4 'jSS* *^c* ^V" **5?r gapvs og *3*£t *??j •sf ~r^ •^V" 5»- -»3f„/ *®!r?Jr !m. ,. ,«« **J%* '-5- ^^INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, JANUARY 23 1918 PAGE THREE "•$& trendies in an ordinary way Hke we ishment No: I. This meant that "two alT the row was aBout I had clicked do it's a case of extremes, no in-between "Somewhere hours each day for a week he .would three days C. B. (confined to barracks) stuff. be tied to the wheel of a limber. During •Hi and didn't want to get arrested, so in Why dont You these two-hour periods Jim would "Next time you're on a burial party, in France" the confusion I made tracks for my take a look at the third cross from the be at Bill's feet, and, no matter how billet Savet left in the fourth row as you enter much we coaxed him with choice morsels With Empey the cemetery. You know that path •The next time I met the bloke was of food, he would not leave until that leads through the orchard just off when we buried old Smith out of the Bill was untied. When Bill was loose the entrance of that big R. E. (Royal Tenth platoon in the cemetery at La Jim would have nothing to do with him Engineers) dugout well, under that Bassee. He was one of the grave diggers. —just walked away in contempt. Jim cross rests a bloke who back in Blight}' All during the burial service respected the king's regulations, and /V*OUcannot professed to be a pacifist. He Wouldn't he stood looking at the Union Jack had no use for defaulters. afford to blinkin' well volunteer, not likely they with a' queer look on his face. When At a special meeting held by the miss one of old Smith was lowered into the ground had to draft him, an' when they did he section Jim had the oath of allegiance the series of and the dirt was thrown on-him the refused to fight, so they stuck him in read to him. He barked his consent, stories that is to conscientious objector—Watkins was the N. C. C. (noncombatant corps) and so we solemnly swore him in as a appear soon in handed him a pick and shovel and put his name—came over to me and said: soldier of the Imperial British army, this paper. The him to rc- !irin' roads and diggin' 1 hear he (pointing at old Smith's fighting for king and country. Jim graves. Well, it didn't take long before grave) is forty-eight years old and has fact that they made a better soldier than any one are written by he was properly fed up with his left a wife and three nippers back in of us, and died for his king and country. job, and he_ threw down the pick and Blighty. He was too old for the draft, Sergt. Arthur Died without & whimper of complaint. shovel and grabbed up a rifle an' bayonet wasn't he? Then he must have volunteered.* Guy £mpeyr Oh, yes, he clicked it all right From the village we made several famous as the and went west. In fact he was buried "I answered: 'Of course he volunteered, trips to the trenches each time Jim author of "Over in one o' the graves he helped to dig. and there he lies, deader than accompanied us. The first time under the Top," end I suppose some o' those college officers but I'll wager a quid his wife fire he put the stump of his tail between that they recite his called it the iron of fate,' or some other and kids will be proud of him—and his legs, but stuck .to his post. own experiences blinkin' high-sounding phrase, but that's more than your kids will be When "carrying in" if we neglected to on the battle front, we knows that it was only, common about you.* give Jim something to carry, he would is sufficient proof ordinary luck, 'cause we all knows that "He sneaked off without answering. that the stories will make such a noise barking that we if you're going to get it, you'll get it, be of interest to Three days later I nearly dropped dead soon fixed him up. „every newspaper Puf^ur no matter if you're a gentleman's son when our lance corporal came into our Each day Jirif would pick out a dif« reader. or a bloomin' chimney sweep. billet with a bloody nose and a beautifully Bank Money in Our trimmed lamp. When I asked "This blighter I'm telling about was of to follow. ferent man the section him how he got knocked about he in my platoon when I was in company, Don't* Miss the First* He would stick to this man, eating and told me that a fellow out of the noncombatant an' he used to give me the proper with h}m, until the next day, sleeping Installment* corps named Watkins had SAVINGH8SA NATURAL INSTINCT. IT IS SELF PRESERVATION pip with his arguments against and then it would be some one else's mussed him up just because he had fighting and the likes o' that turn. When a man had Jim with him, WHICH IS THE FIRST LAW OF NATURE. called him a white-livered coward. j-r? "The first time I met him was in St it seemed as if his life were charmed. "Watkins ducked twenty-one days HOW ANY MAN CAN SEE EVERY CENT OF HIS EARNINGS No matter what he went through, he Armand our 'bat' was in the rest billets r- number one on the wheel, and when gllllUllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllg awaitin' a new draft before-going would come out safely. We looked upon "GO"IEACH:PAY DAY, AND NOT:SAVE SOME OF IT. his sentence was finished they transferred up the line again. You see we had Jim as a good-luck sign, and believe him to a fighting unit, and lu- WOULD:PUZZLE:ANY FRUGAL MIND. clicked it pretty rough at Fromelles, me, he was. bang! into our platoon he comes. Whenever it came