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7' - ■ -¥ -A I \ si. !>f ; »- .1 BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA \. mi*. - j • 1-r- ENGINEERS FACE GIGANTIC TASK Undertake to Transport Rail roads Complete FromTJmtedT States to France. B CORPS HAS BEEN EXPANDED Personnel in Officers and Enlisted Men Was Increased In Period of Seven , Months From 2,500 W ' ieo,boo. SEEKCHROMITESUPPIY Uncle Sam’s Geologists Predict Increased Output fr= j^' ' ' " ~ ^ T» The corps of engineers qf the army since April 0 has not only been sup plying the engineer equipment for an army of a million men, but has under taken the unprecedented task of fur nishing railroads complete from the United States for operation in France. The engineers construct therfree ar teries through which "flow great armies, re-enforcements, supplies and ammunition to the extremities of the lines. ’ • // From March 1 to November 1 the corps of engineers Increased Its per sonnel from 256 officers on the active list to 894 oncers and 14 retired offi cers on aetlte duty and.In addition has commissioned more than 6,000 re serve officers. The enllstfed force has expanded from 2,100 to 95,000, and there has tolso beeh a heavy Increase In civilian employees. In addition, nine railroad regiments and one forestry regiment have been raised as part of the National array. Seventeen pioneer regiments have been authorized as part of the National army. National Guard units, equiva lent to about seven regiments, have been called Into the federal service, and their reorganization Into 17 pioneer engineer regiments for the 17 divisions of National Guard troops is well under way. : _ Purchase of Equipment. A duty Imposed upon the engineers has been the purchase of the neces sary engineer equipment! for more than 1,100,000 men. The urgent deficiencies .act approved June 15,1917, appropriat ed for the purpose amounts aggregat ing In excess of $130,000,000, an amount comparable with the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies for the Panama canal during the ten years of Its construction. The urgent deficiencies act approved October 0, 1917, provides $198,100,000 additional for engineer purposes and It Is ex pected that all of this will be expend ed during the present fiscal year. The engineers of the ruijway section have undertaken to transport und in stall and put in operation, overseas a complete railroad equipment. The rail way problem in the theater of opera tions in France Involves not only the organization, equipment, und military truining of railroad troops for the con struction, maintenance, and operation of standard and narrow gauge roads necessary for the supply of our armies, hut also the purchase. Inspec tion, add shipment of irumen .iu- tlties of railroad equipmen ils, ties, locomotives, cars. Shop tools, etc.—necessury for the development of adequate port facilities, construc tion of new liner und their sucees.s- fui ope ration. * Trained olliclals in various depart ments of American railroads were called upon for the officers, und ex perienced ruilroaTT'einployees for the enlisted men, of the nine railroad regi ments, each of 33 officers and approxi mately 1,100 men. Organize Special Troops. The engineers have also undertaken ‘the work of organizing and equipping United States Now ^Producing Badly Needed Mineral Which Formerly \, V Was Secured Abroad. The Importance ot chromite as a war supply In the manufacture Qf ar mor plate, armor-piercing projectiles, stellite for high-speed tools, and- auto mobile and other special steels can scarcely be overestimated, according to experts of Uncle Sam’s geological survey. ' . ’ . , / The chief sources of supply for the United States during the> past few years have been Rhodesia, New Cale donia, Turkey and Greece. The greatly Increased trade, espe cially In steel, and the consequently larger demand for chromite, have stim ulated the search for It Jn the United States, as shown by the phenomenal Increase In production, the amount sold In 1915 being only £55 tons, as against more than 47,<)00 tons in the following-year; In Maryland and Wyoming there has been only a small production, but fc the Pacific coast states, especially Cal ifornia, the advance In the output