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, ? YORKVILIE ENQUIRER. IS8PED SEMI-WKKKLT. _ ijj orist'8 sons. Pabiiihers j S dfatnilsr Jleurspapcr: ?'or the promotion of the political, Social, Sgrirullaral and (Commercial ^Interests of the people i ?tl^i?MpVrEtIlvliNct?*NCt ESTABLISHED ISM YORK^sTC.. TrE^PAY, MARCH lt>TT9ia' NO. 4:? ! "OVER Tf By ARTHUR G 1 An American Boy Who G Years Before H ?'<?! > rurht, l?y Arthur fJuy Kr CIIAI'TKIC XIX. 'h On His Own. ?*ji (ii <ours< Tommy cannot always !?< th in</'Iih iiik plays iiiahr fir?- hut while- *l? in est hilh ts la- has numerous other th ways of amusing himself. Il< Is a groat Kiiiiihh-r. hut la-vi r |?la>s for ni ..? ... ii. h c?iin- tr Inim slams. ? ii? ii.n?, I'.int, you will liml a ri-aular ("antii-hl. |j| This man hanks mat If all tin* nanus is if chaiin* ami is an uiiiiis|iuti*il au- |?j thoniy mi tin? iiil?s nl miiril'linx. (ii Whi*ni*M;r thirc* is an ar^una lit ;tf| ammiK tin- Toiiiiiik's nlmut soim* an- < <( ( rtaiii jiiiint as in wlu-ihcr llouahton |)V is **ii111Jt*ti to Wat kins' six|M*iifi.-, tlx* ln matt' i is lak' ii In tin ri-foKiii?fil au- 11<> Ih'iMly ami his lii-fision is liual. 11, Tin- two must |?<|nilar gaiins at'* m "ciiittii ami anchor" ami "house." p*, Tim |iaiii|'li?llialla us'-il ill "frown ,.,* ami am hm" tmisisls nl a |?i?*?-?- nl fan- js vas two It-i-l h> thrff iff*. This is UH iliviih-il into si\ equal squares. In these \j>: squares an; |iainti*<l a fluli, iliaiunml, \*, In ai l, sjia'h, crown ami an anchor, | om ili tjii* in a squall*. There an* Iw three till iisi iI, each illfi* market! tilt* ,*;( saim* as tin* canvas. Tin* hanker si*ts ^V| up his kaiiihliiiK <>uttit in tin* corner nl a hilh't ami starts hally-honing until a M1 i rotnl nl Tomiiiii's Katlifts aruuml: T|, lln-ii tin.* calm* starts. .... Tin* Tommies I'lafi* l?*ts on tin S)i squares, tin* iiottn or author I-inu |n |>l;i\ill tin* most. Tin* luilikiT thin |);| lolls his three- illi f ami i olIffts in* I'lits |. out as tin fast* mat hi*. It ton play t?n* i lotto ami oim shows ii|i mi tin* s.. In i. tun ai t fti-n money, ii two show t|(. ii , , i.I>. vou in i ni xwo io , 1S| I III?- *. tiller to <? ?? . It III"' ITIUMI dors ||(| i.<>I :i|?|?ur mihI ><>ii have bet on it. |||( oil lose, iiiul sn on. Tli?' |m i rentage | i.i lor tin banker is large if every si|iiaiv (|.t is played, lint ii tli?- crowd is partial |j|; to, say two S?|Uares, he has to tiust |||; to lurk. The hanker generally wins. Tin* ^aine of "house" is very popu |((( lar also. It takes two men to run it. | This faille consists oi numerous | s<|iiai<s oi carilhoaril containing throe ^ rows of niiiiihers, live nuiiihers to a ,|1( row. The numbers run from one to .w| ninety. Kach card has a different combination. , Tile I'rem h "estailliliets" in the villages are open from eleven in the .(|| morning until one in the afternoon in t||( accordance with army orders. jh. After 'inner the Tommies congrc- mj gale at these places to drink French 0jj ? peer id". '|K>ntly a glass ?;iriu ,al "Ionise." ,l? As soon as the estaillillet is siltll- on( eieiitlv crowded the proprietors of the "lions#'" iiiinii' get busy and, as they term it. "form a school." This consists lo| ot going around and selling cards at ( a lnine each. If they have tell in the ((1 school, the Imckers oi Ili?- tame de- ..|(| duet two I lanes for their trouble and j|u tie winners get eight francs. so| Tlo'ii the game starts. Kach buyer SU( places Ids card before him on tlx- |.,, table, llrst breaking up matches into |M(( fifteen pieces. sj, ?>iu' oi the barkers of the game has a small cloth bag in which are :mi | cardboanl s<|iiarcs. eaeli with a mini- (|lt Iht printed thereon. innii one iu | lb- raps mi tin- tal?lt' and cries out: "Eyes down. m> lucky lads." II,. All imisc I'cusi'M ami every one is at- ' tent lea. tlx The crtui|iicr places his liaml in the j.,,, liaK ami draws forth a niiinlieretl lol si|iiare ami immediately calls out the no| iiumher. The mall who owns the card | with that particular number on it. ?UI covers the stpiarc with a match. The one who covers the tit teen numbers on j0| his caul llrst shouts "house." The sj1( other backer Immediately comes over ur. to him and verities the card by calling ?? out the numbers thereon to the man i Willi I lie bag. As each number is x,? called lie picks it out ol' the ones |j|s picked from the ban and says "lliglit." j|r, If the count Is right he shouts. "House m correct, pay the lucky gentleman, ami j0., sell him a card for the next school." st., The "lucky gentleman" generally buys p,., one unless he has a miser trace in his str veins. 2 Then another collection is made, a s(,, school termed. and they carry on with an, the game. po, The caller-out has many nicknames jjV( ,? chum. I'm sweating on "Kelly's Eye.' ja, for one, "l.eg's Eleven" for eleven. jus t'lickety-click" for sixty-six. or "Top p0( oi the house" meaning ninety. ; The game is honest and unite en- jK., joy able. Sometimes you have four- p,. teen numbers on your card covered c.? | and you arc waiting for the fifteenth OI, to l?e called. In an imploring voice | you call out. 'Conic on, Wat kins. cj? chum. I'm sweating on "Kelly's Kye." an, Wat kins generally replies. "Well, keep out of a draft, you'll catch cold." wp Vnolher game is "Pontoon," played wj, Willi cards; it is the same as our s|c "black-jack." or "twenty-one." nu, A card game called "brag" is also a | popular. I'sing a casino ileck. the fs dealer^ deals each player three cards. It is similar to our poker, except for 0d. the fact that you only use three cards i 'and cannot draw. The deck is never th< shuttled until a man shows three of a thy kind or a "prile" as it is called. The tht value ot the hands are. lugh card, a it pair, a run. a tlush or three of a kind |)r( or "prile." The limit is generally a l>onny, so it is hard to win a fortune. n0 The next in popularity is a card | game called "nap." It is well named, on Every time I played It I went to sleep. ? *?? lilili'iul 11V toll nin? iinu win biim .? * nli the highbrow.