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Show THE WEEKLY EK?UEX.'KAYSVILLE. UTAH THE KITCHEN II 1 E (M:l! 4 tJovbinetL jWAffllKMSOIMll WHO WIST - y:- MIlGMfY - MACHINE: (OTDUEJM ) 17 fRANCE IN BY M7'ftnrfnTY EMPEY, QUESTIONING A GERMAN PRISONER, FINOS HE IS - FROM NEW YORK. Synopsis Fired by the sinking of the Lusitania. with the loss of American lives, Arthur Guy Empey, an American living In Jersey City, goes to England and enlists as a private in the British army. After a short experience as a recruiting officer In London, he Is Rent to training quarters In France, where he first henrs the sound of big guns and makes the acquaintance of "cooties. After a brief period of training trenches, where he takes Kmpeys company Is sent Into the front-lin- e his first turn on the fire step while the bullets wills overhead. Empey learns, as comrade falls, that death lurks always In the trenches. Chaplain distinguishes himself hy rescuing wounded men tinder hot fire. With pick nnd shovel Empey has experience as a trench digger In No Mans Land. Exciting experience on listening post detail. Exciting work on observation post duty. Back la rest billets Empey writes and stages a successful play. I I XIX I. Continued. -- German snipers, who had been causing us trouble in the last few days. I broached the subject and ho shut up like a clam. After a few minutes he very innocently said : "German snipers cot paid rewards for killing the English." I eagerly asked, What are they! He answered: "For killing or wounding an English private, the sniper gets sgie mark. For From that time on diplomatic relations were severed. Returning to Tommy, I think his spirit Is best shown In the questions he asks. It Is never "who Is going to win but always "bow long will It takeT war. - . CHAPTER XX. "Chats With Fritz." We were swimming in money, from the receipts of our theatrical venture, and had forgotten all about the war, when an order came through that our brigade would again take oer their sector of the line. The day thut these orders were Issued, our captain assembled (he company and asked for volunteers to go to the Machine Gun school at St. Omar. I volunteered and was accepted. Sixteen men from our brigade left ..for. Jbe.CPVirse Jn machine gunnery. This course lasted two weeks and we rejoined our unit and were assigned to the brigade machine gun company. It almost broke my heart to leave my company mates. The gun we used was the Vickers, Light .303, water cooled. I was still a member of the Suicide dub, having Jumped from the frying pan Into the fire, I was assigned to section 1, gun No. 2, and the first time In" took position in the front-llc- e to us: "Duck your nappers,-m- lucky y lads." A sharp dynamite report, a Hart In front of qa. fend then sllenCe. Germany's Whole Plan of Offense un Y Immediately sent up two star the West Front Likely to Be Smashed to Pieces at Result shells, and In their light could see two dark forms lying on the ground close of Rout of Austrians. to our wire. A sergeant and four gtretcher-bearerwent out In front and view in military cirsoon returned, carrying two limp , London. The was that the defeat cles night Tuesday bodies. Down In the dugout. In the so crushing that it is Austrians of the flickering light ofthree candles, we will be Impossible for the enemy to saw that they were two German offhis offensive on a serious scale icers, one a captain and the other an repeat weeks. One of the causes several for unterofflzlcr, a rank one grade higher disaster Is said to the Austrian for than a sergeant general, but below the have been faulty Judgment In placing . , grade of lieutenant to The captains face had ben almost their reserves, by which they failed moment critical the at be up brought completely torn away by the bomb's meet the clever strategy of the Italexplosion. The unterofflzler was alive, to breathing with difficulty In a few min- ians. 8o strongly Is the liave line now utes he opened, his eyes and blinked In held by the Italians, say military the glare of the candles. that It will be impossible for critics, The pair had evidently been drinkthe enemy armies to redisorganized ing heavily, for the alcohol fumes were Is not the slightest and there sickening and completely pervaded the take it, fear that they again will try to cross dugout I turned away In disgust river. the It Is said they staked everyDihating to see a man cross the Great thing on this offensive and threw all vide full of booze. diviOne of our officers could speak Ger- their forces into it Thirty-sevens been identified sions have being In man and he questioned the (lying man. battle.' the In a faint voice, Interrupted by freGermanys entire offensive program quent hiccoughs, the unterofflzlcr told ' fliay have been upset. In the opinion of his story. There had been a drinking tmut some officers at Washington, by. the among the officers in ne of the