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WAR TALKS By UNCLE DAN Number Four 1_ Military Training Necessary for Safety and Defense. "Say, Uncle Dan," said Billie, "Jim mie and I have been looking up about war In the encyclopedia at school. We found that In the war between Ger many and France In 1870-71, Germany lost In killed and wounded 28,000 sol diers while France lost about six times an ninny, and besides that, she lost every battle. We asked Professor Slo cum why this was. Ho said that the German army was highly trained and . ably commanded, while the French soldiers were poorly trained; and that their war department was honey combed with jealousy and politics; that the officers were not much good, and that's why France lest' the war and so many men. What do you think about it, Uncle Dan?" "Well," said Uncle Dan, "Professor r Slocum ls right. By Inefficiency France ? lost that war, together with twp of her best provinces-Alsace and Lor raine-and bad to pay a billion dol lars Indemnity money. France todny learned her lesson by that sad expe rience, so she put In universal military training, and as a result, her soldiers now know how to fight and how to ?protect themselves. They are losing less men in the war than the Germans. France also put politics out of her war department, so that expert authority, Instead of bureaucratic stupidity, now directs the army. The result is, .France hus one of the best and most . 'efficient armies every assembled, and .this shown what thorough training and good leadership means in warfare. This saved France In this crisis, as well as the liberties of the world." I "As war ls now conducted, there is no place for an untrained man. A body of 10,000. well trained soldiers (properly handled could defeat five " times their number of raw recruits and do lt every time with comparatively ?mail loss to themselves. Proper train ing-alone will reduce the death and casualty rate one-third of what lt oth erwise would be, and right here lt an jLinsnowcrable argument for universal if "military training. "Our government has no moral right to force her men into war service without properly training them for lt. To do so is simply murder, hence the 'frantic effort that ls now being made to give her soldiers some training be fore they are sent to the front. U we ^ art io win this war, lt will 'ake trained mon to do ii, and it .?ld luke trained men to win any other, wer tha'i rajujr octne upoit US lp th< tVt n e. li. we MUSI fight, let ur. tight ;o win nud not to l?se." i '"That's the stuff," said Billie. ' Continuing, Undo Dan said: "Our ? government has expended about $300, 000,000 to put up cantonments and training stations In order to train the men called by thc selective draft s When these men ore trained the train ing stations should be Immediately filled with younger men, say those in their nineteenth year, to receive six . months of Intensive military traln ^ lng along the Hues of the Chamberlain bill. Tbis will be of immeasurable benefit to them individually. It will do them more good than any other two years of their whole life ; lt will make them strong, manly, self-reliant, quick to see nnd quick to act; lt will equip 4 them for a successful life. In short, lt will rebuild American manhood nod will also give the government a body of 'trained men to draw from In case lt ls necessary to defend our flag and country. We must settle this question of universal military training imme diately, otherwise these training comps may be'demolished. The adoption of W universal military training will be no tice to the world that from then on we will be prepared to d?fend our selves promptly and efficiently, and this will do more to keep us out of war In the future than anything else we could do." ^ *TDo you think, brother," said Mrs. W Graham, "that there will ever be an other war?" "I have no doubt about it," said Uncle Dan. "So long as men are selfish, so long as nations are ambi tious to acquire territory, so long as population presses and demands more j, room, so long ns there remains a scramble for world trade-so long wars will be. When the time comes that we reach the high plane for which wo hope and dream, when all will recog nize the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, then, and then ^ only, will wars cense. When that day 7 comes doors will need no locks, banks will need no vaults to protect their treasures, but thut day is a long way off. "The only safe and sane plan is to be able to defend ourselves, nt all times. Therefore, every citizen should insist that senators and congressmen ,j>hnll provide for universal military braining, so that never again shall the country bo caught so completely un ready as this war found us. For tunately, In this case, our enemy has been held back, sb we have had a few months in which to prepare. This ad vantage probably will never come ?galn. It is however our salvation today. "Because she was ready, Switzerland ls an island of peace in a sea of war. Safety first is good, but safety always ls