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BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA ■ By- 1 '■ 1 ■— Ex-Gunner and Chief Petty Officer, tf. 5. Navy r Member of the Foreign Legion of France INI IlnPr W * Captain Gun Turret, French Battleship Cassard , # *** Mai *‘ ~ v Winner of the jCroix de Guerre Copyright, 1918, by Reilly and Britton Co., Through Special Arrangement With the Oeorge Matthew Adams Service LOOK, MOTHER! SEE IF TONGUE IS COATED, BREATH HOT OR ... STOMACH SOUR:. ••CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FIG8* CANT HARM TENDER STOM- ACH, LIVER, BOWELS. CHAPTER XVIII—Continued. . -—1®—. As we went ashore, the bombard ment began, and we were hot only under fire of spit, if you could call It Niehts zu esson not sick were woudded—-that I do not six men to^each car. The windows in not know what that meant, so we just hung around there and waited, Then they smarted shouting, “Zuruck! Zu ruck!” and drove us back to the bar racks. Later we heard the worfis “niehts zu essen!" so often that we thought probably they meant “no eats." We hud our reasons for thinking so, too. Those words, and “zuruck” and “ ’raus,” were practically all we did hear, except, of course, various kinds think a man of us really slept. After the cars were all smashed, and every- a while I asked a sentry'if I could go outside for a minute, but for some rea- son he would not let me. I had dif ferent ideas about it, so I stood around near the door, and when he turned his back out I went and around the corner of the barracks - * But one of the sentries there saw, me, and blew’ his whistle, and a guard of eigllt came up from somewhere and grabbed ine. I tried to explain, but it was no use, because every time I said a word it meant another $wat over' the ear, so finally I gave it up. Then they drilled me across -the road to the officers’ quarters. There were three officers there, and each of them asked me questions about all kirids of things, but never once men tioned my running out of the bar racks. Then they gave the sentries “some commands, -and four of the sen tries took me out and over to the barbed wire fence. There they tied me, face to the fence, arms over my head, and hands and feet lashed to the wire; and with a rope around roy waist, too. I thought, then, that my hunch had come true, - and that I wofild be crucified, like Murray ah(J thing about the cars was dirty. - Finally the train stopped at a town named Ait-Davun. and there Was a mob of women and children around, as usui/r, ready, for us with briekx and spjt. They stoned ,us through the car windows, ami laughed .and jeered at us, but by this time we were so used to it that we did hot iiiind much. Only, every now and then some fellow would get all he could stand; and that, hut also of rocks'afid bottles and | sticks and most anything that could be thrown. All this time, “lest you forget,” we bail no shoes, and no clothing—only \yhat had once been our underwear. >’ It is all right to .be a Coney Island snowbird and pose around in your The excruciating pain which, comes from a lame back is quickly alleviated by a prompt application of Yager’s Liniment Sufferers from rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia, sprains, etc. should always keep a bot tle of t'Yager’s” handy as its penetrative qualities quickly bring relief from pain. At aQ dealers. Price 35 cents. The large bottle of Yager's Lini ment contains twice as much as the usual 60c bottle of liniment. bathing suit in the drifts, because you of schwelnhunde, either talk hack or make a pass at somebody. Then'he ,would'get his— either a bayonet-through; the arm of leg, or a crash on the head with a gun / V’ II are in good condition, and last but ndt / XXI 1 least, because you do not have to ao ~\ '*• Figure out the other side of it ——7- \ \ \ ' for yourself.' 4 \F \ / ^ They marched us into a field where V\ there, was nothing much but guns and ~~ Every mother realizes, after giving ammunition and snow, and set us up tier children “California Syrup of in something like skirmish formation. Figs,” that this is, their ideal iaxutive, We_ stood there for some time, and because thej? love its pleasant taste 1 b°n we a l°t of Huns with the and it thoroughly cleanses the teuder n<!W l° n ^ rifles coming toward us, little stomach, liver nud bowels with- .'oiling just as they did in battle, and out griping. • , we thought 'sure we were being used When cross, irritable, feverish, or for Practice targets. It Is a good breath is bad. stomach sour, look at thin « th ?