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C ASTORIA Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
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Opium, Morphine nor otber Narcotic substance. Its ago is its guar
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Druggist of Piano. Illinois. Writes under data of
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Gentlemem Tho following tocldentwhlch hap
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great interest to you, and, I hope, of great benefit
to humanity, morally and physically.
I keep a quantity of EATONIO piled on m?
show case. I recently missed a bos, and knowing
neither myself nor cleric bad sold it, I could not
account for its disappearance. Yesterday morning
a man walked into my storo and said: "Mr.
Cramer, I owe you fifty cents for a bos or
EATONIC which 1 stole from your show case. I
tun bothered with stomach trouble and, not har
'ng the money to spare to set a box, I took it.
EATONIC has done me so much good my consci
ence bothered mo until I bad to come bads aad
payforlt.,
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that EATONIC is all that is claimed forit. If it
bad not helped this man his consclencewould nave
left him unmolested. Very truly yours.
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HE two great means of commu
nication on the modern battle
Held, tho means by which gen
ernl headquarters keeps In
touch with every sector of tho
lino and by which tho perfect
co-ordination of all branches
of the service Is possible are
tho airplane and electricity.
Tho romantic appeal of tho
aviation service, the stirring
stories of high adventure that
have come out of the war have
mado tho work of the blrdmcn,
tho superscders of cavalry as
tho eyes of the commander, fa
miliar to the people at home. On tho ground
chnrglng Infantrymen nnd roaring cannon cap-
turn the Imagination. But
th heroic labors of men
who keep open Uio tele
graph nnd telephone lines
which make co-operation
of Infantry and artillery
possible are almost un
known outside tho serv
ice, save, for Instance,
when one rends of a
medal bestowed on n lino
repairman for magnlll
cent disregard of danger.
For their losses nnd their
honors nre alike great.
They go over the top
with tho troops, smoking
their pipes, coolly string
ing lines behind the ad
vancing first line so that
the gun crews may be
kept Informed of the ad
vance or told to concen
trate their fire on n par
ticularly obnoxious ma
chine gun, says a writer
In tho New York Sun
magazine section. They
clamber out of dugouts Into the slush and the
freezing wind of a winter night to feel their way
along a broken wire, sometimes over the shell-pitted
open ground behind the trenches until they
And tho break, then sitting In lco water under Are
they repair It as carefully and skillfully as If they
were at work In the shop at home. It often takes
three or four men to repair one of theso breaks;
tho first men sent out may never come back.
Repaired at all costs the wire must be, and dan
ger does not excuso a slipshod bit df work. For
the signal system of tho army Is what the nerv
dus system Is to tho human body.
Without It the modern army covering 100 miles
of front cannot see, feel or move. Tho army com
mander wishing to move a portion of his lino CO
miles nway or to chnngo tho rapidity of his artil
lery flro or to receive Information of enemy move
ments Is as helpless without tho slender threads of
copper aB ho would be If he wished to move his
right arm and found tho nerves paralyzed.
"There are still peoplo of Intelligence who think
that the transmission of military thought Is summed
ap In tho uso of the notebook, tho orderly and his
iorse," writes Brig. Gen. Georgo P. Scrlven. "But
these aro passing, and the trained soldier and tho
educated volunteer understand the vital Impor
tance of Information.
"Hence the necessity for a signal corps or Its
iqulvalcnt, for without Its aid modern armies can
bo more be controlled than can great railway sys
tems; the commander In the field remnlns blind
and deaf to tho events occurring around him, In
capable of maintaining touch with conditions nnd
out of reach of his superiors or those under his au
thority upon whom he depends for the execution of
his plnns. Tho brain lacks tho power to control
because the nerves are lacking.
"Time is the main factor In wnr; to nrrlvG first
with the greatest number of men and with tho
clearest understanding of tho sltuntlon is to suc
ceed. The last, and often the first, of theso condi
tions depends upon tho lines of Information of tho
army."
And these lines In turn depend upon tho obscuro
but daring work of tho repairman, tho grimy,
mucky, hard-fisted mechanic who crawls on his
belly through shell flro calculated to appall tho
stoutest heart and connects tho break between tho
commander and the point ho wishes to reach.
