities wuo turned TTrtii rlriTVn Ono nt fho IxiVS fold IT1P they put it up to the general so strong he finally agreed to get you a place In the Red Cross, but the Kreuchiea couldn't see it. They got more women [ than they can use over there now What they're shy on is meu." "Aw, what's eatin them?' grumble.J the first guard "She's more of a man tlwn some of cm back home who can't get away to go to war because they got to support their wife's uncle's second cousin or than some oi those scared rookies we took over with 11s I betcha if she ever got a bend ou u boche, blooey for him! Eh. Carter ei -I mean Mrs. Carter?" Up to the time we left the boys ashore did not know where they would be sent or how soon. All they were told was they would not be sent to the front green. When they did go thev would know the game from start to finish. Pershing was taking 110 chance on losing a single man through lgno ranee or unpreparedness. 0e's that kind of a soldier?looks out for his boys all the time. We were "ten full days cominp back The trip was quiet. I was under guard all the way. After the fifth day out I shook myself up and made up my mind to._mak? the. best. Qt it* The. officers '' "1 sent a phonograph Into my room. 1 gave concerts every afternoon. The U. S. A. Once More. I wus glad to see the tall buildings I knew as those of New York loom upglad and sorry. It made me think of how different it was going out, the ship like a beehive full of our boys. Now :lt was empty. They were "over thoro1' A a tto nnaaorl tho ctnfno <->f Liberty a sentry came to attention and saluted. "Gratings, old girl," he said. "I see you're still doing business at the old fetand. By the way," turning to me, "what are they going to do with you?" "How do 1 know ?" I replied. "I guess it's the guardhouse for you," be said. "I heard they were going to Jug you." "Prison will suit mo fine," I answered. "Maybe by the time I come out the old man will be back. I might as well be in jail as anywhere else. Of course if they let me have my choice I prefer to Join the Red Cross and try to go over and maybe see my boss?the commanding oflleer of the Carter family." I was kept on the ship for a day and a night Reporters from the newspapers were the first to find me. I don't know what a siege is like, but the government could make no mistake if they set all the reporters to manning siege guns. They'd never stop until they got the enemy. One of them came up to me on deck in a big hurry. "Where's the woman who went to Franco on this transport with you?" "I'm it," I said. I was still wearing my doughboy uniform. He looked me over a minute, scratched his head and exploded: "Wen, I'll be d?dl" Fina lly the officers of the ship telephoned. the police In Hobo ken. They came down In a patrol wagon to get me. A matron was with them. They all seemed to be anxious to do anything for me they could. I had. a free ride in the police taxicab to the jalL The matron loaned me clothes so I conld go out in the garb of a woman and buy some of my own. I cried a little when I peeled off my soldier uniform, thinking how happy I had been In it?part of tlie time. Skirts felt awful funny and awkward to me. That uniform is going to be locked away in a chest and treasured all my life. I'll hand It down to the young Carters?If there ever are any. The officers told me the government would take no action against me. They had demoted my husband from corporal 1:o private and fined him twothirds of one month's pay, and they thought that was enough. I couldn't convince them he wasn't in on it originally, although I triel hard enough. Whal: surprised me was that people seemed to think I had done something wonderful I never looked at it that way al; all. Moving picture concerns, photographers, vaudeville agents and newspapers came to me with all sorts of ofiPei*s. I never had any experience in business. I lived on a ranch down in Arizona when I wasn't at any army post, and I couldn't understand what I had done to bring myself so much In the limelight 1 can rope a steer with the best of them, but when this New York bunch began to mill 1 was sunk. I was alone here, knew nobody. One of the newspaper men suggested that if I wanted to get money so 1 could join the Red Cross and go back T ought to accept some of the offers. That decided me. The money I make from these articles in the American newspapers will be used for that purpose. They will give Uncle Sam a Red Cross nurse, passage to "somewhere in France," preferably near Pri vate (now) John Carter, jvepaid. Now I'm going back to Douglas to see the folks. I'll, stop in Kentucky, as my husband ordered, and tell his mother all nbout what a fine Sanynle she has for a son. My own mother will be waiting for me. She never knew I was going until I had left 1 didn't want her to worry. .Now she writes: "If you wanted to be a soldier and fight with your man it was all right wito us. were prouu ui j>uu. iuu ie an honor to the blood, and that has been fighting blood since before the civil war."' I don't know how long this war is going to last, but if it gives me half a chance I'll be "over there" with a cross on my ana looking for Private John Carter, U. S. I. (I hope he's a captain then; he's got: it in him), and looking out for him and the boys. There'll be some one else I'll be looking for too?the "rookie'1 who talked too much and tipped me off. THE END. FARMERS MUST PLAN AHEAD IN ORDER TO SUCCEED Take a couple of traveling men, "or instance, They get up in the morning, have breakfast, go out from ve hotel, get in their machines, leav;,,g for the day's work. 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Theorder affects 113 commissioned officers and 3,000 men of the Sixth Training battalion of the Depot Bri- ^a< gade, a South Carolina organization having been the Third Battalion of err 11 1 T? A?- TU/\(.A w An tO tne oecona lmaiitry. nine u?u will be assigned to South Carolina units as far as possible. The following officers were as- cat signed to the One Hundred and to Eighteenth Infantry, formerly First South Carolina Infantry: Maj. James W. Burke, Maj. Victor r' H. Holmes, Capt. D. L. Southard, P Capt. Joseph G. GafFney, Capt. Thos. wh i Ic?b them 11/ B|y| noney. ?K U' ;Wk count in institu- J iere children | per attention 3 oent to han- | finances i rt in the >n. One ^-JH a account. :{1 Courtesy?Service 9 1 nal Bank J S. 0* )ARD ay Company |1 RAILWAY OF THE :|j r-Cafe Cars. Ja Sleepers. H|jB South, East and West. " ;f1| other information, call $ Agent or write FRED GEISSLER, | Asst. Gen* Pass'r Agt. % S. A. L.RWY., Atlanta, Ga. 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The purchase was proposed belse the price of silver threatened reach the minted value. A hitch lsed the United States to with iw its offer and meanwhile . the ce of silver has fallen below that ich was to have been^paid Mexico.