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Copv Summons for
Relief.

COMPLIANT SERVED
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
CoUNTY OF WILLIAMSBURG,
Court of Common Pleas.
Ia AIcCrea, Plaintiff,
against
Judy Scott, Vernal Scott, Lille Will
son, Joseph Madison Scott, Erwin
Scott, Ophelia Scott, Ben Scott. Ho-
gan Scott, Ben Scott, Mckinley Scott,
Minda Scott, Lille Scott, Louisa
Scott, Sam McFadden, Wesley Nc
Fadden, Marvel McFadden, Daisy
McFadden. Weldon McFadden, Min
ME McFadden, and Bertha McFad-
den, Defendants.
To the Defendants, Judy Scott, Vernal
Scott, Lille Wilson. Joseph Madison
Scott, Erwin Scott, Ophelia Scott,
Ben Scott, Hogan Scott, Mckinley
Scott, Minda Scott, Lille Scott,
Iouisa Scott, Sam McFadden, Wes-
lev McFadden, Manuvel McFadden,
Daisy McFadden, Weldon McFadden,
Minnie McFadden, and Bertha Nc
Fadden:
You are hereby summoned and re-
ouired to answer the complaint in this
action, of which a copy is herewith
served upon you, and to serve copy
6f your answer to the said complaint on
the subscriber at his Office in Kingstree,
sc. within twenty days after the SER
vice hereof, exclusive of of the day Of
such service; and if you fail to answer
the complaint within the time afore-
said. the plaintiff in this action will
epplv to the Court for the relief de-
manded in the complaint.
Dated January 80, 1915.
LEROY LEE,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
To the defendant Joseph Madison
Scott, or, if he be dead, to John Doe
and Richard Roe, the unknown heirs
a.-law and distributes of the said
Joseph Madison Scott, whose true
names and addresses are unknown:
Please take notice that the summons
in the above entitled cause, OF which
the foregoing is copy. together with
the complaint, was filed in the office OF
the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas
for Williamsburg county on the goth
day of January, 1915.
Dated January 80, A D, 1915;
2.4-st LEROY LEE,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
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Has Used ChdmbefIaiD's Cough Rene
dy for 20 Years.

"Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
has been used in my household for
the past twenty years. l began CIV
ing it to my children when they
were small. As a quick relief for
Group, ,whooping cough and ordinary
colds it has no equal. Being free
from opium and other harmful
drugs, never felt afraid to give it
to the children. l have recommend
ed it to a large number of friends
and neighbors. who have used it and
speak highly of it," writes Mrs Mary
Minke, Shortsville, N Y. Obtainable
everywhere.
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Trespass Notice.

Notice is hereby given that cutting
wood, hunting, trapping, or trespasslng
in any other manner whatsoever upon
the lands of F Rhem & Sons and the
Rhem Real Estate Co., in Williamsburg
and Georgetown counties, is strictly
forbidden. Parties violating this notice
will be prosecuted to the full extent OF
the law. Z-l1-ot
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Notice to Creditors.

All persons indebted to the estate OF
David Fillmore, deceased, will please
make payment to the undersigned at
Lake CITY, S C, and all persons to
whom the said estate is indebted Will
render an account Of their demands, du-
Executor.
Januarv 70. 1915. 24-4tp
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Copy Summons fol
Relief.
COMPLAINT SERVED
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF WILLIAMSBURG.
Court of Common Pleas.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF WILLIAMSBURG.
Court of Common Pleas.
WV Strong. Plaintiff,
Adelaide Boyd, Jane Gamble. Rose Gamble, Eliza
> Henryhan, Rebecca Singleton, George Dukes
Sarah McElveen. Sylla Chandler, Robert Boyd.
Hogan Boyd. Menin Boyd. Lille Wilson l Ieiia
Boyd, Ami. Boyd. Scurry Boyd. Flowers Boyd;
Minnie Boyd, ct al, Defendants.
To the said Defendants, Adelaide Boyd. Jane
Gamble, Rose Gamble, Elizs Henryhan: ksbecca
Singleton, George Dukes, Sarah McEiyeen'
Sylla Chandler, Robert Boyd. Hogan Boyd,
lMenin Boyd. Lille Wilson. Tells BOYD, Annie
Boyd, Scurry Boyd. Flowers Boyd, Marvin Boyd'
I. sNoses Boyd. Bertha Boyd and Minnie Boyd:
You are hereby summoned and required TO an
erer the complaint in this action, OF which
eopy IN herewith served upon you, and to serve
e,soy of your answer TO the said complaint ON the
subecriber at his Office IN Kingstree. South Caro-
Ina within twenty days after the service hereof.
exclusive of the day Of such service; and II you
fail TO answer the complaint within the time
Aforesaid the plaintiff in this action will apply to
the Court for the relief demanded IN the COM
plant. LOUIS Ls.S HiLaAsps tt.s
Kinestree, C, January 25, 1915.
To the Absent Defendant, Sylla Chandler
TAKE NOTICE: That the original Summons in
this action, of which the foregoing Ia COPY
toeether with the verified Complaint herein. were
ed In the Office Of the Clerk Of he Court OF Com
mon Pleas for williamsburg county on the 10Th
WY VI '''''' LOUIS w GILLANp.
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Kingstree, C, January q. A d, 1915. 1-2s-St
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School Teachers

