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BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE TWO tiOSBwho h ■tp traveled hythc,tgne« when the end has come. Nations have , pf 1 the seas during the last two years listed with bated breath while witnesses have gt>oe near thft-end of the ' have testified to the crawl of the - waters that meana$&~approa6b of J the topedb. International crises J have hung upon what men said' they saw of a track in the y trackless deep. earth where / chaos reigns, have watched with unrelaxed jvigilance for a stealthy rippling of the sur face made by- that mole of the sea; the torpedo, as itjbores it* American Who Fought in France Describes Ghastly Incident: 1 of the War. Youth With Water Gun Garners House Seems to Have Lost Its Respect for Senate Gold and Jewels From Fright -mfrVr.TTtN.- Who ri'uieiuTiors the .lime when (in* Imium;of represL'iiEa.- tivcs treated‘the senate with -respect? In those days; it whs courtesy nev^r to mention .flu*'senate h,v nmnp in lmni:i» didmtoo—When necessary they ust-d Ihe .yttatie term, Another bwiy." ami sometimes went .is far ns making a wavcljkf* motion to the Tforth, indi- direction in which “the Greatrahipl hare afiitfiiJ Her* M*at r~ptmt6 ’gflBg travail of the placid oceap > in the wake of one of • • 1 t these' messengers' of EL death, so that he who sails may reoogssLze hanrdwriting Thirteen Year-Old:- Desperado D <>* thw-feapeju-il r Thriving Business Until Callous he should chance | Hand of the Law Cuts to - read it. < Short His Career-"— the eyes of their lookouts in relentless vigilance and have TIRES OFTENDING BABY racked their Very -vtf ala tfA/J? YOU /VO mHci_ attempts to dodge tho de structive creature at the point of the wake. Men Former Harvard Student Who Enllirt- ad in Canadian Regiment and Lost— an Eye in Service Tells of cptuifc tut* could ho found :o the Englisl the serpent* thru it it Mandalay all - that is ago and far aotnirtty rips right out in Cambridge, Mass.—A vivid uur dla-ry by Aimer Auzla* do Turenne, a stu dent at -the Harvard Law SejifWj Jiving In Seattle, who lost his right eye fighting with the Find Canadian contingent at Ypres, is pt^gtahed iu the Harvard Alumni Hulletln^xtracts of which follow: "I had completed my first year at the law school of Harvard university,” Bays de Turenne. “ami was. spending my holidays in Canada when the war broke out, and. I. an American, decided to enlist. * - • v “It was on September *1, 11*14, at Valcartler, near Quebec, pne of the training camps of Canada, that I en listed lu the Fifth battery. Second brigade, Canadian Fhdd ArtIHery. Af-_ ter remaining a short time.In camp we left Canada for England, a force of New York.—Tlio CaHons hand of the law, which wots not of those glorious days.'when highwaymen strode abroad md garnered gold nnd jewels from fat TTfSentatIVe Fitzgerald only- tt few days ago. T log a rumpus because the seriate.had done..so ’•$< hlatfve.Fitzgerald pleaded the excuse,, that tie s:u h aeti+fii ami was asking the house for help v That's a good excuse,”retorted Represent; needs the help 1.1T the - gentleman troth New* ■summarily is society. he it known to -those miriils*' know only ma ud addresses, is Frank es .at :t 1-East Seventy- id who is thirteen re- ■..«.* -v ■— " *orati; years, old. In aid a half after he had doff the drab garb of md dish \\hshing' and American People Treat the White House Roughly 1 grand and giortrA use was brohlr-ht-Tu aijms sutrrmTinntlce o-f- pul licTuildings rod'-.before the snhe Canadian contingent, nnd thence we went to France to the firing line. * It was not until the first German gas at tack that we got a peal Idea of war fare in till’its horrors.” ' After a short account of the battle of Neuve Chappelle and the first use of gas hy the Gormans, PejTurenne deaerfbes/the battle of Ypres: . Pefcrlbla Jatafxl Battle, ^AKeaTl of us lay a long field, ami then a row of tall frees bordering the Yxer canal, then further on another plain and a little hill. At my point of vantage I picked up a pair iof field' glasses . and, looking along the ¥*er canal,T could see black lines moving up a hill. The Infantry was charging. Occasionally the black lines would stop, and then continue again. leaving ev ery time black dots behind them— these were the dead and wounded. At night time It was als/> possible, to see onr own shed* explode. “One morning about 10:80 The-gun- ners were all sitting J>y their guns Seti Forth nnd - rid urm^hing of tin* executive, mansion.” He made spell a showing of public dcsnTratinn of rhe Whim House—trnin- tetTTional hut he\ <T< heh -i ' de^tVUCTtV.