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Show m no MMOWSOLIER WHO WENT M'iiidJYimt- MACHINE aMJt.mw M TOOT CMTBY fit tvfppf EMPEY HEARS THE STORY OF THE TOMMY WHO HAD A BROAD STREAK OF YELLOW. Synoptic Fired by the sinking of the LuritanIS, with the loss of American llTes, Arthur Guy Empey, an American firing In Jersey City, toes to England and enlists as a private In the British army, After a abort experience as a recruiting officer in London, he Is aenf to tag Quarters In France, where he first hears the sound of big guns and aakes the acquaintance of cooties. After a brief period of training Empey'a company Is sent Into the front-lin- e trenches, where he takes Ids first turn on the fire step w hile the bullets whls overhead.' Empey learns, as comrade falls, that death lurks always In the trenches. Chaplain distinguishes himself by rescuing wounded. men under hot fire. With pick and shovel Empey has experience as a trench digger In No Man's Land. Exciting experience on listening post detail. Exciting work on observation post duty. Back In rest billets Empey writes and stages a successful play. Once more In the front trenches, Empey goes "over the top In a successful but costly attack on the German lines. Soon afterwards Empey and his comrades repulse a determined, gas attack launched by the Germans. Ills next experience Is as a member of a firing squad which executes a sentence of death. CHAPTER XXIV Continued. upon him for support lie had no good position to lose, and there was no After standing at "attention" for sweetheart to tell him with her lips what seemed a week, though in reality to go, while her eyes pleaded for him It could not have been over five to stay. we heard a low whispering In our serEvery time he saw a tear and footsteps on the stone flag- geant hed slink around recruiting the corner out of sight; with a terrible fear gnawing ging of the courtyard. Our officer reappeared and in a low, at his heart. When passing the big refiat firm voice, ordered; cruiting posters, and on his way to "About-T- orn 1" business and back be many, he We turned about. In the gray light would puli down his passed and look the cap f dawn, a few yards in front of tee, I other way frorp that awful finger could make out a brick wall. Against pointing at falnl, under the j caption, this wait was a dark form with a white Tour King and Country Need Ton; square pinned on Jts breast We were or the boring eyes of Kitchener, which aappoeed to alin at this square. To the burnedinto his very soul, causing him tight of the form I noticed a white spot to shudder. a the wall. This would be my target Then the Zeppelin raids daring ' Heady! Aim! Fire!" them, he used to crouch In a corner of The dark form sank Into a huddled his boarding-houscellar, whimpering heap. My bullet sped on Its way, and like a whipped puppy and calling upon filt the whitish spot on the wall; I the Lord to protect him. toald see the splinters fly. Some, one Even hi landlady despised him, alrise had recelred the rifle containing though she had to admit that ha was the blank cartridge, but my mind was "good pay, at ease, there was no blood of a He very seldom read the papers, but Tommy on my hands. on momentous morning the landlady I File-A- rms Order Arms I About-T- urn the put morning paper at his place beI Stand dear." fore he cam down to breakfast Tak-tn- g The stacks were his seat he read the flaring headMarch! Right Wheel I" Quick line, Conscription Bill Tassed," and And we leh the scene of execution be- fainted. Excusing himself, he nearly filad OS. stumbled upstairs to his bedroom, It was now daylight After inarch- with the horror faf it gnawing Into his ing about five minutes, we were disTltals. . . missed with the following Instructions Having saved up a few pounds, he from the officer In command : decided not to leave the house, and to to your respective sham Return, alone, sickness, so he stayed In his room companies, and remember, no talking ' and had the landlady .serve bis meals about this affair, or else It will go bard . there. with the guilty ones." Every time there was a knock at the We needed no urging to get away. I door he trembled all over, imagining it Cd not recognise any of the men on was a the firing squad ; even the officer was a him policeman who had come to take away to the array. stranger to me. One morning his fears were realized. The victim's relations and friends la Sure there stood a policeman enough, EHgfcty will never know