Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ .J? ?J? ?J? ?I? ?J? fr}? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?I* ?J* ?J? 4* THE Ult KAT WOHLD WAR. .J. .fr. -.- * .f. By Melton L. Lusk, ?J. .J. Salem, Rt. No. 1, Oconco Co. ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?j? ?j? ?j? .j? ?j. ?j. ?j. ?j? (ThlB article waa intended for publication August Otb, but owing to circumstances unavoidable its ap pearance was delayed one week.) On October 17th. near midnight, a unit ol' Polish volunteers relieved us and we silently moved out of the trenches and hiked 17 kilos to Clara fontaine, in the valley below. Here we enjoyed a short rest, and one much needed, interspersed with de lectable restaurant food, champagne and boer. Two days later wo packed up and made a heart-rending hike to Vomecourt. arriving there lato at i night, famished and absolutely ox- j hausted. We stayed at Vomecourt | over a week, resting up, drilling a ? bit, testing our speed in adjusting gas | masks, and mastering the methods employed in capturing enemy ma chine guns, und nests At night we would wander to the near-by town of Ramhersvillers, where we swapped yarns and lies with British Tommies, discussed the pros and cons of Aus tria-Hungaria's collapse and Tur key's surrender, and enjoyed re pasts consisting of French fried J "spuds," eggs, beefsteak, wine, beer I and cognac. We packed up again on November 1st and made a 7-mile hike to Chat- ? tel. Wo slept In the woods adjoin ing the town, in a downpour of rain, that night, then boarded a train and rode for nine hours to the ruined and shell-torn city of Sanplgny, which | bad been captured only a few days (or woeks) before hy tho onrushing Americans. Then began a four-day hike-(we spent tho latter half of j the night of November 2 In the bat tered town of Dom pahr ia, and only recently the property or the Huns) | -in mud up to our ankles, und con- I tinous rain, through tho ruined and war-wrecked towns of Villers, San Iny, St. Mihlel, Barricourt, Woimbey etc.-all recently taken by the American forces. WTe passed close to Verdun on this march and at night Blept in the remains of the once beautiful residences, churches and chateaus; then at Inst we reached our huts and shacks in the mountains of Sommedieu. This was November 5th, and at a French camp called Reunis. Drive on Own Account. On November 9th the "Wild Cats" started a drive of their own against the Germans on tho Woevre plains (East Verdun Sector, Meause front,) just a few miles from where we (Co. C.) wore located, and at a point covering the road which led to Metz (at 4.30 that morning, Saturday.) we leaped out of our bunks, rolled packs, hastily put them on and marched ulong a muddy road to the reserve line trenches In the face of a terrible artillery duel between the Yanks and the Huns. Sizzling shells flew over our heads as we marched along, joking and kidding each other, and finally entered the trenches, i tero for thirteen hours we stood in mud and water a lui ve our ankles in a freezing temperature and with nothing to eat or drink, while the Huns bombarded us with ceaseless fury. Surprised and Amazed Muns. The :t21st occupied reserve lines at another sector. In the meantime the 322d and 324th, leading the attack, swept across the field like a whirling cyclone and hurled them selves at the amazed Germans with terrific force. The 32 2d tore up a horde of machine gun nests and ming the German left wing back six kilometers. The 324th advanced nine kilometers, taking the towns Of Hample (Hodiinont was the French name) and Manhuelles, but in the subsequent fighting of. next day, the Huns, battling with the bravery of despair, recovered four or five kilometers of their lost ground. They were unable to re gain Manhuelles. however, which the 324th grimly held on to. Saturday night we moved out of the reserve line trenches and marched to our rolling kitchens behind the (Iring lines, gulped down hot coffe and then returned to the main supporting line trenches. We stood again in mud und wuter almost to our knees and in a drizzling rain until late Sunday afternoon, November I Otb, under constant fire, and then moved out to a place behind the lines and for a second time devoured a good hot meal, and weir back lo a lino of trenches ai tho edge of tho road leading to MnnhuoUcs. This Iowa, by the way, was jus; I", kilometers (28 miles) from Metz. ..Over the Top." We were to go "over the ?op" next morning! Very thrilling perhaps, hut EVER SA M VATE I > RV CALOMEL?