ikey Honney's an' a platoon looked like a blinkin' OLD AGE:IS: SURE TO:FIND YOU EITHER PENNILESS "Many a talk I had with him about squad when it lined up for parade. I turn for Jim's company, he was overjoyed, that pacifist stuff—he hadn't changed OR WITHIPLENTY. START A BANK ACCOUNT— YOU'LL in was playing *house' in that estaminct because Jim would sit in dignlPed a bit in his ideas—but he kept his right across from that bashed-in silence, listening to the jew's-harp. GET THE HABIT AND YOU'LL SOON HAVE A "BIG WAD." mouth shut about the king and the church on the corner when his labor Honney claimed that Jim had a soul Top Hats at home. WE:ADD:H PERICENTONTEREST. battalion came through and took over for music, which was more than he with "Then we went Into the trenches billets just opposite from the estaminet would say about the rest of us. and I knew his finish was near. A I was sitting near a window Once, at daybreak, we had to go Arthur Guy Empey firing squad or 'rest in peace' was to and watched them pass. A sorrier over the top in an attack. A man in FIRST NATIONAL BANK be his lot they all get one or the bunch of specimens of men I never the section named Dalton was selected other sooner or later. I AitkH ,f "OVER THE TOP" saw it turned my blinkin' stomach to by Jim as his mate in this affair. "After two days In, Fritz got rough look at them, what with their pasty The crew of gun No. 2 were to stay InternationarFalls, Minnesota and opened up with a pretty stiff bombardment. faces, stooped-over shoulders and in the trench for overhead fire purposes, Watch for this gripping series straggling gait. Right then and there I and, if necessary, to help repel "Watkins was in the fourth squad 1A admired the Germans for their system of stories this Newspaper a probable counterattack by the in a dugout in the support trench of universal military training. If enemy. Dalton was very merry, and aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimi when a 'Minnie' registered a direct hit England had of had a little more of it hadn't the least fear or misgivings as THE S.TUBEE on the roof and caved her in. Every there never would have been a war to his safety, because Jim would be the quartermaster's shack, then sea •:X one but Watkins was killed. How he and right now we would be in Blighty with him through it all. got rough. When I got aboard I could escaped was a marvel, the rest of the with our wives and nippers, Instead of In the attack, Dalton, closely followed hear the wind blowing through the squad being smashed up something awful. sitting here in these bloody ditches by Jim, had got about sixty yards rigging of the supercargo (quartermaster We collected the pieces and buried waitin' for a shell to come over with into No Man's land, when Jim was hit sergeant snoring), so I was safe. them the next day. Watkins helped Sash and Door Factory our name and number on it in the stomach by a bullet. Boor old I set my course due north to the ration dig the graves. f) "After the labor battalion took over Jim toppled over, and lay still. Dalton hold, and got my grappling irons "For two days Watkins scarcely billets several of them came into the turned around, and, just as he did so, on a cask of milk, and came about on spoke a word, just went round with estaminet and sat at a table near me. we saw him throw up his hands and IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS my homeward-bound passage, but a faraway look on his face. They started to discuss the war and fall face forward. something was amiss with my wheel, voice their opinions about the 'top "On the third night after the burial, Ikey Honney, who was No. 3 on our because I ran nose on into him, caught hats' at home. This bloke I'm a talkin volunteers were called for a bombing gun, seeing Jim fall, scrambled over We Are Well Equipped to do All Kinds of him on the rail, amidships. Then it raid, and I could scarcely believe my about was the loudest of the bunch the parapet, and, through that rain of was repel boarders, and it started to MILLWORK ears when I heard that Watkins had lie seemed to have a grouch on everything shells and bullets, raced to where Jim blow big guns. His first shot put out volunteered. It was the truth alt in general. I listened to him a was, picked him up, and tucking him my starboard light, and I keeled over. right—he went along. few minutes chucking his weight about and you will make no mistake by getting under his arm, returned to our trench I was in the trough of the sea, but until it bloody well got on my nerves in safety. If he had gone to rescue a "We crawled out In No Man's land their prices before ordering elsewhere soon righted, and then it" was a stern Chucking up my game of house—and wounded man in this way he would under cover of our barrage and waited. chase, with me in the lead. Getting in I had paid half a franc for my board have no doubt been awarded the Victoria Watkins was next to me. Suddenly to the open Sea, I made a port tack too—I leaned over to him and said: Cross. But he only brought in a star shell went up and we and hove to in this cove with the Building and Contracting a Specialty 'You must be one of those bloomin' crouched down in its light. I was laying poor bleeding, dying Jim. milk safely in tow." All Work Guaranteed so that I could see Watkins— Ikey laid him on the firestep alongside conscientious objectors we