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Show ' HE WAS THE COWARD AND HERO By CHARLES BRIGHT It puzzled me. If X went right, those on the left might be Indignant, and fire on me. But I must certainly surrender to some party of them, for there was not a Frenchman left In the trench which they had blows np. I crawled out of the crater, and my hand touched something round and smooth which niude cue recoil In ter-roIt was a skull, the grisly skull of a dead man? So 1 thought for a few menta. But not It was s bomb HERO! IT Louta, whom the one of the bombs which we had boys surnamed Loula the Debbrought with us. The pins had uot onair, because of iny at- been moved, they had not beeu dismosphere of general charged when the mine went off, Listen, then, and I shall tell though tons of earth were thrown all you the truth about my exploit. ulmut us. I am not ashamed to say that when I touched It more easily and then General Joffrw ordered me from my lta neighbor. Then a sort of curiosity position as typewriter to the commisovercame me, and I counted the sariat department to share In the bombs. There were Just eighteen of perlla of the treuches my first Impulse them my six and the alx of each of was to fly. L a man of forty-sevemy companions, the brave fellows who with a girth larger than I care to think now lay buried uuder the great heap about, and a family of seven, a be- of debris that formed the side of the loved wife In I'aris, weeping her eyes crater. out, should I then play the hero? My blond began to rise. Assassins! No, gentlemen. It was my Arm re- I shook my fists at the Bodies. I)M solve, from the moment I was ordered they stop to think what they hud to the front, that I would be taken done before they massacred a brave Better starve In a Bocha lleuteiiutit und two soldiers of France? prisoner. prison camp than lie, a corpse, upon The little lieutenant imd looked like the plains of Champagne! my own Jeau. Perhaps he had a mothIn our trench we were only forty er somewhere, waiting for hia return. fleet away from the enemy. They used Betides-vou- s ! shouted a harsh to shout brutal taunts at us, and our voire at my aide. men replied with Jest a We painted The Invitation to surrender, spoken sausages on paper sod stuck them In an execrable Intonation, brought me over the parapet to bo fired upon. The back to myself. I started, and aaw bullets whlssed above my head and three Boches with fixed bayonets levmade me tremble. The exchange of eled at me. I hoard a cry on my other pleasantries was horrible, la tho pres- aide. I looked around. Six Boches ence of death? stood there. And they were coming A hero? I had laaa wish to bo a hot np before mo and behind me. I waa than anything X knew o& I must bo trapped. I dived Into tho crater, and takan prisoner. But bow? My nerves aa X did ao tho whole eighteen bomba ware all nnatrang by the terrific noise roiled down after mo Idee skulls. of the cannonades. The shells flew X trembled, I shook with fear. Then over os. Sometimes great aratars ware suddenly a Mdeoaa sentiment took formed by the explosion of the kldoona of mo. L a Frenchman, tho missiles which were sailed Jeanaana, father of seven children, to surrender X trembled, I feared, X could not bide to a pack of cowardly Boches? I aaw ay cowardice. Nor did X wish to do red. Stooping X gathered np a bomb, ao. I would have bean branded a cowremoved the pin, and hnrled It with ard forever If only X eonld have been all lay might Into the faces of tho restored to my woeplag Annette, and nearoat party. my darling Jeanne, Item, Marla, AnIt exploded with a terrific crash, and toine, Louise, Philippe and August sl the whole alx took to flight Bat on At last I summoned courage to go my other aide the party of three were to my colonel. My colonel, M I said, I already topping the crater. I aaw am useless hers. X am a family man, their bayonets gleaming, and I picked and my nerves will not enduro this np another bomb and flung It at them. strain. When X must die, let It bo of I laughed at the detonation. When apbplexy or measles, not of a Jeansan. the smoko cleared away nothing was Sand me to the roar In charge of the seen. regimental commissariat supply." I heard tho shouts and groans of The colonel was ad older man than the wounded Boches, but they did not L II struck me In the stomach, move my heart I buried bomb after causing a pain moat scute. bomb, before, behind me. I gathered "We shall teach you, Louis, bo said. np the remainder and ran Into the Tonight you will go out on listening Boches' trench. I saw the frightened patrol I" Ieck retreat and I rushed after them, I nearly swooned at the brutality of bombing them. With my right hand I Ms words. I knew what that portend- hurled the deadly missiles, while with