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AN. WI' EMPEY JOINS PICK AND TRENCHES IN N Synopsis.-i red by the sinkinj Amierienn tives, Arthur Guy Einpey, goes to Eingl:oal It 1nli crusts as ia pl short ('X (peri'i(e uas a recruiting oil ing (iuarlers in 1-'rance, where ie li mak1 Ies the':((111I ununnance of "c(Ootie' :Eiiit'y's compiny is sent tuto the his first iir on the i11e 1'p whlb ___ learns, as 'omrIIittle fallis, that dle (liinhlin lisilnguisttes hlilself by fire. With pik atntd shovel Emtipey in No Jlan's uiianl. CHAPTER XIII-Continued. -9 W'e irned up in front of the haths, sonked wtith trsltiratlotn, anti ilied our rillt's into staeks. A setgta1nt of the it. A. M. ('. with a yellow band arotund his l t r111 on wetih was "ti. P."' (sanitary pollee') In black; let trs, took clai r'gt', order!ng us to t ake oli our eqyuipmnlt, unroll our puttees and unlace bouts. 'i'lt'n, stIartirig from the right of Ih lint, ht' divled uS Into sttitlds of lifteen. I hptpietted to be in the first s(tlund. We entered a situti tottlit, where we were given fII Vi 1t1inutilt's t undrt'ss, then Iledl into the hathroom. In here tif're wert' lifiteen tuts (barrels sawed in two) half full of water. Each tub cont aln n iece'(( of laundry soap. The sergeniit lufortnwtl Us thttt we haid Just twelve minlutes in whileh to take ou' haths. Soapilg ourselves all over, we took turns In rubbing ench otler's backs, then by inetts of a garden hose, Washed the soap otT. The water was ice cold, but felt fine. Pretty soon a hell rang and the wa. ter wits turned off. Somo of the slower ones were covered with soap, but thih made nO differeice to the sergeant who chased us into another room where we lined up In front of a 1l1it window, resembling the box ofilce it r theater, and re'eived (lean iunderwent rind towels. I"roi here we weit lit the room where we haid first undressed Ten minutes were allowed In which to get Into our "elabber." My pair" of dratwers cnme up to 3 chin and the shirt barely reached my diaphragim, but they were (lean--no strangers on them(, so I was sit tisfled. At the expiration of tihe time atilt-. ted w~e w~ere Itirnied out and11 Inilshedl our dlressinig on t he grass. When tall of the companyl3 had1( bathied It wals a1 case of ma11rchi back to btilit-ts, TIhtait Itreh w'ltias the mtost uncongeiaitl A Bathroom at the Front. one lmatgined. just cusslng and blind ing tall the way. WVe wyere covered with wite dust iand felt grensy fromt sweat. IlThe woolen underwear issued was itching like the misichIef. After eating our dinner of stew, whieh had been kept for us-it wals now four o'clock--wie went into the creek and lad aother btath. If "Iloly ,l00" 'ttt o ld have heard our remarks about the divisional baths andtu atrmyt red tatpe he would have faintetd at our wickedniess. But TIom-l tmy Is only3 human after all. I just mlenitione'd "Uoly Joe" or th< chaplain in an irreverent sort of way butt no~ olfenlse was meant, as thern were sonme very brave men autoni them. 111'IOW 0II 0 WINT * * E GU HinERSERYING IN FRACE-- - AR TuilR GUY Eripfy SHOVEL SQUAD AND DIGS 10 MAN'S LAND. of the Lusitania, with the loss of an American living in Jersey City, ivate in the British army. After a leer in London, he is sent to train st hears the sound of big guns and " Afte" a brlief period of training front-line trenches, where he takes the bullets wIz overhead. EmpeHy ith IU'lks always in the trenches. rescuing woutnded ment uncder hot has experience as a trench digger There are so many Instances of he role dceds pertorneil under lire in res cuing the wounded that it would take Several looks to chronicle theta, but I have to miention one instance per f'rme(d by a cluiplain, Captain 1Hall by name, in the brigade on our left, be cause it particularly appealed to inc. A chllain is not a fighting man; he is recognized as a noncombauitant and carries no arms. In a charge or trench raid the sollier gets a feeling of con itlence from contnet with hlis rifle, re volver, or bomb he is Carrying. lie has something to priotect iitself with, sonethilng with which he can inflet harm on the enemy-in other words, he is able to get his own back. liut the chaplain is emlpty-handed. and is at the mercy of the enemy if he encouinters them, so it is doubly brave for hIm to go over the top, under lire, and bring in wounded. Also a chaplain