■* —thai the oonmiittjce did not' hesitate to grant \v|V8t he asked. Members o Armed frith a water nm. :v fill! of nails, a red bandanna .icrdiief Twisted, about ids neck iw dd 11 i gh w a yiuen -nnd •‘Head Eye” set forth • f tfi»* subcommittee sat- dr ■ftttHrC. , whcn Colon»d Vfarts ‘ ~ "/"b roitStfiTy the''"White House i« treated hv the one trying Jo kill the other.. They were both dancing around in circles like demons, thrusting and stabbing right and left, tine hml tti_.giL r _nxul. they fougltL-^.hr was practically dark ■by this time. The pale moon shone a sickly red potion on these two. human beings. Their feaftm tmd haggard; their .eye; 'bulged out pression on That of utmost (: danced, each fig] when all. of a sudden thisru Horujanc i Mrs. Maiming answered an innocent flu* fumitur knock at the door t-o face the* diminn- tive terror, who, hnd jhe w;itor gup pointed at her and who -leered briskly from iiehind the black mask. “Hands up nnd beware!'"* whispered “Dead Eye.” and Mrs. scream, backed into a t limuidt thr-j-Wiut-e I the main lloor.of :mt been,able, with lanv, of 'the furhisli- s were drawn s tlaslued and <if their orbtjs. the ex- [heir faces was ghastly-— And still they passive “Dead Eye” added, “or you get his existence, killed." lc.'mny per- With tremhling-han4; while tke light e came to an abrupt" stop, from the‘flashlight flared in her eves. its a fcharp cliek, a thrust aryl Mrs. Manning handed over to *T>ead i mufiled .sound. Both bayonets went Eye” $100 jn cash, a gold watch, two goltl bracelets, a diamond rirjg and a. gnttT'TTiTfrfn n cTiTT FT ye”"' seT iTfi' das - tonished at this lavish rain of wealth and. as.he. stuflTul-th^dast -of. the-booty intv> a frayed t*roUs(>rs packet with a grimy-hand, he said: ").0(ki annually :i live not bretirTi he White Ffous Flemish farm wagon drawn hy _tne Ntradrrwuf n otic ( e decent horse. I Hir ing nil that time I wns fully conscious, and Indistinctly retneml^r • my trip awaiting the order from the plane Of-the wound lng. others chatting. Shells were fly ing by, hut; far oft, and nobody was paying attention, we got so used to them. I happened to be fixing the bridle of my horse, about 20 feet’ from tho nearest gun, when I heard-a-shed come. It seemed to come straight for where I was, Judging by the sound;_I turned around to see it'explode. It ex ploded above my head at about the height of.3Q or 40 feet.' I f»aw the ex plosion. A large piece of the outside imd-ret-ouehiin*-idl the iiunV.iuurdcr Ghastly Bayonet Duel about every four years 11 number of extraordinary repairs. .. nil *of these it on is with one .of the members of tin;.-, .jiito mytliing or anytiring' * White House—Miul w Mr. de^Turenne dpscribcs—tbe fob lowing lnclderrt, of whiclr lie frns an family to see wheTher they luid in addition. Tin* fdtb+fe-ta-kes- kept in good conditioir." .ReproSeiitUtivo (Jillett of M eye w-ftness -RECOGNIZES SON IN ' NAVAL MOVIE PICTURE “It was in the enrlyTimes of this terrific struggle... Somewhere In ^Flnn- ders the trenches stood only‘200 yards apart.* On one side were 'the French, .Charieston. W. Va.—When.R .wider glut st-id' point«*d- mermVitvrly rit' Mrs. Manning. “Dead Eye" scurried to the street. Hand of Law Descends. A casual workman passed on his way home, and “Dead Eye’-’ flashed the light 4n hit? face. The workman yelled and departed ’hurriedly. This cerpented **tiead*^Eyb’s”' dJdernilnatibri thaf the on - the other the Germans. The Gor mans hud attempted a coutiter-atlack r>. Washington, a hotel-man -bore. Went into a movltfg |»lc- "ture. theatbru he learned the whereabouts of-his twenty-year- old son Lawrence, who disap- peared from hbrhbme TwifFycars ago.' ’ ■ yriie fil1.11 showed a. picturo of drea'dnnught Pennsylvania in taiget"pniPlH't*'Th irfiTTTanip- ton Itoads -proving grounds, with Lawrence Washington manning one of the guns. The father recognized 'his son /in stantly. - J" The. picture showed hontlfs be- The greatest dlfllcuitfes arose from Five -Spies -Found -tc Be Residing in New British Armies Perfectly Or ' : —--'In-rrtu l8.