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Make This Bank Did You Ev a man w Via Vta 11V WW one. Bu dozens of I ted their f >T<1 I ne answ I Open a Saving The Excl r Of New "The Banl g j ZZIZI " Alkali Ike started in and aimed the right of the line of bottles inste of the left, and the poor boob behl the scenes started breaking the bott on the left, and then the boxhold turned loose; but outside of this lii fiasco the performance was a huge s cess, ar.d we decided to run it fo: week. New troops were constantly com through, and for six performances had the "S. R. O." sign suspended c side. CHAPTER XIX. r On His Own. Of course Tommy cannot always producing plays under fire but wl in rest billets he has numerous otl > ways of amusing himself. He is * great gambler, but never plays ? ?1-? ~ ii? ??v. lBTge Biases. urcuCTitiiy, ia trav.11 v*. pany, you will find a regular Canfh This man banks nearly all the gan of chance and is an undisputed autb ity on the rules of gambling. Wh ver there is an argument among 1 Tommies about some uncertain po as to whether Houghton is entitled Watting' sixpence, the matter is tat to the recognized^ authority and his1 dsion is final. TVn T?At4 n/mnlor aromae < JLUC inv UiVOW jAT^UiUi ih,uiuvo ? "Crown and Anchor" afl House." The paraphernalia used in "Cro end Anchor" consists of a piece of c vas two feet by three feet. This divided into six equal squares. In th< squares are painted a club, diamo: heart, spade, crown, and an anch one device to a square. There i three dice used, each dice marked 1 same as the canvas. The banker s op his gambling outfit in the corner ^ KHlftf on/) ofoi^o KoHt-Kaainor tinH 91 UillCk QUU Dial to L/UitJ UVViUfj uuvi ^ crowd of Tommies gathers arour then the game starts. ||? The Tommies place bets on 1 WW SQuares, the crown or anchor bel Br played the most. The hanker tt ? rolls his three dice and collects or pt out as the case may be. If you pi the crown and one shows up on 1 dice, yon get even money, If two sn up, you receive two to one, and If thr three to one. If the crown does not: pear and you have bet on It, you lo and so on. The percentage for 1 hnnkpr i? lar?** it pverv sniiflr** played, but if the crowd is partial say two squares, be has to trust luck. The banker generally wins. The game of "House" is very popu also. It takes two men to run it. T game consists of numerous squares I cardboard containing three rows numbers, five numbers to a row. 1 numbers run from one to ninety. Et card has a different combination. The French "estaminets" in the 1 /wv\/<AlmcrAn in fK A HnA UtgTTB OtC UUiU Clivcu 1U IUC HIV lag until one in the afternoon in cordance with army orders. After dinner the Tommies eong $ste fit these places to drink Frer jtoeer at * penny a glass and pi TffPft' ** / TTrffV v y . . As afvf>B lis the estaqiinet is f? I i - . ; I' i) Your Business Horr.e i er Kno w? i j rho regretted the fact id saved money / ... not t! you probably know men who have regret! ailure to save. j er is simple - j l s Account To-day ! ! | lange Bank berry, S. C. f of the People" m in !'$ (fAMOKMSOLMER TWA T i TTf\T*IK ^ ^ (W YVLlN 1 v w mummy MNE GUfiMER,SERVING IN fRAffCE" f ?1917 DY I A1 Aornfrf??iry morvl -1 at ! Gently crowded the proprietors of the ad j "House" game get busy and, a? they nd j term it, "form a school." This consists ; les j of going around and seHing cards at ! erf? | a franc each. If they have ten in the ; r{;le school, the backers of the game de- f uc_ duct two francs for their trouble and i a the winner gets eight francs. | Then the game starts. Each buyer in? places his card before him on the ta- ! ble, first breaking up matches into fif-j teen pieces. One of the backers ?f the game has a small cloth bag in which are ninety cardboard squares, each with a num- j ber printed thereon, from one to nine- j ty. He raps on the table and cries nnf* "Rvps ilnwn. mv Inrkv lads." DC wv? V v"v " ?? ? %r tila All noise ceases and every one is at-1 her tention. i i a The croupier places his hand in the for ! bag and draws forth a numbered )m. j square and immediately calls out the ;ld j number. The man who owns the card . aes | with that particular number on it, or. | covers the square with a match. The j ? ! nno rchn tbp fiftppn numbers on the 1 his card first shouts "House." The 1 int J other backer immediately comes over j to j to him and verifies the card by calling cen out the numbers thereon to the man j (jg. with the hag. As-each number is called he picks it out of the onfes i ire picked from the bag and says, "Right.