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i \ f, . k ^ |H R R I8SPKD WEMI'WMSKLT. t. *. ittists so?s. PaHiihen. j & Jf*milj Jleurspaper: J'or the promotion of the political, .Social, ijritultural and Commtrcial Jnffrtsls of Ihi ffoplj. j JSKUmm^eonnncn^HC*' ESTABLISHED 1853 ~ YORK, S. C.. PRIDAYj MAY 3, 1918. ~ NO. 36 { "Bride o jjjj Hy VICTOR | A ROMANCE OF THE I FIGHTING ON | FIELDS 0] - C<>|>yru;lit ?> V CHAPTER VII. J on the way to tin- war department til* lolloWlll? IllOlllltl^ ll< WU? J/U/.Zllil^ ok i tin ull'uir, K?-lleiman's presence in Ahs. Ki'iison's hou.stami K* Herman's |*ohhiI*I*: connection with llaitlej, who watched Kleanor. He could not arrive at any hut the most laiilaslic solutions. KoII-ii.iuii welcomed hint with his usual suuvity. They call nil up the |?|iii.<i lioiti the sale; tln-li K< HiTitian called Mark into his own olticn. "Ahout last night Wallace?" he la-gun. "Ol course you acted all iiKht. as vou uinh istood the situation, I-ut tlicit was a good deal that you did not understand. That man you look noun to >001 rooms is a sort ol internal ional stool pigeon, it i can coin the p lira sc. ljuito despicahln?the one. time gentleman who has lost his Iioiioi ; and dangerous, because lie knows things llial nobody would ciedit 'iiiii witli knowing. I suppof y??u wonder what 1 was doing in Mrs. Kenson's place?" ' Not at all. Majoi Kellei man. ' "My d< ,ir Wallace," said Kcllermnn. laying a hand on Mark's shoulder, "I want to give you a piece ol advice. This is quite apart from our work lu re. I don't think your qualities are adapted to headquarters work, tlo hack to your Imitation?or. rather, take udvantag* ol your friends in Washington to secure a good post"? emphasized the adjective?"in regimental work." And as Mark looked at him in stupefaction, kclieruiun added coolly: "I am not speaking officially, my dear Wallace. Take the suggestion as a friendly one. If I can make it a little clearer to you, your presence in Washington is inconvenient to me for pelsoital reasons. 1 think you will appreciate the reasons?the reason, rather. The man's insolence was maddening. Mark's impulse was to dash his ? ??* into his face. Hut discipline told. "If the liriKadicr"?he began. *Oh, my dear Wallace, pray lor.p t what I have said to you," retorted Kolleriuaii. "It was purely a piece of personal advice, metaled by consideration for your interest. It has nothing to do with the brigadier." Mark saluted stiffly and went away. ? -*> > fcUt-y.M.t. down '.C, V.^-vk^V?J"mamTv(jk course Kellermnn had referred to Kleanor; ivnd it suddenly oocurred to Mark that Kvllcrmun might have made a good deal of headway during his absence. Me worked hard, to avoid thinking. It was another sweltering day. In spite of the circular fan the heat in the otllcc was sttilling. The sound ot the clerks' typcwiiters outside was a brain-weary ing ruck* t. Mark and Colonel Howard occupied a small room at the end of the corridoi; the clerks' room was w ithout, between the two, accessible from each, was Kellerman's otllcc, which (onimunicatc. in turn, with the brigadier's. Colonel Howard came in after a while, and they went over their plans together. I ncy were niKniit'ii i complicated piece of work, involving tonnage ail computations of cubic feet of s|uicc for cargoes. There had Ins-it an error somewhere, and Mark was trying hard to discover it when tin- brigadier came in in his usual Irascible manner. "How long will that job take. Howard?" he asked. "Wallace will have it finished by noon, sir." answered the colonel. The brigadier waved Mark to his si at imimticntly. "Bring it right in to ine as soon as you have the figures, please." he said. 'I'll wait for it. Sure >on can be through by noon?" "I'm sure, sir." answered Mark, who was hot on the train of the error. The brigadier withdrew, taking the colonel with him for a conference. Mark worked steadily. The omission was found, the computations wore balancing. A clerk knocked at the door. "What is it?" asked Mark imimticntly. "A man fo see you. sir. He says his name's Hartley. Shall I show him in? "Cood Ixtrd. no! I'll see him in the waiting room." answered Mark. He locked the office door, went through the clerks' room and into the anteroom. Hartley was standing beside the window. He looked up sheepishly as Mark entered. "Well?" asked Mark crisply. Hartley grinned. "I didn't take the eups or the picture. Captain Wallace," he said. "Well, what about it? What ean I do for you?*1 "Why, I?I wanted to tell you as much. Captain Wallace, I've sunk low, but not to theft. Only I didn't feel 1 could stay." "Oood Lord. man. is that all you have come to tell me?" "Well, you see?there was something else but?" stammered Hartley. "Out with it. thenl" "1 wanted to thank you for what you did for me. and?" The man seemed to be trying to spin out the interview for some indefinite purpose. Mark turned on his heel. His tern{>er was not of the best just th<n. and Hartley was the last man in the world whom he wanted to see. "All right." he answered. "Steer clear of that woman?of Mrs. Kenson. Hartley. It's evident that she doesn't reciprocate your feelings, or whatever they are. and she seems to have some dangerous friends about her." He relented suddenly, and. going forward, clapped the man on the shoulder. "I guess you've had your troubles. Hartley," he said. "But pull yourself together, man." The- sheepish, unmanly mask dropped from Hartley's face. He caught Mark's hand impulsively. "I'm a cur. Captain Wallace!" he > i f i! 11111; 11111:111111111 in 1111111 ii 11111111111111: i f Battle" ItOUSSEAU ! AMERICAN ARMY THE BATTLE ? FRANCE. V. ii. Cliapman. a lllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Illlllllllllllllf cried. -I?I?" "That's all right, Hartly. But, bj the way, who told you my name?" "Captain Wallace, don't ask mc that! Go back! Never mind me! Go back into your ofticc at once!" tried Hartley. He broke i*ast Mark with a sudden, spasmodic movement, gained the door, and ran down the corridor. Mark looked alter him in stupeflcation. Hartley had not been drunk, and his pres ? !!? ? there hail seemed .purposeless. Suddenly, with an intuition of danger, lie hurried through the clerks' office, unlocked his door, and entered. The room was filled with a furious gust of wind. The mobilization papers were whirling on his desk in front of the open window. The circular fan, which had been distributing a gentle breeze impartially front side to side, now poured its current of air immediately upon Mark's desk. The rotary movement had been stopped, and it had been set to maximum speed. And this was not the small fan customarily in use in the little office, but a large one from the clerk's room. When Mark had left to interview Hartley, he had seen Kellertnan at work through the glass door that connected their two offices. Now Kellerman's desk was vacant. Mark slammed down the window; there were two locks, and Mark and Kcllerman had each a key. Nobody could have entered. Rut Mark was positive that Kellerman had set the fan. It stood on a shelf against the partition. Looking up. Mark saw that there was a tiny hole immediately behind it, large enough to permit an inserted wire to push hack the lever that controlled the rotary apparatus. Yet this might have been nothing but a wormhole In the wood framework of the door. With a gasp of rage Mark hastily stopped the fan and ran back to his d?sk. He began collecting the papers. They had blown hither and thither; some had fallen behind the desk, some on the radiator. The floor was littered with ihem. Had any gone out of the window? There should have been two hundred and nine. There was nothing to do but count them. Mark began, but "bis Tlflgers YrSfnbled Utrtfllft "he'CtftlTu hardly turn the pages. In the very middle of this task the door efteked; the brigadier and Colorel Howard entered. "Well, Wallace, finished, I hope?" asked the brigadier with the cordiality of one who has been refreshed by a good dinner. "Let me see!" Mark turned the leaves nervelessly, while the brigadier and Howard stood sileutly beside him. He felt the desperation of his mood communicating itself to them. He felt their looks of surprise. He reached the end. He had counted exactly two hundred. That might have been an error. But the paper was not there. He looked up to see the brigadier peering into his face with an extraordinary expression. He heard himself stammering, fumbling for words; he stopped. Colonel Howard sprang forward and caught him by the shoulder. "Wallace, my dear fellow, pull yourself together!" he was pleading. "What's that you're saying? Blown out of the window? 'It's the heat. sir. He's been overdoing it!" "Very possibly," said the brigadier caustically. "Pray have a look, then, Howard. Take your time." Mark was searching again. He stopped as they came to the last paper, which was now the two hundred and third. "It's no use. Colonel Howard," he cried. "It has gone out of the win (low. I was culled out. When I came hack the fan was turned on my desk and the papers were blowing about the room. Somebody?perhaps the ntechanisim slipped. I don't know. I'm tired?my God, how tired I am!" The colonel was pushing him into a chair. He heard the storming voice of the brigadier a long distance away. Howard was expostulating. They were going through the papers again. A clerk had been called in. Mark heard something about searching the streets. Somebody was telephoning. And, above all. he was conscious of Kellerman in the next room, long before he opened the glass door and entered. He was alone, and struggling back into the realization of his situation. Kellerman's threat and his refusal to consider it. the visit of Hartley, began to link themselves into the chain of the devilish conspiracy. He rose * ,M? wrlrvAil fViA OOTAQ f unsteadily iu u?o icci, m^vu w?w w. from his forehead. Colonel Howard was coming through the open doorway from Kellerman's room. "Sit down, Wallace," he said gravely. "I've been talking to the brigadier, or. rather, he has been talking to me. You must consider yourself under arrest in your quarters. Now, how did I this damned thing happen?" Mark explained as lamely as one who had heard excuses of all kinds front soldiers brought before him for various offenses during his term oi service, and waved them aside. Excuses were worse than useless. He tried simply to explain. And to mention his suspicion of Kellerm&n would have been damning, nor could he have brought himself to such a thing in any event. "You know what this means, Wallace?" asked the colonel in a kindly, serious tone. "New plans." "Yes, but to you?" "I guess so. Colonel Howard. And I'd like to hurry' it through. Of course I shall want It over. TU go home now, and?" I "Stop!" Colonel Howard's chal | lenge had a triumphal tins to It. II | placed his hands on Mark's shoulder ; and swung him round, looking straigh ; into his eyes. "Thank ciod for thai ; Mark!" he cried. "I fought the brigs ! lier over >ou. and I'll fight him to th< ! end of time. 1 told him it w;is i S dammed lie. I'll swear to it." S ' What do >ou mean, sir?" S "That you are a frequenter of gam | biing houses. Wallace. That's thi | story that they have been putting ove | on him. You know whom I mean b; | 'they.' Washington's swimming wit! | that crooked gang, and that storywell. they managed to start that ii circulation and saw that it reached th brigadier's ears. He beard that yoi ware in a fight outside Mrs. Kenson'; place in the small hours this morning 1 Mark, I'll see you through this. I'l pull you through, and I stake my com mission on it. He'll have to produce inem. 1 II It II mill uiuii a ?c iviu 11*111 lamely, before, that I've known yoi since >ou first put on I'ncle Sam's unl form, and that you're the straightest cleanest, whitest man 1 know. Wal for me!" Impulsively the kindly old mat started toward the door. He had ah most reached it when Wallace fount 1 his tongue. 