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English Lady Writes of Experi ences in Roumania. Veritable inferno When OM Fterdi Were Destroyed-Russian Soldiers Pillage While Their Comman der is Occupied Elsewhere. I had not thought that we could pos sibly enter Into a new phase of horror, tmt it was horn on Boxing day, when the first whispers reached us of the destruction of the oil fields. Frankly, we had, each and every one of us. com pletely forgotten the oil ! A man, a friend of ours, drove up in a motor, streaked with grime, weary and dead to the world. After lunch he started to tell his story, fortified by a big dgar. He had been one of a party who went out alone to the petrol city to destroy. No one would give them help, and he told us wonderful ac counts of the scenes which he had wit I ?essed. The first step had heen to capture every single man and hoy who knew anything about the petrol plans and deport them bodily to .Moldavia, 80 that the Germans should find no skilled workmen to utilize to their own profit. And then a few pairs of ^Imnds sufficed to crumble and lay in ashes' what many ijunrjreds_of brains bad worked" to b??hl First they broke ? up all the machinery-the how of the j happening is immaterial ; the most j primitive and, brutal weapons^ served them best. Then they poured benzine .troon the roofs of factories down their walls and set them alight, they dug trenches round the vats and started blazing channels of flame "toward the; reservoirs; These blew up each in {fffn. j and soot rind flames made of what had been "sunlight an eternal night where ; the fire king went mad. Town by town j saw the destroyers come to let hell ; loose, and factory after factory wrlth-1 ed in a death agony of twisted Iron to ?end jets of poison fumes after the four small flying motor cars. The de vastation left by a retreating army lay before them, turmoil of an enemy drunk with success stirred In the wind gusts that fed the flames from the south. One can hardly credit the fact that those few little men have so ef- ! fectually accomplished what they set I out to do that it will be six months be- j fore the Germans can squeeze a drop of petn.1 from the saturated earth. ! In our English haspital there Is a j man who has had his foot amputated. '? He lay pinned under a burning car. A j hatchet was brought by a doctor to a French officer standing near, and the j doetor said : "Do lt if you can ; I have no instruments and feel paralyzed." ? The Frenchman did the thing in the whole horror of the sunlight, whilst ? the Russian privates who were his | charges took advantage of the oppor toniry and pillaged private passenger j luggage on the train !-Lady Kenuard in The North American Review. I ^king Shrapnel. New inventions have been made by Americans, and American machine tools for shell making have been sent to Europe and are used In the factories there. The number of shells of shrap nd made in this country is almost be yond computation. Long before we en tered the war our different factories were turning out hundreds of thou sands of shrapnel a week, and lt was due to this demand for munitions that enabled us to turn out the big product we are now making. This is so not only of shrapnel, but of powder and explosives of ali kinds. Before the war one company was making about 400. ?00 pounds of military powders per no num. another was turning out SOC J2-inch shells per day, and a third ?aking CO0.000 loaded time fuses a mouth. The orders of the allies ran toto n vi ny hnndreds of millions of dol lars and it is said that almost S2.000, 100,000 worth of war supplies were contracted for by J. P. Morgan & Co. ?lone. Tragedy of French Trees. Broken homes, ruined factories, ?battered churches, violated graves, It bod seemed to me we had nmg all the changes on the destruction of war. But there remained one-the tragedy .f the trees. You can rebuild houses, churches, towns even-for that takes , cnly money. But you can't rebuild or chards of fruit trees and avenues of great shade trees-for that takes time. We were seeing them everywhere now -orchards with trees that were hut faded, shriveled hunches of brown ieaves lying on their sides; orchards, where these had been cleared away, that showed nothing but white-topped stumps. They say that, when the warm spring came, some of these or chard trees, lying on their sirios but not wholly severed, leafed gently and then-just before they died-bloomed once again for France.-Inez Haynes Irwin in McClure's Magazine. Bill's Occupation. The Actor-What has become of your brother Bill Tho Actress-Brother Bill Oh! he's a "beauty doctor." Makes real blondes tn 20 minutes. The Actor-Blondes, eh? H'm! I suppose he is doing a fair business. He Was Sure of lt. First Dog Fancier-This dog used to belong to a woman. Second Dog Fancier-How do you know? First Dog Fancier-It stops in front ?f all the store windows. "THE CLASSICS!" By CORA EVANS SANBORN. "Why, this war ls a mere incident to this glorious conutry!" debared Joel Burgess. '"I laugh at the idea of any other hoping to beat us," and the boisterous speaker voiced an echoing laugh that went clear through n listen ing guest, a traveling salesman, so hearty and spontaneous was the guf faw. "That may be your view of it," mournful aud sedate retorted Wyat Mills, "but I look at the awful condi tion of affairs-bloodshed, devasta tion, coming starvation! We'd better be weeping over the prospect than gloating over the miseries of man kind." and the speaker smothered an actual sob in his throat and with that Burgess left the hotel. "Regular characters of the town, eh?" submitted the interested guest. "You've hit it exactly," replied the landlord with animation. "They're a pair, I tell you! Burgess is laughing half the time. Mills Is constitutional ly down In the dumps." "Why, man," observed the guest, "those two men are absolute ?lass ies!" .