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SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I—Fired by the news of the
sinking of the Husltanla by a German
submarine, Arthur Guy Empey. an Ameri
can, leaves his office In Jersey City ami
goes to England where he enlists In the
British army,
■CHAPTER II—After a period of train
ing, Empey volunteers for immediate serv
ice and soon finds himself In rest billets
"somewhere In France,” where he first
makes the acquaintance of the ever-pres
ent "cooties.”
CHAPTER fll—Empey attends his first
church services at the front while a Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV— Empey’s command goes
Into the front-line trenches and Is under
fire for the first time.
CHAPTER "V—Empey learns to adopt
the motto of the Brtlsh Tommy, "If you
are going to get It, you’ll get It, so never
worrv.”
CffAPTER VI—Back In rest billets, Em
pey gets his first experience as a mess
orderly.
CHAPTER VII—Empey learns how the
British soldiers are fed,
CHAPTER VIII—Back In the front-line
trench, Empey sees his first friend of the
trenches "go West.”
CHAPTETt IX—Empey makes his first
visit to a dugout in “Suicide Ditch.”
CHAPTER X—Empey iVarns what con
stitutes a "day’s work” In the front-line
trench.
CHAPTER XI—Empey goes "over the 1
top” for the first time In a charge on the '
German trenches and is wounded by a I
havonst thrust.
CHAPTER XIV.
Picks and Shovels.
I had not slept long before the sweet
TOtce or the sergeant Informed Oat j
“No. 1 section had clicked for another :
» blinking digging party.” 1 smiled to |
myself with deep satisfaction. I had I
been promoted from a mere digger to
a member of the Suicide club, and was
exempt from all fatigues. Then came
an nwful shock. The sergeant looked
over In my direction and said:
“Don’t you bomb throwers think you
are wearing top hats out here. 'Cord
in’ to orders you’ve been taken up on
the strength of this section, and will
have to do your bit with the pick and
shovel, same as the rest of us.”
I put up n howl on my way t^ get
my shovel, but the only thing thyC re
sulted was a*ioss or goou nuSor on
my part.
We fell In at eight o'clock, outside
of our billets, a sort of masquerade
party. 1 was disguised as a common
Inborer, had a pick and shovel, and
about one hundred empty sandbags.
The rest, about two hundred In all,
were equipped likewise: picks, shovels,
saudbags, rifles arid ammunition.
The party moved out In column of
fours, tuklng the road leading to the
trenches. Several times we bad to
string out In the ditch to let long col
umns of limbers, artillery and supplies
get past.
The marching, under these condi
tions, was necessarily slow. Upon ar
rival at*the entrance to the communi
cation trench, I looked at my Illumi
nated wrist watch—ItT was eleven
o’clock.
Before entering this trench, word
was pnssed down the line, “no talking
or smoking, lend off In single file, cov
ering party first.”
This covering party consisted of 30
rnen, armed with rifles, bayonets,
bombs, and two LewlR machine guns.
They were to protect us and guard
against a surprise attack while dig
ging In No Man's Land.
The communication trench was
about half a mile long, a zigzagging
ditch, eight feet deep and throe feet
wide.
Now und again, German shrapnel
yfould whistle overhead and burst In
our vicinity. We would crouch against
the earl hen walls while the shell frag
ments “slapped" the ground above us.
Once Fritz turned loose with a ma
chine gun, the bullets from which
‘‘cracked" through the air and kicked
■up the dirt on the top, scattering sand
and pebbles, which, hitting our steel
helmets, sounded like hailstones.
Upon arrival In the fire trench an
officer of the Royal Engineers gave us
our Instructions and acted as guide.
We were to dig an advanced trench
two hundred yards from the Germans
(the trenches at this point were six
hundred yards apart).
1 Two winding lanes, five feet wide,
had been cut through our barbed wire,
for the passage of the diggers. From
these lines white tape had been laid
ou the ground to the point where we
;were to commence work. This in or
der that we would not get lost In the
darkness. The proposed treuch was
also laid out with tape.
The covering party went out first.
