Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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taamm BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE TWO DUCHESS OF ATHOlL (wriniiusc enine over, and" fifty of these “nrft rained hoys” withstood flu* attack Mint stuck AnHhetr guns. The Germans who were still alive and aide to run. Our Doughboys M£an Business When they Take the, First- Line Trenches. retreated, double quirk titn* WS.-Yf. s Work Speaking of the \yuy the luruly ar rived Amorim ns take to The -trenches ■ — -■ *— r . ■ • •: • ( ■ t. ‘ 4 and to their duties, r qm* brigadier gen eral. who I tad .lust finishi-d irciimpbte relief, said : ‘They're' not exactly glad to get Into the trenehep. ** I truest no one is ghid of that. Hut, these Jioys nil figure it’s work to he done, arid they're here to Hek German's. They're keen to get the job done. They’re con fident, alt-right, h’ut pot hpastful, be cause they know there’s a lot to learn”’ A dotfgliboy guv'y his- 1 version ofjmw lie and his pals felt while out Jlu re facing No .Man’s Land for Tin* first t ithe. ‘‘ We’re hot sear<*d '•of tin* Gei- wmmmmM. Lmm% Veterans Before They Enter tl Trenches, by First Rate Military Training if ,Not by Experience , -^Every Man in Line Has , Personal Grudge to Settle WitivHuns. With the American Troops'in Alsace Lorraine, My the dim light* of tin* moon you Could barely see tire stream of doughboys, poiirlyg out of the .shel tering vmmts=iiitTt se/nptng over the m;tQS ^ ni dusty French road toward the frenetics. vh , m . (Il ,. nj We^tT grtltig \ They-KHld-v. ry lit Mi- and tmdg.*d b - ulHln y with that measured -swinging trend, ( p, H | ( , ve „ |P itV going to he good best ^ ■ I' 'itv», vs *»itriv N. ^ »i*ir»’r, V lug Ivwrlr-fTT ■rT»id j *ftT’tTtlii pond everything "except ammunition ami food- goes on fo/if. - „ Tin officers gave the order to rest, and a lot of packs dropped to tin* ground, followed by doughboy s. Their rifles they rn-ger dropped, ^n the moon light you eould see tin* ground covered with resting soldiers, mostly sitting. There -was « Hirking of t itle*-i rind sounds of tightening packs. and htt^ftf- giissjp whleii eould conn* roly from n group heading' for Its first night In tin* trenches. Mndifferent to Danger* Them were TTnele Sam's cltl/e'i sol diers, new men Tn«t over from •‘tin* {States," as they have a habit of . .riling home when overture. A few qms tfons.revealed the fact that it year : go M eve hoys were clerks, , earj>• jrt*r- students and whatnot..' In civilian cb»t ?'■•«. Six mouths ago they, were *n a £knjning camp. Now tiny w»*r * so?- rd'er.s ihsFrance. and foniglit ?h. y « te making Ulelr genuine dehut info the’. w.*r for eivilifraMnn. Then* was nn^Aylld enthusiasur'dior. nnv -evidence of feaie or ev.-n OtHffe-, hens'en among thosr ' ' ■ r< ns they rested before nia'r-Tfyg the lest Jan inti tin* trenches- ,T-leirw\Uiei a irrrror-of-faof sort «.f •/.»>.w>. • Wy •lent, and cverv man j.- making the mo f- -if the hreatliing spell *o «*»* tlv t' he was 1*tM) per cent ready .for haul* Interest *nnd talk centered aroui ! the clicking rifles and. other' equtrfdi*h»: ‘‘Tills old gun’s" sure going to do some work from now on.” sn'd one doughhov to Ills pal. ns ?u* phived -x 11ti the rifle fondly. "It's the best gun In this army.” ' ‘‘Sav. you never shot this,gun," re pil(*d tin* other. "Nobody ever did, and nobody will fmt rne. Ft’s some Hoche- gettor It was made for me spee'nlly, Bo." Officers went through the crowd, gfv- inp a final warning about tise of* gas mnsks, and attention centered around ma<k*i for a mumejit. A lut of eliapA