* of the company. ?t When the gamblers tire of all other tee games they try "banker and broker." spi 1 ai>ent a week trying to teach some his of the Tommies how to play poker, but js because 1 won thirty-live francs they ] declared that they Jidn't "fawncy" the col game. am Tommy plays few card games: the km general run never heard of poker, eu- lar chre. seven up, or pinochle. They have a game similar to pinochle called is "Royal Bexique," but few know how na to play it. fie! Generally there are two decks of Ze; cards In. a section, and in short time ' IE TOP" UY EMPEY rot Into the War Two .'is Country. "py. 1 < y are so dog-eared ami greasy, you n hardly tell the .ice of spades from are of hearts. The owners of these eks sometimes condescend to lend era after much coaxing. So you sec. Mr. Atkins has his fun ixed in with his hardships and, eor>ary to ]>opular belief, the rank and e of the Hritish army in the trenches one big happy family. Now in Virnia. at school. I was fed on old Me- 1 jff's primary reader, which wave me i opinion of an Kngiishman about ' ual to ;i '7fi Minute Man's backed up ' a Sinn KViner's. Hut I found Totny to be the best of mates and a genman through and through. He never inks of knocking his officers. If on<akes a costly mistake and Tommy \s with his blood, there is no genaI condemnation of the officer. He just pitied, it is exactly the same it was with the Light brigade at ^ ilaelava, to say nothing of liuppipoli, live t'hupelle and Loos. Personally ^ remember a little incident where enty ol us were sent on a trench id. only two of us returning, but I ' II tell this story later on. I said it was a big happy family, and it is. but us in all happy families. ' ere are servants, so in the liritsli my there are also servants, officers' rvants, or "< i. S." as they are termed. the American army the common iiic from theni is "dog robbers." oiii a controversy in the Knglish , iters. Winston t'hurehill made the it) mi nt, as fur as I can remember, ' it tin- ullirrrs' servants in the Itrit- . i I'oiris totaled marly two hundred nsaiDl. Ho claimed that this rei ivi'd two litiiD 11I'll thousaml excepmally good anil well-trained lighters J mi tin- actual tiring line, claiming it the otlicers, when selecting a j hi for servant's duty, generally piekthe man who hail been out the | igest anil knew the ropes. . ( Hut from my observation I ttnd that large pcreenetagc of tlie servants ilo over the top, but tu-hlnd the lines y very seldom engage in digging ( itits, latigues, parades or drills. . lis work Is as necessary as actually ( tracing in an attack, therefore I ink it would be safe to sat that the I' i | -round work of the two hundred imsatid men arc ahout ct|iial to fifty jusand men who are on straight ( litury duties. In numerous instances ( loots' servants hold the rank of ice-cor|?orai8 "and they assume t lie ( ties und authority of ? luitler, the , i* stripe giving mm primwrnT utn other servants. ritt'ii' arc lots of amusing stories <1 of "O. S." >ne iln.v one of our majors went inthe servants' billet ami commenced liiuling" at them. saying that his j rse had no straw and that he per- , tally knew the straw had been isL'd for this pur|tose. lie called the iee-eorporal to account. The corral answered. "Itlind me, sir. the aw was issued, but there wasn't J nugh left over from the servants' ils! in fact, we had to use some of > 'ay to VIp out, sir." t is needless to say that the servts dispensed with their soft beds it particular night. Nevertheless it is not the fault of J individual officer, it is just the rvival of a quaint old Knglish cusn. You know an Englishman cant be changed in a day. tut the average Knglish officer is a ,?d sort. He will sit on a tire step il listen respectfully to Private ites's theory of the way the war t add be conducted. This war is { uluully crumbling the once itisur- \ mutable wall of caste. I foil would be convinced of this if j 11 could see King tieorge go among i men on tin inspecting tour under .? \ or pause before a little wooden | iss in some shell-tossed held with t irs In his eyes as he reads the in- | iption. And a little later fierhaps ml over a wounded man on a i etcher, imtting hltn on the head. Ilore than once In a hospital I have i n a titled Ibtl Cross tiurtc fetching t il carrying for a wounded soldier, i rhaps the one who in civil life de- t ered the coal at her hack door. Toy she does not shrink from lighting 1 i fag or even washing his grimy iy. ( Pommy admires Albert of Belgium j ause he is not a pusher of men: > leads them. With hint it's not a le of "take that trench." it is "come t and we will take It." t 4s amusing to notice the different ? iraeteristics of the Irish. Scoteh i .1 English soldiers. The Irish and t ntch are very Impetuous, especially y ion it comes to bayonet lighting, r ile the Knglishman, though a trifle t wer, thoroughly does his bit: he is y ue methodical tittd has the grip ot i bulldog on a captured position. n?slower to think; that is the reason t i.v he never knows when he Is liek- | i Twenty minutes before going over > top the English Tommy will sit on t ? lire step and thoroughly examine t mechanism of his rifle to see that j is in working order and will tire I >peiiy. After this examination he satisfied and ready to meet the r ehes. I tut the Irishman or Scotchman sits the lire step, his rifle with bayonet I ed between his knees, the butt of 1 ilch perhaps Is sinking Into the mud i he bolt couldn't be opened with a 1 im of horses it is so rusty?but he 1 its on his sleeve and slowly polishes i bayonet; when this is done he also j ready to argue with Fritz. < t is not necessary to mention the 1 onlals (the Canadians, Australians t il~New Zealanders). the whole world ows what they have done for Eng- i id. t The Australian and New Zealander I termed the "Anzac." taking the me from the first letters of their of- i !al designation, Australian and New i aland army corps. t Tommy "divides the Germany army i \ . ?