12 SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE WITH EMPEY (Continued) ___________ The ship, a huge three stack- On Board er, was lying alongside. We • were shoved Into single lile, ready to go up the gang plank. Then our real examination took place. At the foot of the gang plank were a group of men around a long table. They certainly put us Through a third degree to out if there was any German blood in us. Several men were turned down. .Luckily, I got through and signed for the voyage, and went on board. At the hand of tho gangplank stood tho toughest specimen o£ hu manity I have ever seen. He looked like a huge gorilla, and had a big, rtrescent-shaped, livid scar running from his ieti ear under his chin up t,o his right eye. Every time he spoke the edges of the scar seemed to grow white. His nose was broker and he had huge, shaggy eyebrows. His hand was resting on the rail of the ship. It looked like a ham, and. inwardly 1 figured out what would happen to me if that ham-like fist ever came in contact with tho point of my jaw. As we passed him he showered us with a few compli mentary remarks, such as "Of all the lousy scum 1 have ever seen, this .hunch of lubbers is the worst, and This is what they give me to take thirteen hundred horses to Ror-: ileaux." Later on I found this Indi vidual was foreman of the horse gang. We were ordered aft and sat on the after hatch. The fellow on my l ight was a huge, blue-gumnn d negro. He was continually scratch-| ing himself. I unconsciously eased i away from him and bumped into the, tallow sitting on my left. After a i {food look at him I eased back again in the direction of the negro. I { don't think he had taken a bath since escaping from the cradle. Right then my uppermost thought 1 was how I could duck this trip to l'Vance. The general conversation! among the horse gang was: "When do we eat?" " ' DR. FRANK F. D. RECKORD j Will Discontinue Offices 922 North Third Street Beginning January First. Tempornry Office*, lleKidcncc 220 Kelker Street I TUBE SALE ::vi... *s.i)oi 35x4 Ya •■ • *">•">"' Kfllght st.ao Red Zll* ::: *3™} Goodyear Closing Out Tube Stock Front-Market Motor Supply Co. 109-111 Market Street D 1 IB I IOC ICK IBC^JB | 1 Greetings | To Our Many Friends f May your New Year be filled with goodness I ® and prosperity beyond measure. And may your thoughts and prayers—as ours—be given to our 0 brave boys and Allies "Over There." q 1 FACKLER'S ' ' 1312 DERRY STREET 1 I ; 1 nr===inf=nnr=s=ini mi lmr inr=inr===inr=ini in p ~\ .To Our Many Friends and Patrons WE EXTEND NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS and thank you for past favors, wishing you all success and prosperity during 1918, hoping to have the pleasure of your continued patron age at our new location, 10 South Market Square, about February 1, 1918, with larger quarters, larger stocks. We again thank you. UNION CLOTHING CO. w Location about February 1, 10 SOUTH MARKET SQ r AUK 32 South Fourth Street \cxt to Kaufman*** I, > 4 A New Year Wish The best thing we can wish you is suc cess and happiness. And one way to attain them is through preparation for j our future. We will serve you in the years to come with the same effi ciency. School of Commerce AND Harrisburg Business College 13 SOUTH MARKET SQUARE i! MONDAY EVENING, By Arthur Guy Empey Wo must have sat there about twenty minutes, when the second 1 foreman came aft. I took fifteen ■ guesses at his nationality, and at last came to the conclusion that he was } a cross between a Chinaman and a ' Mexican. He was thin, about six ' feet tall, and wore a huge sombrero. 1 His skin was tanned the color of • leather. Every time ho smiled 1 had 1 the impresion that the next minute 3 ho would plant a stiletto in my back. His name was Pinero. His introduo • tlon to us was very brief: "Get up ■ off of that blankety blank hatch end I line up against the rail." We did as ordered. Then he commanded: "All : the niggers line up alongside of the port rail." I guess a lot of them I did not know what he meant by the . | "port rail" because they looked very ; much bewildered. With an oath he snapped out: "You blankety blank s Idiots. The port rail is that rail over there. Come on. Move or I'll soon move you." Ho looked well . able to do this and the niggers promptly shuttled over to the place l designated. He quickly divided us I into squads of twelve men, then or : dered: "All of you who are deserters : from the Army or who have seen • service in the Cavalry step out in ~ front." Four others besides myself : stepped out. The first man, he came ; to he informed: "You're a straw I boss. Do you know what a straw | boss is?" This man meekly answered,' | "No sir." With another oath, the I second foreman said: "All right. • I you're not a straw boss: fall back." I got the cue immediately. My turn ; came next. "Do you know what a straw boss is?" I said: "Sure." He said: "All right, you're a straw | boss." I had not thej I T , least idea of what; i m a waß talking I "Straw about, but made ■Rcicc" "P mind thati ■ DO " it would not take I me long to flndi out. Then he passed down the line, picking out straw bosses. I asked j j one of the men in my gang what were j I the duties of a straw boss. He had] i been over with horses before, and, told mo that a straw boss meant to j I be in charge of the gang to feed thej horses and to draw and keep careful; | check of the straw, hay, oats and! ! bran. Having served in the Cavalry, i this job, as 1 figured, would be a , I regular pie for me. ! In about an hour and n half's time Pinero had selected his straw bosses I and divided the men into gangs, and I assigned us to our quarters on the i ship. These quarters were between j decks and very much crowded; the. j stench was awful. Iron bunks, three I S deep, with filthy and lousy mat ! tresses on them, were set into the! 'sides of the ship. The atmospherei in that dirty hole turned my stomach i and X was longing for tho fresh airj of the deck. A dirty bum, with to-1 bacco juice running out of the corner | of his mouth, turned to me and! asked: "Do the gray backs bother! you much, matey'.'" A shudder ranj {through me as I answered: "Notj much." Rut I figured out that aS| j soon as I got them, which I knew 1 in a very short time would occur, I they certainly would bother me, but i I had to keep a stiff upper lip if I i wanted to retain their respect and my authority as straw boss. One old fellow in my gang was a trouble maker. He must have been ! about forty years old and looked s | hard as nails. He was having an I agument with a pasty-faced looking) specimen of humanity, about twenty-i | six years old. To mo this man ap peared to be in the last stages of [ consumption. 1 told the old fellow I to cut out his argument and leave the other fellow alone. Upon hear ing this he squirted a well-directed stream of tobacco juice through his front teeth, which landed on my shoe. I Instantly admired and re spected his accuracy. I saw my authority waning and knew that X would have to answer this insu.t quickly. I took two or three quick steps forward and swung on his jaw w'ith my fist. His head went up against the iron bunk with a sick ening sound and he crumpled up and fell on the deck, the blood pouring from the cut in his head. I felt sick, and faint, thinking that he had been killed, but it would not do to show these signs of weakness on my part, so without moving toward him I or dered one of the men to look him over and see if he was all right. He soon came around. From that time on he was the most faithful man in the section and greatly respected mfc The rest of the men growled am* mumbled and I thought I was in for a terrible beating. Ikying close at hand was an iron spike about IS inches long. Grasping this, I turned to the rest, trying to be as tough as I possibly could: "If any of the rest of you bums think they are boss around here, start something, and I will sink this into their head." Although I was quailing underneath, still I got away with it, and from that time on I was boss of my section. Now every man was smoking or chewing tobacco. Pretty soon the hold became thick with smokf, and 1 was gasping for breath, when the voice of the foreman came down the companionway: "Turn out on deck and give a hand loading the horses. .Look alive or I'll come down there and rouse you out pretty quick." We needed no second invitation and lined up on the deck. I looked over the rail. On the dock were 1 hundreds of the sorriest looking' specimens of liorsetlesh I have ever laid eyes on. These horses were in groups of ten or twelve, being held by horsemen from the New Jersey stockyards. A lot of the men who had shipped as horsemen had never led a horse in their ltl'e, and it was pitiful to see their fear. The foreman let out a volley of oaths for them to move quickly, and they decided to accept the lesser evil and take a chance with the horses. Then the work of loading com