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iggxncp sBan-wuKLT. L. K. GBIST'8 SOBS, Publi?h?r?. ; % Jfamilj Jlfrspaper: J;or (he JJroraotion of lh< Jjolitical, Social, Agricultural and (Tommerrial Jntmsts of the ffopll. \ "T^f^l*,v,E*"v^*?i.ANCE' established 1855 " YORK, sTcTT^DAX^Y jt.lllia' ^ NO. 41 mwmiiimimMmmmwiiiiiMHiMiiiniiM j "Bride c X By V1CTOH i A ROMANCE OF THI 1 FIGHTING ON | FIELDS 0. r Copyright l?y 1 flllllllllllllllllttllllliltltMtltUllllllllllilllll CHAi'TKK XII. And he slept, though hi- hud notexpt'Cti'd to clone his cycn that night. Mr sle pt us soundly us his comrades. uwakiiiK us was his hublt, u few minutes before reveille, with u rnind singularly clarified by sleep. He would usk to parade before his commanding officer In the morning and state the facts, leaving the rest to fate. Ii?- wum not destined to, for the same corporal who had put hiin on ?lnt> during th?* previous afternoon "ofT" called him from the tent live minutes before the morning imrade. "You can leave them buttons, Weston." he said with a grin. "You won't need to polish 'em where you're going. The sergeant major wants you at once." Mark hurried to the ottice, to tind the sergeant major in company with one of the senior captains; then lie reuieiiilH-red that rumors of the preceding evening had sent the major away with the insp?-cttng general. His Interview must be postponed, then. "Weston, you'd better get your breakfast at once." said the sergeant major. "And have your kit packed In twenty minutes. You and Hartley ongoing up to the front." The senior captain tem|>orarily commanding the detachment unbent from the official air which he was trying terribly hard to assume. "You were especially asked for from * " u" '? ' with nnnthtf*!* neauquariers. uc k>iu, man; and I'm sending Hartley because he's your friend. They want two eompuny. We'll he aorry to lose you. more men for the stretcher hearers" Weston." Mark saluted and went out just as Hartley appeared at the door. The sergeant inujor enliKhtened Hartley briefly. "You must have some pull at headquarters. Weston." he suld. "Do you know Major Kellerrnan?" "A little, sir," answered Murk grimly. "Well, he seems to know all ahout you, and he told the O. O. over the telephone that he must haw you. He'll lie your O. C. now for a while, so things ought to run smoothly for you." "He's not a doctor, sir." ???JlH'tLliui femrm cjvnt a medical corps; they're attached to the ?th." Mark hurried away. In the barracks room, at breakfast, the two were the subject of mingled jests and congratulations. The stretcher bearers, forming. as It were, the last supports of the infantry, shared with them the great protection of casualties. Kellerman's scheme was perfectly clear to Mark. Hut since it was now impossible to tell anyone the story of the preceding night. Murk resigned himself to the inevitable. It angered him that Hartley remained obstinately incommuni CllllVC, The sergeant who conreyrd them to the station?tor the full private is presumed to be incapable of going anywhere or doing anything of his initiative?remarked on it, and rallied Hartley on his fears. "Keep your eyes peeled for him, Weston," he said, us he shook hands at the ear window. "Cheer up. Hartley. Nine times out of ten them that's killed never knows it. And remember, every time you hear the hiss of a bullet you're safe." The time-worn consolation evoked no smile on Hartley's face. Mark, looking at his companion, wondi rod whether Hartley hud ever had any plan at all, or was the victim of a delusion. He even wondered whether, out of his sufferings, he had not Imagined inueii that was nonexistent. Was Kollorman actually a traitor, or In his turn the victim of Ada Konson? He was In a wretched state of mind when the car steamed into the depot at the end of the narrow-gauge line. Ho descended into a city, a mushroom city of the supply and transportation department. Motor vehicles in thousands. wagons, horses on endless picket lines, great mountains of forage. acres of shells, tarpuulin enough to roof Jj'ew York, bales, boxes, seemed to reach for miles in every direction. Along the graded roads autos and motor trucks came at a furious speed, and went again Into the unknown. A sergeant and corporal, with nine or ton men of the stretcher bearers' company, were waiting for the two. The little troop was returning to the trenches after tlve days of relief at a rest camp "You're the two men from the base hospital?" asked the sergeant. "All right! Fall In. ltlght turn! Quick march!" They moved away down a slope and began to pick their way along the beginning of a maze of trenches. Overhead a never-ending stream of motor vehicles whirred along the network of roads, which were so congested as to make the movement of even a small body of men almost impossible. The roar of guns, which had never ceased by night or day, and had long ceased to be noticeable, was louder now. and. looking upward, they could see a base of dust In the distance, flecked here and there with dissolving bands and splashes of flame. "Getting hotter, sergeant," volunteered one of the party. "That's what they've brought us back for." "That ain't nothing to* what It's going to get by morning." answered the sergeant "The staff was along yesterday." Even the tyro knew that staff visits portended an offensive of some sort. If only a raid. The party advanced through thickening, half-dried mud. Suddenly the sergeant stopped. "There was ten of you," he said to IllllllllllllllllflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUI tf Battle" | : ROUSSEAU = S AMERICAN AEMY | THE BATTLEP FRANCE. A. U. Chapman. = iiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin