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I tnrnst tne dagger into my W e ran down hill till we came to boot and seized the spade. There Va^ennes. The southern section of the were new enemies all around and the town hud been wrecked by shells and spade came In handy. Are. Many chimney* were all that was I struck an enemy between the head left standing of whole rows of and shoulders. The sharp spade en houses. Soldiers everywhere collected tered his body and burled Itself half scraps o f metal which were transport way in. I heard the bones crack under ed to Germany. The church bells were the force of the blow. » loaded on wagons and sent away. All Another adversary was nearby and tlie copper, tin, brass and nickel which I dropped the spade and seized the could be found was gathered. dagger. The next mornlug we went Into the He struck me with his fist and the trenches. We hud to reach our posi blood ran from my mouth and nose. tion before daybreak, for with daylight We clenched. My dagger was In my the French kept all the approaches un der fire. There was not much of a right hand. Each of us held the other around the trench In Vauquois. All that could be seen was a single stone pile. Literally, breast. He was not superior to me in there was not, In this town, one stone .strength yet he clung to me as tightly left upon another. The ruins o f this as I did to him. W e tried to reach each other with village had changed hands more than fifteen times. When we arrived | our teeth. I still held the dagger but one-half of Vauquois was In German was unable to strike. Soon one o f us would have to let go. hands. The French were In possession o f the highest points from which they While I was trying my best to find a could overlook the country for maQy way to kill him there was a terrible explosion nearby. miles. I saw my opponent fall and I my In default o f a trench we sought cover behind the stones, for it was Im self felt a terrible pain in the right possible to dig trenches here, as the ar side o f my lower jaw. I ran ss quickly as I could to the tillery leveled everything. The soldiers concealed themselves behind stone rear and after a search o f several walls and fired. Artillery o f all cali hours found a dressing station, where ber covered these ruins. Amid all this i I was bandaged. My face was so swollen that the doe- destruction lay an army o f corpses, j tor could not tell whether or not my mostly German. law had been broken. I was placed on a train for wounded C H APTE R X V II. men, bound for Germany, and was W e were o f the opinion at first that taken to a hospital In Düsseldorf. I arrived at Düsseldorf August 2S, this was only a temporary condition, but after a few days we saw a 1915. My wound was not dangerous slaughter bbrdering on insanity under and they expected I would be cured In taken again and again. By night anti 14 days. Vet it required three weeks. During this time I made up my mind day it was always the same. Using Verdun as their base, the French con firmly that I would not murder anv stantly brought up ne.v masses of more pi ople at the order o f and to troops. They had marshaled their further the Interests of Hohenzollern heavy guns from the nearer Verdun ism. that this war would mean the end of the Hohenzollerns and of Prussian forts by the use o f field railways. militarism. I decided to desert to Hol In the spring o f 1915 both sides be gan an offensive o f local, hut of an In land. C M A P T rn " comprehensible, murderous nature. German and French artillery bombard ed Vauquois so that not a square foot o f land could be found which had not been torn up by shells. Thousands and thousands o f shells, large and small, were hurled into the town for three days and three nights. This continued uutll not a single sol dier was left In the village, for both French and Germnns had to retire from this fire from both sides, as it was absolutely imp ssible to have sur vived this hefl. The entire hill and ad joining heights were enveloped In smoke. On the evening o f the third day the enemy bombnrdmer* abated somewhat and we were once >inre sent Into the pile o f debris whir' bad been torn ht a hundri d thousand shells. It was not yet dusk, and as the French had also advanced nn attach developed. They came Into our lines with strong reserve units and the wildest kind o f a hand- to-hand encounter ensued. Sharp daggers flew from head . to head, breast to breast. Men stood on corpses in order to make new corpses. New enemies continued to arrive, For each man who was killed three others appeared. We also received re-enforcements, thus permitting the slaughter to con tinue. Each man fought frenzledly, expect ing Jjls death blow momentarily. No life was worth a penny. Each man fought like a beast. I stumbled and fell upon the stones and In less time than Is required to re late It I saw before me a giant French man with a pioneer’s spade raised to strike a blow. With llghtnlngllke speed I dodged and the spade struck a stone. In the next moment my adversary had a dagger plunged to the hilt In hla abdomen. H