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Make This Bank Make Your Help Win tl You can help subscribing 1 These bonds i the United St interest at 4A sued in denor $500.00, $1G( This bark w: for you ENTI i __ The Exd OfjNew "The Bank \ wmmmmmmmmmrzmmmmrjmmmm?mmmmm?mi |l | "Over the 7 I : of Luck ana \ n\ ?'l I ? I I Serg't Art! At that time I wondered when t boys in the trenches would see t emblem of the "land of the free a the home of the brave" beside Tit doing its bit in this great war of ci lization. My wounds were very painful, a " T 1 .1 several times at iugm a uuuiu uiv.. that myriads of khaki-clothed figu] would pass my bed and each woi stop, bend over me, and whisper, "1 ^ best of ?uck, mate." Soaked with perspiration I woi awake with a cry, and the night nu would come over and hold my ha This awakening got Xo be a habit w lae until that particular nurse v transferred to another ward. T? +Vi!.oa U'ofltc' fl'mp ftwinor to ' iU UllCU t? 0 ? careful treatment received, I was a to sit up and get iny bearings. C ward contained seventy-five patier 00 per cent of which were surgi cases. At the head of each bed hi a temperature chart and diagno sheet. Across this sheet would written "G. ,S. W." or "S. W.," the f ?ier meaning gun shot wound and 1 latter shell wound. The "S. W." p k dominated, especially among the Ilo; Field artillery and Royal engineers. About forty different regiments w< represented, and many arguments < ?>ued as to the respective fighting al Ity of each regiment. The r.-alry v wonderful. A Jock arguing with Irishman, then a strong Cockney cent would butt in in favor of a L don regiment. Before long a Wei man, followed by a member of a Yo snire regimenr, and. perhaps, a Ca: dian intrude themselves and the ar ment waxes loud and furious. 1 (patients in the beds start howling them to settle their dispute outs and the ward is in an uproar. T head sister comes along and with wave of the hand completely routs 1 doughty warriors .and again silei reigns supreme. Wednesday and Sunday of eachwt were visiting days and were loolforward to by the men, because tl meant parcels containing fruit, swe I or fags. When a patient had a regu visitor, he was generally kept w supplied with these delicacies. Gn jealousy is shown among the men to their visitors and many word w: ensue after the visitors leave. When a man is sent to a conval cent home, he generally turns over steady visitor to the man in the n< Most visitors have autograph albu and bore Tommy to death by ask him to write the particulars of wounding in same. Several Tomm try to duck this unpleasant job by ing the visitors that they cannot wri but this never phases the owner of 1 album; he or she, generally she, off to write it for thorn and Tommy \ Your Business Home Dollars le War win this World's War by :o the 3rd Liberty Loan, ire the direct obligation of ;ates of America and bear per cent per annum, isninations of $50.CC, $100.00 )0 00 and more. ill enter your subscription RELY FREE OF CHARGE. lange Bank berry, S. C. the People" op With the Best { 1 s~y. rjj f m J r KjWc i ntm neiu : by I iur Guy Empey | jje stung into tolling his experiences. lie The questions asked Tommy by visi11(j tors would make a clever joke book ,m> to a military man. vj. Some kindly looking old lady will stop at your bed and in a sympathetic h<l voice address you: "You poor boy, am by those terrible Germans, [VS Toil must ?>e suffering frightful pain, L,]^ A builet. did you say? Well, tell me <ke I have always wanted to know, did il hurt worse going in or coming out?" Tommy generally replies that he die r<p not stop to figure it out when he was ad. hitith One very nice-looking, overenthusiras young thing, stopped at my bee nnd asked. "What wounded you in tht - * r\ ^ ? bie in a y-v?:iio b:it bored tone i an)ur swered, "A rifle bullet." lts With a look of disdain she passec ca[ to the next bed. first ejaculating, "Oh! [n<, Only a bullet? 