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Irer the Top" Hta American Soldier Who Went HHUR GUY EMPEY He Gunner Ssrolng In France I SYNOPSIS. L I?Fired by the news of t] he Lusltanla by a Germt Arthur Guy Empey, an Amei his office In Jersey City at land where he enlists in tl . II?After a period of trail volunteers for immediate ser i finds himself in rest bllle In France," where he flr cqualnt&nce of the ever-pre III?Empey attendB his flr :es at the front while a Ge circles over the congregatlo IV?Empey's command go< it-line trenches and is und< Srst time. . __ "V-^Jmpey learns to ado] the Brtlsh Tommy, 'If yc get it, you'll get it, so nev< I "VT?Back In rest DUieia, jsn first experience aa a met JiAi" ":JP?y learns how tl UJ*8 IecL... VIII?Back In tne iium-u* y sees his first friend of tt West." IX?Empey makes hla fin rout In "Suicide Ditch." ?*-..i1earns wnat coi ly's work" la the front-Ui XI?Empey goes -over u. Irst time In a charge on tr :hes and la wounded by L. XII?Empey Joins the "su the bombing squad la callc XIII?Each Tommy gets a XIV?Empey helps dig a ch under German fir*. XV?On "listening post" I id, ' battery was stationed hnd hppn due', whfr |?knamed 'Suicide ditch me, Yank, this was tb Ide ditch.' All the other s. fellow went into the an even gamble that h ut on a stretcher. At on h battalion held it, an ard the betting was eve l they'd come out o ey grabbed all the bel b a lot of bally idiots, sei attery men fell for thel pt up real money. Th id a lot of casualties, an I looked bright for th I to collect some eas pen the battalion was r< pblers lined up. Severs lelr money for emergin he ones who clicked 1 I to pay. The artillerj jer thought it out tha IScotties were bound t nr? mnttpr hnw th Io take a tip from m< a Scottie, 'cause you'i t of our trench whef Ion trench joined th 'ommy had stuck up st with three hands o ne of the hands, polnl nan lines, read, To Bei pointing down the con inch read, To Blighty er said, 'Suicide Dltcl or Stretchers.' rn from this guide poe through an old orcharc p this orchard our bal ructed an advanced ob I The trees screened 1 Iy airmen and the roo wasn't cushy like oure ncrete re-enforcements sandbags. From It i j of the German line tied. This post wasn' It was a hot cornei all around, and th leaves off the tree? |?hen relieving the slg lone, I had to crawl 01 k worm to keep fror Observation post sur I all the use It was. Jus L but never a messag Ittery to open up. Yoi lint of the line ther Irs not tn flrft ? shpll I ordered to do eo fron irters. Blime me, t d that command, ou: was Old Peppeiv t-martlaled the wholi :ce. Nobody went ou* disobey Old Pepper li ause he couldn't b< ; he was more like i ' time the devil shoulc [gh for a proper mate ild get the first call nans wasn't half bac n Interview with that Mi i amemcan sqlher TO WENT * HUiGUYMY HINET fiflNNfl) JfRYINCWmNTF? a* I "If a company or battalion shoal give way a few'yards against a st perlor force of Bochee, Old Peppe would send for the commanding off cer. In about half an hour the office would come back with his face th color of a brick, and In a few hour ?a. ? ? l?ji a# vu aammanii tttatiii Wilttl WHO 1CJ.V U1 U1D wimiwuu nvu*be holding their original position. "I have seen an officer who wouldn' gay d n for a* thousand quid spen< J five minutes with the old hoy, an - when he returned the, flow of Inngnag from his lips would 'make a naw blush for shame. JjJ "What I am going to tell you Is hoi i- two of us put It over cmthe old scami id A. 11. Tl ? _ 3e turn KUI aw a j wiui iu II who a nu thing, too, because Old/ Pepper wouldn a- have been exactly m^ld with us If h ta bad got next to the game. at "Me and my mate, m lad named Hai ry Casseil, a bombertjller in D 288 bal st I tery, or lance corpo&l, as you call 1 ? In the Infantry, used to relieve th ^ telephonists. Welwotild do two hour ?t on and four off. I wjould be on dut In the advanced observation potr _ while he would fbe at ithe other end c i- the wire In tbe4>attezy dugout signal w lng station. We'were supposed to sen le through orders for tha battery to flr when ordered to do so |by the observt le tlon officer In the advanced post. Be very few messages wer^e sent. It wa st only in case of an actual attack tha j. we would get 'a chance to earn ou m two and six' a-day. You (see. Old Pep ~ per had issued orders I not to fire ex 16 cept when the orders game from hlir a And with Old Pepper ordtaft is order! j. and made tSLObey. 1 "The Germans must have knowi ? about these orders,'forjteven in the da; a their transports apad troops used t expose themselves as $f they were 01 111 parade. This sure gc|t up our nose sitting there day after' day, with flu a targets in front tot us but unable t h send over a shell. Werbeartily cusses i,' Old Pepper, bis orders, the govern e ment, the peopley?at bomcv, and ever] s thing in general. But the Boche didn't mind cusrfqg. jand gotWery care it less. Bllme me, they were bally in e suiting. Used to,wheni using a certali e road, throw theiijr caps Into the air a d a taunt at our nelpleoviese. Q "Cassell bad been a telegrapher 1 Q civil life and jcfned up when war wa declared. As for me, |l knew Morse learned It at thefetenalorsf school bad j* In 1910. With an ofaper^ln the obsei vatlon post, we' could not* carry on th . kind of conrertpatlon (thetfa usual b? e tween two mattes, so We used th Morse code. T)b send, <me\of us wouli l_ tap the trans^oltter ycAth his flnge nails, and the- one on\ithe\other em 1 would get It through the receive! * Many an hourhras whlied aveaV In thl manner pasalAg tCompUlnente back an ~t forth. 