Our Heroic Dead Are Resting In Peace Todau In Seven European Countries

By LLOYD ALLEN. Special Staff Correspondent. fCo*rn*M ms. hr w«»i«» I nUUS.—America's dead—«t»- ] enty thousand In all—are I helng well cared for here I In Europe by a section of 1 the American expeditionary force detailed to collect »be bodies and place them In military cemeteries. Don’t Imagine for one minute that | this big undertaking Is a task that was neglected while the war was In pragma* ; that the Americana who fell In battle were not Interred on the battlefields. Some few cases tare been noted where bodies were found unburied weeks after the fighting stopped; but these cases are so few that the}' cannot be taken Into con aider* tl on. What Is being done by the American expeditionary force now In the way of caring for the dead Is the second chapter The bodies are being disinterred from battlefield graves and carried to military cemeteries where the mounds are arranged ro- on row In even ranks, that in death they may be as they were In life—afioulder to shoulder. Above each grave n crocs is placed. On the cross Is nulled a sloe identification tag. giving the name and regiment. Around each cemetery a substantial fence Is erected. Above each mound Is a small replica of the Stars and Stripes. What chapter three of the story win be remrlns to be seen. Congress will probably authorize the return of aU bodies requested by the man’s family. Tet even If such a ruling Is put Into effect, thousands of American graves Will remain In Europe for the reason that many families will prefer—as did the Roosevelt family—to allow their dead to remain here for their final

Scouts in the War Zone Chase die Wild Boar ]|

Dow theVowtabte Garten The back T^d orchard wfll m«ke u

valuable a retwa ter the averago f,*.

■ does the vegetable garden Uvfj

Sergt. Edward H. Buebler. formerly ■ *****’®L? " ^utmastrr. »** ; ^hart la K, accarfflc., toJ-CWu-

1e. Ky. »ow returned to «nke charge

at the University tf Missouri 0<*

enltlmtirt

Jn last wtm u

rung be Is able to talk entertalnlnglyofhH Wkes^ _ ^ ^ -,nd our I ^ ^ wegeasbll Is last •There were four scouts In our outfl ^ TUec included two by tbe young treea. aln wss one rf us, as be used W be offlC er. Not one Select apples, ebendes,

captain was one of us, as ne useu ‘“TT.-^mandlug offleer. Not one corporals, a sergeant and a private. lad-pounder, canled bU of them had a yellow streak, and the wn “ n f ^ 1 ^,'^^ide. This .bow. 90-pound pack when 200-pound men were ^ ^ptom was Leslie that scout training and biking are notes as to our scouUng W. Clyde of Cambridge. We were jdl -^ter we go,

rrATOU. GfiP/XASt GXAHT

Wearing gas masks, the worker* dig up old graves as a matter of duty. And In a great many Instances tl»ey do much more than theit duty. Consider, for instance, what was done with a cemetery of more than ooc thousand bodies at Poisy Aisne. Every army order bad been lulthfully and carefully carried out. Tbe workers bad made a thorough search of tbe surrounding country. They bad Identified and buried the thousand bodies. The graves were marked off In regulation plots of 208. with a cross over each. Gravel paths were laid out through the cemetery, according to regulations of the 0. R. S. Technically the Job was finished la workmanlike style. But tbe soldiers wanted to do something more. And

they did.

They searched through tinny piles of serapi»ed metals at a salvage dump and collected Iron rails. They begged or l*ocrowed cement, and then they built a reinforced concrete wall around the cemetery. Then they made a trip to a timber patch nearby, found the tallest and atralghtest tree, cut It down, stripped It of branches, painted it white, and planted It In the middle of the little cemetery fur a flagpole. Flowers were 1>I in led around the hose of tbe pole. ».nd Old Glory was swung Into the

Bodies to Come Home.

In Seven Countries. And they are resting In pea re today In seven European countries: England. Scotland. Ireland, dermany. Russia. Italy. Luxembourg, but mainly France near tbe sectors where tbe American boys did their valiant and telling work in finishing up tbe Ger-

man army.

