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WOUNDED M ? While in Hospita Figh FEARFUL CHARGE All Testify that German Artilli Claim that Only the Sharp Rifle and All are Afraid < Through the courtesy of the Duchess of Marlborough, chairman of the executive committee, and Lady Randolph Churchill, chairman of the hospital committee of the American Women's War Relief Fund, a representative of the New York World was permitted to inspect the American hospital at Paignton, a small town in South Devon. Six J-J ./.Miora Vio.l ly-tnree wounutu dhuoh oviui^i9 uuu 41 Just arrived, and the Munsey ward? the largest in the hospital?was seen ' under most trying conditions. Dr. Howard W. Beal, head of the American Red Cross unit assigned to the hospital, is in charge of this ward, assisted by Drs. V. N. Leonard and William T. Fitzsimons. There were upward of BRITISH IN THE TF seventy patients in the ward. Nearly every ward was alive with phonographs or talking machines of some description, and around these hovered dozens of the less seriously wounded. A ragtime melody vied with that of an opera singer; a cloud of smoke arose from pipes, cigars and cigarettes. A Grim Souvenir. ^ Pointing to a wounded man, the left side of whose face was black and swollen, Dr. Beal said: "Ask him to show you the piece of shrapnel that hit him; he kept it for a souvenir." The man was George Harper of the Rifle Brigade. He had been wounded in a recent engagement near Bethune ^ He took from a small cupboard beside his cot the head of a German shrapnel shell. "I never knew anything after that hit me, sir," said Harper. "It hit the 1 ground first and then took me in the Jaw. Yes, it hurts some now, for three teeth were knocked out and part of the jawbone was broken?so the doctors say. These American doctors and nurses are fine. The artillery fire or those Germans was terrific; shells bursting everywhere. We lay in the trenches and couldn't get at 'em. Then came the shell that got me and the M other fellows. When I came to I looked for a pal who had been next to me. There wasn't much left of him. I leaned over and picked up this shrapnel head for a souvenir. You can see where some of the red is still on it. The doc4 tors say I've got a piece of shrapnel in my throat and a bullet in my chest, and that I'm a lucky dog to be here." Dr. Beal showed where the piece of shrapnel lay buried in the neck, and remarked: "How he ever got out of it is miraculous. There goes a chap down the aisle who was shot behind the ear; an eighth of an inch and he would have ^ been done for; but when the bullet struck the bone it glanced." "You Have to Hand it to 'Em." Harper quoted some of the British officers as saying that the Germans had erected some concrete gun bases # near Paris long before the war. "Do you believe it?" he appealed. "Those devils bought up farms and quarries around Soissons and along the Aisne long before the war. They got hold of places fifteen miles from Paris and put down concrete bases. You won't wonder how they could do so much damage with their 'Jack Johnsons' around Namur and Soissons when you know they hod the ranges already figured out before the war. You have to hand it to 'em; they can BRITISH I 1 SB A Soldiers of the sea battalion of i tacking the Germans, are here seen : BRITISHERS 1 They Tell of the ting. ON BATTLE LINES. ery Fire is Terrible; But Some ishooters Know How to Handle >f the Bayonet. do the trick with the artillery, but they are punk with the rifle." Of the sixty who were asked about their experiences not one begrudged praise to the Germans for their prow-1 ..oc, u.iih artiiiorv Vpnrlv all aerreed I that the infantry-firing was "punk," but they excepted the sharp-shooters, who they said, had picked off the officers to such an appalling extent that many of the officers discarded their swords and carried guns to deceive the marksmen. Seth Williams's Story. "Go over and see Seth Williams," the assemblage chorused when asked if there were any veterans there who might have a good yarn. BENCHES AT LIERRE i Williams at one time worked on the Manhattan tube to Hoboken and lived in Elizabeth. "1 had only a fortnight to serve," said the soldier, "when war was declared, and I had to go to the Continent with the expeditionary force. I have been in the army about sixteen years, oft and on. In the Boer war 1 was near Lord Robert's son when he was killed. In some ways, barring the 1 number of men engaged, that war wasn't so far behind this one. Of course 1 