0 "In the observation tpostJ the office used to sit for 'hours ^rlthfa powerft " rvA?. -* vn. 4 fail VI uotu ISUHKI IU 1UB ejro '{ Through a cleverly conceal m! loophol he would scan the ground behind th German trench ea, 'looking (for target e and finding many. This cjfflcer, Cai e tain A h17 name, had a habit a talking out land to himself. Som< r times he wotald vent his opinion, sam -* as a common private* does when he' > wrought up. Once opon a" time th captain had toeen otf Old Peptf er's staf ' so he could eusa andj blind in .the mot ' approved Style. (k>t to be sort of habit with him. ic "About six thon^wd yards fcrom ui ' behind the German lines, w*b( a roa " | in plain vlqw of oar^post, ,For|the laa h three days Frits had brotfght tfomps * nles of troops down, this ros^l in broa f 'daylight. They *aere never milei ' 'Whenever this happened -tbte cajfcal ' would froth atfthey mouth an|rf let on a a volume of QUi Pepper's fcellgioi 8 which used to in wee me love i$m. * "Every battery'has a range chart o: ' which distinctive^ landmarks aire \notet e with the range f/jr each. Thifese' lane ' marks are called- targets, and i\re<nun bered. On owr battery's cha&l. tha 11 road was callMl Target 17, Bang tt 6000, 3 degrees 8>j) minutes left" D 28 battery consisted d of four '4.5* howl! e zers, an? fired a 85-pound H. IE. she! t As you know, JJ. E. means TOgh ej s plosive.' I doev't like bumming'up m 1 own battery, bjat we had a record 1 a the division fj>r direct hits, and on 1? boys were jW it pining away for * chance to exj dblt their skill Sn th rjco vi rnu. r "On the aftj ;rnoon of the fourth da ~ of Fritz' contf mptuous use of th |e roa a mentioned tlw > captain and I w fere a our posts as- usual. Fritz was s|traf? 1 Ing us prettjrf rough, Just like he's doln i now. The f hells were playing leai frog all throi jgh that orchard. 1 "I was est rrylng on a conven mtlo in our 'tap* code with Cassell a| th other end. i It ran something like this 1 "'Say, Ca ssell, how would yovl Ilk - to be In tlx i saloon bar of the Buntf - 1 Arms down Rye lane with a bottle oil ft Bass In front of you, and that blonde! i barmaid waiting to fill 'em up again? J I "Cassell had a fancy for that par ) f ticular blonde. The answer came back j in the shape <jf a volley of cusses. J changed the subject. "After a while our talk veered I round to the way the Boches had been exposing themselves on the road down on the chart as Target 17. What he said about those Boches would never have passed the relchstag, though I believe It would have gone through our censor easily enough. ? "The bursting shells were making such a din that I packed up talking and took to watching the captain. He was fidgeting around on an old sandbag with the glass to his eye. Occasionally he would let out a grunt, and , make some remark I couldn't hear on account of the noise, hut I guessed what It was all right. Fritz was getj ting fresh again on that road. "Cassell had been sending In the 'tap r code* to me, but I was fed up and I. didn't bother with It Then h > sent r ,0. S., and I was all attention, for this e was a call used between us which a meant that something important was j on. I was all ears In an Instant Then Cassell turned loose. t M Ton blankety blank dud, I have j been trying to raise you for fifteen minutes. What's the matter, are you asleep?' (Just as If anyone could ? have slept In that Infernal racket!) "Never mind framing a nasty answer. y Just listen.' "Are yon game for putting some- ' v thing over on the Boches and Old Pep*' per all In one?* ^ *T answered that I was game enough e when It came to putting It over the Boches, but confessed thaf I had a ^ weakening of the spine, even at the mention of Old Pepper's name. "He came back with, It's so absurd* ^ ly easy and simple l?iat there Is no e chance of the old heathen rumbling It. Anyway, If we're caught, Til take the y blame.' tt "Under these condition I told him to ' ,f spit out his scheme. It was so daring I [. and simple that it took my breath a away. This is what he proposed: e "If the Boches should use that road l- again, to send by the tap system the ,t target and range. I hed previously 9 told him about our captain talking out | t loud as If he were sending through j r orders. Well, if this happened, I was j h to send the dope to Cassell and he | would transmit It to the battery com- ! l mander as officially coming through j, the observation post. Then the bat tery would open up. Afterwards, dura Ing the Investigation, Cassell would y, swear he received it direct. They ; ^ would have to relieve him, because it a was impossible from his post in the ! ,f battery dugout to know that