England has tvrti American ceme-

teries: one at Liverpool with 1041 u WB| , y nnnounr ^ graves, and the other at Magdalen l ldM ^ l|ie war u,,, flna , dlBpo . Hill. Winchester. With 5— graves. sltioa of bodies will be considered and In Scotland there are **) P*"*-' faecul ^ M , n .-mire project at such mainly of victims of tbe Tuscanlc dls- . , lnM . |>rolulb1 v after the conclusion of ■•trr- j peace, as the vastnew* and diffleolty of Ireland has X> grave*, and there are lb| „ inconceivable task may

grave* In Italy. Russia. Luxembourg., „.. K .

and a small American cemetery at] There was another announcement.

Coblenr. where a large detachment of i fbnt ^ turn „ r 1n thp

the American army of occ-ipatlon Is Sta|p « , viu N . randp ln dlM . lirae PXC<lK «t tinned In Germany proper. uherc a specific raqu.-st to

It Is the "Graves «irj. ..ration 1 . ..

Service" that ha* charge of rlamlfira-

he contrary 1* made.

Excellent centralisation of this graves registration work Is a feature of the system. An efficient filing system. card Index style, lias been Installed. Map* have been made showing the location of each graveyard. These records are being kept at Tour*. They give the location of a grave with ex-

actitude.

At Aisne Is located the largest of the American battlefield cemeteries, with more than 1.100 graves. The next cemeteries. In order of size. nr» Nantflloia. Vaubecourt. Ffimie*. and Froldola In the rear line areas the cemeteries are located at Meriguar. Bordeaux.

Hon of the American dead In Europe. More than djOOO soldiers were assigned to duty In this service, which la a branch of the quartermaster’* <orps. They not only take up tbe dead In the battle zones, but have searched all of France to find tbe few Ix-dle* that <•* c»i*ed notice and were left unboiled during the day* of actual warfare. From fr.izen dugouts. from ruined bon»<-« shattered by shell fire, and thousand* of Isolated spot* tbe bodies were recovered. France. In the war none, was literally combed and combed again In order that none be left.

Through the Argonne forest, for ex „ _ A .. ample tlie worst fighting of the final Lambezellec. Bnwt. 8uresu.-«. St. N, weeks of war t««k place In tbieketa 1 « lrr - 1 * rou,lon - B4 ' ujne ; A,K r > fW ICxery square kilometer in the Argonne ! mercy, Contrezevlllc. Bozcille* and

ha* been covered by the searching Mnn *-

Ib-tidquarte/s of the grave* regis-

b-ranre as a whole ha* l>een divided ! traUon service at lour* Is kept !nhito 12 anti* rhmagli which the termed by wire of the program of the "Grave* Registration Service" works, work. Aa fast aa the bodies are movffyiere arc three advanced s-vtlon* and cd the information Is posted on the

nine other areas, which Include have ( centralized racorffr.

and Intermediate sectlona and tbe dla- I WhiU the army waited to hear from j grief, each Is good for trirt of Paris. tbe war department and congress re- that brought It.

garding final disposition of tbe dead, no bodies were returned to America, it was announced officially here. Tbe 1dm should not get about that the graves registration service was working solely at finding unburled bodies left on the field and In the tranches after the rapid advance* of the allied*armies during the autumn of 1918. Virtually'all of tbe battle field dead were given burial within a very short time after the engagement. perchance. It was physically Impossible to perform the last rites because tbe body happened to be Is a No Man’s land, raked by machine gun or rifle fire. These first grave* were mode as carefully as circumstance* permitted. Even In the Argonne. amid underbrush and deep thickets, the graves were made by careful squad* that put over each mound the regulation cross and Identity tag. German Graves Undisturbed Here in tbe Argonne sector i xe German graves are thick. It Is d fficult to tell, while Journeying th’uagh the region. whether a cross Is meant to mark an allied mound, or the grave of an enemy soldier. In nil France tbe most elaborate military graveyard* are In the St. Mlliiel salient, near tbe town of St. Mihlel. where the German dead Be butled beneath coetly gravestones resembling monuments in a modern city cemetery. Evidently tbe Germans believed they were to hold these lands

forever.

Many of the Germon graves are marke<l with large headstone*. Or. these stone* arc typical cemetery figures. such ns Grief, plctund ns a weeping woman. Beaded wreaths, entwined artificial flowers, decorate most of the headstones; untarnished by wind, rain or snow. Where appropriate, there Is a replica of the If n Cross. In black. Possibly half of the gruvq* are so

marked.