Teachers
Mr.. S. D. Rickenbaker, Lake City.
Miss Nora Burch, &"
Miss Emma Cooper, Cades.
Mrs. Lula c. Kennedy, Cades.
Miss Lula Easterling,
Miss Leila Ferguson, Salters Depot.
Mary B. Hayward,
Mr.. W. H. scctt, Fowler.
Mr.. D. G. Carmichael, Lanes.
Miss Annie Lee Emmanuel,
" Louise Plowden,
Miss Floride McCelvey, Trio.
t" Lorraine Latham,
Miss Hettie Stone, Nesmith.
" Ethel Seybt,
Miss Ruth Phillips, Kingstree.
Flossie Kellahan,
Miss Vermelle Plowden, Trio.
A." Sue Mcknight,
Miss Pauline Cantey, Lake City.
Miss Jane Erwin, Trio.
" Pearl Eaddy, 6
Mrs. R. B. w. Dickson, Johnsonville.
Miss Vaughn Cox, Vox.
Miss Belle Shuler, Mouzon.
I" Matte Garner,
" Miss Blanche Reep, Cades.
Miss Dodge Hinnant, Andrews.
Miss Ola Bethune, Kingstree.
8. Miss Airline Harrington, Kingstree.
Miss Maye Boyd, Greelyville.
Marian Dukes,
Miss Ruth Carroway, Cades.
Miss Matte Williams, Greelyville.
Miss Rebecca Caldwell, Morrisville.
Miss Emily Baxley, Trio.
Miss Lena Mercer, Leo.
Miss Bessie Williams, Cades.
Miss Mary Brooks, Greelyville.
Miss Ruth Hinnant, Suttons.
" Lidie McFadden,
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NORTH BOUND.
How To Give Qulnlne To Children

*Daily except Sunday.
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Legal Advertisements.
Auditors Notice.

OVA ~ ~ ~ 0ASS
For the purpose of taking tax returns
for the wear 1915, the Auditors office
will be open from January to Febru-
ary 20. The law requiring a penalty OF
fifty per cent upon all returns made al
ter the above dates will be strictly en-.
forced. All purchases and sales OF real
estate, personal property, polls, commu-
tation tax and dog tax must be return
ed. All males between the age OF II
and 60 years, inclusive, are liable to Poll
and Communication tax.
or my agent will be at the follow
ing places on days mentioned for the
purpose of taking returns:
JANUARY.
il Gowdy's store, 10
Cades, 10
Salters, ~
Gourdin's, ~
Suttons, q
Greelvyille. % and %
FEBRUARY.
Rome,
Johnsonville between trains).
and 8
Hemingway (between trains),
8 and
Nesmith between trains), 4and 5
Andrews jbetween trains), 5 and 8
Cedar Swamp,
Bloomingvale, -
Morrjsville, lO
Bartsifs store, 10
Torkman, II
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Arrival Of Passenger Trains a'
Kinastree.

