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Synopsis. Fired by the sinking of the Lusitania, with the loss of
American lives, Arthur Guy Etapey, an American living in Jersey City,
goes to England and enlists as a private In the British army. After a
short experience as a recruiting officer in London, he is sent to train
ing quarters in France, where he first hears the sound of big guns and
makes the acquaintance of "cooties." After a brief period of training
Empey's company is sent into the front-line trenches, where he takes
his first turn on the fire step while the bullets whiz overhead. Empey
learns, as comrade falls, that death lurks always in the trenches.
Chaplain distinguishes himself by rescuing wounded men under hot
fire. With pick and shovel Empey has experience as a trench digger
in No Man's Land. Exciting experience on listening post detail. Ex
citing work on observation post duty. Back in rest billets Empey
writes and stages a successful play. Once more In the front trenches,
Empey goes "over the top" in a successful but costly attack on the"
German lines. Soon afterwards Empey and his comrades repulse a
determined gas attack launched by the Germans. His next experience
Is as a member of a firing squad which executes a sentence of death.
CHAPTER XXIV Continued.
21
After standing at "attention" for
what seemed a week, though in reality
it could not have been over five min
utes, we heard a low whispering In our
rear and footsteps on the stone flag
ging of the courtyard.
Out officer reappeared and In a low,
but firm voice, ordered:
"About Turn !"
We turned about. In the gray light
of dawn, a few yards in front of me, I
could make out a brick wall. Against
this wall was a dark form with a white
square pinned on its breast. We were
supposed to aim at this square. To the
right of the form I noticed a white spot
on the wall. This would be my target.
"Ready! Aim! Fire!"
The dark form sank into a huddled
heap. My bullet sped on its way, and
hit the whitish spot on the wall ; I
could see the splinters fly. Some one
else had received the rifle containing
the blank cartridge, but my mind was
at ease, there was no blood of a
Tommy on my hands.
"Order Arms! About Turn! Pile
Anns! Stand Clear."
The stacks were re-formed.
"Quick March ! Right Wheel !"
And we left the scene of execution be
hind us.
It was now daylight. After march
ing about five minutes, we were dis
missed with the following instructions
from the officer in command :
"Return, alone, to your respective
companies, and remember, no talking
about this affair, or else it will go hard
with the guilty ones."
We needed no urging to get away. I
did not recognize any of the men on
the firing squad ; evec the officer was a
stranger to me.
The victim's relations and friends in
Blighty will never know that he was
executed; they will be under the im
pression that he died doing his bit for
king and country.
In the public casualty lists his name
will appear under the caption "Acci
dentally Killed," or "Died."
The day after the execution I re
ceived orders to report back to the
line, and to keep a still tongue in my
head.
Executions are a part of the day's
work, but the part we hated most of
all, I think certainly the saddest. The
British war department is thought by
many people to be composed of rigid
regulations all wound around with red
tape. But it has a heart, and one of
the evidences of this is the considerate
way in which an executio, is concealed
and reported to the relativ-e of the un
fortunate man. They never know the
truth. He is listed in the bulletins as
among the "accidentally killed."
In the last ten years I have several
times read stories in magazines of
cowards changing, in a charge, to he
roes. I used to laugh at It. It seemed
easy for story-writers, but I said,
"Men aren't made that way." But over
In France I learned once that th
streak of yellow can turn all white. I
picked up the story, bit by bit, from
the captain of the company, the sen
tries who guarded the poor fellow, as
well as from my own observations. At
first I did not realize the whole of his
tory, but after a week of investiga
tion it stood out as clear In my mind
as the mountains of my native West in
the spring sunshine. It impressed me
so much that I wrote It all down in
rest billets on scraps of odd paper.
The Incidents are, as I say, every bit
true; the feelings of the man are true
I know from all I underwent In the
fighting over in France.
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upon him for support. He had no good
position to lose, and there was no
sweetheart to tell him with her lips
to go, while her eyes pleaded for him
to stay.
Every time he saw a recruiting ser
geant he'd slink around the corner out
of sight, with a terrible fear gnawing
at his heart. When passing the big re
cruiting posters, and on his way to
business and back he passed many, he
would pull down his cap and look the
other way from that awful finger
pointing at him, under the caption,
"Your King and Country Need You;"
or the boring eyes of Kitchener, which
burned into his very soul, causing him
to shudder.
