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I ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ISSUED SEBXI-WEEKL^^ l. m. obist'S sons. publisher.. , % 4bmi'8 9?nw?i: cJfor the promotion of % jpolificat, jSocial, gltjrieulturat antt ffommerciat Interests of thij feopty. ) """V "*" ,??*"* established 1855. " YORKVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER "1, 1!)14;. ~ lS~o7TO. r ALONE IN THE (By JOSEPH Copyright, 1913, by Small. Maynard CHAPTKR XIV As to the Boy Scouts. Boys in our modern life, especially A in big cities, do not have the opportunities of getting back to nature as boys did years ago. However, through this great movement of theirs they come together and talk of outdoor life, and at every opportunity they go into the woo ls and | learn the great lesson or nature. oi? men who know have written books on ^ the woods and the animals that live within these woods. The boy scout is obliged to learn about these various animals and things about nature in order to qualify as a first class scout. ^ I am particularly interested in the different stages of the movement. There are three degrees which the boy must take before he becomes a first class scout. This part of it is a splendid feature, inasmuch as the Ipoy just starting in to be a scout constantly has the incentive of becoming a bigger ana better one. I even advocate more degrees so that a scout can always look forward to something bigger. The Boy Scouts of America first become what they call tenderfeet. Here they make a start and a start is a big * thing. A boy must serve at least a month to be eligible to enter the ranks of the second class scouts, and all the while he must learn necessary, practical things of life in order to qualify. He must know how to aid those who are injured, how to cook, how to build fires in the open, how to use a knife and a hatehet and other practical things that thousands of boys do not know today. ^ Such knowledge makes the boy independent. It gives him an education that will stand back of him in after life. It brings him closer to Mother Nature, whom, in the onward marct along the roads of civilization, he has 4 run away from. It gives him health, and health means stronger generations to come. In order to become a first class scout the boy must know how to swim, to earn a certain sum of money and deposit it in a bank, to make maps, to understand the growing things in the woods and how to live in the open. What movement can be greater ( along educational lines? Where does , book learning compare with this practical experience in the great outdoors? . ? / Kowa Vwi/tLr loarnintr fori 4 ^ Ui tUUICC III* ? C lliw wvwn but divide this learning with the learning from the open book of nature. I understand that there are over 2,000,000 boy scouts in the world today. I believe it to be the duty of every parent to encourage his boys in this work, and 1 certainly approve of any such movement for the girls along this * line. I realize only too well that the average boy scout will not go into the depths of the woods as 1 did. However, 1 feel that the average American boy of reasonably good health and with a reasonable amount of resourcefulness could accomplish things in the forest that he and his parents would never dream of. The boy scout will go into the forest where man has been and where there is ample opportunity to get close to nature. He will learn the different growing things and the habits of the animals that frequent his domain. He ? will learn how to utilize the different materials all about him. He will come to love the woods, and all fear will leave him. He will get to | feel as safe and comfortable in the j _ forest at night as in his own home. , ~ In the summer time the boy in the j woods knows he cannot freeze. If he is lost all he has to do is to keep his ( head. The best place to choose a . camp if night overtakes him is in a j thicket. If he feels cold he knows , enough to get up and run around. , i BROKEN-HEARTED BY WAR ' * ' Jnl K |B|l 32SBZE jH&f nnggg Count i.icluiowbky, German aaibassador to England, leaving the foreign office in London after the declaration of war. ; WILDERNESS KNOWLES & Co. The boy in going into the woods should know in what direction he is going. With this constantly in his mind, he can get his bearings by tne moss on the north side of the trees. It is useless for me to tell the boy scouts how to build a fire without any matches. They know already. To the boy just beginning the chapter on woodcraft, by Ernest Thompson Seton, in the boy scouts' handbook will explain all that very quickly. In the winter when the snows are deep and he is walking on snowshoes and night overtakes him it is a simple thing for him to construct a cozy camp for the night. I have done it hundreds of times and have been perfectly comfortable. He takes off his snowshoes, shovels a hole in the snow with them and lil this hole with boughs. He sticks up a couple of sticks in front, places a cross stick across those and slants boughs ?ftT imiirilTP \1IITU DADV LAv>l mumunio vvi i n oho i jy^9 I>?'