menced. J have been in a Cavalry regiment when hurry-up-orders were received to entrain for the Mexican border and helped to load eleven hundred horses on trains. The confusion on that dock was indescribable. The horses were loaded by three run ways. My gang and I were detailed on tho after runway. The foreman was leaning over the rail, glaring down upon us and now and then giving instructions mixed with hor rible oaths. He had a huge marlin spike in his hand. On the dock was the second foreman, in his large sombrero, a red neckerchief around his neck, wearing a blue shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, and in his right hand a coiled lariat. It did one's heart good to see him rope the horses which broke loose. I'pon watching his first performance I knew I was correct when I figured him as having Mexican blood in his veins. -A bleary-eyed drunk was trying to lead a horse by the halter up our run. He was looking back at the horse, at the same time tugging and jerking on the halter. You could see the white in the horse's eyes, and I knew right away, from my experi ence with horses, that this was a bad one, or, as we would term him in the Cavalry, an •"Outlaw." Ths drunk was cursi.,g and swearing and kicking up at the horse's head. The foreman saw this and directed his barrage at the offender. "How in h 1 do you expect to lead a horse while looking at him? Turn your back to him, you lousy bum. You are blocking the whole run. Turn your back to him, X say. You can't lead him that way. I£ X come down there to you, I'll soon show you how to get him aboard!" The bleary-eyed one became be wildered and in his excitement lost his footing on the slippery runway and fell underneath the horse, at the same time loosening his hold on the halter chain. The horse jerked his head loose, reared up, turned around and made a break for the dock. The man on the gangway tried to scramble <■ 1918 Greeting It is a pleasure to us at this time to express our gratitude to the many people who have patronized this store during the year just past. It is not the business we received from them, alone that we arc thankful for. We appreciate the confidence imposed in our store, the good feeling towards the store, shown by the public. In view of these sentiments—for there is sentiment in a healthy and going business — we sincerely wish Your New Year To Be a Happy One And Prosperous For You Gately&Fitzgerald 31 SO JTH SECOND ST. • V OHiiATOfi FOR PALESTINE FUND Zionists Start World-Wide Drive to Restore Holy Land New York, Dec. 31.—1n every state Ir. the Union this week the big drive begins under the auspices of the Zionist Organizations of America to raise a million dollars as a prelimi nary fund for the re-establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine and the restoration of the Holy I: HAPPY, PROSPEROUS i;i [iji NEW YEAR II Buttorff & Co. if ;<■ Furniture, Floor Corel-inns, Etc. NEW CUMBERLAND, PA. TO KEEP NERVES FIT IN TRENCHES Yankees in France Write Home How Much Ciga rets Arc Needed I hear the hemlock chirp and sing AH If within its ruddy core It held the happy heart of spring; never san# like that, No I* Saadl grave, nor ilaflz gay. J lounge and blow white rings of smoke And watch them rise and float away. Imagine a zero day like this with out a smoke, generous render. Not much lounging such as our poet liked 'r du,K , 0 ln - Well, hardly! ltead .. CO,umn " ot tlle Telegraph the narratives of Airman Shaffer of how these birdmen put in their day. Bead „ " ? C ° UntH " f 11,0 American cngi neeis, tine, well-bred chaps who do nothing for months but dig ditches, standing in the filthy water up to the waist. Bead of the recruits and their constant drill, in artillery, cavalry i and infantry, and then deny yourself a pack of cigarets. It is your duty. 1 Oil niay think you have a hard, tedi- H ~J ob' but you are not flirting with death every moment. You have t ie time to "lounge and blow white rings of smoke." Betters* from the front emphasize that a smoke over in that vale of furv 1? ,ux r.v. no plaything, but it genuine tonic and soother which you need in times of stress or when off y your nerves are still strung up. \\ hen I landed over here " writes a sergeant in a machine gun company, "I determined to keep mv pledge not to smoke. 