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Show Bound Ti SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH nTitiiiiiiiiimniminiininiHniiniinnnninTiniinnininniiniiiniiiiiiiiiniiniiiiiiniiiiiiniiniiiiiiiiiiiiRiiniiiiimHiiiiiiiiiiiinniiiiiHiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiniiiiniiiiiaiiiiirj GUNNER Ex-Gun- ner ALBERT N. DEPEW 1918, What makes yon buy? A clever tongue facile pen, and (he gift of per.ua.lon m.5 all- be accomplishment, of a good .al man. But there is nothing quit, ,0 eff ' thro as reliable merchandise. Wo have built and maintained our tatlon with reliable goods and Chief Petty Officer, U.rS. Navy Member of the Foreign Legion of France Captain Gun Turret, French Battleship Cassard Winner of the Croix de Guerre By Copyright, Reliable Goods Our modest prices make buying eas? BOYD PARK FOUNDED by Reilly and Britton Co., Through Special Arrangement With the George Matthew Adams Service KJ iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimmiiiiimimmimmimmiiiiiiiiiiimmiiimimimiiiimmiiiiiimmiiimimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiiimmimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii DEPEW IS WOUNDED IN make canes out of shell cases, and rings of aluminum,' and slippers and gloves out of blankets. The nurses certainly work hard. They always have more to do than they ought to, but they never complain, and are always cheerful and ready to play games when they have the time, or read to some poilu. And their work FIERCE FIGHTWITH GERMANS AND GOES TO HOSPITAL Synopsis. Albert N. Depew, author of the story, tells of his service the United States navy, during which he attained the rank of chief s gunner. The world war starts soon after he petty officer, his honorable discharge from the navy, and he leaves for receives France with a determination to enlist. lie Joins the Foreign Legion and is assigned to the dreadnaught Cassard, where his markmanshlp wins him high honors. Later lie is transferred to the land forces and sent to the Flanders front, lie gets his first experience in a front line trench at Dixmude. lie goes over the top and gets his first German in a bayonet fight. While on runner sen ice, Depew Is caught In a Zeppelin raid and has an exciting experience. In first-clas- Is pretty dirty too; I would not like IftOf MAKERS OF JEWELRY were almost exhausted by hunger, trie to escape. They were bayoneted ant clubbed to death. Twelve men, whe had taken refuge In a farm, were tiet together and shot in a mass. Anothei group of six were tied together an shot, after the Germans had put out their eyes and tortured them witl bayonets. Three others were brought before their wives and children nn? sabered. The Belgian told me he was at Namur when the Germans began shelling It. The bombardment lasted the whole of August 21 and 22, 1914. They centered their fire on the prison, the hospital, and the railway station. They entered the town at four oclock In the afternoon of August 23. During the first twenty-fou- r hours, they behnved themselves, but on the 24th they began firing at anyone they pleased, and sel fire to different houses on five of the ' principal squares. Then they ordered every one to leave his house, and those who did not were shot. The others, about four hundred in all, were drawn up In front of the church, close to the river bank. The Belgian said he could never forget how they all looked. MAIN STREET BARGAINS SALT LAKE IN USED CARS splendid used tionals-2- 50 to $800. SO CITY Oldsmoblles, Nj. Guaranteed first class terms i( wanted by running condition-ea- sy right parties. Write for detailed list and description, Used Car Dept,, Randall-Dod- d Auto Co., salt Lake City , to have to do It. They say there were EXPERT KODAK Finishing lots of French society ladles working Have our professional photographers do your as. nurses, .but you never heard much I c i South Main finishing. pi 791 S< LftlCG City about society, or any talk about Lord Camera Supplies Helpus, or Count Whosls, or pink teas or anything tike that from these want big wages learn HELP WANTED ;,y"u barber trade- Many small nurses. towns need barbers; good opportunities open A few shells landed near our hosfor men over draft age. Barbers In army have Get good as officers commission. pital, while I was there, but no patient In few weeks. Call or write. Moler prepared Barber was hit. They knocked a shrine of Our 43 s. West Temple St., Salt Lake College, city. the reur, and we simply cleaned them Lady to spMnters, though, and bowled CHAPTER IX. out. I thjnk all the vows were kept over a big crucifix. The kitchen was CHURLHES NOT HARD TO FILL that day, or else the men who made near by, and it was just the chefs luck Laid Up for Repairs. that 1m had walked over to our ward One night, after I had been at Dix- them died first. 