has been remarkable. In Oregon the pro duction was more than 80,000' tons; In California it was nearly f 44,000. It Is evident, the survey’s experts staterthat for some time to come Cal ifornia will furnish the chief domestic supply. With a lively demand and good prices bodies of ore farther from the lines of transportation will be worked. The production from some deposits In 1917 is expected to far ex ceed that of last year. Prospecting for chromite may dis close other supplies, It Is believed by experts of the survey, and the most profitable deposits will be those in areas of serpentine that are adjacent to cheap rail and water transportation or connected with It ,by good roads. Cheap concentration may. In places im prove the grade of the ore available for profitable mining. ^ With the known supplies of chromite 'and others whose discovery within the limit of practicable transportation throughout theUnlted States Is confi dently expected, there Is a good reason to believe that the domestic output of chromite could be so Increased as to I go for tow-ard supplying the domestic demand if our imports, except those from Canada, were cut off. . •mmm "F vPublican By REV. L. W.QOSNELL Aaaiatant Dean. Moody Bible Institute. Chicago /’ J 1 * A # $ TEXT—And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up 90 much atr his eyes unto heaven,'' but- emote upon his breaBt saying, God be merciful to me a sin ner I tell you this man went down to his ''house Justified, rather than the other.— Luke 18: IS, 14. The Pharisee thanked God was not as “oth'r men,” or as Revised sinner:’’ he he was he the Version reads, “the rest of menhe thought he was the best man In” the world. But the publican prayed, "God be merciful to me a sinner," or, as the Revision has it, '“the thought the worst man In the world. Yet. our Lord declares this man went down to his house Justified rather than the other. Certainly, our Lord was not blind to the sins of the publican any more than he was to the excellencies of the Pharisee. The publicans were a hard lot, unjust, .rapacious, cruel. A story is told.of a publican who restored a necklace to a merchant from whom he had taken it by fraud. A Rabbi, com- -U. Thanksgiving Day Especial Event in Washington - . > W ASHINGTON.—Thanksgiving time brought a brightening of Washington hearth fires and turkey-scented Invitations In honor of the lads about us In national livery who ar£ far f^om home and mother. Rare the Thanksgiving board this year that did* not boast a \ : By Buying Ever Reliable cascaraD quinine Wa sanacs to pries for ttibM-vtoN. old remedy -25c for M tablets—Beat cold tablets sow 39c far 11 tablets— «• proportionate coat par *Hr wbeapanb^ HilTs—Cores Cold be 14 boors—crip J* • days—Money back I fit fail. S4 Table's for ZCa. khaki-covered guest or .so. Father and mother piled high the strangers’ plates Jocosely.' Never mind the mist In their eyes. , “Yes, I’m proud of my Jimmy; but I’m not a heroine. I’m just bis moth er!”. Exalted eloquence! They had u grand memorial service for Jimmy at Evansville, Ind., his home town, when the dread word came that Private James B. Gresham, enlisted at <fv :r V GERMANS RESENT NAME HUN 1**4 Kaiser's Government Sentence* Mem- • ber of Royal Flying Corps to Prison for Applying the Insult •f How bitterly the German resents tha appellation “Hun” is Illustrated by tha news that Flight Sergeant Alexander Boyd of the Royal Flying corps has been sentenced by his German captora nineteen—such a kid !—was one of the - ~y~ 1 —— r ^ rr ~~\ first three Americans killed in the trenches of northern France. And Jimmy’s mother In her anguish, thanking God for the proud gift of such a boy, sobbed to one year Imprisonment f6r applying out to those who would fain console her. “I’m not a heroine—I’m Just his this* “insult" to his guards, mother!” , _ j TheOologne Gazette learns from tta And I’m rather Inclined to think that she was both. Berlin correspondent that this avia- “Please Invite me where there’s a kid that I can mind while its mother Is tor was shot down in the North sea getting dinner,’| an enlisted man Urged whfen Washington’s Thanksgiving lnvl- by a German -torpedo boat and forced tatlons began to circulate among the camps. And almost every