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- ALBERT N. DEPEW Ex-Gunner and Chief Petty Officer, U/ 5. Nav$r Member of the Foreitfn Legion of France Gun Turret, French Battleship C»s»ard Winner of the Croix de Guerre rt> OoyrllM, tna, by Belli? and BrtN«OmtkroB|l Special l»fM jwauat With the George Mrtttw Ad--a Berrtce liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiuiiiiiiiniiiiraiiftiiuiiiniiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiniiiiitiiiiLUJiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiii i w * . - CHAPTER X V I I I -- Continued. --*16 As we went eshore, the bombard­ ment began, ami we were hot only tinder fire of spit, if you could call It :.-jjfcat, but also of rocks and bottles and •ticks and moat anything that could *-'ba thrown. All this time, "lest TOM forget." we bad no shoes, and no clothing--only what hn3 once been our underwear. It is all right to be a Coney Island imowbird and pose around in your bathing suit in the drifts, because you •re in good condition, and last but not least because you do not have to do ft. Figure out the other side of It fbr yourself. - They marched us into a field where Ulere was nothing much but guns and ammunition and snow, and set us up in something like skirmish formation. We stood there for some time, and then we saw a lot of Huns with the new long rifles coming toward us, yelling just as they did in battle, and , we thought sure we were being used "for practice targets. It is a good thing they halted and stopped yelling When they did, or we would have started for them to fight it (out, for ^re were not the kind that likes to be butchered with hands in the air, and We would have been glad for a chance to get a few of them before they got OS. But they did halt, and then sur­ rounded us, and drilled us away through swamps and woods and shal­ low water or slush. The women fol­ lowed, too, and there were plenty of bricks and spit left.* Women as well .as men are the same the world over, they say. I wonder? You can just picture the women of. say, Rockland, lie., following a crowd of German prisoners that way, can't you? Not! But of course the women of Rockland •re pretty crude--no kultur at all-- •Old Gott never commissioned Presi­ dent Wilson to take the lid off the dtrafe pot for him. ! They drilled us along the ffodcs, and It looked as though the whole German navy was tied up at Swinemunde. v-y V* saw many of the ships we had i heard about, among them being the famous Vulcan, the mother-ship for submarines. There were many sail­ ers loafing along the docks, and they ;> gave the women a hand with their lays' work. They were no better with • brick, but they had more ammunition When it came to spitting. One of them " tripped a young ^>oy by the name of Kelly, and as you would never doubt, Kelly picked up a rock and crashed the sailor with It. He was then bay- \ oneted twice in the left leg. We be- ^ gan singing thai, our popular favorite, . *Pack up your troubles," etc., and ' when they heard us, how the swine . " ; Stared! • ^v* Then they drilled us past the Ger­ man soldiers' quarters. The men were . at rifle practice, and I guess all of us . thought how handy we would be as 'targets. But when we got near them, g>ey quit practicing and crowded ;i wound us yelling: "'Raus! Zuruck!" f Finally we got to the top of the mill, and were halted near the bar- vacks while an officer read the mar­ tial law of Germany to us. At least we thought maybe that was It. ^ | Finally they let us Into the bar- picks, and the first thing we saw was *• great pile of hay. That looked good to us, and we made a rush and dived Into it. But the Huns told us to take the hay and throw it In the middle of the road. They had to use force be- . tore we would do it. Finally, we gave •§• In, however, and started to carry it «ut. Some of the young boys were trying, and I do not blame them much. - T But one of the boys tried to hide Some of the hay behind a box and was j flaught doing it, and two sentries ^touted him from one end of the bar- jacks to the other. His nose was , Aroken and his face mashed to a jelly. But there was nothing we could do, •o we just wandered up and down the fcarracks, about as we did between leeks on the Moewe, trying to keep . warm. *# While this marathon was on we heard a whistle blown very loudly, ^l^ ipnd when we looked out we saw a ; t|-.."||pmgon piled up with old' tin cans. Ihen we were told to form single file, Walk out to the wagon and each get a J ' can for himself. Each man bad to < - take the first can he laid his hands , en, and many of us got rusty ones with t notes In them. So that about half an - hour later, when we received barley * /,', -.eoffee, and all we had to drink it from * "V- v^as *ke cans, lots of the men had to drink theirs almost in one gulp or lose «, . . ';!half of it. f * t*'.