1 "Stop!" The colonel halted, one hand stil outstretched toward the door. "Kit in;, boy?" h< asked. "One moment, sir! I cannot let yoi go to the brigadier. I have never beer inside a gambling house in my life, but I was outside Mrs. Kenson's place last night." A sudden feebleness seemed to conn over the colonel. He came Iwcl toward Mark slowly, staring at hirr as if he nad r.ot understood. "Tell mc ahout It, Wallace. Tell nn why? You went there? Yon know her then? Don't you know thai she's?" "1 know nothing about her. sir. I merely ask you not to go to the brigadier. I shall proceed to my uuarters." "Is that all you have to say. Mark! Is that all, Wallace: iou g?v m? llttli' more than that, don't you? Wh) were you there?" The old man's real concern had almost penetrate! Mark's armor of reserve. Yet. even as Mark half yielded the impossibility of an explanation reasscrt< d itself. How could he say thai ne had followed the man who watcher Eleanor? How drag her in. with th< forgotten past? , "I have no more to add now, sir,' he answered coldly. "You understand there will he 11 court-martial?" "Naturally, sir." "but not inevitably," stormed Howard. suddenly losing all self-control nl Mark's ingratitude. "I presume yot won't lind it necessary to rake this over? I was charged to tell you thai If you will send In your resignation ij wil' be accepted, ^fhat might be bet ter for all concerned. The war de partment hasn't much superfluous tlnrn on its hands to wash its dirty linen We want to get abend. We want t< forget this. I think if you will send it your resignation?" "You shall have it tonight, sir.' Mark walked toward the door of tlx clerk's room. Colonel Howard, standi ing in the middle of the door, watch ed him. Mark unlocked the door am ; tossed tne keys upon, his desk. "Mark!" The cry was almost of anguish. I came straight from the old man'i ; heart. And because Mark recognize* this, and was hardly able to eontro himself, ne closed the door hastily behind him. went through the clerk*! room and into the coiriuor, and dowi into the street, i (To Be Continued.) Escaped From German Prison.?li escaping from a German militar; prison. Lieutenant Koland G. Garroi and Lieutenant Anloine Marchal, tlx two celebrated French aviators, re pealed the exploit of the famous Ger man "Captain Koei>cnlck." Aftei having boon twice caught and punish od for attempting to "tako Frond ' leavo," Garros and Ma re ha I recallei how gullible the people and soldiers proved themselves in the case of thi shoemaker Voight who under tin name of "Captain Koepenick" and ii an officer's uniform laid everytldni f under contribution and was salutei and honored as only a German mill tar.v officer could be. So they made French blue horizoi cloth uniforms resembling as closel; i as |>ossilile those of German officers When they were finished all they ha< to do was to dimply walk out of theli i prison, out of the camp and out of th< > town, saluted on every hand by ser.ti nels, soldiers off duty and civilians. > Once clear of the town they doffe< the uniforms and made their way t< i the frontier of Holland by rail <iuit< comfortable. Their greatest difficult: was in crossing the line. It took then three days during which they crrp i on hands and knees backward niy forward alternately, dodging sent I nels. More Troops Needed.?Koimal nn ' nouncement that American troops were sent to reinforce the Allie* armies and have taken part in thi fighting was made by the war de partment in the weekly review of th< situation .Monday. "American units are In actioi east of Amiens," says the statement During the engagements which rage< in this area they have acquitted them selves well." The review in emphasizing th< 1 need of fresh men to withstand thGerman onslaught, adds that Ameri 1 ca's imperative duty is to provide foi 1 the replacements of units for th< French front "in addition to those al ready called to the colors and thos< in training at cantonments or alread; i selected for service, very large quota will be required in the immediate fu I ture to fill the gaps." ' In this connection the revlev i points out that "the enemy is seekinj a decision that will end the war an< > the outcome of the present operationi , depend upon man-power." The review mentions an attack oi the American positions at Selchopre; northwest of Toul. Here on April 2: I the Germans swept over the Amerk-ai > lines on a front of three kilometres , but subsequently gave up the groun< occupied. ; SOLDIERS WITH THE ; CLICK 8 m I 1 Men Wbo Hated Discipline Nov Learn To Love lt.i i' ? * ' NO SUCKERS IN THE TIIKTIETH Boy With Bright'i Diseare Afraid He f, Will Be Deprived Of The Chance To r Go Abi-oad?Officer Who Lost Hie Commission Enlists As A Private. h (Passed by the Censor.) Curropondeote Th* Yorkvllle Enqulrsr 1 Camp Sevier, April 26.?The next l" time you visit Camp Sevier or any of J the other numerous military camps s over the country and hear soldiers ' using words absolutely foreign to you 1 in their conversation, you will be educated somewhat after a parusal of e these words and phrases of soldier slang and military abbreviations that 1 1 am going to write here. The soldier's vocabulary of slang includes nundieds upon hundreds ot words and ' phrases and maybe if I remained in the soldiering game ail my alloted 1? ????? ? ? I mlpht Wnmr Uirt't* sturc anu icu * well versed therein myself. But here 1 are a few of the most common ones that are used daily millions of times at ('amp Sevier: ' "The Skipper."