Every respot • '« given these cemeteries ’by the allied army of occupation. No wreoth Is touched, and ne headstone marred, which In Itself fur nlahes omiisirison of allied and German methods —since the German*. In many sections of occupied France made a systematic campaign of dishonoring French cemeteries by tearing down gravestones and actually destroying the graves themselves. It will Ik* many n day before all of the American UmHo* have Iteen moved from the roadside* and fields of France to the seleotril burial ground*. It Is a certainty the French will always revere- these k|m)Is where American bodl.-* are Interred, which an* monument* to the American sacrifice that made Fra nee’*, future safe from Roche domination. The .lay lm* not yet arrived whim Amerb-nn visitor* ran visit the American cemeteries. But It l* to lie expected. unless eonV-c** order* every Ixuly rciuoied to America, that thousands will visit these spots where rest In peace tbe American soldier* who made the sopieiue sacrifice for their

country

Brieneea curing our seven o-wu...- ------- MT-rience*. csj^iaiiy m “While under fire we bad some men three hours dodging shelU. One would make a hole tlnri wouldtake LO to fiU-lf you want to get an ’‘^'^J^ratlng scouting after “Aside from fighting the boebe. we ha . ( _ rps )n ,hst sectioo. another sort of animal—the wild boor, which tlDf . me boar, •mere Is a bounty on them, which tbcessants winter 1 have to confess that I did not shine “* u. Two of us we went out—the captain, the lieutenant aufl m. , to at*. I was .ent over into a gadey near o " t ? d 0, ^ la 2^,,ey and used to store tool*. I could not ate • * .honeht When I —nothing except a couple of “taxor-back hogs, as tangb reported to tbe captain that the farmer's pigs did tT^e. because I had seen tbe only bmtrs tbri ™^.cro« ^ xot recognize them. Later on we got them, ho aghters and hard to kill, but rather good to eat “When we came back to Brest we b*d the usual -wet rime enjoyed by mo« troop*. I recall one day »ben lt a. m. and meat call for dinner, mere was onothcrlntcren fBW ^ that I recaU at Brest: At 6 o’clock In the morning of December ^ ^talnly prettiest and most complete rainbow that I hzve ever France for was a bow of promise for me. because on December 26 we left France

.< N 'vr”

tbe first persons to greet us was a little . , able k, walk

rifle and pack tbe equipment of a wounded man. who was ab

but not to carry weights. , b . m-i crocs

-1 noticed this scout when we were getting supplies from the Beu Lraes

canteen and told him I was a scout myself, and we ahoc* Mag with due formality. He said, 1 want to help.’ and In auswer to hl* or « la 6.1^ h _„

vvrxmnd rjark belonging to the wounded chap. He was a sight to •» y^T^r struggling under the 50-pound load; but he wouldn’t put It

^"“AsW^paaaed 1 ^ building in the center of the town, without turning his . . .— --ion he said - The man up there in the window Is ray scoutmaster. % S^t to?mr I said. 'No. It wouldn’t do; if. all right If b.

to tte raonouior «n0 .twotod bU .ttmtloo to Oo -coot,

who kept his chin In and his shoulders square despite the heavy load. He certainly was a friendly scout” ’

Select apple*- cherries, pltra*, pew rhe* and pew* et TarieOw th»t wHi furnish a aocceaMon from the

•hlch - ,j

in May. to the late-taaplng apple, uu Ingram and Lsn.lng.-urg. which keey until tlie following May. Oae tree

Apple traea should he planted S t, 90 fret apart euc*> way. and plum t rr! peach treea 18 to 20 feet apart. Ooe year-old trees should he ariected for planting, although in the case of the apple, aour cherry had pear two-yesr-old traea win uauaSy tranapUm «• cessfully If they have not groan tw large. The ttwe may be planted either la fall or spring. They abnold be m just about aa deep aa they stood in the nursery. A* eocn aa they are pUniri the tops should he pruned bade some

what.

treea abould be given a* t though cultivation aa cOra or vegeuh:«. at least until they reads bearing tr» Any kind of gardea vegetables « strawberries, or other small froin may be grown between the tree row It a rank-growing crap like corn grow higher than tbe traea one row shook: be left out preferably north and somk In tbe tree row. so that the fruit trra will not be shaded until they are v»2 established. Low-growing vegeuHa or berries may be planted as clow u the trees aa desired.

