The County Democrat. (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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THE COUNTY DEMOCRAT. TECUMSEH. OKLA
YOUR SICK CHILD
IS CONSTIPATED!
LOOK AT TONGUE
hurry, motheri remove poi-
sons FROM LITTLE STOMACH,
LIVER, BOWELS.
QIVE “CALIFORNIA 8YRUP OF
FIQS" if cross, bilious
OR FEVERISH.
Albert RDep
■ WH> *■ (MU
No mutter what alls your child, a
gentle, thorough laxative should al-
ways be the first treatment given.
If your little one Is out of sorts,
half-slclt, Isn’t resting, eating and uet-
ing naturally—look, Mother! see If
tongue Is coated. This Is a sure sign
that the little stomach, liver and how-
els are clogged with waste. When
cross. Irritable, feverish, stomach sour,
breath bad or has stomach-ache, dlnr-
rhea, sore throat, full of cold, give n j
teaspoonful of “California Syrup of j
Figs,” and In n few hours all the con- j
stlpated poison, undigested food and
sour bile gently moves out of the lit- I
tie bowels without griping, and you
have n well, plnyful child again.
Mothers can rest eusy after giving
this harmless “fruit luxntlve,” because
It never falls to cleanse the little one’s
liver and bowels and sweeten the stom-
ach and they dearly love Its pleasant
taste. Full directions for bnbles, chil-
dren of o' ages and for grown-ups
printed on ench bottle.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask your druggist for n bottle of “Cal-
ifornia Syrup of Figs;" then see that
It Is made by the "California Fig Syrup
Company.”—Adv.
Her Doctor the Man These Times.
lie—If I should kiss you, I suppose
you'd go and tell your mother.
She—No, my lawyer.
DEPEW GETS HIS FIRST EXPERIENCE IN THE FRONT UNE
TRENCHES AT QIXMUDE.
Synopsis._Albert N. Depew, author of the story, tells of his service
In the United States navy, during which he attained the rank of chief
petty officer, flrst-clasa gunner. The world war starts soon after he
receives hla honorable discharge from the navy, and he leaves for
France with a determination to enlist. He Joins the Foreign Legion and
la assigned to the dreadnaught Cassard. where hlr marksmanship wins
him high honors. Later he la transferred to the land forces and sent to
the Flanders front
CHAPTER IV—Continued.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
by LOCAL, APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh Is a local dlseuse Kreatl> Influ-
•need by constitutional conditions. HALL 8
CATARRH MEDICINE will cure catarrh.
It Is taken Internally and acts through
the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the
Bystem. HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE
Is composed of some of the best tonics
known, combined with some of the best
blood purifiers. The perfect combination
of the Ingredients In HALL'S CATARRH
MEDICINE Is what produces such won-
derful results In catarrhal conditions.
Druggists 75c. Testimonials free
F. j! Cheney & Co.. Props., Toledo. O.
While blacksmiths may hnve mnny
virtues, they must have at least one
vise._
HOW TO FIGHT
SPANISH INFLUENZA
By DR. L. W. BOWERS.
Avoid crowds, coughs and cowards,
but fear neither germs nor Germans!
Keep the system In good order, take
plenty of exercise In the fresh air and
practlco cleanliness. Remember a clean
mouth, a clean skin, and clean bowels
are a protecting armour against disease.
To keep the liver and bowels regular
and to curry away the poisons within.
It Is best to take a vegetable pill every
other day, mode up of May-apple, aloes,
Jalap, aud sugar-coated, to be had at
most drug stores, known us Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. If there Is a sudden
onset of what appears like a hard cold,
one should go to bed, wrap warm, take
a hot mustard foot-bath and drink copi-
ously of hot lemonade. If pain develops
In head or back, ask the druggist for
Anurlc (null uric) tablets. These will
fljish the bladder and kidneys and carry
off poisonous germs. To control the
pains and aches tuke one Anurlc tublet
every two hours, with frequent drinks
of lemonade. The pneumonia uppears
In a mpst treacherous way, when the
Influenza victim Is apparently recover-
lug and anxious to leave his bed. In re
coveting from a bad attack of Influenza
or pneumonia the system should be
built up with n good herbal tonic, such
as Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
ery, made without alcohol from the
roots and barks of American forest
trees, or his Irontie (Iron tonic) tablets,
which can be obtuined at most drug
stores, or send 10c. to Dr. Pierce’s Inva-
lids’ Hotel, Buffulo, N. Y., for trial
package.
