The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 17, 1917, Image 2
B1RQF VNT McCLINTOCK.
ipiring
Full ol
Trench
No. 2. The Bomb
Raid
By Sergeant Alexander McCllntoca,
0 C. M., R7lli Ovcrsraa BatU
Canadian lireit. Guards.
Copyright, 1917, by the Bell Syn?
dicate, Inc.
Bergeant McCHntock ii o? ?mtricfln
Uof n/ Lcrispfoa, a'j/., u?Ao A/m .k rn
eerviec in fro ace, mna decorated far
bravery, %coutn!c<l, invaVde4 home and
how it returning to acapt a comtnia
aann. 2'm* it the tecoml article in the
?tritt. I* the flrtt article he describ?
ed hit training up l>> the point where
he reached .at front line trcnehvt.
? I
WUN we took our position In the
foot line trenches In Belgium
we rellefed the Twenty-sixth
Canadian battalion. So?its from that
crgnnlxatlon came hack to the villages
tf Ihn Riebosch and Keunlngliclst to
tell os how glad tucy were to see us
und to show us the way In. As^ we
I roeeeded overland, before reatlllhi|
the ejejanuiuuicaUou trenches at the
front, Ibens scouts paid us the hospita?
ble attention Cue strangers?that Is.
one of them, lead lug s platoon, would
?ay:
MNex| 2? yards In machine gun
range. Keep ijulct. don't run and be
ready to drop quick if you are warned."
There was one scout to each platoon,
aad we flowed hiu> single tile, most
of the time aioug roads or well worn
potha, but I es through thickets
sod rugged Ueieia. etTOjry now and then
the scout would yell at us to drop,
and Ion n we'd go on our stomachs,
whue away off In the distance we
could bear the "pur-put" of machine
gvnv the Mi .t Bound Ol hostile firing
that Und evci readied mir ears
"Its gll light." said the at out
"They haven t sr. n us < v got track of
ua Tin > re Just Ill ing on susp'nion."
erthcle-v v\ hen our various pla?
toons had all got Into the front reserve
trenehes. at about two hours after mid?
night. |rej lea rued that the Urst blood
of our hatte hon had been spilled. Two
men hud beej v.ouuded. though neither
fatally Our own stretcher beafgfl
took our srooadfjd b ick to the field
hospital at lfJukllbur< h The men of
The Twenty-sixth battaliou spent the
reet of the alghl instructing us and
then left gej |g h dd the position. We
were as ueiv.nis as a let of cats, and
It seemed to me that the Germans
Met certabny know thai they COO Id
come OTQf aid walk right through us,
but outside of s fow casualties from
silfdng, sin h < tin* one that befell
tfe 1 onrUvnth platoon man, wtibh 1
hare told about, nothing asjfj alarming
happened the first day und night, and
by that time ne had got steady on our
Job, We Ik Id l be portion for twenty
eix days, which Is the longest period
tfcst sny r i ndiun or British orgimi'.A
tlon lias ever retnnined In a front Mm
treu? h
In not of the asaglfj I've read have
I ever 11 ,? I. . ding ns It was
carrloel on In halglgBi adequately de
(m-rib.tl fod aee. you cau t get much
of an Meg f.i OH! a thing like that mak?
ing ? QUtch to.ir of the trem lies under
offleinl dl.e-iioo sud escort ss the
newspaper and gsagnxlne writers do.
I faoddn'l undertake to tell auylhlng
worth v hi c r.ojut the big Issues of tbe
war. but I can dbjcrlbe bow colalars
have to Icurn tc tlg.it In tbe trenches,
sod I thlnt: s 0vum msny of our young
Minus Iil\c trr.t to le.tru now. "O^er
ther*" deny don't talk of peace cr
even of ton arrow They sit back and
tske It.