$ ' " flv i t. . --*v J_:r ir~:r it m-itibh sergeant answering mobilization call, with his little daughter. covered with bark from the cross stick to the snow in the rear. After gathering wood enough to last ill night he starts his fire in front of the lean-to-the loe side. He can reg- ' ulate his comfort to suit himself un3er these conditions, no matter if the temperature is below zero. There are no animals in the woods in winter that will molest him in any way. The bear is in his den. The moose are in their yards on the tops >f the mountains, and they never leave these yards until the snow is gone. The leer are also in yards on the mountains and in the swamps. The only animals that travel on the light snow are the rabbit, fox, wildcat, mink, tisher and the soft footed animals. Even if there were vicious animals n the woods none would approach lose to a camp so long as a tire was turning. if a boy hasn't any food he knows he won't starve overnight. In the preceding chapters he can tind much materiil on foods and how to get them. The more experience a boy has in the woods the more his instinct will be lev?loped. No guide can describe to you how he finds water. He simply goes and tinds| it, that is all. He knows instinctively ' whore to go by trails and the lay of the 1 iand. A boy who lives a great deal in the ipen will see the folly of smoking. I im not a prude about such things, but I do say that nine out of every ten who : smoke acquired the habit because when they were young they thought smoking looked well and made them men. Smoking does not make a man. J Rather it shows a weakness for luxury. There is nothing in smoking, and in many cases it is harmful. A man 1 iloes not need tobacco, and he can be 1 just as contented and even more so without it than he can with it. There isn't a man I know who 1 smokes who way down in his heart ilo< s not wish that he had never started the habit. 1 don't even have to mention liquor to a boy scout, for he well knows its evils. God's fresh air is the greatest stimulant in the world, and the use of artificial stimulants is an abuse of the 1 body. While I am writing to boys 1 want to pay a tribute to the newsboys of the country. Those little men are an inspiration to me. At their very young ; ugo they are laboring upon their own resources, and in the future we are to mm mhiii- i t?ii 11111 umir n??m niiiwuh tin ir ranks. These boys, with the responsibilities of life upon their shoulders, learn to grasp every opportunity, urn! the fraternity among them is a : wonderful thing to see. Some of them ;iid materially in the support of the family. They work long and late. ' With all this work they are always on 1 the alert to improve themselves. The various newsboy clubs throughout the country have accomplished remarkable things, and valuable men are being made from their member- : ships. I toys, there is one question you 1 should always ask yourself, "Am I making the most of what I have?" It is impossible to describe the feeling of satisfaction that takes possession of one when lie knows that he has done his very best. The boy who tries to do as little in life as he can believes he is doing a smart thing and is having an easy time. He is having a hard time instead. He does not know the exhilaration of true happiness?the feeling that makes one glad to be .alive. If every boy and girl could but understand this, how much more each would get out of life! A boy should n-v? r *ry to reason with his conscience, because his conscience in the long run is right. In stinetively he knows what his duty is, and every time he meets that duty he is making himself a bigger man?a man whom the world will look up to and respect. Boys and girls, the responsibility of the future lies upon your shoulders. Study nature at every opportunity, for the more you know of nature the more you will know of true living. The very boys and girls who live today can make history. They can be the ones who, when artificial things have taken possession of the world, can turn civilization back to the true life. This means a future life of health and happiness?a glorious heritage, which will be handed down from them. When the realization first came upon me in the forest that my battle was not to be physical, but one with my mind, I began to try to create something to combat it. I knew that in order to win this battle I must