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9umorou5 Jepartrntnt Boy Prove* an Apt Pupil.?A well known lawyer tells this good story c?t his efforts to instruct his office l?oy. One morning in midsummer tin- young master-of-millions. to-he l.|? \s into the office, tossed his cap at a hook, and announced: "Soy. Sir. HI.ink, the>'s a hall name (lown't the park toda> an' I'm goin' down." The attorney wits willing, hut thought a lesson in * kidhI manners would not t>e amiss. Jimmy," lie said kindly, "that is not tin- way to ask a favor. Now ywn eoine over here and sit down and I'll show you how to do It." The Isiy took the ollice chair and his employer picked up the cap and *tep|a*d Olitslde. Then he Opened the door softly, walked ipiietly to the opposite side of the room, hung the cap le-cutely on the hook and, turning, said |" "mull l,ov In the hig chair: "I'lfiw, sir, Ilifiv is a loll ipurHnt tin- |?irk t?Mlay. ir yon can spare liic i would likt to ko IIiim afternoon." In a flash the I toy replied: "Why, ('I'rluiiily, Jiiiiiny, ami here im tlity cents to |*ii> your way in."? Christian Herald. te It was his tlrst rain|KilKn. Ills first political s|M?'?'h even. Although the county coiiiinittee hail sent litin into ? rural district to try out his oratorical wings, lie was encouraged h> the warm welcome or the local committee that was evident on all sides. There iv;is even a hand that played on the stand in the |iul>lic square tor halt an hour In-fore the s|M-ech. The chairman stepped to the iilutforiu rail ami addressed the crowd: "Fellow citizens." he said, "we have with us today a young man who Is destined to make his mark in tin ranks of our icirty. lie comes to tell us of the horning issues that confront us, and his fame as an orator has preceded him. lie will now address you, and when he lias finished the hand will call you together again." <11> A certain judge of a state supreme court had I ecu appointed and wiin w>ll Ktltoflnl vviiii nuiisi'ii. "Mary," hi; Haiti to the Irish waitress at tin- iiolt-i wiu-ri! in- was, "you havi- Im-i-ii in litis country how long?" "Two years, sir," sin- saiii. "Uo you liki- it?" "Sun-, it's wi-ll enough," answered Mary. "Hut, Mary," tin- judge continued, "you lr?vi- many piK lieges in this country which you'd not have in livlaiul. Now at houu- you would never la- ui a room witli a justice ?>i the supreme court ami chatting familiarly with tiiin." "Hut. sure, sir," said Mary, unite 111 earnest, "you'd never l?- a judge at home!" X'-' lli- was fond ol playing jokes on his wife, and this lime In- thought lie had a winner. "My dear," he said, as they sat at supper. "I just heard such a sad story of a young girl today. They thought she was going Idind and so a surgeon operated on her and found?" "Yes?" gasped the will- breathlessly. "That she'd got a young man in her eye!" ended tin- husband. witli a chuckle. * Kor a moment there was silence. Then the lady remarked, slowly: Welt it would all deiM-nd on what sort of a iiuin it watt. Some of them silt* could have seen through easily enough." Si' A well known army ollioer tells this one on himself, lie was inspect Iiik one of the new ilralt eam|is ami came to a place where there sholihl have l>een a sentry, lie eouhl sts' none there, so looked aronntl a hit. finally he spied a soldier sitting alone in a corner of the fence playing solitahe. "|)o you know who I am?" lie asked impressively. "No." said the soldier, intent on his cards. "Well." thundered the ollleer, "I am a sort of a brigadier general.'1 "All light," replied the soldier, "wait until I finish this kuuic ami I'll Klve ,\oll a sort of a salute." Could Find the Way.?Secretary Daniels said at a reception the other day: "Some of the ideas suluiiitted to us for fighting the submarine peril are excellent. Some, again, remind me irresistibly of the pigeon fancier. "There's u pigeon fancier in my native town who has great success with the bird. A farmer said, enviously, to him one day: "'You never lose a pigeon? How is it? Where's your secret?' " 'Well, you see,' said the fancier, 'I cross my pigeons with a talking parrot so if they get lost they can ask the way home.'"?Washington Star. t- Whatever we non-combatants ciui do for our soldiers seems trilling and futIV beside what these young heroes are doing for lis. The most generously contributing non-combatant. when he's compared with the fighting soldier, is a good deal in Onposition of the lady visitor at the l>ase hospital. "And so you've lost a leg?" the lady visitor said to a young patient. "Yes, ma'am," he saitl. "Poor dear!" said the visitor. "Have a chocolate." tv A chaplain on making his rounds in the base hospital of a large cantoniiw.nl stonued at the cot of a darky and said: "Sain. how la It that you are In l>?'d today? You woro quite woll when I spoke to you yesterday." The darky replied: "Well, pahson. Ah don' was kicked by a mule." "What In the name of goodness did he kick you for?" "Ah guess Ah don' fo'got to salute." Tho Last Word.?Arthur Train, the novelist, put down a Herman newspaper at the Century club, in New York, with an impatient grunt. "It says here," he explained, "that It is Germany who will speak the last word In this war." Then the novelist laughed angrily and added: * "Yes, Germany will speak the last word* in the war. and that last word will be 'Kamerad!'" <W As the troop train halted, a negro poked his head out of the window and asked, "Say. boss, what town you all call dl?r "Pl&lnfleld." "And what state am dis?" "New Jersey?Platnfleld. N. J." "Well. well. Ah done been travelin" on dis yer train fo' foah days and foah nights: where de debil am dis yer France anyway?" GEN. DOYEN'S MARINES ;.n u I Facts About the Men and the Man ,a Who Trained Them. From S?ii I'owor. liiiK. ?Tuirl*'s A. !