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BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA mot two TROUBLES OF THE ENGINEERS IN FRANCE bridges. There whs a terrific, report followed by nn Inferno. Roth bridges crumbled In the middle. Both were crowded beyond theTFTIjnTts. Bits, of Hermans cjiine rulping-down for al most three minutes, accrtrdlng to tlo* spectator, while from / the rivers the! wild cries of the Injured and drown lng made p picture Kfu-rtz will alvvaj- carry with film. '■ <- * Tor it few minutes the river ws« literally choked .^vith bodies. The Germans were at Just moving on Baris, but In a way they had hardly reckoned.'. Between piilTs of a clgarettty the llfsf !,,•’(] hud in a day. Frank Hogan "f- FJalvesfon, Tex,.; confirmed Sturt//'- •trim " * "u can’t jsa v . enough for those artillery guvs,” he said, ns he tried ’to..1\vist Into as emufortahte a' posh t.iop as a woundt^l thigh permits. I eiV' minutes after the .orders had been telephoned to the batteries they had a perfect range on that, river, r While we were pouring bullets into j guns'got their miin- * small and large pot where we were, »n. there must have been about 3.000 » of tie* Fritzies got across theriver. They didn't all go back. In fact. T don’t •think there were hardly any -of that bunch that'll gee -lock - t+> ' {ormany.-—We—raptured over- I.TiiMt. ourselves and killed easily ! o"0.- I lie rest were’'trying in beat it back to the othbr sTcle when our shells bit Jlmir bridges.” Some Sharpshooter. i Weat» rn Ne* *p.i|»wr t V nipt I Icinit water are constantly, busy making roads and irn tig bushel Is. Hew* is a rpllor that htisky Canadians like those 1 you see To Th< v engineers across fire reconstructing those tintt have has got; stuck in » ditch, and It tald-s pry Jt back Into place. tuna POST OFFICE TAKES OVER THE AIR MAIL SERVICE JL4-U-U.sburgbef..,A in the Battle Line or Lying Wounded in a Hospital His Chief Charac teristic Is His Indomitable Spirit—If There Is Yet- an American V\fho Does Not Hate the Hun He Should Hear the Tales of the Heroes of Chateau-Thierry. ' was Injured In the arm by a piece o.f shrapnel, says Hu re’s one American Miarpstmoter that made a record any one- might be prom! of during the first of the mixup. While the Herman engineers were fryi.ng to throw their first pontoon .bridges over lie picked off twenty fight.. of them with* his rifle. 1 -couldn't get, Ids name, hut lie Paris.—The Indomitable and uncon- *querriblo spirit of five KbRIters fi-un the United States IV one of-the out-, Standing <liurarterl-dlqs that excite the admiration of all who come in con tact Tvltli them. They make the Ainer- lean proud of ids nutlomdity. ami arouse the envy of those wh,i\ by cir cumstances over which they have no control, are denied the privilege to be one of them, w .. ' ' If there Is yet an American who does not hate the Hun, he nr she' should have seen the first trainload of American wounded that arrived here from ('bateau-Thierry/ As these heroes mnd« # ntiy related their esft»erl* ences, one, had ft mingled feeling .of worship for them and Intense hatred for the blood maddened beasts who are. responsible for’the awful agony which the world Is now suffering. In a compartment with n number of French wounded was a nineteen yPnr- - old hoy from Chicago, lie was nlT alone and surrounded by meh Who could not speak Ids language. lie was In the most terrHie pain, hut managed to keep down the slightest groan. Nothing could have drawn a whisper from him before his -French comrades Tn arms. A Red Cross doctor asked him if there was anything he warded. “Just a drink of water, please,’’ was the low answer. He got It;"The*doctor asked If there was anything else he wanted. The boy wanted to be turned'on liks side. With a machine-gun, bullet through his leg and a wound that had searched Its way across Ids hips, tit say noth ing of an Injured arm, he was perfect ly Incapable of helping himself. The doctor turned, -him on Jus side and then discovered the lad-had had- nothing to eat fur 32 hoifrs. Unfor tunately lie was only one of -many In. the same fix. The Red (’i.