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Misunderstood Directions.?Sir William
Osier, the famous English doctor,
who has just gone to the front with
the McGlll university base hospital,
has been making a strong appeal to
soldiers to allow themselves to be inoculated
against typhoid fever. It will
be remembered that some time ago,
Sir William caused a great deal of
talk by suggesting that the average
man was too old at 40.
Sir William tells the following
amusing story to prove the importance
of medical men being very explicit
in their directions to their patients:
A young foreigner who consulted a
doctor about his health was advised
by the medico "to drink hot water an
hour before breakfast every morning."
The paitent went away promising to
ao as ne was tu.u. out u
later he returned and complained
that he felt much worse.
"That's curious." said the doctor;
-did you do as I told you and drink
that water an hour before breakfast
every morning?" .... I
I did my best, sir." was the reply.
"but I couldn't keep it up for more
than ten minutes at a time! ear I
son's.
The Vulnerable Point.-A religious
worker was visiting a southern penitentiary.
when one prisoner in some
way took his fancy, says the Pathfinder.
This prisoner was a negro
who evinced a religious fervor as deep
as it was gratifying to the caller.
"Of what are you accused. I
prisoner was asked.
Dey says I took a watch." ansJer"
ed the negro. "I made a good fight.
I had a dandy lawyer, an' he done
prove an alibi wif ten witnesses. Den
my lawyer he shore made a strong
speech to de jury. But it wa'n't no
use. sah; I gets ten years.
"I don't see why you were not acquitted."
said the religious worker.
"Well, sah," explained the prisoner,!
"dare was shore one weak spot 'bout
my defense?dey found de watch in I
pocket."
Self-Confessed.?"And now, chil
dren, said the pastor, "let us all^repeat
the Beattitudes?the 'Blessed I
you know them. Now. all together?I
Blessed are the '
The Sunday school responded in I
that monotone usual in such performances
in unison, according to the
New York Evening Post. I
"Very good," commended the pastor.
"And now. tell me. who said
those beautiful words?" i
No response. Pause.
"Can no little boy or little girl tell
me who said those beautiful words.
Anyone?" I
One little head waving in the rear.
"Ah, Willie, I'm glad to see yourl
hand up. Tell me. who said those
beautiful words?" j
"I did, sir."
The Status of the Jury-"Gentle
men of the jury, are you agreed upon
your verdict?" asked the judge, pre-1
siding over a Texas couri
"We are," responded the foreman. I
"Do you find the prisoner guilty or I
not guilty?" I
"We do." I
"You do? Do what?" exclaimed the
startled Judge.
"We find the prisoner guilty or not I
guilty," answered the foreman. I
"But, gentlemen, ybu cannot return I
a verdict like that."
"Wal. I don't know." the foreman I
responded. "You see, six of us find
him guilty, and six of us find him not I
guilty, and we've agreed to let it go at I
that."?Uplift Magazine. j
Tips and Tips.?An American spending
his vacation in Scotland, had anl
opportunity to play golf every day
on a world-famous links, says the
Youth's Companion. Moreover, he had I
assigned to him an exceptionally
fine caddie, who had frequently carried
the bags of the best golfers In I
Scotland.
"Donald, my man. I expect to ^ get j
some good tips rrom you wnue t am
here," said the American, while making
the first round of ?he course.
"And I expect," returned the thrifty
Donald, "the like frae you."
His Business Helped.?"If any man
here," shouted the temperance speaker,
"can name an honest business that
has been helped by the saloon, I will
spend the rest of my life working for
the liquor people."
A man in the audience arose. "I
consider my business an honest one,"
he said, "and it has been helped by
the saloon."
"What is your business?" yelled
the orator.
"I, sir," responded the man, "am an
undertaker."?Kansas City Star.
It Didn't Matter,?A small boy went
up to another In the street and said:
"Can you tell a feller how to learn a
girl to swim?"
"Oh," said the other kiddie, "you
goes up to her gentle like, leads her
gently down to the water, puts yer
arm gently round her waist?"
"Oh, go on!" interrupted the boy;
"what's the matter with yer? She's
my sister."
"Yer sister? Oh, shove her in!"
A Humor of War.?E. Harper, second
officer of the torpedoed British
ship Harpalion, tells this story of the
tragedy to the London Times:
"We had just sat down to tea,"
said Mr. Harper, "at the engineer's
table, and the chief engineer was saying
grace. He had just uttered the
words 'For what we are about to receive.
may the Lord make us truly
thankful,' when there came an awful
crash. The torpedo had struck us."
Selfish as a Government.?"The
naive, frank selfishness of warring
nations?it makes me think of the beggar,"
said Andrew Carnegie, at a
luncheon in New York.
"A beggar, muscular and well-fed,
asked a lady for a nickel.
" 'I'm afraid you are not overfond
of work,' the lady said.
" 'No. ma'am, I ain't,' the beggar
agreed. 'How could I be? Work's
wot killed my wife.'"
Sufficiently Punished.?"What is the
charge against this man?"
"Dressing up in woman's clothes,
your honor."
"Discharged! He's been punished
enough."?Life.
No Certain Name.?"Papa, what do
you call a man who runs an automobile?"
"It depends upon how near he
comes hitting me."
