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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. TE RMS?$2^5 A YEAR IN ADVANCE i oeist's soss, Pabinheri J & Jfamilg Jlftrsjjapfr: -?ox the promotion of lh< political, jiotM. ^gritoUurai and (tommwrial jfoftresfJ of fh( ptiplf* .inolk copy, fivscm*. established 1855 ~ YORk7"8. C. FRIDAY. JULY 26. 1918. NOMiO "YANKEE KID" . * a " < Brave Young Stretcher Bearer Who Serves. ? _ HAS SEEN FOUR YEARS OF WAR. , t, Remarkable Story of a Youngster Who Has Fully Absorbed the Spirit ti of the Thing, and Who Loves the Unselfish Courage of His Comrades, t.' (Tin Iti-d ('ions Magazine.) '' Harvey K. Johnson is a real hoy, the Johnson 1 hoy who wrote this story. He wore short trousers when he ran away from his home in Louis- vv villc and heat his way on freight and pas- *'! senger trains to New Orleans. The lad was tl a big fellow for his age, was taken on as a u stoker in a British tramp and worked his way to Kngland. After various adventures, he msnseed to set to Trance where he became Klrrtrbcr brarcr. At liitKn ?tretch*r-b*aring had became liat to he enlUted aa a "Tom- ' my," being accepted aa "a native of Canada. '' twenty-one yeara old" by a conveniently blind I* recraiting aergeant. He went through the en- u gageraenta of Kricourt, Mamrti. iiazrntin and || Ucvil'a Wood. He waa at Yprea, Loon, Arraentierea, and Yimy Kidge. So. probably, he ia j reaaonably near it when he claima a record which ia "unaurpaaaed." It t ?f course, f wiu< only fourteen when I enlisted as a stretcher hearer in tin- llrilish I loyal army medical corps in October, 1'JlG. Maybe a Kid liki- nil- wouldn't jret as much out of ' ln-imr in tlic war as an older fellow would?hut maylie he'<| ?et more, just l' lieeause lie had more to ?;et! As near N as I could liuure it out, everylssly over 1 theie was KeltillK some thitms they l| never could have lound anywhere else. I know 1 did. I tfuess the biggest thing I Kot was - -well, i don't know just what to call s it. It Isn't exactly any one thing. It's a mixture'of he^ig sorry for somebody else and not being sorry for ' yourself. Over there in the trenches all the Tommies used to call me the Yankee s u"i'1 1 ''ve in 1-ouisville. Kentucky. M ami oi cnuiMt' I'm no "Viuikif" down ht-rf. Hut to Tommy Atkins I'Vi-ry * American is u Yankee. Anil I sunam an American all right. Well. I guess 1 was like most other Imivs. I ncvir hail worked very hanl in* heing sorry lor anyltoily or anything. Hut l' .'earned it all last enough when I wits carrying .-tin; wounded in '' Kliuifr. <!ee! lull those fellow*" Ayolllil Sl just maki* you h-el like rryini;! Not la-cause they groaned ami made a s" fuss, I nit just hi-canse they didn't. *1 They'd smile and crack jokes as long as tlu-y had any hreath left in them. I reiuemher one lug Scotty whose feet had lieen shot off in the lighting down on the Solium-. He was lying 1:1 on .-i stretcher when 1 saw him, waiting to he carried in. Anil while he was waiting he kept making us all '**' laugh at the things he'd say ahout " those missing feet of his. At first 1 to thought he whm off his head. And 111 when he said with his queer Scotch accent, that he'd misled his "twa" w feet hack in the wood, I asked him if u he wanted me to go and hunt for them. r? "Just leave 'em he!" lie said. "If they canna cikiiii h.v tlielrselves, we'll na gang after them." Those Scotties are great oli. light- ^ tlii crs. I tell you. There was a l?lg sergeant who hail his lei; shuttered. It was pretty hail?the hones sticking out ami everything?hut Insteiul of making a fuss nhout himself, he got Ma n iiiici' of chocolate out of his tunic *'v and insisted tin our having It! And when we asked him if we couldn't do something for him, lie said: ru "No. no, lads! 1 can wait." J" There's one story I've told before, a hut 1 guess it will hear rc|tcating. for ,r I think it was one of the finest things I ever saw. I joined the infantry aft- '' er I'd heen in France a few months Wi and was in the lighting at Mainetz. Some lighting, hclicvc me! One day I 11,1 was with a Scotchman and an Irishman when a shell hurst right on the 'K' parapet of the trench wheiv we were. a" I was half hurled when it caved in ' the side of the trench. Luckily, it was the lower half of me that was caught, so I wasn't really hurt. I Wf couldn't move, hut I could see what hap|s<ned. sc The Irishman's arm was blown off cl and the Scotchman's leg was gone at the knee. I thought hoth of them Wl would die before help could reach them? and I shut my eyes, because that's one thing I never could get used 1 ^ to: seeing those poor fellows go west. Hl Then I heard the Irishman's voice and m I looked to set- what he was doing. * He was fumbling in the special w' JXH'Kt't Wllt-n- ill! niiunii nviuann v**? r.v their tlrst aid trackages. Ho was ' hleedinp terribly and it must have Hk-t-n all ho could ?io to Rot the packet m out with Ida left hand. Itut he man- xv aped It somehow and then he pressed ''' the bandage to the Scotty's knee to ',;i ^ stop the flow of blood. B Hut it wouldn't stay in place without living held and I guess he must 111 have felt himself poinK and have w known that his hand would relax. For he dropped down and laid his head 1,1 on the bandage to keep it in place. "< Ami then?well, when they came and dug me out. he was dead. Hut they Ci saved the Scotty. l>' You Just don't know what men can ,n do. if you haven't been with soldiers. iuu UUII I MIWW ?inn juu tall through, yourself. until you put on n uniform and live with fighting men. w Tlwrc's something atout it I can't explain, Refore I got to Franco I K"r had a bad smash while I was tmining at Salisbury Plain. I was fourteen M weeks in the hospital with a broken lo arm and injured knee. They fixed me P' up without an anesthetic, because I Cl didn't want to take one: and I know w that if It had happened to me before ,r I joined the army, I'd have squealed 10 like a good one! Hut you can't play 1 the baby act if you're a soldier. So I a' gritted my teeth and kept my mouth w shut. 08 That little experience of mine in England helped me to know that it 01 isn't much fun to be knocked to pieces. They carried me on a stretch- 88 er that time and they were mighty * ' careful and tried to make me as com- H A fortable as they could. So. you can w Just believe, when I had a poor chap ,c on a stretcher, over in France. I did 1 the same for him. Rut then, every- W body did that. We'd go down on our a* knees many a time, when we had to 94 cross shell holes, so as to keep a w ounded nutn level. II was haul work, carrying stretchis. Once I had a snap, though. We ad taken a lot of prisoners and the i mhiilancc unit was shy of men. so I ad four hig I'russian Guards detail I to help carry the wounded. I walkit alongside and hossed them and f?