they had no such artillery as the Germans now have. I've seen a bit of service;. that's why I have a 'distinguished service' medal?six bars on the queen's medal and the king's medal. "We retreated until we got down below Paris, then we got at them and pushed them back to Soissons. Then came the trouble. The 'Jack Johnson's Field artillery. It was about three fellows pretty well, because they can be fired only about once in eight minutes. The shrapnel, though were coming all the time. I was a driver in the Royal Field Artillery. It was about hree weeks ago when I was wounded. We were dodging around all right until a ' young officer moved us up too near one of the batteries. He ought to have 1 known better, for we all were told that the Germans had bought up farms and measured off ranges before the war, i and they had us dead to right. There were fifty-four of us and more than a ( hundred horses back of that battery. 1 "There Wasn't Any First Line." "Five minutes after we had moved to the rear of the battery only four ' men and one horse were alive. The horse made me laugh as he stood there 1 1 ~~ InotFttc nff Q amnll trying iu piciv me itu?vo v.i tree. Two shells had struck in the middle of us, and when I came to 1 couldn't find even a boot of the man who had been nearest to me. We were smothered in blood. That is how the German artillery was working. "About this time a fellow came riding along shouting: 'First line of wagons to the rear:' But there wasn't any : first line, and before he realized it he was cussin' all over the place. I got my nip there?right in the arm. I'd like to have another crack at them. But we need bigger guns. We could pound them out of their places if we had guns equal to theirs, for we can shoot with the best of them." German Lances Too Long. Thomas Smith of the Twelfth lancers who is in the same row with Williams, also was wounded near Soissons. "We waited for days to get at them," Smith said, "but they had their big guns sweeping every road. Finally we' MARINES ASHORE AT TS w $5- * - > .v ' aVv"' Y*.'i ^ ^^r^'^[[|ii^i^ ",:; the British navy, landed at Tsing Tao ti making camp. were placed in the trenches with rifles. Later we got our chance. As we charged toward the German Lancers they threw down their lances and begged for mercy. As we swept on by with our lances we were fired on from behind. Then we started back for them, and we finished every one of them. We didn't want to take any of them prisoners any way." In another charge soon afterward, Smith says, a German lancer struck him amidship with his lance. "If it had been as sharp as our lances are I would have been stuck clean through, but it only knocked the wind out of me, and I had strength enough left to get a couple of them. The Germans' lances are much too long; they can't handle them as we do. We let the horses carry the lance Into them and as we go sweeping by the horse pulls it out again. That's the way we work the trick. The Germans are a chicken-livered bunch when they see the steel shining." How It Feels to Charge. A few days later, while riding toward the enemy with head lowered over his horse's neck, the reins were shot out of Smith's hand and his chin was almost blown off by a bursting shell. "My horse was new to the battlefield," said the lancer, "but he carried me back to the rear in an almost unconscious condition." It was with great difficulty that Smith could talk, for most of his teeth were gone. "How do you feel when you charge?" the lancer was asked. "A fellow feels damn wild?that's how he feels. You forget everything but sticking a few Germans." Three of the wounded men told of seeing an adjutant's right shoulder torn away as he was riding up with orders. "But he kept on going and delivered the message, and had turned around to go back when he fell into the arms of a brother officer and died soon afterward." "The Germans Can Fight." Edward Cross of the Cheshires, a regiment that enfiladed, had terrible wounds, and the doctors and nurses were trying to ease his suffering. The left arm from the shoulder to the wrist was as black as coal and there were numerous wounds in it. "They got at us from the side," said Cross, "and their machine guns did the business. A lot of our fellows went down and didn't get up again. The Germans can fight, no doubt about that, especially with their artillery." Miss Gertrude Fletcher, matron of the hosiptal, went through the Boer war. On the occasion of the interviewer's tour of the hospital the Duchess of Marlborough and L.ady Randolph Churchill were there on an official visit of inspection. They previously had gone to the Haesler hospital at Portsmouth, where the other American Red Cross unit has been installed and where there are many Belgian wounded. A DISH OF SNAILS They Have a Flavor Wholly Different From Any Other Food. It is a mistake to think that snails are eaten only by the French. They have been known and used to a certain " - ? 