- ..? ? into three classes according to their tichtinK abilities. They rank as follows: Prussians. Bavarians and Saxuns. When up against a Prussian regiment it is a vase of keep your nippcr Below the parapet and duck. A BangBang all tin- tune and a war is on. The Bavarians are little lietter. But the Saxons are fairly good sports and are wdling occasionally to Behave as gentlemen and take it easy. But you runnot trust anv of them overlnng. At one point of the line the trenches were about thirty-two yards ii|?art. This sounds horrible, I>ut in tact it was easy hccaiisc neither side could shell the enemy's front-line trench tor fear shells would drop into their own. This eliminated artillery tire. In these trenches when up against the Prussians and Itavarians. Tommy had a hot time of It. hut when the Saxons "took over" it was a picnic: they would yell across that they were Saxons and would not tire. I loth sides would sit on the parapet and carry on ii conversation. This generally consisted of Tommy telling them how much he loved the kaiser, while the Saxons informed Tommy that King (Jeorge was a particular friend of theirs and the\ hoped that he was doing nic? ;y. When the Saxons were to he relieved by Prussians or Knvarians. they would yell this information across No Man's l.'ind and Tommy would immediately tumble into his trench and keep his head down. If an Knglish regiment was to he relieved by the wild Irish. Tommy would tell tlie Saxons, and imniediltd) a volley of "Homier and lllit?ens" could be heard and it was Pritz's I tun to g<t a crick in his hack front stooping, and the people in Iterlin WOUIU HUM' iiit'ir HHiiwnn. t'stially when an Irishman t:ik?-s aver n trench. just before "stand town" in tin* morning. in- sticks his lilli- h\it the tup. aimed in tin- dircetion of Bi't'lin, ami engages i'i what is known as the "mail minute." This onsists of firing lift urn shots in a ninutc. He is not aiming at anything n particular- just semis %ovcr each diot with a prayer, hoping that one if his strays will get some poor unuispccting Fritz in the napper handii'ils of yards behind the lines. It Kenrally does: that's the reason the ItiH'hes hate tiie man from Erin's isle. Tiie Saxons, thoiiKh better than the I'russians and Itavarians. have a nastv irait of treaehery in their makeup. At one i>oint of the line where the [reaches were very close, a stake was Jriven into the (pound midway l?c[ween the hostile lines. At night when it was his turn. Tommy would crawl :o this stake and tack some. London papers to it, while at the foot he would place tins of bully beef, fans, sweets, ind other delicacies that he had read veil from BliKhty In the ever looked for juircel. loiter on fritz would oine out and get these JLuxtU^Sv . Cfc4t. .pig o see what Fritz put into his stocking, riie donation Kenerally consisted of a paper from Berlin, tellinK who was p mniiiK the war. some tinned sausage, mars, and occasionally a little beer nit a funny thing. Tommy never reamed with the beer unless it was indite of hlin. His platoon got a whiff of lis breath one night and the offending ronuny lost his job. One night a young Knglish sergeant rawled to the stake and as he tried to |eInch the thrman paper a bomb ex loiled and mangled him horribly, "ritz had set a trap and gained nnoth r victim which was only one more ilack mark against him in the book ot his war. From that time on diplomatic relations were severed. lb-turning to Tommy. I think his ipirit is best shown in the iiuestions ic asks. It is never "who is going to ,vin," but always "how long will it ake?" CHAl'TEIt XX. "Chats With Fritz." We were swimming in money from he receipts of our theatrical venture, md had forgotten all about the war, .vheii an order came through that our it'igade would again take over their lector of the line. The day that these orders were Isiued. our captain assembled the company and asked for volunteers to goto he machine gun school at St. Omar. volunteered and was accepted. Sixteen men from our brigade left 'or the course In machine gunnery. Phis course lasted two weeks and wi fjoined our unit and were assigned to he brigade machine gun company. It ilmost broke my heart to leave my otnpany mates. The gun we used -was the Tickers. I....ht .303. water cooled. I was still a member of the Suicide lub, having Jumped from the fry in; mn into the lire. 1 was assigned to action 1. gun No. 2. und the tirst tinu in" took position in the front-line renen. During the day our gun would be lismounted on the Are step ready for nstant use. We shared a dugout with he Lewis gunners. At "stand to" we vould mount our gun on the para pot ind go on watch beside It until "stand] lown" In the morning. Then the gun vould' be dismounted and again placed n readiness on the tire step. We did eight days In the front-line roneh without anything unusual haptening outside of the ordinary trench outine. On the night that we were to 'carry out" a bombing raid against he German lines wns pulled off. Th s Gliding party consisted of sixty comuiny men, sixteen bombers and four L<ewis machine guns with their crews. The raid took the Boches by surprise mil was a complete success, the party ringing back L'l prisoners. The Hermans must have been awfuly sore, because they turned loose a wirrage of shrapnel, with a few "Min?ies" and "whiz bangs" intermixed. The shells were dropping into our front ine like hailstones. To get even, we could have left the risonirs in the Are trench, in charge >f the men on guard and let them click 'ritz's strafetng but Tommy does not rent prisoners that way. Five of them were brought into my lugout and turned over to me so that hey would be safe from the Herman ire. In the candlelight, they looked very nuch shaken, nerves gone and chalk> laces. *^ith the exception of one. a PXat big fellow. He looked very mueh it ease. I liked him from the start. 