1 RellgioilB Edifices In England Where mude for about three weeks, we made "as shot through the thigh some to see a pal of his, when a shell landed the Congregations Are of Neces-sit-y a charge In the face of a very heavy time or other after 'the captain got plumb In the center of the kitchen, Rather Small. and all you could see all over the bar fire. Our. captain always stood at the hack. It felt just like a needle-pric- k was stew. racks at and first, and then for a while my leg parapet when we were going over, There are many churches that atThat was a regular eatless day for made the sign of the cross and shouted, was numb. A couple of hours after we tract attention by their size and granduntil us, they rigged up bogies and got For God and France. Then we would took our trench back, I started out for eur. There are a few that are remark-- ; some some more mixed and rear the .us, dixies, led up over. and officers Our go always hospital. The wound had able by reason of their smallness and but I have never seen a German officer been hurting for some time.' They car- cornmeal for us. The chef made up " UI JU?Vb0W 14 TS simplicity. One of these is at Lulling, lead a charge. They always were be- ried the captain out on a stretcher for It the next day, though. The chef he ?r.,mraember were eight men, . tm hind their men, driving instead of lead- about the same time, but he died on was a great little guy. He was a I knew in a row well, very standing blesse Is a stom I It himself, and guess his primitive and quaint stone ing. I do not believe they are as brave the way from loss of blood. Fresh with several priests. Next came two ach a roof of red tiles and a. ours. with with building sympathized as they are said to be. troops came up to relieve us, but our There was a Frenchman In the bed good friends of mine named Balbau tiny weatherboarded turret at its .west Well, we went over this time, and men refused to go, and though officialand Guillaume, with Balbaus seventeen-- end. This miniature church Is only 16 the machine guns were certainly going ly they were not there in the trench, next to me who had the whole side of year-old son; then two men who feet square. his off. face torn told had He me he about It strong. We were pretty sore they stayed until they took the caphad taken refuge in a barn and had Its pulpit Is a pew 'with paneled the chaplain and the Swiss and all tain away. Then, back to billets not been next to a bomber, who had just been discovered and blinded ; then two a fuse and did not think it was Bides gog oor and the furniture is of that, and we put up an awful fight, but bullets, this time. I believe that we re- lit men whom I had never seen beother the plafnesl. Five narrow, diamond- we could not make it and had to come ceived an army citation for that piece burning fast enough, so he blew on it, fore. It burned and fast after windows give light to the inte- enough that, hack. Only one company reached the of work, but I do. not know, as I was It was awful to see the way the paned was. there he Wben church s full 30 per-- , rlor in the hospital for a short time after Boche trenches and not a man of it There was a Belgian in one of the women were crying Shoot me too, 80ns are Sobered together. came back who had not been wounded ward. I do not remember much about shoot me with my husband." on the way and did not reach the going to the hospital except that the other wards, whom I got to know pretty Only a little larger Is the meeting The men were lined up on the hous at Crawshawbooth, a village ambulance made an awful racket going well, and he would . often come over of the hollow, which runs from edge trench. They were Just wiped out. the 18 streets of Etaples, and visit me. He asked many ques high road to the bottom of the village. aear urnley; The captain was missing, too. We over the knw,n as th tlons about Dixmude, for he had had and one hoaso and is covered the that who bearer up meelng picked "was about One he but done F??nds on them of was leaning thought the shoalfor, relatives there, though he had lost surrounded by a wellwlth two Qclock' In the morning, he came end of my stretcher, had eyes like dead track of them. ders an old of and, was he and crypriest, He often tried to decarel-fo- r burial ground. Inside may( back. He simply fell over into the fish floating on water; also, that there scribe the house ing, I am too young 1 cant face so had lived in, they were seen some tie a dozen oak benches that the half civvies around wounded death standing been in. had He all trench, bravely. I might tell him whether it was that entrance In. accommodate 60 If as we coud were carried necessary, being I couldnt bear the sight any longer. four times, and had lain in a shell The first thing they do in the hos- still standing or not, but I could not I turned my back to the road and cov- Persons. The attendance is rarely more, crater full of water for several hours. remember the place he spoke of. Durthan six. He' would not go back for treatment pital is to take off your old dirty band- ing our talks, he told me about many ered my eyes. I henrd the volley and a and Somewhat smaller than this chapel slide under stretcher was ages your then, and when daylight came, it atrocities. Some of the he told tho bodies falling. , Then some one 18 one that has been called the shrine down. a all too late, because we were practically big electric .magnet. A doctor comes me I had .heard before, things But cried, Look, theyre and some of of Quakerism. It Is In the hamlet of cut off by artillery fire behind the front in and places his hand over your them I heard of afterward. Here are few escaped. wound, and they let down the magnet some line trenches. Belgian had escaped by hiding Jordans, In Buckinghamshire. Thither things that he either saw or This over his on hand turn and the he not remember how many In June of each year come Quakers juice. could When daylight came, the 'artillery heard of from