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4 L LATHROP & SONS 25 Shetucket Strest Norwich, Conn, THE S IN INSURE Dempsey Has Better of the Fighting During the Six Rounds , —Had Morris Groggy When Bout Was Stoppsd— Lk Buffalo, N. Y, Feb. £—Cari, Morris of Oklahoma Wwas d _in 'the sixth round of a led ten round D ey WalRhAA 10 Dot t. v 98 pou: and Morris mflummmmt of the fight all the way and had his opponent groggy When the R referee | Bolton stopped the bout. Morris kad been |Bellamey ... repeatedly ' cautioneq for hitting low. | Yanish 103-7 103-5 103-4 102-29 102-19 102-10 101-14 101-5 100-3 99-10 Hickey ... Plerce . Callahan MoKelvey . Nevins .. Ramsie Murphy . then al an éxtinet animal /wot vuunmzwbecomq very. vaiuak! .t ; Pablos Made a For'qs, The herd increased u vision, and in a‘few it becams | possible to sell . gfcimens, at high prices. Some dea of the averaye rate of increase thay be deduced from the observeq fact that half the cows gave birth o’ calves every-year, while twin calees are not uncommen, As a rule ie ‘bisen calf is a very ‘Hiardy crea- Tn 1806, Hon. Frank Oliver, thed Ca- nadian minister of the inferior, ob- tained for the Dominion government an option on'the 600 head. and .they .were bought for $200,000. The “round- up” lasted two months, and was car- ried out by 75 cowboys and was ac- complished with a loss of less, than 1 per cent. Today the herd numbers 2077. Range ‘of 107,000 Acres Although kept within the boundaries his super- CHAPTER X. The Day’s Work.” I _was fast learning that there is at_times by the Germans. +The real work in the commences at sundown. Tommy like'a burglor he works at night. verse to traverse, busy. The two men to a | OVER THETOP regllar routine about the work of the| trenches, although it is badly upset fire trench | is Just as it begins to get dark the word “stand to” is passed from tra- and the .men get first rellef, consisting of ! GUNNER IN Copyright by ARTHUR GUY EMPEY thg fire step with thé good times in’ store for him. He figured it out that in two days' time he would artive at Waterloo Station, London, and . then —seven days' bliss! ) At about five minates to five he started to fidget with his rifie, and} then suddenly springing,up on the fire, step with a muttered “T'll send over a couple of souvenirs to Fritz, so that he'll miss me when T leave.” He stuck | his rifle over the top and fired two; ‘'shots when “crack” went a bullet and he tumbled off the step fell into the a t ty ARTHUR GUY EMPEY © AN AMERICAN. SOLDIER WHO SERVED AS A MACHINE i : FRANCE AND WENT, -~ morning. ‘At two o'clock our artillery; will open up with an intense bomi- bardment whith ‘will last until’ four. Upen. the lifting- of the barrage. the first. of the three waves will go over.” Then he Jeft. Some of the "Tommies first getting permission from the ser- geant went into the machine gun- ners’ dugout, and wrote letters home, saying that in the morning they were going over the top and also that if| the letters reached their destination it would mean that ‘the writer been killed. A had | of the reserve the bison can hardly be said to be in confinement. Their stamping ground covers an ‘area of 107,000 acres—165. square miles. It is 25 miles in an air line the longest way across. A wire fence eight feet high and 73 iiles long incloses it. E When the fence was completed it was found that 12 wild, deer and one elk had been fenced in. Eigateen small lakes and a number of streams are within the park. Prairie - hickens, traverse, mount the fire step, ‘one man looking over the top, while the other sits at his feet, ready to carry messages or to inform the platoon officer of any. report made by the sentry as ta his observations iu No Man’s Land. The sentry is not al- lowed to relax his watch for a second. If he is questioned from the trench or asked his orders, he replie§ without turning around or taking his eves from the expanse of dirt in front of i rd mud at the bottom of the trench, Budnick lay in a huddled heap with a bullet hole in his forchead. . These letters were turned over to the captain with instructions to mail . |same in the event of the writer's be- At about the-time he expected toing killed. Some of . the men made arrive at Waterloo Station he was| out their wills in their pay book un- laid to rest in a little cemetery behind | der’ the caption “will and last testa- the lines: He had gone to Blighty. | ment.” A i In the trenches one can never tell| Then' the nerve-racking wait ‘com- —it is not safe to plan very far ahead.