1 got out the rum jar anil gate eaeh a nip and passed around some fag*. the oM reliable Woodbines. The other prisoners looked their gratitude, hut the big t'ellow said in Knglish. "ThanI you, sir, the* ruin is excellent and I apprwiate it. also your kindness. I If told rn?- his nanif was Pari Schmidt, of tin- Sixty.sixth Mavarian Light infantry; that he had lived six ye.ns in New York (knew the cit> hotter than 1 did), had been to Poney j island and many of our hall games. Hi- was a regular fan. I couldn't make him hi-llfvo that Hans Wagner wasn't the lust ball player in the world. ! Krom New York he had gone to Ia>iidon, where he worked as a waiter in the Hotel Itussell. Just before the war he went home to Germany to see his parents, the war came and he was conscripted. He told me he was very sorry to) hear that London was in ruins from the Zeppelin raids. I could not convince hint otherwise, for hadn't he seen moving pictures in one of the German cities of St. Paul's cathedral in ruins? I changed the subject because he was so stubborn in his belief. It was my intention to try and pump him for information as to the methods of the German snipers, who had been causing us trouble in the last few days. I broached the subject and he shut up like a clam. After a few minutes lie very innocently said: 'tierman snipers get paid rewards tor killing the English." I eagerly asked, "What are they?" "For killing or wounding an English private the sniper gets one mark. For killing or wounding an English officer he gets live marks, hut it he kills a I ted Cap or English general, the sniper gets twenty-one days tied to the wheel ol' a limber as punishment for his ealawlessness." Then he paused, waiting for me to I lite, 1 suppose. I hit ull right and asked him \\ h> the sniper was punis'hed for killing an English general. With a smile he replied: "Well, you see, if all the English generals were killed, there would he 110 one left to make costly mistakes." I shut hiin up, lie was getting tori I'resh lor a'prisoner. After a while he winked at me and I winked hack, then the escort came to take the prisoners to the rear. 1 shook hands and wished him "The best of luck and a safe journey to Ullghty." I liked that prisoner, he was a fine fellow, had an Iron Cross, loo. I advised him to keep it out of sight, or some Tommy would be sending it home to his girl in Rlighty as a souvenir. One dark and rainy night while on his rifle to aim. His challenge was answered in German. A captain in the next ti averse climbed upon the stand Itagged parapet to investigate?a brave but foolhardy deed?"Crack" went a bullet and he tumbled back into the trench with a hole through his stomach and died a few minutes later. A lance corporal in the next platoon was so enraged at the captain's death that In- chucked a Mills bomb In the direction of the noise with the shouted warning to us: 'Duck your nappcrs, my lucky lads." A sharp dynamic report, a flare in front of us and then silence. We immediately sent up two star shells, und in their light could see two dark forms lying 011 the ground close to our wire. A sergeant and four stretcher-bearers went out in front and soon returned, carrying two limp bodies. Down in the dugout, in the tliekering light of three candles, we saw that they were two German of ti eers, one a captain and the other an "unterolHzler," a rank one grade high er than a sergeant general, out ueiuw the grade of lieutenant. The captain's face had been almost completely torn away by the bomb's explosion. The unterofllzier was alive, breathing with difficulty. In a few minutes he opened his eyes and blinked in the glare of the candles. The pair had evidently been drinking heavily, for the alcohol fumes were sickening and completely pervaded the dugout. I turned away in disgust, hating to see a man cross the Great Divide full of booze. One of our officers could speak German and he questioned the dying man. In a faint voice interrupted by frequent hiccoughs, the officer told his story. There had been a drinking bout among the officers In one of the German dugouts, the main beverage being champagne. With a drunken leer he informed us that champagne was plentiful on their side and that it did not cost them anything either. About 7 that night the conversation had turned to the "contemptible" English, and the captain hnd made a wager that he would hang his cap on the English barbed wire to show his contempt for the English sentries. The wager was .accepted. At eight o'clock the captain and he had crept out into Xo Man's l-and to carry out this wager. They had gotten about halfway across when the drink took effect and the captain fell asleep. After about two hours of vain attempts the unterofflzler had at last succeeded In wakinc the contain, reminded him of his bet, and warned him that he would be the laughing stock of the officers' mess If he did not accomplish his object, hut the captain was trembling all over and insisted on returning to the German lines. In the darkness they lost their bearings and crawled toward the English trenches. They reached the barbed wire and were suddenly challenged l-> our sentry. Being too drunk to realize that the challenge was in English, the captain refused to crawl back Finally the unterofflzier convinced his superior that they were in front of tfie English wire. Realizing this too late, the captain drew his revolver and with a muttered curse