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SERGE? NT MoCLINTOCK. Serge ingtoi, Orippin Read, 1 ed. W Medal but Ii ( For Un ?piring, Full of Trent ht =11 No. 4. Shifted to the Somme By Ser< eant Aleiaoder McClintock, D. C It. H7th Oveneas Batt.. Canadian Uren. Guards. Copyright. Ifl7. by the Bed Syn? dicate. Inc. m Sergeant kteClintoek it on American top ?/ LcMngton, Kg., who hat ace? 4a Fronet, was decorated for I. uvmnded, invalided home an I anno 4a re aming to accept a commit ?lon. Tats is fas fourth artoh- m th? /a rft?? first article he told Of *w Iroiniap up to fas point where h ' reached the front line trenchca. In fad second he outlined the elaborate prepa? rations for a bomb raid, and in tiui third the disastrous raid was described. AFEW daya after the bombing raid, which ended so disastrous ly f3r ua. our battalion was re be red from duty on the front Hue. and , too Bp wt got was that we were lo go down to the big abow then takaic , phut on tbo Somme. Our relief was a division of Australians. You see. | too set tor which we bad be id In Bel* ( ginm was a sort of preparatory school for toe regular fighting over in France. It wasn't long before we got k&to what you might cull the big kPAgUs contest, but In the meanwhile wo hail a little rent from battling Fritz nml the opportunity to o'.m-i \ >? some things which seem to me to bo worth tellim; about Those of you who are exclu? sively fond of the stirring detail uf war. such ss shooting and being shot at and bombing and bayoneting, need only skip s little of this. We bad sj entirely satisfactory amount of smoke sud eicitemont later. As soon ss our relief battalion had got in we moved back to Poperinuln for a couple of days' rest. Ws were u pretty contented and Jovial lot. 0U1 platoon especially. We were all glad ti got awsy from the strain of Holding t front trench, and there were other ad vantsges. For Instance, tlie* altera ttous of our muster due It c:; >- wait ic bad no* through battalion head quarters, slid therefore we bad In ?a:; I da toon sixr three rum rations D lb and morning and ouly sixteen men. It Wae Ch od OtSM Fighting. Nobody Fired a 8bot. There wiia s Canadian Scot in our crowd who sud that the only f SjJ Urbich il i-?l the sltuatlou was "l-rr-M-iil There w sj s good deal of Jealousy at ttsft tluie between th - Canadians am) the Australian*. Kadi had the sunn for. ?? In t ie Held four di\ isions. hi? ther forct was bigger than any othei army composed exdnsi\ tdy of Votun tears ever before assembled. While I helm.: the Csnsdiaii army and bi ivo the * amid hi u overseas f?nen tin trtspn ever led to war. I mod any that ( have never seen a Imdy ol nana soocaguitx cut in average physique ss the Au.xtnill.itM And some of them WSjrs even above the high average The ma/l that punched me In the eye in mi "SMtaoilna In l'o|>erhigbe made up en tlrely In hla own person for the ab? sence of i?* harcy from the Austra? lian rank?. \ don't know Jtwt how the flgl t at a red between the A ust rails > : soil Iis Ie Poprrlngtie. but I know th.d It topk three regiments of imp< troeis? t ? dop it The most (ouvtucliig sjotj I boprd ?f the origin i f the h a t ER THERE Thrill and the Hell of Trenches, Described f an American Boy. ant Alexander McClintook of Leo Ky., and the Canadian Army Has g Tale That Every American W\\\ for He Tells the Facts?Unadorn ounded, a Distinguished Conduct Man, He Was Invalided Home, Somg "Out There" Again to Fight cle Bam and His Allies. An In Interesting. Personal Narrative, the Spirit and Atmosphere of the cs. tie was told me by one of our men, who said he was there wheii It began. IT** said one of the Australians had < arelessly remarked that the British generals had decided It was time to get through with the sideshow In Bel? gium, and this was the reason why they had sent regular troops like the Australians in to relieve the Canadians. Thon some sensitive Canadian wish? ed the Australians luck and hoped they d tinish it up as well as they had the affair lu the Dardanelles. After that our two days' rest was made up principally of beating it out of esta mlnas when strategic requirements suggested a new base or bent lug it into estamlnas when it looked as if we could act as efficient re-enforcements. That light never stopped for forty-eight hours, and the only places it didu't include were the church and the hos? pital*. I ll bet to this day that the 'Belgians who run the estaminns in 'operlnghe will duck behind the bars if you Just mention Canada and Aus? tralia in the same breath. But I'm bound to say that i,t was good, clean fighting. Nobody fired a shot, nobody pulled a bayonet, and no? body got the wrong idea about any? thing. The Australian heavyweight ehamplou wlio landed on me went right out in the street and saluted one of our lieutenants. Wo had Just one satisfying reflection after the fight was o?er?the Australian battalion that re? lieved us fell heir to the counterattack which the Germans sent across to even tip on our bombing raid. Down to the Somme. We began our march to the Somme by a hike to St. Omer, the first Brit? ish headquarters In Europe. Then we stopped for a week about twenty miles from Calais, where we underwent a course of intensified training for open lighting. The infantry tactics, in which