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I thought I would approacb tb bum city throng which I bad to pass), he advised, "you will be able to CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS HER OWN SISTER DIDNT RECOGNIZE HER, SHE DECLARES peasant I cam to and ask for food, bnt that day I bad misgivings hunch that I would get Into trouble make arrangements with blm to se OUT witting cure a passport, and he will do every If I did, and I decided to go without thing be can to get yon out of Bel- food altogether for that day. glum." It wag a foolish thing to do, I fomfO, because I not only suffered greatly Mrs. J. D. Morrison Now Well and Happy After an Illness of Three Years' Standing Praises Tanlac.

Be told me where the man In question could be found and gar me some useful dlvectfbna to continue my Jour Baptist Church A. V. JOYNER, Pastor Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. C.

A. Haynes, superintendent. Regular church services, morning and evening, will be conducted by Ser ran ney, and then he led me to the door. from hrsiger all that day, but it Interfered with my sleep. I would drop off to sleep for half an hour, perhaps, "I improved so much after taking I thanked him a thousand times and wanted to pay him for bis kindness and help bnt he would accept nothing.

He did give me bis name and you may and during that time I would dram that I was free, back home, living a this Tanlac that my own sister didn't geant Hunter and Corporal Gephart, two young ministers now stationed at the government hospital here. They know me at first, when I went to visit life of comparative ease, and then I LltTJlTNANT her," said Mrs. J. O. Morrison, of 314 Twenty-fifth street, Ensley, Ala.

would wake up with a start and catch a glimpse of the bushes surrounding be sure I shall never forget It, but to mention It here might of course, re are arranging a soldier choir to have charge of the music at night These services promise to be most interesting and helpful and it is hoped that "I lost my health three years ago sult in serious consequences for hUn, PAT O'BRIEN me, feel the hard ground beneath me and the hunger pangs gnawing at my sides, and then I would realize how When the war ts over, however, or the and had stomach trouble of the worst kind," she continued. "I also suffered large numbers will be in attendance. far from home I really was, and I dreadfully from biliousness and con The pastor asks that his people re would lie there and wonder whether member him in the meeting he is con I would ever really see my borne Germans are thrown out of Belgium, I shall make It my duty to find that kind Belgian If I have to go through again all that I have suffered already; to do It fisn (To be Continued) ducting in the eastern part of the state. stipation. I was feverish and restless most of the time and never knew what it was to get a good night's rest.

I was almost a nervous wreck. I tried dieting and living on liquid foods until I was almost starved, but noth again. Then I would fall asleep again and dream this time, perhaps of the days I spent in Courtrat, or my leap from the train window, of the Bava I noticed that the Belgians used CHAPTER X. rian pilot whom I sent to eternity tn my last air fight, of my tracer bullets OVERSEAS NURSES TELL STORY dogs to a considerable extent to pull their carts, and I thought many times that ll I could have stolen one of those dogs it would have been a very good companion for me and might, If Methodist Church W. B.

WEST, Pastor Sunday school at 9:45 a. Preaching at 11 a. m. Epworth League at 7:45 p. Preaching at 8:30 p.

m. getting closer and closer to his head. m. Experience In Belgium. I think that one of the worst things I had to contend with In my Journey through Belgium was the number of small ditches.

They intercepted me at every half mile or so, sometimes more frequently. The canals and the Interestingly Compare the British and then I would wake up again with a start and thank the Lord that I was only dreaming it all again instead of living through it I the occasion arose, help me out In a fight. But I had no way of feeding It Quarterly Conference at parsonage and French With American Troops and the animal would probably have That night I got an early start be starved to death. I could live on veg cause I knew I had to have food, and Monday, 8:30 p. m.

Prayer meeting Wednesday, 8:30 m. Secial musical program Sunday ing did me any good. "I started taking Tannic and by the time I had finished my second bottle, my appetite had increased until I was able to eat just anything I wanted. I had gained thirty-three pounds in weight had gone up from sixty-six to ninety nine pounds in weight and was feeling better than in a long time. I am now doing all my housework and even some of the washing.