^What's that?" inquired the land lord. ?.ftWfewfej ?j.r^'- . - ^WeM, once there were two Roman philosophers^-Heraclites" and Demo critus, of whom your two friends who have Just left us are very fair proto types. Heraclites was the optimist Pi the world, who considered lif? a vast joke and humanity j^_l?t of curios. On the contrary Democritus mourned eon tinually about the wretchedness of the world, and went arotind expound ing the theory of constant tears as the correct trend for the thinker and philosopher." t-JBKatfg&aSs&ssr - "That ?nt? this case, doesn't it?" grinned the landlord. "I've often won dered-for neither Burgess nor Mills is a? old man, just turned thirty what kind of husbands they'll make If they don't get Just the kind of women they ought to have-that is. suited to their peculiar make up." Judgine from the persistency with which Burgess and Mills had kept away from the opposite sex. the ma jority of their friends and acquain tances had long since concluded that they would drift into a natural bach elorhood. John Pohle, n wealthy widower, died and in his will named Mary and Janet Wilder, his orphan nieces. In a very handsome way. He left them the old mansion where he had lived for many years and enough additional in Investments to Insure a comfortable provision for life. There was quite a flutter In the quiet village at the ad vent of the two sisters. Mary, plump and Jolly, was the elder. Her sister, Janet, was thin and tall and of j a quiet, reticent nature. Both possessed good looks, and somehow suggested In their opposite natures, the one laugh ing, smillnff. Burgess, and the o|her the pessimistic, gloomy Mills. "Just your match. Mills, that Janet." remarked the hotel landlord one day. "As to you. Burgos?." added the Jo- I vial boniface. "Miss Mary Is your true counterpart," hut neither Burgess nor Mills encouraged further discussion of 1 the theme of the moment. They look ed askance at one another and when they got outside the hotel Burgess, with a searching look at Mills, ob served : "People are beginning H> learn that we go down to the Wilder place a good deni. I reckon." "Well, don't we?" quizzed MTMs, sus picion in his eye as ho returned the glaneo of Burgess. "For a fact. yes. Imt remember we have to," reminded Burgess. "The ladies veqniro our servi res ki malting the repairs on the old house." "It was i?fter work-ins botan wben you wat down there Saturday even ing." "Ye?, and you wasn't on hartness when yon spent Sunday afternoon ?here. Miss Janet, yocr hostess, I in fer? You pair are like two peas," de elnrod Burgess. All the town expressed TOS? ment when rt became known that Mills, tho pessimist, was en-aged to Mary, and fhat the optimist, happy-go lucky Burgees, had ehosen sedate, smlleless Janot as his life partner. Tho happy four celebrated the dou ble wedding, went away on a bridal tour, roturned and settled down to tho enjoyment of Ufe in a pleasant, har monious way. Six months after that the same toro mercial traveler who had discussed Burgess and Mills as bachelors chanced to he again a guest at the .ho tel. As an automobile containing the recently married Burgess and Mills and their wives sped by, he asked: "That our friends, Heraclites and Democritus?" "Sure thing!" responded the land-j lorri. "Queer, isn' It? Burgess looks a trifle graver than he used to, eh? And Mills bricht as a dollar. That was a funny match." "How so?" "Well. Mary, whom Mills married, had lived with society relatives m the city and had been so much In a whirl of fun and excitement that she just longed for a quiet life." "And took to Democritus." "Precisely. Janet had led a lonely life with an old aunt in the country and craved the animation of which Mary had a surfeit. Well, sir. Janet toned down our jolly Burgess, and Mary roused np our pessimistic Mills, until al! hands struck a happy mean of temperament. Result-entire har mony and happiness. Queer world, eh?" MADE POINT BY PARABL? Chancellor Quick to See Truth in Tiki Related to Him by Wander ing Traveler. Lee, the chancellor of the kingdom of Hun, waa plotting to murder 4he king. Su. a wandering traveler, came to visit him, and Introducing himself as follows: "Your humble servant, Su, wretf?ied and poverty-stricken, possessing not . even a feeble horse and an old buggjt has left his aged parents at home, tramped through the dust, braved the frost and snow, crossed River Tsaro with the sole purpose of seeing you and offering you humble advice. Will you give him the privilege of speaking to you?" The chancellor, knowing the speak er's intent, answered maliciously: "Any word about men I ara tired of listening