¥ antJ sto W‘ d y^Hng the-tongue. Mother! ‘ If^ coated. give wlum_tIier did. or we would have After an eighteen hour ride, with out food or drink, we arrived at Neu- strelitz. It was raining as we pulhnl in. As we went up the grade to the town we could see lights about, a mile Ytway, anff we figuredthat thafwas the camp. The rain stopped and, we remained in the cars for some time. Then, after a while, we knew our new guards were coming; long before we could see them, we could hear the racket they made. Somehow a'Ger- GILBERT BROS. & CO. BALTIMORE, MD. man cannot do anything shipshape a teaspoonl ul of this, harmless. rifles froin ffie sdnfrTcS and u5e Thera ind neatly, hut always has to have a laxative, Every Woman Want* foot, constipated waste, soqr bile and with hands In the air. and, too undigested food passes out of the bow els, and you have a well, playful child again. When the little systerii js full of cold, throat sore, ha4 stpmach-ache, di arrhoea, indigestion, colic—remember, a good “Inside cleansing” should al ways he the first treatment given. Millions of mothers keep “California Syrup of Figs" handy; they know a teasiM>onful today saves. n sick child to-morrow. Ask yobr druggist for a bottle of “California Syrup of Figs,” which has directions for babies, chil dren of all ages and grown-ups printed on the bottle. Beware of counterfeits sold hece, so don’t he fooled. Get the genuine, mnili* by “California Fig Brown lot of noise, and running around, and general confusion. Four-footed swine are more orderly in their habits than They posted a sentry there in addi tion to the regular guards, and every ould publish what I time he walked past me he would kick the Iluns really mean. We hud stoves In the barracks, but l\jf coal" or wood to burn. There were many boxes piled up there, but they belonged to the Germans. We would have burnod them If we could, but the Germans made us carry them across the road. They weighed about m pounds -apiece, and we were so weak that it was all two men could do to budge them. And we had to carry them; they wofild not let us roll them. We were so cold and hungry that even rounded us, and drilled us awuy through swamps and woods and shal low water or slush. The women fol-‘ lowed, too, and there were plenty of-j bricks and spit left. 1 Women ns well ax men are the same the world over,’ they say. I wonder? You can Just picture the women of, say, Itockland, Me., following a crowd of German- prisoners that way, can’t you? Not! But of course the women of Rockland are pretty crude—no icultur at all— and ’ Gott 'nevyr cormnisshyied Presi- ine or spit on me, or ’do both. One time he kicked me so hard that a prong ‘of the barbed wire gashed me over the left eye—the only one I can see with—and when the bloqd ran into my eye It blinded me. I thought both eyes were gone then, and I hoped they would shoot me. It seemed te me that I bad got my share by thls-time without losing the other eye, and if It was gone, I wanted to When they came up, we were roust ed from the curs and drilled up the road to the camp. When we got near the German barracks we were halted and counted again, and made to stand there for at least an honr after they had finished counting us, shivering like leaves. At last they placed us in barracks, and those who could went to sleep. —■** \ There were about forty barracks in the Limey group at NeustrelMz and two large Zeppelin sheds. The bar racks were Just about like those at Swtnemunde—at least, they were no better. Along the sides of the rooms were long shelves or benches, and every three feet were boards set in FOR PERSONAL HYGIENE Dinolnd la water for douches atepa pelvic catarrh, ulceration astd nation. Recommended by Lydia E. Pmkham Med. Co. for tea yean. A heeling wonder for nasal catarrh, sore throat and sore eyes. Economical. I could not put up my hand to feel where the prong hud jabbed me, and It kept on bleeding and smarting. I hud on practically fio clothing, you re member. The wounds in my thigh had opened, and It was bitter cold and windy. So you can picture to your self how gay and carefree I was. When I had been there for an hour and a half they untied me from the wire, and I keeled over on my back. They kicked me until I had to stand up, but I fell down again, and all the kicking Id Germany could"not have brought me to my feet. I was Just all In. So they blew their whistles and the sentries in the barracks awakened When Conditions Are Right. Bonnier—Didn’t you tell me you could sleep under blankets at night In this place? ... Owner—So-you can, when It’s col4 enough.