After a shorl wait, tsvo scouts came
back with information that the work
ing party was to follow and “carry on”
with their work.
f in extended order, two yards apart,
we noiselessly crept across No Man's
Land. It was nervous work; every
minute we expected a machine gun to
open tire on us. Stray bullets “cracked"
around us, or a ricochet sang over
head.
Arriving nt the taped diagram of
the trench, rides slung around our
Shoulders, we lost no tJmfLib.
__ __
to wort. We dug as quietly as pos
sible but every now and then the noise
of a pick or shovel striking a stone
would send the cold shivers down our
I Vnc**s- Under our breaths we heartily
cursed the offending Tommy.
At intervals a star shell would go up
from the German lines and we would
remain motionless until the glare of Its
white light died out.
When the trench hod reached a
depth of two feet we felf safer, be
cause it would afford us cover in cnse
've were discovered and fired on.
The digging had been in progress
Trench Digging.
about two hours, whon suddenly hoii
seemed to brook loose in the form of
machine-gun and rifle fire.
We dropped down on our hollies in
flu* shallow trench, bullets knocking
up the ground and snapping In the nir.
Then shrapnel hutted in The music
was hot and Tommy danced.
The covering party was having a
rough time of it; they had no cover;
just had to take their medicine.
Word was passed down the line to
bent It for our trenches. We needed no
urging; grabbing our tools and stoop
ing low, we legged It across No Man’s
Land. The covering party got away
to a poor start but heat us In. They
must have had wings because we low
ered »the record.
l’antlng and out of breath, we tum
bled into our front-line trench. I tore
my hands getting through our wire,
hut, at the time, didn’t notice it; my
journey wns too urgent.
When the roll was called we found
that we had gotten It in the nose for
63 casualties.
Our artillery put a barrage on Fritz’
front-line and communication trenches
and their machine-gun and rille tire
suddenly ceased.
Upon the cessation of this fire,
stretcher hearers went out to look for
killed and wounded. Next day we
learned that 21 of our men had been
killed and 37 wounded. Five men were
rllissing; lost in the darkness, they
must have wandered over Into the Ger
man lines, where they were either
killed or captured.
Speaking of stretcher bearers and
wounded, It Is very hard for the aver
age civilian to comprehend the enor
mous cost of taking care of wounded
and the war in general, lie or she gets
so accustomed to seeing billions of dol
lars iu print that the significance of
the amount Is passed over without
thought.
From an official statement published
in one of the London papers, it is
stated that it costs between six and
seven thousand pounds ($30,000 to $35,
000) to kill or wound a soldier. This
result was attained by taking the cost
of the war to date and dividing it by
the killed and wounded.
It may sound heartless and inhuman,
but it Is a fact, nevertheless, that from
a military standpoint It is better for a
man to be killed than wounded.
If n man is killed he Is buried, and
the responsibility of the government
ceases, excepting for the fact that his
I people receive a pension. Ilut If a man
Is wounded it takes throe men from
the firing line, the wounded man and
j two men to carry him to the rear to
the advanced first-aid post. Here he Is
i attended by a doctor, perhaps assist
I ed b£ two R Aj. M, (\ mmi. Then he l?
put into iTTiiotiiF iimbul'nnoe, innnnoc!
b.v a crew of two or three. At tli ' field
hospital, where he generally goes tin
der an anesthetic, either to have his
wounds cleaned or to he operated on,
he requires the services of about three
to five persons. From this point an
other ambulance ride impresses more
men in his service, and then at the am
bulance train, another corps of doc
tors, It. A. M. C. men, Red Cross nurses
and the train's crew. From the train
he enters the base hospltn! or casualty
clearing station, where n good-sized
corps of doctors, nurses, etc., are kept
busy. Another ambulance journey Is
next in order—this time to the hospital
ship. lie crosses the channel, arrives
in Rlighty—more ambulnnces and per
haps a ride for five hours on an Eng
lish Red Cross train with its crew of
Red Cross workers, and at last he
reaches the hospital. Generally he
stays front two to six months, or long
er, in this hospital. From here he is
sent to a convalescent home for six
weeks.