FACT, FASHION AND FANCY
Paragraph* on Various Topics Calculated
to Interest York County Women.
Written for The YorkviUe Enquirer.
Anna Warner says: "There are really
only two classes, in the world?
those who live for the senses and
those who live for the soul. We must
all work our slow way through both
channels of learning. There are those
who need to live and those who need
to give. No one is perfect, but each
can choose his class. Some who are
very poor belong to the highest and
some who are very rich to the lowest.
We are all free agents."
The writer chanced to hear two
ladies talking the other day, and one
v,oqM "Tt'o fnnnv hut thiq
time of year, I always feel mean and
cross and lazy and in fact, all out of
sorts." To which the other replied,
"Yes, when I And myself growing1 Impatient
with my children, cranky to
chickens and all out of sorts with my
cow, I take a day off and go visiting."
The lady's answer is a good rule to
follow, provided the feeling of which
the first complained, does not come
too often.
The new petticoats are many.
Among them are princess slips of
silk, batiste or crepe de chine, held
over the shoulders with straps of ribbon
and elaborately trimmed about
the hem with wide flounces of lace,
pleated organdie, chiffon or net and
caught here and there with bouquets
of delicately tinted French flowers.
They measure from four to six yards
about the hem and sometimes little
pantalettes which were popular when
grandmother was a child, and which
are made of materials to match the
petticoat, are worn beneath.
Hundreds of York county housewives
are now contemplating house
cleaning. Why not resolve that you
will not only clean the floors, walls,
windows and furniture, beat the rugs
and carpets, but that you will remove
and destroy every lot of old paper,
rags or any other accumulation of
useless articles that may have been
for years inviting some careless boy or
man (they usually are the most careless
ones) to throw a lighted match
amongst it and which would result in
the probable loss of home and the possible
loss of life.
* *
There was a large hair dressing
exhibit in one of the large fashion
parlors in Philadelphia last week.
Several of the Philadelphia papers
carried pages of pictures of the new
ways of wearing the hair. These pictures
showed that the present style
of wearing the hair skinned back from
the ears and forehead and caught in
a mop on the top of the head is a
fashion of the past. There was never
so hideous a fashion as the brief
vogue for wearing the hair in this
manner, which makes the bearers
look like pealed onions. The new hair
dressing styles are such that come
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lower end of the ear and comes down
almost to the eyebrows, and is piled
up in the back half way up the head.
Sunday, May 9, will be "Mother's
Day" throughout the United States.
In churches all over the land special
services will be held in honor of
mothers. The white carnation is the
memory flower of mother's day because
it grows everywhere and its
whiteness symbolizes the purity of a
mother's love, its endurance and fidelity.
Miss Anna Jauris, who founded
Mother's Day several years ago, has
this to say of the annual celebration:
"Through all ages and all centuries
the world is indebted to motherhood,
for mother love is as old as the world
and as young as the youngest born.
It is the greatest force for good on
this earth. Even a bad father's influence
is to discounted by a good
mother's that nine times in ten, the
children come out all right. And
most people had good mothers?indeed,
most of us had the best mother
that ever lived! I contend that Mother's
Day should be the greatest of all
holidays, because you cannot perpetuate
anything without mothers."
O, the little old town that I left one
day,
Because it was quiet, still
Has the name that it had when I
went away,
And stands on the same old hill;
But the ones that were dear in the
little old town,
With its one wide street running up
and down,
Have ceased to sit on the porches
where
The roses were trained to climb;
They have ceased to sew and to whittle
there,
As they did in the dear old time.
The little old church with its wooden
sheds,
Stands as it stood of yore;
But the ones who knelt and who bow
ed their heads
Are worshipping there no more!
And the little old school where I
carved my name
On the home-made desk stands just
the same?
But the boys who are batting the ball
today
And the little maids, fair and free,
Are not the children who used to
play
On the common there with me.
The little old house so dear, so dear.
Stands just where it used to stand;
But not for many and many a year
Has the latch obeyed her hand?
The hand in which my hand was laid
When my first few faltering steps
were made?
And in the little old parlor there,
O'erlooking the little lawn,
Another sits in her easy chair,
And hears the clock tick on.
O, the little old town that 1 left one
day.
Because it was quiet and still.
Has the name that It had when I
went away,
And stands on the same old hill;
But the friends that I've traveled
"back home" to see
Are gone or else are but strangers to
me,
And over the doors of the little old
store,
Are names that I never knew,
And the dream that was dear of the
"old home here
Can never, alas, come true!
?S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Times
Herald.
*
Did it ever occure to you why the
new cloth top shoes for women came
into vogue? Well, it wasn't because
fashion leaders consider cloth top
shoes more artistic and beautiful than
those of leather, neither was it because
shoes with cloth tops are easier
made. These cloth top shoes became
popular because leather was getting
scarce and Is even scarcer now than
was the case more than a year ago,
when the shoes with putty, pearl,
tan and other colored cloth tops began
to be worn. The style originated
in Boston. As Is well known, the
greatest shoe manufacturing center of
the United States is around Boston.
