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? OF DEAi French Colonel in 1 I ed for tjhe First I Scenes in Turn Bt by German: Homme N Iu5t..j- .? n . J n i c inuorew or ueaa oocnes j I in Postvres They Occupiet 1 in French Attack Last An |T Strange Story | ' "l'he Sunday News printB below one of the strangest stories of the war, Brhich is now published, we believe, ^^r the first time. Its authenticity is Hlyond question. The writer is a ^French colonel who, with his foui Bons, has been in the thick of the Hwbting on the western front- from very beginning of the war. The ^wtter was written to his cousin, an ^Bnerican woman, well known in Hharleston, who for a number ol Bears has lived in France. It was forwarded by her to a friend in Clwrleston, who has translated it fbr The Sunday News. The letter follows: at A i*Xt. 4 A 4 A May 10m, My Dear A What I am about to tell you surpasses in horror anything that thit war, so fertile in the production of terrible things, has yet produced Tou remember that on the 16th ol March, 1916, I had arrested the offensive of the Boches on the Morth omme, which from that date was de finitely broken. For three monthi they have steadily gained slightly ii terrain, but at a terrific cost in men Finally, after July, 1916, they ha< attained with great difficulty a posi tion before Verdun. In order to hold Morthomme the: excavated^~4 M the mountain ai enormoro^ in which wer< ^mtored '^wf food munitions ^ e ^^^^ufirmaries, hospi // intersect lighted by elec using the tui they coul( en of our guns theii they speak theii Rdui in Augusi in to this same icers and some ? tha! **+ g thing that w? many othei points at the front, notably at Noyon and St. Quentin, should have been detailed to beg the Boches to retire from a situation in which they were so comfortably Installed. I need not tell you with what delight we undertook the sission?remember only that of the 20th of August, 1917, and during the days following we achieved a complete victory, took 10,000 prisoners and recovered all the Boches had taken so long to conquer in 1916. That was nine months ago and again I find myself in the rA<rinn A Strange Story. There is a rumor among the poilus whom I encounter that among th< tunnels abandoned by the Boches it 1917 there are certain parts whicl have never been penetrated becausi they can be entered only by going ir front of our lines, in the zone callec by the English "No Man's Land.' They say also that the Boches wn< were killed in August, 1917, otil remain in these sections to which th< enemy has never been able to effec an entrance, as the slightest move ment in that direction is stopped b; a rain of bullets. I decided to clear up this myster; and to visit these tunnels myself. 1 was necessary to start at night am to arrive before dawn that our pas sage might not be intercepted by tin Boches. We were aroused, therefor shortly after midnight anil reache* Mortonnne after a long ride by au tomobile until we reached a point s< encumbered by bomb holes and wir that we were obliged to finish tin journey on foot. The night was darl and one had to be guided by in stinct and by the slight declivities o the ground. There were three of u who had the physical strength an< the determination to accomplish ou object, but our way was strewn witl difficulties. Each misstep threw u into a shell hole <<r into a nest o barbed wire. A Perilous Adventure. We walked in this way for tw< hours, fearing often that we had los our way and that we should fail t< accomplish our mission. Fortunatel; it was the Boches themselves win aided us by sending up innumerable colored lights, which thoroughly il luminated their own lines, showinj us what lo avoid as well as the di rection which we should take. In ; quarter of an hour we reached th mouth of the funnel, through whicl we entered, and after ;t descent o forty meters reached a great funnel through No Mans Lund and enter th. one kilometer, only to find the en* closed. One of our shells had burs and completely demolished this sec tlon of the tunnel, killing hundred: STORY OMAN'S HILL -etter Now Publish- j - Time Describes nel Constructed i Under Nort ear Verdun till Sitting and Lying About I When Death Overtook them! igust ! ! of Boches. > Further progress was impossible. > We must retrace our steps, pass 1 through N Man's Land and enter the 1 tunnel from the other end, which, with the aid of a poilu, we finally 1 discovered. 