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g liiiniiuMiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiuiiiiiiii a | Gunner | . | Depew | i = E JUbert&C *Depcw E a LI II = . ~ Ex<Gunner and Chief Petty Officer, ? f // 5 U. S. Navy?Member of the Foreign ~ // 5 Legion of France ? Captain Gun ~ 4 3 Turret, French Batlleebip Caeeard? a S Winner of the Croia de Gu ar re# a .. mm ? I = Hll 11111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111 Ml Copyright. 1U18, hr Kellly and Hrliton Co., Through Special Arrnngemnnt With the George i Mauxee Ailaiui Herrloe. There was poor old Murray. They | were just taking him down. He had 1 been crucified against the wall of the He Had Been Crucified. storehouse. There was a bayonet through each arm, one through each foot and one through his stomach. One of the garbles fainted when he had to pull one of the bayonets out. They had hacked off his right hand at the wrist and taken bis Identification disc. I lay this to the German *?? ? viiivuin luurt* 111 i 111 lilt? I IITKJS. I do not know Just what I did after this. But It changed me all around and I wt.s not like my usual self dur lnpr the rest of the time. It was still ruining when we started on our way to the front ? oImu the rond were numbers of troopa scoffing and among them Indian troops on sentry duty. They looked like r bunch of frozen turnips, cool and un comfortable. We were close enough to make the roar of the canno: ollng seem Intolerably loud and could see the bursting shells, particularly thnso fro"i the British ships. Then we came across some Turkish prlsoneis who were sheltering la an old barn, I guess It was, and we stopped for shelter und rest. They tolJ us that their troops were very tired from long tight ing, but that they had plenty of men. They said u couple ^of shells had dropped about a hun- ' Vlred yards from the barn Just before we ciime, so we knew the batteries were trying to get our range and we did not stay uny longer, but went away from there und on our road. About 500 yards farther on we came to ruins, and when we v.ent insld 1 we found 50 or CO of our bojs cookln; ( and sleeping and not giving a though, to the shells or shrrpnel. The mule outside were hanging away at the hay, 1 flt: fKntlrrH >^ -* * ? - w wivuf,!! 11ICIU UCVCI liutl IM'I'Il U Will in the world. There was no shell made tliat could budge them away from y tl.ut hay unless It hit them. Then along came a cart making a : lot of rucket. One of the fellows In 1: had half of his face shot away and was all banduged up, but he was trying to sing and laugh just the sumo as the rest were doing. They were Anzacs, and were pretty badly shot up. The'word "Anzuc," us you probably know, Is made frdm the Initials of the Australian und New Zeuland army 1 corps. They hud a regular town, culled Anzac, on the penlnsulu. At Suvlu buy and uround Ouba Tepe the Anzucs got further Into the Turkish lines than any other unit In the willed urmles. They were wonderful lighters. By this time the Turks were making an attack, and ull you could see to the front was one long line of smoke and spouting eurth. Then our guns aturted ond the noise wus deafening. It was worse than In tin- turrets aboard ship during an engagement. My heud rang for days ullor we left the Dardanelles. The Turks wer^ getting a better ldeu of our range now and the shells were falling pretty close to us, but dually we tore In with the 14-inch naval* and ripped up three of their batteriea. In the lull thnt followed we made good time and reached our front line positions at Sedd-el-Bahr during the afternoon. The next morning we made our first attack. I had had a bad night of it, thinking about Murray, und when the time came there never wus a chap more glad to charge and get a chunce at the enemy with the bayonet than I was. We attacked according to a program. Time.cards were issued to the olllcer of each section, so thut we would work exactly with the barrage. To be ahead of, or behind the time card, would m >an walking into our own barrage. The time of ntfncU la nollml I that Is, the minute when you leave th > trench. Some of the Anzacs said It meant when your feet got the coldest, but I do not think they suffered very much with trouble In the feet?not when they were advancing, anyway. The time card might read something 111.e this: First wuve, zero, advance, ra.tld walk, barrage 20 In 10 secondn, t take first trench, 0:20; second wave, sa ne as the first, pass first trench, 0:'.!8; take second trench, 0:80. The third wave Is ordered to take the third trench, and so on, for as many lines * as the la entrenched. The other vMvAVf vanve r.TWI, r "r*''* waves mlghf be Instructed to occupy Hill 7, 12 .