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Show ' 1 V . V THE PROVO POat th Australian CHreTTiTTy' explained 18 They dragged me to the commander nie 80 that Frit could hear that the of the camp and be Instructed them to German had no blankets and were give me a bath. So they took me to to wrap their cold fee t the bathhouse, where I was stripped Wn th and lashed. All the time they were lav This started a fight, of course the whipping me I was thinking what a German idea of a fight, that Is. .The Joke It waa on me, because 1 had been sentry, being a very brave man for a looking for excitement ind had got Gorman, blew his whistle very loudly, more than I wanted, so 1 laughed and and sentries caine from all directions. the Hnna thought I was crazy sure. So ire beat It to the Australian's barI waa dumped Into a vat of hot water racks, and there I found the second and at the same time uiy clothes were American In the camp. He was a bar- given a boiling, vthlch was good for ber named Stimson, from one of the them. Western. states Then. .1 was forcefL.into.my ..wet there as well as the Boston man In the clothes and marched back to the barCanadian service, but he had been racks. This bath - and the stroll sick to look us up, and la fact did through the snow In wet clothes Just not care what happened, he was so about did for me. Nowadays, when I miserable,... H Jmd been wounded sev- - alt in A draft for second and catch j oral times, and died In a day or two. cold, I wonder that I am still alive to 1 never knew how he came to ' be la catch- - It. - Having gone through Dlx the Australian Service. made and the Dardanelles and the were two the only sinking of the Georglc and four Gerand myself Those Americana I knew of In this prison man prison camps and a Jew other lamp whether in Cunadlan, Austra- things X shall probably trip over a The other hole In a church carpet and break my lian or French service. two had been captured iuWormTao ' heck.' That would be' my iuck.' there was no chance of their being There were all the diseases you can released. r think of In this camp, Including black,' Dulmen was very near the Dutch cholera and typhus and somebody was border and as It was quite easy to get . always dylng. We had to make coffins out of the camp attempts at escape from any wood we could find. - So- it were frequent... Most Of those who ran was not long before We were using the dividing boards from our bunks, pieces of flooring and. in fact the walla of I the barpicli, . The ouloers were ln corrugated Iron barracks, to borrow wood from u for had they T He had received several wounds' at coffins,, Wewould.mak the box their the time he was taken prisoner. He and put the body in it give It as much had been id the Canadian service for service 'as w could, In the way of two year . We used to' talk' about and hymns, and put It away la prayers Hew York and Boston and the differnear the barracks. There was a hole ent places we knew In both towns, and to much. of It that a single death we also talked a lot about the rotten unnoticed. ,, -passed treatment we were receiving, and tried One morning the German sentries to cook up etwne plan of escape. But cams to ear barracks they never every one we could think of had beat came singly and told us that an offused by some one else, and either had icer was going to review the prisoners failed, or the Hunt had fixed It so the ordered us to muster up, which we and Wo plan could not be tried again. did. I was the last m lout of the bardoped out some pretty wild scheme at racks and on account of my wounds X , became we' great thati Altogether, was slower than the rest pals, and were together as much ae You understand I had had no medical possible at Dulmen. The day I left r bantreatment except the camp, he gave me o ring .made dages and water ; my wounds had been from a shell; and told me to get It safely opened by swimming from the Georglc back to the States, but some one atole to the Moewe and they bad been put It at Brandenburg. in terrible shape In the coal bunkers. One day while I waa In his barracks On account of the poor food and lack an Englishman stepped out of the door of treatment they had not even started for some reason or other, and though heal Incidentally, the only cloth he did not aay a word to Frits, In two that any of ns had were what bandages j In blood. cold minutes be was dead. ourdothes andl u,1 Ve never knew why .they killed him. Most ef .Those Who Ban Away Wert PIc P At Swlnemunde and Neustrellts, X Brought Back. rag that someone else hud had around must admit that the Germans had us v ' pretty badly buffaloed, but at Dulmen away were brought back, though. The his wound for a long time and bandage The First and Last Ogsrs tte. Germans were so easy on those who his own wonnds