1 thought it was ? ? it i> ii'i._ ,.i. ? i .1 v ? v fciieii. >v 11 j sue miuuiu mum a. mici. be w?untl was more of a distinction beats or. me. I don't see a whole lot of differ the enr>e myself. re_ The American W omen's War hospi ^-ai tal was a heaven for wounded men They were allowed every privilege pos> ?re sible conducive with the rules and rnili en- taT*y discipline. The only fault was rjjj. that the men's passes were restricted -as To get a pass required an act of par an liament. Tommy tried many tricks t< ac_ get out, but the commandant, an ok! ;n. Boer war officer, was wise to them all <-.v> ! and it took a new and clever ruse tc iMl* ? ? rk. make him utiix bis signature to th< na- coveted sJJ.p of paper. gu- As socii as it would get dark many z 'he patient climbed over the wall and >sem for uon his own," regardless of many sign! ide 'he s*arin? hira in *he ^ace' "^uf' hounds for patients." Generally the nurses t^e were looking the other way when one Jce of those night raids started. I hope this information will pet none of them ?ek ,n*? fcr<nikle. hut I cannot resist the :e(j temptation to let the commandant w^r know thar occasionally we put it ovei ley " 1 on him. CIS I iar I One afternoon T received a note, e!l j trough our underground channel, from I my female visitor. asking me to attend as ! a party at her house that night. ] ars answered that she could expect me and to meet me at a certain place on the es. road we!! known by all patients, and his some visitors, as "over the wall." ] told her I would be on hand at sevenThirty. ras About seven-fifteen I sneaked my ir.<r *ivprpr>Ht find rnn ont of the ward and his hid it in the bushes. Then I told the ies nurse, a particular friend of miae, thai pli- I was going for a walk in the rose gartte, den. She winked and I knew that evthe erythlng was all right on her end. ers Going out of the ward. I slipped into Is the bushes and made for the wall. It _ j.was dark^ as pitch and I was groping f through the underbrush. when sndd, ( Iv I stepped iin<i space and felt my- !!" rushing downward. a horrible bump. ; and blackness. When I came To my l Mounded shou'der was hurling horribly. I was lyine against a circular wall of bricks, dripping with moisture, and far away I could hear the trickling of water. I had in the darkness fallen into an old disused well. But why wasn't I wet? According to all rules I should have been drowned. Perhaps I I was and didn't know It. As the shock of my sudden stop J gradually wore off it came to me that I I was lying on a ledge and that the ! least movement on my part would precipitate me to the bottom of the well. I struck a match. In its faint glare . I saw that I was lying in a circular ; hole about twelve ft'ot deep?the well J had been filled in ! The dripping I had heard came from a water pipe over on | my right. ; With my wounded shoulder it was impossible to shinny up the pipe. I I! could not yell for Help. necause me 11 rescuer would want ro know how the accident happened, and 1 would be > haled before the command." 7%t on charges. 1 just had to grin aim bear It, with the forlorn hope that one of the returning night raiders would pass ind 1 muid give mm our umiii: M.mmi of "siss-s-s-s," which would bring him to the rescue. Every half-hour I could honr the clock in thf village strike, each stroke bringing forth a muffled volley of curses on the man who had dug the well. , After two hours I heard two mon talking in low voices. I recognized Corporal Cook, an ardent "night raider." He heard my "siss-s-s-s" and I came to the edge of the hole. I explained my predicament and amid a Jot of impertinent remarks, which at the time I did not resect, I was soon fished out. Taking off our boots, we sneaked into the ward. I was sitting on my bed in the dark, just starting to undress, when the man next to me, "Ginger" Phillips, whispered, " 'Op it, Yank, 'ere | comes the matron." I immediately got under the covers 1 and feigned sleep. Tlie matron stood talking in low tones to the night nurse and I fell asleep. When I awoke in the morning the night sister, an American, was bending over me. An awful sight met my eyes. The coverlet on the bed and the sheets were a mass of mud and green slime. She was a good sport all right, and hustled to get clean clothes and sheets so that no one would get wise, but "on her own" .she gave me a good tongue i lashing but did not report me. One of I the Canadians in the ward described I her as being "a Jake of a good fellow." Next visiting day I had an awful time explaining to my visitor why I had not met her at the appointed time and place. I And for a week every time I passed I a patient he would call, "Well, well, here's the Yank. Hope ?ou are feeling well, old top." i The surgeon in our ward was an American, a Harvard unit man, named Frost. We nicknamed him "Jack Frost." He was loved by all. If a Tommy was to be cut up he had no objection to undergoing the operation if - "Jack Frost" was to wield the knife. Their confidence in him was pathetic. He was the best sport I have ever met. One