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\ BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA hn<l trouble In recomtnending It to® the four generations of transients who have abided here and gone. Hut ull the soldiers do not fare so. We are lucky! A relative of a soldier “billeted out” w;ns looking fdr tyim recently. The headquarters of the company were in BURIAL PUCE OF OUR FIRST SOLDIERS KILLED IN FRANCE KNITTING MACHINE SPEEDS UP WORK a former private dwelling house. “Take a loojf upstairs," said a broth er soldier. “If yo,u don’jt find hito there look out in the carriage bouse ami in j the barn loft. If he's not theta* he’ll J>e In the chicked; house." >. if . , Our room (IbesnT afford even thuCT relic of the! <*H>tle and -..pride of , the V. ’< ymp. v 'm .w f vyjgV ■a . y.’ ■yit&if: bungalow, a door neighbor‘d does; and, we are of ficially assigned to hang out a.rouQd liis grate. That solves the heat-prob lem, mid also, the bathing.question. Hat Id tig facilities are Limited . In I- ranee—at least that. In all of France, for rxnmpto. There Is" probably njot oiie ot those boors who bothers you about statistics on bfs daily nurliftinal inun dation • T ■■■! tmmi nmnwinwi umiiin.r. I do not know ihe favorite W i Saturday night pastime of the people, _ either, i»ut I can say that if there is a modern bathtub in tills particular town , Tapi the Americans have not yet found it. j So we merely heat a kerosene canfu! j of water—at our neighbor's tireplace— \ and take a "bird bath." As there are eight men who must perform this abfu- tion about .one fireplace, and a good , soldier fakes a bath twice u week, and there are only seven nights lu- thv ~-■*!>* week, this grate is a busy place. - "» Prinking water Is obtained on?v after difficulties sometimes. The American !>* a li'in* ceiueii d", tors are taking no one's word about *!i• r r- io ^r* their iiv the supply but their •0 W««l»rn Newspaper Union ;*x*iKW‘ comforts comiuhlee of the Navy I.eagm* of* the United ‘States lias in its headquarters several knitting machines for making sweaters, ‘socks and other wearing apparel for our fighters. Milli mmm Jnstontxiifo tbe^ ruined villiiL-e-frf- Bothnleflaent til Lorraine ft-id tb lading the etictn^. The boys, ('or porn I Eresham and Privates’ Em ovember it. It»17: A monument will mark tlie spot where 'they an can newspape. correspondeuts at one of the graves and we are allowed to partake only*after* samples *frhave been tested. Frequently, when In a town, the municipal supply is avoided and the supply Is brought ib In trucks from distant points.; But I am not so skeptical of water’ as I was. (>ur last station was near a hospital, fn front of This Hospital always hung a Troops in France Are Training to the Highest Point streot lire mixing soft coal with hard to conserve, but at the* same Pine give the flat dweller a warm radiator to get up. by. And then we figure that ihe so tfnTlIuimg, on-and-off cigarette sign, at the corner of Hroad- "ay and Sixth avenue, for Instance; would supply enough light for u whole division ; that jusi one of those resttess snakes pursuing each other around the edges of that sign would illuminate l he w hole of • ihis JjrauiL- Hotel -dll FRENCH TROOPS ADVANCING BEHIND .HEAVY CURTAIN FIRE of Efficiency big canvas hag full of invitingly cool * 1 water. I ciinnot speak for the whole |. company, hut my squad I (know used always to drink thereof. We lnid kept it up for something near a month whenu one day a doctor .in tortoise-shell glasses and a w hite apron espied u sol- ; diejr partaking at the hag. Ho became immediately very vociferously appre hensive and- expostulatory. “For tin* great.. Jumped-up Holy Moses, man," said he, “don’t drink that. That’s where we keep all the samples of contaminated water frotn this part of France." Find Disease Germs. In the Iprt 17 days we've found germs of. Ill deadly diseases right ’in that container. There are.nine million bacteria to the square inch in that— enough germs in that bag to kill the whole Herman army. I should say that my sipnrd consumed several cubic feet of that water, ami I don’t know eqougli about mathematics to compute the number of germs. Hut we’re all alive, and that was two months ago. Hut enough of thW gussing.i I, re solved to he brief In my letters, und here I've brimmed over onto'the third page. It has beCn cold.where I am, hut the last few days have been like springtime. Win re I was last was up in the snow belt, where it gets on the ground and stays there, the only hope ful, word the natives can gfve being that "it, goes Qff tiie ground in April." Witfjmut going into details, though, I learned one hopeful thing. While away I had an opportunity o^talking with a lot of Americans who have been in the trenches. They were from dif-. ferent groups of troops and had been "in" at different times. And tht*y all were confident that the Americans can whip tin* Hermans at every stage of the game. This isn’t the boast of a few, hut the consensus of the halm opinion or about !