| menced. Every now and then I would After “stand down” the men sit on | glance at the dial of my wrist watch the fire step or repair to their re-|and was surprised to. see how fast spective dugouts and wait for ' the 99-4 958 98-5 97-29 97-18 97-4 97-17 97-7 26-15 96-11 95-32 9415 Gibbons Outfights Chip. -Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 4. — Tommy |Fetrone .... Bibbona of St. Pamt won the decision |}V, Mellor R T o ound, bt | Mok n a - Gibbohs took six of the rounds on|woodmansee ... points, Chip was awarded two, and|Shegoda ..... two were even. The St. Paul fight- | er outfought Chip in all divisions of | Burns the match and he was never In danger | McCarty from Chip's attacks. th o os Our Companies are the kind that are REAL safeguards against fire dis- asters. INSURE HERE and you're “* ISAACS. JONES insurance and Real Estats Agent Richardy’ Building 81 Main St ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Brown & Perkins, Mimeps-at-law Over Uncas Nat. Bank, Shetucket St Botrunce dtairway near to Thames National Bank. , Telephone 38-3 GREED FOR GOLD SPOILS MANY BOXERS Pugilistic Stars Go in For the Coin and Not for the Sport. Lewis Has Shade on Tilman. Philadelphia, Feb. 4—Ten Lewis, welterweight champlon of the world, | ece” 1" had the better of a six round fight here | g~ Meljor tonight with Johnny Tiliman, of Mla- peapolis. Tillman put up a game fight but the champion was too clever for hima and had the advantage in nearly every round. Robson Gets Decision. Chelsea, Mass, Fem. 4—~Tommy Robson of Boston was aw: the referee’s decision at the end a 12- round boxing bout with Walter Mohr, Hoyt . Connelly . Nelson 94-4 94-12 94-3 93-8 . 93-7 5 91-19 R. Murphy . 90-13 Kondall 90-13 McKenzie Lessman, . Bush . Mikolast | 15 g8 YALE-HARVARD RACE MAY BE ROWED ON THAMES. of Brooklyn, N. Y., here tonight. Oarsmen Are Making Every Effort to dncks and other game find a resting place here undisturbed by the hunter. The park is. truly a ‘buffaio paradise. The grounds bear every evidence that in other days they have been a favor- ite haunt of the lords of the plains. Everywhere are outlines of old buffalo trails and wallows. U. S. Now at Work. Arouseq tie ioss of . these buf- falo, the United States has established a national bison range in the Flat- bead Indian reservation.in Montana, comprising 12,300 acres. near towns of 'Ravalli and, Dixon, and it was stocked by the American. ison Society. him. The remainder of the occupants of his traverse either sit on the fire step, with bayonets fixed, ready for any emergency. or if lucky, and a dug- out happens tobe-irl the near vicinity “rum_issue” to materialize. diately following breakfast, brought up from the rear. Sleeping is then in order unless some the Imme rum, ' comes the | of the quiet, erally the men sit around. fags and seeing who can gest lie. tracted by gettin way to work in his feet wet on hi verse, and if the night is they are pérmitted to go to same and try and spatch a few winks of sleep. Little sleeping is done; gen- smoking the big- Some of them perhaps with ftheir feet in water, would write home sympathizing with the “governor” be- cause he waslaid up with a cold, con- Woolwich Arsenal. If special work turns up. Around 12.30 dinner shows ~up’ When this is eaten the men try . to amuse themselves until “tea” appears at about four o'clock, then “stand to” and_they catry on as before. { Whise in rest billets Tommy gets up abouj six in the morning, washes up, i nséers roil call, is inspected by his platoon officcr, and has breakfast. At 845 he parades (drills) with his company or goes on fatigue accord- ing to the orders which have been is the minutes passed by. About five minutes to two 1 got neryous waiting for our guns to open up. I couid not take my eyes from my watch. I crouched against the -parapet and atrained my muscles in a death grip ‘upon my rifie. - As the hands on my watch showed two o'clock. a blind ing red flare lighted up the sky in our rear, then thunder. intermixed with sharp whistling sound in the air over our heads. The shells from our guns were speeding on their way to- ward thé German lines. With one accord the men sprang up on the fire step and looked over the top, in the direction of the German trenches, A a man should manage to doze off, like- line of bursting shells lighted up No hear sharp cradks in the air about me. These were caused by passing rifle bullets. Frequently, to my right and left, little spurts of dirt would rise = into the air, and a ricochet bullet would whine on its way, if a Tommy should see one of these little spurts in front of him, he would telf the 7 nurse about it later. The erossing af - No Man's Land remains a blank to = me. Men on my righ ¢ and left would stumble and fall. to get, up, while others remained - huddled ‘and motionless. Then smashed up barbed wire:came into view and seemed carried on a tide to the rear. Some would try ' read out by the orderly sergeant the: Man's Land. The din was terrific and night previous. the ground trembled. Then, high Between 11.30 and noon he is dis- Suddenly, in front of me Idomed,a & - ly as not he fould wake with a start bashed in trench about four feet wid Have Big Event Staged This Season. s dhie clamprer R feot ar) & ratl “TEX” RICKARD GIVES ' ' O'Connor to Coach Yankees. Greed for coin has wrecked many human shi It is a dangerous shoal in the sea of life. Few can withstand its Jure. There is none so susceptible to its magnet as the professional box- er and his wily manager. To grab a purse dangling before.their eVes blinds them to all principle. The public, ‘which makes thelir very existence sible, is rarely given conside: Last ‘week thousands of fans up_the state were ignored by a New York boxer after he had agreed to box a contest for their entertainment. The afternoon of the show he