constantly apply my mind to labor and that in steady labor I would not have time to dwell mentally on my loneliness. Having been an artist in the civiliized life, it was most natural that my mind should turn in that direction. I wisnea mat 1 migm nave nau mj tubes, brushes and canvas, for in that way I could have occupied by mind for hours. But I said to myself, "What is the use of wishing for these things when I have not got them?" Suddenly it occurred to me that color came from nature and the brushes and canvas came from the same source. Then the thought came to my mind: "Why not try to get my artist materials in the forest? Why was it not possible for art to be foraged just the same as existence?" To begin with, I had everything necessary right there in the woods. I knew that paper was made of wood pulp. I also knew that brushes were made of animal fur. There was a chance for color everywhere. (To be Continued). THE CITY OF ANTWERP Almost as Important to England as One of Her Own Ports. Military' men see in the German advance on Antwerp an attempt to seize that port in the interest of the German North sea lleet. The ships of the main German squadron are believed to be in the mouth of the Elbe, close to the entrance to the Kiel canal. The fortifications of Helgoland and on either side of the Elbe estuary render the Elbe anchorage safe from attack. These fortifications are believed to be impregnable to ship attack. The possession of Antwerp and Ghent would put the Germans in position to direct torpedo boat attacks against the mouth of the Thames and against Sheerness and other east coast of England ports. The distance from hushing at the Scheldt mouth is so short that torpedo boats could make forays on English ports, and if undamaged could regain port before daylight. With the advance of the German army into Belgium and a possibility of attack on Antwerp in view, military men early perceived one of the most cogent reasons for England dispatching a large force to the continent. Antwerp is regarded as of almost as much importance to England as one of her own ports at the Thames mouth. The taking of Antwerp and the utilization of the Scheldt for effective operations against England may spell trouble with Holland, says the New York Herald, but if Germany can pass her torpedo boats down the Rhine Into the Scheldt it may mean that she can find a sea outlet west of the Scheldt, either from Belgium or France. The entire Belgian and north French country is a network of canals, and the extent of the tonnage handled on these inland waterways is hardly understood by those who have not actually tra -A T its n fool thnl tnrnpHn verstru uiriu. n 10 u tuvt v*??w boats can pass from the Mediterranean to the English channel without going outside, and torpedo boats are built in the interior of France and transported to the north and south by waterways. All the heavy artillery built at the Creusot works in central France is sent forward to the artillery shops of the same company at Havre by water. To Germany the possession of the north Belgian and north French coast means greater striking power at England. It means bringing forward the numerous torpedo boat destroyers and submarines held in leash in the Elbe ind at Welhelmshaven, and if they mean that after all is said and done it is England that Germany is aiming at even more than France in this great struggle. Tl'" ilofnnuou ,,f Antwi-rn to which city the king c?f the Belgians removed his capital, are the strongest in Belgium. They were designed as the strategic center of the national defense of the country and are supposed to form an intrenched camp for 100,000 men. The length of the enceinte is about nine miles. The scheme included detached forts, those which are tin the side not defended by inundation being about a mile and a quarter apart and from two to three miles in front of the enceinte. They are powerful works for a garrison of about 1,000 men and are intended for an armament of 120 guns and fifteen mortars. Although the system of defenses was adopted in 1800, the present fortifications were started in 1878, when it was recognized that the old ones hud be- , come useless on account of the increased range of artillery and the more . destructive power of explosives. It , was then decided to change Antwerp from a fortress to a fortified position . by constructing an outer line of forts and batteries at a distance varying i from six to nine miles from the en reinte. THIS seconu line consists ui liftcen forts, large and small. Antwerp has long been regarded by , the English as a port which must remain in friendly hands. Its position j opposite the mouth of the Thames is loo close to take chances. Napoleon | seized this port in 1X04 and undertook 1 to construct it great naval depot there, lie is said to have declared that he i would make of Antwerp "a loaded pis- i tol to hold at the heart of England." Hopeful.?Iiucon?I gave my wife a rainbow kiss when I left home this i morning. Egbert?What in the world is a rainbow kiss? Ha con?One that follows a storm. FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files of The Yorkville Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. rat i net a llmunt n f thfi nntou appearing under this heading was published in our issue of November 14. 