*' j If the count is right he shouts, "House i wn correct, pay the lucky gentleman, and! aEh j sell him a card for the next school." j jg The "lucky gentleman" generally buys j age one unless he has a miser trace in , Q^j his veins. or' Then another collection is made, a ' irJ school formed, and they carry on with :he the game. ets The caller-out has many nicknames; for the numbers such as "Kelly's Eye" j j ft for one, "Leg's Eleven" for eleven, j 1(j. "Clickety-click" for sixty-six, or "Top: of the house" meaning ninety. the game is honest and quite en[ng Joyable. Sometimes you have fourteen ten numbers on your card covered and iyg you are waiting for the fifteenth to be lay -called. In an imploring voice you call | the out, "Come on, Watkins, chum, I'm ow sweating on 'Kelly's Eye.'" ee, Watkins generally replies, "Well, ??*_ lroun ntif nf o riroft VAll'll ffltph ('Old." I VWV V* ,, I se, Another game Is "Pontoon," played the with cards; it is the same as our is "Black Jack," or "Twenty-one." t0> A card game called "Brag" is alsc: to popular. Using a casino deck, the; dealer deals each player three cards. I It is similar to our pofeer, except for i his the fact that you only use three cards J ?* and cannot draw. The deck is never ?* shuffled until a man shows three of a( kind or a "prile" as it is called. The' icil raitze of the hands are, high card, aj patr, a ma, a flash or three of & kind j ril- , or "prile." Tne limit is generally a ro- penny, so it is hard to win a fortune ac~ The next in popularity is a carc game called "Nap." It is well named re- Every time I played it I went to sleep lc*! : Whist and solo whist are played In 'a*v i the highVirows of the company. j When the gamblers tire of all othej < - : | games they try "Banker and Broker.1' I ' T spent a wool; frying in h some < of the Tommies h??w i<> play poker, hut t because I won thirty-five frai:<-* they > declared that they didn't "fawney" the 1 game. * Tommy plays few (tire? games; the general run never heard of poker, en- s dire, seven up, o* *Mnoehle. They have J v. game similar to pinochle called l "Royal Bezique," but few know how to 1 ril-.iv it ( k'A%+J ** Generally there pre two decks of ] cards in a section, and in a short time I they are so dog-eared and greasy, you c::n hardly tell the ace of spades from < the ace of hearts. The owners of these ) decks sometimes condescend to lend < them after much coaxing. , j So you see, Mr. Atkins has his fun mixed in with his hardships and, con- < trary to popular belief, the rank and 1 fde of the British army in the trenches a Is one big happy family. Now in Vir- < ginla, at school, I was fed on old Me- ' Guffy's primary render, which gave me an opinion of an Englishman about "* x l\o rtlrn#1 Tin CKJUUl lO a <V> iUUlUlC iUUll o uai.n.cu by a Sinn Feiner's. But I found Torn- i my to be the best of mates and a gen- 1 tleman through and through. He never thinks of knocking his officers. If one : makes a costly mistake and Tommy pays with liis blood, there is no general condemnation of the officer. He is just pitied. It is exactly the same as it was with the Light Brigade at Balaclava, to say nothing of Gallipoit Neuve Chapelle and Loos. Personally I remember a little Incident whert Meeting a Gas anc twenty of us were sent on a tfench raid, only two of us returning, but 11 ' will tell this story later on. j I said it was a big happy family, ana so it is, but as in all happy families, there are servants, so in the British army there are also servants, officers' j servants, or "O. S." as they are termed, i In the American army the common j name for them is "dog robbers." From < a controversy in the English papers, j Winston Churchill made the state- j ment, as far as