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I V'.mS - Albert N. Depew «*** Cbwrright, IH, fcy 8*fl>r and BHtfcmqo^ IfrroafftftyMflri ^jiijgilwj nt WIU the George Matthew AA»ms Swvto» ',U.S. Navy of the foreign Legion of JtefciKe un Turret, French BattleshlpCi*»*r<I Winner of the Croix de Guerr# :.̂ Y. Mm Y ' \ r Y:Y,;, DEPEW GOES "OVER THE TOP" AND GETS HIS FIRST GERMAN IN BAYONET FIGHT. Synopsis.--Albert N. Depew, author of tbe story, telis of his service In the United States navy, during which he attained the rank of chief petty olficer, first-class gunner. The world war starts soon after he receives his honorable discharge from the navy, and he leaves for Prance with a determination to enlist. He joins the Foreign Legion and la assigned to the dreadnaught Cassard, where his marksmanship wins him high honors. Later he Is transferred to the land forces aftd sent to the Flanders front. He gets his first experience in a front line trench at Dixmude. Legionaries vow vengeance when Germans hide behind Bel­ gian women and children. * * i a ^ CHAPTER VI--Continued. The lieutenant came back with the ; .Stretcher bearers and he asked one of ' them, so the boy could not hear him, if |he boy would live. r; The stretcher bearer said: "I don't think so. One through his chest and light leg broken." The boy had kept quiet tor a while, " "lint all of a sudden he yelled, "Give me C 1' f ft cigarette!" I handed him a clga- ^ tette butt that I had found in the dug- :Vi «uL • We were all out of cigarettes, js .; So they lit it for him and he kept <jnlet As soon as they could they got ground the corner of the fire bay with fclm and through a communication /French to a field hospital. The lleu- Y,'"'©tenant and I walked a little way with : him and he began to thank us, and he i. told the lieutenant, "Old man, you hare been a father aiid a mother to And the lieutenant said to him: • f- >*_, *you i^ave gone well, "old boy. Yon | % |J|ave done more than your share." V* When they started into the comma- • « cation trench the boy began to scream again. And the lieutenant Acted like a wild man. He took out Jtts cigarette case, but there were no , Cigarettes in It, and then he swore and It back again. But in a few min- he had the case out again and swearing worse than ever and to himself. The bo/ Isn't dying, like a gentle­ man," he said. "Why couldn't he keep . jwiet." I do not think he meant it. 'He was all nervous and excited and ...tbg>t taking out his cigarette case and spotting it back again. ; The other officer had gone on to In­ spect the sentries when the boy rolled tjfcito tjtie trench and a poiln came up '-<«|o tell us that the officer had been hit. JWe waited back to where I had been Vend there was the officer. If I had "^fceaa there I would have got it too, f guess. He was an awful mess. The 'ftehis were sticking out of his neck ;%nd one side of him was blown off. ~JJso, his foot was wounded. That is (#rhat shrapnel does to you. As I iwled past him I happened to touch v««Y .YY • - v Y>' foot and he cursed me all over the #lac£. But when I tried to say I. was Iporrr I could not, for then he apoio- £, ftsed and died a moment later. JY--* There was a silver cigarette case Sticking out of the rags where his %Ide had been blown away and the 'lieutenant crossed himself and reached #n and took out the case. But when jhe prted open the case he found that It had been bent and cracked and all pie cigarettes were soaked with blood. |Be swore worse than ever, then, and threw his own case away, putting the •ther officer's case in his pocket, f At this point our own artillery be- shelling and we received the order Stand to with fixed bayonets. When '- sire got the order to advance some of ; i; Jhe men were already over the para- ;1 ~f>et and the whole bunch after them, {Mid, believe me, I was as pale as a fheet, just scared to death. I think tfcvery man is when he goes over for tiie first time--every time for that inatter. But I was glad we were going Yget some action, because it Is hard ;:>|o sit around in a trench under fire ^lind have nothing to do. < I had all I *.|Could do to hold my rifle. | We ran across No Man's Land. I cannot remember much about It. But Ivhen we got to the German trench ; t fell on top of a young fellow and my t; finynnpt wpnt right through him. It tvas a crime to get him, at that. He as delicate as a pencil. * When I got back to our trenches frfter my first charge I could not, sleep jfor a long time afterward, for remem­ bering what that fellow looked like and how my bayonet slipped into him end how he screamed when he fell. M He had his legs and his neck twisted under him after he got it. I thought & labout it a lot and it got to be almost |fs a habit that whenever I was going to \ Bleep I would think about him and then all hope of sleeping was gone. „ Our company took a German trench ,'i/H; ; \tliat time and along with another ' .company four hundred prisoners. We •=? 