is not required by the king's regsaintions to go over in a charge, but this one did, inade three trips under the hottest kind of lire, each time re turning with a wounded mann on his hack. On the third trip he received a bullet through his left arm, but never reported the inatter to the doctor until Iate that night--Just spent his time ad ministering to the wants of the wound ed lying on stretchers. The chaplains of the British army are a fline, manly set of men, and are greatly respected by Toimmoy. CHAPTER XIV. Picks and Shovels. I had not slept long before the swece voice of the sergeant informed that "No. I sect ion hadio clicked for another blinkIng dligginig party.''" IOIled to niyself wIth deep satisfactIon. I had1( been promnotedh from a mere dligger to a miembiher of the SulIde cluib, anrd was exemipt from till fatigues. Then came an awful shock. T1he sergeant looked over in my direction andi said: "Don't you bomb throwers thInk you are wtearlng top hiats out here. 'Cord In' to ordlers you've been takeni up on thle st rength of thIs sectIon, and wtil have to dlo your bit wIthI te plek and shovel, same as the rest oif us." I put up a howl on my way to get liy shovel, but the only thing that re suIted was a loss of good humor on my23 part. We fell In at eIght o'clock, outside of our bIllets, a sort of masquerade palrty. I was disguised as a common laborer, had a plek and shovel, and about one hiundredl empity sanidbags. The rest, about two hundred in aill, were equliped lIkewise: pleks, shovels, saindba~gs, rifles and ammunl iti. Theii palrty imoved out in column of fours, tak ig the roadl leinig to the t renches. Several tines we had1( to st rinig out In the dItchi to let long col umniis of limibers, artIllery arid supplies ge't pa2st. Th'le marching, under these coni tios, was necessarily slowv. Upon ar rIval at the entrance to the commnunl cat ion t rench, I looked at may illumi niatedl wrist watch-it was eleven ii'cloc'k. Before entering thIs trench, word was passed down the line, "no talking or smoking, lead off in single file, cov erIng party first." This coverIng party consisted of 30 mieni, armied with rifles, bayonets, hombs, and two Lewtis maclilne guns. Thley were to protect us and guard against a surprise attack while dIg ging In No Man's Land. The comnmunicnt ion trench was aibouit half a mile long, a zIgzaggIng ditch, eight feet deep and three feet wideI. Now and again, Glermnan shrapnel wtould whistle overheadh and burst In our vic'inity. We wtould crouch against the eairthien walls whlile the shiell frog mients "slapped" the ground above us. Once Fritz turned loose with a mia cline gun, the blilets fromi which 'cracked'' through (lie air and kIcked uip tile dlirt on the top, scattering sand andl~ pebbles, which, hitting otar steel hielmats, sounded hike haihstones. Upon arrival in the fire trench an , "flicer of the Royal En~gineers gave us our instructions and acted as guide. Woe wore to dig an advanced trench two hundred yards from thb Germans (the trenches at this point Were six hundred yards apart). Two winding lanes, five feet wide, had been cut through our barbed wire, for the passage of the diggers. From these lines white tape had been laid on the ground to the point where we were to commence work. This in cr der that we would not get lost in the darkness. The proposed trench was also laid out with tape. The covering party went out first. After a short wait, two scouts came back with information that the work ing party was to follow and "carry on" with their work. In extended order, two yards apart, we noiselessly crept across No Man's Land. It was nervous work; every minute we expected a machine gun to open fire on us. Stray bullets "cracked" around us, or a ricochet sang over head. Arriving at the taped diagram of the trench, rifles slung around our shoulders, we lost no time in getting to work. We dug as quietly as pos sible but every now and then the noise of a plick or shovel striking a stone would send the cold shivers down our hacks. Under our breaths we heartily cursed the offending Tommy. At intervals a star shell would go up from the German lines and we would remain motionless until the glare of its white light died'out, When the trench had reached a depth of two feet we felt safer, be cause it would afford us cover in case we were discovered and fired on. The