1 T? H ?hn exieni uy Lilt C/Hgusu cvn amvc mo days when snails boiled in milk were esteemed a remedy for consumption, and it has been said that a certain breed now found in Surrey, England, was imported by one of the heirs of Arundel for use of his failing wife. One of the recipes for cooking snails says the Washington Star, is indicated by the verse of Edmund Spenser, which runs: With our sharp weapons we shal thee fray, And take the cas till that thou liest in. We shal thee Hay out of thy foule skin, And in a dish, with onyons and peper, We shal thee dresse withstrong vynegare. If you have never eaten snails, and the majority of persons who read this have not, it is difficult to comprehend what the snail tastes like. It is difficult, if not impossible, to describe a flavor or a scent without comparison to something already known by the person to whom one would transmit the information, and it is said by an authority on snails that they have an original kind of flavor, not in the least like anything else. To be at his best the snail should be young and in vigorous and robust health. If improperly cooked he will be tough; if properly cooked he will be tender. Snail culture in France is profitable. A single snail can produce sixty little snails in a season, but birds like them, frost kills them and some may run, or crawl away. A French newspaper recently published the information that half a million "first quality" snails the price of which averages about $1.40 per thousand, can be produced on an acre of land. It is necessary to feed them only once a day, but they have good appetites, especially after a rain, for cabbage and other green vegetables. ? Night riders in Texas are posting warnings not to sell cotton under 10 cents and are burning cotton gins that persist in operation after notice to quit. ii'A boat supported by inflatable pontoons and driven by bicycle gearing has been invented which weighs but twenty-eight pounds and can be so folded as to be carried in a small parcel. IMft TAfl inu inu *" ' .a ^ j o co-operate with the Japanese in at Miscellaneous Reading. TREASURER WON'T PAY Says General Funds are Not Available for Warehouse Expenses. Columbia State, Wednesday. Taking the position that the general assembly did not make provision for meeting the appropriation of $15,000 contained in the cotton warehouse bill, S. T. Carter, state treasurer, yesterday refused to honor a warrant presented by John L. McLaurin, state warehouse commissioner. Mr. Carter ruled that there were not funds in the treasury to meet the demand. He said that the money would be paid out of the general state fund, if an opinion authorizing the step should be given by the attorney general. After the refusal of the treasurer to pay the warrant, Mr. McLaurin issued a statement. A. W. Jones, comptroller general, took the position that there was $17,500 unexpended balance in the state treasury. An opinion by the attorney general held that the unexpended balance would be available for the operation of the state warehouse system. Mr. Carter said that he knew of no such balance in the state treasury as that referred to by the comptroller general. The attorney general will be asked to decide whether the state treasurer has the right to pay out for the maintenance of the cotton warehouse system money borrowed for the general expense of the state government. Warrant is Rejected. Yesterday Commissioner McLaurin gave out the following statement: "I presented a warrant to me comptroller general this morning for $12.10, with an itemized statement as required by law, for expenses incurred in putting into operation the state warehouse system, and the comptroller general drew his warrant upon the state treasury. State Treasurer Carter refused to pay the warrant upon the ground that there was no money in the state treasury. Comptroller General Jones informed me that there was an unexpended balance of $17,500 in the state treasury, which could be used for the payment of expenses of the commission. Mr. Carter denies that this sum is in the treasury. The legislature which convened last January authorized, under the act, the governor, state treasurer and comptroller general to borrow $500,000 to meet the amounts appropriated by the legislature. Comptroller General Jones says that this money can be used to pay the expenses of the state warehouse system to the extent of $15,000, the amount appropriated by the act. i ne lOllowniK is a uei uiitaic iium the comptroller general's office: " 'Nov. 10. 