victims i fire opened up right on us, and the If the shell fragment or bullet in you He said that when the Germans en- days In an old cart filled with manure from all parts, for here lie the remains Germans had advanced their lines Into is more than seven centimeters deep, tered the town of St. Quentin, they and rubbish. He had chewed old hides of William Penn. If this were not some trenches formerly held by us and you cannot feel the pain. The first started firing into the window's as they for food, had swam across the river, enough to make the place Interesting, doctor reports to the chief how deep and hid In a mud bank for almost a it has the further attraction of yards away. We rehardly forty-fiv- e passed along. First, after they had ocsituis wound and it your is, where. longer, and finally got to France, lag the neighborhood In which Milton our in ceived bombs and shells right cupied the town, they bayoneted every He took it very hard when we talked lived after writing Paradise Lost, a faces. A Tunisian in our company got ated, and then a nurse comes up to workingman they could find. Then where you lie, with your clothes about Dixmude, and I told him that cottage in the vicinity affording him a crazy, and ran back over the parados. you, they took about half of the children He ran a few yards, then stopped and still on, and asks you to take the that they could find, and killed them the old church was just shot to pieces, resting place. looked back at us. I think he was pressure. with their musket butts. After this, He asked about a painting called the Adoration of the Magi, and one of on Then a lift have would you they and to his senses, coming they marched the remainder of the chilEVIDENCE OF LITTLE WORTH started back to us. Then the spot cart, and roll you to the operating the- dren and the women to- - the square, the other prisoners told us It had been where he had been was empty, and a ater. They take off your clothes there, where they had lined up a row of male saved and transported to Germany. If second later his body from the chest I remember I liked to look at the citizens against a wall. The women that Is true, and they do not destroy Illegibility of 6hakespeare's Signature Doea Not Prove He Did Not down fell not three yards from the nurses and surgeons; they looked so anjj children were told that if they It meanwhile, we will get it back, dont T ! ' ' Write the Immortal Plays. in clean their clothes. white good worry the where not do know I Anparados. moved, they would all be shot. L My wound was just a clean gunshot Then they stick hollow needles Into other file of men was brought up, and .I, top part went.. .That sarile shell cut a Some years ago, when the Shakes-thouggroove in the low hilltop before It ex- you, which hurt a good deal, and you made to kneel In front of the other wound and not very serious, so, alit was not completely healed, peare controversy was at Its height, ploded. ne had been hit by a big take the pressure. After a while, they men against the wall. me go after three weeks. But one of the contentions of the party let they shell, and absolutely cut In two. I begin cutting away the bruised and The women and children began to before I went, I saw something that who declared that thq bard not only have seen this happen to four men, but maybe rotten flesh, removing the old beg for the lives of the men, and many this was the only one in France. cloth, pieces of dirt, and so forth, and of them were knocked In the head with no man- of us will ever forget, Some had not written the immortal play of them took vows just like the men but could not even write his otvn About seven oclock, we received re- scraping away the splinters of bone. gun butts before they stopped. of the legion I have told about. You think for sure jou are going to name, gavS SI Ivlaence the existing enforcements, and poured fresh troops Then the Germans fired at the double One of the patients was a German sfgnfituFfS that are of undoubted jnh over and retook the trench. No sooner bleed to,death. The blood rushes rank of men. After three volleys, there doctor, who had been had we entered it, however, than the through you like lightning, and If you were eighty-fou-r picked up In No thenticity. ' dead and Germans turned their artillery on us, get a sight of yourself, you can. feel wounded. Most of the woundedtwenty Mans Land, very seriously wounded. . On Jhe lt might bo grounds ijamf they He was not even waiting for their own troops yourself turning pale. Then they hurry then killed with same treatment as argued fliat Richard III was unable the given but axes, somehow, any of us, to retire safely. They killed numbers you to your bed, and cover you over three that is, the very best, but to write, If one decided the matter under or, four escaped by of their own men in this way. But the with blankets and finally, the doctors gave him up. They from the signature to (I treaty of bottles. the bodies of others and hiding playing dead, fire was so heavy that, when they They raise your bed on chairs, so the though the officers walked thought he would die slowly, and that peace with Francis, Duke of Brittany, up and It we had to retire again, blood will run up toward your head, down might take several weeks. which is reproduced in a London deatheir revolvers into the firing and this time they kept after us and and after n while, your eyes open