I feel that I owe my life to Tanlac." Tanlac is sold in Waynesville by the Waynesville and Annex Pharmacies; in Clyde, by the Clyde Pharmacy; Id decided that rather than look for (From Bombproof) etables, which I could always depend upon finding in tiie fields, but a dog Although most of the patients vegetables I would take a chance and apply to the first Belgian peasant couldn't, and so I gave up the Idea. here have seen service abroad it is The knack of making fire with two whom I came to. safe to say that few, if any, have had It was about 8 o'clock when I came experiences as interesting as nave pieces of dry wood I bad often read about, but I had never put It to a test and for various reasons I concluded Episcopal Church Rev. ALBERT NEW, Rector Holy Communion at 8 a. m.

Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. James to a small house. I had picked up a heavy stone and had bound it In my handkerchief and I was resolved to use that It would be unsafe for me to build a fire even If I had matches. In it as a weapon If It became necessary.

the first place, there was no absolute After all I had gone through, I was W. Reed, superintendent. Adult Bible class; topic, "Psalms of the King Canton, by W. S. Martin, and by the leading druggists in practically every town and village in America.

(Adv.) need for It. I didn have anything to cook nor uteasils to cook it In even resolved to win my liberty eventually dom;" J. E. Carraway, teacher. at whatever cost If I had.

While the air was getting Sermon at 11 a. m. "Man's As it happened, I found that night to be rather cool at night, I was usu two of our nurses just returned from "over there." Miss Sherman, who for 10 months was with Base Hospital Unit No. 12 on detached service with the British army in France, says: "The 'Tommy' is a wonderful patient. His three years and better of heartbreaking experience in the filth and mud of Flanders and Picardy have caused to develop in him a spirit which cannot be broken by pain and privations.

He comes down from the line for rest or medical treatment Extremity Is God's Opportunity." GRASS FARM FOR SALE the first real friend I had encountered In all my traveling. When I knocked timidly on the door, it was opened by Evensong and address at 8:30 p. m. ally on the go at that time and didn't notice it. In the daytime, when I was resting or sleeping, the sun was Subject, "The Great Invitation." Everybody cordially invited.

a Belgian peasant, about fifty years of age. He asked me in Flemish what I wanted, but I shook my head and pointing to my ears and mouth intimated that I was deaf and dumb, and Presbyterian Churh Rev. W. M. SIKES, D.

Pastor Preaching at 11 a. m. and is invariably appreciative of ev then I opened and closed my mouth several times to show him that I Sunday school at 9:45 a. ni. H.

C. erything we do for him. Sometimes pathetically appreciative. Too, the The Oscar Holland grass farm, four miles from Canton, has been placed in our hands for sale and will be sold at auction on Saturday, August 17, rain or shine. This farm, which is located on the Newfound road, contains one hundred and fifty-five acres, seventy-five of which are in grass; plenty of wood and timber.

Near a good market. No better bargain to be found in the state. W. D. Hill sales managers.

Ask C. J. Jeffreys or Horace Sentelle. (38-2t) wanted food. Lindsley, superintendent.

Christian Endeavor at 7:45 p. m. He showed me inside and sat me at the table. He apparently lived alone. Prayer meeting every Wednesday almost to a man, seems to have been able to give up that spirit of independence so treasured by most men, and to have drawn a new spirit of independence from the common for his ill-furnished room had but one chair, and the plate and knife and evening at 8:30.

Sunday school at Hazelwood at p. m. Sunday. fork he put before me seemed to be ail he had. He brought me some cold Pleaching at Hazelwood at 8:30 usually out.

To have borrowed matches from a ielgian peasant would have been feasible, but when I was willing to take the chance of approaching anyone, It was just as easy to ask for food as matches. It the second place, it would have been extremely dangerous to have built a fire even if I had needed it. You can't build a fire lu Belgium, which Is the most thickly populated country in Europe, without everyone knowing It, and I was far from anxious to advertising my whereabouts. The villages In that part of Belgium through which I was making my course were so close together that there was hardly ever an hour passed without my bearing some clock strike. Every village has Its clock.