we were drilled, were very simi? lar to those of the United States army, those which. In fact, were originated by the United States troop9 In the days of Indian fighting. We covered moat of the ground around Calais on our stomachs in open order. While it may seem impertinent for me, a mere non com, to express an opinion about the larger affairs of the campaign, 1 think I may be excused for saying that the war didn't at all take the course which wns expected and hoped fOf after the fight the Summe. Undoubtedly the allies expected to break through the Qermafl line. That is well known now. While we were being trained near Ca? lais for open warfare a very large force of cavalry was being assembled and prepared for the same purpose. It was never used. That was last August, and the allies haven't broken through yet. Even? tually I believe they will break through, but in my opinion men who are drawn tor service in the first half million of our new American army will be veterans in Europe before the big break comes which will wreck ti ?? Proaotsisi bops $M ssjecosn in this war. And If we of the U. S. A. don't tl.row in the weight to beat the Prus? sians now they will not bo beaten, and In that case the day will not be very r distant when we will have to beat them to save our homes and our na? tion. War is a dread ul and inglorious and ill smelling and mit] thing. But If we hohl but k now we will be in the logical position of a man hesitating to go to grips with a drunken, savage, shrieking, spewing maniac who has all but Vhipped his proper keepers aud is going after the onlooker. However. 1 wish we had had two months more of weather on the Somme. There might have been a different story to tell. Simplified Medicine. We got drufts of recruits before we went to the Somme. and some of our w uituled men were sent back to Ung land, where we had left our "safety first battalion." That was really the Kilty-first battalion of the Fourth di \iv,(.n of the Canadian forces, con* posed of the physically rejected, nu n re overing from wounds and men in Jurcd in training. The Tommies, how? ever, called it the "safety tlrut" or "Ma jor QUday'a light Infantry." Itajoi QUdajr was our battalion surgeon. lie WO! immensely popular, and he achiev ? I h fcient name for himself. He made one realize what a groat persona! ores i fact Of Oil DO a nil what an tin necessary elaboration there is in the ? is il i'Jach.e of medicine. i n !or UaJ >r Utklajr's administration no man It) oi r battalion was si< i, it' he pi .1 w.?.. and if he wouldn't wall. ? nui a reasonable suspicion, thai he was drunk. The major simplified n, ?Meine down to an taacl science ?>* two forms Of IriMiment and I WO ion ? ' m "number nines" and whale oil "Niftuhor nines" were pals oval pill wh". h. If tley h.d b-eti SSjSjS, Would have run :.b Alt elgUl to u:i QfJUilOl ?? i *. > \ j. i lie j hud un tuttrual I effect winYli COuW nlv be defined Bl i dynamic, After our men had become ? acquainted With them through personal experience they stopped calling them "number nines" aud culled them "whiz-bangs." Thilo were only two possibilities of- error under Major Gil dny's system of simplified medicine. Ono was to tnke n whiz bang for trench feet and the id her to use whale oil externally for some form of diges tional hesitancy. And in either case no permanent harm could result, while the error was as simple of correction as the command "about face." Blights was therefore m>t very popular with our battalion, blight? being the trench name for the hospital. Two Weeks ami a half after wo left Belgium we arrived at Albert, hgvlltg marched all the way. The sight which met our eyes ns we rounded the rock quarry hill outside of Albert was won? derful beyond description. I remem? ber how trcuu ndously it impressed my pal. Macfailane. Ho sat by the roadside and looked round over the lcndscnpo ns If he were fascinated. ? "Boy," said he, "we're at the big show at last.'' Poor fellow! It was not only the big show, but the last performance for "Boy," aaid he, "we're at the big ahow at last" him. Within sight of the spot where he sat wondering be later fell In action and died. The scene which so im? pressed him gave us all a feeling of great awe. Great shells from a thou? sand guus were streaking and criss? crossing the sky. Without glasses I counted thirty-nine of our observation balloons. Away off in the distance I saw one German captive balloon. The other aircraft were uncountable. They were everywhere, apparently in hun? dreds. There could have been no more wonderful panorama picture of war in its new aspect. Our battalion was in and out of the town of Albert several days waiting for orders. The battle of Courcelette was then In progress, and the First, Secoud and Third Canadian divisions were holding front positions at terri? ble cost. In the first part of October. 