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BAUTWILL MHT1HKL, BAUTWKLL. SOOTH CAROLINA BLACK-DRAUGHT A ■i' FAMILY MEDICINE r Awarded the Distinguished Serv ice Medal by President Wilson. • SAVES 600 YANK SOLDIERS Goes to Assistance of Transport Otranto When She Was Sunk in Collision Off Irish Coast With Tirtf nr *- - American Troops on Board. . Some Kind of Stomach Trouble With Cramps and Terrible Pains Made This Oklahoma ' Man’s Life Miserable Un til Black-Draught Re- ‘ lieved Him. Chlcknsha. Okln.-Mrs. .T. W. Walker , recently snld this: “We «se Bluck- Drsught as a family medicine and think it is the only liver medlrTne made. My husband pinkos it tip and Uses it as a tonic ns well as a laxa tive. I use it for headache, sour stom- arh, n full heavy feeling after meals, which I suppose, is inYTTJfesfhrm. and It- certainly does me a lot of good. • ~ My husband hnd some kind «>f stom ach trouble—-we don’t know just- whnt. It would strike him Just any time in the day and cramp or 'pnh' him Just terribly bad. Someone told him how to make a tea of the Black-Drought, which he did. It did him so much good, it removed the cause and cured him. Since then we have praised the Black-Draught to our friends, and gladly do so." Seventy years of successful use has made Thedford* RlHck-Draught a standard, household remedy. Kvery member of the family at times needs the help that Rlark-Draught can give In cleansing the system and prevent ing or relieving the troubles that eome from constipation, indigestion, lazy liver, etc. Try Rlnrk-Drnught. Sold by alfdrug- gists.—Adv. Encouraging Daddy WhIIoii wiis iiuieh afraid of the dark. One evening, wishing for some toy that was In an adjoining imltglib'd room, and Itelug afraid to go after It alofte. lie said In Ills father. “Gome on. daddy. I’ll go with >•»«»• then* bu*’| a thing In those that will hurt your" FRECKLES In la tfca Tim UUUW TWm Ugly Spata p4he flagship of a e#*nvnjr nf fotirttVri troop inden. Influenza Infected ships which sailed from New York on Sept. 26 lust. She was a British Australian BRITISH NAVAL OFFICER HONORED FOR GALLANTRY FROM THE BATTLEFIELD *- * By E. W. BARRETT. Editor Birmingham Age-Herald. If ever a than were entitled to the distinguished service medal, it was that young British lieutenant, Fran cis W. Craven of the destroyer Moun- •ey. AHispiitch from London announced that President Wilson had awarded him this medal and that Maj. Gen. Bid dle, commander of the American forces in the Fnifed 1 Kingdom, hua presented it to him. The medal was awarded. In the words of the London cable, "to Lieut. Francis W. Craven, who commanded the British destroyer Mounsey, which saved 0<KI American soldiers from {he British Transport Otranto, wTien she bow rk the Kaplunere, another epor moils old freighter crowded with troops. The- KTndminie’s ■ how—cn?-| p through her’sides and di*ep Info her engine ThOm, stopping her engines and cutting out her lighting, system. She | i bet-arm* a broken log and was dashed ! upon the rocky cliffs. No other ship flared attempt assistance. Kaeh was struggling to save Itself. Mounsey to the ReVcue. Then came the little destroyer Moutl- sev, plowing through the waves like a submarine. .Site- managed to run In beside the foundering ship. Lifeboats had been lowered, hut were smashed in. ami the little Mounsey was pound ing against the hull of the big ship ; first jnihjned against the Side Slid then ! knocked far ofJ. ,ln the meantime 1 file soldier boys jumped for their lives toward the deck of the lit fie destroyer -Many would land and be rushed into the hutches. Others ‘Would miss the distance, Jump and drop Into the sen. /Will others would strike ench other in the long Jmnir from the high deck of the Otranto to the swa>h deck of the Mounsey;. some would Iqnd on the