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AT HOMK IX A TKKXCH. How Soldiers lave in I fitches From r Which War is Fought. I wonder how many people have a j mental picture of the trendies which}' is at all like the real thins. 1 have j1 seen photographs of men standing in ' a trench behind a covering line o? i' .mangel wurzels, or was it beet-root?)' ?which are true enough, but hardly \l characteristic. No doubt many peo-11 pie imagine the trenches to be a regu-!( lar and formidable series of earth- j' works which turn a whole valley in- [1 to a sort of fortress. They have 1 heard all sorts of elaborations which 1 get mentioned in letters not because they are characteristic, but just be- 1 cause they are peculiar. As a matter nf fnr-t the* snrnrisins' thine' ahont ' the trenches is that, like everything 1 etee in. war, they make so little dif- 1 ference to the normal appearance of ( the landscape until you get quite 1 close to them. If an invisible war- 1 farer could walk past them during ' the day he might very easily get through without noticing anything peculiar unless an artillery bombard- ; ment happened to be going on. Rifle fire and attacks are nearly all at dawn or dusk or night. He would have to be invisible, for any visible i wayfarer near the trenches would, of i course, be sniped. A few do make i their way to and fro?orderlies with messages mostly, who creep along ' ditches and dash across exposed in- ; tervals. Every evening a little party ( of men and mules goes to a point as near as it dare to the battalion and takes shelter behind a house or a wall, where it is met by one or two < men of each company to take the daily rations back to the trenches. Every evening, too, the stretcherbearers make their way into the trenches and remove the men who i have been wounded during the day. , And every evening all these men are "sniped" at by the enemy as they go ' about their work. As you approach the trenches in the dusk th.e lack of ] anything abnormal to the whole aspect of things is, of course, even more deceptive than by day. And know- i ing as one does that one is within a few yards of two lines of men which extend from the seacoast to Switzzerland, the blank appearance of every- i thing is tinglingly suggestive. You are walking along an ordinary country road. You have just passed the house ; where the medical officer and his assistants have taken up their quarters and whence they pass on the wounded by motors to the field ambulance. A couple of days ago he had a house further up the road, but he was shelled out of it. You pass other houses?you are walking crouched 1 in the ditch by this time. By day you would notice that many of these houses have holes in them and that there are patches of tiles wanting in the roof, but by the evening light they look quite normal, except that the windows are lit up in none of them. Cattle and fowls wander about over the fields and across the road. They look quite normal, though in daylight you would see that the cows have net been milked and the fowls are starving. By daylight, too, you might notice here and there in a field a cow that had been struck by a shell and killed, or another?poor beast? that had been merely wounded. It wa6 to put such a one out of its pain that an officer of ours crept out of his trench the other morning and was killed as he crawled back. A lit lie lurmer ?LIU jl>u maai iwi come upon the trenches themselves at a point where they chance to touch the road. The reserve trenches these will probably oe, and they have perhaps just been lined by a battalion that has marched out to be in support during the night in expectation of an attack, and will march back before sunrise in the morning. They are, maybe, an Indian cavalry regiment, which has never yet had a chance of fighting on horseback and can contribute only in this way to the defence. From your ditch by the roadside will probably be a communicating trench to the first of these reserve trenches, and from here, if the entrenchments have been in existence for some time, you will be able to get to every point, not only in the reserve trenches, but the fire trenches, too, without putting your head above the ground. Walking in slush (here ana tnere moainea oy siraw or untivs thrown down,) rubbing clay onto your shoulders from either wall of the narrow passage, you may pass along a whole series of