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Ex-Gunner and Chief Petty Officer. Member of £1m Foreign Legion of France Albert N. Depew OuwftHfcl.im.ly) r MMl Brinon Cft.» Throat* Sfwatel Wltk Dm Otaffi Matthew GUNNER OEPEW, IN HOSPITAL, SEES UNUSUAL INSTANCE OF HUN FRIGHTFULNESS. Synopsis.--Albert N. Depew, author of the story, tells of his service In the United States navy, during which he attained the rank of chief petty officer, first-class gunner. The world war starts soon after lie receives his honorable discharge from the navy, and he leaves for- France with a determination to enifst. He joins the Foreign Legion atad Is assigned to the dreadnaught Cassard, where his marksmanship wins him high honors. Later he is transferred to the land forces and sent to the Flanders front. He gets his first experience in a front line trench at Dixmude. He goes "over the top" and gets his first German in a bayonet fight, While on runner service, Depew is caught in a Zeppelin raid and has an. exciting experience. In a fierce light with the Ger­ mans, he is wounded and is sent to a hospital. S^':' , • i V CHAPTER IX--Continued. But there was a nurse there, who special Interest in bis case, and she stayed up day and night for some t5me and finally brought him through. The case was very well known, and everybody said she had performed a •tirade. He got better slowly. Hien a few weeks later, when he was out of danger and was able to walk, and It was only a question of time before he would be released from the hospital, this nurse was trans­ ferred to another hospital. Everybody knew her and liked her, and when she went around to say good-by, all the men were sorry and gave her little presents, and wanted her to write to them. She was going to get a nurse •he knew In the other hospital to turn her letters into English, so that she could write to me. I gave her a ring I had made from a piece of shell ease, but I guess she had hundreds of them at that But this German doctor would not My good-by to her. That would not have made me sore, but it made tht« French girl feel very bad, and she be­ gan to cry. One of the French officers saw her and found out about the doc­ tor; and the officer went up and spoke to Jfce German. Then the French of­ ficer left, and the German called to the nurse and she went over to,bIm and stopped crying. They talked for a little while, and then she put out her hands as if she was going to leave. He put out his hands, too, and took hold of hers. And he twisted her wrists and broke We heard the map. < There were men in that ward who had not been on foot since the day they came to the hospital, and one of them was supposed to be dying, bat it Is an absolute fact that when we heard her scream, there was jipt^a man left la bed. s" ' ^ • I need not tell yon what we did to the German.* They' did not need to sh<k>t him, after we got through with him. They did shoot what was left of hhn, to make sure, though. Now, I have heard people say that it }s not the Germans we are fighting, bjttt the kaiser and his system. Well, It may be true that some of the Boche soldiers would not do these things If they did not have to: myself, 1 am not so sure. Bat yon take this doctor. Here he was, an educated man, who had been trained all his life to help people who were in pain, and not to cause it. And be was not where he would have to obey the kaiser or any other German. And this nurse had saved his life. So I do not see that there is any argument about It. He broke that girl's wrists because he wanted to; that is all there la to it., Now, I say this German doctor was a dirty cur •tiF **r Wrist» and • *:.•>. , Broke Them. and a scoundrel. But I say that he la * /sir sample of most of the Germans X have met. And it is Germans of this kind that we are fighting--not merely the kaiser. t It is like going to college, I have never been there, but I hate heard some people say it did not do a man any good to go. But I have never heard a man who went there say that. Probably you have not been over there, •ad maybe you think we are not fight- tag the German people, but only the kaiser and his flunkeys. Well, nobody had better tell me that. . Because I have been there, i have •een this. And I know. wter I wa» discharged from the nos- 10 report 10 sea duty. - mm •fciMurd the Cassard gave •mifllM&a. eaoedaily lira* -i T T'-.T 1 * 4 J j f ^ . i '.f -> ' ray, who had come back after two weeks In the trenches at Dixmude. I was gla<Pto see them, too, for after ail, they were garbles, and I always feel more At home with them than with sol­ diers. Then, it was pretty rough stuff at Dixmude, and after resting up.at the hospital, I was keen on going to sea again. The Cassard was in dry dock for re­ pairs after her last voyage to the Dar­ danelles as convoy to the troopship Duplets. Everything was being rushed to get her out as soon as possible, and crews were