Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, October 03, 1918, Image 2
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| NEAR BODY Of BROTHER
+ WERE 7 DEAD HUNS
THEY ARE NOT ALWAYS FIGHTING
—NVw Brightimt.- •- p»i.- *‘T»>d;ty *i*
\jy y(-/eri' iip-jim tin* b.ittlelield t</ J
Itiii'y mu* boys :ir/d wo found +
Venmr among' I ho dead. Now. J
• 1 u<I. (h> nut worry t<u) mix h. lle.T
'died game. lb- stlil hold |iis
rill*' In 11 i ^ bands and 1 lo-re- 4-
were sovo^i dead flunk in front ill
<.f hiiq.” 'I'his \ya4 in )i Tet-ter 4*
roe«»ivod by .Fidin — .Mcl-iiHitnd 4
VrAnu-his son; tejding him n( the. j
d* III ll of , anMleT soil' on/ tin- 4.
Ma rne bat I leib-ld. T
'thy xennifi of mv pants for the sit l ive
(•on son.
“Get in,” sjjtll ho’
I . neve/Saw a Car so difficult to
moiijdj^o high to climb, but I goj
there/ Tiio driver cranked It and \\;o
sfurted away with guy, nom-lialant
Wlives of tite hand.—. ......
e bad to elilnli 11 hill. I suggested
Miat_Yunybe (lie eftgfne needed it little
tinkering bt-fon- wo tried it, lint tdie
driver tfiouglit not. I could have
found troiible.vN|n that. engine that
would have hold utKthoro a week. Hut
wo wont on. \
All of a smith 11‘the air filled up with
the holler of n shell. It bunted vehe-
nion’lv, but I didn’t see it. I wasNdieiV
Ar.i'eriOnu soldiers,In Frant-e not only enjoy theii* smokes, but curds ns
The pn 1110 Is probably “strip poker,” us two of the men have already
irdcd their shirts. Jlno hi's a farm* safety phi, ready for instant use in
of further losses, but their note the horseshoe on Ids shoe. . ,
v’.v
lirittslr cloanln
1—American battery of 1 T»r»-11 Yii 1 i 1 *»«*t^heavy artillery which helped capture Nbissims
M eiiin roml after the retreat of. thtk Germans. 3—Latest photograph-of Kin:: Alfonso of
picoes iif roof and debris settled on
my back',, but I was not annoyed. Tin-
more that settled there'din* hotter 1
would be protected.
‘‘Shall we go on?” tin* driver asked.
By CLARENCE B. HOLLAND
started, and Vve* ednflnued.
Xltumil—sac—rufudly--—UuU._.Xiui -scenery
looked like a green tog, for Fritz was
not through. »,
A shells landed alongside the road
and. a. 'N4r-phoiie wire dropped aeross
our fail's. If ii; had h»*en a riitige- of
ItionptnjjjN it wouldn’t have stopped 11-.
con
TtiTtn—rrrrr
steady . courage. "I eun’f jump opt
while you are mmrrrrg—irtrildS'Trate,
anyhow.** _»• f '•
Knew It Was a Roof. «
Another shell landed, this time -On
tin- roof at our very elbow so to speak.
I didn't have time u» join the levers
frightened. Aftei that he dies sudden
ly, or laughs, or liotli. Als>v no mal v
ter how scared you "iiia-^iiriositi sur
vives. . ,/
If a shell is comrfig7T«»u want lo see
It land. If it isxgoiitg to -w:ri you. yon
Want, to see how if goes about it.
We were going back from the front
~ luck. Tin- battle (was behind us.
Privately. 1 - a eh nfrt^oThi - didn't 'rare
know wJmt we were. Ii will remain a
beiause I saw the roof just before it
iiindrdr- I witt - nrrrr m e (fiat roof
again our acquaintance was brief.
’As 1 looked the roof -moved iiwnj
from therur hastily. It sought divers
destinations, many of wTiicli were in.
at or around us. Tiles and plaster and
dust Tilled the air.
“Mister," said I. “step on her. She’s
standing still." -
“We’re doing sixty an hour If we’re
doing ail iniTi," lie said.
If was not trm* 1 . I <\Th prove it. If
took us 1“ minutes, actual- county to
pass a tiu-e. Afterwards the driver
told me’it wasn’t a tree, but a woods
several* kilometers long, but lie was
mistaken. I kno\y a single tree when
I see It, and I counted that tree again
and again,
“I hope,” I said, "that the soldiers
get this tobacco. I. hope they get It
soon. Let’s see, they're in dugouts,
aren’t they? You don't need to bother
about taking it to them. I’ll do that,
I haven’t chutted with these hoys for
quite a while, and much as I dislike
the closeness of a dugout I.think I
cun sacrifice myself today and stay
down with them a little while. By tlYe
way, it’s a dugout w ; ith a thick roof,
isn’t It?"
..“Mister,” sab? ho gravely, “the man
chocolate from the Y. M. A. ware*
house .and get it hack to tin* boys l«iok
there. It was several kilometers to
I lie w arehouse, but wo did It in ten Hat
l_h,v the Ivntch, arriving in a state of
profound cairn. We were not ruffled.