the corporal. "AH here," r? sponded the corporal. The sergeant turned to Mark. "Where's your mate?" he asked. Mark, uho had been plodding along under the impression that Hartley was following, turned round, to find that he was the last of the party. Hartley was nowhere to he seen. I lie SCrgeum run iwn .? < ? to ri-tuin breathless ami red in the fact-, "lie's Konc, the silly fool!" he sjiluttcred. "Must have taken Haw-rung turn at the bend. (Io back and get him!" Kut Hartley was not at the bend. The sergeant joined Mark, Incredulous. They scrambled up the bank ami scanned the level road. There was no |Hilestrian in sight. "He's taken the wrong turn somewhere," insisted the sergeant, '(.'onto along with ine! We've got to timl hint!" They began doubling back, shouting. until they reached the end of tIntrench system. Still Hnrtlej could not be found. If his disap|>caranee had been Intentional, it would have been lilt' ea.SICNl llllUg III muv i<n.v.i? .... mazes of trucks and packing cases. But that would have been an act of wildest folly. If Hartley had meant to desert, he had taken the certain route to death. Nobody had ever deserted from the lines without quick recapture. The sergeant stuck to his theory that Hartley had got lost. What troubled him was that he would have to re|s>rt him absent. "If he ain't on hand I'll be broke," lie grumbled. "And I'll break his head for him. You medical cori>s chaps malike a bunch of babies. Ought to have a nurse and a baby carriage for each of you." Reluctantly lie abandoned the search and they rejoined the others. The sergeant, in an ugly mood, ordered them sharply onward, but could not resist casting occasional looks back to see if the missing man was coining. However, at last he resigned himself to what seemed Inevitable. The trench with ned into a deep, wide, parallel one extending in zigzags to right and h it of them. This was the supi>ort or reserve line, crowded with excavations, each packed to suffocation with solRTnl JdaTWng cauls, who gave the newcomers an Ironical cheer. Then came another maze, with more troops, more mud, wetter and stickier; sandbags began upon the parapets, there were sentries at the posts, and twice they stood back against the parados to permit the passage of men carrying motionless forms on stretchers. The sun glinted on lines of wire. Occasionally, out of the distance. there came the staccato tap[ ping of machine guns. Street signs began to appear against the timbers of the trenches. They passed along the Howery, turned into | Broadway, and emerged into a circular excavation, which announced itself as Herald square. A large dugout made shell-proof, or as nearly as |h>ssible so by a roof of heavy beams, sandbags and Corfu gated steel, bore I the Bed Cross upon the door. Inside a number of stretcher bearers were j lounging. The sergeant halted his men and I step|M-d into a smaller dngont beside it. In a minute he came out and beckoned to Mark to follow him. Mark entered, to llnd himself In the presence of the captain commanding the stretcher bearers' com|Ktny. and? Keller man. He saluted and stood to attention, watching Kellernian's eyes wander over him approisingly. "Orderly, Where's the man who caftn- with you?" inquired the captain briskly. "He disappeared on the way up. sir." answered Mark. "What do you mean by disapfienred? Did you see him go back? Or was he with you one minute and gone the next?" "1 thought he was behind tne. sir. I didn't see him go. or know anything about it." The captain, who had been holding the receiver of his telephone, ami evi dentl> waiting for his connection. sot it. Mark heard him sending out a general notice of tiie absent man. lie gave his number, and the name, "Hartley." No doubt he had mistaken it as he received it by telephone from tlie hospital that morning. Hut Mark was watching Kcllerman in turn. He had wondered whether Kellcrmnii had recognizeti Hartley: to his relief, he came to the i onclusion that he did not know of Hartley's enlistment: and the name Harley evidently meant nothing to him. "You'll parade liefore me tomorrow morning," said Captain Keyes to the sergeant. "Till then you are under open arrest." The sergeant saluted. "Kight turn!" he said to Mark. "Wait a minute." interposed Kellerman. "I'd like to have a few words with this man, Captain Keyes." "By all means, sir," replied the captain, rising. He strolled, humming, to the door of the dugout, leaving Kcllerman and Mark together. "So you'w enlisted under the name Weston?" Inquired Kcllerman. "That is my name, sir." "It was a shock to me yesterday. Wallace. I never expected It. Y'our disappearance stirred wnsniniaon a good deal. The war office would have exonerated you." In spite of his loathing of the man Mark felt his heart begin to hammer with hope. He looked at Kellerman with pathos In his eyes; he could not hide his feelings; he was groping amid the ruins of his world and trying to reconstruct them. "I've no doubt you misunderstood me," said Kellerman. "My association with tin- K-msen woman was a part of my oilicinl duties?the most distasteful ixtrt, luit line that had to be carried out. Yott and I were victims of an mute piece of trickery. That fan was wired." "I'rom your room, sir." said Mark. "From my room," answered Kellerman. "And, no doubt, by the Kenson woman's agent, that spy who called to see you at the war office the same morning. Colonel Howard knows all about it. He means to stand by you. He heard you had enlisted, but he did not know you were in the medical corps, nor under an alias. He is at the base now. Wallace. When he cotn'-s up next week I shall make it my business to see