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Show THE PROVO POST front of me sat a little fat, greasy Jew. To describe his manner of handling the men as being Impolite would be a great exaggeration. The way he bandied that line of human cattle would do the kaiser's heart good. , - It came my turn, and this conversation ensued : What do you know about horses 1" I answered l "Six years in the United "'r States cavalry." The Agent; "What regiments?" "Eleventh and Twelfth.", "Youre a Uar. Ton never saw ths j cavalry." I felt Uke punching him on the nose but did not do so, I wanted to ship as a horseman, I showed him my discharges. He said: "They're faked. What did yoa do, desert or were yoa kicked out?" I was getting sore and answered: "Deserted the Twelfth ; kicked oat of the Eleventh." . -Whafs your name?" "Arthur Guy Empey." 4 " Youre a German." T1 This waa too much even for me, and I answered damned Ear."! saw my chances of shipping f vanishing In smoke. The Jew grinned tnd rubbed his . Horses for France , -- Sergeant Arthur Gay 1 , T Empey- - Author of "Over the Toj 1 First Call." Etc. K M X) 0-0- -0 . A i 4 t - Mr. Empeys Expert r ences During His Seven- teen Months in the First .Line Trenches of the British Army in France TM MeUlan (0Zfriia,lI,bjrtiiaaieMi 1 Sewtpepet 101V and the; great world I In the United States and neutral. For thlr- teen years 1 had been soldiering bat bad never been under fire, la. my Imagination I could bear the guns booming on the western front I admit X was a trifle afraid; nevertheless S bad a great dealre to get into the mix Bp. Dow could I get over? I planned at many ways, bat none of them were practical One daywhlle walking down Greenwich street New York, I passed an It-w- as -- :Yourea War was on, and here was - - hands and said : "Youre air tight Go into that room and get card made oat and corns back at two oclock." ' I received card and went to a beanery across the street and had wonderful meal of corned beef bash, mnddy coffee and huge slices of bread, minus batter. Thla cost me fifteen -- centa.- - careful check on fhe strawT bay. oas and bran. Having served In the Av- alry, this job, as I figured, would be regular pie for me. In about an hour and a hairs time Pinero had selected his straw bosses and divided the men into gaDgs, and assigned us to our quarters on tbe ship. 'These quarters were between deeks and very much crowded; the .teach was awful Iron bunks, three deep, with filthy and lousy mattresses on them, were set Into the sides of the ship. The atmosphere In that dirty hole turned my stomach and X was longing for the fresh air of the deck. A dirty bum, with tobacco running out of the corner of his month, turned to me and ashed: Do the graybacks bother you much, matey?" A shudder ran through me as I answered : Not much." But T figured out that as soon as I got them, which I knew would occur lo a very short time, they certainly would bother me, but I bad to keep a stiff upper' Up if X wanted to retain their respect and my authority a A straw boss. One old fellow In' my gang was a trouble maker. He mast have been about forty years old and looked as hard as naila He was having an argument with a looking specimen of humanity,-abo- nt twenty-siyears old. To me this man appeared to bs In the last stages of consumption. I told the old fellow to cut out his argument and leave the other fellow Alone. Upon hearing this be squirted stream at tobacco Juice a through his front teeth, which landed on my shoe. 1 1 Inwardly admired and a ecu racy, 1 saw my aurespected-hl- s thority waning and knew that I would have to answer this Insult quickly. I took two three quick steps forward pasty-face- d x well-direct- ed paving Mexican blood lnbls veins, d drunk was trying to a horse by the halter up our run. He was looking hack at the horse, at the same time tugging and Jerking on tbe halter. You could see the white In the horses eyes, and I knew right away, from my experience with horses, that this Was a had one, or, as we would term him In the cavalry, an outlaw." The drunk was cursing and swearing and kicking np at the horse's head. The foreman saw this and directed his barrage at the offender. How In h 1 do you expect to lead a horse while