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fmmorous epartmmt ' Praying Under Difficulties.?An old man in Oeorgia named Jack lialdwin. having lost his hat in an old dry well on<- day. hitched a rope to a stump and let himself down. A wicked wag named Neal. detaching a Im-U from Hahlwin's old hlind horw, approached the well, In II in hand. and began to tin-a-ling. Jack thought the horse was coming and said: "Hang the old hlind horse! He's coining this way sure. He ain't got no more sense than to fall in on me. Whoa. Hall!" The sound came closer. "Croat Jerusalem! The old hlind fool will he right on top of im- in a minute! Whoa. Hall! Whoahaw, Hall!" .Seal kicked a little dirt on Jack's head and Jack began to pray. "fih. l.ord, have mercy on?Whoa, Hall?a |s?or sinner?I'm gone now! Whoa, Hall! Our Father who art in ? Whoa Hall?hallowed In- thy?Oee, Hall, gee! What'll 1 do? Now I lay me down to si?tJee, Hall!" Just then In fell more dirt. "Oh. laird, it you ever intend to do anything for im?Hark, Hall! Oh, fjord. >ou know I was baptized in Smith's mill down?Whoa, Hall! Ho. up! Murder! Whoa!" Xeal could hold in no longer and shouted a laugh which might have l?een heard two miles, which was about as far as Jack chased him when he got out.? Augusta Herald. A Perfect Evening Spoiled.?"Isn't II glorious news?" Hne tacwiiwa ?wn the waiter had tukcn their order. "Do you think ho?" he replied. "It's perfectly lovely, {everything is in such leant (fill harmony?the fountain, the trees, the swaying lanterns, the music?everything is ideal. 1'ts like Fairyland." "I'm glad you like it." "I'm simply enehunted. Doesn't it make you feel as if you had stepped out of the evcry-day world into something strange anil new?" "Not a hit." "What's tin' matter? You don't seem to lie enjoying yourself." "My hoss is sitting at the third tal>lc over there to your left, and I can tell hy his look that he's wondering how I can afford to Mow myself at a place like this."?Dayton News. Known by Number.?Itobliy Smith, uged nine, was the shining light of the family, and his father was very proud of him. "I shall call round anil see your teacher," said his fond parent, "and thank him for the kind interest he is taking in yon." "If you do, father. I want to tell >6u that all the boys in our class are not known by name, tint by number only. My number is 25." In due course the father called at the school and knocked at the door, which was after a few minutes opened by the head master. 'flood morning, sir," said Mr. Smith. "1 ain the father of 25." "inucvu," repueu uir nt'iiuuuiiiinii'a with surpri.se. "(,'ome inside, ray friend. I am the father of 12 myself." Suspicious?A Willi street man tells this story of a well known financier, noted alike for his perspicacity and his closetlstedncss: Two promoters once called on him to try to arouse his interest in a certain scheme of theirs. They talked to him nhout an hour. Then they took their leave, having been told that he would let them know his decision in a few days. "I believe we've got him," said the first promoter hopefully on the way uptown. "I don't know," said the other. "He seems very suspicious." "Suspicious," echoed the first. "What makes you think he is suspicious?" "Didn't you notice." was the reply, "how he counted his fingers after I ( hud shaken hands with him!" Having a Good Time?What eonstitutes recreation depends, of course, on the point of view. Here is that of a certain small citizen in a school for dependent children. He wrote to his ' father thus: "We are having a good time here now. Mr. Jones broke his leg and can't work. We went on a picnic and it rained and we all got wet. Many children here nre sick with mumps. Mr. Smith fell off of the wagon and broke his ribs, but he can work a littie. The man that Is digging the deep well whipped us boys with a buggy whip because we threw sand in his machine, and made black and blue marks on it. Harry cut his finger n...iiv Wo nr? nil verv hannv."?I Everybody's Magazine. <* ' Mm. I'enn?They say the str?-ets In lloston are frightfully crooked. Mr. Ilu>??They are. Why. do you know, when 1 first went there 1 could hardly find my way around. "That mind Ik- emharittssing." "It In. The first week I was there 1 wanted to get rid of nn old cat w< had. and^ny wife got me to take it to the river a mile away." "And you lost the cat all right?" "Iswt nothing? I never would have found my way home if 1 hadn't fol- 1 lowed the cat." / ft ?Farmer Hawbuck, who never i had been any too considerate about bringing the livestock in before dark, kept arriving at the corral later and later each evening. Finally his wife's patience began to break. "Hiram." she exclaimed, "it takes you twice as long to drive In the pigs us it used to." "I know it." replied Farmer Hawbuck. "You wouldn't expect mo to speak harsh to a lot of creatures worth $50 apiece, would you?" i Nothing Doing.?An old negro went to the office of the commissioner of registration In a Mississippi town and applied for registration papers. "What is your name?" asked the official. "George Washington." was the rePly. "Well. George, are you the man who cut down the cherry tree?" "No sah, I ain't de man. I ain't done no work for nigh onto a year." Fallow Foolinf}.?'The new Swedish cook, who had come Into the household during the holidays, asked of her mistress: "Where bane your son? I not seeing hem round no more." "My son?" replied, the mistress prldefully. "Oh. he has gone back to Tale. I miss him dreadfully though." "Tea I know yoost how you feel. My brother, he bane in Jail saix times i sence Thanksgiving."