him about you." "No, sir," gasped Mark. "It doesn't mutter now." "It matters to me, if not to yourself, Wallace. I cannot rid myself of the sense of partial responsibility. And as for what happened last night, you took me off my guard. I'll be (To Be Continued.) WAR SERMONS A Right Way and a Wrong Way to Handle the Subject. There have been many war sermons; too many, according to some. Vet a distinction is drawn by a writer in tiie Christian Intelligencer (New York), who warns ministers against palming olT a rehash of the day's news, and mixing it with imprecation. What tlie war really diss for the minister is to furnish "material for expounding, illustrating and enforcing the gos|>el of Christ." The message of the pulpit. sa>s the writer, "must thunder above the din of battle and come from loftier regions than even an aero squadron." To preach about the war may mean one tiling to one person and quite a different thing to another. Thus: _ "A sermon about the war, max. bemerely a report or ial rehash of newspaper talk. It may lie a catalogue of horrors and a cry for vengeance, it may be a mere bid for popularity. There may be no religion in it, no spiritual interpretation, no lofty insight into the deeper issues of the kingdom of Cod involved. It may be an easy way of discharging the preaching function. a ready refuge for indolence and superficiality. To preach about the war may mean the advocacy of the pet theories of fanatic speculative prophets. The war offers plenty of scope to those who do not seem to understand tlie purpose of their .high calling. ."M!<Hlltl IIIIIUMHTM prcilCII illltllll W1C war? Yes, certainly. If they preach like prophets, if they are spiritual seers, n they are deep religious thinkers. if they are true men of find, il they see eye to eye with Christ. Il they can enforce the teachings of the ililile l?y reference to the war, if they can show the myriad applications and implications of Christianity in the light of the great world tragedy, let them speak. If they etui use the world war to show the penalty ol forgetting Cod. and the hano of ignoring Christ, and the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and the dost met ivencss of selfishness and materialism, lot their voices l?e unto the sons of men. If lhey have a new vision of duty, responsibility and privilege, and a profound sense of immediate and uni?nralleleil spiritual opportunity, the church of the world must hear it. If they find in the tragic horror of universal strife a commentary on Cod's Word lieside which the International Critical Commentary's conclusions are like a wreath of mist. oh. in that case, let the prophet have the- floor and let all the earth keep silent liefore him. If his windows are open to Jerusalem ami he kneels three times n day for commerce with the sky. let his herald voice proclaim the message of the King of Heaven. Hut let him eschew geography and mathematics and the newspapers and the symbols of recondite prophecy, and let him speak as one who has been the guest of our great Ixird Christ." Caul bad a thorh in tho flesh, ob SiTVOS IIIIS wruer, mu in- u in iiu> preach tho (horn. Tho world and the church now has Its thorn in tho side; lull. speaking for preachers, tho thorn is not our thome: "It is Christ, onlv Christ, tho Christ alono who oan romovo tho thorn or who may allow it still to ahido until wo drink ir.oro dooply of his sustaining grace. "Tho war has Its plnco in prvsontdny preaching. Imt not tho place of tho first-born. It furnishes material for expounding. illustrating, and enforcing tho gospel of Christ. It sheds interpreting light on tho facts wo onset to preach. It supports tho claims of Christ. It is an instantly available commentary on tho truth of Scripture. If. as Dr. Burretl 'has pointed out in his book on 'The Sermon.' a sermon is a thrust.' what 'a thrust' every sermon ought to be in these days. What 'a thrust' at sin and what 'a thrust' for Christ. Keep tho pulpit high. Lot it stand in the sunlight and In the free air of heaven."?Literary Digest. Tho Rev. J. F. Rank Smith of Dallas. Texas, was chosen moderator of tho Presbyterian general assembly in session at Columbus. Ohio, after a hot fight, Friday. It is the first time the office has been filled by a southerner since before the Civil war. Rev. Smith was chosen on the second ballot. frank with you. It was my <luty to interest tlie Kcnson woman. I sucreeded too well. She followed me here. I couldn't brine myself to denounce her. For that I have placed my own position in jeopardy. When you apiwared I did not know what to do or say." "Von found a course of action." answered .Mark, torn between the desire m return Mow for Mow and to do justice to Kcllermun whose story left him douMful and wondering. "Will yon accept iny frank aisdotry'.'" asked Kcllerinnn, extending his hand. Mark took it. "I will. Major Kellorman." ho answered. And ho mado his way to the door of tho dugout, with a tooling of warmth In his heart such as ho had not known for many a month. Ho believed Kellotman?and yet . . . but ho fought down his instinct and still believed him. SCANDALOUS LIARS : 9 \ lodlctmeot Promised (or Slander-? ers of Red Cross. t Dim HANDS STAB GOOD WOMEN. J i New York Grand Jury Make* Investigation Of The Low Down t Tactics Of The Evil Minded People t Who Help German Propaganda By ^ Trying To Bring The Noblest Of t Women Into Contempt. ( New York World. 1 In the future, no matter whether ( they be American citizens or sub- t j?fts of other nations, originators < :ind carriers of fulse or malicious , rumors in connection with the war , will be indicted, tried and. if con- t victed under the Espolnage Act, can ( Ik* given the extreme penalty of r twenty years' imprisonment and $10.