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BOOTH CAROLINA FRENCH. CHASSEURS ADVANCING IN BULGARIA HAPPY YANKS RETURN FROM WAR WITH WOUNDS Y.W.YS; ® Wciurn N*w»p«p«r Union ImmmmKHjlsumKnf fsouicm (tie cnwring noys unit reiurneu i* tlieir owu coumry after ♦his photograph on the'deck of the sixth returning troop transport. Re werte among the returning fighters that landed ut Hoboken, and they wounds. This Is one of the first photographs to be rec^«d In this country of the Bulgarian defeat. Victorious Chasseurs have taken off their trousers and are fording the Vardar river In pursuit of the,fleeing Bulgarians. WHERE DISABLED YANKEES ARE RECUPERATING | HAIR TURNED WHITE BY - £ EXPERIENCES IN WAR | I Porto RicoWas Great v v a . • ¥ T T • -• *¥¥ T Help in Winning War North Adams, Mass.—Suffer ing from shell-shocks his hair turned snow white and so great ly «ltered in appearance tfiat his friends failed to recogrtize him. Peter MacPhail returned home after two years and one month’s service as gunner in the 'Royal Field artillery of the P.ritlsh nrmy. During his service lEac- I’linfl took part in many battles, particularly notable ones being Ypres, (vnibrai and Combles. He Is thirty-seven years old. nlso speak for the patriotism of these people?" Much Food Saved. The people have Invested their money freely in Liberty bonds and War Savings stamps. The saving of food lias been soj efficiently preached and has been so well organized by the food commission that vast quantities of food have been saved. Another exairipie of the wonderful patriotism of the people was demon strated In the work of Mr. Antonio Arbona, a coffee planted living-near Olules. The coffee planters of Porto Rico have sufferod greatly on account of there being no market for their eoffee In the states. On account of the war their foreign market was cut off. There are 150,000 people In Porto Rico dependent upon the coffee in- Great Work of People of Revealed for First Time. Achievement* in Raising Army, Help ing Red Croas and Boosting Lib erty Loans Are Recounted— Faced Big Handicap in - —— r—Earthquake. which had ever taken place. Thou sands participated. Kvery public school tOHclier inarched, as well as the pupils. „ The gospel of food economy. In creased food production. Improved methods of cultivation and the neces sity of planting a greater variety of home products, has been t preached to every corner of the Island. The schools have been instrumental in the establishment of 26,093 home gardens, thereby assisting Porto Rico to solve the food problem. The cbPiron here are deserving of muchi praise for what they have don# and the example they set led others on, to greater efforts. They are all meKibers of the Red Cross. A few of them were able ‘ to secure from their parents the money needed for their contribution, but the majority made up their minds ttmt they would earn this iftoney themselves. AH over the i^and children organized* festivals to get funds needed for membership fees. In Fajado and Rio Pledras, n total of 1,850 school children enrolled as Junior Red Cross members and 'earned every cent that they contrib uted. Thousands of dollars huve heen raided by these children. They have participated in all civic parades organized- for this purpose. Delicacies Sent Abroad. •A,- Snn Juan. Porto lUco*—What the people of Porto Rico have done in the wur will guin for them the friendship, love and gratitude of 4 the entire popu* lation of the United States. The wur activities of tills patriotic island huve dustiy for u livelihood and the coffee been so effective that one ertnnot help J condition Ipis caused the people much but become amazed at all thut has been accomplished. Thut thousunds of people here have done everything within their power, to nave and give, in an effort to help win this war Is the simple truth, and they calf well feel proud of their record. To every single appeal made in behalf of the war Porto Rico has responded gallantly. Ten mlUlon dollars has been Invested In the four Liberty Joans. The spirit of the people was vtell demonstrated In the fourth Lib erty loan drive, when the island ex ceeded her quota of $4,(X)0 1 000 by al most $800,000 despite tb6 disaster suffering. Mr. Arbona, a man more than sixty years old, covered two \»ar- rlos 'on horseback and succeeded In selling to the small coffee planters more than $16,000 of Liberty bonds' in the fourth campaign, most of these being #50 and) $100 bonds. In all things pertaining to war work the Spanish merchants throughout the Island have co-operated to the fullest extent. Liberty honds they have hmlght liberally and they have given freely to the Red Cross. I huve never come in contact with a class of busi ness men who give more freely than these, or more cheerfully, either. When the Red Cross was seeking a new’ home 45 business men—Span iards, Porto Ricans and Americans— donated $11,000. this money being raised iti a few hours, thus enabling the Red Cross to have quarters in one building. f~ The Four-Minute Men. The "Four-Minote Men” pf Porto Rico did a great work In speeding the 'winning of the war. All of the prin cipal centers of population wore thor oughly covered and thousands of peo ple were reached through the speak ers of this organization. Amung them were some of the most representative men of the country. 