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Make This Bank %n. i__ \r ' iviaKe i our Help Win ti You cun help subscribing* t These bonds a the United St interest at 4? * sued in denon 5500.00, ?100 * This bank wi for vou ENTI] ?/ The Exch OfgNew * "The Bank . Eveready While the sell a twc Light, w c for aye. a limited i " mb < n i ? Mayes Book I The House of ; * JM" Tg ??* 1 * v ; "Over (he T of Luck and * I -Li v ' ** ^r (Ef I .% ? H fl jSSgj 3gj mm ^h * ! ?*#\~ B j | Serg't Artr |p^L We were ordered to black our fat iMiAuKl hands. For this reason; At nig English and Germans use wl call star shells, a sort of rocl affair. They are fired from a lai pistol about twenty Inches long, whi 1 is heM over the sandbag parapet of t ? trench, and discharged into the a These star shells attain a height about sixty feet, and a range of fr< fifty to seventy-flye yards. When tt hit tfce ground they explode, throw! out a strong calcium light which ligl up the ground in a circle of a radius between ten to fifteen yards. Tt also have a parachute star shell whi after reaching a height of about sij feet, explodes. A parachute unfo3 and slowly floats to the ground, lig k ing up a large circle In No Man's Lai L nfiiriA of the star shell a "Very-light." Very-lights are us to, prevent night surprise attacks tae trenches. If a star shell faljs front of yen, or between sou and 1 German lines, you are safe from det tlon, as the enemy cannot see y through the bright curtain of lig But ft k falls behind you and, as To my says, "you get in the star sb jiiw . h. i < Your Business Home Dollars ik a \X7 v* TV CtJL win this World's War bv o the 3rd Liberty Loan. >re the direct obligation of ates of America and bear ner cent ser annum, is linations of $50.CC, $100.00 0 00 and more. 11 enter your subscription RELY FREE OF CHARGE. lange Bank berry, S. C. 0 r it. d jjOr r/ie rnvpuz Flash Light iv last I will Jf ) cell Flash orth $1.00, I have only ? supply. & Variety Store a Thousand Things rt op With the Best Give Them HellI" Y IT"* f H-1^ 1^ ! I JLj jlv ii iww' $ I* B a "* l 1 SL ^Smefama^m V" i naw? _ - _ m jg !|? f|fl *? >' L = BY ==3 I j tur Guy Empey ( | i zone," then the fun begins; you have kf ? to He flat on your stomach and remain ' i oKenlntolr mnHftnlPSS Until th? liffht Of OUCVAUkWJ ? w t the shell dies out. This takes any* where from forty to seventy seconds. Ck If you haven't time to fall to t^e ke | ground you must remain absolutely i still in whatever position you were in ojj when the light exploded; it is advisI a^Ie not to breathe, as Fritz has an j eye like an eagle when he thinks you ' j are knocking at his door. When a star I shell Is burning In Tommy's rear he oj,' can hold his breath for a week. ? i You blacken your face and hands so !0V 1 * / i that the light from the star shells will , * not reflect on your pale face. In a trench raid there is quite sufficient ht_ t reason for your face to be pale. If you 0"! don't believe me, try it just once. Then another reason for blackening , i your face and hands is that, after you >ea have entered the German trench at ?.n night, "white face" means Germans, ,n | "black face" English. Coming around ' 61 a traverse you see a white face in ec" | front of you. With a prayer and wishk*1 i Ing Fritz "the best o' luck," you intro* j duce him to your <4persuader" or m'\ knuckle knife. e? j A little later we arrived at the com* ' izmnication trench named Whisky ; s?reet, which led to the fire trench at : the point we were to go over the top ! and out in front. Tn r.n>? iwn- u-fr'p four stretcher hear 5 X LI \JKl A 1 V ?' v - vv. _ ers and a corporal <>f the R. A. M. <\ carrying a pouch containing medicines and first-aid appliances. Kind of a grim reminder to us that our expedition was not going to be exactly a pic, nic. The order of things was reversed. In civilian life the doctors generally i come first, with the undertakers tagging in the rear and then the insurance man, but in our case, the undertakers were leading, with the doctors j traiiing behind, minus the insurance '"adjuster. I The presence or the R. A. M. C. men { did not seem to disturb the raiders, beI cause many a joke made in an under| tone, was passed along the winding < column, as to wno woiuu ue ursi iu ; take a ride on one of the stretchers. ! This was generally followed by a wish that, if yon were to be the one, the ! wound would be a "cushy Blighty | one." | : The stretcher bearers, no doubt, | hoping that, if they did have to carry | anyone to the rear, he would be small j and light. Perhaps they looked at me i when wishing, because i couia ieei ail j uncomfortable, boring sensation bej tween my shoulder blades. They got : their wish all right. : Going up this trench, about every, i sixty yards or so we would pass a lone-, j ly sentry, who in a whisper would i wish lis "the best o' luck, mates." We I would blind at hira under our breaths; | that Jonah phrase to us sounded very ! ominous. | Without any casualties the K3ins?rel ; troop arrived at Suicide ditch, the I front-line trench. Previously, a taring | party of the Royal Engineers had cut ! a lane through our barbed wire to eni able us to get out into No Man's Land. Crawling through this lane, oui ( party of twenty took up an extendedorder formation about one yard apart, i We had a tap code arranged for our i movements while in No Man's Land, Wonco -fni? vflvinns rpnsnns it is not fv-vauov xv* t v%* kv? ?. , safe to carry on a heated conversation ! a few yards in front of Fritz' lines, i The officer was on the right of the j line, while I was on the extreme left, j, Two taps from the right would be )' passed down the line until I received . them, then I would send back one tap. i | r The officer, in receiving this one tap, j | would know that his order had gonej ' ' * - 11 1 J V I i Gown UX* wuoie liue, uau occu u?