bettor. In strength there ls Safety. You never saw a tin can jjlod to thc tall of a bulldog. Them we a tcuoon." i SO MUCH IO 1 HER BOYS AND GU MBS, CA TH IO Y TKIJ'IJS OF RESULTS TAX LAO GAVE. M IT SURE 18 FINE." Anderson Woman Says Site ls'.'Glad to Recommend it Publicly." "1 am glad to recommend Tanlac to th? public, for it bas done so much to give back health to my boys and girls and other relatives, lt sure is a line medicine," deotnred Mrs. Jose phine Cathey, of No. 12 It street, An derson, in a statement she gave May 2 5th. Her husband, a daughter, a son and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ca-* they said, had all been greatly helped by Tanlac. "My husband suffered from indi gestion and he was troubled a lot with headaches, and also his appe tite was bad. Ho complained fre quently of being weak and run-down. My daughter, Mattie, had about the same trouble her father did-indi-, gestion, nervousness and terrible hoadaches. Mr. Cathey thinks Tan lac ls a mighty line medicine, for it helped hint so much. 'Now he never complains of the trouble for which he took Tanlac, and Tanlac got him in fine shape. Tho Tanlac Just made a now person of my daughter Mattie and soon had her In fine health. It sure ls one more good remedy. One of my married boys and his wife also took Tanlac and it' helped them a lot." Tanlac, the master medicine, is sold exclusively by Bell's Drug Store, Walhalla; J. C. Cain. Oak way; Sa lem Drug Co., Salem; Seneca Phar macy, Seneca; Stonecypher Drug Co., Westminster; Hughs & Dendy, Richland.-Adv. CAMP MONEY RECOVERED. Capt, Whistler Got Over $00,000 From Dank-Mid it lu Quarters. Camp Funston, Kan., Jan. 16. The money taken from the army bank-, at Camp Funston oy Capt. Lewis Whistler last Friday night, af ter he had killed four employees and Injured a fifth, said to have been more than $62,000, was found to-day hidden in the walls of Whistler's quarters in the barracks here. The money, in currency, was found stored in a hiding place Capt. Whis tler evidently had" propared for it. Its discovery, it was said, probably closes the case, as- far as the theory that Whistler had an accomplice. Two notes which it is alleged Whls I tier wrote before ho committed t il leide, \ve>" nmphft tho. things found j in l\(s room. <.i was iVii'l here. Due . noto previously Riven out said thal he had "made a reason" for killing himself. Another, according to reliable in formation, was addressed-to a young woman and read: "Don't blame yourself In any way. I simply got tired of living and thought I would become a pirate right. I came very near committing suicide so many times and I hated to do so without staking it on some thing. As for the consequences, that lt nothing but what wo are all trained for. Hope you can soon forget me and realize how lucky you were to escape me." Standing by Government, Atlanta, Jan. 17.-At a meeting of the leading merchants to-day lt was decided to pay employees for the holiday Mondays ordered ty the na tional fuel administration, the same as other days. The merchants pledg ed themselves to abide by all rules prescribed hy the administration. Representatives of industrial con cerns declared an effort will be made to furnish work to employees not necessitating tho use of fuel during the five days enforced shut-down. Six Killed; Titre?? Injured. Washington, Jan. 17.-Six men were killed and three injured by a falling cago on a mast on the United States ship Michigan, when the ship was caught in a heavy gale at sec, lt. was officially announced to-day. Free Flower Seed Hastings' Catalogue Tells You About lt No matter whother you farm on a largo scalo or only plant vegetables or flowers in a small way, you need Hastings' 1918 Soed Catalogue. It's ready now and wo have a copy for you absolutely freo, if you write for it, mentioning tho name of this paper. In addition to showing you about all the varieties of vegetables, farm grass, clover and flower seeds, our catalogue tells how you can got freo I five splendid varieties of easily grown, yet beautiful flowers, with which to beautify your home surroundings. I Good need? of almost every kind are scarce this season, and you can't [afford to take cha?aos In your seod supply. Hastings' Seeds aro depend able seeds* the kind you can always depend on having "good luck" with. You are going to garden or farm this spring. Why not Insuro success so far as possible by starting with the right seed? Don't take chances that you do not have to in seeds. Writo today for Hastings' 1918 Catalogue. It's freo and will both in torost and holp you to succeed In 1918. -H. G. HASTING8 CO., 8cedsmen, Atlanta, Ga.--Advt ? i Catarrh of Si I Did Not Know I ? im Mrs. Selena Tanner, Athens, Ohio, writes: "I cannot find words to ex press my thanks for your kind ad* j vice. I never once thought I had ca tarrh of the stomach. I commenced I taking P?rima, as you directed. My stomach continued to hurt mo tot about two weeks after I began tho medicine, and thon lt stopped. I now have a good appetite while before I was nearly starved.'' Tbbse who object to liquid modi tines can procuro Peruha Tablets. i ?j? ?j? ?j? fy fy fy fy fy fy.