>< > n. ?>ri'.'iiiim, ilrill-rna.Hti-r anil liahtina i iiIiiiii.'iihIi r of our mania s, whoso lamia virtonos on tin- Ma rim havi thrilloil tlii- nation, lias boon invallilo?| homo just as tanm oiowm-il liim ami his nu n. Tho taotios ami suivi ss va ot his briaailo liavi- Im-i-h tin ailinira- ^t tion of tin- Allnil nations, ami it w will not In- utifiiolltalili' to imiuiii' ' whothor thoir tiainina or haih iship has iu'i-n alona spooinl linos offi r- cr ina ho|H'iul hints lor pnpaima listni i roups. Whilo our array forms aliromi ar? Irilli'il ami coiiimnmlcil I \ W'ost I'ointirs. or hy thosi- whoso tartius !l ami inspirations an- ot military ar.'ul my origin ami whoso livoit havo l" muddied l>\ lessons l?-;iin?'<l limn our Allies. At tlie siilllr time we li;i\e sl seen I ieiierul Ivrshing approving and (|) encouraging the somewhat dilT< ivnt drills instituted hy |)<>\en lor his ma- , fv lines. In Doyens ramps there has la-en lille prai-tire every day for evcryhody. Conventional targets and rallies have hern almost tahoo. In- ^ stead there has bcin a series of posts ,, crowned with tin cans to represent ionium helmets: tall imisIs and short (() ones. |misIs erect and reeiiiiiheiit. some posts iii the open, some ill trenches, some in shell holes, lint s)| every post had its rail. Through ^ these stage armies oi Huns the ma- . rims have advanced daily?and -s nightly? in sunshine and rain and i ok and snow. Somel inies they ran. again they walked or crawled or wriggled snake-like on their hollies, . hut every tin can was punctured re- j pi.itedly as soon as seen and hot ween ( shots posts were hayonetted or j. smashed with ritle hutt or harrel. w Itroadly speaking. tin- army train- ^ ed for trench or open fn-hl work, with ^ the emphasis on tin- trench, and the marines trained for tin- open or the m trench, with emphasis on the open. sj Tlnn, after a preliminary try-out (.(| in the trenches the marines were (l(l rushed to the neighborhood of Cliateail Thierry, where they were given pj their chance. They knew their siiIH-riority in the open and were lucky |l( in lighting the Hermans just digging into teui|Mirar\ trenches. Ami the marines went forward, chucked the pj Huns out of the ditclu-s and "mixed j;i 11 up III lilt- r<\ ?*i > i a |K?Ht ami cwry helmet a tin can. *pj ami cvi'ti the Kciiwinoil l-'riiu'ti aud|sil British vvoif ainsiMil to sie mm t,j tonally ex pert in the iiso of tho l?avo- ej, not, the butt ami tho sight. Kor tho |0 tlrst timo in about throo yoars thi j,t, rillo oatno into its own in tho hands sc of experts wlio liandlod it as a fowling piooo or pig stiokor or shillalah. Against permanent tronchos tho jp army trading methods have little to he w desired, hut between hero and Iterlin ,u there will ho muoh fighting in the n( open, tind over 75,000 marines will a furnish many wakes. of To every otllcer and man in tin hi army jus well as in the navy it is a fa matter of regret that just at the horn of vletory CJenernl Doyen's health pj failed under the strain of arduous \ work abundantly well done. Hut. b( whoever gave the order "forward," at Doyen was the man who huilded vie- pi 'ory and his is the triumph. At this, nt all who know him greatly rejoice, lie to is a man of most lovable t|iialities. cc For example, parents and friends of u< his men wrote him hundreds of let- w! ters ini|uiritig as to those under his la command. There was a standing or- pc der that the adjutant should answer pi nil letters showing signs that the fa writers were well-to-do. hut that ov- ta ery letter showing poverty, distress th or grief should he brought to the ta general to be answered by him per- th sonallv. at night, when drills were til owr and others murht rest. I or His absence from the front Is a J distinct loss to the n.-ftion. Hut there will bo compensations. His stronp th will and vigorous |iat riot ism will Sa largely ignore his physical condition or and his disappointment at leaving his e men. Within two weeks he will prob- Ci ably t>e ready to take charge of a \V great training csunp where his talents and experience will prepare a new w and bigger host of marines to 1m- the d< navy's representatives on the fields of tv France. w It is gratifying to know that Hen- h.' eral Harbord of the army, who took h< tempomry command of the marines, fo and General I'ershing, as well as the w< French general commanding the di- sc vision. have officially placed on re- pi cord high tribute to General Doyen's h< personal and official worth, to the dc skill with which his men were trained wl I?? 11 S|M*|lt (ill shore, the (duller 111:1. ok rim- OlllcelH \Ve|*e tmilled III liie Ii;ival academy and have In en sailor- Wl men lor years, lieneral lioycn, the hi actual lu lu comma mo r, is a member of the naval academy's famous t*' lass ol lvsl; so arc Major <?cncnil Harnett, commander-in-chief ot tinmarine corps. ami Itrlg. 'Jen. laui-hheitner, who, |>ructicall> speaking, is "l the chiot of staff of tin- corps. ISrigailier 'iem ral l-ojciine- who has itrnte ' ' over to relieve I loyen--nnil tin- two ',i regimental commainlers. the gallant ll! Colonel Catlm, severely woutuleil in leading his regiment. ami Colonel e Neville?whom Veia Crux will long r?