-.uci! stood, and that tlie party was ?eady j j | to obey the two-tap signal. Tvu tap! meant that we were to crawl forward slowly?and believe me, very slowly? j : for five yards, and then halt to hirait i further instructions. Three taps meant, j . when you arrived within striking dis' tance of the German trench, rush It | and inflict as many- casualties as ; sible, secure a couple of prisoners, an?> J then back to your own lines with the ! speed clutch open. Four taps meant, "I have gotten you into a position from j : which it is impossible for me to extrii cate you, so you are on your own." ! After getting Tommy into a mess on i the western front he is generally told j that he is "en his own." This means, j j "Save your skin in any way possible." j j Tommy loves to be "on his own" behind j the lines, but not during a trench raid, j The star shells from the German j ; lines were ffilling in front of us, there- j i w?>? > cnfp After shout twen-! j ty minutes we entered the star shell 1 zone. A star shell from the German ; lines fell about five yards in the rear i and to the right of me; we hugged the ' ground and held our breath until it ! burned out. The smoke from the star j shell traveled along the ground and j crossed over the middle of our line, j Some Tommy sneezed. The smoke had j gotten up his nose. We crouched on J *- ? 3 j rne jrrouua, cursiug uie uucuuci uuuu our '> .r.Vi. rnd waited the volley that ^ciiciaily c: ,.ues when the Germans ; have heard a noise in No Man's Land, i Nothing happened. We received two ! taps and crawled forward slowly for : five yards; doubt the officer believed what Oid Pepper had said, "Personally I believe that that part of the German trench is unoccupied." By being careful? and remaining motionless ' when the star shells fell behind us, we no?mon harho^ tplro with. ' i catucu LUC Uctuiau uai uvu ???v out mishap. Then the fun began. " I was scared stiff as it is ticklish work cutting your way through wire when about thirty feet in front of you there is a line of Boches looking out into No Man's Land with their rifles lying across the parapet, straining every sense to see or hear what is going on in No Man's Land; because at night, Fritz never knows when a bomb with i his name and number on it will come i hurtling through the air aimed in the ! direction of Berlin. The man on the , right, one man in the center and myj self on the extreme left were equipped ! with w?ro mttprs. These are insulated j with soft rubber not because the Ger: man wires are charged with electricity, j but to prevent the cutters rubbing against the barbed wire stakes, which j are of iron, and making a noise I which may warn the inmates of the j trench that someone is getting fresh in their front yard. There is only one way to cut a barbed wire without noise and through costly experience Tommy I has become an expert in doing this. { You must grasp the wire about two . inches from the stake in your right : hand and cut between the stake and | your t id. j If yt, cut a wire improperly, a loud twang will ring out on the night I air like the snapping of a banjo i offinn Parhonc thic nnisp <*fin be | M. V.1 A4U J.-O tutk. jMV?VV ? ? T , v; heard only for fifty or seventy-live yards, but in Tommy's mind it makes a loud noise in Berlin. j > We had cut a lane about halfway j through the wire when, down the ceoi ter of our line, twang! went an im; properly cut wi?e. We crouched down, I Receiving First Aid. cursing under our breath, trembling all over, our knees lacerated from the strands of the cut barbed wire on the ground, waiting for a challenge and the inevitable volley of rifle fire. Noth - - - ^-11 lng nappenea. 1 suppose me xeuuw who out the barbed wire improperly was the one who had sneezed about half an hour previously. What we wished him would never make his new year a happy one. The qjflcer, in my opinion, at the noise of the wire should have given the I four-tap signal, which meant, "On your own, get back to your trenches as quickly as possible," but again he must have relied on the spiel that Old Pepper had given us in the dugout, MPersonnlly I believe that that part of the German 'trench is unoccupied." Anyway, we g t careless, but not so careless that we sang patriotic songs or I " Yniir JL VUI In a Real In order to se are offering our i tee to raise the pi leases. You are in a short time. ( price of 5 cents ] Our leases ar< justly famous Wa bring in a well t prospect the Man tana and the Clai proven Kansas fie fortune for our st ? I C Ce i _ I Itf I I n?Jr uaiiv TWO RIGS PU C. B. McMenamin, Capital $250,0 Par value 10 FULL PAYMENT CLARK FORK OIL CO., I desire to subscribe f of Cark Fork Oil Com 5 cents a share and herewith f< in full payment for sam< * ' 1 V. ? Isiock m my nanus ueiui vance. It is understooc not fully satisfied afte ceived your information matter, this remittanc* turned to me in full at i in ten days from this da Stock to be in the nam Street and No Town or City State r I. I m.Mtlf* :my unnee< ssary noise. 