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i Albert K Depe EX'GUNNER AND CHIEF PET MEMBER OF THE FOREIGS CAPTAIN GUN TURRET. FREN< WINNER OF THE CF ?cpptfl Itll by and friaun Ca, THa^i Spcckl Ao 6YNOPSI6. CHAPTER I?Albert N. Depew, author of the story, enllats In tho United Blaise navy, serving four years and attaining tho rank "of chief petty officer, first-class gunner. CHAPTER II?The groat war start* soon after he U honorably discharged ' from the navy and he aaJla for Frunco j with a determination to enlist. CHAPTER III?He Jolne the Foreign Legion and is assigned to the dreadnaugi::. Cassard where his marksmanship wina i him high honors. CHAPTER IV?Depew Is detached from his ship and sent with a regiment of tl?i Legion to Flanders where Tie soon And: himself In the front line trenches. CHAPTER V?Me Is detailed to the artillery and makes the acquaintance of the "76's", the wonderful French guns that have saved the'duy for the allien on many a buttlcfleld. Before seeing any action, he is ordered back to his regiment In ihO front line trenches. CHAPTER VI?Depew Hroes "over the top" and "gets" bis first German in a bayonet light. CHAPTER VII?His company takes part in another raid on the German trencher, and shortly afterward assists In stopping u fierce charge of the Huns, who uru mowed down as they cross No Man';: Land. CHAPTER VTII?Sent to Dlxmude with A dispatches, Dcpew Is cuuglit in a Zeppelin y ruld, but escapes unhurt. CHAPTER IX?He Is shot through the thigh In a brush with the Germans and Is sent to a hospital, whore he quickly recovers. CHAPTER X?Ordered back to sea duty. Depew rejoins the Cassard, which makes reveral trips to the I lurdanelles as a convoy. The Cassard Is almost haltered to pieces l>v the Turkish balterlos. m' 'mp, ' .hat If he wan' nigh lie did (ii! gave ine a note si r and sent him auiiiicr note i>y messenger. I wanted ilurray to go too. but the Old Man said one was enough. So, twp duys later, I went aboard In the morning and hail breakfast with the,'sub erew and. f>r.-s?kfnst it was. too. After urta' Wie.v took stations and the < ? i > . >ni tip on the struefif. ' ?i was Just undo.* '; tie I squatted ?'.iwn ?. . /: * h the strueinie. 'Then ; : en t:p and > ' , . ook the I could from 'the After n wh , s engines l to ii,;'. ?e I toga,n to hen * 're till the wa; . ,1 -r<Hi ? the perlbcoi On'eh uenchantman. Wf* ' !' t* nS,tiir ? ' f ??% limiw and . > .<r back b *V> surface. One oi t. i ' .,s *< nt; me Inter on ti> c this ? ' -d rone out of co-, -,.l p < before and kept <1P. lrir itll she struck bottom. ,w how many fathom; at It was farther t)?r.M -r would take a ?pli ' ' *-:j? *t. This garby . <ir 1 !.? plates cracl. a \vo:iuer that they re up from the ^ Jires / i.tin red It. presaur !. r.ml in n quarter of the surface. While op ley flighted smoke, su. . and soon, over the hor eight battleships, escort .e.ips and destroyers. They *'i'd their tubes before they got hi range. Finally they let go. The first shot missed, but after that they got Into it good and the garby said all ?> w.i KM1MI lll'ill ?. u.1 lilt; HIKJIKIUK U1 the detonated guneotton. About five minutes luter they slghted five destroyers, two on each bow. and one dead abend. The sub steered In nt right angle zigzags and the destroyers stayed with their convoy. The sub launched two torpedoes nt less thnn a mile before diving, to get away from the destroyers nn * 'be gurby said at lenst one of * as hit. These ships must t some of the lucky one' '. down from the North s .. my suld he thought the oj. .e Dutch const at the , : ne wus not sure. But this crui-.-- .h t I wus on wns only a pruetlce cruise and we did not medl..wUh any excitement In the short time that we were out. CHAPTER XI. Action at the Dardanelles. "f made twelve trips to the Dardanelles In all. the Cassard acting gen e rally as convoy to troop ships, but one trip wan much like another, and I cannot remember all the details, eo I will give only certain Incidents of the voyages that you- might find Interesting. We never put into the Dardanelles without being under fire?but besides saying so, what Is there to write, about In that? It was Interesting enough at the time, though, you can take it from met . Coming up to "V" bench on Our third trip to the Dardanelles, the weather was as nasty as any I hpve Yer 'seen. The rain was sweeping alodg la sheet*?gidat big drops, and driven by the wind In regular volleys. Ton could see the wind coming, by the line of white against