working day and night. There were other ships there too--su- perdreadnaughts, and fireaduaughts, and battleships, and armored cruisers, all being overhauled. We received and placed guns of newer design, filled the magazines with the highest explosives known to naval use, and generally made ready for a hard job. Our magazines were filled with shells for our big 12 and 14-inch guns. A 14-inch shell can tear a hole through the heaviest armor plate at 12,000 yards, and will do more damage than yon would think. When wje had coaled and had got our stores aboard, we dressed for ac­ tion--her, undressed. The decks were clear; hatch covers bolted and davits folded down; furniture, chests, tables, chairs were sent ashore, and in­ flammable gear, like our rope ham­ mocks, went overboard. Yon could not find a single wooden chair or table in the ward room. When the ship Is cleared for action, a shell bursting inside cannot find much to set afire, and if one bursts on deck, there is nothing to burn but the wooden deck, and that to covered with steel plate. Finally, we had roll call--all men present. Then we set sail for the Dardanelles as escort to the Dupleix, which had on board territorial and provincial French troops--Gascons, Parisians, Normans, Indo-Chinese, Spahis, Turcos--all kinds. When we messed, we had to squat down on the steel mess deck and eat from metal plates. , There had been a notice posted be­ fore we left that the Zeppelins had be­ gun sea raids, and we kept a live eye out for them. The news proved to be a fake, though, and we did not see a single cigar while we were out. We made the trip to the Dardanelles without sighting an enemy craft, keep­ ing in close touch with the Dupleix, and busy every, minute preparing for action. I was made gun captain and given charge of the starboard bow turret, mounting two 14-inch guns. I bad my men at gun practice daily, and by the time we neared the Dardanelles, after five days, they were in pretty fair shape. It was about S a. m. when we drew near Cape Helles and took stations for action. The Dupleix was in front of us. The batteries on the cape opened np on us, and In a few min­ utes later those at Kum Koleh Joined in. As the Dupleix made for "V" beach and prepared to land her troops, we swung broadside on, faking their bat­ teries as we did sq, and received a shell, which entered through a gtm port In the after turret and exploded. 1 | Some bags of powder stored there (where they should never have been) were fired and the roof of the turret was just lifted off. It landed on deck, tilted up against the side of the tur- ret , . ' On deck the rain of Are was simply terrific., Steel ^ew in all directions. It was smash, crash, slam-bang all the time, and I do not mind saying X never thought we would come out of It Seme of the heavy armor plate up forward was shot away and after that the old Cassard looked more like a monitor than anything else to me. As we drew nearer the shore they began using shrapnel oo ua uud iu uo time at all our funnels were shot full of holes and a sieve, was watertight com­ pared to them. Naturally we were not just taking all this punishment without any come­ back. Our guns were at it fast and from the way the fire slackened In certain places we knew we were mak­ ing it effective. My guns did. for two enemy pieces that I know of, and per­ haps several others. The French garbles were a good deal more excited in action than X thought they would be. They were dodging around below decks, trying to miss the shrapnel that came aboard, shouting, swearing, singing-- but fighting hard, at that They Etood the gaff just as well rn %ny other garbles would, only in their own sweet way--which la noisy enough, believe me. One of oar seamen was hit 180 times by fragments of shrapnel, so yon can see what they were un against in the dodging line, A gun turret in action is not exactly the best place- on earth for a nervous man nor one who likes his comfort and noise aud smell and work, all the time In a fighting gun turret. But during an engagement I would rather be in a gun turret every time than between decks. At that if anything does happen in a tarcej---it,is good night sure for all, and no rain checks needed. - One of tftir JUnlor lieutenants was struck by ft fmgment Of f&gll es he was at his stattftjtt behind the wheel- house and a piece of his skull was driven into his brain. He was car­ ried into my gun turret but he would not let them take him to sick bay to have his Wound dressed. There he sat. asking every now and then how ih(e fight was going and then sort of dosing off for a while After half an hour of action we put I about, and started affray, still firing. A s a p a r t i n g s l a p o n t h e b a c k t h e j Turks tore off one of our big-gun tur­ rets, and then away we went, back to Brest with a casualty list of only 15. We did not have much trouble guess­ ing that It was dry