1 The entrance to this tunnel was ' extremely difficult. We soon had to l walk on all fours. Soon the pale light ' of the orifice through which we had entered was lost and we had to light 1 our candles and electric lights. Ar i rived at the foot of a staircase of - seventy steps, we found ourselves in a series of -little rooms, about which were scattered innumerable bottles. It had been the Oerman beer shop. There were also all the appliances for boiling and sterilizing water. One . of the rooms had evidently been a , dormitory, the mattresses being still > there, but this was not what we had come to seek?not a corpse was to | be found. Had they, then, invented . this gruesome tale? Suddenly in the last compartment | . by the light of my smoky candle I \ s seemed to see in the partition wall of I j the mine a closed door. I pulled it! towards myself and it opened, rej leasing an odor of mushrooms, and! _ mould and a swarm of mosquitoes. A Scene of Horror. y The pale and smoky candle reveal- , , ed a horrible sight. Before me lay. g'the bodies of soldiers in every imaginable pose in which death had over''taken them with such suddenness.! . They had lain there since August, i _ 1917, some leaning against each oth-J j er, some on the back, some on the, I face, some seated, others leaning on 1 . their guns, many lying side by side seemed asleep.lt would seem as if thr? r humidity and lack of light and air had preserved the bodies?the flesh ( I was still on the hands except in cer r tain places, where it had fallen off I t and the ^bones were exposed. s The heads were still covered with , hair under the helmets, while the : wide open, -vwsre like great empty V.*ph boles, which seemed to , shrink with ..error from th? light. The spectacli. inferhal and one ! had to summon ^11 thqr force of his t soul to preserve his^equanimity and , see what he wished to see. How had , they died? What must done to pre-, vent our own men frolft a similar fate? These thoughts were strong - enough to conquer the horrible repulsion I experienced against coi^tin , luing the exploration. "The corpse of an enemy always smells good," says an old proverb of . the savages, but at the same tima I t realized that a soldier who has d ed , for his country is always worthy of respect, even when it is the case cf a country like Germany, which has treated us with the most abominable i cruelty. I wished to pass among the ; dead with reverence and to accom' plish this I prayed to the god of bat1 ties that he would accord to these J warriors the parden of their faults J towards us, and that their souls in ' respose might show their compa- j triots, still living, the folly of the ! * v.ar and of their own misdeeds. Trying Moments. e A muddy and blackish water stood j 1 over the surface of the soil in the' ~ middle of which one found groups of j |VVI IJ.^C.1 lUIIIllUg Utile IMitllUI). 1UU can imagine the pain and horror with i * | which I passed from one of these lit-1 jjtle islands to another assisting my- j .self with ends of old rails and mouldy j "I planks. To cross here it was neces- j L" sary to sfcep across a head, or an arm, or a cross formed by a leg and an arm?at one point I thought I had i arrived ?t solid ground formed of j } sacks of earth. It proved to be backs' p or loins. Perspiration poured down' e i my face, my hands were covered with] * the mould and filth of the walls, my i . clothes had touched everywhere the horrors which surrounded me. In S I spite of all my precaution my feet i had sunk in the mud and water jwltt-re for nine months the decomposition of these corpses had been in * j progress. Victims of Their Own Device. At last I arrived at the end of the tunnel, only to find it a cul-de-sac. It Djhad been completely closed by the j * I explosion of one of our largest pro-1 ^ Meet ties. This projectile had penetrat-' /jod the earth to a great depth, burst u the tunnol and spread on sill sides a e mass of ovxde of carbon, which had " asphyxiated in the most terrific man-i ? net- all those who had taken shelter; " in the tunnel. Those who had been i 1 at the end through which I had! cjinade my entrance were entirely cut! ' off from tlie outer air by the little j Hdoor, carefully closed, of which I( ^ have spoken, and must have been in-j distantly killled. This door had been f used as a protection from the gas - which they anticipated. What they sMtad looked upon as a safety device 1 1 mm?m?i i . | *BW OTV0V fl TOm# w?r? victims off an tmaUw 'i which tkqr and their Kaiser had so much admired. . 