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I"Over the Top"
By An American Soldier
Who Went
ARTHUR COY EMPEY
Machine Gunner Serving In Franc
fPf.7 CHAPTER XXI.
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About Turn.
Hie next evening we were relieved
by the ?th brigade, and once again
returned to rest billets. Upon arriving
at these billets we were given twentyfour
hours In which to clean up. I had
Just finished getting the mud from my
uniform when the orderly sergeant Informed
me that my name was in orders
^o leave, and that I was to report to
the orderly room In the morning for orBers,
transportation and rations.
i nearly had a fit, hustled about
packing up, filling my pack with sourenirs
such as shell heads, *dud bombs,
lose caps, shrapnel balls, and a Prus-.
ban guardsman's helmet In fact before
I turned in that night I had every Mng
ready to report at the orderly
loom at nine the next mornlne.
fs the envy of the whole section,
ng around, telling of the good
was going to have, the places I
visit, and the real, old English
intended to guzzle. Sort of
it into them, because they all
md now that it was my turn, I
ilns to get my own back.
Ine I reported to the captain, remy
travel order and pass. He
me how. much money I wanted
w. I glibly answered, "Three
d francs, sirhe just as glibly
me one hundred.
rting at brigade headquarters,
y pack weighing a ton, I waited,
>rty others, for the adjutant to
us. After an hour's wait, he
ut; must have been sore because
n't going with us.
quartermaster sergeant issued
days' rations, In a little white
ration bag, which we tied to
ts. "
two motor lorries came along
> piled in, laughing, joking, and
I he best of spirits. We even loved
Germans, we were feeling so happy.
journey to seven days' bliss in
ity had commenced.
he ride in the lorry lasted about
hours; by this time we were covl
with fine, white dust from the
I, but didn't mind, even if we were
rly choking.
t the railroad station at F we
>rted to an officer, who had a white
d around his arm, which read "R.
(Royal Transportation Officer),
us this officer was Santa Claus.
he sergeant in charge showed him
orders; he glanced through them
said: "Make yourselves comfortl
on the platform and don't leave;
train is liable to be along in five
ptes?or five hours."
I came in five hours, a string pf
len match boxes on big, high
lels, drawn by a dinky little engine
I the "con." These match boxes
I cattle cars, on the sides of which
I painted the old familiar sign,
Inmes 40, Chevaux 8."
le R. T. O. stuck us all into one
I We didn't care; it was as good
I Pullman to us.
|o days we spent on that train,
I ting, stopping, jerking ahead, and
times sliding back. At three stawe
stopped long enough to make
tea, but were unable to wash, so
we arrived at B , where we
to embark for Blighty, we were
ack as Tureos and, with our unsn
faces, we looked like a lot of
ps. Though tired out, we were
1 had packed up, preparatory to
Ining, when a R. T. O. held up his
for us to stop where we were
pme over. This is what he said:
b, I'm sorry, but orders have just
[received cancelling all leave. If
lad been three hours earlier you
| have gotten away. Just stay In
pain, as it is going back. Rations
le issued to you for your return
py to your respective stations,
ly rotten, I know." Then he left,
lead silence resulted. Then men
Id to curse, threw their rifles on
lor of the car; others said nothlemed
to be stupefied, while some
|he tears running down their
m. It was a bitter disappointment
I' we Dimaeu hi me eugmeer ui
aln; it was all his fault (so we
ed); why hadn't he speeded up a
>r been on time, then we would
gotten oft before the order arNow
it was no Blighty for us.<
; return Journey was misery toj
Tmt cant deacdtedt
AMOIOW sotwm
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When we got back to rest billets,
found that our brigade was In the
trenches (another agreeable surprise)
and that an attack was contemplated.
Seventeen of the forty-one will never
get another chance to go on leave;
they were killed In the attack. Just
. i
' Dead Bodies Everywhere.
think if that train had been on time, '
those seventeen would still be alive.
I hate to tell you how I was kidded !
by the boys when I got back, but it was :
good and plenty.
1 Our machine gun company took over j
their part of the line at seven o'clock, J
the night after I returned from my ;
ear leave.
At 3:80 the following morning three j
waves went over and captured the first
and second German trenches. The j
machine gunners went over with the |
fourth wave to consolidate the cap- i
tured line or "dig In," as Tommy calls
it
Crossing No Man's Land without
i clicking any casualties, we came to .
| the German trench and mounted our \
1 cmna nn tho nnrflrinq nf RATTM*.