POULTRY HOUSE HEEDS SUNLIGHT

In building the poultry house arrangements should be made to allow plenty of sunshine to enter. In tbe shed-roof type of house It pays to allow the sunshine to strike beneath the dropping boards. A bouse 18 feet deep can be constructed four and a half fdet In bade and eight and onebalf feet In front and other depths can be made in the same proportions. The front should then have four-foot curtains along the front and this will allow an abundance of sunshine to strike oil portion* of the house. Also have the windows about two feet down

from tbe top of the house.

One of the causes of disease In the poultry house is damp Utter. It Is expensive to change the litter often and for this reason as much sunshine ua possible should be allowed to enter to keep tbe scratching material from becoming damp and musty. Sunshine la the cheapest disinfectant that the pool try man can use and whenever possible It should be used to the full-

est extent.

Familiar Phrases W^h Recall Adventurous Days How many famUtar phrases we use { without realizing the apt and sometime* striking figures they represent : Consider the worn “skinflint.” for example. or the expression “a fln*h In tbe pan.” We ask for “leeway" or we “shorten rail;*’ we “launch plans” or we “run close to the wind." We have a "close shavewe speak of a mac ns “half teas over.” We “take time by tbe forelock" and “tbe buU by the born*." We “get down to hard pan” or “to bed rock." Vet we seldom think of the phrase* as graphic metaphor*. ; nd more seldom still do we think, a* we use them, of tbe adventurous day* to which we owe so much of the *uggcariveness of our colloquial speech.—

Youth'* Companion.

j Geese Serve as Watch Dog of the Home; Are Reliable at the Family Alarm Clock

I No domesticated birds are so faith- i fuL so interesting, so Intelligent as geese. They ravel In the society of '; those who own them. Iu remote parts of Ireland and Scotland the geese share the family hearth. This la one

their strongest characteristics.

They love to pass the night near the homestead. They do not nceu a warm, comfortable building to sleep . In; they are quite contented, happy.: and healthy If allowed to sit down outside tbe back door. They are light sleepers. A stranger cannot approach within a hundred yards or so without their hearing him and screaming at

the tops of their shrill voices. Tbry will often wander a few miles

during the day. but they will faithfully return in the evening. You win find them punctual. They will time themselves to be back Just as daylight Is failing, and at the hour at which you generally get up In the morning they will see to It that you are called. They win knock at the door, and at tbe windows too If they can reach them, and every few minutes they will scream. They are aa reliable as

an alarm dock.

Dots MHtr Arrives Home From Aim* Duty in France

and Jems the Canfo*

Aftw rpmUot ntmrlr m r*r t.d t half with the marines In France. Doa Miller, one of the really capable tC ; players of the major league*. b*» » | rived home. He attended a few tar quets and then hiked for SL Lou

to Join thp Cardinal*.

Miller was one of tbe first ball pu? era to enlist and taw nerrlce ala*

from the time the American flrb'W force* got Into actloo. When MlM Huggins managed the Cardinal- 5 1' said once that there were only ’** men on his team he would so! tro 1 * and both were named Miller. ~ ,rl * log himself and Dot* Miller.

Thou daaccr of two thousand years.

Thou dancer of today.

What tiler.! rauMe fill* thy ears.

What Bacchic lay.

That thou do it dance the centuries Uown ttdr for*oiter. way? What myalic strain of pucaa mirth

Ha* charmed eternally

Those tithe. »trons Urn bn, that tpurc the

earth?

What melody, Unheard of men. ha* Father Paa Left Unaerint with thee?

r (he wanton throng

Ah! wha Thai round Ihee u**d t

On dead llpe died tlie drinking .acme

But wild and eweet.

What alien! mutlr uryvd thee on.

To 11* uaullcred heal.

Our Expericacaa.

“There la uu had aeallier," «*V* tluakln. "o ily dlff-rent kinds of fond i»«-*tb**r—e-n'-h good f«f *lw purpn**' for which It an* sent.” The aatne le true- of all life’* gapevienree. The disappoint meat, the *trur;l«-. the suetbe welting, the boj-e and the

purpose

How Jack Tars Know When Ship Is Approaching Land Bailor* have a curious way of knowing when their whip Is approaching land. They go U> Mother Nature tor tlielr knowledge. If you are on the ship tliey may ask you to feel the deck, which 1* wet with dew. Even though tbe Man ore shining clearly, and the sea Is alsmtutely smooth the deck seem* as though water had been poured *■ roaa It. The sailor will then inform you that dew 1* never to i* found more than 90 miles from land, ] mt the dew i» a good indlcatioa. SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

t forth danc-tns. dancing still.