'Ihad to retire because the men on our jstdes did not get through and we being flanked. But we lpst a lot '^V^ofnieu doing it When, we returned to our trenches our outfit was sbnply all In and we were lying arouml in the front line, ' like a bunch of old rags in a narrow alley. None of us showed any sighs of life except a working party that was digging with picks and shovels at i; ®®me bodies that had been frozen into the mud of the trench. I used to think all the Germans were hig and fat and strong, and, of course, •ome of the grenadier regiments are, ftMYlots of the Boches I saw were little and weak like this fellow I "got" tt my first charge. -;i & was a good pi^ce of work to take " the prisoners and a novelty for me to M them In the face--the fellows I bM bOO lighting. Because, when you ,» Hun in the face, you can see Jrellow streak. Even if you are ' prisoner yon can tell that the are yellow. (ybe you have heard pigs being ft sounded ttk» that when we got to them. When they attacked us they yelled to beat the band. I guess they, thought they could scare us. But you cannot scare machine guns nor the foreign legion either. So when they could not scare us they were up against It and had to fight. I will admit, though, thr t the first time Fritz came over and began yell­ ing I thought the whole (1 «rman army was after me, at that, and Kaiser Bill playing the drum. And how they hate a bayonet! They would much rather sit in a ditch and pot you. I admit I am not crazy about bayo­ net fighting myself, as a general prop­ osition, but I will say that there have been times when I was serving a gun behind the front lines when I wished for a rifle and a bayonet in my hands and a chance at Fritz man to man. It was in this charge that our chap­ lain was put out of commission. As we were lined up, waiting to climb on to the fire step and then over the par­ apet, this chaplain came down the line speaking to each man as he went. He would not say much, but just a few words, and then make the sign of the cross. He was in a black cassock. He was just one man from me as we got the word and stood up on the fire step. He was not armed with as much as a pin, but he jumped up on the step and stuck his head over the parapet and got it square, landing right beside me. I thought be was killed, but when we got back we found he was only wounddd. The men who saw it were over the parapet before the order was given and then the whole bunch after them, because they, too, thought he was killed and figured he never would know how they came out about their vows. All the men la the company were glad when they found he was only wounded. While half of- us were on the firing step throughout the day or night the other half would be In the dugouts or sitting around in the bottom of the trench, playing little games, or mend­ ing clothes or sleeping or cooking or doing a thousand and one things. The men were always In good humor at such times and it seemed to me even more so when the enemy fire was heavy. If a man was slightly, wounded down would come the rifles to order arms, and some poiln was sure to shout, "Right this way. One franc." It was a standing Joke and they always did It. The pollu who did It most was a Swiss and he was always playing a joke on somebody or Imitating some one of us or making faces. We were all sorry when this Swiss "went west," as the Limeys say, and *e tried to keep up his jokes and say the same things and so forth. But they did not go very well after he was dead. He got his In the same charge in which the chaplain was wounded. He was one of the bunch that charged before the order was given, when the chaplain got It, and was running pretty near me until we got to the Boche wire. I had to stop to get through, though must of it was cut up by artil­ lery fire, but he must have jumped It, for when I looked up he was twenty or thirty paces ahead of me. We got to the Germans about that time and with a terrific blow from his rifle butt. The Huns were pretty thick around there Just as another fellow and my­ self came up. A Boche swung his rltte at the corporal and when he dodged It the Boche almost got me. The swing took him off his feet and then the cor­ poral did as pretty a