?the captain of a ' company or battery. "Brown Betty,"?Army pudding 1 served in every organization at least 1 once a week and quite often twice. ' It's itiiule of the bread left over from ' supper or breakfast with a handful of raisins and a little sugai^ thrown into it. (lood, too after a hard mom' ing's puttin' out. 1 "Puttin' out"?working hard, busier than usual and "usual" means some busy in these war times at Camp Sevier. 1 A WOL?Absent from camp without leave. ' "Takin" distance"?To go AWOL. "Chow"?Army food. "The top"?The Hrst sergeant of an > organization, the hardest job and yet the most coveted place in any com1 pany. ? ......mi,"?a ,iirt v soldier. It's a sure tight for one soldier to call another a "crumb," unless he really is. "Concrete"?A term used by sol' diers in referring to some superior commissioned or non-commissioned ot' lieer whom they regard as exceptton1 ally stern and strict. It has been my observation during my seven month's army service that the best officers are as a rule "concrete." "SOL"?Soldier out of Luck. If a 1 soldier happens to be without funds, or refused permission to leave camp or is hurt or killed or meets with any misfortune, in referring to it, his 1 mates always say: "He's just SOL;" 1 "The Jug"?The stockade or mlll' tary jail. if * "Shave Tall"?A secondJ^ntenont Zter-Vwra. la-h by bucks and only by own*1* when they are sure they are absolutely safe. "Buck"?A private soldier. "Alt"?Army Regulations, the law ' of the army. 1 "The Creek"?The Atlantic ocean. "Fritz"?A German soldier or the German army. "The Fuzzy Guy"?A general. "A suicide"?An enlisted man who belongs to a machine gun company. 1 "It Class"?Confined to the company street because of some breach of discipline. 1 "Rabbit hunters"?Issue leggins. * "I'ig Iron"?A rifle. 1 As I said a moment ago. there are ' hundreds of these slang words and phrases in use among soldiers over the * country and the vocabulary will be 1 greatly increased after slight association with the English, the French, the Italians, the Belgians and the other 1 Allies over the creek. ^ Arthur Brisbane of the Washington Times wrote a wonderfully sound article a few days ago on "discipline," in which he undertook to show that r thorough discipline was absolutely necessary to that success in battle for which we are all working. After six I months or more here in training there ? is not a soldier who does not thor . oughly understand the truth arul logic of this proposition and the fact 1 that they do thoroughly understand , it has done more to bring about disciplinc in the Old Hickory Division than nil the punishments that have been imposed because of lack of dlscipllne on the part of soldiers, though fear of punishment and punishment itself has done wonders, j A famous British army officer der livered a lecture at Camp Sevier r- several weeas ago on the subject of discipline, and that lecture has had a wonderful influence in promoting < discipline here since It was delivered 9 to hundreds of officers and non-com? missioned officers who have put into f practice his Ideas, or rather his , knowledge, of the subject t In explaining the origin of the salute j and the reason therefore nc went on to say in mediaeval days when one knight met another he would lower the visor of his helmet and thus ex pose his face as a salute in token of * the fact that he. a free man, saluted 1 a free man. The custom has gone ? down the centuries among the mili tary, the symbol of military brother? hood. It is natural that the enlisted soldier should salute an officer first 1 because of seniority. He went on to . say that instant obedience to the 1 orders of an officer was necessary, - because officers were the brains which must control the body and every part ? thereof. He referred to the neceasity ? of cleanliness of person and clothes - among enlisted men, because of the r disciplinary effect and told his hear? ers that brleht buttons and clean uni - forms and clean skins were as much ? a part of the ilfe of the trenches as > were guns and bullets and blood, s It was a wonderfully clear and logl cal lecture and the major of at least one battalion here was so struck with r it that he required every commlaaion; ed officer of his command to submit 1 a written report of It to him in order 3 that he might judge just how much of it those officers had. i In his lecture, the* Britisher made y reference several times to "the click," 1 meaning snap and quickness and aci curacy and promptness. While his i. lecture Is not altogether responsible i for it, "the click"* y,aa developed momentum throughout the division since that time. I never heard the expres slon "the click." until that splendk address was delivered. Now even officer and non-com uses it and be lieve me, every buck and higher-up too. who hasn't the click when he ii puttin' out on the battlefields of Eu rope, will Just be SOL. Frits has it The IlMtlsher said so. A corporal in a line company a> Camp Sevier was sentenced to the jup a few weeks ago because