?Ufa - - ? ? MEASURE OF THE HUN Americans Have it Down About Might. FORMIDABLE BUT* NOT INVINCIBLE The Resource, the Courage, and Above All, the Absolute Justice of the American Cause Are Bound to Win. Next to the foil) 01 under-rating your enemy's strength is the folly of over-rating it. The generals have always taken the precaution to prepare against every possible surprise, inelinling not merely a surprise attack, but new equipment and weapons and unexpe cted force. A considerable source ot jiower to (rermany in the present war has lieen the idea which she has carefully cultivated among other nations that she is invincible. The idea summed up in the word "superman" passed up and down the world for a good while before the war. And so |?eople began to accept it as true without looking into the facts. Now, 1 do not intend lor a moment to belittle the achh vcinrnts oi modern tiermany, but I wish to point out that these achievements are no more the results 01 supermen than is a coral island the result ol some amassing sujsrinsoct. Bootlickers. It is. in<l(<tl, owing to tin- f:u<< that Hermans are, in many respects, backward, that th<-,\ have been able to accomplish much that the unthinking mistake for supermannish. Tlo ir Utter docility. their obsequiousness, their worship of tlie meanest noble who ranks a hove them prove this. Among other peoples?the Knglish and Scotch, the French, and Belgians. and Dutch, the Scandinavians. Italians and Americans?such servility was long ago outgrown, hut it has prevailed among the ilertnans since the earliest times. II was the hasis and core of feudalism, and on it tin kaiser and the junkers and the military parties have huilt their hopes. Kvidently. If you have a whole people who Is'lieve anything you say and think just what you tell them to think, it is com para lively easy to make that |ieoplc ohoy your orders. From the earliest record which we have, the (iermans were lighters. <iradually, as they overcame the decadent I toman empire they took on some of the I toman civilization ami they even established a new empire, a mongrel kind of state, in which Christian ideals and old Itoman and the barbarian Herman were mingled; but the Cermanic tribes fought anion); each other ami no permanent empire coulil be establish' <1. Mat the feudal iili'.'L, which was the utmost the German mind could evolve, pom-trated them all and was transmitted from father to son just as a hereditary disease continues through many generations. In tin- northeast there lived a mixture of Asiatics?who were |irohahl.\ related in some way to the Tartars and Huns?of Slavs and of fragments of other Germanic tribes. Those were the Prussians, the least civilized, the most sturdy and warliki and feudal of modern Germans. Partly by war and partly by mar- . rUigeT T>wafdft bocnnjfethe property of the Hohenzottfrns?a family of rohher barons who made their way from south Germany up into the north. In the eighteenth century this family produced Frederick the Great, remarkable as a ruler, and most remarkable as a military commander. He was utterly without scruple: he invaded and robbed his neighbors' lands; he broke his oath: he shrank from no harshness at home or perlldy abroad. Hut he discerned that the Prussians with their obsequious nature, and their love of feudal routine, would make excellent soldiers, and so he converted Prussia into the most rigid military state of modern times. Routs Prussians. When Frederick the Great died in I7S6 he left the Prussian army as the best in Kuropc; but within twenty years, in the double battle of Jena ind Auerstandt, Napoleon utterly defeated it, sent the Prussian king and his court flying as fast as they could from llerlin, set panic in the heart of [ very Prussian and compelled that kingdom to make a humiliating peace. Jena gives the best indication uf the Prussian militarist character; In victory it is insolent, boasting, merciless ami cruel: in defeat it is panic-stricken, it cringes, it whimpers. 1 believe that the same traits persist in it today. It took more than six years after Jena for the Prussians to recover their morale, ami it was only when Xu|>o!con had lost his armies and his prestige in the- snows of Russia , in 1X12 that the Prussians dared to lift up their heads again. The next year they, in coalition with Russians, Austrians, Swedes and other Germans. defeated him at the name 01 i/eipsip. The coalition had 300.000 men, Napoleon had ISO,000 anil added to this disproportion against him was the depressing effect produccil by the desertion of the Saxon army, which went over to the allies. The allied commander-ln-chfel' was the Austrian Prince Schwarzenberp. but the Prussians. with their characteristic modesty. claimed the lion's share of the laurels and. as they now write history. you would suppose that the victory of Leipsig was wholly their work. At the battle of Waterloo it was undoubtedly the coming up of the Prussian army under Hlucher which completed the defent of Nnpolcon. Berlin's System. Thenceforward, for