Then the Zeppelin raids during
them, he used to crouch In a corner of
his boarding-house cellar, whimpering
like a whipped puppy and calling upon
the Lord to protect him.
Even his landlady despised him, al
though she had to admit that he was
"good pay."
He very seldom rend the papers, but
one momentous morning the landlady
put the morning paper at his place be
fore he came down to breakfast. Tak
ing his seat he read the flaring head
line, "Conscription Bill I'assed," and
nearly fainted. Excusing himself, he
stumbled upstairs to his bedroom,
with the horror of It gnawing into his
vitals.
Having saved up a few pounds, he
decided not to leave the house, and to
sham sickness, so he stayed in his room
and had the landlady serve his meals
there.
Every time there was a knock at the
door he trembled all over, imagining it
was a policeman who had come to take
him away to the army.
One morning his fears were realized.
Sure enough, there stood a policeman
with the fatal paper. Taking it in his
trembling hand he read that he, Albert
Lloyd, was ordered to report himself
to the nearest recruiting station for
physical examination. lie reported im
mediately, because he was afraid to
disobey.
The doctor looked with approval
upon Lloyd's six feet of physical per
fection, and thought what a tine
guardsman he would make, but exam
ined his heart twice before he passed
him as "physically tit;" it was beating
so fast.
From the recruiting depot Lloyd was
taken, with many others, in charge of
a sergeant, to the training depot at Al
dershot, where he was given an outfit
of khaki, and drew his other equip
ment. He made a fine-looking soldier,
except for the slight shrinking in his
shoulders and the hunted look in his
eyes.
At the training depot it does not
take long to find out a man's character,
and Lloyd was promptly dubbed
"windy." In the English army "windy"
means cowardly.
The smallest recruit in the barracks
looked on him with contempt, and was
not slow to show it in many ways.
Lloyd was a good soldier, learned
quickly, obeyed every order promptly,
never groused at the hardest fatigues.
He was afraid to. He lived in deadly
fear of the officers and "noncoms" over
him. They also despised him.
One morning about three months
after his enlistment Lloyd's company
was paraded, and the names picked out
for the next draft to France were read.
When his name was called, he did not
step out smartly, two paces to the
front, and answer cheerfully, "Here,
sir," as the ithers did. He just faint
ed in the ranks and was carried to bar
racks amid the sneers of the rest.
That night was an agony of misery
to him. He could not sleep. Just cried
and whimpered in Irs bunk, because
on the morrow the draft was to sail
for France, where he would see death
on all sides, and perhaps be killed him
self. On the steamer, crossing the
channel, he would have Jumped over
board to escape, but was afraid of
, drowning.
i Arriving la France, he and the rest
were hudSled t&to cattle jar. Oo im
side of each appeared la whit letters,
"Hommes 40, Chevaux 8." After hours
of bumping over the uneven French
roadbeds they arrived at the training
base of Rouen.
At this place they were put through
a week's rigid training in trench war
fare. On the morning of the eighth
day they paraded at ten o'clock, and
were Inspected and passed by General
H , then were marched to the quar
termaster's, to draw their gas helmets
and trench equipment.
At four la the afternoon they were
again hustled into cattle cars. This
time the journey lasted two days.
They disembarked at the town of Fre
vent and could hear a distant dull
booming. With knees shaking, Lloyd
asked the sergeant what the noise was,
and nearly dropped when the sergeant
replied in a somewhat bored tone:
"Oh, them's the guns up the line.
We'll bt up there in a couple o' days
or so. Don't worry, my laddie, you'll
see more of 'em than you want befpre
you get 'ome to Bllhty again, that is,
if you're lucky enough to get back.
Now lend a hand then unlondin' them
cars, and quit that evcrJastin' sbflkln'.
I believe yer scared." The last with a
contemptuous sneer.
They marched ten kilos, full pack,
to a little dilapidated village, and the
sound of the guns grew louder, omi
stantly louder.