with It , theprisonerswereeutlrely-differen- t So It was al I could do to drag myBe did not want to emoke again for Dulmen was the receiving camp for tried to run away that I almost thought they were encouraging them. - One self along. The officer noticed that I some time afterward, and like as not, the whole western front, and tbe prl he did not want to eat either. They oners there got to be pretty' tough chap was doing his ten' days Jn the was out of line and Immediately asked were therefore very valuable. eggs, as far aa Frits was concerned, guardhouse for the sixth time whlls my name and nationality. When he It la very hard to get matches la before they had been in camp many I was there that Is, he had Just about heard American he could not say the camps, and whenany prisoner days. They thought nothing of pick completed his period of detention. He ' enough things about us and called me does get hold of one, it la made to last lfig a fight wltji a sentry and giving claimed that the sixth time he had all the swine names he could think of, was pretty thin at tills time and long time. Here is how we make a him a good battle, even though he was really got across the border and was J . match last. Some one gives np the armed with rifle and bayonet We arrested In w little town by tbe Dutch getting- - thinner, so I figured I might sleeve of his coat, and the match la soon learned that unless his pals are authorities and turned over to the Ger-- 1 just as well have It out before I carefully Ut, and the coat sleeve around a German will not stand by his mans. That is against the law in starved. Besides, I thought, he ought burned to a- crisp. Then we take a arguments with his fists. In other most countries, but he swore It was the to know that we are not used to being button from our coats the buttons words, If he can onttalk you, he wlH truth, I am not so sure,' myself. He bawled out by German swine in this - . are brass with two holes In them beat You up, but if be cannot, it la a got away for the seventh time whlle country. go I told hlm so. And I said that he pass a shoestring through the holes, case of Here, oomeg Heinie going I was at Dulgien and was not returned! Ten days In the guardhouse Is not should not bawl Americans out., knot the ends, and with the button In back. a light punishment after all be-- 1 cause America was neutral He then The Russian prisoners at Dulmen the center of the String, buz It aruuud with the cause seen water three times a day is all said that as America supplied food and miserable were have a do, boys as, you certainly looking string over both bands, moving the bunch. They spent most of their time the prisoner received during that time, munitions to the allies she was no bet-bhands , together and apart until the wandering around the Russian barit Is pretty mild compared to some j ter than tbs rest ' ' button revolves very fast. racks, hunting for rotten potato peel- of the things the Hans do. Then I said ; Do you remember the s' One morning I thought for sure I , Deutschland? When she entered BalWe then put a piece of flint against ings and other garbage, which the the crisped cloth, and buzs the button would eat When they saw Frits timore and New London she got all the against It until a spark' makes the throw out his swill, they would dive on, the whole business and sick of do- cargo she wanted, didn't she? ' ' ' crisp glow, and from this we would right through the barbed wire one ing notbing but suffer. So I strolled Yea.' over send If light our bark cigarettes. I do not after anotber, and their handstand along, sticking my bead Into barracks Well your meryon think any roan In the world could In- face and clothes were - always torn doors, sometimes trying to have a talk, chant marine they will get the Fame. hale one of these bark cigarette: from It It was unhealthy to stand other times trying to pick a fight It For that answer he gave me ten days some of us tried an4went right to between the Russians and their garb- was all one to me : I Just wanted some- in the guardhouse. He did not like to '! ; . , age 'prey they .were so speedy that thing to do. I found what I wanted, be reminded that their merchant masleep. ; ; r 11 nothing stopped them. right ' rine bad to dive under to keep away e CHAPTER XXU after One, morning, I ; just hadulte ,a talk with a sentry In from the Limey a - w &.. j time, I came out of tbe barracks front of a barracks, Tt" must have I admit I was pretty flip to this" of' ' and saw an Australian arguing with lasted A Visit From Mr. Gerard. of an hour. He ficer, but who would not be when a Late that night we arrived at Dnl- - the sentry. I was not only curious,' did not know what I was calling him, slick German swine officer bawled him We were rousted but anxious to be a