that he was with the fatal paper. Taking It In his Imexecuted; they will be under the hand he read that he, Albert trembling died his he for bit that pression doing was ordered to report himself Lloyd, king and country. to the nearest recruiting station "for Xa the public casually lists his name will appear under the caption "Acci- Physical examination. He reported immediately, because he was afraid to dentally KRled, or Died." disobey. The day after the execution I reThe doctor looked with approval ceived orders to report back to the upon Lloyds six feet of physical perIn still a and to my tongue keep Ea. fection, and thought what a fine Executions are a part of the day's guardsman he would make, but examwork, but the part we hated most of ined his heart twice before he passed him all, I think certainly the saddest. The so as physically fit;" It was beating fast British war department Is thought by From the recruiting depot Lloyd was be to of many people composed rigid with many others, tn charge of taken, wound all around red with regulations tope. But It has a heart, and one of a sergeant to the training depot at Althe evidences of this Is the considerate dershot where he was given sn outfit way in which an execution is concealed of khaki, and drew his other equipsoldier, aad reported to the relati re of the un- ment lie made a fortunate man. They never know the except for the slight shrinking la his truth. lie Is listed tn the bulletins as shoulders and the bunted look la his eyes. 'among the accidentally killed." At the training depot It does not la the last ten years, I have several Gases read stories In magazines of take long to find out a pan character, cowards changing, la a charge, to he- and Lloyd wras promptly dubbed roes. I used to laugh at It It seemed "windy." In the English army "windy" hut I said, means cowardly. vary for The smallest- recruit in the barracks Men aren't made that way." But over la France I learned once that the looked on him with contempt and was streak of yellow can turn all white. I not slow to show It la many wayt. Lloyd was ticked up the story, bit by VI t, from . gpodjsoldier, learned the captain of the company,' the sen- quickly, obeyed every order promptly, tries who guarded the poor fellow, as never groused at the hardest fatigues. wen as from my on n observations. At He was afraid to. He lived In deadly first I did not realize the whole of his fear of the officers and "noncoms" over -story but afler.a. wek. of investigatMrmIhey also despised him. One about xuind In stood as clear out three months ion it morning my as the mountains of jty native West la after his enlistment Lloyds. company It Impressed me w as paraded, and the names picked out thelrpiing tbrri I jvrofejt all tojnch ' "billets on, creps of.. ddL paper. Whea his aaai. was- called, he The Incidents are, as I say, every bit step out smartly, two paces to the the feelings of the roamwe true front, aha .answer. cheerfully, Tiler, I trow from all I utdcrwenrlnTbS aPT-esir, as the others and in was ranks the over Trance. in barcarrlsd t rating 17e will call him Albert Lloyd. That racks amid the sneera of the rest That night was an agony of misery rt his name, but It will do: fLTrrt Lloyd was what the world to him. lie could not Bleep. Just cried coward. and whimpered In his bunk, because t T i L"ian they called him a slacker. on the morrow the draft was to sail I at war nearly for France, where he would see death ) c vntry had 1 and still he was nut on all sides, and perhaps be killed himruths, self. On the steamer, crossing the en-- 1 channel, he would have Jumped overrt food reason for not hav-1 e in the world, board to escape, but was afraid of t la an orphan asy-- l crowning. to one dependent Arriving in France, he and the rest 21 min-ale- s, e ' 4 fine-looki- story-writer- s, - were huddled txt cattle ear. Oa the ride of each appeared la white letters, "Uomnes 0, Chevaux I." After boo of bumping over the uneven French roadbeds they arrived at the training bate of Rouen. At this place they were put through a weeks rigid training tn trench war; fare. On the morning of the eighth day they paraded at tea oclock, and were Inspected and passed by General II , then were marched to the quartermaster, to draw their gas helmets and trench equipment At four la the afternoon they were again hustled into cattla cars. This time the Journey lasted two days. They disembarked at the town of Prevent and could hear a distant dull booming. With