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These Coat Suits are orT special sale at the following low prices: $11.98, $14.50, $18.50, $22.50 $27.50, $29.50. OTHER WEARING APPAREL WE ARE SHOWING IS Fine Shirtwaists, Skirts, Neckwear, Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Underwear, Silk Underskirts, Hosiery and hundreds of other useful and practical articles too numerous to mention. COMPLETE LINE OF CHILDREN'S COATS : . . f For the Children we have been very careful to choose Coats as well as other garments that will meet with the entire approval of every mother who ap preciates quality, style and workmanship at the lowest prices. Choice of 150 Children's Coats; Values up to $2, Special at 98c mi Effir db Depariraaimit foHe . THE BATTLE OF THE OURCQ With the Franco-American Armies, j Sept. 20. (Special Correspondence) J It is clear that the line of the , or.rtq wad selected by the enemy as ; the first line of resistance, and that ( the opposition was to begin on the further bank. The Allies were. If j possible, to be driven back upon the j river. i The French took possession as had j been forseen, but the heaviest fight-1 ing fell to the American troops on ! the right, who had already been en rcged without a break for forty eight hours. Advancing through the forest of , Fere on a broad front, they found their passage strenously contested by ( the 6th Bavarian Aeserve Division. 1 The Bavarians were good soldiers. 1 They gave ground only when actually compelled to do so, and they exacted : the full cost of it from their oppon-i OtitS. , J As they began to give ground the j troops from the 10th Landwehr Di-j vision were rushed up to sterngthen ; f.ie lines, but these men were of in- j t-j ior quality and could not stand be- ; fare the Americans, who swept up ; ih.eugh Beuvardes on J;he left of the 1 wood, past Fresnes on the right, the j broken remnants of the two divis-. ions falling back before them toward? ! the river the sixth so badly beaten j that it may be counted out. These divisions cleared out their path, the Americans pressed on a- cross the more open ground, with the long-wished-for Oreq Just ahead of ; thew, but as they neared the river and prepared to cross they were j met by an intense rifle and machine-1 gun fire from the triple creasted hills between Serin ges and Sergy on the nohthern bank. 4th Guards on the Scene, The Americans cleared Sergy at : the point of the bayonet, and even' laid hold of some of the ground be yond, but the Bavarians and some elements of another division . came again and drove them out of it. The Americans, howver, left only in or der to make good their victory. The 4th, Guasds Division, one of thecrackdivision . i of the German army, was already lining the hill crest awaiting a favorable moment for at tack. It had been rushed up from Avrleourt, north-east of Luneville, two nights before, and had bivouack ed in the forest of Nesles,' resting be fore the attack. It was as the Americans, flushed with triumph, were reorganizing their line that the Guardsmen swept down the hillside on to them. The Americans were In a considerable niaionly bruumteis, andTthera was no holding the crack German divis ion as' it came down the hill. It was composed of fresh troops, all of them picked men, thoroughly imbued with the Guards spirit, and determined at their first meeting with the hate Yanks to strike terror into them. In that they by no means succeeded. The Americans had to give ground to the weight of numbers and the increased severity of -the fire. Step j by step they were driven back through Sergy to the brink of the; river, and even over it, but they ' worn f '1 r- frnm rtitia urfth on iYn I ' V . u 1 . V' .11 UVIIV T. 1111, U Q 1111, Guards imagined. Swaying Straggle. Before the Germans quite realized the situation, they in their turn were forced to yield ground. 1 Although temporarily reinforced they were pushed clean through the village and out on the farther side. , But that was only the beginning of a desperate struggle which went on all day. Eeach side in turn had the village in its possession, and then weakened by its advance and facing the reinforcements of its opponents was compelled to relinquish It. It was towards evening that the Americans with a final fury of de termination swept the Germans out of the ruins, and not only drove them up the hill hut, meeting on the slopes a last counter-attack of the Guards, broke that, too, on either side of the hill, and remained victorious on a field where tho enemy's dead actu ally lay in heap:. the more notice able since they had come Into the fight with an absolutely brand new equipment. In order to reach Sergy, says the! evchange correspondent with the American army, the Sammies waded waist-deep across the Ourcq. and ad vanced up the bank under a hail of machine-gun fire. They then rushed the machine-gun positions, and cap tured the village. The artillery as sisted In holding off the Boche. Then the Guards came up. Pris oners said they had been "hurried from Avricourt to Luneville especial ly for the counter-attack. They were brought out from the Sergy fight be hind the German barrage to drive out the Americans. . " ' ; The latter called on their artillery for renewed assistance, and returned to the attack, fighting through, tlie streets and from behind ' crumbled walls. The streets were filled with debris. .,. 