mother of a baby, touched in her tenderest spot, bid to have that especial mah to turkey, A kiddle always seems to touch the soft Rpo.t underneath a khaki coat. The other night there was an Interesting vaudeville iefitertalnment given by patriotic local telent before the men at Washington pnrrncks. The wee to sit idly in his ruined but floating machine while the Prussian'rowboat came to take him off. He sought to dispatch a carrier pigeon (rom hi* plane,, hearing the message, “Shot daughter of Representative Klncheloe of Kentucky accompanied her mother to down at 0:42. Picked up by the Huna." the performance. Mrs; Klncheloe, a.versatile artist, was ofie of the headliners The Germans captured the pigeoo of the excellent hill. .The orchestra was filling up the fpare between two befdfce It could escape and rend tha numbers with a strenuous rendition of "Over There" when tiny Miss Klnehe- menage. ^ Boyd ‘ wns immediately % loe, Just three years old, escaping from her protector, Inspired by the stirring .j charged with Insulting the German strains, (porambled up on the low stage and began to dance In a spontaneous character and given one year to ce menting on the Incident^ said we ^aby way that overwhelmed the soldiers with delight. The regular program pent. - might now expect wolves to drop from had to-wait. The laddies wanted moTe^of fBe'haby. "Crown folk were every- | " — —,—: their mouths the lumbs taken from the ( j ay affairs. A kiddle was a treat. ,-f WAR AFFECTS CHEESE TRADE Monthly Imports of United States From Europe Drop From 5,300,000 to as Low as 99 Pounds. The war. has revolutionized the country’s foreign trade in^cheese, ac cording to Uncle Sam’s bureau of for- ■ elgn and domestic commerce. During the fiscal year I9l4^the last year be fore the war, the United States bought G3,800,000 pounds of cheese from Eu rope—2(5,500.0(10. ^pounds from Italy, 22,600,000 pounds from Switzerland, 5,500,000 pounds from. France, 3,700,- 000 pounds from Holland, and smaller amounts from other countries. The average monthly imports from Europe were about 5,300.000 pounds. In Au gust of 1917 exactly 99 pounds of European cheese was Imported. It came from Italy. In September only 1.222 pounds came from Europe. While Europe is wisely retaining tills most valuable food for her own pressing needs, Argentina has turned to cheese-making on a large scale and Is now placing important quantities in the United States. In August, 1917. she delivered 44K.OOO pounds In this country and in September 279,500 pounds. These figures do noLapproach flockyet, the man In the parable took such an attitude toward God that, spite of his sin, he was Justified. The prayer he prayed has probably crossed more Ups of dylog meu than any other prayer. It Is so direct, so brjsf, that It has been called “a holy telegram.” The storjl of a man belonging to such a class, feeling his own sinfulness and praying such a prayer, will always be of Interest to saints and sinners. How It illustrates the beauty of pen itence! True, a man’s repentance does not commend him to God. Even the publican seemed to feel that. "God he merciful" means, literally, “God be propitiated.” 1 The publican felt he needed a sacrifice of blood even though His henrt was broken and his eyes teur Stained. This is always the case. Again, the appropriateness, of deep feeling on a sinner’s purt Is Illustrated In the publican’s cry, "God be merciful to"Tne the sinner.” The very fact that some who'have heard the Gospel many times are still unmoved should lead them to feel deeply. Heathen people, have been moved to cry with the pub- Government Departments Hard Pressed for Room »■■■ -11 I IB I ■ — ■ ■ '--1 ‘ V T HE treasury department Is in the market Tor 185,000 square feet of floor space for office purposes, and Is having great difficulty In getting even a small portion. Other government departments are hard pressed for office accommodations for employees, and It *>N P1T T- £>0M- fOR RR MORE -SPACE < i ( ■at—. BOSCHEE’S GERMAN SYRUP : r, 'Why us£ ordinary cough remedies, when Boschee’s German Syrop b** been used so successfully for fifty-one years in all parts of the United . States .for coughs, bronchitis, colds settled In the ^hroat, espleclally lung troubles. It gives the patient- a good night’s rest, free from coughing, with easy expectoration In the morning, gives rfatqre a chance to soothe tha will not be until various new buildings authorized by congress are completed that real relief will come. The government’s executive and* Inflamed parts, throw off the disease^ helping the patient to- regain hls health. Sold in all civilized countries. SO and 90 cent bottles.