-HORRIBLE! Calomel is Quicksilver and Ads Hike Dynamit?? on Vour Liver. i Calomel loses you a day! You ! know what calomel is. lt's mercury, quicksilver. Calomel is dangerous! ? lt crashes Into sour bile like dyna mite, cramping and sickening you. Calomel attacks the bones and should never be put hilo your sys tem, When you feel bilious, sluggish, constipated and all knocked out, and believe you noed a dose of dangerous calomel, Just remember that your druggist soils for a few cents a largo bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, which is ontirely vegetahlo and pleasant to take, and ls a perfect I substitute for calomel. It is guar anteed to stnrt your liver without stirring you up inside, and cannot salivate. Don't take calomel! It makes you sick tho next day: It loses you a day's work. Dodson's Liver Tone straighten you right up and you feel groat. Give lt to tho children, because it is porfoctly harmless and doesn't gripe.-adv. neither th? won n ?r their nTlcers seemed to bo perturbed by tho : thought. The fact was that tho boys were completely exhausted, and they slept that .light as only ex hausted men can sleep. Two chaps and I selected a placo on top ard a little above the trenches, (one of thom was Harry '-'ayonsky. of Wal halla. South Carolina, the oilier was ? Eugene Livingston of Troy. Ala bama.) rolled up in our blankets, "dog-fnahlon." wrapped our arms 'J round each other to keon warro, and lu five minutes wore dead to tho World. Al 1.30 next, morning they aroused ua. We jumped up. quick ly ''i.dled packe," nut them on, lined up o.i tho road in the darkness and in a dense fog for further instruc tions, and a few words of cheer and encouragement from our officers, and then, we marched otf. We paused in the darkness and smoldering ruins cf limpio (Hodlmont) long enough to sn >ko a cigarette, resumed tho in rch presently, passed through Mi:nhuelles (a mass of ruins,) and just at Its outskirts left the road, got into skirmish formation silently and started across the swampy, soggy sheli-riddled Held, still dim in the heavy fog. Immediately the German heavy artillery poured a veritable hell of fire of shot and sholl upon us, and the Hun machine gunners swept the held with a withering fire. Monster shells screached and screamed over our hoads and around us, bursted with thunderous roars, and Hying shrapnel went singing through the air with ominous me tallic whirr; machine gun bullets whizzed and spatted around us like the minions of a devil-Inspired hail storm-and in the midst of lt all came the dreaded cry of "Cas! - Oas!" On we went (but not all! l'art of our comrades were left on the Held, poor men! some of them were deftd, others dying; some were wounded severely, others slightly, and some were gassed.) We ad vanced steadily, foot by foot, with out a break or a waver in the lines. Presently we received orders to ad vance a thousand yards to our "right flank." This done we flung ourselves down upon the ground, which was cold and frozen, and eagerly waited for the order to prepare to rush and charge, for we were the masters of the field on a battalion front, walt ing for orders to rush and charge with bayonets. For what seemed like ages we lay there-cold, restless, tense, muscles taut, ready to leap forward and completo the task with the "cold steel." But the order to "charge" never came. After what seemed an interminable space there came a strange, startling command: "To hold the ground we were now on, but not to fire our pieces." And while we were dazedly striving to grasp the meaning all firing suddenly censed, the deafening racket sub sided, a pregnant silence fell upon the scene, and next a party of un armed Germans, chatting incessantly and laughing like happy school children, rushed over to our lines and shook hands with a number of tho boys . The Armistice. Then it dawned upon us: "Tho armistice had been signed nt Sen lis." Il was the "Eleventh Hour," and the groat conflict was virtually over, and with it came the end to all the bitterness, all the suffering, and all (he bloodshed. (The Hud.) Catarrh Cannot bo Cured with local applications, as they can not roach tho seat of the disease. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly Influenced by constitutional Condi lions, and in order to cure il you must take an internal remedy, Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts through the blood upon tho mucous surfaces of the system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was prescribed by one of tho best physicians in this country for years, lt ls composed of some of the best tonics known, com bined with some of the best blooa purifiers. Tho perfect combination of the Ingredients in Hall's Catarrh Medicino ls what produces such won oerful results in catarrhal conditions. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Proprietors. Toledo, Ohio. All druggists. 7f> con ls. Hall's Family Pills for constipa tion.- adv. Rainfall and Temperature. Below ls a record of meteorological observations taken by H. W. Brandt, co-oporatlve observer of tho Weather Bureau of tho U. S. Department of Agriculture, during the week ending August 3d, I li 1 il, at 7 ]). m. ( The instrumental readings aro from gov ernment standard instruments ex posed in tho manner recommended by thc chief of tho Weather Bureau): j Tempera Character of I turo. Day, Date .Inly 28-Clear.li I .CS .Inly 2?I - Ptly cldy.ila] .70 .Inly 30--Clear.03 .71 July 31--Ptly cldy.>.\ 1 .71) Aug. I--Ptly cldy . . ;:ti . ?11 .71 Aug. 2-Ptly cldy.. T .!.:; .71 Aug. 3-Ptly cldy. . 33 .SI . tis Total rainfall. . . (?? '. ....... To Clean Retlud Cemetery. All who are interested in Hie cem etery mid grounds of Bethel Presby terian church aro urged to be at the church on Tuesday morning of next week, August 19th. Let all come with tools prepared to give tho grounds a thorough cleaning up. The cemetery is in bad shape, and all should bo willing to help. Como early. Lot's start by 7 o'clock and put in a good day's work. This rc quest is made by Two Who Will Be There. COHN Olli SUPPLANTING OTHKKB High Burning Point Make? it Supe rior for AB Cooking Purposes. (By Edwin P. Bowers, M. D.) America hus another important discovery. This time it has to do with an essential article of food the lack of which, during the war, was found to work a greater hard ship upon a population than the de privation of any other variety of food form. This nutritive substance is fat. The particular fat which has boen evolved by the American food experts into un indispensable article of food is tho oil derived from the gorm of corn lt has been found that this oil is unusually rich in lecithin, considered by many physiologists as one of the most important tonics, restoratives and tlsfcue builders known to science. Lecithin is a dominant element in the fat that goos to make up brain and nerve cells, and has a very de cided olfect in increasing nutrition. Corn oil is digested and assimilated more readily than almost any other variety of fat, either animal or v.ge lable. In addition, however, corn oil has valuable culinary uses, particularly because of the fact that the burning point of this oil is so much higher than that of other oils or animal fats. Corn oil stands a temperature of six hundred and fifty degrees before it burns, whereas butter, for instance, burns at two hundred and fifty de grees, goose grease at four hundred, lard at four hundred nnd twenty-five, cotton seed oil at live hundred and thirty-five, and olive oil at six hun dred degrees. It ls the low burning property of animal fats that makes frying with these fats such a nuisance around meal-time in most kitchens, for the degree of heat generated by gas, gasolene, coal, wood or electricity averages about two thousand degiee? The higher burning point of corn oil, on the contrary, lends itself ad mirably to modern cooking methods, as it makes it possible to cook the food quickly and at a higher tem perature, without, at the some time, burning and searing the food. No Kitchen Odors with Corn Oil. Meat, fish