to. But if you can tell me something about ghosts and spirits, I will be overjoyed to hear you." "That is Just what I would like to tell about slr." returned Su, and he continued : "When I was tramping on my way here I lost my direction one night In a lonely forest. Weary and exhausted, I could find no place to rest. I had no blanket, no mattress, only a chilly, misty vapor wrapped around me. I hid myself In the tall grass. By my side stood a bulky tomb. Faintly I heard a quarrel between a wooden doll and a clay doll as to which was the superior In quality. The clay floH_ droned the following argument: " 'I am molded1 out of claT. If. per chance. I am ruined by swift wind or j hjttpj; nmi. I can return to ju y home, I to Mother EarTru But as for yoi you i are carved out of the branch of a tree. You have been severed frorn^ your pwp root. When ymTface swift wind or bitter rain, you will be thrown into the Tsarn river, carried eastward to the sea, to the ocean. Then where will be your abiding place? You will float and drift for eternity.' "I, the traveler, listened and won dered, and felt that the clay doll was without question the winner of the dispute. "Now, your honor is plotting against the king and the royal family. Do you realize that you will kill off your own root and destroy the very founda tion of your power?" "Remain with me over night, and I will talk some more to you to-mor row," said tlie chancellor, nfter a moody reflection.-C. Y. Tang, In Chinese Students Monthly. Aztec Relics Unearthed. Announcement of the recovery of 70,000 specimens of prehistoric Aztec ; civilization from the famous "Aztec ruin" in the Amas valley In northwest ern New Mexico has been made by the : American Museum of Natural History, j Work of excavation has been In prog-1 ! ress since the summer of 1916, funds for which have been provided by Ar cher M. Huntington and J. P, Morgan. The scene of the exploration was once a typical pueblo, or great forti fied house and village, and although the work of unearthing the hidden j treasu^s is only partly completed, I what has thus far been found within j the crumbling walls so long hidden ! from human view has exceeded, lt ls j said, the most sanguine hopes of the investigators. Necklaces of shell and tortoise, agate knives, pottery vessels of various | forms and ornamentation, cotton cloth j j and woven sandals are among the finds j \ reported by N. C. Nelson, assistant i j curator of the museum and Earl H. Morris, to charge of the exploring party. Enough masonry in the ruin was un covered to have built a wall half way i from New York to Philadelphia. Wished the Spikes Also. The wife of a thrifty Western farmer had worked very, very hard for many, many years, depriving herself not only of all luxuries, but of many eomforts. "Foolishness." she had termed snob things. But the mail order catalogue In which father was interested had caught her eye-or was lt her neighbor's new bonnet? Some change had come 'over her ideas of what constituted "foolishness," and she nstonishod father one morning by announcing she was going to town to buy a hat. Arriving at a millinery store she sur prised the clerk who came forward to wait on her by asking: ".' want to know who's runnln' this hei<; joint?" "I am at present," the clerk re sponded. "Well, what I want to know Is, If I buy a fine hat here, will you throw in the spikes?"-Indianapolis Star. Their New Home? Who says there ts difficulty In find ing quarters In Washington? There is n colored family In this town that recently disagreed with It self. Mrs. Jones-we call her that decided to leave Sam Jones, so sh? took the seven children and left sud denly one day for her old Virginia home. Sara suddenly found himself bereft. It cannot be said that Sam mourned. Fact Is, he was pleased. That was why he mourned when he read the following post card one morn ing: "Meet your family at Union Station at 4 :15."-Washington Star. Up in the Air. "You were yelling in your sleep last night." "Yes. I dreamed dat I was float- i lng around in de sky." "Why, dat ought to have been a pleasant dream." "No; I dreamed I was run over by ; an airship." GRIZZLY BROOKS NO RIVAL Testimony of Hunters Proves That Hi ls Beyond Question Supreme in His Own World. The grizzly was once the monarch of the Western ranges, says Walter Prichard Eaton, in Harper's Magazine. Nothing disputed his title till man came with the rifle. Of man the griz zly now has a most intelligent fear, ex cept in places where he is protected and fed. Fierce and formidable fighter that he ls, he doesn't fight man unless he ls driven to it, but with the keem ness of his tribe (the bear is one of the most intelligent of beasts) he avoids danger so far as possible, and has de veloped much cleverness at it The testimony of all Western hunt ers agrees on the great caution a griz zly uses before crossing an open or ap proaching a dead horse qr cow put out for halt, frequently charging all the bushes around to drive out possible foes ir^ ambush as a preliminary to feeding. That the mountain lion is a real foe of the bears our hunter -de nied. The mountain cat is a coward. Once, he said, he had put out a dead horse for their bait, and watched from a tree two lions feeding on the carcass. A