deck of the Mounsey with’ broken limbs and be washed overboard. The reports to Gen. Biddle, while I was In London, told of the horrors of the scene. Stuck to the Job. ?.".ss Lillian P. Nielson of New York, a nurse in Dr. Alexis Carrel’s hospi tal in - France, recently returned with q six-months-old baby, which she says wus picked up on u • battlefield when only nine days old. This is the orphan or foundling the French gov ernment has permitted to leave the couhtry. Miss Nielson will tuke the baby bitk with her when she returns to France. matter with me in London Just after It occurred SaTd few destroyers coritft have stood the strain. He could only The Mounsey was veered off several times by powerful blows from the steel sldetj of the pounding Otranto One side near the stem wns battered 1 In like an old tin can. Her engineer signaled to Lieut. Craven that the de- I stroyer could stand no more; she would away of the rivet heads, go down If another effort was made to MomeTown STOMACH UPSET? RAPE’S DIAPEPSIN AT ONCE ENDS DYSPEPSIA, ACIDITY, GAS, INDIGESTION. ^ Your meqls hit back ! Your stomach la sour, acid, gussj/and you feel bloat- 7 / ed aftef eating or you have heavy lumps of indigestion pain or headache, PROVIDE A BIRD SANCTUARY but never mind, tlere is instant relief. Comrpunity Benefited in Many Ways Where Feathered Friends Are Attracted and Helped. TVf»'i •« k«(»r ik# •Hpfctrat of f##ll»| MktaM «f jour firrkln, *■ Othlnr HrMfik -U (Mrulrel la Ikm ku««U at«i»i< p*t •• or OUrtra- Mr«*|tk tr^m your druulul. ••<! •TflT • liltl* •f It Bight *■•! BtorBlBg BBd fou ak-uM » «b MV lilt nrl Iho wurtf frockkirr kcg>ia to dlB • pt~*r • kilo lb# llgbtor bB»o rinl.bod #• ttroty It la tbot aoro tbsa ouo «ar# U aoodod to ciaplotolr rloar I bo akla ibl |tl* a boaatlfal rloar coaiploilou. Bo auro to aak for tbo doubla atrougtb Ofhta# aa tbl< la aold oa4or guaraatoo of mwj barb tf It falla tv ttaut. frock lou —Adr. Slightly Sarcagtic. "Do you fool able take a few let ters. Ml** I'taHitler?" "Why, certainly. Tnnt's what I’m here for. Isn’t It?" "I *iip|»o*e so. I»ut my rtt|iiet*| came so immhi after your la*t telephone con versation that I was afrnid ymi would be exhausted."—Bin.ilnglnui Age-ller aid. - SAGE AND SULPHUR . DARKENS GRAY HAIR ! "•> wax Himk In > a ■ collision off the Irish coast on Oct. 6, 1018. with the loss of 857 American soldiers.’’ * Though the British government con- ferred no honor upon Lieut. Graven for j his work, because It was not an act of valor In war combat, ntf man ih any j go down If another effort was made to I raw her afterward tied up in Bel navy ever showed more courage nor .[.run alongside the big ship. But Graven fast. She was fearfully bent In. like | demonstrated more |*erfect seaman-1 rook the chances. He manipulated the a lettered tin thing, hut not torn opau. ! ship than did Lieut.- Craven on tty* little ship with great skill and got The heads of the rivets held, j occasion. “ another hundred American aoldleH It was different with the Knslimere. The full story is worth telling, now hoy*. In all he saved about 6(K>. lenv- uhi.4i 1 afterwanl saw In Glasgow, that the censorship Is off and no fur- Ing only 357 to perish. and nearly all Her bow was crushed in. The rivet j ther obligation rest* u|*on the new*- these were lost In the effort to Jump heads’ had given away rnd tlie plates . pa|H*r man win* was In the offing. so front the big ship to the little tie- opened up. She had been hot riveted. 1 to speak, when litis horror of the era i «t rover. *trmtTrtr , • I '"/'raven landTil the Om in Ib-lfast. Flagship of Convoy. 