SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE WITH EMPEY (Continued) _______________ The man still Tii Pactv P ald no attention. ® j y The foreman was Faced speechless. In a Doctor ew seconds the stooping man straightened up, and looking the foreman straight in the eye, calmly replied: "He's dead." This did not seem to fease the fore man In the least and he bellowed out: "How do you know he is dead?" The man answered simply: "I'm a doctor." Then the foreman once again exploded: "A doctor! Blawst my deadlights, a doctor! Well, if you're a doctor, what In h 1 are you doing on a horse ship ? You ought to be rolling pills for the high-brows." The doctor never took his piercing look from the eye of the foreman. The foreman was now like an en raged bull. Spitting all over him self, he blustered out: "Well, If he's dead, there is no doctor that can do him any good. A couple of you skunks over there (addressing two negroes who were almost blanched to a bluish whlt<s and who were trembling nearly), get ahold of him and drag 'im out of the way." One of the negroes, with a leering grin, replied: "I shipped on this here ship to handle horses, and 1 don't allow nohow that it's my work to tote corpses around." Just then the second foreman rushed over, gave the negro a push out of the way and, grabbing "the heels of the dead man, pulled him away from the run. I turned away, sickened with disgust. The fore man then took an empty oat sack and spread it over the bloody head. Just then the clanging bell of an ambulance was heard and a white clothed doctor, followed by two men with a stretcher, pushed their way through the crowd of horse 9 and horsemen. They were accompanied by a policeman. Tho body was put into the ambulance and taken away, while the police officer went on board the ship. The pasty-faced doctor was hold ing onto the rail of the runway and coughing. I thought each gasp, would be his last, me second lore man was talking to him. The doc tor paid no attention. Going up be hind the doctor, the foreman coolyl measured his distance and swung on: the point of his jaw. The doctor rumpled up and leel on the aocK. At this cowardly and dastardly act I saw red and made a leap at the foreman. An onrushing light flashed in front of me and a ( huge locomo- J tive, going 60 miles an hour, hit | me between the eyes; then black- j ness. When I came to, 1 was lying | in my bunk in the hold. I had an j awful headache. Then everything' came back to me with a flash. 1j could hear the gurgling of water on the ship's side and knew we were under way. Kight then and there I decided never again, especially while aboard ship, to interfere with the foreman. Among that gang of hu man wrecks and cutthroats it was every man for himself and the sur vival of the fittest. I had two beau tiful black eyes, and my nose felt like a football. I went up on deck. The moon and stars were out and the twinkling lights of New York harbor wero gradually fading into the distance. Leaning over the rail were the fore man and the veterinariah, "Doc" Casey, by name. The foreman was talking. Snatches of his conversa tion reached my ears: "Load horses? Why that bunch of scum they wished on me 'couldn't load lump sugar, one lump at a time. How Brown expects me to deliver 1,300 horses Into Bordeaux with this| scurvy outfit, I don't know. We're ( luckv, I'm thinkin,' if five hundred j o' them don't die. Why, there's not one o' the blighters knows which I end of a horse eats hay. I tell you, | Doc, your work is cut out for you. i If, In* a few days, you don't have a couple of hundred cases of colic on; your hands, then I'm a bloomin' j iiar." "Doc" Casey answered: "Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Goorty, this Is my third trip over and I have seen some tough bunches, but this one is the limit, and I sure have a Always Caught Cold "Kidneys Bothered! Me Was Nervous," says Mrs. L. Baltimore, 554 Schafer street, Harrisburg. "For several years I have been bothered with indigestion and ner vousness. "In fact was all broken up, - for my kidneys gave me considerable trou ble. I was stiff and sore and filled up with rheumatic painp. "My stomach would fill up with gas after eating, and I felt tired and worn out and would get very nervous. "I felt cold and creepy, and was always catching cold. It seemed I always had a cold; this I think was due to my run down condition. "Well, I took a chance on San pan, and it was a good bet for me, as it fixed my stomach, restored my nerves and kidneys, drove out all pain, and I no longer catch cold as before." Sannan is being introduced at Kel ler's Drug Store, 405 Market street, Harrisbu rg.—adv. ■ 1 . 1 .S35SE==S3a •Reasons for our Optical Sue cess Our Experience— practical un,| thor ongn. Our Equipment—modern and com pletr. —Palnatnklnit and accu- Our CourtMT—extended to all. !! ur £■— talking advertUera. Our Glaaat*—aavera of alßht. Eyesight Specialist 26 NORTH THIRD STREET Srhlclnnrr BulMlag TUESDAY EVENING, HXRJUSBURG flSßftj TEtEGICSiPH! . JANUARY 1, 19lg. By Arthur Guy Empev job on my hands. It's too bad that Pinero let ojit on that young fellow, because, in my mind, that was a pretty cowardly blow. He seemed to know how to handle horses. What do you say if I give. him the job of assistant veterinarian'.' He s had six years' cavalry experience." "Throw him over the side, if you want—l don't care. But 1 guess you'll need someone to help you out, so go to It." I was overjoyed. Just then Plnero came aft. The horse doctor turned to him and said: "Look here, Pin ero, I've seen lots of dirty work in my life, but that