I never saw such a mess in my life
' ?bunches of twisted barbed wire lying
abotit, shell holes everywhere, trench
all bashed In, parapets gone, and dead
bodies, why, that ditch was full of
them, theirs and ours. .It was a regular
morgue. Some were mangled horribly
from our shell fire, while others
were wholly or partly burled In the
mud, the result of shell explosions cavlng
in the walls of the trench. One
dead German was lying on his back,
with a rifle sticking straight up in' the
air, the bayonet of which was burled
to the hilt In his chest Across his feet
lay a dead English soldier with a bullet
hole in his forehead. This Tommy
must have been killed just as he ran
his bayonet through the German.
Rifles and equipment were scattered {
about, and occasionally a steel helmet [
could be seen sticking out of tbe mud. j
At one point, just in the entrance to j
a communication trench, was a stretch- ;
er. On this stretcher a German was j
lying with a white bandage around his ;
knee, near to him .lay one of the !
ctrotnhar.Kaopapfi tho rod prnns nn hid I
arm covered with mud and his helmet !
filled with blood and brains. Close by, j
sitting up against the wall of the j
trench, with head resting on his chest, >
was the j other stretcher-bearer. He ;
seemed t<? be alive, the posture was so j
natural dnd easy; but when I got i
closer I could see a large, jagged hole :
in his temple. The three must have i
been killed by the same shell-burst.
The dugouts were all smashed In and
knocked about, big square-cut timbers
splintered Into bits, walls caved in and
entrances choked
Tommy, after taking a trench, learns
to his sorrow that the hardest part of !
KA nrAvIr lo fA KAM If l I
I UiC UUiU 10 IV uvtu AV
In our case this provsd to be so.
The German artillery and machine
! guns had us taped (rmiged) for fair;
j it was worth your life to expose yourI
self an Instant
Don't think for a minute that the
i Germans were the only sufferers; we
were clicking casualties so fast that
you needed an adding machine to keep
track of them.
Did you ever see one of the steam i
shovels ut work on the Panama canal?
| Well, it would look like a hen scratch|
ing alongside of a Tommy "digging In"
> while under fire. You couldn't see day!
light through the clouds of dirt from
! his shovel.
! After losing three out of six men of
; our crew we managed to set up our
j machine gun. One of the legs of the
tripod was resting on the cbest of a
i half-buried body. When the gun was
firing, It gave the Impression that the
body was breathing. This was caused
by the excessive vibration.
j Three or four feet down the trench,
about three feet from the ground, a
foot was protruding from the earth.
We knew it was a German by tha black
leather hnnt. One of Oltf.
ttai roor w bufiT ?KH oinoflnirintt <j
Ammunition on, This man always win
a handy fellow; made u<e of Uttlle c
points that the ordinary person would i,
overlook.
The Germans made three counter- r\\
attacks, which we repulsed, but not fi;
without heavy loss on our side. They t
also suffered severely from our shell
and machine-gun fire. The ground waa jspotted
with their dead and dying.
The next day things were somewhat r
quieter, bat not quiet enough to bury a
the dead. o
We lived, ate and slept In that trench with
the unburled dead for six days. c
It was awful to watch their faces be- Sl
come swollen and discolored. Towards t<
the last the stench was fierce. n
What got on my nerves the most was tl
that foot sticking out of the dirt It ti
seemed to me, at night, in the moon- ri
light, to be trying to twist around, ci
Several times this impression was so o;
strong that I went to it and grasped It f<
In both^hands, to see if I could feel a a
movement.
I told this to the man who bad used tl
It for a hatrack just before I lay down g
for a little nap, as things were quiet, sl
and I needed a rest pretty badly, n
When I woke up the foot was gone, di
Be had cut it off with our chain saw
out of the spare parts' box, and had q;
plastered the stump over with mud. c
During the next two or three days, !
before wd were relieved, I missed that t\
foot dreadfully; seemed as if I had |oi
raddenly lost a chum. jtc
I think the worst thing of all was to
watch the rats, at night, and some- '
times In the day, ran over and play |n
iDout among me aeaa. ;to
Near our gun, right across liie p#ra- ;w
pet, could be seen the body of a Ger- jw
nan lieutenant, the head and arms of <w
ivhlch were hanging Into our trench. !rl
rhe man who had cut off the foot used In
to sit and carry on a one-aided convert
ration with this officer, used lio argue w
md point out why Germany wus in the ea
yrong. During all of this monologue er
[ never heard him say anything out of tli
;he way?anything that would have bi
lurt the officer's feelings had he been ro
illve. He was square all right;. W
wouldn't even take advantage of a th
lead mac In an argument
To civilians this must seem dread- ax
5ol? bnt oat here one gets so used to .
hi
awfnl sights that it makes no imprest rt
slon. In passing a batcher shop you
are not shocked by seeing a dead tur- ai
key hanging from a hook. Well, In ?