knees shaking, Lloyd asked the sergeant what the noise was, and nearly dropped when the sergeant replied In a somewhat bored tone: Oh, thems the guns up the line. Well be up there In couple o days or so. Dont worry, my laddie, youll see more of em than you want before you get ome to Blighty again, that la, if youre lucky enough to get back. Now lend a hand there unloadin them cars, and quit that everlastln ahakln. I believe yer scared." The last with a Contemptuous sneer. They marched ten kilos, full pack, to a little dilapidated village, and the sound of the guns grew louder, constantly louder. The village was full of soldiers who turned out to Inspect the new draft, the men who were shortly to be their mates In the trenches, for they were going "up the line" on the morrow, to "take over" their certain sector of trenches. The draft was partded In front of battalion headquarters and the men were assigned to companies, Lloyd was the only man assigned to D company. Perhaps the officer In charge of the draft had something to do with it, for he called Lloyd aside and said: Lloyd, you are going to a new company, No one knowa you. Tour bed will be aa you make it, so for Gods sake, brace up and be a man. I think you have the stuff la you, my boy, so good-band the best of luck to yon." The next day the battalion took over their part of the trenches. It happened to be a very quiet day. The artillery behind the lines was still, except for an occasional shell sent over to let the Germans know the gupners were not asleep. In the darkness, in single 'file, the company slowly wended their way down the communication trench to the front line. No one noticed Lloyds white end drawn face. After they had relieved the company In the trenches, Lloyd, with two of the old company men, was put 'on guard In one of the traverses. Not a shot was fired from ths German lines, and ne one paid any attention to him crouched on the firing step. On the first time in, a new recruit Is not required to stand with his head "over the top," He only "sits It out," while the older men keep watch. At about ten oclock, all of a sudden, he thought bell had broken loose, and crouched and shivered up against the parapet Shells started bursting, as be Imagined, right In their trench, when in fact they were landing about a hundred yards in rear of them. In the second lines. One of the oldef men on guard, turning to his mate, said : "There goes Frits, with those d d trench mortars again. Its about time our artillery taped them, and sent over a few. Well, 111 be d d, wherea that blighter of a draft man gone tot Therea his rifle leaning against the parapet He must have legged It, Just keep your eye peeled, Dick, while I report It to the sergeant I wonder Jf, the fopl knqwsfae can ha shot for such tricks as leavlu his post? Lloyd had gone. When the trench mortars opened up, a maddening terror seized him and he wanted to run, to get away from that horrible din, anywhere to safety. So quietly sneaking around the traverse, he came to the entrance of a communication trench, and ran madly and bUndly down running Into traverses, stumbling Into muddy holes, and falling full length over trench grids. Groping blindly, with fats arms stretched out in front of him, he at last came out of the trench Into the village, or what used to be a village, before the German artillery raxed It . Mixed with his fear, he had a peculiar sort of .cunning, which whispered to him to avoid all sentries, because If they saw him he would be sent back to that awful destruction la the front line, and perhapa be killed or maimed. The thought made him shudder, the cold sweat coming out In beads on his face. . y . it J sunt-LIne- did.-He0- asrf t ii d JU: CONTINUED) Galvanised' wire netting Is claimed to be much superior to wood as a for surgica- l- splints. - It ts strong, light la weight, tna-teri-al nt and easily sterilized, and. unlike wood and plaster, glTes free ventilation. The new splints are woven from wire so tempered that it can easily be pressed Inti- shape to be bound closely epos the Injured limb. - r Dally Thought. No nobler feeling than this, of a 6 Elrstioa for one higher than himself, dwellsla, the breast of uisn. It is to this hour, end at all hours, a 'vhifyiag Inflileuce in mans Ilf Cru Know everything there 1. about watches. They poor watch go and fl00d accurate time. We sell dependable . Utah is the first state to inaugurate an day for the benefit of HUNS ARE ON THE RUN, BEING UNABLE