dock for us again. We got back to Brest after a quiet voyage, patching ourselves up where we could on the way, and again there was the rush work, day and night, to get into shape and do it over again. They turned us out in 12 days and back we went to the Turks and their Hun assistants. t .. We were lucky getting inshore, only receiving a nasty smash astern, when the Turks got our range and landed two peaches before we got out. We nearly tore our rudder off getting away. But we had to come back right away, because we had carried quite a number of heavy guns from Brest and were given the job of running them ashore. It was day and night work and a great job for fun, because, while you never knew when you would get It you had good reason to feel you would get lammed by a cute little shell or a dainty bit of shrap­ nel before the Job was over. Aboard ship it was deck work, of course, and it was not much better there than ashore with the guns, be­ cause the enemy trenches were near the shore and they amused them­ selves trying to pick us off whenever we showed on deck. I guess we were a regular shooting gallery for them, and some of our men thought they did not need all the practice they were getting, for quite a few of us acted as bull's eyes. But we did not mind the bullets so fnuch. They make a clean wound or jput you away entirely; shrapnel tears you up and can play all kinds of tricks with * various partis of your body without killing you. As for shells--well, mincemeat is the word. The Narrows were thick with mines and there had been a great deal of damage done there, so after a while the British detailed "their Yarmouth trawlers to go in and sweep up. They had to go up unprotected, of course, and they started off one night all serene. , Everything went well until they turned at the Narrows and started back. Then, before you could tell. It, five or six searchlights were playing on one of the trawlers and shells were splashing the water all over her. Both banks were simply banging away point blank at them and I never thought they would get back. They did get back,, though, but some of them had hardly enough men left to work ship. But that is like the Limeys. They will get back from anywhere while there Is one man alive. Jt' chap aboard 6ne of the trawlers said a shell went through the wheel- house between the quartermaster and himself and all the Q. M. said was, "Gaw blimey, that tickled." "But I know their shooting was very bad," said the other chap to me. 'Those Turks must have thought.the flue was behind them." 1 ' Coming back from the Dardanelles • gold stripe sent for me and asked me whether I thought there were other ex-navy gunners >in the States tnat wonia serve with the French. I told them the country was full of good gunners and he wanted me to write to all I.knew and get them to Come over. He did not mean by this, and neither do I, that there were not good gunners in the French navy, be­ cause there were--lots of them. But you can never have too many handy boys with the guns and he was very anxious for me to get all I could. I had no way of reaching the ex-garbles MYTHICAL STONE OF SCHAMIR Leoend Says It Was Employed by Solo­ mon in Building Famous Temple at Jerusalem. Schamlr is a mythical stone whose specialty was that of extreme hard­ ness, Insomuch that there was no sub­ stance that It would not cut King Solomon used It In noiselessly cutting and shaping the metals and stones for the Temple. Solomon was reputed to have dominion over Djlnns, an•" he employed these men in building the Temple. Unfortunately, they made so much .noise with tammers, nws and ax that the people of Jerusalem could not hear each other speak. Therefore Solomon directed them to cease their work and inquired whether the metals and stones could not be shaped and cut without noise. The reply was that this could be done.^ith the stone of Schamlr. Now It was Sachr's cus­ tom to pay a monthly visit to the land of Htdjr and drink a certain fountain empty. So Solomon sent a winged Y>J!nn, who drew the water from fountain and flllec It with wine. Sachr drank, became drunk and was bound in chains. The captive was promised his liberty on condition that he would rw**al the jtfafte where the Mm that interior of a sti that I would 111 tub myself. He introduced commander, but the petty ofllcer said he did not think they would let me stay aboard. I showed the com­ mander my passport and talked to htm for a while, and he said ha would take me on their practice cruise two days later If the Old Man gave me written permission. So I hot-footed Itback to the Cas­ sard and while I did not promise that I would get any American gunners for him in exchange for the written per­ mission, he was free to think that if he wanted to. It seetns as though he did take It that way, for he gave me a note to the sub commander and sent him another note by messenger. I wanted Murray to go to«* but the Old Man said one was enough So, two days later, I went aboard in the morning and had breakfast with the sub crew and a good break­ fast it was, too. After breakfast they ¥ears Ago. ! •** v*" "7; ^ fiM-i • V-5 » . . * * ' i JUf*"*-'* - r" A - - Murphy, 0al.