—Adv. administrative activities are now so badly scattered throughout the city hat -persons having business with le* Sam often find trouble In locat- ; ing/^he-partlcular bureau or division ! e looking for. Many times* they are sent: from one place to another. The wa; and navy departments, j which partly solved the demands for floor spuce at the beginning of the war by taking over a large number of apartment house\ and are still badly In need of office rfecommodatlon, are expecting relief by March 1, when It Is contemplated that the big wooden buildings at Sixth and B streets, the site of the old.Union station, where Garfield was shot by Guiteau, will be ready for occupancy. Three sections of one large building will be ready before March 1, It was said today by an officer of the government. The treasury department has not such good prospects for early relief, al- A Slight Mistake. Freeman had Just returned from the eighth visit to the punch howl. ' "Take a look across th’ room, my dear. Did you ever see a homelier man?” - "Don’t disgrace yourself, Henry. That’s, a mirror," returned hls wife. In a tragic whisper. O Mean for mercy, the very.first time the. though the supervising-architect of the treasury is rushing plans for the npw special troops fur special services, lio imports from Europe, before x the tiQ Jmnlwtr ynmiil v mm! ctinutmo- w..* *k„.. i t..* iD X\ ^ ntire y« eese ca such as-lumber ^ujqdy. road constru« tlou, sanitary construction, camouflage service, gas and llame service, mining work, mapping, etc. ' Preferred attention was given to the organization ami equipment of the first- imported forestry regiment, sent to France to produce lumber and timber f^om ^distributed to more than fifty French forests. Three additional regi ments are to be organized, The co operation of the forestry service of the department of agriculture has ’been extended in the selection of per sonnel and equipment. In addition to all of these duties, the engineer corps has maintained Its regular service -in the preservation and improvement of navigable-waters In the United Stutes and construction of const defenses. Nevf'batteries are being pushed to completion with en ergy. message of the cross has been pre sented to them. Conversion of a Cannibal. The son of John G. Baton, the fa mous missionary to the New Hebrides, t»41s a story u’hich Illustrates this point. lie ciyne unexpectedly one night upon a group pt cannibals'. His fellow missionaries advised that be re^ tire, for their lives were lb imminent danger. Rut Mr. Baton argued thaf the missionary should tell the story of the cross, danger or no-danger. He took his place before the cannibal chief and told of the coming of God’s son to’ the world, of bis life and ,his death. As he spoke, the Spirit of God wrought and the heart of tin- savage before him was broken. When the story was finished, tin—chieftain raised a \yopdcn knife and said, “Missionary, this knife lias entered the bodies of a .^thousand men of whom I have eaten war, but they are interesting in vie<v nt ft , list8 ., Hllt , m , ver heard before „-!. h ”- fnct - hllt durinK the .entirmytmr of !lu , love of God. which sent his son l.Ut» not a single pound of cheese came ( 0 ,jj,, f<>£ jis. It has broken my heart, from Argentina. .. X < Take this knife us- J a token that I be- .loie cheese is hein^Xxpdrted than motile this night a follower of Jesus treasury annex to be built nt Pennsylvania avenue and Madison place, adjoin ing the Belasco theater, It Is plannee} to have this $1,250,000 building, which will be a permanent one, ready for the treasury by September 15, 1918. Would Fight to Prove Nationality of Bambino I T IS a street ot second-hand smells. Also, there are noises—the Bahel shrill of foreign parent voices out clashed by the raw Americanism of their jun iors; the insistent call of the push cart, nmjl always, always the comings and. goings of job-lot humanity that must .1 \ Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of 1 CASTOUIA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that It Bears the Signature of| In Use for Over 30 lears. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria Practical and Proper. “What is your favorite flower?" "Not using any. I’m for cornmeal." —Washington Star. ^MF IS AMfAiVr-CAft) 0AQY— SHF* f*0 VACO - JiO SlR-E £ -v- titI' In September, 1917; 2.000,- 000 pounds was sfitd abroad and was coun tries. England took tile bulk of it,' l,7(X),000 pounds, Cuba 109,000 pounds, and Mexico 39.0(H) pounds. Causes of Cracks in Concrete. . Cracks In concrete pavements will likely be a less bnflling problem to builders as the result of. a seven-year study of their causes recently conclud ed by 'specialists in the office of public roads of‘the United States department of agriculture. Observing particularly the expansion and contraction .due to alternate wetting and drying of the concrete, records were made of the values of these moisture and’-tempera ture movements under varff>u§ condi tions. A waterproof covering, such as - Coal tar, It was learned, prevents a rapid change In moisture content ahd <■ greatly retards the expansion and con- . traction. . . Uncle Sam to War on Rat* and Mice. IIqping to reduce the tremendous an nual loss in property destroyed yearly by rats anti mice in thy United States, the department of agriculture has be gun a new campaign tp eliminate these creatures, which the biologists declare are the wont animal pest* in the world. - ; CORN CROP BREAKS RECORD Acreage Devoted to Grain in United States in 1917 Largest pver ” Knbwn, Say* UncTe Sam.’ buy other people’s cast-offs, because— everybody knows why. Rut ut one corner the other morn ing the sun lay like a yellow blanket on the pavement and the leaves, swirled down from the trees as if dying were > a gay sort of dance. Also, there wns a box, and on the box sut a small girl in blue holding a baby with rings in Its ears. The girl was a skinny little lacker, with a dark face* mostly eyes, and ns she cuddled the baby ber < roon- lhg voice somehow suggested olives. Vesuvius-, wayside shrines and banana carts. Rut there was nothing Latin about the fat. bald-headed baby, except the rings In Its ears. As |b.e two made a picture worth looking at, the woman paused and offered the "baby an apple from a bug. .“She Amerry-ean baby”—the girl explained it with a pride that was some thing fine td see, “She is. nob no dago. She- have ear-rings because my mar iner she say so. and her-saint.name is Magdalena-^-hut my par-per he say.it Is Mnjjigeejfor Amerry-ean and if she be a boy she be president, raaybee.” * "Why,. tharis--^plendiil. Anil what Is your name?” “I am Marre,e-nh.’after the Mothser of God. My mar-mer give me to her at the cathedral In Milan. I vcearjdue nil the time I am a child. When I am beeg I have a.pink ribbon bow in liTy hair ami a green cljess and felluh to .go with. Rut the bambino—no, the babee sheTcome* when we get here. No I will fight heem. I will keel heera if he call her To Cure a Cow j n One Day loMo Ql’lNINM Taaieta. Take LAX ATI V M HKoMO yi lNIN_ J^ r f f0 “‘l moner if it fall* to core. OUOvaSalauainrelsuneactiboz. We. a W. Inexpensive hoes nf American make are In demand in Rrltlsh East Africa. Christ.” Yet some havt 1 beard }be story ninny times, but have never k * • cried. “God be merciful to me (he sinner.” -•. \y*e need not say that- a penik-nt Ikhirt Is ready to accept a Saviour-,* As already pointed out. the publican prayer, “God -be , propitiated to me.” (See R. .V.) ITie doetrTne of Christ as j bov shall call her dago, a substitute iS^distnstoful tq many in dago.” ^ this age, but radiant with glory t* 1 That's alrout all, only Hi»w<e Avbtt fe<4-1irevdkrf ir HaThmr: j- One would like to know In advance wTiat America will do for Mnggee, » Finally, this partible illustrates the ! who.se saint's name 1 Is Magdalena, when she fs no longer a fat, bald-headed blessedness of just ideal i<m. Many baby with rings in her ears. „ . . Christians ure”’eontenf to '"believe their p ^ A: T- —-t sins are pardoned, for man can eon- 1 