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Alberf K Depc EX-GUNNER AND CHIEF PE MEMBEPv OF THE FOREIG CAPTAIN GUN TURRET. FREf V WINNER OF THE C f*". tv " ? ' ?nd Bran Co. TW^i Spacui t CHAPTER V. With the "75's." My pal Brown, of whom I spoke before, had been put In the Infantry i when he enlisted In the Legion, be- I cause he had served in the United 8tates Infantry, lie soon became a ergennt, which had been his rating In the American service. J never saw Llm In the trenches, because our outfits were nowhere near each other, but whenever we were In billets at the same time, wo were together as much as possible. Brown was a funny card and T never saw anyone else much like him. A imk, in 11, reu-neaueu, dopey-looking fellow. never Buying much and slow In everything he illcl or said?you would never think he amounted to much or was worth his unit. The hoys used to call him "Ginger" Brown, both on account of his red hair and his slow movements. Hut he would pull a surprise on you every once In a while, like this one that he fooled me with. One morning about dawn we started out for a walk through what used to *^1 he Dlxinjide?piles of stone and brick and mortar.* There were no civvies to be seen; only mules and horses bringing up casks of water, bags of beans, chloride of lime, barbed wire, ammunition. etc. It was a good thing we Were not superstitious. At that, the shadows along the walls mude iue feel aliaky sometimes. Finally Hrown said: "Come on down; let's see the? '7.f?'s.'" At this time I had not seen a "7-r?," except on o train going to the front, so I took him up right away, but was surprised that ho should know where they were. After going half way around Dlxinude Brown euid, "Here we are," and started right into what was iel't of a We Started Right Into What Was Left of a Big House. big house. I kept wondering how he Would know bo much about It, hut fol 4 lowed lil in. Inalde the house was a W passageway un?ler the ruins. It was About seven feet wide and fifty feet long, I should Judge. At the other end was the great old Tfi." poking lt? nose out of a hole In the wall. The gun captain and the crew were sitting around waiting the word for action, and they seemed to Itnow Brown well. I was surprised at that, but still more so when he told me I could examine the gun If I Wanted to, Just ns If he owned It. " Ko I sat in the seat ami trained the Cross wires on nn object, opened and Closed the breech and examined the recoil. Then Brown sold: "Well, Chink, you'll see some renl gunnery now," and they pnssod the word and took atatlons. My eyes bulged out when I law Brown take his station with them! "Silence!" Is about the first comfrnnd :i gun crew gets when It Is-going > t!on, but I forgot all about It, ed out and asked Brown how ' * '?? a gunner. But he only ' gi looked dopey, as usual. The V to and expected to get a ea'l ' .t m the ofllcer, but he only jrln; so did the crew. It cein- nl It all framed to spring Ion to v I hey expected I would bo urp'S<> ?t cotton In our ears and the Jh called the observation towc jort distance away and they . gave J :ho range. Then the captain "called ?"' meters" to Brown. They placed the nose of a shell In a funo adjuster r.m. turned the handle until It reached .a-ale 4128. This set the j Mnc> u; t'A|> itt Hit: K1 t'-'i1* Then they s aniincd the shell lute Uie breech, locked It shut nnd Rrown sent blH bent to Fritz. ' The bnrrel slipped bnrk, throw out the shell ease lit our feet and-returned over a cushion of grease. Then we received the result# by telephone from -the observation tower. After he had fired twelve shots the captnln said to Brown, "You should never waste yourself In infantry, son." And old dopey Brown Just stood there and grinned. That wns pfown every time. He knew about more things than you could think of. He had reud about gunnery and fooled around at Plxmude until they let him play with the "7r>'s," and finally here he was, giving his kindest td old Fritz with the rest of them. I \ never saw a battery better conC?alWl than this one. Up on tUt ground Bssssasscsssssssss^^ '*u **l&*mm~~mm m^: r^ LEGION OF "FRANCE >JCH BATTLESHIP CASSAKD ^r ",ROlX bE CUFRRP *rr?it?nwrt W?h ih. G?or*. )Um A4ut? Wvfca you couldn't see the muzzle twenty yards away?and that was all there was to see at any distance. There was a ruined garden Ji\st outside the gun quarters, and while the gunners were there picking apples there would be u hiss and an explosion, and