* barracks were very dirty and •melled horribly, and the men were y^jptlll not «ven half clothed. We all ooke«.l hithy and smelled that way, ':£3&nd vhere the coal dust had rubbed i>ff, we were very pale. And all of us ' M'ere starved looking. i ,. About eleven o'clock^ that morning w*ll8tle blew again, and we came *>ut and were given an aluminum spoon and a dish apiece. Then we v cheered up and saw corned beef and caboage for ourselves. An hour later they drilled us through the snow to v'f the kuche. When we got there we 0: stood in line until at least "half-past /. twelve, and then the Germans shout- ad*. "Nlchts zu essen." *But we did , not know what that meant, so we Just i | hung around there and waited. Then ; they started shouting, "Zuruck 1 Zu- ruck!" and drove us back to the bar- *,'/ racks. Later we heard the words "nlchts if so essen!" so often that we thought probably they meant "no eats." We had our reasons for thinking so, too. v Those words, and "zuruck" and £ ** 'raus," were practically all we did bear, except, of course, various kinds , of schwelnhunde. | It was awful to see the men when f\ we got back to the barracks. - Some of the boys from the Georgic, not much i over twelve years old, were almost crazy, but even the older men were crying, many of them. It was nothing but torture all the time. They opened all the windows and doors in the bar­ racks, and then we could not heat the room with our bodies. When we start­ ed to move around, to keep warm, they fired a few shots at us. I do not know whether they hit anyone or not; we had got so that we did not pay any attention to things like that. But It stopped us. ancl we had to stand still The Huns thought we would take the ritles from the sentries and use them, too. - I never saw a ?yellower bunch of people In my life. I do not mean peo­ ple. I wish I could publish what I really mean. * v We had stoves In the barracks, but no coal or wood to burn. There were many boxes pile<£ up there, but they belonged to the Germans. We would have burned them If we could, but the Germans made- us carry them across the road. They weighed about 150 pounds apiece, and we were so weak that it was all two men could do to budge them. And we had to carry them; they would not let us roll them. We were so cold and hungry that even that exercise did not warm us. About 2:30 the whistle blew again, and the Huns picked out a few men and took them down the road. We could not figure out why, but they .came back about three o'clock, all of them with bread in their arms. They were chewing away on it when they had a chance. Whenever the sentries were not looking they would bite at it like a fish going after a worm. Each man carried five loaves. When they got in the barracks the sentries made them put the bread down on the floor, and then, with their bayonets, the sentries cut each loaf once down the center lengthwise and four times across, which meant ten men to a loaf about the size of an ordinary ten-cent loaf In this country now. They gave each of us a piece a little larger than a safety-match box. The bread was hard and dark, and I really think they made it from trees. It had just exactly the same smell that the. djrt around trees has. We filed past the sentries single file to get our ration of this mud, and there was no chance of getting in line twice, for. we had to keen on filing until we were out in the road, and stand there in the snow to eat it We could not go back In the barracks un­ til every man had been served. Our meals were like this: A can of barley coffee in the morning; cabbage soup, so called, at noon; a tenth of a loaf of bread at 3 p. m. That was our menu day in and day out, the kaiser's birthday, Lincoln's, May day,' or any other time. This cabbage soup was a great Idea. We called it shadow soup, because the boys claimed they made it by hanging a cabbage over a barrel of water and letting the shadow fall on the water. We pretended, too, that if you found any cabbage in it, you could take your dish back for a second helping. But I never saw anybody get more than one dishful. All It was, was just spoiled water. \ We tried to go to sleep that night, but there were so many sentries around us--and those of us who were not sick were wounded--that I do not think a man of us really slept. After a while I asked a sentry if I could go outside for a minute, but for some rea­ son he would not let me. I had dif­ ferent ideas about It, so I stood around near the door, and when he turned his back out I went and around the corner of the barracks. But one of the sentries there saw me and blew his whistle, and a guard of eight came up from somewhere and grabbed me. I tried to explain, but it was no use, because every time 1 said a word