The village was full of soldiers who
turned out to inspect the new draft
the men who were shortly to be their
mates in the trenches, for they were
going "up the line" on the morrow, to
"take over" their certain sector of
trenches.
The draft was paraded in front of
battalion headquarters and the men
were assigned to companies.
Lloyd was the only man assigned to
D company. Perhaps the officer in
charge of the draft had something to
do with it, for he called Lloyd aside
and said:
"Lloyd, you are going to a new com
pany. No one knows you. Your bed
will be as you make It, so for God's
sake, brace up and be a man. I think
you have the stuff in you, my boy, so
good-by and the best of luck to you."
The next day the battalion took over
their part of the trenches. It happened
to be a very quiet day. The artillery
behind the lines was still, except for
an occasional shell sent over to let the
Germans know the gunners were pot
asleep.
In the darkness, in single file, the
company slowly wended their way
down the communication trench to the
front line. No one noticed Lloyd's
white and drawn face.
After they had relieved the company
in the trenches, Lloyd, with two of the
old company men, was put on guard In
one of the traverses. Not a shot was
fired from the German lines, and no
one paid any attention to him
crouched on the firing step.
On the first time in, a new recruit is
not required to stand with his head
"over the top." He only "sits it out,"
while the older men keep watch.
At about ten o'clock, all of a sudden,
he thought hell had broken loose, and
crouched and shivered up against the
parapet. Shells started bursting, as he
imagined, right In their trench, when in
fact they were landing about a nun
dred yards in rear of them, In the sec
ond lines.
One of the older men on guard, turn
ing to his mate, said:
"There goes Fritz with those d 6
trench mortars again. It's about time
our artillery 'taped' them, and sent
over a few. Well, I'll be d d,
where's that blighter of a draft man
gone to? There's his rifle leaning
against the parapet. He must hav
legged It. Just keep your eye peeled,
Dick, while I report It to the sergeant.
I wonder if the fool knows he can b
shot for such tricks as leavln' hin
post?"
Lloyd had gone. When the trench
mortars opened up, a maddening ter
ror seized him and he wanted to run,
to get away from that horrible din,
anywhere to safety. So quietly sneak
ing around the traverse, lie came to the
entrance of a communication trench,
and ran madly and blindly down it,
running into traverses, stumbling into
muddy holes, and falling full length
over trench grids.
Groping blindly, with his arms
stretched out in front of him, he at
last came out of the trench into the
village, or what used to be a village,
before the German artillery razed it.
Mixed with his fear, he had a pe
culiar sort of cunning, which whis
pered to him to avoid all sentries, be
cause if they saw him he would be
sent back to that awful destruction in
the front line, and perhaps be killed
or maimed. The thought made him
shudder, the cold sweat coming out in
beads on his face.
Empey learns that a streak of
yellow sometimes can turn all
white. He tells the unusual
story In the next Installment.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Best Material for Splints.
Galvanized wire netting Is claimed
to be much superior to wood as a ma
terial for surgical splints. It is
strong, light In weight, non-absorbent
and easily sterilized, and, unlike wood
and plaster, gives free ventilation. The
new splints are woven from wire so
tempered that it can easily be pressed
Into shape to be bound closely upon
the Injured limb.
Daily Thought.
No nobler feeling than this, of ad
miration for one higher than nirnself,
dwells in the breast of man. It is U
this hour, and at all hours, a vivifjiu'
influence In man's life, Car ly la.
FOOD OF SOLDIERS
GIVEN GREAT GARE
NUTRITION OFFICERS WHO ARE
EXPERTS BEING STATIONED
IN THE ARMY CAMPS.
EDIBLE WASTE IS REDUCED
Navy Department Sends Uniformed
Desk Men to Active Service An
cient Armor Supplies Models for
Modern American War Equipment
Nutrition officers are to be stationed
In every National array cantonment
and In every National Guard camp, as
well as In every camp where 10,000 or
more soldiers are In training, the war
department announces. These men are
food specialists. Before they joined
the army as members of the division
of food and nutrition of the medical
department they were connected- with
colleges and public bodies as physiolo
gists, chemists, economists, food in
spectors and experts in other special
ized work relating to food.