1 . ; Machine-guns In a church-tower swept down on the Americans. Tho artlUerBmashedJheJoweraniijije infantry finished (he business. , Red Crow Abuse. In one corner of the town from a house with a Red Cross painted on the side, which the Americans though twas a dressing-station, and avoided, a score of machine-guns started from open windows. They stormed the house. The machine-gun and shrapnel fire was so hot that the Americans lay in thes treet close to the kerb, seek ing the cover of the shollow protec tion. The Prussian Guards attacked four times on Sunday following the Amer ican capture of Sergy, and on each occasion the Yanks retook it. The fifth attack, which resulted in the final driving off of the Guards, took place on Monday morning. ,' Monday, altogether, on the Amer ican front, was a day of ceaseless fighting, 1 nwhich little actual pro gress could be made. The enemy of fered a most determined resistance, r.nd brought ; fresh troops into the struggle. Throughout the day the enemy's machine-gun fire scarcely ceased. Even when apparently none of our men were in the open, the fire swept every bit of covr where they might be expected to be, and during the morning it was heavily hacked by artillery fire, which slackened somewhat in the afternoon except at the hour during which our attack on Seringa was In progress. It came as no surprise, when, shortly after dawn, they launched ai fresh attack, debouching from both sides of the southernmost angle oN the Forest of Nesles. The attack was backed by the fire of field guns, : with a ragged barrage on our second line, and batteries from the 105's and 160's, and enemy's gun positions a- above Cierges being' well placed for a flanking fire, which the holders of Sergy found most trying. , They were at last forced to withdraw from It and fall back across the. river. Hand-toHand Fight The enemy was permitted a few unpleasant hours of occupation, dur ing which he did his best to better his defense. ; He even daringly brought some field guns towards the brow of the hill above it. but they were detachel, and apparently found the price of their daring a good, deal too accurate, for their disappearance was more rapid than dignified. The Guards had apparently been, shaken by their last exploit, and though, in a few minutes, they stayed to face the bayonet, the fighting was less desperate than it had been the day before. . . . , Shortly after the fifth recapture of Sergy, American troops to the e?L?UtJfbJi4 Jtrc? Jhe.pas: sage of the Ourcq the night before, advanced up the narrow valley which divides the hill behind Fere and that ' behind SergyM and succeeded, after a hand-to-hand fight, in which the bayonet and butt almost were used, In taking Mourcy Farm, t which lies i about a mile up the valley. This was a preliminary to the attack on Serlnges, since from the farm it is j possible to outflank the Serlnges -de- j fenses and to approach them up a less Step curve of the hill, Which is some 600 feet high. The nemy held Serlnges in great strength, and the village was also protected by machine-gun nests on either side. The atack was really an almost incredible affair for the coolness with which it was carried out and for the mere fact that it could be carried out under such con ditions. The assaulting troops form ed up on the south side of the Ourcq on perfectly open ground, and the enemy opened on them with a hear fire from artillery and machine-guns in echelon along the slopes to the east and west of the Village. The ground about thfe advancing lines was ploughed by the enemy's fire, the advance being obscured by the clouds of red dust torn ont of the corn fields through which they were marching. Yet the advance went on, and the men forded the river as steadily as though merely doing a piece of drill. "So Quarter.' It was a Wonderiul nerformancft for any troops, astounding for troops 1 who have only so recently been blood- ' ed, and was as fine as anr test 'to I which the American army has been put. The men wer steadily going up the slopes, silenced one after the other the German machine-run nests, swept on to the top of the hill, and then .wheeling eastward, stormed the Tillage. . Tt was y a fierce ;: fight there, no asking or giving of, quarter. The enemy was stout-hearted, and the Americans were glad to find him so. They wanted that sort of finish for the end of their ordeal. Some few Germans fled into the forest of Nesles, the remainder are where they will remain fn the Tillage. . . y The last success of the day was the capture of the . Hill 212 aboye Sergy, which can sow be held on much more secure terms.' Once more the line', has , been re-establiBhed, though the Germans ar still appar ently oocupying , a pocket of it at Cierges, from which It sems no one yet has turned them. The Forest of Nesles, lying right ahead of our ad vance, will