over would go some of the trees, or maybe a man or two, but never a shell struck nearer the guns than that. The pollus used to thanlfr. Fritz for helping them pick the apples, because the explosions would bring them down In great style. Shells from our heavy artillery passed just over the garden, too, making un awful racket. Hut they were not In It with the* "75's." They gave mo a little practice with n "7.r>" under the direction of expert French gunners before I went to my 74-Inch naval gun, and, believe me, It was a tine little piece. Just picture to yourself a little beauty that cun i send a 38-pound shell every two seconds for five miles und more, If you want It to, and land on Fritz' vest button every time. There Is notlllng I like better than a gun, anyway, and I have never since been entirely satisfied with anything less thun a "75." As you probably know, the opposing ; artillery In this war Is so widely separated that the gunners hover see their targets unless those happen to be i buildings, and even then It is rare. So, ; since an artillery officer never sees tin? ; enemy artillery or Infantry, he must depend on others to give him the range and direction. For this purpose there are balloons ' and airplanes attached to each art II: lory unit. The airplanes are equipped J with wireless, but also signal by Smoke and direction of flight, while , the balloons use telephones. The oh I servers have irmps and powerful glasses and cameras. Their maps are marked off In zones to correspond with the maps used hy the artillery .officers. The observations are signaled to a 1 receiving station on the ground aiiuI are then telephoned to the batteries. All our troops were equipped with telephone signal corps detachments and this was a very Important arm of the service. The enemy position Is shelled before an attack, either en barrage or otherwise, and communication between the waves of attack and the artillery Is absolutely necessary. Bombardments are directed toward I certain parts of the enemy position almost us accurately as you would use i a searchlight. The Held telephones are ' very light and are portable to the lust degree. They can be rigged up or knocked down In u very Hhort time. The wire Is wound on drums or reels and you would be surprised to see how 'quickly our corps established communication from a newly won trench i to headquarters, for Instance. They { were usklng for our casualties before we had finished having them, almost Artillery tire was directed by men whose duty It was to dope out the ' range from the Information sent them by the observers In the air. Two men were stutloned at the swltchbourd, one man to receive the message and the other to operute the board. As 1 soon ns the range was plotted out It was iciopnonea to tno gunners una they did the rust. | The nnvnl guns at Dlrmude wero mounted on ilut curs and these were druwn back und forth on the track by little Relgiun engines. After I had been ut my gun for several days I was ordered back to iny regiment, which was again in the front-line trenches. My course was past both the Itrltlsh and l?'rench lines but quite a distance behind the front lines. Everywhere there were umbulances und wagons going backward and forward. I met one French ambulance that was a long wagon full of poilus from a ilyld hospital near the tiring lino and was driven by a man whose left arm was bandaged to I he shoulder. Two pollus who sat In the rear r\r\ eniird liinl tuifh Kiwm u /nnuhwl In "" ' ""*? ir?.v?? " the leg niul one had hud u big strip of Ids seadp torn off. There was not u i sound man In the bunch. Yon run imagine what their cargo was like, If tho convoy was as used up as those chaps. Itut all who could wore singing and talking and full of pep. That la tho French for you: lhe> used no more men than they could possibly spare to take care of the wounded, hut I thoy were ull cheerful about It? u I ways. | Jusf after I passed this ambulance the Cleriuuns began shelling a section of the road too near me to la* comfort* ' able, so I beat It to a shell crater about twenty yards off the rou4; to the rear. A shrupnel shell exploded pretty ( near me Just as I jumped Into this . hole?I did not look around to see how i close It was?and I remember now how the old minstrel Joke I'had heard on board ship came to my mind at the time?something about a fellow feeling so small he climbed Into a hole and pulled It after him?and I wished I might do the snme. 1 flattened myself as close agulnst the wall of the | crater as I could and then I noticed t.iiui soiueoouy nan mane n nuarout iu the other wall of the crutRr and 1 , started for It. The shells were exploding no fast by that time that you could not listen for each explosion aeparately, and Just ' as I jumped into the dugout a regular hall of ahrapnel fell on the spot I had \ Juat passed. It wan pretty dnrk hi j j the dugout and the first move 1 made ' | 1 humped Into somebody else and he ! * 4 Jfeftt 29Uluu? J ?'