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and instruction of the present generation. SEVENTY-FOURTH INSTALLMENT Editorial Correspondence. Camp Davis, Richmond, Va., Tuesday Night, June 11. 1861. Dear Enquirer:?The city, attractive enough within itself, is now as the seat of our common government, the rendezvous of thousands of volunteers from the different southern states, and a point threatened by the invader, a place of exceeding interest. Every variety of uniform is observable, and the white tents of an unknown number of regiments, dot the beautiful open fields and clover pastures of the suburbs of the city. The constant arrival and departure of troops renders it hard to ascertain the number at any one time stationed here. Virginia, herself, hits offered Gov. Dechter 80,000 volunteers: but we have not been able to learn even what number of these is enrolled.?South Carolina about 4,000 in the state?three regiments here and 2 in the neighborhood of Manassas? and all the southern states are repre sented in the army on Virginia soil, except, perhaps, Missouri and Delaware. The number of our troops, indeed is so great and so well chosen and fortified is their position that it is whisENGLISH TROOF P91 : $? * .'^ ; ^;'::/ ' wn. ?& ^5^fiK/V fiS^SSKS^v i H mHf& Hp uek VHA ^MHT HT ^flS-5 Above, English soldiers entering a for the scene of warfare on the contln percci anci even puousneu imrui ?>i ur Potomac. that tho Federal forces will not advanr -? any more Just now. but I rather retreat in order to avoid, as' < Oen. Scott is reported to think prob- J able, a slaughter to the tune of 10,000 j for each member of Abe's cabinet. T*i this policy is to prevail, the llrst in-I vasion campaign of Yankee land, will i prove a signal illustration of their | characteristic braggadocio?"the sound ; and fury signifying nothing"?and for this reason if none other, we are inclined to believe that it is at least in their contemplation. To our mind tie* "tactics and strategy" of the north indicate this game while "silere est sapere" is the motto of Davis?while directness. subtle energy and straightforward business capacity mark the ( proceedings of the south?they gpther tip their myriads 01 rapscallions m print: and blow their paper trumpets' and prepare to retreat in amazement J, if the walls of southern liberty do not j crumble at once to dust. If you were!, to listen to their Cassius M. Clays,J Horace Oreeleys and swarm of sensa-ij lion correspondents, you would believe | that I'ensucola would be blown skyj] high; and a llotilla would pass down the Mississippi, demolishing Memphis, | Viekshurg, Cairo and every town andji village on its banks, that Richmond J, would be laid in ashes; that Harper's; | I'err.v would be cut off, girdled in and ] starved out or stormed by two col- 11 umns, one advancing via Alexandria , ind Manassas, the other through west-'; crn Virginia, ovrawing at the same \ time the Secessionists and building up | 11 provisional government for the state , through the t'nion feeling there: and ( that even Fort Sumter would be re- j taken and the blockade made every- | where effective: and all this, too, per- . haps before the meeting of the north- i ern congress on the 41li of July! And | if they could raise men and money by i magic, and light their battles on paper j the south would be completely subju- < gated in tomorrow morning's issue of ( the Tribune. Hut these "ifs" are in ; the way. Their zeal surpasses their < knowledge. Their fanatical wishes | mil distempered imaginations outspeed | i both their means and their business i talent. < .Meanwhile this foreshadowing of a ' stupendous project to invade the south 1 Xerxes-like, with an army of millions. ' with horsemen and charioteers and < bugles and fifes, and kettledrums and ' fiddle sticks and what not, is all gam- ' mon. If they Intended It they simply are not fools enough to say it. They ' think it will tickle the ear of Europe and stay the recognition of an independence! Verily, Don Quixtote never fought his windmills with completer infatuation, than those Yankees are becudgelling the world with the idle dreams of their own