it meant another swat over the ear, so finally I gave it up. Then they drilled me across. the road to the officers' quarters. There were three officers there, and each of them asked me questions about all *v jiff \S.?. tion to the regular guards, and every time he walked past me he would kick me or spit on me, or do both. One time he kicked me so hard that a prong of the barbed wire gashed me over the left eye--the only one I can see with--and when the blood ran into my eye'it blinded ine. I thought both eyes were gone then, and I hoped they would shoot me. It seemed to me that I had got my share by this time without losing the other eye, and If it war gone, I wanted to go too. . I could not put bp my hand to feel where the prong had jabbed me, and it kept en bleeding and smarting. 1 had on practically no clothing, you re- membfr. The wounds In my thigh had opened, and it was bitter cold and windy. So you can picture to your­ self how gay and cqrefree I was. When I had been there for an hour and a half they untied»me from the wire, and I keeled Over on my back. They kickeg me until I had to stand up, but I fell down again, and all the kicking in Germany could not have brought me to my feet. I was just all in. So they blew their whistles and the sentries in the barracks awakened two of the boys, who came and carried me in. All the time the sentries were yell­ ing, "Gott stfafe England!" and "schweinhund!" until you would have thought they were in a battle. What their idea was I do not know. The boys, had a little water in a can, and one of them tore off part of the sleeve of his undershirt. So they washed the gash and bandaged it. Believe me, I was glad when I could see again. I was so tired and worn out that I went to sleep at once, and did not wake up until they were giv­ ing us our barley coffee next morn­ ing - • , Swinemunde--at least, they were no better. Along the sides of the rooms were long shelves or benches, and every three feet were boards set in grooves. The shelves were what we had to sleep on, and the boards In the grooves divided them ,9P so that only a certain number dt tnen cotkld use each bench.- J '« l\!- . The following morning we nearly dropped dead when the Huns pulled in a large wagon full of clothing. We thought we never would have any­ thing to wear but .our underclothes. They issued to each man a pair of trousers, thin model, a thin coat about like the seersucker coats some people wear in the summer, an over­ coat about as warm as If it had been made of cigarette papers, a skull cap and a pair of shoes, which were a. day's labor to carry around. Not one of us received socks, shirts or under­ wear. The toe was cut froin the right shoe of the pair I receive?!, and as my wounds were in the right thigh and my leg had stiffened up/ considerably CHAPTER klX. V-J' They Tied Me, Race to the Fenea. kinds of things, but never once men­ tioned my running out of the bar­ racks. Then they gave the sentries some commands, and four of the sen­ tries took me out and over to the barbed wire fence. There they tied nie, face to the fence, anr.s over my head, and hands and feet lashed to the wire, and with a rope around my waist, too. I thought, then, that my hunch had come true, and that I would be crucified, like Murray' and Brown. Tbey posted a sentry tbere in add! German Prison Cam|ilPv A few days after I had been lashed to the barbed wire fence some of the German officers came to the barracks, and one of them who spoke very good English said: "All of the neutrals who were on unarmed ships step eut." Only a few stepped out. Then he called for all the neutrals, and the Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Braiilidns. and Spaniards stepped ottt. But when I did, he said, "No, not Americans. Americans are not neu­ tral. America supplies our enemies with food and ammunition." He raised his fist, and I thought he was going to hit me, but instead he gave me a shove that caused me to fall and get a little cut on the head. Theil the sentries pushed me over with the British and the French. After that they took the Norwegi­ ans, Swedes and Danes to separate barracks, and gave tbem clothes and beds and the same rations as the Ger­ man soldiers. When I saw this I made a kick and said I was a neutral, too, and ought to get the same treat­ ment as the Scandinavians. They took me -to the officers again, kicked me about and swore at me, and the only answer I got was that America Would suffer for all she had done for the al­ lies. Then I was sent back to the bar­ racks again. The next day at about one o'clock they took us from the barracks and drilled us through the swamps. The men began to fall one by one, some crying or swearing, but most of them going along without a word. Those who went down were smashed In the. head