Manufactures are even now running
day and night making shoes for European
soldiers. The tops, however, are
leather, not cloth. The supply of
leather was becoming exhausted and
the manufacturers of shoes realizing
something must be done, decided that
the best thing to do would be to introduce
shoes for women with cloth
tops. Accordingly, a number of models
were put out and they immediately
"took." Now a woman who wears
shoes lacking the cloth tops is considered
"out of style."
When a Mexican woman prepares
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II t*r lunulas, Ui uuu y uicau, om; to
usually sitting on the threshold of her
habitation for purposes of light and
neighborly gossip. She has brought
forth a grinding stone or flat mortar
known as a metate, for the purpose of
grinding the maize?an article shaped
out of a block of a special kind of
volcanic stone, called recinta, an implement
inherited from Aztec times.
The maize has been boiled with a little
lime and is somewhat softened,
and she places handfuls of the grain
upon the metate, adding water, and
shortly reduces it to a stiff paste under
the grinding of the upper stone.
The tortilla is then patted out into
the form of a thii pancake and baked
in an earthenware dish, or casuela. If
it is to be our fortune to partake of
this preparation?and if we have been
traveling in a remote part of the country
it may be so?it is advisable not
to inquire too closely into the cleanliness
of the operation, for the Mexican
peon and his woman do not consider
morning ablutions at all a necessary
part of their toilet. The supply of
tortillas being finished, they are sufficient
for the day's requirements and
take the place of bread and, indeed,
of plates, knives and forks, for the
peons scoop up their food or put It
upon these handy pancakes for depositing
it in their mouths and munch
them with their frljols with the utmost
g'isto.
BLUNDERS OF BATTLE
Cases Where Men of Same Side Have
Mowed Each Other by Mistake.
It was at Beacon Hill, during the
Boer war, that there happened one of
the saddest incidents in the history
of the British army. The east Surrey
were in a hollow between two hills,
creeping up the valley. The west Surrey
regiment, half a mile away, caught
sight of the crouching figures, and
took them for Boers.
In a moment a heavy volley rang
out, and It was not until an officer,
realizing the mistake, rushed out in
front of the west Surreys that the firing
ceased.
A nurse, writing afterwards from
the Estcourt hospital, said it was pitiful
to see the west Surveys coming in
one after another, bringing cigarettes,
dainties, any present they could find
for the wounded men, then, hearing
their groans, turn away, saying, "God
forgive us! This is our work!"
In such a gigantic conflict as this
present war, with battle lines stretching
a hundred miles and more, similar
mistakes are almost bound to occur.
We know of two.
In the second week in August,
when the French were fighting near
Mulhausen, one regiment got far In
advance of the others, and was ordered
to go back. As the men returned,
some of their comrades fired at them
under the impression that they were
Germans. Twenty men were killed and
a large number wounded.
It was this blunder which caused
General Joffre to have cards printed in
colors showing the uniforms and headdresses
of the various branches of the
French service. These have been distributed
all through the army.
The other case was more recent. It
happened in Belgium early in September.
A Saxon regiment fired upon
some Bavarians, taking them for Belgians.
As it was dark at the time the
mistake is hardly to be wondered at.
Then there was the seven crippled
German warships in Kiel harbor. The
story is that two German squadrons
in the Baltic opened fire on one another
early on a misty morning, each taking
the other for Russian ships.
One of the strangest cases of
troops firing upon their own people
occurred in Rumania in the year 1885.
At that time Rumania was in a very
disturbed condition, and bands of robbers?regular
bandits?prowled over
the country, raiding the villages and
farms. The largest of these bands
made its headquarters in the forest of
Rhodope, and gradually increased until
it became 300 strong. It spread terror
through the whole country side,
and at last the government sent a
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The robber band was located on top
of a mountain, and the colonel In command
of the troops split his forces
and sent half up each side, so as to
attack from two points simultaneously
A thick fog fell, and the robbers
took advantage of it to sneak away
quietly by a path known only to themselves.
The troops, unaware of this
maneuvre, continued their ascent, and
the two bodies, each crawling along
under cover of rocks and brushwood,
met at the top. They at once opened
fire, and fought desperately for a
whole hour before the mistake was
discovered. Eighty were killed and
300 wounded.
There is at least one case on record
of a leader purposely firing upon his
own troops. This was Osman Pasha,
the greatest general whom Turkey has
produced for a century.
In the Russo-Turklsh war of 1877,
Osman entrenched himself in the village
of Plevna, and held it for months,
fighting several tremendous battles,
and being only beaten in the end by
sheer starvation.?Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
ON THE MAP 3,000 YEARS
Smyrna is Bearing Brunt of Attack.
Describing the Turkish city of
Smyrna, which has been bearing the
brunt of an alleged attack in the near
east, a recent statement of the National
Geographic society says:
Smyrna has occupied its place upon
the map for more than 3,000 years, and
through all this time it has retained
its ancient name, its mixed character
of east and west, and its significance
in the world of trade. From the first,
it hits been a rich produce exchange,
a great caravansary, and an important
harbor, receiving merchant fleets
under every flag. Known to the olden
Greeks as "The First City of Asia," It
survives, In the present, the greatest
city In Asia Minor, and the second
port of an extensive empire.
While Ephesus, Miletus, Sardis,
Magnesia, Pergamus and Halicarnasi
sua have faded away, Smyrna has
' continued its story of untiring centuries.
