Letters From theF r ont Harrisburg Boy Glad to Aid French Army E. Z. Wallower has received a letter from his son, Herbert Wallower, giving a breezy bit of information concerning the dan gerous work of the camion service in France. The young man writes that lie is glad that he has been in the French service and now is planning to serve under the American colors. His letter .follows: Saturday, Oct. 6, 1917. Dearest Family: We have not "rolled" since Tues day. and c heers greeted the orders a few minutes ago (now 9.50 a. m.) that we were to go out this afternoon at 4.30. There seems to be no happy medium; either we roll continuously for a long stretch or loaf for four or five days, and I must confess I would rather "roll," for there is nothing to do in camp but just hang around. Our camp has been in a state of chaos for the past week, during and preceding the period of enlistment In the U. S. Army. Each one indi vidually had to decide for himself the question of either enlisting with l tlie U. S. or remaining in the French service until relieved by the enlisted men coming over, after which they would be free to do as they please. The scheme of enlistment is as follows, and X will give it in detail to show how 1 was influenced to take the course I have decided upon: When the Government decided to fake over the American Field Serv ice, including both ambulance and transport, the ambulance men were the first to be enrolled, but it was tseveral weeks before the recruiting officers arrived here. The United States were simply to transfer the management of the organization from the Field Service, thereby forming the nucleus of the trans portation service of the U. S. Army in France, so that with the taking over, the American Field Service as an organization ceased to exist. When we first joined the service we signed papers enlisting in the French army under special terms with the \ F. S. so that primarily we are bound to and under the jurisdiction of the French army. Enlistment in the U. S. Army is naturally optional, so that when the recruiting officers tame, a great many of the men de cided not to stay in the camion serv ice under the IT. S., which is in the Quartermaster's Department, with the result that more than half the men here decided to remain in the French army, including those who had been rejected by the officers un til the time when enlisted or drafted men from the States can be sent through the training school which j we went through and on to the front, to relieve us from service in the con vois autos. The French army has agreed to release its when we are replaced, the U. S. troops remaining here in this French section serving Cured His RUPTURE 1 was badly ruptured while lifting a trunk several years ago. Doctors said my only hope of cure was an operation. Trusses did me no good, l inallv 1 got hold of something that quickly and completely cured me. \ ears have passed and the rupture lias never returned, although 1 am doing hard work as a carpenter. There was no operation, no lost time, no trouble. I have nothing to sell, but will give full information about you may find a complete cure hout operation, if you wri.o to me, Kukene M. Pullen, Carpenter. 351 D Marcellus Avenue. Manasquan, N. J. Better cut out this notice and show it to anv others who are ruptured—you may save a life or at least stop the misery of rupture and the worry and danger of an operation. Ugly Wrinkles Muddy Complexion Dlnniipear n* If by Mngic through Memlllo Method. line Appllea tiou Proves It. New York: Those interested in re moving wrinkles and beautifying their complexion are invited to try tiie new derwillo method, a simple i ombination and an effective one. The very first application will astonish and surprise you. You will look ten vears younger and the healthy rosy hue which comes to the skin, and the improvement in your appearance will rause vou to be envied by your less fortunate sisters. The formula was obtained in France from Camille de Verlac, a famous beauty doctor, who has made a life study of the subject. The effect of derwillo method on wrinkles, rough, sagging, sallow, ruddv skin, freckles, tan. sun spots is truly wonderful and will delight and please those who use it. It makes no difference what you have tried without success, do not despair. Just follow the derwillo method for a short time and you will soon be con vinced that there is nothing better, lust as good or just like it. It should i i. preo ird in your own home then you will know you have the genuine article. Unlike many skin prepa rations it is absolutely harmless and does not stimulate or produce a growth of hair. NOTK—'The manufacturers of der willo are so confident of its efficacy that it is sold under an absolute steel hound money-refund guarantee in this city by all druggists including .1. Nelson Clark and H. C. Kennedy. TURN HI DARK WITH SAGE TEA If Mixed with Sulphur It Dark ens So Naturally No body Can Tell The old-time mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur for darkening gray, streaked and faded hair is. grand mother's recipe, and folks are again using it to keep their hair a good, even color, which is quite sensible, as we are living in an age when a youthful appearance is of the great est advantage. Nowadays, though, we don't have the troublesome task of gathering the sage and the mussy mixing at home. All drug stores sell the ready-to-use product, improved by the addition of other ingredients, called "Wyetli'a ■tfu.ge and Sulphur Compound." It is \ cry popular probably nobody can discover it has been applied. Sim ply moisten your comb or a soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, takink one small strand at a time; by morning the gray hair di.