disappeared. One soon forgets on the “cooties” lairing for oil In your arm
pits, the air foul from the stench of
western front.
grimy human bodies and smoke from a
Juicy pipe being whiffed Into your noa-
CHAPTER IX.
trlls, then you will not wonder why
Tommy occasionally tukes a turn tu
8ulcide Annex.
I wns In my first dugout nnd looked I he trench for a rest.
While In n front line trench orders
around curiously. Over the door uf
same was a little sign reading “Sui forbid Tommy from removing hla
cide Annex.” One of the boys told bools, puttees, clothing or equipment.
me thnt this particular front trench The “cooties” take advantage of thin
was called “Suicide Ditch." Later ou order and mobilize their forces, nnd
I learned that machine gunners nnd Tommy swears vengeance on them and
■&
bombers are known as the “Suicide mutters to himself, “Just wait until I
Club."
hit rest billets and urn able to get my
That dugout was mudd*. The men own back."
slept In mud, washed In mud, ate mud,
Just before daylight the men "turn
and dreamed mud. I bad never before to" and tumble out of the dugouts, man
realised thnt so much discomfort nnd the fire step until It gets light, or the SPEED GOOD ROADS BUILDING
misery could be contained In those welcome order “stand down" Is given.
MACHINE: GUNNER,-50MNG IN FRANCS------ -
three little letters. M U D. The floor Sometimes before “stand down" Is or Federal Supervision of Nation’s High
of the dugout was an Inch deep In dered, the command "five rounds rap
ways Is Being Urged— Military
ß m * 7 OY
water. Outside It was raining enta nnd id" Is passed along the trench. This
Value la Shown.
a *T* u * wunirr
dogs, nnd thin rivulets were trickling means that each man must rest his
down the steps. From the air shaft rifle ou the top and fire as rapidly us
A few «lays ago a big government
Immediately above me cume a drip, IHissIhle five shots alined toward the motortruck tduck hurd anil fast In a
drip. Fulclde Annex wns a bole German trenches, and then duck (with rut on the road between Washington
EMPEY LEARNS, AS COMRADE FALLS, THAT DEATH LURKS | drip.
eight feet wide, ten feet long and six the emphasis on the "duck”). There la | ami ltaltlmori*. A commercial truck
feet high. It was about twenty feet a great rivalry between the opposing I tried to get around It from on«* direc
ALWAYS IN THE TRENCHES
below the fire trench; at least there forces to get their rapid tire all off tion and another government truck
ware twenty steps lending down to It. first, because the early bird. In tills In j from the other direction.
Both of
These steps were cut Into the earth, stance, catches the worm- sort of gets i tlicae also stuck. Noon this over-
Synopsis.—Fired by the sinking of the Lusituntu, with the loss of
but ut that time were muddy and slip the Jump ou the other fellow, catching
American lives, Arthur Guy Empey, an American living In Jersey City,
traveled road, for a mile each way,
pery. A man had to be very careful him uunwitres.
goes to England and eullsts as a private In the British army. After a
was Jamim-d with squawking cars uml
or else he would "shoot the chutes.”
short experience as a recruiting officer In London, he Is sent to train
Irui'ks. All traffic was stalled for tin»
The air wns foul, and you could cut
ing quarters in France, where he first hears the sound of big guns and
|
better
part of u day, with the result
Empey
goes
“over
the
top"
for
the smoke from Tommy’s fags with u
makes the acquaintance of "cooties.” After a brief period of tralniug
thnt war work was dcluytsl, suhurh-
the first time and has a hand-
knife. It was cold. The walls nnd
Empey's company Is sent Into the front-line trenches, where he tukes
\ unites were late lo dinner and thirsty
to-hand fight with a giant Prus
roof were supported with heavy square-
his first turn on the fire step while the bullets whiz overhead. Empey
Washingtonian* were unable to r e a c h
sian. In the next Installment he
cut timbers, while the entrance was
learns, as comrade falls, that death lurks always In the trenches.
' the Maryland oasis.
tell* the story of this thrilling
strengthened with sandbags. Nulls hnd
charge.
This Incident Is no special dlseri-dlt
been driven Into these timbers. On
lo tin* Maryland roan hullder*. The
CHAPTER VIII.
M. C. sewed up the remains In n blan each nail hung a miscellaneous assort
Washlngton-Baltlmore road was not
ket. Then placing two heavy ropes ment of equipment. The lighting ar
UK C O N T IN U E D )
' built for th«* amount uml kind of traffic
across the stretcher (to be used In low rangements were superb—one candle
The Little Wooden Cross.
