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THE STOUT THAT , PRIVATE LEACH TOLD -I nay, therm," called PWvata l*meh Bitting up WMaijr, "whwe you goia' with mm Mink in' »t T~ The tog c**t ■ look back acroaa hia ahouider, wagged hia Uil pleasantly imI cwiUnMd to trot away, carrying Private 1 each'a rap tn hia jawm. " 'K'a got a hioeaun' cbe. k. not 'alf!" observed Private ImIi and lay down again. What difference did it make? He had clicked a bullet In hia right thigh, and. what with the loaa of blood and pain and hunger and all. a chap might aa wall "g<> went" without • cap a- v.ith one. Now that he'd mmi.tgcd to got a dressing on the Wound and a Iutndage to hold the dreaaing in plara, the bleeding waa less, but the end of the smashed bone waa gmiding in the torn flesh. It waan't a bit crushy, out there in No Man'* Lund, six hours in a shell hole with a bu rated leg. The dog hail popped up from no where at all, with hia ulert «iyea anil aenaitive, aenrrhing nose, Grit tight ly about hia tiody was the broad white band liearwg the flaming sign of the Rm. Croaa, He stood quite atill while Private Leach painfully unfastened theflrat aid package from hia back and, atill more painfully applied the disinfectant, gauze pada and clean cotton tincture, looking up, he whin ed a friendly, sympathetic whine, and the woldier patted him gratefully. "Good old chap," said Private Leach "You've been knocked about a bit youraelf. oh?" He touch*:! the dog'a' ear where a recent hurt mid left a mi rely ,'uaied scare. And :hen the raacal had MilhI Pri vate lead': cap and made off with it toward the lines, paying no serin1.a • < fcjir.ion t" the wounded man-* re monstrances. nun line DioKe, rcmarxeu rn vate Lem-h unci fainted. Private Leach ut on a sunny bench j in the small courtyard of the con-j valescent hospital and explained mat-, torn to a compatriot, likewise recover ing from the effect* of hoche courtesy. "And the hloomin' surgeon, "h says them dawirs is trained like that. The one that found me, 'e don't mind bul lets no more than buns, "he don't, a-w'izzin' past 'in 'cad. And when 'a finds a wounded chap 'e tykes Mh cap or anything that's loose 'e can get 'is teeth in, and awey 'e goes to report to 'is K. 0., like a good soldier. So then the stretcher bearers, they goes Out and brings in the chap, same as they did me. d'ye see? Red Cross trains dawgx by hundreds. Great, eh, wot?" "Rightc," agreed Private Leach's companion. " 'Sped you'd like to meet that fellow again. Duwr-s'H look a bit different to me when I fret back to Blighty. Bli-me, I awlways 'ated dawgs. hut now I don't." "Look!" said Private I .each. "'Ere comes one of the little beggars." A wiry, short haired dog with a deal of bull in his makeup came limping along on three legs, the fourth held stiffly in front of him by an ingenious arrangement of sling and bandage. "Clicked a bit o' Fritz's lead 'is bloomin' little r.elf, 'e did, eh, wat? 'Ere, Bill. Nice old blokey." The dog went and laid hi* head, friendly fashion, on Private Leach's knee and looked up into the soldier's f»?e whining sympathetically. " 'E knows 'ow it feels," observed Private I .each. Then "I say, there, old timer, look at that ear!" "Scar." said his companion. "Been fightin' like as not." "Bli-me!" cried Uach. " 'E'« the syme chap. 'Ere, now, where you goin' with me hlinkin' at'" The dog, hold'.n.f Privats Leach's rap at a prr.-ok'n-? distance. it wed the two eon.Mle«'cr>t* with a mis chievous eye. " "E's a cute un. Wi«h 'e was goin' bock to Blighty wif me, not 'alf. Lb Wot?" "Sure," agreed the other. "I al ways 'ated 'em, but not now I don't. Red Cross dawgs ta bloomin' humans Strafe me if they aint?" "Chaaberlaia's Tablets Have Dom Wonders far Me." "I hare been a sufferer from stom ach trouble for a number of years, and although I have used a great number af remedies recommended for this rnatplaint. Chamberlain's Tablets ta the Brat MAclne thai has given ma noatthra and lasting rwbml* writes Mre. Mrs Aiwa Kadin, Speacarport, N. Y. "ChambarUtn's Tablets kava Ma and I valoa i THE BLUE DEVILS AXE TO AROUSE AMERICA Franch in** b*»| Mai Thrwt|ii Camps to aoo U. S. Prepara tion*. ( harlottc Observer. Th*r» la no longer any doubt af I he coming if the lllue Dttrili to Charlotte Tuesday of thi* wwk. Yaa tarday Mayor MrNlnrh and Chair man Can-away, of the lueal Pour Min uta men, reretved telegraphic infor mation from Washington to tha ef furt that there will tie no awitrh from t'harlotte, aa hail lawn rei|ue»t «<J by Winston ,-iulem. Mr. Carraway rerened a Irltfram from tha epnkera' iMrinlm of tha federal committee on public informa tion, approving the program a* ar ranged for the entertainment