Ger- crushing defeat of th$ Austrians along man dugouta, the main beverage being the Have river. Official reports reaching Washingchampagne, j With a drunken leer he Informed us that champagne was plen- ton bear out the picture of the Austrian tiful on their side and that it did not disaster given In press accounts from cost them anything either. About seven Italy, although the full extent of the that night the conversation had turned Italian success Is not yet apparent. It to the contemptible" English, and the Is regarded as certain, however, that captain had made a wager that he the central powers have been dealt a would hang hts cap on the English blow that will further shake the mobarbed wire to show his contempt for rale of their people and probably will the English sentries. The wager was compel the German high command to accepted. At eight oclock the captain make a complete readjustment of its and he had crept out Into No Mans plans In France. Land to carry out this wager. Secretary Baker showed the signifThey had gotten about halfway icance attached here to the defeat of across when the drink took effect and the Austrians when he dispatched a the captain fell asleep. After about congratulatory telegram to the Ameritwo hours of vain attempts the can ambassador at Rome for transmishad at last succeeded In wak- sion to the Italian minister of war. ing the captain, reminded him of Ills The defeat of the Austrian armies bet, and warned him that he would be on the western bank of the Have the laughing stock of the officers mess river is complete. Admission lsmade If he did not accomplish his object, but by the Austrian war office that the the captain was trembling all over and troops of Emperor Charles have been Insisted on returning to the German forced to evacuate the Montello plat-lines. In the darkness they lost their h&1 Sh.,Ch they h0pd t0 vhvt .va- benringratiu their way egaln the Venetian hSTpress llsh trenches. They reached the barbed plains and some sectdfSOo4iSLCosI-.Uon- s wffe and were auddenly challenged-b' they attained last week on thei our aentry. Bdtng too drunk to realize bank of the between the plateau that the challenge was In English, the and the river where the stream point captain refused to crawl back. Finally empties into the Adriatic. the unterofflzler convinced, hla superior , Bad weather and the rising of the that they, were In front of the English ITave under the heavy rainfalls are wire. Realizing this too late, the capas the reasons for the withassigned muta and revolver with tain drew his of drawal the Austrians. But the tered curse fired blindly toward onr Rome war office asserts It was the trench. Ilia bullet no doubt killed oar of the attack of the Italians impetus captain. Then the bomb came over and there that brought about the fullure of an he was, dying and a good Job too, we operation which was started with the intention of the armies of thought. The captain dead! Well, his General Diaz crushing and the Italians, ; forcing men wouldnt weep at the news. to like the a Teutonic Russians, accept us InforWithout giving any further allied peace. mation the unterofflzler died. All along the river the Italians have We searched the bodies for Identifback the Invaders of their terpressed ication disks but they had left everyuntil ritory only small units remain thing behind before starting on their on the western bank, and across the errand. foolhnrdy Next afternoon we buried them In stream King Victor Emmanuels men our little cemetery apart from the are keeping well on the heels of. the retreating enemy, whtj is fleeing In dis graves of the Tommies. If you ever order. . see two go Into that cemetery you w(U The losses to the enemy are de-- l little wooden crosses In the corner f scribed as enormous, both in men the cemetery set away from the rest ; killed, .wounded or made prisoner. An They re&d r official statement from Rome to the Captain Italian embassy in Washington asserts Goman Army that the Austrians have lost 43.1XH) men 1910 Died s unter-ofllzl- curry. Chopped mutton (cold roast or boiled), seasoned with chopped capers and French" dressing. Chopped figs and peanuts with lemon juice ; prunes and cottage or cream cheese. Salmon, pickles and olives, Raked beans mashed and seasoned with onion and celery with a dash of lemor Juice. Minced hard cooked eggs, fitter, mustard nnd a dash of salt and cayenne. Thin slices of cucumber, covered with scraped onion, dipped In French dressing. Safdlnes with olives and French Water cress dipped In dressing. , French dressing. Cooked liver chopped and seasoned with onlou nnd celery. Thin slices of banana sprinkled with nuts and dipped In French dressing. . Chicken chopped with a few almonds and bits of celery. Almonds (salted) chopped and mixed with maple, sugar and cream. er Equal BUILDING OF GOOD HIGHWAYS Federal Aid Road Act Exerts Impo. tant Influence oq Legislation