and of lers catalogue Just received. bodies. piles drove us beyond the trench we had the. doctor says, Oui, oui. il vivra, It is a mystery how the cataloguer The next day the Germans went In While the hospital Depew meaning that you still had some time originally occupied. to make Richard Rex out. wine the managed through and sho't all cellars, a witnesses conscene to that spend before finally going west. We left them there, with our artilof the scribble which is there the inhabitants shaky found vinces him that it Is not only they hiding The treatment we got in the hospital lery taking care of them, and our maA lot of people, who had taken there. would be quite as likeIt reproduced. the kaiser his and system, out chine guns trying to enfilade them, and was great. We received cigarettes, toIn to Will for stand a over ly refuge Shakespeare, were ' the themGerman night, decided soldiers moved to the ' right. There was a bacco, matches, magazines, and clean to come outfactory not word stands smaller the it that a with white flag. They selves, that are responsible for hunch of trees there, about like a small clothes. The men do not talk about were nilowed to second one first and, the think that the white longer much of the frightfulness, that woods, and as we passed the Germans their wounds much, and everybody wou'd be flag respected, but no sooner has marked the war. Read concealed in it opened fire on us, and tries to be happy and show it. The Hypodermic Syringe In Crime. about this scene in the next we retired to some reserve trenches. food was fine, and there was lofs of it. ueie they all out than they were seized and the women publicly violated In the Du Chaillon, who Invented the hynot do I were much think docthere scattered this were by ye any pretty square, after which the men were shot. podermic syringe, seems to have been lime, and badly cut up. We reformed tors in the world better than ours, and A a sort of Fagln. He established in paralytic was shot as he sat in his (here, and were joined by other of our they were always trying to make (TO BE CONTINUED.) and a boy of fourteen was Paris a school of crime from which us. was small for in did what left not groups easy They troops, things rip such youngsters as Charley Bates of squads and platoons and singly. the dressings off your wounds like taken by the legs and pulled apart. A Real Compliment. At one place, a man was tied by the ' and the Artful Dodger graduated. &ur captain had got It a fifth time, some of the butchers do in some of our Billy Sunday has had many complimeanwhile, but he would not leave us, dispensaries that I know of, but took arms td the ceiling of his room and set ments, but the one he prizes most Stimulated by an Injection of moras he was the ranking officer. He hud them off carefully. Everything was afire. His trunk was completely car- dearly came to him, oddly enough, phine or some other drug, they went out to do great deeds in the criminal a scalp wound, but the others were in very clean and sanitary, and some of bonized, but his head and arms were from a criminals lips. At the same place, the Ms arms and shoulders. He could not the hospitals had sun parlors, which unburned. was in Philadelphia. Sunday had line. When the school" was raided It move his hands lit all. were well used, you can be sure. body of a Pr nc Pa escaped, but evidence boy was visited Moyamensinog prison. There as ound But he led our charge when we ran Some of the men made toys and found, pierced by more than twenty lie had talked with a housebreaker so 8ow Is part in some for the woods. We carried some ma- fancy articles, such as button hooks bayonet thrusts. Other dead were convincingly that the man had prom- daring crimes. Physicians attached chine guns with us as we wrent, and and paper knives. They made the found with their hands still In the air, ised to lead, on his discharge, a Chris- to the criminal bureau saw the great i he gunners would run a piece, set up, handles from empty shell cases, or leaning up against walls. advantage of the hypodermic syringe, tian life. lire while we opened up for them, and shrapnel, or . pieces of Zeppelins, or At another place ' the Germans This Sun- and lt has ever since been a recoghousebreaker, discussing un on again. Some troops came out anything else picked up town shelled for a the In azed and medical then agency. day, a with practice. ; day along the guardian afterward, said if a trench still farther to the right front. entered and sacked it. The women He come In here, Sunday did, and Gerwe and rid drove the i helped us, When they are the men and children were turned loose, with- he fairly turned me inside out made Quit Your Spattering, mans out of the woods and occupied It learn harness getting well, To prevent an automobile spatter- making, mechanical out being allowed to take anything me sick o meself, thats what he done. urselves. drawing, telegraphy, gardening, poul- with them, and forced to leave the Oh, hes a winner. I think hes one of ing mud upon pedestrians there has . From there, we had the Germans !n try raising, typewriting, bookkeeping town. Nearly five hundred men were us one o the gang reformed, you been invented a flexible metal ring to ur o!? trench almost directly from and the fuen teach the nurses be attached close to a tire. how to deported to Germany. 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