The Atlantic Coast Line railroad
has promulgated the following sched-
ule. which became effective Sunday,
June /, 1914:
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Trustees and Teachers For Williamsburg County
Yea 19141915
Teachers


.;==:=-
Teachers
-----
Miss M. L. Montgomery, Greelyville.
Miss Motto Clement, Taft.
49, 49, .,
MRS. a. Y. Coker, :.
MISS jessie oetnea' oioomlhs'aie'
ou,o,, Morr;s,,;,,a
MISS agnes az ilar'ey' "oti g i'!ihe
Mr.. ]. C. Spivey, Hemingway.
Miss Florence H. Doty, Hemingway.
Sue Annie Leland,
Mrs. Logan Merriman,
{" jamie Newell, Gordon.
Miss Henrietta King, New Zion.
Miss Elise Rollins, Johnsonville.
/" MYRTLE Poston, a."
e" Gertrude Culberson. "
&" Henree Newell. "
~, c., u:..,.~oo
froI' =. w. Ss' SwIeesiioeis' A"e
MISS Laura Cr9lnel, g..
:, aoa orochlngO Oon,
:, SulnneIte DahIzier' .
:. Saran S James, p,a,,o
Sorheila fio"uen' u
" Agnes Erckmann, :.
y julia Cork,
Miss Ola McElveen'
=, wy n , c.,.:,,o
Mr.. ": M. Bonner, HreelyVilie'
MISS Kate Romanstlne'
Mae Belle Leltch,
g." Susie Lotion.
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Trustees
3 3. y ". M Moore, Lake City, ST.
F. B. Fitch "
- - Cox, 1"
y ". G. Wilson, cades. S; G.
u. A. Cooper,
W. M. Owens, " u"
B. L. Buffkin, Lake City, S. c.
H. J. McFadden, Cades, S. c.
w. B. Cox.
J. A. Ferrell, Salters, S. c.
J. M. Cook,
]. E. Davis. q" "
H. M. Burrows, Fowler, S. C.
W. p. Burrows, "
T. B. Patrick, "
R. L. Bass, Lanes, SC.
j. B. Clarkson, "
G. M. Beasley, {"
G. w. Camlin, Trio, S. C.
j. S. Wheeler,
R. NJ. Haselden, " "
DR.: J. H. Pratt, Nesmith, S. c.
j. Nj. Rodgers, " 4"
W. ]. Cooper,
S. S. Mitchum, Bloomingvale, S. e.
w. G. Cantley, 4" "
j. M. Tisdale, L" "
A. ". Graham. Trio, S. G.
R. G. Flowers, " "
R. d. Blakeley, "
6; 6 K; < Esday, ssiSy. Lake X City S. g. Rt. e.
R. ]. Par~ott, Cades, S. G.
]. B. Files, Trio, S. c.
James Bryan, " ''
w. T. Rowell, g
J. b. Altman, Vox, S. c.
L. A. Taylor, g &"
A. T. Taylor,
j. D. Burgess, Mouzon, S. C.
G. F. Williamson, Cades, &c
j.. T. Frierson, Mouzon,
R. J. Ferdon, Andrews, S. c.
w. A. Marshall, g.
L. G. Kellahan,
J. B; Player, Kingstree, $; c.
A. G.. Kirby, "
= Buffkin, I" "
J. E. Baker, Kingstree, S. c.
F. H. Hodge, ''
J. H. Covington, Salters, "
J. W: Timmons, Greelyville, S. G.
J. /. Hudnall, "
/. G. Player, :"
W. J. Smiley, Cades. s. c.
R. T. Flagler, .
T. S. Kelley,
E. l. Montgomery, Greelyville, S. c.
j. J. Bradham,
Warren Montgomery,
Hugh Nesmith, Morrisville, S. c.
Mcdowell Nesmith, "
S. T. Nesmith, a"
W. A. Powell, Andrews, S: c.
C. q. Moore, "
E. M. Lambert, "
E. w. DuRant, Vox. S. C.
W. L. Moore, Leo, g
w. M. Brown, Vox, "
H. M. Feagin, Cades. S. C..
J. N. Coker, q"
A. B. Mckenzie, " -"
W. NJ. Bradshaw, Greelyville, S; :. c.
w. J. Buddin, q"
- Thompson,
w. L. Altman, Suttons, S. C.
0. C. Hinnant, "
S. L. Parsons, % I"
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spirit 1t ranges from a ranch in South
America. to which group of self-ex-
lied SouthernerS had betaken themselves
at the close of the civil war. to the city
of Rio de Janeiro. From that point it
crosses to touch the artist life of Paris
and the social world of London. Then.
back again, it comes to a close near
the New England coast. a father and
son, separated from the boys birth to
his. early manhood. makes the united
source of this spirited and striking
action. In effect, the story consti-
tutes a sort of father and SON. move
ment. For the man takes the boy I'M
der his personal tutelage by the objec-
tive method of filtering his own wide
and way-wise career into, the heart of
the boy through the stained glass
of this experience. For instance. one
night on a Brazil ranch. and before
the youth knew that the fascinating
stranger was his father. they gambled
away the young mans scanty sub
stance And in the morning the
stranger told the worsted and
miserable boy that it took him
many years to find out what the lad
had learned in a single night. And so
the lessons went on with some of the
other besetments of young manhood. A
love story of good substance runs along
here, and much else of interesting to-do
is carried out by uncommonly Ifel1ke
and worthwhile people. The. novel
suggests that it may be variant of
the Lord Chesterfield method of edu-
eating his son, a method brought up to
date and rendered picturesque and en-
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tertaining from the present point of
view and in modern complex of situa
ton.
THE LANDLOPER: The Romance of a
Man on Foot. BY Holman Day, au-
thor of THE Red Lane" etc. New
York: Harper & Bros.
However much or little effect upon
the moral regeneration of big business
the muckraker of a few years ago
may have had, it is certain that he had
discovered new fields. gold fields. for
literature. A goodly proportion of fic-
ton nowadays sustains itself by the
special sins of one or another of the
big enterprises of the country. The
theme of this particular novel is the
nefariouS goingS-on of the consolidated
water supply corporation of a certain
city. This company, having cornered
the water supply of practically the
whole state, is dealing out to the con-
sumers of this commodity an unlim-
tied supply of typhoid fever, from
which the poor are dying like sheep.
And into this situation 1.-The man on
foot" is projected. An idealist. a re-
former, but a tramp wfthal. Walter
Parr rises to the height of modern
hero wrestling with the civic powers of
darkness around him. Within the linn
it's of this one story he puts the
wicked to confusion, turns over the
politics of the state, sets in control
the few upright men who have escaped
the corrupting influence of the corpora
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expanding the reaches of its influence.
In this consideration the study includes
the full measure of pioneer life as 1t
affected the Scotch Irish in this country.
1t describes the hardships of their rude
beginnings, their various and charac-
teristic makeshifts of adaptation to
frontier conditions. their relations
with neighboring Indians. This part of
the study reaches it's climax in an ap-
probation. from the standpoint of the
present, of the contribution made by
this element to the sum of our ma
tionality. Leading up to this summary
is an examination into the conditions
that led the Scotch-Irish to emigrate
from the north of Ireland to America
in the middle of the seventeenth CEN
fury. Here the writer discusses the
Ulster plantation, established in the
days of King James |. and defines the
causes that led to the settlement of
Ulster by the English and Scotch. From
this point he traces the economic and
political influences that took issue in
the emigration to this country. This
authoritative and illuminating chapter
of American history sets wildly be-
fore one a single group of our multi
tudinous life, objectifying the charac-
teristics and aims and achievements of
this group in respect to the particular
hues with which it has tinged the full
pattern of our economic, political and
spiritual existence as a nation.
THE GREAT SMALL CAT: And Others.
BY May E. Southworth. Illustrated
from photographs and decorated by
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IN HERE is a monument in the
grounds of the Smithsonian Insti-