ceive. of. udthing~liiglier' than pardoji for the guilty. lq butnan -courts only ': * . r 's the innoeenTTare justified.' Rut in tin employment in the war has been submitted to tin* secretary of-war..by tin T-ral dng Camps association. In addition to* establishment of a schboR or Roman Rye Balsam la an antiseptic oint ment, applied externally and- not a "wash. 1 * It heal* the In(lamed aui faces, providing prompt relief. Adv. The.best tneebanics In the world are those who make good. Do Your Cows Fail to Cleai? This Is a serious condition and re quires prompt attention Dr. David Roberta’ - J - Cow Cleaner ^ gives quick relief. Keep It on band and prevent ttm ruin of your cow. Read,(be Practical Home Veteriaariaa nr fiw booklet n iktrdu la Cawa If no dealer In your town, write Or. OavM Robarts* Vet. Co., 100 Braad Avaaue, WauKe-Aa Wit. DRAIN TILE G IF YOU own A UTTU FIOD FOB IHElAKCk SAKE DMUtlTirailOKAKIinBt, The corn crop of 1917 Is notable as occupying the largest acreage and pro ducing the largest total crop of record, says Uncle Sam’k bureau of crop esti mates..,. The total Is estimated to be 3,191,083,000 bushels. The yield per aero, however, was not exceptional, coil ft of he;iVe+». the ungodly are Justi- owlng to an unfavorable season chlir- fled and. sent away us Tf they had never acterized bv a late spring, a cold sum- Tydnned! Tbrough the cross, God lx mer, which wits also too dry over able to be just and yet-thp justltier of much' of corn belt* and early and severely damaging freezes, the season being thus shortened at bo.tb ends, Thus the bountiful crop contains much corn that did not fully mature, prob ably in excess of 20 per cent, although most of this had reached the dough 8tate^Nmaklng it useful for silos and early fe The potftto crop, estimated at-_4 10,- - 000,000 busheh^ was the largest <i|h rec ord, notwithstanding an unfavojable September and October cut down the actual production benh^ tjie forecasts i made earlier in the seasotm „ • The buckwheat productbuN^f 16,813.- 000 bushels fell below early myecast*. j ^though It was up to ah avera^K in total production compared with fc mer years. The tobacco - crop pounds *1*0 was the largest on record. the believer in Jesus. How; marvel- .ons! . ' Surely, there sliould be no need tc urge men to accept such a blessing. Rather let us take- our places at- rmce with the publickft, crying, "God ba merciful to me the sinner.” Opinions as to the Training of Officers Differ , 4 K —. ;' ‘ . ^f’OMBREHENSIVE plan to train reserve officers and their more systematic LET US SUBMIT PRICES COLUMBIA CLAY CO. COLUMBIA.SOUTH CAROLINA. "x;; Giving a Guess. “My coiR of arms Is three lozenge* on n blue field.” “I’ll bet I know how that, origin ated.” ■ . “Eh! "The founder of the house made hls money In cough drops/’ s w % The Motive.- *1 knew a college fellow who was hi* sweet Irapresrlons to stick/ schools for'tralnlng-df ofilcers, to con tinue without interruption trp4«ad of for a few months only, as in the train ing camps, the nssocintjon recommends that, u certain number oT'-ieserve offi cers-should he sent to 'Franeer-frtr ucTual experteace- with the troops in the field and later brought home to act as Instructors of troops being Ijirepured for war service. The association, also notes an ob jection to the understood purpose of the war department to abandon all training cnoiT»^or officers end to *»btain"l supjdy *»f ofiieers irt future solely from-tfiepiilKs with tltetminmg toT"comuiissjoned grades given at the head- qyart^ra Of the several military divisions.. ,. T i,, [f ^Appareutly l^o pro|M>sal that reserve officers be sent’to France for train- log (under actual vnr conditions at*id then returmni to train the ^National army dws not appeal t« the war department. It was isnid there that reserve‘officers are lining sent to France'os General "Pershing niajRequire them' and Yhap- already about ^GOO^have been.assigned to rhe American expeditionary force in * L l ' (%(' a ,ot Europe ut General Bi-^shTfie's request. The explunutrOp was made, however, of l,18£4?$jOOO * n 8 8 r * * * 's s - ’ that these officers would remain In France. , ireeat on record ! 1 «n ess ,he lellows.'wanted 1 % The Greatest Fannin? 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