1 held out for nearly three weeks, and then one night I came back from six hours' tramping in the rain, chilled to the bone; and. once again dry, I suddenly got so mad for a smoke that I think I would have stabbed anybody who o jetted. lhi s is the way one craves a elgaret in this sort of life." A pipe and fragrant smoiting to bacco are beginning to be most popu lar, according to the bulk of letters. Cigarets are always in demand, but many soldiers have discovered that there is more satisfaction in a pipe. Don t you bother about this, but send your contribution and let the men who know decide what should be shipped, lou will get a personal ac knowledgement which will fully re pay you for your sacrifice. AOCIDKNTS AT iTK\VIST()\\ V , Lewlstown, Pa., Dec. 31. —John arolus, badly injured at the Stand- 1 ,;d Steel Works, is in a serious con-, I aition. While coasting on a small hill at! veagertown, Koy Shontz. aged 13; years, son of John Shontz, had his left leg broken. The sled struck a stone and in the mixup the young-1 ster received the fracture. H. w. BILLOW BURIED Newport, Pa., Dec. 31. —Funeral services were held on Saturday for! H. W. Billow, the Pennsylvania rail- I road trackwalker, >vho was killed last \vednesday when st-uck by a train at lriquois. Services were held at his late home in llowo township. I Lost!^ |B "SPOT" WAS THE NEIGHBOR j||§2! HOOD PET. All the children i||||!l loved this friendly, playful little 'ISII PUP ONE DAY when "Bobbie," the proud owner of "Spot," came home from school there was no "Spot" to see him from afar and jjgsSj come tearing down the street to iSy| meet him. lllllj "SPOT" HAD evidently strayed jj too far from familiar scenes and iB got lost. jj|j|j BUT "SPOT" simply had to be jjpsjj found —for Bobbie and all the ispis! other kids took his loss mighty I IIP hard. jjpsjl Bobbie's father finally hit on the IB! plan that succeeded. He be ig! thought himself of the "LOST AND FOUND" column in the !g| "TELEGRAPH." And sure enough the day following pub lication of the ad, "Spot" was returned and all the kids are happy again. So is "Spot.'' IT BEATS ALL," said Bobbie s !||f father that night, "HOW S WANT ADS IN THE TELE GRAPH TURN THE TRICK." is * 1 '* oi rrvor" 31. w? Or. Timt ? kv. YV.- Calls Described i> Well-Known Publisher ' U tlie late sixties," says O. 11. Putnam in "Memories of a Publish er," N'ew York had not yet outgrown certain of its old-fashioned or so called provincial habits. One of the customs was that of making New Years calls, a practice that had been Inherited from the Dutch founders or the city. Long before the begin ning of the twentieth century the growth of the metropolis had made impossible this pleasant and conven ient habit of coming into touch (at least once a year) with a circle of family friends, but in 1866 the ladies still stayed at home on New Year's day, and old men and youngsters did what they could in the hours be tween 11 in ihe morning and mid night to check oft with calls of from live to fifteen minutes their own vis iting list with that of their wives, their sisters or their mothers. "In my own diary for January 1, 1866, I tind the entry, 'Made thirty five calls.' 1 remember on that day coming back in the middle of the afternoon for a word with my moth er and finding old Mr. Bryant in iter parlor. It was sleeting violently out side. and the luxurious young men of the day were going about in coupes. It was the practice, in order I 1917. 1918 v *'V • M:**. 7 • : 1 : : i. : : Even "0 ur \ Wishes L ■ I A Happy n ® j Dives, 1 i ><■ M Store Cl< y Tomorro\^B tt j jl expense, for two or thri oln In the expense of act the day. Mr. Bryant, ho\ 1 trudged through the sle< una in response to some words fro iny mother of appreciation of h efTort In coming out in such weat) , replied cheerily: 'Why. I rather I a fre.sh temperature, Mrs. Putna .t Is only the young men who i.J chilly and lazy.' ' Fifteen or eighteen years lat New Year's calls in society had 1 come a tradition of the past." Aged Cousins Die Within Few Hours of Each Oth< Wrightsville, Pa., Dec. 81. —Ihu ! 8. Grim, of near town, aged 78 ejra died Thursday night from the eA|< of u stroke, and a few hours A his cousin, Hufus Grim, 76 years ■ (tied from a complication of diseal Both men saw service during l Rebellion, and were in l.tbby pris 'File latter was at Appomatox tvl General Lee surrendered. Jai Grim and his wife recently celebra their sixtieth wedding annlversi they being married a short t when the war broke out. Five c dren, besides the wife and a brot survive. Itufus Grim is survived his wife, two sons and two sisfc Both men wcro members of Grand Army.