1 flimllsg m Exit. i I had been told that the tunnel i contained surgical operating rooms 1 and that I would find a surgeon in ? the act of taking off a leg, etc. I ex- b aimed thoroughly every outlet and f passage without success. You may c | imagine with whet relief 1 left this chamber of horrors and found my- r self one more in the fresh air. The I light of the morning was becoming t strong and there was considerable n danger of being discovered by the ' fa enemy. I was not willing to leave, e however, without extending my re- fa searches as far as possible. 1 had f heard that there was another entrance at the side of the first one t by which one could discover the in- o firmary. I felt that I must find it. jc A poilu in charge of a metraelleuse ii was stationed at a little distance; [t with his aid I discovered the entrance i which I wished, but this time it was'a absolutely the unknown. The en- J 1< trance was nothing but a manhole o without steps, about eight or ten me- n tres in depth and filled with water, t I saw how one might descend?simply let oneself fall in, but the ques- t tion was how to get out. The chimney fa sweep to go up the chimney helps! n himself with feet and the hands onus the sides, which is perfectly solid, p but if I had attempted to mount by,v this method the earth would have c crumbled and I should have been' 1 precipitated into the infirmary. I d should haye to invent some special t means to accomplish this descent. It t was too late then to seek for them, o The light was becoming more and a more bright. Already the balls,were r beginning to whistle and y among the broken stoner Wjf I must postpone this operatian\nd 1 a if I succeed I will tell you what I s have seen, at least for the present.~I t; shall hope to be able to send you' p some more interesting and less lug-: ubrious news?News and Courier. o ! v tlraciousness; j n One is apt. to forget in the whirl and rush of a busy life, one of the most essential attributes that go to make up the personality of a lady oH ^ gentleman, and that is graciousness. j The theory that one must be a mem-' f ber of the so-called old and aristo- j cratic family to be a gentleman or j gentlewoman has long been abandon- ' ed in this democratic land of ours, and folks are now considered gentle, ^ who live up to the part, and are not c born to it. But back to the issue. ^ These are busy times. Everybody ; is in a hurry, and it is at just such j. a period that we are most apt to for- | ^ get to be gracious to those with g whom w<j come in contact. . ~ Grs.ciousness is a necessity. It is ^ one of the strongest guides, leading ; Q mortals over the treacherous road to j success and happiness, because it! surrounds the pilgrim with most of j the things that make life worth liv- J ing, one of the most important j among which is the possession of a 1 host of friends. An ungracious per- h son has very few friends, if any at t all. 1 A gracious person is one who is e characterized by kindness, thought- o fulness and courtesy, and is disposed n to be benevolent and friendly. Any- j i: body can be gracious. It is only a e matter of whether or hot a person o thinks it is worth while. Many peo- S pie who are Irritable, and impatient.; d mainly from selfishness and weakness of character, blame their dispo- c sitions on the overworked plea of (a "nerves." This is not fair to those i v who really are suffering from a ner- v vous disease. Absent mindedness,. t also, often leads one to appear un- 1 gracious. A little self-control, a bit a of unselfishness, mixed with an aver- i< age amount of brotherly love, are 11 among the things that go to make c up the gracious person, that Individ- a ual who is respected, admired and!e iovod by the ordinary mortal, and'a who makes the bright spots in many |v a drab existence. o ! c "Ye Serpents, Ye Generation of 1 Vipers, How Can Ye Escape the i' Damnation of Hell." jc ' 11 All our business and domestic life!11 has beon upset; all our fond antici-! pations for the fututne of loved ones 1 must now be supplanted by the ever- v present realization of their danger, 11 their certain sufferings and their possible death; sorrrow and anguish v are - 'verywhere, the nation is in tur-! u moil, a land of peace has been'c suddenly transformed into a war i" machine; the daily toll of death;8 grows steadily longer and soon will ( be doubled and quadrupled and re- l' quadrupled; sorrow and breaking s Karts are everywhere. And why all this suffering and 1 sorrow, why all these breaking 1 hearts, why all this awful toll of c f d< ath and disease? Ilecause Germany for the aggran- ( di/.eiuent of its autocratic, despotic ' i ulers, and for the wealth to como from looting the world, for years 1 definitely planned to turn this peacel ul world into a hell of woe. Cold- a bloodedly these murderers set about their plans for u war upon their Mf>iir)thnru ititonHinor whnn thov Uo/1 been destroyed to push across the v sea and conquer America. They even " planned the terms for exploiting a Canada, which was to be one of the, indemnities to be paid by England. 1 The whole world has thus been j turned into a mighty armed camp; j millions have been killed, millions * have been maimed; the blind, the'0 armless, the legless will soon be in f -rn. m i - ii? ti.li* i 11 y >re uHfrttM ul Mir. Millions lotto ?tad of kw^sr nod tundreds of millions barf felt the ilaching power of sua or or deer?of food supply; hundreds of milions have for nearly four years lird in agony of heart as by day and >y night their ears are ever strained or the dreaded word of the death acme loved one. For years our Allies endured horors surpassing the wildest flight of )an:o8 imagination as he pictured he inferno, and day ' after day, uonih after month, from their ileeding hearts went forth the nevr-ceasing cry: "How long, O Lord, iow long will America sleep on in aucied security?" A r?H urhv how/i auo aIIIab <h?o uttered and why must we now give ur millions, the very flower of our ivillzation, to endure these sufferings and death in all its fearful bsrtlefield forms? Because William, the accursed, nd all Germany?not the military) eaders only, but all Germany?set ut on a prearranged campaign to murder millions in order to enrich hemselves by looting the world. These murderers, these looters, bese outragers destroyed womantood, slew hostages, shot down inLocent civilians, to protect themelves from the soldiers of the Allies iaced women and children in adance of their fighting lines, poisonid wells, Bpread disease germs, all or the purpose of making their preetermined plan of "frlghtfulness" heir greatest weapon, to maks naions tremble before the very thought f arousing German hostility. And 11 this for their own personal enichment and planned out for many ears. At last, thank God, America is wake, and never again will It lumber until those who have created his hell on earth have paid the full enalty of their "crimes. And Jesus said? "Ye serpents, ye generation of -ipers, how can ye escape" the damimtlon of helL*' Editor Manufacturers Record. o Dillon Boy After Kaiser. ..atta Observer: The following letter was thrown rom a passing train Monday and tgent Cox picked it up and presered it. Dillon. S. C., July 14th, 1918. To all my friends:?I write this or a farewell. Good bye. Off in a long trip now but will come >uck Just as soon as I can kill the ild kaiser. You cannot tell how long t will be but if we boys get on his lis trail to his hole 1*3 will have to ;o to hell for I on my way to trainng camp with a willing mind and I vill do my part with the same mind iver yonder. EARL J. JACKSON. (ew Flour, Corn and Feed Mill. We are informed by Dr. Stacktouse that his new mill will perhaps egin to operate about September um. tie nas received the boiler and ngine and also a considerable part >f his milling machinery. Five worknen from Muncy, Pa., began instating the machinery yesterday. They stimate it can be installed so as to iperate the corn and flour mill by ieptember 10th, and also the gintery. The mill will have a grain storage apacity of 20,000.00 bushels. We .re informed that the mill will be rilling to take in entire crops of cheat for storage, giving receipts