tried them on again. Ttieii packs again were adjusted, and the group of dough boys streamed slowly on. Ready for Business. As they .got.nearer the front, ffenehes the -word was passed to Walk more quietly, <’mi versa t birr except In un dertones'-.tipped. and theV descended wife i.l the tf*nv duki* of \th >M, who la- .inherited many peerages a'o 4 -pin - yoga lives from Ids aneostem. inchuf- ing n cathedral in I’erlhshire and the right to iiminti in an atnu d.gu i * I i I a tnousitnd.uieh with artillery coioph te. BELGIAR ARillY HONORS THE AMERICAN FLAG Hack of the Idles on the. Iiotfle side, Tottik elerks^Tuirliers and rm*n of every firofesslcyif who have teinporarily he- eomij^xnlilii rs soon make themselves at hoTiie among the ruins and in woods. I'hey eat army "gruli" and relish It more than the most delicate.meal they ever ate fropi a’ white linen covered tahle and real dishes, espeelallv If BROTHERS ARE RECONCILED there has been work to do. Soldier ing agrees with them, you flat) see; by the work tliyy do. tin* meals they eat and. the huskies they have heoome. Chauffeur Gets "Fresh." Discipline i- fine, even If It is hard. A major tells how his chauffeur be came a little “tresh" one day. Know ing the doughboy was a good chap, fhe major fo<*k hj.if aside and talked to him instead" of "liawling filnW out” he- fiiri ‘fhe crowd. The doughboy npolq- ■ '1* ‘ THij sorry, major." he said. "You ~<*r I own a e.o'rpli: of businesses hack, in New York, and have mofe than n tnHlien dollars'In my own name, and 'fs a Ii’TTi^TiTTrlTTo reiueniher my place Ui the army now. Kut I’ll do it. some how." * . T . Enlistment in Marine Corps Ends Feud of More - Than Two - Years’ Standing. St. Louis-. Two brothers who have not spoken to each other for two*years, .although they slept in tie* -aiue bed and ate at_ the same .table, became ■reconciled through thyir enlistment in. tin* Marine corps. . ' TTie.lioys are Dan and'Ar?g>To .Tar- Antbia of tliis city. I'ail is Uventy and .Angelo eighteen.' T ie y fell out when Angelo br,nke up a game ofTaar- hjes In - which his brother was plyiv- ing; ,\ngelo Joined tie* Marine con-s. His hrother leaniei) of it and came to the train to bid him farewell. After be coming reconciled there I»an decided to join the mariiles and-te* with his - You think vim an* in an int*’*rn«tlon- a! army when you visit stime of the hew Aftierlcan unit- now in the lines. < Hye company from New; York boasts tUarTfs members khovy seventeen larig guages.'xnd if you wander In on them about mc-x. tluie. when talking nnd I dates “fun bfMVruh" have been ertip- fled, vern are convinced.". ^ Hut all of thflse "doughboys are ar dent .Americans, and they have won tlie”admiration, of their comrades who can speak the tongue- without nty, ac cent. They - are air snappy looking sol diers. *’ * brother, army together \vm1» their So he enlisted two days later and tin* brothers are now at Paris Island, where they afe again'fast friends, after two years’ pact of* silence. MASCOT FRENCHIE WOUNDED FRENCH WOMEN GIVE YANKEES FLOWERS HEART RIGHT SIDE, REiECTED Patriot Who“Tried Twice* to Enlist Has Cardiac Organ in Right Breast Philadelphia.