1914. " 'This is to certify that the statement of state treasurer made to this office for the month ending October 31, 1914, shows the following balances: "'General account ..$149,558.30 " 'Special accounts 137,349.92 "'Total $286,908 31 "I do not know that any more careful man than Mr. Jones has ever been comptroller general of South Carolina and I am unable to see by what authority the state treasurer refuses to honor a warrant from the comptroller general. "I have been endeavoring, with the very small appropriation, to get this system in operation. I have been paying the expenses out of my pocket. If Mr Pnrtpr assumes the resuonsibility of shutting off this avenue of relief to the people, I cannot help it. It is certainly a very grave responsibility, in the face of the warrant of the comptroller general and the opinion of the attorney general, which I herewith make public, calling special attention to the following excerpt from said opinion: 'And that if there are any funds on hand whatsoever in the state treasury which are available, those funds should be paid out by the state treasurer upon proper warrants drawn by the comptroller general, as provided in the warehouse act.' "I am making this statement so that the public may understand some of the difficulties which I am experiencing in getting this system into operation." Attorney General's Ruling. Following is the opinion of the attorney general: "Nov. 9, 1914. "Hon. John L. McLaurin, State Warehouse Commissioner, Columbia, S. C. "Dear Sir: I am in receipt of yours of the 9th inst., in reference to appropriation for the expenses of what is commonly known as the warehouse act, approved on the 30th day of October, 1914, "This act makes an appropriation of $15,000 for the putting into operation of this act. There is no appropriation made in the general appropriation act which was passed by the extra session of the general assembly. "My opinion is that the warehouse act makes an appropriation of $15,000 and that if there are any funds on hand whatsoever in the state treasury which are available, those funds should be paid out by the state treasurer upon proper warrants drawn by the comptroller general, as provided in the warehouse act. "I note from your letter that there is $17,500 in the treasury unappropriated. In my opinion, your claims, with proper warrants by the comptroller general, may and can be honored by the state treasurer. "Yours very truly, "Thos. H. Peeples, "Attorney General." "I desire to call special attention to section 18 of the warehouse act: " 'To put this act into immediate effect, the sum of $15,000 be and the same is hereby appropriated to be sub ject to the order of the state warehouse commissioner. To he paid out on a warrant drawn by the comptroller general accompanied by an itemized statement from the commissioner showing for what and to whom the said money is to be paid.'" A WHOLE LOT ABOUT CORN Its Place in the History of the World. When we say "corn" in America we speak the word in capital letters, and we mean CORN. Over in those countries which are being swept as with the besom of destruction, and the yet effeter east, the word corn in all the varied languages and dialects refers to the cereals, and they know little of that which is really almost the grandest of all the grains that spring from the earth. By them it is called maize, which is the proper name, the Zea Mays of the scientists, which might well be liberally translated to mean the goddess of corn. The natives of the West Indies, one of the original tropical homes of the grain, called it "mahiz," and from this the word maize, was coined. Why named corn? Of course from cornucopia, the horn of plenty; and what other of all the horns of plenty is so plethoric as that of our beloved Indian corn? Of all the types of grain-producing plants the Indian corn, so-called because Europeans found the aborigines growing it when they invaded the vast land that came to be called America, is the most stately and most prolific, in its most regal estate. No other