Saturday morning the command lint and some "high up" officers were inspecting the ward, when one of the nationts who had been wounded in the I head by a bit of shrapnel, fell on the 5 floor in a fit. They brought him round, 1 and then looked for the ward orderly " to carry the patient back to his bed I at the other end of the ward. The orJ derly was nowhere to be found?like 1 ~u~ policemen, they never are when "i reeled. T":e officers were at a loss now to gi\ Palmer into his bed. Doc': tor Frost was fidgeting around in a nervous manner, when suddenly with 1 a muffled "d n" and a few other * qualifying adjectives, he stooped down 5 and took the man in his arms like a baby?he was no feather, either?and i staircrered down the ward with him. nut ' him in bed and undressed him. A low murmur of approval came from the patients. Doctor Frost got very red, and as soon as he had finished undressing 5 Palmer, hurriedly left the ward. The wound in ray face had almost healed and I was a horrible-looking ; sight?the left cheek twisted into a Kiior, me eye puueu uown, ana ray ' mouth pointing in a north by north 1' west direction. I was very downheart'. fd and could imagine myself during i the est of. my life being shunned by 1. all or. account of the repulsive scar Doctor Frost arranged for me to go i to the Cambridge Military hospital at >l ;; Aldershot for a special operation to i. try and make the scar presentable. i j arnvea ai ine nospiuu auu gut ?u i awful shock. The food was poor and ? the discipline abnormally strict. No ; patient was allowed to sit on his bed, and smoking way permitted only at ! certain designated hours. The face ^specialist did nothing for me except [' to look at the wound. 1 made appM[ cation for a transfer back to Paignton, [1 offering to pay my transportation. [, This offer was accepted, arid after two . weeks' absence, once again I arrived [ | in Munsey ward, all hope gone. r| The npxt day after my return Doc .! tor Frost stopped at my bed and said: j "Well, Empev. if you want me to try , j and see what I can do with that scar I HI do it, but you are taking an awful , chance." I answered: "Well, doctor, Steve T?f/-vfi5o to /.Vifinpo' hp Vi?U? from . New York and so do L" Two days after the undertaker i sguad carried me to the operating ; room or "pictures." as we called them ; because of the funny. Alms we see un# J lor other, ami the operation \v:i* pori\>rm<?(l. It \\;is a uonrirrfu1 pie?:e >j' The Author Just Before Leaving for Home. surgery and a marvelous success From now on that doctor can have my shirt. More than once some poor soldier has been brought into the ward in a <lying condition, resulting from loss ol blood and exhaustion caused by bis long journey from the trenches. After an examination the doctor announce!* that the only thing that will save him is a transfusion of blood. Where is the blood to come from? He does not have to wait long for an answer?sev eral Tommies immediately volunteez their blood for their mate. Three or four are accepted; a blood test is made, and next day the transfusion i takes, clace and, there is another pale i i ? i i ?7 ! i our * ?MaMMM'air'11''WHi " In a Real In order to se are offering our | ' tee to raise the p leases. You are in a short time. < price of 5 cents ] Our leases ar< ; justly famous Wa I brine: in a well t prospect the Man tana and the Clar i proven Kansas fie ! fortune for onr st i n t~ jr Ce tJ 1 I BiPlfSSWi i 1 ESS iitTOX rrn /$? mra 9 H B^r ? # H Wm h^K IB <{&VS H ffifwi GRB u Jr BSj M By i Jl M ill fe ill n % 1 two rvr.q pi 1 JL f f W A V/ I C. P>. McMenamin, Capital $250,0 ! Par vnlnp 10 | FI LL 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< stock in my hands befor vance. It is understoot not fully satisfied afte ceived your in forma tioi matter, this remittance turned to me in fall at < in ten days from this da j Stock to be in the nam I Street and N'o Town or City State g fare in Tlit* ward. Whenever bone is needed for somt j i sp??cial operation, there are always j r men willing to give sonu?a leg i*j t necessary to save some mangled m:tif! f from beinir crinnled for Tift* Afnrc ! / than one man will go through life with another man's blood running through his veins, or a piece of his rib or his i shinbone in his own anatomy. Some times he never even knows the name ol his benefactor. - The spirit of sacrifice is wonderful.! For all the suffering caused this war, 1 is a blessing to England?It has made; f new men of her sons; has welded all' < t