Somehow the lines are kept open all the tlmo or
are broken for only short Intervals, and tho con
stant tending of them has made posslblo In Franco
a system of wire communication that Is a marvel
of efficiency. Indeed so perfect Is It, thnt London
and Paris aro In direct connection with general
headquarters on tho British front, which In turn Is
In touch with every division and brigade staff on
tho line. A wlro could bo put straight through so
that Lloyd Georgo If ho wished could hear tho
bursting of high explosives and shrapnel on the
Amiens front.
This tromendous uso of tho telephone nnd tele
graph In warfaro Is partly the result of tho Im
petus arising from the American application of
electrical communication on n largo scale in tho
Spanish war. Tho signal corps us It now exists Is
a comparatively recent evolution.
In the American army tho Idea first arose in
the mind of a young army surgeon, Albert James
Myer. Tho office of signal officer of tho army Was
croated In June, 1800, tho first of Its kind, nnd
Myer was appointed. Ho was at onco sent with
an expedition against Navajo Indians In Now Mex
ico, and his crude apparatus at onco demon
strated Its worth.
When the Civil war began ho was ordered East
and opened a school for signalers, and In that was
the definite beginning of tho present signal corps.
Wires were curried on horse or muleback then, tho
Instruments were Imperfect and telegraphic com
munication was a rare and precious thing. Tho
service took on tremendous linportnnco In tho
Spanish wnr and followed the troops through Cuba
omJ tn Philippines, and in China was tho only
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But tho tasks that confronted our signal men
In these wars were pluy compared to the work
that is being done every day on the western front.
Our signal men tliere have an area to cover about
the size of Pennsylvania and they have gone at It
with a vigor and efficiency that spell volumes for
the superiority of Amerlcuns In this particular Hue
of work.
The hardy linemen who have strung lines nnd
repaired breaks on tho Western plains or battled
with great floods and storms In the Rocky moun
tains have taken to this new work with a zest
which Is Inspiring. On tho foundation of tho
French system they nre building a signal system
that will be a model of Its kind.
Up to within four miles of tho front construc
tion Is not different from what it Is hero at home.
Tho wires are strung on poles nnd most of tho
poles havo been planted by tho French. But when
ono gets inside tho shell-torn section that stretches
at least four miles from tho front wires havo to
be protected by being burled from six to eight feet
deep, so that only n direct hit by a largo shell will
disturb them.
Within half a mile of tho front not even this
protection is sufficient, as tho shells churn und re
churn tho ground. Therefore nil wires In this zono
are duplicated and are strung along both sides of
tho trenches. Somotlmes a trench wall is covered
with wires.
In tho battalion hendqunrtcrs signal office, whero
tho hundreds of wires from tho trenches and ob
servation posts centtr and whero tho receivers
hum with tho constant tremors of a world under
flro, plain BUI Sinlfh lounges in a corner rolling a
cigarette and occupied In his own particular
thoughts. It Is a dugout, this headquarters, and
the air Is vile, but BUI got used to that long ago.
"The wlro to A battery Is down," Smith's su
perior officer says, turning to him.
"All right, sir," Is tho answer. And BUI climbs
out of tho dugout, repair kit over bin arm and tin
hat on his head.
In tho trench ho finds the wire that Is broken
and begins to follow It along. It is hot work In
the trench, shells nre dropping thickly, but Smith
doesn't mind much. Ho follows tho wlro down
a communication tronch and then after a long time
out Into tho open, where ho has to crawl ulong
looking for tho holo that will mark tho placo whero
tho lino has been broken.
ITh gets nearly thero when a shell lands near
him nnd Bill Smith? his faco townrd tho break,
goes west. After a tlne, back In tho dugout, an
other repnlrman Is sent out nnd perhaps ho Is
luckier than BUI and finds tho break.
Then ho has to sit down In tho shell crater, tho
smash of bursting shells' so closo that somotlmes
he Is half burled In dirt, cnlmly making the con
nection that will ennblo tho observation officer up
front to got In touch with his battery again. If ho
gets back to tho dugout ho will bo sent out again
and yet again If tho bombnrdmont Is heavy, and
often for days and nights at a tlmo theso men are
under Are, snatching a nap now and then In tho
dugout between brenks. But thoy keep tho lines
open.