reserve trenches, which seem to be deserted, unless you lift up one of the pieces of canvas fixed against the wall and see a silent Indian cavalryman curled up in his little niche. It will be for many reasons a tortuous way before you arrive at the fire trenches or at the colonel's little "dug-out." First] of all, because the communicating trenches are planned in every sort of zigzag and curl and twist, to be as little as possible end-on to the enemy and so enfiladed. The colonel's headquarters, for instance, is entered from the back, and ITT SALT IX HIS COFKKK. hick of Wife Arouses Sympathy 01 Judge for Man on Trial. The fact that his wile put salt ii lis coffee saved Jacently Blvstack. ; lative of Poland, from being finei uid imprisoned today. His wife tes ified in the municipal court that lie jroke up things generally at hom< ?nd always ended escapades by say ng he would kill her. Matters look ?d dark for him until his sons Stan ey and Frank, admitted that theii lioiher and Vincent Kossock, a son n-law, placed salt in their father": offee. "They did what?" asked Judg< Churchman in surprise. When the testimony was repeatec ;he judge settled back in his chai1 n a way that showed his sympathy 'or the husband. He adjourned th< ;ase until tomorrow with a state nent that if the police surgeon pro lounces Bylstack sane he will be re leased.?New York Herald. ASKS ABOUT LIQUOR DEALERS Inquires of Charleston Mayor i They Still ()|>erate. Columbia. .May 1.?Governor .Man [ling today forwarded Mayor John P Grace, of Charleston, a list of liquoi Sealers in that city, and asked him i these were out of business or not The governor says that he has no yet received the promised statemen of the Charleston mayor, givinj names and places of liquor dealer: which the mayor has proceede* against, and "in view of the laps* of time I am forced to the conclusioi that you are unwilling to give m< said statement." says the governor': letter to Mayor Grace. The governor mailed the letter t< the Charleston mayor this afternoon and attached to it was a list of ; number of Charleston liquor dealers The list was not given out. A cop; of the letter to the mayor was mad* public here this afternoon: May 1, 1915. Hon. John P. Grace, Charleston, S C. Dear Sir: I have not yet ha* from you promised statement givini names and places of liquor dealer you have proceeded against. In viev of the lapse of time I am forced t< the conclusion that you are unwillinj to give me said statement. Please advise me if your actio* against liquor dealers listed belov have resulted in their quitting th< liquor business. Very truly yours. RICHARD I. MANNING, Governor. approached by a trench which twist around behind it. Moreover, the lin< of the fire trenches is broken at in tervals by traverses?also to protec against possible enfilading?and con nected by little semi-circular trenche which skirt around the solid interva of earth. But the way will be tor tuous for other reasons. The whol line of the two armies is tortuous be yond the suspicions of a reader wh< sees it twist a little along the fron tier, but suppose it will be straigh enough for a half mile. Losses :?or and iains there are partly a cause o 'his, but much more is the Tact tha the whole seri.ss of trenches is de veloped from a skillful use of na*ura conditions. Sometimes the trench i merely a ditch which has been deep ened. At other limes the ad.spfatioi of a pit or a hollow makes it 10 fee deep, and the met? have to climb u nn ledires to fire out of it. Here an there the connecting trench become a tunnel, by haviug been roofed ir At other places a convenient bus or hedge affords cover which ha enabled quite a little cavern to b dug under its protection. Though the hardship is sever enough, the men manage to mak themselves more comfortable tha might be supposed. They have chai coal braziers, which help to kee them warm, and there is even talkserious talk?of installing electri light. The adjutant has made quit a little office of his "dug-out," an pin6 up notes and orders and tel< grams onto the clay wall in front c him. When the trenches have bee in existence long enough there communication everywhere, thoug it is often difficult to squeezze b; and as for sleep?well, you can tah a little of that as soon as the shellin starts, for you know there will n< be an attack till that i6 over! Tt only thing you can hardly anywhei