-appear, but what delights the ladies with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com pound, is that, besides fceautifully darkening the hair after a few ap plications. it also produces that soft lustre and appearance of abundance which is so attractive. This ready-to use preparation is a delightful toilet requisite for those who desire a more youthful appearance. It is not in tended for the cure, mitigation or prevention of disease. WEDNESDAY EVENING, the French army just as wo have been doing. Captain Mallet, the Frenchman at the head of this service, in a speech yesterday explaining the situation gave us a splendid talk, recognizing our services as volunteers and com menting very flatteringly on the work we have done for the French at a time when they needed it most, and regretting that it would be at least three weeks before he could release us from service. So that it will prob ably be a month before 1 can do as I please. Several Openings I did not enlist at this time, pre ferring not to continue with the cam ion service, and also because I have my fingers on several other jobs that would interest me much more. From an indirect source I heard of an opening in the newly-organized cam ouflage section of the U. S. Army, re quiring engineers, draftsmen, print ers, etc., with opportunity for im mediate commission, good pay and rapid advancement, for the branch has just been organized and they need men badly. I have applied, but as yet have had no reply. I also ap plied to the artillery branch of the service for training in the artillery school for officers, somewhere near Paris, and, as they are accepting men for commissions in the Regular Army through that school, I thought there was at least a chance. And also there is aviation as a last re course, but I will try very hard to land in something else before 1 tackle aviation, though if it were just my self to consider I would take it up the first chance, for 1 am crazy about it. However, I thought it well not to be in too much of a hurry. I also wanted to go through the proposed offensive with the French in tills service, for we cover a lot of terri tory around here and see much that otherwise would be lost on a station ary job. The boys who signed up left yesterday for afiother canton ment just for enlisted men and I believe during the next few weeks will be put to work assembling and driving new trucks from Bordeaux or some other point to the front, which will be interesting work, but they will miss out on this attack, and. having gone through the prepara tions for it, I want to see the rest. 1 feel perfectly satisfied in the course I have taken, and I shall never regret and always be glad for the opportunity of having served with the French Army. I have ob tained a viewpoint of the war from an angle that few Americans have seen, and that no American soldier coming across in this mass of troops ever will see. "We have been inti mately associated with the French, from poilus to the high officers, and I cannot express too highly my ad miration for them. At first I was a little disappointed in them, for all I saw were the little old wizened "ter ritorial" and the dirty poilu, but since seeing so much of them up here at the front, watching them as they go to the trenches, and back from them en repos. the uncomplain ing doggedness, the unexpressed weariness, the unfaltering obedience has impressed me very deeply. Profoundly Impressed The other night on a very dark road which was jammed with traf fic at a standstill because the Boehes were shelling a bridge just about a quarter of a mile in front of us, there passed along a narrow path at the side of the road a single file oi infantry trudging along with their heavy packs and impedimenta silent as ghosts, moving up toward the trenches, and that line had been moving that way for days. They are beginning to liven up the action along the front and those poor souls were plodding along to what will be the grave for a great many of them. The whole scene as 1 waited there impressed me profoundly. The French officers have shown themselves to be a wonderful organi zation . of men, always extremely courteous to us and willing at all times to help us out of difficulties, and doing what at first sieht would appear to be inefficient work for the army as compared to American standards, but on analysis proves to be the right thing, learned from the experience of three years of war. We would change many things im mediately, but would afterward find them to be trivial and of minor im portance. I certainly hope that the Amer ican Army will not be too cock-sure of itself, too anxious to revolutionize tiie system of warfare, too ready to criticise the French, for the French have many things to tell the U. S. Army, for experience is the best teacher, which our boys will find out. I am afraid, at their own cost. 1 am anxious to serve under our Flag and I shall as soon as possible, but I shall always consider it a won derful privilege to have been able to stand side by side with the French, as a combatant, receiving their pay and under their colors, helping them the infinitesimal bit that I have, and I pray for them, for us, for human ity, that it may soon he over, the victors rewarded and the guilty pun ished. On an afternoon like this it is rather hard to maintain a viewpoint, for the elements are decidedly of a discouraging aspect. Our month and a half of beautiful clear and warm weather has at last ended in a cold, blustering day (now 2.30 p. m.) and it is now raining steadily, while six of us are crowded around a little stove about the size of a bucket in the barracks, dreading the trip we have to make to-night. We leave at 4.30 and will probably get back aft er midnight. The moon has been full for the last week, but has now dis appeared, so it will be pitch black to-night. We carry trench bombs. 1 am feeling tine and tit for any thing, though I will admit that if it were up to me I would choose a lit tle different kind of weather to drive a truck through at night. Now that we have settled back to a normal state, we expect to be kept very busy, and I will write whenever I can. Write lots of letters, all of vou. With love to all, HERBERT. IU'RGLAR KILLS BABY IV BED Raleigh, N. C„ Nov. 7. Lucy Plummer, 4-niontli-old daughter of J. Kemp Plummer. assistant state chemist was found choked to death in her bed yesterday, the victim of a burglar. The theory of the police is that the baby cried out while the intruder was in the room and that he feared she would arouse the household. New Revolver Selected For United States Army Washington, Nov. 7.—The Gov ernment has let contracts to the Smith & Wesson Company and the Colt's Firearms Company for thou : sands of new revolvers which will !he part of the equipment of the j troops sent abroad. The new weapon j will he somewhat different from the regulation Army revolver. It will he chambered to use the same standard ammunition required for the Army automatic model of 1911. The essential differences are a change in the chambering and in | created "head space." Since the ammunition is of the rimless type a j clip is necessary to hold It In the chamber and the clip which has been adopted holds only three cart ridges. Jt is of arc shape, having radial slots in which the cartridges are assembled, the clip engaging In PMfllHilßillK H gj jj % I To the Family of the Hon. Samuel W. 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