decided to call the bout off. Hir opponent was on the scene ready to compete. He had troveled UP, BOXING GAME Goes: to South America to Raise Cat- tle in Paraguay. New York, Feb. 4—"Tex” Rickard, cattleman and’ boxing promoter, has o0s- | abandoned the pugilistic arena in fa- vor of the ranch. He sailed for South America, yesterday and will raise cat- tle. He is head of a corporation with large holdings of land and cattle in Paraguay, from Pbiladelphia tot honor Mir cortract All moneys hml:E BOWLING to be refunded. Aa therc in 2o box- ing commission in thk state to puvish the offender, the on'y way the up- state promoters cap yprotect them- selves in the firture is fo keep Mr. New York boxer on the side lines untll he makes good their Joss An offer of a larger purse neafer home doubtless kept the Gotham welterweight away from. the Penneylvania mining town. The greed for coin had its innings and won. Men of_that stripe ruined box- ing In New York. They should mot be allowed to dump their scurvy meth- Ol on Pennsylvania. iphia can pride itself on two who are virtvally youngsters possess championship ability. Joe . a fiy-weight. and Lew Terdler, a blossoming lightweight. - yet possesses the strength, sta: 3 experience or hitting powers sufficient %0 cope with the title holders of his * respective class and should he fully nursed. Thelr m» not_yleld to the overmeteh the tcke care should not ~weights. Fe rarely < mora th 136 pounds, and can make 111 and strong, and hence Is a seruine No one but a ile fel- lows. Let all else be equal, height, reach, ‘skill, experience ard general- #hip, ‘and give one of the principals an advantage of five pounds in weight and, barring accident the latter will invariably. win. If Tuber and his as- tute manager are wise they will stic to the fiyweizht class. There are a halt dozen little fellows who are eazer to get a crack at Tuber. A match with Jimmy Pappas or Battling Mur- ray would no doubt please the fans. Kauff in A 1 Cia: Benny Kauff has at last reached 1A and that may qualify him to in the interests of Uncle Sam in- :‘f J. J. McGraw. Private Kanft they ie to worry the Germans, cannot be bappy If they know tacties of the Glants are going to be An examining physician for one of the prominent Life Insurance Compan- fes, in an interview of the subject, made the astonishing statement that one reason why so many applicants for insurance are rejected is because kid- ney trouble is so common to the Amer- ican people, and the large majority of those whose applications are declined do not even suspect that they have the disease. Judging from reports from gists who are constantly in direct touch with the public, there s one preparation that has been very suc- cessful in overcoming these conditions, The mild and healing influence of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its remarka- ble record of success. We find that Swamp-Root is strict- Iy an herbal compound and we would advise our readers who feel in need of Elks’ Tournament. Monday evening Teams 1 and 6 roll- ed their regular scheduled game on the club alleye. Team 1 won two of the three strings, thereby reducing the lead of one of the strongest teams (on paper) there was much enthusiasm and loul cheering by spectators com- posed of the followers of each team. Purdon had high single and total for the evening. Next game takes place Wednesday evening, Feb. 6, between Teams 2 and 3. The score: Team 1. 95 93 82 89 95 Purdon . Fitzgerald Fthier Heath . Frost . . 106 83, 1 81 89 455 430 Team . 102 92 5 90 90 Iy 6. 9 £ 100 ' 98 98 487 Fearless Five Wins. The Fearless Five upheld thelr rep- uvtation in a spiritiess and unexciting eame with the Y. M. H. A. team at the Aetna alleys Monday ~ evenins. Bolton had high single and high to- tal. The score: Y. M. C. A, 5 67 67 90 R. Bloom Byer ... G. Bloom Alexander Budnick .. 78— 218 84— 239 79+ 230 73— 2! 94— 282 s8. 7 89 9 . such a remedy to give it a trial It is on saie & all drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medium and large. However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents t Dr. Kilmer & Co. Binghamtor, N. L_ for a sample bottle. When writing letin. sure and mention the Norwich Bul- e Bowling- THE AETNA - Billiards 7 ALLEYS Phone Conn. 6 TABLES Majestic Building, Shetucket St. Norwich, Conn. play Billiards for exercise and recreation CREAM that will always WHIP Fresh Daily —at the— Bowl and People’s. Market|s«: 6 Franklin Street o Fearless 82 94 97 92 83 36 W wl - Am;* League. the Aetna Dhck Pin e the Giants still Hold on to mzfiw'hhé with a large margin, The White Sox are second but are over a hundred poinis bebind. Follenius 1s, individual star wml- 97-14 for an avenxef Johnson is a close second, bein 3, close g only one point The standing and averages: Won. Lost. P.C! Giants ... 27 13 692 White Sox 22 20 523 Red Sox . 17 25 404 Phillies . 1g 24 385 High Single—Fillmore ... High three—Smith ..... Averages Games. 42 35 33 26 35 k- 40 363 Five. 80 20 68 97 408—1198 Nevins Perkins Bolton ... Peckham . McCarthy 80— s — 109— 35— 91— 242 267 274 267 260 11310 P.F, 16920 18363 18554 16547 134 227 Pinfall. 