*03, or dig In behind rock, j 12:40. Here, sero is understood, the ; first figures standing for minutes and the others for seconds. It might take several hours to carry out the prograin, but everything Is laid out to an exact schedule. t, I was in the sixth line of the third wave of attack and zero?wus 4:80 ! a. m. Whistles were to be.the signal, for zero and we were to walk to the ' first llnp Turkish trench. As we came \ out our barrage fire would be bursting 00 yards ahead of us und would ; lift 20 ynrds every 10 seconds. Our stunt wu8 to take advantage of it: without walking Into It. No one mun can see all of on attack, J Which may extend over miles of | ground, but during the three weeks ; I was in the trenches on the Galllpoll j peninsula we made four grand attacks . and many minor ones, so I know In a | general way what they arj? like, fhtch wuve Is organized like the others. First come three lines of what you might cull grenadiers, though they are not picked for size as the old king's grenadiers used to be. They ure deployed In skirmish formation, which j means tnat every man Is three yards from the next. They were armed only With grenades, but, you can take It from me, that Is enough! Behind them come two lines, also In skirmish formation, ond armed with machine guns ; and grenade rifles. The first men on j the left carry machine guns, then come three rifle grenadiers, and then another machine gun and so on down the length of the line. After these come two lines of riflemen with hxed bayonets. Then come the trench cleaners, or moppers-up, as we call them. They were some gang, believe me. Imagine I a team of rugby players spread out In two lines?only with hundreds of men on the team Instead of eleven, and each man a husky, capable of handling a baby grand piano singlehanded. These fellows were aimed with everything you could think of. ana a whole lot more that you could I not dream about In n nightmare. It J nsed to remind me of a trial 1 saw in New York once, wnere tne police j had rulded a yeggmen's Hop and had i all their weapons in the courtroom us exhibits. The moppers-up were heeled with ' sticks, clubs, shllleluhs, black-jacks, two-handed cleavers, axes, trench knives, poniards, up-to-date tomahawks, brass knuckles, slung shots*? j I anything that was ever invented for ' crushing a man with, I guess, except j < firearms. These knock-down, drag-out ! \ artists follow the riflemen very closely, i 1 Their Job was to take enre of all the J Turks who could not escupe and would not surrender. I , There are lots of men In any army , who will not surrender, but I think i probably there were more Turks of that gameness than men In most other , armies. I have heard that It is a part \ of their religion that a nian, If he , dies fighting, goes to a very specially | fnnev hpnvon with .....i .. ...J ... r... ...... I smoke. And I suppose if he surren- ( ders they believe he will he put In the black gang, Rtoklng for eternity down below. It was awfully hot at the , Dardanelles and I guess the Turks did not want It any hotter, for very few of them ever surrendered, and the trench cleaners had a lot to do. Their Job Is really Important, for It is dangerou.s to have groups of the enemy alive und kicking around In their trenches after you have passed. Almost every prisoner we took was wounded. The one thing I do not lfke to have people ask me Is, "IIow does It feel to kill a man?" and I think the other hoys feel the same way about It. It Is not a thing you like to talk about or think about either. But this time, nt "V" beach, when we got past the first and second Turk trenches and were at work on the third, I do not mind saying that I was glad whenever ( Then I Would Stick Another One. I slipped my bayonet Into a Turk and 1 more glad when I saw another ono J coming. I gueHH I saw red all right, j 1 Each time I thought, "Maybe you ure I the one who did poor old Murruy." ' And I could see Murruy as he looked when thev took him rtnxvn frnm #??? storehouse wall. Then I would stick ' * another one. The others from the Cassard were j red-hot, too, and they went at the i Turks in great style. There wus nothing to complain about In the way | they fought, but I wished that we had had a few inoro boys from the Foreign j Legion with us. I think we would have ' gone clear on through to Constanll- . J Dople. |1 Hut the Turks were not as bad as { ' Fritz. They were Just as good or bet- | ter as fighters, and a whole k>t whiter. |' Often, when we were frying In the ! * trenches and not a drop of water wns \ * to be had, something would land on : ' the ground near us and there would be ' a water bottle, full. Sometimes they I almost bombarded us with bottles. ? Then, too, they would not fire on the , Ited Cross, as the Germans do; they ' would hold their fire many times when ' we were out picking up our wounded. 