1 It Is true many of them dlt-d there The (TTranto, whlfh went down, wav from the exposure and wounds, but the fiui were put ashore from the badly battered destroyer. How he 'stored away the ffnrvtn the little fighting craft Is-difficult for navul office** to explain, hut It wn* done. . A British admiral In discussing the Prepared by the United -States Depart-/ ment of Agriculture.) - Bin’s have such an important part in thf courses of nature study given In mm schools and colleges that more shou.d be done to attract them to school grounds or campuses. Unfortunately the campus, like the park, has suffered, from too formal landscape gardening. Cropped hedges are not inviting to-’the birds, and wooded- eampuseK where formerly birds abounded have been so filled with buildings, so gardened and for malized, that birds are now scarce. Some corner—preferably of original woodland and undergrowth if that still exists—should be set aside and al lowed to run wild, as a bird sanctuary. In addition to the help that birds give as protectors of trees and’ shrub bery against injurious insects they furnish, on school grounds, a distinct educational resource. There is scarce ly an advanced school in the country that does not xtiffor courses 4ft bird study; and the study of birds out of . TV, M Don’t stay upset! Eat a tablet of Pape’s Diapepsirf and immediately the Indigestion, gases, acidity and all stom ach distress ends/ Pape’s Diapepsin tablets are the sur est, quickest stomach relievers in the world. They cost very Ifttle at drug •tores. Adv. Foreet Wi»*e. We have used up aoo.jt ’>alf the. forests we originally possessed. Al though there are forest axsiK'la'Ions in nearly every state, supplementing the excellent u-yrk-uf-t-lu*- national forest service, trees are being u*,-d Ul* faster Plants which furnish ' bird foods should be added, nest boxes put up. and winter feeding carried on us an Interesting and instructive-part of the work in bird-study classes. 1» is fur ther suggested that the teacher of or nithology should Ih* called in to advise in relutlon to the plunulng Hnd treat ment of the campus. Fngltsh nnvht officers are gtrmg rwho «r“-Fmere«t.-d Ih at»rw<4- rivet question, and are ' 1 * 1 * WWW i*bWlc'and sfir.TpubTTc |50»000,<Nki yeartyr• T*** e ar* tlonal “forests in lilt* ,.if*nte<i consisting of acres. Magazine. If yon would retain your friends don’t remind them of their faubs. Industry be tfaCTrdF nn-l economy sliotild now It'* Grandmother'* Recipe to Restore Color, Gloss snd At tractiveness. Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea and Sulphur, properly compound ed. brings back the natural color and lustre to the hulr when faded, streaked or gray. Years ago the only way to get this mixture was to make it at liner, with something like a thousand American soldier boys aboard. On her sister ship, th** (Ironies. « nasty old plague tm’ected refrigerator freighter with limited and dirty pussenger ac commodations. eighteen hundred sol dier ho>s. the writer and about fifty other passengers were crowded to gether like cattle. \Ye were at'cow|Minled from New York by a battleship, a rrulVer and a destroyer. The route was to Ik* around the ni>rth of Ireland and down the Irish channel to LlveriMio). All sorts of hatd luck hit the convoy and par tlculatiy the Otranto. She first ran Into n fishing fleet and cut down two hontft. hut sav«*J the crews. In doing so trie fell behind, hut ('aught up when we rau Into a fearful storm and cent I toed battling agntim TT Tor *cv- daya. Scattered in Storm. B»*(»r»* reaching British waters north of Ireland, the American naval vesso’s turned l*ack (*r were scattered in th^ storm. Our old ship was strug gling and our captuin wus b(>gging in wind'iss messages to Capt. Davidson of the Otranto for more sea room, lie Narcd going on tlie t**cky shore- of N«*rtli Ireland.' (’apt: Ihivldson made no answer to repeated calls study to tty* preparing a re|*ort to llo* admiralty for future con si deration in the build ing of