digging had been in progress about two hours, when suddenly hell seemed to break loose in the form of mnhine-gun and rifle fire. We dropped down on our bellies in the shallow trench, bullets knocking 1 Trench Digging. up the groundl and snapping in the alh Thea shrapnel butted in. The mush was hot and1( Tommy danced. The covering party was having rough time of It; they had no cover Just hadl to take their miedinte. Word was passed down the lIne t bient it for ourt trenches. We nieeded ni urging; grabinlg our tools andl stoop log low, we legged it across No Man' Land. The covering party got awvay to a poor start but beat us in. They tmulst have hiad wings because we low eredi the recordl. Panting and out of breath, we tumn bled into our front-line trench. I tore my hands getting through our wvhre butt, at the time, dlidn't notice it ; ma Journey was too urtgent. WVhen the roll wats called we fount thait we had gotten It in the nose foi 63 (ensualties. Our artillery p~ut a barrage on lFritz f'ront -lin anad conmotienctlon t renchet and thleir mneinme-gumn and riftle fir' suddenly ctnsedi. Upon thme cessation of this fire stretcher bearers went out to look fom killed anmd woundted. Next day we learned t hat 21 of our imeni had been killed and 37 wounded. FIve mien were missing ;lost In the dorkness, they mutlst have wainderedl over into the Ger imn lines, where they were cithi killed or ta ptutred. Speaking of stretcheg' bearers anm woundtl~edl, it ia very hard for the aver age elvillan to comprehendl the enor mnouas cost of taking care of woundee and the war in general, Hie or she geti so accustoimedl to seeing billions of (101 lars in print that the signitleanice 0 the namount is panssed over wvithou thought. Fronm an official statement publishee in one of the Londlon peapers, it I; stated that It costs betwveen six am seven thousand pounds ($30,000 to $35, 000) to kill or wound a soldier. Thi result was attained by taking the cos of the war to (late and dividing it b; the killed andI wounded. It may Sound heartless and inhumar hut It Is a fact, nevertheless, that from, a military standpoint It is better for man~f to be kIlled than wounded. II Empey tells of many ways the soldiers have of amusing them selves, In the next installn.ent. What-ell Womei )ll ON BEING CORRE The vagaries of spring suits are I many-as suits u. illtretofore it has len left to afternoon and other dresses to give us unlinited variety to choose froIn whi le the tatilorel suit appeared true to formit, in a few very well letinel styles. This season the tailored suit is indulging inany fan -es of its own. There are stilts with very short coats, suits with Flion Jaek ets, inany suits with waistcoats anl a good tnny eccentricities in coats. Skirts are nearly always paini, but a few exceptions to this rule appear in skirts to he worn with coats that are high at the back-an echo of the hustle dress of last winter. With this variety in styles to choose from, it becoines easy to he correctly :nd1 heconingly suitel. The waist(ont, Which is tl i most interesting feature in the new stilt styles, is made in as manny ways as ,:uits thenaselves anil is becomning to ahost everybody, but if it proves ttnltPotiingor unprac tienl we can center attention on other new features in the styles, as the uneven length of onts at the bottomt atd the ab iunlance of braid Icmnning . Two very coniservativ e sits sho wn in thle pict ue willIr appl'i to) the worm an whose taste e'nnnoit hie (liverted from plin anc m practiena I I ens Ina tat - lored clothes. At the right there is blue serge-wlehcl we havet al ways5 wv ih us, wvhatIever else nany comte andt go-triined with silk braid andl but tons. The cont is longer in the front SUMMER STY inl sidies than att the~ hu:ik. heinig cut 'Ithi a ponint in fr ont aral at each sl-1e in elefirenice' toi *rst-dayi~i style. The stit itat the left has only oine feature that distinguishes it as ullitinetly of thIs season. and that is thle nmannter ini whleh it is left ojpen at theii front to the waist line. It is of' biege gaher (line and lhas a mnilitary suggest Ion In its ploeke(ts withI tip anad hi it fastened with a small buckele. it will bie noticed that collanrs on thle new sits are usu1 ally high in thie back andn this one fol lows this rule. Below t here is it small sketch of a .ji'rsey suit wit abi real waist conftwllh leads to the conIfes sion that there is amuich en mouftlage in thIs maitte r of waist onts-i hey arc usually merely front anml nothlin g more. JTust a gilnce over thle displays3' of foot wear for stintuner brinjgs home the faci(t that womrieni have inakeni more t hani kIndly to colored shoes. In fact it ny - ien rs t hatI ciolor ini fo otwear lproiseM a beeonme a permatinent thing, as in loives-and thait thle samrie c')oor arte to be usedl. 