1 Several times they dragged oxir wound- 1 ed as close as they could to the barbed 1 wire that we might,find them easier. 1 ftar Murray died I got to tfeluklng [ " '"!!!? lot more than I used to, and though I did not have any hunch exactly, atlll I felt as though I might get It, too, which was something I had never thought much about before. I used to think about my grandmother, too, when I had time, and about Brown. T used to wonder what Brown was doing and wish we were together. But I could remember my grandmother , smiling, und that helped some. I gness I was lonely, to tell the truth. I did not know the other garbles very well, and the only one left that I was j really very friendly with got his soon afterward, though not as bad as Murray. And then there was no one that I was really chummy with. That would not have bothered me at nil before Murray die<V The other lnd I spoke of ns having been chummy with was Phllllppe Pierre. He was about eighteen and enme from Bordeaux, no was a very cheerful fellow and be and Murray and I used to be together n lot. TIo felt almost as hnd about Murray at I did, and you could see that It ' changed hltu a great deal. too. But ho 1 was still cheerful most of the time;. ' I CHAPTER XIII. Limeys, Anzacs and Pollus. One night, while we were expecting on attack, the word was passed down the lluo ,? hifve the wire cutters ready and to use bayonets on v for the first part of the attack, for \ Were to trv and take the first enemy trench bj surprise. The first trench was only about eighty yards away, our big gun? opened up and at zero we climbed out and followed tbe curtain of lire too closely. It seemed to me. But the barrage stopped too s ton, as It does sometimes, and there were , ?' .uii\> it?n. >ve were iinir ] way across when they saw us, and i they begun hanging away at us very | hard. They pounded at us as we came on until we were given the order to retire, almost as we were on them?' what was left of us. As we turned and started back the Turks rushed out to punter-attack us, | the first of them busy with bombs. | Then I tripped over something and rolled around a while and then saw ' It was I'hilllppe I'lerre. Ills left leg i was dangling, cloth and flesh and all shot away and the leg hanging to the , rest of him hy a shred. Two or three \ of our men who were on their way j hack to our trenches tripped over mo J as I tried to get up, and then u shell ] exploded near by and I thought I hud i got It sure, hut It was only the rocks j thrown up hy the explosion. Finally I was able to stand up. So | I slung my rifle over one shoulder and got Phllllppe Pierre up on th? other, with his body from the waist up hanging over my back, so that I could hold his wounded leg on, and started back. There was oidy one or two' of our men loft between the j trenches. Our machine guns were at I It iiard and the Turks were tiring and ' bombing at full speed. I had not gone more than two or 1 three paces when I came across j another of our men, wounded In sev- j [*ral places and groaning away ar a : great rate. Phllllppe Pierre was not ! saying a word, hut the other chap ; tlld enough for the two of them. One I wounded man was all I could manage, \ with my rifle and pnek, over the rough J ground and the barbed wire I had tc j go through. So I told this fellow, ' whose name I cannot remember?I j lever did know him very well?that I j would come back for him, and went j in. I almost fell several times, hut managed to get through safely and i rolled over our parapet with Phllllppe j Pierre. They started the lad back In J i stretcher right away. When I saw tilm again he gavo me a little box as ; i souvenir, but I have lost It. Thi' Turks hud not got very far with their eounter-uttnek, because we were uble t?