4088 3369 3173 3407 3291 3285 3700 2398 3544 3517 3230 2943 3739 3202 2560 3642 3081 33 2803 ~eee 24 2035 Palace League. The race in the Palace League still femains close, two teams being tied for first place and two for place. The matches this week will break the tie as Team 2 goes up against Team 7. Anderson leads the lx(;aamlxca with individual average of The standing and averages: Ave. 97-14 96-9 96-5 94-23 94-1 93-20 92-20 91-31 90-34 90-7 59-26 $9-6 89-1 88-34 88-8 86-30 85-21 84-31 84-19 Follenius Johnson ....i.. Smith Fillmors . Malesky ... Hagberg Burdick Clement . Sullivan . TYTON. ; cemesones Peckham Mott Throw Bowne Hynds . Budnick . - Durocher ........ Burton ...cecceee Congdon .. 36 33 42 36 29 42 36 7, Patterson (capt.) . Team 3, Dunn (capt.) ...... 17 Team 5, Murphy (capt.) ..... 17 Team 1, McKelvey (capt.) Team 4, McCarty (capt.) Team 8, Gicord (capt) . Team 6, Kendall (capt.) . 1 High single—Leopold eees 150 High Three-string—Anderson. 393 Highy Team Totai—No. 3 ....1662 High Team BmslB‘—NO. 1...678 Games. Pinfal. . 17 Peckham .eeeee.. 21 15 14 ‘Ave. 113-16 111-5 109-3 106-1 105-14 i With Yale and Harvard the only re- maining larger institutions dn the country whose sports are on an “in- formal” basis, Eli undergtaduates ave today awaiting annoyncement of a re- turn to Intercollegiate competition with light hearts. That such an announc ment is only a matter of a few days, and that Yale will return to the fold of varsity sports as gracefully as pos- sible, is conceded at the big un It 'was announced last night practice for the freshman and univer- sity R. O. T. C. hockey teams will_be held during the present week in the St. Nicholas rink in New York. The game with the Harvard freshman team will take place after the vacation at| Cambridge, in all probability on Feb. 16. The next game will be with the| Taft school shortly after the Harvard | replied | game. Princeton has not yet to the réquest for a game, and the Temainder of the Schedule i not defi- nite. Three service 'swimming _leagues, comprising four company and battery teams, have not leen organized by the swimming management at Yale. The first and second teams of each Ieague will contest for the champion- shiip, and final zames to determine the interleague champion will be held gdur- ing one of the big meets of the year. The call has already been sounded for candidates for the track team and 1t looks as if a good sized squad will enter the competitien for place. Yale oarsmen are doing much in- door training to be in readiness when the big drive begins in the spring. Every effort is being made to arrange the annual regatta with Harvard at| New London this summer, That the old-time crowds would. take in the event is certain. PHILLIES DUE FOR A BI(E SHAKEUP. Already Several Players Have Failed | to Reccive 1918 Contracts. That _the will undergo a revolutionary ehakeun befcte the open- ing of next season is further reported, and At iy ed in Philadelphia_that contracts” for 193§ were not sent to Pitcher Jim Lavender, Substitute In- fielder Dugey .and Outfielders Frank Schulte, Claude Coorer or Bud Weiser, Already Alexander, Killifer and Pas- kert have been traded to the Cubs, and Pitcher Eppa Rixey has commissioned a licutenant in the gas and flame brigade. On top.of that it is announced in Philadelphia that if the young outfielders of the Phillies come through Whitted will succeed Luderus at first base, while the veter- an slugger Cactus Cravath will, be carried oniy for pinch hitting and utility purposes. notified at the end of the season that his contract would not be renewed. Before the end of last season the vet- eran third baseman, Bobbie Byrne, was given his walking pepers. When it is recalled that Philadelphia fen the National pennant in 1915 and nished Second in 1916 and 1917, the Philadelphia shakeup is all the more remarkable. A big winter shakeup in chronic’ second division teams is by no means uncommon, but for a team which has not finished lower than sec- ond in three seacons the Philadelphia upheaval only has one pagallel—the dismantling of the Athletics after their defeat in the 1814 world's series. Canada Now the Home of the World’s Greatest Buffalo Herd—N tional Reserve Near Wainwright Has More Than 2000 of the Former | Lords of the Plains—Is a Buffalo Paradise. By Peter P. Carney, Editor National Sports Syndicate. The largest herd of buffalo in the world is now owned by Canada. They sform a picturesque group as they roam over the mew national re- serve set apart for them near Wain- | wright, a city that has sprung up 125 miles east of Edmonton, Alberta. Canadians recognized the need of action if the bison were to be preserv- ed, and before Americans realized it they had purchased the entire herd of 600 from Michael Pablo, of Montana, who had protected them on his ranch near -Ravalli. History of the Herd The history of this herd, now the largest in the world, dates back to 1873, when a Pend o'Reille Indian cap- tured four ljttle bison calves—two bulls and two heifers—by cutting them out of a stampeded herd on the Flat- head reservation in Montana. ‘The Indian in question gave them to the Mission of St. Ignatius, where they were kept as pets and became as_domesticated as