-meinl>er? are all Aunn|iolis men. sailors h\ education ami practice. Conditions in the army are so different from those in the navy that ,u traditions and drill methods are not the same in the two servhts. I.ilcon nt t |*i shipboard and work in small boats lends to dewlop individual initiative more than docs the barrack system of sipiad control. I'or trench pre|iaration tin- aim.v system has obvious advantages, but we should, inverlhe- 111 less, expect the individual marine to ? handle himself somewhat better than Si* a soldier in tin- special case ol an er attack across broken ground. Then, aboard ship, target practio?imli- J vidua) target practice?is almost a w subject ol worship. The recoids of national and international lillc matches are witness to the ability of our small marine coi ps ol" pie-nar davs wl to wrest target laurels Irom the large service. It may be noticed too, that Major llolcomb thi' spirit ol uinrim ^ *" ... , e?i cor|is target praetiei?has been effectively busy with the marines who are in France. The developments ol trench lighting have led the army to till use ol the ll.'llld grenade, the ^ machine gun. etc.. perhaps to the unSi avoidable slighting ol I llle ins! I lie :il lion. to The navy has watched with inter . . Hi est the working out ol these two systems in our training camps in ai France. We have seen Iemral I'or- ^ shing's soldiers receiving the best cv Ariel-lean army system ol training, ,. entuaily prove a curse instead of a it essing. ti Whether the cotton grower, the fc icculativc hanker or the cotton man- w iteturer seeks to have a llxed price 111 it on cotton, it would lie a disaster pi r this to he done. The cotton indus- ri y need not be regulated by the gov- di nment, for every brunch of this in- p. jstry can shift for itself and eventu*. U ly be the better ofT for doing: so. 11 veil under the stress of the war we it ant no beggar pleas in behalf of cot- hi 11 as we had in the "Uuy-a-llale In ovcineiit. Some thinks should lie left m the regulation of the law of w ipply and demand, without regard to ie wishes of the growers, the specula- ni rs or tlie inaiiufactiirers, and cotton it pre-eminently the most important dustry which can be best regulated In not being regulated at all. d We do not believe that the best in- si rests of the country would be -served |1; r lixing the price of cotton by jp ic t ovcriiment, nor do we believe ai at the best interests are among those gi ho are clamoring for a tixed cotton ()i ice. In raising a big crop of cotton, the Dual yield should be as now indited, the Southern farmer has cnorously increased the supply of food- p ulTs and foodstuffs which come from ttonseed and which aggregate $350,io,U0o or more. The crop has been n stly to produce and will lie costly to t, ck. Indeed, it is probable that a S( iod deal of it will never be picked a cause of the scarcity of labor. oi one of the blessings which will come tl the South out of this war will be a w gher price for farm labor. Farm iH bor everywhere hiis in the past reived less than its fair share of pay. S( lis has been emphatically so in the u uth. Low-priced labor cannot jiossiy, in tlic long run, be efficient labor; C( leap labor means a cheap mun. The y w price of labor in the South has en a tremendous handicap in that al ction. w Every man who fights against high |t ices for cotton is fighting against a ^ ring wage for the farm laborer, u hite and black, in the South. Every |r wspapor or business man in the >rth or in the south who antagonizes high price, Judging by former prices g, cotton, is distinctively fighting to tj >ld negro and white labor on the t> rms down to a starvation basis. T If the New York Tribune and other f, ipers in the east, and the people of w ew England generally, who have ;en ardent lovers of the negro nice, ^ e really honest and sincere in their w oteetations of their love for the ^ gro they would unceasingly strive A show to the world that the low pri- n a of cotton in the past meant eontin- f, Ml starvation wages for the negroes, hile the so-called high prioes of the p st twelve-months offer the only op- ^ >rtunity since the Civil war for the a lytncnt of a decent living wage to the ^ ,rm laborers of the South. Are the a ke this stand? If not, their philnn- t, irotdsts fair and honest enough to ,j ke this stand If not. their philan- j, iropy is "as sounding brass and a t| lkllng cymbal."?Manufacturers Rocd. ? r< Brave Woman Wins Cross.?Cpon ic recommendation of Gen. Foch, j >s a I'aris dispaK'li. I'lvmier Clem- ? iceau has decorated Miss Fraser, an a nglish ambulance driver, with the c, ross of the Legion of Honor and the if 'ar Cross. The citation reads: e "Charged with the transport of 8i ounded men on Thursday night un- a r heavy bombardment, she received ro serious wounds from a torpedo hich destroyed her ambulance. She n id the superb courage to reach the is ispital, 200 feet away, afoot, to in- si rm the doctors of the plight of the tl ounded men. She then fell uncon- si ious. When transported to the hos- P lal for an ojiorntion, she insisted that p< >r wounds be not treated before the ci ictors attended the injured men for s< horn she was responsible." w <1 to the valor and strength with tich they struck when their chance m<-. In THE PRICE OF COTTON fl: >od Warehouse Facilities and Rea- in sonable Money Rates Are What are <>' Needed. m When, due to economic conditions 'r ised on short cotton crops, |>riccs adneed to higher llgures than had been ionn since the Civil War days, there as an insistent demand throughout ',; e south against governmental price- " ;lng on cotton, but the prospect of a op in excess of the South's ability *'r market under existing conditions, ^ id a downward tendency of prices, a mibcr of different interests are dcanding that the ( overxitnent shall tlx ft price for cotton in order to stabilize price, or shall form a corporation buy and carry cotton. We do not lieve that any of the plans proj?osed lould l>e adopted except that which nuld help to warehouse cotton, since ,|; dividual interests could not now well cr did warehouses in time without ilov- n< 11 in en t aid. If