a awell where tha^dr<gJh> hit ,, I ;We rourided the point, the seas |B>i choppier, and. there were cross currents bucking the ship from every angle, It seemed. Ton could not see . hundred yards away, the rain I LEGION OF FRANCE ZH BATTLESHIP CASSAKD^ir IOIX DE GUERRE o??ro?ni W* *M Caarf l*W#?w Mm Krviw ** 4^ ? S^J -Oi 0 y&y GXHTcf. J> & n /SAy & Jyj f sd^Cy & KumtokJ-h \ / GALLIPOLI?ni*. I DARDANELLES was so thick, and the combers \vcr< breaking over our bows three a uiin ute. The coast here is pretty danger ous, so we went in very slowly and bad the sounding line going until Its wliir-r-r-r sounded louder than a mn chine gun in action. t was on the starboard bow at the time and had turned to watch some garbles poking at the scuppers to drain the water off thy deck. Hut tin scuppers had been plugged and the> were having a hard time of it. Th' ollicer on the bridge, in oilskins, was* walking up and down, wiping off tin business end of his telescope and trying to dodge the ruin. All of the garbles but one left the scuppers on the starboard side and started across decks f- port. The other chap kept on fooling around the scuppers. Then I saw u big wave coming for us, Just oft the starboard bow and I grabbed hold of a stanchion and took a deej breath and held on. When my head ,-i.HIKIVC tt'HUT MKilUl III** OtllOl end of the wave was just passing over the pluee where the garbles had been, and the oftteer was shouting, "Un homine a lu titer!" lie shouted before L' ^ "Un Homme a la Merl" lho man roally was overboard, because he saw that the wave would get him. I rushed back to the port bow and looked back, for the wave had carried him clear across the decks, and saw I he poor lad In the water, trying to fend himself off from the ship's side. But II was no go, and the port propeller blades Just carved hi in Into bits. On our homewnrd voyage we rereived word again by wireless that there were Zeppelins at sea. We did not believe this and it proved to be untrue. But there were other stories and taller ones, told us by one of the wireless operators, that some of the garbles believed. This chap was tinreal original Baron Munchausen when It came to yarning, and for a while he had me goli.ir too. He would whtsner some startling talc to us and make us promise not to tell, as he had picked it fromlsoine other ship's message, and the Old Man would spread-eagle him if he found it out. They probably would have logged him, at that, if they had known he was filling us full of wind the way he did. He told me one time that Henry Ford had Invented something or other for locating subs miles away, and also another device that would draw the nib right up to it and swallow It whole. He had a lot of other yarns hat I cannot remember, but I did not helleve him because I saw he was picking out Certain men to tell certain yarns to?that is, spinning then) where they\would be more sure of being believed and not Just spinning them anywhe^. Kp I got pretty tired of this stuff after a while and when we put out from Brest on the fourth voyage I got this fellow on deck fn rough weather and began talking to him about the chap who had gone overboard the time before and had been cut up by the propeller, I pretended that, of course, he knew all about it? tliut the Old Man hac^ had this garby evwhoart btcapM h# VM t9* free with his mouth. But this did not Gi seem to do any good, so I had to thlnk In up another way. w When we were out two days I got hold of our prii^linr again. I figured 1 that he would be superstitious and I was right. I suld that of course he knew that a ship could not dmw near Cape Helles and get away again unless at least one man was lost, or that. If it did get away, there would be 1 many casualties aboard. I said It hnd always been that way and claimed thut the Old Man had pushed this gurby overboard because someone had to go. I suld on our other trips no one hud been sacrificed and that was the reason we had suffered so much, and that the Old Man hud been called ' down by the French minister of the g navy. I told hlin the Old Man would ( pick on whatever garby he thought he could best spare. | That was all I hud to tell him. Ei- * ther he thought the Old Man knew of 1 his yarning or else he did not think t himself of much uccount, for he dlsappeured that very wntch and we did not see hlin again until we were on the homeward voyage and a steward happened to dig Into a provision hold. | ^ There was our lying friend, with u : ' life belt on, another