bit of work as I ever saw. He jumped for the Boche, who had fallen, landed on his face with both feet and gave It to the next one with his bayonet all at the same time. He was the quickest man I ever saw. There were a couple of well-known savate men in the next company and I saw one of them get uv er Fritz's guard with his foot and, believe me, there was some force in that kick. He must have driven the German's chin clear through the back of his neck. We thought It was pretty tough luck to lose both the chaplain and the vll-. lage wit in the same charge, along with half of our officers, and then have to give up the trench. Every' man in the bunch was sore as a boil when we got back, y up the para-trench *m pet, wher# it HiiipSs of tt&fr feelis were being sent 1#'% both iides snd tlui) field and the trenches were as t>iiiKt cs day. Ail Bpllid down th^imtelMS our men were dodglng about, keeping out of the way of the bombs that were being thrown in oar faces. It did not seem as If there was any plnce where it was possible to get cover. Most of the time I was picking dirt out of my eyes that explosions had driven into them. If you went into a dugout the men Already fn there would shout, "Don't stick in a btinch--spread out!" While you were In a dugout you kept expect­ ing to be burled alive and when you went outside you thought the Boches were aiming at yon direct--and there was no place at ail where you felt safe. . k But this fire ba^ looked better than the other places' to' me. I had not been there more than a few minutes when a big one dropped in and that bay was just one mess. Out of the 24 men in the bay only eight escape^. When the stretcher bearers got there they did not have much to do in the way of rescue--It was more pallbear­ er's work/ A stretcher bearer was picking up one of the boys, when a grenade land­ ed alongside of him and you could not Stuck His Head pver the Parapet aad Oot it Square. I was pretty busy for a while. But soon I saw him again. He was pulling his bayonet out of a Boche when an­ other made a -jab at him and stuck hlin In the arm. Then the Boche made a swing ilit him with his rifle, but tlie Swiss dropped on one knee and dodged it. He kept defending himself with his rifle, but there was another Ger­ man on him by this time and he coutd not get up. The corporal of our squad came up just about that time, but he was too late, because one of the Boches got to the Swiss with his bay onet. He did not have time to with­ draw it before our corporal stuck hint The Other German made a pass at the corporal, but he was too late. The : corporal beat him to It and felled him •AS" WffbrrEf&ifa. * Stepping the Huna at Dlxmud* I was standing in a communication trench that connected one of our front­ line trenches with a crater caused by the explosion of a mine. All around me men of the third line were coming up, climbing around, digging, hammer­ ing, shifting planks, moving sandbags up and down, bringing up new timbers, reels of'barbed wire, ladders, cases of ammunition, machine guns, trench mortars--all the, things that make an army look like a general store on legs. The noise of the guns was just deaf­ ening. Our own shells passed not far above our heads, so close were the enemy trenches, and the explosions were so near ard so violent that when you rested your rifle butt on something solid, like a rock, you could feel it shake and hum every time a shell landed. v Our first line was Just oh the out­ skirts of the town, in trenches that had been won and lost by both sides many times. Our second line was In the streets and the third line was almost at the south end of the town. The Huns were hard at it, shelling the battered remains of Dixmude, and to the right stretcher bearers were working In lines so close that they locked like two parades passing each other. But the bearers from the com­ pany near me had not returned from the emergency dressing station and the wounded were piling up, waiting for them. A company of the 2me Legion Etran- gere had just come up to take their stations in the crater, under the para­ pet of sandbags. A shell landed among them just before they entered the cra­ ter and sent almost a whole Bquad west, besides wounding Several others. Almost before they occupied the crater the wires were laid and reached back to us, and the order came for us to remain where we were until further orders. Then we got the complete * orders. We were to make no noise but were all to be ready in ten minutes. We put on goggles and respirators. In ten minutes the bombers were to leave the trenches. Three mines were to ex­ plode and then we were to take and hold a certain portion of th£ enemy trenches not far off. We were all ready to start up the ladders when they moved Nlg's section over to ours and he sneaked up to me and whis­ pered behind his hand, "Be a sport, Doc; make It fifty-fifty and gimme a chance." I did not have any Idea what he meant and he bad to get back to his squad. Then the bombers came up to the ladders, masked and with loaded sacks on their left arms. "One min­ ute now," said the officers, getting on their own ladders and drawing their revolvers--though most of the officers of the Legion charged with rifle and bayonet like their men. Then--Bccm! SUunt Bang!