Wo thssYJgj held the (Ire trench uu
ssjMH es possible, because It Is a
(limo.i ;h..ted fs< t that the front ditch
cannot la* successfully defended lu a
defer ml ed stta< k The thing we did
sud the thing to do Is to be romv to
Jump on to tue enemy as soon as he
bss got Into your front trem h and Is
fighting on ground that you know and
he doesn't and knock so many kinds
of tar out oi him that he II b i\e to pub
loud for a spot that halt so warm
That systen. worked lir-d rate with us.
Daring the day we had only a very
few men In tho 6re trem It If an at?
tack Is coming In daylight there's III
ways plenty of llano to ret renuy lot
It. At nb'ut we kept prepared for
trouble el) the tl.ne. We had a higr.t
sentry gsj each tbdiot step anil n man
sitting st his feet ftg Wmb h him to seo
be wsn't aecrefly snipe 1 Then w??
had a sentry in each "bay" of lb*
trench to taM Beenge"
Order? didn't permit tin man on tb
firing stop or the man watching him
(o Icavo post ou any exume whatever
TR THtRf
Thrill and the Hell of
I Trenches, Described
y an American Boy.
eant Alexander McClintock of Lex
i Ky., and the Canadian Army Has
ig Tale That Every American Will
For He Telli the Facts?Unadorn
7ounded, a Distinguished Conduct
Man, He Was Invalided Home,
Going "Out Ti ere" Again to Fight
ncle Sam and His Allies. An In
\, Interesting, Personal Narrative,
I the Spirit and Atmosphere of the
iei.
luring their two hour "spell" cf duty.
Hanging on a 3tring, at the elbow of
each sentry on the fire step was a
?Iran whistle or an empty shell case
aud a bit of Iron with which to ham?
mer on it. This, whichever it might
be. was for the purpose of spreading
aal alarm in casu of a gas attack.
Also we bad sentries in "listening
}h)sts," at various points from twenty
to fifty yurds out iu "No Man's Laud."
These men blackened their faces be?
fore they went "over the top" and then
lay iu shell holes or natural hollows.
Theft wus always two of them, a bay?
onet man and a bomber. From the
listeulng post a wire ran back to the
Iff trench to be used iu signaling. In
the trench a man sat with this wire
wrapped around his hand. One pull
meant "All O. K.," two pulls, "I'm
coming iu," three pulls, "Enemy in
That System Worked First Rate
With Us.
sight." and four pulls, "Sound gas
alarm." Tbe tire step in a treucu is a
ihetf ou which soldiers stand to,look
out and shoot betweeu the saud bags
ou top.
In addition to these men, we bad pa?
trols and scouts out in "No Man's
Lag*!" the greater part of the night,
with orders to gain any information
possible which might be of valne to
battalion, brigade, division or general
headquarters. They reported on the
conditloa of the Germans' barbed wire,
the location of machine guns and oth?
er littie things like that which might
je of interest to some commanding
SUVef twenty K'des back. Also they
wore ordered to muke every effort to
Capture any tf the enemy's scouts or
Patrons, so that we could get informa?
tion from them. One of the Interesting
rno'.ients iu this work came when a
; star shell caught you out in an open
spot If you moved you were gone.
I've seen men stand ou one foot for
tee thirty seconds during which a star
I shell will burn. Theu when scouts or
patrols met it "No Man's Land" they
I slways had to fight it out with bayo?
nets. One single shot would be the
signal for a cillery lire and would
mean the almost instant annihilation
of the men on both sides of the fight
l nder the necessities of ihls war many
of our men Luve been killed by our
own shell Are.
The Daylight Hour.
At a littlo before daybreak came
"stund-to," when everybody got put*
toned up and ready for business be
' cav:se nt that hour most attacks begin,
and also that was the regular tlmo for
a dose of "morning and evening hate,"
otiierwlso a gor.d, lively fifteen minutes
of shell lire. We had some casualties
very ui >rnin : and evening, and the
stretcher hearers USflf) to gjtt ready for
them as s regular matter cf course.