under his heud, ; , uml the bight of a rope around his j ! waist, fast asleep. Why he had the hi rope I do not know, but he was scared ,l( to death , nd thought we were going I (j to chuck him overboard at once. I R( think he must have told the ofilcers j everything, because I noticed them j1( looking pretty hard at me?or at least I thought I did; maybe It was my , conscience. If 1 may brag about lmv- : ? lug one?and I thought one of the lieu- 1 tenants was Just about to grin at me j jscverai nines, nut we never heard any i more about It, or any more yarns from Qi our wireless frleml. ! til The fourth voyage was pretty rough, T1 too. The old girl would stick her tli nose Into the seus and many times 1 w thought she would forget to come out. tit We had a lot of sand piled up against the wheelhouse and after we dived 01 pretty deep one time and bucked out w slowly, there was not a grain of sand tli left. It looked like the sea was just dt kidding us, for we were almost into til quiet wrier, ami here It had just taken tv one sea aboard to clean up the sand nj we carried all the way from Brest. T During the whola voyage you eouiu w rot get near the galley, wldcli wa.i ni where our wireless friend hung out tc whven he eould. The pans and dixies hanging on the wall stood straight hi out when the ship pitched, and several "I heavy ones came down on n cook's tl head while he was sitting under their, tn during n heavy sea. Thai made him hi superstitious, too, and he disappeared t' and was not found for two days. But ft he was a landsman. and not used to It heavy weather. *d When we got to the flalllpoll penln- t'1 sula the fifth time our battle fleet *1 and transports lay off the straits. Wo eould not reaeh the little harbor on <*< the Turkish coast, hut the whole fleet felt happy and fairly confident of vie- C'1 tory. We lay oft Cape Ilelles, and it <"< was there we received the news that there were submarines lying around " Gibraltar. Then they were reported h< off Malta. We got the news from Brit- tl lsh trawlers and transports. Our olll- hi cers said the subs could not reach the di Dardanelles'Without putting in some- f'i where for a fresli supply of fuel, and that the allied fleets were on the look- a> ou.. at every pluce where the subs a> might try to put In. But they got there er Just the same. ot Then th<? British superdreudnn ught nl Queen Elizabeth, "the terror of the T Turks," came in. She left England with a whole fleet of cruisers and de- u:' atroyers, and all the Limeys said, ai "She'll get through. Nothing will step le her." T One of the boys aboard of her told hi nte he had no Idea the Dardanelles f< would be uo hot a place as he found hi It was. "Guw blimey," he said, "what f< with dodging shells and submarines, tl: you cawn't 'elp but run onto a blooniln' oj mine. Ill don't mind telltn' you," ho r? * suld, "that Hi wus scared cold at first. And then III thinks of what 'Oly Joe' tli (the chaplain) told us one service, ai *Hln times of dynger, look hup wards,' a | 'e says. So 111 looks hupwurds, and pi , blimey hlf there wasn't a bully plane ol a-droppln' bombs hon us. 'What price Jr hupward looks, Oly Joe?' I sings out, tr but he weren't nowheres near. Blarst A i ine, tlffere weren't nowhere you could tl look without doin' yer bloody heye a hi dirty trick." Ill When the Queen Elizabeth entered c< the Dardanelles, th" Turkish butteries tl on both shores opened right on her. tl They hud ideal positions, and they ul were banging uway In great style. And cr the water was simply thick with tli mines, and for all anybody knew, with *d , subs. lb Yet the old Lizzie Bulled right along, rc with her hand up on the main deck playing, "Everybody's Doing It." It > made you feel shivery ulong the spine, ffl and believe me, they got a greut hand m from the whole fleet. fe They say her Old Man told the boys he was going to drive right ahead and w that if the ship was Hunk he would w know that the enemy was somewhere In the vicinity. Well, they were headed ^ right, hut they never got past the Narrows. They stuck until the last a minute though, and those who w? nt v up, went up with the right spirit. g< "Are we downhearted?" they would hi yell. "No I" And they were not, either, fu They did not brag when they put It over on the Turks, and they did not "> grouch when they saw that their lied K? ?'aps had made mistakes. Their motto 1" was, "Try again," and they tried ?? day after day. I do not know much nt about the histories of