It has risen superior to every
stress, remaining today what it was
yesterday, as lasting as Mount Pagus
i at its back. The rise, splendor and de'
cay of great empires have formed but
momentary episodes in this city's life,
; whose history stretches from the 11th
; century before the birth of Christ
down to the present day. It, most
i truly, deserves the title of Eternal
City; for it, like the phoenix of mythology,
has ever renewed its nervei
less age by a more mangniflcent
youtn.
Smyrna was founded by Aeolian
Greeks upon the natural outlet of an
important trade route. It grew rapidly
into wealth and power, and early
took the lead among the cities of
Asia Minor. Ionian Greeks conquered
the city in the 7th century B. C.,
and under these masters it played a
leading role in the Ionean League.
Jealous of its tremendous riches, the
Lydians captured and conscientiously
destroyed Smyrna in 677 B. C. Their
endeavors were so thorough that there
remained but a village until after the
Macedonian conquest. Alexander the
Great caused the city to be rebuilt,
and it was laid out with extravagant
magnificence. Among the many
beautiful buildings of this new city
was the Homereum, where the poet,
Homer, was worshipped as a hero.
The Seleucidae declared the city
sacred and inviolable.
In the days of Roman conquest,
Smyrna was the great world center
of art and learning, somewhat the
Paris of that early age. The "Romans,
who treated the city well, called
it the "Philosophers' Grove," and also
"The Oasis of the Muses and the
Graces." For many generations, Smyrna
was the proudest Asiatic posesslon
of the Byzantine empire of the east.
In 1402, it was destroyed by the Mongols
of Tamerlane, and such of its inhabitants
as could be found were
killed. When it fell to the Turks.
Smyrna received another loving nickname.
It was called "The Eye of
Asia Minor."
The city lies at the head of the Gulf
of Smyrna, some 200 miles southwest
of Constantinople, with which it is i
now connected by rail. The foreground
of the port is level ground,
while the background is cut by the
sharp shoulder of Mount Pagus. There
is a population of more than 250,000
of which about one-half is Greek, onefourth
Mohammedan, while Armenians
and Jews make up the greater part of
the remainder. There were also a large
number of European residents before
the war, who, in the order of their i
numbers, were French, English,
Italian, Swiss and German. Gr4ek is
the language of greatest currency, 1
and, at the war's outbreak, French
was the most useful tongue for the
visiting foreigner.
Smyrna was divided into five quarters,
for the Turk, the Jew, the
Armenian, the Greek and the European.
The Turkish and Jewish quarters
were devious, crowded, squalid
and forbidding. The Armenian and
Greek sections were well-built, with
wider and cleaner streets, and of
more satisfying appearance. The
European section was Smyrna's glory.
Here were the finest thoroughfares,
the most imposing buildings, a sharply
contrasting cleanliness, and the
lovely water front The strange organization
of the city has given occasion
for the development of a curious
municipal government The
Christian ard Jewish communities
have separate elected councils, whi^h
are presided over by their respective
religious heads.
The trade of Smyrna is large. It is
worthy of ncte under present conditions
that the greatest part of this
trade was in the hands of the English.
It has an annual import of about $15,000,000
and an annual export of nearly
$20,000,000. The Imports are manufactures,
coal and iron; and the exports
are mainly figs, the famous
Smyrna rugs, raisins, tobacco and
silk.
RANGE OF MODERN GUNS
America Has a Cannon that Will Shoot
Thirty-One Mile*.
The shots fired into Dunkirk on
Thursday from a large weapon, or
weapons, from behind the German
lines near Nieuport, at a range of
about twenty-two miles, are said by
American army experts to be the
irronte>ot Inmr-rone-p firiner known in
actual warfare.
Several instances are recorded of
long-range firing with powerful artillery
in times or peace. In England,
during Queen Victoria's jubilee celebration,
according to statements made
by an ordnance expert, a shot from
a 9.2-inch gun was fired across water,
about twenty-one miles. Several instances
of long-range gunnery have
been recorded on German proving
grounds. But never before in war
have missiles been hurled so far as in
the attack on Dunkirk.
There has been much talk about
huge new German guns, such as 50centimeter
(19.6-inch) and 55 centimeter
(21.6-inch) guns of a howitzer
type, calculated to shoot twenty-five
miles, but ordnance experts say that
weapons of such a caliber and type
would not be used in twenty-five
mile firing. These men insist today
that the weapons used in the attack
on Dunkirk were of no greater caliber
man twelve iiieuea. me mieai uci man
puns of this caliber could easily
cover the distance from the German
line to Dunkirk if fired at an anple of j
forty-five degrees.
The United States has coast defense
puns which could exceed the range at
which the German puns are supposed
to have been fired. The puns are the
latest American model, and they could
duplicate the German feat, if mounted
on carriages so constructed as to enable
the weapons to fire at an angle
of forty-five degrees.
Elaborate computations of what
might be accomplished by firing
American weapons at an angle of 45
degrees have been worked out by ex1
perts for guns of varying caliber, both
coast defense, guns and mortars. The
most powerful of these in long-range
firing is a twelve-Inch gun. When
fired at an angle of 45 degrees, this
gun has a range of 55.000 yards, or
31 miles. The highest point of the
trajectory or line of flight of the pro- (
jectile would be 21,000 yards, or nearly |
12 miles.