3etany shades of tnn anad gray, often in eonatiatoni with white, ruis'et anrd wvhite shioe's, ii couted tt would sium up as mna'ny pir as9 thetre ie in hinete shoes Dress. *.. CrLY SUITED. )t her features of the new stylet that iii he gathere lifrom iiny repre sentative showing, reveal that high shoes continue to be very high as coin pared to high shops of a few seasons ago. The fact that skirts have been lengthenelI a little hits miaude no (iffer ence. Ti'he very high shoe is more trim than the moderately high shoe and more practical. The uppers in these shoes are of cloth just as often as of kid. As fine kid is riot the sort of leather that is needed in the army there is no reason why the very high shoe should not he worn with a clear conscience. But cloth tops are just as attractive and just as desirable as the kid and maybe a little easier to keep clean. Oxfords and slippers will divide honors with high shoes for street and sports wear this summer. In all of them toes are somewhat pointed but not to the length of discomfort. Con sideralble (decorlation in perforat ions appears on all styles of shoes as may he gut hered from the group Iictured here which inclnules a high walking shoe, oxfords and a dress slipper. The high shoes arte in hitick kid with com mon-sense Cuban heel. Wherever a seatt is required for jointing the dlif ferent Parts of t he shoe, there perfor ations occutr. Ati thle toes hatve a small pattern that Is putrely decora tive. The oxfords are in tan leather, fin ished In much thes same way as the LES iN SHOES. htigh~ boot~ts tandi the silipmetrs are in hic-k and gray--very smatrt for wear wv ith a ftetrnoon fr-ocks andl ightI sumi mner dressen New Linens. The new linens for household use show aW: gret uleni m tore itace trimmnntg I than hasi beetn t he fashiontin hs omc~ t~ ii. otol the ftavotred hice seemts to be filet. litndsomte towels of litnen dIa maslk halve str-ips of filet tabove the htn *lntd ithove thle filet I (I I dclint e hand11 embrol dered latitern.t Teti cloths show a filet edge with ni line of hetm stit ching an ncht nhove and a filet squattre itn oneW ((orner withI hand em broidlery ttrtilinug abloutt it. An inter ex;ting enrd tible (ove'r is of wh-lite lin. (in.~ with ai fiil14 brder- tnd f 1let squares ti' elh COrnler shiowi-lng thle cilrd sytm. ho 'S-heat. diaimond, club tnd1( spttds -weh wo(rked diellenittely Into thle filet Utilh. Loel Iresse'.- sets have ihi .m ing i t btterfly 1p1t tern, and1( t mattch these t here ar e gutes-troomi tow THIS WOMAN SAVED FROM AN OPERATION By taking Lydia E.Pinkham's * Vegetable Compound, One of Thousands of SuchCases. Black River Falls, Wis.-"As Lydia E. 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"Oh, inother', I got into an aw ful row," she said. "Mr. Smlith, the grocer, wvas awful mad about the food laws," continued the youn~g nalrrator. "D~o you wanit 1m1 to tell you exactly what lhe satid?7" with expectationl of using a nauighty word by plermission. "Well, no, you nerd not toll tihe exact lan~guiage," .said her mother. "WVeli, he saId that wordI in 'Long Boy,' " con fective as thie daush thaot Is substltuted for swear words in 1polite pin t. But will Mr. Hlerschell look over "Long Boy" again and See what "bad wvordls" hei has1 bieen usingi, for "you bet, by' gosh, he'll soon, findi out."--In dlanplfhiis News. Honest Reply. nI "But s'pose II don't stilt me1 after T get It hiomie, and1( "Mlzzums Oggy, amt'om," frankly re plied thle proirietr of0 tihe Tote Falir Store at Truiilleht, TI, "If It don't prove lierfect ly satisfactory In every respect I pledge you imy wor'd that Il take It back and1( refuiil y'ourt money, but I'm not liitr enOough to promise that it will be cheerfully done."--Kan sits City Star. "0'' Is nlwnys In the midst of laugh ter, and It miakes ghosts of hosts. NO WASTE IN A P4ACKAGE 0F POSTTOASTIES $ays 4#306; Corn Food Good To The Last Flake -