If by wounds he Is unfitted for fur- I
iher service, he is discharged, given a !
pension, or committed to a soldiers’
home for the rest of his life—and still
the expense piles up. When you real
ize that all the ambulances, trains and
ships, not to mention the man power,
used in transporting a wounded man.
could be used for supplies, ammunition
and re-enforcements for the troops at
the front, it will not nppenr strange
that from a strictly military stand
point, a dead man is sometimes better
than a live one (If wounded).
Not long after the first digging party,
our general decided, after a careful
tour of inspection of the communica
tion trenches, upon “an ideal spot,” as
he termed it, for a machine-gun em
placement ; took his map, made a dot
on it, and as he was wont, wrote “dig
here,” and the next night we dug.
There were twenty in tne party, my
self included. Armed with picks,
shovels and empty sandbags we ar
rived at the “ideal spot” and started
digging. The moon was very bright,
but we did not care as we were well
out of sight of the German lines.
We had gotten about three feet
down, when the fellow next to me, aft
er a mighty stroke with his pick, let go
of the handle, and pinched his nose
with his thumb and forefinger, at the
name time letting out the explosion,
“(Jott strafe me pink, I'm bloody well
gassed, not ’alf I ain’t.” I quickly
turned In his direction with nn inquir
ing look, at the same instant reaching
for my gas bag. I soon found nut what
was ailing him. One whiff was enough
nnd I lost no time in also pinching my
nose. The stench was awful. The rest
of the digging party dropped their
picks and shovels nnd heat it for the
weather side of that solitary pick. The
officer came over and Inquired why the
work had suddenly censed, holding our
no§es, we simply pointed in the direc
tion of the smell. He went over to the
pick. Immediately clapped his hand
over his nose, made an ‘‘about turn"
And came bock. Just then our cap
tain come along nnd investigated, hut
after about n minute said we had bet
ter carry on with the digging, that he
did not see why we should have
stopped as the onor was very taint,
hut if necessary ho would allow us our
..vis helmets while digging. He would
stay and see the thing through, but he
had to report laic!; to brigade head
quarters immediately. We wished that
we were captains nnd also had a date
at brigade headquarters. With our gas
helmets on we again attacked that hole
and uncovered the decomposed body of
a German; the pick was sticking in his
chest. One of the men fainted. I was
that one. Upon this our lieutenant
halted proceedings and sent word back
to headquarters and word came back
that after we tilled in the hole we could
knock off-for the night. This was wel
come tidings to us, because—
Next day the general changed the
dot on his map and another emplace
ment was completed the following
night.
The odor from the dug-up, decom
posed human body has nn effect which
Is hard to describe. It first produces
a nauseating feeling, which, especially
after eating, causes vomiting. This re
lieves you temporarily, hut soon a
weakening sensation follows, which
leaves you limp as a dishrag. Your
spirits are at their lowest ebb and you
feel a sort of hopelessness and a mad
desire to escape it all, to get to the
open fields and the perfume of the (low
ers in Flighty. There Is a sharp,
prickling sensation In the nostrils,
which reminds one of breathing coal
gas through a radiator in the floor, and
you want to sneeze, hut cannot. This
was the effect on me, surmounted by a
vague horror of the awfulness of the
thing and an ever-recurring reflection
that, perhaps I, sooner or later, would
be in such a state and be'brought to
light by tlie blow of a pick in the hands
of srtine Tommy on a digging party.
Several times I have experienced this
odor, but never could get used to it;
the enervating sensation was always
present. It made me hate war and
wonder why such things were counte
nanced by civilization, and all the spice
and glory of the conflict would disap
pear, leaving the grim reality. But
after leaving the spot and filling your
lungs with deep breaths of pure, fresh
air, you forget and once again want to
he “up and at them.”
(continued Next Week.)
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Besides its popularity at drug stores, fountains and
restaurants, Bevo has found a welcome place in the
home. A family beverage -a guest offering - a table
drink that goes perfectly with all food.
As a suggestion for Sunday sujiper—Sweet red or
green peppers stuffed with cream cheeso and
chopped nuts or olives, served on lettuce leaves.
French dressing. Cold meat. Toasted crackers.
Bevo for everyone. A beverage that tastes like no
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U. S. Must Cut Use
Of Wheat by One-Half
America Consumed 42,000,000 Bushels Monthly.