with rifle butts or belts. Finally we arrived at a little rail­ road station, and had to stand in the snow for over an hour while the en­ gine ran up and down the tracks hook­ ing on cars. When we finally got in the cars weTwere frozen stiff. I could hardly walk, and some of the boys simply could not move without intense pain. A They loaded twelve men into each, compartment, and detailed a guard of six men to «ach car. The windows in the cars were all smashed, and every­ thing about the cars was dirty. Finally the train stopped at a town named Alt'Damm, and there was a mob of women and children around, as usual, ready for us with bricks and spit. They stoned us through th^ car windows, lind laughed and jeered at us, but by this time we were so used to it that we did not mind much. Only, every now and then some fellow would get all he could stand, and either talk back or make a pass at somebody. Then he _would get his--• either a bayonet thri^jgh the arm or leg, or a,crash on.the head with a gun butt. After an eighteen hour ride, with­ out food or drink, we arrived at Neu- strelitz. It was raining as we pulled in. As we wept up the grade to the town we could see lights about a mile away, and we .figured that that was the camp. The rain stopped and we remained in the cars for some time. Then, after a while, we knew our new guards were coming; long before we could see them, we could hear the racket they made. Somehow a Ger­ man cannot do anything sbfpshape and neatly, but always^ hots to have a lot of noise, and running around, and general confusion. Four-footed swine are more orderly in their habits than the Huns. , When they came up, we were roust­ ed from the cars and drilled up the road to the camp. When we got near the German barracks we were halted and counted a^ain, and made to stand there for at least an hour after they had finished counting us. shivering like leaves. At last they placed us in barracks, and those who could went to sleep. - # There were about forty barracks in the Limey 'group at Neustrelits and two large Zeppelin sheds. The bar­ racks were just about likn those at KniBGscc-Fwe&ji i A<*e M He Chalked on tile Door. and got very sore, I got pretty anx­ ious, because there was nothing but slush underfoot, and I was afraid I might lose my leg. So I thought that if I went to the commander and made a kick I might get a good shoe. I hesi­ tated abotrt it at first, but finally made up my mind and went to see him. I told him that It was slushy outside, and that the water ran through the hole in my shoe and made it bad for my whole leg, which was wounded. He examined the shoe, and looked at the open toe for some time, and I thought he was going to put up an argument, but Would give in finally. Then he asked me what I wanted. I thought that was plain enough to see,' but I said just as easily as I could that I wanted'a shoe without a hole in the t'oe. "So the water runs into it, does it?" he said. "Well, my advice to you is to get a knife, cut a hole in the heel and let the water out." All the other swine in the room laughed very loud at this, and I guess this Fritz thought he was a great comedian. But some­ how or other, It did not strike me so funny that I just had to laugh, and I was able, after quite a struggle, t& keep from even snickering. It was a harder struggle than that to keep, from doing something else, thought Our meals were just about the same as at Swinemunde--tjhe bread was just as muddy, the barley coffee just as rank,v and the soup just as cab- bageless. The second morning after we had had our barley coffee, one of the sentries came to our barracks, > which was number 7-B, and gave each of us an envelope and a sheet of writ­ ing paper. Then he told us to write to anybody we wanted to, after which he chalked on the door in big letters: KRIEGSGEFANGBNENLAGER and told us It was the return address. We were all surprised, and asked each- other where we were, because we had thought we were in Neustrelltz. After a while, we learned that it means "Prlsoner-of-War-Camp." At first, though, many oC ys thought it was the name of the town, and we got to calling it the Brewery, because the name ended in lager. Whatever beer was brewed there was not for us though. • - (TO BE CONTINUED.) EMINENTLY FITTED FOR JOB Society Matron, Trying to "Do Mar • toy H«<T Distinct Laugh Iff Natured Farmer. f '1 Society is having a delightful giggle over a story now going the rounds and of which Mrs. Mackay is heroine. Seems that with several other promi­ nent' women of the ,400, she went in for farmeretting on Long Island, and the brigade was assigned to a farm whose owner had always had a grudge against the rich. He thought that now Vtas his opportunity and approaching Mrs. Mackay said': "The first thing Td like you to do is clean out the pig­ sties. Think you can manage It?' Imagine his amazement and chagrin when the multimilllonairess social ar­ biter smiled and cooed: "Certainly; at home I always attend personally to out the bird cage.":#}! • / » Old Tin Cans. Old tin cans, free from rust and dirt, are worth $12* a ton. There are about 8,000 cans in a ton. ;• Daily Thought. R /* Patience and gentleness are powe* -Leigh Bum. to P<s!emtiB«Leoteia' ~ five Policy, ji' . • FIRST MEETING JANUARY* 28 Illinois' Chance to Name Presldentiat- Nominee, Senatorship and Primary Fight for Governor Will Be -Political Matters Involved, Springfleld.