reads about Most of us didn't know what he was blime me—he had no rifle or bayonet of our gun, but we could not attend talking about, but surmised that he I whispered over to him: 'Where's to him, because we had important in the papers, one o' those blighters had got into a mixup with the quartermaster LARS STUBEE, Prop. your rifle?' He answered: 'I threw work to do. So he died like a soldier, sergeant. This surmise proved who don't believe in fightin' but is It away.' Before I had time to reply, without a look of reproach for our •wii willing to sit back in Blighty and let correct. the signal to rush the German trench heartless treatment. Just watched our 2nd"Ave. and 6th St. Phone 50 Just as Bill finished his narration a us blokes out here do your bloody was given and I lost sight of him. every movement until his lights burned loud splash was heard, and Happy's fightin' for you, while you gets a blinkin' "It was rough going in the German out. After the attack, what was left good screw (salary) sitting on a voice came to us. It sounded very far trench, and we had quite a little of of our section gathered around Jim's Iiigh stool in some office.' off: hand-to-hand fighting. Star shells were bloodstained body. There wasn't a dry "Help, I'm in the well! Hurry up, "He turned to me and answered: going up all around us. One of our eye in the crowd. FOR MINNESOTA'S the nearest living relatives. These I can't swim! Then a few unintelligible 'It's the likes o' you who volunteered biokes in front of me was. just going Next day we wrapped him in a small SOLDIER DEAD should be sent to the Publicity Department for this war what keeps it goin'. If words intermixed with blub! around the corner of a traverse Union Jack belonging to Happy, and blub! and no more. you had all refused to go at first, there of the Public Safety Commission when a big German got him through laid him to rest, a Soldier of the King. wouldn't be any war?' We ran to the well and' away Engraved memorials expressing by the county and township the throat with his bayonet and he We put a little wooden cross over down we could hear an awful splash "I couldn't see it his way at all, and the "profound gratitude of the State directors throughout the state. went down. Something sprang past his grave which read: ing. Sailor Bill yelled down. "Look' went right back at him with: 'Yes, and me like a wildcat and closed with the of Minnesota for the supreme sacrifice out below stand from under: bucket if it wasn't for us volunteering, the Fritz. They both went down together. PRIVATE JIM, for country and mankind" of all coming!" With that he loosed the bloody German flag would now be flying BOYS AND GIRLS Just then another German MACHINE-GUN COMPANY Minnesota officers and enlisted men over Buckingham palace and King windlass. In a few seconds a spluttering caine at me from the entrance of a MAKE LARGE. PROFir KILLED IN ACTION who died in the service of their country voice from the depths yelled to George would be in the Tower of London.' dugout and I was busy. I managed to APRIL 10, 1916. will be sent by Governor Burnquist us, "Haul away!" get him. Then our lieutenant and two A DOG WITH A MAN'S HEART. "He thought a minute or two and to the next of kin of the men Less than 19,000 boys and girls in It was hard work hauling him up. men came round and gave the order answered: 'Well,what of it one flag's to get back to our trenches. The who thus merit distinction. We had raised him about ten feet from Minnesota's boys' and girls' clubs Although the section has lost lots as good as another, and as for the the water, when the handle of the lieutenant stumbled over the three The memorials will be about 10x15 during the season of -1918, grew or of men, Jim is never forgotten. bloomin' king what did he ever do for windlass got loose from our grip, and bodies in front of us. One of them in size, personally signed by the Governor manufactured $441,990.69 worth of you but make you pay taxes so he d(*vvn went the bucket and Happy. A groaned. It was Watkins all right. and sure to be an ornament as products at a net profit to the club could bloomin' well sit around doing Unarmed he had sprang at the Gorman loud splash came to us, and, grabbing well as a treasure in every home into members of $193,112.70. The actual nothln'?' and with his bare hands had choked the handle again, we worked like The Conscientious which it is sent. totals were probably very much "This was too much for me, that him to death, but he had a nasty jagged Trojans. A volley of curses came bayonet wound in his right side. The organization of the State Public greater than this as reports from blinkin' jellyfish a slinging mud at our from that well which would have Objector or, Coming king, so I lost my temper, and taking We managed to get him back to our Safety Commission is being used shocked Old Nick himself. nearly 10,000 boys and girls are yet my glass of vin rouge In my hand trenches, but he died on the firestep. Fiure in the work of securing the full to be received. The figures come When we got Happy safely out, he Through Under Before cashing in he looked up at the I leaned over close to him and said: was a sight worth seeing. He did not names of the men as well as the from T. A. Erickson, state leader of lieutenant and with a grin on his When you mentions the king's name names and postoffice addresses of boys' and girls' -club work. face said: 'Tell the bloomin' king and even notice us.' Never said a word, it. is customary to drink his health. 