> got our hurruge going In time ' to elieek then). ltut they were still oat In front of their trenches when 1 started buck after the other gurby. J I was not exactly afruld us I crawled | ilong searching for the other man, j l>ut I was very thirsty and nervous ; for fear our barrage would begin | iguin or the machine guns cut loose. After what seemed a long time I came ! upon a wounded man, but he was not j the one I was after. I thought about | "a bird in the hand," etc., and was Just j starting to pick this chap up when II shell hurst uhnost on us and j knocked me two or three feet away. ! It is a wonder it did not kill both i>f us, but ncitlyr of us was hurt. I j thought the fire would get heavier | then, so I dragged the other chap into ; rtne of two holes made by the shell. Some pieces of the shell had stuck j Into the dirt la the hole nnd they were st 111 hot. Also, there was a sort of ttas there that hung around for sev- j ernl minutes, but it was not very bad. ; The man began talking to me, and tie said it was an honor to lie on the ! field of battle with 11 leg shot off nnd [lead men piled all about you, and mine not dead but groaning. He told | me I would soon be able to hear tho ' rroanlng, though I had not said I I minded It, or anything about It. Then ' tie said again what an honor It was, ! ind asked if I had a drink for him. 1 [ had not had any water all day, and | I told hlin so, but he kept on asking | tor It all the same. Some of the Turk- ] Ish bombers must have sneaked up pretty close to out* lines, for when I ooked out of the hole toward our Ines, nnd a shell burst near thetn, [ could see a Turk coming toward us. I Wo played dond thon, but I had my j tayonet rondy for blui In rase ho had ; won us and decided to come up to the j lole. Evidently he had not, for when j io got near the hole he steered to the tide and went around. The other parity was cheerful when , ie was not asking for wuter, but you lould see he was going fast. So we sat here In 'ne hole and he died. Shortly ifterward the fire slackened a little ind I got out and started toward ouf Ines. Rut I remembered about the tther wounded muu I had passed vlien I was carrying rhllllppe IMerre, to I began hunting for him, and after i long time I found him. He was still illve. His chest was all smashed In ind he was badly cut up around the leek and shoulders. I picked him up ind started back, but ran Into some >arbed wire and bad to go around. , * - ^ bit. m ^ I was pretty tired by tliisr time and tl awfully thirsty, and I thought if I did c not rest a little bit I could never make b it. I was so tired and nervous that 11' did not care much whether I did tl get back or not, und the wounded . tl gnrby was groaning all the time. a So when I thought the shells were || coming pretty thick again I got Into a j r shell hole and It was the Mime one ( o I had left npt long before. The dead 1 a garby was there Just as I had left him. ! h The wounded one was bleeding all v over, and my clothes were Just soaked : n with blood from the three men. but ' li most of all from him. There was sumo h of my own blood on me, too, for when v I was knocked down by the shell my i nose bled and kept bleeding for a long h time, but, of course, thnt was nothing g compared to the bleeding of tho n others. ti The worst of all was that he kept t groaning for water, and It made me a thirstier than I had been, even. Ilut v there was not a drop of water any- ' where and I knew there was no use p searching any bodies for flasks. So h we just had to stick It out. Pretty a soon the wounded man quit groaning 1! and was quiet, and I knew he was 1 going to die too. It made me mad to t think that I had not been of any use t in carrying these two men around, a but If I had gone on with either of li them It would have been Just the same c ?they would have died and probably I I would have got it, too. When I flg- s urod It out this way I quit worrying * about It, only I wished tho fire would r let up. t So the other man died, and there \ were two of them In the hole. I read c the numbers on their Identification disks when shells burst near enough 1 so that I could see them, and after a t while got back to our lines and rolled 1 In. I could not remember the num- r bers or the names by that time, but a 1 working party got them, along with t others, so It was all right. I My clothes were a mess, as I have o said, und I was so tired I thought I e could sleep for a week, but I could c not stand it In my clothes any longer. It was absolutely against regulations, e but I took off all my clothes?the o blood had soaked Into the skin?and a wrapped myself In nothing hut air a and went right to sleep. I did not 1 sleep very well, but woke up every t once In a while and thought I was In o tne nolo agnln. r During the night they brought up j: water, but I was asleep and did not a know It. They did not wake me, but two men saved by share, t Humph usually In a ease like that It s was everybody for himself and let the rJ last man po dry. You could not blame 1 them, either, so I thoupht it wus ti pretty decent of these two to save my < share for me. I believe they must t have had a hard time keeplnp the \ others oft of It, to say nothlnp