From Now Until Harvest Must Use
Only 21,000,000. ,
RATION PER PERSON IS V2 POUNDS
OF WHEAT PRODUCTS WEEKLY
Military Necessity Calls for Greater Sacrifice Here—Allied War
Bread Must Be Maintained—Our Soldiers and
Sailors to Have Full Allowance.
If we are to furnish the Allies with the necessary propor
tion of wheat to maintain their war bread from now until the
next harvest, and this is a military necessity, wre must reduce
our monthly consumption to 21,000,000 bushels a month, as !
against our normal consumption of about 42,000,000 bushels,
or 50 per cent, of our normal consumption. This is the situa
tion as set forth by the U. S. Food Administration at Washing
ton. Reserving a margin for distribution to the army and for
special cases, leaves for general consumption approximately
11/2 pounds of wheat products weekly per person. The Food
Administration’s statement continues: Many of our consumers
are dependent upon bakers’ bread. Such bread must be durable
and therefore, requires a larger proportion of wheat products
than cereal breads baked in the household. Our army and
navy require a full allowance. The well-to-do in our population
can make greater sacrifices in the consumption of wheat
products than can the poor. In addition, our population in
the agricultural districts, where the other cereals are abun
dant, are more skilled in the preparation of breads from these
other cereals than the crowded city and industrial populations.
With improved transportation conditions we now have avail
able a surplus of potatoes. We also have in the spring months
a surplus of milk, and we have ample corn and oats for human
consumption. The drain on rye and barley, as substitutes, has
already greatly exhausted the supply of these grains.
lo effect the needed saving of wheat
we are wholly dependent up<5n the
voluntary assistance of the American
people and we ask that the following
rules shall he observed:
1. Householders to use not to exceed
a total of 1 % pounds per week of
wheat products per person. This
means not more than 1% pounds of
\ ictory bread containing the required
percentage of substitutes and one-half
pound of cooking flour, macaroni,
crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, all combined.
2. Public eating places and clubs to
observe two wheatless days per week,
Monday and Wednesday, as at present.
In addition thereto, uot to serve to
any one guest at any one meal ap
aggregate of breadstuffs. macaroni,
crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, containing a total
pf more than two ounces of wheat
flour. No wheat products to he served
unless specially ordered. Public eat
ing establishments not to buy more,
than six pounds of wheat products for
each ninety meals served, thus con
forming with the limitations requested
of the householders.
3. Retailers to sell not more than
one-eighth of a barrel of flour to any
town customer at any one time and
not more than one-quarter of a barrel
to any country customer at any one
time, and in no case to sell wheat
products without the sale of an equal
weight of other cereals.
4. We ask the bakers and grocers to
reduce the volume of Victory bread
sold, by delivery of the three-quarter
pound loaf where one pound was sold
b fore, and corresponding proportions
In other weights. We also ask bakers
not to increase the amount of their
wheat flour purchases beyond 70 per
cent, of the average monthly amount
purchased In the four months prior to
March 1.
f>. Manufacturers using wheat prod
ucts for non-food purposes should
cease such use entirely.
G. There is no limit upon the use of
other cereals, flours, and meals, corn,
barley, buckwheat, potato Hour, et
cetera.
Many thousand families throughout
tlie land are now using no wheat prod
ucts whatever, except a very small
amount for cooking purposes, and are
doing so in perfect health and satisfac
tion. There is no reason why all of
tlie American people who are able to
cook in their own households cannot
subsist perfectly well with tlie use of
less wheat products than one and one
half pounds a week, and we specially
ask tlie well-to-do households In the
country to follow this additional pro
gramme in order that we may provide
the necessary marginal supplies for
those parts of the community less aide
to adapt themselves to so large a pro
portion of substitutes.
In order that we shall be able to
make the wheat exports that are ab
solutely demanded of us to maintain
the civil population and soldiers of the
allies and our own army, we propose
to supplement tlie voluntary co-opera
tion of the public by a further limita
tion of distribution, and we shall [dace
at once restrictions on distribution
which will be adjusted from time to
lime to secure as nearly equitable dis
tribution as possible. With the arrival
of harvest we should fie aide to relax
such restrictions. Until then we ask
for the necessary patience, sacrifice
and eo-operation of tlie distributing
trades.
