Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ j SYNOPSIS. ' CHAPTER I?Fired by the news of the i staking of/the Lusitania by a German j submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an American, leaves his office in Jersey City and goes to England where he enlists in the British army. CHAPTER II?After a period of traintag, Empey volunteers for immediate service and soon finds himself in rest billets ^somewhere in France," where he first makes the acquaintance of the ever-present "cooties." CHAPTER III?Empey attends his first church services at the front while a German Fokker circles over the congregation. CHAPTER IV?Eropey's command goes . Into the front-line trenches and is under fire for the first time. 1 CHAPTER V?Empey learns to adopt [the motto of the Brtish Tommy, "If you :are going to get it, you'll get it, so never ; worry." _ 'CHAPTER VI?Back In rest billets, Emjpey gets his first experience as a mess jorderiy. j CHAPTER VII?Empey learns how the British soldiers are fed. ' W . nminT> T7-TTT?T3q olr In thft frnnt-line l :n a r i r. t jljlx? - .? trench, Empey sees his first friend of the trenches "go West." CHAPTER IX?Empey makes his first ivisit to a dugout in "Suicide Ditch." ! CHAPTER X?Empey learns what constitutes a "day's work" in the front-line 'twmch CHAPTER XI?Empey goes "over tne top" for the first time in a charge on the ! German trenches and is wounded by a jbayonet thrust. _ CHAPTER XII?Empey joins the "sulP i.dde club" as the bombing squad is called. b CHAPTER VIII?Back in the front B line trench, Empey sees his first friend of the trenches "go West." |W CHAPTER IX?Empey makes his f first visit to a dugout in "Suicide Ditch." CHAPTER X?Empey learns what constitutes a "day's work" in the front-line trench. CHAPTER XI?Empey goes "over N the top" for the first time in a charge on the German trenches and is wounded by a bayonet thrust. CHAPTER XII?Empey joins the "suicide club" as the bombing squad ie called. CHAPTER XIII?Each Tommy gets an official bath. CHAPTER XIV?Empey helps dig an advanced trench under German fire. CHAPTER XV. Listening Post. It was six in the morning when we arrived at our rest billets, and we were allowed to sleep until noon; that is, If we wanted to go without our breakfast For sixteen days we remained . . J Entrance to a Dugout. Iln rest billets, digging roads, drilling, iand other fatigues, and then back into the front-line trench. Nothing happened that night, but the next afternoon I found out that a ! bomber is general utility man in a section. f- ' About five o'clock in the afternoon lour lieutenant came down the trench land stopping in front of a bunch of us ion the fire step, with a broad grin on I iWa fnrp nskpfi ! j "Who is going to volunteer for listening post tonight? I need two men." It is needless to say no one volun1 Jteered, because it is anything but a | cushy job. I began to feel uncomfortjable as I knew it was getting around i for my turn. Sure enough, with another jgrin, he said: ' < f "Empey, you and Wheeler are due, jso come down into my dugout for in jstructions at six o'clock." r ! Just as he left and was going around {a traverse, Fritz turned loose with a ' machine gun and the bullets ripped the j sandbags right over his head. It gave j me great pleasure to see him duck against the parapet. He was getting a : taste of, what we would get later out | in front. ; Then, of course, it began to rain. I knew it was the forerunner of a mis>4 U Mi AM!KM SOLDIER 10 WENT * * ffllMlYFMDIY I11UJLV MKJ X 1?l XX If 1 IE mm,SERVING IN fRANCfr ?1917 BY AfttWlR 6UY flIPCY ! erable night for us. Every time I had to go out in front, it just naturally rained. Old Jupiter Pluvius must have 1 had it in for me. At six we reported for instructions. They were simple and easy. All we | had to do was to crawl out into No j Man's Land, lie on our bellies with our ears to the ground and listen for the i tap, tap of the German engineers or sappers who might be tunneling under | No Man's Lard to establish a minehead beneath our trench. I Of course, in our orders we were told not to be captured by German patrols or reponnoitering parties. Lots of breath is wasted on the western front | giving silly cautions. As soon as it was dark, Wheeler and I crawled to our post which was about halfway between the lines. It was raining bucketfuls, the ground was a sea of sticky mud and clung to us like glue. We took turns in listening with our ears to the ground. I would listen for twenty minutes while Wheeler would be on the qui vive for German patrols. We each wore a wristwatch, and believe me, neither one of us did over twenty minutes. The rain soaked us to the skin and our ears were full of mud. 7 Every few minutes a bullet would crack overhead or a machine gun would traverse back and forth. Then all firing suddenly ceased. I whispered to Wheeler, "Keep your eye skinned, mate; most likely Fritz has a patrol out?that's why the Boches have stopped firing." We were each armed with a rifle and bayonet and three Mills bombs to be used for defenseonly. I had my ear to the ground. All of a sudden I heard faint, dull thuds. In a low but excited voice I whispered to Wheeler, "I think they are mining, listen." He put his ear to the ground and in an unsteady voice spoke into