HARD LIQUORS.
Soldiers are forbidden either to buy or accept as gifts from the French, any whisky, brandy, champagne, or, in fact, any spirituous liquors. Commanding officers are charged with the duty of seeing that all drinking places where the alcoholic liquors thus named are sold are designated as "off limits." They are also directed to use every endeavor to limit to the lowest possible number the places where intoxicants are sold, and to assist the French authorities in locating non-licensed resorts.
RAILROADING AT THE
FRONT IS NO PICNIC
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Engineer of Big Lizzie Takes Reporter for a Ride
and Explains a Few Professional
Difficulties.
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BOCHE TRIES TO BEAN HIM WITH BOMBS.
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Problems of Garb, Breakfast and Tobacco Happily
Solved by "System D."
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"Casey Jones—mounted up the cabin
Casey Jones—with his orders in his hand!"
The singer, to judge from the way he rolled his r's, ought to have come from somewhere out in the perrrarrrie country of North America; but to judge from his costume, he might have come from about anywhere. He wore the red fez of the Algerian troops, the tunic of his Britannic Majesty's fighting forces, the horizon-blue slicker of the Armee de France, but his underpinning, as well as his voice, was downright United States. Only the khaki trousers and canvas leggins identified him, in part, at least, as a member of an American Railroad Engineers' Regiment.
["Up to look us over, are you?" he inquired,] grinning genially at the STARS AND STRIPES reporter who had made his way up right behind the fighting lines, [to see the engineers at their work] of running supply trains for the French. "Well, sonny, take a good look. We ain't much on clothes"—indicating his motley garments—"but believe me, bo, we're there on work! Y'see, the Boche's birdies make things pretty hot for us at times, flyin' over our perfectly good right of way and tryin' to beat us where the stack shows up bright in the dark. So we have to lay over until they fly back, and then git out and hustle to keep things moving som'ers near on schedule. At that, day before yest'day, we had every blooming train on time.