France, a dead body Is looked upon F
from the same angle. e1
But, nevertheless, w hen our six days ?
were up, we were tlclded to death to jlll
ho Vl
Our machine gun company lost !
seventeen killed and thirty-one wound- Id
ed In that little local affair of P'
"straightening the line," while the j
other companies clicked It worse than
we did. 'n
After the attack vnt went Into re*
serve billets for six days, and on the *<
seventh once again we were In rest bll- 01
lets. ?
CHAPTER XXII. *
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Punishments and Maehlne-Gun 8tunts, :t<
Soon atyr my arrival in France; in
fact, from my enlistment, I had found 'to
that In the British army discipline is
very strict. One has to be very careful
in order to stay on the narrow path
of government virtue. K
imtllUm wnvfl Ifl
jLimro arc auuui ciuvcu uuuivu n?/?
of breaking the king's regulations; to
keep one you have to break another. lJ
The worst punishment is death by a
firing squad, or "up against the wall," *1
j.s Tommy calls it . ^
This is for desertion, cowardice, mu- IC
tiny, giving information to the enemy, ?
looting, rape, robbing the dead, forcing n
a safeguard, striking a superior, .etc. '
Than comes the punishment of sixty- I
four days In the front-line trench with- tl
oat relief. During this time you have p
t) engage In all raids, working parties *
In No Man's Land, and every hazardous F
undertaking that comes along. If yon h
live through the sixty-four days you fi
are Indeed lucky. t<
This punishment Is awarded where h
there is a doubt as to the willful guilt b
at a man who has committed an of- 1
fence punishable by death. p
Then cones the famous flelct pun- |b
lshment No. L Tommy has nicknamed ! '
it "crucifixion." It means that 11 man |li
is spread-eaglejd on a limber wheel, ,fl
two honrs a dav for twenty-one days, i
During this time he only gets water, [f
bully beef and biscuits for his chow, jn
You get "crucified" for repeated minor |t(
offenses. V
Next in order is field punishment Iti
No. 2. | a
This is confinement In the "clink," te
without blankets, getting water, bull; jb
beef and biscuits for rations and doing Jti
ail the dirty work that can be found, jp
This may be for twenty-four hours 01 !
twenty days, according Ho the gravity it]
of the offense. o
Then comes "pack drill" or default- i
|en' parade. This consists of drilling, o
'mostly at the double, for two hours it
|with full equipment Tommy hates It]
this, because It Is hard work. Some- ti
tines he fills his pack with straw to tl
: lighten it, and sometimes he gets .
caught If he gets caught, he grouses t
at everything ia general for twenty! !0
one days, from the vantage point of a \v
Umber wheel. ih
.Next comes "(j. jb." meaning -con' ,
fined to barracks." This consists ol e
staying in billets or barracks for twen- a
ty-fonr Honrs to seven days. You a 1st D
get an occasional defaulters' paradi j
and dirty jobs around the quarters. .q
The sergeant major keeps what li g
known as the crime sheet When a :fl
man commits an offense, he la o
"crimed," that is, his name, numbei ,g
and offense Is entered on the crime b
sheet Next day at 0 a. m. he goes to 1
the "orderly room" before the captain, :M
who either punishes Mm with "C. B." a
or sends liim before the O. O. (office! ,v
commanding battalion] . The captain i
f tfll wmjmJ MB tmt award "a n?
Tommy many a time haa thanked
tie king for making that provision in
Is regulations.
To gain the title of a "smart soldier,"
tommy has to keep clear of the crime
beet, and yon have to be darned smarl
[> do It.
I have been on it a few times, most7
for "Yankee Impudence."
During our stay of two weeks Id
est billets our captain put us through
course of machine-gun drills, trying
ut new stunts and theories.
After parades were over, our guns'
rews got together and also tried out
i>me theories of their own In reference
:> handling guns. These courses had
othlng to do with the advancement of
:ie war, consisted mostly 01! causing
:lcky Jams In the gun, and then' the
sst of the iirew would endeavor to losite
as quickly ati possible the cause
f the stoppage. This amused them
)r a few days and then thing!) came to
standstill.