e went down with a terrible cry and crumpled up In agony on tha T prevailed upon ill - no; purl:les to grapt me an eigbt-dav fm ougli to visit my home and I *ook advantage of this to e ro «« the Dutch border. I eft my bonm tindei a pretence of Intending to vts't relatives, wearing civilian cloth* big. I 'bought a railroad ticket to Kal- h nkirolien. a medium-sized town near be Dutch border. During my trip to Kahlenklrcbeu I had plenty of time to review all that bad happened. How different everything was after the first yea r of the w ar! My home town, nncp h lively country settlement, was now as calm as a graveyard. In lids town, which had h population be fore rhp war o f 3.non souls more than 40 bad been killed ami many other* crippled. Food was very bigg with lit tle to be had. There was no entlui Iasi for the war manifest anywhere. The people were downhearted, stunned. It was the same In other cities. The longing for peace was universal yet no [ 0ne talked o f peace or expressed the j (je!<|rp for ip One word spoken, which displeased the autocratic government, merited the i severest punishment. That is how It Is to be explained that the German peo- pie cannot force the Hohenzollerns Into peace because the government, with assistance o f the military, smothered every expression o f peace with blood, even at that early date. The present Prussian government will slaughter any German citizen to further ita own Interests In the same way that It attacked the Innocent pop ulation o f Belgium without regard. With a clean conscience and clean hands I “ Gott strafe England. Er tat strafe eel” Going through the streets this was beard right and left as a comment and a reply. T o me. fresh from the fro n t this aina ot greeting was unknown. on Into the alizarine delphlnol facto- Presently I learned the reason o f * ides, where acid dyestuff fo r wool and this modern form o f salutation. The silk, with extraordinary properties in hatred within the German nation was bright shades o f fast blues, are now not so great toward Francs and Bus* produced and sold under distinctive sla. brands B and E E, and pass through "The people quietly accepted the enor- mountains o f crude chemicals. mous sacrifices which the war demand This leads to the last point— the re ed from them In course o f time. It But the government, which evea Build Industry to Relieve Depend search and chemical laboratory. has a hundred chemists and more and then, foresaw the unfavorable course ence on Germany. has made a great hegtnnlng In guaran the war was taking, conceived the Idea teeing the cheap production o f “ Inter of setting England up as the arch mediate” products. enemy which Intended to destroy Ger- many entirely. Aged Woman’s W ar Garden. The German war machine made nee Mrs. Marie Crawford, age elght/- o f the blockade which England drew around Germany to such an extent, Plant Springs From Little Factory to , four, o f Kokomo, Ind., Is cultivating a war garden—and that means she Is playing upon child murder, so-called, One of Big Proportions— Master doing the work herself. She began that the people developed an ever-in Problem o f Cheap Production o f “ In by spading up the onion beds, and, in creasing hatred toward Englund. termediate” Products, Which I* Key I explaining I t said that It was t o The French language was no longer to Profitable Production of D ye*— special feat of strength. “ I am u >t spoken anywhere. A large part o f the stiff with age yet,” she says.. “ I walk German people formerly used tha Results Savor o f Magic. a mile every fa ir Sunday to chnrch.” French word “ adieu,” as a farewell ex pression but that was stopped. Care In a secluded Yorkshire valley is be Mrs. Crawford Is very proud o f her had to be taken In the use o f this word ing fought one o f the grimmest and war garden, and considers It her pa to avoid arrest on a charge o f high most far-reaching battles o f the war. triotic duty to help Increase the coun H er husband was treason. It is the preliminary bombardment of try's food supply. I thought about these things as I the great commercial war a fter the a soldier in the Civil war. neared my temporary destination. I war. For here are situated the works was sufficiently acquainted with the o f the British Dyes company, which Is LONDON SAUSAGE SOLD OUT border so that when I arrived In Kal- struggling with Germany for one of denklrchen I was able to reach It with the most vital Industries o f the mod State Factory Output Checked by Lack out asking any questions. The spot of Materials. ern commercial world, that o f the dye. which I had selected for crossing lay The state sausage factory Is boom The works o f the British Dyes under In a forest. A fte r a march o f two taking are typical o f the evolution of ing, the entire product at present finds hours I arrived near the border. It the new Industry and the new idea. Its way to the east end o f London, hut was soon dark and I decided to remain Sprawling the length o f a scarred and at present the factory is able to supply In the woods over night. smokestacked Yorkshire