cultivated food plant is so appealing to the esthetic vision. It is without a food equivalent considered as to nutrition and cheapness; yet when the United States government a few years ago sent commissioners to Europe to teach benighted peoples the value of maize and how to prepare from it dishes that would appeal to the supreme epicure, they were met with the sneer that it was hardly good horse food. Wedded to custom and tradition the good housewives across the Atlantic could only do as their mothers had done back at the beginning of the generations when cultivated fields succeeded the chase and when the cooked fiesh was carved with the crudest of knives and generally eaten in the open and from the fingers. Stoves taught them little, imagination and invention they had none, and even the properly revised cook bopk had not yet found a venturesome publisher. It has long been a saying that "bread is the staff of life." What kind of bread? That which we Americans call wheat and the benighted and befighted near-easterners and far easterners have called "corn," long before it was written that the ox treadeth out the corn," and that "the ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib," written of the politicians of that day, but no such delectable dishes were ever made of wheat flour such as have been created by the intellectual and exuberant and inventive American housewife from the snowy or the golden corn-meal, and not the "parritch," or the oatcake of huge diameter, all so beautifully poetized by Bobby Burns, who knows or who doesn't know that a statue of him was unveiled in Pitts burg recently, could vie with the cornbread, corn pone, dodger, or fried mush pudding with suet mixed in it and boiled in a bag and eaten with real cream, with many other splendors of America's king of crops. Southern cotton growers are now giving attention to a diversification of crops. Not being able to eat their cotton nor to sell it fast enough, they are looking to corn, corn as a new solution of the problem of living. When Marie Antoinette was told that the poor of Paris had no brf^d she replied: "Let CEN1 d*on nnn \ir <pOV,VUU IT I Table Linens, Towel Heavy Shoes, Trunk 50 Per Cent for C IN PREPARATII WE MUST REDUCE C DATE. IN MARKING PROFITS AND OFFE] STANCES WILL NOT TERMINATION ON 0 NEEDED FALL PURC SKEPTICAL. IF NOT OPPORTUNITY TO G I SAVE MONEY BY Bl THE CREAM OF THI LAR YOU MUST SPE! An Ext 1-3 One- 77 People who know Price. We buy Our Clo Finish, and in this way g With a Reduction of 01 Clothing values at Prices Grays and Mixtures are \ ONE-THIRD OFF 0 ONE-THIRD OFF R Qualities, Finisl /-. -r-k -w?* TAT I SFJiLiiAl *7A Wew 79cts. BUY BLA> our north carol. qualities?at the $3.00 blankets?Now $ $3.50 blankets? $4.00 blank: $5.00 bla $6.50 ..LADIES'and ww come to thl( nowhere will yo take note of the Yorkville's Leading ( You the Lowes PARIS RECEIVI ? Great ceremony attended the occat eum of the invalides In Paris. The p them eat cake." As the cotton nabobs and their people cannot eat cotton, let them eat corn and produce it them- ( selves. The coming of the corn In the fall in America, is one of the most colassal and vital of events, and along with 1 it comes the pumpkin, with its visions of unparalleled pies. From the corn ] blossom, which is the male protoplasm, ' to the silking, which is the miracle of I the female activity, the stately stalk ? is a marvel that cannot be equalled by < any poesy of the wheaten "golden 1 grain." No Jollification of harvesting since the birth of Ceres is finer than i the "husking" in the field or the ? "shucking bee" under cover, ending i with a banquet and a dance. '< Corn is one solution of the problem l of economic living if the housewife i will tackle it with intelligence, confi- < dence, persistence and a devout exaltation in the presence of bushels by 1 the billions, and trillions of ears that I appeal to the hearing and understand- 1 ing of human ear.?Pittsburg Dis- f patch. rc DOES the Wo 13 Of a D0LLA1 n vf A Rest Qwfo) III III Qress Qoofc j Is, Domestics, Clothing, s, Bags, Suit Cases?E ash? All of It New, CI dn for contemplated bus >ur big stock of high grad down the prices on our < r you your choice of this ' cover cost of manufact iur part gives you an unij :hases. a visit to this stc already a customer at t et acquainted with our ! fying fall merchandise A ? world's producers at s ND FOR YOUR WINTER'S NEE ra Special for ? iird Off Cloth Men's Clothing, say that Thomson th in the bolt, and have our