or odoriferous vegeta bles, cooked in corn oil, are quickly sealed over on their surfaces. This j forces them to retain the flavors and ? odors otherwise lost during the pro cess of cooking with quick-burning fats. So complete is this sealing effect that many families who employ corn oil in cooking, fry meat or flshballs, onions and other te ni products, all in the same pan-finishing up, not infrequently, by using tho same oil for tho b? king of a delicately flavored cake or some form of pastry-with out carrying the slightest odor or flavor from one food to the other. <n the other baud, the "reverse Kngllsh" can he worked with corn oil, for it also has a lower congealing point than other oils. This is a pro perty especially valuable in the pre paration of salads, for corn oil can he subjected to a temperature of fourteen degrees without congealing, whereas olive oil. for Instance, be comes cloudy and stiff at a temper ature of thirty-two degrees. And the cost is somewhat less than half the cost of good olive oil. Thousands of French and Italian families in America are employing corn oil in salads in preference to olive oil-not only for Its low con gealing properties, but also for the reason that corn oil is free from the rancidity so frequently found in olive oil. This purity of corn oil and its free dom from rancidity is due to tho careful and thorough .method of its preparation, for. instead of being pressed "cold." as is olive oil, corn oil is purified hy Altering and steam ing. Tho water, protein and glycer ine (dements are removed and the oil is thoroughly sterilized. Any disease germs that may have gotten into the oil are killed, and the ferments which later on might cause rancidity aro destroyed, so that, with proper care, corn oil will keep sweet and pure for an Indefinite period. The oil content in corn averages about five per cent of the grain, so that from a three billion bushel crop Of corn there is a potential prospect of four hundred million gallons of corn oil, which insures a compara tively inexpensive article of diet for Amerienn consumption. Not un Acquired Taste. Corn oil ls a clear, limpid, palo yellow fluid, free from odor, and with an agreeable, sweet flavor. It pos sesses qualities of palatability that do not have to be acquired. It has been found that corn oil is a, great improvement over buter In the making of cakes, cookios and pud dings, while it is superior to lard ns a shortening for biscuits, pie crust, bread and crackers. In fact, the great pie, broad and cracker manufacturers have found corn oil much moro satisfactory and economical than any other form of shortening. In the preparation of ! . cheese straws, muffins, bran gems j ! and other delicacies lt has given I ; better results than anything hereto j fore used. J For deep frying of doughnuts, mush, fritters, meat balls, fish, cro quettes, rissoles and other appetite stirring edibles, where a nice, brown crust ls a consummation devoutly to be desired, corn oil has proven itself of e?ique /a lu e. I Housewives who have poured two 1 or three tablespoonfuls of this oil , over a roast of beef or lamb, or veal, find that it checks the sending out of ; the meat substances and causes the meat to cook in its own rich juices. This gives an unusual tenderness to tho roast and increases measurably i the meat flavor. It also facilitates tho thorough cooking of the roast and prevents the outside from being j burnt into a disagreeable-tasting and ' Indigestible cinder. I As a dressing in the form of a i mayonnaise, or French dressing, for j cold boiled vegetables, such as cab I hage, beets, turnips, potatoes, cauli ? flower, and other vegetables, corn oil ? is all that the most critical epicure j could desire. In fact, it is not going too fur to i state that corn oil will, within the I next decade or two, do more to re ' make the well-known and justly cele I brated American stomach over Into I a healthy'organ than any one dlscov : ery of modern times. ill Bil' IIB un i li B ?1. Wonderful How Young and Ener getic You Feel After Taking This Xausealess Cal omel Tablet. If you have not tried Calotabs you have a delightful surprise awaiting you. The wonderful