8 SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, WITH EMPEY By Arthur Guy Empey (Continued) , _________ Going: up the rjver in some France places the banksj were only about — 1 twenty feet away. W could the French women tiil-j Ing their fields. As we went by these workers stopped and waved their hands in the air to us, and we waved back. It was my first sight of France, and I was not In any way! disappointed. It lived up to my cx- : pectatlons. A little farther up the river we came to a large dock where ships, were loading and unloading cargoes, and a thrill passed through me as I saw my first batch of German pris- ! oners at work. These were immense fellows, nearly every one being six feet or over. They were guarded byj little French soldiers, averaging about five feet five inches, with a long rifle, bayonet fixed. This rifle, j in comparison with the Frenchmen, looked like a telegraph pole. The soldiers had on the old blue over-; coats, the tails buttoned back, pat- j tern of 1871. As we passed the German prison ers they scowled at us, and we, feel ing quite safe on the deck, yelled back insults at them. One big Irish man, right near me, took great glee in jumping up and down on the THOUSANDS HAVE KIDNEY TROUBLE AND DON'T KNOW IT Weak and unhealthy kidneys cause BO much sickness and suffering and •hen through neglect or other causes, kidney trouble Is permitted to oontinne, serious results may be expected. Your other organs may need at tention—but your kidneys should have attention first because their' work is most Important. If yon feel that your kidneys are the cause of your sickness or ran down condition commence taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Hoot, the great kidney, liver and bladder medicine, because If it proves to be the remedy you need &"d you* kidneys begin to Improve they will help nil the other organs to health. Prevalency of Kidney Disease Most people do not realize the ( alarming increase and remarkable prevalency of kidney disease. 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This, at the time, struck me! as depicting a remarkable sense of fairness, and later on, during my service on the Western Front, I i found out that the Frenchman In all i his dealings is fair and Just. Pretty socrti the prisoners faded out of sight and we came alongside 1 the dock at Bordeaux. I was all eag-; erness and strained my eyes so as not to miss the least thing. The, dock was full of French Cavalry- j men, hurrying to and fro. Huge Turcos, black as the ace of spades, with white turbans on their heads, i were majestically striding about. After we warped into the dock andt made fast, our work was over. We ! had nothing to do with the unload ing of the horses. The French Cav alrymen came aboard with a bunch | of Cavalry halters hanging over their j arms. It was a marvel to see with > what case and efficiency that ship was unloaded. The condition of the horses was pitiful. They could hard- ' while the original disease constantly | undermines the system. 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In about a minute or so they' j would stretch their necks way up j into the air and seem to be taking long breaths of the pure air. Then I they started to whinny. They were I calling backward and forward to j each other. Even though I did nQt ! understand horse language, I knew exactly what they were saying. They j were thanking their horse God for ] i their deliverance from that Heil I Ship, and were looking forward to | i green pastures and a good roll in; the dirt. Pretty soon you could see them bend their forelegs and lie, down on the dock; then try to roll! over. It was pitiful; some of them I j did not have the strength to turn: | over and they feebly kicked. Pretty ! soon the whole dock was a mass of rolling horses, the Frenchmen Jump i ing around, gesticulating and jabber i ing. T After getting the horses up, they were divided into classes according to their height and weight. Then each horse was led a rink chalk ! Ed out on the dock and the army in | spectors examined it. Very few were ' rejected. From thts ring of chalk they were led into a portable stall and branded. You could hear the sing-song voice of the brander shout ing out what sounded like "Battry Loo." As he yelled this, a French private would come over, get the horse which had been branded, and lead it away. 1 got In corfversation j with an interpreter and he informed ; me that the average life of these j I horses in the French Army was three | j days, so these