fired blindly toward our trench. His bullet no doubt klled our captain. Then the bomb came over and there he was. dying?and a good job, too, we thought The captain dead? Well, his men wouldn't weep at the news. Without giving us any further information the unterofflzier died. We searched the bodies for Identification disks but they had left every-1 thing behind before starting on the foolhardy errand. -\'ext afternoon we buried thctn our little cemetery apart from tl graves of the Tommies. If you evi go into that cemetery you will see tv little wooden crosses in the corner the cemetery set away from the rest They read: Captain German Army Died?1916 Unknown R. I. P. Unteroftlzier German Army Died?1916 Unknown. R. I. P. (To be Continued). J GERMANS AND THE TANKS. Ilies Capture Official Instruction ; to Meeting of the Engines. German soldiers are, as we at nounced several months ago, exper menting with tanks, but hitherto notl ing has been seen of the result < their efforts to copy the war engix invented by the allies, writes an Ai sociated Press correspondent from tl French front. In the meantime it is learned fro many sources that serious discon flture has been caused to the Gemini wnrncvtrr lilt' tUiiua imms n?**v ui.? employed against them. Detailed it struetions have been Issued to tl troops as to the methods by with to meet a tank attack. One of tl most recent orders was captured I the course of an incursion by ullit troops into the Oerman lines, reads in substance sis follows: "Trenches of a minimum width < from 13 to 13 1-3 feet und a dept of ten feet also thick mud. form vet serious obstacles to tanks, whie however, are easily capable of cross ing ploughed land or breaklr through barricades. It is not wort while to construct obstacles. It preferable to attack the tanks. "Tanks approaching the front shoui be attacked by the artillery before tl>? conic into action even when there small chance of hitting them. The es scntial thing is to prevent the infanti from following them and in ord?1 ' do this the enemy infantry must J ......i.. i.. i'..! i* ih.. imiii in the vicinil of tin* tanks. "The only practical way of attacl ing the tanks themselves is to pla< cannon about the advanced zone i the battlefield and by direct fire pi these war machines out of actio Every direct hit on a tank kills set oral of its crew and often sets tl (tank itself on fire. It inust be poin Lpd out that sections of artillery he rlr reserve behind the front often ai [unaware of what is proceeding ar [\hus arrive on the scene too late i Irv-et the tunks. In principle then f^r^TTTtr caimun afiuufd?be?pton well forward, so that the enemy mn not surprise us. The commander i the troops holding the front shoul lie responsible for selecting the pos tlons of the anti-tank guns. Canni mounted on motor-cars are very us< fu) for this work in districts whei the roads are good. "As to the infantry, they shoul make no breaches in the battle line ej copt to permit the undamaged tani to pass through. To do this the ii fantry should take shelter, but n< retreat, for the idea Is to allow tl tanks to advance so that they ma be put out of action behind our line The principal task of the infantry to meet and repulse the enemy ir fantry, but a number of detachc posts should be established hchit: the lines for the purpose of servln as a defense against the tunks. "The most efficacious infantry mis sile against a tank attack is tl armor-piercing bullet, whose elfec are greatly feared by the tank crew as these bullets not only penetral the armor but afterward produce fire to the gasoline reservoir. "The best method of attacking tank is from its rear, where the arn or Is lightest anld where it is m easy for the crew to fire on the a lackers. Should a fight against tanl occur in the sereets of a village tl infantry is in a favorable position 1 attack, as the men can take shclb in the ruined houses until the tnnl have passed und then open tire i point-blank range with rifles and mi chine guns. "Hand grenades are almost ine fectlve against tanks, hut ?m.i trench mortars when they Are at low angle sometimes obtain good r< [; ults , "I'rnrtlcal drill In anti-tank tactli should be carried out and thus tl tanl:s will lose their terrors for 01 troops." Labor on the Farm and in Town.Mr. A. S. Boyer, who runs 21 plow told me that at the end of this pa season everyone of his 21 tenants ha netted anywhere from $600 to $1,0< apiece. They spent it quickly and ir formed me that only the other da he had to pay out about $2,400 as beginning In 1918 advancements. Ar as to the advantage that the far negro- has over the day laborer cil negro, he told me of one negro wl a >ear ago left him with enough foot stuff to last him one year and wit over $600 who came up to August to work on a certain job. This negi came back to him a few days af with all of his money gone and ws wearing the same Identical suit < 41 Ua ?aa1t n-lth Him fpni nuuiea mai nc iwn ?*?*u ...... ..w his plantation. And yet in the face < this we have hundreds of negro me and negro women working in da labor matters here in this city wl could be reaping these large sums < money on the farm and who in tur on the same farm and in the raisin of food, would be serving their cour try ten thousand times better tha they are doing In the city here. T1 city seems to have a demoralizing el feet on these people. A groceryma told me that on yesterday, out < Jree porters In his s<ore, not or rned up for the day's work.?N. 1 lllet in Augusta Chronicle. I Cotton consumed during Februai amounted to 610,117 running bale and for the seven months 3.629.01 bales, the census bureau announce Friday. Last year In February 647 lf4 bales were consumed and in tl siren months period 1,904,H7. i SCHOOL OF THE SOLDIER in ;/r Men it Camp Sevier Preparing for "o ' Business. DISCIPLINE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON Bundle* of Stick* Without Gun* Stand for Fritzes Who Will Have Guns? Pack* the Men Will Have to Carry ?Reminder of Early School Days. Passed By The Censor. Correspondence The Yorkville Enquirer Camp Sevier, March 11?"On guard! high port! at 'em and give'em hell!" The sergeant or lieutenant or other officer who might be in cOfnr.tand of drill gives the command ipioted above, and the platoon or other unit or section A men with buyonets fixed plunge them into bundles of sticks the 3S thickness of a man's body and auppOJl'd .Vpfuoent a a UtlS. "Thrust hard," says the instructor? j. "remember it's a darn sight easier to 1. thrust your bayonet into those sticks Qf than it is into a man's body. u. "Pull the bayonet out straight. It's g_ twenty times easier to pull your knife u. out of tho: e sticks than it is out of a man. Fritz can't stand the bayonet. ln l.eurn to use it right and >ou have got him at your mercy. (The class won ,s dcrs whu in the deuce can stand tne ?n bayonet; but says nothing), j. "Grunt when you throw your bay,t. onet into the dummy," continues the ? instructor. "Fight 'em like you are u. real mad. Cuss 'em if you wunt to. In Say "you son-ot'-a-g-gun.'" .,1 This bayonet practice is hard work It and the infantry has been putting in a lot of it during the past week or ten ur days, it is most important that solli diets should know how to use the long -v knives attached to the muzzles of their I,, ritlcs. Each infantryman is required to go to the woods around Camp Sevier li somewhere and procure a long, keen is sapling for use as a parry stick? "I'aris sticks," some of the fellows call 1,1 them. v The class in bayonet instruction is is divided and with these parry sticks ? I..,..,I titralnul ,.!ir-h ntller for DractiCO J- " >'0" ? \ In warding off one another's blows, t u, The drill is similar to fencing prac- j Jt> tice. Keenness of eye and swiftness < ly of foot is necessary to proficiency. Day .? after day the men are being put f through this parry practice for an t hour or so. Of course over there the r ul parry sticks will be rities with fixed c ut bayonets and Fritz will be your ann. tugonist. 1 The infantry at Sevier could do i 1(. some wonderful thrusting und cutting i t. with bayonets right now were they Id put tc the test. Thought of the pos- t re sibility of a German bayonet finding t ui a home in their own skins perhaps, i lo hus caused them to become remark- c g. ably proficient in a very short time, j rd Hor,*- n*> oj tha Iai&atj--}' - -ire- gclng- ^ ty to carry or even take care of all the l of equipment necessary for the complete 3 Id rigging out of a soldier in this war is t |. a problem that is causing more or less r in concern to the soldiers in training .. here. Here is a partial list of the ? re equipment of each soldier of the line: f Barrack bag, bed sack, waist belt, j Id cotton breeches (2 pair), commercial e blankets, olive drab blankets, rubber <j is boots, comforter, cotton coat, wool coat, a 1. denim coat, service hat, woolen underjt wear, cotton underwear, canvas gloves r 1,. wool gloves, leggins, mackinaw, over- <] iy coat, overshoes, half shelter tent with s s. pins and itoles, two olive drab flunnel ; is shirts, two pair Held shoes (heavy bro- ) 1- gans studded with nails), two pair ? d russet shoes, slicker, five pairs cotton t id stockings, five pair light wool stock- 1 ig ings, five pair heavy wool stockings, 1 identification tag which is suspended r 4- ?y a Hiring muuuu llic ui^n, uvium I ic trousers, bacon can, condiment can. * ts meat can, canteen and cover, drinking s, cup (holds nearly a quart and any old t lc kind of a soldier almost can drink that t a much coffee at a gulp) knife, fork, spoon, haversack, pack carrier, ration j a bags, first aid pouch for small artii. cles, bayonet and scabbard, oiler and at thong case (for cleaning rifle), spare t I- part container, rifle and sight cyver and gun sling, cartridge belt, screwie driver for rifle, hand ax and carrier, i to pick mattock and carrier, shovel and t er carrier, wire cutter and 'carrier for 4M cutting German wire entanglements, ? it helmet, gas mask and goodness knows a i- only what else we will be provided ) with on the other side of the creek. < f. Truly we are "all dolled up" with i L|| our full equipment on, and it's, an a average man's job to carry and take f. care of the stuff. "Wish I had a hoss fer to carry all this junk fer me," declared a buck of ' ic the rear rank as he mounted his pack ir on his back a day of two ago. ' "I don't," declared a comrade who c was also tolling with his equipment. ' _ "Why?" queried the first soldier. ' s, "Why", I would have to feed the ' st son-of-a-gun and rub him down c id every once in a while," was the reply. 8 )0 Uncle Sam is sparing no expense to r i_ properly equip his soldiers. Most of v Ly us have more clothes now than we 1 a ever had before at any one time in our * !d lives. m The hardest lesson for many soldiers c ly in training at Sevier to learn is that ' io of discipline, and of course this class 1. is about as large at any other train- 1 h ing camp in the country. Men, who 0 >a learn readily to protect themselves in * o bayonet fighting or how to shoot a 11 Springfield .30 or how to signal prop- > is erly, or go over the bayonet run -or 1 Df most anything else, find it hard to c m learn or rather to realize that they 3f cannot go and come as they please 8 n and that if they were allowed to con- 1 ty duct themselves as they did perhaps 1 io in civil life, this Division which is a 3f rapidly developing inio a wen orgamz- n, ed army, would never amount to any- 9 ,K thing but a mob. ^ i. It la hard at times to obey the or- c n ders of those in command and !, like c ic scores of others have many times f. snorted and pouted and raved and 1 ,n