rT^ m&r-:? E^jB^ C^-r «,V* %e.* £S2i**y fif^frf^C€ll J*- '^•C-1"* ,£"* ., .5- r* __ 1? "1 sidMSi :.^. Jf£ W^hw-^-fc-jEfc *»«*I .: *y^X^ INTERNATIONAL FALLS-PRESS. JANUARY 9, 1919 PAGE THREE Ikey Honriey would go into the trench "Somewhere saw Betty very seldom," when he and up, liisjeft arm dangling and swinging and play on his harmonica. As soon did, she was generally accompanied by at his side. Turning to Huston, who Why dont You as we'd see that harmonica come out Huston. in France" was lying on his back, he said: it was a case of "duck down low," for "Then the war came Ginger immediately hard hit—it's your life or mine. We're the Germans would be sure, when the enlisted as a private. He could Save£ WithEmpey only ten yards from our trench try to first strains reached them, to send over have had a commission, but did not make it on your own. You ought to "five rounds rapid." We hated that want to take a chance of having to be able to crawl in.' harmonica. More than once we mix with Huston. "But Huston answered: 'Burton, chucked one over the top, but he'd sit "A few weeks after Ginger's enlistment, don't leave me—I am bleeding to death. down, write a letter, and in about ten Huston joined too—was losing For the love of God get me in! You cannot day?* time would receive, through the prestige in Betty's eyes by staying in can have Betty, money, anything I afford to mail a little oblong package, and we'd mufti. He went Into the O. T. C.—(officers' have, it is all yours—just save my life. know we were "in for some more "five miss one of training corps). In seven months Answer me, man, answer—" the series of round rapids." We didn't blame the he received his commission and was "'You want my answer, do you? Germans. :5"/ stories thatisto drafted to France. Ginger had been Well, take it and damn you!' With Still, that harmonica had its \uses. out three months. appear soon In that Ginger slapped the officer in the Often we would get downhearted and "Before leaving, Huston proposed to this paper. The face then, grabbing him by the collar "fed up" with the war, and "grouse" Betty and was accepted. By one of fact that they with his right arm, the blood soaking at everything in general. Then Ikey the many strange coincidences that are written by his tunic from the shell wound in his would reach in his pocket and out happen In this world Huston was sent left. Ginger slowly dragged Huston to Sergt. Arthur would come that instrument of torture. to the battalion and company that Ginger the trench and fainted. mighty A We would then realize there was in and was put In command cheer went up from our lines. Stretcher famous as the were worse things than war, and cheer of Ginger's platoon. Then things happened. bearers took them both to an advanced author of "Over up accordingly. first-aid post, and their journey the Top," and On this particular rainy afternoon "Ginger could hardly believe his eyes to Blighty and Betty was started. in June we were in a talkative mood. whep he first saw Huston and knew he that they recite his On the trip over Ginger never regained own experiences Perhaps it was due to the fact that was to be his platoon commander. He consciousness. They landed in *%S£ on the battle front, Curly Wallace had made his "Tommie's knew he was in for it good and a hospital in England and were put is sufficient proof cooker" do wnat it was supposed plenty. in beds next to each other. Ginger that the stories will to do—make water boil in an hour "That night Huston sent for Ginger was taken up into the 'pictures' (operating your. te of interest to Put and a half. A "Tommie's cooker" is a and had a talk with him. Tried to make every newspaper theater), where his arm was amputated spirit stove which is very widely advertised that he harbored no animosity, him: believe reader. at the shoulder. Huston's Our Bank Money in as a suitable gift to the men detailed him as mall orderly, wound was slight bullet through, the In the trenches. Many were sent out, the first act of a canjpaign of petty calf of leg. Don't* Miss the First* and many were thrown away. cruelty. By being mail orderly Ginger "While Ginger was coming out of Anyway, the "cooker" lived up to Its would haye to handle Betty's letters to Installment* ether he told all he knew. Red SAVING IS A NATURAL INSTINCT. IT IS SELF PRESERVATION reputation for once, though a little behind Huston and Huston's letters to her. its advertised schedule in making Ginger saw through it immediately WHICH IS THE FIRST LAW OF NATURE. water boil. Curly passed aroiund and his hate burned stronger. From HOW ANY MAN CAN SEE EVERT CENT OF HIS EARNINGS the result of his efforts, in the form that night on it was one indignity after uiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiitt of kn ammunition tin half full of fairly another, just a merciless persecution, "GO" EACH PAY DAY, AND NOUS AVE SOME OF IT. good tea. We each took a good but Ginger never complained i'^^mourhora I swig, lighted a cigarette—they bad WOULD PUZZLE ANY FRUGAL MIND. just stored up each new act and swore "come up"'wlth