cotton growers wilfully, with a towledge of the world's consuming 'a 'luirenients, should this year produce Vf larger crop than is needed, they iould not come like beggars and ask ingress to protect them. It would ,-< ; a misfortune for the South to place lelf in the iiosition, as It did In 11114, 111 the beggar asking alms. The bank- :u - ^ l-iixi/ in m,t. ai N WHO nilVU Ut'l'il o|/v\ ui.uuir, ... -w. ii, ciHter individually or by lending o much money on it, have no right appeal to the nation to come to m eir rescue- It would be a misfor- 1" lie for the South to lose money on I'1 is year's cotton crop, hut there is no ct :cessity for that to happen. With the IM einendous price received for the last *' >o crops, the South should be a bund- * itly able to finance this crop and ear- w it until the world needs it without w pen-ling upon the National Governcut to save its Krowers from their vn folly. at The Manufacturers Itccord has for Hi vcral years insisted that the Gov- t Ii nincnt put a minimum price on Hi heat sufficiently high to stimulate at heat production, because the world is Hi rging on starvation for lack of pi heat, but no such situation prevails to the cotton trade. Here we have tli ore production than is needed, and it si ill be a blessing to the South, rather at tin a disadvantage, if it shall this w ar have to struggle hard to carry its w itton and market it only as the sit- tli ition justifies. This would mean that ic farmers of the South as a whole on HI very largely have to carry their In vn cotton with little help front the o" inkers. This can be done if the tli nth is left alone to face the issue w id light it out. If the Southern cot- (I: n growers should lie helped out of le ic hole of their own digging hy the H ml era I Government, their sclf-rcli- si ice would lie snapped and the help v.-ii iin-iii Iiv tin- Government would m BRAVE BRITISH TOMMIES ! i Oaring Attack They Take Impart' ' ant Position. i British troops bore the hrunt of the ;tit intr in the last two days offensive 1 the neighborhood of Oulchy, % staff llcer of French troops who co-ope* 1 [te<l with them informed me, writes:) < irrespondent of the New York WorM tder date of July 31. < "The British imrt in the battle," he ' Ided. "was a brilliant one, for th<-> id to cross tut open plain wh"f> i icy wire in full view of the eneni> id then attempt to attack on tin : est which dominates the district- ' he men oncaijod have the risht to 1 > proud of their achievement." Tt.. 1 ? f/>nmn tlun f Alitoino/1 iA/bit 1 om the staff officer of French troop* i gaged enables mc to add further i fails and further appreciation ni ip value of tho work done Sunda> nl Monday in the western arm <>l ip Khcims-Soissons sector. The cupire of Itutte de Chalment and tie osslng of the Chateau Thierry road it only gave a view on Flames Imt rmits the French to dominate a i*ge area of the country and thus ys the foundation for a further adince. Advance in Open. The fighting Sunday, which resultI in establishing the Allies' line on i- I'lesser-Hulen. Hill 152, Hill 115 td fllvrny, was of a desperate chm tei. It tneant an advance of a mil'ul a (fuarter, chiefly against maline gun Are. Tho fighting on both sides was r?arkahle for the fact there were actically no artillery duels, both le Ciermnn and French guns being so instantly moved that Infantry ap tircd to both sides to be more efctive than any attempt to deal with ich others' guns. The Allies' Hn?as faced by a great nameless crest, hich lies roughly east and west and arked by the villages of Heugneux. irinoisclle and Cramallle. Sunday's tack so modified the positions that ie Allies were not long harassed, as icy had been liy having the crest on nil- flank. With Itntte do Chnlment id the Chateau Thierry road in ieir possession, they determined to ess on toward it. The Hritish were i the north of the French and nearer ieir portion of the ridge, and in conifuenee they had to make a direct tack across the Intervening plain, hile the main function of the French as to advance concurrently with nan and act as a flank gunrd. British Opened Attack. Tin- British opened the attack an uir liefore the French, and hy S clock in the morning had attained loir last objective. (Srand-Itozov as taken by them while it was in lines, while the French, who had ss resistance to meet, attained the did objective in reaching the potion to the southeast of Beugneux. Beugneux was very strongly held, i were the woods to the northwest of , and as a result there was stahillzann in that neighborhood, the Allies >r the moment remaining content itli having made an advance of a lile to a mile nnd three-quarters and referring to avoid unnecessary sacticos. The stabilization was of short uration, however, und at 2.60 o'clock rn., the British again attackodk atlining on this occasion the eugncux itself and the woods nesf . They wore subjected to a very p.avy machine gun fire and indirect Dinhardment,. while ail yesterday the idghborliood of Kozoy was black itfi the smoke of the bombardment. At present the line runs from the nth of Crand-itozoy just south of cugnciix and west of (?rainoiS"lle. I learned the (Sennari lor?es had en terrible. In Oulchy-le-Villi* an it ire staff was wiped out by a single iel|. During the last two days of ghting a large number of machine ?n.l 1,1, . iwiriniiiiM onantitv ol nun unit ion has been found on the round from which the enemy was riven. GERMANS GETTING TIRED risoners Find that Allies Are Stronger than Was Reported. The far-reaching effect on German toralc of the great Allied blow bcveen Solssons and tho Champagne xttor is nowhere more convincingly PpurctU thiin among the large l>atch f German prisoners captured within le last