my ear: 1 "Yank, that's a patrol and it's heading our way. For God's sake keep cHll " I was as still as a mouse and was scared stiff. Hardly breathing and with eyes trying to pierce the inky blackness, we waited. I would have given a thousand / pounds to have been safely in my dugout. ' Then we plainly heard footsteps and our hearts stood still. A dark form suddenly loomed up in front of me; it looked as big as the Woolworth building. I could hear the blood rushing through my veins and it sounded as loud as Niagara falls. Forms seemed to emerge from the darkness. There were seven of them in all. I tried to wish them away. I never wished harder in my life. They muttered a few words in German and melted into the blackness. I didn't stop wishing either. All of a sudden we heard a stumble, a muddy splash, and a muttered "Donner und Blitzen." One of the Boches had tumbled into a shell hole. Neither of us laughed. At that time?It didn't strike us as funny. About twenty minutes after the Germans had disappeared something from the rear grabbed me by the foot. I nearly fainted with fright. Then a welcome whisper in a cockney accent. "I s'y, myte, we've come to relieve you." I Wheeler and I crawled back to our trench; we looked like wet hens and felt worse. After a swig of rum we were soon fast asleep on the fire step in our wet clothes. The next morning I was as stiff as a poker and every joint ached like a bad tooth, but I was still alive, so it did not matter. CHAPTER XVI. Battery D 238. The day after this I received the glad tidings that I would occupy the machine gunners' dugout right near the advanced artillery observation post. This dugout was a roomy affair, dry as tinder, and real cots in it. These cots had been made by the R. E.'s who had previously occupied the dugout. I was the first to enter A ?N?*/\wtrv4-1rT wa'Ia n TTT?f)l aiiU piUUlJJllji iliauc a siguuvaiu rt iin my name and number on it and suspended it from the foot of the most comfortable cot therein. | In the trenches it is always "first | come, first served," and' this is lived up to by all. Two R. F. A. men (Royal Field artillery) from the nearby observation post were allowed the privilege of stopping in this dugout when off duty. One of these men, Bombardier Wilson by name, who belonged to Battery D 238, seemed to take a liking to me, and I returned this feeling. In two days* time we were pretty chummy, and he told me how his battery In the early days of the war had put over a stunt on Old PeDDer. and had gotten away with it. j I will endeaver to give the story a far as memory will permit in his ow: words: "I came out with the first expedi tionary force, and. like all the resl thought we would have the enera licked in jig time, and be able to ea Christmas dinner at home. Well, s far, I have eaten two Christmas die ners in the trenches, and am liable t eat two more, the way things ar pointing. That is, if Fritz don't dro] a 'whizz-bang' on me, and send me t Blighty. Sometimes I wish I \voul< get hit, because it's no great picni out here, and twenty-two months of i makes you fed up. "It's fairly cushy now compared t what it used to be, although I admi this trench is a trifle rough. Now we send over five shells to their one We are getting our own back, but ii the early days it was different. Thei you had to take everything withou reply. In fact, we would get twent; eViflllc- in return fnp OVOTV nnp TUP 5PT1 I over. Fritz seemed to enjoy it, bu I we British didn't; we were the suf ferers. Just one casualty after an other. Sometimes whole platoon: would disappear, especially when i 'Jack Johnson' plunked into thei: middle. It got so bad that a fellow when writing home, wouldn't ask fo: any cigarettes to be sent out, becausi he was afraid he wouldn't be* there t< receive them. "After the drive to Paris was turne< back, trench warfare started. Oui general grabbed a map, drew a penci across it, and said, 'Dig here.' Thei he went back to his tea, and Tomm: armed himself with a pick and shove and started digging. He's been dig ging ever since. "Of course we dug those trenches a night, but it was hot work, what wit! the rifle and machine-gun fire. Thi stretcher bearers worked harder thai the diggers. "Those trenches, bloomin' ditches, ! call them, were nightmares. They wer< only about five feet deep, and you usei ! to get the backache from bendini I down. It wasn't exactly safe to stan< | upright, either, because as soon ai i your napper showed over the top i bullet would bounce off it, or else comi so close it would make your hair stand "We used to fill sandbags and sticl them on top of the parapet to make i higher, but no use; theyf would b< there about an hour and then Frit: would turn loose and blow them t< bits. My neck used to be sore fron ducking shells and bullets. "Where my battery was stationed i hasty trench had been dug, whicl the boys nicknajped 'Suicide ditch, and, believe me, Yank, this was th< original 'Suicide ditch.' All the other* are imitations. "When a fellow went into tha1 trench it was an even gamble that he would come out on a stretcher. At one time a Scotch battalion held it, anc when they heard the betting was evei money that they'd come out or stretchers, they grabbed all the bets in sight. Like a lot of bally idiots, sev eral