armies, hut 1 .. do not believe there was ever an army U like that of the allies in the (>alltpoll w campaign, and I do not think any of outer Briny count nuve none wnut tney i?c <11(1. I'tuke off tny hut to the British til army and navy after that. I in It wbh hotter than I. have ever I known It to be elsewhere, and there w wan no water for the boys ashore hut "* whut the navy brought to them?soma- n< times a pint a day, and often none at of all. The Turks hud positions that you tli could not expert any army to take, cu were well supplied with ammunition | w and were used to the country and the th climate. Most of the British army *1 were green troops. It was the Anxacs', ?t first campaign. . i of They were wonderful boys, these Australian* and i*?w Zealanders, j of ? ? ? - uf P I, -V ? ?rr peat Dig men, nil of them, and finely j lilt, and thoy fought like'devils. It J us hand-to-hand work half the time; i "I Saw H. M. 8. Goliath Get It." t. urdly nny sleep, no water, sometimes l< a food. They made u murk there ut u alllpoll that the world will have tc v > some to bent. I Onr hoys were on the job, too. We g i*;<1 our part of the works until tin tl me eatne for everybody to quit, and \v?s :?o pienle. The French should o very proud of the work their uuvy | b < If there in the Dardanelles. fl On our sixth tr!?> J saw II. M. ^-Jv r>l In til get it. She was struck three 1 c lues by torpedoes and tlu-n shelled, j lie men were floundering amiind ir? ' ^ e water, with shrapnel cutting ihel(| lives all around them. Only a hun-j^ ed oihl of her crew were saved. | ^ One day, oft Cape Ilelles, during ' ir seventh trick gt the Dardanelles, j( e sighted a sub periscope just about nner time. The I'rlnee George and a . strover sighted the sub at the satne me, and the I'rlnee George let go ^ 10 rounds before the periscope dis- ^ peared. but did not hit the mark. . runsports, bnttleships end cruisers ere thick around there, ail ut anchor, . id It was a great place for a sub , > be. In no time at all the destroyers reezed out with their tails In the Ir, throwing a smoke screen around ie larger ships. They hunted high nd low, all over the spot where she . id been sighted and all around It, linking to rani It or bring It to the irface, so we could take a crack at . All the rest of the fleet?battleilps and transports?weighed anchor t once and steamed ahead ut full teed. . It was a great sight. Any new ship tilling up would have thought the ritisli and French navies had gone uzy. We did not have any fixed turse, hut were steaming as fast as e could In circles und half circles, ul dashing madly from port to star- | taril. We were not going to ullow ( nit sub to get a straight shot at us, it we almost rammed ourselves * ting It. It was a case of chase-tall >r every ship In the fleet. Ilut the sub did not show Itself ^ tain that day, and we nnehoreil . ;nln. That night, while the destroys were around the ships, we slipped ir cables anil patrolled the coast ong the Australian position at Cuba epe, but we did not unchor. The following day the Albion went diore la the fog, south of Guhu Tepe, id as soon as the fog lifted the Turks t loose and gave It to her hot. A urkish ship came up and, with uny nd of gunnery, could have raked her j >re and aft, but the Turks must tve been pretty shy of gun sense, >r they only got In one hit before ley wer? driven off by H. M. S. C'nn?us, which has made such a lino cord In this war. Then the Canopus pulled In close to te Athlon, got a wire hawser aboard, id attempted to tow her out under heavy fire, but as soon as she started illlng, the cable snapped. The crew ' the Albion were ordered aft and imped up on the quarter deck to y and shift the bow off the bank, t the same time the fore turret and le fore six-Inch guns opened up a >t lire on the Turkish positions to ghter the ship and shift her by the. nCusslons of the guns. For a long me they could not budge her. Then te Canopus got another hawser mard and, with guns going and the ew Jumping and the Canopus pulling, le old Albion finally slid off and both lips hacked into deep water with ttle harm done to either. Then they iturned to their old anchorages. At Cape Holies every one was wide- j vake. We were all on the lookout < ir subs and jmu could not find one an napping. Anything at all passed r u periscope?tins, barrels, spars. ! end horses generally lloat la the ' ater with one foot sticking up, and ' e gave the alarm many a time when was only some old nag on his way to ' avy's locker. 