few days by the Australians rites a correspondent from the Brltih front in France. "A sad lot of inhhits," was the de ription of them by a Ilritlsh o.Uccr ho interrogated some of them. "Ive never run across a more disjnsolate lot of boches," he said, /hat seemed to bo tho outstanding lought in the minds of both officers nd men was the fact that despite hat the German high command had >ng been preaching about the exaustion of all the French reserves, lcre is no sign of a let up in the flghtig. Of iter German prisoners asserted lelr losses had been great in the big oissons battle. They had believed leir big offensive would be a success, ut suddenly it turned into a -retreat, heir hopes in the U-boats had waned, >r Ameicans seemed to be everywhere in the fighting. What added to leir discouragement was the fact they ad been warned that British raiding ould certainly continue on a wide sale. German dead in front of one ustralian battalion which attacked car Morlancourt two days ago were Lilly two hundred. Whatever strong divisons Prince lupprecht may havo in reserve on the tritlsh front, those holding the line nd suffering from almost incessant iritlsh raiding and harassing artillery ro, include a big percentage of oops of low morale, it shows Ludenorff cannot use over seventy divisions 1 a big battle, particularly when it jrns suddenly into a disastrous de EMlsivo oaiue, wnnuui naving ? eakening effect on the morale of the est of the army. To try to counteract the effect of tritish gunfire and bombing, the toche is developing nightly intensified rtillery fire along most of the line^ acompanied by much gas shelling. He i revealing batteries which he had vidently meant to keep silent until uch time as he opened an attack gainst the British. The Merchant Marine.?The maner in which the war has revolutionled the American merchant marine is hown in a paper issued yesterday at tie headquarters of the United States flipping board's recruiting service in hlladelphia. There was a time. It aints out, when it seemed nothing Duld induce young Americans to go to ?a In any considerable numbers}- It as argued then that they had noVop portunlty for advancement: tha \merica is no longer a sea-faring na lion, and that young men could not l?< interested in a sea career. But times changed with America" entrance into the war, and the youn men now are responding, not by score or hundreds, but by thousands, to th rail of the sea. From every walk o life they are enlisting daily, as the re cords of the recruiting service show They realize, says enrolling officers there is a vast new American mer chant marine in the making: that th sea oiTers them as great opportunitie is the land, and that they can d< their "bit" as satisfactorily to the na lion aboard a transf>ort or a carg vessel as if they were fighting in th trenches. Nowdays. the announcement sr.ys, i is no unusual sight to see a vessel clea port with n 100 per cent Amoricni crew, and the fact explains the loyalt and efficiency with which our troop and supplied are being sent to Franc without mishaps for every raw recrui taken into the merchant service mut prove himself a full-fledged Amcrlcar BOMB RAIDS OVER PARIS Where Red Cro*? and Soldiers Shov Up Big. Writing of a German air raid o Paris, one of the American Ited Pros Inspectors gives a thrilling accoun of how American troops and Re Proas workers give aid to the city l such desperate moments. He descrlb is an air raid in this fashion: "Nowhere is there any sound bu the echoes of footsteps. \ot a strec light to be seen, not a single ray c light?nothing but tho inkiest an most impenetrable darkness. Then a the noise of the world seems to brea loose. Clang, clang-clang, boom the tocsin?like a gigantic pneumati riveter working on a collossnl hcl Whooo-o shrieks the siren, runnln up and down the scale In an awft wall. "The streets come to life. noor open and slam shut The sidewalk are full ci ghostly figures hurry In towards the caves where the inhabl tants have fitted up cots and bunki They get up now to make sitting plac for the new comers. The place fill up. Everyone looks apathetic, sleep and bored. The children go to slee with their heads on their mother' shoulders, and a girl In the unlfort of a street car conductor swaps ,wa yarns with a poilu in dingy blue. I tho last raid the front trucks of he car were thrown from the rails by th displacement of air caused by an ex ploding torpedo. The car nnd its ir mates were unhurt. The poilu look a mite incredible and murmers, "I ca well believe you, Mademoiselle.' "Outside. the noise continues fr about three or four minutes and the subsides as a new noise starts?th Archies, or anti-craft guns, whlc commence to bark furiously from ha a dozen different points. Searchlight rake the sky. ?The Archies continu their clamor, but they are not firing i anything, merely keeping up a bat rage fire to prevent the Roches froi Hying over the city. Suddenly thero is an earthrockln whoom. No more doubt as to wher the Roches are. Whooin, whoon whoom! One Involuntarily ducks an tries tufllewise to cover his head wit his shoulders. A hideous noise r? sounds up and down the desertc street?falling walls, and the tinklin and crash of showers of broken gla; and roofing tiles. "Through the glass and litter of th street an American Red Cross camo nette comes ploughing its way. Or of the city firemen stands on the rur ning board. They stop and the fin man Hushes an electric lamp into th ruins, making a hasty ins|>cction, an then runs up the street and dives int the redlight 'cave.' 'Anybody here from numbers i to Sir* he calls. A half dozen voic? yell out that there Is. 