greatness, and the insignificance of everybody else ex England, if she dares to recognize the south, and thereby extends slavery over all the world and the West Indies too. Alack! they will lind John Hull is a sorry fellow, whose self interest and politic neutrality will not suffer him to he spoiled by their sugar, nor saved by their salt. In war, actions should speak louder than words; and therefore, we are not allowed to speak in detail of military movements here if we are in the secret, nor are we permitted to know what tomorrow will bring forth. Suffice it to say that there is work to do. Men who know how to plan it, and men able and willing to do it?and that with Heaven still on our side, it will j be done. The five South Carolina, regiments, we learn, are to fight side by side; that a post of honor and dan-j ger is to be selected, and they will occupy the post, while we do not court ( any uisuncuon or pre-eminence iui uur| state In this contest?while modesty forhids that she should either claim or seek any extra honor?while the farest seeing wisdom indicates that, although the marriage tie cannot be between them, no jealous rivalries should be introduced to mar the family feeling of our sisterhood of states? we are unprepared to shrink from any ganger or hardship in this revolution, begun by ourselves; and the "light of battle on the brows" of Carolinians will wax brighter and brighter over the best "foughten" lields of Southern Independence. We have yet to meet the man who doubts the tinal issue of the struggle; and the lustrous hopes of the future girdled in with the red llames of indignant patriotism, will beacon our hosts on to cheerful death or generous and world-renowned victory. ixone 01 me jneiutriiis ui war uavc struck our fancy more than the contrast between the stirring camp and the serene heavens at the "witching hour" which closes the day. often while on Sullivan's Island, at this hour >S HEADED FOR THE SI ^-v4S pi D H V| ?*>? :?<> \^HK '^ x'x*^'-' * ro ' ' ! railway station in London to take tra ent. Below are some of the troops res our gaze would escape from the stirring multitude and the restless waves to the calm blue arch above; and we could easily appreciate the parodox that one of the highest motives which can prompt a people in poinp to war, is the love of peace. This effect is heiphtened here, where several regiments with their white tents scattered ; like a bevy of villapes over the rolling hills and preen valleys are always at this time in sight. This evening will he long remembered by the 5th regiment as the first time when many of us laid eyes on the "right man in the right place." It was known that he was to review us at dress parade; but he came an hour beforehand: dressed plainly but neatly in citizen's garb, accompanied by Col. Wigfall and another gentleman, whose face we did not recosmize. and rode from front to rear through our encampment. The boys were generally engaged busily in cleaning their guns and putting themselves in trim to be looked at by the "observed of all observers;" and he had well nigh passed by without creating a sensation. As lie passed our row of tents, however, which is next to the last on the left of I lie regiment, we looked up and saw him. and giving vent to a "Three cheers for the president, boys," gave the alarm; and before he laid rode a Hundred yards, the regiment was electrified, and after him as though a body ?f Yankees or a Charlotte dinner was ihead of them. The photographs you have seen of him, enabled us to recognize him at a glance; so you need no liscription of his personal appearance. And tile charm of his eloquence and nlluence here is indiscrihuhle. of the I'rst we had an illustration in the short speech which he made at the review, :his evening of our regiment. He siml?ly addressed us as South Carolinans. reviving the memories of our Sumters mil Millions; telling us thill we had | yome to fight to re-establish the prin- | ,-iples for which our forefathers foUKht, j ind to repel the invader of our soil: j laying that South Carolinians had, fought on many noble fields and had never quailed before man; reminding js that we had been the chief cause in changing the stars and stripes to the iroad bars of the southern (lag, and to :hat "glorious old Moultrie" first made he star-spangled banner bite the lust; and concluding that he and the yountry confided in us. This was all? i laid too, in almost as few words as we have repeated it; but the magic of his crystaiine and graceful utterances, sweeping easily the whole line of the large regiment, with the penetrative clearness of a bird's note, thrilled every heart; and as he finished a shout i of prolonged cheering went up from the soldiers and