—Sati Francisco Chronicle. dent Wilson to take the lid off the that exercise did not warm us, About 2:30 the whistle-blew’ again, and the Jluns picked out a few men aud took them down the road. We could not figure out why, but' they came hack almut three o’clock, all of them wtth bread In their arms. They were chewing nwny on • It w’hen they had a chance. Whenever the sentries were not looking they would bite at it like a fish going nfter a worm. Each man curried live loaves. When they got in the barracks the sentries made them put the bread down on the floor, and then, w’ith tfielr bayonets, the sentries cut each strafe pot for him Syrup Company They drilled us along the docks, and it looked ns though-the whole Genuuu navy was tied up qt Swtnemunde. We saw many of the ships we hud Frenchman Invented Zeppelin. How many people are aware that Count Zopf**lin was not the rrtti in ventor of the Zeppellq? As a matter of fact, a "Frenchman, Mauriee Chev- nnux, conceived the idea, and it .vv^is from his plans that the first yionster airship was able to fly."' Chevreux, who was a naval engineer, has recent- l> died’; since the commencement of the war he had prneti«*nily lived the life of a hermit ; some say because of his grief at hplnflk the Innocent" cause grooves. The shelves were what heard phout, among them being the famous Vulcan, the mother-shfp for submarines. There were many sail ors loafing along the docks, and they gave the women a hand with their days’ work. They, were no better with a brick, hut they had more ammunition when It came to spitting. One of them tripped a young hoy by the name of KeJJy. and ns-jou would never doubt, Kelly picked up a rock and crushed the sailor with it. ne was then buy- oueted twice in the left leg. We be gan singing then, our popular favorite. ‘Park up your troubles,” etc., ami when they heard us, how the swine had to sleep on, and the boards in-, the grooves divided them up so that only a certnln number of men could use each bench. - The following morning we nearly dropped dead when the Huns pulled In a large wagon full of clothing. Ws thought we never would have any thing to wear but onr underclothes. Tfiey Issued to each man a pair of Only 73 In 1,000 letters delivered In the United Kingdom come from t broad. . — GUARANTEED TO INSTANTLY RELIEVE {own the center lengthwise two of the boys, who came and carried trousers and four times across, which meant ten men to a loaf nhom the size of an me in. All the time the sentries were yell ing, “Gott strufe England!” and about like the seersucker coats some people wear In the summer, an over coat about as warm as If it had been IN V/SK FOB It YKAHI schweinhund until you would have made of cigarette papers, a skull cap and a pair of shoes, which were a day’s labor to carry around. Not one of. us recelvtsl socks, shirts or under wear. The toe was cut from the right shoe of the pair I received, and as my wounds were in the right thigh and my leg had stiffened up considerably and got very sore, I got pretty anx ious, because there was nothing but sad Charleston Wakefield, 8t»o- slush underfoot, and I was afraid I eawJon and Flat Dutch. By express, 800, might lose my leg. So I thought that •?’°? ; 6 »°°® $1.75; 10,000 up it t . .. . . at $1.50, f. o. b. here. Parcel post, prepaid, if I went to the commander and made 100( 35c: 1,000, 82.50. Wholesale and retell! thought they were in a battle, their idea was I do not know. The boys had u little water in a can, aud one of them tore off part of thexslecve of his undershirt. So they washed the gash and bandaged It. Believe me, I was glad when I could see again. I was so tired and worn out Lha-t I went to sleep at once, and did not wake up until they w’ere giv ing us our barley coffee next raorn- What The qaii-k and lire ( are for malaria, chills, fever and la grippi It le a Power; al Tonic and Appetiser Will cure that tired fet-llug, peine ia back, Um i.e and head. Coaialna ao qalalae* arsenic