1 vu uHj v/ussum uie vuu man posted reward of 50 francs for the lirst man ' lio sighted a periscope. This was a 1 ?od Idea, but believe me he would tve laid trouble making tlie award. * r every pian on the slUp would he ' ire to see It ut the same time. Each an felt sure he would he the man to ' t the reward. The 1 l-pounders were aded and ready for action on a sec- ! id's notice, ltut the rewurd was irer claimed. 1 1 luring our eighth trick off Cape ellcs I wus amidships In the galley hen I heard our two 14-pounders go f almost at the same time. Kveryxly ran for his station, doing up ' e main deck to my turret a man told e It was n sub on the port bow, but ' only caught a glimpse of the littlo ( 1 hirlpool where her periscope sub- ' erged. I do not know why she did >t let loose a torpedo at us. The 1 licers said she wus trylug to make 1 ie entrance to the Dardanelles and 1 line up blind among our ships and as scared off by our guns, hut I ought we had Just esenped by the [In of our teeth. Later on our deroycrs claimed to have sighted her T Oaba Tepe. At noon we were at mess when one ! the boys yelled, "She't hit." and we - ? ill rushed on deCk. There was the British ship, Triumph, torpedoed and listing away over to starboard. She wus ready to turn over In a few minutes. One battleship Is not supposed to. so to the assistance of another one that has been torpedoed, because the t'lmnces are the sub Is still in the neighborhood laying for the second ship with another torpedo. But one of the British truwlers went to the assistance of the Triumph to pick up the crew. We could see the crew jumping Into the water. Then we breezed out toward the horizon, full speed ahead. All about the Triumph was u cloud of black smoke, but when we looked through the glass we could see she wa> ?olug down. Then our guns began to bombard the Turkish positions und 1 Had to get busy. When I saw the Triumph' again she was bottom up. She must have floated upside down for ulmosflinlf an hour, then sin; went ilowii r..s though there was somebody jn IheVliottoni pulling her. When she went our Old Man hat iged Is telephone on the bridge r?H wore at the Huns and Turks und roke his telescope lens to hits. About fty from the Triumph were lost. It was decided that the place was do hot for us with that suit running Jose, ami when they reported that fternoon that she was making her ay sou'h from Cuba Tepe to Cape li-Iles all of the fh-ot hut the Majestic ot under way, and the Majestic was lie only ship left off the (tape. They said the M ijestic was then the ldest of the ships in that campaign, at she was the pride of the British net Just the same. She was torpedoed if Cape Holies later on. when there .ere a number of men-of-war off tinape. Tlie sea was crowded with men wimmlng and drowning. 1 saw a lifeoat crowded witli men and other mor ii the water hanging onto h?-r. ami here were so many hanging on that Iiey started to pull her under. Of liolr own accord the men In the wnter 't go to save those in the boat. Most f them were drowned. The Majestic listed so that the men nuld not stand on deck, and the slder. vere covered with men hanging on o ropes and not knowing whether 0 jump Into the sea or not. We lowTed till our Itlebouts and steam aunehes, and so did the other ships. A'e picked up u number of the crew md were pretty close to the Majestic ,vhen she went, down like a rock. As die went down she turned over and 1 par by ran along her side to the ram it her bow and pot on it without even icing wet. A boat picked him up off he ram, which stuck out of the water lfler the ship had censed to settle. She had torpedo nets on her sides, md many of the crew were unable to jet clear of the nets and went down vlth her. Quite a lot were caupht clow decks and had no possible hance to escape. There was a hip xplosion as she went under?probably he boilers bursting. Thousands oC roops on shore and thousands of ;allors on the ships saw the final lunge, and It was a sight to remember. When the ship started to go. the lid Man rushed back to his* cabin, ;ot the sipnnl hook and destroyed It. Vlso, lie saved the lives of two of his nen. We pnve dry clothes and brandy and :offee to the Limeys we rescued, and hough they had Just come through omcthtng pretty tough, they were aim and cool and started talking right iway about what ship they would irobubly be assigned to next. CHAPTER XII. A Pal Crucified. When we go\ to "V" Bench on my lext trip the weather was really fine, >ut It did not please us much, for as \ m Pig 1 i //in i \ Ac/?