..: v:t r fr j*-*"-r~ 1 riiiinsS- .. w A Regular Hall of 8hrapnel Fell. heard n mile. It was a Tommy wlio hud been wounded in the hund and between curses he told me I hud sut right on his wound when I moved. I asked him why he did not yell sooner, but he only swore more. He surely was a great cus:-or. The bombardment slackened up a bit about this time, and I thought I would huv& a look around. I did not get out of the crater entirely, but moved around out of the dugout until I could see the road I had been on. The first thing I saw was u brokendown wagon that had Just been hitIn fact, it was toppling over when my eye caught It. The driver Jumped from his sent und while he was in the air his heud was torn completely from his shoulders by another shell?I do not know what kind. This was enough for me, so bnck to the dugout. llow the Gcrnlnns did It I do not know, but they bad found out about that road and opened fire at exactly the moment when the road was covered with wagons and men. Yet there had not been n balloon or airplane in the sky for some time. After a while the bombardment moved away to the east, from which direction I hml come, and I knew our batteries wort; getting It. The Tommy and I came out of the dugout- Ah I started climbing up the muddy sides I saw there was a man stunding at the edge of It, und I could tell by his? puttees that he was a Limey. I was having a hard Job of It, so without looking up I hailed him. "That was sure some shelling, wasn't It?" I said. "There's u lad down here with a wounded fin; better give him a liund." "What shelling do you mean," says the legs, without moving, "There's been none In this sector for some time, I think." The Tommy was right nt my heel by tills time, and he let out a string of language. I wus surprised, too, und KtlU scrambling around In the mud. Then the Tommy let 11 "tJuwd 'elp us!" und I looked up and saw that the legs belonged to a Limey odlcer, a major, I think. And here we had been cussing the eyes off of him! Hut he sized It up rightly and gave us a hand, and only laughed when we tried to expluin. I got rattled and told him thut all I saw wus his legs and that they did not look like un ofllcer's legs, which might have mude It worse, only he was good-natured about it. Then he said that be bad been asleep In a battalion headquarters dug out, about u hundred yards away, and only waked up when yurt of the rooi caved in on him. Yot ho did not know he bad been shelled! I went on down the road a stretch but soon found it was easier walking beside It, because the Huns had shelled It neatly right up and down the middle, Also, there were so many wrecked horses and wugons to cllinb over ou the road?besides dead men. After I had passed the nrea of the bombardment and got back on the road I sat down to rest and smoke. A couple of shells had burst so near the crater that they had thrown the dirl right into the dugout, ayd I was a little dizzy froin the shock. While I was sit ting three a squad of Tommies came up with about twice their number ol German prisoners. The Tommies had bgcn making Fritz do the goose Rtefi and tliey started them at It again when they saw me sitting there. It sure is good for a lac ;h any time, this goose step. I guess they call it thai after the fellow who Invented it. One thing I laid noticed about Frit'/ was the way his coat llared out at the bottom, so I took this chance to find out. about It, while they halted for a rest just a 111 tie farther down the road. 1 found that they carried their emergency kits In their coats. These kits contained canned meat, tobacco, needles, thread nod oldster?nil t?