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PRISONER OF GERMAN'S TELLS THRILLING TALE. . I (Continued from page 3, column 2.) j been anywhere. We had 20 hours' daylight, and four hours" twilight: it never got altogether dark. It was summer when I was there and very I hot. The island was seven miles long and five miles wide. The Germans said it was in the southern Atlantic. between Africa proper and South America. Ford Wheel Sunflowers. "Communication existed between Germany and the island, because j there were German warships in the 2 harbor and the place was guarded by disabled German soldiers. The island was cultivated and was the best land I ever saw. Every foot of ground was planted in sunflowers. The heads of some 01' them were as big as a Ford wheel, and the grain as large as a man's thumb. The seed was ground into flour from which "black bread" was made. This was sent to Germany. I should say there were j about 7,000 men of all nations on j the island. The German officers were unwounded, well taken care of, and spoke excellent English. They would walk around among us. spit in our faces, and curse at us in good English. The German soldiers all seemed very much afraid of them. They lil.-a/} trt c-i* i r-i tllo cliarlo IJLIY^U. t U OXC ill ViiV cuwviv w^>v 9 - ? out to one of the prisoners to run, and they would shoot at him when he ran: then they would laugh when he . tumbled over wounded, or dead. The ordinary soldiers were not as bad. but they used to hit us over the head "* with rakes when officers came around. "We were fed on half a pound of sunflower seed bread a day and four ounces of crude fish oil, which was issued to us about 10 o'clock in the morning. I weighed 202 pounds when I went to the island and 109 when I got away. Men were dying all -tiie time. Thirty-one of our crew died to my knowledge before I left. After we had been on the island for four weeks Dr. Hurley, the only physician we had, called me over on the sand one night where he lay and said that he was going to die. He said he was not sick but just starved. He talked to me a few minutes about messages to give his mother and sisters in Mexico, Mo., his home, and ' then dragged himself off under a little bush. The next morning he was dead. The Germans threw his body into the sea next day without even a ; covering. They made way with all the dead prisoners in this way. "They made no effort to care for the sick. Of course, we had suffered greatly while in the salt water, and some of our men looked as though they had been cut with knives all over. They took off all our clothes and gave us a pair of jeans, so that < we were naked from the waist up: we didn't have hats, and were bare- i footed. It was very hot. "They put all the men to work in , the field except me. They found the delivery papers for the horses on me, i \ and put me in charge of the mules in < , the barn. They had 300 fine young 1 Missouri mules. They were in good ] shape except for a few cases of colic, j and after two weeks they told me to ' go into the fields. I said that I ; would rather shoe mules than go into i the fields: I showed them that 1 could shoe mules, so they kept me < * . in the barn. I sometimes put on 90 1 shoes in a day. ( "Being in the mule barn I escaped j some of the tortures that the other i prisoners had to endure. But my day i came at last. I told the guard one morning that the hay I was furnished i gave colic to the mules. He acted as < though he didn't understand and went < off and told the man in charge of the j stock. Then he came back and motioned me to go with him. I was taken into a building before a sharp i eyed young officer. He asked me what was the trouble with the mules. I ; told him the hay was no good, and was going to kill the mules, and from the look of things they needed mules. He said, "You don't like it?' I said T won't feed that hay to an ox ' a (rrtor * Thon snid *We have v/i a ^vuc* x **v" "x/ ?/ ? ?. - - ^ got things here that will make you like some things.' He seemed to be in a towering rage, and rapped for a guard to come in. The guard took me out to a wall where the 'thumbing rack' was. Guards tied my two thumbs and jerked me off the ground. They left me there 30 minutes. My thumbs swelled, bled and came out of socket; iny mouth got very dry and my head throbbed. ^ When they cut me down, I suppose 1 must have been in a rage because I cursed them and all Germans, under my breath, at first and out loud when I could breath better. Without waiting a minute they jerked me up again. I became : unconscious alter a while, and camej to just when they cut me down, three hours later. Ir was noon the next day before I could walk around. How Jim Watson I>ied. I "Another day that sticks out in my; mind is the day Jim Watson died. We had been carried to church on Sunday