1010, we "went in" opposite the fa inoua Regina trench. The battleground was just miles und miles of debris and shell holes. Before we went to our posit iou the officers and non-coms were tuken In by scouts to get the lay of the land. These trips were called "Cook's tours." On one of them 1 went through the town of Poison twice aud didn't know it. It bad a population of 12.000 before the war. On the spot where it had stood not even a whole brick was left, it seemed. Its demolition was complete. That was an example of the condition of the whole country over which our forces had blasted their way for ten miles since the previous July. There were not even landmarks left The "Cook's Tour." On the night when we went in to in? spect the positions we were to bold, our scouts, lending us through the flat des ert of destruction, got completely turn cd round und took us buck through a trench composed of shell holes con? nected up until we ran into a battal? ion Of another brigade. The place was dreadful beyond words. The stench of the dead wus sickening. In many places arms und legs of dead men stuck out of the trench walls. We'made a fresh start after our blun? der, moving in single tile and keeping in touch euch with the man ahead of him. We stumbled along in the dark? ness through this awful labyrinth until we ran iuto some of our own scouts at 2 a. m. and found that we were halfway across No Man's land, sev? eral hundred yards beyond our front line and likely to be utterly wiped out in twenty seconds should the Germans light us. Fine guides we had on this "Cook's tour." At last we reached our proper position, and fifteen niln utes ufter we got thci \ a whiz-bang, n low explosive murder.:. buried me completely. They had to dig mo out A few minutes later a high explosive that] fell in a trench section where three of our men were stationed. All we could find after it exploded were one arm and one leg, which we lairlcd The trenches were without trench mats, und the mud was from six inches to three feet deep all through them There were DO dugouts, only merely miserable "funk Indes," dug where it was possible to dig thfm without un covering dead men. We remained i> this position four days, from the lit! to the Hist of October, 1010, There were reasons, of course, f< the difference between conditions i BelglUDI uud (Mi the Sninnic. On tic Soinme we were constantly prepaiin for B new advance, and we were on! temporarily established <>n grouut which wo had but recently taken sftc long drumming with big gnus. Tin trenches were merely si tell holes eon nected by dllfbOS, Our old and llbiqui tons and rgrfuusjj psofUl friend. Ill sgndbSg, H tl | nol pre- id 111 any ? : pS/Clty, and tberefpro wo hud no pgra or dugouts. Ttie communication l trenches were all blown in, and every? thing had to come to us overland, with 1 the result that we never were quite ! sure when we would get ammunition, j rations or relief forces. The most aw? ful thing was that the soil all about us I was filled with freshly buried men.. If we undertook to cut a trench or en ! large a funk hole our spades struck into human tlesh and the explosion of ! a big shell along our line sent decom I posed and dismembered and sickening j mementos of an earlier tight shower j ing among us. We lived in the muck and'* stench of "glorious" war, those of I us who lived. The Qerman Dugout?and What They Found. N Hero and there along this line were the abandoned dugouts of the Ger? mans, and we made what use of them we could, but that was little. I had j orders one day to locate a dugout and j prepare it for use as battalion bead : quarters. When I led a squad in to ? clean it up the odor was so ovorpower |ing that we had to put on our gas j masks. On entering we tlrst saw two ' (load nurse:* with our ghastly flash? lights, one standing with her arm j around a post, just as she had stood j when gas or concussion killed her. j Seated at a table in the middle of the place was the body of an old general of the German medical corps, his head fallen between his hands. The task of cleaning up was too dreadful for us. We just tossed in four or five fumite bombs and beat it out of there. A few hours later we went Into the seared and empty cavern, made the roof safe with new timbers and noti? fied battalion headquarters that the place could be occupied. During this time I witnessed a scene which, with some others, I shall never forget An old chaplain of the Cana? dian forces came to our trench section seeking the grave of his son, which had been marked for him on a rude map by an otficer who had seen the young man's burial.' We managed to Und the spot, and at the old chaplain's request we exhumed the body. Some of us suggested to him that he give us the identification marks and retire out of range of the shells which were bursting all around us. We argued that it was unwise for him to remain In danger, but what we really intended was that he should be saved the horror of seeing the pitiful thing which our spades were about to uncover. "I shall remain/' was all he said ;He was my boy." It proved tbat we had found the right body. One of our men tried to clear the features with his handker chief, but ended by spreading the handkerchief over the face. The old chaplain stood beside the body and removed his trench helmet, baring his gray head to a drizzle of rain that was failing. Then while we stood by si? lently Iiis voice rose amid the noise of bursting shells, repeating the burial service of the Church of England. 