exhibition of yours on the dock is about the filthiest I've seen in a long time. Now, just take a tip from me. That young fellow from now on is working for me, and you lay your hands off of him. if 1 find you meddling with him, I'll push that silly grin of yours down your throat until It chokes you. Now, that's all I got to say. lay off of him. Do you understand?" Plnero started to mumble excuses, but the doctor shut him up with, "I don't want to hear any more. I'm off o' you for life, but remember what I tell you. Steer clear from the two o' us, sabe?" I guess the second forerfian "sa bled" all right, because he vouch safed no answer. My heart warmed _ ■ ■ - , - -x- vi*. \vuior. * Auumiiia, tut; opninx 01 nas iwunin oc v>u. 4 AJO ot. iL>*aj I Starts Thursday Morning ill p<®sftf® Doors Qpen Promptly H A Gigantic Sale Event Despite Prevailing Conditions 1§ H Offering Dependable Merchandise at Clean-Sweep Prices! jlj HSSI Harrisburg People Realize the Value of this Sale Today—lt Means Greater Savings Than Ever jr~jf Idl t i_'r^ U^jlan S ® em '"^ nnua ' Clean Sweep Sale is a firmly es- Advices received from our New York Offices —where we lOfi B tabhshed money-saving opportunity that needs no introduc- are enabled to feel the pulse of the business world - predict M Bl f these sale events m the past. that the cost of Winter Underwear, Hosiery, etc., will ad- M WL*m Hverybody in Harrisburg and surrounding communities C N P r *. . IAAD , M , . - A ,% mCM Wm this sale as THE Sale of Sales - A colossal sale T™ P Bl * nke L ts 70 Per Cent to M Ig§ that towers above them all the ONE Sale that everybody .?,L . hlgher; and Practically all other merchandise grgl g|W looks forward to and which no one would want discontinued. Ibe Bimilar, y affected because of abnormal war demands, ffjjf mm Therefore, we determined to inaugurate this sale in the face Regardless of the constant rise of the market, the prices llpj gjyf present-day market conditions. The thrifty shopper will x on our entire stocks —with few exceptions—will be reduced jfrvfj take advantage of these Clean Sweep offerings and store in to the lowest Clean Sweep Prices. This will also afford an un- Bri asu against future needs when prices will be paralleled opportunity to every good housewife for the buy- jjffe?! jyyj considerably advanced. ing of dependable merhandise at the most reduced prices. jjK | jj Stupendous Important Announcement The Bargain H Stocks For the Purpose of Re-marking Basement Hi U and Arranging All Stocks Bzß M comprising the most desirable THE STORE WILL BE Will Be a Big Feature in the Mm iffi merchandise for the personal . Clean Sweep Sale jrgl mm wear of Man, Woman or Child, { LA/I All I) ou gMj as well as for the Household, " viUuvU a all vCtjf All Kinds of Most Wanted jyy||i BfcS . VVT 1 -m Dependable Merchandise Si i Greatly Tomorrow, Wednesday AtßkClean § iH p J J x To Allow A $ gjij Bpi KCUIICeCL For Proper Preparations SlVeep Reductions jjj * > See Our Big Announcement in this Paper Tomorrow With Detailed Price List < m jjjj jlf f 1 ° UPQN BROOM COUPON to "Doc" Casey and I slipped away unobserved. The next morn ,<A . ing the doctor Assistant fixed me up with Veterinarian" ? ourt faster and I was installed as assistant veterin arian at S3O for the trip, i W as to sleep in "Doc" Casey's stateroom, where he had his medicine stock, but before entering the room "Doc" told me, "Take this bucket of water; put a few drops of creosote in it, and go aft on the hatch and take a good bath, and throw your underwear away." I asked him what for. He an swered: "When you take your shirt off, take a good look at It and you'll I began to feel itchy all over but minutely followed his instructions. Upon taking my shirt off, one look was enough, it was alive, and over the rail it went. Doc loaned me a white suit and took charge of my outer clothing. What he did with them I don't know, but that after noon he returned them to me. They were shrunk a size smaller, but wero clean. I was satisfied. So was Doc. Five days out we ran into a squall and our work was cut out for us. We even had horses on the decks in wooden stalls. The ship was lurch ing and pitching, and huge seas would burst over the gunwales. Several of the wooden stalls gave way, and the horses were 10080 on the deck. With every lurch of the ship a couple of horses would fall, and kicking and snorting, would slide down the Inclined deck, hitting against winches and the hatchway, scraping their hide off. It was worth a man's life to get into that mess. Then I had more or less respect for the foreman and second fore man. Into the midst of that strug gling and kicking bunch of horses they went, assisted by Doc Casey. Four of the horses received broken legs, and Plnero, instead of shooting them, cut their throats with a sharp dagger he carried. One of the negroes from the lower hold staggered to the upper deck with his face blanched almost white, and his eyes popping out of his head. Between gasps he informed us that a whole section of stalls, twenty fonr in all, had carried away be tween decks, and that the horses were loose. He said three negroes of his gang were caught in this stam pede. The foreman mustered most of the men, and dividing them into three < groups, in charge of himself, the sec ond foreman and Doc Casey, they went below. I followed. Ati awful sight met my eyes. The ship was lurching in a hor-| rible manner. All I could see was, l one minute a pile of kicking horses, | smashed-up planks and the three negroes piled up'in one corner of the compartment, and then, with a lunch ' of the ship, they would