for he number of pounds stored and alowing customers to get flour, shorts nd bran when it suits their convenence. The elevator will have every uodern convenience for cleaning, ooling and handling grain in storge. All stored grain will be coverd by insurance. The mill will have bin for treating any grain infested ,.:?u ...? it >ini weevjib. The corn mill will have a capaily of 45 bushels per hour and is he most up to date of its kind ever nstalled in S. C. The corn will be leaned twice before going to the uills to be ground. Both bolted and inbolted meal will be made. After teing ground the meal passes hrough a cutler steam dryer that trill remove any moisture from the ileal and will sterilize it with a steam teat of 220 degrees. In connection tith the mill a large corn sheller is eing installed for shelling and leaning corn in the shuck. The uill prefers to receive corn in the huck rather than average shelled orn as it will be much better cleaud. Corn will be taken on storage the I ante as wheat allowing customers to ;et small quantities of meal any ime to suit their convenience. The it ill will keep a large stock of bags in hand and will sell them at cost or convenience of flour and meal ustomers. When the mill is in op-i --- 1 vuatuiiivia .il l- lnviU'd to I >ring a full two horse load of corn n the shuck and leave it on storage,' letting back such quantities of meal s will suit their convenience. The molasses feed mill will be in ull operation on or before October' st. The mill will be prepared to con-1 ert corn stover into first class mule' ;nd dairy feed. There is a large J creage of corn in Dillon county I uined by dry weather which will] iroduce very little grain. If farmers will cut and shock this corn it can ?e hauled to the mill and after ;rinding be mixed with molasses, olvet beans, cotton seed meal or iats and made into a splendid stock ood. With all the tons of corn exeeaeire dry wMther boa Ity crop abort so that It to lain to bo difficult on maajr farma to mare an abundance of . rovfhigt. " \ The mill will hare capacity to grind from " one to two tona of corn atorer Into 1 fine meal per boor. Mr. M. A. Stubbs will be salos I manager for the mill. Dr. Stackhouae land Mr. Stubbs will both more their I offices to the mill about September Clt 1st.?7-25-lt. n? . of or Row to Kill the Peach Borer. jy, k an The peach tree borer, which is a Bo small white larva, causes much foi damage to the orchardlst in South qu Carolina. It bores into the body of P* the trees just below the surface of U* the ground. In many instances, the trees are completely girdled, which ?* weakened condition offers ideal con- 611 ditions for the destructive work of the shot hole borer. A simple and C. practical method of control for the *el peach tree borer is by mounding, or ** throwing up dirt around the trunks de of the trees to a height of ten or -9r[ twelve inches. *n Time?The trees should be moun- ** ded from the first to the fifteenth of July. Preparatory to mounding, a coat of trunk wash should be applied by washing the trunk of the tree from tu the branches downward. This keeps the tree in a healthy condition. and rl< repels insects and diseases. Standard Trunk Wash: Lump Lime 20 pounds Scap Whale Oil homemade 3 pounds w Sulphun 4 pounds Water 26 gallons Making the Wash?Shave the soap finely and dissolve in three gallons of hot water. Make a thin paste of sulphur and add to the soap solu- m tion, and while the lime is slaking (in half barrel) the solution of soap and sulphur is poured over it and the whole quantity is diluted to twenty five gallons, which is a sufflcent quantity to wash 2(10-300 trees, 6 to 9 years old. This wash is very inexpensive and may be easily applied by the use of a paint brush. Cc Method of Mounding ?? Pull or p, throw the earth up around the base pi of the tree to a height of ten or twelve inches, which when settled E< will be about eight inches high. This fe may be done either by the use of a T< shovel or an ordinary hoe. The trees should be examined before mounding and if there are any borers present, they should be removed by taking a knife blade and cutting out. S. W. EPPS, County Agent. | Constant readers of The Herald have not failed to notice the large re number of foreign advertisements that have appeared in The Herald's fl( columns during the past 12 months. ot The Herald has carried an unusual- of {ly large number of these advertise- ot ments and the number is increasing.