Many times I eould hear the clocks striking In two villages at the same time. But the hour had very little Interest to me. My program was to travel as fast as I could from sunset to sunrise and pay no attention to the hours In between, and In the daytime I had only two things to worry about keep concealed and get as much sleep as Sunday evening. potatoes and several slices of stale bread, and he warmed me some milk on a small oil stove. Visitors are cordially invited to all I ate ravenously and all the time I services.

LOWER JONATHAN was engaged I knew that he was eye fire. The spirit to serve. Always in my ward I had two or more convalescent patients serving the other patients or working in the kitchen. Always cheerful. Always with a song or a joke." "Tommy's" Love for "Blighty" Miss Sherman then goes on to tell of their love for and constant mention of "Blighty," which to them means home.

She tells of little ing me closely. Before I was half through he came Mr. B. Leatherwood made a fish ish war machine in France; still how much more inspiring must it be to over to me, touching me on the shoul ing trip to Cataloochee 'this week. der, and stooping over so that his lips watch develop an organization poten Ralph Sutton, who was home on a almost touched my ear, he said In broken English.

"Ton are an Eng tiaiiy even greater; Uur own war Burying His Uniform at Night. big rivers I could swim. Of course, I got soaked to the skin every time I did It, but I was becoming hardened to that. These little ditches, however, were too narrow to swim and too wide to Jump. They had perhaps two feet of water In them and three feet of mud, and it was almost invariably a case of wading through.

Some of them, no doubt, I could have Jumped if I had been in decent shape, but with a bad ankle and in the weakened condition In which I was, It was almost out of the question. One night I came to a ditch about furlough this week, visited Mrs. L. B. machine, the American steam-roller.

lishman I know it and you can hear and talk If you wlsh-m I not Tight?" Leatherwood He was on his way to New York. Miss Deeks, with 12 months of There was a smile on his face and service abroad to her credit, has Mr. C. Franklin and family and friendly attitude about him that told "Irish," private in the Royal Irish Rifles. "Irish" had come down to the Base Hospital, after fighting the "Hun" before Cambrai, with a badly shattered hand.

An explosive bullet had passed entirely through. After Mrs. Horace Leatherwood visited Mr. me Instinctively that he could be trusted, and I replied: "Ton have Harden Franklin, who lives near Haz possible. elwood, Sunday.

The cabbage that I got In Belgium consisted of the small heads that the The Rock Hill school will open Mon day, August 19. peasants had not cut. All the strength the rough field dressing had been removed little "Irish" looked up with a pathetic half smile, and asked "Sister, "BLUE EYES." had concentrated in these little heads watched our forces in France grow from a few scattered Hospital Units and a handful of Headquarters troops to the perfected and formidable army now actively operating'over there." French Also Stoic Under Pain Early last summer our government through arrangement with the French government took over a large permanent military hospital in a district which has since become the center of great American activities. In this guessed right only I am an American, not an Englishman." He looked at me pityingly and filled my cup again with warm milk. His kindness and apparent willingness to help me almost overcame me, and I felt like warning blm of the consequences he would suffer If the eight or nine feet wide.

I thought I was strong enough to Jump it and It was worth trying as the discomfort I suffered after wading these ditches do you think it will give me a trip to 'Blighty'?" Soon he was sent to and they would be as bitter as gall. I would have to be pretty hungry today before I could ever eat cabbage again and the same observation applies to carrots, turnips and sugar was considerable. Taking a long run, I Jumped as hard as I could, but I Look for This Sign "Blighty" but not before he had won the affectionate friendship of everyone in the ward. Some weeks later missed It by four or Ave inches and beets especially sugar beets. Miss Sherman received a character hospital the McKay-Roosevelt Unit, of which Miss Deeks was a member, It Is rather a remarkable thing that today even a smell of turnips, raw or cooked, makes me sick, and yet a few landed In about two feet of water and three of mud.