/ 3aba } \ "i I 1 ) \ \ ) N d js /?&eacSt "~\ K C. I * O ? Where the GOLIATH was wrecked ? Where the MAJESTIC was wrecked. ? Where the CASSAPD enQ.^d the VfERPT asd tha KAISER L1CHE MARINE. soon iih we got In range the enemy batteries opened up on us and the shell fire was heavier than any wo luul been in before, though not more ffective. We drew in on a bright nornlng, about half past live or six, villi our convoy, the troopship Champagne, ahead of us and going slowly, sounding all the way. At this part of the shore there Is a Jock about a mile and a half long, running hack Into the country and terminating In a road. The Champagne was making for Ibis dock, sounding as she went. Suddenly, when she was within fiOO yards of the shore, 1 saw her swing around and steer In ii crazy fashion. We began asking each other what was the matter with lier, hut we learned afterwards thut her rudder hud been torn off, though we never found out how, nor do I think iinyono ever knew. Then she went aground, with her stern toward the shore and listed over to port. You could see different urtlrles rolling out and down the side, Then her hack broke. The quarter (h>ck was crowded with men hall pressed, with life bolts on, Jumping i^ver the aide or climbing down. Then V|os an explosion and a cloud of black smoke Vroke over us, and for a whlW ( thought I was blinded. All tie time the sheila were ralnlnj In on" "Us and on the Champagne When t' could see again I saw the mer on the Champagne climbing down th< starboard or shore side. One chap wai A | THE FARMER II1ST I ? ? Many Bra f<$S?>\ 1 Du&to Exj Catarrh in Every farm fan; { <}'. *5$* almost every one v P^/<r Jrffijjbt y World Famous Pe ,l ,s invaluable. nL' \JsW t-n catarrhal liillanitns Knwtt^P^r plratory organs, st ? J body. Mr. \V. J. Temple of 300 Llncol years with Inflammation of the bowels. According to his own stor without distress. He says: "I an a farmer and must be exposed tf ull kinds of weather. After year; of suffering, u drxtgglst recommended Peruna. I took all togethei live bottles and am a well man Formerly, I could not do a day's work. Now, farm work does no fatigue me In the least. Peruna li the best medicine and tonic on tlx market. Time only strengthens m; admiration for It. especially to catarrh and colds. going down hand over hand along n stanchion, when unother fellow above him let go and slid right down 011 him. The tlrst man fell about thirty feet landing In the water with his neck doubled under him. Our lifeboats and launches were out picking up sur vlvors. j Those v.ho got safely over the side started to swim ashore, but when they , had gone only a little way they found they could wade in. When the wuter was only up to their waists they mine .upon barbed wire entanglements and not a man got ashore that way but v.is scratched and clawed and manpled horribly. Some of them that 1 saw afterwards were just shredded along the sides of their bodies like coconuts. A great many of them, though, were killed by shrapnel while they were in the water. <?n hoard the Cassurd our guns had la-en busy all the time, and It was not long before we put one enemy batlery out of commission. We had suf1' red a bit, too, but not enough to worry us. There were about 3,000 men on the Champagne, I think, and at 1< iist n third were killed or drowned, and the casualties must huve been almost two-thirds. The ship was Just n mass of wrockuRe. They called for a landing party from the Cassard, and officers asked for , volunteers for trench duty. I was not vc ry keen about going, hecnuse I had been In trenches at Dlxmude, and 1 knew how pleasunt they were?not, hut I volunteered, and so did Murray. We went ashore In our bouts under a heavy lire. There were 12 men killed in the lifeboat In which I was. I escaped without a scratch. We were mustered up on shore and volunteers were called for, for sentry duty. Murray volunteered. If he hud only gone on with the rest of us he might have come through. After a short wait we were given the order to advance. The firing became heavier about this time, so we went at the double. We had not got very far before we had a fine little surprise purty handed us. The front line was running over what appeared to be good, solid ground, when they broke through and fell Into trenches 30 to 40 feet deep. These trenches had been dug, covered over with 14-lneh boards and then with dirt, and'were regular