valley, the but part o f the demand for Its prod The next mornlug at daylight I ven sheds, boiler plants and serried rows ucts. tured on and without being seen by tho A t the ministry o f food It Is denied o f retorts occupy acre after acre of guards I crossed into Dutch territory. that other factories w ill he opeued ground. Sunk In the background, In a With a sigh o f relief I arrived at the tiny cobbled street, a little factory that shortly. Lack of raw material Is given next town, Ven' , in Holland. as the reason. Everywhere I was received In ■ struggled fo r years against swelling i German competitors, has tacked on el- friendly manner. I observed that th# The trouble the Austrian drive is Dutch people hated the German people J tner side and behind It a phalanx of j raw red brick buildings. Stretching having in getting anywhere would as much as I did. A fter passing several months In 1 fa r along the valley, absorbing green indicate one of two things: Hither Holland, where tens of thousands more | fields and coppices, fed by miles of the Austrians are trying lo conduct German deserters lived, I made up my light railway and drained by 13 miles (lie drive themselves, or else they mind to move farther away than that o f sewers, are the great new sheds. have borrowed the German crown Many years ago an English chemist from Germany for the arms o f the Ger prince to lead il. discovered that artificial dyes could he man government are long and Its spies are everywhere In most coses con made by submitting coal tar to various chemical processes. On that discovery WELLS FAMILY HOLDS scienceless criminals. Some o f my Dutch friends made me a great Industry responsible today for ANNUAL REUNION acquainted with sailors and these con almost every atom o f color In our sented to smuggle me to America on . clothes, our books, our pictures and .(Continued from Page 1.) their ship. When the ship departed I our household goods bus been built. was placed In the coal bunkers and at^ Germany was the first to renltze the Mrs. S u 'M Wells Collins of I In I la * Every has the distinction of being the old rived after 14 days In New York, safe value o f such an Invention. possible inducement was put In the esl member of the family present. and well. The first thing that struck me on a r way o f intending manufacturers and When questioned she gave her age riving In the United States was the all German firms engaged In the new as (tit, Iho the light of youth shone wide latitude permitted German propa industry were subsidized by the gov so brightly in her eyes one could ganda. ernment. hardly believe her. The youngest Most o f the German pa pet« pub British Progress Rapid. member of the comieifiion present lished here were body and soijl for the W hnt took Germany over thirty kaiser and tried dally to Justify the years to accomplish with laborious re was Otliel Bevins, age (i. German fight for the German cause. The relatives present were Mrs. search cannot o f course be achieved In this respect the government In by British chemists In a year or two, Sara Wells Collins of Dallas, Mr. Washington certainly went too far un but surprising and gratifying progress and Mrs. W. I). Collins, Mr. and Mrs. til It was realized that no concession* has been made. The cheap production W. I.. Wells and children, Roy, Law could be made to the Prussian govern of the “ Intermediate” products, with rence and Genevieve of Halsey and ment and that concessions made to out which the finer products cannot Elbert of Imperial Valley, Mr. and Washington were nothing but deceitful he made profitably, is guaranteed. Pa talk, sustained only by action when It tience and perseverance are expected Mrs. (.. p. Wells and sons. Perry and Marion, Mr. and Mrs. Kston Bevins served Its Interests of Imperialism. to win further success. The promises which the German govs It Is essentially a key Industry. The and «laughter Olhed, Mr. and Mrs. ernment made to Washington concern problem the British works attack is F. P. Ground and son, Hay, Mr. and ing the Lusitania case, the U-boat wars not that o f providing this or that dye Mrs. G. A. W ells and daughters, Al fare and so forth, were nothing but de or discovering the secret o f one o r ! uia mid Etta, and son, Clifford, of ceit on the part o f the Berlin govern another obscure German patent, but j Jersey City, Mr. and Mrs. John E. ment. thut o f establishing an industry which I Wells and daughter, Leona, of Port It was the desire to preserve peace can stand on Its own bottom and land, Mr. and Mrs. It. F. Wells, Jr., for the American people which Im which is not to he upset by the wfth- and daughters, Marcelline, Joseph pelled President Wilson, again and i tlrawal on the part o f a foreign com -! again, not to declare war and If Amer petltor o f any essentinl substance used ine and Mabel of Modesto, Cal’. Among the friends present wore ica fights today It has only kept faith in the manufacture. with its democratic principles and as In this valley the gospel o f thor Mrs. Nam Flagged Young, sister-in sisted the world In defensive war