--"With the wet and dry issue and the Republican factional dif­ ferences out of the way, the Repub­ lican leaders plan to follow strictly po­ litical lines. With* this end in view. Republican caucus action, for the first time since William Lorimer was sent to the senate, Is' hereafter to Determine the legislative policy of the majority in the house, and the first caucus in the house since that date lias been set for January 28. * \ The idea Is to deyelop a program of constructive legislation. Politics, in­ volving the senatorship. and probable primary fight for governor, is involved more or less on what a caucus may do, but with the chance'that Illinois may be in position to name the next Re­ publican presidential nominee the dis­ position of Republican legislators is to get together on issues having in view a Republicifti victory in 1920. During the ten-day recess that the general assembly has' taken, there are repented conferences scheduled in Springfield, at which the plan of ac­ tion Is to be mapped out that will go to the senate and house caucuses when the legislators return on January 28. This framework will carry the gen­ eral plan for the waterway bill, the revenue law changes, highly important modifications of the primary and gen­ eral election laws. . ' Reforms Urged by Women. A prograjn of social and Industrial legislation looking forward to Illinois' share in reconstruction was adopted at a conference of the Illinois Federa­ tion of Women's Clubs in session at Chicago. Three hundred members of Chicago and down-state clubs were present. The appropriation by the state legislature for a home for feeble­ minded in Cook county was empha­ sized in the recommendations which the federation made. Other measures indorsed include the constitutional convention, the housing bill, state cen­ sorship of moving pictures and the Smith-Hughes bill for part-time schools. The department of education is also working for the National Edu­ cational association bill which will create a federal department of educa­ tion at Washington, D. C. Memorial trees irt honor of gold-star heroes In the war will be planted along the Lincoln highway'toy the department Of conser­ vation. • • Peace Meet to Be Held." State branches of the League to En­ force Peaee in Illinois, Indiana, Mich­ igan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Kentucky Will co-operate In holding the "Great Lakes Congress for a League of Na­ tions" in Chicago, February 10 and 11, according to an announcement made by the committee on organization, con­ sisting of 40 of the most prominent members of the leagiie of those states. This congress will be the third of a series of nine to be held during Feb­ ruary at important centers of popula­ tion throughout the United States un­ der the auspices Of the league and its state branches. The governors and mayors and the leading organizations and societies in the six states have been invited to send delegates. Sev­ eral governors, have already made their appointments. William H. Xaft, president of the league, will preside and spea]g7ft All the conventions. Senator 8herman to Retire. Senator Lawrence T. Shermaiy has decided to retire at the end of his present term two years from next March, according to a dispatch from Washington, D. C. This has* started local leaders in both parties to discuss­ ing his successor. As the next United States senator fppra Illinois will be chosen at the presidential election next year it is generally recognized by poli­ ticians that the race for president will have much to do with the sentAorshlp light. Senator Sherman will retire on account of his health, according to the dispatch, which also mention^ an An- creasing deafness. 