This highest point of flight would !
be above a point of 30-55th of the dis- j
tance from the gun to the target, i
Stated differently, the highest point of !
flight would be 21.000 yards in the ]
air directly over a point 30,000 yards ]
from the gun and 25,000 yards from
the target.
It is calculated by experts that the
highest point reached by the shells
fired from the German lines, twentytwo
miles into Dunkirk, was about
seven miles. They estimate that the
time of flight from the German guns
was about 107 seconds. This is about
the fastest time made by a body projected
through space by a man-made
machine. The German projectiles,
tired into Dunkirk, must have averaged
about 3.45 miles a second.
If 12-inch weapons were used, and
the weight of the projectile was about
1,000 pounds, it probably cost the Ger
mans about *1,000 for each shot fired
exclusive of the cost of operation and
of transporting the guns to the front.
A weapon which would fire shots
twenty-one miles into Dunkirk would
closely approximate a 12-lnch gun,
now in use in American coast defenses.
This, if fired at an angle of 45 degrees,
would have a range of 41,000
yards, or over 23 miles. The highest
point of the trajectory of this weapon
would be 13,500 yards, or about 7 1-2
miles, and the missile would reach Its
target in about 107 seconds.
But this gun would fall by eight
miles to equal the range of the other
American 12-lnch coast defense naval
weapons mentioned above, though It
is also of 12-inch caliber, and fired
at an angle of 45 degrees. The difference
In the ranges (41,000 yards and
55,000 yards) Is caused by the different
ballistic proprieties of the two weapons,
the different initial velocities,
weight of shell, and loading charges.
Plotted on a diagram arranged in
blocks, 5,000 yards to the inch, the
lines, representing the trajectories of
these American 12-Inch coast defense
weapons, the one of 55,000 yards
range, the other of 41,000 yards range,
and both fired at the high angle of 45
degrees appear colossal when compar
ed with the trajectory of the best
American mortar fired at the same
angle.
The range of this mortar gun, when
fired at 45 degrees, would be 19,000
yards, or nearly 11 miles, and the
highest point of its trajectory would
be 5,500 yards, or about three miles.
The trajectory of the 12-lnch coast defense,
having a range of 55,00 yards,
is four times higher, and the range
is almost three times greater than
tnat of the mortar gun fired at the
same angle.
Such long-range firing as was accomplished
in the atatck on Dunkirk,
could not be done by weapons like
the German 42-centimeter gun, which
is primarily a howitzer and has a
short muzzle. This long-range firing
could only be accomplished by highpowered
naval or coast-defense guns,
built primarily for direct firing and
for penetration through hardened
steel armor at long ranges.
The German 42-centimeter guns
have a range of about 19,000, or 20,000
yards. The trajectory of missiles
fired from them more nearly resembles
that of mortar firing.?Washington
Dispatch to New York Sun.
ESCAPING FROM BELGIUM
Wife of an Englishman Had Exceedingly
Anxious Time.
Here is a story of a woman's escape
from Belgium. She is a London soldier's
wife and the daughter of a
Belgian army officer. After five
months' separation she has rejoined
her husband in England.
Caught in Belgium when the Germans
swept over the land, she found
no opportunity to get out unui in December,
she obtained a conditional
passport entitling her to travel within
the eastern half of Belgium.
"Then," she says, "I 'contracted'
with one of those shady 'general and
commission agents who makes a specialty
of conveying passengers in unlawful
fashion across the Dutch
frontier, and I left the Belgian capital
as one of a party of ten under his
guidance."
The railway being closed to them,
they had to proceed by easy stages on
foot or in country cabs when they
could get them to the frontier town
of X?, and put up at the inn while
the contractor hurried to the "Kommandatur,"
or office of the local German
administrators. He returned
looking "rather glum," saying that
they had each to apply in person.
"We entered the kommandatur and
the trap so cunningly laid for us by the
Germans, to find ourselves placed under
immediate arrest. Each of us in
turn was closely cross-examined and
re-examined, both publicly and in private,
by a Prussian colonel and lieutenant,
and then certain contradictions
having struck our warders, we were
searched by one in a neighboring
room; the women, at any rate, in a
most horrid fashion, not hardly an
inch of their clothing or of their person
escaping the fingers of the searcher,
a 'nun' of whose real profession
and sex I am still in doubt.
"On hearing the order for the search
one of my lady companions, a well
known Brussels actress, swooned, or
pretended to. And when a male companion
of hers failed to re-appear, the
mystery was explained to us by the
old colonel, who told us that a secret
code and official reports to the Belgian
government had been found hidden
away in the lining of his jacket.
He was a spy and would be at once
conveyed to the citadel of Antwerp,
'tomorrow, pouf,' grimly added the
Prussian veteran, by way of comment.
As for ourselves, as we were, to all
appearances, associated with such a
person, we would at least be detained
as 'suspects' pending further inquiries."