-o'-s did Its best and soon had w lia’t enwrgoney food It bad In the hands of Uiose who were stiIt nble # to me theni, The more seriously Injured , f o.iiv-e, wefe the first to be ivm lo'tJie long line .1 • 4 * of watting an birjele'- , IndonTnt.dde Spirit. Before the train; | ed in the amhti- lancog were drawn up and wait Lug.,. So was. x small crowd. As the lirsj am bulance quit the station the eriAvd started to -cheer: There was a dough boy on the front scat with the driver, sone arm-in a sling. ‘The other stalling a sjmdwWfThin ids month. 1 R^tyfiveir the -sandwich in aeknoxvledgthefit, while a entitented look entire over his \firawu andXjied face. xTho crowd un'Veased as the a'mhu- Inncbs formed almost ,:a' ronH^Tuous train. Words of sympathy were heard -on all .sloes' hot irumiugled with-tears as the flovvAy «>f Young A/qerieq tied had inarched north "so vattnniTy a few short • months hei\re vy as pa Inst a-kl ug ly transferred to hasp hospitals.’ - . At the ead.joLJ.hii.YiC'^^sion came a cortege that the crowd grasped Hie meaning of In a moment/ ^They/wer**' ambulances. but their destination Was the cemetery and not the hospital.’ The women wepU openly and crossed * themselves,~\vldl< -the hat of every mail In the crowd. cuiiie off la a *rw spectful salute to,the dead. . The •'sight w as one to w ring the heart, -tmt the Iiidouiirnbje spirit of Americn hubbed up. whenever ir man able to talk above a gasp'Was found. Many of the wounds were from shr.ip- nel. Where they v wero not 4 g^ally. serious 1 the’’posse'-sorVvtold ,t|y' tale of What they had been ThfHulJh. It was AtV o’clock lif the niortdhg of Mafne and tin i*e^Were opfy elglif of us to about sixteen of them.Hott we sure <leaned out that first hutehi My pleasure ended right there, though/ t<>r a piece of slir;iprle| banged me, in tie* left' a-rm ah<l it was back, to the woods for me. “But, lielicve me. my company did Its share In driving the 111111*- into (lie river/’ . - a sharpshooter's i mother. soldiefs befievi Janies. I,. Until of r No. T.'U) Spruce street, Philadelphia, does, and it’s a fortun.-He thing for him that he ptayeddiis. vWith a comrade Paul way lii a dngout during a barrage. Shells were landing all -.ifound. UinylTv' one blew In the entrance, -so Ijadl decided their dngout Was bi*comMg a liitb^too warm. He waWi'd 0*t* a short itdf in the\ terrific tiring and then darted for another sjudtor. ■ He lunf -nor -gotten fifteen feet away from the dngout' y; Didn’t Know When to Quit If anyone wants to know jvliv the Americans were at first driven back from the river bank, fliev are hereby 11% into lii .lATernd to I.oniil'e Shelton of Bur- dine, Ky.. Shelton's pnit ajoue .tdok ove^y.'OO prisoners when. I he Ameri cans \returjMsb- to the eounter-nttack, and furl f M f the fact that a number j<f -them'were khocked olit, : as Shelton .was. ttiev\yoqid haVe stiH li.cc.ii going. . ‘‘They knocked n- back at first bv » . I lh«* most ferritic barrage I ever saw turned loose, but We didn’t stay back department August Vheials- -and an irlf Mu i i." OVERSEAS RED CROSS DRESS lion foj- several w JACKIES CAPTIVATE KIDDIES ~h*utf r " deeJared he. “We got the order to counter-attack, and the way we waded back Into Mr. Boche was some thing t<>write lmrrie about: I’ve never seen such r bum'll as vve had. They advane.