- f 000 tine. y Judge Augustus N. Hand, after re- t reiving recently a pcesentment of f the Federal grand jury, which had , Uen examining Into the spreading of , Several baseless stories, made mis , statement, and he characterized such j reports as "deliberate and unfriendly y propaganda." j The most serious story, which was a branded tut false by the grand jury, ( that had been circulated throughout t the country for the past few months f was a typical one to the effect that frightlul and scandalous conditions r attend the Ited Cross nurses in the r \mcrican army hospitals In- France. | Dr. Culbertson Accused. The presentment says that Dr. Kmma H. Culbertson, senior surgeon of the New England hospital for ' Women and Children at Boston, made the following statement at Vassar College, I'oughkcepsic, on Jan. 17 1 last: i "It was a matter of common knowl- ' edge that 200 beds had been reserved c in the Sloane Maternity Hospital, t New York, for Red Cross nurses who c were returning from France and ex- ? pee ting immediate confinement." ' This investigation showed that the si hospital authorities had no knowledge t of such an arrangement and branded t ..I IT<U? "Sec. 537. Any county oinccr nessctlng or refusing to comply with any f the provisions of sectioi; 681 of the ivil co?lc requiring officers to keep an temized statement of fees and costs eoelved shall be deemed guilty of a aisdcmeanor. and upon conviction, hall be fined not less than 350 nor nore than $300, or imprisoned in the ounty jail not less than two months lor more than six months, either or ioth at the discretion of the court; 'rovkled, that the provisions of this eetion shall not apply to the counties f Sumter, Lexington, Iierkeley and Cewberry." "Sec. 681. Each county officer shall >e required to purchase and keep in lis office, open to public inspection luring office hours a book in which hall be kept an itemized account of .11 moneys received by or due to him i hether received by him or due to him s salary, fees or costs or In any other nanner as pay to him for his services iy virtue of his office: Provided, that tothing herein contained shall be contrued to require any officer to denand the payment of his fees and osts In advance. At the close of each Iscal year each county officer shall ransmit an Itemized copy of said acount, under oath, to the- office of ounty supervisor. The county superisor, in addition to other books kept n his office, shall keep a separate look In which he shall enter upon his K>oks the total amount of each acount so furnished, opposite the name f the officer furnishing the same acount, and file the account in his ofIce as other county records are kept: 'rovided, that the provlrions of this ectlon shall not apply to the counies of Sumter. Lexington and Xewierry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Abbeville ir Marlboro." - a ? *?1 nl\i i r*o?Vi When appraisers 01 ? t 'a., trust company entered the home if Mrs. Eliza J. Ma/fett. 91 years of ge, a recluse, last week, they found 58.526 In money, eighty-eight $1,000 Jberty bonds of the first Issue, bank K>oks and securities totaling $182.>74.45. The house was poorly furnlshd and the appraisers declared that 100 would be a high estjmate for the brniture in bulk. If. Duval, whp was director of the oppressed Oermano-phlle newspaper 3onnet Rouge, of Paris, was last week condemned to death by couft martial or treason. The six other defendants ?ere sentenced to Imprisonment for erms ranging from two to ten years. Svery decision of the court martial cm voted unanimously. v. ?. I <l.*> illinUIUU'O HIIDl'. 1 IIU mcnt rends in part: , i t "Emma H. Oulbertson had abjo- I lately no knowledge or information 4 n|Min which to iia.sc such a state- s mcnt. an.I it is wholly false and with- t out foundation. Our information c shows that no Rod Cross nurse nas a 11 turned to this country from foreign c service in such a condition. c "The grand jury further presents c that the said Emma B. Culhertson r herself now believes that she has fc I toon misinformed as to the mntteno y contained In the statement made by f her and regrets that she has beotu a party to the dlssemlnatlonof_^JB|^"slaTemont". ^ * v ' g "The grand jury further presents t! that the said Emma B. Cylbertson did r not wilfully make said statement f with the intent to Interfere with the p operation and success of the military p and naval forces of the United States or to obstruct the American Red t< Cross in the recririting or enlistment e of nurses in the service of the United p States." 0 World Provided Information. f I'art of the information upon which a tie grand jurors grounded their presentment was provided by The World, c which investigated one particularly s malicious story and found it to he o lying ITo-German propaganda. The v article referred to was published on d March 29 tast. ' a It told of the report, which was p '.raced from New York to AUentown, t I'a., that two Red Cross nurses re- ti turning to this country were about to a enter a maternity hospital. It was fl said they had been captured by the n Hermans in the north of Franco, their hands cut off and their tongues silt, p Tiie tale, of course, was part of the 0 Herman propaganda of frlghtfulness. c In conclusion the presentment says: p "That the grand Jury, In connoc- r '.ion with the inquiry instituted with r respect to the statement first ahove B ill* numnm. 111\t wir*t iii?