cussed because I had to do something 9 against my "grain." Most of my d ie snorting and pouting and raving a L. though was done before an audience ^ consisting of myself only. e For instance, If one la really sick 0 y and goes to the Infirmary some morn- 8 9. ing and the doctor looks him over and II gives htm a handful of C C pills and 8 d then marks him "duty" on the side fe- 8 port which means that he must per- F ie form bis duties just the same as f though he were feeling fine, why It is ^ ikely to make one rave and growl. Still he must go ahead and do his duty intil he drops. Or it' an inspection of rifles and quipment is to be made on Thursiay and notice of the fact Is given the nen to be inspected the day before, ind one of those to undergo Inspeclon is detailed to other work for the tmc that his comrades might have to irepare for inspection, it might make lim sore when the colonel looks him >ver and savs: "This man's gun is in i filthy condition; 1 guess he should >e confined to the company street for i week or so until he learns how to dean It." Still he shouldn't get sore mt should find time somehow to be in ihape. That's military and the balling >ut he got even though he was hardly o blame, is necessary to discipline. It night be different in time of peace but he war is on now. The case of Private Daniel occurs to ne. He was drafted back in Septent>er. and like a great muny of us 1 fuess he had tco easy sailing before le came into the army. He left a iweetheart behind nround Scotland feck or some other North Carolina laven when he went to war: and a nonth or so ago. he decided or hey decided they would get married, rhe date was set?27th, 1 think it was. Private Daniel informed the proper tuthorlty that he wanted a pass hack 0 "No'th Caliny," thtit he was to he tarried the 27th and he had to be here. He was informed that he couldn't ret a pass at the time desired, that he allowed quota of men were away in irnss and that he would have to orange for a change of date for the ells or else. Private Daniel went AWOL that light whieh is short for absent wiili>ut leave. He married "her" on the !"th in accordance with schedule, had 1 honeymoon for a few days and then eturned to Camp Sevier. The sentence of the Summary Court ifHcer was that he, Private Daniel ihould forfeit one-half of his pay per nonth for a period of two months. l*ooks hard, perhaps to the civilian, hat a man should be courtinartinlcd >ecause he went home to get married. Suppose the lad had been allowed 0 go scot-tree. Why every "rookie" n this outfit would be going AWOL nee a week and upon his return would wear that he went to get married, drgetting half of them, that they told he same story the week before and urthermore that they are allowed only ine wife per. D-i-s-c-i-p-l-i-n-e is a hard word, fet we are all fast learning just what t means and that we have to stand inder in order to make good soldiers. I had my first experience as a school eacher a day or so back?a soldier an do almost anything, it seems. The cgimental school for illiterate sollicrs was one teacher short that day ind I was detailed as a substitute. "her* arc-nearly tMS-noMtan in ffir 19th Regiment of Infantry nnd about 31 of them who never had the opporunity up until about a month ago are iow learning to read and write. There were ten men in my class the ither afternoon. Their ages ranged rom 18 to 35. The eldest pupil I think s the best student in that particular lass. He seems to realise above the ithers what a great opportunity he has it hand. 1 had each to read in his little priner a passage from the lesson of the Iny, requiring each to stand up at his eat, as my first teacher (Miss Sudle tllison of the Yorkville Graded school) ind me to do a dozen years ago. The mbject was "Saluting the Flag," and hough progress was slow over proninclation of some of the words, the ating of the class as a whole was ,ood?about 85, according to the nethod of grading in an academic ichool. These soldier pupils have more dificulty in learning how to spell than hey do in reading or writing. "Spell 'infantry,'" said I to Private lohn Brnwn. "Enfranty" he spelled. "Incorrect, try it again now; watch he pronunciation: In-fan-try." "In-fran-cy." "No; that's not correct. Don't get mpatient now; take your time and hink?Infantry." "In-fan-cy," spelled John, and then mddenly realizing that he has missed igain, rubbed his hands through his >air and with a frown declared; "Oh. lam it; I am in It but I can't spell t." "Next," I called. Jas. D. Grist. LOW COUNTRY FARMING. 'orreipondence Th? TorkYllle Eoqulr?r Kline, S. C.?I noticed in a recent ssue of The Enquirer, where York :ounty farmers are now plowing. Jown here they have plowed ail durng the winter. All land is broken and aid off in rows or staked off, as they :all it here. These rows are perfectly itralght and of uniform width. Waternelons were planted the first of last veek, and by the end of this month, a arge percentage of the cotton crop vill have been planted. Vegetation in this section is putting lut rapidly. The fruit trees were in ull bloom the middle of February. We had several light snows during he winter, but very little rain, many if the wells have gone dry. As we lave very little mud, we are able to ise automobiles 365 days during the ear. The land seldom gets too wet o plow, and during the dry spell, lever to hard. We had our first sand storm of the eason Sunday. They are quite freluent during the spring and early ummer. The early storms do not imount to much except are a great .nnoyance to housekeepers as the and sifts through everything, but iter they are disastrous to young otton, corn and melons. In many ases the crops have to be replanted. Labor In this section Is very scarce, ."he white fanner never plows, hlmelf, as York county farmers do, but lepends entirely upon negro labor, and a many of the negroes are In the Iraft. all lines of labor are feeling the fTect. We have been able to keep iur mill going by staying at It ourelves. We have been operating this mill lnce the summer of 1912, and have cut everal million feet of line long leaf line. Most of the timber here comes rom the swamps, and the long leaf 4ne has been cut out, until it is getLng scarce. J. a Plexico. VAN DYKE IN CHARLESTON Former Minister to tbe Netherlands Makes Stirring Speech. HIGH PRAISE FOR BRAVE PEOPLE ? Scathing Arraignment of German Ambition and German Method*?Comparison of the Methods of Germany With Methods of America. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, celebrated preacher, orator and writer, who was for a time minister to the Netherlands, delivered nit address under the auspices of the Y. M. t*. A. in Charleston recently. The News and Courier published an excellent summary of the address. Dr. Van Dyke said In part: "The speech has been called Fight Through or Fall Through." The subsidizcd German-American press has attacked me for referring to the submarine warfare of u?e dipcr'Al German government as acts of piracy, on the ground that theso boats us the commissioned vessels of a government, can not commit acts of piracy. "Can they'.' Ls-t us turn to the dictionary. Here we find piracy to be 'an act of robbery or depredation committed on the high seas without authority from stupe civilized government." "Can a nation that has plunged this world into war that it did not want, :m.i t?,.? ?> ..? -? atrocity that have been committed by the (irriiian submarine* be culled civilized? Predatory Potsdam Gang. "I shall not refer to the 'imperial government of Germany,' but 1 have an expression of my own that tills the requirement, from both a descriptive and geographical point' of view: 'that predatory I'otsdam gang.' "In July of hist year a German submarine attacked a British merchant ship and brought her to the |?oint of sinking. The crew and passengers sought the lifeboats, and one boat manned by officers and men of the sinking merchantman was summoned to approach the submarine. The British obeyed, for they knew that to refuse meant to be blown to pieces. "They wcro ordered to climb on the boat. The captain was sent below a prisoner, while the others were huddled on the forward deek, their boat destroyed, and then the submarine slowly submerged, leaving the forty helpless captives to be washed Into the sea, and of that forty, thirty-eight were drowned. Is not that piracy? "In February a submarine was disabled and brought to the verge of sinking by the American gunboats. The crew of the sinking pirute swarmed to the deck, waiving their arms ami shout inn 'Kainerad.' and then dived ??into'the wuter and swam toward the American hoat.s. How America Doe* It. "These pirates wore helped on board, some so weak that it was necessary to throw out ropes to help them on hoard and one so near complete exhaustion that two Aiiyriean seamen sprang into the water and lifted him on hoard. They were taken below and given warm food and dry clothes. Tha' is the difference in spirit between thfierman and American navies. "Germany prepared for this war long before there was an ostensible excuse for hostilities. In the summer of 1914, before the erown prince of Austria hud been assassinated, I saw in Luxemburg, from whence the tirst attack was made against neutral countries, German troops roll in by every train. "While fishing in a quiet little stream with some German friends, I inquired why so many troops wete mobilizing, and my German friends said that they were giving the soldiers a change of air, and that the air was very good at thiH particular pluce. "France at the outbreak of the war had a comparatively strong army, but it was in a state of reorganization and was not concentrated. Russia had a large army in point of man-power, but an average of just one rifle to every nine men. Servia Tried to Keep Peace. "Servia offered to settle the controversy by acceding to eight of Austria's ton demands and agreeing to be tried and punished by The Hague tribunal for whatever she had done, but Germany said, 'nothing doing.' When I apeuk of Germany I also include Austria, like including the tail when speaking of a dog. "Great Britain, France, Italy and Russia urged Germany to settle the matter without actually resorting to arms, but again Germany replied 'nothing doing,' and then invaded the neutral territory of Belgium, tearing to pieces its own treaty to protect the neutrality of Belgium and never dreaming that the little nation would dare offer resistance. "But, thank God Belgium did dare offer resistance and during those first six days of the war prevented the light of civilization from being extinguish ed. "I have sat In my office In the shadow of the Palace of Peace and heard the stories told by Belgian refugees of how their women had been violated before their eyes by drunken German soldiers, of their daughters carried away Into white slavery under pretense of being servants to German officers. Of a little child crucified because it stumbled in the way of a drunken soldier, and of men and boys stood up and shot for refusing to tell the Germans things that would enable them to hunt down and kill the Belgian soldiers, * Belgians Wantonly Murdered. "I-traveled through the ruins of the Belgian villages while the smoke was yet rising from the ruins and smelled the odor of the bodies murdered beneath them I have seen that water let In for defense slowly recede, leaving stark and bare the bodies of the murdered inhabitants, one here with a mute arm extended toward * Heaven. "I visited a French evacuation hospital and was shown around by the commandant, who on approaching a ward occupied by German prisoner(Contlnoed on Page Four.) / . - . - ' ' ' X'....