1 Daring food conservation \feek a campaign was conducted by public school teachers In every town and barrio. The number of public meet ings llPTd during .that week exceeded 2,000. Roth urban ar.d rural j teach ers made a house-to-house canvass to explain the meaning of the pledge cards and to secure signatures. The great parade organized during this week was one of the most important Entrance to the West -Baden hotel, Wejjt Baden. Ind„ which has been taken over by the. United States goverts* ment nt nn annual rental AY $150,000 to be used for the treatment of disabled soldiers. Thousands of wounded fight ers, will he nursed buck t<j health at tills hotel, fatuous for its mineral springs and baths. - IN RED CROSS TOY SHOP WHERE YOUR RED CROSS MONEY MAY GO Last year 40 tons of guava jelly and 2,000,000 cigarettes were sent to the hoys in France. Thousands of women in Porto Rico, from San Juan, the capital, through- nut the entire island, including the towns of the hills, huve .devoted their time and given their money and serv ices to all things needed for the war. All social activities were carried on sxdely for the benefit of war work In many sections of Porto Rico worn en took the place of the men in the ..vX v>*v: Wwi+m; fields, In the Jewelry department of the Red Cross Toy Shop, nn establishment ^vhlch has been organized by well- known society people for the sale of various kinds of articles, the proceeds of which will be for the benefit of the American soldiers in* this’ country, many rare articles of Jewelry are on sale. The two.J«omen In the photo graph are Mrs. 'Joseph Duveen, the well-known opera singer (on the .eft), and Mrs. Louise Beggs Spoul, a promi nent society w’oman. Porto Rico contributed freely and generously of her man power u^nd the very best of her youth entered the training camps^ _j.^ust aft^r the pas sage of the selective draft law Porto Rico registered he£ young men to the number of 108,000. The Porto Rico regitncirt~wgs~ the Urst Th TRe nation to be at its full war strength. Six hundred and fifty volunteers were ac cepted for duty to guard the Panama canal. When General Townshend took up the work of recniitlng, many ol the men who liyed far back tn the hills walked as much as 25 miles to enlist. Returning from Holland to their homes in northern France ure these peasants who fled their country when the ravaging Gerqiah hordes overran thei^ sacred soil. That they may once more have decent places to Hve In Is one of the reasons the American Red Cross is asking everyone to Join it - ITALY’S STRONG MAN TO FILL UP OLD QEfMAN TRENCHES The Red Cross is doing a great work In looking after the needy and desti tute families of the soldiers at Camp I*as Casas. During August the, chap ter cared for 2,058 families of soldiers. During September 1,019 families were cared for. The recent earthquakes added greatly to the .relief work. In the second war fund drive, which was carried on throughout the island in the months of May and June, 1918, the people made donations in excess,, of $106,000. Mr. Mack Jones, a coffee planter and mayor of the little town of Villalbn, has this to say of the people in his home vicinity: “We were asked for $8,400 in the third Liberty loan. Small merchants and [day laborers made a., canvass of the little town and the 1 surrounding mountain sides on horse; back. The laborers in this region get about 60 cents a day, yet these good tfeople were* able to raise $12,000, or 60 per cent more than tbeir quota. If • you could but see the cliffs they 1 Climbed and th*-4«ngerous trails, they ‘ followed, where a misstep means s drop of 1,000 feet or more, to their Food Value of Fish. Further evidence 1 thut fish deserves a place in every diet was obtained from a recent series of digestion ex periments by the United States de- lurtment of agriculture. These tests furnished scientific proof that fish, which has always been considered a valuable food. Is very completely uti lized in the body* . _ j n the experiments Boston rnuck- erel. hutterfish, salmon and grayflsh we re made into, “fish loaves” and served as a basis of a simple mixed diet to young i men of healthy appe tites. ' Both Hie protein and the fat of the fish were well utilized. Following are the percentages of protebT digested: Boston mackerel, 93.1 per cent; but- terfish. 91.9 per cent ; grayflsh. 9-8 ( ,er cent, and salmon, 93.2 per cent. The percentages of fat digested tvere found to be: Boston mackerel. 96.2 oer cent,; butterflsh, 86.4 per cent; •Mrfluh. W.S per cent; salmon, 88.7 SHE GETS MARRIAGE LICENSE South Dakota Bride-to-Be Buys Do*” ment, Pays $1 for It, Then . Hunts Up the Judge. Mitchell, S D.—Cupid ami woman Suffrage have apparently flormed a corporation here, Miss Marie Gippef. twenty-two years old,” 7 strode into the offices of the clerk of courts of Davi son county one morning recently and planked a doUar on ’the desk to pc for the first marriage license that ha* ever been bought In this county by a woman. After she bad procure the license she went out and *ound the municipal Judge. While obtaining the license Mias GlpfH..’ explained that her husband-to- be was “too busy to get the llcenae." The apparent object of the purchase was Inscribed on the clerk’s record ar Bay Payac, also of Mitchell This interesting photograjdi shows a phase in the reconstruction of the territory that has bean devastated by the war. These American engineers, la order to fill up old Roche trenches, are polling down walla that have been bat- work of solicitation on behalf of Dade j Sim it woeid make you wish .that Premier Orlando, who piloted the WaMMagtea eoeld know the full nseae- j Italian ship of state during the great "me ri KiPil?: V vHJH, UK 1. j-'' L A HHr xv«- Umn ar- ** :?7i J v-x ; j’X’jy 1 ’ ’