of the Hluo Drrllt nnil a|ui itrtrurtiona ta p-nreud with thi» program. Every man of the party haa the war rriMa. Moat of them have been wounded Ave or six time*. Their r»mmamlrr wee a the Croat of the l emon of Honor aa well aa hi* war cross and live honor atripe* allowing the Ave woundi. he ha* sustained in iiwlfc Ill lie Devlin, uie nermann ran inrm, from their blur uniform and desperate courage, hut they <lo not look Ilka <le vil*. They look like pleasant, homely men, some of them very young men, who are tired of righting hut will fight until France i* free from her invader and then until the allien have won their liattle for all time. They have reason to be tired. I.icutenant Jean (.'anal, of the Forty-third Colonial*, explained it with a gesture toward a sleeping chasseur n pied, resting sprawled arror.r. n liench at Atlantic Citv n few day* ngo. "Our men nrv tired." he iiaid sim-| ply. He smilod affectionately at the deeply soldier, and then hia voice' grew Mirioua. "Ye*, our men are, tired, hut we who have been in the tranche* four year* would be tired. We have hail our losses, heavy lo*s«*,' almoct 4,U4M).UOO mm e tho war liegnn. i But America i* coming. I can nee it a* we go nround. You are al! in the war. We want to see that, and our men will tell of that when we go back to Frrnco. It will help to know how much you are doing." They are being sent thnugh the training camps in ihe east and through the miildte west to see for' thomselve* what America i* doing to prepare men to take their place be side the piilu. American troop*, more Amoricrn troop*, and *till more American troop* are being made ready for Frcnee a* Franco made ready troop* for u* long year* ago. The Blue Devils see everything ju*t »i»i they w.irit mod to »oa, and will tnkd their mc-Mge back to their com rades. < nanps rouiu wan inr nvr yuan u butcher in New Orlea in. Now he wonrs the mM t-ry medal. and the Croix ile Guerre with two palmH and two stars. Eac !i palm and each star mean* a .separate citation for bravery. Oi one occasion he went out aero** No-Man's Land and brought hark a wounded Frcnch officer from the Ger man barbed wire. Everyone else thought it would be hopeless to at tempt to do it. PouTt did it. Again, he wa» caugh < a shell-hole with hi* i<iu- i and evory man but himself iwa.s killed or wooded. That was on the S >mme in 1915. He lay like a dead mun while a German patrol of a hun dred and fifty men passed over him and then, quite alone, he attacked them from the lear with bombs and grenades, routing the trer.ch sector to the danger of assault and helping in the almost complete annihilation of the German rpiding party. Lieut. Ls Hoel is in command of the detachment. With hi* men are also Lieut. Roger Tluzeau of the fa mous Fourth Zouaves, and Lieut. Podivin. Lieut. Marcel Lev e, of the Blue Devil:-., ran speak from first hand knowledge of the German pris on camps, as he spent four months in one of them. He was blinded at! Verdun, but continued at hi* post until he was wounded again and cap-, tured by the Ge:-mans. He wa. treat ed— or mistreated—by German physi cians for his blindness and at the end of four months was exchanged as! permanently incapacitated for fight ing. French physicians were either! more rkillful or more merciful than German*, lnvever, and he has re covered just a little of his sigi:t. He ran see well enough to make out American* in khaki everywhere he turn*, and when he i* again in France he will *e« (till more of them. Farm Loan* to Coat More Winnipeg, Man. — The Manitoba Government, after lending r.bout $10, 000,004 under tho farm loan plan to farmer* at 6 par cent, l.a* decided to advance rate*. Juat what figures ha* not yet been determined, because diffi culty ha* been experienced in financ ing the *cheme further. Money ha* coat the Government i par cant, and the plan haa bean conducted at a alight loaa to data, but haa bean very beneficial to fanaer*. New Tort. M. Y.—Undar the lead emhip of Mas Htlw Vmek Boewell, chairman of Um WaaMn'a Dtviaum of tha Republican County CummittM, •MM JOOO wonn who have »lready declared I Hair allegiance to that party hava t>egun a bouae to houaa ranvaaa of tha Borovctl of M aha t tan to urge women to enroll May 25, ia order that thay may voia at tha primariea in .Sap tarn bar. A< cording to 'ha ruling of the itato l.c* i»lature, woman citlaana of citic» and village* w'th a population of ft.imo or mora may anroil ia tha party of thair choice May ili between tha hour* of H a. m. and 10 p. m. In umallar placer enrollment hy a certificate, mgtied in tha preaence of a witneii, may take place from May IS to June 16. "We have a woman leader in every one of tha 23 aaaembly