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0t Make This Bank / \ k: n- i v r_ i^ia i ou nv< i a man w that he ha one. But ^ dozens of i m ~.. ted their fi p The answt Open a Saving The Exch Of New "The Bank ? fit I 1 CHAPTER XXI. About Turn. J/ne uPif evening we were reuev< by the ?th brigade, and once aga returned to rest billets. Upon arrivii at these billets we were given twent four hours in which to clean up. I h; just finished getting the mud from r uniform when the orderly sergeant i formed me that ray name was in orde to leave, and that I was to report the orderly room in the morning for < ders. transportation and rations. i.nearly had a fit, hustled aboi packing up, filling ray pack with sc venirs sucli as shell heads, dud bornl rnose caps, shrapnel balls, and a Pn sian guardsman's helmet. In fact, t fore 1 turned in that night, I had ever thing ready to report at the order 4 room at nine:the next morning. I was the efevy of the whole sectic swanking around, telling of the go< time I was going to have, the places v!n?4 n r> /I < K a 1 /\? /I n nrl 1 > wuuiu vjjmu aiiu uic ictti, uiu beer I intended to guzzle. Sort rubbed it into them, because they t do it, and now that it was my turn, took pains to get my own back. At nine I reported to the captain, i ceiving my travel order and pass. I asked me how much money I want to draw. I glibly answered, "Thr iiundred francs, sir;" he just as glib handed me one hundred. I Reporting at brigade headquartei L with my pack weighing a ton, I wait* k vri+h frtrfc nthorc fnr tho oHIlltonf1 m *T 1LU XVI tj VlUViOl J.VI C14V UUJUtW***, P inspect us. After an hour's wait, 1 came out; must have been sore becau he wasn't going with us. The quartermaster sergeant issu Lus two days' rations, in a little whi canvas ration bag, which we tied w Knl f O VU1 UCHO. SjL Then two motor lorries came aloi gA and we piled in, laughing, Joking, ai ^#Aln the best of spirits. We even lov< HM|rhe Germans, we were feeling so happ pSiiW Our journey to seven days* bliss BF Blighty had commenced. The ride in the lorry lasted abo ) two nours; Dy tnis nme we were co ered with fine, white dust from t] ; road, but didn't mind, even if we we nearly choking. At the railroad station at F ^ reported to an officer, who had a whi band around his arm, which read " T. O." (Koyal Transportation Officei To us this officer was Santa Claus. The sergeant in charge showed hi our orders; ne giancea inrougn me and said: "Make yourselves comfo; able on the platform and don't leav the train Is liable to be along in fi minutes?or five hours." It came in five hours, a string eleven match boxes on big, hi) wheels, drawn by a dinky little engii ^ with the "con." These match box were cattle cars, on the sides of whl was painted the old familiar sig ' "Bommee 40, Chevaux 8." Tbejft. T?0. stuck vs..til liito o car. m ma n't care; It was as go - _ . V h I Your Business Home j i erKnow? i i ho regretted the fact I d saved monev? .?. not " I :! you probably know I ? men who have regretnilure to save. >r is simple - - j ' s Account To-day i ! ===== i . tange Bank j berry, S. C. of the People" i . I i I ? . | 1 m m is ory \ \TAjvnmv5oiwffi 110 WENT - " flTOffllYFMDFY <1 IIUlV V?U 1 1A 11 I, 1 MINE flUNHBl, JEWING !N ERAtfClr , : ?ISI7 BY I ARTHlKBYtftfCYl JjT . ' T as a Pullman to us. I : Two days we spent on that train, I e<l. bumping, stopping, jerking ahead, and I in sometimes sliding back. At three sta- J ng' tions we stopptM long enough to make j v : some tea, but were unable to wash, so v j j nd j when we arrived at B , where we | qv 1 were to embark for Blighty, we were I n- as black as Turcos and, with our un-! ,rs ! shaven faces, we looked like a lot of j ; trflmns. Thouch tired out. we w?re I ,r. | happy. | We had packed up, preparatory to ; lt j detraining, when a R. T. O. held up his ; )U.! hand for us to stop where we were ' w i and came over. This is what he said:! 's-i I >e-1' j Dead Bodies Everywhere. | 3g j : 3(j "Boys, I'm sorry, but orders have just j -j hoon po/-.oivoH con^pllinsr all leave. If: ,y. you had been three hours earlier you, in would have gotten away. Just stay in that train, as it is going back. Rations J , ut will be issued to you for your return; iv- iourney to your respective stations, tie Beastly rotten, I know." Then he left.j * * 5 11 ? ? . 