--aud the mines went off. Allezl" and then the parapet was filled with bayonets and men scram­ bling and crawling and falling and get­ ting up again. The smoke drifted back on us, and then our own machine guns began ahead of us. Up toward the front the bombers were fish1"** In their bags and throw­ ing, just .dee boys after a rat along the docks. The black smoke from the "Jack Johnsons" rolled over c« and probably there was gas, too, but you could not tell. f The front lines had taken, their trenches and gone on and you could see them, when you stood on a para­ pet, running about like hounds through the enemy communication trenches, bombing out dugouts, disarming pris­ oners--very scary-looking In their masks and goggles. The wounded were coning back slowly. Then we got busy with our Work in the dugouts and communication trenches and fire bays, with bayonets and bombs, dig­ ging the Boches out and sending them "west." And every once in a while a Fritz on one side would step out and yell "Knmerad," while, like as not, on the other side, his pal would pot you with a revolver when you started to pick him up, thinking he was wounded. Then we stood aside at the entrance to a dugout and some Boches came out in single file, shouting "Kamerad" for all they were worth. One of them had his mask and face blown off; yet he was trying to talk, with the tear* rolling down over.the raw flesh. He died five minutes later. One night, while I was lying back In the trench trying not to think of any­ thing and go to sleep the bombs began to get pretty thick around there, end when I could not stand it any longer I rushed out Into the bay of the flee •» . 11 i . . * „ < 'Vi- The Bombers Were Fishing III "their Bag and Throwing. find a fragment of either of them. That made two that landed within twelve feet of me; yet I was not even scratched. When I got so that I could move I went over to where the captain was standing, looking through a periscope over the parapet I was very nervous and excited and was afraid to speak to him, but somehow I thought I ought to ask for orders. But I could not say a word. Finally a shell whizzed over our heads--Just missed us, it seemed like, and I broke out: "What did you see? What's all of the news?" and so on. I guess I chattered like a monkey. Then he yelled: "You're the gunner officer. You're just in time---I've lo­ cated their mortar batteries." " Depew has an exciting expert ence in a Zeppelin raid, M told in next installment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) CARE FOR SOLDIERS' FEET Army Authorities Particular That There Shall Be Little Trouble in That Respect. "How is Uncle Sam able to raise suf­ ficient funds to shoe his children ?" we might ask just now, when the prices of shofes are soaring almost above the average purse. This question was, however, an­ swered at a recent meeting In Atlan­ tic City of the American Leather Chem­ ists' association, which was also at­ tended by several members of the American Chemical society. Their dis­ cussion on this subject proved most conclusively that the boys in service are being provided with the finest qual­ ity leather In their army shoes and that it is surpassed by none. Another interesting fact developed In their discussion--that the nttny shoes are made with the flesh side of the hide outside. In this way grease may be readily applied to the leath­ er from time to time In order to keep it waterproof. It was most gratifying to learn that In every first-aid kit the soldier carries, a tube of paste to apply to the feet In order to prevent trench sores, which were so common in the early days of the war. These sores are caused by the alkaline water In the trenches, but If the feet are promptly protected by an inert grease no such had effects result. Thus we see that Uncle Sam Is deal­ ing with the question of the army shoe from the soldiers' viewpoint of com­ fort and