he refusei to march at double time when his commanding officer ordered him so tc do. He didn't have the click. He wil have it when he gets out. That's cruel and unreasonable, did you say Well, it's a cruel game we are engaged in uid we can't win unless wc give perfect support and co-operation to those selected to lead in the game?fror.i Mr. Wilson on down through the corporals. If that corporal had gotten away with his insubordination, other corporals would calculate that they could do likewise. The thing would spread lint!' hardly anybody would have the "click," and all of us would be SOI. There is something attractive about this army life. Most of we drafted men didn't like it at first; but there are few among us who would get out if we could now that we know a good many of the ins and outs of it and now that we have a clearer concep-j tlon ol' the moaning of It all and u keener understanding of the necessity of it all. I know a lad who could get a discharge any time he might make application for it because he is slowly dying with Hright's disease. Hut he won't apply. "I wouldn't be out of this for anything," he has told me often when I used to slip Into his tent late at night to talk over the happenings of the day with him. "I am afraid they are going to discover my condition some of these days." he would tell me occasionally, "and slip me out of the army instead of into the trenches. Nobody is looking to me fr anything, nobody is dependent upon me for support. A man on the qutside who hasn't close relatives dependent upon his support, isn't a man. I'd be miserable out there." And then on more than one occasion as he has finished a speech like that, I've seen litm seized with a pain across his back that would gather him Into a knot, and a space of five minutes occasionally elapse before he recovered, while a drop of blood would issue from his mouth caused by biting his lips to keep from crying with pain. I've seen pains strike him on the drill field or on a march and it would seem that the torture was greater than he could possibly bear and he must give up. I know a lad who is suffering with flat-feet, the arches of both being completely broken down. He is very much arraia mai ne is guuig 10 w thrown out, or at least not permitted to go across with his "cbmptffily.~'"7t would break his heart If such were to happen. A mate, knowing how worried he was about It all and how anxious he was to go, suggested the other day in a half jocular way to him that he didn't understand him at all. he couldn't see why he should want to go to the front and suffer considerable hardship and In all probability death, when he had a good chance to get out of It all fjulte honorably, "You arc a blankety, blank fool." retorted he of the broken feet. "Think a man who has been puttln* out for the last seven months like I have been doing wants to miss a place In the sun. I ain't strong on education like some of you guys and I don't know exactly what all this fight is about, 'ceptin that we are right and that every young man who can be in it is here or Is going to be here and over too. Out of It? Why by-gosh I am going over with the rest of you bucks if I have to have my blamed old feet cut off and wear stilts or ride, a horse, which is worse." Do you still doubt my statement that those who are In it are proud to be in it and wouldn't bo out until Fritz is SOL? Here's another incident corroborative of my assertion. There is, or rather there was, a very popular young officer in the Thirtieth who recently lost his commission and who promptly enlisted in the same branch of service from which he lost his commission. But like Achilles of old, he didn't sulk in his tent. History that relates of the smallness ana narrowni'ss ui certain American officers In the war of the Revolution and the Civil war because of personal interest, didn't repeat itself In this officer's case at least. He wore civilian clothes for a week or so after his resignation. He never told me, but I imagine that week or so was as a hundred years. Then he quietly enlisted < in that branch of sen-ice here in which he formerly was high and Influential. He did it simply and quietly. He is a buck private now. I didn't hear him say it. In fact I don't know him personally but only by sight, but I understand he remarked to a friend the other day: "I would rather be in hell than out of the army in this great crisis." Whether he said It or not, he feels that way about it So does every' other red. blooded soldier. That is the "click." Jas. D. Grist. Worth 92 Cents an Hour in Gardan.?One large manufacturing concern tn Ohio provided gardens for Its employees in 1917, and required them to keep an accurate record of the time spent working the gardens and the value of the crop grown. At the end of the season the results showed that the gardeners had received 92 cents an hour for their spare time spent in the gardens. Another large manufacturing concern in Illinois plowed up a prize 40acre alfalfa field and divided it into garden plots for the use of Its employees. The results obtained from this garden plot far exceeded the expectations of both the company and its employees. Manufacturers all over the country are providing gardens for their employees this year, according to report to the United States department of agriculture. ; AMERICANS TAKE PART II f ? 