'Is everybody hero from thot ntimlicm? Was there anyone left i either of those buildings?' "There is an anxious willing bac and forth and a rapid counting < noses. "All hero is the answer.' "Good! Not much left to tho? two buildings. Ilon't enter the ruir until they hnvo been inspected by th engineering department Go to th Sisters of th Poor if you want food ? a place to sleep. ' A wail and several curses compel but the fireman Is gone. "The Archies have stopped and thei " 1 oto re no more wnuumn, uui In their cellars. It is only 9- o'clocl and experience has shown that the it dustrioiis and methodical Hoehcs wi keep coming; back again and again ui til after midnight. "A half a mile away a bright re glow gets larger and larger and ligh the sky. A fire has broken out in tl railroad yards and is making grei headway. Several cars of oil are burl ing fiercely and spreading to cars < merchandise. Half a dozen America soldiers are working feverishly tryir to get the untouched care away froi the fire. "Two of them have got hold of switch engine and are shutting 01 whole strings of care. "What is the matter with thei French engines, sir? asks the in promptu engineer. 1 can't find tl damn brake.' "The fire is eating its way towar< a pier on which stands a line of drun of gasoline. "Come on, boy! roll them kegs o' gi auta here,* yells the corporal, and tl line of drums starts trundling don the pier. It is infernally hot, and tl average man uue? nui nuuw jum nu hot gasoline can get before it begti to misbehave; but the line nev wavers. " Roll 'em along, boys! Keep* e goin. Everybody has got to die som time.' "IJttle by little things become rjuie er. The flres die down. The Archil stop. Here and there a working par still continues its labors in the ruin Someone is missing, and they want get him out of a cellar. Now the to sin sounds again, this time with slo1 stately, measured beats. This is tl 'All's clear* signal. No more enen planes are flying between here and tl fighting lines. People come out their cellars and go home. A few cai tious souls are busily putting sheets paper and pieces of bedding aero their windows to keep out the dread< 'courant da'lr.' Now and then the is a small group in a doorway, r counting experiences. "The Boche has dropped more thi one hundred bombs tonight, many them of the 860 pound sixe. The n damage is not very great. A few hous destroyed, many windows broken, few victims?very few but all t< t many; a few holes blown in the streets, ] - some trees uprooted in the park and p some pansy beds obliterated. "I imagine that back in his quarters, s the Boche escadrille kommandatur, K after sadly cataloguing his own a wounds, is writing up an account of * his glorious night's work for the edif float ion of the reader of the "Kolni- * - scheaeitung.' His ductile pen is reel' ing off: The earth reeled and rocked ' and whole rows of buildings went - down like card houses; the light of the e ilames showed panic stricken crowds s surging through the streets towards 11 the open country; the railroad depots - were levelled to the ground anjl many " munition dumps were blown up. and c sevoral llres were seen to break out in the barracks and military warehous- * t t>s.' I r "The escadrille kommandatur would t be grieved beyond measure could he y but walk through the streets tonight J 8 and inventory the net results and see t e the effect produced on the population. ] ' He who is now houseless shrugs his <i soulders and says 'Cest le Guerre," and 1 ' onre inure the i>eacct'ul stiirs shine | down tranquilly on the silent streets." GENERAL NEWS NOTES j Items of Interest Gathered from Va- 1 riout Sources. n . , 1 LS The German government nan given ^ a favorable reply to the invitation of . the American government to convene n n a conference to arrange tor the exchange of military and civilian prisoners, says a dispatch to the Kxclmngc t Telegraph from Amsterdam, i|iioting ^ a Iterlln dispatch last Thursday. ,f The white women of Georgia are d not only doing their share in Liberty II loan, I ted Cross, Y. M. C. A., Y. \V. C. A. and food conservation work to . H win the war: hut they are going furc ther. They are working the fields that ' I liie food production may not lie cut ? down l?y the shortage of labor occasioned by the army drafts. Any effort by congress to create an ' s air ministry to control the production a of aircraft will be opposed by Sec re- 1 X tary of the Navy Daniels, it became ' - known Friday. Secretary Daniels ? a. said: "There would be no more rea- t e son for establishing a single control ( Is over aircraft than there would he for ^ y establishing partial control of sub- 1 p marines in the war department." s Tile Portuguese bark Porto was ( n sunk by a German submarine 550 5 r miles off the Atlantic const on July J n 27. The navy department announced , r last Thursday that the crew of In ! c men had been landed at iui American ' - |M?rt l?y a Itritish steamer. After over- , i- hauling the bark the submarine's | ;s erew destroyed it witli bombs placed n in the-cargo of cotton. The Porto . was hound from Savannah to <)|M>rlu. ,r The famous "hunger stone" in the . n Itiver Kibe, near Tetsehen, which ncie cording to istpular belief in Germany, 1 h predicts a famine when seen, is now " visible for I lie llrst time since tlie | s beginning of the war, says an Asso- i 10 eiated Press correspondent. The stone lt lies iji the bed of the river, and has iu'Vct been visible save at exception11 ally low tide. On the .stone is chiseled in old (Sennan, "Winn ye see me 1 lB ye will weep." e "The worst is over at last," says the kaiser, In another message on the oc'' ronton of the -fifth anniversary of the war's outbreak In which he, however, predicts further sufferings. The message