good cltlzen, as and I did not know what he was call- ouJJInen, Westphalia. ' - oat of the carriages, mustered on the they say, so I went up and slung an ing me. , I could have handled him all (Continued la next Issue.) platform, counted, then drilled through ear at them, Tbe Australian had asked right but another sentry came up on the streets, In spite ef the lateness, Frits what had been done with, tbe uy blind side and grabbed the ? lt. 1e sals Is headed this the streets wefe pretty well filled with flag that the Huns were going to fly talk wag over, us through from the Eiffel tower In Paris. people, and they all the streets they could, so that all , That was too deep for Fritz, so the - the people would have a chance to see Australian answered It himself. Dont the crary men, as they called us. Most you know. Frits? Well, we have no of the people were women, and as' soon blankets, you know.1 di'l. nnt e- -t 1L S3 as they saw us coming, they began gtUI singing tbe Watch on the Rhine or some other German song, and it was funny to see windows opening and fat s s on, sticking fraus, with 5 ' their heads out of the windows. They end would give Us a quick Bo is par opportunity to insure pipe np like a boatswain: Scbwelnsesanat smbarrassinc rrors in apcllinc, xmuaciatiua and poor choice of bund Yaterland Waeht am Rhein o4k eCnourtksnwinssfpwsftag all kinds of things and all mixed np. urar terms. Increase your efficiency, So we gave them Tipperary" and which results in power and suet ins. and "Pack Dp ' Your Troubles, WIDSTEH'S showed them how to ring. Our guards had no ear for mnslc and tried to stop i:iTEn:.Tio:.'AL ns, but though they knocked several men down, we did not atop until we DICTIONARY is an had finished th song. Then, after w lug toucher, a Universal question had admitted to each other that 1 answerer, made to meet your were not downhearted, we shut up. needs. It is in daily use by hundreds of thousands of suo- would have done so, anyway, beeeieful men and Women tbs world over. cause by this time we were on the out4M.SSS Words. 27M Paftss. MM Ilskirts of the town, and we needed all lustrations. 12.0C Btonraphlcal Entries. 30,00 Geographical bubjoct. the breath we had. The road we were Whnt a pleasant surprise (or father room ih th house. Cktm PUZK. (Hkhst Award) on was Just one long sheet of ice, and Exposition. and th youngsters! A New PerIt bums hill blast for 8 hours on we walk more than four nd Hmm, uxnii fection Oil Ileatei to thaw out hy one gallon of Conoco Safety Oil My and FREE frw Pares. falling. without WRrnt slipping steps Fuclwt Maps li you same this papr. cheery warmth all the evening Easy t6 (ill hght and clean good shoes had wooden soles,' and It was G. & C. KERSIAM CO - Just one bang after another.' with tlu? looking long wearing. any timn you need it in nny U. S. A. prinasJd,-Mass- n which see to Ice and myself trying r' Sold by follower g dealers! ceuld hit the hardest. Every time we fell smash! came a rifle over the & Tldiv. Co. Consolidated W. & 51. Co. back. 7 t pretty tired, so I said Tar lor ltros. Co. Batton Furniture Co. t. Mpne of the tcliows that I wassaidt ro st; too a and rest, and they THE CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY they would also. So we dropped out ( A Coloiado CorpOTBt on) and waited until the guards behind . bad Just about caught up with us, and then we would go on. . We did this eeveral times until they got on to us, Up the roJ3 a piece I ell again ' and I this time I did not care what hap- pened, so I Just sat there In the ' r middle of the rrmd untit nitz cametcrl ZT Instead of glvlog me the bayonet, he made me tube off my shoes that is, he took theft off of me with a knife through the strings and I had to walk the rest of the way in my bare feet. It was about four miles altogether from the station to the camp. When we got near the camp, all the bos came out of the barracks and lined up along the barbed wire, and . yelled us u wercomerWe asked fhera 7 if tuey were downhearted, and they . no, and we said we were not eltli i". We could hardly see them, but they began yelling again when we got , t bearer; and oskett tw, Is there anyone 4 there from Queenstown I" and then I lliB.'and Portsmouth, and Dover, and Toronto and n lot of other places. That was the first hDd last cigarette T I did not pay much attention until heard, Any Americans there? and I got in Germany, and you can me when I say that I enjoyed I yelled back, Yes, where are yu ? a &B, Gruppe 3J-7ltThere Was hornrach 1TnotTfrbnrT .Barracks Where from ? I yelled. . ' smoked It until there was enough Boston. you from?. left 'to hold in my mouth, and then I ' The U..S.tyherere A. and Atlantic porta used what was left and mixed It with . See you later. the bark that we made cigarettes, out So, the.ncxt,uiomlng, I wentover to " of. 7 Incidentally, this bark was great his barracks and asked for the Yank. know not do kind of what tuff. I They pointed hint out to me, here he - tree It was from, but It served the was lying on thex floor. I went over purpose. Whenever a fellow wanted and laid him. and wo had iinwj , to smoke and Jlt.une ct .these juuxk, - cigarettes, a few puffs were enough. quite talk!' I will not give his name here for certain reasons. 