-It s hig as a general. They were glial j do it. We were carrying stretchrs from the dressing station that rue, so they weren't under lire, trio thing that always seemed pret> line to me was the way our artil ry would hold up if we had to carry wounded man across in front of tern. The noise is something tiercel hen you an- in front of l>ig guns, I Kpt-eially it' you an- in tin- open. So i< > wouldn't tire a shell until ?(. ere well liy th<-m. Tlieru wan unc time when I did glrr wounded man a had .shaking up, iiut wasn't my fault. Another man and 1 were eai tying a stretcher through a ttle wood when a Herman shell shot ust and hurst just in front of us. The uin in front was knocked down and ie concussion spun me around gainst a tree. Of course, we had to rop the stretcher. When wo pulled ill-selves together and got up, the fol>w on it just said: "Well, conic on! We ain't dead id!** I'lenty of us were killed, though. If ou have an idea that stretcher cardug is a "cushy" job, you're making grand mistake. The hearers don't nrry :uiy weapons, not even a revoler. And they can't stick in the nenehes, either. When there has een an advance they go out and get lie wounded who have, fallen in the |hii; and as Fritz's guns have the inge of that section and are sending lu lls into it all the time, it is no fun i he walking around there. My i-luiin in the ambulance unit ami me to join the infantry?so I id.' And 1 saw a hot time at Manila?that's certain. Hut 1 had one |m II of 07 days up at Vermelles that us a cinch cont|iam! with the work re had in the It. A. M. C. It Isn't iv soft snap. Unco i carried u unruled man on m> liack for two lilts, through trenches most of the ay. He was hatlly hurt anil 1 hurled to net him liark? hut he was tloatl hen i got him there. They told me afterwards?some of is comrades?that he said he had i-cn "the Angel of Mons." That was sort of spirit, or ghost, that lots of Idfl-i.?s,saw?or said they saw. <Iee! hi hear ;? lot of tiueer stories over ere. They had' aane .about a dog at used to run around in No Matr's ind at night and get you by the ( roat. They said the Germans had ken the brain of a inan who hated | ie Knglish and put it in place of the , >g's hrain and turned him loose, lie- j nise they knew that no Tommy , ould shoot a doc. The fellows used ( tell aiiout seeing (todies with the v arks of the dOK's teeth in their ( routs. If a dog had come around , liile the story was being told, he ( mildn't have known what struck 111! for once Tommy would have j rgottcn to lie kind to animals. As it was, 1 never did see him when | wasn't good to them. The Knglish ( rtainly do love 'most anything that ( ies on four feet. Kxeept rats! They ( ive good reasons for hating them. , nt anything else was sure of a good ( lie with Tommy. And that reminds me of one thing I < w that certainly did make me, and er> other man that saw it. want to II every (fenuan betwi-en us ami rlin. It was when we went into ii . ined village which the Germans had st evacuated. Ami there we found ( kitten, pinned to a broken tree link by three bayonets, one through ( .eh of three paws; one was free, ie little thing was mewing?oh, it j is like a hab> crying! I couldn't Ih?'ve it. Hut there they were?tier- ( in luivonets! And men that called emsclvcs soldiers hail done it. Anyiily that could sec that little kitten ul not want to light the kind of utes that jait it there?well. I less they'd he about as bad. That's e way It seems to ine. First. I in ted to cry. and then?I wanted to II. I suppose they thought it would aiv us. Well, they missed their less. We went ahead and we drove em on. And I believe, in the end. 'II give them what they deserve. 1 don't want to end with a story ic that, so I'll tell two incidents at imrticularly impressed me. 1 us in an attack one time when a an said to me: "I say! Something's rong with my back! Wish you'd see hat it Is." I put my hand inside his tunic and felt something like marbles under e skin. It was live bullets from n achlne gun. You see. sometimes hen we make an advance we go by aces where a couple of Hermans ive hidden?in a shell hole, perhaps with a machine gun. When we are they turn It on us. So that a an may get hit in the back even hen he is going forward. Well, this Tommy had got a whole inch of bullets, but he had no nojn of quitting the game for that! He pt right on: and after a whiFe he >t another dpse from In front. PrctIm.l nnM this thrwv f?nt him In the testtnea I'll never forget the way ' ' looked down at himself. He lookI kind of funny and kind of mnd. ( t then, he Just laughed a little and j ent on?and he kept on till we were irough the job. I tell you, they're 1 oat?those Tommies. The other story Is about an Amerl- y in: n funny little Jew from New Or- < nns. He carried In his pocket a ctune of an American flag he had i it out of a pa(>er and he was atays talking al>out the "only coun- 1 y on earth" and so on. Maybe his J Iks had been hounded out of Europe. * don't know. Anyhow, he had an i vful grouch against Germany and as always making the American ' igle scream to beat the band. So one time, when we were going ' rer the top. he took out this flag of 1 s and stuck It on his bayonet and ; ild he was going to make some ' erman eat it?or something like that. ' e said Germany didn't know there as any such flag and he was going i let them see what it looked like. saw his body afterward?lying here he fell. The flag was all bloody ! id mussed up. But he had made. < imp German "eat it"?as he said he < as going to da ' THE BOUNDS OF A DAY r, th Sevier Is The Objective 01 Maoy lr;; Visitors. iu SUGGESTIVE OF GOOD-BYE TINE. J* IU Tranafer People Reap Rich Harveat ?A Crack Division is This One? ^ Pay Day Again?Quartermasters Must Conduct Themselves in Military Style. (As I'assed by the Censor.) on Correspondence The Yorkville Enquirer. (jj Camp Sevier. July 19.?There are t>|) hundreds an<l hundreds of visitors from all sections of the south and many from the east, in Greenville. ar Crowds of visitors at the camp are ,n. (tie largest that have been seen for tj, some time. Hotels are unable to take j,, care of the visitors and more than t|j( 100 |teople slept in the Southern stalion here Saturday night because f0 there was nowhere else for them to (jt, sleep. Prosperous looking business rn?-ii from towns anil cities, Ramhanded farmers, wives and mothers (ll) from North and South Carolina. Ten- lo lessee and Florida, Georgia and Ala- ,.u ha ma are here to see their hoys. ( Deleted ) The 300 or 100 rjj automohlle transfer men who ply f(| their trade between Greenville and p,. Sevier at 25 cents jier passenger, UI) have more business than they can sl look after. So great has been the dc- |^; mand for service that quite a number ja ol' new "Henries" have been put on the line. Paris pirates arc selling all ?? the shipped eggs they can get at ten cents a piece and bits of tough bull w( as big as your hand for sixty cents? extra charge for gravy. ,.0 Y. M. C. A. men, military cops and t.0 soldiers generally have had quite a |v lime of it directing visitors as to ?n where they want to go. A nice look- W( tag old gentleman approached me yes- (.(| tcrdny morning with: "Sonny, can you tell me where I th can lind John Hurroughs?" "Don't know John," I said. n)j "He's my son and he is in this ,jj camp." f |mi "What outlit?" 'He's in the Infantry." .,i It was hard to explain to him that ov there are thousands and thousands of |? soldiers here who are in the infantry and that unless one knows the cornimn.v and regiment of one sought, it is almost an impossibility to lind anybody. p. I turned the old gentlemnn over to a "Y" man. and lie finally located the .^nn after a trip to the office of the livision personnel ollice. Many of these camp vv;l$jitors are 111 lere by automobile, having made th(""p ^ rip hundreds and hundreds of miles I _ l a r% _ 1- .11 ? ^ I ilHl II some instances. nu in un \ iiueced ion and one may sec mothers and at hers walking around with their ?cn mn, or a wife with her soldier hus- se> >and. or n sweetheart with a soldier ?c< o.v. There have boon unite a number no sal >1' marriages at Sevier of late, in innie instances the brides coming a ths ong way to marry the soldiers of heir choice who will in all probability ne! ?e over there and in it ere ninny note moons. One such marriage oc urred yesterday. A private was mar- on' led to liis lady love who came from "e 1 >*[| Uoldie to marry him. The ceremony ccurred in the morning and the so1 ride returned to Mobile last evening. * Deleted ) CI A Crack Division. When this division leaves Camp Se- ^ ler for service in ICuro|M> some time n the near future probably there will j ro over a division that is believed to ^ >e without a peer in the entire Nacia ional army or military forces of the tic 'nited States today. It is in many requ ipects a niost remarkable division, it na ins been whipped into shape?sure , nough soldierly shape, with n speed hnt far outstrips anything else oc- ^ omplished along that line, From a . fl Si itand|>oint of military courtesy, mow ledge of military matters and dl 'round ability, it is A No. 1. A argo number of soldiers of the dlision have only been in service a ? Ca ouple of months. Yet it would be ajj ni|M>ssible for the layman to disC01 inguish them from those who have , do een working since i-ist September at . he time of the ini'inl draft. A pride W go ind contldence that is good to see ^ haracterlzes the men. ( De- .. eted ) They have the "click" . G DU [ Deleted Croat things . nay bo expected of thom when thev Gr cot in the big show. Thoy are all Ira I tod inon, too. the first all-draff '.iv.'vion to lie trained at Cnmi iSevier A Recent Pay Day. An Most of the outfits at Camp Sevier lave received their month's pay dur- 1 ng the past ten days and the coin an ins been a little freer than usual with nost of the boys. Of. course, it loosn't last long. A couple of days 'lu ind it's ail pone and the soldier lad is an roke until another pay day rolls iround. He should worry. Uncle wil >am sells him cigarettes and cigars ind soft drinks nnd all that kind of r?' hinp on credit. In announcing the r*>l ocent pay day the bugle seemed to my: Tr Mi. it's early In the morning, rhe mules l(epln to squeal. , i'ou hear the cooks a'bangln' pans ro pot the mornln' meal. pe< The buglers sort o' toodlln, j{n )utside the colonel's tent. . Vnd you kind o' feel downhearted, teen use your last two bits are spent. mi am iVlth a legpin'-strinp you are fussin' wo A'hnn tho nhlaf hpplns In nlflV. I'ou listen and quit your cussin'? '>p' IVhat's that the hurries say? in r>h. it's pay day. pay day. pay day, $j Vnd the drums herein to roll. . Vnd they sure do carry music ro the busted rookie's soul. 