For fifteen minutes at dawn and dusk
the Germans used to send over "whiz
"eoal boxes" and "mlnenwer
fcr" (sheds from trench mortars) in
BCb a gOPCfOSMI way that it looked as
If ihey liked to shoot 'cm off, whether
they hit anything or not. You could
always hear I KJ "heavy stuff' coming,
and wg paid I n'e attention to it, as it
was antd In efforts to reach the bat?
teries back Of <>nr lines. The poor old
i >wn of Dtni tbnacb g?>t the full ban*
afli of it. When a shell would anriet
its way over, some one Would say,
"There goes he express for IMnkie
hus.h." and a couple of etCOOdl later,
when some prominent landmark of
i Usklebuaca would disintegrate v ith a
log 1 detonation, SOtM MM else would
remark :
"Train's arrived P
About the only amusement we had
miring I nr long stay hi the front
tranches wus to sit with our backs
?gainst the rear wall and shoot at the
rgti running glong the parapet Poor
Ifacfariane, with ? flash of the old bn?
gear which h? had bafori Iba war, t< >1d
a *rcokieH that the trench rats were
mo big that he saw one of them trying
on his greatcoat They natd to run
ovpr our (gees when we flora sleeping
In or r dugouts, and I've seen thetfl in
raveuotis swuims burrowing iuto the
mallow graves or M:?' dead. Most of
the soldiers' h>ga ft re serried to UM
knees with bites.
The one thing of niiicli we constant?
ly lived in fear was n go* attack, l
used to wake in tbe mi ol Hie night
In a cold sweat drearohuj (bal 1 heard
the clatter and wldsljs blowing ail
along the line which meant thai 'In?
gas was Coining, And finally I reall>
j did hear the terrifying sound, just ai
a moment when it couldn't have sound
1 ed worse. I was in charge of the daily
ration detail, sent back about ten miles
j to the point of nearest approach of tbe
. transport lorries to carry in rations.
I ammunition and sand bags to the front
trenches. We had a lot of trouble re?
turning with our loada Passing n
I point which was called Shrapnel Cor?
ner, because the Germans had preciso
1 range of It, we were caught in ma
Chine gnu tire and. bad to lie ou our
I stomachs for twenty minutes, during
I which we lost one man' wounded. 1
1 sent him back and went on with my
party, only to run into another machine
gun shower a half mile farther on
While we were lying down to escape
this a concealed British battery ot
five inch guns, about which we knew
uothing, opened up right over our
heads. It shook us up and scared us sc
that some of our party were no\V worRe
off than the man who had been hit and
carried to the rear. We fiually got to,
gather and went on. When we wen
about a mile behind the reserve trench,
stumbling in tlte dark through the last
aid most dangerous path overland, we
heard a lone siren whistle, followed by
a wave of metallic hammering and wild
tooting which seemed to spread over
all of Belgium a mile ahead of us. All
any of us could say was:
??Gas!"
All you could see in the dark was a
collection of white and frightened
faces. Every tremb'lug finger seemed
awkward as a thumb as we got out our
gas masks and helmets and put them
on, following directions as nearly as
we could. I ordered the men to sit
still and sent two forward to notify
me from headquarters when the gas
alarm was over. They lost their way
and were not found for two days. We
sat there for an hour, and then I ven?
tured to take my mask off. As nothing
happened, 1 ordered the men to do the
same. When we got into the trenches
with our packs we found that the gas
alarm had been one of Fritz's jokes
The first sirens bad been sounded in
the German lines, und there hadn't
been any gas.
Our men evened things up with the
Germans, however, the next night.