4 -- I Gunnery - 1 Depev -- -- -- By Albert NDepew tt -- 1 be-He- re -- ' ( " - - n-it- h quar-tere- d -- . . crepe-pape- pERHAPS he i$ billeted in a barn, or even a JTU There. is snow on the ground, and the, mud freezea hen-coo- p. - hard to his boots. In all the village there is just one place where he can dry and warm his hut' ' You "are thinking aboutyourown co'alproblemhereat home, i But what would you do if there. were only one place in town where you could find a fire? Thats your boyi fuel problem for the coming month. ' t 1 f 4 -- Are you going to keep the hut ftrea burning? ? r f i - 1 ; ,f An amount equal to 4 per cent oLyout. Fourth Liberty Loan purchases is your share of responsibility inf the United War Work Fund campaign. raise Utahs quota.by the night of No- vember 12. Go to the War Work Committee in your town. ' Don't wait to'be asked, "'" '' " 1 tw '7 i t JT fr j UNITED WAR WORK. CAMPAIGN , Vy-Xj- J " - be-su- ch -- ; ut J Greatly Benefited by Chamberlain's . Tablets. I am (hanUul for the good I have received by using Chamberlains Tablets.- - About two years ago a hen I legan taking them I wns Buffering great, deal mo. distress after eating, and from headache and a tired, languid feeling due to indigestion and torpid liver. Chamberlains TaH.t corrected ..i'i dl rdors in bottfts of them my health has been good, .writes Mrs M P. Harwood, Auburn. N. Y. advt' cJ The joy cf fcc-- 23 CX fresh rewr& tbeto wlD - heed the lr.vs cf end keep the hsliis Ur with rr Pjmlils Lareret Sslsof Aay Msddusia A - SoM Ivory wksss. WU Ubssslts,IK -- S a, barley-coffe- ff ft ff f f Tfff , t O - - me-an- d r way-i-wa- tg 'j&Sesur- once-ove- - - , -- ns7 said. have not learned the facts respecting It Many people still feet that candy has no food value, that It Is luxury which uses up maybe a quarter to a half nf th Bugar In this Country, and that by stopping the manufacture of candy, the sugar problem would .be solved. But that is not so. On the conof the normal consumption of sugar In the United trary, only 8 has been used la making this firmly estabStates (now cut to .. lished food product V ' ' Take one cents worth of sugar. Put It la a little pile. Thats th amount of sujir used per capita weekly In candy making. The savwill keep the candy industry alive, ing of that tiny mite In the homewomen and children at home, and the and enable it to supply men and men at the front with nourishing, wholesome body fueL Put a pound of chocolate creams to the test ; eat a pound on a big, long hike. Then . 4) - prou-fAn- a - I t Provo-Electri- c go-iir- , al taums-Pacifi- o could-hardl- y ' Yet the candy Industry, the thirty-eight- h largest Industry In the United States, supplying a recognized and tremendously vital food product. Is now threatened with practical annihilation because people A Warm Welcome , , - s night-cap- ? Tbe human body needs constant fuel - Just as coal is fuel for a furnace, sugar, which supplies carbohy, drates, is fuel to the body. Plalnr raw granulated' sugar. Jsnot pleasing way to take It, so people generally use it with other articles of food. One man takes his sugar In coffee or on fruit , Another likes d cake of chocolate. . ' The cake of chocolate, called candy, consists ef cocoa, sugar and milk, properly blended. t , ' la it right to say that the man who takes his sugar In his coffee le patriotic, while the man who takes It In the form ef milk chocolate Is wssteful and enjoying s luxury? One small boy takes several lumps of sugar in his cocoa, or his portion of sugar on his musb. Another little fellow gets- his through his favorite piece of chocolate or a piece of stick candy.- Is the latter-lespatriotic than the former? We know he Is not. The soldier In the camp has his candy, and it sustains him. Tbe soldier In the front line trench enjoys a cake of milk chocolate; It makes him fight like the devil as General Waller, of the Marines rig-sagg- thS-yn- , One Man Taltes His Sugar on Fniit or in Coffee Anothor Man Taltes His in the; - of Candy Shape 1' - three-quarte- ' THE TRUTH ABOUT CANDY, AAAAAAXAJlAAAA t A you will know why soldiers crave - it - ' CM la aanaat Mam th nrir acar cmsaaM capita la thla waitrj. aa. Mat kaa baaa cat aqaaralr la two. fr - nb IIW 1 acre f lla Wt s , fit IUtt more. K PERFECTION OIL HEATERS A e A The Candy Manufacturers of Utah and Idaho. s |