In Many States, (Prepared by ths United States Depart, meat of Agriculture.) Federal-ai- road projects, unque- d are ready for construction In every state this year. Under the road act of 1910 every state In the Union is now in a position to with the federal jover meht In the building of highways. stionably, ld te Results of Importance and of even greater potential value than the appropriation of federal funds have already been accomplished by the'federal act. Among the Impressive results is the establishment outright of state In Delaware, South Carolina, Texas, and Nevada and the strength-enln- g of other state highway departments so as to remove all question aa to the 16 states which were not qualified to obtain federal at the time of the passage of the federal act. In the past winter more constructive state highway legislation has been placed upon statute books, than-haever been enacted in any similar period since the American republic was founded. The . conditions laid down by the federal act as necessary to participate in Its benefits operated powerfully to bring about the establishment and strengthening of stats highway departments, the placing of a vast amount of road construction under skilled supervision, the sys tematlzlng and correlation of road far-reachi- highway-departmen- ts qa s A parts of mfneed ham, celery and mayonnaise dressing. Chopped onions w1t? French dress-fine sandwiches for Sunday night x lunch, tfter :k church. - y 1 ;; , - When the wild plum blossoms la ths Puts Tls tires for dulcet laughter and re- frain, Tims for airy fairy 7'.-.- ; d reamings whis- pered low ny By the woodland pixy people as we go. Time to loiter and make glad among the flowers Oh, It Is a heart some place, this world of ours. h DISHES DAINTY AND APPETIZING. Road Levels Preparatory t Hot fried sardines served on a bed Getting Highways. Improving of water cress make a nice way of serving these small tid- work. o as to provide the Improvbits. ements most needed to meet traffic ret , Celery and nuts chop- quirements, the creation of large funds ped fine and mixed with for construction and maintenance and a little salad' dressing the establishment in many states of make a good sandwich definite provisions Insuring mainte nance of highways from the date of filling. Chopped apples, a few their completion. nuts and a chopped The working season of 1917 marked -- most delicious a make green pepper the opening of actual construction salad combination; serve with may- work nnder the terms of the neceonnaise. provision of the federal act, as administrative Cheese and Tomatoes. Cut round ssary legislative and slices of bread, toast brown and on work made It impracticable to- get each round place a slice of tomato, construction projects nnder way earsprinkle with a little minced onion and lier.. On January 31, 1918, the secr In prisoners alone. green pepper, a dash of cayenne and a tary of agriculture had approved 253 thick layer of grated cheese. Put Into Individual projects, aggregating 2,7 expendthe broiler and set nnder the gas flame .48 miles and calling for-a- n HOMING TROOP SHIP SUNK. until the. cheese melts. Serve piping iture from federal funds of $7,32v funds German 721.72, and from state and local Gets Vessel Four hot. $H of Peanut Butter With Rice. Take two of $9,917,143.70, making a total Hundred Miles Off Delaware Capes. of well representcooked while rice hot ; These projects 241,805.42. German submarines cupfuls Washington, In a cupful o! peanut butter,. a cupstir ed from 44 states. on applications this side of the Atlantic operating a ful of half cracker crumbs, cupful ocean have sunk their first troop ship. The navy department announced Tues-- of milk, two beaten eggs and salt and CULVERT OF BEST MATERIAL to taste. Shape In a rounding day a Eritish transport, chartered by paprika and place In a well buttered pan ; loaf the American government and bound to Use Boards t to this country, had been destroyed bake a nice brown and serve hot with Worse Than Folly Take Care of Roads That Have 400 miles east of the parsley. June Cost Much Money. Walnut Leaf. Take a cupful of Delaware capes, and that C7 members of of the crew are missing. There were chppped walnut meats, four cupfuls bread crumbs, one bard cooked egg If the culverts are not built of no troops aboard. rebu chopped, one beaten egg. one chopped material 'they will have to be the qualy whatever a few years, onion, salt and sage to taste with suff- in Lloyd George ia Optimistic. of the roads they are made to sert icient milk, stock or water to motsten Lomlou, The ultimate defeat of Bake until brown! Serve either hot Defective culverts vitiate one of ; Germany is now seen by the allied or cold. elementary principles of highway the of powers. Thts flat and transcendent-all- y Interests Cheese Fingers. Bait the whites of aomlcs, and the Important statement was made by two eggs until