morning, and at the close of the service the priests in charge stood up and began to chant, "God preserve the kaiser; God love the kai ser." which they made us say after them. Jim was standing next to me, and he whispered: "To hell with the kaiser: God love the United States!" A German guard behind him heard it. and reported it to an officer. They took Jim out of line as we came out of church and 'thmbed him.' They cut him down and told him to repeat the chant. He was dazed and mad then, and he yelled: "God love Uncle Sam! To hell with the kaiser!' With that they hung him up again and whipped him with a cat o'nine tails. They would start at his neck and go down, then up and back and forth. He kept on yelling defiance until he lost consciousness. They stood us around in shackles where we could watch. I think Jim died about eight or nine o'clock, but they didn't cut him, down until non the next day. The last we heard Jim say was: 'God love the United States and stick to it!' "The sight of Jim's body hanging up there, with the arms and thumbs all out of socket, and his back raw and mangled, fired us until we were almost on the point of rebellion. It was the nearest to an outbreak that we ever came. The Germans seemed to feel that too, for they kept us locked up tight for three or four days, and stopped working the fields. After that at night we were all fastened by a chain to iron rings which fitted into a sort of long curbstone, and we slept on the ground all around. Sheets of heavy rain would come down on us at night for short intervals, but we didn't mind that because it was usually very dry and dusty, and without clothes the sand ground into us. A Delicate German Attention. 'JThe following Sunday morning I was standing up on top of a kind of hitch rail treating an abcess on a mule's head. I felt something hit my foot, then a sharp pain, and I looked down expecting to find a snake, because I was barefooted. I found that my foot was bleeding. I had been shot in the foot. German officers had been shooting at a Belgian as he ran, and had wounded him. He scrambled up to run again: they shot at him, missed, and hit me.- The wound broke no bones but it was clear through the foot. I wrapped it up with a piece of sack and asked for medical attention. The< guard told me that I was such a good mule doctor I could look after myself. I was afraid of tetanus, but the wound healed over all right, but it was harder to work after that. "Sometimes on Sunday they would let us go in bathing in the sea but they would not let us go far out. and watched us very closely because some of the prisoners if they got a chance, would try to commit suicide by drowning themselves. The English, Belgian, Russian and French prisoners were shackled when they went in. "The English and French came in for most of the brutality. The Russians were very savage, and would sjnash the guards with the ends of their shackles or a hoe if they came near them. They seemed dreamy and indifferent to what happened to them. The Germans kept at a safe distance and left off those little spiteful attentions which they paid to the other prisonersltoul never took off. their shackles. When I was on the island % there were about SO Americans, most \ Df them Westerners and a good many negroes. I know that 30 Americans died while I was there from starvation or torture. Out of Range of Attacks. "The island was fortified and well j stocked with supplies of all sorts. The! coal heaps looked like mountains and appeared as though they would last for years. From all I could gather England's control of the sea did not extend that far South, and the Germans did not appear to anticipate an attack of any sort. "Toward fall I felt myself getting weaker. I weighed only 109 pounds now. My arms and feet began to feel very heavy and my head light, and it ft-as very hard to keep working. Finally I calculated that I could last just ten days longer. I had long before given up any hope of ever getting home or of coming out alive. Three days after when I was shoeing a big mule in the barn and having a very bad time of it, a guard came in and issued a command for us all to come down to the beach. I put down the shoe, tied up the mule and went with l-iii-vi ?