—Another freak of na ture was uncovered recently, when Dr. John II. Halley. ‘medical director of Sure <of Success. i - The new units, have dragged their clean and* freshdooking equipment, sjigli ns sujiply wagons; cam?) kitchens, inachine-gun ^outfits and all that is needed up into tin* Alsace and Lorraine liills. The line runA up and .down steep mountain- sides and across pretty val leys. It is beautiful country and" a fine phi.ee In* initiated to the front, for tie* doughboy' must be oni the’alert all tip* time, in this _area there is a slieil sw ept, w gll-wired No MnfiV Land aenoss which Hertnansu cannot come', wilhoiit being easily- detected, . Woods 1 ' TtraT"1;!H■- ami wild i ovintrv make tlm' v • ■ * , ■ * ■ plae, one in; \yhich~-Ainy strict attfai- lo<yt>l board N,o Niehtlson for tin ransg fils heart was on the wrong side, even though it wasVn lii*- right. Nich olson--Is thirty yeprs old and pleaded desperately to go.V Soibe months .ago lie tried tt*’ enlist, hut was turned * down because he was under Weight, ills examiners at that time L be ing unaware of ,his,, cardiac peculiar ities. When'he was called' for exam ination before the draft hoard Doctor Hailey made tin* disi-oy fry of the true location of his heart. the trench duekboards,-as tin s,». , ew arrivals v* ere-qnll-tlv -intflajed to the trenches in Fraib i*. (OiieMy md with out eonunotii'm. the oflieer- stationed their men, with Uvokhuts watching across nioopllT N/V M in's I.and, th‘e former oe. npant-' " r the tremdo s left, and the relief was coinpletied %• - There. s.'inething*'-ul'om the less qnimf , w,ay these new (iotvgbhoyV take the trenches that makes you feel, they know i\ lot about-xvarfare." They are veterans before they enter the . tr* m h V by, tirsbrate mi'U iry tralni ng if-tad ex Pori once, TTidir - dis cipline’’s fltag -and their eflieie.nrv tells yon they are . ready for ’business - meaning whipping "Hermans. ‘‘Well, you tell Kaiser Rill*we’re here tit flght ( " said one doflg’hboy, as •he took lu.s, station. /"Hear the Her mans say we’re just a crowd of un- trair^ejl hoys. W t we’rd Rdldiers-" It happens this dou .did it .'Very Mrs. A. P. White Is the Champion War Mother of,- TelvieGsee. rittg hiin is Sergt. S. L.‘H* (’fyheii, an invalided soldior. • K re Uci tie's ‘tern porary proprietor...tuid .dressing one oi FrelttUie’s vvoAinds is Miss Mae Hurk ^ icy, I'njjed States war nurse, i'ren'ehie. iV'.yne of {in* latest arrivals from the trenches. In _ l’ratie**-^-one, who hns spoilt most of iiis life injtin* trehdtes, in.fitct, havljig been - born Tn a v lren*-.h in ah American sector. Ho is a New- Americnn hoy - iwing tlm'dltHi token, of ith'. if OCCUPATION FOR BLINDED SOLDIERS MAKING HAT CORDS FOR OUR FIGHTERS soon sr.on DAKOTA "PRAIRIE DOG BECOMES “DEVIL DOG -Sleep Over .it Chamieey Depew say s ) :ind*fast rule that mn-'len itlgsj ake -to. he -ili.-e'.;-Ajcd' frig, never in t!.• .• a. , f g. To this ! add that Jiefpr Tj-njio.rtal.it (leei-uyn -you s] over-it', y o,ij ngiy 111 'Terentiy in the morning a piay.-stive yoif Uiuch su gret.—Los. Angeles 'rimes, • St.' I a»rl, . Minn --“Sa/v, pirrd. • J i'rn-re/iprvncV dog’ from iKlirth * fi Dtiknta ri 11*1 I w ant to go‘oVcr • • there anti become a ‘devil .J • log.’ ” atid. rtdieving himself of • J- tliis senbknentv Wiiliaru- T» J • .-!*!’:ieke^ideker oiT I>e*gd(*rt N It • J ! lim place in- Unc. in tie 9 • ' l nljted States nufriye recruiting • 0 * ration lu re. 9 • Kniek«*rb(*cker T*assed ary nl J arqjTVf jicrfect phy-ieni te<rrmd ^ _^xv on hj/ w ay to^’aris I si;rarf . • • S. Ci. to the marine r nrining sta- • • tlon there, / -'. • i. Evening MatteraT 7 — » “If those ,twp in**.n-eonie togetlTer, there ti ill lie trouble: The big one t« Wr»l* rn .N-w^apn 0% «r,l-rii Lniuat] V -l, ahjll g -vacuus trade* at |R ^Th.* manufacture of hat eorda for tin* \an«us branches of tlie -L'nltisl States army Is In a' Iarte* Tart carried op "by women in factories in this -•nuntry. ThU picture shoyts the machine wrappiug twla$*d_;'threa<la for bat cords. [ »•*»<»« tfncui WHS hltHl»( « illMMtt