ordinary cattle. ‘When the heifers were four years old each had a caif. From that time on they gradually increased in number, until, iR 1884, there were 13 head, and, finding the care of them too great u {more, but excused himself ‘on been i Johnny Evers was | Paddy O’Connor, former Pigate and St. Louis Cardinal catcher, has been engaged as coach for the Yankee pitchers by Miller Huggins, the new director of the team. O'Connor has sent his signed contract to Business not to refew the contract with old Duke Farrell, former coach of the Yankees, when Hulgins was appoint- ed Donovan's successor. The old Iron for the sécond time He coached the club under Stallinss and Chase and | 1ooked after the welfare of the Yankee yitchers throughout the three year reign of Donovan, _O’Connor's appointment came en- tirely unsolicited and proved a wel- come surprise to the New England catcher. Paddy retired from baseball after the end of the 1916 season to g0 into the liquor. buSiness in Springfield Mass. He had given up thoughts of baseball until Huggins invfted him to join the Yankees. Huggins picked him in preference to hal fa dozen veteran catchers who have applied for the position. Huggins offered 0'Connor a position on the Yankee team despite the fact that in 1915 O'Cornar jumped’ the Cardinals, then managed by little Mil- ler, to throw his lot with the Pifts- burgh Federals. However, during. his one year in St. Louis, 1914, O'Connor impressed Huggins to such an extent that he was selected from the entire field of available former major league players. There also may have been a bit of superstition to it. In 1913 the Cardinals were fast. * O’Connor’s last professional engage- ent was with the Hartford club of the old" Colonial Jeague. Beaten by Sick Man. ° Joe Lynch and his manager are de trop in Baltimore pugilistic society. Lyngh was matched to box in Baiti- the ground that he was threatened by an attack of pneumonin.. Then Lynch went_over to ,Philadelphia 3nd stop- ped Kid Williams in four rounds. If Tynch had pneumonia it must be humiliating to Wiliams to realize that he was beaten by .a sick man. The Baltimore authorities, however, do not think Lynch was sick and have noti- fied him and his manager s to atay away from Baltimore. ; De Oro to Plav Kieckhefer. Chicago, Feb, 4.—Alfredo De Oro, world billiard champion, and August Kieckhefer, of Chicago, today ‘ar- ranged details of their title series.- One hundred and fifty points will be play- ed in iblocks of fifty, starting Wednes- day night. “King"” Crooke Dies. St. Louis, Feb. 4—Jack “King” Crooks, veteran second 'baseman of the old St. Louis Nationals, died here. today. He played with Chirs Von der Ahe’s team in 1589 and 1890. SPORTING NOTES Joie W. Ray, the fieet distance run- ner of the Iilinois Athletic Chicago, will run in the Hunter. mile and the 1,000 yard handicap at. the Boston Athletic association games on 'Saturday night. Ray selected the 1,- 000 yard event in preference to the three-mile run. vy Jack Mahan, coach of the. THinols Athletic club, says that . Dartmouth was the first collegs to build an out- door board track Worcester Academy was the first institution to have a board track out of doors in the days When “Pooch” Donovan was coach at the Academy. It looked so good to Mahan that he Had ope. buik at Dart- mouth of the same diménsions. Dick Hoblitzel, first baseman of. the Boston Red Sox, will be _appointed temporary menager of the Hub team in a few days, says the New York Sun, We look to see our friend Bob Dun- bar of the Boston Herald and Jou nal come out with the statemeat, “It's all wrong, simply another Broadway the latter part of February. The association of American .horse shows met recently at the Biltmore hotel, New York, for the purpose of electing officers and - arranging dates for the coming season. President Reginald C. Vanderbilt of the associ- ation said that it was of vital impor- tance that the shows be kept going during the period of the war. Sergeant Francis Ouimet, famous golfer, now stationed at Camp Devens, is studying for a commission. He-1§ alse putting in some of His idle mo- ments In an endeavor to master the French and German languages. We can understand why Francis desires to know French, but when he lands over there he should employ. action and not language in dealing with Ger- mans. Amherst's informal hockey team is no more. The college faculty refused to 'allow the team to represent the college. The outfit has broken up and, its game with Springfield college siat- ed for Saturday has been canceled. Marager Dayis of the Springfleld Sep- tet is now engineering with Williams tax, the Mission decided to sell them. 105-6 104-311see that specimens of what was, even | ment. Ten head were bought for $260 apiece by Pablo, who was shrewd enough to for a game. The Amherst faculty made a wise move and we do not hes- itate to compliment it on'its judg- Manager Sparrow ~Huggins decided | Duke severs connectjons with the club. passed over his face; or the next re- | lief stepped on his stomach while stumbling on their way to relieve the sentries in the trench. : Just try to sleep with a belt full of | ammunition around: you, your rifle