grizzly (called a silvertip by the hunters) approached, shouldered in be tween the lions and began to feed also. As one fat grizzly can take up consid erable room the lions resented this third party at the feast and drew oft snarling. Then one of them came back and evidently clawed the Intruder or hit lt. The bear, which had one fore paw employed, swung with theother_, caught the Hon a tremendous TiTo^and knocked him 50 feet down the slope^ TJien Mr. Silyertlp resumed his repast as>j?jaotlmig harJ happened. He did not even look around to see how far the lion fell or what he was going to do.when he got up. Evidently the_bear felt quite sure of his position. He was justifica in this confidence, for the lion rose and with his mate sulked, snarl ing, off into the timber. The man who told this story had been a mountain hunter from boyhood, and he is, furthermore, an uncommon ly sharp observer whose knowledge has been more than once employed by the federal government. There is no rea son to doubt the accuracy of his tale, which seems to bear out the statements of other hunters that the grizzly is su preme in his own world, even con temptuously so. Hero of Naval Disaster. The man with the smile and the' cheery word, the one who can lift the j spirits of his fellows in the hour of j danger-here ls the man of heroism. And It is for just this quality that i praise Is given to Lieut. John K. Rich-1 ards, U. S. N., who was one of the i officers on the torpedo destroyer Jacob ! Jones. The reports of her sinking brought a thrilling story of ber com mander, her officers and bis men, of their bravery and loyalty to the last moment, all equal to the best tradi tions of the American navy. Lieut. Richards, the gunnery officer, was left1 in charge of all the rafts. At this post lt was noticed that through all the or deal he was cool and cheerful, putting heart into the men about him and mak ing them all more Able to stand the strain. Lieut. Richards is a native of Ironton, O.. and was horn In 1S91. He entered the naval academy in 1907, and five years later was made ensign. In 1915 he became a junior lieutenant and was temporarily appointed lieuten ant In 1917. STAND ALONE Terrible Suffering From Headache, Sidesche, Backache, and Weak ness, Relieved by Cardo, Says This Texas Lady. Gonzales, Tex.- Mrs. Minnie Phil pot, of this plaee, writes: "Five yean ago I, was taken with a pain in my left side. It was right under my left rib. It would commence with an aching and extend up into my left shoulder and on down into my back. By that time the pain would be BO severe I wo^ld have to take to bed, and suffered usually about three days ... I suffered this way for three years, and got to be a mere skeleton and was so weak I could hardly stand alone Was not able to go anywhere and had to let my house work. go...I Buffered awful with a pain in my back and I had the headache all the time. I just was unable to do a thing. My life was a misery, my stomach got In an awful condition, caused from taking so much medicine- I suffered BO much pain. I had just about given up all hopes of our getting anything to help me. One day a Birthday Almanac was thrown in my yard. After reading its testimonials I decided to try Car dui, and am so thankful that I did, for I began to improve when on the second bottle...! am now a well woman and feeling fine and the cure has been permanent for it has been two years since my awful bad health. I will always praise and recommend Cardui." Try Cardui today. S 78 NOTICE TO STOCK RAISERS. I take this means of notifying the public that I have sold my stock cow. I appreciate the patronage of the past, and hope that condi tions will be such that I can keep ] another stock cow some future time. ALFRED COVAR. I e Fertilizers for 1918 We beg to announce that we are now ready to deliver fertilizers for this season, having secured a liberal supply which we nave on hand in our warehouses ready for delivery. Haul your fertilizers now while vou eau get your supply. Do not wait until there is congestion of freights, when you cannot get goods shipped. Armour. Swifts and Koyster our spe cialty. Mixed goods with potash, mixed goods without potash. 16 per cent, acid; 26 per cent, acid, cotton seed meal. ? The Edgefleld Mercantile Co. F. E. GIBSON, President^ LANSING B. LEE, Sec. and Treas The Best Time to ? Build is Now Free booklets on Silos, Barns, Implement Houses, Residences, etc., with suggestions of great value. Also "Ye Planary' ' service through the Lumber Exchange of Augusta. Ask for further information if interested. The service is with out cost. Woodard Lumber Co. 'Phone - - 158 AUGUSTA - - - - GEORGIA Quality MOTTO Service -1 m 1MMM 'yft'w-yfiTMirWfir.B'filtr-'T Coorrirht 1909. br C. ?. Zimmerman Co.-No. 51 THERE is no doubt about money in the bank, it is sure and positive. Maybe slow, but there is the satisfaction that it is sure. Posi tive in every way, both that it will grow, and that it is safe. BANK OF EDGEFIELD OFFICERS : J. C. Sheppard, President; B. E.'Nicholson, vice-President 3. J. Mims, Cashier; J. H. Allen. Assistant Oashier. DIRECTORS : J. C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, B. E Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins. C. C. Fuller. E. J. Mims. J. H. Allen