poor horses had only | left that Hell Ship to go Into a worse Hell of bursting shells and cracking I bullets. | I, after passing a rigid examina tion as to my nationality, and being I issued a cattleman's passport, in- I quired my way to the Prefecture of Police. I delivered to him a sealed i envelope which I had received in New York. Upon opening it, he was j very gracious to me and I went Into a rear room, where an interpreter put me through a grilling oxamina | tion. From there I was taken to | a hotel, and the next morning, In : the company of a Sergeant and a i Private, got Into a little matchbox j compartment on the funniest look ing train I ever saw. The track I seemed to be about three feet wide; j the wheels of the oars looked like huge cogwheels on an engine minus , the cogs.* After bumping, stopping, I and sometimes sliding backwards, in | twenty-six hours pre reached a llt ! tie town. Supplies were piled up as ! high as houses. Officers and en | listed men were hurrying to and fro. and I could see long trains of sup ply wagons and artillery limbers al ways moving in the same direction. I was ushered into the presence of a French officer ,who, I later found out, was a Brigadier General of the Quartermaster Corps. I could hear a distant booming, and upon inquir ing tound out that it was the guns of France, striving to hold back the German invaders. I trembled all I over with excitement, and a feeling that I cannot describe rushed over me. I was listening to my first sound of the guns on the Western Front. Two days after ward I again Home, but reached Bor . deaux, and ship- Dissatisned ped to New York on the French ————— Liner Rocham beaux. Upon arriving in New York I reported to the Frenchman who had sent me over. He was very courteous, and as I reached out to shake hands with him, he placed both hands on my shoulders and kissed me on the right and left cheek. I was dumfounded, blushed all over, and after receiving the pay that was due me, I left. I think I could have borne- an other trip across with horses, but that being kissed upon my return completely got my goat. I went back to the routine of my office, but everything had lost color and appeared monotonous. I believe I had left.my heart in France, and I felt mean and small, eating three square meals a day and sleeping on a soft bed, when the armies on the other side were making the world's history. Sometimes when sleeping I would have a horrible nightmare; I could see those horses being boiled alive in steam. Several times later I passed that sign on Greenwich Street," Horses for France, Men Wanted," and the picture of the second foreman drop ping the pasty-faced doctor would loom before my eyes. Ido not know to this day what became of that nervy wreck of humanity, who had the temerity to tell our foreman where he got oft at, I know ho did not make the passage with us. • [To be Continued.] (Copyright, 1917, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate) INCOME TAXES Married persons pay 2 per cent, on that portion of their income in excess of $2,000, but less than $4,000; the tax Is 4 per cent, on incomes between $4,000 and $5,000. Additional exemption of S2OO is allowed-for each child. Single persons pay 2 per cent., on all income in excess of SI,OOO and leßs than $3,000; between $3,000 and $6,000 the tax is 4 per cent. Surtaxes begin at $5,000, rang ing from 5 per cent, on incomes less than $7,500 to 67 per cent, on all over $2,000,000, The table shows the tax pay able on typical moderate Incomes! Income. Married. Single. SIOOO 1100 2 ißoo in 2100 $2 22 3000 ~ , 20 40 3500 vBO 60 •1000 40 80 4500 00 100 5000 80 120 V —J CHEST COLDS may mean weak lungs and need more thorough treat ment than mere syrups, physics or stimulants. IMUISIOL corrects chest colds by giving strength to the biood and heat to the body. It is famous with physicians for hard coughs and soothing the lungs, throat and bronchial tubes. VJI 6coit & Bownc. BloowGcM.NJ. 17-32 HXmiISBTJRG TELEGRAPH Troops at Camp Meade Reviewed by Secretary of War BAKTKR. RfcyiETVE. ttJ2OOF>S. Brigadier-General William J. Nicholson, acting comander of the Seventy-ninth Division, and Secretary of War Baker after the review of tne boys in training at Camp Meade. Tho Secretary c ommended the com mander and his stair on the remarkable showing of the lads in khaki. TWO BIG MUNITION PLANTS ARE DESTROYED BY FIRE dynamos, supplying the power to | about 250 machines used in apply | ing the special paint to the cylinders, all practically new, were