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AFTER SICKNESS THEY GAVE urn tfiiiAs IKK VIWU! And She Soon Got Dacl * Her Strength New Castle, Ind.?"The measle left me run down, no appetite, coul not rest at night, and I took a sever cold which settled on my lungs, 30 was unable to keep about my house work. My doctor advised me to tak Vinol, and six bottles restored m; health so I do all my housework, i;i eluding washing. Vinol is the bes medicine I ever used."?Alice Recorc 437 So. nth St, New Castle, Ind. W(? iniflrant? this wonderful coi liver and iron tonic, Vinol, for al weak, run-down, nervous condition: P. B. SPEED, Abbeville, S. C. 4 V>/V>/S^N^V^V^^>/^VV/N^V>/S/S^^S/S/S/S^SAS^V'^^SA^?V??/ FOR CASH ill We will sell | |you at the II; lowest prices $ Lard Compound i Snow Drift $ Armour Vega= i| late Shortening. I "Crisco" the new | Shortening. | Armour Star | Hams. I "Mill Feed for ! ? * * ij: HOgS. Also Crockery, | Glassware and i|! Lamps. |l ff. Kellar I & Brother NOTED RACER KILLED. Lima, Ohio, Aug. 31.?Capt. Ha] vey Kennedy, of San Francisco, noted Western automobile racer, we instantly killed here this afternoo when his car lost a tire, turned tui tie and crashed through a fence du] ing a race at the county fair. Ker nedy was almost decapitated by sheet iron cowl, which had just bee constructed on his machine. The ca in which Joe Dawson won the Elgi road race was demolished. SURE ENOUGH. An old gentleman was viewin some statues. Standing by one c the largest was a porter. Going u to him,the old gentleman said: "That's a massive statue, porter! Porter?Yes, sir. The hand i just eleven inches across. Old Man?Is that so? I wonde why they didn't make it twelve? Porter?Och! Sure, then it woul have been a foot. May the giver of gifts give unto yo That which is Good and that which True; The Will to help and the Courage t do; A heart that can sing the whole da through. ?PMl? v Soi chance." A1 ') she was ret , It la a story of romance, dram jj still is of real news value, since M; II voyage and safe arrival first hand? 5* COPYRIGHT. 19 ill. There la a packet of mall w; .. to France now for Private Leo C ter. That Is the name I chose. ? member particularly one little glr $ small town In Ohio. She was ? twenty years old, dark, very prett X very sentimental on the subje i! soldiers. "Where do you come from?' called to me. as I was sitting 1 71 Mr window. ? "Arizona," I replied. H "Where are you going?" is "Somewhere In France!" I ans' proudly and hopefully too. >!; She looked so shocked that I g< z!; and talked with her. We ohattc ? quite awhile. She too*c my ac %> and said she would keep me post >2 things back home wh?*u I was i H trenches. I carried the thing th <4 to the end. I even kissed Ler at $ ing. She was awfully surprised $ thrilled at the romance of the situ ii Being a Romeo la easier than be ? soldier. ? Just before we reached Cbicag x husband came to me and begge ? not to go on. ? "It will be better for you to go ft with the folks," he said. "Yoi ? study nursing and enter the Red ? as soon as you qualify." ? "Yes," I replied, "I can spend m ft In preparation, and when I finish 8 will send me to the eastern fro ? put me on some hospital ship or 8 me on duty here in the U. S. A. ? for me! I will be no nearer you ? I was before. If I go along then 8 be a chance of my being sent for $ back of your lines. At least I w j| quest that position." "I command you to return." h< ii? in his severest military manner. '<i "I'll think it over, Corporal Ca j!;! i promised and walked away. j;j the train pulled out of Chicago 1 i; in the cook car peeling potatoes. When we arrived in Hobokei men went straight from the tra ? the transport. Here again my hus remonstrated with me. | Husband Again Urges Her to R !;!; "You've got 'away with it this jj! he said. "Don't you think it is til jj go back?" !;Z "I'll say goodby, and I'll goj! can," was my answer. j;j When the time came I fell ir again with the cooks and went al ;![ the barge. j|j The barge was tied alongsid< jlj transport where the Eighteenth embarking. It was piled high :j!' supplies which were being loaded !;? the ship. These kept arriving al I;| and far into the night Great |; loads of thom were emptied out o K aecK. this oontinuea during tne ( ? three days we were anchored the ? worked like a Trojan, and my I | were well blistered, but my heart ? happy. $ There