-fy fy fy fy fy ' fy DRIVE ON, 1/Ai>s I fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy j Drive on, Dads! drive on, jolly Yanks! I The blue and gray itt solid ranks; By all the gods, by every fate, We've naught this day bf human hate, Only a way and a will To scalp the Kaiser Bill! - For man to man and gun to gun, We swear this day to boat the Hun; No matter how their cannons roar, No matter where their "Zep'llns soar, Or clash of steel or Hash of^flre, j Or armies rue, or men expire. Drive on! drive on! with steady i trend, Through tho tangled wire and rain ing lead; See tho French go "over the top," Into the trenches the English drop, While nations wait in awful hush To see you in a center rush. Drive! Charge! Storm the gates of hell! j With bayonet and "Rebel yell"! Beard 'Barabbas in the den That he has filched from other men; Make him know what 'tii^to feel His own damned iron heel! Beat him into such a plight He'll never want again to fight; Drive him back across the plain Marked with countless thousands slain. By every wind that blows, And every star in heaven, By every living plant that grows, And every rock that's riven, By all the grief and blood and tears, By all the racking, nervous fears Of mothers and their little ones, Of fathers and their, gallant sons, By all the gods and/n" the fates I And everything in all the States? ' Wo pledge to seato the hefKhls i Oj Valle, for human r (?; I?tn - Wo pl?dgo to never stack eu? guns Until we've beat the vicious Huns! Oconee Co., Jan., 1918. y MOTHER ! DON'T TAKE CHANCES IF CHILD'S TONGUE IS COATED If Cross, Feverish, Sick, Bilious, j Clean Utile Liver and Bowels. j A InxaMve to-day saves a sick child to-morrow. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their bowels, which become clogged up with waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach sour. Look at the tongue, mother! If coated, or your child is listless, cross, feverish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat heartily, full St cold or has sore throat or any oth.T children's ail ment, give a teaspoonful of "Cali fornia Syrup of Figs," then don't worry, because it is perfectly harm less, and in a few hours all this?con stipatlon poison, sour bile and fer menting waste will gently move out of the bow.els, and you have a well} playful child again. A thorough "inside cleaning" is oftimes all that is necessary. It siiould be the first treatment given-In tny sickness. Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask your druggist for a bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has full directions for babloB, children of all ages and for grown ups plainly printed on tho bottle. Look carefully and S see that it is made by the "California Fig Syrup Company."-Adv. > .Many Kinsmen hr War. Brockton, Mass., Jan. 17.-Few women in the land have more blood relations actively engaged at the front "somewhere in Franco" , than Mrs. James G. Berry, who lives in this city. Besides her son, who re cently onli8tod In tho United States navy, Mrs. Berry has also In the ser vice four brothers, soven nephews and ten cousins. Last week she received word of the death at tho front of a brother, Geo. Reading, of tho Royal Engineers, whose homo was in Birmingham, England. Fennel 1-Brown i n g. y (Easley Progress.) Married, on Decomber 30, 1917, at tho home of tho bride's parents, at Pelzer, S. C., Miss Margaret M. Fen nell and Westloy C. Browning, of Easloy, S. C., Rev. J. H. Danner of ficiating. Tho bride ls the youngest daughter of Mr, and Mrs. T. Sumter Fennell and the groom- ls the popular local agent of tho Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, of Now York. I t?mach It Starved &UN? AVAduvj Me Well .i* .j, ?j. .j. ??? ^. fy fy fy fy fy l?KFA'I IS THE POTATO. fy ?tf-T ' ' ' "I" ^ 4? 4? 4? 4? 4? *i* Th> , states Food Adminls trnt . I inning u consistent cam pai* ase the use of Irish po tato 1 irs will ho urged to in aug otato day" each week, sole - ever day is slack in de live inking a special ? price for ?I: io delivered on that day. Hoi) i ill be asked to buy po tato it's supply, on each pc tato > administration withes to i rlsh potato, every day in t ii every table in Amer ica. T bod \d m in ?st rat ion declares that ll hoi essary right now as a Wat n iii ? or everybody to eat po tato 111 [sd to purchase them in i fair reg ii lu quantities week by j wee distribution will be equ; hore for tho next five or s ? i- relieving railroad con gest I - nabllng growers and dist bb i handle potatoes at the mos' . il?te prices and to furnish once n: for production of a larg- ?roi 1 ''ls spring. y Th? ' . neut of Agriculture ls wor , ig to in pro\fce potato growing met i/ ,o Increase our crops. The co . Ion of the consumer and ' jr are needed more now ? . before. Every Ameri can ill; urged to eat potatoes and to -eely through the win ter ul the ? summer. Hotels and .ts are being asked to sen a.to i liberally. C