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Show THE WEEKLY KEFLEX, KAYSVILL, UTAH The Winning of t end maqy fights took place between thorn. "One night wejrnnld send over a i trench-rnldip- g party and the next night for business. - If you blokes want to hear them to dose in on me, ami await in- this story through, dont interrupt M ructions. Iluppy vouchsafed no answer. About ten minutes after the fellows Leftenant Newulls voice. In a very for th stretcher, French got a bulleft hnv whisper, mine to us: arm. Bo s," the men in our trenches' let through jhe-lefin Ms noiseless way, given orders j -, ' t over would come Fri'z. There was a certain part of our tram h ulcVni company vKleh heldt was sure to. ('mint of our reconoyltering patrol By tdlclfc it hard In .casualties, lu the out in front. A strong (ierman 1 recouI In' clicked three for nights raiding party has just circled our left, Sergeant Arthur Guy mat is making for our trench. Its up nylterlg patrols. Empey Ve cant v Jolm French he was a lance corto us to .semi word back. .Author of Over the Tor" poral tlfhu was In charge of our sec- ; II go, because we might make too First Call." Etc. . tion. This was before 1 went to nnt-- " much noise and warn the German parchine gunners sihol tunl transferred ty, so it s up to one of us to carry the -0 to this outfit. This French certainly neves hack to the trench that the raidwas an artist when jt came to scout-- j ing party is on its wuy. With this ing In No Mans land. He knew every information it will be quite easy for Mr. Empeys Experiinch of the ground out in front, and our boys to wipe them out. But Its ences During His Seven'Kras like a cat be could see in the up to the rest of us to stick out hero, teen Months in theFirst dark. and if we go west we have done our,1 On the night that he won bis I). O. duty In a noble cause. Line Trenches of the Corporal XL hfMiad been out n front with a French, you had better take the news British Army in France Tor two hours, and had Just re- back, because you are too valuable a turned to the fire trench. A sentry man to sacrifice. (0uprrlttu.un. br Th MbCtui NPMr down on the rightrof Death alley reFrench, under his breath, an-s8rn4ieM) ported a suspicious noise out In front, ered : and our captain gave orders for anSir, Ive been out since Mens, and Our guns crew.ns was Its wont, was other patrol to go out and investithis is the first time that Ive ever sitting on the straw lin the corner f gate. been Insulted by an officer. If this our billet, far from the rest of the secCorporal ITawklns was next on the patrol is goiug to click it. Pin going to tion. The previous night we had been lister the Job, but, lllme me, he sure click It too. If we come out of this relieved from the flr$ trench, and were had the wind up, and was shaking and & orSwift Company buys more than jou can try me for disobedience of In rest billets. Our days" resting dish of a like Jelly. trembling 9000 head of cattle on an average, ders, but here I stick, and Ill bo rest" had been occupied in digging a A new leftenant, Newall .by name, damned If I go In, officer or no offievery market day. bombing trench, this trench to be used had Just come out from Blighty, and a cer. for the purpose of .breaking ltuwould-- . ne oflleer, too. Now, dont you Newall, In a voice husky with emoone of is them sized be bombers. , up by think' because this 'chap was tion, answered; Hungry Foxerot was sllclagr'vi'-- kJlHfiftlmt I Rny he was a good experts. French, Its men like you that at a huge loaf of bread, while onhls dead or alive, you would make it possible for our Little Island knee he was balancing a piece Both the packers buyer and the finwedo go a bloomin long way to get to withstand the world. You are a was pretty another man like Newall. But this sue cheese. His commission salesman must judge what true Briton, nnd Im proud of you. dull and the bread was "hard so eyorvleftenant was all eagerness to I was Imping that he would detail Jjuing amount of meat each animal will yield, now and then he would patMeJU.J-i.out In front. You see, it was his roe to go back, but he dldut. Henderand how fine it will be, the grading of cutting operation tp take a ldrgcbUe' flrst tImp ovor the top. jI(, noticed son was picked for the Job. When from the cheese. - the hide, and the quantity and quality that flaw kins