'ar wo Por it's pay day, pay day, pay day! ^ ?an't you hear the hurries call? rhe privates and the non-coms, * kn rhe officers and all t hi Have l?een waitln', waitin', waltln', it Till they're hroke or badly bent 'or the coins stacked up on blankets \nd tables in a tent. on' tnl rhirty dollars In the mornin'; po, By evenin' In the hole; Vnd "Private Smith is absent sir," Jai IVhen the "top" calls the roll. fel rhe officers are lookln' up ed rhe "Articles of War;" w. rhere's sixteen in the guard house ( Vnd the M. P.'s expect some more. Must Know a Little Military. Everybody In this man's army at thi Sevier must know a little mllltAr? flv ?ven the quartermaster corps. The mi luartermaster men are those fellows wi who arc engaged in banking, clerical, pn orckeoping. 'arming, shoe repairing id other work like unto that which ey did in civil life. As a rule, quarrmastor men are A So. 1 in their spective lines, hut they know absotely nothing about things military id if the country were dependent on em to prevent its being Hunnized, itz might have a walk-over. Scores id scores of men in the quartermasr corps enlisted in the army who il not know the bore from the barI of an Enfield or the difference hereon reveille and retreat. This division emphatically Insists i thorough military training and scipline. The depot quartermaster rps of Sevier Is attached to whatevdivision might be in training here. Deleted ) Following the rival of the division here quarter irsier men who mei oiucvrs uiiruncs failed to put out the proper sato, many of them becnu.se they iln't know how to do it. Men of e Q. M. were reported every day r failure to salute or other military linquency. The thing had to he stopped some?w. An order went out to the lartennasters about tlve weeks ago the effect that they must take a iiisc of training in military courte. I'hew! it caused a cold chill to n up a lot of spines. The order ether said that from henceforth eakl'ast would be served at 6 o'clock id that from 7 to 7.45 each morning little "squads enslin'" must he done, (-infantrymen now in the <j. M. ughed. They had done it before, it to see some (Jreeks and Italians id Swisles and i'olacks and Gentiles id Jews to whom it was all new. is to laugh. Kach morning for thirty days the urso was held. Olllcers and nonins were Instructors. Being a fairintelligent hunch, the Q. M. caught i easily nnd within a week they ere saluting like old issues. At the id of thirty days they could put out lilitary stuff" as good as any man in e line. Last week they were given diplous?or, rather the morning drill was scontinued?having served its pqrise. ? Now a quartermaster soldier salutes i ollicer as far as he can see him, en if it's a mile. Some of 'ein sate him twice to he sure. They have the "click!" Jas. D. Grist. BETHEA AND THE WAR isition of the Lieutenant Governor Has Somewhat Changed. Not as an admirer or adherer of thcr, but simply us an impartial poical observer, the Piedmont stated, a^ the gubernatorial race had rcsolv-j itseli'ilnto a contest between Cooper > d Richards, 'fihis statement offendA J. Bethea. If Bethea Okies not ow that the statement is true, heTigl i-eral sizes too small for even the of- V a of lieutenant govern or. which he 1 w holds. While offended Bethea ' d some things about the Piedmont it had been said by a few others r 10 have a personal, political or busi- 8 <s reason for wishing the Piedmont t urcd. Over sixty thousand people x id this paper dally, and they know 1 y a liur could charge or a tool be- ' vo aught against this paper's pa- 1 otism. In this connection, here is f ne interesting reading: 1 'What caused the war? 'COM ME RALISM' Is the one word that gives j answer. Millions of men are tight- i ? and dying for the selfish and sor- 1 I thing we call commercial and po- t cal power?nothing more, nothing i a Who shall dominate in Europe? | 10 shall hold political and commer- 1 .1 sway? Shall it be England or i rmany? Which? These are the i estions at issue and to which the fl- i I answer must be made." < Who said that? Andrew Jackson 1 (hea said it in a speech to the South rolina general assembly, after he 1 d returned from the Ford peace i p to Europe. He cannot deny the I rds, for they are copied, including . ; capitalization of "Commercialism" ' >m the 1916 Journal of the South i rolina senate. Of course, If that be t that Bethea can see in the world nttict, nobody can blame him for not ] nning the khaki. E. C. L. Adams, I 10 ran against him for lieutenant 1 vernor, and is both older than Be- i ?a and married, wears khaki. But t thea not only docs not wear khaki, 1 t he asks for an office in which he s II be safe from having to wear it.? i eenvillo Piedmont. . I CANDIDATE RICE ' derson County Paper Gives Some ? Personal Information. ITery few people in the state know ything about James Francis Rice, 1 Anderson county candidate for ' United States senate. The En- ' irer knows nothing about him. We ] not Interested In James Francis j ?c one way or the other, and nobody 11 accuse us of considering him a ' -midable candidate for the senate, the common belief is that his ' fulccs of election are so small that ?y are absolutely negligible. The ' towing, however, from the Farmers' J ihune, ono of the Anderson county pers. ts Interesting: Vow, hardly one per cent of the >ple of Anderson county would , ow James Francis if they met him the big road, but for the enlighten nt of those who don't know him d what kind of "patriot" he is, 1 n't he please explain why, after 1 n a 1 nig uiKiu iu gnu 10 iiie nt'u ^iirai its recent big drive, he only gave and that he insisted on being aired to write across the card in ge block letters?four times?the rd "Paid?" James Francis Rice is id to be a man of means, and it is own to everybody w.ho knows anyng about the "man" that he made by lending money to poor white jple and niggers, taking two for p, and making himself secure by rg a mortgage on everything the or devils had. Disloyalty? Hell! mes Francis was so disJoyal to his lowman that the city council rcfusto give him a license as a money irk. "The press will please copy." The referendum proposal to permit e Increase of street car fares from e to six