Since last October these officers
have gone from camp to camp, studied
the food served, how it was inspected,
stored and prepared, and made recom
mendations resulting in many advan
tageous changes. They gave instruc
tions in the principles of nutrition, the
proper selection of foods and the con
struction of dietaries to mess officers,
medical officers and others interested.
They told how to avoid waste, gave
methods for judging and storing food,
and emphasized the importance of
keeping kitchens and mess halls clean
and orderly.
At one camp seven companies were
selected from various organizations
totaling 1,135 men with which to try
out an nnti-waste plan. The average
edible waste was found to be 1.12
pounds per man per day. The nutri
tion officer gave the mess sergeants
and cooks instructions in food and
mess economy with the result the aver
age edible waste was reduced to 0.43
pounds per man per day, a saving of
0.G9 pounds. This saving amounted to
$61.75 per day for the seven messes, or
$22,542 per year.
Sixty new officers are to be commis
sioned In the division of food and nu
trition to handle the additional work.
All will be food specialists similar to
those already in the service. They
will advise about the composition and
nutritive values of all dietaries, make
Inspections for adulterations, spoilage
and deterioration and co-operate with
the mess officials,
Armor for the American soldiers,
helmets, shields and breastplates, is
being modeled In the workshops of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, the war department announces.
The best of the types used by the sol
diers of former days is being wrought
into shapes for present warfare, some
pieces on ancient anvils and by ham
mers that were actually used centuries
ago.
In direct charge of the workshop
where the work is being done is a
French artisan whose skill has been
known to armor collectors the world
over, and whose forbears for genera
tions back have kept alive the dying
trade of the armorer.
This war in Europe has brought
back into use many discarded weapons
and practices of medieval warfare.
There has been the adoption of steel
helmets by all the warring powers,
breastplates, armored waistcoats and
trench shields. This necessitated an
overhauling and new study of ancient
armor, with the result that experts de
clare that scarcely a technical idea has
been brought forward which was not
worked out In elaborate detail by the
old-time armor makers.
The Metropolitan museum collection
Is among the seven great collections of
ancient armor. It is an incident to this
collection that there was established
at the museum an armorer's workshop.
So far as known it is unique. In it
were cleaned, repaired and restored
pieces that were defective. Daniel
Tachaux, a French artist, was In
charge. He is working now under the
direction of Major Bashford Dean of
the ordnance department.
Armor models are being turned out
there in accordance with the sugges
tions of General Pershing and the ord
nance department. Twenty-five dif
ferent types of armor defenses have
been made in various factories in ex
perimental lots, several in many thou
sands of pieces, which have won fa
vor at army headquarters. The effi
cacy of armor protection for the sol
diers Is indicated by reports that more
than 40 per cent of the hospital cas
ualties suffered were leg wounds and
about 33 per cent arm wounds, the legs
and arms of the fighters being free
from armor cover.
While Y. M. C. A. workers In a battle-torn
region of France were carry
ing delicacies to American soldiers in
the front line trenches they left their
storehouse deserted. French soldiers
entered the storehouse to guard the
supplies. They found chewing gum,
thought it food, stuffed whole pack
ages into their mouths, masticated it
for a time and then tried to swallow
it. Some succeeded in getting it down.
There were no casualties, but the
French soldiers were Inspired with a
high regard for American digestive apparatuses
The navy department has released
from office and shore duty the regu
lars of the navy and the reservists and
has assigned them to active duty with
the fleet. Their places as clerks will
be taken by women wherever possible.
Rear Admiral McGowan, paymaster
general of the navy, issued the order In
connection with this change In policy.
"Every man released from shore duty,
whatever his rank or rating, adds Just
one more to the fighting force," says
this order. "Every man of every rank
and rating desires, of course, to get to
the firing tine as soon as his services
ashore can be spared.