Some of our scouts crawled clear up
to the German barbed wire, ten yards
in front of the enemy fire trench, tied
empcy jam tins to the barricade and
then, after attaching small telephone
wires to the barbed strands, crawled
back to our trenches. When they start
ed pulling the telephone wires the.
empty this made a clatter right under
Fritz's no.se. Immediately the Germans
opened up with all their machine gun
aud rifie fire, began bombing the spot
from which the noise came and sent
up "S O S" signals for artillery fire
along a mile of thelf* line. They fired
a $1U,(J00 salute and lost a night s sleep
over the noise made by the discarded
containers of 5 shillings' worth of jam.
it was a good tonic for the Tommies.
The Prince of Wales.
A few days after this a very young
officer passed me in a trench while 1
was sitting on a fire step writing a
letter. I noticed that he had the ml
tabs of a staff officer on his uniform,
but I paid no more attention to him
than that. No compliments, such as
? salutes to officers, are paid in the
trenches. After he had passed one of
the men asked me if 1 didn't know
who he was. I said I didn't.
"Why, you d-fool," he said, "that^.
the Prince of Wales!"
When the little prince came back 1
stood to salute him. He returned the
salute with u grave smile and passed
on. He was quite alone, and I was
told afterward that he made these
trips through the trenches just to show
the men that he did not consider him?
self better than any other soldier. The
heir of England was certainly taking
nearly the same chance of losing his
inheritance that we were.
After we had been on the front line
fifteen days we received orders to
make a bombing raid. Sixty Volon
tecrs were asked for, and the whole
When the Little Prince Came Back I
Stood to Salute Him.
battalion offered. I was lucky?or un
lucky?enough to be among the sixty
who were chosen. 1 want to tell you
in detail about this bombing raid, gg
that you can understand wbot a thing
may really amount to that rets only
three lines or perhaps nothing at nil
in the official dispatches, and. besides
that, it may help some of the young
men who read this In know something
a little later about bombing.
The six; v of us chosen to execute tin
raid were taken twenty mllea to the
!
roar lor a wwk's Instruction practice.
Having only a slight idea of what we
were going to try to do. we felt very
jolly about the whole enterprise start?
ing oil*. We were camped in an old
barn, with several Special instruction
officers in charge. We bad oral in?
struction the first day. while sappers
dug and built an exact duplicate of the
section of the German trenches which
we were to raid?that is, it was exact
except for a few details. Certain
"skeleton trenches" iu the practice sec?
tion were dug simply to fool the Ger?
man aviators. If a photograph taken
back to German headquarters had
shown an exact duplicate of a German
trench section suspicion might have
been nrouscd and our plans revealed.
We were constantly w arned about the
skeleton trenches and told to remem?
ber that they did not exist in the Ger?
man section where we were to operate.
Meanwhile our practice section was
changed a little several times, because
aerial photographs showed that the
Germans had been renovating and
making some additions to the trenches
in which we were to have our frolic
with them.
We had oral Instruction, mostly dur?
ing the day, because we didn't dare let
the German aviators see us practicing
a bomb raid. All night long, sometimes
until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, we
rehearsed that raid, just as carefully
as a company of stur actors would re?
hearse a play. At first there was a dis?
position to have sport out of it.
"Well," some chap would say, roll?
ing into the hay all tired out, "I got
killed six times tonight S'pose it'll
be eight times tomorrow night."
One man insisted that he had discov?
ered in one of our aerial photographs
a German burying money, and he care?
fully examined each*new picture, so
that he could be sure of finding the
dough and digging it up. The grave
and serious inauner of our officers,
however, the exhaustive care with
which we were drilled and, more than
all, the approach of the time when we
were to "go over the top" drove all
sport out of our minds, and I can say
for myself that the very thought of
the undertaking as the fatal night
drew near sent shivers up and down
my spine.