bolt | Diting into your ribs, entrenching tooks handle sticking into the small of your back, with a tin bat for a pillow; and feeling very i damp and cold ~with “cooties” boring for oil in your arm pits, the air foul from the stench of | grimy human bodies and smoke from a juicy pipe being whiffed into your | nostrils, then you will not wonder why ! Tommy occasionally fakes a turn in! the trench for a rest. i ~ While in a front line trehch .orders while engaged in Many a time. this operation, , I or a digging of it goes on from eace andof the shells while Tommy is serious_thoughts when have | club of | ¢, forbid Tommy from removing his; order and mobilize their Tommy swears get my own baek.” or the is welcome order- given. rounds rapid” .is passed duck (with the emphasis “duck.”) on bird, in this instance, catches ernoon when brders came seven days’ proceed to Engiand. boots, putteés clothing or equipment. | The “cooties” take advantage of this! forces and vengeance on them ! and mutters to himself’ “just wait un- til T hit rest billets and am able to Just before daylight the men “turn to” and tumble out of the dugouts man_the fire steps until it gets light, “stand down’* Sometimes before “stand down” is ordered, the command “five along the | trench. This means that each man! must rest his rifle on the top and fire as rapidly as possible five shots aimed toward the German trenches, and then the There is a great rivalr§ be- tween the opposing forces to get their rapid fire off first, because the early the worm—sort of gets the jump on the othér fellow, catching him unawares. ‘We had-a sergeant-in our battalion named Warren. He was on duty with his platoon in the firé trench one aft- up from the rear that he had béen granted leave for Blighty. and would be relieved at five o'clock to He was tickled to death at these weleome tidings and regaled his more °3 envious mates beside him on attack? If I do, will I skin -through the following one, and so on? While our mind is wandering into the fu- ure it is likely to be rudely brought to earth by a Tommy interrupting with, “What's good for rheumatism?” Then you have something else. to think of. Will you come out of this war crippled and tied into knots with rheumatism. caused by the wet and mud of trenches and dugouts? You give it up as a bad job and generally saunter over to the nearest estaminet to drown your moody forebodings, in a glass of sickening French beer, or i to try your luck at the always present game of “House.” You can hear the sing-song voice of a Tommy droning out the numbers as he 'extracts the little squares of cardboard from the bag between his feet. CHAPTER XI. _ Over the Top. On my second trip to the trenches our offier was making his rounds of inspection, and we received the cheerfpl news that at four in the morning we were going overythe top and take the German front line trench. My heart turned to lead. above our heads we could hear a missed has his dinner and is “on'his | sighing moan. Our -big boys behind own” for the remainder of the day I'the line had opened up and 9:2's and unless he has clicked ‘working party .and st i day. to day always “looping the 100p" , the guns behind the lines, the scream and looking forward to Biighty. Sometimes “cootie” hunt you think. Strange to say but it is a fac searching his shirt. come to him. performing tried to figure out the outcome of the war and what will happen to me. My thoughts generally ran in this channel: Will ] emerge safely from the next 15-inch shells commenced dropping into the German lines. The flash of rough the air and the iflate of them, bursting was a spec- acle that put Pain's greatest d play into the shade. The constant pup, pup, of German machine guns and an occasional rattle of rile firing gave me the impression of a huge audience applauding the work of our batteries. Our eighteen-pounders were de- stroying the German barbed wire, while the heavier stuff was demolish- ing - their trenches and bashing in dougouts or funk-holes, Then Fritz got busy. Their shells svent screaming over- head, aimed in the direction of the flares from our - batterles. Trench mortars started dropping “Minnies” in our front,line. We clicked several casualties. = THen they suddenly ceased. Our artillery had taped or gilenced them. During tHe, bombardment you could almost: read -@ newspaper in eur trench. Sometimes in the flare of a shell-burst a man's body would be silhoutted against the parados of the trench and it appeared like, a huge monster. You could hardly hear yourself think. When an order was to be passed down the trench, you had to yell it using your hands as a funnel into the ear of the man sitting next to you on the fire step. In about twenty minutes a generous rum issue was doled out. After drinking the rum which tasted like varnish, and sent a shudder through your frame, you wondered why. they made you wait until the lifting of the barrage before going over. At ten minutes _to four word s passed down. “Ten minutes to go!” Ten min- Then the officer carried on with his instructions. Te the best of my mem- ory I recall them as follows: “At elev- en a wiring party will.go out in front and cut lanes