the large crowd of visitors around him. To show you the extent of his influence, and the enthusiastic confidence ' and love of the soldiers for him, we 1 will close this already too long letter with an incident. The first Mississip- ' pi regiment is camped here. The other ' evening the president rode out to see ' them, many of whom are his personal ' acquaintances. He had scarcely got 1 into their camp, before he was surrounded so thickly and closely that he ' could not proceed. The tremendous shouting frightened his horse, till he trembled in his tracks, and would have run had not two or three stout arms seized the bridle. There they held him for perhaps more than an hour, shaking hands with him, and would not let him depart until he had made one of his short, pointed and thrilling speeches. His health appears to be improved, and we wonder not at it, if enthusiastic and universal admiration be good medicine. Yet he demeans himself with all the modesty, simplicity and dignity that could adorn his exalted station. Posterity will ever know him as "the right man in the right place," just as Washington is another name for the "first in war, lirst in peace and first in the hearts of his country men." We are all admirably well, and ever 5 since we left Orangeburg, the best of spirits and harmony have prevailed. Direct all mail-matter here; and be sure to designate company, regiment and state, for we are in the midst of volunteers from other states. Sleepily, Our Corporal. (To Be Continued). Light Enough.? A landlady, whose reputation for over-feeding her boarders was not great, brought in the supper tray, and after she had set the various items before the solitary boarder she said: "Shall 1 light the gas?" < The lone one looked at the scanty , meal before him and replied: "Well, no, it isn't necessary?the | supper is light enough." I CENE OF WAR i < * %% - ^tsm l ,ins for Dover, where they embarked ting In the station. Great Author's Optimism.?Of that form of eccentricity closely related to egotism, whereby many of the world's greatest artists and writers have conveyed to us their appreciation of their own work, a most interesting case is that of Thackeray, ordinarily a most modest man. But there Is good authority that Thackeray never passed the house in Russell square wherein he lived when he wrote "Vanity Fair," without raising his hat?a tribute from himself to his great work.?Sunday Magazine. GERMAN OBSERVATION TOWEF ^ Portable and collapsible tower t] used by the German army. n iWiscrllancous grading. McADOO'S COTTON PLAN Committee of Bankers, Manufacturers and Planters Give it Approval. Washington, August 28.?Secretary McAdoo's plan to accept as a basi~ for currency, notes secured by warehouse receipts for cotton, tobacco and naval stores at 75 per cent of their face value, was approved tonight in a report by the special committee appointed by the conference of representative planters, bankers, manufacturers and dealers here August 24-25. The committee recommended that every effort be made to assist producers in holding their cotton for a price that will minimize their losses until the channels of foreign trade are reipened. Eight cents a pound was suggested as a fair basis for loans on cotton. The report, which was submitted to Secretary McAdoo, follows: "1. That the committee entirely approves of and congratulates you upon the announcement made by you yesterday afternoon that notes secured by warehouse receipts for cotton and toaacco and naval stores, and having not nore than four months to run, will be iccepted as a basis for the issuance of currency to the members of the national currency associations at 75 per cent of the face value of said notes. "2. That it is the sense of the comnittee that cotton, tobacco and naval stores should be marketed as deliberitely as possible until they can again >e exported in normal quantity and hat when properly conditioned should t>e warehoused with responsible concerns, that they should be protected igainst weather damage and be properly insured against loss or damage by Ire. "3. That warehouse receipts for :hese commodities are proper collateral for loans by banks, and should ae so accepted with such limitations is to margin, inspection and valuation is conservative bankers may each in their discretion see fit to impose. "4. That the average market value jf middling cotton for the past six years has been in excess of 12 cents per pound that the committee is informed that the cost of producing cotton averages, throughout the United States, about 9} cents a pound, that it is a rule of economics that the proluctlon of staple commodities will decrease if they continue unsalable at less than the cost of production plus l reasonable profit; that cotton does not deteriorate when properly warehoused, and is as good twenty years ifter it is picked as when it is first gathered; that it can, therefore, be carried over until the restoration of normal business conditions enables Lhe world's consumption to absorb it. rhe committee is therefore of the cpinion that every effort should be nnnrla tr\ aaaiat tho nrnrinopra tn hnld IllUrUV VV/ lAUUiUfc >?