Not until nearly midnight were they
allowed to return to the inn, which
they did under an armed escort. "Sadly
we sat in the dining room, bewailing
our misfortunes, when all of a
sudden the young actress, now in tears,
confessed to us that she, too, was a
Belgian secret agent, in fact, a partner
of the doomed man and that upstairs
in her bag, there were state
papers of considerable importance.
She begged us therefore, as patriots,
in case she was arrested, to burn those
papers.
"A little later, about 2 o'clock, in
comes a German N. C. O., and an escort
to order forcibly her return to
the kommandatur. Completly collected
now, she bid us au revoir with a
nervous smue ana a glance wmcn i
shall never forget. When she had
gone one of us glided up to the bedroom
to fetch the precious papers. The
question was how to destroy them
without attracting the attention of the
sentries placed before our window.
There was no other fire burning in the
house save in the dining room. Then
one of us again, a woman, hit upon a
novel plan for disposing of the papers.
We moved the table and, as if
to pass the time, started dancing all
around the room and in front of the
hearth. And then as each of our
'merry' party neared the fireplace he
or she flung a share of the papers into
the flames until the whole lot were
consumed. Then upon some abrupt
remark by one of the sentries, we
quieted down very gradually to allay
any lurking suspicions in his mind.
"At dawn a German N. C. O. arrived
from the kommandatur and politely
told us in excellent French that his
chiefs were satisfied of our innocence
in the matter, but that as no one could
leave the country without a special
permit from the governor general, we
should have to return to Brussels by
the way we had come, this time under
German supervision. As for our former
guide, he was in a fortress."
But back at Brussels she determined
to have another try. "After spending
a sorrowful and memorable night
in the fortress city, I accepted a rather
timid offer by a gentleman, who possessed
a privileged 'permit' to cross
the Dutch border to accompany him (
is his wife. He was, however, very
much unnerved at the thought of the
punishment that might befall him In ,
the event of his administrative and !
social misdemeanor being found out.
"Still, one line morning, about 6
oclock, off we went, the two of us, in
a carriage driven by a courageous
'Jobber.' As we drove along we encountered
crowds of would-be emigrants,
who had been roughly sent
back by the German frontier guards,
and who shouted to us again and <
again, 'It is no use trying. They
won't let you through.' My escort got !
nervous at this point and suggested ]
giving up the attempt altogether. But 1
I would not hear to this, and alter- I
uaicijr LuaAcu aiiu iuicu.
"So on we go. Suddenly we pull up.
Two sentries, with fixed bayonets appear
at the horse's head and cry 'Halt'
No Joke. Just only the other day a
whole party were shot down for falling
to stop when ordered. A moment
later both doors of our carriage are
simultaneously thrown open by two
German officers, one on each side, who
demanded our passports.
" 'Husband and wife?' A timid "yes.'
Will they notice that our passports
bear different names and different conditions?
The officer who is inspecting
my husband's permit grunts his
approval, and inquires regarding mine.
The colleague in reply points out to
me that my passport does not authorize
me to travel across the frontier. I
explain that I should like to see my
husband to the frontier limit, adding
with a smile, 'Surely, sir, you understand
that wish. It is a pleasure to
meet people who speak French so ,
well, and to whom one can explain
things.'
"My German officer beams, my reference
to his linguistic accomplishments
evidently pleasing him and
with a friendly nod to the driver, says:
'All right; go ahead!' And soon we
are in sight of the frontier village?
half Belgian, half Dutch. We are
both all of a tremble, he and I. There
is still a German post to face before
we reach the land of freedom. We .
take leave, with many thanks, of our
brave and devoted driver. He says
only one thing: 'Be cool! Be cool!'
"Timidly on foot we approach the
frontier, in our nervous anxiety almost
waving our passports in the
faces of the sentries on guard. A. N.
C. O. appears and glances at my hus- 1
band's document and as I interpose
the remark, 'those officers over there <
gave us permission to go through"
does not even look at mine, but is
content to say, 'You may pass.'
"We are across. Oh, what a thrill! ,
Free once more! We can hardly be
lieve it, and to make sure of it repeatedly
Inquire of the people in the
streets if we are in Holland. They
laugh. "Oh, yes, you are qu *e safe.'
And now up rushes an automobile,
ever on the lookout for 'fugitives.' A
dollar a head will take us to the
neighboring town, whence I can wire
to my other 'husband' who has been
waiting for me at Flushing. And as
our car whizzes off, I promptly pin on
my breast the hitherto forbidden cockade
of Belgium's heroic black, yellow
and red."
DOG'S DEVOTION TO MAN
Canine Pet of French Soldier Saves
His Wounded Mastsr.
The dog of a French soldier followed
him to the war, lived with him In '
the trenches and shared his blanket
at night. A shell killed a dozen men
and buried this one, badly wounded,
in a trench which the explosion half
filled with earth. The dog dug frantically
for his master and managed to
expose his face before he suffocated.