cents was rejected at Blrngham, Ala., last Monday. The vote is more than six to one against the oposai. ZEPPELINS OUT OF IT Dirigible Gasbag* No Match for Airplane*. Count Zeppelin is doubtless turning in his grave. His big gas bags have been making little news this year and promise to make less as time goes on. indeed, the latest reports from the European war front indicate that their tield of operations is practically confined to the eastern shores of the North >ja and that they are serving pretty much the same function as the more saucy little "Blimps" with which the English patrol the channel. Here are some of the reasons: The aeroplane has outstripped the u? a ii^iuer uuu ia c?cu uwt. approaching it as a weight-carrier. The Zeppelin is too large and too slow ?thereforo too vulnerable. The material from which it is chiefly constructed, rubber, is not now to be had in Germany and the rather remarkable substitute which has been employed to some extent is both unsatisfactory and expensive. And, Anally, there is reason to believe the Allies have so disrupted the German "sending system"?that Is, the means of telegraphic communication by which the Zeppelin fleets were directed from the fatherland and from Kelgian occupied territory?that raids on a large scale will hardly he attempted hereafter except under the most favoring circumstances. The last great Zeppelin raid on England, the famous raid in which the Germans lost nearly a third of their ilock of giant sausages over French territory, illustrates almost all of the weak points of Zeppelin's Invention and goes a long way toward explaining why they are now "blimping it" over the nearer stretches of the German ocean. Up Near the Stare. On this occasion nearly a score of the latest type airships left Germany with their tons of bombs to drop on England. In order to be safe from antiaircraft guns and to present as distant a target us possible to pursuit airplanes, they were obliged to fly at a great height. Indeed the delicately adjusted registering instruments on ZepiKillns have sometimes registered ns much as 22,000 feet above Bea level? over Ave miles. As usual, they were directed by wireless, and got their sailing orders flash by flash through their Marconi antennae. When they reached the coast of England, however, forcing their way along in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, they ran into a territlc storm of hail, sleet and arctic temperaturo. Their orders from German ground stations were confused and garbled. It h.is even been said that French wireless operators, using the German code, were simultaneously sending variants on these orders, v/hlch further confused the Zeppelin commanders. At all plants half a dozen of them got the t*?v wurt JUl-JCftUf n .to. Qftfcj nany by way of France. This they attempted to do. Unhap>ily, however, they had been through mch Intense strata of cold that their vater ballast, alcoholized though It vas, froze solidly. They were unable o lighten themselves and were very nuch reduced In speed. Consequently hey sagged continually toward the cround and passed above the French ines in broad daylight Bagged By a Grouse Hunter. Soon French aviators were circling iround them like swarms of wasim. Several were stung to death?utterly lestroyed. One got across to the Medterranean, but interned itself there icrmanently. Another landed gently n a French field, and when the officer n charge leaped out and attempted to lestroy his ship with a volley from his lutomatic pistol he found himself cov>red by the fowling piece of an aged French vetefan out grouse hunting. That Zeppelin, with Its four 240lorsepower engines, and the latest and hoicest German products forpropeliflg dirigibles, Is in the hands of the Vllies for observation and experiment. Therefore, it is now possible to discuss he "insides" of the Zeppelin with mme accuracy. Tho monster is undoubtedly clumsy. In effect, it is a huge compartmented >ag 640 feet long and 110 feet high. If ihe Washington monument and the Singer building were laid on either tide of It, it would outreach them both. Its ribs of aluminum, alloyed with imall percentages of copper and iron, ire both strong and light so that when 1,000,000 cubic feet of hydrogen is liumped into the inner balloons the tvhole has a lifting capacity of 55 tons. These inner balloons are Interesting. Theywtere made of a fabric like cotton ind were Impregnated or covered with ubber?until the German nation could tecure no more rubber. Now they are covered with a certain part of the inclines of well-fed cattle. And It takes ">4,000 cattle to furnish the covering lor the inner balloons of a single Zeppelin. Until the German meat ration is in . ietutu unu uum ueruwu c?vv?v ??v fed a little more profusely from the ?raln of the Ukraine, the kaiser is not Kolng to build many more fleets of Zeppelins. EMERGENCY NURSE SERVICE Women Asked to Go Into Training for Reserve Line. An appeal for 25,000 women to en-oll in the United States student nirse reserve to hold themselves in eediness for service has Just been ssued by the women's commltte of he Council of National Defense. ~>nly those nurses who have taken he full training course are eligible 'or service with our forces abroad, ind as these nurses are being drawn 'rom our hospitals at .home, their daces must be filled by students en-olilng for the full training course of rom two to three years. Thus, the ippeal points out, every young womtn who enrolls in the United States itudent nurse reserve is releasing a | lurse for service at the front and welling the home army which must >e relied upon as the nation's second lne of hospital defense. The call is 'or women between the ages of 19 md 35 years of age. Qualifications.?Intelligent, responsible women of good education and sound health are wanted?the pick >f the country. A college education Is a valuable asset, and many hospitals will give credit for it. Credit will