1 i-Mirinc; The intervals of falling star sheils we carried 011 with our wire cur- 1 ' tiriir .<tt last we succeeded in get- ting t'.iro^gh the German barbed wire, j * At this point wo were only ten feet ; * from the German trenches. If we were : 1 i discovered, we were like rats in a tmf#. Our way was cut oft" unless we ran j t along the wire to the narrow Ian?* W6 j ] had cut through. With our heart* in j \ our mouths we waited for the three-! , tap signal to rush the German trench.{ Three taps had gotten about halfway j down the line when suddenly about ten i ] ' V* 1 P urap/j I . T.O rwenry VrtTXIJUli M?1 sunic miv | j fired :ill along the trench and landed! . In the barbed wire in rear of us, turn- j < ing: nijrht into day and silhouetting us j ] against the wall of light made by the j flnres. in the alarinj,' light we were I j confronted by the following unpleasant ] scene. 1 All along the German trench, at 1 about three-foot intervals, stood a big < Prussian guardsman with his rifle at i the aim, and then we found out why I we had not been challenged when the j man sneezed and the b(u-bed wire had : been improperly cut. About three feet < in front of the trench they had con- f structed a single fence of barbed wire and we knew our chances were one ' thousand to one of returning alive. We could nor rush their trencn on account of this second defense. Then 1 in front of me the challenge, "Halt," 1 given in English rang out, and one 01 ' the finest things I have ever heard on ; the western front took place. j From the middle of our line some Tommy answered the challenge with, "4 " >? 1 " T* rrmct h?iv*? hopn Avr, iu xi?At the man who had sneezed or who had Improperly cut the barbed wire; he wanted to show Fritz that he could | die game. Then came the volley. Machine guns were turned loose and several bombs were thrown in our rear. The Boche in front of me was looking down his sight. This fellow might have, under ordinary circumstances, been handsome, hut wnen 1 vieweu mm I from the front of his rifle he had the goblins of childhood imagination relegated to the shade. Then came a flash in front of me, the flare of his rifle?and my head seemed [ to burst. A bullet had hit me on t&e Oil Oppo flvAiinfl Finny V/MllVt A AWA cure sufficient fund3 to start our drillii stock at far below the par value. 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' *' J off. side <>i my face about half >m iu*ii from my ye. smashiii;: t5;;> mnes. 1 put my hand to my face : .id eil forward, biting the ground a-.ti kicking my feet. I thought 1 was .. /ug, but, do you know, my past life -.'id lot unfold before me the way it do?? n novels. The bioou was straining down :t:7 uaic. nnd the pain was awful. YViuia l came to I said to myself, "Emp, old >oy, you belong in Jersey City, and rou'd better gel back there as quickly is possible.'" The bullets were cracking overhead. [ crawled a few feet back to the German barbed wire, and in a stooping portion. guiding myself by the wire, X iverit down the line looking for the lane we had cut through. Before reaching this lane I oame to a limp form which seemed like a bag of oata hanging over the wire. In the dim light I conld see that its hands wer? blackened, and knew it was the body of one of my mates. I put my hand on his head, the top of which had been blown off by a bomb. My fingers sank: into the hole. I pulled my hand back full of blood and brains. then I went crazy with fear and horror and rushed along the wire until I came to our Iotio T hn(i insf- lnrnf*d down this lane whei something inside of me seemed to S8y, "Look around." I did so; a bullet caught me on the left shoulder. It did not hurt much, just felt as if someone had punched me in the back, and then my left side went numb. My arm was dangling like a rag. I fell forward In a sitting position. But all the fear had left me and I was consumed with ra?e and cursed the German trenches. Witli my right hand I felt in my tunie for my first-aid or shell dressing. In feeling over my tunic my hand cams * ? X ? 8 4*tm A# 4-V* A llATTlKo Ill CUDltlCl Willi UUC VI IUC uviuuo MiiitvjMi I carried. Gripping it, I pulled the pia out with my teeth and blindly threw tt towards the German trench. I moat have been out of my head, because I was only ten feet from the trench and rook a chance of being mangled. U the bomb had failed to go into the trench I would have been blown to bits by the explosion of my own bomb, " (TO BE CONTINUED.) ?Buy a Liberty Bond.? Subscribe to The Herald and News. I rtunity BBBBBHUH >roposition ; < ig operations we I bsolutely guaranions start on our pour money witha at the present ; property in the nd and we should , r. We will also do Dome of Mon,large acreage in ures will mean a I ay r lil fn MM WV# )Y TO DRILL G. Holcomb, Sec. ?i 1-2 Selvidge Bldg \ " ' ' s rEY COOPO*. ! OIL CO., Billings, Mont me at once full inforng the Clark Fork Oil m anxious to know all * i the next advance in tock. I. . - . - ~ r rrm-rS^iT7CZ I ? 8 4