>U In addition to their regular pack. Min i. [ drilled down the road some more, hut had to stop pretty soon tc let a column of French Infantry swing on to the road from a Held. They were on their way, to the trenches a.s re-enforcements. After every tvi comjanlcj there would ho a wagon Pretty soon I saw the uniform of tin I-.ec.lon. Tnen a company of my regh luent. came lit) arid T wheeled to will them. We were In the rear of the column that had passed. Our hoys were going up for their regular stunt In tlio front lines, while the others had Just arrived ut that part of the front. Then for the llrst time my feet began hurting me. Our boats were riindo of rough cowhide and fitted very well, but it was a day's labor to carry them on your feet. I begun lugging behind. I would lag twenty or thirty yurds behind and then try to catch up. Put the thousands of man ahead of me kept up the steady puce and vary few limped, though they hud been on the inureh since 3 a. in. It wuh then uhout 11 a. in. Thoao who did limp were curried in the wngona. ltut I had Been cry few men beside* the drivers rtdIiiK in the wagons, and 1 wanted to be na tough as the next guy, ao I kept on. Kut, believe me, I was anre glad when we bulled for a rent along the roud. That la, the re-enforcementa did! Our company of the Legion hud not com from ao far, and when the front oii the column had drawn out of the f i* V T way along the road we kept on filing, tin the Buying Is. I did not care about being tougti then, nnd^ 1 wua ready for the wagon. Only now there were no wagons! They belonged with the other troops. So I had to eu?e along us best I could for what seemed like hours?to my feet?until we turned off onto another | road and halted for a rest. I foynd 1 out later that our ofllcers had gone astray and were lost at this time, though, of course, they did not tell us so. We arrived at our section of the trench about three o'clock thut afternoon and 1 rejoined my company. I | was all tired out after this trek fund found myself longing for the Cussard and the rolling wave, where no Marathons and five-mile hikes were necessary. But this was not in store for me?yet. CHAPTER VI. Fritz Doe* a Little "Strafe I ng.w My outfit was one of tho.su thut Raw the OerinanH place women and children In front of them as shields HRalnst our Are. More than u third of ! our men, I should say, hud been pretty | tough criminals In their own countries. They alwuys truded their pay ugulnst a handful of cards or a roll of the bones whenever they got a chance. They had been In most of the dirty pnrts of the world. This war was not such a much to them; Just one more ' Job in the list. They could call (?o<l and the sulnts and the human body more things thuu uny boss stevedore that ever lived. Yet they wero religious In a way. Some of them were always reading ! religious books or saying prayers in i different wnys and between them they 1 believed In every religion and super stition under the sun, I guess. Yet ' they were the toughest bunch I evei suw. After they enw the Germans usinj. I the Belgian women the way they did almost every man In my company took home kind of u vow or other, und most of them kept their vows, too, ] 1 believe. And those that were religious got more so after that. Onr chaplain hnd always been verj friendly with the men, and while ] 1 j think they liked him they were s< j tough they would never admit It, ant some of them claimed he wus u Jonah or Jinx, or bad luck of some kind. Jlu l ; tg&xSk How We Give 'Em the Butt. they all told him their vows as soon II U thov tlthin alt/1 1?o vena ? ?? poged to bo a sort of referee oh tc ' whether they kept them or not. During my second stunt in the front \ lines things got pretty bud. The Oer nmns were five to our ono und thej ' kept pushing back purts of the line and cleaning out others. And the . weuther was as bad us it could be ! and the food did not always come reg I ularly. Now, before they took theli vows, every last man in the buncl I would huve been kicking und growlitif i oil the time, but, us it wus, the onlj tlmo they growled was when the Oer ! mans pushed us buck. ! Things kept getting worse and yoi i could see that the men talked to tht ! chaplain more and quite a few of then got real chummy with him. 1 One morning Fritz blurted in brlgh nnd early to begin ids strufe. Tin ! lieutenant wus walking up and dowt the trench to see that tin* sentries I were properly posted and were on tin 1 Job. A shell whizzed over his heat 1 uml landed just behind the para do: ' und the dirt spouted up like I imaglm 1 n Yellowstone geyser looks. Another oillcer ciune up to the lieu tenant?a new out; who had onl; Joined the company about a week be fore. They had walked about tei vards when another shell whizzed ove 1 them. They laid to nnd a third on? came. There were three In less than Ave minutes, directly over their bends, Ttir.r> > ipt.nl! I.pn.ln.l .... !..?? ..t.l. - ... .. II pill II ami'MMi "II HIT- M il ri'ir of the trench and n poiiu y?