g with the Department of J illu i, the Food Administra flor n definite measures to stal vc l.hi potato industry, both as ' ion and as to distribu ter Cid jua.o plants m 0*1 o than twice] as many potatoes as ?h< Cn!ter* Hintes. *Q?ormauy geu- moro than twice an many bushel^ por acre, apd slio ema iii rt ?i times as many pota toes. Germany's wise use of pota toes helps ber to hold out against the allies. j "li we aro going to win this war we must light Germany man for man. shell for shell, potato for potato," says ?? Food Administration state smen t, Whenever Vou Need a General Tonic ] Take Grove's, The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonio is equally valuable as a Genero! Tonic because lt contains the y?ell known tonic properties of QUININE and 1 RON, It 'acts on the Liver, Drives out Malnria, Knrlches the Blood and Builds up thc Whole System. 60 cents. Mrs, Nancy Cobb Dead. (Tugaloo Tribune, lGth.) On Tuerday, January 8th, Mrs. Nancy Cobb, wife of Ephraim Cobb, died at their home on Chauga creek, four m ile? north of Westminster. Mrs. Cobb was a daughter of tho late Riley Moore and was in the 76th year of her age, She ls survived by her husband, ono daughter, Mrs. J. R. Suttles; three sons, Elbert Cobb, of Central, ami St?bert and Keels Cobb, of ?eonee. 'Her body was burled at Holly Springs oil the Otb. Mrs. Cobb was ? most estimable lady, and her husband and children have the pro found sympathy, of many friends In their bereavement. I lentil of ? Babe. Tho friends of Mr. and Mrs. Bew ley Mitchell, of Westminster, sym pathize with them In the death of their five-weeks-old daughter. , She died last Wednesday morning. Her body was Interred injthe cemetery of tho First I?,artist church Thursday. Tho funeral services wire conducted by Rc. J, A. Martin, assisted by Rev. vi. W. Lewis. ' -- For Indigestion, Constipation or Biliousness Just try ono 50-eenl bottle of L?X-FOS WITH PEPSIN. A Liquid Difestive Laxative pleasant to take. Made end recomnv nded ?<. tho public by IV.ris Medi cine Cx, ; vim.iaetu.'ors of Luxative Drcino Quinine and Grove's Tuateless chill Tonic. . All Rut Ono Man Lost. London, Jan. 17.-^-The liritish ad mlrally announces the loss of two torpedo boat destroyers in a* galo and a hoavy snow storm last Saturday night. 1 ho vessels wont aground on tho Scotland coast and wore totally wrecked and all hands on board wein lost excep', ob<t mao. ALCOHOL-a PERCENT. t AVc?ct?bte?VcpafationforAs 1 bimilntin^lhcFood by Regulin i tinguteStomachs and jjggggL j Thereby ftomoUniDlfctf ;: Cheerfulness andR?stCoflta I nehherOplani.MorphuicriJ j Mineral. NOTNAHCOTIC, AMkSftfis AhcIprnlRcmedyfor .GonstipatlORondDiarrhoei ?j and Fcvcrishn^and ?tfjh?tterS^^ j Facs?mile Stfnstoreof Itoc?m^CoiiPANjr. Exact Copy of Wrapper. Adanis-Burrell. Married, on Sunday afternoon, January 6, at Westminster, Miss Lyda Adams, of Madison, and J. B. Burrell, of Saluda, N. C. Rev. W. R. McMillan officiated. After the ceremony tho young cou ple boarded south-hound train No. ll for Atlanta, where they spent a few days. They have now returned to the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Hi Adams, where they will remain until further ar rangements are made. Hosts of friends Join in wishing for tho youno, cbllp?G 1 ih'bspOi'oiiM und happy future, Health About Gone Many thousands of women suffering from womanly trouble, have been benefited by the use of Cardui, the woman's tonic, according to letters we yecelvc, similar to this one from Mrs. Z.V. Spell, of Hayn?, N.C. "I could not stand on my feet, and Just suffered terribly," she says. "As my suf fering was so great, and he had tried other rem? di?s. Dr.-bid us fret Cardui. . ? 1 began inproving, and ft cured nie. 1 know, and my doctor knows, what Car dui did for me, for my nerves and health were about gone." TAKE The Woman's Tonic She writes further? *' t am in splendid health... can do my work. I feel I owe It to Cardui, for I was In dreadful condition." If you are nervous, run down and weak, or suffer from headache, backache, etc., every month, try Cardui. Thousands of women praise this medi cine for the good it has done them, and many physicians who have used Cardui successfully with their women patients, for years, endorse this medi cine. Think what it means to be-in Splendid health, like Mrs. Spell. Oive Cardui a trial. All Druggists J 73 For Infants rind Children, Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years Tho Department of Agriculture la urging poultry raising to increase tho food supply. A bulletin "Back-Yard Poultry Keeping" has been issued, and may bo secured without cost by application to the division of publi cations, Department of Agriculture. RHEUMATISM Why will you suffer from this most dreaded diseaso, when L-Rheumo lina proven tim preat? osl roiYB dy Coi'' (.li? |.)(ia(i 26'yo arfe y Thousands of p?ojn'o (.estv?y to itfi wOiid?Wul ?.'Vir?.1?. Th io [.(<'..<.. ipi i ... : t should bo in your home. Take it when you feel that first pain. 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