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44 SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE" EMPEY FiRST HEARS THE BIG
GUNS BOOMING."
Synopsis.— Fired by (he slrtklng of the Lusltanla, with tho loss of
American liven, Arthur (Juy Empey, an American living In Jersey City.
goe« to England and enlists as a private In the British army.
CHAPTER 11.
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Blighty to Rest Billets.
The next morning the captain sent
for me and Informed me: "Etnpey, as
■ recruiting sergeant you are a wash
out," and sent me to a training depot
After arriving at this place, I was
knitted to the quartermaster stores
■MI received an awful shock. The
quartermaster sergeant spread a wa
terproof sheet on the ground and com
menced throwing a miscellaneous as
sortment of straps, buckles and other
paraphernalia Into It. I thought he
would never stop, but when the pile
reached to my knees he paused long
eoough to say, "Next, No. [>2l7, 'Arris,
B company." I gazed In bewilderment
at the pile of Junk In front of ine, and
then my eyes wandered nround looking
for the wagon which wns to carry It
to barracks. I was rudely brought to
earth by the "quarter" exclaiming,
"'Ere, yon, 'op It; tyke It aw'y; blind
By eyes, 'e's looking for 'ls batman to
•Hp Mm carry It."
Struggling under the load, with fre
fuent pauses for rest, I reached our
barracks (Inrge car barns), and my
platoon leader came to the rescue. It
was a marvel to me how quickly he
amemhled the equipment. After he
had completed tho tnsk, ho showed me
how to adjust It on my person. Pretty
aoon I stood before him a proper Tnm
■y Atkins In heavy marching order,
feeling like an overloaded camel.
On my feet were henvy-soled boots,
stadded with hobnails, the toes and
he*»l i of which were re enforced by
steel half-moons. M.v legs were in
cased In woolen puttees, olive drab In
color, with my trousers overlapping
them at the top. Then a woolen khaki
tanlc, under which was a bluish gray
woolen shirt, minus a collar; beneath
this shirt a woolen belly band about
six Inches wide, held In place by tie
strings of white tape. On my hend
was a heavy woolen trench enp, with
hnge enrlnps buttoned over the top.
Then tho equipment: A canvas belt,
with ammunition pockets, and two
wide ennvas straps like suspenders,
railed "D" strnps, fastened to the belt
h> front, passing over each shoulder,
rroaslng In the middle of my back, and
attached by buckles to tho rear of the
belt. On the right side of the belt
hong a water bottle, covered with felt;
an the left side was my bayonet nnd
■mbtmrd, and Intrenching tool handle,
this hnndlc strapped to the bayonet
fahlmrd. In tho rear was my In
trenching tool, carried In a canvas case.
ThLs tool was a combination pick and
A canvas haversack was
strapped to tho left side of the belt,
whlU on my back was tho pack, also
of canvas, held In place by two canvas
straps over the shoulders; suspended
•n tho bottom of the pack was my
neaa tin or canteen In a nent little
canvas case. My waterproof sheet,
looking like a Jelly roll, wns strapped
on top of the pack, with a wooden stick
for cleaning the breach of the rifle pro
>*ctlng from each end. On a lanyard
fcround my waist hung a hugp Jack
knife with n enn-opener attachment.
The pack contained my overcoat, an
extra pair of socks, change of under
wear, hold all (containing knife, fork,
apoon, comb, toothbrush, lnther brush,
shaving soap, and a razor made of tin,
with "Made In England" stamped on
the blade; when trying to shave with
this It made you wish that you were
at war with Putagonla, so that you
could hare a "hollow grounds stamped
"Made In Germany"); then your house-,
wtf«r, button-cleaning outfit, consisting
at a brass button atlck, two stiff
brasses, and a box of "Soldiers'
VMuid" paste; then a shoe brush and
a boat of dubbin, a writing pad, Indel
ible pencil, envelopes, and pay book,
and personal belongings, such as a
small mirror, a decent razor and a
sheaf of unanswered letters, and fags.
fe> your haversack you carry your Iron
aatioas, meaning a tin, bully beef,
tamt biscuits and a can containing tea,
•agar and Oxo cubes; a couple of
pipe* and a pack of shag, a tin of rifle
ad, and a pull-through. Tommy gen
araUy carries the oil with Ms rations;
It glvaa the cheeaa a sort of sardine
taste.
Add to this a first-aid pouch and h
leog, ungainly rifle patterned after the
Daniel Boone period, and you have an
Idea of a British soldier In Blighty.
Before leaving for France, this rifle
ti taken from hliu and he Is Issued
wllli a Lee-Enfield short trench rifle
end a ration bag.