or hablt-formtac lngredleat. <’ount Zeppelin was able 11 > eventually Then they’ drilled, us past the Ger man soldiers’ quarters. The men were at rifle jiractice, and I guess ull of us thought how’ handy we would be us targets. But when we got near them, for hours in the air they quit practicing and crowded iround us yellin Ilaus! Zuruck! Finally iiill, and were halted near the bar racks while an officer read the mar Thousands upon thousands of women Germany to us. At least have kidney and bladder trouble and thought maybe that was it. Finally they ,let us into the bar- iiicKs, and the first thing we saw was a great pile qt hay. That looked good to us, nnd we made h rush and dived into It. But the Huns told us to tuke the ^iny and throw It In the middle of the road. They had to use force be fore we would do It. Finally we gave in, hettvever, and started to carry it out. Some of* the young boys were crying, an( j 1 (j 0 no j bi Qnre them CHAPTER XIX German Prison Camps. A few days after I had been lashed to the barbed wire fence some of the German officers came to the barracks, nnd one of them who spoke \ery good English said: “All of the neutrals who were on unarmed ships step out” Only a few stepped out. Then he called for all the neutrals, aud the Dahes, Swedes, Norwegians, Brazilians qncL Spaniards stepped out. But when I did, he said, “No, not Americans. Americans are not ‘neu tral. America supplies our ene&les with foocTand ammunition.” He raised his fist, and 1 1 thought he was going to lilt me. but lnstejad he gave me a shove that caused me to fall and get a little cut on the head. Then the sentries pushed me over with the British and the French. — -.After that they took - the Norwegi ans, Swedes and Danes to separate barracks;.and gave them clothes and beds and the same rations as^th#-Ger man soldiers. When I saw. this L made a kick and said I was a neutral, too, and ought to get the same treats ment as the Scandinavians. They took me to the* officers ugain, kicked me about and swore at me, and the only Women’s complaint* often prove to b« nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result .of kidney or bladder disease. If the kidneys are not in a healthy condition, they may cause the other or gana to become diseased. * — - Pain in the back, headache, loss of anf- bition, nervousness, are often times symp toms of kidney trouble. Don’t delay starting treatment. Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, a physician’s pre scription, obtained at any drug store, may be just the remedy needed to overcoma such conditions. *’ V Get a medium or large size bottle im mediately from any drug store. ^ However, if you wish first to test thia peat.- preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer <fc Co., Binghamton, N. Y.r for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper.—Adv, Your Best Asset —-A Skin Cleared By—— Cuticura Soap the open toe for some time, and I thought he us going to put up an argument, but would give In finally. Then he asked me what I wanted. . I thought that was plalq enough to see, but I said Just' as easily as I could that I wanted a shoe without a hole in the toe. “So the water runs into It, does It?” he said. "Well,.ray advice to you Is'to get a knife, cut a hole in the heel and let the water out.”* AH the other 1 swine in the room laughed very loud ! nt this, and I guess this Fritz thought I 'he was a great comedian. But some how or other, It did not strike mg so funny that I Just had to laugh, and I was able, after quite a struggle, to keep from <■ yen "snickering. It yvus a harder struggle than that to keep from doim- something else, though! Our mealsiw're Just about the same as at, Swinemunde-—the bread was j 1 just as muddy, the barley coffee just ag rank,| and he soup just as. cab- \ bageless. The second morning after •,\re had had c barley coffee, one of ; 1 the sentries camp to our barracks, ! which was number 7-B, and gave each I °J us an envelope and a sheet of writ ing paper. r f’hpn he told us- to write j to anybody we w»nf* ; d-to, after which he chalked on the door Iff big letters: • KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER ; 1 ttnd told ns it was the return address. H We were ail surprised, and asked each. | other where we were, because we had j thought we were in Neustrelitz. After a while, we learned (hat it