destroyer*. In the meantime all America owes a debt of gratitude to* IJeut. Graven. But for hi* pluck and r.amanshlp not a man from the otran'b would have lived to tell the tale. reservation* can got a publication de voted to this subject by writing- to the United State* department of ucrl- cultqrc at Washington f**r Bulletin 715. Made In Germanv . w* -——NowTaboo Here SERVES TWO GOOD PURPOSES Bird House in Detroit Park Also Af-. fords Convenient Shelter for the Pleasure Seeker. In Belle Isle park Detroit, Michi gan, which 1* one «*f -the tmnt attrac tive tnanicipal recreation tenters in Products From Hands of *‘Baby KiHers.” saylcg vehementlv plainly as I ran tint I TRADE MARK IS OFFENSIVE American Public Wants No More ,hwn " * h * ** j“you can see a [ they are marked 'madr. In Germany.'** Boy Burns Rock’ig Horse. One mother r**ccTi espied her young son standing in"*i Naisdeiinlc st tltnde l*ef»*re a bla/in* bonfire. In the midst of which could oe seen the .a**t d|sap|M‘iirlng head~uf-a uLitv rtn-k- Ing horse. . * —*- “Why, Nathan." exrltimed bis moth er in a grieved voice, “you used to ■ be so fond of that rn/sing horse.** “Yes’nt, but I’m not any more." de claret! htv son emphatically. “It’s got *Madt» in Germany* »n I We hear much »l>out the necessity of From Germany Americans Want Noth ing but Souvenirs of Victory—Ger man Toys and Other German Goods Doomed in U. S. By FREDERIC J. HASKIN. In Chicago Dally News. Washington. D. G.—For .the first time in oven 5B years. American stores are practically emptied of German toys. Only a few* bisque dolls re main, ami in most cases these have home, which Is mussy and trouble- j ^"’ n ,,ur wlfelera "»nt down, om some. Nowadays, by asking at any boats were crushed, tin* smoking room [been carefully pnekyd away until some drug store for “Wyeth‘S Siige and onashctl In. the [distant day when American toy Kuy- phnr Compound.” ytn* will get a large 11 <’>'*• dlnfng saloon and many stnte-/,.j-s slinll have become reconciled to bottle of this fanioijK*old recipe. Tin- I »*«*«»»»♦« ws>rs»' _iluly eoUi fuuais.; the trudi* mark.".M»dt> In Germany^ proved hy the addition of .other In- ! *'** r «- “htHlnilfele, To make Battik grodlents. at a sffinll cost. ' v,,rs( ‘' 4<K1 8wlfller ,M '- VS were ( lo\*n- Don’t stav grav! Trv It! No nne ' v,th * umonin. They were dylng^ can possible fell that you darkened ,ik ‘‘ cnttle ,n tlw ? ubllc , n,on,, » nn ' 1 on tnattresst's strewn about wherever there was enclosed roomy Mcdjclhes were exhauated, 4ind dead ami dying your hair, as it does it so rpiturally and i evenly. Yon dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw* this’ through your hair, taking one small strand 'it a time; by morning the gray hair dis appears, and after another application or two your hair become^ ’beantifullj dark, glossy and attractive.^—Adv. . • 1 Had Heard It Before. “Mrs. Uoppit, coiod 1 persuade you to wait another week >Ar your tent?” ‘.‘I don’t know. Mr. I'libbit. How do I know if you’ll keep jour promise and pay me next week?’’ “I’m a gentleman, ma’am.’’ — “That sounds pice, now, don’t It? My husband calls himself a gentleman. My husband calls himself a gentleman. That’s why l have <<• run .Pledging house."—Birmingham^ ; r e-lie, aid. Cuticura Soap for the Complexion. Nothing better than Cuticura Soap dally and Ointment now add t,ben as Deeded to make the complexion clear, scalp clean and hands soft and white. Add to this the fascinating, fragrant Cuticura Talcum and you .have the Cuticura Toilet Trio.