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of the country than all other diseases
rut together, and for years it was sup
posed to be incurable. Doctors pre
scribed local remedies, and by constant
ly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a
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It elear that the people of Kngland *r.
In dire need of food ao,d that the mAr
power of the nation is waning.
A member of the Archbishop's part)
said the distinguished Britons wer*
s irprised and delighted with the en
thusiasm of the American people ft
support the war. lie said Americans
have come to a realization of what
the threat of German domination
means to the world, and especially t<
America. He . xplalned ihat man\
perrons in Great Rritain werp Blow t«
real z> (lie nee's. itv fi'r shpdding tljeli
blood upon the battlefields of Kranr<
to bait the Hun.
8ECAU5E0PU8ERTYB0NDS
Sixteen Millions Expected to Partici
pate in Third Liberty Loan.
More than 15,000,000 persons are ex
pected to subscribe to the Third Lib
erty Loan. Four million subscribed t.o
the first issue and about 11,000,000 to
the second loan.
Sixteen million buttons for subscrib
ers have been ordered by treasury of
ficials for the Third Liberty Loan. The
system of honor rolls in each munici
pality, community or business organi
zation, bearing the names of subscrib
ers, and of honor flags, to be given to
each city exceeding its quota, is ex
pected to stimulate the number of sub
scriptions. This plan will disclose,
who subscribes and who refuses to
buy.
Extensive preparations have teen
made for advertising the Third Lib
erty Bond campaign. Requests have
been received from hundreds of news
papers publishing Sunday editions fir
10.000,000 Inserts showing the honor
flag in colors, to be distributed April
7. Two hundred foreign-language
newspapers have requested supplies
of poster supplements.-' • ,
A special train carrying French war
relics, accompanied by Liberty Loan
speakers and wounded French sol
diers, will travel through the South
and Southwest and perhaps elsewhere.
The relies, which'include some of
the small guns, Germain helmets and
other trophies, and Red Cross exhibits,
recently were sent to the Untted
States by the French government to
assist in the bond campaign. The train
will be sent through the St. Louis,
Dallas and Atlantic federal reserve
districts, starting April 6.
A LIBERTY LOAN PRAYER
St. Louis Minister Composes
Appeal on Eve of His De
parture For France.
Less than a week before he
sailed for France In the service
of the Y. M. C. A., Rev. Elmer
T. Clark, Litt. D., former min
ister of the Shaw Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, and former secretary of
the St. Louis Ministerial Alli
ance, prepared the following
prayer for the Third Liberty
Loan for use on Liberty Loan
Sunday, April 7 th:
“Oh God, who dost ever
guide the tread of thejnatipn,
born to serve mankind trimh an
exalted unselfishness, bless all
our people and their represen
tatives in authority.
"In this time of crisis and
judgment, inspire us to think,
act and serve together in the
common cause of a victorious
righteousness. Touch our souls
with a high sense of patriotic
sacrifice. Consecrate our means
as well as our men.
“Bless, we beseech Thee, the
Third Liberty Loan with the
benediction of Thy benignant
favor. May no act or word
from us impede its sanctified
will. And arouse our enthusi
asm to see it through to a moat
successful conclusion. Amen."
BUSINESS CONCERNS TABBED
Credit Men Keep Uncle 6am Poeted
on Ability to Buy.
Liberty Bond slackers among bus!
ness bouses throughout the nation are
being revealed by credit men whose
duty It is to analyze the financial
statements of firms in all classes ol
trade.
Preliminary Investigations of expert
credit men In checking up the ftnsn
clal statements of many concerns in
various businesses in all parts of the
United States find that the percentage
of Liberty Bonds of the first and sec
ond issues among their assets was
startlingly small.
It has been suggested that banking
Institutions would be justified In bring
tng to the attention of their custom
era. particularly those who are nor
rowers, the necessity for these patri
otic Investments being made in rta
sonable proportions.
Credit men have undertaken to bring
to the attention of the public the luk*
warmness of many business houscc In
backing the government in Its prose
euflon of the war. The government Is
In the war business not only to de
stroy Prussian autocracy but ever>
vestige of disloyalty and opposition ti
the battle for world liberty.