Thoo c

Into Die light

la wearied from the murk and dusk

Of eectvric* of night?

Ala* for !he*'-Ala* again The early faith I* gone! '

The god* are no more Men o? men

AU all are gene-

Sun the Universe' Chick. Gut It Was Always WnW From the beginning tbe aun wa* universal dock, and the universal c was always wrong—that I* ,0 ’ twelve o'clock today was not the same as twelve o’clock yeste* 5 *;' But tbe sun had to aerre a* a do* •; most people until little more th* 3 , hundred and fifty yuan ago. when f"* lie clocks took the place of ran and watches begun to be cotn[u*r..' ly ccimmon. Doubtless one of ’ earliest form* of getting ■o®***. near the boor was by length of an upright Kick or spear, or evra ' erect form of the time teller iu^-j serving as u natural gnomon. »- today, all over the far Ra»'. clock* In many, and. Indeed, ia ®V iJacea, la tbe Aadow which ** tulned after one or other of it*'

methods.

*nd tk» Faun.

On Attic skifw* Um twe Ml! *>» many an Khaz MU Th* wlid-grapt swell*, but i

Tha dUiat.i trill

Of_re»riy Outre i,., pan t* , " » pipe* and *tU.

POSSIBLY A REASON

“While I was In Tumllnvllle yesterday." related Gap Johnson of iltlinpus Ridge, -they were trying In the eourtbousr a pas-vel of fellers from down no Fiddle Creek for cutting a curious caper, -reared like one of ’••tn. named TvwL> y. or Booddy. or aotneiblug thrt-n-way. got a a dart of imue-dry

whiaiy i.nd went vtultlng fiMitf 'a buuae. Four or flv

*^1 don’t know preMn-ly. InHng a* I find a horse *wap on haii'l while the atcedote wa* being told tn toe. But. | anyhow. It ws* sotri-thltig about the

ler« hu|ipetw-«l In. nnd I Judge they ell 1 rest of ’em not 1-eln able to Agree with got drunk in a geperl way. Tenny- i Mr. YawVey'a viawa on the league of

rata, efter a spell th*

hopped onto Yawkey. or Knoddy. or | w1wM-.<-r he was. and pounded him | right Sharply, and *et him on » *>”' ' stove and lo-ld litm there till they ha>i

branded him to ault 'em."

another | “Great gun*ejaculuted n selghL -r oUter fel- “What did they Co all that forF

“Why. Elsie, dear." soothed umthor. “why do you cry *d>otit Itaiing little brother .-liriM-tiedT" "Ih-i-ause (txuehoo) tie 1* such a Mttle thing to have a bottle of tnllk busted over bis head.”

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Whatever ha* been attained la attaiBahlr.—Mr William Joni-s. Attempt nothing beyond your strength.—Latin Proverb. | Many men continually attempt i to make auger holes with a ;: ! gimlet.—Franklin. Th.} got the 111 narae of au- !; gurs iMcuuae 'hey were -res.— ij

I/OWelL

wet August never bring* dearth.—Italian Proverb.

Creed That May Well Be B in Life Each M

To live content with amall ns __ To seek elegance rather than lot and refinement rather than . 1Jt To be worthy, not ia*P wealthy.not rich: To study hard.' r,l r quietly, talk gently, act frankly , listen to stars and bird*, to Uals * sages, with open bestt: To ^ rheerfully. do all bravely, aw* 1 ’ ^ sintts, burry never: In n w.'fd. the spiritual, unbidden and u ^

ojidsnred the i srioua, grew up through the re 1 ' (

J This is to be my symphony.

EUery (’banning.

Origin of the Veil

SmaJler Farms.

The ruKtntn of wsnnng v ftnn- the 1aM The newly Roman w.nnnn wore a red *,

lie* the Origin I

In France, Oern.»ny. BoHs' • ^ven In Great Britain to n ; s tent, there has been In the l: '' _ veniury a decentralization ' , tore. Tbe number of amvB ' lorreavd instead of d«^In•- ,,

j oww. There

culned In prosperity and e*’

>■:: “widow'* weed." of the In our own country a simll" , ^ choreb the TrtI 10 MMdl holdings hs> ° era ^.

mmsmmimMmmnmmssm 1 •**** *«.d the Mack to n U S. to | * TCTB " r,nn b ^ 0 r