nearly half n century. Prussia went on in peace to develop her military system. She organized her system of education so that this should l>e a part of the military. and in this way every Prussian on reaching manhood had been taught absolute loyalty to the sovereign and the most rigid military obedience. The deepest instinct in the Prussian nature?lust of war?was fostered by every kind of teaching: and gradually the idea spread that, just as the Hohenzollern had acquired lands and wealth by fighting in the old days, so successful war would now have a similar result. In 1S62 Count Bismarck became the chief minister of the Prussian king. He believed thoroughly in the doctrine that Might makes Right, so that if a nation succeeds in piratical Crimea, nobody can call It to account. Among the many states which then made up the German confederation. Prussia and Austria were rivals, Austria having the advantage. Rismarck planned to make Prussia the chief German state*, and he did this by forcing war u|*>n Austria and beating her in th? battle of Sadowa in 1 **66. That accomplished, h<* proposed to make Prussia th?* head of a tierman empire which should include Austria. So he l>icked a <iuarrel with France, which was wrongly regarded as the dominant power of western Europe and having destroyed her imperial armies and ton ed her to make js ace, he was abb in 1 sTl to set up the German emigre. From that time forward Prussia worked to be. in every sense, the mistress of Germany. Theoretically, each date was independent, but in all iml?*rial matters the Prussian \otes outweighed those of the smaller states. Prussian education and the Prussian army system prevailed throughout the lupin. In cunning and subtle ways the king of Prussia, who was also the German emperor, hired non-Prussians to tool a stronger allegiance to him than to their own i?-tty monarchs. If you were a conspicuous professor at Munich, the kaiser saw to it that you were invited to fill a professor's chair at tin university of Ihrlin. If you had mane a reputation as a painter, or writer, oi sculptor, or musician, in one ol the smaller capitals, yuu were - " -11- Tk, sun- 10 lit: iininii iu ?- . financiers had their natural center at Berlin. Ami so of all the chief organs of the military, political, intellectual ami industrial forces of the empire. Once at Berlin you were stealthily Prussianized; l.y blandishm? nt which took the form of promotions, red ami iron crosses anil eagles, a ..minions lustowal of the title "Von" iielore which every (Jerman falls lowii and worships, and of various other marks of iinfM-rial favor; or. If you proved a slow acceptor of the Prussian virus >mi were stealthily punished?you didn't go on in your profession, you weren't asked to paint tin kaiser's imrtrait, you got no concessions for your business plans, you were aware that an unseen power thwarted you at every turn; and then you understood that the only sari road to success was to how low before the kaiser and his deputies, and you succumbed. Treltschke, the most famous of modern fSermon historians. illustrates this perfectly. He was a Saxon and a strong Liberal, but on being invited to the I'nivcrsity id' Berlin he became tin- most virulent supporter of Prussia's leadership in the Herman empire and the most vehement advocate of despotism, and until his death In 1S9?5 he did more than any other Herman "intellectual" to inject into the university men, the kaiser and the upfter military class the idea of Herman world domination. Test of Greatness. The doctrine of the Superman is simply the expression of colossal conceit. The Hermans base it on the theory of the "survival of the fittest." I'nfortunately for the world, they applied fo human life, races and nations the theory which scientific nun >1,......I,l ,,M rnnvi. In llw mil. Irish mother, wireless telegraphy: Bell. an American, the telephone. Ami in tfie field of war Itself, to which the Germans have devoted more time and attention than have all the other nations. the lenders have not been German. Holland, an American, put the first submarine into the water and devised the first submarine torpedo; two American brothers, the Wrights, set flying the first practical ajrplanes: Maxim, another American, invented the machine pun; Bessemer, an Englishman, discovered the process for making steel, without which Krupp guns would not have existed. One hundred and forty years ago. Montgolfier, a Frenchman, invented the 1 ml loon of which the Zeppelin is a modern derivative. Even trench warfare was not a German discovery. Not Supermen. Unless the definition of a Superman be that he is a creature who copies ordinary men's Inventions and the basic formulas of science, the Gvrman has no right to the title. But, you may ask. does not his superiority In war make him a Superman? I reply, no! If a musical people, after mal kingdom. where, they argue, the beast or 1 >ii-<l which lives is the fittest to live; the weak die. Among mankind. however, this rule does not apply; if it did. the only persons now surviving would l?e prize fighters. Hut muscle is not the only test among mt?i tbors w Hi J the moral test, which are Immensely more important than the physical. No doubt, in Napoleon's army there were inn.noo men physically stronger than he. and yet he possessed a