—,Adv. were all about. In the meantime every ship put Today 4hU- trade mark is mm only pruWetmg the new American dye In dustry from German competition now that the war is'over, but few people know that before the war our Impo.'ta ttroi ,,f German lt\v* was greater, than that <>f tives. The figures show that v.t nst t*)n worth <>f toys were import ed where only ss.inn.ooo worth of tly<"> were imported In 1014. the imports of both -The*#* 4Tnes of goiMls* From Ger- A/norit a. p. -this big rustic bird house math* of It»gs and set high above the ground so that it serves also as a shel ter for *man.v pleasure seekers.—pop ular Mechanic* Magazine. unpopular—-it is offensive. Americans ( many showed sucti a startl.itig'lncrease ■^wlll still buy Turkish rugs, Austrian ‘ l -‘ '* 1 ■*— musical comedies and Bulgarian color combinations, but from Germany thev want nothing b.ut souvenirs of victory. According to one department store buy er. a woman came .into Ids store not long ago, in search of ti certain kind about to save its own, heading- Into of glove's which* she .said, she had been the storm. The Otranto and other I unable to obtain in two other cities. ships, not, heeding our captain’s warn ings were almost upon the rocks of Ireland. A veritable hurricane was blowing. Waves broke entirely over the ships. The Otranto in trying to get out of Its predicament, turned across the She was delighted when he finally brought out a-pair from some old' stock that met with her requirements. He was very nmrlrsurprised, therefore, to find her in an argument with one of that it Is n<>w. believed German dye and toy agents in this country ’ were aware that war was approaching. U. S. Toy Business Now Is Vast. s' The only difference in the histories of these two industries Is that toys al ways bad been made to a limited ex tent trr the United States, whereas dyes—nf least 'coal tar dyes—had not been made here at all. In 1013 there were already 71 fny establishments designing and manufacturing Ameri can toys, and doing nn annual business of $7,521,485. When the German toys For Public Health. It is plain enough that the cities are -expumiiUg io ..tin- -sciqu- '.f their gov- ernmental functions quite .a*~«»4»pldljr ns in their physical dimensions. It Weekly Health Talks Whal Is the Cause of Backache? BY DOCTDB COKNELL Backache l« perhaps the rao«t com mon ailment from which women suf fer. Ilarely do you find anyl*o«ly free from it. Sometime* the tauM* Is ole scure. but Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo. N. Y^ ' S high medical authority, say* the cause Is very often a form of catarrh thst rattles tn the rtettmte membrane* of the feminine organs. When these organs are inflamed, the first syuip* tom U backache, accompanied by bear ing down scn«atioiis, w<-*kne*s, un healthy discharge*. Irregularity, pain ful period*. Irritation, headache and a general run-down condition! Any woman Ih tbl* condition is to be pit ied. but pity dt*ex not cure. The trouble calls for Dr. 1‘lerce's Favorite Prescription wbteh b» » **»-t*««rt»te und - distinct medicine for women. It is mi'V oil root* and herbs put up without alcohol or < ptate of any kind, (or Dr. PieroT 'u-e* not long ei-e in his pre scription, Fat -me Tress ript ion m a nat ural remedy for d-onirn, for the vegetable growths of whit b it is made seem to have been intended by Nature for that wry purpose. Thou-and* of girl* and women, young and old. have taken it, and ihou»aiids have written grateful letter* to Dr. Pierc# saying it mule them well. la (living Favorite Pfesc-riptiGn. it i* reassuring to know that it guts straight to the cause of the trouble,. There i- but one way to overcome ni*knc*^. and that i« to Overcome th* cause. That ia. preeiicly what Favor?