through our barbed ‘wire for the passage of troops in the ably because they that is, of the real stuff. Candle. purposes. men is the general isste. Canister, A ils. Tommy really contempt - for this little token the dugouts. Canteen. A mes gets to wash, it. ! mates for tea in the evening. {“Carry On.” what you are doi “Carrying In" for' taking guns, ammunition, into front-line_trench, Is not a bug, Go ahead. rough roads. C. C. 8, Casualty enough to be sent to Elighty. Chalk Pit. .A white spot on a p: gunners in picking out. distinctive ing object by a sentry in the object will answer. “Friénd.” Char. Tommy calls tea. . - “Chevaux-de-frise.” ~ Parbed defenses against cavalry. important. Generally applied (to officer or a recrul edge. Chum, An endearing : airing his know] vor done. “Clicked It it; wounded. “YClock.” “Treneh” “Coal Box.” The ni explosive Germar shell Got ' killed; for the face. fired black smoke and makes Tommy hair_stand. on end. A detail fill two sacks with coal. He 2'ways misses morning parad dinner. ; “Cole” Tommy's nickname for penny. It bu; beer: “Coming It” Tryinz to thing over.” about something. Communication Trench. ditch leadinz from the A inforcements, reliefs, and -rations’ are brousht up. “TOMMY’S DICTICNARY ¢ “Called to the Colors.” A man on re- serve who has been ordered to re- port for service. “Camel Corps.) Tommy's nicknam. for the infantry, because they look like overicaded camels, and prob- also go eight days, ‘and longer, without a drink; A piece of wick surrounded by wax or tailow used for lighting #One candle among six German trench mortar shell filled with scraps of iron and has a great of German affection and he uses the nails to hang his equipment on in s tin, issued to Tom- my, who ,after dinnér, generally for- apd pinches his Resume. Keep on with Machine gunners’ term etc., but the ‘name given to a powerful engine used to haul the big guns over the Clearing Station. A place where the doctdrs draw lots to see if Tommy. is badly wounded nt- ed. landscape used at the Machine Gunners School to train would-be objects in landscapes and guessing Challenge.. A question, *“Who goes there?” thrown at an unknown mov-, K- *ness, who hopés that said moving A black noisonous brew which - wire “Chucking’ His Weight About”. Self- newly promoted non-commissioned ‘word used by Tommy to his mate when he wants to borrow something or have a fa- up against kname for a high from a 5.9 howitzer which emits a heavy E on, which Tommy has to ride in a limber and 1t takes him exactly four hours t6 do this: but manages to get back in time fo; one glass of French “put some- “Caming the Acid” Boasting; Wing nizzag ear to- the front-line trench, through which re- ammunition Tts OF THE TRENCHES” is published daily by the different warring governments for the pur- pose of kidding the public. They don’t kid Tommy. Company Stores. The quartermaster- sergeant’s headquarters where stores are kept. A general hangout for galtmexl, officers servants and N. C. .’s. “Compray.” Tommy's French for “Do you understand?” Uniyersaily used in the trenches. Conscript. A man who tried to wait [ until the war was over before vol- unteering for the army, but was balked by the ggvernment. “Consolidate Captured Line.” Digging in or preparing a captured position for defense against counter attack. Convalescence. Six weeks' rest al- Iotteg to a wounded Tommy. During this time the government is plan- ning where they will send Tommy to be wounded a second time. C. of E. Church of England. This is stamped on Tommy's identifica- tion disk. He has to attend church parade whether or not he wants to go to Heaven. Cook. A soldier detailed to spoil Temmy’s rations. He' 18 ‘menerally picked brcause he was a blacksmith in civil life. Cooties. . Unwelcome Tommy’s shirt. Counter Attack. A disagrecable Habit of the enemy which makes Tommy realize that after capturing a posi- tion the hardest work is to hoid it. Covering Party. A numbér of men detailed to-lie down in front of a working party while “out in front” to.prevent surprise and capture by German patrols. Tommy" loves this job. I don’t think! ¢ Crator. A large circular Lole in the ground made by the explosion of a mine. According to official com- muniques, Tommy always occupies a crater with great credit to himseif. But sometimes the Germans get there first. “Cricket Ball.” The name given to a bomb the shape and size of a cricket ball. Tommy, goes not use it to play cricket with. Crims Sheet. ' A useless piéce of pa- per on which is kept a- record of Tommv’s misdemeanors. “Crump.” A name given by Tommv to a high explosive German shell which when It bursts make a “Cru-my” sort of noise. €. S. M. Company e inhabitants of a of a company, whose chief' duty iz to weara erown on his arm. a cou- ple of Boer War ribbons on liis chest and to put Tommy’s name and num- ber on the crime sheet. - “Curtain Fire.” A term appled by thg artillery to a wall of shell fire on® the enemy communication trenches, to.prevent ihe bringing up of men and supplies, and alea to keep our own front lines from wav- ering. But somehow or other men and supplies manage to leak through e, a “Cughv.” Easy: comfortable;. “pretty soft.” Serzeant-Mafor. | the head non-commissioned officer | utes to live! We were shivering all over. My legs felt as if they were asleep. Then word passed down: “First wave get on and near the scaling ladders.” These were small wooden ladders which we had . placed against the parapet to enable us to go over the top on the lifting of the barrage. “Lad- ders of Death” we called them. and wveritably they were. Before a charge Tommy is the'po- litest -of men. There is mever any pushing or crowding to be first up these ladders.