Madisonville High School - Annual Yearbook (Madisonville, OH)

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Range, he ticked off deliberately, i 735C5edue west. Try two shells. Bombard the road heavily and then begin a general shelling of the whole front from ranges. Attack tomorrow night after general bombardment. A reverberating boom broke forth from the east and a great shell arched the sky. It rose higher and higher and then it began to drop, drop, dropw Good heavens! Look! cried one of the offlcers in a horrified tone. The huge shell settled down over the haystack like a pouncing eagle. They watched in stupeiied horror, unable to move. The shell poised directly over the hay- staekehardly five meters above it. A spurt of heme, a rush of air, an earth-rending explosion, and the haystack vanished from view. A smoking crater marked the spot of its existence. This is the spirit-the unbreakable spirit of the Germans. 1!: a: 4: a0: a: Two days later, the German Hag flew over the totally destroyed works on the ridge. Far to the west, the bleeding, defeated army of the Allies crawled into new quarters, and the greatest victory of the summer was won by the German Arms. eE. T. ALTMAN, 16. 61

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At the end of ten minutes the brave company lay scat- tered and torn over the gutted valley and not a man lived or a gun reached the ridge to tell the story of that brave squad. I 4: 1i 1? Ii Von Tesler now sent in the ranges of the various positions, designating carefully the positions of the ar- tillery and the fortified ridge, giving a detailed note of the strength and importance of each position. He also gave the range of the village and of the road, still full of marching troops, for division after division were marching into the trenches for a determined stand. He gave information, also, valuable to the Germans in arranging their formation for the drive after the great bombardment of the entire worksethe bombardment which was to be unparalleled in the history of the war. He had hardly sent in the information, with orders to await his word before starting the general shelling, before he heard voices. Several men, talking in English, were apparently approaching the haystack, and Von Tesler nestled down securely in the straw. As he understood English perfectly, he listened with eager ears to what was being said. The newcomers stopped by the haystack. itBy gad, exclaimed a voice in an almost awed tone, did you ever see such diabolical accuracy? Man, I tell you its uncanny-it isnlt human! Not a man left of MacKregor-ls Battery. Com- pletel y wiped out? put in another, his voice full of wonder. They must have our exact range for such shooting as that. One of the men laughed queerly. It gives me what the Yankees call the 'Jimmiesf I can stand a fight as Well as the best of 'em, but gad! a thing like this gets on my nerves, he said. They certainly are wonders, agreed a fourth. Its a mystery how they dug out our range with such accuracy. 60 If, by any chance, that ridge falls, it's another big re- treat all along the line. If they get the range of that road down there and shell it as they did the battery, it will be a regular slaughter. There is no way out of it. said the first. Pd give a fortune to discover the secret of their range finding. I honestly believe that they have it in their power to shell those positions all to pieces, another stated. Oh, youlre getting nervous, Allan, scoffed one of the others, but his voice did not ring true. Did you notice the beginning of the firing on the trench? The first shell was 500 meters over the mark, the second fell short fifty meters, and then the third scored a perfect bull's-eye. They not only knew when they missed, but just how much they missed, the one named Allan continued emphatically. Von Tesler smiled at the astonishment of the officers, and a keen sense of satisfaction filled his whole being. itWell, it's my opinion-good God! men, look here, cried a voice. Von Tesler started. He knew instinctively what had happened and an icy chill ran up his spine. However, he touched the key of his field set resolutely and awaited further developments. They were not long in coming. A wire-a telegraph wire, came a hoarse whisper. A moment of deadly silence followed. Surround the stack, snapped out a commanding voice. Hubert, you go get a file of troopers. We'll get this bird! A dreadful calm settled over Von Tesslerls face and then suddenly he came to a decision. He was discovered -he would be captured and would suffer the fate of a spy-unless- He made a rapid calculation.

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1- o 0.0 0 Q .. IIAN ADVENTURE OF BUZZ HEN, AN OLD KENTUCKY DARKEY N a little Kentucky town on the Ohio River, there are few people who have not lived there or Whose grand- parents had not lived there since the town was first settled. All the people seemed to know each other and so it hap- pened that several young doctors, representing the oldest and best families there, were sitting in an office near a red-hot stove one evening in the latter part of January. They were laughing and talking, and, at last, the one they called Doctor Sam, whose office they were occupying, suggested that they play a prank on a young negro, who was always boasting that he was not afraid of anything, not even a ghost. This is how the story is told by the negro some time later to his children, when they had asked him to tell a story. ' I So you wants me to tell you that story I promised you last night? Hm, well, I suppose I must, so jist draw up your chars ant git comfortable; now be sure you keeps quiet. IiYes, Judy, you kin sit on de iioor dar, but hush, I'se gwine ter begin now. IIOne cold Winter night, when do thermometer wuz most down to freezin' ani de groun' wuz kivered wii snow which wuz most ez bad ez ice, young Doctor Sam told me ter go down an' meet dat up boat. 62 ItNo, Willum, the bus didn,t run everyday den an' ,sides Whoid ride nine miles in a bus when it wuz so cold ant When de wind made sich awful sounds ant de old bus wud rock jist like a cradle when some one is pushin' it? Yes, de sounds wuz enough ter make a niggerts hair 'come straight, 'specially down yonder in Ghostsi Hollow, Where ole Master John wuz killed. ISides, honey, you could come down on the big boat an' git a good dinner, an' if the Captain wuz in a good humor, he'd let a nigger jig sometimes an' sing too an' earn a quarter easy like you know. ttWell, dey told me ter go down an' git what dey calls a stiff. Datis a dead pusson, yer know, ant dey wanted me ter git him sots dey could 'speriment with it. Dey called me in tbout four oIclock ant told me ter go home an git supper an' then ter come back Ibout six. Well, When I went back dey were solemn like ant asked me ef I'd be afraid, ant I told tem no indeed, an' Pd sure go down jis ez soon ez I heard de whistle blow sois I'd be oh time. Dey kept me until de boat pulled out ant den told me ter go, but I must be veri keerful ant not let anyone se me fer you know there wuz lots 0, no-count niggers down on de warf an, ef dey had seen me dey could have took de job from me an' I wouldnit git the twenty-five dollars dat Doctor Sam ant his friens promised me. Dey told