U ?Ttnn fc* («M#vaa two gas bei
mets, a sheepskin coat, rubber mack
intosh, steel helmet, two blankets, tear
shell goggles, a balaclava helmet,
gloves and a tin of antlfrostblte grease
which Is excellent for greasing tho
boots. Add to this the weight of his
rations, and can you blame Tommy for
growling lit a twenty-kilo route march?
Having served as sergeant major In
the United States cavalry, I tried to
tell the English drill sergeants their
business, but It did not work. They
Immediately put me as batman In their
mess. Many a greasy dish of stew was
accidentally spilled over them.
I would sooner fight than be a waiter,
so when the order came through from
headquarters calling for a draft of
250 re-enforcements for France, I vol
unteered.
Then wo went before the M. O.
(medical ofTleer) for another physical
examination. This wns very brief. He
asked our nnmes nnd numbers nnd
sold "Fit," nnd we went out to fight.
We were put Into troop trnlns and
sent to Southampton, where we de
trained, nnd hnd our trench rifles Is
sued to us. Then In columns of twos
we went up the gnngplnnk of n little
steninor lying nlongslde the dock.
At the hend of the gangplank there
was an old sergeant, who directed that
we lino ourselves nlong both rails of
the ship. Then he ordered us to take
life belts from the racks overhead and
put them on. I hnve crossed the ocean
severnl times nnd knew I was not sea
sick, hut when I buckled on that life
belt I had a sensation of sickness.
After we got out Intrt the stream all
I could think of was that there were a
million German submnrlnes with n tor
pedo on ench, across the warhead of
which wns Inscribed my name and ad
dress.
After five hours wo came alongside
n pier und disembarked. I had at
tained another one of my ambition*.
I was "somewhere In France." We
slept In the open that night on the side
of the road. About six the next morn
ing we were ordered to entrain. I
looked around for the passenger
coaches, but all I could see on the sid
ing were cattle cars. We climbed Into
these. On the side of ench car was
n sign reading "Ilommes -10, Cheveaux
8." When we got inside of the cars,
we thought that perhaps the sign
painter had reversed the order of
things. After 48 hours In these trucks
we detrained at Kouen. • At this place
wo went through an Intensive training
for ten days.
The training consisted of the rudi
ments of trench warfare. Trenches
hod been dug, with barbed wire en
tanglements, bombing gaps, dugouts,
observation posts and machine gun em
placements. We were given a smat
tering of trench cooking, sanitation,
bomb throwing, reconnolterlng, listen
ing jiosts, constructing and repairing
barbed wire, "carrying In" parties,
methods used in attuck and defense,
wiring parties, mass formation, and
the procedure for poison-gas attacks.
On the tenth day we again met our
friends "lloiumes 40, Cheveaux 8."
Thirty-six hours more of misery, and
we arrived at the town of F .
After unloading our rations and
equipment, we llued up on the road In
columns of fours waiting for the order
to march.
A dull rumbling could be heard. The
sun was shining. I turned to the man
on my left and asked, "What's the
noise, Bill?" He did not know, but his
face was of a pea-green color. Jim,
on my right, also did not- know, but
suggested that I "awsk" the sergeant
Coming towards us was an old grla
tled sergeant, properly fed up with
the war, so I "awsked" him.
"Think lt'a going to rain, sergeant?"
He looked at me In contempt, and
grunted, M, Ow's It a-goln* ter rain with
the bloomin' aun a-shlnln'?" I looked
guilty.
"Them'a the guns up the line, me
lad, and you'll get enough of 'em be
fore you gets back to Blighty."
My kneea seemed to wilt, and I
squeaked out a weak "Oh I"
Then we started our march up to the
line In ten-kilo treks. After the first
day's march- we arrived at our rest
billets. In France they call them rest
billets, because while In them Tommy
works seven days a week and on the
eighth day of the week he Is given
twenty-four hours "on his own."
Our billet was a spacious affair, a
I urge barn on the left aide of the road,
which had one hundred entrances,
ninety-nine for shells, rats, wind and
-yfa. end the hundredth one for Tom
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my. t was tired oat tod Oilßf mj
shrapnel-proof helmet Uhrapnel pro it
until « piece of shrapnel hits It), or
tin hat, for a pillow, lay down In tbe
straw, and was soon fast asleep. I
must have slept about two hours, when
I awoke with a prickling sensation all
over me. As I thought, the straw had
worked through my uniform. I woke
up the fellow lying on my left, who had
been op the line before, and asked
him:
"Does the straw bother yoo, mate!
It's worked through my uniform and I
can't Bleep."