10 Helping to Hold Road Between ^ ; Almes and Paris. Z DIGGING IN UNDER HEAVY FIRE ? t * th , Boy* Having Trouble To Get Their ejs J Rations; But Take Hardahip* And c0 ( Danger* Alike With High Spirits ajj j And Await Their Turn To Prove I , The Stuff Of Which They Are Made. Sh i The dispatch below is from Lin- tei ? coin Eyre, a special corresj>ondent of th . the New York World, who accom- in > panied the American troops from their da cantonments in the south to the loc ( plains of Picardy to help hold the wi i Germans back in their objectives to> ward Paris and the Channel ports. The dispatch was dated from the I "United States Infantry Battle Front." in Northern France on April 28, and it is claimed to be the first special , story to come through to an American Hl, newspaper. I For several days the American ex- th' pedltlonary forces have been playing an active part In the most tnomen- hit tous battle of the ages. rui In the positions assigned to our con- Kri tlngcnt by Gen. Foch, which are on , the line that bars the road to I'aris and Amiens, the regiment to which I crc am attached Is holding and helping ^ the Franco-British forces north of us to withstand the latest and most furious assaults in the valleys of the 1 Somtne, Luce and near Ypres. inr Over our heads a continuous streum ers of shells of all calibres is hurling its co; way Into the enemy's lines, and the pet Germans are replying in kind, though ^ with considerably less intensity. Our artillery's shots average ten to the in| enemj's one. The fury of our nre is j{0 turning villages behind the enemv j lines into dustheaps. While it Is well within the battle 1 zone, the sector we occupy for the sea time being, at least, is a comparative- em ly inactive part of the Noyon-Ypres the line. There ha\e been no Infantry en- *tr counters between the Germans and fee our troops thus far, but the massing i of batteries reported opposite our front of indicates a likelihood of more strenu- nig our fighting in the none too distant ed future. hit Meanwhile, there Is evidence that 191 our guns nave inflicted heavy losses j on the enemy infantry. At least one lW( village has been rendered untenable, -g, During the four days the American seventy-fives and their heavier (io, brethren have been on the job, it has jt,t, been on fire more than once, and even T its deepest cellars, organized as little cor machine gun forts by the Germans have been crushed under an avalanche of French and American high ex- ' plosives. Saturday night 1 visited the first ^ . 'fn p "1""' "it * ft ""f regiment, which, during the night of ' April began the work of re- ,o1 I lev in g the French units pre\ lously cot installed there. There was neither a complete trench system, nor were there any communicating trenches, am From the battalion commander's post "ni of command?a hole carved out of the J side of a quarry?one walks over a De meadow land pitted with shell craters tht straight to the tiring line. ma /4-- rt 1 thlc imint firs* rm fCt/ UU1 cxi tioo ?* ?? ? ?>?? the edge of a bare plateau sloping to downward to a ravine on the other fer side ol which, some 400 yards away, are the Germans. Their defensive 4 system includes the demolished vil- Jh lage mentioned above. The chateau t0 .end a little group ol houses compos- p|t, ing the village are on slightly higher 8U| ground than we hold, and to reach pa, them our men have to cross the ni- oO( vine, exposed to frontal and cntilad- ru. ing iire iron the German artillery and machine guns. olTl Following the retirement of the 5th | British army >uid the interval of chaos th< consequent upon it, the Germans, rid- frc vancing westward, were able to send crt their cavalry patrols into villages pi? miles behind our present front. French cjf reserves, starting to tight as soon as iQ( they got off the trains that had 8U| brought them, flung the enemy back. pa Eventually he again advanced to the An line he now holds and set to work to att solidify and stabilize his defenses. ( It is this consolidation process, the 8U| successful achievement of which would pCi enable Gen. Lunendorff to draw upon All this part of the line for fresh divisions en to throw into the strife further north, of that we must prevent. Our infantry thi as well as our artillery must be con- foi stantly on the alert to prevent the coi Germans from intrenching too solidly, rir and at the same time we must im- gCi prove our own defensive system. boi Bit by bit the elements of so-called th< trenches?mere shallow ditches like en' those dug in New York's streets for sal ia> mg gaspipcs?are ueing ueveiupvu. i,e All night long every doughboy not on sentry duty or patrol duty digs and \ digs, pausing only to snatch a bit of Do lukewarm water, or to gulp down some rm tepid coffee brought him by carrying an parties from miles in the rear. j All day long he lies in the mud at ??lii the bottom of his open trench trying sal to sleep and wondering whether the me next Krupp shell is going to get him. wa Casualties are inevitable, as the chalk ; into which the trenches must be dug noi shows up like snow against the green it. and brown meadows, and camouflage scl is impossible, hence the German gun- om ners know exactly what to aim at. gel In the daytime there is no commu- 4 nlcation whatever, even between pla- th< toons of the same company. Runners th< carrying messages between company dei 1 and battalion commanders must tra- att verse open ground in full view of the wi' enemy a half-mile off. and are thus zei 1 exposed to rifle and machine gun err fusillades, as well as to the inevitable shell fire. an Transportation of food, water and ho ' ammunition is a tremendous task, foi Men carrying the big French marmite An cans containing a stew the dough- ( boys call "Slum" are always being ex] 1 shelled. At one place they must go em through a wood. We got through this th< wood