11?J niv, an man re a aeaa snence resum-u. xucu n. , started to curse, threw their rifles on re the floor of the car; others said noth-i , te ing, seemed to be stupefied, while some! . r. had the tears running down their! , ?). cheeks. It was a bitter disappointmentto all. j 1 m i How we blinded at the engineer of; ] ? I . 1+ woe uU hi?i (Sft We Ill I tlidL iiam , ii n?o ^- rt ' reasoned); why hadn't he speeded up a\ e; j little or been on time, then we would 1 ve j have gotten off before the order ar-; , j rived? Now it was no Blighty for us. j , of j That return Journey was misery tc i gh I us; I just can't describe it. j ; ae j When we got back to rest billets, we j i ei j found that our brigade was in the' j ch I trenches (anoiher agreeable surprise)! j ^n, ' and that an attack was contemplated., t | Seventeen of the forty-one will nevez .< j Jr.* euciiltf-r ! V Hi* c,t; V* * ( R* ! - get another- rbftrf v < to - go on leave ; j od i the; were killed is tie attack. .Just i 1 i think 11' tluv t r:?:-? h: heen on tJ:rjf those seventeen '.vouhl stiil he alive. I hate to tell you how 1 was kifi<le< by the hoys when J. got hack, hut it \va good aiul plenty. Our machine gun company took ove their part of the line at seven o'clock the night alter i rorurnea irom m, Lear leave. At 3 :30 the following morning thre naves went over aiul captured the firs and second German trenches. Th machine gunners went over with th four ill wave to consolidate the caj: i 1 li J " ?ci 'P/mimtr />oll lUrt?U iiut? Ur UIg iu xuiiiuij van It. Crossing No Man's Land withou clicking any casualties, we came t< the German trench and mounted ou guns on the parados of same. I never saw such a mess in my lif ?bundles of twistetf barbed wire lyin; about, shell holes everywhere, trend all bashed in, parapets gone, and deai bodies, why, that ditch was full o them, theirs and ours. It was a regi lar morgue. Some were mangled hoi ribly from our shell fire, while other were wholly or partly buried in th mud, the result of sholl explosions! ciw lng in the walls of the trench. On dead German was lying on his bad with a rilte sticking straight up in th air, the bayonet of which was burie to the hilt in his chest. Across his fee lay a dead English soldier with a bul let hole in his forehead. This Torara must have been killed just as he ra: his bayonet through the German. Rifles and equipment were scattere about, and occasionally a steel helme could be seen sticking out of the mut ? i- ~ nninf in tho nntMtir'O 1" AL um* ?AJ1UI, JUOI AJ-I iuv- V.ui.tuuvv a communication trench, was a stretct er. On this stretcher a German \va lying with a white bandage around hi knee, near to him lay one of tb. stretcher-bearers, the red cross on hi arm covered with mud and his ht^me filled with blood and brains. Close bj sitting up against the wall of th trench, with head resting on his chesl was the other stretcher-bearer. H seemed to be alive, the posture was s natural and tasy; but when I go closer I couid see a large, jagged hoi in his temple. The throe must hav been killed by the same shell-burst. The dugouts wereal! smashed in an knocked about, big square-cut timber splintered into bits, walls caved in an< entrances choked. Tommy, after taking a trench, learn to his sorrow that the hardest part o the work ts to hold it. In our case tliis proved to be so. The German artillery and machin guns had us taped (ranged) for fair it wa*; worth your life to expose youi self an instant. Don't think for a minute that th Germans \*ere the only sufferers; w were clicking casualties so fast, tha you needed an adding machine to kee track of them. Diu you ever see one of the steai shovels at work on the Panama canal Well, it would look like a hen scratch ing alongside of a Tommy "digging in while under fire. You couldn't see daj light through the clouds of dirt fror his shovel. After losing three out of six men o our crew we managed to set up ou machine gun. One of the legs of th tripod was resting on the chest of half-buried body. When the gun wa firing, it gave the Impression that th body was breathing. This was cause by the excessive vibration. Three or four feet down the trench about three feet from the ground, foot was protruding from the eartl We knew it was a German by the blac leather boot. One of our crew use that foot to hang extra bandoliers ci ammunition on. ThiWman always wa a handy^fellow; made use of littl points that the ordinary person woul overlook. The Germans made three countei attacks, which we repulsed, but no without heavy loss on our side. The also suffered severely from our she) and machine-gun fire. The ground wa spotted with their dead and dying. lilt* Lit* AI Uit.V llliii^a hcic i>vnmr ?