completely destroyed. Flames Spread Rapidly The flames spread so rapidly that workmen were unable to get any of the cylinders that were finished out of the plant. These cylinders are be ing manufactured for service in France, to be used in conveying highly explosive gases. The loss In this one plant is ex tremely heavy, the entire building being-destroyed, and the machinery a mass of ice-covered ruins, piled i with debris, and in some cases fail ing through tho iloor to the base ment of the building. The brick walls of the buildings are partly standing, but in no case are the ruins possible of repairs. This building is 200 by 50 feet, was tho estimate of the company officials this morning. The rough turning plant, adjoin ing the cylinder finishing depart ment, Is a complete ruin, as is the cylinder finshing plant. In this build ing, as In the other, there is an en tirely new equipment of machinery, which was completely destroyed by the flames. The principal equipment in this plant is composed of 250 lathe machines recently secured by the company from Akron, Ohio. In one portion of this plant a consider able blaze was still raging at a late hour this morning. Firemen who had battled with the flames all night were still at work here this morning. It was in this plant that four-inch shells were being manufactured for Uncle Sam's navy. Machines a Loss Across from the plant Is what Is known as the "transforming hut," a small brick building containing two electric transformers of the latest type, which supplied the entire plant of the Pipe Bending Works with the electricity for the dynamos, which operate the motors and the machines throughout the plant. These ma chines were said by the company olllclals this morning to be a total loss. There are eight buildings compos ing the entire plant of the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Works. With the execptlon of the buildings that were destroyed last night, the plant is able to resume operations with the other buildings unscathed by the flames. A subtransformlng station supplying electricity to the plan', and the company will continue ful filling the obligations of its large government munitions contracts. Plants that do tho finer part of the shell making are working to-day. W. P. Starkey, general superin tendent of tho Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Rending Plant, said this morn ing that building operations will be resumed at once, and modern lire proof buildings will take the place of thoso destroyed. Mr. Starkey estimated that It will not take longer than three weeks to put up tho three buildings. The new buildings will be of solid concrete, with steel roofs, modern and lire proof In every respect. Tho replacement of the machinery will be tho greatest difficulty, but it is understood that tho officials arc at work on this problem now. Old Buildings The buildings destroyed were old built of brick, with wooden roofs. It was owing to the wooden roofs and beams, coupled with the highly In flammable manufacturing materials in the buildings, and the ago of the buildings, that caused the rapid spread of the flames, and prevented the saving of tho valuable machinery and contents of tho buildings. Work men ha., barely time enough to es cape with their lives, and no effort could be made to save the equip ment of the two plants. The tire alarm was turned In from Box 41, at the Philadelphia and Reading station, Market street, by Samuel Dunlap, a workman in the paint shop, where the fire started. Tho alarm was turned In at 8.47, and firemen were summoned by the blow ing of factory whistles and by tele phone. Fire companies were on the scene shortly after the alarm was turned in, but found the building a mass of names. Regan in Paint In the cylinder finishing depart ment there was stored the entire supply of paint, for thte cylinders, in ten-gallon cans and forty-gallon barrels. According to the generally accepted theory of the plant offi cials, a workman, surreptitiously smoking a cigaret, threw the lighted match pr cigar'ct into an open paint barrel. The special paint used for this work, known as lyptino. Is inflammable to the point of ex plosiveness, and tho match caused an explosion, insuring an instant spread of the flames about the en tire plant. The spread of the fire was so rapid, that no ono could tell [Ooptinuedjfroin First Page. [ certainly at just what point it start ed. To spectators outslda the build ing, the coutlignition seemed to bo rather in the nature of a flare, it rose and