of themselves, for there really was not more f than enough for one pood drink all t around. It tasted better than anything i I have ever drunk. (Jo dry for 24 hours In the hottest wonting* you eun 1 find, do u nlpht's work like that, and t come to In the morning with a tin 1 cup full of muddy water being handed t to you, and you will know what I t mean. { t At Gnhu Tepe there were steep little i hills with quarries in between them, ' und most of the prisoners we took < were cuught In the quurrles. We i found lots of dead Turks under piles 1 of rock, where our guns hud battered I * the wulls of the quurrles down on i them. . t We were fighting about this part of t tho country one time when we saw ^ three motor trucks disappear over tho t side of u hill going across country, t The detachment from the Cassnrd was sent over on the run and we came t upon the Turks from those trucks and several others Just ufter they had got out and were sturting ahead on foot, r We captured that whole bunch?1 do I not know how many In all. They were ? reinforcements on their way to n part I of tlielr line that we were battering I very hard, and by capturing them we < helped the Anzacs a great deal, for \ they were able to get through for u big gain. We held that position, though they c rained shells on us so hard all that day and night that wo thought they were placing a burrage for a raid, and stood to arms until almost noon the J < next day. But our guns gave buck shell for shell, and pounded the Turkish trenches and broke shrapnel over them until they had all they could ( do to stay 1* them. s Filially, our guns placed shell after j shell on the enemy's communication j trenches, and they could neither bring nil reinforcements nor retire. So we went over and cleaned them out and took the trench. But then our guns had to stop because we were iu range, ' and the Turks brought up reinforce- ^ incnts from other parts of the line and v we were driven back after holding t their trench all afternoon. It was a about tlfty-ftfty, though, for when they y reinforced one part of the line some t of our troops would break through in r another part. a That night there was a terrible rainstorm. I guess It was really a cloudhurst. We had ull the water we wanted then, and more, too. A great s many men and mules were drowned, N both of our troops find the Turkish. % Trenches wee washed la and most of fl i the works ruined. There were several I Turkish bodies washed Into our trenc\ t nd two mules came over together, | hough whether they were Turkish or 1 rrench or Ilrltlsh I do not know. A few days after the rain stopped was going along the road to the locks nt "V" beach when I saw some xamples of the freaklshness of shells. ?here was a long string of mules go-! tig hack to the trenches with water nd supplies of various kinds. We, irew up to oue side to let them pass. | Two or tlm e mules awuy from us ; ras an old-timer with only one oar, , nd that very gray, loaded to the gun- I rales with hugs of water. He had had j Is troubles, that old hoy, but they ' rare Just about over, for there wus a ash and the next Instant you could ot see a thing left of Old Missouri, le just vanished. Hut two of the rater bags wore not even touched, nd unother one had only u little hole n It. There they lay on the ground, list as though you had taken the mule ut from under them. The mules next im, fore and aft, were knocked down y the concussion but unharmed; but lie third mule behind had one ear ut to shreds, und the man behind im was badly shot up and stunned. A little farther on a shell had struck lie road and plowed a furrow two or liree feet wide, and just as straight s an arrow for three of four yards; t then turned off at ulmost a Ight angle and continued for a yard r two more before it burst and made big hole. That Turk gunner must uve put a lot of English on that shell /lien he fired It. He got somebody's umber with that shot, too. and the id paid pretty high, for there was lend around the hole, not quite dry chen we got to It. Coming back along the same-road we ulted to let another convoy of mules o pust, and un officer of the ltoynl nival division came up n?d began nlking to our officers. He was telling i hem how he and his men had landed t "X" beach, and how they had to i nide ashore through barbed wire. And, you know," he said In a surirlsed way, as If he himself could ardly believe It, "the beggars were .dually firing on us!" That Is just Ike the Limeys, though. Their Idea s not to appear excited about anyhing at any time, but to act as though hey were playing cricket?standing iround on a lawn with paddles In their