In a sleepy voice he answered,
"That ain't straw, them's cooties."
From that time on my friends the
"cooties" were constantly with me.
"Cooties," or body lice, are the bana
of Tommy's existence.
The aristocracy of the trenches very
seldom coll them "cooties," they apeak
of thern as fleas.
To an American flea means a small
insect armed with a bayonet, who la
wont to Jab It into you and then hop
skip and Jump to the next place to ba
attacked. There Is an advantage in
having fleas on yoninstead of "cooties"
In that in one of his extended Jumps
said flea Is liable to land on the fel
low next to you; he has tbe typical
ehergy and push of the American,
.while the "cootie" has the bulldog
tenacity of the Englishman; he bolda
on and consolidates or dlga In until
his meal Is finished.
There Is no way to get rid of them
permanently. No matter how often
you bathe, and that is not very often,
or how many times you change your
underwear, your friends the "cootlea"
are always In evidence. The billet* art
Infested with them, especially ao If
there is straw on the floor.
I have taken a bath and put oa
brand-new underwear; In fact, a com
plete change of uniform, and theo
turned In for the nltfbt. The next morn
ing my shirt would be full of them. It
Is a common sight to see eight or ten
soldiers sitting under a tree with their
shirts over their knees engaging In a
"shirt hunt."
At night about half an hour before
"lights out," you enn see the Tommies
grouped around ,a candle, trying, In its
dim light, to rid their underwear of
tho vermin. A popular and very quick
method Is to take your shirt and draw
ers, and run the seams back and for
ward In tho flame from a candle and
burn them out. This practice Is dan-
The Author's Identification Disk.
gerous, because you are liable to ban
holes In the garments If you are no*
careful.
Recruits generally sent to ttltghtj
for a brand of Insert powder adver
tised as "Good for body lice." The ad
vertisement Is quite right; the po\vde»
Is good for "cooties;" they simply
thrive on It.
The older men of our battalion were
wiser and made scratchers out of
wood. These were rubbed smooth with
a bit stone or sand to prevent splin
ters. They were about eighteen lnche«
long, and Tommy guarantees that a
scratchor of this length will reacb
any part of the body which may be at*
tacked. Some of the fellows were lacy
and only made their scratchers twelve
Inches, but many a night when on
guard, looking over the top from the
lire step of the front-line trench, they
would have given a thousand "quid"
for the other six Inches.
Once while we were In rest billets an
Irish Hussar regiment camped In an
open field opposite our billet After
they had picketed and fed their horses,
a general shirt hunt took place. The
troopers Ignored the call "Dinner up,"
and kept on with their search for blf
game. They had a curious method ol
procedure. They hung their shirts ova*
a hedge and beat them with their en*
trenching tool handles.
I asked one of them why they didn't
pick them off by hand, and he an
swered, "We haven't had a bath fof
nine weeks or a change of clabber. If
I tried to pick the 'cooties' off my shirt
I would be here for duration of war.''
After taking a close look at his shirt 1
agreed with him; It was alive.
In the next Installment Ser
geant Empey tell of the reallza
* tlon of his ambition —his ar
rival In a first line trench—and
of How •»« wished he were back
In Jersey wiry.
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cro BE CONTINUED.)
Cheap notoriety U« dear at any prtcf
FOUR DISTINCT METHODS OF MAKING
HAY-EACH FILLS PARTICULAR NEED
Hay Loadar In Operation—Loader Bavas Time and Puts Hay on Wagon Mora
Cheaply Than It Can Be Dona by Hand.
Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
There are four distinct systems of
making hay, each of which Is divided
in actual practice Into several meth
ods. Loading by hand Is the oldest
syster: and the one most generally
used In the older hay-growing sections
of the East Ita retention In these sec
tlona la due largely to the fact that
It requires a minimum amount of
equipment, which makes it particular
ly suited to farms where only a lim
ited acreage of hay Is grown.
The equipment required Includes
only mowing machine, rake, pitchfork,
wagon and rack, and, In most cases,
unloading apparatus such as hay forks
or slings.
Nearly everyone Is fnmlllar with
this system, which consists merely of
pitching the bny on the wagon with
hand forks and hauling to stack or
barn, where It Is either pitched off
by hand or unloaded with horse forks
or slings.
While It can be used under almost
any conditions, this system Involves
a large amount of Irksome hand labor,
and for this reason, as well as the
greater expense of labor, It should be
replaced by some other system when
ever practicable.
Loading With Hay Loadar.
The second system consists of load
ing the hay with a hay loader. This
method Is used most largely In the
timothy and clover hay area. It la
used to a certain extent In New York
and Pennsylvania, and to a greater
extent In Ohio, Indiana nnd lowa.