<;k of officers to Lrain tlii ganized and Fitted Out for 1 Business of War. On the eve of starting an order came to fhe’ expeditionary force from the war 'office that every battalion should leave behind one captain and one sub-, altcrn to assist in training. That helped greatly. Some two hundred of the Indian army, home on leave,- were OINiTM^NT-JS±rh the diKcm cr.r rrf'2 V^ pest of spies w as .Unearthed. The men. Four of them have been In-;the' Sf'iTt'ted .Germans Itp Washjngt<m. a 'spies include three women and two epiploy of tho United States govern ment for many years. Two-are eni-. ployed in the hRrenu of pneraving arol lng conforrcil op the voupg man rptnlTiPd -^r ARqUfflm otherTn th railway mail service who nuide three hits without- officers ("dugouts”), were appuJnted in lnrge numbers; pjnny civilians over the age of twenty-five received their first commissions ns lfeutennnts or capttrins. The wisdom of providing n method of rapidly expanding the commissioned ranks by means of the Officers’ Train ing corps became apparent.^ Within the first year-of the war Oxford univer sity O. T. C. provided more than 2,500 officers for the .Array; Cambridge t’nl-' versit^ fR T. C.. more*than 2,000-; three northern universities more Mian 1,000, nnd Inns of* Court O. T. C. more than In tin* event,The foregoing has oc casioned any alarm in those times of stress, it might be proper td state that there are three Shocks, when-,lids one came from; andjhal the Germans were discovered on page 503 of the 11*17 city directory, just our. while tho Spies Standard Set by Gallant Force Which Went Out t<T Mona Closely Fol lowed in Training Thou sands of Recruits. miss, as a resa'Jt'of which he was promoted from”" ordinary seaman r to cTiief gun pointer,’ \vlth an incret^ie of $8 In his monthly stlpem|. " * *. . The/yourli Is a direct descen dant of George Washington’s brother Charles* for whom Chhrlestown, W. Va.,. was London.—Great Hritiijn’s new armies are now so perfectly -Organized and fit ted out that one tuav be likely to hike, sight of tlu» greatness of. their creation and the unexampled difficulties that had to be surmounted. There was a sorry tatterdemalion stnge. due to shortage of boots, uniforms and so 'E-MLfc ■«arrVJ ►. were found on page 1134. - \ v- . Tho same volume is likewise re sponsible for Jhe information that Washington is not. dn-stich t) vcr>Mbad way when it comes to |lr.eparedness for eventualities. For Instance, the capital and one Sword. Already Wash- nanuM has seven Forts, sixty Tannons, ntne Gunns, ington has one Victor^ to* its credit. . . RING TEARS OFF HtS FINGER With two.Harbours to guard, the capital has three- Mfnes-frr dp'tlrF^ork. and whereas there are three Shipps,' there are likewise two Convoyes.^——- Preparedness advocates voied'gratification over the fact that there is only one Slacker to be-foTifid here. , Opponent's oT prohibition professed to find consolntion in the volume, showing as it does that the-population of Washington is temperate, and'also forth The tiny army that went out to Mons in August, MM4; wns nrobnblv tbp.bpst- tralned body of troops in Europe for Its size. Its high standard "was that which those training the new armies had before - first 17 months of.the war was the difficult period. Nearly all the efficient InstruC; tors had gone abroad with the men, who added nnother laurel to England's .military record in the .great rbtrent from Mons. 1 At the^ outbreak of war the accom modation available for Single^ men In barracks in the Tfrltish* isles was hard ly 175,000 - units. Hosts of recruits .. poured in. It wus difficutt-to get tim- l>er, labor, Inspectors;do all the cnmbs New.Army Off After Nine' Months. Only nhie months after embodiment the first new army was sent to the front, closely followed by the* second and third Catches in Nail as Wyoming- *■ Leaps From Hayrick to - * t the Ground. ^ , Jndlcal.iftrti that with* Even some divisions of the emvcted intir tew thwdb’StTtct Wf,A . ■ u- .