I can remember, that j the officers' servants In the British j fV?r/*??c nonrlv tvrn hnnrtrpfl ! thousand. He claimed that-this re- ? moved two hundred thousand exceptionally good and well-trained fighters from the actual firing line, claiming that the officers, when selecting a riaan for servant's duty, generally picked the 1 man who had been <5ut the longest ajid knew the ropes. But from my observation I find that J a large percentage of the servants do go ovi>r the top. but behind the lines -1' AM?yn/T/v ?n /ti <vrtri ncr I 1 lllt*y vci v ^t-iuuiu in j parties, fatigues, parades or drills, j This work is as necessary as actually ! engaging in an attack, therefore I think ! ] it would he safe to say that the all- j round work of the two hundred thou- j sand is about equal to fifty thousand j men who are on straight military du- j ' ties. In numerous instances, officers' ' servants hold the rank of lance-corpo- j ! rals and they assume tne same amies ; and authority of a butler, the.one j stripe giving him precedence over the j i other servants. ] There are lots of amusing stories < told of "O. S." One day one of our majors went into < the servants' billet and commenced "blinding" at them, saying that his i horse had no straw and that he per- < sonally knew that straw had been is- j 1 sued for this purpose. He called the ' 1 lance-corporal to account. The cor- ' 1 poral answered, "Blime me, sir, the j 1 straw was issued, but there wasn't enough left over from the servants' j 1 beds; in fact, we had to use some of j i the 'av to 'elp out, sir." j ] It is needless to say that the serv- ! I ^ nn'fh f hail* cnft hpfls 1 1 IUi?? ui^|jriic?ru miui iuvn cvi t that particular night. Nevertheless it is not the fault of 1 the individual officer, it is just the sur- 1 vival of a quaint old English custom. ^ You know an Englishman cannot be ' changed in a day. > But the average English officer is a 1 good sport. He will sit on a fire step and listen respectfully to Private Jones' theory of the way the war 3 should be conducted. . This war is * gradually cruniDiing tne once msur- | mountable wall of caste. You would be convinced of this if you coujd see fcing George go among his men on an inspecting tour under i fire, or pause before a little wowteo ' to.cr In some shp'l-jossed with ears in his <\ves us he reads ih<- inscription. And a little later perhaps >end over a wounded man on a stretcher, patting him on the head. More than once in a hospital 1 have ;een a titled Rod Cross nurse fetching ind carrying for a wounded soldier, perhaps the one who in civil life deivered the coal at her hack door. Toiay she does not shrink from lighting lis fag or even washing his griiny ?ody. Tommy admires Albert of Belgium because he is not a pusher of men; lie on (is tnein. vmtii nun 11s uoi a if "take that trench," it is "come on md we will take it." It is amusing to notice the different haracteristics of the Irish, Scotch and English soldiers. The Irish and Scotch ire very impetuous, especially when it [ (unes to bayonet fighting, while the Englishman, though a trifle slower, thoroughly does his bit; he is more methodical and has the grip of a bulldog on a captured position. He is Blower to think; that is the reason why tie never knows when he is licked. Twenty minutes before going over the top the English Tommy will sit on the fire step and thoroughly examine the mechanism of his rifle to see that it is in working order and will fire properly. After this examination he is satM/irwltr 4- r\ DQ lfcjutru a LIvi icauj iu iiiv-ci tnv> But the Irishman or Scotchman sits on the fire step, his rifle with bayonet Hxed between his knees, the butt oI ^Bi^lHSixHfiS@^^lv^'^liHlBS?jHR nj 1 kifantry Attack, * i which perhaps is sinking into the rand ?the bolt couldn't be opened with a team of horses^ it is so rusty?but he Bpits on his sleeve and slowly polishes his bayonet; when this is done he also Is ready to argue with Fritz. It is not necessary to mention thfc ><Alnnia1c PanoHlans A nctrnlinns and New Zealanders), the whole world knows what they have done for England. The Australian and New Zealander is termed the "Anzac," taking the name from the first letters of their official designation, Australian and New Zealand army corps. Tommy divides the German army Into three classes according to their fighting abilities. They rank as follows: Prussians, Bavarians and Saxons. When up against a Prussian regi liicui it 10 a tttoc ujl nccp juui uajjpti below the parapet and duck. A bangbang all the time and a war is on. The Bavarians are little better, but the Saxons are fairly good sports and are willing occasionally to behave as gentlemen and take it easy, but you can ot trust any of them overlong. At one point of the liDe the trenches were about tliirty-two yards apart rhi? sounds horrible, but in fact it was easy, because neither side could shell the enemy's front-line trench for fear shells would drop into their own. This eliminated artillery fire. In these trenches when up against the Prussians and Bavarians, Tommy had a hot time of it, but when the Saxons "took over" it was a picnic; they would yell across that they were Saxons and would not fire. Both sides would sit on the parapet and carry on i conversation. This generally consisted of Tommy telling them how much tie loved the kaiser, while the Saxons Informed Tommy that King George nas a particular friend of theirs and loped that he was doing nicely. | When the Saxons were to be relieved 3y Prussians or Bavarians, they would yell this information across No Man's Land and Tommy would immediately tumble into his trench and keep his bead down. j If an English regiment was to be reieved by the wild Irish, Tommy would [ell the Saxons, and immediately a vol- ( ley of "Donner und Blitzens" could ip heard and it was Fritz's turn to get j i crick in his hack from stooping, an? rhe people in Berlin would close their windows. I i Usually when ?n Irishman takes over i trench, just before "stand down" In !he morning, he sticks his rifle over the top. aimed in the direction ot tser-, in, and engages in what Is known as the "mad minute.'1 This consists of Bring fifteen shots in a minute. He1 s not aiminsr at anything in particular ?Just sends over each shot with & ffniTor, hoping flint mo of his strays fall! pet some poor unsi-ncctin;; Fritz In the napper hundreds of yards heWnd the lines. It j?enerally does; that's the reason the Bodies hate the man from Erin's isle. The Saxons, i hough bettor than the I Russians and Bavarians, have a nasty trait of trea<-hory in tbeir makeup. At one point of the line where the trenches "ere very close, a stake was driven into the ground midway between the hostile line?. At night vhon It was his turn, Tommy would crawf to this ;take and attach some London papers to it, while at the foot he would place tins of bully beel, fags, sweets and other delicacies that he had r<>ceiv^d from Blighty in the ever looked for parcel. Later on *ritz would come out and get these luxuries. The next night Tommy would go out to see what Fritz put into his stocking. The donation generally consisted of a paper irum xitrxiu, lc-ihu^ mw vr?o winning the war, some tinned sausages, cigars, and occasionally a little beer, but a funny thing, Tommy never returned with the beer unless it was inside of him. His platoon got a whiff of his breath one night and the offending Tommy lost his job. One night a young English sergeant crawled to the stake and as he tried 10 detach the German paper a bomb exploded and mangled him horribly. Fritz had' set a trap and gained another victim which was only one more black mark against him in the book of this war. From that time on diplomatic relations were severed. Returning to Tommy, I think his spirit is best shown in the questions he asks. It is never "who is going to win" but always "how long will it take?" CHAPIfcKAA. JjpJ"Chats With Fritz." We were swimming in money, from the receipts of our theatrical venture, and had forgotten all about the war, when an order came through that our brigade would again take over their sector of the line. The day that these orders were issued, our captain assembled the company and asked for volunteers to go to the Machine Gun school at St. Omar. I volunteered and was accepted. -L 1^*4 