|uinu miu uiv ^ truth or falsity of the story con- c mined in Hiiid article. n "That the inquiry conducted l>y jj this grand jury has established that j the story contained in the article is s not based upon fact, but as reported 0 by The World is merely one of a >, score of such wild vaporlngs which aiv started into being malevolently, b and then are repeated by patriotic ^ Americans who ought to know bet- j ter. ? "The grand jury further presents a that it deplores the tendency shown v by the public in general to give ear a to and repeat stories and reports of (] a sensational and scandalous nature ^ and character affecting the Amerlean Red Cross and its nurses, for the g reason that such stories and reports not only seriously Interfere with the c recruiting of nurses for service ^ abroad, but also have a tendency to create public distrust in the Amer- c icon Red Cross, and are detrimental p to the many activities it is carrying on to alleviate the unspeakable con- ^ dition due to the war." Conviction Almost Certain. t, Judge Hand in accepting the pre- c sentment said In part: 0 "A statement like this, which, after c investigation, you have found was utteily without foundation; which after j the reports and testimony of represen- g tatives of the Sloane Maternity Hos- ^ pltai. you have found had not a scln- h tilla of evidence back of it, is a thing 0 to he deprecated and severely censur ?d by the court. "That a person should come to a place which is a seminary, a college ^ for the education of young women who ^ are eager, many of them, to go abroad to act as nurses for the Red Cross and ^ circulate such a hare-brained state- j, ment as this in the presence of these g young women, that would alarm the authorities of the college: that would ^ discourage their enlistment as nurses, is a most reprehensible and disgraceful thing. "The American people have been a very tolerant In these matters and I I think it is greatly to their credit c that they have, but the time has cer- f tainly come when people who utter i falsehoods, make statements without t the slightest foundation which they 1 have picked up on the curbstone in l i. t ho stroot and thon give thorn out in :omo public placo. not knowing) vhether they are true or not. and hoosing to beliovo thom or give thorn ?ut oithor for notoriety or for some eason which wo cannot fathom. Holme has certainly come when those >eople are going to he held reiponsiblo by juries in our courts of aw. "The juries have been tolerant in ho past because they did not want o believe evil of any one, but unloubtedly statements of this kind smanate from some source which is mguged in a deliberate and unfriendy propaganda, and it is certainly rroper for the court to say here that he people in this community and verv other community ought to take varnlng and to remember that when nen tn this country are sacrificing heir lives, when women are going J o the front to act as nurses, when nothers are parting with their sons ind wives with their husbands: vhen, as I saw in Vermont the other lay, at a little college that I attend d, about two-thirds of the senior Mass were already engaged in nilitnry service, tlie least people can lo who attempt to speak about maters relating to this war is to pay lorne kind of attention to the facts ind to know what they are talking iliout and not make statements and riticisms ami spread wild rumors hat are utterly unfounded in a perectly irresponsible way. "If they do it In the future they nay expect indictments and they nay expi-ct trials and they may be iretty certain of conviction." NO ACCOUNTING FOR FEES Richland Officials "Stand In" on This Little Proposition. It is alleged that the county officials ire not conforming to an act of the feneral assembly requiring them to :eep an accurate account of fees revived and to render at the end of inch fiscal year an itemized statement covering: the year's business. Each ifficlal Is supposed to send their statenents to the county supervisor, but in Investigation yesterday showed hat the Richlund county officials arc lot complying with the law. It was said at the office of the couny supervisor that no such ntatements lad ever been rendered. On January >. 1917, the county board of commisloners instructed the county attorney o communicate with the county officers calling their attention to the law tnd requesting them to comply. The clerk of court, master, sheriff, judge if probate, auditor and treasurer reeive fees and no report was filed in esponse to the notice from the county lourd. The year 1917 pussed by and esterday there were no statements on lie from any county official. On August 29, C. L. Vann, the acimyitant. called attention to. the ence of the statements and concluded hat inasmuch as some of the officials ecelved a large amount of money rom fees the taxpayers would like to ;now what the officers were recelvng. Inquiry among several officials yeserday Indicated that no attention has ver been paid the act of the Icgislaure. Failure to observe the provisions if the law is subject to a line. The allowing acts of the general assembly re self-explanatory: "Sec. 648. Any clerk of court of ommon pleas and general sessions or herlff or judge of probate or register f mesne conveyances in this state, iho shall wilfully fall or neglect * to Ischarge all the duties and perform 11 the services, wh.v.i are required of lim by law, in addition to his liability o the party aggrieved, shall bo liable o be Indicted as for a misdemeanor nd upon conviction thereof shall be ined, at the discretion of the court, iot exceeding J500." TILLMAN TO CONVENTION Senior Senator Makes Plea lor Reelection. READS CAREFULLY PREPARED ADDRESS Convention Receives Former Political Boss With Consideration and Gives Him Cheers?Explains Why He Changed His Mind About Retiring From Politics. A A' Ita