classes into one glorious whole. ! And I can't help saying that the doc- j ; tors, sisters, and nurses in the English i ; hospitals, are angels on earth. I love : era all and can never repay the care 1 and kindness shown to me. For the ' rest of my life the Red Cross will be ? to me the symbol of Faith, Hope and 1 ! Charity. j f After four months in the hospital, 1 j j went before an examining board and j ^ was discharged from the service of his 1 ' Britannic majesty as "physically unlit. for further war service." After my discharge I engaged pass- ? age on the American iiner New York, (1 and aj'ter a stormy trip across the At- 1 Ianiic ?'ite momentous day, in ihe haze, t ol: early dawn, I saw the /Statue of lib- (erty looming over the j/orr rail, and I ^ wondered it' ever ajrain I would jro ' "over the top with the best of luck and give them hell." ; ; And even tnen, though it may seem, n ; str.Miiire, 1 was really sorry not to be . back in the trenches with my mates, j r War is not a pink tea, but in a wovlh- i while cause like ours, mud, rats, cooties, shells, wounds, or death itself, are far outweighed by the deep sense of v satisfaction felt by the man who does ^ his bit. i There is one thing which my ex- j perience taught me that might help the boy who may have to go. It is this? anticipation is far worse ihan realiza- " tion. In dvii life a man stands in awe of the man above him, wonders how he could ever fill his job. When the time comes he rises to the occasion, is up 3 and at it, and is surprised to find how ! much more easily than he anticipated he fills his. responsibilities, it is rss Oil Oppo Ground Floor P cure sufficient funds to start our drillin stock at far below the par value. We at rice of this stock as soon as our operatii thus afforded an opportunity to double y Our advice is to buy now while you can per share. 3 in four fields, including one piece of trm Springs Dome. This is proven groun here immediately without any difficulty, derson Dome of Wyoming, the Carbonad 'K H'orK Dome in vv vonnnsr. as wen as a ids. Oil from either one of these structu ockholders. nr l mis lode 5uy Now RPHASFn AND RF.AC VA AA M. A A* ^ Ppres. Chas. A. Lewis, Treas. C. ( 00.00 Head Office?Suite 7 ] cents Billings, Montana. coupon. mu Billings, Mont ?r -shares CLARK FORK ( pany stock ar. am enclosing Please send r ;>r $ mation regardin e. I want this Company. I an e the next ad1 that it I am about betore >r T havp r?- I tVio ni-ic^o rvf cti i and printed ?. will be remy time with- Name te. e ?* Street and No.. Town or City.. State o "out theiv.'* lie has ih?i*ve lor the hardships; the ntrn-si of the work grips him ; h?* finds elief in the fun and comradeship of he tmiehes and wins that best sort o? tappinepj that comes with duty weffl lone. j TIIE END. / >ews Front St. Philips. ? The grain crops in this se:rt:on are coking very promising. Some of our armers have a very good stand of otton. The cool weather has dama-ed us ery much bnt hop? it will stop now :nd g-ve us summer time weather. The; gardens in this section are oolnncr fine. There are several who iave cabbage almost ready to eat. rhe one who failed to buy any slants rom G. H. Ruff: it will be a I or. 2 tim-3 >efore they will eat any cabbage. Mrs. V. F. Ruff has already got bea& dooms. The closing exercises of St. : :i":ips ;chooi were rine. inert? was a :;irg? rowrl and everybody had an: : ;me. ^ie exercises worn trrand. We intend o enjoy a 2ood old picnic supper Fri'-v evening ;t 'he weather Have Iiave three fine teachers and hope 0 have Then wifh :rs the ne:<t rornr.-r year. Wc w'll gfve a full account if the school *?t. a bter date. Mr. D. P Pi''';' h^s purchf.-e-l a. tew wheat thrasher and will be readf ?-v.nn the wheat gets ripe. Mrs. Sallie Brown and Mattie Caldwell spent last Tuesday with Mrs. W, 5*. Ruff. t Mr. W. B. Kinard and family spent ast Sunday with Mrs. W. F.. Ruff. I will close for this time, with mu'qai iuecess to The Herald and News. G. H. illlIT. IR. FARMER: We carry most everything you need and %ve "will always have the right price. Tne P.'rceli Company. 4-25 It : i rtunity Proposition operations wA isolutely guaran3ns start on our our money with at the present t property in the id and we should We will also o Dome of Monlare-p arreaee in. res will mean a iv T* i ^ hdhbh 1 WW J I >Y TO DRILL J. Holcomb, Sec. -2 Selvidge Bldg rt corro>\ )IL CO., Billings, Mont r- r *- once full infor% the Clark Fork Oil i anxious to know all the next advance in DCk. , ;& ' *