In some localities there exists a
prejudice agalnat the loader. Tho
first loaders put on the market were
not mechanically perfect, and there
fore did not always give satisfaction,
und the delay caused by break downs
Influenced many to abandon their use.
Moreover, the loader often has been
used on uneven or stony ground, with
a resultant frequent breaking of vital
parts. The use of this londer, under
conditions not recommended by the
manufacturers, also has tended to lim
it Its popularity.
Another, nnd perhaps the most Im
portant, reason for the loader not be
ing used more generally Is that to use
It economically the men on the wagon
must work very hard while the load
la being put op. A study of the use
of the loader In several states has re
vealed the fact that the hired men as
a rule do not like to work on the load
er, and for this reason push rakes nnd
stackers have supplanted It on aome
farms In the middle West.
On one farm It was noticed that
when the owner was absent five loads
were hauled In one afternoon, but
when the owner was present and
working on the wagon, seven loads
were taken from the field In the same
length of time.
At present there are two types of j
loaders. One picks up the hay with I
a revolving drum studded with spurs
of spring wire about six Inches long.
The other type takes up the hay by
meana of a forklike arrangement fas
tened to long wooden or steel arms.
Ihe bed of the carrier la now made
solid, ao that there is little likelihood
of losing leavea from alfalfa, clover
and other legume haya.
The hay loader, under ordinary con
dltlons, will increase the capacity of
a crew about 80 per cen#over that of
the same crew pitching the load on by
hand forks.
The loader la a valuable Implement,
and Ita saving In labor cost will be
considerable, especially on farina
where labor la scarce and expensive.
Push Rakea and Stackers.
In system three pnah rakes and
atackera are used. This system came
into general use a number of yeara
ago In the region from about the nine
tieth meridian to the Irrigated sections
of the West.
A large percentage of the hay In thla
part of the country la atacked; nnd
the comparatively large acreages
grown, plentifulness of horses, scarc
ity of farm labor, and desire to make
hay with the least amount of hand la
bor were Incentives to the use of these
two machines.
Push rakes, also known as "bull
rakes," "go devils," "sllp-arounds."
consist of wheelless, two, three and
four-wheel tyfxes. They are capable
of handling from 600 pounds to a ton
of hay, depending upon the type, the
skill of the driver ri the team.
There are several kinds of stackers,
the overshot and swing-around being
the most common. Home-made stack
ers nre of various kinds, such as "gin
poled," derrick stackers of different
kinds, nnd Inclines for handling hay
from the large one-ton push rakes.
The push rake and stacker make an
admirable combination, sluce nearly
all of the work of getting the hay from
the field to the stack la done by horse
power. The push rake takes the hay
from the windrow or bunch to the
stack, where It Is dropped on the
stacker and elevated onto the stack
by horses.
These Implements can be used with
small crews, consisting of two men, up
to crews of twelve or more men.
Baling Hay In the Field.
In system four the hay Is baled Jn
the field and push rakes and a power
press are used.
The practice of baling In the field
from the windrow began in the semi
arid middle West, where there Is but
little danger of rain interfering. It
has long been believed that hay la not
In condition to be baled until It has
gone through the "sweat" In the barn
or stack. This process Is usually fin
ished from three to six weeks from the
time the hay Is made.
In the West, growers of prairie and
alfalfa hay for the market realized
that If It were possible to ball* hay
from the windrow a considerable sav
ing of time and labor could be made.
This saving would consist of a large
part of the coat of putting the hay
Into the stack. They also began to
doubt tho necessity of allowing the
hay to go through the "sweat" before
It could be safely baled. Repeated trl
ala and careful stady have shown that
a good quality of hay can he made
when baled from the windrow under
certain conditions. At the present
time hay Is being baled from the cock
in parts of the South.
Conditions Should Be Right
Ilay baled from the windrow often
spoils so badly that It becomea unfit
for feeding. This trouble Is some
times experienced by beginners and
more especially when alfalfa or other
legume hay is baled. There are three
causes for this. First, the hay will
not keep unless It Is well cured In the
field, It being necessary to euro It out
more thoroughly than when It Is to be
put Into the stack. Second, hay that
is baled when partly wet with dew or
rain Is very liable to spoil. Third, hay
Is liable to spoil when the bales are
Improperly stored by being packed
away close together. In many cases If
the bnlea are placed on edge with an
air space of an Inch or two between,
and the next layer placed crosswise
with spaces there will be much lesa
danger of heating and spoiling.