<'. 1 guess; That I talked ti>. Mt was very encouraging, coming from men who have had a mouthful of the front. Most of .tin* -Odious were from i. the old American regular army—from j tin* units over here, which are the only4 ones"still Intact; 1 believe.'’They are beirrg trained to the highest point of military efficiency' possibly and, they say, are to he used as the. crack units [ of the "United States forces, correspond- \ ing with the famous “shock" units of ■the Herman and other armies. I guess >he same is trim of the Kainbow divl- : sion of the National Guard, which got -neb a send-off in the States. • [ Cl Regulars Fare-Worse. The old regular artiiy fellows seemed to have fared worse than the . f rest of us. They came over early lu the game, most-of them straight from the border with only a few days in ithe East, and went into training im mediately. They were quartered up Soldier Writes of Work and Experi ‘ ences With Army f at the Front— OTd Regulars to Be Used as Crack Units of’fhe Unit- ed States Forces. Frame, iirwhfr-h vveHiovv ure billeted, ■anil be a distinct hettcTmeht on our pivsj'nt two-caudle power factual) lighting plant. ■ > ■ 4 Every, Town Has One. I am divulging no "outstanding physi.ail characteristics winch might Hear : This i< the first tfine I have had—or hi ve taken—for letter a*.citing in some, days. I wrote home, and will devote the rest of the minutes between now and bedtime to a long- betray locality" when I mention the j Hrand Hotel «lu France. 4.They are ■ 11s anninnii as Maxim's restaurants in i the Ignited States. Every tow n has , one, and they generally are aiigust, I aj^ed hosfelries. living, like the Missis- ) slppi’ ; river steamboats, on their reputa tion. 'I bis one is a comparative Juve nile. It Is pnly one hundreil iind one years old, according to a corner stone vve discovered the other day. But at that it hasn't got electric vviriiig and i plumbing and u furnace in the base- ' nient. and if vve only had just the rat tle on the end ol that shake's tail hanging on a cord in room No.'12 there ! would fie $our. jubilant soldiers in that ■ "petit chajubre." ’ *» When the United States took- over , sin* Hiand Hotel du France It got It unfurnished, of course. It immediately refurnished it with two double-decker J hunks of the latest type—rioiliing more. I We "sleep two in a corner, and I have -one-oTThe lowers. We have.discovered, by the way, a virftie in this arrange ment. Tlu* beds are sturdy. but can-be jarred by a jiggling of the body, and) in the cveitt that your bedmate, above i or below, is addicted to shoring (and , you would In* surprised how many j soldiers are) you can alvvavs stop him ! by "rocking the cradle” until lie turns ov.-r. This is very handy. It saves looking all over tin* room for a shoe delayed letter to you. I only just re- juriLyd to my company lifter being away for a niontlf—in a blamed sight colder place. I hud u long and won- derfuhtrip, the details of which 1 can’t, of course, recount. Let it he men tioned. however, that among other things i did was sleep in a reyl steiwn- liehted room, with sheets, five ele.-trie at *> 11«•♦ *, and a hatli- Qext-door uc*ighhor of the I. N. S., who, I dis covered, worked in SacramVnto. taking 1 lie job 1 left when 1 vvent’-to I’ununm. lie knows you, and I mentioned that 1 did. hut didn’t go into any details. My trip, tnv one uigfil of lutfury and :«iy reversion to the life of the army have brought a realization of one thing, y-*.v> room TAKING ON BOMBS FOR AN AERIAL RAID BISHOP BECOMES CHAPLAIN To pervert the title and main strain of tin* latest Broadway and 'first-line | trench hit, the fun is over, over here*. ! From nt;w on it’s* hiisiru*s>, / - •— • >■ . .*■ •* France, to the ^InicHVe'ail soldier, | never again vviLl he what it has been.j This thought began to formulate Itself Yh the minds of the lucky Americans vvlioVuiiie over here in the late* sUTn- iue*r of 1HIJ, about tiie time the ftnyw begun to faiNiind the tog'to come in freini the coast. N«e\y it has 'eTy stall zed. The* grave, vv hole sohhMl, sincere* six- iue*ie4UsL-u*44'+»m** 4*1' FraatMi Is ova«m -It— mormug 1 here are* lour of us in this room. The*' most optimistic of the sue : e*e*e*ellhg lalielUu'ds of this hostelry must Tiave* was a vvede’oni.e treif so much ivgal as it genuine*—not one such aw Ls n at a* hynepii't when tin* mi a yen* the hypoHi<‘f*tml keys of tlTc •ver. hut of the* man who .opens •nn‘ and his ail and says, not in . hut in deeeis, "You are* <uu* with us; whut we have* is yours." And fe»r- tunatewere tlu* Americans who were* ■ . \ •*» V pre*se*nt at -fids we*le oim*. 