--History has It that In the early days a negro named "Bu»- ter," who mined on the San Anton# creek, had a vast amount of gold dust --a bake oven full of the precious metal--and he buried It Later the no- gro died without divulging the where­ abouts of his wealth. Many people l > ' - , v , , > ' J .i." « - .a * , i Gunner Depew In French Sailor Uni­ form. took stations and the commander went up on the structure amidships, which was just under the conning tower, and I squatted down on the deck beneath the structure. Then the gas engines started up and made an awful racket and shook the old tub from stem to stern. I could tell that we had cut loose from the dock and were moving. After a while they shut off the gas engines and started the motors and we began to submerge. When we were all the way under I looked through the peri­ scope and saw a Dutch merchantman. We stayed under about half an hour and then came back to the surface. One of the garbles was telling me later on that this same sub had gone out of control a few weeks before and kept diving and diving until she struck bottom. I do not know how many fathoms down it was, but it was farther than any commander would take a sub if he could help It This garby said they could hear the plates cracking and it was a wonder that they did not crumple up from the pressure, but she weathered it, pres­ sure button and all, and ih a quarter of*an hour was on the surface. While on the surface they sighted smoke,, submerged again, and soon, over th# horizon came eight battleships, es* corted by Zepps and destroyers. They tested their tubes before they got in range. Finally they let go. The first shot missed, but afifei that tliey got into it good and the garby said all you could hear was the knocking of the detonated guncotton. Aboujt five minutes later they sight­ ed five destroyers, two on each bow, and one dead ahead. The sub steered in at right angle zigzags and the de­ stroyers stayed with their convoy. The sub launched two torpedoes at less than a mile before diving, to get away from the destroyers and the garby said at least one of them was hit These ships must have been some of the lucky ones that came down from the North sea. The garby said he thought they were off the - Dutch coast at the time, but he was not sure. But this cruise that I was on was oniy a practice cruise and we did not sirieet with any excitement in the short time that we were out They Are Daily Working. ^ , have in years past gone to the scene of Buster's cabin and looked for the treasure. ^ Divining rods and all known schemes have been resortedi to, but without avail. Now comes David Barltini of; Murphy, and Donald Kaspar of Fair Oaks, and they have joined in a furth­ er search for. the gold. Both are con- fldent that they have the "inside track"^ and will find their fortunes, and they «re daily working In great faith as to the ultimate success of their under* taking. To this date they are assidu­ ously digging away without results. P STOUT TROUSERS PROVE UNDOfNG OF GAMBLER Cleveland, O.--A stout pair of trousers and a low picket fence brought about an unnamed gam­ bler's downfall here. Police hap­ pened along as the men were talking to the dice and broke up the crap game. All participants surrendered except one, and he made a break for liberty. Along the line of his escape he came upon a low Iron picket fence. Vaulting gracefully, he came down fairly upon the spikes, one of them going through the Seat of his trousers. The cloth held, and a policeman caught Up' §nd made the arrest. £ THREW STOVE AT HIS WiFE Man Tells Judge He Wants t» MfW - Army--Soaked $2d0 aKd \ Sent to Farm. 11 it- viSitf J " **<*"< Kansas City, Mo.--W. H. Heather beat his wife, choked her and threw a lighted stove at her. Still she did not object to the treatment until he said; "I hear you've been joy riding In tiie city ambulance with a certain ham doctor." Then Mrs. Anna Heather, a city nurse, had him arrested. "I'll fine you $200," said the court. "But, your honor, I want to go to the army and--" said Heather. "All right, Heather," replied the ^jolge. "Yon can go to the city farm. Salute your superior officer, Police Lieutenant Leroy Casey, and go with him." in the next installment Gun­ ner Depew tells of the wonder­ ful work of the British and French navies In the Gallipoll campaign. Don't miss it <*- (TO BE CONTINUED.) would cut and shape the hardest met* als could be found. Sachr told the king to take the eggs out of a raven's nest, place a crystal cover upon then® and see how the raven would break lt<: Solomon did »o. The raven, Oiiuiugl Its eggs covered, flew away and re­ turned with a stone in its beak, which It dropped on the crystal and cut it asunder. The raven was asked by Sol­ omon where the stone camp from, and was told that It cam-i from a mountain in the far west. The mountain was found, a number of similar stones were obtained, and with them the Djlnns hewed the stones for the Tem­ ple in the distant quarries and bronght them to Jerusalem, where they were laid noiselessly In their prope* place*. Ancient Equipment. Tlllle Cllnger says that the reason she will have to quit her present boarding house Is because the dining room chairs are so low she sticks her head under the table when the bless ing Is if id.