After the performance, the Americans returned to headquarters where a delicious tea awaited them. Then came goodbys and they left feeling they had had a very wonderful day and were indeed fortunate to be numbered among the friends of this band of heroes.
Steal Copper Boilers.
Peoria, III.—Burglars broke into the Todhunter Planing mill here and hauled away five copper boilers weighing 85 pounds.
TELLS OF HUNS' WORK
Invalided Sergeant Describes
Atrocities Committed in France,
Indescribable Brutality Revealed When
Highlanders Capture Village Near
Ploughestreert Wood.
San Francisco.—Indescribable atrocities, which even the brutal Hud might not be thought capable of, were committed in France recently and discovered when the valiant Seaforth Highlanders captured a small village near Ploughestreert Wood, according to Sergeant A. Goad of the Highlanders, who has been invalided to America with three wounds.
"When we took the village I happened to look into a hut, still standing among the ruins, and there saw the most horrible sight that I have yet seen in my war experience," Sergeant Goad said.
"Against one wall was the dead body of a woman, her hands crossed above her head and nailed to the wall by a spike. There were no other wounds on her body—she must have been left there to die from torture.
"Opposite her, against the other wall, was a little three-year-old child, with its head impaled on a sharp hook and its limp little body hanging down. The two had doubtless been crucified at  The same time and left alone to watch each other's death agonies. 