slide into the other. Nothing could bo done by us. It was madness to attempt anything. The three negroes were dead. That night and the following day was a perfect hell on the ship for men and horses. The ship rodo through the r '4uall and when It be came calm we all got busy. Out of the twenty-four horses betweeu decks wo had to shoot seventeen on account of Injuries. Beside the sev enteen, three had died from broken necks. The four remaining horses were still alive but hardly had a square foot of hide left. They were a pitiful sight. The next day the three negroes were buried at sea without a word of prayer. For the next couple of days noth ing of importance happened. About four days out of Bordeaux one of the large steam pipes In the lower hold hurst. In this hold there were sixty-four horses. The engineer of tho ship tried to repair the break, but it was almost worth a man's life to go down thero In that hissing and scalding steam. The cries of the horses went straight to my heart. All we could do was to turn streams of cold salt water from three pair of hose into the hold, thus trying to keep the heat down and save as many horses as possible. Why the engineer did not shut off the steam I don't know. I noted tills fact In my report. After about four hours the steam was shut off and the two foremen, Doc Casey and myself, followed by twelve other men, went into the hold. I will never forget the sight as long as I live. Nearly every one of the horses was dead, and those which still remained alive had to be shot. Some of them were practically boiled alive. The weath er was hot, and it was not long be fore the rotting bodies of the horses made the stench on board unbear able. We had to get these bodies out. Long tackles were rigged up, a chain around the neck of a dead horse, and I worked the winch. The bodies were snaked along the pas sageways in the hold and up to the hatch. Some of the bodies would not hold together, and It was a com mon sight to see a dead horse sus pended in the air by his hind leg drop suddenly Into the hold below, leaving his leg hanging to the tackle. EJvbry horse ent to" France is branded with a different brand. They have a system of indexing them. As each dead horses was snaked to the upper deck. Doc had to stoop over and make a note of the brand be fore the horse was thrown over board. As the dead horses were dropped over the side, a resounding splash could be heard and the water was churned into a foamy white as the body momentarily sank from view. Then the bloated body of the horse would reappear and disappear in tho wake of the ship, the sea gulls ho vering and screaming around it. The grub on that ship was awful, and a day out of Bordeaux the gang of horsemen refused to work. The foreman mustered them on the main deck, and standing on the bridge let out about twenty minutes of religion and advice In their direction. The whole gang immediately got religious and -returned to their duties. I was heartily sick and disgusted with the rest of the trip because the stench was awful, there being about twelve dead horses that we could not get out. t Just outside of the entrance of the river leading to Bordeaux, a small, rakish boat, flying the tricolor of France, came alongside. We hove to and up the gangplank came three French officers. They were closeted with the captain of the ship and our foreman, and after about twenty minutes, left and we continued on our course. ARMY HAS A RAINBOW CO. Engineer Unit Recruited From Men in Every State of the Union In a letter to a friend in this city, C. Iv. McCormick, of this city, a mem ber of Company C, Twenty-flfth En gineers, Camp Devcns, Ayer, Mass., raid that the company with which he is connected is known amonk the National Army camps as the Rainbow Company. This does not rpean that it is a part of the Rainbow Division, far be it from such, for that gallant division of former National Guards men has long since landed in France, but that the members of this com pany have been gathered from all corners of the globe. A part of his letter follows: "Company C, Twenty-flfth Regi ment, has the unique distinction of having In Its ranks men from every state in the Union, including Alaska. The occupations of the men In civil life Is almost as diversified as their names. "In the ranks of the company are men who helped harness the moun tain torrents to haul the tra.ins over the Rockies. They have bridged chasms in the Andes, dug for gold in Afaska, shot oil wells in Mexico and Rumania; the Sphinx of Egypt ha* looked Into many of their faces and the Eskimo has shared his seal blub ber with sCme. Were they passing: in review their description would run like this: The tall fellow was genernl manager of a power plant in South Africa; tlie short, muscular fellow fol lowing- was special duty man for tho Pennsylvania Railroad. Here comes the mechanical engineer for Blank and Company; beside him marches a young fellow who can whip his weight in wildcats—and so on the kaleidoscope description would run. Do you wonder there are no vacancies In Company C? WHfcn tho fellows get together in the evenings and swap experiences, their adventures sound like the tales of the Arabian Nights. The leadership of this cos mopolitan bunch of energy has been, assigned to Captain Rhodes, and to say the boys are proud of their cap tain is putting It mildly. When the word comes to go over the top, Cap tain Rhodes will have a bunch behind him that will leave Its Impress on tho phiz of some of Kaiser Bill's Huns. e&25 C 8B * RADWAYS READY RELIEF . 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