In an attack the signal men go over tho top with
tho Infantry, generally with tho second wave, in
charge of tho observing officer. They mako for n
point whero they can establish an observation
post, and as thoy pass on nnd through tho enemy's
bnrrago they unroll their lino and ono of them car
ries a Hold telephono, through which thoy somehow
manngo In tho din of battle to mako themselves
heard.
That telephono Is llko a battlo flag, and many a
man goes down with it, only to havo It picked up
and carriod forward by another of theso noncom
batant troops. Their business Is only to servo, not
to light, and they do It with a cool daring which
la not surpassed in any branch of Uie service.
They are in tho forefront of every advanco arvJ
In tho retreat aro sometimes tho Inst to leavo tho
front Hue, whore tlwy stick to tho end of their
wires under terrific shell fire until ordered to re
join their commands If they can get through alive.
"An experienco of this kind happened to mo a
short tlmo ago In n lonely chateau of tho Ypres
Mcnln road," an English officer wroto homo. "Tho
clmtcnu was tho center of a perfect hell of Ger
man shrapnel for nearly n week, until lt-becamo
almost untenable and was abandoned by tho head
quarters staff.
"Tho general gnvo Instructions that n telegraph
ist wns to remain behind to transmit important
messages from tho brigades, and I wns left In
charge of tho instruments In this shell-swept
chntcau for a day and a night.
"On tho second day tho Germans broko through
our trenches and tho wires wero cut by tho shell
lire. I was given orders to evacuato tho building
and smash up my Instruments. Theso I saved by
, burying In a shellproof trench, nnd then I had to
escape between our k own flro nnd thnt of the
enemy's ncross a field under n tcrrlblo tornado of
shrapnel.
"On tho early morning of the samo day ono of
. our cable detachments was cut up and another
captured by tho Germans, only to bo rotnken by
our sappers and drivers after a despernto and
glorious fight."
Tho linemen also havo regular patrols, stretches
of lino which havo to bo constantly exnmlncd not
only for breaks but also to mako sure that they
havo not been tapped by enemy spies In such a
way that every bit of Information sent ovor them
finds Its way to tho Germans. In the Alsno onco,
whero tho hill country offered good cover to splea,
tho wires wero constantly being tapped.
Ono day a lineman passing along tho road no
ticed a lot of cablo lying at ono side. Ho started
to coll It up and found that a piece of wlro had
been tied to the main line. When he traced It he
found that it ran to a haystack. Ho wont on,
tapped tho lino nnd sent In word to hendqunrtcrs
and an armed escort found a spy hidden In the hay
with soverul df.ys' supply of food.
Thoy are autocrats lu their way, these wlro re
pairmen, and no ono Is permitted to lnterfero with
the swift execution of their work, Word coming
ovor the lino that tho wlro to a battory was re
paired Is often tho sweotest sound In tho world to
an observation olllcor up front, oven if It comes in
a rough brogue which French weather has not Im
proved. So when anybody elso breaks In on tho lino and
Interferes with tho repairman ho gets rolled, es
pecially If ho has been sitting for soveral hours In
n shell holo with an ley rain dripping down his
back. An English officer told of what happenod
to a general who broke In once.
"A general camo In tho hut and told me 'I taag
up the telephono Just now nud said, "Give ma the
brigade, please," but somo one with a loud
volco replied deliberately and distinctly: "Got off
tho blinking line." I got off remarking that ai
soon as convenient I should like -to speak. I
apologized and explained that tho lino had been
down nnd was being repaired. Ho went off with
. u merry twlnklo in his eye.'
As tliq number of men In tho American army
abroad grows with tho weeks, tho number of lino
men, thoso who mako posslblo all that tho artil
lery and Infantry together accomplish, will stead,
lly Incrcaso until they aro a small army In them
selves. And probably It will not bo long before an
nouncement will bo mado that somo plain Bill
Smith, wlro repairman, has beon given a medal for
bravery under lire, which attracted attention even
among thei hundreds of bravo acts which then,
men perform every day.