the rations the night vengeance. OLD AGE IS! SURE TO FIND YOU EITHER PENNILESS before—and settled back against the "It came to such a gass that Ginger damp earthen walls of the dugout, to OR WITH PLENTY. START A BFNK ACCOUNT—YOU'LL could bear it no longer he decided see who could tell the biggest lie. For to kill Huston and only waited for a GET THE HABITIAND YOU'LL SOON HAVE A "BIG WAD." a few minutes silence reigned—no one favorable opportunity to present itself. seemed to care to be the first to break I think it was only his love for Betty WE ADD PERXENTHNTEREST. in. which had held him back so long he Then Dick Turpin, turning to me, couldn't bear the thought of her grieving asked: for her dead lover. FIRST NATIONAL BANK "Remember Burton of A company? "One night, in the front-line trench, Think he was in the Third platoon Author of "OYER THE OP" orders were received that after an the fellow that was recommended for hour's intense bombardment of the enemy's International Falls, Minnesota the V. C. and refused it. Got the recommendation lines the company would go over Watch for this gripping series for rescuing his platoon the top at four-thirty the next morning. commander under fire." Huston was to go over with the first of stories in this Newspaper •r I: answered in the affirmative and wave, while Ginger was in the second. niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii Dick "carried on" with: "I never could Here was his chance. see into that affair, because they -uick" "All that night he crouched on the THE STUBEE "iJicK" xurpm, canea seemed to be the worst of enemies. fire step, musing and brooding, nursing memory of the notorious highwayman. The officer was always picking on him his revenge. He. prayed to Betty to He used to help the quartermaster sergeant, used to have him 'on the crime, sheet' so the name was very appropriate. forgive him for what he was going to for the least offense. Got him several do. He was Irish, from Dublin. Sash and Door Factory days of extra paok drill, and once I was the sixth. The boys put the "After the bombardment the next A Red-Cross Nurse With Tear-Dimmed he clicked twenty-one days' crucifixion' prefix "Yank" to my name, because I morning over went the first wave, a Eyes Was Holding His Hand. —(field punishment No. 1, tied to a line. of bayonets and madly cheering was American and hailed from the limber wheel two hours per day for Cross nurse, with tear-dimmed eyes, "Big Town" behind the statue of liberty. men. Ginger only saw one in that IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS twenty-one days). was holding his hand. Occasionally crowd his eyes never left Huston. His "No matter what dirty fatigue or she would look across at Huston in the The six of us composed the crew of finger twitched and caressed the trigger working party came along, Burton's next bed he would slowly nod his gun No. 2 of the th brigade machine of his rifle—his long-looked-for opportunity We Are Well Equipped to do All Kinds of name was sure to head the list. head at each questioning glance of company. We were machine had come. *'This Burton appeared to be a surly hers, while the red blood of shame gunners .and our /gun was the VLckers, "The first wave had gone about sixjty\yards MILLWORK mounted to his temples. sort of a chap, kept to himself a whole light, 303, water-cooled. when Ginger let out .a. curse lot, always brooding, didn't have many "Then Ginger came to. He saw a It was a rainy „afternoon in June, .Huston had been hit and was down and you will make no mistake by getting friends in the company, either. There beautiful vision. Thought he was and we were sitting in our dugdut in and he saw his revenge slipping their prices before ordering elsewhere dreaming. Sitting by his bed, dressed seemed to be something on his mind. the front-line trench, about 300 yards through his fingers. But no, Huston "Most of the company men said his in a Red Cross nurse's uniform, was from the German lines. was not dead he was trying to rise to Betty, Huston's Betty, holding his sweetheart back in Blighty had thrown If you should ask a Tommy Atkins his feet he was up, hopping on one Building and Contracting a Specialty him down for some other bloke." hand. Betty, with tears in her eyes, "What is a dugout?" he would look at leg, with the blood pouring from the but this time tears of joy. The sweat Happy Houghton butted in: "That's you in astonishment, and, pitying you other. Then he fell again, but was All Work Guaranteed the way with this world, always hammering came out on his forehead—it couldn't for your apparent lack of education, soon sitting up bandaging his wounded at a fellow. Well, I know this be true. He gasped out the one word, would answer, "What's a- dugout? leg, using a tourniquet from his firstaid Burton, and there's not a better mate 'Betty!' LARS STUBEE, Prop. Why a dugout is a—well, a dugout's a packet. "Stooping over, the vision kissed him in the world, so let that sink into your dugout." Only being a Tommy pro "A surge of unholy joy ran through %. Dappers." on the lips