TO STAND UP TO THE AMERICANS AND FRENCH. Battering Tactic of Allied Forces Too Much for Crown Princes Followers, Who Are Desperately Fighting to Prevent Annihilation, With the Army in France. e troops, continuing their pres-luron the Germans in. retreat from die Marne, have reached and crossed the Oureq riVer and penetrated the one of the town of for the bases German supply great Soisaons-Ethelm- s the Inside enemy troops Franco-Imerica- n is, salient Meantime on the center of the allied right wing southwest of Rbelms violent sttacks by the French have forced the enemy to give further ground and enabled the French to capture several towns of strategic value and to draw their front appreciably nearer the high road which runs northeastward from Dormans to Rhelms. The Huns are on the run, but on the extreme wings of the gradually denear Solssons and creasing pocket Rhelms the enemy, heavily reinforced, la holding tenaciously, realizing that successes there would result in a general crumbling of his plans of defense against the locking Up of his entire armies Inside the big bag. In addinumber of troops for tion to reinforcement that have been thrown on these two sectors, the German long range guns from the region north of Soissons and north and northeast of Rhelms are keeping both wings of the salient under a heavy enfilading fire. Under the battering tactics of the Americans and Frenchmen the German line, on the south has now been driven back more than twelve miles from the point, south of Chateau Thierry, where the allied troops locked the door to Paris against, the enemy July IS and themselves betntne the aggressors In what has turned out one of the greatest battles of the war. Our men have been making A number of small raids into German trenches, discovering the enemys strength and dispositions and doing as much damage as possible In a short time. The English, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand troops have all been taking a share in these grim adventures and nearly every raiding party brought back a few prisoners. The line along the greater part of salient the bottom of Soissons-Rhelmhas been poshed forward in some places as much as five miles. The Germans are bringing Into- play their artillery In force to check the plunges of the troops. The Americans have played a brilliant part In the advance, which Included te occupation of Sergy, on the north bank of the river, and a number of small villages. the-larg- e s' . ," . war relief funds. Dora Montague, of Iay son, has enlisted In the navy as a yeoman and is serving as a clerk In the naval recruiting office at Salt Lake City. Miss Laverne Frantzen, daughter of Mrs. Matilda Frantzen, of Spring City, has left for Washington, D. C to be employed In the offree of the adjutant, modest "'j I time-pW- price. boydpark OFjntim MAKERS 0 MAN STRICT ' general, The threatened strike of the Salt Lake fire fighters, which was to have taken place Sunday, was called off, both sides to the controversy making - BARGAINS IN USED uoa. rennifti V rill Concessions. Due to the accidental discharge of a rifle Clement Koldwyn, of Ogden, met with a painful injury to his hand at Hunts villa, the bullet passing through the palm- of his haDd. Edward Scherrer, a registrant of the Ogden City draft district. Is In jail In Cincinnati, O., because he is alleged to have misrepresented his dependency status In his questionniare. . That road construction oa th western end of the Lincoln highway will be rushed to completion was evidenced last week by the installation off additional road building machinery. The total tax rate on Salt Lake City property this year will be 19.80 mills, as against 20.29 last year, a decrease of .0 of a mill on the dollar, or 49 cents on each JlOQO of property value. J. H. Manderfleld, manager of the Salt Lake Union stockyards, has been appointed by Governor Bamberger as Utah repesentative on the highways transport committee of the council of national defense. Instructions to Utah draft boards to exert every precaution in ridding the national army .of unpatriotic enemy aliens and at the same time accord Justice to loyal soldiers of enemy birth have been Issued. Flans for the fourth Liberty loan campaign in Utah are now being worked out by neber J. Grant, state chairman, and his associates. Unlike the loan campaigns of the past, the coming campaign will last but three weeks. Two men who are alleged to have taken In one week from various Salt Lake hotels more than flOOO