Cuticura Heals
Itching Burning
Skin troubles
Persistent Coughs
•re dangerotii. Get prompt relief from
pUo’s. Stop* -irritation; soothing. Effective
•nd safe for young and old. No opiates in
PISO’S
In the communication trench yon
have to keep your distance from the
fiian ahead of you. This Is done so
that you will have plenty of room to
fall down In, and because If a shell
should find the trench, there would be
fewer casualties In an open formation
tn»n in a closed. The German artil-
lery ii keen on communication
trenches, and whenever they spot one
they stay with It a long time. Most
of them are camouflaged along the top
and sides, so that enemy aviators can-
not see anything but the earth or
bushes, when they throw an eye down
on oar lines.
We took over our section of the
front line trenches from n French line
regiment that had been on the Jod for
24 days. That was the longest time
I have heard of any troopa remaining
on the firing line.
Conditions at the front and ways of
fighting are changing all the time, as
each aide Invents new methods of
butchering, so when 1 try to describe
the Dtxmude trenches, you must real-
ise that It Is probably Just history by
now. If they are still using trenches
there they probably look entirely dif-
ferent
But when I waa at Dtxmude they
were something like this:
Behind the aeries of front-lino
trenches are the reserve trenches; In
this case five to seven miles away, and
still farther back are the billets. These
may be houses or barns or ruined
churches—any place that can possibly
be used for quartering troops when
off duty.
Troops were usually in the front-
line trenches six to eight days, and
fourteen to sixteen days In the reserve
trenches. Then back to the billets for
six or eight days.
We were not allowed to change our
clothing In the front-line trenches—
not even to remove socks, unless for
Inspection. Nor would they let you
as much as unbutton your shirt, unless
there was an Inspection of Identifica-
tion disks. We wore a disk at the
wrist and another around the neck.
Yon know the gag about the disks, of
course: If your arm Is blown off they
can tell who you are by the neck disk;
If your head Is blown off, they do not
care who you are.
In the reserve trenches yon can
make yourself more comfortable, but
you cannot go to such extreme lengths
of luxury as changing your clothes en-
tirely. That Is for billets, where you
spend most of your time bathing,
changing clothes, sleeping and eating. ,
Believe me, a billet Is great stuff; It
la like a sort of temporary heaven.
Of course you know what the word
"cooties” means. Let us hope you
will never know what the cooties
themselves mean. When you get In
or near the trenches, you take a course
In the natural history of bugs, lice,
rats aud every kind of pest that has
ever been Invented.
It Is funny to see some of the new-
comers when they first discover a
cootie on them. Some of them cry.
If they really knew what It was going
to be like they would do worse than
that, maybe.
Then they start hunting all over each
other, Just like monkeys. They team
up for this purpose, and many times It
Is In this way that a couple of men get
to Xnt trench partners and come to be
pals for life—which may not be a long
time at that.
In the front-Une trenches It Is more
comfortable to fall asleep on the para-
pet fire-step than In the dugouts, be-
cause the cooties are thicker down
below, and they simply will not give
you a minute’s rest. They certainly
are active little pests. We used to
make back scratchers out of certain
weapons that had flexible bandies, bit
never had time to use them when we
needed them most.
We were given bottles of a liquid
which smelled like lysol and were sup-
posed to soak our clothes In It It was
thought that the cooties would object
to the smell and quit work. Well,
a cootie that could stand our clothes
without the dope on them would not
be bothered by a little thing like this
stuff. Also, our clothes got so eour
and horrible smelling that they hurt
our noses worse than the cooties. They
certainly were game little devils, and
came rlgvt back at us.
So most of the pollua threw the
dope at Frits and fought the cooties
hand to hand.
There waa plenty of food In the
Irenches most of the time, though once
In a while, during a heavy bombard-
ment, the fatigue—usually a corporal’s
guard—would get killed In the com-
munication trenches and we would not
have time to get out to the fatigue and
rescue the grub they were bringing.
Sometimes you could not find either,
the fatigue or the grub when you got
to the point whe*B they had been hit.
But, as I say. we were well fed most
of the time, and got second and third
helpings until we had to open our
belts. But as the Limeys say: “Gaw
blimey, the chuck was rough.” They
served a thick soup of meat and vege-
tables In bowls the size of wash ba-
sins, black coffe« with or without
sugar—mostly without 1—and plenty
of bread.
Also, we had preserves In tins. Just
like the Limeys. If you send any par-
cels over, do not put any apple and
plum Jam In them or the man who gets
it will let Frits shoot him. Ask any
Limey soldier and he will tell you the
same. I never thought there was so
much Jam In the world. No Man’s
Land looked like a city dump. Most
of us took It, after a while, Just to
get the bread. Early In the war they
used the tins to make bombs of, but
that was before Mills came along with
his hand grenade. Later on they flat-
tened out the tins and lined the dug-
outs with them.