spread over the entire building so quickly, spreading a vivid red stain across the sky. The heat was intense, and quickly consumed the roofs of the building, igniting' tho rough turning plant to the south of the cylinder finishing department. The electric transform ing plant is separated from the rough turning plant by a matter of ; some feet, but was burning beyond hope of salvation before the firemen could take any effectual measures to check the flames. Fight Great Odds The main conflagration was be tween four and six o'clock, with by far the greatest amount of damage done during the earliest part of the fire. Firemen fought the flames against great odds, the water supply being low. The cold was incense, and the clothing and apparatus ot the firemen were soon coated with ice. Shortly after the firemen ar rived. the roof of the paint cylinder finishing plant crashed to tha floor, and in some places bore the ma chinery through to the l)a*fment. In a few minutes later the roof of the other rough turning bui'din? also collapsed, completing tho ruin of the valuable equipment in the building. It was the crash caused by the toppling roofs with their machinery fixtures onto the machinery belc, that gavo the impression about the city that the conflagration was marked by a series of explosions. The only cxplosi' 3 materials in the buildings were Hi- machine oil, and the paint which started the fire. An explosion of these materials would be in the nature of Instant combustion without any accompany ing noise, it was said this morning. To Rtiild at Once There are about one thousand men employed by the company in these two buildings. One shift contained about 300 men. The shift at work at the time of the fire was on duty from 11 p. m. until 7 this morinng. An effort will bo made to employ these idle men in the reconstruction of the plants, which will be started at once. Clarence Dickey, colored. 1117 Crape street, and Mervin Sherley, H. F. D. No. 4, Harrisburg, are the men in the Harrisburg Hospital as the result of burns sustained in the fire. Roth men aro badly burned about the head, neck and arms, but 'heir condition Is not reported to be* serious. Sailors of Russian Mystery Ship Have Port Freedom By Associated Press A Pacific Poft, .Tan. 2. —While the Russian steamer Shllka, regarded as a "mystery ship," for some time after her arrival here from Vladi vostok under Rolshevlki control, Is still closely guarded hv police and federa lofflcers, the sailors are now allowed the freedom of the city. Government officials, it was said tc-day, have decided there Is no reason for detaining the steamer and she is now taking a cargo of pig Iron from the return voyage. nllors of the SMlka's orew have been buying merchandise heavily for sale on their own account when they again reached Vladivostok. MO# IN CMS Be Better Looking—Take Olive Tablets If your skin is yellow—complexion pallid—tongue coated —appetite poor— you have a bad taste in your mouth— a lazy, no-good feeling—you should take Olive Tablets. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets—a sub stitute for calomel—were prepared by Dr. Edwards after 17 years cf study with his patients. Dr.Edwards'OliveTabletsare a purely vegetab'.ecompound mixed witholive oil. You will know them by their olive color. To have a clear, pink skin, bright eyes, no pimples, a feeling of buoyancy like childhood daysyou must get at thecause. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets act on the liver and bowels like calomel —yet have no dangerous after effects. They start the bile and o vercome con stipation. That's why millions of boxes are sold annually at 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. Take one or two nightly and note the pi jasing results. JANT7AR ? "i, IM!R EVERY S2O-A-WEEK CLERK WILL PAY TAX [Continued from First Page.[ care of the three> counties, Dauphin, Perry and Snyder. It was not possible to start the machinery to-day because the forms have not arrived from tho govern ment printery. Some important changes had to be made, so It Is not expected that these sheets will be here before next Monday. In the meantime, however, anyone who applies to the ottlce will bo enlight ened on his responsibilities con nected with the income tax. The indications are for a rush, but . for this Mr. Plymire has made all preparations and no one will com plain of being compelled to wait long. These experts have every de tail on the tip of their tongue and know how to make things plain. A l very serious proposition It