ed. The listening post, between tho my left I withdrew the pins. In an lines, where the star rockets went up, Incredibly nhort apace of time I had disclosing all who were above tho cleared the trench. I paced It like a trenches, exposing them to those hide-an- a victorious lion. shells. I fell upon my And then suddenly tho realisation knees. of my folly cam to me. L who had Mercy, my colonel I" I exclaimed. wished to yield, had permanently Have yon no children?" alienated my friends the enemy. I Fifteen hundred," be replied became frantic. sternly. I surrender I I am Kamaradl" I I rose and stared at him In hopeshouted. But there was none to anless fear, rift era hundred children I swer me. X waa alent, like Ornaoo, In And yet be could face this Inferno I" tho hoatUo trench. I thought of AnAll tho men of my regiment are my nette. of Jean, Pierre, Marie, Antoine, children, Louis," he answered. And fonts, Philippe, Augusta. I sat down he added kindly, dapping his and hid my faea In yen, my hands and hand upon my shoulder, are one of wept them. Bo we shall make yen a brave Suddenly tho air above mo hinted child I Go!" with bullets. I cowered In terror at X went with shaking knees. X knew the bottom of tho trench. The battle that It meant certain death. Bnt after had begun again. I heard an earth-shakeM while an Idea cam to me, at first tread. A company advanced only a dim hope and then a happiness, at the double, with bayonets fixed. finally an ecatacyl I would go and The foremost man leaped Into the taka advantage of the darkneaa to trench. I looked down. One botnh crawl away. I would reader np myself remained. I rained It to remove the X I to the aausage-eater- e would bepin. Then I aaw that the blue unicome a primmer. forms were of onr Frenchmen, and Wc stsrtod out toward midnight My that the man with the sword raised teeth chattered as I crawled through to cut me down waa tho colonel. the mate of barbed wire In the wake I let the bomb fall. The I of the little lieutenant accompanied tearsstopped. were streaming down my cheeks by two other men. We all carried But the colonel took me Into hla arms bomba. We had alx apiece. If the pin and embraced me yes, before all. eras palled out the thing would exIt la thou, foula, who has won this Merciful plode In fifteen seconds. single-handeI" he cried Intrench, heavens I Father of oevra I Aad Ancredulously. nette weeping her eyes out far me In I do not know, my colonel, I anPeris! swered, shaking with terror. I wish," It was pltcb dark, and when the I added, "now that I have been with hideous rockets went up we flung ourthe listening post, to return to the selves flat upon the ground, and hap- commissariat." At last we pily escaped detection. "The "No. Louis" ho answered. baited In a traverse. It was twelve has need of brave men like regiment yards from the enemies lines. We thee In the fighting line." could hear them talking among tbem-aelva- s. Later they pinned the cross upon We listened. breast. And I. fouls, the pride of my And then, aa I lay there, looking for the know that I shall never ai; chance to dart down the trench, see regiment Coward I am, my family again. and yet not daring to, there happened and unless I can manage to be taken tie most terrible thing that I have I shall die a dogs death In ever known la my life. The German prisoner trenches the My heart melts when I mine went off I think of Annette, of Jean I had no time to bo afraid. I felt myself rising, amid a din of the Infernal regions, and I wondered Choru$ Might Have whether X should travel aa high as the Been More Careful moon. Up I went and then I must the Central hall. Westminster. At have lost consciousness, for I opened the audience, before the meetLondon. In find to s myself lying huge my eyes ing began, waa singing some lusty crater, smld perfect silence. The lieutenant and my companions choruses. It was In the middle of one were nowhere to be seen. I lay In s of them when the side door opened, and (he speaker and other Important pool of whst I thought was my blood. onto the platform. a But after whlla I discovered that It persons streamed There they were marslmled In their was only water. I was absolutely unplaces by the bay secretary The harmed. of Omega will sit on the right My hopes went np. , Now 1 could bishop chairman Sir Alpha Beta, wli: the of should become I s surrender. prisT oner until the war was over. An- yon coine forwardwas and so on; Hml all this while proeeed'ng. the Marie, Antoine, nette, Jeon, Pierre, which Chorus the audience particular fouls, Ihlllppe, Auguste would see me was singing with all their might and All about I me I listened. again. main was Bring them In! Bring hoard the Bodies talking In their gutIn from the fields of sin! tural tongue. In front of me, behind