Clothin ;et them at a Saving of 20 to 25 per 1 ^E-THIRD on Saturday and Mond ? that You can afford to pay. But C lere for your selection. Sizes to Fit 1 N BOYS' CLOTHING--A EGUL^R PRICES ON L 1, Fit and Workmanship-.S for SATUR ill Sell Ten Yards of Good 10 CTS. C ill Also Sell Ten Yards of Good 10 C ill Also Sell Ten Yards of Good 10 C (Limited to Ten Yards to Custc JKETS AND [NA BLANKETS ARE EXTRA L : REDUCED PRICES THEY ARE 12.39 Pair. Now $2.98 Pair. ETS?Now $3.19 Pair. NKETS?Now $3.98 Pair. BLANKETS?Now $4.98 Pair CHILDREN'S COA 5 SALE?YOU WILL WIN BY C iU FIND SUCH LIBERAL BARG : QUALITIES AND THE STYLE Quality Store That Offers t Prices for Cash ES CAPTURED GERMAN Vk&HBat ffl H wyflv IBBT | iIod of the conveying of seven captur hotograph shows the flags being carrii PRODIGAL OF POWDER. Germans Make No Stint of Ammunition In Attacking Forts. Part of the story of the bombardment and assaults upon the fortress of rroyon, says an Associated Press dispatch from Paris, has been told. The story from the inside shows how prodigal are the Germans with their powder. From the 8th to the 13th of September they fired more than 4,000 shots from 3-inch, 8-inch and 10-lnch guns. The casualties In the fortress were four killed and forty wounded, while the damage was inconsiderable exceptng from one shell fired evidently from i 10-inch mortar which dismantled a ?un and dug a hole through masonry i yard and a half thick and penetrat?d two and a half yards of earth. TKn f/?rt oitafo Inn/1 tn'n ouconlta i wc iui i ouovuiiicu mu aaoauibo, vhich, as is already known, were rejulsed with great slaughter, 7,000 >odies having been found around the 'ort after one assault. On two occasions an envoy was sent F At THO ) Merchandise?Coat I >ilks, Trimmings, Nod Overcoats, Gent's Fui VERYTHING-Goes at ean, Stylish Merchandii INESS CHANGES TO TAKE p] >E MERCHANDISE BY AT LEi GOODS, WE HAVE CLOSED 3 MERCHANDISE AT PRICES URE?PROFITS ARE WIPED rSUAL OPPORTUNITY TO SA >RE AT THIS TIME WILL CO HOMSON CO.'S THIS SALE C SUPERIOR SERVICE. YOU lT this store now. we / avings of 20 cents to 50 c ds?but come early for iaturday and 1 ing and Coa Co.'s Clothing are the Best to be h ? r-v n g maae on uur uwn opecincauor cent. Our customers get the benef ay, We give you the opportunity ome Early if You would secure t the Regulars as well as the Hard-t 11 Sizes and All Styles--! ADIES' COAT SUITS? Save One-Third Saturda DAY and M< )UTING?Good Patterns?For TS. BLEACHING?For TS. DRESS GINGHAMS?For >mer). WHITE QUI ARGE IN SIZE AND FAMOUS : TEMPTING TO ECONOMIC^ $1.00 White BED SPREADS?] $1.50 White BED SPREAD! $2.00 White BED SPRI $2.50 White BED S $3-5? White BI 115 REDUCE2i OMING SOON?YOU MAY GO AINS AS ARE TO BE HAD A1 S AS WELL AS LOW PRICES The Thor STANDARDS mm:-, ft ^ *s?Z~? ? | ?' ed German war standards to the maed across the courtyard. by the German commander who summoned the garrison to surrender in these terms: "In the name of His Imperial Majesty, I summon you to surrender unconditionally." "Never!" was the reply. On the second visit of the envoy he complained severely of having been fired on by Fort Genicourt and declared after receiving the commandant's response, "We shall meet again, governor." After each visit of the envoy, the bombardment resumed more furiously than ever, and at times as many as 236 shots were fired in half an hour. An artilleryman who took part in the defense of Maubeuge, declares that the amount of powder burned there was even greater than at Troyon. For nine hours at a stretch, he states, during one day of the most furious bombardment, the Germans fired shells weighing 1,000 pounds each at the rate of four per minute, an aggregate of 1,080 tons of powder and metal during the nine hours were used upon one only of the forts around the city. mm' hits, Coats, Skirts, onsy Wool Blankets, nishings, Dress and Reductions of 20 to ;e of Best Qualities. LACE JANUARY 1ST, \ST $10,000 BY THAT OUR EYES TO ALL THAT IN MANY INOUT, AND THIS DEVE MONEY ON THE NVINCE THE MOST jIVES YOU A GOOD WILL CERTAINLY iRE OFFERING YOU ENTS ON THE DOLBEST SELECTIONS.' Monday t Suits 1-3 ad at anywhere near the is as to Trimmings and it of this way of buying, to secure the Utmost in he Best Values?Blues, o-Fit. Save a Third. Suits and Odd Pants. Superior in Styles, iy and Monday. 3NDAY 79cts. LTS NOW 5 FOR THEIR GOOD KL BUYERS. Mow 79 CTS. 3?Now $1.19. ?ADS?Now Si.so. PREADS?Now $1.98. CD SPREADS?Now $2.98 9 PER CENT.. 1 ELSEWHERE, BUT r THOMSON CO.'S.? AT THIS STORE. nson Co.