Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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| SYNOPSIS. j j CHAPTER I?Fired by the news of the ! linking of the Lusitania by a German ubmarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Amerl!can, leaves his office in Jersey City and jfoes to England where he enlists in the ! British army. CHAPTER H?After a period of training, 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?Empey's command goes Into the front-line trenches and is under Are for the first time. CHAPTER V?Empey learns to adopt [the motto of the Brtish Tommy, "If you :ar* going to get it, you'll get it, so never [worry." "CHAPTER VI?Back "in rest billet#, Em- j ;pey gets his first experience as a mesa orderly. CHAPTER VII?Empey learns how the British soldiers are fed. CHAPTER VIII?Back In the front-line trench, Empey sees his first friend of the trenches "go West." :' CHAPTER IX?Empey makes his first (visit to a dugout in "Suicide Ditch." CHAPTER X?Empey learns what conetitutes a "day's work" in the front-line < trench. * i CHAPTER XI?Empey goes -over me 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 is called. CHAPTER VIII?Back in the front line trench, Empey sees his first friend of the trenches "go West." CHAPTER IX?Empey makes his 1 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 ! 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 j "suicide club" as the bombing squad | is called. CHAPTER XIII?Each Tommy j gets an official bath. CHAPTER XIV?Empey helps dig ! an advanced trench under German fire. CHAPTER XV?On "listening post" in No Man's Land. CHAPTER XVI?Two artillerymen "put one over" on Old Pepper, their regimental commander.' CHAPTER XVII?Empey has nar-; row escape while on patrol duty in j No Man's Land. CHAPTER XVIII?Back in rest' billets Empey writes and stages a 1 farce comedy. -CHAPTER XIX?Soldiers have j many ways to amuse themselves while "on their own." ^hist and solo whist are piayea oy ho hljrhhrrnws of the eomnanv. * When the gamblers tire of all other games they try "Banker and Broker." I spent a week trying to teach some . of the Tommies how to play poker, but j because I won thirty-five francs they J declared that they didn't "fawncy" the game. ' . Tommy plays few card games; the general run never heard of poker, euchre, seven up, or pinochle. They have a game similar to pinochle called "Royal Bezique," but few know how to play it. Generally there are two decks of j cards in a section, and in a short time they are so dog-eared and greasy, you can hardly tell the ace of spades from ; the ace of hearts. The owners of these : decks sometimes condescend to lend j , them after much coaxing. i So you see, Mr. Atkins has his fun mixed in with his hardships and, contrary to popular belief, the rank and file of the British atmy in the trenches Is one big happy family. Now in Vir-ginia, at school, I was fed on old McGuffy's primary reader, which gave me an opinion of an Englishman about j : equal to a '76 Minute Man's backed up iby a Sinn Felner's. But I found Tom imy to be the best of mates and a gentleman through and through. He never thinks of knocking his officers. If one makes a costly mistake and Tommy pays with his blood, there Is no general condemnation of the officer. He j iis Just pitied. It is exactly the same 'as It was with the Light Brigade at Balaclava, to say nothing of Gallipoli,! Neuve Chapelle and Loos. Personally I remember a little incident where cross In some shell-tossed field with i tears in his eyes as he reads the in- ! 8cription. And a little later perhaps ; bend over a wounded man on a stretcher, patting him on the head. More than once in a hospital I have ! o PoH PrnBfi nnrs#? fptchine i WVV44 U UUVU AHVU v/& vw w and carrying for a wounded soldier, perhaps the one who in civil life delivered the coal at her back door. Today she does not shrink from lighting his fag or even washing his grimy body. Tommy admires Albert of Belgium because he is not a pusher of men; he leads them. With him It's not a case | of "take that trench," it is "come on * . and we will take it" ' It is amusing to notice the different characteristics of the Irish, Scotch and English soldiers. The Irish and Scotch jare very impetuous, especially when It MmM to havmpt fighting, while the I mM VMOaOVN 50IMR | [) went * * ! 111! in EMIT r (HINNFD IFDmiNFOiNfF?? 1- Wni.My- W.HW ?1917 err ARTHUR CUY EflPEY Englishman, though a trifle slower, thoroughly does his bit; he Is more methodical and has the grip of a bulldog on a captured position. He is slower to think; that is the reason why he never knows when he is licked. Twenty minutes before going over the top the English Tommy will sit on j the fire step and thoroughly examine j the mechanism of his rifle to see that it , is in working order and will fire prop- j erly. After this examination he is satisfied and ready to meet the Boches. But the Irishman or Scotchman sits on the fire step, his rifle with bayonet fixed between his knees, the butt of! twenty of us were sent on a trench raid, only two of us returning, but I ! will tell this story later on. I said it was a big happy family, and so it is, but as in all happy families, there are servants, so in the British army there are also servants, officers* servants, or "O. S." as they are termed. ! In the American army the common name for them is "dog robbers." From a controversy in the English papers, Winston Churchill made the statement, as far as I can remember, that the officers' servants in the British forces totaled nearly two hundred thousand. He claimed that this removed two hundred thousand excep tlonally good and well-trained fighters from the actual firing line, claiming j that the officers, when selecting a man for servant's duty, generally picked the man who had been out the longest and ' knew the ropes. But from my observation I find that > a large percentage of the servants do 1 go over the top, but behind the lines | they very seldom engage in digging parties, fatigues, parades or drills, j This work is as necessary as actually i engaging in an attack, therefore I think j it would be safe to say that the all- j' round work of the two hundred thou- j sand is about equal to fifty thousand j men who are on straight military duties. In numerous instances, officers' , servants hold the rank of lance-corpo- j rals and they assume the same duties I Meeting a Gas ar and authority of a butler, the one stripe giving him precedence over the other servants. There are lots of amusing stories told of "O. S." One day one of our