is, too,! ! and they do not hesitate to empha-1 size that the government is ready to severely punish any delinquent. Tho 1 taxpayer must nee to it that his re turn is made sometime between now and March 1 under penalty of going to prison or paying a heavy fine. One In Sixty The Income taxpayer of Hjlitla burg now becomes an ordinary Indi vidual. It is likely that one out of every sixty persona here will hare to give The average for the whole country is one out of a hundred, but this community stands above the average. It Is estimated that about 1,000,000 persons in the nation will be taxed. Every unmarried person receiving more than SI,OOO income during the last year must get ready now to pay the 2 per cent. tax. Every married person or head of family making more than $2,000 is in for a slight sacrifice. Under the old tax law no one who did not make more than $3,000 a year was caught by the Income tax. Under the new law the war income tax will reach down to the single' man who earns S2O a week. A man! with that income will have to pay a! 2 per cent, tax on only S4O, for an] exemption of SI,OOO is allowed. If a man is married and makes S4O aj week he must pay a tax on all re-1 ceived over $2,000, or a 2 per cent, tax on SBO. In both these cases the tax would be small. Single persons who earn more than ! SI,OOO and less than SB,OOO have only, a 2 per cent, tax to pay. But in-| comes between $3,000 and $5,000 re-' ceived by singlo persons aro taxed 4 i per cent- Married persons pay the 2 per. . cent, tax on incomes between $2,000 ! I and $4,000. It Is a 4 per cent, tax for I incomes between $4,000 and $5,000. Thus a married man making $2,500 a year would pay a tax of $lO. j But a single man making only $1,500 would have to pay the same tax. Free Information It is clear that every single person, whose income in 1917 was SI,OOO must file a return with the govern-1 l inent on one of the forms provided j for that purpose. It is likewise that] ! every married person regardless of! I tho" number of children, whose in- j 1 come in 1917 was $2,000 must file ai I return on one of the forms. A married person with a $2,000 j ! income in 1917 has an additional ex emption of S2OO for every child, but a return must be filled out if such person earned tho stated amount last year, or received such income! from any source. There are many unusual cases ] falling under the scope of the In-i come Tax Laws, and th§ safest plan for Individuals or corporations to! follow would be to seek the counsel; *of tfyese officials sent here by thej Federal Government. The Questionnaire The questionnaire which is sub-1 mitted to each taxpayer is compre-l hensive but yet concise. 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Among the questions which each taxpayer will be required to answer are: "What 1B your name? "Where is your legal residence? "Are you married or single? "If married, are you living with' your wife, how many dependent chll-l dren under eighteen years old? "If single, are you tho head of a family? "If single, are you supporting others who have a legal or moral claim upon you for BUch support? If so, how much? "Did you file an income tax re turn for prior years? "If so. In what collection dlstrlot was such return filed? "From what Bource or sources do ADAMS # Pure Chewing Gum, $ a Stick a day Hoarseness away i EDUCATIONAL School of Commerce HARRISBURG BUSINESS COLLEGE Troup Ilulldlnt;, in s. Market So Hell phone 4SS| Dim 4303 ' Winter Term, Day and Niirht School, will begin Monday, Decem ber 31, 1917—n0 school New Year's Day—continuation of work Janu ary 2, 1918. IlookbeepltiK. Shorthand, Steno type, Typewriting:, t Ivll Service Oriler n Stenotype NOW I'rlce Increased nfter llec. 31. you receive Income?" "If married, have you Included your wife's Income?" Confirm Big Trade; Paskert For Williams Chicago, Jan. 2.—The trade of Oeorge H. Paskert, Philadelphia Na tional League outfielder, for Cy Wil liams, Chicago National center fielder, was conditionally confirmed by Man ager Freil Mitchell, of the Cubs. Mitchell said that the deal had been under consideration for aome time and that all that was lacking was the confirmation of Manager Moran, of Philadelphia. Moran's announcement at Fltchburg, Mass., yesterday was considered final confirmation of the exchange. IiAWSON WINS AT CHECKERS Boston, Jan. 2.—Charles L*waon. of Brooklyn, N. Y. t won the maatera' tournament at a checker meat of New England and New York play ers laat night. 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