reads: -"In the new year the e (iermans will, not he s pit red suffering, w hut the worst is over at last. Not hint; has been omitted by us In order to ie bring peace to the destroyed world. The enetny, however, does not yet de'e sire peace. We must, therefore, eonlinue to light. (Sod be with lis." America must prepare to meet a (j larger delicti in tlte Allies' food supply this coming year than in the |iast. Th.'it was the meaning of a cable rereived in Washington Thursday from the food administrators of tlft- United s Stiites, France, Italy and (irent Itritain, now in conference in Ismdon. ' 10 "We cannot administer the food problem on the basis of a one year's war. , We must prepare for its long continuance if we are to insure absolute victory," said the resolution they adopted. "While the increased production in the .United States makes it possible to relax some of the restrictions which have borne with peculiar 16 t hardship upon our people, yet it is ,r necessary that economy and elimina- j tlon of waste, as well as increased ' production, shall be maintained." . I "? GOVERMENT LABOR AGENCY V _______ k. All Unskilled Workmen to be Under l* Federal Control. " Registration of unskilled labor has. t- been taken over by the Federal government as a war measure under an d agency of the department of labor designed as the United States employ's ment service. Shortage of unskilled labor, reported from many sections of the country, are expected to be alleviated by the plan just put Into operain tion whereby non-essential industries ifc will be required to contribute certain it quotas in war work. Through the operation of the system a of the government recruiting it is be- | it lieved, unnecessary movement of labor from community to community and se from industry to industry will be cbvii ated; wasteful labor turnover will be , io largely eliminated and wages will be stabilized. is The employment service of which is John B. Densmore has been named director-general, will work through is state boards, which in turn will conle trol labor through community beards, rn As effective now, government recruitic ing will apply only to skilled labor, w AH private agencies for the recruiting ns of labor are prohibited, er The understanding co-operation and good will of the American people are m called upon to aid in maxing tne syse tern a success by Secretary Wilson In a statement made public today, t- A shortage of 500,000 unskilled ps workers in war industries is shown in ty incomplete reports to the department is. of labor's Federal employment service, to which today took over the recruiting c- of this class of labor for war industries iv. employing a maximum force of 100 or tie more persona Final reports, it was ly announced, are expected to show a tie shortage of 1,000,000 workers, of War Industry was defined in the anil nouncement by th? employment serof vice as "the manufacture of products ?s or erection of structure directly or insd directly supplied to some department re of the government for use in connece Hon with the war." Coal mining also ? "tuKnllv n*n r u'Arlf M wu8 l'uudiuuu ao vtiiwii/ .. v. in While they will be protected from of recruiting by other industries, railways et and farms must obtain their unskilled os labor by other means than through the a Federal employment service, the anjo noun cement said. - PROFESSIONAL CARDS. 1 J. S. BRICE Attorney At Law. Prompt Attention to all I-egal iusiness of Whatever Nature. Office Opposite Courthouse. Dr. T. L. GLENN VETERINARY SURGEON Will promptly answer all calls. Telephone So. 92. Jun. 7*46 aw 3m ICE CREAM Now that hot weather has come, occasionally you will want ICE 'KKAM for your home and for paries i.lcnl.K ptcv LET ME SUPPLY k'oU. Any Havor you like In any luantity, from One Quart upwards, let My Price before you try to make our own cream. Quality and Cleanincss Guaranteed. MY SODA FOUNTAIN s ready to supply the thirsty with all timls of Ice Cold Drinks from the fountain spout and also In bottled irinks?Ginger Ale, Coca-Cola, PepsiJola, Chero-Cola. Bevo. etc. CHOICE FRUITS You will always And here a flrst lass assortment of the best Fruits. *all on mc for your Fruit wants. EAT AT JOHN'S IVhen you feel like eating, come to my Itestaurant. Lunches and inea. servsd on short notice at moderate prices. Yorkville Candy Kitchen JOHN I) KM AS. Prop. rhe Bank of Glover CLOVER. - S. C. iVERY BUSINESS DAY THIS BANK IS HERE TO SERVE t'OU. That's Our buslnesj and our deasure?Serving Other People? ,'iving them the very best of Banking Service from the smallest detail on up :o your most important flnuncial proprnltlon. DEPOSIT YOUH MONEY 1IE11E t will be SAFE, and being on deposit tore will help you to protect yourself igainst careless rpending?the drib)ling away of money as money will lribble away when you carry It in our pocket. And then another serrtce that this Bank will render you Is hut It will keep a close account of our funds?At least Once In Each dogth You will know Just what you lave paid out by Checks and how mich you have to your Credit, and hen too the Bank Way is the Correct business Way. Come and see Us. JAS. A. PAGE. Cashier. LADIES YOUR Coat Suits and Skirts and Waists should be Do* Cleaned. IVe have In our employ a Dry Cleaner Who Understands Dry Cleaning and Does It Right. Send Your Dry Cleanng Work to Us. Guaranteed satisfacion or no Charge. KELLY'S PRESSING CLUIl. 