'jL'in*--a-rmy that e*oiiies mis *ye*ar will he*‘vv e*le*eune*d, hut not as vve w , cre l ', x ( .No Longer a Novelty. J Not that Fratie’e. hasKhitcntionally modorate*d her tom*. The*rc* has be*en turns PROTEGE OF MRS. MARSHALL K-TSSI'hoeo oylBBBI eseern Na»-»p«prr Cal .•rmcryly natural relaxation, of e,ourse and tin* "seildat Aiiiericaine" now is accept eel umre as u matter of course* than as a nove*lty. Hut the big faeitors ure that the Uiiite*il State's is getting into the -war—and it is winter. There*, is le*ss liberty now than the*re> was— no all-night juisses, and frequently Sunday is broken by inspection and Bishop William-l*. Ke'wington. who was rector of tlm-St. Ifiuil’s church In Minneaporis for seven years and is ■w>*li known In religious cire*le*s In the Northwe*st. is now serving as chaplain "f a hospital unit at Fort McPherson, Ha. Tin* photograph slmws BLshop Itemingloii hi the uniform pf the anny. v£) Waalrm N«w»p;ii>«r‘Union ,V_ ■ ibentrd his machine in iire>partrtir>ii for a of tin* eneoiiv'!! . * ASSEMBLES . MACHINE GUN BLINDFOLDED drills. There is no military pe*rmls- . sion to visit nearby e*ltit*s exe*e*pt on business. Vlsitiug of. the eiifes is per- mltte*el only between tu»«in and ’2 p. in. and O p. m. ami 8:.'iU for e>tH(*e*rs and enlisted men. Winter has brought lemg mights and cold days,'its Ue*d Cn>ss sweaters and the 17 pairs of socks from home, and. Incidentally, the keen est appreciation of three-fruits of civl- lizathhi *-vv*idcli' "hack home" are such common-places* that their existence creates no more thought than the lieu jirii Heetor’s hack.*- ■ - - These arc light, heat and water. What We Believe. If we all acted upon what we all be- llev**, what* a ilifferent world this would he. Everyone admits that It Is more blessed to give than to receive. Yet instead of seeking happiness by giv ing of nur best to those about us, we sir -waiting! foy it to he brought to ws, through the kindness of others. We ate like 'those who. are .learning to swim and though they Know; the wa ter will hear them up if th«yy follow di rections, cannot-" lifting themselves to let go. It is safe to trust to the truths that all believe, hut so few act .upon.—Ctrl’s Companion. ’ ' lome organize ^welfare so folks bucl -L.;. cleties and send ’em. tobacco and , sweaters, htp the ivgvrlaYs don’jL-get in Clarence 1. Morrison, now Morrison 1 on this. Marshall, protege <if Mrs. Tlwmias It. : Marshall, ’ wife of* the .vice president. ' has developed from a tiny, undergrown Infant to a bouncing seventeen-months- himla-o. Washington diet kitchen infirmary and asked the mother to loan him to her for care in her own home.- He was one of twins, and the mother Is caring for the other. The Marshalls have not ] adopted, this on^, put they have an Indefinite “loan” of “him. Part of his i rejuvenation was due. to a-few weeks * in Michigan and Arizona where his. happen to know we were overlooked -faster parents went for a Vacation. 1-only too well." - ' War, and its concomitant economies cause a step backvvurd in evolution pod human progress—superficially, at Igflst—and luxuries vanish,- one by one, while what, the American of. today sub consciously considers as necessities are stinted. An aeon or soj ajjo water Exciting. Johnny was at the concert apd.he . J "hR hiidlf“litired. lus mother wiif nn- wy, f«»r Johnny ufls disturbing oth- * ats. but when a girl began to sing “The Minstrel Boy" ami reached the tine “HI* father’s sword lie girded on." Johnny - .** was alive with excitement. /p>u like this. Johnny?" said hit TOother. “It Is—” "Be quiet mother, do,” said Johnny impatiently. **1 wait to see what hapje-ns to hlnf when hto father gets home.” .Till .Ut-UrnTre -U .iUiiia. und artificial heat and light might have been considered a luxury, or a dissipa tion by pur developing.ancestors, Btrt now they are normally, in tE&Mass of things we must have.— there is, of course, no alarming scarcity of any-of ^hese things. Merely a conservation" ’Over here we hear that the Tights a re* going ouf oq. Brondway.-aud ‘Dear born street. and'Canal street, and BOSS *A>.v.4,/**^*y Copyright. . ffiWuitrvini fc 8»4i»w*«4 .* \\SoS * jC gcwKiY J* ShF' \s? g TT";; [> / 3 ■ ft