also be given for a special scientific equipment or for preliminary training in nursing, such as that given in special courses now being given by vnrioqs colleges and schools. Some of the training schools do not even require a full high school education. Knrollment.?Women will be given an opportunity to enroll in the U. S. SUUJCCl 19 WIIUIIJ 0UUU1 \iuiabv IV wtiv (ftatc, and that the state hit* a right to ' exact from the subject obedience to any law whatever, moral or immoral. That, by implication, means that lying, thievery and murder are not crimes, 1 but virtues when committed at the behest of the State?as witness Belgium | and the Lusitania. Germany subscribes to the doctrine of the survival of the fittest; arrogates to herself the claim of being the fittest, and thus justifies her aim toward the domination of the world. How does she seek to securo that world domination? By any means whatsoever-^-but principally by violence. There is no foul crime committed by the Germans in Belgium or elsewhere for which there is not found justification in some German book. How shall a democracy combat this menace? Only by voluntarily putting itself into harness; only by temporarily subordinating the Individual to the state. A people must be intelligent as well as feorleso to take this course. Failure to take it has reduced Russia to chaos. Ability to take it has put America in the front rank of nations. Every little bit of personal liberty we sacrifice in these trying days is a guarantee of our worthiness for the worm rreeaom m&i win tumo ~ ? after the war. Now as aiways, America means liberty.?G. A. In Philadelphia Evening Ledger. Americans as Soldiers?Semi-official dispatches to the .French embassy in Washington pay tribute to the valor of the American soldiers in the great counter offensive on the French front. "AU the newspapers emphasize the valor and dash of the American troops, who have played such a glorious role in these last combats." the dispatches say. For instance, the Gaulois of July 20, says: "At the front the dash of the American soldiers, their desire to be instructed in the art of warfare, their disdain of death com pel I the admiration of their new comrades. With one bound they have equalled the heroism of the troops that have been hardened by long terms of combat." student nurse reserve in any one of the following ways: I'lrst.?As engaging to hold themselves in readiness until April 1, 1919. to accept assignments to nurses' training schools. These women will be sent to the schools as fast as vacancies occur. Those of superior qualifications will he given preference .and it is possible that not every one who enrolls will be accepted. Second.?As desiring to become candidates for the army nursing schools recently established by authority of the war department, with branch schools in selected military hospitals. Third.?As engaging to hold themselves in readiness until April 1, 1919. to accept assignments to either a civilian training school or tin- army nursing school. Those who so enroll will be called when the first need arises. Tin- government is ho?jefu' that a majority of those who enroll will thus put down their names for either service. There are 1,579 nurses' training schools in this country, and their need is as great and imperative as that of the army school of nursing, so that those who enroll for these schools will be assigned as soon its vacancies occur. The enrollment card will indicate two classes of registrants?preferred iutd deferred. The preferred class will be those who are ready to accept assignments to whatever hospital the government directs them, although they may state what training school they prefer to be sent to. Those who register in the preferred class will be assigned first and all possible consideration will he given to their preference as stated. The deferred doss will be composed - ? ' ??? n?.It nliyliM nf u?r. Ul iliuoi* W IIU i IIIIIV VIIVM Uf,x vice to certain hospitals. This class is intended largely for tiiose who for family reasons cannot accept training at a distance from their homes. They will l>e assigned only after the preferred class is exhausted. The term of training varies from two to three years, according to the requirements of the particular schflbl to which the student nurse may lasent. and every woman who completes her training in any accredited school is eligible for service as an army nurse at the front and stands a chance of being assigned to duty abroad. Student nurses get their hoard, lodging und tuition free at practically every training school, and in most cases receive a small rvmuneratlon to cover jne cost of I woks and uniforms. After graduation the> 1 have an earning capacity of from 1 $100 to $300 a month. ' The appeal emphasizes the fact that ' there is no danger of the earning ca- 1 pacify of nurses being lowered after 1 the war ends because of the great ' number who will then he qualified for 1 the profession, for the country will ' need all the nurses that can be 1 trained for reconstruction work. 1 ^ \ THE MEANING OF AMERICA I Some of the Things for Which the | United States is Fighting. I America means liberty, even as tier- i many means slavery. i The war in which wo aro engaged ( is a war between two schools of i thought, wholly irreconcilable. i Here in America we are taught that i all men are created free and equal; i that every man has a right to life, lib- 1 crty and the pursuit of happiness; that it is the providence of the State to in- ' sure that right, and that the citizen's allegiance to the state is contingent on its performance of that duty. i But in Germany the subjects are 1 taught that the State is supreme; that the Stato can do no wrong; that the " L1 - - * ...U^ll.. ntiKn?