was shuky, and so did Henderson left Newnll shook hands Curly Wallace whispered to ny . . French. French went up to the offi-c- all around. I felt queer and lonely. of the fat. Three bob to a tanner, Yank, Hun: lie and said: You see, fellows, it was this way: eats the cheese before he finishes tdio Sir, Corporal ITawklns has been Henderson was to tell the men in the Both must know market conditions ing that rooty. feeling queer for the last couple of trench that we had returned nnd that for live stock and meat throughout the I whispered back: days, and I would deem it a favor If I it was all right for them to turn Iooro Nothing doing. Curly, you are could go in his place. country. The buyer must know where on the raiding party with their rifle a Soots-iiaScotch, and did you ever was Hawkins think that Now, dont nnd machine gunfire, without us clickthe different qualities, weigh and bet on anything unless 'It wao a a lie was not, for the ing their fire. Leftenant Newall sure coward, bpeause kinds of cattle can be best marketed sure w Inner? best of us are liable to get the shakes wus a lad, not arf lie werent. He answered in an undertone: as beef. i' You know, Hawkins was times. That nqxt twenty minutes of waitWell, lets make It a pack of pn Russee a couple of months ing was hell. Then, from out of the IIow about it, Yank? the buyer pairs more than the d while going over the top. bhmkness, over toward our trench, I acquiesced. (Curly won the fogM seven In this patrol animal is were loses money Thore that ohl familiar Altj who goes rung Sailor Bill was sitting next to Cutty BeftennfttNewnll, d French, Corporal there? We hugged the ground. We on it. he offers less, another packer, had our mascot, Jim- -n sorry-looksolf nnd four rare lrom n comlmny. knew what was corning. Then, a volor his knees feeder, gets it away Ing r ,,Ab shipper plxt ynrdfj frora Prltz., ley from our trench, and four typepicking hard pieces of mud from from him. an old dltdlraust linTe been writers (mnehine guns) turned loose. paws. Jim was wagging Ms stump o bed of a creek, but at that time Bullets cracked right over our heads. a. tail and was Intently watching Hun ' an n Ono hit the ground about a foot from thp seller accepts too little, the livedry ran parallel with the on the bread. grys operation barbed wire. Lining the edge of me, ricocheted, and went moaning aod stock raiser gets less than he is entitled time Hungry reached fen.the cheese tMfrditoh was a scrubby sort of hedge sighing over the German lines, to. he holds out for more than it is Jim would follow the movement with which made fine hiding place for a Leftenant Newall sobbed under hla his eyes, and bl$ tail would wag faster. a Fritz had not sent out brenth : worth, he fails to make sale, Why patrol. Hungry, noting this look,, bltvff a a wofklng party and done away with God, were In direct line of our small piece of the cheese, an,d flipped this screen was a mystery to us. A variation a few cents in the price own fire. The trench-raidinparty it In Jims direction Jlm deftly' caught French leading, followed by Leften-an-t must have circled ua. per hundred pounds is matter of vital beit in his mouth and Hien Our boya In our trench sure were Newall, myself third, and the rest importance to the packer; because it gan. Our mascot hated cheese. It was we crawled through a doing themselves proud. The bullets behind, trailing fun to see him spit 'ltout and sneeze. means the difference between profit sap under our barbd wire leading out were cracking and biting the ground Ikey Ilonney renchedpJer, took the to a listening post In No Man's land. all around us. and loss. candle, andstarted searching- In- - his We each had three bombs. Newall In between our trench and our pack, amidst a chorus of grQwls from carried a revolver one of those party, curses rang out In German as t us at his rudeness In thus depriving .yankee Colts and his cane. Bllmeme, the Bochea ' clicked the fire from the of light I as watching him flosely I believe that officer Star shells were slept with that English trench. and suspectedv what was coming. Sure pane. He never went without It. The shooting Into the air and dropping in enough, out came that harmonica and rest of us were armd with bombs and No Mans land. It was a great but I knew it was up to me to Btort the rifles, bayonets fixed. We .had