district* in wk ui tha 72H »l«a*i— raid UIh IU-w.il. "Wa t fair* aarh a ftkaaa * taction district (lfttiM to have • mimmuca at Hva rairular hai^ari, tha mora aha ha* tha hatta*. ubt ilia muat Kara at laaat ftva. Mo you aaa that (tvaa ua an excellent uriuiiullon and wa have a goodly company of woaun vorktri to cand out o« thl« emvilnliiK. Wa hava Kuppluol aach of tha raavasaara with leaflet« explaining what tha Re publican Party irtanda for." Central Smut* Sura of Victory Claaffiw, Scot., f Saturday) Mpeak in* at Fairfield yard, ilurlnf hia vint to the Clyde 'hipyaiil* on Friday, (Urteral Snuti «aid that tha enemy wan makinf hi* irreat bliw now. "Thr rfvfrwn we have had" (ieneral Smut» xaid. "ware in a certain iianaa trood for ik. We feal t<*lay that wr ara in it up to our vary necka, and UninUwtatUiiwTC ahail Wav« to ntnu every Il we <to that, I do not feel dmbCful about Ua "TSa in; Km* made a* realUa the (TMl ilanfir iihaad at nnlixation ami ha haa awakened the A mem ana., who have at last realixed that there la rreat Uunteea an, and a great tan , K*r U> th« world. "Our American allioa," General Mmuta drr tared. "are coauntf over. I might aay by hundreda of thouaamla, •vary month. In order to hear their fair and proper ahare in the <tnie*l«.'' General Mmuta believea that the enemy would make greater attempta to atrtke irreatc r liluwa than ever. "Lat them du ao," he aaid, "for It ia only in thia way that tha war will ••nd." One atatement of a penal In tercnt wa> the (jenoral'a •Irrlarat.ori that "we do not want any indemnity We want no rountriea nor annexa tiona. We are not fighting for thane, hut for liberty, freedom, and Ilia nlty trim uyM;. We waat I* eee Ikierty, frr ertum, and the rights of all rial Win • ■iftfuuiM for ua and fop otW uUoM and • laeOag Ml. Louia. Mo.—Tha Retail Liquor Dealer* Association, carrying on ita membership rotla practically all tha saloon keepers of tka city, haa begun tha issuance of monthly black liat containing tha nami of hueineaa man ai.il mrrthaaU who are actively sup porting prohibition. In tha flrat laaue two merrhanta are ttaaiml and mem hari are adviaed to tall "your wife anil children where to go." Tha circular announcaa that "a monthly •tatamant will be taauad in tha future informing tha trad* of who in who among the weta and tha drya." The association ia forming plana to defeat all candidates who indorse pro hibition in the fall elections. J0 mA great net of mercy drawn through «■ ocean oj unspeakable pain" >"v~- ' ■ " * ~ -r> " *"«* '• * .. T*4'-' HAVE you ever lain in No Man's Land, with a shattered thigh and a throat that burned with thirst? Has your wife ever begged food for her children and herself at the mess-kitchen of a soldiers' camp ? Has your little son ever torn his mother's heart with a plaintive cry, day after day, for food she couldn't give him? Has your little daughter, clad in a ragged dress, her only dress, ever shivered night after night in the ruined cellar of what was once her home? Has your city ever been destroyed—nay, pow dered, bricks, stone, timbers and all so ground into the dust that one scarce knew where street ended and building began ? It is exactly such suffering that the Red Cross is organized, here and in Europe, to relieve. The Red Cross asks for One Hundred Million • *0 Dollars as the least it needs to carry on this work. Can you—dare you—refuse to give to this work—and give till the heart says stop? _ Every cent of every dollar received for the Red Crowe War Fond goee for War Relief* Tha American Rod Croaa la tba largest and moat •fflclunt organisation for tha raltaf of auffartng that tha World haa avor Man. It Is mada up aim oat antlraly off valantaor workara. tha higher asacuttvee being without agooptloa mon ac auatomad to large affaire. who ara la aim oat all caaaa giving thatr aorvlroo without pay. It la support ad entirely by its m wall whip fooo and fey voluntary oontrlbuttona. It !• today bringing relief to vulfainf humanity, both military and civil. In ovary War torn alltad country. It plana tomorrow to help la the Work of realora tlon throughout tha worML It Mi tnl okNHi antira popoi»i»nn mi n—— — ■ntl calamity It la thara ta fcatp Fwr aoldlar boy la kla tt«a • with lu thnnaanda of workara. Ita tramandoua atoraa and attioorh runn'nj tranaportatlaa fartlltlaa It la httIii( aa Amarlcaa advanoa rnard and lk« hatplna to win tba war. Con»i la anthortaaa It. PiuMwl Wllaon baa da It Tba War Pai>artcnaiit audita Ita fteaoanta Tour Army, roar Navy and row AQlaa «atha#i aatloall/ andoraa It. Twanty-twe mlUlaa Araartoana hava XXnad M. This Space Contributed by W. E. MERRITT COMPANY
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