looking at him? Turn your back t him. you lousy bum. You are blocking the whole run. Turn your back to him, I say. Yon can't lead him that way. If l come down there to you, TO soon show you how 4 to get him aboard." ' The bleary eyed one became bewildered and In hU excitement .lost Ills footing on the slippery runway and fell underneath the horse, at The 'same time loosening, his hold on the halter chain. A bleary-eye- K-a- stu.UHeeR.of RtAuscMw--i TRt. Bt ST WOOt S J on-- c Grown tAR-TH- we from rr. ! Thats music ia the ears of the moneys worth lumber. Thats who seeks to purchase worth-whil- e the sort of promise we make you and that a the kind of lumlumber thats cerber wtf sell. Moneys worth worth-wh. tain to please you. fry'Dl'K -- 2e i -- The horse jerked bis head loose, reared up, turned around and made a break for tbe deck. The jnan on the gangway tried to scramble out of the way. The horse. In wheeling, let fly with both heels and caught him below Jhe right car with his near hind foot With a piercing shriek the drunk clasped both hands to his head, fell over backward and rolled down to the foot of the gangplank, and lay tbere In a crumpled heap, the blow? pc tn Ins from his nose mouth ahd the wound tefow his ear. Upon bearing this shriek several of the men leading their horses, in their fright turned them loose, and there Iras a mad stampede on the deck. - The pasty-facehorseman, whom 1 had helped ont a little while before la the argument" abont his bnnk was standing near the runway, holding on to a horse. He turned hl horse .loose and' rushed to the bloody, mass, which was' twitching with convulsive shudders. foreman, mi seeing this accident, snapped out a long string of curses, whl almost froze my heart What dll I ten you? Didn't teU you not to look at him? I knew you would get If, snd a damned good Job, too; Mocking that run with yonr fool tricks." 4, -- r Then he noticed the horseman stooping over the bleeding M I me In At two o'clock 1 reported back, and amployment agency.-Star- ing the face was great flaring sign, with seventy-tw- o others was herded Horses for Franca." Under thla Uke cattle, and in a long, 7 straggling : Wanted." Here waa my chance. fins, flanked by three of the employees d Of ths agency, ws searched to ths Upon returning to my office I immediately got In touch over the telephone ferry and landed somewhere la New with two prominent men In New Vork Jorsey,".U . ; whom I knew to be distinctly pro-all' The ship, a bags three-stacke-r, was Thais what brings success to any business. To win ihe confidence After outlining my desire,' an appoint- lying alongside. .We were .shoved into S. F" "5 f, t ment was made for me to meet a cer- single file, ready to go up the gangof lbe public ha been our Hit's aim, and we take pride in stating . Hotel at the at Astor tain gentleman plank. Then our real examination four o'clock that afternoon. I naet took place,- - At the foot of the gangthat we have never betrayed that confidence? Our bssiacst has him. He Introduced me to a French- plank were a group of men around s man. At that time In my eyes a been builtjon that basis. We invite you to join our 4 army of satis-lie- d long table. They certainly put us Frenchman was a hero, a man to be through a third If to find eat degree -customers. , looked up to, a man fighting In the there was & any German blood in us. Great Cuuse. ' Bat now a Frenchman Several men were turned down. Luckto me Is more than a hero. After ily, I got through and signed for the being Introduced I went np Into the voyage, and went on board. ' pasty-face- d Frenchman! room and talked Over At the head of the gangplank stood the matter of horses for France .for Hie toughest specimen of humanity 1 man. about twenty minutes. ever seen. He looked like a huge have Get Im by tbe heels, you cross be: toe's; Upon leaving thd Frenchman I was and had a big, crescent-shapetween a corpse and mummy, and drag told to report to him three days later, gorilla, livid sror running from hla left ear him out of the way. Weve bloody well at the same time and place. I left, under his chin up to hts right eye. over got to get this ship loaded to catch with enthusiasm and bubbling ' Every time he spoke the edges of the ' the