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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAIl ' DocrlM a Rma4 w 0icr lii Maria in Rr TUViroClM HI Hi Hjr CapL JOHN W. THOMASON, (Q by tfco Boll Syndicate Jr. 1m) CHAPTER VII Continued 11 In other battles, and their hearts lifted up to meet whnt might gained come. "More Interval more Interval there on the left! Dont bunch you" up, The first shell cams' screaming down the line from the right, and broke with the hollow cough and poisonous yellow puff of smoke which marks the particular ahominstlon of the It broke fairly over the center of the Forty-ninth- , and every head ducked In unison. Three men there were who seemed to throw themselves prone; they did not get up again. And then the fight closed upon the battalion with the complete nnd horrid unreality of nightmare. The silent ridge to the left awoke with machine-gun- s and rifles, and sibilant rushing flights of nickel-coatemissiles from Maxim and Mauser struck down where the shells spared. An increasing trail of crumple! brown figures lay behind the battalion as It went. The raw smell of blood was In mens nostrils. Going forward with his men. a little dazed perhaps with shock and sound such as never were on eartli before, the was conscious of a strangely mounting sense of the unreality of the whole thing. The woods on the crest were as far away aa ever through the murk, their strides got them nowhere, their legs were clogged as In an evil dream CHAPTER VIII they were falling so fast, these men he had worked with and helped to Biting the Boche with the train In war. There was a monstrous Saw-Too- th ForAmerican a five-inc-h anger In his heart shell awooped over his head, so near mation. Not greatly troubled by the Boche that the rush of air made his earshelling, tlint died to spasmodic hursts drums pop and burst, ne was picked ns the night went on, the battalion up and whirled away like a leuf, breath and senses struck from him mounted through the dark to Its concussion. place. Here, heslile a blasted by the d The was pulled road that ran along Blanc Mont, Just behind the thin line of the Sixth, the to his feet by Gunner Nice, who bnd weary im-i- lay down, and, no orders taken the second platoon. His head being Immediately forthcoming, slept lolled stupidly a moment, then he like the dead that were lying thick- heard words W that shell got all ly there. I.et the ofllcers worry over the captains group, sir all of em! the fact that the French had fallen An my platoons all casualties" He behind on each flank, that the divi- pulled himself together as be went sion was, to all purposes. Isolated far forward. His raincoat was split up out In Boche territory let any fool the back, under his belt. His map worry over the chances of stopping case was gone the strap that bad seone tomorrow tomorrow would come soon enough. "The lootennnt says to get all the rest you can don't nobody need to toll me tha " In the deep dugouts behind the road tin battalion commanders prodded at held maps and swore wearily over the ominous gaps behind the flanks three kilometers on one flank, five on the other, where the French divisions had not kept pace. Into these holes "u- - f'.oche had nil day been savagely striving to thrust himself, and his success would mean disaster. Already the Sixth had a force thrown back to cover the left rear, disposed at right angles to the Hue of advance. . . . And orders were to enrry the attack forward nt dawn. On tep of that, after midnight a Boche' deserter crawled Into the line with the cheering news that the Germans were planning to attack In force on the American flanks at dawn; a division of From Mon That Knew No Mercy. fresh troops Prussians had just for that purpose. It been brought up looked bad It looked worst than cured It hung loosely from his shoulwas blood on his hands, that. Well." said Major Ceorge Ham- der. There nnd taste of It In his month, the salt ilton of the First battalion of the but It didn't seem to be his. And to are "orders attack, and, by rnh. was very God. well attack'' a yawn spoiled the front of the battalion narrow, now. The support platoons the dramatic effect of his pronouncement und now I'm going to get some were all in the line. Strangest of all, the gray alope was behind them the op. Coxy, wake me at 5 :30 that trees on the crest were only a few will be an hour." away. yards And nt dawn, while the ridge shook Behind and to the left the machine-gun- s and thundered under the bnrrage that still raved, but the artillery fell the Boche flank attack, went and the Sixth hold with their rifles away. A greenish rocket flared from the branch behind the left, the Fifth the pines ahead, and right In the faces marines went forward to carry the of the panting marines machine-gun- s und rifles blazed. In the shadow of tattle to Noon found them well forward of the pines were men In cumbersome uniforms, with faces that the ridge, lying In an open flat, while green-grahuman under deep looked hardly the lending battalions disappeared In round helmets. With eyes narrowed, (tine woods on a long alope ahead. It had fallen strangeljr quiet where they bodies slanting forward like men In heavy rain, the remnant of the batlay. talion went to them. sudhell all lTji forward, though, It was the flank of the Boche coldenly broke