A bombing raid, something originat?
ed in warfare by the Canadians, is not
intended for the purpose of holding
ground, but to gain information, to do
as much damage as possible and to
koep the enemy in a state of nervous?
ness. In this particular raid the chief
object was to gain information. Our
high command wanted to know what
troops were opposite us and erbat
troops had been there. We were ex?
pected to get this information from
prisoners and from buttons and papers
off of the Germans we might kill. It
was believed that troops were being
We Rehearsed That Raid as Carefully
as a Company of Star Actors.
relieved from the big tent show up at
the Somme and sent to our side show
In Belgium for rest. Also it was sus?
pected that artillery was being with?
drawn for the Summe. Especially we
were anxious to bring back prisoners.
In civilized war a prisoner can be
compelled to tell only his name, rank
and religion. But this is not a civili/.ed
war, and there are ways of making
prisoners talk. One of the most ef?
fective ways-quite humane?is to tie
a prisoner fast, head and foot, and
then tickle his bare feet w ith a feather.
More severe measures have frequently
been used-the water cure, for in?
stance-but I'm bound* to say that
nearly all the German prisoners I saw
were quite loquacious and willing to
talk, and the accuracy of their infor?
mation, when later confirmed by raids,
was surprising. The iron discipline
which turns them into mere children
In the presence of their ollleers seemed
to mgke them subservient and obedient
to the officers who commanded us. I
mean, of course. th0 private*. In this
tray the system worked against the
fatherland. Captured German officers.
? specially Prussians, WCPO a nasty lot.
We never tried to get information from
them, for w e know they would lie. hap?
pily and very Intelligently?W*ll in?
structed in the art.
At hist came the night when we were
to go "over the top." across No Man's
Land, and have a frolic with Fritz in
lbs own happy homo. I am endeavor
big to bo ns accurate and truthful as
poaalhle in these stories of my soldier?
ing, and i am therefore compelled to
say that there wasn't a man in the
sixty who didn't show the strain in his
pallor ami nervousness. Inder orders,
we discarded our h em h helmet! and
substituted knitted skullcaps or empty
mess tins. Then we blackened our
hands and faCCi with ashes from a
camp fire >o as to avoid being seen as
long as possible. Afler Ibis they load
ed us Into motor trucks nud took up
to "Shrapnel Corner," from which
point we went In on font. Ju t before
wc leff a staff captain came along and
Bare us a little talk.
'tThls Is the III ' lime you men have
heen foaled." be said "You're Caua
illltlis I nee l i t sa\ itliytlllllg more fn
you. Thej re going tu be popping them
off at a groat rate wiilio you're on your
way across. Itcmcmhcr that you'd hot?
ter not stand up straight, because our
shells will be going over just six and a
half feet from the ground where it's
lOVtL If you stand up straight you're
likely to be hit in the head, but don't
let that worry you, because if you do
get hit in the head you won't know it.
So why in Ii? worry about it?" That
was his farewell. Ha jumped on his
lior.se und rode off.
The Bomb Raid.
The point w e were to attack bad been
selected Ion? before by our scouts. It
was not, as you might suppose, the
weakest point in the German line. It
was, on the contrary, the strongest. It
was considered that the moral effect of
cleaning up a weak point would be
comparatively small, whereas to break
j in at the strongest point would be
j something really worth while. And if
we were to take a chance it really
wouldn't pay to hesitate about degrees.
The section we were to raid had a
, frontage of 150 yards and a depth of
200 yards. It had been explained to us
that we were to be supported by a
"box barrage," or curtain fire, from
our artillery to last exactly twenty-six
minutes?that is, for twenty-six min?
utes from the time when we started
"over the top" our artillery, several
miles back, would drop a "curtain" of
shells all around the edges of that 150
yard by 200 yard section. We were to
have fifteen minutes in which to do
our work. Any man not out at the
end of the fifteen minutes would neces?
sarily be caught in our own fire, as our
artillery would then change from a
"box" to pour a straight curtain fire
covering all of the spot of oar opera?
tions.