means j “Prisoner-of-War-Camp." - At first, -though, *m;my of u,x thought it was ! much; But one of the boys tried to hide some of the hay behind a box and was eaught doing it, nnd two sentries clouted him from one end of the bar- rucks to the other. His nose was broken and hjs face mashed to a Jelly. But there was nothing we could do, so we Just wandered dp and down the barracks, about as we did between decks on the Moew.e, trying to keep warm. While this marathon was on we heard a whistle blown very loudly, nnd when we looked out we saw a FOB ACCEPTANCE lnsld* SO dmrau . yon T6S acret-4 ntlN Odom, Wayno Co., G«oc| rloesl Tobacco Lands AUtontbl*. S million (Nt tlmbor. Brick ala,— —Idwelling*. Tcrpontln©will 1«M8for Boeda money. Worth 190 per aero. Prlco I1US acre. TI1C8. J. ABUNaEl * a wo off) w ——i viDDfjJ In tba aootk. _ "JwMaE k clay a tore WBOwmi tr acre. Prlco IlkM oat ■iLTI (XX. Jaaap,6o. ordinary ten-ceht loaf In this country now. They gave each of us a piece a little larger than a safety-match All He Wants Said of Him. “I don’t want any praise for what I’m doing in this war." Make Money Right Ai Home > • The bread was hard and dark, and I really think they made it from trees^ It had Just ^cactly the sanie smell that tue dirt around trees'has.- * '.a We filed past the sentries single file to get our ration of this mud. aud there was no chance of getting in lhre twice, for we had to keep on filing until we were out in the road; and stand there in the snow to eat it. We could not go hack in the barracks un til every man had been served. Our meals were like this: A can of hurley coffee In the morning; cabhage soup, so culled] at noon; a tenth of a loaf of bread at 3 p. m. That was our menu day in and day out, the kaiser’s birthday, Lincoln’s, May day, or auy / other time. This Cabbage soup was a greaj. idea. We culled It shadow soup, because the We want a live agent in your locality t# sell our steel corn cribs, grain bins and agricultural implements. will pay lib eral commissions to the right person. No, stock need be carried. We have the goods to deliver when abld, and advertise freely to stimulate aalea. Take up this useful and profitable proposition today. Write at once for full particulars. THE FARM EQUIPMENT CO. 902 Keysar Bldg., . Baltimore. Md. wagon piled up with old tin cans. advantage of a schoolboy and buy a Then we were told to form single file, flfty-dollar bond from him when I’d have been dslmmed to take less than two thousand dollars’ worth from, a grown man.”. - / // wi^lk out, to the wagon and each get a cari for himself. Each mun had to take the find can he laid his hquds on, and many of us got rusty ones with holes in them. So that, about half an hour latetf, wfaeji we. received barley coffee, and all we had to drink it from wqs the cans, lots of the men had to drink theirs almost in one gulp or lose half of 1L; * , The Barracks were very dirty and smelled horribly, nnd the meal.were still i^ot even half clothed. Vve all looked filthy and smelled that way, and where the cosil dust had rubbed •off, we were very pale. And all of us were starved looking. About eleven o'clock that morning fhe whistle blew again, and came, out and were given an aluminum' spoon and a dish apiec£. Then we * "Cold In the Head” la an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh. Per sons who are subject to frequent “colda In the head" will find that the use of HATiL’S . CATARRH MEDICINE will KODAKS & SUPPLIES We also do hi ah ret class of flolshlug. Prices and Catalogue upon r»|iaA S. Calctki Optical Ca., RictewaJ, Vfe boys claimed they made it. by hanging, a cabbage over a lmTfeTof wat^r and letting the shadow fall on the*'water. \Ve pretended.’too, that if ydtt-found qny cabbage in it, you could thke your dish buck for a second helping. But f never, saw anybody get more than one dishful. All It was. was Ju»t Deep-Seated Colds ~Th)* 4f«0f Washington the .United States. wnirren develop serious complications if neglected. Use an _old.Jod^trye-toed remedy that baa given aaUafactiori for more than fifty years PISO’ The occasional use of Roman Eye Balaam at night qpon retiring will prevent and re* Jleve tired, watery eye*, and eye strain. Adv. W, N. U-, CHARLOTTE, NO. (TO-BE CONTINUED.} YAGERS LINIMENT RELIEVES PflJN ANTISEPTIC POWDER ’«.( , v . / —‘-T-f—-'—- fm ~ y. * . ' ■« * ^ J - 1 U r. gM'hm M * J