and murmured, 'My Ginger, Ginger. Lifting the safety latch on his tem-—pro tem in my case meaning "for you have come back to Betty.' rifle, unheeding the rain of bullets 2nd]Av«. and 6th St. Phone 50 duration of war*'—I will try to describe "Don't get sore, Happy," said Honney. "Then he slept. Next morning the to the best of my ability this "If you don't mind, let's have the which were, ripping and tearing the colonel of the hospital came to Ginger's particular dugout. story. I meant no offense. Just naturally sand-bagged parapet about him, he bedside and congratulated him, telling A dugout is a hole in the ground. curious, that's all. You can't took deliberate aim,at Huston. Then him that he had been recommended for Gets its name because it is dug out deny that the whole affair has been 1 A LOSS MADE GOOD he saw a vision of Betty, dressed in INNOCENT the V. C. Ginger refused the V. O. by the Royal Engineers, or R. E/s as quite mystery to the brigade. Spit a black, with tear-stained eyes. With a from the government said he had not we call them. It is used to shelter the It out and get it off your chest." Improved working conditions in muttered curse Ginger threw the rifle earned It, would not give the reasons men in the trenches from shell fire, "Let's have it, Happy," we all The irate old gentleman put lm from him, climbed over the parapet the big industrial plants are strikingly but persisted in his refusal. They can't They also sleep in it, or try to. From chimed in chorus. head out of the remains of his window and raced across No Man's land. No emphasized in the following incident: force you to take a Y. G. our point of view, its main use is to Happy, somewhat 'mollified, lighted act of his should bring tears to Betty's and espied some small forms drain the trenches of muddy water "Five months later Ginger and Betty a cigarette, took two or three puffs, brown eyes. He would save her worthless were married. She cuts his meat looking up at him from below. A high school boy, who has been and give us rheumatism. It also and started: lover and then get killed himself— for him now says that all his faults makes a good hotel for rats. These They all dispersed but one. employed as time keeper, has ha«* "Well, It was this way, but don't ask It didn't matter. were contained in his left arm. He guests look upon us as Intruders and any questions until I am through. the opportunity of sleeping a couple "Look here, you young rascal, did -"Reaching Huston he hissed at him: lost that. So, you see, Ginger was complain that we overcrowd the place. "You know Burton Isn't what you'd of hours before quitting time. 'Damn you, I was going to kill you, you break my window?" somewhat of a man, after all, wasn't Occasionally we give in to them, and call a prize beauty when it comes to got home, one When the boy mori "No, sir." he, mates?" take a turn In the trench to rest ourselves. looks. He's about five, six in height, ing recently, his father asked him if We agreed that he was. I asked "Do you know who did?" stocky, a trifle bowlegged and pugnosed. his "work had kept hi mat the plan\ Happy how he came to know these details. Our dugout was about twenty feet To top this he has a crop of "No, sir, I don't know nothin about "No," replied the boy, "the fellow He answered: deep, or, at least, there were twenty red hair and his clock—(face)—is the it." "Well, Yank, Betty happens to be my who usually wakes me up forgot to wooden steps leading down to it. The boarding house for every freckle in "Well, get away. I don't want you sister. Gimme a fag, some one. I am ceiling and walls were braced by do so this morning and I slept two the United Kingdom. But strong !*Say, hanging around here." heavy, square-cut timbers. Over the about talked out, and, anyway, we've that fellow could make Samson look hours after it was time to go home. timbers in the ceiling sheets of corrugated only got a few minutes before 'stand "All right, mister. Will you give "ve like a consumptive when he got "Slept two hours after quitting iron were spread to keep the to.'" started. my ball before I go?" time?" wet earth from falling in on us. The Just then the voice of our sergeant "In Blighty, before the war, Burton "Give you your ball? Why, where "Yes," replied the boy, "but it is entrance was heavily sandbagged and sounded from the mouth of the dugout: and this lieutenant—his name is Huston—went is it?" all right. I charged it up to overtime."—Youngstown very narrow there was only room for "Equipment on! Stand to!" to the same college. "I think it is in your front parlor." Telegram. one person to leave or enter, at a time. ."Huston was nearly six feet high So it was a case of turn out and The ceiling was six feet high and the and slender. Sort of a dandy, fairhaired, mount our gun on the parapet. It was floor space was ten feet by six feet. just getting dark. We would dismount lots of dough, which he never Through the ceiling a six-inch square gQt by working his papa wished it on it at "Stand down" in the morning. airshaft was cut. We used to take htm when he went west—(died). He Tommy is like an owl, sleeps in the WHEN IN MINNEAPOLIS STOP AT turns sleeping under this in wet was good-looking and had a way with day and watches at night. It was a weather.. girls which made them think he miserable night, rainy and chilly. The The timbers bracing the walls were, fets the one and only, jjidn't care mud in the trenches in some places driven full of nails to hang our equipment much for athletics.