- io This should be a pointer to the home di merchant. The houses that carry cl these foreign advertisements are ai among the largest and most prosper- Pi ous in America. They are rated P1 among the millions. These people are ~ not asleep. They are taking advan- n tage of these prosperous times to D advertise. They are getting a grip on the business of the country. The smaller merchant is living under the delusion that times are too prosper ous to advertise and the big mer- ot chant is shrewd enough to take advantage of this situation. Take a ^ glance over The Herald's advertis- QJ ing columns and compare the home advertisers with the foreign advertisers. You will not have to read between the lines to s^-e what we are talking about. 7Party Line The quality of ser is largely dependent i tion of the subscribers No subscriber shoi for long periods of tim elusion of others. When a party line use, hang up your re< While it is off the ho interfered with. Each neighbor on titled to a reasonable ui service, and should no have the privacy of his fered with. The Golden Rule ular force to party line lb'ben you Telepl SOUTHERN BELL TE1 AND TELEGRAPH C Fwch-SM ftoooiMi Anfced'fSr'* Out Of ttMWiwI Durtaf July "Paw the word m, ud pap It ickly, that MO of the moot edpahla, meat and Ms aoolod Christina hart the Southeastern Department for " eraeas work with the Red Triangle trees," according to Dr. W. W. Under, director of the Wfur Personnel ^ ireau, Army and Nary Y. M. n. a , 4 r the Southeastern Department Tim ota of ?00 for the department for the at month was exceeded by 12S em tments. The call now comes for executives, much business experience and spediets in all lines. No man h Ameri is too bis for the smallest Y. M. A. job "Over There." Today the iding men of the nation are mlm sring for the work: Bank preslnts, oollese presidents, offloe holdi, political leaders, relisious leaders id hundreds of corporation heads e giving sH time to the work with series's Sons in France. State recruiting committees are opa ting in the seven Southeastern ktes. Information as to the oppornities and the work can be secured rough the state recruiting secrete-1 ss, as follows: ' I Chas. M. Norfleet, Y. M O.Au. lnston-Selem, N. C. Heath Bartow, Y. M. C. A., Columa, 8. C. W. E. Hesron, Y. M. C. A., Atlanta, L o. E. Maple, Y. M. C. A., JachsonUe. Fla. Truman L McOill, Y. M. C. A., Birmingham, Ala. Dr. J. Watt Raine, Edwards Hotel, LCkson, Miss. ' F. M. Massey, Y. M. C. A.. Nashville, bbd. SUMMONS FOR RELIEF. ate of South Carolina Court of iunty of Dillon. Common Pleas ?nnle (Williams) Wingate aintiff vs. 1. Williams, et al, De-, ndant. > the Defendants: Ed. Williams, Willie Thompson, Ulyses Thompson, Cassie Thomp son, Jlmmie Thompson, Amofretee Thompson, Sam Sweeny, Henry Sweeny, Foster Williams, Alvina Nance, Rimp Nance, Addle Nance, Margaret Nance, Jim Hayes, Oraff Nance, 6 rice Nance, Money Nance, and Tuelffa Nance Worley. You are hereby summoned and quired to answer the complaint in lis action, which is on file in the ofce Clerk of Court of Common Pleas ? a. 1/uuu wuuijr uiu iu serve a copy your answer to the said complaint , i the subscriber at his office in Dil- 1 n, South Carolina, within twenty iys after the service hereof, exusive of the day of such service; id if you fail to answer the comaint within the time aforesaid, the aintiff in this action will apply to ie Court for the relief demanded this complaint. Dated at Dillon, S. C., Juy 10 A. ., 1918. JOE P. LANE. Plaintiff's Attorney. I, Jno. C. Bethea, Clerk of Court Common Pleas of Dillon County ireby certify that the foregoing is true copy of the summons in the >ove entitled action which is now i file in my office and dated July )th, 1918. JONHN C. BETHEA. Clerk of Court Common Pleas, 25-4t Dillon County. v^ounesy vice on a party line lpon the co-operaon that line. aid use a party line le, to the total exs is found to be in :eiver immediately, ok conversation is I a party line is ense of the telephone t Kp infprrnnfprl nr K v AtA WVi 1 C4^/tVVA V/* j conversation interapplies with partictelephone service. 'one?Smile LEPHONE OMPANY W&P / 0 ' V