Worth Of Jewelry and money are being held In the city Jail. They are John Murray, 21 years of age, and George Jackson, ' 23. . . A sliver an Inch in length was removed from the right tonsil of Thelma McComb, daughter of Robert C. McComb, by attendants at the emergency hospital at Salt Lake. The child had attempted to swallow the slker. coadiHoB-- eu Writ fa, lUadaO-Dod- d FAMOUS CARS cC,r rB, fa, Auto ,f 1 linen Co, uu Uk. o. FIELD OF BLOOD- - laid tn Be Spot Judas Purehwai With the Silver for Which H. Sold His Master, Just outride the Walls of Jerusalem In th Valley of ( Hlnnom, is a plain known as th Aceldama Field of Blood. It la the potters fle!i purchased with th 80 pieces of nb for which Judas sold hi master. Her for centuries visitors to the holy etty dying while oa their pilgrimage fonaj a resting place. Gray and barren. It Is a desolate spot, solitary but for the chance and a few withered gray-clmonks from A nearby monastery. For a small tea, one of these ancient recluses will show you th sights of th place. Caves and underground pa. Sages, honeycombed with tombs, are cut In the rocky field. Tour guide n leads you down steps, cut Iff the sixth perhaps century, tut crumbling halls. His torch casts nickering uncanny shadows on the damp gray walls. The place seems to resent your intrusion; It Is the "place ' of sleep," jthe hall of the dead. 0a one ride lsthe tomb of some warrior monk who' followed the fortunes of Richard Lion Heart of England to th holy land, dying at the very gates of the city his master had hoped to conquer. He must have died penniless too, as so many of these zealots did, else his bones had not rested In th vii-lt- o age-wor- potters field. Near Aceldama Is a ruined charnel .house, said to have been built by th Crusaders for their dead. It is a tumbling ruin, nearly thirty fget long by twenty wide, with one side of naked rock. Beneath It are two of the largest caverns, their rock sides pierced with tombs and shallow graves. In the roof of th ruin are holes through which the bodies of the dead vers lowered. The Field of Blood Is on the northeastern slope of the Hill of Evil Cou- Nearly $3,000,000 will be the revenue from the 1918 Utah' tax levy, fixed at 4.7 mills, according to action taken of ncil, where tradition says by the state board of equalization. chief the and where This levy, It was explained. Is 3 of a Calaphas stood, and elders plotted the mill lower than the total state tax Jeans. for last year. is announced It that 1076.05 acres of land in the Dixie national forest will SAVE HONEY FOR FARMERS be thrown oped to homestead entry oh Direct Testimony Showing That the August 2L Should there not be suffiCASUALTY LIST INCREASING. ' cient applications under the homestead - -Woodpecker Should Be Protected fcy All Agriculturists. Over 'Thousand Names Added During act by August 23, the land will be open for other entries. We are assured on high autbrtnj! Past Week of Fighting. Claud that son if birds were as numerous todsy of the Sapp, Casualties in the army Washington. and marine corps overseas Increased barn foreman at the United States as they were (X) years ago It would 1050 during the week, compared with Fuel companys mines at Panther, was mean a saving of manwrhUHon dollar to American farmers; The slauglitei 9S3 the previous week and aggregate Instantly killed when ft boulder weighof six tons rolled down migratory birds is surely followed the 13,703, with the Inclusion of Sunday's ing mountain army list of 223 and the marine corps ride, striking him oa the head and by the Incrcase bf destructive Insects, Among the farther bird friends art list of two. The weeks increase also crushing hla skull. the woodpeckers, especially the redwas the largest yet recorded. President TV. B. Ennis of the Salt headed members of tbe species. In the 13.7GG casualties, total deaths. Lake county farm bureau, hag In proof there Is cited the following 291 Tost men killat men Including sea, that arrangements are under : A pair of, them nested In a instance ed in action, dead of wounds, disease, way to provide a uniform scale of dead cottonwood tree near an orchard. accident and other causes numbered prices to be charged farmers for One day the observer watched them 5493 army men 4783,' marines 710. threshing grain; Existing prices range through a pair of glasses. The your? The wouuded aggregate 7332 army from 10 to 26 cents a busheL birds were about half grown. Th men 6340; marines 1192. Those miss made by the