Each man carried an emergency ra-
tion In his bag. This consisted of bully
beef, biscuits, etc. This ration was
never used r tcept In a real emergency,
because no one could tell when It
might mean the difference between
Ufo and death to him. When daylight
catches a man In a shell hole or at a
listening post out In No Man’s Land
he does not dare to crawl back to his
trench before nightfall, and then Is the
time that his emergency ration comes
In handy. Also, tho stores failed to
reach ns sometimes, as I have said,
and we had to use the emergency
rations.
Sometimes wo received raw meat
and fried It In our dugouts. Wo built
They Potted Hune by Gueee Work,
regular clay ovens In tho dugouts, with
Iron tops for broiling. This, of course,
was In tho front-line trenches only.
Wo worked two hours on tho fire-
step and knocked off for four hours.
In which time wo cooked and ate and
slept This routine was kept up night
and day, seven days a week. Some-
times the program was changed; for
nstance, when there was to be an at-
tack or when Frit* tried to come over
and visit but otherwise nothing dis-
turbed our routine unless it was a gas
attack.
The ambition of most privates Is to
become a sniper, as the official sharp-
shooters are called. After a private
haa been In the trenches for six
months or a year and has shown his
nmtmiiiniihlp. he becomes the great
imb he h»» dreamed about We bad
two snipers to each company and be-
cause they took more chances with
heir liras than the ordinary privates
they were allowed more privilege#.
When It was at all possible our snipers
were allowed dry quarters, the beet of
food, and they did not have to follow
the usual routine, but cam# and want
as they pleased.
Our snipers, as s rule, went over
the parapet about dusk. Just before
Frits got his star sbellr going. They
would crawl out to shell craters or
tree stumps or holss that they bad
spotted during the day—In other
words, places where they could see
the enemy parapets but could not be
seen themselves. Once In position,
they would make themselves comfort-
able, smear their tin hats with dirt,
gat a good rest for their rifles and
snipe every Oerman they saw. They
wore extra bandoleers of cartridges,
since there was no telling how many
rounds they might fire during the
night Sometimes they had direct and
visible targets and other times they
potted Huns by guesswork. Usually
they crawled back Jest before day-
light hut sometimes they were out 24
hours at s stretch. They took great
pride In the number of Germans they
knocked over, and If our men did not
get eight or ten they thought they had
not done a good night’s work. Of
course it was not wholesalt killing,
like machine gunning, but It waa very
useful, because our rnlpers were al-
ways laying for the Oerman snipers,
•nd when they got Sniper Frits they
saved Just so many of our lives.
The Limeys have a great little ex-
pression that means a lot: “Carry on.”
They say It is a cockney expression.
When a captain falls in action, his
words are not a message to the girl
he left behind him or any dope about
his gray-haired mother, but “Carry on,
Lieutenant Whosls.” If the lieutenant
gets his It la "Carry on, Sergeant
Jacks,” and so on as far as it goes.
So the words used to mean, “Take
over the command and do the Job
right” But now they mean not only
that but “Keep up your courage, and
go to It” One man will say It to
another sometimes when he thinks the
first man Is getting downhearted, but
more often. If he Is a Limey, he wlU
start kidding him.
our men, of course, did not say
“Carry on,” and In fact they did not
have any expression in French that
meant exactly the same thing. But
they used to cheer each other along,
all right, and they passed along the
command when It was necessary, too.
I wonder what expression the Ameri-
can troops will use. (You notice I
do not call them Sammies!)
I took my turn at listening post with
the rest of them, of course. A listen-
ing post Is any good position out In
No Man’s Land, and la always held by
two men. Their Job Is to keep a'live
ear on Frit* and 1ft case they hear any-
thing that sounds very much like an
attack one man runs back to his lines
and the other stays to bold back the
Boches as long as he can. You can
figure for yourself which is the most
healthful Job.
As many times as I went on listen-
ing-post duty I never did get to feel-
ing homelike there exactly. You have
to lie very still, of course, as Fritz Is
listening, too, and a move may mean
a bullet In the ribs. So, lying on the
ground with hardly a change of posi-
tion, the whole lower part of my body
wonld go to sleep before I had been
at the post very long. I used to brag
a lot about how fast I could run, so
I had my turn as the runner, which
suited me all right But every time
I got to a listening post and started
to think about what I would do if
Fritz should come over and wondered
how good a runner he was, I took a
long breath and said, “Feet do your
duty.” And I was strong on duty.