After remaining in rest billets for ering the body into the grnve), we lift In a reflector made from nn ammuni NUISANCE ALL TOO COMMON It Is n«»w hearing. The same I* tru«*
of many other highways Jn all parts of
sight days, we received the unwelcome ed Pete onto the stretcher, and rev tion tin. My teeth were chattering
erently
covered
him
with
n
large
union
from
the
cold,
and
the
drip
from
the
tidings thnt the next morning we would
No Doubt the Majority of Our Readers th«* country. More and more motor
trucks are taking over what it**«*«! to
ulrshuft did not help mntters much.
“go in” to “take over.” At six In the Jack, the flag he hnd died for.
Have Met at Some Time the
The
chaplnln
led
the
way,
then
came
While
I
was
sitting
bemoaning
my
he
"short haul” railroad freight. Am!
morning our march started and. after
"Big Money" Boy.
the short haul that Is accomplished
i long march down the dusty road, we the officers of the section, followed by fate and wishing for the fireside at
two of the men carrying n wreath. Im home, the fellow next to me, who wns
Rtcp up a little closer, patrons, look by motortruck lias gradually length
again arrived at reserve billets.
mediately after enme poor Pete on the
I was No. 1 in the leading set of flag-draped stretcher, carried by four writing n letter, looked up and Inno ’em over good, then take your seats ened from ten or fifteen miles until
fours. The man on my left was named soldiers. I was one of the four. Be cently asked, "Say. Yank, how do you aud set hack for a listen. Y'know this now much freight Is carried Lix* tulles
windbag, the big money hoy. Oh. yeh I in trucks.
“Pete Availing,” a cheery sort of fel hind the stretcher, In column of fours, spell ‘conflagration’?”
I
looked
at
him
In
contempt
nnd
an
Go ahead, you tickle us.
Tills pip«
Kuril facts are the liasls of a drive
low. He laughed and joked all the came the remainder of the section.
swered thnt 1 dhl not know.
dream is always putting across some being mad«* «at congress for legisla
way on the march, buoying up my
To get to the cemetery, we had to
From the darkness In one of the cor- "big deni” expecting a "clean up,” "got tion to empower the federul govern
drooping spirits. I could not figure out j pass through the little shell-destroyed
anything attractive In again occupying village, where troops were hurrying ners came n thin, piping voice singing a tip,” etc., aud all that fat chntter. ment to unify roads of the country Into
one of the (Mipuliir trench ditties en- j Ills melody goes n huzz this way:
a comprehensive system uml to spend
the front line, but Pete, did not seem to to and fro.
j "Well, things look merry for me. I’ll the money necessary to make the
mind, said it was all in a lifetime. My
As the funeral procession passed
your Troubles in your Old Kit say. Got In on a deal this morning; roads ud«*«|uate to meet the new r«*-
left heel was blistered from the rub-1 these troops came to the “attention" •‘Pack B a up
g . and Sm ile, Sm ile. B m lla."
j ,f ,t ^
th r o u g h . m e .in s ...Itc h ’J a c k . ’
qulr«‘in«*nts. The f«*d«*rul government.
blng of my heavy marching boot. Pete and smartly saluted the dead.
'
l
.
j
n,,w
a,u
.
"
n
.
0
*
n*
er
a
‘gas
roller’
and easy picking for id * It Is claimed by pn>|Min«*nts of tho
noticed that I was limping and offered
stop to , cough, cough, cough, hut i to
» . last . some
... moons. Cant tell
I,
.. you . _
Poor Pete was receiving the only sa would __
to carry my rifle, but by this time I had lute a private Is entitled to "some it wns a good illustration of Tommy s
.....
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. „ . . __ plan, must do the work, because a
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...
7
what it s about Just yet. Backed up central authority Is absolutely neces
learned the ethics of the march In the where In France.”
cheerfulness under such condlt ons.
i .
,
. .. . .
,
. _ . .
...
. .. 1 by so nnd so of the so and so corpor- sary to the perfection of a national
Rrttlsh army and courteously refused
Now and again a shell from the Ger
A
machine-gun
officer
entered
the
I,
.
.
..
. . .
.
.
. .
ntlon, nnd tie s sinking all his Interest
his offer.
man lines would go whistling over the dugout and gave me a hard look I collection on It. so you see what a system of roads.
We had gotten half-way through the village to burst In our artillery lines sneaked past him. sliding and slipping, [ lllilJE,.r lt ls ,,r
The f«*derul government should
w; uUIn t ,1C , n l t
communication trench, Pete In my Im in the rear.
and reached my section of the front- Fill to be one of the main squeezes, j spend the money, they say, because
mediate rear. He hnd his hand on my
When we reached the cemetery we line trench, where 1 was greeted by ‘ " , . . " ,
" the road
7 7 at . « >100
2 their lailltary value makes the roads
.