last parents made 96 trips In one hour, Appropriations ing, including prisoners, total 741-a- rmy legislature for the construction of two each time with a worm. It Is safe to men 637, marines 84. . new buildings at the University of Bay that they saved 93 apples In that with an additional $18,000 by the hour a box worth, say $1. If 8 Utah, GERMANS SLAIN IN HEAPS. state council of defense, have been re- birds worked ten hours a day, thef leased by Governor - Bamberger and were worth $10 to the owner of that Losses During First Two Days of work was begun on the buildings last orchard, or, In the three weeks th Campaign Greater Than Reported. week. birds were In the nest $210. It is pl: Taris. The losses of the Germans that no farmer can afford to k.3 31.CS3 cattle In Utah Of subjected to then, two days of fighting, ' daring The a woodpecker. after the launching of the enemy offen- tuberculin tests only 200 have been condemned and destroyed up to July sive in the Champagne," appear now to Testing Pleurisy With Coins. have been even heavier than was first 13, according to a report compiled by A novel method of diagnosing ph9 Thomas Redmond, secretary to the a reported. When the Germans east of state livestock Is described by F. Lereborilet exrisy board. It Is estimated fell Into the trap which Gour-au- d the Paris Medical JournaL The laid for them they were mowed that there are nearly 500,000 dalrv aminer applies his ear to the patient coLA down literally In heaps. From where cattle In the state. closing his Other ear, while The state veterinarian i$ investigat- chest, Gourauds guns were placed it was posare clinked at the patients fracJ:' sible, owing to the line of terrain, to ing the poisoning of three cows be- sound of the coins coming through see observe directly the effect of the longing to Leroy Barker of Pleasant healthy, normally qeratfd lung French fire, and entire ranks of the View. About five minutes arter eating distant and dull, while through sn enemy,., were soon ho crumple up Tike Quantity of hay the cows ffietiT'Tt Is fectedf lung, through solid believed the hay had been paper, sprinkled geneous tissue a clear, silvery with a poisonous mixture In order to lie ring Is heard. c exterminate grasshoppers. Dempsey Wins from Fulton. A a result of Harrison, N. J.-- Jack Dempsey of Spanish Sulphur Deposits. arbitration, the price Utah knocked out, Fred. Fulton, of kiiJ -ior.hhrohiB has been srer fctlTee'nti the province of oesota, just 30 seconds after a sched- for wheat,ll cents Tor barley 'and 9 there are a number of sulphur del1 uled Its. One of the most imporiant fight, bopm tere July cents for oats for 'Weber and Datja 27. "Both men had been claiming a counties, where farms are Is that of La Surata de.D1 unirortually aeer aRce L .Him I.orra c ? r ttit I"!PilauJLbe-Sxor- Ll bercoirntl e "V cepp heavyweight win Ogden vritcr fend'UTWntiful dis- whlefiTextends oirer a now get a chante to win the title. trict of Davis, county, where special kilometers and a width of oue to tv kilometers. ' price. will prevail. ' Women thained to Guns. Wlille the corn production for Utah Paris. Reports which as yet have Slow Progress. "Takes my wifi a long time to F hot been confirmed officially continue for 1918 cannot even be as to pout into the American lines to the yet, it Is declared that It will go many ready for breakfast" effect that Germans are now chaining thousands of bushels over that of any Hows that?" women to machine guns In an effort preceT.ng year, according to the re"Shes a great road-- end hr port given out at the office of The peruse every curl paper as she to stem the allied tide of advance. federal ood administrator for Utah. It off. Louisville Courter-JournaPoliceman Killed In Race Riot. The kllhng of a real timber wolf FL.ladolpfcia.Dne policemen was within the 4 units of Salt Lake Then She Frcre Up. ft fity oa killed, another badly wounded, and six- July 24 was In Housewife Fye, nothing hot accord with a w ere other pmr tittle la ty street rolehration of Pioneer persons injured you; but I can gtTe you a day. In the opintights between whites and negroO- - la ion of J. E. thing cold. Mammott, who shot th the somhern section of the city oa animal near hw Tramp AT rtrht mum: make It i - the-vil- la Franco-America- n -- Est v ld - -- fi-- jt -- - ten-roun- 4TO . nt tre; Empey learns that a streak of yellow sometime can turn all white. He telle the unueuat xtory ln the next Installment - Our Experts d f ' ' T - e --I - |