of the battery men fell for theii game, and put up real money. Th< 'Jocks' suffered a lot of casualties, anc the prospects looked bright for th< battery men to collect some easj money. So when the battalion was re lieved the gamblers lined up. Severa' 'Jocks' got their money for emerging safely, but the ones who clicked ii weren't there to pay. The artillery men had never thought it out thai way. Those Scotties were bound t< Ka enya. n-innora nn motfor hnw thf Ut OU1 V U AUUV* U) **V u*?A wvv* ?? wind blew. So take a tip from me never bet with a Scottie, 'cause you'l lose money. "At one part of onr trench wher< a communication trench joined th< front line a Tommy had stuck up f wooden signpost with three hands oi arms on it. One of the hands, point ing to the German lines, read, To Ber lln;' the one pointing down the com municatioiL trench read, To Blighty, while the other said, 'Suicide Ditch Change Here for Stretchers.' "Farther down from this guide pos the trench ran through an old orchard On the edge of this orchard our bat tery had constructed an advanced ob servation post. The trees screened i from the enemy airmen and the roo was turfed. It wasn't cushy like ours no timber or concrete re-enforcements just walls of sandbags. From it i splendid view of the German line could be obtained. This post wasn' exactly safe. It was a hot corner shells plunking all around, and th< bullets cutting leaves off the trees Many a time when relieving the sig naler at the 'phone, I had to crawl 01 my belly like a worm to keep froc being hit. "It was an observation post sun ' enough. That's all the use it was. Jus observe all day, but never a messag 'back for our battery to open up. Yoi see, at this point of the line then were strict orders not to fire a shell ; unless specially ordered to do so fron brigade headquarters. Blime me, 1 anyone disobeyed that command, ou general?yes, it was Old Pepper^! would have court-martialed the whol< expeditionary force. Nobody went ou of their way to disobey Old Pepper ii those days, because he couldn't bi called a parson; he was more like i pirate. If at any time the devil shouh feel lonely and sigh for a proper mate Old Pepper would get the first call Facing the Germans wasn't half ba< An 1 n+AWTT? ATT? TrHK "fVlQ L'UlXiptHCU Willi ail 1UICI ?icn IIUU kuu old firebrand. "If a company or battalion shouh give way a few yards against a su perior force of Boches, Old Peppei would send for the commanding offi cer. In about half an hour the office] would come back with his face th< color of a brick, and in a few hour; ; jghnt was,left,of hiS-Command--WQul( (Continued on page 7, column 1.) g A SPOONFUL GIVES RESULTS. ! Q When your young chicks do not I [. grow and thrive they need a tonic, j t, B. A. Thomas' Poultry Remedy is j y not only a tonic but a specific for j t Bowel Trouble, Gaps, and other chick j 0 troubles. Get it today. We sell it j L" on the money back plan. C. R. ?e BRABHAM'S SONS, Bamberg, S. C. j P TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. | o d The regular spring examination for j c teachers' certificates will be held at, t the court house in Bamberg, S. C., on Friday, May the 3rd, 1918, be-j Q ginning at 9 o'clock a. m. In view j of the nation wide shortage of teachers, all prospective applicants for '? teachers' certificates are urged to take advantage of this examination, a as this is the last opportunity until 3 the October examination, t The Questions will be on the usual v subjects which include algebra, arith- j t metio* English grammar, pedagogy, geography, physiology and hygiene, 1 history, civics and current events, " and agriculture. W. D. ROWELL, s County Supt. of Education.' * , CITATION NOTICE. p , The State of South Carolina, Counr ty of Bamberg?By J. J. Brabham, a Jr., Probate Judge. " Whereas, Minnie Dunbar made suit to me to grant her letters of administration of the estate and effects * of William Williams. r These are, therefore, to cite and 55 1 admonish all and singular the kini dred and creditors of the said William - Williams that they be and appear , before me in the court of probate to be held at Bamberg on April 27th next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show t cause, if any they have, why the said i Administration should not De gram-1 a ed. 1 Given under my hand this 9th day of April, Anno Domini 1918. r J. J. BRABHAM, JR., Judge of Probate. 1 Whenever You Need a General Tonic * Take Grove's. 3 The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless s chill Tonic is equally valuable as a a General Topic because it contains the 5 well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. 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Read The Herald $l.5U tne year, j *-*??*? > t ^ . rs Fertilizer 90 toP95 bushels jJ Dtton per acre, are records established J1C ICiUllZrCi Uil UUUL11C111 ldl.IJ.id. wg - ryi TEKSFERTUZER m IBLES YOUR YIELD ^ Planters Fertilizer has been the preference of the South's farmers, because they have made it possible to produce :rops. Make every acre count this year?get results itonish you. Consult our agent for Free Advice, inforrices?or write us direct, TODAY. It means dolt / ? eg rmt DAD ' *s Fertilizer and Phosphate Co. ^jk I Manufactures ' JSpATLb I iarleston South Carolina i I