rsiXTeen men irum our unguuc icxi. for the course in machine gunnery. This course lasted two weeks and we rejoined our unit and were assigned to the brigade machine guil company. It almost broke ray heart to leave my company mates. The gun we used was the Vlckers, Light .303. water cooled. I was still a member of the Suicide club, having jumped from the frying pan into' the fire. I was assigned to section 1, gun No. 2, and the first time "in" took position in the front-line trench. During the day our gun would be dismounted on the fire step ready for instant use. We shared a dugout with the Lewis gunners. At "stand to" we would mount our gun on the parapet and go on watch beside it until "stand down" in the morning. Then the gun would be dismounted and again placed In readiness on the fire step. We did eight days in the front-line trench without anything unusual happening outside of the ordinary trench routine. On the night that we were to "carry out," a bombing raid against the German lines was pulled off. This raiding party consisted of sixty company men. sixteen bombers, and four Lewis machine guns with their crews. The raid took the Boches by surprise and was a complete success, the party bringing back twenty-one prisoners. The Germans must have been awfully sore, because they turned loose a Tiri t h Q "Mill imiiagc ui .-MJia]iiici, Klin u iv .f ? nies" and "whizz bangs" intermixed. The shells were dropping into our front line like hailstones. To get even, we could have left the prisoners in the fire trench, in charge of the men on guard and let them click Fritz's strafeing but Tommy does not treat prisoners that way. Five of them were brought into my dugout and turned over to me so that they would be safe from the German fire. In the candlelight, they looked very much shaken, nerves gone and chalky faces, with the exception of one, a great big fellow. He looKea very mucn at ease. I liked him from the start I got out the rum jar and gave each a nip and passed around Some fags, the old reliable Woodbines. The other prisoners looked their gratitude, but the big fellow said in English, "Thank you. sir. the rum is excellent and I appreciate it, also your kindness." He told me his name was Carl Schmidt, of the Sixty-sixth Bavaria? Light infantry; that he had lived six years in New York (knew the city bet ter than I did), had been to uoney island and many of our ball games. He was a regular fan. I couldn't make him believe that Hans Wagner wasn't the best ball player in the world. From New York he had gone to London, where he worked as a waiter jj\ the Hotel Russell. 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. 1 could not convince him otherwise, for hadn't he seen moving pictures in one of the German cities of St. Paul's cathedral in ruins. I changed ibe subject because hf was so stubborn in bis belief. It was my intentirn to try $nd pump him for information as 10 the methods of thei German snipers, who had been cans-' in? us trouble in the last few days. ; T broached \ho mhjerf and he shut up like :i c!rn\ After a few iLinuies Jie very iLnoccntty* ; "Gorman sn'pors srot paid r*~ for killing tho English." I eagerly asked. "What are Ho answered: "For killing or wounding an Er.cAa? private. ihf> sniper gets ono mark. FW killing or wounding an English otf^e* he gets five marks, but if he kilts a *jap or ttngnsn gpnerai, uic smpvr twenty-one days tied to the wheel (? ? limber as punishment for his etfiv exn-ness." Then he paused, waiting for te.*r ia* bite. I suppose. I bit all right and asked him why tt* sniper was punished for killing a* English general. With a smile he replied : "Well, you see. if all th*? Engfish g?-*r erals were killed, there would W sum one left to make costly mistakes." I shut him up, he was getting: fresh for a prisoner. After a whJ'V winked at me and I winked bade. 'hem the escort came to take the pr>s<?. to the rear. I shook hands and w?>bafi. him "The best of luck and a safe >.? *ney to Blighty." I liked that prisoner, he was a fellow, had an Iron Cross, too. 1 adfrvised him to keep it out of sigftt. ?rsorae Tommy would be sending it to his girl in Blighty as a souvenir. One dark and rainy night while ?