nm HERE is a monument in the
grounds of the Smithsonian Insti-
q tute erected in honor and in
memory of L. J. NJ. Daguerre, pioneer.
if not the father. of Photography 1t
stands on a bit of greensward, well
shaded by trees, between the old Ma
tional Museum building and the build
ing occupied by the Medical Museum.
1t is not a very conspicuous location,
but the number of persons who nave
seen this monument since II was SET
up there. quarter of century ago, IS
legion. Only small percentage or
the persons strolling that way take the
trouble to walk across the lawn and
pass around the monument in order
that they may read the inscription. IN
the northwest face of the monuments
pedestal is the single word craven in
the granite, "Daguerre." On the north
east face is this inscription: ITO Com
memorate the First Half Century In
Photography-1S39-1 Erected by
the Photographers Association of
America, August, 1890"
On the northwest face of the monu-
ment is this: Photography, the Elec-
trict Telegraph and the Steam Engine
Are the Three Great Discoveries of the
Age. No Five Centuries in Human
Progress Can Show Such Strides as
These"
little bronze plate on the base tells
and that the bronze figures of the me-
mortal were cast at New York in 1890.
The granite pedestal is surmounted by
large granite globe on which Is
carved the map of the world, the land
areas in polished granite and the sea
marked by the unpublished stone. At
the northwest front a female figure ID
twining a bronze wreath around the
head of Daguerre, which is in bronze.
Within the memory of persons in the
world today the chief name, If not the
only name associated with the earliest
stage of photography is that of Da-
guerre, yet the. records of the birth
and development of this wonderful art
show that there was another man who
worked and wrought before Daguerre
and to whom the world owes a debt of
gratitude. The name is Joseph Nice
graphy now hail him as having been
the father of photography. The process
devised and applied by this man ap-
peared in 1924, fifteen years before the
process of Daguerre came to the knowl-
edge of the public. A writer in the
Scientific American has thus described
the Niepce process: "A silver-faced
copper plate was coated with asphalt
dissolved in oil Of lavender and dried
1t was then exposed to light in the
camera, or, in the case of an engraving.
by superposition. Thereupon 1t was
washed over with a combination of one
part of oil of lavender and ten parts of
petroleum. The picture was then
washed in water and dried. Next the
plate was placed in an iodine tuning
box until the bright silver ground turn
ed dark. On removing the part of the
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until one reaches the subterranean
cavern where the food supplies are
stored.
In such a cavern one feels. for the
of the bombardment is somewhat
dulled here under several yards of nice
thick earth. But after a moment or
two, when a nearby explosion causes
let's down a shower of earth and
stones. one is quite willing to repair
to the more exposed trenches above,
where at least one may be blown to
instantaneous death and not be smoth-
cred alive in a cavern.
The three objects hurled at one by
the scientific Germans in such pro-
fusion are shrapnel, high-explosive
shells and bullets. Each has a song
time you tremble. and when you hear
1t the thousandth time you tremble
even more. There is supposed to be
something satisfactory in the fact
that when a shrapnel shell shrieks in
your ear or a bullet pings by with it's
savage little "zum-m -m-mg" you are
no longer in danger, as the object it.
self has gone long before you hear it.
But I have found this logical bit of
people shrek and tremb1e at the sound
Of harmless thunder, SO do l want to
shrek and so do 1 really tremble at
the harmless song of the shrapnel and
rifle bullet.
The high-explosive howitzer shell is
different. Its progress is SO much
slower than any other shell that it's
voice is heard several seconds before
bombardment afoot as to dronn any
individual shells clamor. The song of
the Jack Johnson" begins in a savage.
wailing snarl that grows louder and
howl Of rage. Meanwhile, one covers
down in trench or dugout and covers
ones head like any good ostrich and
prays that the advancing monster will
strike somewhere further away than
fifty yards.
Just before it strikes, the voice of the
big howitzer shell becomes a gigantic
screech of maniac fury. Then comes
thud and, if one is near enough, an
explosion SO terrific, SO overwhelming,
as to jar the breath from the body and
spread one fiat and palpitating upon
with fine dust and falling earth and
splinters of stone.
Believe me, there is no false glamour
about this war-no glory. no exultant
thrills. 1t is all sordid. colorless.
pitiless slaughter. 1t is a war in which
every man while in action spends half
his time in terror-stricken suspense
and the rest in riot of blPod-mad-
ness.
The greatest coward I have seen was
man who boosted of his prowess in
battle and then hid in a shell-hole I'M
til his battalion had swept the field
clear. The bravest man 1 have seen
was slender little London clerk. who.
tremb bling with fear and crying out
again and again, "I shall be killed.
shall be killed. climbed out of his
trench to rescue a wounded comrade
and didn't come back.
E. RICHARD SCHAYER
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BOOKS RECEIVED