> no quieter, but not quiet enough to bur the dead. We lived, ate and slept in that trenc with the unburied dead for six days It was awful to watch their faces b? come swollen and discolored. Toward the last the stench was fierce. What got on my nerves ihe most wa that foot sticking out of the dirt. I seemed to me, at night, in the moor light, to be trying to twist aroumi Several times this impression was s< strong that I went to it and grasped i in both hands, to see if I could feel i movement. 1 told this to the man who had use< It for a hatraek just before I lay dowi for a little nap, as things wer.e quiet and > needed a rest pretty badly "When I woke up the foot was gon He had cut it off with our chain sav out of the sptire parts' box, and ha< plastered the stump over with mud. T>uring the next two or three days before we were relieved. I missed tha foot dreadfully; seemed as if I ha< suddenly lost a chum. I think the worst thing of all was t< watch the rats, at night, and some times in the aay, run over and pla: about among the dead. Near our gun,Wright across the para pet, could he seen the body of a Ger man lieutenant, the head and arms o' which were hanging into our trench The man who had cut off the foot usee to sit and carry on a one-sided conver sation with this officer, used to argu< and Doint out why Germany was in th< svrong. During all of this monologm I never heard him say anything out 01 the way?anything that would hav< burt the officer's feelings had he beer alive. He was square all right wouldn't even take advantage of f lead in an.argument. To tiviiians this must seem rire&d Jul, but oat here one gets so used t< sTjrlitrs that 5?" makes no fmprossi on. In j.n.-'sintr ft butcher yon 1 are not shocked by seeing :i dead turs Aey hanging from a hook. Well, in France, a dead body is looked upon r from the same angle. But, nevertheless, when our six days. y were up. we were tickled to death to be relieved. e Our machine gun company lost t seventeen killed and thirty-one wounde ed in that little local affair of e "straightening the line," while the i- oiner companies clicked it worse tnan s we (lid. After the attack we went into ret serve billets for six days, and on the o seventh once again we were in rest bilr lets. e CHAPTER XXII. g! ? n Punishments and Macmne-Gun stunts. & Soon after my arrival in France; in f fact, from my enlistment, I had found i- that in the British army discipline is very strict. One has to be very cares ful in order to stay on the narrow path e of government virtue. r-- There are about seven million ways e of breaking the king's regulations; to keep one you have to break another, e The worst punishment is death by a d firing squad, or "up against the wall," >t ?:c 'P/imrnv i-ollc it I- This is for desertion, cowardice, mut y tiny, giving information to the enemy, o looting, rape, robbing the dead, forcing I a safeguard, striking a superior, etc. d ! Then comes the punishment of sixtyt four days in the front-line trench withI. out reiief. During this time you have o to engage in all raids, working parties i- in No Man's Land, and every hazardous s undertaking that comes along. If you s live through the sixty-four days you e: are indeed lucky. s This punishment is awarded where t there is a doubt as to the willful guilt '? of a man who has cofamitted an of e, fence punishable by death. U Then comes the famous field pune! ishment No. 1. Tommy has nicknamed 0 it "crucifixion." It means that a man is spread-eagled on a limber wheel, e two hours a day for twenty-one days. ej During this time he only gets water, I bully beef and biscuits for his chow, d. You get "crucified" for repeated minor * ; offenses. d