liver-cleansing and system-purifying properties of calomel may now be enjoyed with out the slightest unpleasantness. A Calotab at bedtnme, with a swallow of water-that's all. No taste, no salts, nor the slightest unpleasant effects. You wake up In the morn ing feeling so good that you want to lnugh about lt. Your liver is clean, your system is purified, your appe tite hearty. Eat what you wish no danger. The next, time you feel lazy, mean, nervous, blue or discour aged, give your liver a thorough cleansing with a Calotab. They are so perfect that your druggist Is au thorized to refund the price as a guarantee that you will be delighted. Calotabs aro sold only In original, sealed packages. Price, thirty-five cents. At all drug stores.-adv. Wants Government Expenses Cut. Washington, Aug. 8.- President Wilson is requested In a joint reso lution introduced yesterday by Chair man C; mpbell, of tho rules commit tee, and Senator McCormick, Repub lican, of illinois, to submit, not later than December 1, 3ttch reductions in estimates of government expenditures as will permit an annual reduction of one billion dollars in taxation next year. Another resolution, introduced in tho Senate by Senator Myers, Demo crat, of Montana, relating to the high cost of living, asked the Senate Judi ciary committee to report whether legislation to prohibit exports, for a limited time at least, of foods, cloth ing and other necessities, would be advisable. CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears thc Signature of "Old (Hory" lo Continue to Fly. Coblenz, Germany, Aug. (>.-The American Hag will continue to Hy from the Fortress of Ehrenbreitstein as long as United States troops hold a position boro in tho occupied area, according to information from Paris, received hero to-day by tho inter Allied com mission. Gen. Pershing, il is understood, recommended that the Stars and Stripes be kept on the fortri#;. which has boen an Ameri can garrison sinco last December. Ho also recommended thal Coblenz be made American headquarters. Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic .estores vitality and enemy by purifying and ?o richini! th? blood. You can eoon feel Its Strength ening, Invigorating Effect. Price 60c. -- -. Gorman Potash May Come In. Washington, Aug. 7.-Official In formation of tho lifting of the em bargo on the importation of potash from Germany was received to-day from the war trade board by Sena tor Smith, of South Carolina. Tho lifting Is effective to-day and loaves all foreign potash free to como Into this country. "]M[Y little girl is subject to sudden A attacks of stomach and bowel trouble and Dr, Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin al ways relieves her quickly so she is soon play ing about as usual. I have used Syrup Pepsin for three years and would not be without it now at any price.'* (From a letter to Dr. Caldwell written by\ Mr?. Ja?. F. Smith, 600 Virginia Ave., 1 Pittsburg, Pa. / Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin The Perfect Laxative _______ Sold by Druggists Everywhere 50 cts. (SS) $1.00 Constipation is a condition to be guarded against from infancy to old age. Dr. Caldwell s Syrup Pepsin is as safe and pleasant for children as it is effective on even the strongest constitution* A trial bottle can be obtain ed free* of charge by writing to Dr. W. fi. Caldwell. 458 Washington St., Monticello, 111. ' RIOTING FOLLOWS STRIKE. Shots Fired and Crew of Car At tacked in Brooklyn. New York, Aug. 7.-Employees of . the Long Island Traction Company, j which operates cars in virtually all the towns of Lang Island, voted to go 1 on strike at 5 o'clock to-morrow ! morning in sympathy with Brooklyn Rapid Transit strikers. Boy Seriously Hurt. Max Kaufman, a 12-years-of-ago Brooklyn hoy, was probably mortally wounded to-day by a stray bullet fired by a policeman pursuing three strike pickets, who had attacked and beaten a guard on an "L" train. The pickets escaped. Rioting Takes Place. Rioting and the firing of shots at a wrecking crew eyrly to-day marked the beginning of the second day of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit strike. No one was injured. At 8 a. m. the company reported 