Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, May 08, 1918, Page TWO, Image 2
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
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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
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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