‘T..K -f Howard, while jumping from a hay rick to the ground the other after- 1 noon, had tho misfortune to lose a linger. \ Mr. Johnson’s ring, becarne caught In a nail when he Jumped, and the lin ger was torn completely off at the fir* 'frt^Tm'Tb'WTnrW will not be ^htlrelv without hope for liquid, refreshment, Forty-two Karrs are to be found in the District/ The stock of refresh ments, invehtoried in,, the directory includes eight varieties Booze, five front barely a year after they had bebn...raised. And none of. them..gave a bad account of themselves. The secret of the great triumph over difficulties lies..chiefly In the magnifl- cent spirit of all ranks. If any special rank Is to be picked out. It Is undoubt edly true thnt the backbone of these new annles .was the junior subalterns, TMTosfTy tin Trained, or half trained^ they came to learn, their 7 work with their men. and had ne-^wlse shame In telling thdm so—without any prejudice oL disclpline. Not* content with the exacfThgjahors of the parade ground, they sat u]tT}te- preparing their work for the ne^t day^.studyLn» military textbooks, practicing problems of “Hands Up and Beware!’' •-• bold add free life was indeed the ca reer for a Than of sporting instincts. So he >yandered down the street to Seventy-fifth street and First avenue, j there are two Sobers here and one D[lnkwater, as compared with one Spfee where UlTFoui>• of boys were playing, one Tipple, three Pickles, one Jagger and one Lush. Hitching his mask over his face, he _... ——^—— -— Joint. He was at once brought to Town To have the finger attended ro, and'a ph.\ sleiun umpfirami the mem 7 her at the second. Joint. ..... 42 —l,L».Lk now doing uS-frjl n< expected. Mr. Johnson is staying’ et the honie of his brother, Clarence Johnson, in this city, while he is un der the doctor’s care. \_l_j President’s Cobbler Finds Wilson Got New Shoes ing with his water gun he hacked The terrified young'sters against a wall and Ml BUESS President Wilson is wearing new shoes this time,” said Frank * I Sunnier of ,1726 Peuftsydv-Hnia avenue, who has repaired shoes for six presidents, "His shoes haven't come hi lately, although there has been plenty of White House work.” Sum- drechas the. distinction of being the fifsrWashington man to work for the presidenV^FOur years ago vvlien Mr. Wilson arrii^^liFthis city to take the oath of office as president, Surnuer re~ paired his shoes. - _ - ’ Mr. Wilson’s'shoes went over to T?2G Pennsylvania avenue to have heels put on them. The president elect waited before taking the' oath of office, while Sumner did a -nisl» job. It was the first \^hfte House work sent out to be done .under* tbo Wilson regime, and marked another milepost tn Sumoer’S business with presidents. ; v ' " y ,^., *- Grover Cleveland was the first-president that Sumner worked for in re pairing shoes. William McKinley dike other mortals,. had his shoes half* water and gas or electric light had io. be laid; old roads were, repaired, new ones made, nnd special lines of railroad laid to all the largest camps. Civilian Clothing Used. In the clothing dilemma, while the dozen-makers* of khnkL-cloth were be«, ibg expanded to two hundred, civilian overcoats were bought up and served out to soldiers. * When war started fhe country-had fewer than 800,000 rifleS^of which only' the a uthorlLfd" 1 cseity nT TTMkx) re mained after the original force, mobi lized on August 4, hud beert armed And at that time the ^veekl.T-output of rifles Injthe United Kingdom was .un der two thousand. Of gun* there were at the outbreak of war only enough for eight divisions, with the authorised rs- •wye for wmstsgt. HE MUJTVE BOflCdT A: 0E*V PAIR— Nearly 1,000 in Family. strategy and t a dies at mess Hiawatha, Kan.—*-The biggest family In this county has almost 1,000 ebem- bexs. It IS gt Reserve,, nine miles any Junior subitTtdrn talked anything but “shop." They put' posers to the majors and the roTafU‘Ts7'whl( : h these north of hcrer n* wUllngly. tackled fact, ajl.keen nnd on their mettle, and iu["<*n tn?whoie They had been well chosen for brain power and aptitude . _■ * They Both Blushed. Milwaukee.—Esther Wright' blushial. So did die judge. And Esther’s pretty rounded shouldefh turned pink ‘ as she^ bared them in open court. She wantkl to show where Oscar Teweles, deaf families who are not related to each ;ptber by ties of blood or marriage. Of these. ten families nearly all are strangers who have moved Into th< •oled and heeled, and Sumner got the j >bs. ——President Taft’s big b^ocb ware r.’i»aired by Sumner community In recent years. mate, had made her In the sign language.