^V pi V\?MVV. W ?V their cotton for a price that will minimize their loss as far as possible until juch time as the channels of foreign trade shall be re-opened. That loans upon cotton made upon a basis of 8 :ents per pound for middling, less such margin as the lender shall considei necessary, will afford reasonable protection to bankers and will really facilitate the financing of our most important export crop in the present mergency. "5. That in suggesting 8 cents per pound for middling cotton as a basis for loans, it is not the purpose of the committee to convey the idea that that figure represents in their opinion the ntrinsic value of cotton, but that it is sufficient in their judgment to meet the requirements of the situation, and nable the farmer to market his cotton n an orderly and deliberate manner. "G. That in case of tobacco and naval stores the committee is informed that when these commodities are properly conditioned, stored and injured they are practically non-perishible, and that the Committee therefore ecommends that warehouse receipts 'or tobacco and naval stores be accepted as security for loans on a basis hat has due reference to their market /alue, less such allowance as the leaders shall consider reasonable in view jf the present suspension of the exjort demand. "7. Your committee recommends hat notes having not longer than four nonths to run, when secured by proper warehouse receipts for the aforesaid iommodities, properly insured be accepted for rediscount by the Federal eserve banks, when organized, and nai mey aiso oe approvea Dy me naional currency associations as securiy for additional circulation to the naional banks under the provisions of he Aldrich-Vreeland act, as amended >y the Federal reserve act. "8. That a subcommittee be ap>ointed by you for the purpose of conerring with the treasury department nd the banking interests with a view if carrying into effect the recommenlations herein made." The report was signed by a majority f the committee, including Royal A. >rris, S. T. Morgan, Lewis W. Pai .er, t. G. Rhett, D. Y. Cooper, H. Walters, tichard H. Edmonds, W. B. Thomp on. J. O. Thompson, William Elliott, \ G. Ewing, B. L. Mallory, G. Gunby ordan and Theodore H. Price. ? Practicability of the parcel post as medium of direct exchange between ity dwellers and producers of the irms has been established by a test ' 1 ten cities, the postofflce department nnounced Monday. Postmasters' reorts stated tlie new system had been welcomed in nearly all the communi- 1 ies, that it appeared a factor in re- ! ucing the cost of living and that imrovements under way assured its ' rowth. Damage to parcels in ship- ' tent amounted to less than one-tenth 1 f 1 per cent, it was said, and that was lainly due to inefficient packing. 1 "ests were made in Washington, St. 1 ,ouis, Boston, Baltimore, Atlanta, s iirmingham, San Francisco, Rock Is- ' >i.d 111.; Lynn, Mass., and La. Crosse, ' Vis. In the majority of places, postal ( hipments of the more perishable ar- ' icles such us butter and dressed poulry, declined during the hot weather, t nder best conditions, from 8 to 20 ours elapse between dispatch and 1 elivery. I t'i' In the United States there are f tiree times as many native born wolen as all the foreign born men and { romen together. t land, the aeroplanes and dirigibles aloft, It bears remarkable testimony to the Influence of the gas engine in military strategy.?New York World. THE SHAMBLES AT LIEGE Woman Writer Draws Horrible Picture of Terrible Scene. Mary Boyle O'Kellly in Atlanta Journal. Brussels Belgium?When first the German army began its invasion I hurried over from London to be as near as possible to the scene of battle. At Brussels I halted, for I could not get nearer Liege, which the German army was shelling. Here I have talked to a man who has been In and about Liege since the city was first besieged. From him I have first hand reports of the fighting. They all agree that there was terrible carnage, horrible scenes of war? bloodshed, wailing wounded and?the dead?thousands and thousands. An Amsterdam merchant, one of the first non-combatants to visit the buttlefields of Vise and Liege, told me what he himself had seen. "I never want to set my foot upon another battlefield," he declared, "and I hope to God that there