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IMA THE ARMY and THE NAVY Communications will be answered promptly, ing news each week. Interest BIRDS IN COMPACT EAGLE AND FISH HAWK HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING WANTED BEEFSTEAK AND ONIONS One night lnsi week over In France, behind the battle front, I trufklmul of freak beef wan1 rushing up to n certain hospital a1 the order of mi American general. The general iii visited i large num ber of American wounded at noon, paaeing from cot to cot Inquiring, "Well, boys, what ran I do for you?" "This is the answer J got," be said tolling of the visit: "General, can't you get us some good old beefateak smothered in onions? They want to keep feeding us soup -and, general, a few smokes wouldn't go bad." "1 knew just bow they felt. They're going to get their beefsteak, onions and smokes. They can have anything they want from me; 1 like that crowd. " Among sevral hundred wounded the general heard only three complaints about treatment. The doughboys are showing a wonder ful spirit of self-sacrifice. For example, the doctors passed along one spot where wounded lay stretched beneath trees. The doctors wen picking out the cases to be sent to the rear. "Don't take me, doc; take Hill there; I'm not in bad shape. 1 can stand here awhile," said a Pennsylvania!!. "Shut up, Shorty," unswered "Bill," "you go yourself; you're dying and know it and I'll knock what's left of your blooming head off if you say another word." Another scene : It took place "Wednesday morning in a hospital further in the rear where a young Kentuckian lay mortally wounded. Unable to speak, he beckoned to a nurse and made signs indicating he was thirsty. She brought him a glass of water, lie drank it eagerly, then motioned her to stoop near the side of his cot. He patted her on the cheek, then closed his eyes. His heart had ceased beating. NKW AKMY HHTIU'ITH. Sergeant Trnmel, in charge of the Alliance recruiting Btation for the regular army, reported the following new recruits Bent to the recruiting Station at Fort Liogun, Colorado, dur ing the week ending July 29: Leroy Brewer, West I'lains, Mis souri, F. S. W. engineer corps. Charles Giles, Elsmere, Nebr., F. 8. W. engineer corps. Fred J. Peacock, Ureal Fa lis. Mont., F. S. W. engineer corps. Melvin J. McCluskey, Chicago, V. 8. W. engineer corps. OmroHoffman, Hillcrest, South Dakota, F. S. VV. engineer corps. Carlton W. Shively, Morrill, Neb.. F. S. 'A', engineer corps. Edmond I Habeggar, Crawford, Neb., Held nrtlllery. Harold Davis, Scottsbluff, Neb., M. 8. W. cavalry. VVIlliuni E. IMucksher, Opelousa. Loulssiana, Q. M. corps, cooks and bakers. man's land. "Yes,'' resumed thf gen eral, "you'r the last man in the last r.ijuad of t' e last platoon of the last company of the last 'Mttallon of the las' rvfcUneot of the last brigul After this impressive announcement the general turned on his heel and departed. Then the sergeant-major lest Private Perkins should be puffed up by the suddenly conferred import ance, added: "Yes, and if the army gets the command to form on the left you'll mark time for the rest of your bloodly natrual life." Any military man realizes what it would mean to be pivot man for a line 125 miles long. San Francisco Argonaut. o The first Tommy was rudy of coun N uance, with a huge beard of the line politely known as auburn. The second wil smoot hshaven. "Hi uster 'ave a beard like that till I saw me self In the glass. Then I cut it off.' Hut the beared man was not dismay ed. "Much better 'ave left it on Frank Huston, Ellsworth. Kansas, , mate," he returned gently. "I UBe- Q. M. carps, cooks and bakers Lynn O. Iayman, Canon City, Col orado, Q. M. corps, cooks and baker. A MONSTKIt XOK FOH AKMY. Frank Huston, who enlisted for training in the cooks' and bakers' school at the Alliance recruhlng of fice during the p.s! week, and who was sent, to Fort ltiley, Kansas, to be there in tho schoo three months, is declared by Kecruitlng Sergeant TTamel to be the biggest man ever enlisted through 1 he Alliance office. Huston weighed 227 pounds and was 7 2 inches in height. His chest measurement was 4 0-4 6. He has been cooking for the last twenty years and ; livinu, warlking, eat ing example of his own success as a cook, for bodeolarea that he does cat his own cooking. Ho will, undoubt edly graduate from the tinny school ss an Instructor a salary ofl $96 per month. There is undoubt edly little danger of the rookies get ting "funny" with him. ter ave a face like yours till I saw it in the glass. ThenI growed this beard." o With an air of great importance the small boy of a Sunday school Im parted ;his happy fact to his teacher: "The devil is dead," he said solemn ly. "What makes you think that?" asked the startled teacher. "Dad said so," exclaimed the boy." "I vras standing in the street with him when a funeral passed, and when dad say H he said: "Poor devil! He's dead!" Major Jackson tells of the visit of one ol thS Oenendt to -,he trenches at the end of the British line. The general, v ho was a great stickler for discipline, said to the last man on the left: "Do jrotL know, sir, that you'ro the most important soldier in the army?" Priva.e Perkins mur mured some modOSt rejoinder, but. as in 1st) bound, kept hit; eye glued to the periscope with its vista of no jFDR UNITED STATES SENATE t tOUMfcft GOVERNOR IOHN H, MOREHEAD Private Jenkins. Just home from France, was seated In the village Inn one evening surrounded by a croup of admirers. "I suppose," said old farmer Wurzel, "ye had some narrow escapes out yonder." " W II." answered the Tommy, "noth ing to speak of much, but I remem ber one night I felt like a drink, so I goes down to the establishment. I'd just go me hand on the doorknob, when just then old Fritz sent one of his big 'ones over right on the house, and believe me, it knocked the old booming Bhow down, and left me standing there, silly like, with the knob of the door In mv hand." A SOLDI Klt'S SON(i The following was clipped from "The Hatchet" published on the hlah seas, dated, Somewhere in France, Vol. 3. End of Vol.: When the burning -thirst of the gods of Hate Is quenched by their bloody wine: When the Huns are hurled from the western gate And harried beyond the Rhine; When the flowers grow sweet where the crosses reign, Set light in the crimson loam. Then each will go back to hk girl again W here she waits for hint there at home. And we will not speak of the hell of war As we sit with her, hand in hand; But of only the things we knew be fore And only the things we plann -d. So peace shall rest in the place of care And happiness banish pain When we ull come back from "over there" Back to our girls again. io A member of the American Lalay ette squadron had to make a precipi tate descent and was fortunate enough to come down at a British airdonie behind the lines, not, how ever, without mixing up things a bit. After rescuing himself from n tan gle of wire he limped Blowly up to a brass hat. "Are you the big noise of this joint?" he asked. "I am the commanding officer, if that has anything to do with it," was the reply. "Well," said the American. "I just looked in to tell you I have spread the petrol tank on your grass plot." London Tit-BlU. Monarch of the Air Watches Nast of Business Partner While the Lat ter Catches Food for Both Their Needa. Everybody who summers on the Jer sey coast lias seen uie nsn nawK in work, though of late years the number of such birds seems to be decreasing. The negroes down in 'buries coun ty, Maryland, in that faraway region of Hock Point on the lower Potomac When the river broadens out like n sen and where the fish hawk Is com mon, have u story about it and the eagle which is interesting. White the fish hawk, or osprey. dives Into the water for Its food, which consists of fish and eels, the eagle Is a "land-lubber" and would starve if he hud to un dertake to make a livelihood by brav ing the watery depths. the story, that has Its place In the folklore of the 'Black Belt" of Mary land, Is that one day the eugle was very hungry and meeting the fish hawk as he was tlylng home with a fine fish In his claws, said : "Mr. Fish Hawk, yon nnd I might as well be friends and join together and work for our mutual advantage." "I nm willing," said the rish haw!:, soaring along with the eagle by hi side, but keeping a tighter grip on lli fish. "As you agree with me, I'll tell you what we can do," said the eagle. "If .u will Catch all the Hah you can nnd m . a. ttti a. ,rivo-me nan wnai you kci i u Keep i watch In the old pine tree next to your Deal and protect your wife unil chil dren from the sparrow bawke and your it her enemies w hile you are at work !i:-hlng." "All ri"ht." said the flsh hawk. "I will do It." From that day on. the story goes, he llsh hawk has fed the eagle. He :loc8 this In an odd and Interesting manner. Ills eyes are very keen and he can see to a considerable depth in the water, nnd as he skims along over the surface of the deep he picks out ' the fnt flsh he wants. Quick as light ning he plunges down, extends his . laws and in the next Instant rises with the wriggling prey In his talons. After taking a tinner hold on his victim he tseeuds by a spiral flight Into the heavens. The eugle has been watch ing from a tall tree or crag and, ns the tisli hawk rises the Ragle also darts into the sky above him. This is notice for ull the flsh hawk's enemies among the feathered tribe to retreat. Just as the flsh hawk gets to a point rm a plane that Is level w ith that of the eagle he relaxes his grip on the fish and it begins to fall. It Is then the eagle's time for quick action. Like a hot from a rapid-lire gun he dives and In u second or two has the flsh in his eiaws. This aerial "throw und catch" gfiine between the two great birds goes