loose. Artillery, machine-tuns- , rifles. even the coughing de- umn which had come out of and struck the leading battonations of grenades. mounted to un inconceivable fury of sound. "Here talions of the Fifth. It had wutt'hed comes a battalion runner there's the first with keen delight, then with innklp!er, over there what's up, any- credulity, tlie tortured advance of the hnttnllou. It had waited too long to way?" came open Us own Are. And now, already The through his company with a light In shaken by the sight of these men who his eyes, und he sent Ids voice be- would not die, It shrank from the long fore him. "Deploy the first platoon, American bayonets and the pitiless, Mr. Langford. Three-pacInterval, be furious faces behind the steel. A few sure, Wheres Mr. Connor? Oh, Chuck, Brnndenliurger zealots elected to die you'll form the second wuve behind on their spitting Maxim guns, workTom, About fifty yard. Other two ing them until bayonets or rlubhed platoons In column behind the com- rifles mude an end. A few pany flanks. On yo' feet, chillttn! Prussians the Boche had snch men stood up to meet bayonet with bayonWe'n- goln up against em!" And so, all four companies in line, et, and died that way. A the First battalion, a thousand men, great many more flung away went up against the Boche. "Captulu," their arms and bleated "Kamnrnden" ns they to men who In that red mlnnte knew said the no mercy. Some hid In holes, or feigned "were' swingin' half-left- . started, This (tick will take up right to death, to 1e hunted out as the press won't 111 We were pointin' n thinned. There was a battery of field-gun- s down tbo alope, BOO yards or so. llttlt one side of It before major give you any dope?" "The Boche The gunners those who were lucky took to cover after the first burst of two bate come out of full infantry regiments, anyway, and fire. "Thank Gawd fer a shot at them an' a bunch of Maxim guns and hit Hie dam' artillerymen I Battle-sightM'coml and third In the flank. Must atm low, you birds dont let any of Sergeant, be pretty bad. We're goln up to hit them got away!" . . . them In the flank ourselves. 'Bout n rerkon the lootenunt would let ns go kilometer. Id say. Walt until their down an take them TTs?" "Shut up spots this little promenade. an' work yo bolt, you dam fool! None of ours In support, y"U know." Wlmtlncll yon think you are a army Every nmn knew, as they moved core?" "Besides. Mr. Connors dead. cut or the flat nnd ascended the slope . . ." On the Mil beyond new tranches seurred the iilicinl that the case was desperate, were many Germans millthere all was to Itulr slope; bit this end strength and i'ki!l In war. all their cunnluf ing thore, some 1.500 yards awoy. bnbies "Any one of those nine-inc- h would have blotted out twenty of us," marveled a lieutenant, lending his crater platoon around a thirty-foo- t that still smoked. "Ur ripied the heart out of any concrete-and-atee- l ever built the good fortification I.nwd was certainly with us!" To the company commanders, gathered nt dark In a much disfigured Boche shelter In the Wood of Somme-Iy- , the major guve Information. "The Sixth took Blanc Mont, nnd they are holding It against heavy counter-attacTrimmers say they were ordered to hold here at any costs they're fighting damned well, too! The Infantry regiments piped down the Bids de Vlpre, Just as we did the Ksecn hook. The division Is grouping around the ridge, but we're pretty well Isolated from the French. Tonight we are going on up and take the front line, and attack toward town north of the ridge nnd a little west Get on up to Blanc Mont with your companies I. will he there, along the road that runs across the ridge. foot-soldie- r. d second-in-comman- d ... world-shatterin- g second-ln-commsn- i I e. second-in-comman- e iron-soute- d - second-in-comman- ., "Rave your ammunition and lay lew," the word was pussed. "Were on our own out here." And the battalion, a very small battalion now, little more than a hundred men, lay along the crest they had stormed, with their deed and wounded and the Boche dead and wounded around them. Almost Immediately the Boche began to react. Ho opened on them a storm of fire, high explosive and dinned shrapnel, and Ills machine-gun- s fiercely. A counter-attacbegan to form toward Sweating gunners struggled Into position with the two machine-gun- s that were left In the buttnllon, and these with their crews, were knocked out by shell-lir- e before either had been In action long enough to fire a clip. But the rttlea gave tongue nnd contlnned to speak the last few men are always the most difficult to kill and the Boche had little taste for rlfle-flr- e that begins to kill nt 700 yards. That counterattack shortly returned whence it came, nnd the one that followed It went buck also. Whitehead, of the Sixty-seventcompany, plum;ed down alongside the Small, captain of the Forty-olnth- . very quick and wiry, with his helmet cocked on the side of his head, ho gave the Impression of a fierce and warlike little hawk. Hunt's cornin' over, Francis," he said. "Bad place; worst I ever saw. Got about thirty men left. Hell thnt our machine-gun- s got knocked out so quick, wasn't It? must be two regiments of Frltzles on our front yonder!" Captain Hunt, senior In the field, a big. Imperturbable Californian, enme, and IJeutennnt Kelly, promoted by casualties fn the last honr