will never be another battlefield any place on the globe again!" "Why?" I asked, though I more than half suspected what his answer would be. "Well, here is just one reason?a blue-eyed boy lies dying in agony, alone, out on the country road beyond Vise; pierced by a bullet and mangled beneath the iron wheels of on-rushing artillery. "He had fired upon passing German troops from his father's cottage. The soldiers had dragged him out, together with his father, and left the one unconscious, the other dead, in the path of the guns that followed. "Perhaps death has blessed the boy by now. Pray God It be so! He was moaning pitifully as we passed in our motor only a few hours ago. But we did not stop. Horror to confess I hardly noticed his suffering! I had seen so much like it and worse! All feeling was gone, after the time I had spent on a charnel field, where wrlth 11IK >\uuiiut*u lie uumpi eoseu in mo bloody mass of the dead. "Ves, when I started out In the motor, for a run along the battleground from Vise to Liege, I rather expected the trip would be exciting. It would be glorious, to be one of the first on those fields, where the Belgians had been so valiant fighting for hearth and home, against the invaders. "Would that I had been the last to visit them?after the wounded had ail been taken up, and the dead burned or buried! I might then have been spared the fearful picture of carnage which is now painted on my mind in horror, forever. "There were flowers and smiling faces in the neat cottage windows as I sped through the peaceful frontier village of Mesch. Yet only a little further on, as we rounded a turn, we found the machine literally plowing through a cluster of dead soldiers, the wheels skidding with blood! There had been a skirmish of outposts there. Beyond was the site of a German narnn morkoil hv hpilns Of the dead. "Belgians and Germans lay strewn in indescribable confusion, giving mute evidence that the conflict had been hand to hand?bayonet against saber. Lying among the corpses, on them, under them, were the bodies of horses and the wrecks of automobiles and bicycles. The Belgian cyclist infantry, I surmised, had caught a body of German Infantry and cavalry there In a Hank movement. "The silence was ghastly. The battlefield was two days old, and tne , wounded had all been picked up or more likely, had found relief in death. "All along the route villages were in ruin, fields flattened, forests charred by flame. A sheet of fire and steel seemed to have blazed across the country, and It left a dreary wilderness. "Much farther along I came to the real carnage?the fresh battlefields around Liege. The living, still uncared for, lay among the corpses. Have v.?n over hnrn#?d out a huge nest of worms in a tree and seen the mass of their bodies on the ground, seeming to writhe as a whole because of the still wiggling, agonozing forms scattered through it? Just enlarge that picture to human proportions and add to its silence the horror of groans and cries! That is what I saw on the outskirts of the great battlefields at Liege. "Here is a man's whole body turned over. Another was jerked spasmodically in the death grip. There a bloody arm was raised, and further on a hand beckoned in appeal. Bleeding forms were painfully crawling over the shambles as aimlessly, it seemed, as singed insects. Red Cross surgeons and ambulances were working their way methodically across the field, which under the gloomy drizzle of rain had grown sodden. Its mire and mud puddles were stained red. "As I moved along the slope fearful details began to sink in. Here was a path of wheels in the mass of flesh where artillery, changing Its position in mad haste, had torn wheel ruts right through the dead and dying forms! I moved away in a panic of cowardice. But what more could I Jo? "I pointed out the spot to one of the lied Cross surgeons, yet I knew he would pass it by for the wounded German near at hand who might still be i&ved. "Somebody cried for water, but I had none. 'Water,' the hoarse voice still sobbed as I went on. I escaped t only to come to something worse. A roung boy. sore wounded in the breast was deliriously crying 'Mother, oh my mother!' The anguish in that voice, done on that awful Held, calling on :he loved one who would never hear t more, brought burning tears to my ?yes when I thought that all feeling lad been blunted by horror. "I turned my motor and took the oad back toward Holland, in tiight. "I have been into hell?not of tire, jut of macerated tlesh and gore, of ingering agony and ghastly death. "The tlames of hell would seem pure iwift and sweet by comparison!" 'X'r Motorboats are now popular on he rivers of Paraguay. Fifty or sixy are now in use on the Ascuncion.