take some clearing, and we learn from prisoners that he en emy Is making elaborate prepara tions to hold Jit, one of Jhebest reg '!meht8Deng especialljrde"talleia "for that task. Troops were sen march-, ing into Nesles, the little village ly ing below the forest. Prisoners report heavy losses. Two who were stretcher bearers say that their company went into action with reduced numbers, and that the lieu tenant commanding told them there were only thirty left, while during the morning's fight the lieutenant. and all the remaining thirty were killed. - The Scottish Division. On Tuesday the Allies made practically no progress on the Marne battlefront. tThe Grmans counter-attacked and retook Fere-en-Tardenols, station (half a mile N. W. of the town). , OnTuesday the Germans fell back from the pocket they had been oc cupying in tjhe southern portion of ; the salient, and the French captured Meuniere Wood and Cierges village (four miles siioitheast of Fere). A little American, in Tuesday's fighting, was overpowered by a large German, says Reuter's correspond ent. The German was about 6 finish off the little man with a knife when the American slipped a grenade Into the Hun's pocket. The German loosed his hold, aj&d the American fled just in time to see his enemy: blown to pieces. The Scottish division that has been fighting in Mangin's army be tween the Aisne and the Ourcq re lieved an American division. Thev arrived in the lino at midnight, and attacked strong German forces - at djwu over unfamiliar country. , They advanced some distance, dug In, and for three days endured a ter rible borinardment. A day later they were ordered to take Buzancy, which they did by the end of the day after severe fighting. , The , village was "stuffed with , machine-guns." and the Germans foaght to the last. ROUGH TREATMENT OP , , . ARMY PRISONERS STOPPED Washington, feolrThe . prac tice orying; military prisoners to the bars of cells and all other, meth ods of severe corporal punishment have been ordered abolished! by the war department. ; , . Secretary Baker said the results of such punishment have been questionable, . HEAVY I EATERS HAVE KIDNEYS Eat lea meat if you feel Backaoby or bare bladder trouble Tale glass of Salts, i No man or woman who eats meat repu burly can make a mistake by flushing the kidneys occasionally, says a well-known authority. Meat forms urio acid which excites the kidneys, they become over worked from the strain, get sluggish and fail to filter the waste and poisons from the blood, then we get sick. Nearly all rheumatism, headaches, fiver trouble, nervousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and urinary disorders come from sluggish kidneys. i'be moment yon feel a dull ache in the kidneys or your back hurts or if the urine is cloudy, offensive, -full of sedi ment, Irregular of passage or attended by a sensation of scalding, stop eating meat and; get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any pharmacy: take a tableffiooofal in a glass of water before breakfast and in few days your kidneys will act fine. This famous salts is made from the add of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate the kidneys, also to neutralize the adds in urine so it no longer causes irritation, thus ending bladder weakness, ' Jad Salts is inexpensive and ccnaot injure; makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which everyon should take now and then to keep the kidneys clean and active and the blood pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney complications. SALTS IS FINE FOR 01 MEAT Hush the Kidneys at once when Back hurts or Bladder bother-Keat forma uric acid. No nan or woman who eats' meat regu larly can make a mistake by flushing the kidneys occasionally, says a well known authority. Meat forma urio acid which clogs the kidney pores so they sluggishly filter or strain only part of the wast and poisons from the blood, then you get sick. Nearly all rheuma tism, headaches, liver trouble, nervous ness, constipation, dizzmesS, sleeplessness, bladder disorders come from sluggish kid neys. The moment you feel a dull ache fat the kidneys or your back hurts, or if the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sedi ment, irregular of passage or attended by (i sensation of scalding, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any reliable pharmacy and take a tablespodnful In a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. 1 This famous salts is made from the aeid of grapes and lemon juice, com bined with lithia and has been used for generations to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to activity, also to neu tralize the acids in urine so it no longer canses Irritation, thus ending bladder dis orders. , . f Jad Salts is Inexpensive and can not injure; makes a delightful effer vescent lithia-water drink which all reg ular meat eaters should take now and then to keep the kidneys clean and the blood pure, thereby avoiding serious kid ' ney complication. SOUTH BADEN HAS HAD J ENOUGH OF GERMANY , London, Dec 6.- South . 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