them me on asa aad wan the cadi aids of Alaskas placer gold reserve la esti enemy. To which, than, aheald X mated at 360,000,000,000. mo- (Ospyrtsht fcj W. Q. Chapmaa.) A well-be-fs- n poo-sessio- 1 UTAH MAKES GOOD SHOWING m bituminous, etc. (Continued From Page One! of ninety-fiv- e li Iff HE NEEDED SWEETNESS IN HIS SYSTEM i In United States bureau of mines 1925 a total TEIDAT, JANUARY STEXT FRIDAY THE SUV, PRICE, UTAH FADE TWO mines in fifteen dates bad installed three hundred and forty machines which loaded 6,243,104 net tons of coal. Fourbut did not teen others had forty-twrejiort the tuun&ge loaded by them, but in most of this group the installations were experimental and only very small amounts of coal had been loaded. In 1923 the quantity loaded was reported to be 1,879,726 tons. In 1925 the leading dates in the order of the production of coal by machine loaders were Vi'ed Virginia (including Tazewell county, Va.), Illinois, Indiana, Old Virginia Wyoming, (except Tazewell county) and Kentucky. Preliminary reorls received lnuu manufacturers of loading machines and mine iudicate that when the complete figures for l!i26 are eolleetvd a lurthcr increase will be shown in liu-i- use, iu the number of mines employing them and in tin- total tonnage of machine loaded o, lYnn.-ylvuui-u, oja-rator- s r - coal. ALLEGED PROFITEERING WITH SOME DEALERS EAST WASHINGTON, 1). Jan. 8. Coal dealers of this city were charged with profiteering during the recent anthracite s us tension in a report submitted today by a senate committee which inquired into the subject. The conclusions were based on a report mads by 11. A. Smith, chief investigator for the comptroller general, who conducted an investigation during the summer. "The audit clearly reveals, the oommitee report says, "that many of the figures submitted by the dealers themselves at the hearing last winter were entirely erroneous, being much too high. A study of the charts and the statements reveals clearly that during the strike period the dealers advanced their Bale prices more than their costa increased with the result that during such period their gross profits greatly increased. It is also apparent that their profits on substitutes for hard coal were greater than on anthracite ao that the retail dealera undoubtedly benefited by the strike conditions while the consumers suffered. Iteynnd having the report inserted in the record it was not indicated that the committee had any definite plan of action. Senator Copland, democrat of New York, said there would be another suspension in April and Chairman Capiier agreed that Rueh was "the general impression. Capper declared the primary purjHiKe of the whole investigation was educational with the view to informing the genera! puhlir of the situation whieh might confront them. tative of the National Confectioners' association, in an address before the annual convention of the Western Confectionery Salesmens association here this last week. Courage is not a matter of sand, but of auger, Wilson explained. "A man's ability to go through a fight or a struggle of any kind depends on the amount of sugar id his blood. When the auger runs out he is through. When Gene Tunney went into the ehampichidiip battle he waa full of sugar and confidence, while evidently Dempsey had made the mistake of going without candy. Candy also contains milk, eggs, but- The difference between Tunney and ter, chocolate, fruit, nuts, molasses Demjtoey might be just two bites of and gelatine as well as other foods, eandy. and is a splendid bone and muscle builder. And, speaking of eandies, reminds "Medical laboratory studies of the The Sun that right here at Price va prize fighters, oarsmen, marathon have one of the most modern little runners and soldiers have shown that factories anywhere in the country stimulus of struggle eausea succea-f- that of the Price Confectionery, Gust athletes to increase the amount of Il&tis, proprietor. It is located on sugar in their circulation. In a long Main street and should be patronised straggle Hie supply is gradually used by those who appreciate the best lta up. This is why football playera are products are anything and everything fed eandy between halves and why manufactured by those at a distance. long distance runners eat it during Cleanliness is in evidenee everywhere raees. A minute variation in the and one and all are invited to go sugar content of the blood makes the through the premises at any time. The difference between cowardice and val- prices are no higher than for the proor. One of the principal qualifications ducts shipped in. If it eomes from of an athlete is the ability to turn Price Confectionery rest assured it is sugar immediately into vital energy. fresh and the best light or dense smoke conditions