One of the boys on my gun claimed
iat he could play a tune while the
an was actually firing, and demontrated
this fact one day on the target
i age. We were very enthusiastic and
added to become musicians.
After constant practice I became
alte expert in the tune entitled "All
onductors Have Big Feet."
iVhen I had mastered this tune, our
vo weeks' rest came to an end, and
ice again we went up the line and
K)k over the sector In front of G-?
ood.
At this point the German trenches
Hi around the base of a hill, on the
ip of which was a dense wood. This
ood was Infested with machine guns,
h!!ch used to traverse our lines at
lit, and sweep the streets of a little
11 age, where we were billeted while
, reserve. < There
was one gun In particular
hlch used to get our goats, It had the
?et range of our "elephant" dugout
itrance, and every morning, about the
me rations were being brought: up, Its
lUets would knock up the dust on the
ad; more than one Tommy went
eut or to Blighty by running Into
era.
This gun got our nerves on edge,
id Fritz seemed to know It, because
? never gave ub an hour's rest Oor
>putatlon as machine gunners was at
ake; we tried various ruses to locate
ad put this gun out of action, but
ich one proved to be.a failure, and
rttz became a worse nuisance than
rer. He was getting fresher and more
ireless every day, took all kinds of
bertles with us?thought he was lnInclble.
Tlien one of our crew got a brilliant
lea and we were all enthusiastic to
nt it to the test
Hure was his scheme:
When firing my gun, I was to play
iy#tune, and Fritz, no doubt, would
ill for it, try to Imitate me as an
Sded Insult. This gunner and two
fliers would try, by the sound, to loite
Fritz and his gun. After having
9t the location, they would mount
vo> machine guns in trees, in a little
ump of woods to the left of ou^ cemesry,
and while FrltZ waS !h the middle
f his lesson, would open up and trust
> luck. By our calculations, It would
ike pt least a week to . pull off the
amt
If Fritz refused to ; swallow our bait,
would be Impossible to locate his
>eclal gun, and that'si the one we were
fter, because they all sound alike, a
ow pnp-pup-pup.
Our prestige was hnnging by ft
tread. In the battalion we had to enare
all kinds of insnlts and fresh remarks
as to our ability In silencing
ritz. Even to the ba ttalion thai: German
igun was la sore spot
Next day, Fritz opened up as usual,
let him fire away for a while and
len butted in with my "pup-pup-pupop-pup-pup."
I kept this up quite a
hile, used two belts of ammunition,
ritz had stopped firing to listen. Then
e started In; sure enough, he had
illen for our game, his gun was trying
> imitate mine, but, at first he made a
orrlble mess of that tune. Again I
atted In with a few bars and stopped,
hen he tried to copy what I had
layed. He was a good sport all right,
ecause his bullets were going away
ver our heads, must have been firing
lto the air. I commenced to feel
rfendly toward^hlm.
Thin duet went OH for five days.
nrna a rrAArl nnnll onfl 1 OH TH Pf 1
*iui wao a 5VUU pupit mum <vm> ??#?apldly,
In fact, got better than his
sacher. I commenced to feel jealous,
ifhen he had completely mastered the
ine, he started sweeping the road
gain and we clicked It worse than
ver. But he signed his death warrant
y doing so, because my friendship
nraed to hate. Every time he fired he
layed that tune and we danced.
The boys In the battalion gave u9
tie "Ha! Hal" They weren't In on
ur little frameup.
The originator of the ruse and the
ther 1:wo gunners had Fritz's location
aped to the minute; they mounted
heir two guns, and also gave me the
ange. The next afternoon was set for
be grc nd finale.
Our three guns, with different elevalons,
had their fire so arranged, that,
penlnu up together, their bullets
rould suddenly drop on Fritz like a
allstonn.
About three the next day, Fritz startd
"pu]?-pupping" that tune. I blew a
harp blast on a whistle, it was the slgal
agreed upon; we turned loose and
'ritz's gun suddenly stopped in the
riddle of a bar. We had cooked his
m ioa Vin/1 mnrVcul Affpr
WOC, liUU VU1 JL uoc uau nuiuvu.