4 • . - , rV *4 To Give State Lincoln Home, Representative llomer J. Tlce of Me­ nard county introduced in the house a bill providing that tbe state acquire by donation the title to the site of New Salem, Lincoln's early home, and that the land so acquired shall be set aside as a state park. Would Extend Tim* to Register. John H. Ruckle, chief clerk oif the city election commission, is favorable to an amendment to the city election laws extending the time In which re­ turning Soldiers and sailors may regis-, ter for the February primary and the April election, but not to the extent advocated in a bill introduced in the house which would allow such regis­ tration up to noon of the Saturday preceding a primary or election. Mr. Ruckle said a measure granting rea­ sonable extension would have the. back­ ing of the commission. Orphan Awarded $1,500. > • ; ' 'Minnie Perry, twenty-three^ mma awarded $1,500 by a jury in Judge Bar­ rett's court at Chicago for work she had done in the home of Edward Salz- berg, to whom she was indentured by the Illinois Children's Home and Aid society. Minnie is now the wife of a farmer at Shelby, Ind., and claims thft she worked for seven years In the Balzbergthorae. The Law Enforcement league claims this a victory, as it was a . test suit aimed to' determine 4he {status of wards of the juvenile courts. *°h issued a statement; showing .tiM contribution made to the good roads fund by Illinois atftomobile owners dur­ ing the year elided December 31, 1918, In these twelve months there were issued from the office of the secretary of state 389,761 automobile licenses. Tb© total revenue from this source was #2,762,587.63. In 1617 the number of licenses issued Was 340,292, while the revenue for the road fund was $1,588,- 834.69. f - This shows that in spite of War con­ ditions the Increase in automobiles to­ taled 48,469, while the revenue in­ creased SI, 173,732.84. ; That the business for 1919 in the automobile department will be heavy Is indicuted by the rush of applications for licenses that is pouring in dalljr this early In the year. Proposed Waterway Legislation, ' ; That the state of Illinois wllf sMn have a real waterway connecting the Great Lakes with the Mississippi river via the Illinois river is the confident prediction of state department of pub­ lic works and buildings officials. They are enthusiastic in the prophecy that the present legislature / will adopt a measure providing for such a water­ way, since it now has the indorsement of Gov. Frank O. Lowden. Members of the state waterway department are already engaged In drafting a bill to be presented to the Fifty-first general assembly providing for the waterway route. They hope to have it ready for introduction at,an early date, accord­ ing to William L. Sackett of Morris, the waterway department superintend- V Plan ^frieh ^fctc#Si^ With the state of Illinois on record as ftivorlng a dry nation, drys of tbe state are directing their efforts toward enactment of laws assuring absolute enforcement of prohibition in the state, If the national amendment becomes ef­ fective. 5 \ . * Under the direction of F. Scott Mc- Brlde, superintendent of the Illinois Anti-saloon league, Capt. Frank B. Ebbert, attorney for the league, is preparing a drastic search and seizure bill to be presented to the state legis­ lature within a few days, according to O. G. Christgau, publicity representa­ tive of the league.' Representative Theodore K. Long, Republican, of Chicago, introduced two bills fixing the election of delegates to the constitutional convention for No­ vember 4, 1919, apd setting the conven­ tion date as January 5,1920, at Spring­ field, with each delegate to receive a salary of $2,000., One of the bills is a partisan meas- v ure and provides for the nomination of candidates at the primaries to be held September 10, 1919. The other is a nonpartisan bill providing for nominal tlon by petition. But the legality of the nonpartisan bill is questioned. , Farmer Girls Here to Staj&T* J ^ J The Illinois farmer gfm come to stay! Half timidly the wom­ en of the country undertook to replace the fighters who had left the farm to down the foe, but now that they have done the work a new system is pro­ posed by Mrs. Tiffany Blake, chairman of the committee of the Woman's Land Army of America. This is to induce girls to take a course in farm' training that will fit them for work aj* "hands" and efficient co-worker* <.of farmer husbands. The committee already bas gained the interest of Governor Lowden, who paid a visit to the training farm near Llbertyvllle last summer, and the com­ mittee proposes to have* the training of women under farm conditions made an extension department of the state college of agriculture. Shippers Ask Anti-Trust Law't Repeal. Shippers of Illinois and neighboring states who belong to the Illinois Dis­ trict Traffic league adopted resolutions asking that the anti-trust law and other legislation of sinfl Iar import be repealed and that further legislation be enacted in favor of railroads. The resolutions ask that full authority be placed in' the hands of the Interstate commerce commission to cover all ac­ tivities of carriers. The retention of state commissions is also favorfcd. The Illinois public utilities commission is asked to advocate the points covered ' - - HtmRV, MOTHER! REMOVE POfc ̂v' 60NS FROM LITTLE 8TOMACH, ̂J. LIVER, BOWELS. ̂ OIVE CALIFORNIA.8YRUP OF FIM * t P WCE IF BILIOUS OR < CONSTIPATED. , * W' J ' Ah. f f hU~- Look at the tongue, mother 1 It' * * "'*?