After I had done my stunt In the
front-line ».ud reserve trenches I went
back with my company to billets, but
had only been there for a day or two
before I was detached and detailed to
the artillery position to the right of us,
where both the British apd French
had mounted naval guns. There were
guns of all calibers there, both naval
and field pieces, and I got a good look
at the famous "75’s.” which are the
best guns In the world, In my estima-
tion, and the one thing that saved
Verdun.
The “75's” fired 80 shots a minute,
where the best the German guns could
do was six. The American three-inch
field piece lets go six times a minute,
too. The French government owns the
secret of the mechanism that made
this rapid fire possible. When the first
“75’s” began to roar, the Germans
knew the French had found a new
weapon, so they were very anxious to
get one of the guns and learn the
secret.
Shortly afterward they captured
eight guns by a mass attack In which,
the allies claim, there were 4,000 Ger-
man troopa killed. The Boches studied
the guns and tried to turn out pieces
like them at the Krcpp factory. But
somehow they could not get It Their
Imitation "70's” would only fire five
shots very rapidly and then “cough”—
puff, puff, puff, with nothing coming
out The destructive power of the
“TB’s” Is enormous. These guns have
saved the lives of thousands of pollus
and Tommies and It is largely due to
them that the French are now able to
beat Fritz at hla own game and give
back shell for shell—and then some.
him In the trenenes, because our one-
fits were nowhere near each other, but
whenever we v ere In billets st the
a# time, we were together as much
as possible.
Brown was a funny card and I never ___
M«. Godden T*. How If
low, never saying much and slow tn b« PtMM in S«*ty
THAT CHANGE IN
WOMAN’S LIFE
and Comfort.
everything he did or said—you would
never think he amounted to much or
waa worth his salt. The boys used to
call him “Ginger” Brown, both on ac-
count of hla red hair and hla alow
movements But he would pull a sur-
prise on you every once In a while,
like Ms ona that ha fooled me with.
One morning about dawn wa started
out for a walk through what used to
be Dtxmude—piles of stone end brick
and mortar. There were no civvies to
be seen; only mules and horses bring-
ing up casks of water, bags of beans
chloride of 11ms barbed wire, ammu-
nition. etc. It waa a good thing we
were not superstitious At »hatt the
shadows along the walls made me feel
shaky sometimes
Finally Brown said: “Come on
down; let’s see the *75’s.’ “ At this
time I had not seen a ”75,” except on
a train going to the front, eo I took gacj, annoying sympion* **»»-
him up right away, but was surprised nervousness, backache, head-
that he should know where they were. * 1 ache, irritability and “ the blues may
After going half way around Dlx- | be sp«dlly overcome and th. system
mude Brown said. "Here we are.” and £££*,& «ThU“ra^dy l)5i. E.
started right Into what was left of a pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
big house. I kept wondering how he £ complications present them
would know so much about It, but fol- j saiVee write the Fink horn Medicine Co.
1 Lynn, Mm, for suggestions bow to
overcome Them. The result of forty
years experience is st your sendee and
your letter held In strict confidencs
six years of ageaa*
had oil the symp-
toms incident to that
change—beat flash-
es, nervousness, and
was in a general run
down condition, so
it was hard for me
to do my work.
Lydia E. Fink ham’s
Vagatabls Com-
pound was recom-
mended to me as the
best remedy for my
troubles, which it
uvuuiva, evaasa.ee -w
surely proved to be. I feel beUer end
stronger in every way since taking it,
__________
time I had not seen a “75," except on Loleon st., Fremont, Ohio,
a train going to the front ao I took gacl| annoying symptons as hest
m m .1 Km* warm a giiPBrUod A t _.ra/vnenaM hgfltgrhR
There’s Magic, in
a
Red Cross Ball Blue
A hundred years ago, the magic,
dazzling whiteness it gives to the
coarsest as well as most delicate
fabrios would have caused its user
to be hailed as a witch. Tcwlay
she is the envy of her neighbors,
at much less labor to herself.
Makes clothes beautiful.
Buy It—try It—and you’ll stick to IL
<11 Mi mil good grocers
S Cents Almost Free!
Eczema
MONEY BACK
without question Hant’0 Salve
fails in the treatment of Bcxema
Tetter, Ringworm, Itch, etc. Don't
become di*oonraged because othet
treatments failed. Hunt 3 8aJv*
haa relieved hundreds cf such casern
You can t lo»e on nr Mone%
B<iek Quarantet. Try It at o. risl
TODAY Price 76c at ng -tore*
A- B. Richards ^-o. dherman, Texai
Wa Started Right Into What Waa Left
of a Big Houso.
lowed him. Inside the houso was a
passageway under the ruins. It was
about seven feet wide and fifty feet
long, I should Judge.