*lI?m1 thai four men hiul got It. They went all wounded und throe died later. The lieutenant went over to them and Just after ho panned me u lad pot it nquart not far from mo and wan knoTkeO over to where I was lying. Tlio lieutenant rnme hnok tint helped me with the tirst-aid rol'i and then the Germans begun using nlirap nel. The lieutenant wan nwearing hard about the shrapnel and the Gcr mans and everything else. Farther to the right a shell had jusl struck near the parados and made n big crater and across from it, agnlnsl the parapet, was a young chnp wltl a deep gnnh In his head, sitting or tho Are step and next to him a fellow nursing the pluce whore his arm* had been blown off. Onr hrend ration laj all uhout the trench and somp of thi poll as were Ashing It out of the mu<! and water and wiping the biscuits ofl on their sleeves or eating as fast a> they could. Only some of ttie biscuit.' had fallen In bloody water and thej did not eat these. A young fellow, hardly more than c boy, stumbled over the parados and fell Into the trench rlirht rveiir fir lieutenant and the lieutenant dres?e<! hlH wnundn himself. I think he wuj Home mint Ion of the hoy. The lieutenant nuked hlin how h< felt, hot the hoy only asked for wntei nnd Hmlled. Hut you could see ho wni In Krcnt pnln. Then the hoy said "Oh, tho puln 1h awful. 1 am goln> to die." "You are all right, old man." th< Lk v . 4. * ' *r -1* , nontenant said, "Ton will be horn j rood. The stretcher bearers are com i lng." So we passed the word for th< | stretcher bearers. j Then he took tho water bottle fron the boy's side and sat him op and Kav< 1 him somo wutor. He left the wate bottle with the chnp and went t< hurry the stretcher bearers along When he got around the corner of tin trench the hoy was slipping buck ant the wuter bottle had fallen down. 8' I went over to him and propped hln ' up again and gave him some mor water. The lieutenant came back with tin stretcher bearers and he asked one o thorn, so the boy could not hour him, 1 the boy would live. The stretcher bearer said: "I don* think so. One through hla chest au< right leg broken." The boy had kept quiet for a whlh but all of a sudden he yelled, "Give m< a cigarette 1" 1 handed him a clgu rette butt that I hud found In the due out. We were all out of elgurettef So they lit It for him and he kep quiet. As soon as they could they go i around the corner of the fire bay wltl ' him- and through n communleattoi trench to a field hospital. The llet tenant and I walked a little way wltl him and he begun to thank us, and h i told the lieutenant, "Old man, yo have been a fnther and a mother t me." And the lieutenant said to hlrn "You hove dono well, old boy. Yo I have done more than your share." When they started Into the conum: > nlcatlon trench the boy begun t scream aguln. And the lleutennn acted like u wild roAn. lie took ou > his cigarette case, but there were n cigarettes In It, and then l?e swore an put It back again. Hut In a few mlr Utes he had the cose out again an t was swearing worse than ever an talking to himself. "The boy Isn't dying like a genth , man," ho said. "Why couldn't he kee quiet." I do not think he meant 1 : He wns nil nervous and excited an [ kept taking out his cigarette cuse an [ putting It back again. , Tho other officer hurt gone on to ii sport tho Rontrlos when the boy rolle . into the trench and n pollu ciune u ? to tell us that the oflleer had been hi j We walked hack t? where I had bee j and there was tho oflleer. If I ha been there I would huvo got It to ? I guess, lie was aja awful mess., T1 veins were sticking out of his net and one side of him wns blown ol Also, his foot was wounded. That what shrapnel does to you. As crawled past him I hnppened to tout his foot ami he cursed mo all over tl place. Hut when I tried to say I wj sorry I could not, for then he apoh glzcd and died a moment luter. There was a silver clgurette en? sticking out of the rags where h! side had been blown away and th lieutenant crossed himself nnd reache In and ^pok out the case. Ilut who he pried open the case he found tlm It had been bent and cracked and a the cigarettes were soaked with bloot He swore worsd than over, then, an threw his own case awuy, putting th other officer's