protection, as well as from his own standpoint of the wearing quali­ ties. The government recognizes that the soldiers' feet are his best friend and it Is doing everything to help to keep- them so. v * & • I H 11 H I • M H f H n » Skeptical of German Starvation, The latest "well-Informed" and anonymous correspondents who oblig­ ingly give us a picture of food con­ ditions in Germany do not add any­ thing material to previous stories of the kind. We are not greatly Im­ pressed by the reported offer of a ham for £11; "well-Informed .neutrals" have provided us with much higher quota­ tions in the past. Judging by the way in which Berlin has consistently been reported to be starving since the au­ tumn of 1914, the Boche must by now have acquired the art of living entire­ ly on air--or "substitutes."--London Globe. I Get Wise. Vtanderhoof Herald--If you feel that the whole world is against you, get til line; the world may be right about itj -- T r a n a c r t y l k Chicagd.--The high desire to serve the nation on the field of Rattle threat­ ens to cripple industry in Chicago and manufacturers throughout the state, under the lead of the Illinois Manufacturers' association, plan dras­ tic action to save the situation; At "the office of the association it was de­ clared that expert workers and em­ ployees Who cannot be replaced are so eager for active service that they have failed to claim exemption on indus­ trial grounds. Hundreds of them have been called to the colors as a result, and their going has left a serious gap In the ranks of skilled labor. John M. Glenn, secretary of the Blinds Manu­ facturers' association, has sent a no­ tice to all members of the organiza­ tion urging them to get copies of the latest orders of Provost Marshal Gen­ eral Crowder." He has ruled that the employers may claim exemption for employees whose Services may be more valuable &£ the lathe or work bench than at the fighting front. Washington, D. C.--Illinois manufac­ turers are receiving a generous share Of huge war contracts being awarded. The announcement of the awards for 40,000 French cars and 10,000 Italian cars will show that Western builders participated liberally. Contracts for 18,000,000 hand grenades, the major­ ity of which were awarded to Illinois manufacturers, are in addition to the quantities already allotted to them. The quartermaster department is pre­ paring to let contracts for rolling kitch­ ens costing approximately $20,000,000. It is expected much of this work will be awarded to middle Western con- ccrns^ likewise a considerable share of the 8,000,000 medical instruments. The International Harvester company has received contracts for 1,140 motor­ trucks and other Chicago motortruck manufacturers are being considered. Springfield.--The usual annual state convention of the Illinois State Feder* atlon of Labor will be held at least five weeks late this year. The con­ vention, which was to have opened In Bloomington October 21, was* post­ poned because of the epidemic of in­ fluenza. A meeting of the executive committee In Chicago a few days Since, vested power with the president, John H. Walker, and secretary, Victor Olander, to select the date upon which the convention shall open, which, of course, will not be fixed until after the closing order at Bloomington <is lifted. As it will take from ten days to two weeks to get the notices 6f the conventions call out to all the thou­ sand delegates, the convention prob­ ably will not be held before the latter part of November. Chicago.--Nine thousand French waifs, whose fathers have been killed In the war against Germany, have found god-fathers and god-mothers in Illinois. There remain but 8,000 more, In the quota which has been assigned to the state, to be adopted before Christmas. Of the number already adopted, 3,000 have been taken by peo­ ple outside of Chicago. There will be 1,370 of the children to Chicago's cred­ it who will have to address their let* ters of appreciation to "Dear Chicago," for that number were provided for In the tag day held on October 29, when around $60,000 was contributed in small sums. Springfield.--The Illinois supreme court will be asked for a rehearing of the case involving the right of non­ residents of the state to hold positions under civil service. This was decld- ed upon at a conference held here. In the meantime, 20 persons affected by the ruling will hold their positions until the petition is passed upon in December. The supreme court, held recently that, non-essentials are not eligible to hold state civil service po­ sitions. The test case was brought up by the state utility commission. Itock Island.