power by which he could control and lead the 100.000. The Hermans, however, laid their claims to being Supermen, not merely on the physical superiority of their soldiers but also on the superior mental, qualities of their intellectual lenders. They claimed to lie the best men of science, for instance, and they pretended that the fact that Hei mans had had great poets and musicians and philosophers was a further proof that Hermans were Supermen. In fact, however, all the great Herman poets?from Hoot he and Schiller to Heine; all the great Herman musicians?from Hach and Heethoven to Wagner: and all the great Gorman philosophers?from Leibnitz and Kant to Hegel and Schopenhauer, lived and worked before the mad dream of Herman world domination had been suggested, and Wagner, the only one of them who lived after tile rise of Prussia, detested Prussia and Prussians and lost no opportunity to ridicule or to denounce them. Germans Follow. In science itself. the Germans have been and arc extraordinarily patient invest Urn tors and very nimble applicrs of other men's inventions and discoveries. Run over the list of the truly great modern scientists. Who are the men who have announced fundamental principles? Darwin, who pave the keynote of modern thought and modern science, was an Englishman: T,ouis Pasteur, who showed the true method of biology, was a Frenchman: Michael Farraday. an Englishman, was the master of all students of electricity, and Joseph Lister, another Englishman, led the way in antiseptics. Morton, an American, first demonstrated the usefulness of ether as an anaesthetic, and Sir James Simpson, a Scot, popularized the use of chloroform. Three Englishmen, one Scot, one American, one Frenchman nnd no German! When we come to the most Important Inventors, the appliers of science to invention, what do we find? Fulton, an American, invented the steamboat: Stevenson, an Englishman, the railroad locomotive: Morse, an American, the teleirranh: Marconi, an Italian, with an devoting sixty*or eighty years to music. succeed in creating a very good orchestra, should you think it remark- I able that that orchestra could outphO any group of musicians hastily R?t together in a country which was not only non-musical but had been dieting its energy in altogether different Helds? Should you expect even the Germans, if they were suddenly transplanted to our great west and forced to compete in the agriculture on '? grand scale, which the Americans have developed there and the Germans have never practiced at home, should you oxpect them to l?e able to compete on equal terms with our agriculturists? Hardly! And you would certainly never claim that our farmers were Supermen. The parallel l?etween these supposed cases and that of the German army and its competitors Ls very close. The Germans have made for 50 years their army their chief concern. Ever)thing German?science, politics, religion, education, Invention?has boon devoted to that end. What won<li>r therefore that the floi-inm, war lord can put millions of troops into the field in a month. Whereas, the a English or the Americans, who have * devoted their energies to quite ilitTer- j ent objit'ts, were able at an <iner- t gency to mobilize only small forc> s. I All experience shows that it the t English or the Americans competed * for fifty years at a time with the tier- t mans in any field (except in the cloud land of metaphysics), the tier- j mans would not surpass them. The j list of names which I have just given r proves this. I Not Invincible. ( Therefore, do not fear the German i soldiers as invincible. Their xcel- r lence is the result, not of anything o miraculous, not of any Supermannish quality in them, t?ut of long training a and of rigid discipline. They accomplish results in the same slow, patient way in which the coral insects build up their reef. Two most Important lessons must lie drawn from our brief surv?\ of the Germans. First, their so-called elliciency has been arrived at by careful planning, long practice ami strict discipline; and it can be equaled, or suriiassed, by any other people who imitate it with equal zeal. So you must not sit down and assume that the Germans are Supermen by some gilt of Providence which has been denied to you. Next, do not assume that the German armies are invincible and that the German soldiers nre individually born to tie better soldiers than those of any other nntton. So far as they are superior now is due to their lifelong military training. This statement is confirmed by the fact that in all her modern wars Prussia (and 1nf??r (lormnnv). hn.s nowr won a battle, even-handed, against her onemieH. These are the figures: "In lsfifi. in the war between Prussia and Aus- ' r tria, the Prussians had 221,000 troops at the decisive battle of Sadowa, the Austrinns had only 200,000. In the r Franco-Prussian war in 1870, the inequalities were still greater. At Woerth. n the Germans numbered 84,000. the 1 French 39,000. At Rclchshofen. the 1 Germans 180,000, the French 45,000. * At St. Prlvat, the Germans 80,MO, the f French 18,000. At Sedan. thaQer- c mniM 3M.Q0Q. the ' These figures pay a high tribute to v the German strategy which always ' contrived to bring a larger force than r the enemy's into battle; they do not, however, exalt the German soldier in s a man-to-man contest with foreign foes." ? Will to Win. e The same numerical disparity in o favor of the Germans has In-en seen c throughout the present war. At the | battles of Charieroi and Mons, at La Fere Champenoise, where the great Foch drove his army corps through the German center and won the vie- f tor.v of the Marne; in the engagements before Nancy, in the defense of Verdun, at Ypres, when the English. c who had only one man to five of the f Germans, blocked the first great on- t sin light, down to the recent drive on f the west front, where fourteen ltritish e divisions were pitted against forty- n two German divisions, the German <; general staff has always taken care to B have'a superior force on their side !