tide." ' anticipation, scar seemed to grow white. His nose pale-face- d on roan with hlg The 1 interval kept of this three days During was broken and he had huge, shaggy examination without paying any attenmapped out a story of my life to pre- eyebrows. - His band w as resting on .JASTUG GA1 " tion to the foremans Instructions The sent to him upon onr secuud Interview. the rail of the CLEAR CREFK ? a looked like ship. It foreman got blue In the face and bubThe eventful day at last came, and and Inwardly X figured out what ham, 41 NO bled over with rage. once more I waa closeted with him. I would " to me If that ham-Uk- e happen BLACK HAW Get I tell hear what Po you you? started to tell him my story. He fist ever came In contact with the Mm cut cf the way. Thl9 ship has got CAMERON me bis by waving interrupted right of my Jaw. As we passed him to be loaded cr TO go down there and band to the right and left It re- point SPRING CA V0 8wung on His Jaw With My Fist he showered ns with a few complminded me of the butts on a target pound some obedience Into you." ABERDEEN as such "Of all the remarks, and swung on his jaw with my fist The man still paid qp attention. The range during rifle practice, when the imentary scum I have seen, this bunch of His head went np lousy Iron against the foreman was speechless. Ifl a few secman marking the target wigwags a Also lnbbers is the worst, and this is what bunk with a sickening sound and he onds tbe man straightened up, miss to the firing line. My heart sank. stooping . LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIAL they give me to take thirteen hundred crumpled up and fell on the deck, the and looking the foreman straight In Then he spoke, and I was carried horses " to over on Bordeaux." Later A Square Deal to Every Patron blood pouring from the ent In his bead. the eye, from- - despondency --to the greatest replied: Hes dead." I found this Individual was foreman of I felt sick and faint thinking that he This did cnlmly not seem to lease the foreI (10 W. FIFTH NORTH. height , of expectation. Ills words; the horse gong. PHONE had been killed, but It would not do man In the least and he bellowed out: Pardon me, monsieur, I already M. i Pres. HARMON. - - z We were ordered aft and sat on the to show these signs of weakness on How do you know he Is dead? . f. The know your life, and In an amazingly on hatch. fellow The toafter man answered simply: Tm a doctor." my right my part, so without even moving short time he told nfo more than I d negro. - He ward him X ordered one of tbe men to Then the foreman once again explodknew about mjsetf.' I had beta care- was a huge, x - was continually scratching- himself. look him over and see If he was all ed : A doctor ! Blawst my deadlights, fully Investigated. from him right. Me soon came around. From eased I doctor! Well, If youre a doctor, unconsciously away My Instructions received from him - -- Into the fellow sitting on that time on he waa the most faithful what tn h 1 are you doing on a horse and bumped COALS, AS FOLLOWS FIRST. so re confidential, I will not go into - After a good look at him X man In the section and greatly respect- ship? You ought to be rolling pills Jeft my them. Anyway, he handed me an en- eased back ' again In the direction of ed me. The rest of the men growled for tbe highbrows." velope and told me to follow out carethe negro. I dont think that he had and mumbled and I thought I was in never his The doctor took piercing fully all details as contained therein. from the for a terrible beating. Lying close at look from the eye of the foreman. The taken a bath since I immediately went back to my of- cradle. Right thenescaping my uppermost hand was an Iron spike about eighteen foreman was now like an enraged Trail fice, opened the envelope and on a thought was how I could duck this Inches long. Grasping this, I turned to Spitting all over himself, he blustered CASTLE GATE, CLEAR CREEK, KING, SPRING typewritten sheet I read ; "Report at trip to France.. The general conversabut: Well, If hes dead, there Is no Goldsmith's Employment agency. No. tion among the horse gang was: the rest, trying to be as tough as doctor A can him do that good. any : possibly could Greenwich street. Ship