case In his pocket. At this point our own artillery la gan shelling and wo received the ordt to stand to with fixed bayonets. Who we got th? order to advanco some c the men were already over the pan pet and the whole bunch after then and, bellevo me, I wus as pale as sheet, Just scared to death. I thin ' every man Is when he goes over fc " the first time?every time for thu * matter. Hut I was glad we were goln to got some action, because It Is har t to sit around In a trench under fir and have nothing to do. I had ull r could do to hold my rifle. > We ran across N? Man's Land. > cannot remember much about It. r?i: ' when we got to the German trene * I fell en top of a younfl fellow and m * bayonet went right through hlin. 1 i was a crime to get him, at that. II 5 was a a delicate as a pencil. f When I got hack to our trenchc * after rr.y first charge I could not slec for a long time afterward, for remcii i berlng what that fellow looked Ilk J and how my bayonet slipped Into hlti i and how he screamed when he fell He had his legs ami his neck twlstei t under him after he got It. I though ? about It a lot and It got to he almos i a habit that whenever I was going t i sleep I would think about him am 3 then ull hope of sleeping was gone. 1 Our company took a German trend a that time and along wltrh anothe b company four hundred prisoners. W had to retire because tin- ineu on ou - shh-s did not get through and w y were being flanked, llut wo lost a lo of men doing it. u When wo returned to our trenche t our outfit was simply all In and w< > were lying around In the front line i like a bunch of old rags In a narrov . allev. None of iim kIi<>u.->>iI ?mv ti.tn * of life except ft working party thu : wua digging with picks and shovels a I Koine bodies thut had been frozen Inti > the mud of the trench. 1 I used to think all the (Jermuns wer< * big and fat unci Htrong, und, of course I Rome of the grenadier regiments arc but lots of the Roches I sow wen I little and weak like this fellow I "got I in my first charge. It was a good piece of work to taki : | the prisoners and a novelty for ine t< ' look them In the face?the fellows had been lighting. IJecause, when yen t look a Jlun in the face, you can sei i the yellow streak. Even If you nr t their prisoner you can tell that th i Iluns are yellow. i Maybe you huve heard pigs helm r butchered. It Rounded like thnt whei I we got to them. When they nttnckei r us they yelled to beat the hand. ? guess they thought they oould soar I us. Rut you cannot scare niachln r guns nor the foreign legion either. S i when they could not Rcare us the, i were up against It and had to llghl ' I will admit, though, that the firs time Fritz came over and began yell L lag I thought the whole (lerman arm | was nfter me. at that, and Kaiser Rll > playing the drum. And.how they hat I a bayonet 1 They would much rathe i alt In n ditch and pot you. I admit I urn not crflzy about hnvc , net fighting myself, as a general proj r osltlon, hut I will say that there hnv , been times when I was serving a gu . behind the front lines when I wlshe , for a rifle and a bayonet In my hnn'l and a chance at Fritz man to man. a It was In this charge that our chnj III I II ! I III ; "I ^ 1 '~r r\ fcz-'.r*$ s*&\ 9 i !.:>'; I# }!>) [ * r'f ; - { ^ ?8 6 ( *? | uii/ '\?"'-!W. ? I ^ 1* ,. , ? t.Av a. g 1 H * t I , ^ ^C/'{ ' /' | v"" ;; Jjf 4-" i K ; I % ', I- fl o y | ? >i XT t *71 ;! 15 r/e wrfi ?v~ d H Nothing cIjc really j ' ! a | " 1; h Be patient here?C t 1 *r S | WiWTC '? B * over > ??- ?^?===^=^=:^=t0 In Iti was put out of commission. As 18 | we were lined up, waiting to climb on , R J to the fire step and then over the par- j ,1 | npet, tills chaplain came down the u i line speaking to each man as he went. j lie would not say much, hut Just a 11 j few words, and then make the sign of 1. j the cross. lie was In a black cassock, d He was Just one man from me as o we got the word and stood up on the fire step. He was not armed with as > much as a pin, hut he Jumped up on Stuck His Head Over the Parapet and Got It Square. 