The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 06, 1915, Image 3
AT HOMK IX A TKKXCH.
How Soldiers lave in I fitches From r
Which War is Fought.
I wonder how many people have a j
mental picture of the trendies which}'
is at all like the real thins. 1 have j1
seen photographs of men standing in '
a trench behind a covering line o? i'
.mangel wurzels, or was it beet-root?)'
?which are true enough, but hardly \l
characteristic. No doubt many peo-11
pie imagine the trenches to be a regu-!(
lar and formidable series of earth- j'
works which turn a whole valley in- [1
to a sort of fortress. They have 1
heard all sorts of elaborations which 1
get mentioned in letters not because
they are characteristic, but just be- 1
cause they are peculiar. As a matter
nf fnr-t the* snrnrisins' thine' ahont '
the trenches is that, like everything 1
etee in. war, they make so little dif- 1
ference to the normal appearance of (
the landscape until you get quite 1
close to them. If an invisible war- 1
farer could walk past them during '
the day he might very easily get
through without noticing anything
peculiar unless an artillery bombard- ;
ment happened to be going on. Rifle
fire and attacks are nearly all at
dawn or dusk or night. He would
have to be invisible, for any visible i
wayfarer near the trenches would, of i
course, be sniped. A few do make i
their way to and fro?orderlies with
messages mostly, who creep along '
ditches and dash across exposed in- ;
tervals. Every evening a little party (
of men and mules goes to a point as
near as it dare to the battalion and
takes shelter behind a house or a
wall, where it is met by one or two <
men of each company to take the
daily rations back to the trenches.
Every evening, too, the stretcherbearers
make their way into the
trenches and remove the men who i
have been wounded during the day. ,
And every evening all these men are
"sniped" at by the enemy as they go '
about their work. As you approach
the trenches in the dusk th.e lack of ]
anything abnormal to the whole aspect
of things is, of course, even more
deceptive than by day. And know- i
ing as one does that one is within a
few yards of two lines of men which
extend from the seacoast to Switzzerland,
the blank appearance of every- i
thing is tinglingly suggestive. You
are walking along an ordinary country
road.
You have just passed the house ;
where the medical officer and his assistants
have taken up their quarters
and whence they pass on the wounded
by motors to the field ambulance.
A couple of days ago he had a house
further up the road, but he was
shelled out of it. You pass other
houses?you are walking crouched 1
in the ditch by this time. By day you
would notice that many of these
houses have holes in them and that
there are patches of tiles wanting in
the roof, but by the evening light
they look quite normal, except that
the windows are lit up in none of
them. Cattle and fowls wander about
over the fields and across the road.
They look quite normal, though in
daylight you would see that the cows
have net been milked and the fowls
are starving. By daylight, too, you
might notice here and there in a field
a cow that had been struck by a shell
and killed, or another?poor beast?
that had been merely wounded. It
wa6 to put such a one out of its pain
that an officer of ours crept out of
his trench the other morning and
was killed as he crawled back. A lit
lie lurmer ?LIU jl>u maai iwi
come upon the trenches themselves
at a point where they chance to
touch the road. The reserve trenches
these will probably oe, and they have
perhaps just been lined by a battalion
that has marched out to be
in support during the night in expectation
of an attack, and will march
back before sunrise in the morning.
They are, maybe, an Indian cavalry
regiment, which has never yet had a
chance of fighting on horseback and
can contribute only in this way to
the defence.
From your ditch by the roadside
will probably be a communicating
trench to the first of these reserve
trenches, and from here, if the entrenchments
have been in existence
for some time, you will be able to get
to every point, not only in the reserve
trenches, but the fire trenches,
too, without putting your head above
the ground. Walking in slush (here
ana tnere moainea oy siraw or untivs
thrown down,) rubbing clay onto
your shoulders from either wall of
the narrow passage, you may pass
along a whole series of reserve
trenches, which seem to be deserted,
unless you lift up one of the pieces
of canvas fixed against the wall and
see a silent Indian cavalryman curled
up in his little niche. It will be for
many reasons a tortuous way before
you arrive at the fire trenches or at
the colonel's little "dug-out." First]
of all, because the communicating
trenches are planned in every sort of
zigzag and curl and twist, to be as
little as possible end-on to the enemy
and so enfiladed.