foo tiiruu t\f (hit i'<ir>nn Democratic convention was the appearance of Senator R R. Tillman in behalf of his re-electien. It was rather a curious setting in a way. The convention was composed of a vast majority of the element which constituted the party that Tillman overturned in his ascent to political dominance. Among them are a few of the old Tillnianites, who have foresworn their former affiliations and who have been accepted into the old party. There were also a small representation of the old Reform sentiment of former days. To the uninitiated the senator's reception was apparently cordial, but to the initiated it was a matter of studied courtesy. <?f the members present lo per cent were real friends. The feelings of the other 30 per cent involved a kind of hostile benevolence, comprehended in the semile of a once tierce and powerful lion, now grown idd and toothless. He received applause: hut it was mainly the applause that goes to a former bitter enemy who is now dead. Senator Tillman did not attempt any extemporaneous remarks, but read his address from manuscript as follows: Senator Tillman's Address "First, allow me to thank you for the reception you have given me. I I haven't words sufficient to express in fitting terms the gratitude I feel for the love and trust the people of South Carolina have always shown after they came to know me. "1 'found myself at Hennettsvllle in 1x85 and liegan to know for what purpose I had been sent into the world, liver since I have had only one object in life?the honor and welfare of South Carolina and her people. At first I was distrusted because of my radicalism and frankness of speech, but the people soon learned that I was not a hypocrite or a liar and that they could depend on what 1 told told them. "I served as governor for four years. Then they sent me to the senate and have kept me there ever since. Four years ago I bade farewell to public life and said to the people of South Carolina that I would not again ask them to re-elect me. My health was poor and 1 sought to rest from labors until my time came. Hut suddenly and unexpectedly the war wljh pertnanw > was forced upon us. Honor, patriotism and everything that men hold dear were put in Jeopardy. There was nothing for us to do but light. Under these changed conditions 1 was confronted with this question: 'What is my duty?" I knew that I held the important chairmanship of the committee on naval affairs and besides, had won the confidence and respect of many powerful and inflnentiol men connedeo with the government. The prestige and influence belonged to the state more than to me. If I held to my announced purpose not to offer for re-election that chairmanship and all that went with it would be lost to South Carolina. After thinking It all over front fall viewpoints nml consulting with many friends, contrary to the expressed wishes and advice of those I hold ? ..-.1 nhil.l N,n?J uearcsi?m>- ? ?? reached the conclusion that the least I I could do was to allow the people ot I South Carolina to decide for tliem-1 selves. Consequently I offered for re- I election. I thought it was my duty to do so for these reasons. An Enviable Position. "South Carolina now occupies a very I enviable position in our public affairs. I The chairmanship of the committee on I uKriculturc In the house and the chair-1 manship of the committee on naval I affairs and the committee on interstate I commerce in the senate are held byl three of its citizens. I.<ong service, I hard work and high character alone I can win such places. Occasionally "an I accident' breaks into the senate, but I after six years he Is always eliminated. I In the house things arc somewhat I different, but in the main the same re-1 quirements there as in the senate ob-l tain. In both branches of congress! men must win their spurs and bel worthy of them to continue long to I wear them. Concerning His Candidacy. "On March 6 I made the announce-1 ment, asking the people of South Car-1 olina to re-elect me for the fifth time! ?something that falls to the lot of I few men, and never has fallen to the! lot of a South Carolinian in the state's I history. I do not feel worthy of it I myself, but then circumstances and! not I compel the situation. "The senatorship belongs to the peo-1 pie of South Carolina and no man orl set of men has any right to pick the! man to occupy it. If the majority of I the people want any other man 1 want I them to have him. "Kccently sinister rumors began tol be industriously circulated. These re-1 ports were whispered from ear to ear. I Most of you have heard them and know to what I allude. I say to you I I have not made, and I will not make, I any political deal with any man or set! of men. I am in this race to stay and I to win. Other stories have been, and I are still being, industriously circulated! The most pitiless and inost pitiful one, too, Is that I am physically unfit and! mentally unfit and that my mind Is I practically gone. My friends In va-j rlous parts of the state have written me repeatedly of things of the sort that they had heard. The only thing that is of any moment now to me is whether it is true or false, and that Is the reason I am here?to look you in the face ana lei you see iur juuiwco my real condition. I Must Remain at Post. "Even If I were able to make speeches on the hustings' the conditions in Washington are such as will make it necessary for the friends of President Wilson and the Democratic adralhistratlon to remain at their poet of duty. I feel that I / . I - .. to remain there ymt i will remain there. In my casA it ought not to he necessary for me t^ canvass the state, for my public careir ami niy life are j an open hook and vll well informed men in South Carolina already knowit. 