Next in order is field punishment | No. 2. s i Thi? is confinement in the "clink," 1; without blankets, getting water, bully beef and biscuits for rations and doing all the dirty work that can be found. ! This may be for twenty-four hours or ' twenty days, according to the gravity of the offense. Then comes "pack drill" or default ers' parade. This consists of drilling, t, mostly at ttoe double, for two nours 11 with full equipment. Tommy hates t-j this, because it Is hard work. Some| times he fills his pack with straw to lighten it, and sometimes he gets 'j caught. If he gets caught, he grouses '* j at everything in general for twenty: one days, from the vantage point of a r"; limber wheel. D! Next comes "C. B." meaning "con! fined to barracks." This consists of *, staying in billets or barracks for twenri ty-four hours to seven days. You also ; get an occasional defaulters' parade a: and dirty Jobs around the quarters. '! The sergeant major keeps what is . known as the crime sheet. When a Uj man commits an offense, he is "crimed," that is, his name, number - ?i a i.1 .. ana onense is eniereu uu uie unuc 8 sheet. Next day at 9 a. ra. he goes to f. | the "orderly room" before the captain, who .punishes him with "C. B." or-sends him before the O. C. (officer Jj commapding^ battalion). The captain 51 of the c^mjgany can only award "C. B.'1 * j sT&ttmy' many a time has thanked c i the king for making that provision in % | his regulations. i To gain the title of a "smart soiaier, 1 i Tommy has to keep clear of the erim * j sheet, and you have to be darned smart 11! to do it. { I have been on it a few times, most| ly for "Yankee impudence." *, During our stajr of two weeks in 51 rest billets our captain put us through ; a course of machine-gun drills, trying hj out new stunts and theories. s i After parades were over, our guns' ! crews i?ot together and also tried out s! <snmp thpories of their own In reference j to handling gnns. These courses had s j nothing to do with the advancement of *! the war, consisted mostly of causing l*| tricky jams in the gun, and then the ' j rest of the crew would endeavor to locate as quickly as possible the cause *; of the stoppage. This amused them a for a few days and then things came to J a standstill. One of the boys on my gun claimed ?j that he could play a tune while the gun was actually firing, and demon strated this fact one day on the target ' range. We were very enthusiastic and v decided to become musicians. ^ * - A ' II T 1 ? " | Alter constant practice j. uecuiue j quite expert in the tune entitled "All ?; Conductors Hare Big Feet." 1 j When I had mastered this tnne, our * two weeks' rest came to an end, and once again we went up the line and 5 took over the sector In front of G wood. F At this point the German trenches ran around the base of a hill, on the * J top of wnich was a dense wood, xnis " ] wood was Infested with machine guns, ^ i which used to traverse our lines at * j will, and sweep the streets of a little * Tillage, where we were billeted while jIn reserve. ? There was one run in particular - which used to get our goats, it had the g j exact range of our "elephant" dugout ^! entrance, and every morning, about the ? time rations were being brought up, Its 1 bullets would knock up the dust on the I road; more than one Tommy went 1 West or to Blighty by running into them. . . ,, ., i . i'.i. *;itr v. s t r * l;p* This gun got our nerves on edge, > and Fritz seemed to know it, because v ^ no'-pr ^ave us m hour'?; rest. Our -nutation as marines gunners was at stake; we tried various ruses to locate i and put this gun out of action, but ' each one proved to be a failure, and ; Fritz became a worse nuisance than < ever. He was getting fresher and more < careless every day, took all kinds of liberties with us?thought he was in- i vincible. J Then one of our crew got a brilliant i ? ?? ?. ? o+i rt inea ana we were mi cuiuusiusut ivf put it to the test. J Here was his scheme: 1 When firing my gun, I was to play i my tune, and Fritz, no doubt, would ' fall for it, try to imitate me as an 1 added insult. This gunner and two others would try, by the sound, to locate Fritz and his gun. After having < got the location, they would mount two machine