were no sleeping quarte $ the barge, but there were plen' < mattresses. The cooks were qu ;> ed together. We slept on mattr ? thrown on the floor Inside the I S cabin. It was not uncomfortab: . used to wake up in the night, loo at the dusky form of the tran swaying gently on the tide and p would not be discovered until I aboard and well out on to the c The boys around me snored peace They had nothing to worry then IS the work of unloading the sup n Every evening there was a crap - in the cabin. It was what you ^ r- call a fading game?noisy, with i- for "Little Joe" and the rest. a players got most of their fun o n joshing one another. One man us ir took all the money. The nest Eome fellow?a winner in another n would take it away from him. ai it went. Finally, the lucky sui had it alL There were few. if any, shore 1 after the men boarded the tram | The furthest they went was out c SI pier. Across the river, they coul ?f! the gay lights of New York beckc p They had read often of the Great y Way. Few of them had ever ee ? Here they were, within a few ml j of it. yet it might as well have b isj thousand miles away. "I'd like to take just one slant." I a rnnl:lo tn mr? ono PVf?n!nC. as we :11 __ standing on deck, gazing acrosi , J river at the mass of lights we was New York. He was a big. boned fellow, typical of the west like to give the old town the once u as long as I'm going over to flgl 1 her. Gee. look at them lights, be a billion of them. And the I J ings. Kinda fall, eh? If the Ger 0 ever started shooting at them, I night" y J Over on the transport an acco j was whlnkut "Sweet Adeline.. Giri/WHO A" Iff JdihbBoy WENT "OVER THERE" WITH PERSHING'S DIVISION iy HAZEL CARTER zel Carter of Douglaa, Ariz., Is a young woman, , whose young husband, Corporal John J. Carter ed States army, was ordered to France with the :peditlon. ed to accompany him, she obtained a soldier's unl(11 In as a private on his departure. She was Ave K. on the transport before discovered through a ter the arrival of the famous division in France :urned home against her wishes. atlc in Its qualities, full of the soldier color and rs. Carter Is the flrst to relate the details of that one that made history. 17. BY THE BELL SYNDICATE altlng swung Into "I've Been Worktag on the . Car- Railroad"?old trooper songs. Then I re- came " 'Way Down Yonder In the Corn1 In a field." The boys were harmonizing about again. AJways singing, singing, sing y and ing. Music is the safety valve or tne ct of soldier. All the next morning there was an ' she unusual hurrying to get the supplies n the aboard. We knew the hour of sailing was close at hand, although no orders j had been given. You could feel it In the air, the same as you can a strong ivered current of electricity. I had not seen my husband for three days. He was Dt out busy aboard the transport, and I kept 1(j for close to the barge. Idress Shortly before noon I felt the time ed on had come. I crept up a ladder to the n the I top ?f the bar?e. For awhile I atayed rough there waiting for the way to be clear, part- Soldiers were Lurrying back and forth I but on deck. No one noticed me. If they ation. they snpposed, of course, I was one ilxig a them. I waited until the deck at that part of the transport was froe of ,0 my officer*, becaaite i did not wtnt to be ^ me questioned Juat than. There was a period of ooofuaion iucjdcnt to getting home un<ier Wfiy* 1 came VP Ul^ stepped i can 0Vttr on to the deck of the transport Cross were on our way to Praoce. CHAPTER H. onths Bight Among the Amy "Dough i they I , ? >nt or boy" keep TT may not seem far to most folks Not i from a barge moored alongside a than | transport, over the side and aboard, e will but It looked like a long, tough Journey duty to me. ill re- Three days and nights I tolled and sweated and worked on that barge un? said til I thought I would drop, but all the time I was figuring and watching? rter," watching for the chance to get aboard When the big dun colored ship on which my [ was husband and another piece of the Pershing expedition were to go to 1 the France. This watchful waiting wore tin to on my tired nerves and weary body. ?band From the time we left the train I hadn't seen my husband, and I began eturn t0 think one look at him would be a far," ! fcreat for 8or? eyes. Continually me to i I strained in vain for a single glimpse On the barge 1 bad no trouble conceal_lf | ing the fact I was a woman, because everybody was too busy loading supi line plles t0 pay attent*on t0 me? awi 1 board *oun<* a PIace t0 s,e P l,y myself, which was a comfort At least I sneak . ed my uniform off?for a short time. * 0 Finally there was even more activity than on the previous days, and tugs on to be^an t0 bua^le an<* cluster and fuss 1 dav bD8lly at)0Ut U8? 