1 know I have tld^ie great work for the state in more ways than one. | The historian will give Aje credit for idh'-r thinks than the establishment of Clcitson and Winthrop colleges. "I have been trying to discharge the duties of my office to the best of my ability both before and since 1 was paralyzed. 1 believe 1 can do the state more good in the senate ( now than any other mun it could possibly send there. Every man at the I navy department and in the senate, too. knows that I am performing my i duties as senator. The secretary of 1 the navy's own paper, tne Raleigh i News and Observer, had an editorial in ii, wnicn i will give to the press and let the papers publish it or not, as they see lit. "When the Democrats came Into power the Democratic caucus saw tit to give the chairmanship of the committee on appropraitions to Senator Martin. My friends told me the only reason they permitted it was they feared the work would kill me, and 1 was given the committee on naval affairs instead. Since the war came on that committee has hud as much or more work to do than the committee on appropriations. Ho-.* 1 have |?rformed those duties the world knows. Money and Elections. South * 'arolinians have never been accustomed to seeing their elections carried liy money and. looking back over an extended experience. I do not remember that any money was ever used in a primary until 1904, in the that time I am scrry to say money has ' been used more and more lavishly as ' the yt i s have passed. The prcstitu- 1 lion of the primary by the purchase ! of votes ought to be stamped out now 1 once and forever. It Is a cancerous ' M<??th that should be cut up by the 1 root. Naturally I do not want to be 4 defeated in my old age, but I hud lather go down in defeat than enter ' upon the diabolical and criminal busi- ' ness of attempting to debauch my fellow citizens. Such conduct is treason. "1 can justly claim to be the father ' of the primary system. Just as I also ' claim to have compelled the Democratic state committee to inaugurate * the count> to county canvass, blackguards have caused it to descend into a 'mud-slinging' match. Hut the peo- 1 pie should rem/mbcr that it served a good purpose in ls9u, when men like Marie, Kratton and Tillman were asking thi m for their votes, and it may serve a good ptiriiose again. If it is killed It will be a bad thing for the ' state and will enable the newspapers, " ioo often the tools of capitalization ( -to-'tuntbuuaie4 tfre people and deceive them. "This is the message I bring to my v people; the world is passing through ( the greatest crisis in history. It re- v ipiires men of w.sdom and experience, (i as well as faith and vision, to guide ( the destinies of this nation. The pco- ^ pie of South Carolina will decide , whether I or another man shall be , elected one of their senators. 'All Is Well With the Fleet." t "As your senutor now, and as chair- i man of the great committee on naval | affairs of the senate, 1 am proud to t say to you that when the test came i those of us connected with the navy i could truthfully tell our people, 'All t is well wun me iicui. n mu wu voyeil through the submarine zone transports carrying more tlian 5U0.UUU nun and their supplies, and this, too, without the loss of a single man. "Feeling as I do with my record of achievement in the past and with the work I am doing now, I am contident the people will allow me the privilege of serving them further. Hut, win or lose, I want the voters of this state to know exactly where I stand on the one issue before them?the war issue?and on tills 1 can but repeat what I have said before: 'To hell with all Herman sympathizers, and thank Hod for Woodrow Wilson!" CONSERVATION IMPORTANT People Should Not Try to Keep Up With Fashions. To reduce consumption of raw and manufactured materials essential to the conduct of the war and to make available to help meet the nation's war expenses money spent for non-essentials, the council of national defense and the South Carolina council of defense urge the people to refrain from unnecessary expenditures of all kinds. This call upon the American people, for mobilization of the moneypower of the nation as well as manpower, emphasizes the importance of a realization on the part of the pub lie that, In the present national emergency. the winninK of the war is the one thing of real importance. In England and France many commonplace things have long ago disappeared from the market because they arc no longer manufactured. The factories that before the war turned out products of peace are now turning out munitions of war. The manufactories of those countries have been placed entirely upon war footings. It is hardly likely that America will ever be called upon to give up as much in this direction as have the people of England and France; but It is felt that there are many things which can lie given up as entirely unnecessary', and the elimination of which would contribute to tho winning of the war. When Secretary McAdoo visited Co- \ lumbla recently, launching the third Liberty loan in South Carolina, he urged that the people wear half-soled shoes and patched clothing, for in- i stance, rather than attempt, in the present emergency and under present war conditions, to keep up with fashion's decrees. As long as the nation is at grips with the enemy, it is most creditable, says a letter received by the state council of defense from < the council of national defense at Washington, for everyone, man and i woman, boy and girl, to be economical in dress, food and manner of living. Evidence of self-denial is, or Should be regarded as a badge of honT-. KEbLAMATlUN IN LAMPS Soldiers Befog Taught to Save Everything. CLOSE ATTENTION TO ECONOMICS. Where Garbage Was Once Abundant. Now There is Little?Considering the Feeding of Hogs in Camp? Ever, the Old Paper is Gathered" Up and Sa.'d to Junkmen. O'ni'Mit ?,v tin- Censor.) ,\>riv?po nJ.ru. The Y.