*>- j fore going into fight. This Is obvious- g ly a cardinal rule in warfare; hut the ^ results have proved that the superior T German numbers cannot always or y often defeat the Allies and that the in- r dividual German soldier, for all his T longer training. Is not necessarily a better fighter than his antagonists. 8 Accordingly, I close, as I began, t urging my American countrymen, who c have the great privilege of defending | the cause of civilization on the battle- , field, neither to despise nor under- . rate the Hermans, nor to regard them t an Supermen to bo feared. I^oarn all j you can of their methods and Improve 8 ui>on them. Will to win! Remember g that you are defending the holiest , eau8e which men ever fought for. Re- , member that you are the instruments , through which Right and Justice shall < prevail throughout the world.?Wm. t Roscoe Thayer In Tr?nch and Camp. ( With Hop, Skip and Jump.?A ] trench newspaper published by one of ( the British divisions in Palestine gives the following account of an un- ^ usual feat by a British airplane in the { fighting zone: 1 "One of our aviators was forced by engine trouble to land ten miles inside the Turkish lines. His engino was misfiring, but produced sufficient power / for 'taxi-trig* and short hops, but not for flights. Presumably the valves of two or three cylinders had broken or t stuck. t "But the pilot did not give up hope, 1 and suceeded in taxi-ing* the whole ( way to the British lines over the level j sand. On the way he crossed a Turk- ] ish encampment, and his undercarriage brought away a clothes line and < a number of Turkish shirts. The pilot 1 was attacked by several det&tchments t armed with rifles and m&chlae guns, ( but they Invariably fled when he char- t (red on them with hi* gun. Two or three German airplanes dived and flred bursts at him. but luckily hit no vital part." A new spirit is observable In the comments of the Japanese press on the fighting on the western front The press Is no longer dominated by the Idrn of the invincibility of trained militarism, owing to the essential weakness of the hastily levied armies of the democratic nations. Still more is the determined spirit of the latter being slowly recognised, and there can be no better Allied propaganda in Japan than such reports as have been Altering through from France In the last few weeks. GENERAL NEWS NOTES ttm? of Interest Gathered From Various Sources. The milling license of J. M. Sutton t Son of Harrisville, l'a.. has been evoked by the food administration or violation of the exchange milling egulations. United States marines have l>oen laving frequent skirmisher with banlits in Santo Domingo during the ?st ten days- At last reports the 'devil dogs" had accounted for at east twenty of the bandits. .1 Carlos Bee, a lawyer, has been lected to congress from the Four- " eenth district of Texas, to succeed Congressman Slayden, who has lx<en i n congress twenty years, and who J vlthdrew from the race ten days ngo. Three men are dead and more than lixty wounded as the result of a race ' iot in Philadelphia on Sunday momng. The row started because a ne- ' rro woman rented and moved into a louse in the white residential sec- p ion. 1 Three hundred and seventeen ichools and universities have re- 1 ipondcd to the offer of the war de- | xirtmcnt to give special military c raining in officers' training camps at " 'lattsburg. Fort Sheridan and the 3 resldio. at San Francisco to a seiclected group of instructors and stu- s lents. Nearly one-third of the men enlist ng in the marine corps are under 21 rears of age. according to a state nent authorized by Secretary Dan- els. Mr. Daniels said that since the United States entered the war, 13.S60 ' ecrults under 21, or approximately 30 ' H*r cent of the enlistments, have been ] iccepted. t A new air mall flight record was * icored Monday by Lieutenant Bonsai, vho flew from Philadelphia to New i fork in 42 minutes. Lieut. Bonsai left 1 'hiladelphia at 1.30 p. m? and made . lis landing at 2.15. Despite the fact t hat he flew through a shower most >f the way and carried 175 pounds of 1 nail, his average speed was over 130 , niles per hour. j, The war trade hoard has Issued itrlngent regulations to prevent gold , roin leaving the United States in the i ruise of manufactured articles, such f ls jewelry, watches and gold plate. I..,. I,,I,, on nn lie..nan will lie granted for the exportation of the manufactures of gold if the selling ' >rice of the article to he exported is ess than three times the value of the ine gold they contain. I-atest reports to