Our officers set their watches very
carefully with those of the artillery of?
ficers before we went forward to the
front trenches. We reached the front
at 11 p. m.. and not until our arrival
there were we informed of the "zero
hour"?tbe time when the attack was
to be made. The hour of 12:10 had
been selected. The waiting from 11
o'clock until that time was simply an
agony. Some of our men sat stupid
and inert. Others kept talking con?
stantly about the most Inconsequential
matters. One man undertook to tell a
funny story. No one listened to It, and
the laugh at the end was emaciated
and ghastly. The Inaction was driving
us all into a state of funk. I could ac?
tually feel my nerve oozing cut at my
finger tips, and if we had bad to wait
fifteen minutes longer 1 wouldn't have
been able to climb out of the trench.
About half cu hour before we were
to go over every man bad his eye up
the trench, for we know "the rummies"
were coming that way. The rum gang
serves out a stiff shot of Jamaica just
before an attack, and it would be a
real test of temperance to see a man
refuse. There were no prohibitionists
in our set. Whether or not we got our
full ration depended on whether the
sergeant in charge was drunk or sober.
After the shot began to work one man
next me pounded my leg and hollered
in my ear:
"I say, why all this red tape? Let's
go over now."
That noggin of rum is a lifo saver.
When the hour approached for us to
start the artillery fire was so heavy
that orders had to be shouted into ears
from man to man. The bombardment
was, of course, along a couple of miles
of front so that the Germans would not
know where to expect us. At 12 o'clock
exactly they began pulling down a sec.
"tion of the parapet so that we wouldn't
have to climb over it and we were off.
There are six articles in this remjajk
able scries by Sergeant MeClinteck.
Two have already been printed, and
the third will appear soon. It is tbe
most interesting one of the series thus
far and is entitled:
"Over the Top and Givo 'Em Htlll"
The KnKlish Tommy's battlj cry> as he
breaks from his trench. The somb raid
and what happened. Of sixty lhat start?
ed forty-six tailed to return because tho
(Jcrmana bad prepared a surprise for
them. Graphic description of Sergeant
McClintock's terrible experience.
Handy Literature.
Saunderson found it very hard work
selling books. The volumes be had
to offer, one of which he had to carry
with him as a sample, were very
heavy, and nobody seemed to want
them.' But he was a persistent man.
and even the stt bbom Mrs. Bowlinp.
could not send him away unheard.
"Wo have all the books we can use,'"
she said, "and we really can't afford
any more reading malter. Why, 1
haven't even opened the second vol?
ume of that Itoman history you sold
us last spring. Now, ii you wore sell
ing one of those adjustable ironing
hoards"? "I've got just the thing!"
said Saunderson cheerfully. "There
are twelve books in this set, and you
can use either one or two or three, and
so on up to six, to tilt your board any
way you want to. And between whiles
when your Iron is heating you have
good literature to refresh your mind.".
A Bonehead.
There are many things dropped in
the subway ticket chopper by absent
minded riders besides the little piece
of pasteboard which entitles them to a
ride. An eccentric looking young man
and his particularly eccentric looking
wife hurried up to the door of n Broad
way theater last night The man
reached into his pocket, handed tin
doorman some tickets sud, assisting
his wife before him, turned to reoelv?
the stubs. ?These are subway tickets.'
Bald the doorman. At the rate of twt
pockets per second the young mai
searched himself. Then ho clapped bl
hand on his forehead. "Good heavens
Annie." ho gasped. "I [tut the scats ii
the .subway!" And what Annie san
about honcheada was only heard bj
herself.- Neu Vorfc *'<?r Pittsburgh
Dispatch,
WHITMAN TRAISAS WILSON.
? . ?-. ... !
Governor of N**w York Pays Nil all
to Solitary Figure" RuJipg <>vur
Coi ntry's Destiny. 1
Nev York, Oct. 14.?flovearsinr Whtt*
mall paid a stirring tribute to Presi?
dent Wilson tonight in a patriotic ad?
dress to the congregation of St. Paul'?
Methodist Episcopal Church.