£ CAN HELP FARMERS I
* ■ •
• £>
(Prepared by the United States •
• Department of Agriculture.) £
Each town, under the leader- J
ship of Ita most active spirits, •
• snch as Its chamber of com- J
• merce or county council of de- *}•
fense, Itself should Immediate- J
« ly make n survey of all able- •
• bodied men who have had farm «
• experience and obtain pledgea J
« to spend a day or two out of »
J each week, week If need be, •
C out of the month at the periods •
• of greateat demand, In order to J
• help the farmer*. There are
J many men working In the towns J,
t whose places can be taken by •
• the women. I have in mind par- J
• tlcularly men waiters, elevator £
boys, and clerka whose work *
* can be well substituted. If the J
• business sentiment of the town «
• will act rceolutety and persuade »>•
• employers 'to use women tem- *
porarily In order that the men J
may be released for farm labor e
•as the occasion may require.— J
• Clarence Onsley, Assistant Sec- &
£ retary of Agriculture. •
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PLAN PRODUCTS FOR MARKET
Cans, Jara and Other Containers
Should Be Uniform In Pack, Ap
pearance and Quality.
(Prepared by the United fkatea Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
One of the first essentials to satis
factory marketing arrangements la
standardised products. Cans, Jars, and
other containers should be uniform in
pack, appearance, quality, and condi
tion. Every container which la fully
up to the standard represented by the
label or brand will then be an adver
tisement In ltßeif and often a guaranty
to further purch»">«
THE MAKING OF
' A FAMOUS
MEDICINE
How Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
k Prepared For
Woman's Use.
A visit to the laboratory where this
successful remedy is made impresses
even the casual looker-on with the reli
ability, accuracy, skill and cleanliness
which attends tne making of this great
medicine for woman's ilia
Over 360,000 pounds of various herbs
are used anually and all have to b«
gathered at the season of the year when
tneir natural juices and medicinal sub
stances are at their best.
The most successful solvents are used
to extract the medicinal properties from
these herbs.
Every utensil and tank that comes in
contact with the medicine is sterilized
and as a final precaution in cleanliness
the medicine is pasteurized and sealed
In sterile bottles.
It is the wonderful combination of
roots and herbs, together with the
skill and caro used in its preparation
which has made this famous medicine
so successful in the treatment of
female ilia
The letters from women who havs
been restored to health by the use of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound which wo are continually pub
lishing attest to its virtue.
DAISY
allfllaa.
■ ornamaoWl.
■ rhaap L+sU all NUN.
Bade of ■••al. can l«flll
or Hp «sr; will Do* oolt
mt Injora anythlef. Ouar
■ aaload offoctivw fc>»d by
H daalars, or • Mnt by OS
*'•••• p r# p* ts > •> °*
■Mists saw. aaa as aas ava.. saooaLvn. a. t.
England now has more thun 4,775,-
000 women wage earners.
The occasional me of Roman Eye Tlnliam
at night upon retiring will prevent and re
lieve tired, watery eyea, and eye atraln. Adv.
Heaven lielps those who pretend
they are happier than they are.
Cutlcura Complexions.
Nothing better thnn Cutlcura Soap
dally and Ointment as needed to make
the complexion clear, scalp clean and
hands soft and white. For free sam
ples address "Cutlcura, Dept. X. Bos
ton." Sttld by druggists and by mall.
Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50. —Adv.
A Paper Controller.
Great Britain now has Its Paper
Controller, concerning whose Identity
there has been a flutter of excitement
In the publishing and newspaper
worlds. There Is, however, very much
leas talk and less fuss about the ad
vent of this new official than there was
over the subject of the Introduction
of food rationing, although the Inno
vation is capable of having much
greater effects on the life of the coun
try than the mere reduction of the
consumption of certain food supplies.
H. A. Vernet, on whom It has de
volved, Is a director of the Under
ground Electric Hallways company.
X-Ray Reflectors.
Mica has been found nn excellent
material for concentrating mirrors for
X-rays. Glass will not do, because,
smooth n» It Is, It Is too rough for the
extremely minute X-rays, which are
much smaller than light waves. Glass
diffuses the X-rnys, much as a rough
surface diffuses light waves, but it was
found that the surface of mineral crys
tals were of the requisite smoothness
for reflecting X-rays, and of them mica
Is the most adaptable, being readily
split into sheets.
The Gulf Stream.
The gulf stream Is more rnpid thnn
the Amazon, more impetuous than the
Mississippi, and Its volume more than
1,000 times greater.
Better Off
if .you drink
INSTANT
POSTUM
instcadof
coffee. •
Postum is
nutritious,
healthful,
economical,
delicious and
American.
TRY IT FOR EVERY
GOOD REASON
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