*guard we were looking over the !?p> from the fire step of our front-.!*??? trench, when we heard a noise ?crtaediately in front of our barbed The sentry next to me chaHeo^-aiL. "TT..U ?U ^ ?- * nail, >viiu iuiucs uinci uim his rifle to the aim. His chaH^nf.4 vr*t: answered in German. A captain iu next traverse climbed upon live ??5d&bagged parapet to investigate?? but foolhardy deed?"CrackM weatr a* bullet and he tumbled back into tic* trench with a hole through his stotaaadk* and died a few minutes later. A corporal in the next platoon was so ?raged at the captain's death that h* - 1 * 5 _ i u J ? i 1 ~ - ciiucKeu a anus uoiitu iu me of the noise with the shouted warnJtac to us: "Duck your nappers, ray luf ?3 lads." A sharp dynamite report, a finikin front of us, and then silence. ! We immediately sent up twc< **mxt shells, and in their light could see rto dark forms lying on the ground < ?< * to our wire. A sergeant and U-\u * stretcher-bearers went out in front * : soon returned, carrying two T bodies. Down in the dugout, in tie flickering light of three candles*, -.wsaw that they were two Germaa oncers, one* a captain and the other sr. "unteroffizier," a rank one grade than a sergeant general, but below thr-. grade of lieutenant The captain's face had been afc-rSl completely torn away by the bomtfit ; explosion. The unteroffizier was . breathing with difficulty. In a few mm? utes he opened his eyes and blinkeu-am* the glare of the candles. The pair had evidently been driving heavily, for the alcohol fumes sickening and completely pervart+*l :fec~ dugout. I turned away in hating to see a man cross the Grva.c Divide full of booze. One of our officers could speak G*man and he questioned the dying n*naiIn a faint voice, interrupted by frequent hiccoughs, the unteroffizier his story. There had been a drinking frmt* nmons? the officers in one of the man dugouts, the main beverage being." champagne. With a drunken teer ?? * informed us that champagne was jr? =??? riful on their side and that it rtitf refer cost them anything either. About serm.that night the conversation had t\ur?ta to the "contemptible" English, ???3 captain had made a wager shaf ftar* would hang his cap on the Eagi^k.. barbed wire to show his contemp* the English sentries. The wager w*accepted. At eight o'clock the cttfxtifi*and he had crept out into No Msafl*.; Land to carry out this wager.. ! Thev had gotten about Fiatfvr*jr t ~ ? across when the drink took effect the captain fell asleep. After alvmt two hours of vain attempts the offizier had at last succeeded io. ing the captain, reminded him wC bet. and warned him that he would fc* the laughing stock of the officers" tsaemif he did not accomplish his . the captain was trembling atC o*.vin insisted on returning to rfoe Gerumt . , lines. In the darkness they lost ihci? i bearings and crawled toward the Kdfrlish trenches. They reached the barfietf. , wire and were suddenly challenged figr our sentry. Being too drunk to real* that the challenge was in English ii* j captain refused to crawl back. Fm&Hjr ! the unterofiizier convinced his sTTperioe j that they were in front of the .> j wire. Realizing this too late-. r0fcft- 'ajs1- i tain drew his revolver and wirjfc ? xxvte! tered curse fired blindly coward ?*bt j trench. His bullet no- doubt killed oor; i captain. t i Then the bomb came over and there: he was, dying?and a good job too, wr ; thought. The captain dead? WelL ftfe, men wouldn't weep at the ae-ws?. i Without giving us any farther? fnffce* inn lion the unteroffizier tEetf. | We searched the bodies for fdeatifS- ; cation disks but they had left evetyI thing behind before starting on liufir * J foolhardy errand. | Next afternoon we buried i our little cemetery apart iuoo&i ! graves of the Tommies. If y>tti ' ;ro into that cemetery yoc tkW: jk* little wooden crosses in corner et: the cemetery set away froui.thev^resV ; Tbey read: | Captain German ArmyDied ?191$ Unknown Jjpf m??r i R. i. P. m. I 1: 1% ;m i ji Tnteroffizier v2j*f J . Carman Army i ?K& i>!wi ? 191ft ? ! tJpjifP Unknown. 1 1 " (TO BE CONTINUED.) I