At the other end was the great old
“75,” poking Its nose out of a hole In
the wall. The gun captain and the
crew were sitting around waiting the
word for action, and they seemed to
know Brown well. I was surprised at
that, but still more so when he told
me I could examine the gun If I
wanted to, Just as If he owned It.
So I sat In the seat and trained the
cross wires on an object, opened and
closed the breech and examined the j
recoil. , ;
Then Brown said; “Well, Chink,
you’ll see some real gunnery now,” and
they passed the word and took sta-
tions. My eyes bulged out when 1
saw Brown take his station with them!
“Sllencel" Is about the first com-
mand a gun crew gets when It Is going
Into action, but I forgot all about It,
and shouted out and asked Brown how
he got to be a gunner. But he only
grinned and looked dopey, as usual.
Then I came to and expected to get a _______
call down from the officer, but he only g; m ■ B? CFDIIM
grinned and so did the crew. It, !’■
seems they had it aU framed to sPrtGS . ^ on, SERUM made in Oklahoma ’
on me. and they expected I would bs wiU protrct your ho8.
surprised. ..... ! Wri,e for our FREE BOOKLET
So we put cotton to ion MS EAGLE SERUM CO.. OKLAHOMA CITY. OKU
the captain called the observation j *“*•
SWAMPLAND LIVER PILLS “DO"
“called 4128 meters" to Brown. They
placed the nose of a shell In a fuse
adjuster and turned the handle until
It reached scale 4128. This set the
fuse to explode at the range given.
Then they slammed the shell Into the
breech, locked It shut and Brown sent
his best to Fritz.
The barrel slipped back, threw out
the shell case at our feet and returned
over a cushion of grease. Then we
received the results by telephone from
the observation tower. After he had
fired twelve shots the captain said to
Brown. “You should never waste your-
self In Infantry, son.” And old dopey
Brown Just stood there and grinned.
That was Brown every time. He
knew about more things than you could
think of. He had read about gunnery
and fooled around at Dixmude until
CHAPTER V.
_ i;
With the ''76’s.*
My pal Brown, of whom I spoke be-
fore. had been put In the Infantry
when he enlisted In the Legion, be-
cause he had served in the United
States Infantry. He soon became a
sergeant, which had been his rating
In the American service. I neve* saw
Liberty Bomh Bonifht — B«*t priors paid. No
delays. BomUluck luru.imenl Co., Fort Worth, Tex,
Flowers Giver. Fighters' Names.
The blossoms which will be leading
features of the annual chrysanthemum
show nt Washington, when the health
authorities again permit public gather
lngs, are named for Gen. Hunter Lig-
gett and Admiral Sims. They wer«
christened by American, English and
French sullors. Several new blossomi
of the “General Kuhn” seedling named
lust year, have been placed near th<
“Geqeral Pershing,” also christened at
last year’s show.
You May Try Cuticura Free
Send today for free samples of Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment and learn
and fooled around at u.xmuae uuu. sickly they relieve Itching, skin
ana tooiea a™ •TB’s.” a ,<i scalp troubles. For free samples
they let him play wlth the s. _ ^ ..Cutlcura> Dept. x, Boston."
finally here he was. giving his klnl'-al
to old Frits with the rest of them.
Members of the Foreign Le-
gion, all soldier# of fortune,
swear vengeance when they eee
the Germans place Belgian wom-
en and children In front of them
as shields against the enemy's
fire. Gunner Depew tells about
this In the next Installment.
At druggists and by mall.
Ointment 25 and 50.—Adv.
Soap 25
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
8he Won’t Believe It.
A man may be a hopeless Idiot, but
If be admires a woman yon cant coo*
vlnce her that he is crazy.
Trinidad Is Increasing Its petroleum
production, the output last year befag
almost 56,000,000 gallons —
Two View*.
Bix—“I hate golf; it’s too much like
work." Dlx—“I hate work ; It’s nol
enough like golf.”
About nil you can say for some men
after they are dead Is that they made
money.
There Is no rule without an excep-
tion^_
When Your Eves Need Care
Try Murine Eve Remedy
No Smarting — Just Rye Comfort, 00 cent* bt
Dnumist* or mail. Writ* for Fro* Hyo Book.
UUBINX KYI REMEDY CO-. CHICAGO
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