The colonel's headquarters, for instance,
is entered from the back, and
ITT SALT IX HIS COFKKK.
hick of Wife Arouses Sympathy 01
Judge for Man on Trial.
The fact that his wile put salt ii
lis coffee saved Jacently Blvstack. ;
lative of Poland, from being finei
uid imprisoned today. His wife tes
ified in the municipal court that lie
jroke up things generally at hom<
?nd always ended escapades by say
ng he would kill her. Matters look
?d dark for him until his sons Stan
ey and Frank, admitted that theii
lioiher and Vincent Kossock, a son
n-law, placed salt in their father":
offee.
"They did what?" asked Judg<
Churchman in surprise.
When the testimony was repeatec
;he judge settled back in his chai1
n a way that showed his sympathy
'or the husband. He adjourned th<
;ase until tomorrow with a state
nent that if the police surgeon pro
lounces Bylstack sane he will be re
leased.?New York Herald.
ASKS ABOUT LIQUOR DEALERS
Inquires of Charleston Mayor i
They Still ()|>erate.
Columbia. .May 1.?Governor .Man
[ling today forwarded Mayor John P
Grace, of Charleston, a list of liquoi
Sealers in that city, and asked him i
these were out of business or not
The governor says that he has no
yet received the promised statemen
of the Charleston mayor, givinj
names and places of liquor dealer:
which the mayor has proceede*
against, and "in view of the laps*
of time I am forced to the conclusioi
that you are unwilling to give m<
said statement." says the governor':
letter to Mayor Grace.
The governor mailed the letter t<
the Charleston mayor this afternoon
and attached to it was a list of ;
number of Charleston liquor dealers
The list was not given out. A cop;
of the letter to the mayor was mad*
public here this afternoon:
May 1, 1915.
Hon. John P. Grace, Charleston, S
C. Dear Sir: I have not yet ha*
from you promised statement givini
names and places of liquor dealer
you have proceeded against. In viev
of the lapse of time I am forced t<
the conclusion that you are unwillinj
to give me said statement.
Please advise me if your actio*
against liquor dealers listed belov
have resulted in their quitting th<
liquor business. Very truly yours.
RICHARD I. MANNING,
Governor.
approached by a trench which twist
around behind it. Moreover, the lin<
of the fire trenches is broken at in
tervals by traverses?also to protec
against possible enfilading?and con
nected by little semi-circular trenche
which skirt around the solid interva
of earth. But the way will be tor
tuous for other reasons. The whol
line of the two armies is tortuous be
yond the suspicions of a reader wh<
sees it twist a little along the fron
tier, but suppose it will be straigh
enough for a half mile. Losses :?or
and iains there are partly a cause o
'his, but much more is the Tact tha
the whole seri.ss of trenches is de
veloped from a skillful use of na*ura
conditions. Sometimes the trench i
merely a ditch which has been deep
ened. At other limes the ad.spfatioi
of a pit or a hollow makes it 10 fee
deep, and the met? have to climb u
nn ledires to fire out of it. Here an
there the connecting trench become
a tunnel, by haviug been roofed ir
At other places a convenient bus
or hedge affords cover which ha
enabled quite a little cavern to b
dug under its protection.