THE LAST DITCH, A Story OF Panama
and the Canal Zone. BY j. RAYMOND
Elderdice. Chicago: Rand. McNally
& Co.
JACOB: A Lad OF Nazareth. By Mabel
Clifford Shine. With illustrations
BY Clarence L. Cole. Chicago: Rand,
THE PIRATES OF THE Sky, A Tale
of Modern Adventure. BY Stephen
Ga1ilard. With illustrations by Leon
Emo. Chicago: Rand, McNally &
THE WHITE CAPTIVE: 4 Tale of the
Pontiac War. BY R. clyde Ford H.
Rand. McNally & Co
THE WORLD PROCESS, or. Tho o,.
gin and Evolution of Life, Mind.
Thought and Language Ont OF the
one Element of Existence. BY st.
george. Fresno. Cal: st. George
THE HUDSON RIVER TODAY AND
YESTERDAY. BY Arthur p Abbott.
Published by the author.
WHAT EVERY MOTHER SHOULD
KNOW; About Her Infants and
Young Children. BY Charles Gilmore
kerley; NJ. D., professor of diseases
Medical School and Hospital. New
York: Paul Hoeber.
LABOR IN POLITICS. By Robert Hun.
ter, author of Poverty" etc. Chs
cago: Published by the socialist
party.
ROBBERY UNDER LAW; or, The Bat.
tie Of the Millionaires. A play in
three acts and three scenes BY
James Armstrong Chaloner author
of Scorpio." Roanoke Rapids, N c.:
Palmetto Press.
PRAYER FOR PEACE; And Other
Poems. BY William Samuel Johnson.
New York: Mitchell Kennerley.
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Armageddon.
N the Columbus Journal.