187 surface cars, or approximately IS per cent of the maximum, to be in operation. Prom one to three po licemen were stationed on each car. On the subway and "L" lines, the company stated, the service was 15 to 17 per cent of normal. Strike leaders claimed that 95 per cent of the entire system was tied up and that since last night more than 2,000 men had joined the union. Thousands of motor trucks, auto mobiles and wagons were employed during the rush hours to bring the vast army of workers to Manhattan. Congestion at the subway stations and "L" platforms, however, was as yesterday. The,Arel shots of the strike were fired at 2.30 a. m. by an unidentified man at Schenectady avenue and Ber gen streets, who then fled. A car window was broken. At 0.20 a. m. strikers and sympathizers attacked the crew of a car at Vanderbilt ave nue and another at Bergen street and Rogers avenue. Car windows wore smashed, but tho rioters were dispersed by the police. No arrests were made. Not a Cur Moved. Not a car or train passed over any of the bridges over East River during the night. Motor buses, trucks and vehicles of every description were used to handle that part of the trafile to the more distant points. There were no disturbances during the night. A few surface cars began running shortly after (5 a. m., and these were jammed. Policemen rode on front and rear platforms lo preserve or der, Servlco on tho elevated lines was started about the same time, but the trains wore infrequent. >n> >mii>iitiit..?n?">"tw ....?.>......?..#..#..?ff? j LEMON JUICE j FOR FRECKLES 1 ! Girls! Make beauty lotion for j a few cents-Try lt!. ...?..?.., i.?..?..?.,?..?..?..?..????.? >.?>,.?.,?,.?..?..?..I Squeeze tho Juice of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard ;^lto, shako well, and you havo a quarti nlnt of tito best freckle and . a h. > i nd complexion beau tifier, ?> ! very, irory small cost. Youi roc the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces < i orchard white for a few cen! < < this sweetly fragrant loth Into the 'nco, neck. Jinns and hand! cadi da> and seo how freckles ar? blemish . disap pear, and how clear, aofl 1 rosy white tho skin becomes, > Tt is harmless and never Irrita i "' FINE FARM FOR SALE For Sale. THU M. A. DUNCAN FARM, 150 acres, two miles north of Salem, S. C. About 00 acres of this land in cultivation; balance original forest. Three houses on place, with good well at each place; nice orchard on each house place. Twenty acres un der fence for pasturage, convenient for uso by those living in thc three houses. For quick sale, $;15.00 per arre. Write or call on M. A. DUNCAN, SA DKM, S. C. ??is*????.??'???'?' ? ? ?; fine Lands m ? @ ? ? ? ? ? _ ? ? & ? ? ? 1S? Acres good Red and ? (?j. .Mulatto Loam; lies well; St) {Sj t?j, acres In cultivation; 90 acres ? @. in forest pine, oak and rose ? t?j. mary timber; 8-room ceiled ?ft ? dwelling; large new barn; 1 tjjft tenant house, well, spring ?. and branch; ten miles from ?i?? railroad, McCormick; on two ? ? line public roads. ? ? ? ? $50.00 Ter Acre, or will ? ? Kt*" timber separately. ? ? t? ? {0} ?i ? ? {SJ ? & {0} ? ? ? ? ? {Sj ?. r>S Acres Mulatto and Red ? ?, Loam, five miles from McCor #i (fy mick, on line highway; 10 ? {Sj, acres cultivated; 75,000 feet ? {oj Lumber; C-room ceiled dwell ? ? lng; barn, well, pasture, ten ? ? ant house. $75.00 ? ? ? ? .ft ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? & ???J. ? .ft ? ? {oj, 122 Acres of the most high ? "ft 'y improved land in the coun ? ? ay; nearly level; dark red ? ? or chocolate soil; 0 0 acres {?j. ? Cultivated; line new 7-room /?j |?j painted bungalow; large new .ft ? barn; another 6-rootn painted .'3t ? dwelling; two good tenant {?j ? houses, Iwo wells and pasture; ?ft ? K()?d neighborhood. Most of jgj, {Sj the land has made bale to the /?J ? acre, and promises to do same to*. this year. Will pay any sane ? man's expends who says it is ? ? not ? ? A Hurga In ? {oj. at $100.00 Per Acre. ? ? & ? ? {oj ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? @ ? $ ? ? 2 ? McCormick. ? ? c rs ? ? ^* V/e ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dixie Land Co., Tho Courier, $1 a year. Pay in advance