as an "When do ws eat?" CANTON, CAMERON, STANDARD. ANTHER o you black skunks ever tbere ' reat of yoU bums couple the of If any ordinary horseman and daring voyage two negroes wbo were alW.e must have sat there abont twenty CITE. SMITHING, COKE AND KINDLING (addressing boss around are start think here, they carefully follow the verbal Instruc- minutes, when the second foreman most blanched to a bluish white and tions received by yoa daring onr In- came aft' I took fifteen guesses at his something, and I will sink this Into who weni trembling near by), pet WOOD . , terview, making careful note of all de nationality, and at last came to the his bead. Although I was quailing ahold of him and drag Tin out of the tails immediately after happening.' bo conclusion that he was a cross between underneath, still I got away with It, way One of the negroes, with a cautioas la doing this. Upon landing and from that time on I was boss of feeering grin, replied : "I shipped on a Chinaman and a Mexican.' He was ! my section. tn Fran'ce report to the prefecture of thtn, about six this here ship to handle bosses, and feet tall, and wore a Now every man was smoking or I dont allow nohow that Its my wqrk 5 v ; cty police, Bordeaux, and to the letter huge sombrero. ITls skin was tanned tobacco, Pretty soon tho bold to tote corpses Around." f chewing Phone 17- obey bis Instructions. Good luck." the color of leather. Every time he became thtek with was. and - - I went home and I smoke, rushed foreman Ju.it second ilia oldest Ilea put joo, my Smiled' X had the Impression that the gasping for breath, when the voice of i clothes an old black suit, olive drab next minute he would out of tbe a plant a stiletto the foreman came down the cornpan-ionw-a- y over, gave the negro push shoe's a of and and, grabbing the heels .of the vny, , shirt, pair heavy army In my back. Ills name was Pinero. ' : dead man, pulled him away from the kJ woolen cap. I had let my beard grow His Introduction to us was very brief : art; 'mm ' on deck Turn out and hand a run. I turned "away; slokeped with ; give, looked and rough. Ur , certainly Get up off of that blanket! blank In passing through Qty IlaU park, hatch" and line np against the rail." loading the horses. Look alive or Ill disgust. The foreman then took np and rouse- - you out empty1 oat sack and spread It over the ' New Fork, one sees many derelicts We did as ordered. Then, be com- come down there. I 1 quick." pretty ' bloody bead. of Jhe human race sitting on the manded: All the niggers line up 1 We needed no second Invitation and Just then the clanging bell of an am benches. I sat down between two of alongside cf the port rail." I guess a T 4 I these wrecks of humanity 'and en-- j lot of them did not know what he lined np on the deck. I looked over balance was heard andtwo-m-a enwhite-clothe- d with a . - j 4 gaged them In conversation, trying to meant by the port rail because they the rall. Jin the dockjwere hundreds Aoctorr followed by sorriest looking specimens of stretcher, pushed their way through '14.1 f blend lntfr their at moat, ere. ...About looked "very "much hew lldered. With bl'lhe horse flesh I have ever laid eyes on. the, rtowd of horses and horsemen came n minutes later a blank-ety You an policeman oath he snapped out t 't""!"- These were In groups of ten They were accompanied by a policehorses ' blank Idiots. Tbe port rail Is that past and told the three of us to mov man. The body was put Into the amt J on. I slouched away with the other rail over tbere. Come on. Move or or twelve, being held by horsemen from bulance and taken away, while the New tbe A of lot two. Telling them that I was going TO soon move you." lie looked well Jersey stockyards. went on board the ship. out panhandling,"! took my leave, but able to do this and the niggers prompt- the men wbo bad shipped as horse- -pasty-face- d The men doctor was holding never led In a horse bad their them an made aplife, pot before one of ly shuffled over to the place designatonto the rail of the runway and cough-Ira was and to It see touch for their fear. ed. andsucce8sful He dlv'ded us pitiful into pealing quickly squads X thought each gasp would be his The foreman let out A volley of oaths