1 have never been so impressed by any? thing In my life as by that scene. The dead man was a young captaiu He had been married to a lady of Bal tlmore just before the outbreak of tin war. The philosophy of the British Tom mies and the Canadians and the Aus His Voice Rose Amid the Noise of Bursting Shells. tralians on the Somme was a remark? able reflection of their tine courage through all that hell. They went about their work paying no attention to the (lying death about them. "if Fritz has a shell with your name and number on it," said a British Tom? my to me one day, "you're going to get it, whether you're in the front) line or seven miles buck; if he hasn't, you're all right." Fine fighters all. And the Scotch kilties, lovingly called by the Germans 'the women from hell," have the re? spect of all armies. We saw little of the poilus, except a few on leave. All the men are self sacrificing to one an? other in that big melting pot from which so few ever emerge whole. The only things it is legitimate to steal in the code of the trenches are rum and fags" (cigarettes). Every other pos? session is as safe as if it woro a patent ock. The fifth article of this remarkable personal narrative will appear soon. It is entitled: No. 5.?Wounded In Action. This article describes the terrible flpht 'he il .nl and dying, the loss of a pal and ho Anal tailing of lleCllntook In No Ifan'e Land. Bimply told, It is one of the aost remarkable descriptions of a battle by a participant ever put together. Slinoiuis oil the Meaning of the Marne and Verdun. Twice, at the Marne and at Verdun, the French alone, for the Bitish share in the Marne was nothing, have ar? rested the German flood, stopped it, turned it back, retained the held at the eo,d of the struggle and the prizes that go with the victory. To have forecast in 1914 that France could do this would have been to invite ridicule in Berlin and dubitation in France. And this is the great and enduring contribution ot France lv. the war. It is not In the power of the country inferior in population and s resources to its great neighbor to win an offensive battle. Tho battles of Champagne in 1915, of the Aisne this year, demonstrate this. The United States, Grent Britain, Russia must turn the French achieve? ment into the final profit; they must defeat the (Jerman whose two great efforts France has parried and treat? ed down. And since Russia is out of the running, the burden falls- upon the United States and Britain. Al? ready Britain has made a beginning. The Somme, Arras, Messines?these are material and promising signs. But Russian collapse has released Ger? man troops and these troops demand fresh allied forces to face them; so the struggle goes over another year. Yet just as Antietam and Gettys? burg were the highwater marks of the Confederacy, the Marne and Ver? dun are unmistakably supreme lim? its of German effort. A victory on either field would have won the war; defeat on both fields made victory im? possible in the larger sense. Nearly '.wo years separated Gettysburg from Appomattox. But the power of the South, offensively, was broken in the Orot days of July, 1863. All the chances that they could hope to have were with them and they lost. And all the chances were with the Ger? mans both at the Marne and at Ver? dun. They had a far greater ad? vantage than Lee had, for he was out? numbered and outgunned on both Melds. The proof of this is that after Ver? lan, after the campaign of 1916, the ilermans first proposed peace and then risked all upon their submarine campaign. It remains their single chance; this- their own statesmen do not hesitate to affirm. Think of it; the nation with the great military tra? dition, which embarked upon the war confident of its ability to dispose of France in six weeks and Russia in ihree months more, after three years of war, seeks to escape ultimate de? feat for its armies, through s-ubmarine warfare! Here is the meaning of the Marne and Verdun in small compass. ?Frank H. Slmonds in the American Review of Reviews. England Cutting Wheat Consumption One-Half. The Food Administration issues the following: Under the new regulations of war rationing, England has taken upon herself the task of reducing wheat consumption for the forthcoming year to less than half the normal con? sumption before war began. Before the war normal consump? tion of fiour in England amounted to "?7,678,571 barrels, or 23S pounds per capita per annum. This flour was 71 per cent, extract, which means that 71 per cent, of the wheat was extract? ed for the flour and the rest went into by-products, used principally for stock food. On February 2, 1917, the first war rationing went into effect. This was followed by others, and on Sept. I the milling regulations were so changed as to provide 81 per cent. Hour extraction and the compulsory admixture of other grains of 20 per ?ent. The consumption under this regulation is estimated ?rit only 26, 38 2v'857 barrels, or less -than 119 pounds per capita, and less than half the normal wheat flour consumption in peace times. Commencing on September 17 the British government fixed the ntandard price of flour at $7.38 per barrel and the uniform price for bread at IS cents for a 4-pound loaf, with a 1 pound loaf at 5 cents. T.it tic Thing Thgt Counted. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the work? ing multimillionaire, son of one of the world's richest men, Is economizing lie told his fellow-oitiaens Of Tarry town the other day that he intended a few Weeks ago to buy a new pair of shoes, but, upon Unding that ? pah would cost him $8, refused to buy ami had an old pair half-soled. Ho i? proud of having saved SS right there His wife Is knitting sweaters for sol? diers and is wearing a hat two years old, which she fixed over at a cost of 35 cents. She says that the money neded for a now hat wffl buy the wool for several sweaters* so that'f where it's going. In her own right Mrs. Rockefeller la worth many mil? lions herself. Mr. Rockefeller went on hi say that when he was out West re cently he visited a tailor slum In mining town white better clothei ib.to Mr. Rockefeller wears were be ing nu.de. The tailor said that they were for miners. Another interesting thing he said was: When a boy I wfls a guest in the ho:ne of a boy whose father was wealthy. In leaving the bathroom I asked him why he did not turn the light down. He said he never did, that his father was rich. I told him my father had taught me always to turn lights down or out when not in use. A few years later that boy's father lost his fortune, and ho had to go to work, and as he had not learned to economize and had not taught his boy to do so, it was very hard en both of them." This incident is very much like an? other which J. W. Norwood related in an address to a bankers* gathering not many months ago. A certain Southern manufacturer very much 5n need of capital called on a famous New York capitalist, said Mr. Nor? wood, and after presenting his claims, was turned down. The moneyed man could not be interested. The confer? ence was held in the manufacturer's room in a hotel and, as the two left the room, the manufacturer very care? fully turned out all the lights. The capitalist asked him why he had done it. and the manufacturer replied that he had been taught to do It as a mat? ter of economy and that ho saw no necessity for wasting money, no mat? ter if it were somebody else's. The capitalist remarked that he, too, had been taught to economize in small things, and as a result of this little light saving, the capitalist let the manufacturer have the money he needed. The point of th.-se incidents is that it is "the littles that count." Economy is always a servant, extravagance may !>e an overpowering master. . It is econon.y in the smaller things of life that can help mightily in winning this war.?Greenville News. One Win a tit'.sm Day. ! i (Gaffney Ledger.) Every family in Gaffney should adopt a wheatles day. In this way, the consumption of flour would be decreased and there would be more to ship to the boys who are on the tiring line. Mr. Hoover has found that we can only spare 11 per cent of our wheat ur shipment abroad, and if our suggestion should be acted on all over the country that per? centage could be increased to 20 or 25 per cent, and thus increase the effectiveness- of our fighting force at the front by that much. It will bs no great hardship to do without wheat products oae day in the week. Corn meal is a pretty good substi? tute for flour, and certainly it is just as nourishing, if not more so. A movement of thi* sort all over the country might result in a successful conclusion of the war, and surely no man Is so selfish that he would not be willing to forego this little pleas? ure in order that his country might be saved. (JIow to Help Flat Feet. It will be seen hat we try to bring the outer border of the foot into more use in weight-bearing than the inner border. Therefore it will be of advan? tage in endeavoring to overcome the condition of flat foot to have the shoes so constructed as to help in this shifting of the superincumbent weight. The heels may be raised by adding a quarter of an inch wedge of sole leather so p iced that the base of the wedge will be at the inner sido and the edge of the wedge at the out? er side. This will make the heel a quarter of an inch higher on the in? ner side than on the outer side. A wedge is also placed under the sole so as to raise that along the inner border but this wedge should be a. trifle less than th* one on the heel. Usually it is sufficient to raise the inV ner border of the shoe one-quarter of an inch, but in pronounced cases one half an inch may be needed. It is advisable \n cases of weak feet that the foot never be called up? on even for an instant to bear weight except on the outer border. Op? portunity is thus given for the short? ening of the ligaments which have be? come stretched. To accomplish this the foot should at no time be placed upon the ground without having the tilting heel and so.'e beneath it. Not even half a dozen steps, as from the bed to the bathroom, should be tal. en without slippot t or shoes which have been wedged. When these pre? cautions are not taken the heels should not be allowed to bear any weight even for a second; standing and walking: must be done on the tones?Physical Culture. Assisted the Artist. Teacher?This drawing is excellent. Did you do it all vourself? Small Pupil?No'm; Johuy Smart drew it for me, but I did the shading. Teacher?The shading is remark? ably WOll done. Small Pupil? Yes'm. 1 held a book up to keep the sun from shining in Johnny's eyes.?Baltimore Sun. "Tillinan will run again if the peo? ple Insist." And Tiilman is the peo? ple.?Anderson Mail.