/->? lrnrnvincr wlist \V5)<5 l i 1 ill , nut aav/ ? ^ this time: The officers were gathered around a big box, pulling out numbers which the guard would sing out. I heard my number *:>o' and went forward and held up my hand. The ones drawn were locked in a stable that night and early next morning we were marched down to the beach to be loaded on a battleship. I had been exchanged, and if I lived long enough I would see America and my wife again. Ail Oldtime Preacher's Dream. "While we were waiting an aged Methodist preacher, who lived in De Sota. Wis., who had shipped with us as a ship's chaplain, slipped around to tell me good bye. He was very weak then, and don't suppose he liv FOU HIS MASTER'S SAKE. | Ex-Slave Wills Property to Former Owner's Son. ! Edgefield, Aug. 2d.?Phil Dozier, I | a negro citizen of Saluda county and [ an ex-slave, is not only a very worthy, j but in some respects a remarkable 1 personage. He belonged to Capt. James Dozier, a splendid representative of one of Edgefild county's most prominent families and slave-holding aristocracy of the South. A just and benevolent master, his slaves loved him with a true devotion. The earthly career of the knightly master has long since ended, but no so with Phil's fidelity to his honored memory and love for his family. When freedom pmiip followed bv reconstruction j days, Phil heeded not the advice of those whose work was to separate and alienate the negroes from their mastors and white friends. He went toj work and by industry arid economy has accumulated a handsome property. His modest and useful life has almost run its course, and realizing this, he has made his will bequeathing and devising all of his property to .Mr. J. Albert Dozier, a worthy son of his old master. This is a substantial and fitting tribute of Phil's devotion to the memory of his once beloved owner and his family. Was ever love or gratitude more loyal? J>. C. Guardsmen at Camp Sevier. Greenville, Aug. 21.?Coihpany L, of the Third infantry, National Guard of the District of Columbia, arrived at Camp Sevier early this afternoon and went into permanent quarters at the site which had been prepared' for them. The trip was made without mishap and all the men were in the best of spirits* The company has been sent here to prepare for the reception of the remainder of the district troops, which will likely entrain within a week. Very little work is to be done on the camp by them, however, since permanent mess halls, headquarters buildings and other structures have been completed for the whole regiment. REPULSE COUNTER ATTACKS. General Petain's Men Maintain Their 1 Gains. Paris. Aug. 22.?The second day of I the new battle of Verdun was taken up as was to be expected, by the desperate efforts of the Germans to recover their lost positions. -The long artillery preparation by the French* interrupted as it were by bad weather, had given the Germans time to mass reserves for counter-attacks. ' ?' * - J xs Tney naa wuaarawn luroes num men advance lines which were too greatly exposed to the French artillery, massing these men together with reserves, around the extremities of the | sector attacked, between Avocourt and Bezonvaux, in readiness for counter-attacks. No less than eight of these counterattacks were made in the evening. All of them were repulsed.' The gains of the French were maintained entirely further advances were made j and a large number of prisoners were added to the previous total. , ed long afterward. 'I think I am in hell,' he whispered, 'I have preached about it for 4 0 years and I always thought I could recognize it if I came to it." I lei'/him, to go on the ship, kworking his way out to the fields behind the other prisoners, supporting himself with his rake, trying to keep j from walking on the bottoms of his j blistered feet, a big German with I thick glasses yelling behind him. "We were at sea three or four ! (lays on a German warship. Nobody said a word to us: black bread and some very good water were left for ; us every morning and that was all. j One night we drew up alongside an! other ship and-were transferred. The j ship was manned by Japanese or they j may have been Chinese. There we ; got good food and hospital attention. | The ship would run hard at night and I lay to without lights for long periods ' at a time. In the daytime they went j very slowly and would stop frequent; ly. In about ten days we were in i Liverpool. I stayed in a hospital | there for about five weeks. While I ; was there an agent of the British I government called and took my stoTy. | i landed in Key West,' February 17, ' having been gone just about a year. My people thought I had been dead \ for months. 1 ''For several months afterward pictures of that island, faces of the prisoners and that "thumb rack' would float over my mind when I was j asleep, and I would get up .'screaming. Sometimes that sharp eyed commanding officer would be pointing at! me and I would yell. When T passed a man on the street whom I knew was a German. 1 could feel myself j moving toward him to get my hands! on him. When Germany's prisoners began to be taken, I wrote my congressman right away to let me be put j in charge of them. I guess it was a good thing I wasn't."?The State. I PRINTING THATPAYS IS! PRINTING OF DISTINCTION FOR PRINTING That LEASES Call on or Write us THE BAMBERG HERALD BAMBERG, S. C. 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