>llnn /? fn thn I DISPUTED SCHOOL ELECTION I What Judge Moore Thinks Of Quar-' rel in District No.29. ELECTION I8KE0ULAR BUT LAWFUL ' , c An Order Which Touches Upon Va- (| rious Points of Difference, and Throws Some Light Upon the Prop- (| er Manner of Conducting Elections. ( The effect oi Judge Ernest Moon's ? recent order in the case ot it. C. Onv- a eny and others against Ed McDanlel |j and others, lias already l>een an- t| nouneed. Attorneys for the plain- r, tiffs in the case have requested the il publication, of the order in full tor the ? lienetit ot the parties directly at in- tl terest, and in the lielief that such ti puldication will lie of educational tl value generally, the request is lieing \ complied with. The order follows: |> a The above matter came before me tl originally 011 an order to show cause why ti temporary restraining order n heretofore gninted by me against the tl defendants should not be made per- n manent, and especially against the v defendant, Hroadus M. Iaivo, as audi- o v'"* ,,,?untv restraining him tl from entering upon his honks as a It tax duplicate the four mills ndili- <1 tloiuU levy voted upon. The temporary restraining order was granted n ii|H>n the verilied complaint and err- tl tain atlidavlts attached thereto. r< School district No. 2'J, of York a county. South Carolina, held an elec- it (ion on the 20th day of June, tuts, d lor the pui'iiosc of ascertaining wheth- n i r or not sui additional levy of four d mills should he placed on all the prop- a city in said school district for school pur|Kiscs. A levy of four mills already existed. At said election the trustees of the said school district, who are named as defendants herein, net- ^ od as managers of the said election. The statute required them to so net. The managers made return to the ail- 11 ditor of York county that a count of w the ballots showed that twenty-six " votes were cast in favor of the levy ' and sixteen against. In counting the ' ballots, two ballots, one bearing the ' word "Yes," and one the word "No," v were folded tightly together, and, ns 1 subsequently developed, was so folded and voted by one person. The do- :l fendants in their return state that ( i.Ley did not discover that then- tvere ;| two ballots thus folded until the fol- '' lowing day, and that in o|icning these two ballots they saw only the ballot bearing .the word "Yes;" but on the '' following day they discovered folded " within this "Yes" ballot a "No" bal- '' lot. They reported the matter to the ? superintendent of education. and '' thereafter both ballots were thrown 11 out, which would leave the vote 25 to lfi. In favor of the additional levy. " Many irregularities ore charged In 1 the complaint: That twaPofTtu^Tmn!1 " igers would leave the box, with only me manager in charge at frequent in- 'n ervals: that the imlls were closed be ore 4 o'clock; that tno managers or- ? "ered to pay tin- taxes of certain vot rs If they would vote In favor of the M> evy; that certain voters were allow- ''' d to vote without presentation of tax eceipts and registration certificates, n?l that the box In which the ballots Vl ivere deposited was not locked. 1,1 When the matter came up to be !M heard by me as to whether or not the vst raining order should lie made jierinanent, all |uirties agreed that the " Una I determination of the issue shoidd now lie held, and that the court 1,1 should pass ujmiii the merits of the 1! ontroversy, both as to the law and " ts to the facts. The defendants fall- '' is! their return, and in my opinion successfully rebutted all of the aliogations of the complaint except the '' one alleging that the box was not " locked: but they do show, and show K conclusively, that the lid of the box " was tacked down and remained so " fastened until the conclusion of the w election, at which time it was "prized *' or pulled open." ?' I take this occasion to state em- w phatically that no fraud was shown ,s< on the pnr of the managers of the " election. In fact, counsel for plaintiffs stated in open court that he did " not allege fraud, hut only alleged ir- w regularities. He did contend, howov- ",l er. from affidavits presented and in- " ferentially, that the vote was a tie. I do not think it Is so established by " the evidence. The plaintiffs present ^ an affidavit signed by nineh-en voters. vv saying that they voted "No," nt the ' election. The defendants present an k atlidavit signed by twenty-three vot- '' i.en unvinir fhov voted "Yes" at this " election. Th<- defendants also present '' affidavits showing that at least one other voter voted "Ves." although he " signed the allldavit saying he voted " "No." 1 do not think that this court (' would lie governed liy a canvass of ' the voters taken nfter the lection, hut. even If It was so governed. the *' allidavils are clear that at least 23 ' voters voted In favor of said .'idditional levy. This would (rive the alllr- ' motive side a clear majority of the " votes cast. " The allldavit of plaintiffs alleges 11 that the managers were unduly active J In soliciting voters to vote for the tax. -SI The managers admit that they were v anxious for the levy to rarry, for the " reason that the school district was in del>t and could not operate on four '' mills, and state that they did solicit the voters by legitimate argument to '' vote for the additional four mills. K I do not think it altogether proper fv that the managers of the election ' should engage In soliciting votes, but on the contrary, It was improper to do this; but In this case It has not 1 l>een shown that any undue Influence il or coercion was used that would In ' any way change the result of t!?e elec- w lion. h This leaves with me but One ques- ? tion of fact and law to pass upon, which is: In that section of the act requiring that the bo* shall be locked d mandatory; and, if so, would a viola- v tion of this void the election? 