"At? we contemplate the solitary*
figure who is ruling over the destinies
of our hundred million people," the
governor said, "and consider the tre?
mendous task he has before him, we
are no longer Democrats, or Republi?
cans or Progressives, but Americans
all."
WT it certain persons termed
"apathy" ,n the attitude of the Ameri?
can people toward the war, he assert?
ed, in reality was "our national poise.'*
"Today the United States leads the
whole world in mustering materials
and i i the sweep of the human mind,"
he added. "The European nations had
the f Use impression that America Ls
the If nd of the dollar and thought the
Yankees would not fight. All history
gives the lie to these slanders. Our
dollars have carried food to the hun?
gry, help to the wounded and health
to the sick. Peace is our devotion,
[but not our obsession."
Council of Defense Fund.
The following public spirited citi?
zens af Sumter county have contrib?
uted the amounts opposite their namt*a
to help defray the expenses of the
Sumter County Council of Defense,
and to help pay for carrying on the
Food Enrollment Week, October 2&tii ;
to November 4th. A great deal of
mone?r is needed for postage, stenog- ,
raphers' salaries, printing, etc. Ev?
erybody should contribute something
and < ontribute in a hurry. We ara
helping our own soldier boys tc win
I the war.
Th>> names of individuals, firms,
and corporations will be published
from time to time in this paper as the
contributions are turned in to either
Treasurer G. A. Lemmon or Secretary
,.E. L Reardon.
X. B Murray, Dalzell, R. F. D...$5:0O
M hid let<?n Township, Collected by 12.
K. Aycock.
J H. Aycock^ & Sons. 10.00
Miss Cleon Troutman. .50
H. Chundler., .50 1
W. H. Ramsey. .. 1.0?
M. at. Mellette.25
LeGiand Geddings. 50
Oldin Geddings.50
J J. Geddings. .50
Dr. M. U Parier. .. Us) /
W. J. Rees.50
Richard R Singleton.50
G| H Burgess.50
M. If. Brice.50
A. E. Aycock, Jr.50
W T. Brown. 1.00
J. B. Crouch.5S .
H. if McLaurln. l.co
Cash.25
E. W. Nettles.50
Cash. . .50
Oswcjro Section, Sumter Township,
Collected by M. M. Brown.
Conycrs Brown. 1.00
M. M. Brown.5'J
Cash. I.M
R. K. Brown. 1.00
Hugocd Section, Hatting Creek Town?
ship, Collected by R. M. Moore.
J. L. Jackson. .50
A. H. Sanders.50
J. R. Atkins.50
H. L,. Sanders.5<? |
C P. Myers.50
B. F. Myers.50
W. H. Freeman. 1.00
J. L. Sanders.50
S. Belle.N
Andy Davis. .50
Bam Cole. .Set
Total. $35.25
A Unique Record.
Home testimony for Doan's Kidney
Pills, published in every locality, is of
itself convincing evidence of merit.
Confirmed testimony fonns still
Stronger evidence. Years ago, a citi?
zen of Sumter gratefully acknowl?
edged the benefit derived from Doan's
Kidney Pills. The statefnent is now
.'onflr Tied?the proof more convinc?
ing. Tases of this kind are plentiful
in the work of Doan's Kidney Pills ?
the record is unique.
W. Y ea don, 27 Haynsworth St.,
lumter, says: "I suffered from dull,
i.iggii g backaches, and my kidneys
tcted tco freely. I used Doan's Kil
ley P 11s for these ailments, and they
?elleved me and toned up my whole
lyntem." (Statement given January
?. llll.)
over four years Inter Mr. Yeadon
Slid: "The benefit Doan's Kidney
.Mils rave tue has been permanent."
Price f?c, at all dealers. Don't
ttlmpl) ask for a kidney remedy?get
Doan's kidney Pills?Up same that
Mr. Y'oadon has twice publicly rec?
ommended, Foster-ifllhurn Co
1 Props., Buffalo, N. Y.?Advu