oughness hns not been preached In law of II. F. Wells, Sr., Mrs* G. NV. against the autocracy that Is a constant vain. In building ufter building there Conkey, who has the proud distinc menace for the world, which prepared goes on a silent, almost automatic, tion of being the first teacher of It. for this war over several decades. series o f operations that prepare the F. Wells. Jr., Mrs. I. II Ingram, Mrs. With the entrance o f America Into raw material and produce the Inter V. A. Heath, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. the war the backbone of Prussian mili mediates. McLaughlin, Rev. and Mrs. Wall and tarism will t o broken. The Hinden- Results Savor o f Magic. three children, Mr. amV Mrs. J. K. httrgs and the Hohenzollerns are In the laboratories a chemist per Neal of Buena Vista, Misses Fla doomed. A victory for the allies will he a victory for democracy and a v l » formed two or three little pieces of Opal Hewed. tory o f the greatest majority seeking ; magic with colorless liquids from glass V. S. stoppered bottlps, these seething Into the welfare of '.he human race. hrllllant color bpfore one's eyes. The (T H E END.) magic that one meets In the factories The K aiser’s Talk lo Hell j Is less visibly Impressive. There Is a 1 How the Battle Occurred. arresting sequence of (Published by reqimst.) "So your boy Mike has gone to the sufficiently smells to be encountered In a walk Hie kaiser called the «Icvil up war?” through the works, hut a surprising “ And sure he has that.” On die telephone one day, , “ They've had a great battle over absence o f color. The girl at Central listened in There were remarkable experiments there, I'm hearing.” To all they hud to sny. with new-found secrets In acid, basic, “ It’s the gospel truth.” mordant, sulphur, union and VRt col “ So you heard about It?” “ Sure and I did. Didn't Mike tell It or*, all o f which are being marketed “ Hello!” she heard the kaiser's voice by British Dyes. Through three miles “ Is old man Satan home? to me on a postal?” o f works one passed to the Inter Just tell him this is Kaiser Rill, “ What did he say?” That wants him on the phone." “ Sure he said: One day General mediate and auxiliary service plants, Pershing came out o f his tint and to examine the costly equipment o f the says, says he. In Mike Brady here?’ oleum and nitric a d d Installations The Devil said “ Hello” to Rill, and Mike says, 'I am,’ and he says, and ascend among boiling greens; Anil Bill said, “ How are you? samples. It seems, o f a thousand differ aaya he, ‘Let the battle go on 'I” I'm running here a hell on earth, ent odors varying from the hot vlte- So tell me what to do." gar variety to the scents o f Araby, to Miss Reta C. Marks of Monmouth see the new dlscotery, chlorenthene and Chester W. Chambers of Ben hi no, the first o f a series which h is “What can I do?" the Devil said, “My dear old Kaiser Bill, ton county were married at Mon- been followed by chlorenthene blue B D end chlorenthene rellow Dr sr«t If there's a thing that I can do BRITISH lEUHt SECRET Of DYE MANY CHEMISTS ENGAGED j month Wednesday. To help you, i surely will.” Now my Devil friend please listen. And I will try (o tell. The way that I ant running On earth a modern hell. “ I have saved for this for many years And I've started out to kill— That it will be a modern job, You leave to Kaiser Bill. “ My army went thru Belgium Shooting women and children down We lore tip all tier country And blew up all her towns., “ My Zepps dropped 1 tombs on cities. Killing both old and young, And those the Zeppelins didn't get Were taken out and hung. I started out for Paris With the aid of poisonous gas; rite Belgians, damn ’em, stopped us And wouldn’t let us pass. “ My Submarines are devils; Why, you should see them fight! They go sneaking thru (lie seas, And sink a ship at sight. “ I was running things to suit me Till a year or so ago, When u man named Woodrow W il son Wrote me to go more slow. “ lie said to me, ‘Dear William, We do’nt want to make you sore, So be sure to tell your 1'-boats To sink our ships no more.’ “ I did not listen to him. And he’s coming after me With a million Yankee soldiers From their homes across die sea. “ Now, that's why I called v on, Satan, For I want advice from you; I knew that you would tell me Just what Iought to do.” “ My dear old Kaiser W illiam, There’s not much for me to tell, For die Yanks will make ¡1 hotter Than I can for you in In'll. “ I have been a mean old devil, llyt not half as mean as you, And Ihe minute dud you get here I will give my job to you. "I'll he ready for your coming. And I'll keep the fires idl bright, And I'll have your room idl ready When the Yanks begin to fight. "For the Yankee hoys will get you, I have nothing more to tell; Hang up tin' phone and get > ju r hat And meet me here in hell." Aulhor I'nknown. Max Colihnan Deals in HIDES PELTS WOOL FURS MOHAIR CASCARA BARK VEAL PORK BEEF POULTRY BUTTER EGGS FARM PRODUCE WOOD WOOD GROCERIES SHOES FURNISHINOS DRY GOODS CASH OR TRADE SW OPE & SW OPE LAW YERS I. 0. 0. F. Building Independence, Oregon