the road ] g was being nsed at that time by the | a[ Germans. And also It was Impossible i ji for him to give the target, range and (J degrees. You know a battery chart is P.! not passed around among the men like FfAm him g, a ucYvopaj/ci i&uui j. av?m ?? y the Investigation would go to the obl.' servatlon post, and the observing offlAi cer could truthfully swear that I had g! not sent the message by 'phone, and that no orders to fire had been issued a by him. The investigators would then ; s be up in the air, we would be safe, the | f>. Boches would receive a good bashing, : f and we would get our own back on Old > Pepper. It was too good to be true. ? I gleefully fell in with the scheme, and told Cassell. I was his meat, a "Then I waited with beating heart i and watched the captain like a howk. r "He was beginning to fidget again j and was drumming on the sandbags ... with his feet At last, turning to me,, s he said: A M "Wilson, this army is a *blanfcety I I hlnnk "wnahnTit- What's the use of liav- ! r ing artillery if it is not allowed to fire? j il The government at home ought to be j j. hanged with some of their red tape, j e It's through them that we have no ; e shells.' 8 "I answered, 'Yes, sir,' and started y sending this opinion over the wire to ? Cafisell, but the captain Interrupted y me with: e '"Keep those'infernal fingers etill. 8 What'p the matter, getting the nerves? e When' I'm talking to you, pay atten-1 f, UflCL' I rt (TO BE CONTINUED.) a, ================= ! STOCKHOLDERS MEETING. d it Notice is hereby given that a l" meeting of the stockholdersof AbbeI ville Savings and Investment Comn pany is called to meet in the office it of the National Bank of Abbeville,! tt at Abbeville. South Carolina, at: 5:30 P. M., on April 19th, A. D. j ^ 1918, for the purpose of consider-j [. ing a resolution that the corporation l- go into liquidation and wind up its ? affairs and dissolve in accordance | with Sections 2812 and 2813 of i Volume I of the Civil Code of 1. South Carolina. The Stockholders are urged to j y n be present at the said meeting, orj T to be presented at the said meeting " by proxy. F. E. HARRISON, President. a it * u STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA e ^ County of Abbeville. Probate Court. n ? 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Ha( this Nation maintained peace at th< price of obedience to the Germai war zone decree, this European mar ket would have been closed and this billion dollars worth of agricultura products would, most of them, hav< rotted on farms and in warehouses or been used in unprofitable ways with consequent stagnation and ruir to the American farmers. I Interest as well as duty urge! the American farmer to give finan cial support to his Government ir this war. Buy Liberty Bonds. NOTICE OF CITY ELECTION. The regular City Election for th? City of Abbeville, will be held at the Council Chambers, Abbeville, South Carolina, on the '9th day oi April 1918, from 8 A. M. until 4 F M. for the election of Six Aldermen, a Mayor and three Commissioners of Public Works for the City of Abbeville. Managers of Election?J. L. Clark, F. W. R. Nance, T. C. Seal. C. C. GAMBRELL, T. G. PERRIN, Mayor. City Clerk. 3-12-4t. DEMOCRATIC- CLUBS MEET. The members of the various rinKc n-f AKKovilla [ i/cjnuci atic VIUUJ VJ. I County are called to meet at their ! respective places of meeting, on | the 4th Saturday of April, 1918, at j four o'cloc in the afternoon, for | the purpose of reorganizing and of [ electing delegates to the County j Convention. The members of all clubs are urged to attend this meeting and take an interest in the se ??R lDY I tion I utfit for tearing 1 lg storage bat- 1 one to Atlanta j i i r iy k and in arew ;|f attend to your I pi / * u '5 i, lection of delegates, to the Convention to the end that delegates - representing the views of the , vari' \ t ous clubs may be in attendance on - the County Convention. s M. J. ASHLEY, 4-9-3t. County Chairman. AT FORT SILL. ? Lieut. Roddy Devlin has been sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for two months special training and he j writes as follows to the Associate s Reformed Presbyterian: "The schools run continuously. They teach everything from flying > to trench digging. The aviation j school is about a mile from us and we can see 8 or 10 ships flying at any time of the day. They are as common as birds and look like huge hawks. Uncle Sam is doing things on a large scale out here. Camp Coniphan I is ViA-oa a V A damn lilro Damn lo 1iv<x V/j u i li vuiu|/ tiav Jackson, so there are thousands of i soldiers here. I don't know how many officers attend the schools, as I arrived only yesterday. This is a wonderful country. Thousands of oil wells and millions i of cattle, not to mention the pic; turesque blanketed Indians riding , about in their six or eight cylinder : cars. Many of them own oil lands ? which they lease to oil companies for . fabulous sums, and some of them . are millionaires." i J. R..Devlin. Inf. School of Arms, M. G. Section, Fort Sill, Okla. STAND BY OUR FIGHTING MEN. 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