"No man In the navy Is willing in war
time to do anything that a woman can
do as well ; whereas no officer can be
expected to be content In any part of
the shore establishment unless engaged
upon supervisory work so Important In
Its nature that it cannot properly be
delegated to any person of lesser rat- ,
ing. i
"Wherefore It Is requested and di-1
rected that the officer in charge of
each division of the bureau of supplies
and accounts make a careful and criti
cal survey of his personnel,, both com
missioned and enlisted, to the end that
the paymaster general may know how
many and which men can be spared
without seriously Interfering with the
work. These reports will Include not
alone reservists but regulars as well,
and it is .to be distinctly understood in
this connection that applications from
Individuals for sea or overseas service
will not be necessary the one and
only object being to carry on the work
here and at the same time release the
maximum number of men for duty at
the front."
The Liberty motor, developed by the
department of military aeronautics, Is
to have a special engine oil which is to
be known as the "Liberty aero oil."
It was developed by the lubrication
branch while the latter was still a part
of the signal corps. It Is a mineral
oil and will be used not only on the
Liberty motor but on all stationary
cylinder aircraft engines of the army
and navy.
Its development Is due to the energy
and skill of a staff of men who worked
exclusively on the problem for a year.
Capt. O. J. May, who deserves greatest
credit for its production, so exhausted
himself by his labors that he could
not recuperate from an illness and
died.
When the aircraft program was an
nounced in 1917 no one in authority
had a definite idea as to the proper
kind of lubrication required. There
was no uniformity. For every engine
there was a specific oil. Some en
gineers insisted on castor oil, others
mineral oil, still others castor and
mineral oils mixed. It was estimated
that 5,000,000 gallons of castor oil,
costing ?3 per gallon, would be re
quired and that quantity was not avail
able. Captain May and assistants set out
to develop a suitable lubricant for the
Liberty motor at an average cost of 75
cents a gallon, and also a system for
reclaiming oil already used. In 25
days Captain May supervised the run
ning of 37 engine tests in a laboratory
where five engine tests a week would
be a complete program. These en
gines were run with different kinds of
oils and each oil was analyzed and
measured before and after tests. The
work required ceaseless vigil. Alti
tude tests were made in an airtight
building capable of having the air
within it partly exhausted.
From these tests the Liberty aero
oil developed. It will cost about one
fourth the price of castor oil, saving
the government perhaps $11,000,000 a
year. A system of reclaiming used
oil was developed and at least 50 per
cent can be made fit to use again.
The national war labor board has de
cided against establishment at this
time of a minimum wage to be applied
generally throughout industry. It
adopts an attitude firmly opposed both
to unjust profits on the part of capital
and unreasonable demands on the part
of labor, stating that capital should
have only such reasonable returns as
will assure Its use for the world's and
the nation's cause, and that the physi
cal wellbeing of labor and its physical
and mental effectiveness, in a comfort
reasonable in view of the exigencies of
the war, likewise should be assured.
The board declares the war to be an
Interregnum in which the wheels of
industry should turn only in the com
mon cause and for common ends, and
neither for unjust profits on the part
of capital or unfairly inflated wages
for labor, stressing maximum produc
tion as the paramount necessity and
unselfish co-operation as the prelimi
nary essentials to this accomplishment.
There is a reaffirmation by the board
of the principle that the worker Is en
titled to a wage sufficient to sustain
himself and his family in health and
comfort, and a restatement by the
board to apply this principle In each
of the cases to come before It for de
cision. American dietitians have made
bread by substituting as high as 25
per cent of rice for wheat flour and
have obtained a white yeast bread of
excellent flavor.
The raid-West states are turning to
a larger use of motortrucks in the de
livery of hogs to the Important interior
markets. This relieves railroad trans
portation conditions to a considerable
extent.
The motortruck business Is becom
ing so important that commercial or
ganizations of Omaha are taking active
measures to utilize the trucks on re
turn trips to country points for hauling
various kinds of freights. Experience
has shown that motortruck marketing
is as feasible in winter as in other sep
sons.
IMBOVED L'MFOSM INTERNATIONAL
SUNWSfflOOL
(By Rev. P. B. FITZWATER, D. p..
Teacher of English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.) f
(Copyright, 1918, by Western Newnptper TOilon.)
LESSON FOR AUGUST 25.
CONFESSING CHRIST.
(May be used with missionary applica
tions.) LESSON TEXTS Luke 12:8-12; Acta ti
ll. GOLDEN TEXT Whosover shall con
fess me before men, him shall the son of
man also confess before the angels ot
God. Luke 12:8.