existed was reduced 33 and 63 per cent, The business district, respectively. formerly the renter of the smoke cloud, became the dearest part One Boston restaurant owner bases his daily menus on the forecasts supplied him by the weather bureau. His patrons call for different kinds of foods on hot and on cold days. CHICAGO, Ills., Jan. 10. Tf Jack Dempsey had had a few pieces of candy in his corner he might have saved his crown, a wording to llarry R. Wilson of St. Louis, Mo., represen- which would be in a position to negotiate international agreement. This ultimate solution is said to be impracticable in the present state of opinion in exporting districts. The minority report opposes all the FEWER UNITS IN ENGLAND IS above recommendations and suggests the continuance of the system of free THE LATEST IDEA competition. LONDON, Jan. 7. The majority re-1- '0 rt uf the committee on selling makes these principal recommendations for the reorganization of the British coal industry : First The consolidation of the inSTRIKE IN APRIL, NEXT, NOW dustry by amalgamations into fewer units. REGARDED REMOTE Second The voluntary development of loral selling arrangements or WASHINGTON, D C., Jan. 8. Possibility of a strike in the bitum- selling pools. inous fields at the expiration of the Third District marketing organiJacksonville, Ha., agreement, Marrli zations with legislation making 31st, is regarded as remote in admincompulsory, provided producistration circles, it waa learned today. ers of three-fourtof the total tonGovernment officials are loath to dis- nage in any district support a reascuss the situation pending the open- onable project. Fourth Ultimate of ing of negotiations for a new wage agreement, but confidence is express- district organizations. ed that a new scale will be arranged Fifth Revision of general legislaafter much bickering without recourse tion on restraint of trade. Sixth The formation of local mar-lutin- g to a strike. organizations in each exportABOUT THE CAMPS OF THE BIG ing area with possible ultimate CARBON DISTRICT under a central committee ... On the basis of somewhat incomplete ear loading returns, due to the interference of a holiday on the first of January, production of bituminous for the week ended January 1, 1927, appears to have been approximately equal to that of the prvvioua week or about 10,411(1,000 tons. It is evident that the output for the calendar year 1926 will approximate very rlosely that of the rerord year 1918 and wiil be nearly 15,000,000 tons ahead of the maximum peacetime production whieh was attained in the year 1923. Decided improvements in conditions at Salt Lake City, achieved as the result of a compaign undertaken by cirie authorities in which the University of Utah and the bureau of mines are outlined in a report just issued. Salt Lake City, on account of its location in a valley and because of local weather ronditions. has a particularly difficult smoke problem. As the result of the campaign in which bureau engineers participated actively the production of smoke from plants in the industrial and business districts of the city was reduced 95 per cent within a fieriod of ajproximatcly five yearn. The number of hours during which n ul Soviet Jokelet, This. MOSCOW, Jan. 8. Practical- jokers cost the soviet government coal mines in the Don Basin $50,000 when they' tacked a placard on the entrance to one of the main shafts reading: "If eight hundred and twenty rubles are not placed, here by 10 oclock tomorrow morning this mine will be blown up. Reading the placard two thousand miners refused to go to work. It took the management nearly a week to convince the workmen that no danger existed. Meanwhile the loss in eoal and wages amounted to $50,000. Spring Canyon Coal Co. - "I believe marriages would in general be happy and often more ao, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances without the parties having any choiee in Dr. Samuel Johnson. the matter. Spring Canyon Coal 8FBING CANTON, UTAH Graeral Offices, SIT Newhonea BufldfeK. alt Lake Qtj, Utah Clearance Sale. . . . the-smok- e d -- .TV1" ' headslze ones in both close fitting and wide brims . A few good felts at $1.00 each. baby dresses, etc. FUEL CO. i All winter hats are now on sale . A large number of good Just received the spring line of Royal Society package goods. Most attractive numbers in scarfs and aprons , CASTLE GATE I mm Ask for one of the new circulars with all packages Delivers by truck at Price and vicinity at $6.00 the ton. From the same vein in Willow Creek that has been burned in Utah for close to thirty years. Only the best lump. Orders, large or tmall, promptly cared for. tis&feSZts FAMOUS PEACOCK COAL Phone 95w HELPER, UTAH PRICE, UTAH 1 l!ll:Hii1li!H;ili;j!li!!il!lW,l;t;ili!ti!ll!P |