majors went into the servants' billet and commenced "blinding" at them, saying that his horse had no straw and that he personalis knew that straw had been issued tor this purpose. He called the lance-corporal to account. The cor- j poral answered, "Blime me, sir, the 1 straw was issued, but there wasn't enough left over from the servants' ' beds; in fact, we had to use some of the 'ay to 'elp out, sir." It Is needless to say that the serv- i ants dispensed with their soft beds that particular night. Nevertheless It is not the fault of the individual officer, it is just the survival of a quaint old English custom. You know an Englishman cannot be changed in a day. But the average English officer is a good sport He will sit on a fire step and listen respectfully to Private Jones' theory of the way the war should be conducted. . This war is gradually crumbling the once insurmountable wall of caste. You would be convinced of this If you could see King George go among his men on an inspecting tour under fire, or pause before a little wooden which perhaps is sinking into the mud ?the bolt couldn't be opened with a team of horses it is so rusty?but he spits on his sleeve and slowly polishes his bayonet; when this is done he also is ready to argue with Fritz. It is not necessary to mention the colonials (the Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders), the whole world knows what they have done for England. The Australian and New Zealander is termed the "Anzac," taking the name from the first letters of their official designation, Australian and New Zealand army corps. Tommy divides the German army into three classes according to their fighting abilities. They rank as follows: Prussians, Bavarians and Saxons. / When up against a Prussian regiment it is a case of keep your napper { below the parapet and duck. A bangbang a .l the time and a war is on. The Bavarians are little better, but the Saxons are fairly good sports and are willing occasionally to behave as gen- i tlemen and take it easy, but you cannot trust any of them overlong. - At one point of the line the trenches were about thirty-two yards apart. This sounds horrible, but in fact it was easy, because neither side could shell the enemy's front-line trench for fear ( shells would drop into their own. This < eliminated artillery fire. In these trenches when up against ; the Prussians and Bavarians, Tommy had a hot time of it, but when the Sax- ( ons "took over" it was a picnic; they t would yell across that they were Sax- : ons and would not fire. Both sides ! would sit on the parapet and carry on < a conversation. This generally consist- 1 ed of Tommy telling them how much ] he loved the kaiser, while the Saxons informed Tommy that King George was a particular friend of theirs and hoped that he was doing nicely. When the Saxons were to be relieved by Prussians or Bavarians, they would yell this information across No Man's Laud and Tommy would immediately tumble into his trench and keep his head down. If an English regiment was to be relieved by the wild Irish, Tommy would tell the Saxons, and immediately a volley of "Donner und Blitzens" could be heard and it was Fritz's turn to get a crick in his back from stooping, and the people in Berlin would close their windows. Usually when an Irishman takes over a trench, just before "stand down" in the morning, he sticks his rifle over the top, aimed in the direction of Berlin, and engages in what is known as the "mad minute." This consists of v firing fifteen shots in a minute. He is not aiming at anything in particular ?just sends.over eaclj shot with a prayer, hoping that one of his strays will get some poor unsuspecting Fritz In the napper hundreds of yards behind the lines. It generally does: that'a ^ H M *J??a id Infantry Attack. tne reason the Boches hate the man from Erin's isle. The Saxons, though better than the Prussians and Bavarians, have a nasty trait of treachery in their makeup. At one point of the line where the trenches vere very close, a stake was driven into the ground midway between the hostile lines. At night when it was his turn, Tommy would crawl to this ;stake and attach some London papers to it, while at the foot he would place tins of bully beef, fags, sweets, and ether delicacies that he had received from Blighty in the ever lookedfor parcel. Later on Fritz would come All on/1 crpf thpSP lllYTiriefL VUlr uuu ovw . | The next night Tommy wonld go ont to see what Fritz pnt Into his stocking, i The donation generally consisted of a | paper from Berlin, telling who was i winning the war, some tinned sausages, j cigars, and occasionally a Uttld beer, .but a funny thing, Tommy never re| turned with the beer unless it was ln1 side of him. His platoon got a whiff of his breath one night and the offending I Tommy lost his job. | One night a young English sergeant ; crawled to the stake and as he tried to j detach the German paper a bomb ex; ploded and mangled him horribly. Fritz j had set a trap and gained another vicj tim which was only one more black ; mark against htm in the book of this (Continued on page 6, column 2.) NOTICE I will be at Rizer's Stable's, Olar, S. C., on the second and fourth Mondays of each I month. Dr. J. M. LOVE BUY WAR SAVING STAMPS A FAMILY MEDICINE In Her Mother's Home, Says Thii Georgia Lady, Regarding BlackDraught Relief From Headache, Malaria, Chills, Etc* Ringgold, Ga.? Mrs. Chas. Gaston, rf this place, -writes: "I am a user af Thedford's Black-Draught; in fact, it was one of our family medicines. AJso in my mother's home, when I was a child. TVhen any of us children complained of headache, usually caused by constipation, she gave us i dose of Black-Draught, which would rectify the trouble. Often in the ; Spring, we would have malaria and chills, or troubles of this kind, we would take Black-Draught pretty regular until the liver acted well, and we would soon be up and around again. We would not be without it, Cor it certainly has saved us lots of doctor bills. Just a dose of BlackDraught when not so well saves a lot of days in bed." Thedford's Black-Draught has been In use for many years in the treatment of stomach, liver and bowel troubles, and the popularity which it qow enjoys is proof of its merit If your liver Is not doing its duty, pou will suffer from such disagreeable symptoms as headache; biliousness, constipation, indigestion, etc., and unless something is done, serious trouble may result Thedford's Black-Draught has been found a valuable remedy for these troubles. 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