80 1 knew If I ever truck were golnR t0 make a break it would n the bave t0 be tllen" 11 8376 me a E00(i ti- idea ot how a soldier feels before be re I goes "0Ver 1116 top" for tlle flr8t timernnds Aboard at Last. ' was They were getting ready to cast off the barge, and most of the officers rs ?? were lining the rails of the transport ty ? astern when I made my try. Once I arter" had my feet on that deck I decldid to esses g0 beiow and stay as quiet as possible, barge g0 j lost no time ^ ducking Into the first companionway 1 saw. Unfortu 0 nately for me, a second lieutenant bapsport pene(j to be ducking out at the same ray * time, and we bumped hard. He reeled was back and said: ,cean- "What the devil are you doing?" fully. j ija(j come to attention at once and a but saluted. plies. ??j Wfl8 goiug below, sir," I mumbled game my deepest y0lce. vould .,Wh0 are you?? ?mh "Carter, sir, K company." ?e "Carter, be more careful about turnut ?' lng corners and going in and out of! jually after this," he said touchlly and night move^ 0fff game ?Yes, sir," I answered and saluted. Q. 80 When he had gone I was trembling v vor all over, and I proceeded more carefully, you may be sure. It was the eaves firat time j bad ever ab0ard a big sport, sbip?the first time I had ever seen salt >11 me water, In fact?so I didn't know my d see around very well. However, when raing. j g0^ downstairs I found that one of >\hite transport's decks had been made en into a big bunk room with the partlnutes yons knocked out and bunks In tiers een 0 of three each all around the sides. Luckily I spotted a couple of the ' sall! boys from Company K and followed Wferc them to the section In which they were 3 quartered. They looked like old home knew weej? to one lonesome girl, and I got to thinking of the nights down in Douglas when they used to come over and sit 1 ?^er on our porch and spill close harmony it for ajj over the piace# But they didn't im rec?Pn'2e me- 60 1 threw my outfit into a middle bunk that was empty. I was mans |UC|jy t0 fln(j one to spare< because they g00tl were using all the available space on that ahip. The bunks were made out rdion 0f canvas, stretched very tight, and It thej. rode, comfortably enough when we once got started. I could feel the ship getting tmdei way, and I was a little sad, with n< one to talk to and longing to get oat o: my clothes and stretch out my wear] body on one of those bunks. It was s< tired of Inhabiting that uniform I knev I would give anything to feel a littl< soft lingerie next me and perhaps hav< on a petticoat apaln, although thej tell me the girls down east don't weai any of them nowadays?only the olc fashioned girls. Under Way. The men were all around me, manj I had known in Douglas, but the; didn't bother with me, because I guess they were a little blue at: leaving them selves, as anybody was bound to be a! a time like that, and I suppose it was the sober atmosphere got me to Ion gins for that lingerie there. Tou could have cat it with a knife. The old tLmers probably put me down for a sobbj Sammy who had just joined. Finallj I straightened myself up and thought: "Buck upl You're a deuce of a sol dier." I looked around. The old timers whe had campaigned in the Philippines anc some even in Cuba back in 1898, while most of them had been in Mexico, did not look sad, but 1 will say there were darneel few of them grinning as we fell the ship slip out of that dock. The youngsters?the boys who had just come in the regiment on thei bordei and bad never been east; beforo?show el it. They didn't know whether thej would ever be back again, and the? were thinking about it and about the little red house with the white fence back home and the girl and wondering why they Joined the army and wishing they were in Arizona. But I don't want to pull any sob stuff. "This is a fine way to send us off,'1 complained one boy who was not mor< than nineteen, a very pronounced rook le. "There are no flags, no bands, nc cheers, no