Though the hardship is sever
enough, the men manage to mak
themselves more comfortable tha
might be supposed. They have chai
coal braziers, which help to kee
them warm, and there is even talkserious
talk?of installing electri
light. The adjutant has made quit
a little office of his "dug-out," an
pin6 up notes and orders and tel<
grams onto the clay wall in front c
him. When the trenches have bee
in existence long enough there
communication everywhere, thoug
it is often difficult to squeezze b;
and as for sleep?well, you can tah
a little of that as soon as the shellin
starts, for you know there will n<
be an attack till that i6 over! Tt
only thing you can hardly anywhei
do is to stand up. If you try
"ping" almost at once, and you ai
lucky if you only get your face spu
tered with mud. And just out thei
?sometimes only 50 yards awaytVio'p
ara fnVinp' the same nrecautioi
about all of us, and peeping with tl
same curiosity. And between tl
lines is 50 yards of ordinary fiel
where no one dare venture by da
and only at imminent danger 1
night. In that 50 yards is now lyii
one of our officers, killed in la
I night's attack. Tonight we hope
get him back, but today we can bi
peep at him. His hand is hangii
down, and on his wrist is his watc
It is still going, and from where v
are we can see the time.
| TK.U'E BACK TO JIXOLK FOWL.
I' Domestic Birds Come From Kast In
dia Stock.
j j Charles Darwin, in his Animals
j1 and Plants," says that all breeds oi
j! domestic fowls came oroginally fron
.'one wild variety, known as the Jnn?
gle Fowl, whose home was in India
s from where it wandered or was car
ried over the East, there getting new
J developments through tnatings, anc
.'new characteristics by reason of va
r nations in climate, feeding, care, etc
. i When any slight abnormality appear
j i ed, such as a thick crest or frizzled
j feathers, the bird was probably kepi
J as a breeder, out of pure love of nov
j elty. Or breeds would deteriorat(
j j and show marked loss from the origi
r! nal type. Or a strange freak, say o
. feet or ear-lobe or an excess of toe
? would appear and would be final!:
. accepted as a new breed. The Ro
.! mans, 1S centuries ago. valued ?
I bird with white ear lobes; also wit!
j a fifth toe. Then nature stepped ir
occasionally, and, where some orgar
* j or part was not used for a long per
! iod, she simply abandoned it as ?
f part of the bird?much as fish, bori
and living in the Mammoth Cave
have no eyes. They do not need eyes
"I It seems strange, but it is true
' j that selection and select mating wa:
"j practiced ages ago, and by barel:
r j civilized races of men. The Romans
* | at the opening of the Christian era
H kept six or seven breeds of fowls. Ii
1 j China' in the fifteenth century, sever
' j varieties or breeds are recorded.
"j . So the chicken is an old-time bird
* i though it is not mentioned in th<
- \ Old Testament, nor figured on th<
1J early Egyptian monuments, nor re
~ j ferred to by Homer, who lived abou
s 900 B. C. It is first mentioned b?
Aristophanes, a writer who lived ii
5 the years between 400 and 500 B. C
There seems to be much fog on tin
1 whole subject, but our domestic
chicken probably was taken to Eu
^ rope from China or India.
- The fowl of today has little in com
mon with the early Jungle Fowl
either in appearance, voice, fertilit:
or habits. Under man's domestica
* tion he has become more beautiful
* more fertile, improved in every way
5 The early fowl was wild, a fighter
' and used its wings more freely thai
5 do its successors. The game of oui
* time has probably more of the sam<
characteristics with the Jungle Fow
1 than any breed now existing.
i' ,
e NEW GEORGETOWN EDITOR.
("apt. L. B. Steele Takes "Command1
of the Times. ? .
s Georgetown, May 1.?The George
e town Times has a new editor. Unti
. two weeks ago Col. H. F. Oliver edit
I eel mis paper, ana upuu uis icmc
. ment R. C. Davis, publisher, looke<
s after editorial work. A permanen
1 editor in the person of Capt. L. B
Steele has been selected, and Capt
e Steele has entered upon his duties
The selection is a happy one. Capt
0 Steele is a well equipped man, i
. graduate of the Citadel, thoroughl;
1 conversant with public questions, am
e wields a facile pen.
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~ bottle by J. A. Murdaugh.?adv.
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P n-m rnai-o nnvmPTit to the under
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s MAMIE MURDAUGH,
, 5-6 Executrix.
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