--Sentenced last spring to two years In the federal peniten­ tiary at Fort (Leavenworth, charged with violating the Harrison narcotic act, Dr. James D. Banta, was ordered released by President Wilson when the United States Supreme court hand­ ed down a decision that the act was unconstitutional. Twenty other physi­ cians, similarly sentenced, have also asked for their freedom. Federal Judge Evans, who sentenced Banta, assert­ ed that the violation was technical, rather than willful. Springfield.--Influenza holds full sway In Illinois among contagiqus dis­ eases, according to the weekly health report forwarded to Washington. There were 43,825 cases of influenza, and 216 cases of diphtheria, of which 156 are in Chicago. Twenty-nine cases of scarlet fever exist, five cases of in­ fantile paralysis and one case of spinal meningitis. Morrison.--Judge Frank Ramsey of the circuit court has ruled In a case heard before him that a. house owner cannot eject a soldier's wife from her home. Chicago.--Col. Joseph B. Sanborn and 22 of the One Hundred and Thir­ ty-first infantry, formerly the old First Illinois regiment, have been decorated by the British, according to a letter Colonel Sanborn wrote to Bernard A. Eckhart. It is dated October 9, with a postscript written two days later, declaring the regiment was In a "tough 1" fight." Colonel Sanborn received a distinguished Service Order, which he thinks is the first the British have con­ ferred upon an American. "We have so far carried out all operations as­ signed to us," he says, "and we're still pushing forward." Bloomington. -- Weather conditions have been exceptional this fall in aid­ ing the turkey crop. The birds thrive during dry, warm periods, such as ma$ed the present season. Farmers of central Illinois say turkeys will be more plentiful in. this section than for many years. Paris.--Unusunl number of deaths and shortage of help at Edgar ceme­ tery, due to the influenza epidemic, necessitated the placing of many bod­ ies In receiving vaults until graves could be prepared. All the cemetery employees were afflicted and no help was procurable. \ Y ' , '"-11 by Dr. Clair tor of health. Tho in connwst̂ with a statenie^t that from present lndî tiour ̂ will be removed in northern Itltffois counties In the course of the week. He- ports received from 194 communities of the state show a total of 4,384 new cases of influenza, a decrease of about 2,000. A report forwarded to Riqiert Blue, director of public health service, by the state department, shows that a total of 43,825 cases were reported frpm various parts of Illinois.. The statement issued by Doctor Date rel­ ative to release of quarantlne^HHBtifo- tions follows: "During the week,from present indications, it will be possible to raise quarantine of the majority »of northern Illinois communities. Cen­ tral communities may look for no re­ lief from quarantine restrictions until the latter part of week or the follow* ing week. Southern Illinois will prob­ ably be under quarantine restrictions for the better part of the next week. No community shall modify or relax quarantine restrictions without the au­ thority granted by the state depart­ ment of public health." The state de­ partment of health issued regulations amending former prohibitory orders relative to holding public sales, by which all public sales advertised be­ fore October 21 and for which all an- rangements have been made, may be held. Springfield.--If men cannot be se­ cured to handle the work on Sangamon county farms, women will be organized for that purpose, according to M D. Burbank,, local representative of the United States employment service. Although the maximum food produc­ tion has not been threatened so far by a shortage of labor, Mr. Burbank states, that within the next few months the draft may greatly cripple the farm­ ers' help. The recruiting of women for farming purposes will be carried on through the United States employ­ ment service. Special effort will be made to recruit the very best type of girls when the time arrives that they must take the place of men on Sanga-, mon county farms. In places where the women have already been organ­ ized the standard wages have been set at $2 per day or 25 cents an hour. Springfield.