the navy departnent Indicate that the lone auhma- (i Ine openiting off the Atlantic coast j ast week, has proceeded eastward ' ind is now approximately from 400 to * 00 miles from our shores. Officials 5 lelicve the U-lioat is returning: to its tome port. No credence whatever is ^ laced in the apparently inspired tews dispatch from Switzerland cred- ) ting Germany with having 20 suhma ines off the Amerftan coast. J 1 l'roprietors of hotels, restaurants 0 ind dining car services throughout he country, who voluntarily agreed o use no wheat until the present larvost, will be released from their iledges on August 1, nccording to a ablegram received by the food ad- ' >7Snhixali0n~ from Herbert Q. Hooyec, , vho is in London. While exact flgires are not obtainable. It Is estlmatd that the hotels, restaurants and ^ lining cars of the country will have } aved, from October 1 last, to August 1, between 175,000,000 and 200,- ( 100,000 pounds of wheat and its pro- J lucts. About 5,000 hotel proprietors ^ rave the whcntless pledge and nearly . 00,000 restaurant and cafe owners ? ut down on flour as much as their t uisiness would permit. THE CALL FOR NURSES ( 1 rhere is Need For Many Thousands ^ of Them. The American Army's urgent need if nurses provides a new opportunity ] or patriotic service by women be- < woen the ages of nineteen and thirtyIve. By Jan. 1 next, as Surgeon Genral Gorgas points out, 25,000 graduate lursos will 1)0 required for war service. )f this number only 13,000 have been ecured, and to recruit the full quota t will be necessary to deplete the hosdtals and to take nurses from the iome care of the sick. These vacancies nust be filled, and hence the call for oung women to l>e student nurses and nake It possible for the hospitals to nalntain their efficiency. This of course will mean nursing on i peace basts. There will be none of he glamour of the military service ibout it and it will include no immedate trip to France or care of soldiers vounded in field hospitals. It will involve in general only the prosaic feaures of nursing. But will not the ap)eal to American womanhood prove s dl the more persuasive in the circum- ( itances? As Gen. Gorgas says. "I can- .s lot conceive of a more valuable aer- s dee, a more womanly service. I can J five every girl who enrolls in the Stu- ^ lent Nurse Reserve my personal aslurance that she is making herself lount, and I should be ashamed of iny woman who did not long with all ~ ler heart and soul to make herself :ount in the defeat of Germany." That is the great point. They also t vlll serve nobly who by becoming < itudent nurses release graduate nurses \ !or field service. . ( HAD THE AMMUNITION } I KI lie* Capture Immenii Quantities of German War Material. I The tremendous stores of ammunl- j Ion found by the Franco-American i roops In the forests of Fere and His. < eads officers to believe that the Allied ( )ffenslve nipped In the bud German dans for a momentous drive upon Spernay. , The forests and the surrounding ( :ountry north of the Mame were vir- ] tually one great arsenal for German j immunltion of all kinds, big gun < ihells being particularly numerous. \t places on the edge of the woods there were large shells stacked like ;ordwood over large areas. Thousands of these shells were intended for the German 210-mllllmeter 1 funs, only a few of which have been :aptured. The Americans assume that ' the Germans withdrew many of these , funs and that others intended for the 1 rreat drive had not yet arrived when < he Allied offensive began. ' All through the roreeta the Amerl- f ran a came upon ammunition depots, i it some places more than an acre of {round being covered with shells of 01 calibers. Some of tho smaller ihells being labeled "for Immediate ise." Along the road everywhere, and T sven In the open places, the shells rare camouflaged with limbs of trees. From the roadways skirting the for(st In every patch of wood shells were risible. Every clump of trees or ihrubbery sheltered shells of various alibers. Some of the depots were deroted entirely to big shells and others xtensively to projectiles of smaller izee. projoctiles and cartridges for nachine guns and rifles. From the oadway near the forest's edges, mile ifter mile of cases of rifle cartridges vere seen, .winding in and out and 'ollowing the tree lines like fences. The Allies art- planning a systematic tssembly of the shells for use later igainst the Ocrmans. FRUIT JARS MASON'S FRUIT JARS in Half Gal ons, Quarts and Pints. EXTRA TOPS and Extra RUBBERS or Fruit Jars. Bettor put up some Fruit and have lomething to eat next winter. IE SURE TO SEE US About those CEDAR SHINGLES. We an save you money on them- Also sec is for Ceiling. Flooring, Weather>oarding, Doors. Sash, Blinds?in fact iverything you need to build or repair I house. HAKE YOUR MOLASSES? We have Cane Mills and Boilers in itock. We have Turnip Seeds. YORK SUPPLY COMPANY Wliolctiale and Retail. DELINQUENT TAX SALES FHE following described property will be sold at Public Auction be,'ore the York Courthoute Door on II ON DAY, AUGUST 5. (Salesday) for he purpose of satisfying executions lstued on account of unpaid State and ,'ounty taxes: 1. Estate of John Campbell?Lot ind building in Rock Hill, S. C., on IVhitener avenue, bounded by lots ol Jeorge Pickett, Betty