pre- terrible sight which met our eyes. ball of conversation rolling before hp viously blackened our bayonets Fritzs raiding party was sure being aoiey began playing, because, after be had would not shine In the glafe star wiped out once started, nothing short of a Ger- shell. ' , ' Ten or fifteen dark forms, tbs remman shellburst would stop French the nants of 'the German raiding party, Reaching listening post him. So I slyly kicked Sailor Bill, who told u to wait about five un-i- ll dashed past us In the direction of the minptes Immediately got wise, and thea . I he returned from a little scouting German trench. We bugged the broke the Ice with : trip of his own. When he left, we, ground. It was our only chance. Wo Sailor, I heard you say this after with every nerve tense, listened for his knew that it would only be a few noon, while we were building that coming back. We could almost hear seconds before Frit turned loose. If traverse, that It was your opinion that each others hearts pumping, but not a we had legged It for our trench we darn few medals were really won ; that sound around the listening posLSud-l- y would bave been wiped out by our It was more or less an accident Now, a voice, about a!x feet on my right ow'n fire. You see, our boys thought Garden. because your D. C. M. came up whispered, All right the way Is clear; we were safely In. POPULAR WHY Just SHE WAS NOT Lights Beautify The terrace in front of a large launwith the rations, ami, as you say. It follow me and carry on "Then, up went Fritzs star lights, dry plant has been beautified with a As Old Lady Explained It, Womans was wished on you, there Is no reason My bloody froze In my veins. It turning night Into day, end hell cut In my mind to class every winner o peculiarly beautiful sign w hlch Is the as uncanny the way French ap- looso. Their bullets were snipping Neighbors Had a Right to Their medal as being accidentally lucky.1 a combined product of an electrician's Grievance. proached us without being heard. twigs from the hedge over our heads. and a gardeners skilL-Eac- h letter This medal business was a sore point Then, with backs bending low, out "Suddenly the fellow on my left, Is outlified'Tn electric bulbs set In a were discussing a third. with Sailor Bill, and he came right of the listening post we went. In the MucCauley by name, emitted a muff sheet metal -- frame which Is painted Shes a splendid worker, but still back at roe with: direction of the ditch In front of the fled groan, and started kicking the white on the inside j to reflect the she Isnt popular, commented the sinWell, If any of you lubbers can tell German barbed wire. We reached the ground; then silence. lie had gone me where a D. CLM. truly came aboard scrubby hedge and luy down, about six west A bullet through the napper, I light. gle one. I wonder why?-AIn the area inclosed by each mptal been who had old lady listening In a shipshape manner that Is, up feet apart, to listen. French and the suppose. There were now five of us letter geraniums have been planted. broke' Into the conversation. Shes the after gangplank then I will strike officer were on the right of our line. left. The sign Is very beautiful by day, and too About twenty minutes had elapsed them. she my colors and lay up on a lee shore lor told Suddenly Leftenant "Newall, in handedy, doubly so at night when- - the lights looked when suddenly, directly In front of the faint, choking voiced exclaimed: drydock. Both of the two T young ones Illuminate" the flowers, ticcordlng to their wonder. Ikey Ilonney had Just taken a long. German wire we could see dark, shad- Theyre got me, French ; - It's were The cheeks his and Indrawn too Popular Mechanics Magazine. old breath, the lady, through the lung and then fainter Yes, explained electric bulbs,' are covered with ordi- handedy I mean. Doesn't the Bible puffed out like a balloon, preparatory See that youre xln command. nary jelly glasses, to protect the flow- say not to let your left hand know to blowing It Into the harmonica, which Ills voice died away. Pretty soon be ers from the heat-anthe bulbs from what your right hand does? But she he had at his Ups, but paused, and, restarted meaning loudly. The Germans the weather. of tor instrument musical the must have heard these moans, because her lends she moving do If that. doesnt : he ture. coffee