guns in trees, in a little rhimn o? woods to the left of our ceme tery, and while Fritz was in the middle of his lesson, would open up and trust to luck. By our calculations, it wrould take at least a week to pull off the stunt. If Fritz refused to swallow our bait, " it would be impossible to locate his special gun, and that's the one we were after, because they all sound alike, a slow pup-pup-pup. Our prestige was hanging by a thread. In the battalion we had to endure all kinds of insults and fresh remarks ns to our ability in silencing Fritz. Even to the battalion that German rrnn vvns n sort* snot. Next day, Fritz opened up as usual. I let him fire away for a while and then butted in with my "pup-pup-puppup-pup-pup." I kept this up quite a while, used two belts of ammunition, j Fritz had stopped firing to listen. Then he started in; sure enough, he had fallen for our game, his gun was trying ? to Imitate mine' but, at first be made a horrible mess of that tune. Again I butted in with a few bars and stopped. Then he tried to copy what I had played. He was a good sport all right, because his bullets were going away over our heads, must have been firing into the air. I commenced to feel friendly toward*him. ; Thi? rinpt \rpnf- nn for five davs. Fritz was a good pupil and learned < rapidly, In fact, got better than his c teacher. I commenced to feel jealous. , When he had completely mastered the , tune, he started sweeping the road uoroin an/i tua niif?irprt it worse than ever. But he signed his death warrant ' by doing so, because my friendship < turned to hate. Every time he fired he i played that tune and we> danced. The boys in the battalion gave us < the "Ha I Ha!" They weren't in on our little frameup. The originator of the ruse and the Mhor hun minnprs hfld Fritz's location VLUV* W " V v _ _ _ fciped to the minute; they mounted their two guns, and also gave me the range. The next afternoon was set for the grand finale. Our three gun??, with different elevations, had their fire so arranged, that, opening up together, their bullets i would suddenly drop on Fritz like a hailstorm. About three the next day, Fritz started "pup-pupping" that tune. I blew a 1 sharp blast on a whistle, it was the sig- 1 nal agreed upon; we turned loose and cnflHPTiIv stnnnpri in the A' AAl?? U buu -'I'r- ? 1 middle of a bar. We had cooked his . goose. and our ruse had worked. After ' 1 firing two belts each, to make sure of our job, we hurriedly dismounted our : guns and took cover in the dugout. We 1 knew what to expect soon. We didn't : . have to wait long, three salvos of "whizz-bangs" came over from Fritz's , artillery, a further confirmation that > we had sent that musical machine-gunner on his Westward-bound journey. ? That gun never bothered us again. We were the heroes of the battalion. *- ? * ? tie* col/I I f our capiaiu cungiuiuiitit-u us, caiu x?. was a neat piece of work, and, consequently, we were all puffed up over the ; stunt There are several ways Tommy uses j * - ,# * -? x1 V?ln rw n .oil infl TO Q1SJJU1S6 IflC lUCttLIUIJ ui ins umiuiuv gun and get his range. Some of the roost commonly used stunts are as follows : 5 At night, when he mounts his gun 1 over the top of his trewh and wants ; to get the range of Fritz's trench he ] adopts the method of what he terms "getting the sparks." This consists of , firing bursts from his gun until the bullets hit the German barbed wire, rnn tell when thev are cutting the f wire, because a bullet when it hits a t wire throws out a blue electric spark. Machine-gun fire is very damaging to < wire and cruses many a wiring party to go out at night when it is quiet to repair the damage. j To disguise the flare of his gun at * night when firing, Tommy uses what is ' called a fiare protector, xnis is a sioveplpe arrangement which fits over the i barrel casing of the gun and screens I the sparks from the right and left, but not from the front. So Tommy, always resourceful, adopts this scheme: About j three feet or less In front of the gun he i [ 77 1 v A / :\ . / I \ ? ' \ i / I \ i * ! * 1 iff 1C0VB5 J00YD5 ^ 1, LlrT CUX PKMT6VH 3 l|] , ] Showing How Fritz ) Fooled. j i j ] j drives two stake* iato the ground, i , abouf five feet apart. Across these | " stakes he stretches a curtain made out J f of empty sandbags ripped open. He j j soaks this curtain in water and fires j through it. The water , prevents it ^ < ftt<'hinr fire ,.apd,effe*'tfvely, screen* j the flare of the firing gun from tie 1 ! enemy. M ) SYmr.d is n valuable !n ]orft<rA? * machine gun. but Tommy sunw/?v?