do is to stand up. If you try "ping" almost at once, and you ai lucky if you only get your face spu tered with mud. And just out thei ?sometimes only 50 yards awaytVio'p ara fnVinp' the same nrecautioi about all of us, and peeping with tl same curiosity. And between tl lines is 50 yards of ordinary fiel where no one dare venture by da and only at imminent danger 1 night. In that 50 yards is now lyii one of our officers, killed in la I night's attack. Tonight we hope get him back, but today we can bi peep at him. His hand is hangii down, and on his wrist is his watc It is still going, and from where v are we can see the time. | TK.U'E BACK TO JIXOLK FOWL. I' Domestic Birds Come From Kast In dia Stock. j j Charles Darwin, in his Animals j1 and Plants," says that all breeds oi j! domestic fowls came oroginally fron .'one wild variety, known as the Jnn? gle Fowl, whose home was in India s from where it wandered or was car ried over the East, there getting new J developments through tnatings, anc .'new characteristics by reason of va r nations in climate, feeding, care, etc . i When any slight abnormality appear j i ed, such as a thick crest or frizzled j feathers, the bird was probably kepi J as a breeder, out of pure love of nov j elty. Or breeds would deteriorat( j j and show marked loss from the origi r! nal type. Or a strange freak, say o . feet or ear-lobe or an excess of toe ? would appear and would be final!: . accepted as a new breed. The Ro .! mans, 1S centuries ago. valued ? I bird with white ear lobes; also wit! j a fifth toe. Then nature stepped ir occasionally, and, where some orgar * j or part was not used for a long per ! iod, she simply abandoned it as ? f part of the bird?much as fish, bori and living in the Mammoth Cave have no eyes. They do not need eyes "I It seems strange, but it is true ' j that selection and select mating wa: "j practiced ages ago, and by barel: r j civilized races of men. The Romans * | at the opening of the Christian era H kept six or seven breeds of fowls. Ii 1 j China' in the fifteenth century, sever ' j varieties or breeds are recorded. "j . So the chicken is an old-time bird * i though it is not mentioned in th< - \ Old Testament, nor figured on th< 1J early Egyptian monuments, nor re ~ j ferred to by Homer, who lived abou s 900 B. C. It is first mentioned b? Aristophanes, a writer who lived ii 5 the years between 400 and 500 B. C There seems to be much fog on tin 1 whole subject, but our domestic chicken probably was taken to Eu ^ rope from China or India. - The fowl of today has little in com mon with the early Jungle Fowl either in appearance, voice, fertilit: or habits. Under man's domestica * tion he has become more beautiful * more fertile, improved in every way 5 The early fowl was wild, a fighter ' and used its wings more freely thai 5 do its successors. The game of oui * time has probably more of the sam< characteristics with the Jungle Fow 1 than any breed now existing. i' , e NEW GEORGETOWN EDITOR. ("apt. L. B. Steele Takes "Command1 of the Times. ? . s Georgetown, May 1.?The George e town Times has a new editor. Unti . two weeks ago Col. H. F. Oliver edit I eel mis paper, ana upuu uis icmc . ment R. C. Davis, publisher, looke< s after editorial work. A permanen 1 editor in the person of Capt. L. B Steele has been selected, and Capt e Steele has entered upon his duties The selection is a happy one. Capt 0 Steele is a well equipped man, i . graduate of the Citadel, thoroughl; 1 conversant with public questions, am e wields a facile pen. f Glendale Spring Water deliverer 1 at house for 50 cents per five-galloi ~ bottle by J. A. Murdaugh.?adv. s ESTATE OF J. A. MURDAUGH. ?n All persons having claims agains I said estate will present them duly at _ tested and all persons indebted there P n-m rnai-o nnvmPTit to the under d signed at Bamberg, S. C. s MAMIE MURDAUGH, , 5-6 Executrix. JOHN F. FOLK e REAL ESTATE, STOCK, BONDS e Real Estate for Sale. n 160-acre farm. 2 miles from Ban r" berg. p 94-acre farm near Midway. ~ 290-acre farm near Hunters Chappe |C 1 house and lot. Bamberg, 4 room e 1 house ai d lot, Bamberg, 6 room; ^ 8 vacant lots, different parts c ~~ Bamberg. )f 290-acre farm near Ehrhardt. n 2 dwellings and lots in Ehrhardt. IS 4 vacant lots in Ehrhardt. ^ 2 desirable lots in Denmark. 1% e Stocks and Bonds for Sale. 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