Then he seized other soldiers by their
clothing and finally succeeded in drawing
them to the scene. They unearthed
their comrade and put him on a
hospital train, into which the dog also
managed to force his way. At the
hospital, near Paris, the man's leg was
amputated, and the devotion of the
dog was such that the attendants
found a kennel for him near the
kitchens and allowed him to visit his
master twice a day. His love for the
wounded man was so great and his
sympathy with his suffering so evident
as to touch the hearts of all who
saw it
What does it mean? Here is devotion
which exceeds that of many
mothers, of many men. Here is af- <
fection manifested in a lower order of
life which equals our own. It is probably
true that the dog is of all animals
the most capable of sincere,
self-denying attachment, these higher
qualities havine been developed by
long and close companionship with
men. He can subordinate himself
more completely and enter into man's
feelings more sympathetically than
any other form of life; yet how
friendly and how loving to the extent
of their capacity would all the furred
and feathered folk of the woods and
fields be if only man would meet them
half way. How the birds would delight
to sing for him if their confidence
had not been destroyed by ages of
persecution. There are Hindus who
assert as a fact, within our experiences,
that there are kindly men who
respect all animal life whom neither
tigers nor snakes will harm. An
Immunity of this sort was assured of
old to believers, but it would seem
that nobody has sufficient faith to
make trial of it nowadays?Rochester
Post-Ex press.
Jttf'In ten years, "Barry" one of the
dogs of the St. Bernard hospice, saved
no less than forty lives.
WEDDING
PRESENTSSTERLING
SILVER
PLATED SILVER
CUT GLASS
FANCY CHINA
Come and let us show you how
easy you can make selections at
this good store.
T W SPRC1C Teweler
Vain Regrets
It is a common experience to hear
men who have one or more policies in
the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
Company that have been in force
for five years or longer, and often for
a shorter time, and also have insurance
in other companies, that they
have been carrying not less than five
years, and cannot let go without serious
loss, that they regret seriously
that
All their insurance is not In the
Mutual Benefit.
Each one has learned that "There is
a difference," by experience. The man
who fails to look before he leaps often
regrets his action.
I shall be pleased to show you the
difference between the MUTUAL
PENEFIT and All Other companies.
It will be better to find out Before
you buy life insurance than to learn
After you have placed yourself in the
position of the people referred to
above.
SAM >1. OH I ST. Special Agent.
3TBuy your Typewriter Ribbons.
Carbons and Paper at The Enquirer1
Office. Prompt attention given to mail
and phone orders.
Corn-Mad? Use
"GETS-IT," It's Sure
Make* Corns Vanish Like Magic.
A hard cap of skin makes up every
:orn. When you put 2 drops of "GETSIT"
on it, it shrivels up and comes
right off?and there's your corn?gone
by thunder! Simple as taking off your
hat! That's why corn-millions have
gone wild over "GETS-IT"?nothing
like it ever known. Some folks to this
Do"'* Time "Hollering." "GETS4T."
World'* SimpUtt CoraOm, Nrrar Falk. *
day, putter around with bandages,
sticky tape, thick plasters, corn "pulling"
salves, gouge corn out with
knives, snip them with scissors, make
them bleed and then howl because
they can't get rid of sore corns. Use
"GETS-IT." There's nothing to do
but apply 2 drops. The work is done.
"GET-IT" does the rest. No pain, no
fussing, no changing shoes, no limping.
It never fails. Try It tonight for
any corn, callus, wart or bunion. Be
Bure that you get "GETS-IT" and
nothing else.
"GETS-IT" is sold by druggists everywhere,
'25c a bottle, or sent direct
by E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago. 2
MELROSE FLOUR
Good Housekeepers who know good
FLOUR, and who are acquainted by
experience with MELROSE, will tell
you that it is without exception the
BEST Flour ever sold on this market.
We have a fresh supply. It is
BEST for Biscuit, for Light Bread?
Salt Raised?and for Cakes and Pies.
People who use MELROSE once are
not satisfied with anything else. A
trial will convince you if you are at
all skeptical. It costs a little more
than some Flours, but then its Satisfying
Quality makes it worth the difference.
FARM HARDWARE?
Let us supply your needs in Farm
Hardware?Wagons, Plow Shapes, i
Plow Stocks, Cotton Hoes, Shovels,
Pitch Forks. Trace Chains, Collar J
Pads. etc. We'll save you money.
Yorkville Banking & Mer. Co.
YOUR OWN BROTHER WO!
CHANGING TO A
.. TRAVEL SUP
THESE MERCHANTS GIVE
PLUS A MILE IN TRAVEL
THE THOMSON CO.?
DRY GOODS, MILLINERY,
SHIEDER DRUG STORE?
DRUGS, MEDICINES, CANDI
S. L. STEELE?
GROCERIES, FRUITS, WHIT
YORKVILLE HARDWARE
SHELF AND HEAVY HARD
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TRAVEL SLIPS !
FIRST NATONAi,
Rebuilt Ty\
STANDARD TYPEWR
the uniform price of $100.00 E
sometimes they can be bought
had it a week it is "second hai
price you paid if you wanted
enced Typewriter salesman ca
about the little devices that 1:
machine has?point out its co
bon, back spacer, tabulating de
that his machine is the only or
?that is exactly what he is
reasons why you pay $ioo foi
asked to pay this price in orde
l x- -1- L! J _ T
Kenng rne macnine?anu 01 to
imate and part of the business
Aside from the pride you m<
model" typewriter with all th<
any more REAL TYPEWR:
have had you bought a REBl
Machine will not write any li
any easier or anv plainer than
to doughnuts that it won't 1
This being TRUE do you thi
New machine at $100.00, whe
built Typewriter of exactly tl
saving of from $35.00 to $50.0
are flush with the coin of the
generous to the Typewriter ?