lands, half asleep. The Limeys are ertalnly cool under lire, though, and think that because the Anzacs did , to well at Gallipoll people have not :!ven enough credit to the British egulars and It. N. D.'s, who were here too, and did their share of the vork, and did It as well as any men 'ould. After a while this officer started on ds way again, and as he cut across he road a French officer came up. The Limey wore a monocle, which aused the French officer to stare at dm a minute before he saluted. After he Englishman had pnssed hlra the "renchman took 11 large French penny nit of his pocket, screwed It Into his | ye and turned toward us so that we | ould see It, but the Limey could not. I That was not the right thing to do, ! specially before enlisted men, so our ifilcers did not laugh, but the men did, nd so loud that Lliuey turned around nd caught sight of the Frenchman, le started back toward him and I bought sure there would he a tight, ir that, more likely, the Limey would eport him. Our officers should have ilnced the Frenchman under arrest, it that. The Frenchman expected trouble, oo, for he pulled up very straight and I itlfT, hut he left the penny in his eye. The Lliuey came up to him, halted a rew paces off and, without saying i word, took the monocle out of his ye, twlhhled It three or four feet In he air and caught It In his other eyo vhen It came down. "Do that, you blighter," he said and need about and was on his way down he road. They had It on the Frenchnan after that. This Phillippe Pierre, of whom 1 I ,| VII ..... ? ? "? ? ...... ........... ...... nil- (1 niiuji IllMUJl wo Limey otllcers that I hardly beloved, yet i'hllltppe swore it was the ruth. He had been 1? America before he war, and he snhl he hud seen one >f the officers thnt the story Is about nuny times In New York. He said there were two Limey officers going along the road at-guing ihout the German shells which the I'urks were using. One of the officers inld they were no good because they lid not burst. Just about that time i shell came along and they picked .hemselves up quite u distance from vhere they find been standing. Anither shell whizzed by and landed flat m the side of the road. The officer vnlked over, dug it out of the ground, ind took away the detonator and fuse ?to prove that they did not explode! The only thing that would make ne believe that story is that I'hlllippe Merre said they were Limey otllcers. <o one but a Limey would rememter such an argument after being mocked galley west by a shell conussion. I do not doubt that a Limey vould do it if It could he done, though. (To Be Continued) :alomel dynamites a sluggish liver *raahea into aour bile making you aick and you loae a day'a work. Calomel salivates! It's mercury, lalomel acts like dynamite on a lugtrish liver. When eahimol er.mi.a nto contact with sour bile it crashes nto it, causing cramping and nnuea. If you feel bilious, headachy, contipated and all knocked out, just go 0 your druggist and get a bottle of Godson's Liver Tone for a few cents vhieh is a harmless vegetable suhstiute for dangerous calomel. Take 1 spoonful and if it doesn't start 'our liver and straighten you up beter than nasty calomel and without naking you sick, you just go back md get your money. If you take calomel today you'll be lick and nauseated tomorrow; belides, it may salivate you, while if rou take Dodson's Liver Tone you vill wake up feeling great, full of imbition and ready for work or play, t's harmless, pleasant and safe to ;ive to children; they like it Adv. 4. A ... i WHERE WOUNDED MEN i YIELD TO DAY DREAMS Restored to Health and Vigor in Red Cross Convalescent | Homes. I i ? I The surgeon has extracted tha Impartially distributed bits of shrupnel from your works. The wounds have healed. The wheels go 'round again, and the clock ticks. But It doesn't keep correct time. This business of calling "Time I" on the Boche means so many broken clocks nowadays that the inaster-raenders can't keep them on their tables after they're mended. So the question whera they shall sit around while they're being regulated looms large. The lied Cross answers that question with Its convalescent homes. It has six of these In operation. A suitable place Is found?sometimes donated?and management and equipment are provided by tho lied Cross, while the Army has furnished discipline and a never-failing supply of con' valescents. These homes mean that men who are scarcely hospital subjects, yet who can by no means go back to their du'tles, have a place that does what "home" does for the French or English soldier, what "homo" does for ,uny one, In fact, when the doctor