9r .•**0i£-' just filled his water bottle from the Perhaps he never did anything special the Top Hats at 'ome that I died for Sergeant Arthur Guy water in the bucket, and went back England, and I hope that like old for me, but I have never done to the billet. We followed, my mess anything special for him, and even Empey Smith, my nippers will be proud of tin was still sending S. O. S. at that I've done a damned sight more WHEN IN MINNEAPOLIS STOP AT HOTEL LINCOLN their father. God save the king,' Author of "Over the Top," Happy, though dripping wet, silently than you have for him, so take this and then he died. "First Call," Etc. fixed up the milk for the dog. In wine and drink his health, or I'll "We buried him next morning. No, appetite the canine was a close second dent thatnapper of yours so you won't my opinion of conscientious objectors o-o-o. to Hungry Foxcroft. After lapping be able to weiar that tin hat of yours.' and pacifists has not changed. They all he could hold, our mascot "He got kind of pale and answered: are either cowards or pro-Germans. Mr. Empey's Experiences closed his eyes and his tail ceased •Drink to the king's health not likely. "You see Watkins wasn't either he During His Seventeen wagging. Sailor Bill took a dry flannel It's through him and his bloody a was a soldier of the king, and ——N1COLET AVENUE AND NINTH STREET shirt from his pack, wrapped the Months intheFirst Top Hats in parliament that I'm out damned good one, too." dog in it and informed us: here. Why in the blinking hell don't Line Trenches of the THE END. "Me and my mate are going below, he do his own fighting and let us poor British Army in France so the rest of you lubbers batten down blokes alone?' OPENS SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1918 and turn in." *1 saw red and was just goin' to hit Clemenceau, Playwright. We all wanted the honor of sleeping him, when a big Irishman out of the (Copyright, 1917, by The MeCloi* Newspaper Like many another Parisian of politics, with the dog, but did, not dispute Sailor StwUote) Royal Irish Rifles next to me grabs In die center of the business and theatrical districts adjoining Monsieur Clemenceau Is interested Bill's right to the privilege. By the glass of wine from my hand, and "What do I think of a blinkin' conscientious in the finer things of" theatt' the largest retail store. One square from street cars to and I this time the bunch were pretty sleepy looking the blighter in the face yells objector?" answered Ikey and, like Waldeck-Rousseaii before and tired, and turned in without much at him: from all depots yet free from noise of that traffic. Entrance Honney from the corner of the firebay. him, assiduously frequents it e?eii coaxing, as it was pretty near daybreak. "Well, if the king ain't done nothing "Well, what with this bloomin' war on though he happens to be prime minister and lobby on Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis' leading thoroughfare. jR \~v ~v. t". for you English, he's done less and blokes goin' west by the thousands, of France. In his years of leisure Next day we figured out that perhaps tor us Irish, but I volunteered to come a pacifist or conscientious objector ^25 Rooms 100 with bath and toilet he has dabbled also in th writing one of the French kiddies liad but here for him, and here I am, and is one of two things, he's either a of plays and two of his pi- --v "Les $1.00 to $2.00 per day put the dog in the grain bin, and, in glad of it too, and hopes some day blinkin* coward or a bloody pro-Ger^ Requins" and "Le Voile du the excitement of packing up and^ leaving, to get into Berlin with the king's man. But it's funny the way some o' have found place on the st Furniture and equipment entirely new. All rooms have outside I had forgotten he was there. forces. You won't drink his.health them blighters, with their. West End ton Transcript. Sailor Bilf was given the right to well you can bathe his health.' With r*2 exposure, electric elevator and local and long distance phones. ideas back in Blighty, changes their "v "'A that he threw the wine into the blighter's christen our new mate. He called him Held at a Distance minds when they gets out here in the Jim. In a couple of days Jim came face and smashed him in the nose Guests will receive the personal attention of 'J? mud, and gets their first glimpse of a the ex-crovr "'Father/' said prince, around all right, and got very frisky. with his fist. The fellow went over "why you the title wooden cross. It's either a firin' do keep the owners who will be there to wait on,them iYO like a log with the Irishman still Every man in the section loved that of compromise. feel squad up against a wall, a bloomin' "As. a soct agoin' for him.' If we hadn't of dog^SL few people are going to like V. C. (Victoria Cross) or a 'rest in that very I F. S. GREGORY pulled him off I think he would have Sailor Bill was court-martialed for me well enough to want to. call me peace' sign over their nappers for killed that conscientious objector. The his mixup with the quartermasteivsergeant, m.v first name."—Boston Evening them. A strange thing it is, but true by military, police, cams, iiLJtQ. see. what 1 and, got seven day? field, pun­ Transcript. those, blokes never go through, the