Builders and pay them the $ic
is perfectly all right and furth
ness. But if you are buying a
let us urge you to investigate
before you buy. Tell us wha
to make you a price and then
Look these prices over?They
saving you will make in buyir
PRICES ARE VERY LOWRemington
No. 6, Blind Wi
Remington No. 10, Visible \
Smith Premier No. 2, Blind
Smith Premier No. 10, Visit
Oliver No. 2, Visible Writer
Oliver No. 5, Visible Writer
Royal Standards No. 5, Visil
Monarch No. 2, Visible Wri
Underwood No. 4, Visible V
Underwood No. 5, Visible V
L. C. Smith No. 2, Visible V
L. C. Smith No. 5, Visible \
A TYPEWRITER IN YOU]
Will prove its value in 1
learn to use it and the knowle
years?your wife can use it fr
age?A Smith Premier No. 2,
advantages to the beginner, t
use of a "shift key" for Capital
is a single keyboard, blind wri
visible writer?all of these ma
reach (see prices above) and
The price of Rebuilt Machines
Builders' Number?the higher
the price?Express Charges, u:
THINK THE MATTER OV
See if you do not think a Ty
worth the price?and then see
L. M. GRIST'S S
Yorkvill
DIRECTORY OF
YORK COUNTY :
A DIRECTORY of the White Men
of York county of voting age, together
with the postofflce address and occupation
of each, may be had at the
Bank of Clover, the Bank of Hickory
Grove, the First National Bank of Sharon,
the People's National Bank of fc
Rock Hill, or from The Enauirer Office
at 25 cents a copy. This directory
contains more than 4,000 names, and is
of especial service and value for commercial
purposes. Published by
L. M. GRISTS 80N8.
SEWING MACHINE REPAIRING
YOUR Old Machine, that runs so
heavily that you dread to use it.
can be cleaned up, readjusted and put
in such condition that you will be delighted
with It, and would as soon
have It as a New Machine. The cost
Is not very great for this work and
you will be pleased at the expenditure.
Better get your machine In shape now
for the spring sewing. You'll And me Jl
at The Enquirer office.
LEWIS M. GRIST.
A Party of
FishermenOut
of Mt. Croghan, sitting
around the camp Are, were discussing
the COFFEE they had
Just drunk. ALL OF THEM
agreed
"IT WAS JUST FINE."
One man said, while they were
talking, that he "Just Could Not
Stand That
"LUZIANNE COFFEE,"
but wanted Straight Coffee. The 4
cook told him that
"IT WAS LUZIANNE"
they had just finished drinking,
and actually had to "show him"
the can before the would believe
it. The trouble with this fellow
was, He Had Not Taken Proper
Care In making Coffee out of
LUZIANNE.
... LUZIANNE...
IS GOOD ALL THE TIME.
JLDNT BLAMF YOU FOR
1 MERCHANT.. '
YOU THE BEST
NOTIONS, CLOTHING, SHOES. *
ES, MAGAZINES, PAINTS, OILS,
E HOUSE COFFEE, TEAS, ETC.
E CO.?
WARE, KITCHEN WARE, ETC.
OD AS CAN BE SEEN?COME.
REDEEMED AT
BANK Of Yorkville
lewritersITERS
practically all sell at
ach?That's the "list price"?
: for less?and when you have '
tid" and you could not get the
to sell. Of course the experi
n come along and tell you an
lis machine has that no other
nveniences?its two color rib
ivice, etc., and make you think
le to buy. That's his business
paid to do?that's one of the
a new Typewriter?You are
x to help pay the cost of mariurse
that is all perfectly legit.
But where do you come in?
iy have in the "very newest
e "newest kinks," you haven't
ITER value than you would
JILT MACHINE. The New
larder, any faster, any better,
a REBUILT, and it's dollars
ook any better to your eye.
ink it good business to buy a 9
n you can buy a Factory Rele
same make and model at a
o or more? Of course, if you 4
; realm, and want to be real l
Salesman and the Typewriter fl
0 anyway, why of course that
ermore it is none of our busi1
Typewriter for business use,
; the FACTORY REBUILT
t you want?We will be glad f
i you can decide for yourself.
r will give you an idea of the
lg a REBUILT MACHINE: I
iter $19 to $21
Vriter $42 to $55
Writer $18 to $20
>le Writer $27 to $42
$22 to $25
$27 to $38 J \
ble Writer $42 to $45 1
ter $32 to $46 .
Writer $38 to $57.50 .J
Vriter $ai to $6s
Vriter $32 to $45
Vriter $48 to $55
* HOME?
nany ways?the children can
dge will be of value in later
equently and to good advantwith
double keyboard, has its
?ecause it doesn't require the
letters?the Remington No. 6
iter and the Oliver No. 2, is a
ichines are easily within your
will give entire satisfaction,
i is governed by the Serial or
the Serial Number the higher
sually about $1.50?are extra.
ER
pewriter in your home will be
us.
IONS, Printers,
e, S. C. s