From the Columbus Journal.
Armageddon is the conflict between
the forces of matter and of spirit, and
nearly every conflict can be interpreted
from this standpoint. We note that the
entrance of Italy into the war has
brought into use the term again. II
this is a conflict of materialism and
spiritism, of efficiency and idealism, of
doubt and devotion, the important in
quiry is which is which. but it is an
opinion that one must affirm with q
good deal Of hesitation. for there is q
violence of controversy in it that has
no limit.
But Armageddon is being fought
everywhere. not only among nations,
but in every field of thought and effort.
Religion. education. art. business. poll
tics. society, all have their Armaged-
dons, with the matter on one side and
the spirit on the other. The line of
battle is as closely drawn as 1t is in
Flanders or on the Carpathians. 1t 10
of profound concern personally to every
individual which side he IL on.
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devised a way of preserving his normal
ruddiness of color during such mo-
ments. He would bend down and tug
violently at his boots for several min
utes at time, forcing the blood back
to his face.
The moments just before being ordered
to charge from the trenches are the
worst a soldier has to endure. Every
nerve is strained to the breaking point.
Behind him his own guns thunder and
pour their fire upon the enemy's lines.
Just overhead the enemy's answering
shells shrek and howl and burst, while
the upper edge of the parapet over
which he is about to plunge snaps and
bursts into little sputterings of sand
and gravel from the impact of the
showers Of rife and machine gun bull
let's he is soon to face.
It Is then that the officers and nom
CONS must hide every trace of their
own fear and inspire their men with
the courage of desperation. 1t was in
such moments as these in the old days
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they are made of. It may be taken for
granted they are all, from colonel
down. inwardly quaking with fear. 1t
is the way different men bear up under
the strain and dissemble their true
feelings that shows different degrees of
courage. i have seen young, beardless
officers trying to light their cigarettes
in nonchalant manner. their hands
trembling SO as to extinguish match
upon match, and ! have seen hundreds
OF men shiver slightly, as though from
cold. and turn up the collars of their
tunics.
A veteran sergeant major. who won
distinguished conduct medal in the
Boer war, told me a trick Of his adopt
ed to keep his teeth from chattering
during such moments. 1t was merely
little block Of wood, SO whitfield as to
be easily gripped between the Jaws
Here was a man who had done excep-
tionally brave things and was likely
to do them again, but he knew what
fear was every time he went under