of exploded a on one side they Immediately turned their fire on cup neighbor us. French called to met Bllme me, I know of a bloke who she has to. tell the one on the other side all about It When she gives any won a D. C. M and It wasnt acci'nonney, come here, my lad, our was I And or cither. dental right about all officer t lucky, has clicked It she It tells one anything diseases Mm. Bllme me, I to with in out likes front one was He no him. over to know I that crawled both you have their weaknesses advertised. She sure had the wind up, but with French sitting on the ground with the leften-ant'- s He usuaL as was business It of Informed just r... , IO? head resting In bis lup, and was keeps ope hand too well oft. carried I Thats why the other hands doings. getting, out bis first-aipacket he Come on, Ikey,-let- g We, all chlrpedJn, told him to get low or be would click IndianapoI say shes too handedy. have the ntorj.' He answered: lis News. sneeze, I will If ytrail Just let me Since when does a gloomin lance ne tune first, answered corporal take orders from a bloody priHow' This ? K In and was accompanied He started cataiTh You tell the rest of the boys, If vate? casoof 1100.00 for any Ws offer that cannot be cured by HAUL, a by a dismal, moaning howl theyve not as yet gone west, to leg It MEDICINE. CASCARA been playing about a minute, bad tak-e- n QUININE CATARRH Ikey U back to our trench at the double and MEDICINE CATARRH HALLS acta through the Blood when the orderly sergeant poked his internally andSurfaces get a stretcheri and you go with them. , of the System. on the Mucous In head door of the billet, the ; saying This over lad of ours has got to get medical years. forty Sold by druggists for Wagging Hla Stump of Tall The captain says to stop that infer-WPrice 75c. Testimonials free. Ohio. and damned quick, too.Jf we Standard eold remedy foe SO retn-- m tablet attention, and Watching Intently. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, nal noise. farm sae, sure, no opiate-- - break up cold want this bleeding I to ' stop a 3 day. Money tback34 ifiKwii relieves grip inbos stopped, Insulted, Ikey Highly ha a Red top "Just then a German star shell landit fails. The genuine Accurate Knowledge. ave- - no Idea of mu-- , Some with Ut, HiU's picture. At All Drug Stores. people ed about ten feet from us, and In its - Fay; Jim, what are . iheia seismosic.' wMte, ghostly light I could see French graphs? We agreed with him. earthfor sitting like a bloomin statue, bis hands Why. they're the signal Somewhat mollified, he started: - covered with blood, trying to make a beatalmost heart bo." My stopped shapes. Start going, quakes to Corporal French Is the same bloke. aD.CM.' - 3V.v Ix-i- 0-0- j m pa-tr- Cattle Buying for Swift & Company of w -- . Each y f ofts" Jack-knif- e er t ui-ho- How do you know .re it was tenTnln-utes- ? . Ikey blushed and answered: French told me when he got back to the trench. You ce, he curried the officer "iricirThroughihnrfire; he- -' cause the stretcher .bearers took too long In coming out. I asked Ikey how Corporal French, beln wounded himself, could carry knew Leftenant Newnll In, because Leftenant Newall to be a and no lightweight. You see, he had at one time been in command of my platoon at the training depot In England. Ikey answered: Well, you blokes give me the proper pljg and you ran all bloomin' well go to b ,' and he shut up like a clam. Hungry Foxcroft got up and atleutly withdrew from our "circle. In about ten minutes he returned, followed by a tall, corporal who wore a little strip of gold braid on the left sleeve of ids tunic, denoting that he lind been once wounded, and also wore n little blue and red ribbon on the left breast of his tunic, the field Insignia of the Distinguished Conduct inedai. Hungry, in triumph, brought him Into our circle and handed him a fag, which he lighted In the flame from the candle on the mess tin, and then Hungry introduced hlui to us: "Boys, I want you to meet Corporal . Freuch. He shook hands with all the boys. Ikey got red and was trying to ease out of the candle light, when Sailor ' btx-foot- fair-haire- d n tsr I If tsgo--kille- If a worththepacker my-an- -. or ant.s mut-het- ween Wh te If If Ger-'mn- a of g a rtha-Opu- n. - Swift & Company, u. s. A. -- oa flve-nln- J e" n d Influenza and kindred start with a cold. Dont