^ Girls, dances and was up to our knees. We knew we on. After our ammunition, beltfilling card parties were mote in his line, were in for it and wished we were back machine, equipment, rifles, etc., "They were in the sa^he class. Burton in Blighty, where one can at least had been stored .away, there was not was working his way through, and change his clothes when they get wet, mnr.ii space for six men to liye, not Consequently Huston looked down on instead of waiting for a sunny day to -NICOLET AVENUE AND NINTH STREET- forgetting the rats. him as a bally bounder. Among the dry them. At times we have been wet "Damn You, I Was Going to Kill You It was very dark in the dugout, and athletes Burton was popular, Huston for a fortnight. 4 But 1 Won't." as we were only issued a candle and a wasn't.' but I won't •I'll carry you back to half every twenty-four hours we had "Burton was engaged—or thought OPENS SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1918 Betty. But always remember it was to economize on light. Woe betide the hie/was—to a pretty fine girt by the the man you robbed who saved your SOLDIERS DEMAND BIBLES last man who left the candle burning! Tftkme of Betty. She thought Burton, worthless you despicable skunk!' lifer In the center of the business and theatrical districts adjoining In this hotel of ours we would sit or 'Ginger,' as she called him, was the "Huston murmured: jrgive me, around the lonely candle and through [finest thing out. One day Ginger took .Three Great Publishing Houses Work 'I the largest retail store. One square from street cars to and Burton, but for God's sake get me out a thick haze of tobacco smoke would Night and Day to Supply Demand. her to see a football game at the college from all depots yet free from noise of that traffic. Entrance of this. I'll be killed—for God's sake, recount our different experiences at Three great publishing houses in he was playing on the team, so man, hurry, hurry!' various points of the line where we America, England and Scotland are and lobby on Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis' leading thoroughfare. 'she had to sit it out alone. During this 'That's it, is it? Whine, damn you, obliged to keep their presses running had been, or spin yarns about home. 'sitting it out,' she met Huston and the whine! It's music .to my ears, Lieutenant night ancl day to supply the demands Sometimes we would write a letter, trouble started. He was dead gone on -125 Rooms 100 with bath and toilet Huston begging a "bally bounder" of the soldiers for Bibles, declares when we were fortunate enough to be her and she liked him, so he made hay ,• •$1.00 to $2.00 per day for his life, and the bounder giving Rev. William Austin Hill, New England near the candle. At other times we'd while the sun was shining. it to him. I would to God that Betty secretary of the American Baptist sit for an hour without saying a word, "She didn't exactly turn Ginger 1 Furniture and equipment entirely new. All rooms have outside could see and hear you now.' listening to a German over in the enemy's Foreign Missionary society. down, but he was no boob and saw "With that Ginger stooped and,-by exposure, electric elevator and local and long distance phones. "The Bible is called for more than front trench playing'a cornet. how things were, so he eased out of rM main strength, lifted Huston onto his My, how that Boche could play Just any book among the soldiers," said the running, although it almost broke back And staggered toward our lines. Guests will receive the personal attention of to make us hate the war he'd play "Suwanee Rev. Mr. Hill. "It is printed in 81 his heart he certainly loved that girl. The bullets and pieces of shrapnel languages and a copy lasts a soldier River," "Home, Sweet Home," "This state of affairs widened the the owners who will be there to wait on them 'i •cy* were cracking and 'swishing' all or "Over the Waves."' The latter was on an average about three months. isr- gap between Huston and Burton. They around. He had gone about fifty yards my favorite. During his recital our So four copies are given each applicant. hated each other pretty fiercely, but w* 1 WM. B. CAMFIELD SjjfeiSS3BS8K F. ST GREGORY .1 when a piece of shell hit his left arm trenches were strangely quiet. Never There never was a time in the Burton never went out of his way to just below the shoulder. Down he a shot from either side. history of the world when men longed show it, while Huston took every opportunity went, Huston with himt but was soon more for the Scriptures." Sonjetimes, haL finished to -vent his spleen. Ginger V" 3^,^. V» *aT r*}k» -1 v"* «. r-