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 leather, and wear better than many so-called wool ruga, 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: '11x12 feet; 6x0 feet; '6x72 inches. POUCII FURNITURE? In the good old summer time you'll spend much of yoi. timo on your porch?Make It attractive. We can help you. See us for PORCH HAIRS, SETTEES. VUDOR POUCH 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. FORD Licensed Undertakers and Knihnlmers CLOVER. - - 8. C. MARSHMALLOW CREME Marshmallows, toasted and other(vise, are quite frequently used In making desserts. The modern and more satisfactory way is to u~e MARSHMALLOW CKEME. This is something new and dainty. Put up in pint glass Jars?30 ITS, 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 1-2 lb.; Morura, 35c 1-2 lb; and Excellent Bulk Teas, at 60 Cta. II). FOll DESSERTS We have Jello, Jiffy-Jell, Gelatines, Bukers's Cocoanut, grated, in tin. TANGLEFOOT those pesky flies?We have the Tanglefoot. SHERER & QUINN fTha Enquirer wants your orders For Commercial Stationery. i WE J iGOOD | MACHINERY IS NOW IN ] 2 GRINDING TH ? WE ARE GRINDING W ^ Our ROLLER MILL has J the machinery has been put i V old Bolting Cloths have been \ We have a First-Class M y ness, and we are here to GIV x TION to all patrons, wheth* ? freight or messenger, or whet ? DO NOT THROW AWAY / YMr Cattaa 8m4 Meal Btka K ? Km? tkca vkm in cm ? Ikrav IkM lata raw vif- ( 1 n wfcea IN wac W Im. J W? wiR bar tkM. | YORKVULE COTTi 8 PER CENT INTEREST LOANS AN lmj>rove?l York County Farms. ^ I.ong term: Choice of 3. 5. 7, or 10 yfars. An arrangement for easily paying debts with cheap money. C. E. SFKNCKIt. ^ > Attorney. W' A OOOD FRIEND~ A good friend stands by you when In need. York |>eople. tell how Doan's Kidney Fills have stood the test. J. ?J. Lucas, carpenter of Main St., York, endors?Hl Doan's three years ago and again confirms the story. Could you ask for more convincing testimony? "The effects of a cold settling on my kidneys anil also occ;isionally straining my back at my work, is what caused my kidney trouble," says Mr. Lucas. "The worst complaint was a constant ache across my back and the pains were even more 'severe when I Siit down for awhile. es|>ooiaHy nights. I didn't rest well at night and 1 got up in the mornings tired out and st i(T. Sometimes when I stopped over, sharp catches caught me in the center of my back and took my strength away. My kidneys acted irregularly. too and 1 had to get up several times at night on that account. 1 got two boxes of Doan's Kidney Fills from Shieder's Drug Store, and I have hail practically no trouble with my kidneys since." ( one For (iood. ?>n February 'JH. 1918, Mr. Lucas said: "It gives me pleasure to again recommend Doan's Kidney Pills. 1 am clad to confirm my former Hiaienienv. f>u cents at ull dealers. Fostcr-Milburn Murrain, N. Y. TAKE CASE 4E^ OF YOUR eyes? YuL'H KYKS tiro without a doubt the tuost important or^an oi the body and should be taken special care of. You should have them carefully examined occasionally whether you wear Uliuwes or not. If It be Heal, lloiKXt Service and Protection you want, see Shinier, "The Optometrist"; if it is Style you want, see Shieder nlso; if it bo the llest tilass money can buy, you want to see Shieder; but if it bo a Oik lot of money you want to spend, see some one else. Ask the hundreds of Rlad souls who have been to see me about my work and prices, and see what the man thut lit you with glasses did for your pocketbook. All Examination* Free. D. L. SIIIKDER, l?. O. TAKE NOTICEAll parties indebted to the York Furniture Co., Quinn Wallace, Prop., on accounts p due previous to this date, are payable to the undersigned or to Mr. Forest Smith, at the Store of the York Furni- * ture and Hardware Co. Please settle at once, as I desire to close up the business of the York Furniture Co., without delay. I can he found at the York Furniture & Hardware Co.'s Store. QUINN WALLACE. July 25,1918. Turnip Seeds NOW IS TUB TIMB to how Turnips There Is a good souson in tho ground, and as soon as the ground ran l><> picpared the Turnip Seed should he put I in the ground. You'll llnd Tun dps and Greons good this fall and winter and I the Greens will he tine next spring. Ho sure that you plant a patch of Turnips. \VK SELL IIUISTK'S SEEDS? Long recognized as the standard of highest quality. Have n good lug stock of the Host varieties. I>>t Us supply J you with the Turnip Seeds for your Turnip Patch, and don't fail to plant a good sized patch. York Drug Store FIRST NATIONAL BANK HIIAKON, - - t>. O. ? .Memls-r Federal Reserve System ? JUST BETWEEN US WOULDN'T IT HE BETTER FOR YOU to keep your Funds in this Bank, where You arc carefully guarded by Et Uncle Sam's Supervision, at d pay all your bills with Cheeks than it is for You to keep your funds at home, in an old desk, or drawer or knot hole, just where almost anybody might find the money or where Are might destroy it? Heal Business folks the world over put the money on deposit In a Bank and then pay out all funds with a check. This is a double Bafc-guard. A cancelled check shows exactly where your fuuds have gone and what for, and the canceled check is also an unquestioned receipt for any bills you may have out. And then too, the Bank way gives you a service In accounting thai Is Free and of untold value to you in the course of a year. Try rum.ing your business the Bank way fcr a year. If It Is not satisfactory you can quit. No checking account is too small for this Bank to handle. Give us yours. J. S. HARTNESS, Cashier. Uak^^S * FLOUR| FIRST-CLASS SHAPE FOR J E NEW CROP. J fHEAT. ^ , been thoroughly overnauled, n first-class condition, and all ^ replaced with New ones. ILLER who knows his busi- I E ABSOLUTE SATISFAC- J ... . i it they send their wheat by k her they come in person. < WE GRIND CORN TOO, t tnd we Grind It As It Ought I to Be Ground. ? )ur Flouring Mill is on the Oil y Mill Ground, but entirely J separate. I DN M COMPANY j . \ 1 . ., j \.SrJ . rl L-?>S> . 1 *Xj ?J