-d yelling like h.-ll, bayom-tted and -hot- down every\Ileinie that didn’t •know enough to gel out of the way. Those guys could iio*'er beat America In a thousand yea™, and tell 'em I said so." .Kentucky had anotherjnanvin that safne scrap that didn’t know vv|omi to quit, even after a piece of shrapnel had nit a nasty gash in- Ids right leg. lie's Arthur Baker of Boorvv-ay. ‘‘Kaintuckee,” and .lie had lust gohe s company when the barrage got' him. "but put him out. A little Inter In* Hermans came over to se< t. Baker ,was st’ill -on tbq job g his gun for all he was.worth tin* AtncrlmTrf had to go. hack was'so exhausted In couldn’t | f'Htire. His comrades picked Ijim up j aniKeiYrrled him! Xhey Didn’t. Last Long. . ,.| HeinitcOtd. d out one of Ids favor it'’ 1 sfuuts (Undressing up some of hik soldiers in FreHcb and \meriean uni forms, nceordiugNo Anton Zolnow;skl of •2 V '-I-S South' M'urner nv-einie, Chicago A HK? 4 ^u’to I»> W~* k \N t-AfViti L’nloiij We snw- ton inA-n rrrr Ttr. M lit hie (list;uu*e aw MV, lem wi ic in l rem h |inl- o 111 American. We yelled (ome dver ami- join ' us. '<'<1 a few paces and then >n u ” • snijUtd r ini nr utipb-as- P-'Bfj'd- it-right arm' Hldt ehin ■ gun ' imll(*f. " » •_ . We Van do r them. - -Not one of ’em They were Herman* nil was another group coxn- ealrr'h Nevts ii"' r 1 >n '1 be oversws field uniform f American/Red Cross is a dn -s o ehaiftbnn. a* white lawn cap tin tons over the hack and a potnn'd fastening' to the waist/ * BELGIAN QUEEN VISITS BATTLEFIELD A Snub That Hurt. “I am afraid Mr. Ringer, is not going to accept pgr imitation to call/’ said Mrs. Somers Bay. "Well," remonstrated her .husband, “we ean^ allow oiirsefve.s to fret about who calls and who doesn’t.” “But. my dear, Mr. Ringer- ds the genrleman who drives around in a wagon end delivers Ice." ' - TURKS QUIT WORK ON UNHOLY GROUND A-nTtgrr; A^is.-—A series of mis fortunes, Including the. drowji- ■ "Y lug of ou.e of tlu*ir number and the f^ufpUumof' another, cau’seil -a crowd itf Turkish rallwflj'.la borers enijiloyed at Monico Mo demand lliat theydlift.-transferred to some, other placer , ag they considered ,11)*•' scene of. tlieij; trophies -"unholy groun^ " Tlmir request was granted. ea>Ho back at tn ejT'iln (-very ■ rnttr * evy——— jf \\ eltsburg' iMir-e.r, bjifl. tn / ^ Pronounce by Sneezing. ■•’Bel la ire, O.-y-TlPe judge dbl nor art dress .tin* complaining witness or the defendant by name when Walter Zl'mr- Irkos.nvsky .had "Sjilunnao Vo<ee!lJ- elp»wnnis.hw4ski arrested on a ■ cK.irgb of provokjitg liith. lb* tried «iariVs several .times and then took the case. Thomas Paine.on "When we sum y t.fie tIon of man und* _jh’e hereditary 3vittte«W.-. «lragg*'d from his Tinrji Monarchy. w p-trhed con'll- monarehial nn^. vf gpveniment, » pon- h row n tinder ndvBcment; /‘tie iH^ver ipoVerlshed ne-mipR. It be- “fidut* art revoiuiion in the principle and construction of ro^. Strike Big Ga« Pocket. — Fairmont, W. Vn.—A 13.ono.f>iNi-f ( KTt- gas wen was brmigtr in oW tho Hump, (ttM Ji.Ye lultas sopibwest of Manning ton. It, lsithe largest gas well to be <Xttlled Ip this section for fim years’ and we started after ; were others who seertTHt v ery content -MfiB frojQjj AmerL- squarely over the them,” said Cook. “The Helnles w ere ( b. 1m* gbi^'c. Tvot ' —mlnf ■!> on Ihejwulh bank of jhe can .six-limbers ml ernment Is ne< --ary