[ring two belts each, to make sure of
ur Jot, we hurriedly dismounted our
Tins and took cover In the dugout. We
new what to expect soon. We didn't
lave to wait long, three salvos of
whizz-bangs" came over from Fritz's
rtlllery, a further confirmation that
had sent that musical machlne-gunier_on
his Westw^rdj)ound Journey.
j.' "1 ? ~v<' w1 g>.',rj*"!* n^Ge?1''
| That gun never Eotnerea ai agamr"
i We were the beroei of the battalion, I
our captain congratulated us, said It 9
; was a neat piece of work, and, conse- J
J quently, we were all puffed up over the j;
stunt
There are several ways Tommy uses
j to disguise the location of his machine
gun and get his range. Some of the
j most commonly used stunts are as folj
lows:
At night, when he mounts his gun1
over the top of his trench and wants
to get the range of Fritz's trench hej
adopts the method of what he terms i
"getting the sparks." This consists of
firing bursts from his gun until thej
bullets hit the German barbed wire. |
He can tell when they are cutting the!
wire, because a bullet when It hits a
wire throws out a blue electric spark.
Machine-gun fire is very damaging to
j wire and causes many a wiring party t
to go out at night when It is quiet to <
repair the damage. j
To disguise the flare of his gun at <
night when firing, Tommy uses what is (
called a flare protector. This is a stove- j
pipe arrangement which fits over the 1
barrel casing of the gun and screens i
the sparks from the right" and left, but '
not from the front So Tommy, always
resourceful, adopts thlB scheme: About
three feet or less In front of the gun he
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?Iooros. . >^K 100 YDS lib
ifftcuH mcKT cuiT
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(Showing How Fritz Is Fooled.
drives two stakes into the ground, <
about five feet apart. Across'these 1
stakes he stretches a curtain made out1
of empty sandbags ripped open. He !
soaks this curtain in water and fires i
through it The water prevents it ;
catching Are and effectively screens, ~the
flare of the firing gun from the{ I
enemy. _ _ \ ' } I
Sound is a valuable asset In locating
la machine gun, but Tommy surmounts
ithln ohstnrlp hv nlnrlnz two machine
I guns about one hundred to one hun[dred
and fifty yards apart The gun
ion the right to cover with Its fire the
sector of the left gun and the gun on ]
the left to cover that of the right
guru This makes their fire cross; they
iare fired simultaneously.
By this method it sounds like one
gun firing and gives the Germans the
,lmpres8lon that the gun Is firing from
ja point midway between the guns !
jwhilch are actually firing, and they ac- ,
cordingly shell that particular spot. ,
The machine gunners chuckle and say,
"Fritz Is a brainy boy, not 'alf he
ain't"
But the men In our lines at the spot i
"being shelled curse Fritz for his Igno- 1
ranee and pass a few pert remarks :
down the line In reference to the ma- ^
chine gunners being "windy" and ,
'afraid to take their medicine.
(TO BE CONTINUED.) 1
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Woman Afraid Tn
Look Into Mirror
SAYS SHE FEELS IT IS HER
CHRISTIAN-DUTY TO GIVE
DETAILS. # ,
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"Yes, I was actually afraid to
look in a mirror for fear of what !
I would see, and I think it is a duty
to tell about it," said Mrs. Annie L J
Marshall, of 313 Lafayette St., (
Schenectady, N. Y., as she began a "
remarkable story.
"I was pale and thin and used to |
lie awake at night," she explained.
"This sleeplessness and nervousness
finally affected my throat, as I could
not speak above a whisper. The
least sound frightened me and I got ^
so I could not bear to have people
talk to me.
"T woe cn wonlr T f>nriM nnf
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my work, and I would have to throw
myself on the bed before I finished
I just suffered all the time and
there seemed to be no joy in life
for me. My sister told me about
Tanlac, a new medicine for weak,
run down people, and begged me to
| take it. I had no faith in it, I had
tried so many medicines, but I
knew I could not feel any worse, so
I got a bottle of Tanlac.
"And, oh, what a change! I be
gan to feel better right away, and
my appetite increased as I ate
j three good meals a day of really
nourishing food. I began to sleep
soundly. As I began to build up, my
color became better, my eyes brighter
and I gained weight. Soon the
neighbors began to speak of my improved
appearance. My nervousness
gone, I began to enjoy hearing
people talk and like their company
It was no task to do my housework,
and after I had done it I could r
dress up and go calling or to the *
J
movies. It was so different, and it
all occurred in just a little while." '
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A. S. Cade, Bordeaux; J. T. *
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-Adv.