. ,
. . . " 7 hold stock, nnd go on
shoulder, as men In a communication halted in front of an open grave, nnd the sergeant, who
a great national asset. This military
asked
me,
"Where
.
.
.
.
.
„
,
.
.
’
*
per Saturday, 15.» tier cent cominish and . value of g o o d roads Is ulreaily shown
trench have to do to keep in touch with laid the stretcher beside it. Forming in ----- , ave you been?”
.........
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traveling expenses," etc., etc.
each other. We hnd Just climbed over
by the dependence which the govern
I made no answer, but sat on the
Listen! This rummy bus more wind
a bashed-ln part of the trench when
muddy fire step, shivering with the tin.a n deck of cyclones. He Imagines ment Is placing ujm » h them for tho
In our rear a man tripped over a loose
cold and with the rain beating In my more money In nn hour tlinn the mint moving of troops nnd supplies. In Eu
signal wire, and let out an oath. As
face. About half an hour later I 1 turns out In n month. Call his bluff rope It has been even more convinc
usual, Pete rushed to his help. To
teamed up with another fellow nnd nnd tell him to go settle his laundry ingly demonstrated. It has been said
reach the fallen man he had to cross ;
went on guard with my head sticking hill with the Chinaman. Remember: , thnt good roads saved France and tho
this bashed-in part. A bullet cracked
over the top. At ten o'clock I wns They are not putllng signs up In the Inek of them defeuted Russia. It is
In the air and I ducked. Then a moan
relieved and resumed my sitting posi buck windows, "President Wuntcd.”—
from the rear. My heart stood still, j
tion on the fire step. The ruin sud
Washington Herald.
I went back and Pete was lying on the
denly stopped nnd we all breathed n
ground. By the aid of my flashlight
sigh of relief. We prayed for the morn
The Born Orator.
I saw that he had his hand pressed to
ing and the rum issue.
It Is narrated that Colonel Brecken-
his right breast. The fingers were cov- '
rldge, meeting Major Buffo’d on the
ered with blood. I flashed the light
CHAPTER X.
streets of Lexington, asked:
on his face and in Its glow a grayish-
“What Is the meaning, suh, of the
blue color was stealing over his coun
“The Day's Work."
conco’se hefo’ tin* co’thouse?"
tenance. Pete looked up at me and
I was fast learning that there ls n
To which the mnjnh replied :
said: “Well, Yank, they’ve done me in.
regular routine about the work of the
“General Buckneh. suh. Is ninklng a
I can feel myself going West.” His j
trenches, although lt ls budly upset at speech. General Buckneh, suh, is a
voice was getting fainter and I had to
times by the Germans.
j bo’n nratah."
kneel down to get his words. Then he
The real work in the fire trench
"What do you mean by n bo'n orn-
gave me a message to write home to
commences at sundown. Tommy ls
I tah?”
his mother and his sweetheart, and I,
like n burglar, he works at night.
“If you, or I, suh, were asked how
like a great big boob, cried like a baby.
Just as it begins to get dark the much two nnd two make, we would re
I was losing my first friend of the
word “stand to” is pussed from trav ply : ‘Foh.’ When this Is asked a bo’n
trenches.
erse to traverse, nnd the men get busy. orntah he replies: ‘When In the co’se
Word was passed to the rear for a
The first relief, consisting of two men of human events It becomes neccssn’y
stretcher. He died before it arrived.
to a traverse, mount the fire step, one to take nn Integeh of the second de
Two of us put the body on the
man looking over the top, while the nomination and ndd it, suh. to nn In-
stretcher and carried It to the nearest
other sits at his feet, ready to carry i tegch of the same denomination, the re-
first-aid post, where the doctor took
messages or to inform the platoon ofll- R)]|^ KUj1> „„«1 j have the science of
an official record of Pete’s name, num
cer of any report made by the sentry mathematics to hack me in my Judg
ber, rank and regiment from his Iden
as to his observations In No Man’s ment, the result, suh, nnd I say It with-
tity disk, this to be used In the cas
Land. The sentry is not allowed to out fenh of successful contradiction, Sand and Gravel Piled on Subgrado
ualty lists and notification to his
relax his watch for a second. If he ls suh, the result is foh.’ That’s a bo’n j Ready for Use on Experimental Con
family.
crete Road, Chevy Chase, Md.
questioned
from the trench or asked oratah."—Rehobath Sunday Herald.
Lewis Gun in Action,
We left Pete there, but It broke our
his orders, he replies without turning
certnlnly true thnt the French hnd
hearts to do so. The doctor Informed n hollow square around the opening of around or taking his eyes from the ex
Her Work.