DEVOTIONAL READING James Sel
ls. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL Psalms 145:
1-21; Mark 6:19-20; John 1:40-46; Acts 4:18
20; I Peter 3:15.
I. Importance of Confessing Christ
(Luke 12:8-12).
To confess Christ Is not easy ; It has
never been easy. To do so means ex
posure to ridicule, contempt and per
secution. Regardless of Its Issue, the
true disciple will confess his Lord.
1. Christ will confers before the an
gels of God those who confess him
before men (v. 8). The true disciple
will not be ashamed to let all men
know that he knows, loves, and serves
Christ.
2. Christ will deny before the an
gels of God those who deny him be
fore men (v. 9). To deny Christ before
men may get one a little of human ap
plause, but will surely bring one to
loss of heaven and to the sufferings of
hell forever.
3. A pernicious testimony is unpar
donable (v. 10). This testimony is
the expression of a heart utterly per
verse, attributing the mighty works of
the Iloly Spirit as wrought by Christ
to the devil (Matt. 12-32; Mark 3:29).
The unpardonable sin will only be com
mitted by one whose heart Is incurably
bad, one whose moral nature is so vile
that he falls to discern between God
and the devil a reprobate.
4. Divine aid given in testimony
(w. 11, 12). In the most trying hour
the Holy Spirit will teach the disciples
what to say, and how to say It.
II. Qualifications for Confessing
Christ (Acts f :1-11).
Christ remained with the disciples
forty days after his resurrection to
prepare them for the Important busi
ness of witnessing for him. He had a
five-fold object:
1. To convince the disciples of the
absolute certainty of his resurrection
(vv. 2, 3). Before the disciples could
undertake the great work for which
they had been preparing, the question
of Christ's resurrection must be set
tled beyond a doubt. No one can preach
the gospel who does not have certainty
of conviction touching the resurrec
tion. 2. To Instruct the disciples in
things pertaining to the kingdom ot
God (vv. 3, 6, 7). Their unwillingness
to hear Christ's instruction (John 1G:
12, 13) before his passion shut out
much valuable information, so the Lord
tarries to supply this need. They had
a wrong idea as to the kingdom being
restored, not as to fact, but as to time.
Christ had again and again predicted
a coming kingdom in harmony with
the united testimony of the prophets
of Israel. They understood him aright
as to the fact of the kingdom, but the
time of its manifestation they failed to
grasp. The disciples should be de
fended against the reproach for having
a materialistic conception. The king
dom is still to come; the time of its.
coming is known only to God.
3. To show the disciples that their
business was to witness for Christ to
the uttermost parts of the earth (vv.
4, 5, 8.) This witnessing was to be done
In the power of the spirit, the result of
which would be the formation of a
new body, the church, called out from
the world in the time of the postpone
ment of the kingdom.
4. To show the disciples the scope
of their missionary activity (v. 8). This
Is shown to be as wide as the world it
self. They were to begin at home and
carry the good news concerning Christ
to the uttermost parts of the earth.
Mission work begins at home and ends
with the bounds of the earth.
5. To show the disciples that Christ
will henceforth operate from heaven.
They were to work on the earth, but
the source of their power was in heav
en. Though he Is separated from the
disciples it will not be forever, for he
will come again. He will come again
as the God-man, our mediator. The
words of the men in white apparel
have a double significance.
(1) To show that Jesus will come
again.
(2) To show that in the meantime
they should set to work In the dis
charge of their commission, and not be
gazing up into heaven. The Lord's in
struction to the disciples was, "Occupy
till I come" (Luke 19:13). Those who
have an intelligent hope touching the
coming of Christ are not sky-gazers,
but are deadly in earnest witnessing
for Christ
Condition of Breeding Animals.
An animal will not breed well If t
Is too fat, nor If It Is underfed. It
should be in good condition and be fed
plenty of a fairly well balanced ration.
All corn Is bad. Animals on good pas
ture are generally in the ideal condi
tion. Skim Milk Cheap Feed.
Hogs fed some high-protein supple
ment in addition to corn make more
rapid and cheaper gains and are worth
more on the market than others fed
corn alone for the same length of time
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