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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
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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