--Dallas News. n5i» ^» ^Must Remain Awake. •^Opportunity knocks at every -VJ.^ man's door," said Uncle Ehea; "but if you jes' sits down an' listens, you's Uahis te drap off I» sleep aa' not notice it" WIFE BEATER MUST FIGHT Judge Orders Him to Training Camp to Prepare to Try His Tal­ ents on Hun. , . Akron, O.--Henderson Dugen, acted twenty-eight, cigar clerk, whipped his eighteen-year-old wife. He was taken before Judge Pardee, who pronounced the following sentence: "As you ap­ pear to be a fairly good fighter, the sentence of this court is that you go to Camp Sherman, or. any other train­ ing camp the government may design nate, and prepare to fight for your country during the duration of the war." Announcement: »* V ••'V* •••, v vj'L. 1 meet the needs of the p government, Wrigley's has discontinued the use of tin foil for as a ' v f t g a . S i ? - I *4LjS! r ! WRIGLEY flavors will be sealed in air-tight, pink-end packages. „r\ J !fc. So look for 'ma*; * WRIGLEYS in the pink sealed wrapper and take your choice of fla- vor. Three kinds to suit all tastes. 8EALED TIGHT^KEPT BIGOT Be SURE you get WRIGLEY'S The Flavor Lasts! V'V- No Exception. "That man owes a great deal to his wife." I'm not surprised. So !he does to everybody he knows." < * No Wonder. < "What a smooth look the cottvM yonder has." "Naturally. He has Just Ironed." 1, r $ * • i ! 1 *-,• * -"V-. ' f " * M toY CHAINED, IN DARK ATTIC Accuses Father of Beating Him Re- . peatedly During Several Day* - * "ir',,,' Confinement . ;-\ Ju h * Kankakee, 111.--When police raided Itflke Stnszkawlcz's home on complaint of neighbors they found John Stasz- kawicz, aged thirteen, shackled in chains in a dark attic room. On his ^ body was evidence of mistreatment He accused his father for his predic­ ament, charging his parent had beaten him repeatedly with a whip during sev­ eral days' confinement Staszkawlcs claimed, the boy was incorrigible. Shi was arrested. - , h Swindler Anxious to Go to Jaitl New York.--After pleading guilty to a cherge of swindling women in­ vestors out of $250,000, John Holub of New York city/ said he was anxious to go to j^all. He made a fortune by offering to pay a fabulous rate of Interest for money Invested with Mm. Needs but That Half the world doesn't know how the other half lives--but If it could be con­ vinced that such knowledge was none of Its business it would try mighty hai4 to ftnd out--Sxchanffe . Determines Lhre-Siock Prices Some stock men still think that Swift & ^Company--and other big packers--can pay ;' lis little for live-stock as they wish, 'i Some consumers are still led to. believe that the packers can charge as much for pressed meat as they wish. ^ This is not true. These prices are fixed by / /it law of human nature as old as human * nature itself--the law of supply and demand. When more people want meat than there r Is meat to be had, the scramble along the line to get it for them sends prices up. When •;i; there is more meat than there are people whu want it, the scramble all along the line to get ^ |rid of it within a few days, while it Is still " . fresh, sends prices down. When prices of meat go up, Swift & Company not only can pay-the producer j1; more, but ha* to pay him more, or some *' "Other packer will. Similarly, when prices recede all down the ^line Swift & Company cannot continue to pay the producer the same prices as before, and $till remain in the packing business. }'AH the packer can do is to keep the expense Mjr*5 ' m . • . a M _ . . . _ -- A. ^4 ^ 1 -- ? - • I--- Turning stocx liuu uicm m u luiuunuSi, go that the consumer can get as much as V possible for his money, and the proUucvi as ;; gnuch as possible for his live-stock, v, Thanks to its splendid plants, modern ^ inethods, branch houses, car routes, fleet of ', refrigerator cars, experience and organization, Swift & Company is able to pay for live ,! ^ cattle 90 per cent of what it receives for beef \ iimd by-products, and to cover expense of production and distribution, as well as its V ^ profit (a small fraction of a cent per pound), ^ out of the other 10 per cent. yBwift & Company, JSi v" - •» - y y ** -V.._ / 9 Si -?V v.. i -•« '• »* ' * s-£v;.-45.- .'-Wvl? * > ( ' ; * >X' ri**v" T . ^ « . ' ' * • , - • -- ' ^ •M"