nickel. The method used by him In se-- of twelve men. then ordered ; AH of V curing that nickel would have done you-vh- o ere deserters from the army for them to move quickly, and they de- last The second foreman was talking credit to the greatest financiers In the or who have seen service In ;he cpv-alr- y cided to accept tho lesser evil and take to hlm.Tbe doctor paid no attention. Going up behind the doctor, the f n - i country in putting through, g deal In step out 1n fronts Four others a chance with the horses. - t v volvlng millions. coolly measured bis distance and Then combesides myself stepped out The first the work of loading swung on the point of his Jaw. The street, man he came to he Informed: Youre menced. 1 Going down Greenwich ., I I have been In a cavalry regiment doctor crumpled up and fell on the slouching along, looking at the ground, a straw boss. Do you know wlint a this cowardly and dastardI . I ruif plump Into ayoung lady of my- straw boss Is?" - This man meekly when hurry-u- p orders were received to dock. AtI saw red and made a leap act, ly afWith answered. No, sir." of another enlrain for the Mexican border and , I had g feeling ' acquaintance. Jettlon Tor tills particular youug lady, oath, the second foreman said: All helped to load eleveu hundred horses at tbe foreman.' An onrushlng light 5 but it soon died cut urn hearing her right youre not a straw boss; full on trains. The confusion on that dock Unshed la front at me and a huge loI got the-eu- e remark as I collided w 1th her, Jf yog hack Immediately. was indescribable. j The borseswere comotive, going (60 miles an hour, hit ' the eyes; then blackness. came turn - - ALWAYS RELIABLE next cannot look where you are going, My loaded by three runways. My gang me between X came to, I was lying Tn my 1 will . have you arrested." Of course, Do you know what a straw boss and I were detailed on the after run- When bunk In the bold. I had an awful j . . she did not recognize me and I took Is? 164 .. way. The foreman Was leaning over 375.1V. Center " headache. Then everything came with the her. no matter to X said: , argue Sore." the down pains rail, glaring t upon us and back to me with a flash. I could hear I was glad enough to slink by. All right, youre a straw now and then giving Instructions mired He N water on the ship i When I came to the agency there boss." said: horriLh with , 6aiha.lle had a huge side and knew,of we ; were under way. Una of T three bums, bmg - 1 1 1 I had not the least Idea of what marllnspike in his hand. On the dock Right then and there I decided never for he was 1 deep, trying to ship as horsemen talking about, but made up was the second foreman. In his large again, especially while aboard ship, to ItF DIKE A SfLfJALTY OF FEATSER riUOttS AND SIRS ' France. , mind that It would not take roe sombrero, a red neckerchief around Interfere with my Among It' would be impossible to get long to find out Then he passed his neck. wearing a blue shirt with the that gang of human wrecks and cutI rougher and more unkempt gathering --picking to sleeves rolled the out and straw tbe elbows, up line, down, throats It was every man for himself, of., .men.- - It looked as If some huge bosses. I asked one of the men In my In his right hand a colled larlnt It and the survival of the fittest! -- 1 had a comb fine and had taken giant what were the duties of a straw did ones heart good Jo see him rope two beautiful Mack eyes, and my nose the gutters of New gang 1 fully boss. He had been over with hoises the horses which broke loose. Upon felt 4 , a like football Tork. and told me that a straw boss watching his first performance I knew before, on went I .Th jnooqend I fell into this line and waited my meant to lJb In charge of the gang to t.FA correct wheuJLJured him as up I turn. Upon arriving .at the desk, in feed the horses ami to draw and keep (Continued in next Issue) nen J. y. -- CONFIDENCE A I ' , t - Provo Commercial I Savings Bank:' jW-rir.-- d, Utah Timber - Coal Go.' r 332 blue-gumme- - - that Good Coal w SMOOT & i SPMFMD sir iri y -- 1 Bert Bandley P,ro vo'S Lead itig , 1 Blacksmith and Horsesh 6 e 4 Truck Bodies Built to Order polic- e-officer g. 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