Nobody would have known we were
excited except for 11 few 1 minor .omit-
tors. < if course we w ere knocking
splinters off our-teeth with the chat
tering we felt it our duty to do; we
jrwere a trifle pale, say ns pale as fresh
snow. Aside frofii this with our
hearts heating so they sounded like a
dilapidated camion engine, with our
hair standing out like spines ou an an
gry porcupine, our appearance and
1 bearing were normal.
! \ “Going Back?" “Sure.^
With nonchalance we filled our ton*
1 neau with supplies.
“doing hack?’’ somebody asked.
The driver looked at me and I looked
! at the driver.
“Back?" said lie.
t . “t Hi. dp* on*!tits back-p’ I said easily.
"You understand buck. That way.”
“They’re shelling flic road," said the
matiiiger of tin* warehouse.
"ind 1." said I. “Shelling*' Why.
we hadn't noticed It. Regular shells?
WTdlust conn*' down tiie road It was
lioto by
kye-r-^wierh Newspaper I’nlon
Aiimrican jiifautryiqeirattached to a machine-gun ImttaliouV
en rouiiuU> the front- The First division is one of those that are
Iluns. v ,
HUliLPRISONERS BAGGED BY THE FRENCH ON THE AISNE
.Something was paining me in tin* re
gion of tiie knees. Also there was a
Bound resembling that made by Broth
er Bones in tin* minstrel show. Minute
-f- -
examination demonstrated that the
pain was caused by the knees assault
ing each other venomously. 1 stuck
iny cap between thorn us a shock ab
sorber and looked again.
It was a busy little road, it was not
a popular road. MAer\body on it had
taken a dislike to it and was moving
away with enthusiasm. In tin* disr
tnnee were three (lertuan prisoners
nnd ene American private. The- pri
vate was on u horse, it looked a very
fast horse, hut tiie (tcrmnns were ha\
Ing trouble with lhr=Ttk*- jit getti 11 g in
tln-ir way. They stfmTbled over it.-,
“Wham” came another* shell. It’s
explosion was almost drowned out by
tin*, sounds of concussion at ’m\ side.
They were mused by t^c lieaTing. to
gether <»f the knees of t-he'Vlrlv.er of
the Y. M. C. A.. ciir and by those of"
a buck private. Their noh* wits differ-
Wlijeh was true. I am tiie champion
printer.
Chooses Army to Trial.
Louis,- Judge Bass, in tin* court
is, a— c’ow
of criminal correction here, gave Jo
.srph I.uzynski, tw» nty-three, tlx* ChoiCv
of enlisting in tin- I'nited States tank
service or facing trial -on the chargt
r»f iiurglary in' tin* second degree.
I.u/.ynski det ided tb enlist.
couldn’t hit
onto
eo.ursi
readily as tin* smaller battleplanes
and answered ' to all requirement-!.
Other iniicbihes of the same type ar-‘
in process of manufacture and will
he-turned out in a steady stream from
0) W'Mlrrn N»wip:<p*r Cfllon
Cleveland; O.— A tb-w type
now on
being turned out in-re at j
plane is now
the new pinnt of the Olenn L. Martin
company, and the first, of tin* planes,
now. being put through its acceptance
TTsls, lias sjiowrf exceptional maneuv
ering, ability for /its size, as well ns
speed in climbing and straightjiNvay
tlyiug. • '
,The new Martin plane is n uch
ftirger than the battleplanes now' in
use" by -Hie allies ih Kurope. It luis a
wing spread -of-75 feet and is .pow ered
two HR> horsepower motors. I11
addition to reguJOr equipment it has
!i carrying capacity of 2,4(H) pounds;
ahd-ls said to be so < onstructed that
there is no "blind" spot, or lint* of
approach which Its guns do not cover.
g column of Herman prisoners marching with fti r officers a,t the head is shown in this French official ph
They were taken by tiie French in tiie Aism* dis rief. »
MRS.. WILLIAM J. SMYT
DAYLIGHT SIGNAL LAMP
THEIR FIRST GLIMPSE OF FRANCE
chine guns, slowed on first test
flights that It T.otild he hamtled as
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*MI«rn K«wp«p»r L'»lon
Camp Sevier, (Ireenville. S. C. J
—H. 11. >Iiles,.,cook at the pa-
tlents’ kitchen base hospital J
here, received notification re- +
cently. that a distant relative 1
died and left™ him $l. r v0,0()0. T
Miles is ttlll cook , at the has- 4.
I
This Corporal is signaling hy meant
of an electrical daylight *Rlgnai tamp;
Mrs. William J. Smythe, a Nexv-York
society woman, as a oember of the
American Defense society has obtained
5.000 signatures on a petition to con
gress urging the suspenskp of all Ger-
inan-ianguafe aewspgp«*s lo thir
coaotry. '
change his j^greer even -If he
tould. Miles’ home Is fft Tar-
boro. N. C He has spent sev
eral years In the army and
navy. - v
, ‘*Go ahead.” said the M. P. “Thro’re
through now.” - .
■» He is the last M. P. I shall ever be
lieve. Thla la positive. He meant well.
*od spoks the truth according to his
Ughta. but hls-rUghta ware dim. W*
Mot Necessary. :
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“Before I engage in this new
I would like to con tlie f rules."
“I can assure you It is not 1
On board of a former Hamburg-American liner, American soldiers are hav
ing their first look at Ibc land, of their chivalrous ally, France. -— _
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