1 the step and sliu'lc his head over the i?n r:i i Ml and got it square, landing 1 rig! beside me. I thought lie was 1 killed, l?ul when we ?l Irnek we foini'l 1 lie was only wounded. The men who Mtw P were over the parapet before s the oilier, was given nial then the * whole hunch niter them, hecnuse they, ' too, thought he was killed and figured v he never would know how they came s out ahout their vows. All the men in the company were glad when they 1 fou id he was only wounded. While lmlf of us were on the firing step throughout the day or night the B other half would lie in the dugouts or Kitting around In the bottom of the ' trench, playing little games, or mend a lilt; clothes or sleeping or cooking or doing a thousand an<l one tilings. The ni(in were u:\vays !n eond humor lit e suci. times and it seemed to iim> even a inoro so when the enemy tire was ' heavy. If a man was slightly wounded down 1 would rome the rlllea to order arms, ' and some poltu was sure to shout, e S I Owe My Life ? Mr. McKinley*s letter ' brings cheer to all who may be sufferers as he ; was. Head it: ' "I can honestly say that I owr " my liie to tVriina. After some of I I...at 1- ? - ' ? ..... ...... r. ... VIIU .Mlllliy tfavo mo lip nix! told 1110 1 ootilil J not livo ariMhor inontti, I'riniiii || saved me. Travelling from town to town, throughout tlio country e and having to ro Into nil kind, r of hadly heated hIoi-oh ami buildings, sometimes standing up foi hours at a tlrao while plying ni> ). trade as auftlonccr, It Is onlj natural that I had colds fro<juen?lyi so when this wouh p occur I paid little attention to It until last l>ecember when I c?>n " traded a severe cane, which Q through neglect on my par . settled on my lungs, when at I" moat too late. 1 hr(?n doctoring Ihiit, without avail, until I hrnr< of Peruns. It cured met ao cannot praise It too highly." ? /X g ~V & ?'<? ??': a A |: SJSTi il ? 1 JsJjhtJ I HfgS Nsf i ' /} K p /: h v Aiv \/-.:-\ , f f' ;, " j*>V [ *" i i !i I > 5 tms IWCl'T"'"" !! mailers t+niil wj c:o 1 : jl; \,{ 'tx'r Boyc, a? 2 getting mm :i f/iere / asasac^yzrazTrrv .-- >. "Right this way. One franc." It was a landing Joke ami they always did It. The pollu who did It tnost was a Swiss i.nd he was always playing a Joke on somebody or Imitating some one of us or making fuces. We were all sorry when this Swiss "went west," as the Limeys say, an<J we tried to keep up his Jokes and say the same things and so forth. Hut they did not go very well after lie was dead. lie got his In the same charge In which the chaplain was wounded, lie was one of the bunch that charged before the order was given, when the chaplain got it. and was running pretty near r?c until we got to the Roche wire. I had to stop to get through, though must, of it wua cut up by arlU< I'tv ilre, hut be must have Jumped It, for wnen 1 lo< ,ed up lie was twenty or thirty paces ahead of tre. We got fi) fli?? / nu olwMit -* ... .... ... ci iimMu mm 11 iii*" mm I was pytty busy for a while. But soon 1 saw him iitrain. lie was pulling Ills bayonet out of a Boehe when uuotln-r iiaole a Jab at him ami stuck lilm in the aria. Then the Boehe made a swing at hiin with bis rllle, but the Swiss dropped on one knee and dodged It. lie kejit defending himself with Ills rllle, but there was another (lerinun 011 lilin by this time and he could not >:<'t up. The corpora I of our squad came up Just about that time, but he was too late, because one of the Bnches trot to the Swiss with Ills bayonet. He did not have time to withdraw it before our corporal stuck him. The other Herman made a pass ut the corporal, but he was too late. The co.p;.rul b< at him 10 it and felled hiin with a terrific blow from bis rille butt. TI10 llmivi wiiPii t I " " there Just us another fellow and myself cnme up. A Boehe swung Ids rifle nt tie- corporal and when he dodged It the Itnehe almost got me. The swing took him off his feet and then the corporal did us pretty ti hit of work an I ever saw. lie Jumped for the Hoc-lie, who had fallen, landed on his face with hoth feet and gave It to the next one with his bayonet all nt the same time, lie v.as the quickest tnan I ever saw. There were a couple of well-known savate men In the next company and I saw one of them get under Fritz's guard with his foot and, believe me, there was some force in that kick, lie must have driven the (Jcrman's chin clear through the back of his neck. We thought It was pretty tough luck to lose hoth the chaplain and the village wit in the same charge, along with hall of cair ollieeis, and then have to give ap the trench. Kvery man in the hum h was sore us a hull when we got hack. (To Be Continued) is PERUNA mHPKBR 1 Mr. Hamurl McKlnTey, 1507 K. 2 12th St., KnriHan City, Mo., Memt>? r of th? Society of U. 8. Jewelry t Auctioneers. A Sold Kvrrj wkrrr, 1 Tablet or Liquid Korn >, M i