stiff, then fold In lightly layers require that the .annual Iremier..I4uy4.. Guorge in. ths house of the- roads. hunt f every part-of cupful of grated cheese. Season to commons Tuesday. taste with salt and cayenne, spread on their use be reduced to the lowest with lng crackers and brown' In the oven. slble figure consistent Bonds May be Sold Abroad. Serve hot or coVi with the salad course. Manifestly, It would be worse Issuance of 'Liberty Baked Tomatoes With Peas Take folly to build culverts of boarf3 Washington. bonds payable In foreign money for smnll sized tomatoes j do not, pool ; re- take care of roads that bare cost . haleln otlier countries as a means of move some of the tenter and fill with dreds or thousands of dollars 16 foe . less none the seasoned would and be It I'nt a 'nto baking dish peas. stabilizing foreign exchange rates, ia and haste while basing with butter or worse, to waste money in work under consideration by the treasury. materialand water or a rich soup stock. Keep this sort with the use of bad mvered the first par of the wklng. "ten New Dry Docks. -Speed Up Good Read-- of fsshlngtrnr. Tenewndr y docks axe" j' up construction be built "Speeding to with the J23.000.000 which roads is an Integral part of at the request of the shipping board meat war work." Efficient T8nii' 'sr. hax been added brthe senate approtion is necessary to reduce the priations committee to the pending consm A Wlsa Bird. gin between producer and sundry civil appropriation bill. And how," asked the older robin to Admiaitrau United States Food one of his youngsters, and how are Extension on Freight Rates. la learning to fiyr you progressing Federal Aid for Roads. W ashlngton. The Interstate comr Tine." The 'theory that federel-M-- aunt merce commission has granted rail"Can you do the tall spin yet!" construction will not be roads an additional thirty days la "No." during the war has been expi1 which to XUe schedules of increased "Well, take a tip from father; dont the fact that the governing11 freight rates ordered by Director Gen- try It. Leave all that rough kind of fired the pric cf cement eral McAdoo. flying to humans In their dnachines." week. - - j . v' 7 ( V ', v' :;t ' - . po v -- v V - V' O ' v 5' s V. -- ' Unknown LIP. fu 'J JL'- Unterofflzler German Army - Died 1910 Unknown - R. L P. 'W v ' -- X. trench. During the day our gun would be TV dismounted on the fire step ready for Instant use. We shared a dugout with the Lewis gunners. At stand to" we would mount our gun on the parapet Dead Bodies Everywhere. and go on watch beside It until "stand down" la the morning. Then the gun tvould be dismounted and again placed killing or wounding an English officer, be gets five marks but If he kills a Red In readiness on the fire step. or English general, tho sniper gets Cap We did eight days In the front-- ne twenty-one days tied to tin wheel of a trench .without anything unusual haplimber as punishment fo, I U carelesspening outside of the ordlnnry trench ness." routine. On the night that we were to Then he paused, waiting fo me to "carry out," a bombing raid against the- bite, I suppose. ' J ' German lines was pulled off. This rald-I asked bit allTighLaed hlsuweythe f lug party consist ed f --sixty an men, sixteen bombers, and four Lewis sniper was punished for killing reEnglish-generahe a smile With crews. machine guns with their The raid took the Bockcs by surprise plied : . Well, you see. If all the English genand was a complete success, the party were killed, there would be no erals prisoners. bringing back twenty-onone-le- ft tornnke Ineieawful-lmust" have The Germans I him up, he was getting too shut a loose turned because sore, they a for fresh prisoner. 'After a while he barrage of shrapnel, with a few "Minme at winked and 1 winked back, then nies and "whlzi bangs" Intermixed. escort to take the prisoners came the our front were into shells The dropping Empey and hit machine-gun- . company go over the top In a successful but cosy y attack en the German trenches. The story of this thrillingr charge Is told in the next Installment. (TO BE CONTINUED ' " Br Abovs GoKp. ! -- - engage l. e costly-taMake.- ; " e -- Ialt, post-roa- d IS,-so- Gossiping Is about the most useless kind of work one could possibly In. How much better and more charitable It is to tnm a deaf ear to Cruel truths; tor honorahir keep Wlent about what we have heard, and at the same time give the unfortunate person in the ease the benefit of our doubt Small wits talk much." Is sn old saying and a true one. The girl or woman w ho' would he truly happy "and w ho Ineldental'y would make others hapry, should wisely think twice before' she speaks, and then shcfuld put Into words only thoughts that are cheering and Laads I aJuLuished MalL-charitable T T get even, we could have left the him The best of luck- and a af e.Jonr? Hla Duty Done. prisoners In the fire trench. In charge