** his obstacle by placing r.vo -1;iis about one hundred to oar w? Jred and fifty yards apart. Tfr- ^sar - .1. - ~i.i . . .. ? _.!ii. /. i.... >n iiitr n^iu u? I'tiv. r "v\ hii us ?:! w n?r sector of the left pun and the ~ **- ?> the left to cover that of th?* r ?un. This makes their fire cros^: -Issjr ure fired simultaneously. By this method it sounds li!-.? oaat cun firing anS gives the GcnnftU"- tl*&~ impression that the gun is firing ' a point midway between tl.** ?-t* which are actually firing, and th- > ac ^nr'i iiiai juu uv uu'.' ,/n^w The machine gunners chuckle ft no -ay. "Fritz is a brainy boy, not V-* ain't." But the men in our lines at t!?< being shelled curse Fritz for h's rance and pass a few pert r?n,;-.A* down the line in reference to T^e rawchine gunners being "windy" an& afraid to take their medicine. (TO BE CONTINUED.) (hnrc cf] WLS?RMOSmM? illCZS IY TSK WITBD STATES iJQfVlftJttlEMT MMH HHflBHHP Buy Them And tfelp Win The War FOR SALE EVERYWHERE fnne Pink, Ponderosa and Stone *nrmato plants for sale. And in reason I will have Pomento, RalBF Kin? and Bell pepper plants. B. Walton. 4-5 2fc SPECIAL ELECTION. A special election is hereby ordear;d to be held in Ward 1 of the towat >{ Xewberrv for an alderman to SI3 ;he unexpired term of the late r: ::r.T: 2: said election to bo !& ?' 5n Thursday, April IS, 1918, the polls;. :o be onened at 8 o'clock a. m. an<? ??-:-Iosf> at o o'clock n. m. The ioUcx& ing ar.? appointed managers to ottl? said election: Hiram Speew*. 3. S. Cunningham, Curtis Epting. Z. F. Wright, Mayer, r. W. Chapman. Clerk and Treasurer J-26 t? VTOICE OK FFXAL SETTLEMENTS T will make a 5na- settlement of the.-.. 3rtate of I). W. w-;?Ver in the Predate Court for ?v.*i>3rry Ci iy. S C.. on Ween--- V-v. the ITtli ua* o T Anril, 1*1*. o'clock in the fore? noon nr.'! *-jil immediately thereafterisk for my discharge as Administrarix of said estate. All persons holding claims againsi" sail estate must present them tltiJsr attested cn or before that day and ztt r>nrtie- indebted to said estate musfc make payment by thai date. Mary M. Wicfcer, Mnr-h 7?-IS. AaracIL"J [ 1TATI0> FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. rHE STATE OF SOUTH CAROL County of Newberry. P?v W. F. Ewart, Probate Jurfssi. Whereas. John Henry Baxter tr-acia? suit to me to grant him Letters; Administration of the Estate and ??tO-cts of P. Frank Baxter. These are. therefore, to cite ars? . -J I-V -7 J'irxa HUIjUIUSH dll <X XIU Miifiuiai inr: imm* eel and Creditors of the said P. Fr*el: Baxter, dec-eased, that they be ?ta? i!)pear before me, in the Court Probate, to be held at Newberry Monday, the vth day of Aprii. rev:<xi,.t ifter publication hereof, at 11 o'cloctr n the forenoon, to show cause, if anj*hey have, way the said Administxaion should r.ot be granted. Given under my hand this 20th day :>' March. Anno Domini, 1918. W. F. EWARTT. J. P. X. CA Half Your Living Without Money Cost We are all at a danger point. Oa the use of good common sense in our 1918 farm and garden operations depends prosperity or our "going broke." Even at present high prices no owe can plant all or nearly all cotton, boy food and grain at present prices from supply merchant on credit and mak* monev. Food and grain is higher m proportion than &re present cotto?. prices. It's a time above all others Co> safe; to produce all posstbfe . &rain and forage supplies on yoar-own', *cres; to cut down the store bill:. A good piece of garden ground,. rightly planted, rightly tenders; sad kept planted the year round;, can le made to pay nearly half jontr tiring. It Fill save you more mmy than y?? made on the best throe acres of cot tan rou erer grew! Saaii&gs* 1918 Seed Book telte aX ibout the right kind of a money *sf*> lag garden and the vegetables to jmt 1*. it It tells about the farm cropr is prel] and sbetr? you the clear r$a*5 to* Free. Send for it today to H. ^ *A?J5*fC$ CO., Atlanta, a*.?Adn. \