trifle with it. first shiver or At d. it take at ' 4 , Itching Mashes Soothed . ATI Cuticura 'ith rv(Ut fcofteS, ?r f ni. men t? A cCv Coughing: harmful, amroying irritation, colds Sni E. 3k Wben a hifsband and wife are of the same mind it Is a pretty safe bet that the mind belongs to the wife. t " Or Flerr' Plesssst Pellet P ' d Issl stek sad billons besUscb". eoot; pUo, ImUeeitk. sem aad fhrost Feliev and tick id f and gef rid of coo f hi, fcoarsenesa at cue by takizff n One man In every sixty rholly color blind. U partly oi Ighzn Ycur Eyes tlzzti Cere Try Marine Eye Remedy w. N. U, fcalt Lake City, No, 913. feKKriWjhDfi ca,aucAua " "iSSTtaS left. Joined the Third section yesterday." (Author's .Not The Incident her retrue happening. lated la Corporal - In th wanner trench won tb D. C, M-will not I described by Honney. attempt to give It to th cockney dialect) We were holding a part of the line t up Fromelles jy, and were two hundred yards from the Germans. This sure was a hot section of the line. We were against the Prussians, and It was a case, at night, of keeping ears end eyes open.' No Mans land was full of their patrols and ours. at-ro- my "A whisper came to. my ears: "Don't move or make a sound, a -- strong German raiding party Is going across. It was French's voice. I did not bear hiimapproacb me, nor leave. Tank, he must have got hla training with the Indians jna your great plains ' of America I I could hear a slight scraping noise on my right and left. Pretty soon the whole reconnoiteriog patrol was .lying In a circle, heads la. French had. tourniquet out of a bandage and his "" bayonet I told the rest to get In and get the stretcher. They needed no second nrgtng, and soon Trench was left there alone, sitting on the ground, holding bis dying officer's bead In his lap. A pretty picture, I call It He sure was a man, was French with the bullets cracking overhead and kicking up the dirt around him. Jut then Harpy butted in with: Were you one of the men who went la for the stretcher? None of your d Ikey answered; .j Holding Hla Dying Officer's Head. Bill grabbed him by tbe tunic and held him. Then If angry Foxcroft carried on J French, Im going to ask you a mighty personal question, and I know How in h did you, you'll answer hit la the left arm, bring Leftenant Newall back from that reconnolterlng it patrol? French grew a littla red, and an- swered : Well, yon see, oys, it was this way. Honney and, I stuck out there with him, and, taking the slings from our rifles, Honney made a sort of rope which be put around my shoulder and under the arm of tbe leftenant, and Ilonney, getting, the Jeftenant by the legs, we managed to get him into the trench. You know, I got a D. C. M. out of the affair, because" I was the corporal In charge. Damned unfair, I call It. because they only banded Hon-ne- y tbe Military medal, but if tbe true facts were known be was the bloke who deserved, not a D. O. iL, but a V. 0." (Victoria Cross). We all turned In Honney direction. BUI, in his Interest, bad released his hold on Honneys tunic, and Honney bad disappeared. Happy asked French if the leftenant had died in No Mans land. French, with tears In his eyes, answered : bnt the poor lad went west dressafter we got him to the first-aiing station, and next day wa burled him in the little cemetery at Fromel-le- s. He sure' done his bit, all right, bllme me, and here I am, bloomin well swankin' with a ribbon on my chest. A dead silence fell on the crowd. Each one of ns was admiring the modesty of those, two real men, French V'No, d and Honney. Bnt such is tbe way in the English army the man who wins the medal always says that the other fellow deserved It.' And Germany Is still wondering why they cannot smash through the Eng-Us- h ' lines. Canterbury's. Famous Ghost. Of course, Canterbury cathedral has Its ghosts. If rumor be true the ghost of the murdered Thomas a Becket Is periodically to seen engaged la that last deadly struggle of his with the lour miscreant knights, at the foot of the altar, and groans and other queer noises are deputed to be heard on the anniversary of his omttb. Tbe crime wa committed on December 23, 1170 and the stains of his blood are believed to be In evidence ; no amount of washing ever having effaced them. rear eons Weekly, True Education. 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