to command of the Sixty-sixt- h company. "How does it look to you, gentlemen?" suid Hunt "Damn bad" was the consensus of opinion, with profane embellishments. Followed some technical discussion. "Well, concluded the senior captain, "weve accomplished our mission broke up their attack better hook up with the rest of the regiment Well find them through the woods to the right. Move off your companies Kelly, you go first" Nobody remembers very clearly that swing to the right through a ball of machine-gufire and an Inferno of shelling. They found the companies of the Second battalion digging In astride a blasted road, and went lDto position beside them. "Ive organized the company sector with twenty tnen all weve got left you and I make twenty-two- , reported k h n the dropping wear- aecond-lu-coniinnn- where the capily Into the shell-hol- e tain had established himself. "Lord, Im tired . . . and what I cant see," he added In some wonder, fingering the rents In his raincoat, Is why we werent killed, too. . . That night, lying Id Its shallow, hastily dug holes, the remnant of the battalion descended through further hells of shelling. The next night this of beef and bread came up. There waa some grim laughter when It came. "Captain," reported the one remaining sergeant, after distributing rations In the dark, they sent us chow according to the last strength report-th- ree rations. The days ago 230-odmen are building breastworks out of the corned-willCuns, sir twenty of 'em " Some runners got through, and Division II. Q.. well forward In a pleasantly exposed spot on the Sonain road, built up a picture of a situation sufficiently Interesting. Four infantry regiments were thrust saw-wis-e northeust to northeast of Blanc Mont; all were isolated from each other and from the French, who had lagged behind tlie flanks. Four little Islands In a turbulent Boche sea, nnd the old Boche doing his damnedest. (TO BE CONTINUED.) d y Originality Shown in Ordering of Funeral Two Englishmen and one English lady, who certainly did not know eneb other, dpelded practically at the same time to have fantastic funerals, Pierre Van Pansen writes. In the Atlanta Constitution. Harry Armour, one of them, twenty-fou- r years old. who committed snlelde, left a not la which he ordered that he was to be burled la hunting costume, booted and spurred, with rifle In his arms and a plentiful supply of cartridges In his coffin. Then there was Colonel Ramson of Hastings, who demanded that his corpse he dumiHHl in the middle of the channel. We learn from the Iover Gazette that his funeral had at least the compensation of a "Jolly trip on a bright, sunny day." In London, a young lady, Miss Edith Kotl, aged twenty, asked that she be laid out in her best evenlug gown, with dnnclng slippers and a small gramophone In the casket. She personally selected a number of Jazz records, which were bHrled with her. All three expressed themselves believers In the resurrection of the body. Tlie lady la the most original of all. When that Inst morn comes, and Gabriel blows his trumpet, she wunts to ore orchestra, no doubt. ganize a two-piec- Hopeless! An airplane flew over an Irish asylum, much to the consternation of the Inmate. Next day two of tlie latter were discussing the strange machine. One said : "Ho you know, I dreamt last night I made one of those contrivances and flew to America In CO minutes? "Thats strange," said the other "for 1 had a similar dream, only I went to Melbourne In ISO seconds." "llow did you go?" "Bight through the eurth." k here, itiy friend," said the other, yuu're not .a lunatic you're a blithering Idiot, that' wbnt you sra." pp r r ' ? FOWLS PAY WELL FOR RIGHT CARE With profits Increasing from poultry pay to taka good core of the producing hens this summer. "It Is poor economy to neglect tha hens during tlie rush of summer work," suys A. 0. Oliver, poultry extension specialist for tlie North Caroling State college. "Wheu tlie liens are neglected, profits are reduced. Less grain Is needed under range conditions but plenty of mush should be supplied In the hoppers. Under aver-eg-o farm conditions where the heus have Bee range and production la decreasing, loss of the scratch grain and more of the mash should be fed. This will force the birds to eat more mu&h and thereby stimulate egg production. Mash consumption must be encouraged to get high egg production. The mnsh to composed of whole grains finely ground and la more easily digested." Mr. Oliver suggests that the hens be given equal parts of cracked corn, wheat and outs by weight as a scratch d grain. If wheat Is not available corn nnd oats should be fed. For the average farm flock a mash made of equal parts of wheat bran, wheat middlings, corn meal, ground oats and fish meal Is good nnd this should be kept before the hens. In a dry place, at all tlmus. Feeding la one of the most Important factors In securing eggs from the farm flock during summer. The bene may be kept laying and molting delayed by either, Increasing the amount of mash fed or by increasing the protein without Increasing the amount of mash. If a flock of birds can be selected which does not stop laying until October or November, tha chicks from these eggs will have a marked effect on the egg production of next seasons flock, states Mr. Oliver. 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