Getting out of that mess was quite a Job. The water was too dirty and too scanty to enable me to wash off the mud with which I was covered and it was too wet to acrape istically worded letter from somewhere in Great Britain. "Irish" had written to tell her that his hand had was stationed. At first pie patients short months ago my life depended upon them. were French.

Stoic under pain, ap preciative, and characteristically po Night after night aa I searched for off. I Just bad to wait until It dried lite. They too had caught the war and scrape It off then. spirit. Speaking of the wonderful feeling Huns discovered he had befriended me.

I bad beard that twenty Belgians had been shot for helping Belgians to escape Into Holland, and I bated to think what might happen to this good old Samaritan If the Huns ever knew that be had helped an escaped American prisoner. After my meal was finished, I told him In aa simple language as I could command of some of the experiences I had gone through and I outlined my future plans. "Ton will never be able to get to Holland," he declared, "without a passport The nearer yon get to tb frontier the more German soldiers yon will encounter, and without a passport yon will be a marked man." I asked him to suggest a way by which I could overcome the difficulty. He thought for several momenta which animate the Allied armies in In many sections of Belgium through which I had to pass I encountered large areas of swamp ana marshy ground and rather than waste the time involved in looking for better THE BEST IN OPTICAL WORK AT A REASONABLE PRICE S.Robinson, Op t.D. 78 Patton Ave, AsheviUe, N.C.

Just Below Postoffice France, Miss Deeks says: "When we been amputated, but that he was "still the same old Not only can Miss Sherman tell many stories illustrative of the humor and pathos of the trench and camp, but has been enabled to build up a remarkable background on which to view the war in its larger aspects. Being stationed in a British General Hospital in the midst of a great modern war camp and within four kilos (about three miles) of Bolougne her landed in France we were simply swamped with war. We lived, ate and slept war. The spirit soon fills underfootlng which I might not have found anyway I used to pole right through the mud. Apart from the discomfort of this method of travel one.

We suffered with France, and food, I was always In hopes that I might come upon some tomatoes or celery vegetables which I really liked, but with the exception of once, when I found some celery, I was never so fortunate. I ate so much of the celery the night I came upon It that I was sick for two days thereafter, but I carried several bunches away with me and used to chew on It as I walked along. Of course, I kept my eyes open all the time for fruit trees, but apparently It wu too late In the year for fruit, as sll that I ever was able to find were two pears, which I got out of a tree. That was one of my red-letter days, but I waa never able to repeat It In the brooks snd ponds that I when our own boys started to come ing and the alow time I made, there was an added danger to me In the fact down from up in front, some suffering opportunity was exceptional. Sur from trench maladies, others rounding the camp were many his and with a sprinkling too of battle casualties, then we came to live for that the "squash, squash" noise which I made might easily be overheard by Belgians and Germans and give my position away.

Nobody would cross a swamp or marsh in that part of the and studied me closely all the time-perhaps endeavoring to make abso WHEN IN -ASHEVILLE TAKE YOUR MEALS AT THE Central Cafe toric and picturesque villages and localities. Incorporated in the camp itself were parade and drill grounds war." Turning to the brighter side, Miss where the modern practice of war is country unless he was trying to get away from somebody, and I realised Deeks told of the beauty of the country. The wonderful valley of the taught Here the trench, dug-out, passed I often noticed fish of different my danger but could not get around It machine gun emplacement, bomb Marne, with its little villages, nest' kinds. That was either In tbs early It was a common sight In Belgium field, sapper's tunnel, concreted shell ling close to that famous river. Nice, hole, strong point, are con structed.

Here the "Anxacs," Can Monte Carol, and the French Riviera were also mentioned as enjoyable morning Just before I turned In for the day, or on moonlight nighta when the water seemed as clear In spots as in the daytime. It occurred to me that It would be a simple matter to rig CooL comfortable and centrally located. On west side of Square. Cars direct to all points a well a depot (Our coffee reputed the Best in AsheviUe.) places in which to spend a furlough, to see a small donkey and a common ordinary milch cow hitched together, pulling a wagon. When I first observed the unusual combination, I thought It was a donkey and ox or bull, but closer Inspection revealed to me that cows were being used for the dians.