--A large number pf corn shuckers are arriving in central Illi­ nois and many are applying at the of­ fices of the Sangamon County Farm bureau to be placed on farms. These workmen are being accommodated as fast as they arrive, as there are many farmers who are in»search of good! corn huskers. "There will be plenty of huskers this year," said S. E. Pra- ther, secretary of the farm bureau, "Many applications are being received and farmers and farm hands from the southern part of the state who assist­ ed last year will help again this year. While the demand for huskers Is heavy just now, the applications for positions are coming in fast enough that farms can be supplied." Shelbyville.---The Tower JUill coal mine has closed, down, not to reopen. The shutdown is permanent, accord­ ing to officials of the Tower Hill Coal company, which has conducted the mine since its purchase from the orig­ inal Century Coal\ company, except for a closed period of a year or so prior to its latest reopening more than a year < ago. With the closing of the mine 130 miners are thrown out of employment, and most of them will move to other places, entailing a se­ vere blow to the commercial interests of Tower Hill. Decatur.---fVnbs among children here have b%eft a - success. TPhey were started last ,year by banks. A bank advanced boys and girls $50 for the purchase of a sgw. They were to pay the amount in installments. A recent tabulation shows some of these youth­ ful farmers realized more than a hun­ dred dollars on thdlr investment. One oC them recently refused to sell his jlow and litter of half-grown pigs for 9400; another refused $900, Yttd still another $250. -- Springfield.--A call for 2,395 white' men for general military service, ito entrain for Camp WadswortK Snar- tansburg, S. C., the five-day period be­ ginning November 11, was received by Adjutant General Dickson. Another coil directs the entralnment of 465 colored men beginning November 19 for Camp Grant, Rockford. These calls exhaust the draft avallables In all reg­ istration lists previous to that of Sep­ tember 12. Springfield.----A" rfite increase of Ap­ proximately 30 per cent for local tele­ phone service was sought in an appli­ cation filed with the public utilities commission by the Chicago Telephone company affecting all exchanges, ex­ cept the city of Chicago, In the coun­ ties of Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Kanes, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will. Dekalb.--Six hundred pounds of flour shipped into the county by a farmer moving from North Dakota was seized by food authorities. The flour was hidden In a car of potatoes. Springfield.--Springfield, the capital of the state, may soon be a city beau- tlful. Plans and specifications for the city's improvement toward this end hasve been received by Secretary of State L. L. Emmerson. They are for beautifying the «#W centennial build- in#, and also for the construction of boulevards leading to the Lincoln home and toiub, and other attractive spots in the city. These plans and specifications will be discussed and decided upon before the coming ses­ sion of the general assembly, which *111 be asked for an appropriation for completing the work. •• Springfield.--An effort Is being made by local officials of the Illinois United Mine Wt»rkers union here to locate all former coal miners In Illinois. They are needed, an announcement says, owing to the scorclty of labor in this Industry, because of the war. These former miners will be urged to return to the mines to help the government In its war program. -It is estimated there are 50,000 of these workers now engaged In other vocations throughout the country. The United States fuel administration is co-operating with the Mine Workeaf offlciil* to this task. W V m ygNmAeo, wLpfefiNf: An Ominous Outlook. ^ "Brace up, young man!" encouraged *• ; the dentist.. "It wttl be out and all over In a minute.** . "Yes," solemnly replied little Cla**- ence Callipers, who was in the chair, "but one day with the Lord Is as a thousand years and a thousand years , ! ;• as one day."--Kansas City Star. ' . „. •M. STOMACH UPSET? PAPE'8 DIAPEP8IN AT ONCE ̂ SOURNESS, GAS, ACIDITY, - INDIGESTION. Y • : Y When meals upset you and yon Mdl gas, acids and undigested food. Whett ; you have lumps of indigestion pain os» . any distress in stomach yon relief instantly--No waiting I -fl ' v ;*r. -. rt/fv %> . J' ' '• ' Y, ; v < / £ 1 ft. : . -Y - "'i*4. - \vYv • a As soon a* you eat a tablet at Pape's Diapepsin all the Indigestion^ pain stops. Gases, acidity, heartburn^ flatulence find dyspepsia vanish. Pape's* Diapepsin tablets cost very little slY drug stores. Adv. . --<--• • :•* ^4: Insulted. YY„ Sonny--Father, one of the boys said I I look like you. ' Father--Why did you say? ^ Sonny--Nothin'. 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