*
the b«*st ronils In the world when tho
us that we could bury him the next the grave, the chaplain read the burial panse of dirt in front of him. The re
Congresswoman Jeannette Itnnkln war broke out ami that the men nml
morning. That afternoon five of the service.
mainder of the occupants of his trav said In n Y. W. C. A. address:
boys of our section, myself included,
supplies which checked the first G«*r-
German machine-gun bullets were erse either sit on the fire step, with
“Charles Schwab married on >7 n mun ru*h went forward largely by
went to the little ruined village in the “cracking” in the air above us, but bayonets fixed, ready for any emer
rear and from the deserted gardens of Pete didn’t mind, nnd neither did we. gency, or If lucky, and a dugout hap week, an»l Chauncey Depew on $9. I motor. It Is also true that a break
have no sympathy with the girl who down of all transportation facilities
the French chateaux gathered grass
When the body was lowered Into the pens to be hi the near vicinity of the
and flowers. From these we made a grave the flag having been removed, traverse, nnd if the night Is quiet, they makes n devoted young man wait till prevented Russia from effectually mo
. he can support her ns luxuriously us bilizing her tremendous resources.
wreath.
we clicked our heels together and are permitted to go to same and try hpr f),f, fnth,,r
While the boys were making this came to the salute.
There Is now a federal office of good
and snatch a few winks of sleep. Little
„M „ympnthy „11 goes out to the
wreath, I sat under a shot-scarred
I left before the grave was filled In. sleeping is .lone; generally tl.e men sit
lnnn who said Joyously, as soon roads, operating under th«* federal
apple tree and carved out the follow I could not benr to see the dirt thrown around, smoking fags and seeing who j
road net, whereby the government ap
bp was accepted:
ing verses fin a little wooden shield ' on the blanket-covered face of my com can tell th«* biggest lie. Some of them, j
propriates funds for roads, provided
“ Then, darling, we’ll get married at
which we nailed on Pete’s cross.
the states In which the r«ai«ls are to
rade. On the western front there are perhaps with their feet in water, would
once. Of cours«», at first, we shan’t
he built will appropriate n similar
no coffins, nnd you are lucky to get a write home sympathizing with the , bp flb,0 to u,.pp „ SPrviint.»
T ru e to his God true to B ritain,
blanket to protect you from the wet governor" b« « ause he was laid up
Doing his duty to the last.
.. ,oh j , irki hil<ln*f Wf. ,M.tt(,r wnU amount. This gives the government
J u s t one more r.arr *■ to he written
nnd the worms. Several of the sec with a cold, contracted by getting his fhen?. sb„ pr,lteBtwI. «what would the the power to recommend the Improve
On the Koll of Honor of heroes passed— tion stayed and decorated the grave
ment or building of certain roads and
feet wet on his way to work n Wool- lip| llhor!, sny „ t,„.y saw.
f)oln
to disapprove the Improvement or
wich arsenal. If n mnn should manage
n work?.
P a ss e d to their God, er.shrlned In glory, with white stones.
E n t e r i n g life of eternal rest,
That night. In the light of a lonely to doze off, likely as not he would wake
building of others. It may exercise a
..Jnck lookofl
One more c h a p 'e r in England 's story
candle In the machine gunner’s dugout with a start as the clammy, cold feet
“ «Why, sweetheart,’ he sal.L ‘whose sort of ndvlsory nnd mildly compul
O f her sons doing their b e s t
of the front-line trench I wrote two of a rat passe.l over his faee, or the j work (1„ yo11 want to do?” ’
sory power toward the estahllstyuent
letters. One to Pete’s mother, the next relief stepped on hla stomach j
R e s t , you soldier, mate an true,
of a unified nationnl system of roads.
._______________ _
N ever forgotten by us below;
other to his sweetheart. While doing while stumbling on their way to relieve
Muscular Activity and Heat,
But this power, It Is argued, Is by no
K n o w t h a t we are thinking of you.
this I cursed the Prussian war god the sentries In the trench.
Owls and other birds which are active means sufficient In nn emergency Ilk«»
E r e to our rest we are bidden to go.
with nil my heart, and I think that SL
Just try to sleep with n belt full of at night show a rise «if temperature the present. What Is needed Is the
Next morning the whole section went Peter noted same.
ammunition around you, your rifle bolt , 'luring the lionrs of darkness ntnl a fall power to form n definite plan for n
over to say good by to Pete, and laid
The machine gunners In the dugout biting Into your ribs, intrenching tool during the «lay. This Is n result of the system of national highways, nnd the
him away to rest.
were laughing and Joking. To them handle sticking Into the smnll of your well-known fnct that muscular activity funds to carry that plan Into execu
After each one had a look at the face Pete was unknown. Pretty soon, In the back, with n tin hat for a pillow and menns an Increased production of tion us rapidly us possible.
of the dead, a corp< r.il of the R. ▲., warmth of their merriment, my blues feeling very damp and cold, with , heat-
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