>rkiili. fci. julrrr Camp Sevier, May H.? power. l'ower will win .tho w'ur." Tho nluivo Is ono ol numerous .slo sans that haw been printed ami pit*carded all over Camp Sevier as u N further aid and lntluenco in Impress- ' * ins u|M>n soldiers here the importance a? food conservation. Six months ago there was considerable waste of fond here as there was at oilier vamps over the country. Three months later it was considerably less, since altMil that time eonservation of supplies hecan in earnest. Now there is scarcely any. and in fact there is no more waste at a company mess hall where imals for 250 mwn are cooked three times daily. than lliere is in tin kileh iih oi a largo hotel or restaurant. The slogan of (lie clean plate is being imt into practice so thoroughly that really the water pans placed on in iiiurators after eaeli meal are not necessary because there is nothing left in tlie aluminum mess kits to wash out. Civilian farmers living in In- vicinity of Camp Sevier who iincc the establishment of tins camp nave been hauling garbage from the carious mess halls each week to feed iheir hogs, say that the amount of - arbagc that is now to lie had. is imrally siillleieiit to justify their com ing. In onli'i* licit it may get full em-lit from the stliirlit amount that in low available, otflciuls here arc se iously considering tho idea of shipping 1.000 hogs here to eat up the no-essnry waste. This work of conservation an if relamalmn is being extended to in-111< I not only food I Hit every other itide of value. The government is ven collecting the daily pa|H-rs that lie soldiers hay. carefully baling In in np and selling them lo |iaper nannlacllifers. The lame that is l? It \ hen a hungry cotii|iany oi soldi* rs iave piekod off all the incut is not hrown into the garbage can; hut is laced in the sun to dry and then ihippcd to some lYrtilixcr plant. I tones ire worth ahoiit a ton f. o. !>.. and Id Man Sam after all his critics say, s a pretty good business man. There in- in this camp now awaiting remit at tho camp shoe shop, some 11,000 |Kiirs of shoes which soldiers nust wear again anil then again whin thousands of O. D. shirts and trousrs and coats and other articles of rearing apparel are being ivpairi-d iglit in this Onmp for reissue. There ras a time when a soldier who destrd a new pair of shoes in return for hose that might have Imvii only lightly worn, could get the new ariel< without any trouble?-Just a lit h talk and a wink at tin- supply sera-ant and tin- thing was done. Hut iow he must show why and whereon he desires n? w goods and as lik? y as not will <-xeluinge for an a -tiole hat has lieen reimired and tin- original owribi of which is somewhere in 'ranee or on the way, anyhow. I nonaged to swap a pair of shoes that i.-ul been with me for seven months, or a pair that had Is-en slightly vorn, a few days ago and I consider d myself ipiite llli-ky at being able o swing the ileal. The pair I swap*ed were thos?- N'o. i 1-2's t lint I vrote about last fall as having bis-n ssued to inc at Camp Jackson, as antic or those who have kept up with ny articles will rvrneinlier. I wcai size ti l -2 ami i have si-hcimd more han once how to get ri<l of those ihoes that were too his; for me. The apply sergeant who exchanged them 'or me saiil I dcservisl another pair M-eause of "fair wear and tear" of he hip eights. They Were lorn sill right. I was very plsul he was busy hat tiny anil had more soldiers' shoes o examine. Still, the unwritten law >f the army Is that "anything yon can ret hy with is all <t. K." S|>eaking of conservation and rcclanation work hers, the average (s-rson ivould not think that the dtifi's of a titmher of soldiers here has included otton pickinir: hut such is the case. Last spring before hard I > anybody ind any idea that before another colon planting time came round, one of [he largest military camps in the inuth would ls> established tit Camp tevior, n goodly portion of the reservation here was planted in cotton by ts then owners. Kven so late as last 'all and during the winter a several torso farm which was in cotton was tot needed tfor military pur|*>ses ami he cotton thereon was allowed to nature. Quite a number of soldiers [prisoners mostly) were put to work ticking It during the fall and uinbr. o around $5,000. Although a little hi tig. thin lnt-id<-nt in illustrative of h<- fact that rconomy Is being prnrir?tl at Sevier and the study of -conomlcs Is being stressed as much ?s that of t>ombs and bullets and gas naskn and the numerous other weap>ns of destruction being us?h1 in this jreat struggle. In the mess hall, the "Y," the office, he picture show, everywhere aUjut amp these placards meet the soldier's ;aze: "Eat to live; don't live to eat." "Serve by saving." "Conservation means victory. Waste 'pells defeat." 'Idon't waste It." "Shut off the lights." "This food means victory. We're in to win?Don't waste It." "Serve doubly by saving." "Work like Helen 13. Happy." Jas. D. Crist. Fanners In the midlands of west Ireland, accorJing to a Central News dispatch from Mullinger. have decided to allow the cattle to eat the growing crops If conscription Is enforced. John McKenna, chairman of the Kerry county council, has been arrested under the defence of the reclaim act. He has been locked up in a Cork prison. ) / k