Knox, First Trust and Savings Bunk. Taxes, penalies nnd costs $11-08 & D. Couser?Lot and building In lock Hill, 8. C., on Railroad avenue, jounded by lots of D. A. Johnson, A. H. E. Zlon church. Taxes, penalties ind costs 16.81 3. J. M. Sims?107 acres of land In ving's Mountain township, near Batleground, bounded by lands of Gail>rnith Hambright, P. Goforth. Taxes, cnalties and costs $12.20. Terms of Sale: CASH. F. E. QUINN, S. Y. C. t o i urnip oeeus NOW IS THB TIME to sow Turnips. There is a good season in the ground, md as soon as the ground ran he prewired the Turnip Seed should he put n the ground. You'll find Turnips and Jreens good this fall and winter and he Ureens will be line next spring. He ure that you plant a patch of Turnips. ,YK SELL nUISTS'S SEEDS? Long recognized as the standard of lighest quality. Have a good big stock >f the Heat varieties. Let us supply ou with the Turnip Seeds for your Turnip Patch, and don't fail to plant i good sized patch. York Drug Store rAKE NOJICErr All parties indebted to the STork Furniture Co., Quinn Wallace, Prop., on accounts lue previous to this date, arc payable to the undersigned >r to Mr. Forest Smith, at :hc Store of the York Furni;ure and Hardware Co. Please settle at once, as I lesire to close up the busiless of the York Furniture Do., without delay. I can be found at the York furniture & Hardware Co.'s Store. QUINN WALLACE. lulv 25,1918. >1()RE MULES AND MARES? On AUGUST 1ST wc will have In a \ir of MULES and MARES. We Buy, ell or Exchange. Come to nee US. We ire ready for business to suit YOU. rVill have in fresh shipments of stock ight along from now on. Can fill your cants in any number and any class. JAMES BROS. AU the Year Livestock Dealers ICE CREAM Now that hot weather has come, occasionally you will wont ICE .'REAM for your home and for paries. picnics, etc. LET ME SUPPLY ITOU. Any flavor you like In any luantity, from One. Quart upwarda Jet My Price before you try to make our own cream. Quality and Cleaniness Guaranteed. MY SODA FOUNTAIN a ready to supply the thirsty with all cinds of Ice Cold Drinks from the fountain spout and also in bottled Irinks?Ginger Ale, Coca-Cola, Pepsl-61a. Chero-Cola. Bevo. etc. CHOICE FRUITS You will always And here a first:laas assortment of the best Fruits -all on me for your Fruit wants. EAT AT JOHN'S A'hen you feel like eating, come to my [iestaurant Lunches and mea. servm1 on short notice at moderate prices. Yorkville Candy Kitchen JtMl.A iinnun, i-rui>. ' NOTICE M'OTICE is hereby given that the unL' dersigned will on the 20th day ol \ugust, 1918. make application to Closer Cotton Oil ar 1 Ginning Co., of Closer, 8. C., for a new certificate for Ive shares of stock (or their present Kiulvalent), In place of Certificate tfo. 8, for five shares Issued to the unlersigncd on October 1st, 1909, which aid Certiorate baa been loet or dertroyed. HERBERT L. WRIGHT. July 5-54 f ?t FOR RENT FHE Metts Residence, on Main Street, Apply to C. E. SPENCER. Atty. 37 may 7 tL tf All aboard the train to succeed. Buy REAL ESTATE. 186 acres about 2 miles from town on Sutton road; two S-room tenant houses; 4-horse farm open; plenty of timber. For a bargain see tne. ' j 105 acres, 5 miles from York on King's Mountain road; 6-room residence; bam; good pasture, etc. Will sell < as a whole or In two parcels. Nice building lot, 60x166 feet on Charlotte street. Will take nice cow In part payment. See me about this. Two nice lots on East Jefferson St., near Graded School. It will pay you to Investigate, ltemember, I have lota of others? both country and town. Money to lend at 7 per cent on j farming lands. , GEO. W. WILLIAMS i REAL E8TATE BROKER itoom 204, First Nat'I Book Hull ding. REAL ESTATE AGENCY FOR SALE 02 Acres?Of good, level lan.!, with 6-room house, joining Fl... >1 Jackson's Store place. It Is a No. 1 F\rm. 1>. M. I'arrott?Place, 1 1-2 miles from Clover; on Clover road; 300 1 acres; 6-r dwelling; 3 4-r tenant houses. Will sell as a whole or In two tracts. Priced right. Six-ltoom House? On 62 acres of irood land, on Howell's Ferry road, 3 miles from Courthouse 118 Acres I And?6-r dwelling, 3-r tenunt house, 1-2 mile of Zion church and school. , 200 Acres?Of saw timber and woodland. within mile of Zion church. Saw 1 timber worth price of whole tract i 'l\vo Vacant IjoU*?90x300 and lOOx , 225 feet, on King's Mountain street. Itiillding Lot?60x225 feet, on west 1 side Wright avenue. 137 Acrca?7-room dwelling; 2 tenant houses. Known as the Will Wal- ' lace Place?6 miles south of Yorkville ' Level land. .1. F. Kcll Property?7-foom dwelling; 1 1-2 acre lot on East Liberty 1 street, Yorkville. Lot?Near Graded school?90 fejt 1 front; 200 feet deep. On shady side of ' the street. See me about It. C F. SHERER. Real Estate. ' Spring Furnishings CREX RUGS are the lowest priced serviceable Rugs for Spring and Summer use. They are made of a vegetable fibre, almost as tough as taitherr amr Wear better than many so-called wool rugB, and besides you can get them In beautiful designs that are most pleasing and that will match your other furnishings?Have Crex Rugs in sizes: 0x12 rect; 6x9 foct; '6x72 inches. POUCH FURNITURE? In the good old summer time you'll spend much of you time on your porch?Make It attractive. We can help you. See us for PORCH CHAIRS, 8ETTEE8, VUDOR PORCH