• coated, it is a sure sign that your lit# -U' *' t i e o n e ' s s t o m a c h , l i v e r a n d b o w e l £ needs a gentle, thorough cleansing aH 1 once. ' . -r' When peevish, cross, listless, pale^ doesn't sleep, doesn't eat or act nato^ # 5 - f rally, or is feverish, stomach sour, breath bad; has stomach-ache, sore throat, diarrhoea, full of cold, give at* teaspoonful of "California Syrup of1 Figs," and In a few hours all the foul*;, constipated waste, undigested f. and sour bile gently moves out of little bowels without griping, and y< have a Well, playful child again. You needn't coax sick children take this harmless "fruit laxative; they lave its delicious taste, and ; always makes them feel splendid. Ask your druggist for a bottle of- fVN; "California Syrup of Figs," which hast*,; v. i directions for babies, children of alVs^X'T^* ages and for grown-ups plainly on the * bottle. Beware of counterfeits somF -f/; here. To be sure you get the genuine,, . "V'» ask to see that it is made by the "Call-.; fornla Fig Syrup Company." Refuse^ any other kind with contempt.--Adv.'i The Movie Business. v r*I hear your star is demanding aifcff ^ other raise." "Yes; she heard in sonwi v-v ,'*£ way that we are finally making a prof-^^V'^ it." •*'" Si Oar* plmjplM, headache, bad breath by taking Mar Apple, Aloe, Jalap rolled into a tlny »u»ar , • tola called Doctor Plerce'a Pleasant Pellets. Adv. < Sure of It. ' "Is your lady friend accomplished F*. ' "Sure she is. Why, she plays by^ hand." V- Some love letters look like counter- felt promissory notes. Plenty of exercise, fresh air, regular hours---is all the pre­ scription you need to avoid 4; ^ Influenza--unless through neglect or otherwise, a cold 'ft gets you. Thea take--at • • CASWRA*© QUININE \ for 20 ; 24 beck if it fail*. The. With Mr. Hill's picture. At :s grip in 3 genuine boo boothesal : AUDrug • Red top m- V> 1 by the resolutions in congress. SIX: "Flu" at Lowest Polrk Influenza Is now at Its lowest point since October 1, according to informa­ tion contained in a telegram sent tfl^ Surgeon General Blue at Washington^ D. C., by Dr. C. St. Clair Drake, secret tary of the state department of health. The message points out that towns and cities are relatively clearer from the' epidemic than the rural districts. Re­ ports show a recurrence of the disease" In a few localities. \ •» j _ Teachers to Meet In Springfield;^ Two hundred members of the repre­ sentative assembly of the Illinois State Teachers' association, representing ten sectional divisions, will meet here Jan­ uary 25. 3i.: WHITE SCOURS BLACKLEG Your Veterinarian can stamp them out with Cutter's Anti-Calf Scour Serum and Cutter's Germ Fr«« Blackleg Filtrate and Aggzypsin, or Cutter's Blackleg Pills. Ask him about them. If he hasn't our literature, write to us far Information on these products. The Cutter Laboratory Berkeley, Cal., or Chicago, 111* "Tkm Laboratory That Know How" Pt Hospital Unit 12 Home Soon. Hospital unit No. 12, the unit of nwn and women nurses organized by the faculty and students of Northwestern university, and sent from Evanston to France early in 1917, will return home probably within one month. This news was received at the university by Mrs. P. L. Nusimum of Evanston, wife of Maj. P. L. Nuabaum, a former univer­ sity Instructor. The letter which Mrs. Nushnnm received from her husband intimated the unit will probably be back In "bllghty" before February 16. » ' Headache, tired or dizzy? It's your kidney*. Aak dru for box shown here-- •peedy-relief or money back. '̂\\\ 'u,.. ' V . . Memorial Is Postponed. Gov, Frank O. Lowden ItU SUg- geated that public memorials to Theodore Roosevelt.be held simultane­ ously on February 9, the date of the proposed memorial service to. be Held in congress. A u» u»e gov­ ernor from the congressional commit­ tee arranging for the Washington meeting asked that such action be taken in Illinois. As a consequence the memorial se.-iiee planned to have J been held in CltVago on Sunday, Janu­ ary 19, it W8' announced, was post- npned to Sunuay, February 9. Mrnrt TV ran Mete tin fernile That *-» Tlwsa '!{ I rubies Bmfc Be--on open now. Send for o«r prioe Uefc. CoBS«iiwsri$liC8.«Ltâ KevScMSyrtem Tresteee, elrll service, inUltorytralnliui. •<* Leaf Tobacco £ eg. 10 lbs. pnetpeKl Tobeooo Go.. Paris, Tons. A ,-- w. <Ta Tena. Befereoee, any Beak TOPCg Peelew wan Deep-8eated Colds mplfceHoas if neglected, time-tried remedy develop serious Use an old and . has riven satisfaction far more than fifty yearn PISO'S K * } . ' v-* * u