gets IXil VSUgll. You know. lie says: "You're *11 right now. It's only a matter of Duralug and food." But you know he's only looking at the works he's tinkered, and that the soul within you is grousing as It never :<1ld when the body was down und out. It wants something, und It doesn't j know what It la. But If It doesn't get It pretty quick the works are going to get gummed aguln. You know your mother could find out what tliut doggone thing Is right away and hand It to you on a plate. But General Pershing won't let you go to her. And the War Department won't let her come to you Then you'r? taken to a Red Cross convalescent home?and there is the very thing you wanted 1 But you couldn't describe it even then to save your life. It Is a bit of coddling, and pretty surroundings, and women's faces, and light laughter and time to piny and all Itiat sort of thing. It Is forgetting the (rash of war and remembering that there are pleasant, soft voices. It's even such things as gully-flowered sofa pillows to Jam Into a corner and make a nice lolling place while you read and smoke and talk. It's slippers Instead of trench hoots, or dny-dreams In place of the nightmare of killing. THE RED CROSS GORDON. An American Red Cross worker who was among those volunteering to help In the hospitals and ut the station where the hospltul trains arrived, overheard some of the wounded talking about the American Red Cross. "Gee! We'd a starved If It hadn't been for the Red Cross 1" said one boy, and then, laughing at his own exaggeration, he went on to explain the circumstances under which the Red Cross representative with his division had done some timely service. The Germans, of course, were to blame, for they retreated so rapidly that It was j pructicully Impossible for the supplies i to keep up with the pursuing Amerl- j cans. "We cleaned up seven kilometers In less than two hours," nnother reclining ilgure explained, "and they were still 1 going when I was knocked out. For three days I had hud nothing to eut | but hard tack, and for some days hefore the food hud been monotonous? | to put It mildly. S<> you can imagine what It meant to us boys to have the Red Cross Gordon come up with a supply of chocolate, canned peaches and other good things. It v/us a life-saver." r z mi IUndi SOUTHERN LIFE AND ' ABILITY INSURANCE PR< Insured receive an income i and permanent disability, the full amount of the policy Ino deductions whatever be payments made during the I Chesterfield L p) C. C. DOUG1 ALSO FIRE, ACCIDENT, HI U INSUI We Buy a?d Sail R?t ,? . ... imfrWtt , CITATION NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Chesterfield. By M. J. Hough, Probate Judge: Whereas L. J. White made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the estate and effects of N. C. White, deceased, These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindled and creditors of the said N. C. White, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of 1 robatc, to be held at Chesterfield, S. C., on \he 21st of December, next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 5th day of December, Anno Domini, 1918. M. J. HOUGH, Probate Judge. CITATION NOTICE STATE OF SOUTa CAROLINA, County of Chesterfield. Whereas J. Fred Powe made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of Louisa Hopkins, deceased, 'these are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and s ngular the kindred and creditors of the said Louisa Hopkins, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of 1 lubate, to be held at Chesterfield, S. C., on the 21st of December next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be trraiited. Given under my hand this 5th duy of December, Anno Domini, 1918. M. J. HOUGH, Probate Judge. CITATION NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Chesterfield. Whereas Elizabeth Watts Royull made suit to me to grant her Letters of Administration of the estate and effects of Robert V. Royal), deceased, There are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Robert v. Koyal, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Chesterfield, S. C., on 21st of December next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 5th day of December, Anno Domini, 1918. M. J. HOUGH, Probate Judge. YOUR December W. S. S. Pledge IS Dl? Make It GOOD sr The rRUST COMPANY'S "DISDV1SION" not only does the for life, in the evetn of total but the Beneficiary receives / at the death of the Insured, :ing made for the disability Insured's Lifetime. oan & Ins. Co. LASS, Manager EALTII, HAIL, LIVE STOCK IANCE I Eit?t??Montjr Loaned QMDnBEHHnl v, - jL^. IK -i 'idv.1-wJk l i. BjLiL IL,?a* ^