on continually over the broad water! ol the Potomac, much to the edification f the onlookers. Of course, there must be times when the eagle fulls to catch the llsh ns he swoops down through the air after it, but it cannot be proved by anyone who has wir neased tnis particular aerial feat on the part of the "bird of freedom." No body seems to huve ever seen the et !e miss, and nobody BeeOM to have ever known the llsh hawk fail to catch n fish when he dived for it. As the tish hawk rises In the air oftentimes, especially on a sunny duy, the sheen of the flsh can be seen like u pteee of silver in his claws, and some times the "silver" can be seen wrig gling, Impressing one strangely as their eyes witness this tragedy in the air in which the victim can have no hope of rescue. War Has Affected Argentina. Sulphate of aluminum is needed b Argentiua for Clarifying its water sup ply. It was formerly imported from Germany, but is now difficult to obtuin auywhero. American firms are quot ing $11X) to $185 a ton for it, and the estimated needs for 1917 for the coun try are placed at 8,000 tons. As the result of a protest to the government by the Argentina public health works, a plant to manufacture the compound from native kaolin has been author ized at a cost of $1S8,000. It is esti mated that aluminum sulphate can be manufactured under present condition! at $'' u ton and at $10 a ton less when sulphuric acid falls to normal. New Mass Formation. An English officer, sg u "war story runs, went out marketing for his mess in a French town, He bought his pou lets, his legumes nnd his polssons very cleverly, but spoiled his reputation for speaking like a native when at the end he remarked to the demoiselle behind the counter, "Votis snvez, e'est pour la messe" (mease in French being the equivalent for mass in English). The young woman's idea of what must go on at u "mass" in England, after this statement, would no doubt have astonished the officer. .. Meteorites of All Sizes, Among the collection shown In the new building of the National museum at Washing. m is a remarkably flue ex lilbit of meteorites. It includes com plete meteorites ranging in size from the merest pebhlSS to great bowlder like musses, and casts reproducing giant forms like that of Bucubirito, which hus been estimated to weigh 25 tons and still rests where it feU in Mexico. HARROUN ' Motor Cars "A PROMISE FULFILLED" THE OVERTON GARAGE is pleased to announce that they have taken the agency for the famous HARROUN MOTOR CARS, the car that is rapidly becoming one of the leading lines of the country, due to its performance un der all conditions. Within a few days we will have on our floors demonstrating cars and will be glad to how the people of Alliance and vicinity the car that has fulfilled its promise. Special attention is called to the CLUTCH in the HARROUN. The cone runs in oil, faced with asbestos fabric a sure and successful method of securing easy gear shifting and of relieving the entire car of the strains of sudden shift ing and driving hard roads. For sand hill roads this oar will lead them all the clutch will do the work. A year ago the first HARROUN motor amazed motortlom by scoring, in a care fully observed and recorded test, a MAXIMUM of more than 43 HORSE POWER a feat new to the annals of engineering in motors of anything like its displacement. If you are interested in the best car for the money, if you want to see a car that is making good under all conditions and that embodies new and better ideas, worked out by experts who know what is needed for the grind of every day driving, see the HARROUN. THE OVERTON GARAGE Walter Overton, Prop. OIL, GASOLINE, AUTO ACCESSORIES AND REPAIRING I L Save Money on Farm Gates It won't cost you a penny more to put up genuine CAN'T SAG gates on your ranch or farm than to build the clumsy, short-lived all-wood gates you hate used for years. That's why the farmers are putting up thousands of these pates every year. They have found that here is the first practical farm 5?ate one that will really stand the hardest knocks, outlast the all-wood or wire and gas-pipe gates three to one, and yet actually costs them no more than the cheapest home-made gates they can build. CAN'T-SAG gates are not only stronger and cheaper, but they are also the finest looking gates you can own. They swing both ways easily, and are guaranteed never to sag or drag. PUT UP GUARANTEED CAN'T-SAG GATES o Buy them complete or build them just as you prefer. "We furnish the pate steels which includes angle steeples, hinges, braces, lag screws every thing including the lumber. We furnish them so that you can build them any length or height. The sample gate now, on demonstration at our yard will show you just how they ar made and how they look when hung. The price is low. ASK TO SEE THEM. FOREST LUMBER COMPANY GEORGE A. 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