Saturday night Just in time, pa Behind us burst a veritable torrent of exi shrapnel and high explosives. TreeB trembled beneath the violence of It wa This bombardment went on for sic hours, never slackening in its thun- op< derous frenzy, and under it all our wt soldiers somehow stumbled along, ed J bringing up the rations and cartridges tic lat mean life to their comrades out [ the firing line. The Germans are I revcr illuminating the landscape Ith star shells, so that one's pro-ess across the plateau is a series of *s and downs, for the only way to cape being seen and fired upon is drop flat on the muddy ground. Our troops have never known anymg like this before. In their sector ^ sewhcre there were solid trenches, mmunication trenches and dugouts , I over the place. Food was plenti1 and arrived regularly. There were ..llo ..n.l one nf nnuru I.lit nnt nno. ' v... , ? ? led r.th of what there is here. Yet out d ere Saturday night 1 found our boys high spirits, taking hardships and ngers alike with a broad grin and wi iking forward to the day when it ^ II be our turn. or GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Ap th< cord of Currant Happenings Collectad from Various Sources. tor Mrs. Eliza Erdman,, aged 100 years, wa d at Zton Hill, Pa.. Saturday night, mu daron Goto has been appointed to 1)11 ; oitice of foreign minister of Japan. sor gen fhe American ship. Westerly. noi inched on the Pacific coast in Feb- j try, was sunk off the coast of tor ance, Sunday, following a collision. i;g fhe navy department on Tuesday t:u nounced that three members of the po1 iw of the steamer Chincha were hla led March 21, In a battle with u 1 nnarine. t01 too fhe British steamer Oronsa. carry; a large party of Y. M. C. A. work- -pj, fnrnpilftoil nff thp Knirlish iiu ist Sunday. Only three of the 265 "sons on board were lost. l,or The White Guards, or Finnish goviment forces, are reported to have ^ nihilated about 6,000 Ked Guard or <,efi Ishevlki troops at Vibrog, Russia. t Monday. thl' vol 'ending agreement on a new wage Je to be submitted before July 1st, thp ployes of paper mills throughout frQ ' country, called off a proposed ike that was to have become of- ar{ tive on Wednesday last. t The legal sale of liquor in the state Uni New Hampshire ceased Tuesday q ;ht. The legislature lost year pass- the a law putting the state under pro- nei itlon, effective Tuesday, April 30. by 8. flot 'resident Wilson has purchased gat five thoroughbred Shropshiie sheep bee 1 will put them to grazing on the bef lite House lawns to keep the grass Ii vn instead of cutting the grass and onl ling it go to waste. dlsi The war department this week let thp ltracts for 3,500,000 pairs of me- ,mt lie fastened Held shoes at an aver- <l1'' i price of approximately $7.75 per 'I'r' r, and for 2,000,000 pairs of field Cftr It shoes at an average price of a8'1 50 ^ 'resident Wilson has appointed the ma lowing directors of the war finance poration: Wm. P. G. Harding of ibama, Allen 11. Forbes of New j rk, Kugene Meyer, Jr., of New York J Angus W. Mcls-an of North Caro- cqv tt' car Jenophon P. Wllfley, a well known [ mocrat of Missouri, has accepted an, > seat in the United States senate Up, de vacant by the death of Senator ert, >ne. Mr. Wilfley is the fourth man pp, whom Governor Gardiner has of- cre ed the honor. > 1 phi J-Boat* That Will Cruiso Ten th< ousand Miles.?Germany according fro a Washington dispatch has com- |nt ted the construction of six super- Th jmarines of 1,500 to 1,800 tons ca- op< city, with a cruising radius of 10,- the > miles, and six more are being foi died toward completion, according ] information received here through En Icial channels. cx| t Is surmised they are for use in act ? Atlantic trade routes most distant | >m German home bases, as smaller cat ift are more advantageously em- tht tyed ir. European waters. The Pa- 18( le and Indian oceans are considered vis ) remote, and therefore It is as- th? med that Germany plans to des- u ieh tho largest underwater craft to thi nerican waters, or to use them in Pr acks in the mid-Atlantic. su< jermany has designed the newer wil rnharlnes, it was said, to be su- thf rior to destroyers. It is believed the eat lied and American navies have tak- gu measures to anticipate the advent ad' the giant U-boats. It was stated am it the Allied admiralties have known wh more than three months of the Ll< istructlon of theso super-subma- kil ies, which, it is believed, follow on a I neral lines the great commercial U- the its which were despatched across ste i Atlantic before the United States ( tered the war and which. It was coi id, were constructed by private gu rman interests. em m i at rifhat Businsas Man Can Do.?1. of n't waste men. If you employ two nir in to keep one at this crisis, this is the anti-American act. the !. Conserve men. Go further than wo minating waste and see that the tai rely, sanitation, and housing of your ed >n Is keeping them fit during the cut ,r. the I. Every man or woman who does his ' Vnffllah ahniilri he leaminc hil Insist upon their learning It in i iooI or in your shop and designate slij e of your employees to see that It brc Ls done. fell I. Urge the public educational au- Tu >rities to start language classes in <J? ; factory for those who do not un- coi rstand English, and are unable to ma end school. Efficiency increases am th knowledge of English and cltl- he iship. Give it recognition by in- del ased wages and promotion. ( ?. Stop anti-American propaganda op< d agitation the instant it raises Its his id in your plant by providing in- An mation and co-operation on true do' nericanism. its 1. Invite naturalization officers to to plain citizenship to your aliens and tai courage them to make America 1 sir home. Give them time off with ha y to attend to their naturalization Re iminations. fax 1. Develop incentives through De iges, hours, bonuses. Insurance pen- Ph ns, safety, profit sharing and co- ma sratlve management The employer tlo 10 keeps his men at work content- th< ly today ls America's most prac al patriot?Exchange. IRAVE STEPHEN DECATUR imoos Soldier Who Made history. UNED OUT TiirOUTAN P1IATES Nam* that Won Fama in the Early Days of tho American Navy, and Which ia Still Held in High Honor n the Record* of Hi* Country, luurd by <h? Navy League of the UnitState*. 