man-traps. Sharp stakes were sticking out of the parapet anil parados, and ut the bottom were more stakes and rocks and barbed wire. We were advancing with bayonets fixed and arms at the carry, so when the first line fell, and some of the second, the hoys of the third line came running up, und In the scramble thut followed many of the chaps In the first few lines were bayoneted by their comrades. I was In the third line, hut I was lucky enough to pull up In time and did not fall In. You could not look down into that trench after you had seen It 't was too sickening. i _ I 4. * n I >t 1 if. ; THE 'DISADII PROViSON" OF fc' LIFE AND TRU Bg -THE LAST W( n SURANCE PRO! Under the Sout , ^ Company "Disabi j'V] vi*ion," payment diately c*ate upo nent disability, fwj pays the insured t the rate of one 1 |/o amount of thi ! PR month!.*'. :;i \ : 5 Ctie5terlield [ ; kT1 c. c. doug t r*. ' Mfe ALSO FIRE, ACCIDENT, II ! [3 INSU l jjj^ We Buy and Sell Res * f.U .. ' u?<ii L HATE RUGGED HEALTH ik Downs and Failures' )osure and Hard Work Some of It's Many Forms ims Thousands ii"!y has Its medicine cabinet and In rill be found a bottle of Dr. llartman'a runa. For coughs, colds and catarrh It's use Is Indicated In all cases of it Ion and congestion whether of resomach. bowels or other organs of tha n Ave.. Delaware, Ohio, suffered for mucous linings of the stomach and y he did not eat a m**al for five years 1 I'eruna Is sold everywhere. You > may buy it In either liquid or tab' let form. Ask for Dr. llartman'a ' Well Known Peruna Tonlo and If r you are seeking health take nothing " el:;e. Insist upon Peruna. , If you are sick and suffering, s write The Peruna Company, Dept. , 77, Columbus, Ohio, for Dr. Hartt man's Health Hook. The book Is r free and may help you. Ask your I dealer for a Peruna Almanac. I = = Our casualties were iient back to tho ship. One boat was sunk by a shell and all the men lost. We remained where we wera. Scratching out shallow trenches for 1 ourselves, finding what natural cover there was and otherwise getting ready for the night, which was near. It began to rain and we could hardly keep any fires going, because we had to shelter them from the shore side, so the enemy could not spot us, and the i wind was from tho sea. It was certainly miserable that night. Every once In a while we would stand by to repel an attack, whether It was a real one or not, and we were under fire all the time. It seemed as If morning would never come. The sand was full of fleas?great big boys ?and they were as bud as any cooties I had ever had at Dlxmude. The morning came at last, and I was detailed with a fatigue party to the beach where we had landed stores. When we got down to the docks I missed Murray and asked where he was. They sold he had been missing from his post not more than an hour from the time we left. I left my fatigue party, without orders, and Joined In the hunt for 1 Murray. There were men searching ull along the docks and on the shore to each side. Finally I saw a bunch of men collect around a storehouse at the farther end of the docks on the shore side. I ran up to them. (To Be Continued) CALOMEL SALIVATES AND MAKES YOU SICK Acts like dynamite on a sluggish liver and you lose a day's work There's no reason why a person should take sickening, salivating calomel when a few cents buys a large bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone?a perfect substitute for calomel. It is a pleasant, vegetable liquid which will start your liver just as surely as calomel, but it doesn't make you sick and can not salivate. Children and grown folks can take Dodson's Liver Tone, because it is | perfectly harmless. I Calomel is a dangerous drug. It is I mercury and attacks your bones, j Take a dose of nasty calomel today l.and you will feel weak, sick and nauseated tomorrow. Don't lose a day's work. Take a spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone instead and you will wake up feeling great. No more billiousness, constipation, sluggishness, headache, coated tongue or sour stomach. Your druggist says if you don't find Dodson's Liver Tone act better than horrible calomel your money is waiting for you. Adv. 3. -1TY INSURANCE THE SOUTHERN ST COMPANY IS )RD IN LIFE 1NECTION. | i T ? ' lity Insurance Proof premiums immen total and permaand the Company in income for life at tenth of the face s policy, payable Ct?i n ioan o ins. Lio. LASS, Manager EALTH, HAIL, LIVE STOCK RANCE >1 Eitat*?Money Loaned wmmmmmmtmmmrnI %