— ite Preseription i* intended to do. Send ldc for trial pkg. "f Tablets. Addrop* invalid*' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. Cnnstipslfd women, os wu;il as, f rt. SIS advised i>v Dr. Pierce to take hi* Pleasant Pellets. They are ju>t splendid for cos- WHIPPET TANKS USED IN PEACE WORK the salesgirls: the next tiny over the return of hvr purclmse." ,"I won't have ‘"W? 4 0 " n '" ,K "" l, ! s "’- V 'i n<1 ,"" went nn enormous expansion. Today there are .165 American toy firms, do ing nn annunl business of $20,500,006. There Is no doubt nt present that tho • American toy product is every hit as j good ns, if not better, than that mntD in Germany. It is a fact that*pur Amer ican tpymnkers have not yet learned to make Bisque dolls or-Christmas tree halls, but most people consider that the 1- American dolts are much mor<? | “natural" and abundant Christine-* >tree balls may he had from Remarkable, Indeed. . The other evening fhe"lUle girl -In question suddenly seeing one of Charleston's “finest" coming .town the street, raid to her mother: “Ob. mother, 414 you- know that po- Utvmen have wives?" _ ••What’s that, dear?* queied the motin-r In * tooe 'that Iniplie-j to the child's cars disbelief "Well, they have." raid the little I raw • woman mm! sh» a pdkrau’i wife. I «hili 11 know •Iter antii I mm tar* (I. Tu IUiL formerly dralt' engroes of war. three whippet tanka have man tied m*d are how being employed tn France la useful agricultural me hunts • ennui bout lauded with feedstuff* foe tta Thus everybody was prepared for a peaceful, American toy Christmas rb ! -' year, when suddenly a cprgn of Ger man toys arrived In the port of Nev York. earthquake could nor liav- causetl greater—ronsternatb>n In the Amiri ruff fuy •Iniduatry. immediatei' the press ttuik up the matter with th* free use of hitler Invective and th* vice president *»f one of the qrms ta whom the toys were consigned issued the folWiwing statement"We luf'c refused to accept the shipment of Ger man toys ♦hlch came to us from Ho* land without notice. Though tbew goods were bought and paid fur bofur* the war and are our property we wilt have no German made nwtb li on makes for social unity, stimulated I tivene*s patriotism and ministers t<> the finest humanity. For example, the city of the future, realizing the interdependence of its - citizens, will concern itself qiore and more about health._ The city of the future .will neglect nothing that tends to preserve and ipvigorate human life. The future city will bo careful of its good Nooks and tolerate no unsightli ness. It.will be proud of its beautiful bridges, monuments and buildings. The billboard, as we know it, wil! dis appear. It will electrify its railways and ftdep Its pavements scrupulously clean. ^It will deodorize and utilize Its sewage, caft its waste in sealed vehicles, consume most of its smoke, and confine its dust within the limit* of the nonpreventahle. DIPLOMA Georgia MEANS Alabama w . LIFE , Business EMPLOYMENT Macon, ga. WRITS FOR CATALOR Origin of Christmas Carols. Christmas carols originated in Eng land in the time when mystery and morality plays were very popular, and to sqt the singe properly Tor each act required qilite a MttTe Urne Tne catols were what music between the. acts of a play is to the American people, and to keep the audience from getting tired, 4 the “waits” between the r acts were filled in by companies of shig- erlGjyho xtame before the curtain and sang what to us today are the Christ mas carols. Gradually, to give them variety, dancing was Introduced. All the Christmas carols were not relig ious, however, in their character; some j — were love song* while other* were [ convivial in their nature. FOR CnsPt C«M*. Ctagltt, tin external applica tion* of BRAMFS VAPOMENTHA SALVfe Will not stain clothe*. 25c. 50c aid $1.00 Jm At ALL DRUGGISTS ^«***atpr«p,Mbj, . N. WlikMbara, M?C. . g mi F One Treatment with Cuticura Clears Dandruff I.Ti More Eggs He Was an Orphan. j tasrjwMasvWh RAi^MMa Tetfbf—Wtat It a little hoy called 3 6 * (her fafier nor mother? eir* W. L WATTTJtSON. Ge^ml Ira U] QuU Willie (rhnar father attends >—A nmk K C