- We crouched around the base of the ladders waiting for the word to go over. I was sick and faint, and was puffing away at an unlighted fag. Then came the word, “Three minutes to go;” upon the lift- ing of the barrage and on the blast of the whistles “Over the Top With the Best o' Luck and Give Them Hell” The famous phrase of the Western front.' The Jonah phrase of the Western front. To Tommy it means 'if you are lucky enough to come back you will be minus an arm or a leg. Tommy hates to be wished the best of luck; so, when peace is declared, if it ever is, and you meet.a Tommy on_the street, just wish him the best of luck and duck thé brick that follows. 1 glanced again at my wrist-watch. We all wore them and you could bardly call us “sissies” for doing so. It was a minute to four. I could see the hand move to the twelve then a dead silence. It hurt. Evervone looked up to see what had happened but not for long. Sharp whistle blasts rang out along the trench. and with a cheer the men scrambled up _the ladders. The. bullets were cracking overhead. and.occasionally-a machine gun would rip and tear the top of the sand bag parapet. ‘How. I got up: that ladder I will never know. The first ten feet out in front was agony. Then we passed through = the lanes in our barbed wire. 1 knew I was running, but could feel mo motion below the waist. Patches on the'ground seemed to_float to..the rear as if 1 were'on a treadmill and scenery was rushing past me. The Germans had put a /barrage of shrapnel across No Man's Land, and you could hear the pieces slap the ground about vou. 3 After 1 had passed our barbed wire and gotten into No Man’s Land, a Tommy about fifteen feet to my right front turned around and looking.in my direction put his hand to his mouth and yelled something which T could not make out on account of the noise from the bursting shells. Then he - coughed, stumbled. pitched for- ward ang lay still. , His body seemed to float to the reat of me. I could Queer looking forms like' mud turtles were scrambling up its wall. One of these forms seemed to slip and .them - rolled to the bottom of the trenmch. 1 leaped across this intervening space. The man to my left seemed to pause in mid-air then pitched head down . into the German trench. I laughed, out loud in my delirium. Upon alight- ing on the other side of the trench I * came to with a sudden jolt. Right: in front of me loomed a giant form with long, on the end of which seven bayonets. These flashed in the afr in front of me. Then through 2 a rifle-which looked about ten feet. mind flashed the admonition of our = bayonet instructor back in Blighty. He had said, “whenever you ge tin a - charge and run_your bayonet up to the hilt into & German, the Frtts Wil wrenched from your grasp.’ Do not waste time if the baypnet is fouled in his equipment by putting your foot on his stomach and tugging at the rifie to extricate the bayonet, Sim- ply press the trigger and the bullet will free it.” this was fine logic, but for the life In. my present situation. ' of mé I could not remember how he & had told me to get my bayonet into the German. To me, this was the paramount issue. and lunged forward. My rifie was torn from my hands. I must have gotten the German because he had disap- I closed my eyes, peared. About twenty feet to my left. front was a huge Prussian nearly six feet four inches in height, a fine speci- men of physical manhood. The bayo- net from his rifle was missing, but he clutched the batrel in both hands and was swinging the butt around his, head. I could almost hear the swish | lof the butt passing through the air. Three little Tommies were engaged with him. They looked like pigmies alongside of the Prussian. The Tom- my on the left was gradually circling. to the rear of his opponent.- It was a funny sight to see them duck the swinging butt and try to jab him at ] the same time. The Tommy nearest’ me received the butt of the,German's rifle in a smashing blow below the right temple. It smashed" his head, like an eggshell. He pitched forward on his side and a convulsive shudder ** ran through his body. Meanwhile, the other Tommy had gained the rear of the Prussian. Suddenly about four inches of bayonet protruded from the throat of the Prussian soldier, Wwho staggered forward and fell. I will never forget the look of blank aston- ishment that came over his face. To Be Continued Tomorrow. LEONARD BRID( Miss Ruth Lombard, a teacher at Watertown, spent the week end with er aunt, Mrs. Fred J. Brown. . Mrs. 1da E. Cummings has returned after several weeks' visit with her sons at South Manchester. 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