Kilted Scots and perhaps a few of His Majesty's Hindoo troops, may be seen absorbed in learning all the Can we wonder that our nurses on book and line and catch some fish. domestic duty are so eager to see but I had no means of cooking them service "over there." finer points of their common profe ion war. and It was useless to flab, for the sake purpose. of it From that I was able to observe Close to the hospital is located a One night In Belgium my course tbere must be very few horses left tn DR. TEACHER'S great monition which has frequently become a target for the "Go Belgium except those owned by the took me through a desolate stretch of country which seemed to be absolutely ths." On one occasion 14 plane of CHOLERA uncultivated.

I oust bars covered the enemy cam over and though Germans. Cowa and donkey are bow horse and mules. Altogether I apent nearly eight weeks wandering through Belgium, and In all that time I doot believe I saw mora than half a dosea twelve miles during tb night without passing a single farm or cultivated "aiming" at th dump they succeed ed in wrecking a large Canadian hos field. My stock of turnips which Is sold with an unlimited goarantet pital close by, and killing over 800 of to return th price paid if it does not horse In th possession of the native bad picked tbs night before was gone sad I planned, of course, to get enough to carry through tbs following the personnel and patients. reliev any esse of bowel trouble.

population. Aaicncana Brigaded with War Veterans One ot the scarcest thing la Oar many, apparently. Is robber, I day. Mrs. N.

P. assail, Aivdalnsla, aays: have five In our family, and Dr. Thacber Cboisra rUxtar is MODEL WHITE PRESSING CLUB CLEANING. PRESSING. DYEING REPAIRING Tbs Worth Star was shining brightly neticr-1 that theur Motor tracks, or lor This very interesting young' lady that alxht sad there was absstatety ries, i.

alike or ews, had a rubber nothing to prrreat mj steering sb- als tells of seeing our own soldier soaring into France early this spring all th medicine needed for bowel trouble. It a God-sent blearing. "In bad cases of dysentery aom-imes have to give ths third doa to a solstaty direct coarse tar Holland and liberty, bat say path annua to Ha Html Instead Wavy troa baa war asapioyed. I eoald hear tbeas esss ranbUag alas th ston reads res and of how they were being brigaded with tb best of the armies ef Britain tbrsagb arid pastures. Tax ts rile sefor they meM 1 east or ts the vast I evsld seat a oars, bat In most ease on ot I bssy (alafiy tb striking mt vQlaga bsQs, all that needed." I saw these torntaty I kasw that if I changed say and Franc.

American soldiers from Texas, from Mains and from' California being distributed over the hwgth th bstU lis, fight absolder to shoulder with tbs "Tom I weald aadoabtsdly strtk 'KEEP THIS IN MIND: and ragst! boa tb Kortb "Vea Can Hear and Talk If Yj Wish I Met Rlgfctr rateiy Bare was not a Gems spy -and rbe appareatiy osrtffiag ts ary fxvor. told ass what tbsogbt was beat fsf as yea wfll can fhl sata Erery Cottle Is Guaranteed. Star assstsd to ptamd wlrb a to ot- UttSffsT $1.00 LadW Work a SyeeaJty Fia Tailoring' J. C. Whit.

Prop, sVsslat. rbssttJ. my sad with tb "PoOus. sVigrcsj for tbs first Qsm. wont shaft heavy eokMoatanes tast IT hay woaM hut for eaatorles, I rsaV awd at soes why was that th Gs anus bsd sees mass ts But sacft a jag advaae lata Mglaai at tbs start tbs war.

law sad I weald set tora aaVts. Pries per bouto, He. All dealer sail It Inspiring a it most be to watch JayCgbt casta, tb. coass- I waa sasaty baased and I Far gal by tb Wayaasvfil aad Asx Pumvr'M and study a perfectly adjastod rga-fsatioa, so mpsndTus as ia ths Brit (ssenttoataf tb as of a BeUUa bad to bad aidtag Bias for tb.