1201? 16th street, Washington. C.) 'Our country! In her intercourse th foreign nation* may ahe always In the right; but our country, right wrong." rhla toast, given In Norfolk, Va.. In ril, 1S15, by Stephen Decatur, was > keynote of an Ideal that made n one of the most famed characa In naval history. Decatur's career a tilled to overflowing with re.rkuble deeds that rang loud with ivery, an absolute disregard of perlal safety and a cleverness and lntulty that Invariably resulted In able victories. Jeeatur was born In 1779 and ened the navy as a midshipman in 18. Five years later he began a eer thut made the young otllcer a rnunent place in the front rank of tory. )rdered to the Mediterranean to Join umodnie Preble's s<|uadron, Decatur k command as a lieutenant of the terprlse and proceeded to Syracuse, ere he learned thut the frigate iladelphia. commanded by Captain inhridgc, had run ashore in the har of Tripoli and had been captured the Tripolitans. 'ommodore I'reble determined to itroy the Philadelphia as she lay anchor, having been refloated by Tripolitans. Lieutenant Decatur uniltTVU ma strviiiD iu vuiimuuiu h during expedition. He disguised Intrepid, which he had captured m the enemy, and accompanied by Siren, Lieutenant Charles Stewas a support nnd to cover his reat, made the venture with a voleer crew of seventy men. 'he Philadelphia was protected by Runs of the pasha's castle, by the ghboring forts, and was surrounded all the gunboats of the enemy's ilia. The Philadelphia was a frie of 44 guns, but her armament had n destroyed by Captain Iiainbrldge ore her capture. [i the little Intrepid, which mounted y four guns, Decatur, with his crew guised with Maltese ca|?, crept Into dark harbor. They passed the tcry, gained the side of the Phllaphla, and In the language of tho polltans asked the officer of the dured ship for permission to run lore to the frigate, as they had lost lr anchors In the sUno. ut#En* r.lws*? nned to carry the hawser to the rate. A boat from the Philadelphia s sent out to help them, and soon, iught the Intrepid alongside the lladelphiu. Suddenly they were dls ercd and a cry went up "Amerlios." Jeeatur's order "Hoard" rang out 1 with Lieutenant Morris leaped )n the deck of the Philadelphia. The w, each armed with cutlass and tol, followed and the Tripolitan w, panic stricken, leaped overboard. Vithln a few minutes the PhiladeL a was a blaze of fire. Decatur was ' J as I IU leave lil?* llifcUli- auu nnuui m the rail into the rigging of the ropid oa Hhc veered off to escape, e shore batteries and gunboats ;ned Are, but only one shot struck ' ship. No lives were lost and only ir men were wounded. ^ord Nelson, then commanding the gllxh fleet off Toulon, declared the ploit as "the most bold and daring : of the age." ''or this gallant achievement, Deur was made post-captain, and in ! attack on Tripoli In the spring of 15 was given command of one dlion made up of gunboats loaned by i king of Naples. \s Decatur led his division under ; flre of the batteries, Commodore eble, fearing he could not stand :h flre, attempted to order him to thdraw, but found no signal for it order In the code. Therefore, De:ur continued to meet the enemy nboats. He recantured his first versary with but little fighting, d wax about to carry off his prize len he learned that his brother, >utcnant James Decatur, had been led treacherously by the captain of >oat who. after, striking his flag to ! American, shot his captor as he pped aboard his prize. Captain Decatur, finding that the vardly Turk had escaped with his nboat, pushed farther within the miy's lines and reached the vessel the head of eleven Americans, all the crew he had left after manig his prize. For twenty minutes ! contest was doubtful, and ail of Americana were by now aeverely unded. Decatur ordered the capn left for him. The Turk was armwtth an <-apontoon. Decatur with a Liana, and In attempting to cut off ; head of his antagonist's weapon, i sword was broken off close to the t, is the Turk closed on him, Decatur fhtly wounded on the arm and sast, grappled with him and they I to the deck, Decatur on top. As the rk drew a dagger Decatur shot him id. In the meantime the crews, ning to the assistance of their comnders, engaged In a death struggle 1 when Decatur attempted to rise found himself pinned down by the id sailors. )ne of the enemy crew, seeing an ;nlng In the fighting mass, raised sword to cleave the skull of the lerlcan officer. As the sword swept inward another head was shoved In course, and Decatur, having time use a pistol clear, shot the TripoliL rhe hero that Interposed his own id to save the life of Decatur was uben James, a red-beaded, freckle :ed youngster who had been with catur in the destruction of the lladelphla, and who loved his comrnder with a sort of slavelike devon. In the fighting with the crew of ! ship commanded by the tresoher(Contlnusd on Page Four.) |