Everyone Should
Drink Hot Water
i in the Morning
Wash away all the stomach, liver,
and bowel poisons before
breakfast
To feel your best day in and day out, - >
jo feel clean inside; no sour bile to
soat your tongue and sicken your
>reath or aull your bead; no constipa
ion, bilious attacks, sick headache,
solds, rheumatism or gassy, acid stomkch,
you must bathe on the inside like
ron bathe outside. This is vastly more
Important, because the skin pores do
not absorb impurities into the blood,
irhlle the bowel pores do, says a wellknown
physician
To keep these poisons and toxins
Hrell flushed from the stomach, liver,
tldneys and bowels, drink before breakfast
each day, a glass of hot water
irith a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate
in it This will cleanse, purify
ind freshen the entire alimentary tract, j
before putting more food into the
stomach.
Get a quarter pound of limestone
phosphate from your pharmacist. It '
Is inexpensive and almost tasteless,
except a sourish twinge which is not
unpleasant. unnK pnospnaiea nut
Rrater every morning to rid your system
of these vile poisons and toxins;
hi so to prevent their formation.
To feel like young folks feel; like
you felt before your blood, nerves and
muscles became saturated with an accumulation
of body poisons, begin this
treatment and above all, beep it up!
As soap and hot water act on the skin,
cleansing, sweetening and purlfytefc so *
limestone phosphate and hot water be-"
fore breakfast, act,on the sttimsd^' '
liver, kidneys and bowels.
FW1R1S
BEGIN ON SALTS
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flush the Kidneyi at onoe when Baekachy
or Bladder bothers?Meat
forms uric acid.
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No man or women who eats meet rago>
Lurlr can make a mistake by flushing
the kidneys occasionally, says a welf
known authority. Moat forms uric acid
which clogs the kidney pore? so th4y
sluggishly filter or strain only part of '
the waste and poisons from the blood,
then you get sick. Nearly all rheumatism,
headaches, liver trouble, nervouslese,
constipation, dizziness, sleeplessness,
bladder disorders oome from sluggish kidneys.
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The moment you feel a dull ache in thai
kidneys or your back hurts, or if the '
urine is cloudy, offensive, full of. sedi- "i
ment, ^irregular of passage or attended
by a sensation of scalding, get about four
minces of- Jad Salts from any reliable '
pharmacy and take a tablespoonful ia
a glass of water before breakfast for a *
few days and your kidneys will then act
fine. This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined
with lithia and has been used for
generations to flush clogged Sidneys and
stimulate them to activity, also to neutralize
the acids in urine so it no longer'
sauses irritation, thus ending bladder disorders.
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Jad Salts is inexpensive and can? V , V' '
not injure; makes a delightful effervescent
lithia-water drink which all regular
meat eaters should take now and
then to keep the kidneys clean and the
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ney complications.
SAGE TEA TURNS
GRAY HAIR DARK
at
tt*s Grandmother's Recipe to
Bring Back Color and
Lustre to Hair.
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That beautiful, even shade cf dark,
flossy hair can only be had by bre<wng
a mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur.
Your hair is your charm. It,
makes or mars the face. When It*
lades, turns gray or streaked, JuBt an
application or two of Sage and Sulphur
enhances its appearance a bun- v
Jredroid.
Don't bother to prepare the mix- '
ture; you can get this famous old
ecipe Improved by the addition of
jther Ingredients at a small cost, all
ready for use. It Is called Wyeth's
Sage and Sulphur Compound. This can
ilways be depended upon to bring
sack the natural color and lustre of
rour hair.
Everybody uses "Wyeth's" Sage and
Sulphur Compound now because . It t
larkens so naturally and evenly that
nobody can tell It has been applied.
STou simply dampen a sponge or soft
jrush with It and draw this through
;he hair, taking one small strand at a
Jme: by morning the gray hair haa
llsappeared, and after another application
It becomes beautifully dark and
ippears glossy and lustrous. This
eady-to-use preparation is a dellght'ul
toilet requisite for those who desire
dark hair and a youthful appearmce.
It Is not intended for the cure,
nltigation 6r prevention of disease.
Throughout England 102 newspaters
have been forced to increase
heir prices, and 676 weekly papers
lave followed suit. The monthly
nagazines selling before the war at
I cents now cost 16 to 18 cents,
^he cost of novels and books has
argely increased, even the popular
md widely sold classes having risen
rom 50 to 100 per cent.
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