8 I am of the opinion that It is not ~ mandatory. Our supreme court in Wright vs. Board of Canvassers, 76 H. C? 674, has adopted the rule laid 2 down by the text writers, and prac- a tically all of tho courts Qf the various 1 states. The rule as thus stated in 15 a Cyc. p. 262, under the title, "Conduct t of Electipn," is: * "The rule that a statute Is to be c ogarded as directory merely 11 ths irections given to aecoinpllsh a p?rleular end may !? violated, and yet he given end l>e In fact accomplished nd tUv merits of the ease unaffecteil. pplles whi'i\'xthe statute gives dlrec10ns for the manner of holding elccions. and sueh statutes are not reaided as mandatory unless a non[>tn pi lance with their terms Is exressly declared to lie fatal, or will luinge or render doulitful the result, iut where the terms ot the statute re absolute, ex pile It and peremptor>, 0 discretion is given; and when penIt U-s are lm|N>sed against the violaon of Its r?s|>ective terms they have he stuno effect jis negative words and nder Its ohscrvsmco im|N*rative. It le statute provides that certain acts r things shall Ik- done within a parciilar time or in a imrticular manor. and does not also declare that telr |H-rformanco is essential to the alidlt.v of the election, then they will e regardetl as mandatory If they do. nd directory If they do not, affect le actual merits ot the election." As stated, the lid of the liox was ailed down and kept so fastened utt1 llu- emieliision of the election. At lost tliis could only ho a technical iolatlon of the statute, as the spirit f the act was complied with, when lie secrecy of the I ml lot hox was lalntaincd whether hy tarklnc the lid own or locking the l?>x It ap|N'.'irinK to me that there was 0 fraud shown, and that at heat lere could have heen only some ir Kiilarities which could not, and do ot, affect the result <W the election, is ordeicd that the reatminiiiK orer heretofore granted in the ahove latter he, and the same Is hereby Isinissed, and the complaint in this etion dismissed with costs. 1 'residing Judge. SUPPLIES FOR THE ARMY 'oung West Pointer is Accomplishing Wonders. Those who profess to helieve that lie so-called "swivel chair" warriors 1 ho occupy desks at Washington are II ruhher stamps should study the areer ot llui.-h S. Johnson, who has isen to the rank of brigadier genral at the age of 37. He is the oiinaest brigadier since Civil war iines. Johnson was horn in Kansas in ISM lid appointed to West I'olnt from iklahoma. lie entered the military eademy in 1'JIIO. The story is that e narrowly missed securing the covted admittance to the academy hcause lie was only an alternate and is principal was ready to enter when I was discovered that the other hoy ad falsifed Ins up* and was really ver the limit. Presentation of this vidence to the young man caused im to withdraw. In 19413 we llnd Johnson a second leutenant of the >ld 1st cavalry, parol 11 iik the hoi del n the southwest. - ? mm rm memmaj?..noeii wmm I'titonant, for promotion In the- army i those days wen- alow. It la said that <Jen. (Imwilif, alao old cavalryman, and now Judge Ivocatc K*'f*'Ril of the army aa well i provoat marshal general, reeognlzI the inln rent agility of the young ' -utcnant. At any rate, he Induced int to take the law course at the uni raity ol California In l'Jlfi pre|iurniry to assuming the duties of judge Iroeate under (jcncral ('rowder. jhnaon secured his A. It. degree at i" university and completed the iree-year course in eighteen months. In I'JK we hnd him on (Jen. I'era Ilia's headipiarteis staff in Mexico. In 117 he wits hack with tlen. ("rowder i the judge advocate's ollice. When en. ("rowder was assigned the great isk of raising an army by the draft, took with him to his new itoaition is brilliant young administrative offer. I Jen. ("rowder in his reistrl, Ives Johnson credit for working out ic registration plana and draft reglations. Some of the memoranda hich Johnson prepored on knotty uestiona came to tne attention of the eneral staff, and the >oung eafdain ho meantime had become Col. Jolin>n, was being closely watched by mac "higher up." When the pinch came in March and le war department was reorganized -ith a division ot purchase, tratllc and upplioa, Johnson was seized upon us ic director. It I* around this young brigadier iat a wonderful machine revolve*, he shipment of troops overseas 'ould lie lmiMissihle without the suplies of guns and other equipment ceplng pace. It is Jolinson's work j co-ordinate the vast war tndiBttries f the country so as to tret the suplies, get them on time and get thetn j the docks rea?ly to Is- loaded onto he shifts. Any one who thinks this not a man's size joli ought to see leneral Johnson go through one day's erformnnce. If a great order for steel comes from lenemi i'crshing to l>e manufactured ito ordnance in France. Johnson has j see that there is not the slightest itch in getting it turned out at the tills and getting it "over there." It is locomotives, steel rails, horses, ntfonns, in fact everything, it is ohnson's particular rcs|ionsllitllty to N? that it gets there, and ull this Inolves scores of other problems. He lust see that the cars are at the facjries to get the material to the senooixl and that the ships are in port j start the material overseas. It was rinciimlly Johnson's genius for oranlzation which made it possible to ijuip and maintain three army corps i France. Meantime, rumor has it that more ban one cablo has come from (Jen. 'ershing asking that the former cavJr>man he sent to him. His adminitratlve ability is known far and fide in army circle* and more will be eard from him before the war i* ver. In his spare moments Johnson writes ooks of western life for boy* and Inulges his talents as an amateur playwright. But he won't have any more port- momenta until the war is over. -New York World. With a temperature of 94 degrees at o'clock Monday afternoon and of 87 .t 9 o'clock Monday night, New York iad two deaths caused by heat and a core or more of prostrations. It was he hottest July 22 on record at ths weather bureau. The suffering was inreased by the high humidity. it"-'' " : . , . ....