SHADES? (Vudors keep off the sunshine; they are rich in appearance, and you can see out, but not be observed by the fellow outside. See them.) M . L,. t U K U Licensed Undertaken and Embalmer* CLOVER. - - S. C. MARSHMALLOW CREME Marshmallows, toasted and other- J wise, are quite frequentiy used In making desserts. The modern and more satisfactory way is to U:.e MARSHMALLOW CREME. This is something new and dainty. Put up In pint glass Jars?30 CTS. Pint. FOR ICE TEA Nothing In the way of table beverages Is quite so refreshing as well made iced tea?"It touches the spot" ?Let us supply you with the Tea you use?We have? Silver Fox Orange Pekoe, 45c 1-3 lb.; Morara, 35c 1-2 lb; and Excellent bulk Teas, at 00 Cts. lb. FOR DESSERTS We have Jello, Jiffy-Jell, Gelatines, liakers's Cocoanut, grated, In tin. TANGLEFOOT those pesky flies?We have the Tanglefoot. SHERER & QUINN TThe Enquirer wants your orders for Commsrcial Stationery. j WE ^ i GOOD 1 I MACHINERY IS NOW IN F i GRINDING TH1 { WE ARE GRINDING W] ' 7 Our ROLLER MILL has ^ the machinery has been put in 9 old Bolting Cloths have been r K We have a First-Class MI 9 ness, and we are here to GIV1 x TION to all patrons, whethei X freight or messenger, or wheth ; J DO NOT THROW AW AT Al , t ' Tmt CaMaa M HmI gadu A Kwp dM ?kn jm mm f tkrww dMB l?to INT wmrn- (), 1 9 a *ka ra mm to tow*, j W? wia lay Ha* j YORKVULE COTTC CARROLL SUPPLY CO. 1 BUGGIES WE WANT YOU TO KNOW i THAT WE SELL BUGGIESHAVE THEM IN STOCK? AND THAT WE WANT A CHANCE TO SHOW YOU THE BUGGIES WE HAVE AND TELL YOU THE PRICES. WE CAN SUIT YOU IN BUGGY QUALITY ANT) BUGGY PRICES. DON'T BUY UNTIL YOU SEE WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER YOU IN BUGGIES, CARROLL SUPPLY CO: i Real Estate PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. S. BRICE Attorney At Law. * Prompt Attention to nil Legal Business of Whatever Nature. Office Opposite Courthouse. Dr. T. L. GLENN VETERINARY SURGEON Will promptly answer all calln Telephone No. 92. Jun. 7-46 aw 3m OR. WM. M. KENNEDY ? DENTAI. SURGEON ? Office on Second Floor of the Wylie Building. Telephone?Oiflce, 9?; Residence 166 D. D . COOK I> 1-: N T A L 8 II U G E O N 1 lover - - - 8. O. Office Over the Postoffice. office llour*: r.JO a. lit. to 12.30 p. m., 1.3u to 6 p. in. 93 W ly LTfe IT CAN HE A SUCCESS OR A FAILUllE. WIUCll WILL IT UE WITH YOU? Look at the men who arc successful in the eyes of the world. Ninety-mile out of every hundred started a Bank Account when they were young -and stuck to it. And now, look at the failures. Very few of them hiive a Bank account now. Not speuking of when they were young 1'urliups you think you have not enough money to start an account. Haven't you a dollar? Tht.t i. all it takes at THIS BANK. Just try it for a year or six months. If you do nut wisii to continue it you have lost nothing by the trial. Which Will It lie?Success or I "allure? ITS Ul? TO VOU. Bank of Hickory Grove ItUkOltY OHO VIC. 8. V. TIME TO CAN NOW It Is up to YOU?a patriotic duty? to can nil the Fruits and Vegetables this summer that you can can?you'll ^ need every pint you can up, and If you don't need your product there are others who will be ready to take It off four hands at fair prices. See us for BALL'S MASON JARS? We have them In Half Gallons, and In Quart and Hint Sizes, and also have a full supply of Extra Can Tops, and also Jar Hubbers at 5 Cts. and 10 Cts. n Dozen. Yes, to be sure, we have Jelly Glasses in plenty. Hut Can all You Can Can. G. W. WHITESIDES & CO. SIIAHON . . 8. O. WHILE THEY LAST WE WILL SELL One Dottle of Palm-Olive Shampoo and Two Cakes of PalmOlivc Soap for, , . Or One Box of Palm-Olive Face Powder and Two Cakes of l'almOllve Soap for, , , 50? By Taking Advantage of this Bargain You Save 30 CTS., as the Shampoo Sells for 60 Cts., and the Soap for 16 Cts. a Cake. CLOVEB DBUG STORE R. L. WYLIE, Proprietor. FIRST NATIONAL BANK 811AKO.Ni 8. C. ? Memlicr Federal Reserve System ? IUST BETWEEN US WOULDN'T IT BE BETTER FOR YOU to keep your Funds In this Bank, where You are carefully guarded by 0 Uncle Sam's Supervision, a> d pay all pour bills with Checks than it is ror You to keep your funds at home, in an lid desk, or drawer or knot hole, Just ivhere almost anybody might find the money or where Are might destroy it? [teal Business folks the world over put the money on deposit In a Bank and then pay out all funds with a check. I*hls is a double safe-guard. A cancelled check shows exactly where your runds have gone and what for, and the canceled check is also an unquestioned receipt for any bills you may have cut. And then too, the Bank way ?ivcs you a service In accounting that is Free and of untold value to you in the course of a year. Try runi.ing pour business the Bank way for a year. [f it Is not satisfactory you can quit S'o checking account is too small for this Bank to handle. Give us yours. F. S. HARTNESS, Cashier. IakIT^S * FLOUR| i IRST-CLASS SHAPE FOR J ? NEW CROP. | HEAT. C been thoroughly overnauled, . ... i I hrst-class condition, and all X eplaced with New ones. LLER who knows his busi- X S ABSOLUTE SATISFAC- 2 r they send their wheat by k er they come in person. < WE GRIND CORN TOO, C nd we Grind It As It Ought a to Be Ground. ? iir Flouring Mill is on the Oil * Mill Ground, but entirely J separate. I _ IN OIL COMPANY j