neyI to Blighty." liked that prisoner, he was a fine The family Is rather, demouitratitvi "Vf the men on guard and let them click Frtiaa UrafeTngTbuf TGidffly does "not tetIowrtadaif IroB'Crt8s, too. I ad-or when the various members of the vised him to keep It out of sight, household come and go. The grandtreat prisoners that way, It home would be some children are expected to embrace every sending were Into Tommy roy Five of them brought one at the beginning and at the tod - jut and turned over to me so that to his girl in Blighty as a souvenir. One dark and rainy night white on of a visit. Fred and Albert were getthyy would be safe from the German guard we were looking over the top ting Into their clothing and making from the fire step of our front-lintheir hasty adteux preparatory to looked very It the cendellght, they Immecatching their train home after Christh d nktn. nerves gone nnd cha'Vy trench, when we heard a poise barbed wire. our of mas. Hurry up, Fred," Albert shoutIn front a diately of one, !, with the exception me to next The challenged, much ed; youre too slow for anything sentry looked He very t Lg tvlbw. and who there!' Ive cotuts got mine ail kissed." brought start from the I liked hla f .. y Sandwiches are Just as popular with war breads as they were when wheat was plentiful. A few crumbs of roquefort added to dressing French with a piece of lettuce or a sprig of water cress laid buttered between slices of bread Is a delicious morsel. with chopped chives, cheese Cottage or slices of rich New York cheese on buttered -- bread will make a hearty sandwich for the boy who goes fishing. Minced hard, cooked eggs and sardines (skin and bones removed), seasoned with lemon juice. Tongue cut In thin slices with a thin sliced dill pickle on top, between buttered bread. Chopped tongue with a mixture of mustard, salt andpepper. Chopped dates and nuts with a little cream cheese. Equal parts of cold cooked ham and chicken, minced fine and seasoned with n I got out, the rum Jar and gave each a nip and passed around some fags, At one point of the line where the the old reliable Woodbines. The other trenches were Very close, a stake was prisoners looked their gratitude, but driven Into the ground midway be- the big fellow said In English, "Thank tween the hostile lines. At night when you, sir, the rum Is excellent and I apIt was hi a turn, Tommy would crawl preciate It, also your kindness." He told me his name wss Carl to this stake and attach some London of the Sixty-sixt- h Bavarian would Rcbmldt, he foot the at to while papers It, had he that lived six sweets, Infantry; light tins of beef, fags, bully place and other delicacies that he had re- yenrs In Now York (knew the city betceived from Blighty In the ever looked-fo- r ter than ! did), had been to Coney parcel. Later on Frits would come Island and many of our bnll games. He was a regular fan. I couldnt make him out and get these luxuries. believe that Hans Wagner wasnt the out The next night Tommy would go to see what Frits put Into his stocking. best ball player In the world. From New York he had gone to LonThe donation generally consisted of a was don, where he worked as a waiter In paper from Berlin, telling who winning the war, some tinned sausages, the Hotel Russell. Just before the war to Germany to see his cigars, and occasionally a little beer, he went home hut a funny thing. Tommy never re- parents, the war came and he was conturned with the beer unless It was In- scripted. lie told me he was Yery sogry to side of him. Ills platoon got a whiff of his breath one night and the offending hear that London was In ruins from the Zeppelin raids. I could not conTommy lost his Job. him otherwise, for hadnt he seen vince One night a young English sergeant to moving tried pictures Ip jtffvtr tub wfrrulm as he and to crawled the stake ext Uiea of. St. Tails cathedral 'in ruins, detach 3V.a 'German psyte w I changed the subject because he ploded and mangled hint horribly. Frits had Ret a trap and gained another Vic- was so stubborn In his belief. It was tim which was only one more black my Intention to try and pump him for mark against him In the hook of this Information as to the methods of the CHAPTER his rifle to the atm. His challenge was answered la Germs a. A captain In the next traverse climbed Upon the sandbagged parapet to Investigate a brave but foolhardy deed Crack" went 'a bullet and he tumbled back Into the to be Ttefe, xnd a trench with a hole through his stomach jt a goodto thing but It U a be etrong. thing good and died a few minutes later. A lance of man beloved be to better thing corporal In the next platoon was so enfriende. Euripldee. SOl AUSTRIANS raged at the captains death that he DEFEAT' OF ARE chucked a Mills bomb In the direction THEY A tCORETJR MORE OF SAN0W1CH CRUSHING THAT of the noise with the shouted warning FILLINGS. STOPPED FOR WEEKS. ' -- -- - - 1 - - |