beer, nothin'. It's a great way to fight a war." "Walt till you get over there, kid and you'll wish you were back here,' remarked Private Smlthers, a grand fighting man, but always a private, al though an old timer In the army. Hit name Is not Smlthers, either. If I told his real name it might get him in bad "But bold your bead up, son. The worst you can get Is to be killed, and you won't know about that," he concluded. / The cas2 of Private Smlthers remind] me of an army story. "You object to your men drinking?1 asked a friend of the colonel of a regl ment on the border one day. "Why Private Biill Jones has always been i drinker when on leave, find you say h< Is a fine soldier." "Yes, and he's always been a prl vate," answered the coloneL This fitted Smlthers' case exactly He was a good soldier and a fine fight er, but cut from the pattern of a prl vate and always Intended for one Pretty soon I noticed him staring a me closely, and I moved away, al though I knew Jim Smlthers wouldn' tip me off. However, I didn't wan him to get on if I could help It It seemed risky to go on deck yet, s< I sauntered toward my old stamplnj ground, which bad been so friendly t< me en route from Douglas?the ship'i kitchen. What I really wanted to do was pagi my husband, for I hadn't caught i glimpse of him on the transport?ii fact, bad not seen him since the troop: left the trains. No sign of him. wondered a little how be would taki It when he found me still along. "Thar she blows 1" hollered a voice We could feel the ship moving undei her own power, and by the glimpse* I caught through the portholes I sav we had straightened out in the stream Then a panic seized me. What if mj husband was not aboard that uhlp' Suppose he had been transferred t( some other regiment at the last mln ute. They do such things In the armj without asking the permission 01 wives, which makes the husband* harder to follow. 1 had no way ol knowing whether he was aboard What if"Hey, there, Joe, heave to and lenc a fellow a hand, will you? What dc you think this Is?a tango tea?" The speaker was one of the kltcher crew. When the transport startea iu perilous journey to "some port ii France" he was hustling crates of fooc Into the storehouse down below. Oth era of the me:a were busy with similai tasks, getting things shipshape. Then seemed to be no romance about this farewell. It was a case of getting down to bras tacks. After awhile 1 stole above. There was no excitement no depression now. Everything was as usual, just as if the boat were bounc for a little sightseeing trip around Manhattan isle The sentiments Sammy recovers quickly. Besides, the men did not know bow ma ay Germar eyes might te watching their depar ture, and they wanted to show the en emy they meant business. Only whec they passed the statue of Liberty did they stop whatever they wero doing and stand at salute. As one of them a wiry westerner who went into Mex ico with Pershing, put it: Wq ?rnf tn iHvp thi? old sfirl the clad band as we go." Off For "Some Port In France." It was right after midday mesa wc left the pier in Hoboken. Two days later we were still anchored out in the bay. The other transports were all around, some of tbem so close the men could call back and forttL No one knew when we would depart I was on deck when I saw a couple of the other transports moving out It would be our turn next I went below. My heart was turning all kinds of flipflops. We were leaving for "the port In France/' and 1 was still safe. 1 bad (To be continued.) phi : mm i Ijrim f Childr ; # To Sa I Start the ki< | B right by making t wL want to save their A personal savings a< a high-class bankinj tion like this, y are given the pr and encourage die their ow is a good st right direct > m^r dollar opens ! I Safety?Honesty?i \ l'he Natio > Abbevill , ? ^ rmiimtiuiiiimimiinniu?mimti!imiiiiniimiiniimiiM?iimMiiiiuui?uinHiHh!iitniMiiviiiimiiiimii i FALL SEASO Our stock is generous in variel approved worth and superiority, with our well selected, popular an Our very reasonable prices will c from our Up-to-Date Stock and ; appropriate presents at the fairer r'or the right present for the righl right to us. W. E. JOHNS [ Abbevill( J EXPECT GOOD RESPONSE FROM I 5 FARMERS IN LOAN CAMPAIGN 3 9 In the First Liberty Loan Cami paign, many of the farmers of the * i country were not reached, and sub1 scriptions from the rural committees ^ 3 were few. There were several rea1 sons for this, the foremost of which was that the Loan was put out in c the spring, when they were busy k' r with their crops, and it was difficult 8 3 for the canvassers to interview them. 0 r Then, too, they had to borrow money |8 . for their planting. Now their crops 1 are in, and at the present high price ^ ' of food stuffs, they should have a s > large sum of money in their hands, b For a loan of a porton of that money, c f the Liberty Bond campaigners are f ) now appealing all over the country, f The various bureaus and societies c . are co-operating and good results fi are expected. t ' Albert R. Mann, Dean of the New ) York College of Agriculture, is one o x of those who have been active in this p j work. Speaking of the Loan andjil i the farmers' share in it, he said to- j I day": "When liberty came to America, j ' farmer helned to brine: it. He | | bore the gun, he contributed un-| , sparingly of his substance, he fed j [ the armies. In the present struggle j , for univrsal liberty, I am sure that ^ ' he will do no less. He has already I made splendid response to the de- P ' mand for greater food production. a | I look with confidence on his gener' ous contribution to the Liberty Loan. a . The first Loan largely overlooked the ^ . farmer; the efforts were concentrate ^ t ed in the cities. The second cam- ^ I paign should give every opportunity ' for farmers as individuals and in a their organizations to support the e Government in its financial program. ^ It is the highest expression of Am- a ricanism that all the people should 12 help carry the common load in this C1 critical hour." > . f< [ PROVED HIS PATRIOTISM. ^ 1 S] 1 Another "sign of the times" is this ir ( from the Cleo Springs (Ok.) Times: > "Our esteemed friend, William j 1 Dunkhofer, has made a petition tole: ' the court to have his name changed j hi to John Gun and to have his daugh-la1 ter's changed from Wilhelmina to is ' " TT * r.nncfitji. I ffi EpluriDuS unum.? tion. ~~ n f j lj ' n oper attention ment to han- ( n finances art in the ion. One >. ,:!?a on account. . ;J| 1 Courtesy?Service I >nal Bank | e S. C. J !m!!!!a!!!!i!!!i!!ll!!!!!nm!!i!!!ii!!!!i!i^^ N NOW ON 1 ;y and includes only goods of You can not help being pleased id in every way desirable line. v lelight you. Select your gift* you will get the beat and most l figures you have ever known. t person at the right price come ? ' W :-fe* ON, Jeweler I ;'s-c- J 1 mmmmmmfmmmmmrnmmmmmmmmm . i ' 1 ' ' = IVE THINGS TO DO THIS WEEK AND NEXT ? m Have you ordered some Abruzzi ye seed for planting in September? t's the greatest winter grazing crop ire know, and we'd like to see every armer in the Cotton Belt try ct east a small acreage this fall. \ 2. Oat planting time in the upper South is practically here, and if a ;ood supply of seed is not already >n hand no time should be lost in etting them. 3. If no other land is available or the rye and oats, excellent reults may be had by planting them etween the rows in a well cultivated otton field, using a three-row, openurrow drill. 4. If planting seed of cotton and . > orn have not been selected iy the ield, right now is an excellent time o do it. 5. Save ail tne corn stalks and ther rough feed, for feedstuffs iromise to stay high-priced indefintely. PINE LEAVES AS MANURE. r-} "I have seen it stated that pine traw is worth $2.50 a ton as manure can rake it up and put it on the and for 50 cents a ton. Will it pay o rake it up and use to help the imrAvnwanf nf on AM QQnrlv "fflTTO T m trying to build up?" Pine straw will add organic matter nd aid in the making of humus in tie land. In the famous sweet pota3-growing sections of Accomac and forthhampton counties in Virginia, he growers rake up all the leaves nd rotten trash from the pine woods very winter and spread them on the ind to be planted to sweet potatoes nd plow under at once. Some fertil;er is added, and they make famous rops of sweet potatoes, the woods ash acting mechanically much as a srtilizer. Where the work is done 1 the leisure season it will probbly pay to rake and haul and pread the forest leaves and leaf lold.?Progressive Farmer. What a beautiful dog, Miss Ethel!" sclaimed her bashful admirer. "Is e affectionate?" "Is he affectionte?" she asked archly. "Indeed he ! Here, Bruno! Come, good dogie, and show Charlie Smith how to iss me!"?Answers.