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* I I * , ' r~ ~ NEWBERRY, S. C, FKIDAY, JANUARY S, 15.15. A ,UI A YOLOIE LIII,M 3IBER 3. _ -? Fiercest BattU Ge MUCH HEAVY IN POLAND FRENCH AND (TEUTONIC FIGHT FOR ROADS TO MUELHAUSEN 9 Russians Claim to Be Driving Austrians Through the Snows of the Carpathians and Pursuing Turk? in. Trans-Causoasia. London, Jan. 6.?Apart from the ^Russian victory over the Turks in TMnsJ'iaiipasia whiVb i<? Hpsoribed in a dispatch to the iRussian embassy irom Petrograd as "complete," interest in the war centres in the stubborn fight the French and Germans are carrying on for the roads to Cernay and Mueihausen in upper Alsace. The battle in that region, raging for a week, is described in a Berlin dis~ A V ? - --5 1 J. ysf f V. TT'rt * paicn as tne mosi m me "a.*, The Germans regained one trench they ' '"ad lost, but, on the whole, the French reports appear to show that the forces o:; France maintain their advantage, 1:or every inch of which they had to light, ofte_r with the bayonet. Along the rest of the western front L the tide of battle continues to ebb and V flow. On either side oat Raeims, according to reports, the French daily & push their lines a few yards forward, W while in the Argonne, where more F -hard fighting is going on, first th Germans and then the French report ^ the captures of the other's entrenchments {The French apparently continue the attack on the German lines in the } Woevre, where gains they reported last night and again today must have made the Germans long occupation o St. Mihiel on the IMeuse less comfortable. I Situation in East. The Russians with all their other fronts to cover, have found another Iarmy with which to rake the offseasive against the German position at Milawa, on the Eastern Prussian Tronic tier, and tonigfct report the capture of a villiage on the road to that town, i The Germans still are hammering HIP the Russian line drawn directly rcoss the roads to Warsaw iirom the Kwest, but it is reported, with less iorce behind 'them. In West Galicia, " - - - 3 Iliowever, wnere they nave remiorceu *rhe Austrians they Ibave held up th-? Russian advance, near Gorlice. In Southern Poland rain has stopped the fighting. Neither side is able tc move there owing to the high water and the mud. A PLEASANT OCCASION r^Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Wilson Celebrate ; tTlieir 40f}i Anniversary?Wed' dins. a ? nn n TonnorT' t Vi \T r V/Il lilSl iuesua,?, uauuai.< 'nu, and Mrs. T. J. Wilson celebrated the 1 40th anniversary of their married life <vith a amily reunion. Outside the family f' ose being pres* ent were: Rev. and Mrs. P. ?. Shealy of Newberry; Mr. and Mrs. T. L. B "Prvnc: and family: Mr. Curtis Rikarc and sisters, l.Misses -May-belle and Esielle, of Long Lane. The day was pleasantly spent. At about 1 o'clock dinner was announced ready and upon entering the dining room it was found that a "sure enough" wedding dinner had been pre? pared consisting of such things as turkey, boiled ham. chicken in various (forms, sausage, dressing, salad of different kinds, cakes, custards, hash etc. After dinner was over every bodj reassembled into the icouse and enjoyed some good music both on instrument and by singing. t Nothing happened to mar the pleasure of the day unless if. was returning home in the rain of those who live<j Fat a distance. .May ,.vir. and -virs. v\nson be spared to celebrate many mort anniversaries of their wedded life ?nd may their last ones be their most -j >asant ones is the wish of One who w*as present. , 1 rmans Declare . XEW^ERRl COLLEGE NEWS Second 1'erm Begun?Lecture by Re* C. L. \abers?Loving Cup From f (CoL Hobbs. 'Xew'berry college began the seeoii! term 6f the oresent session last 'lues j day rooming. During the chapel ex eraises, President Harms, in a r.app; manner, welcomed the students bacls It was very gratiying to see nearly al tiie old faces back md a few new one: all ready for another year's work. T> ntr r* X_J \To V\AY?n nr nif tlia A XVC v . v/. u. .>auci o, ya.oi.vi vi luc < > R. P. church at Prosperity, S. C., wil deliver an illustrated lecture on "Th Land of Sacred Story'' next Tuesda night, the 12 insant, in Holland Hal hoo-inninc .nrnnvntiv -At 9. r>V]opk Af3 j u^0.u?..u0 ? v. j mission is i'ree and everybody is cor I diallv invited to come out. Col. -Jno. F. Hobbs, of New York c'f the class of '79, offers a beautify silver loving cup to that student i: the college attaining the highest pro fic-iency'in f.:is or her selected course I Tiie cup has aireaav arrived ana na I been much admired by the students Basket ball practice has begun i ; earnest. From the way -Coach Parris , and his men are "working, prospect for a championship quintet are gooc (I he subject for the annual Marc debate between the Phrenakosmiai and Excelsior Literary societies ha already been* selected. The Phena kosmian representatives, A. W. Low man, captain and J. P. Derrick an F. B. Lingle, debaters, will maintai tae affirmative of the following que ry: "Resolved, That the States o , tlie American l^iion should adopt th initiative, referendum, and recall fo all elective and municipal officers, ex , cepting judges." The Excelsiors, E H. 'Seckinger, captain, and T. F. Sube and J. C. Kinara, debaters, will uphol the negative. IY:e Phrenakosmian ora tor is G. B. Derrick, tthe Excelsio orator is K. R. Kreps. Miss Genev. Thornton is the Pailomathian essayisi F. D. tMcLean of the Phenakosmian so ciety, will preside over the exercises. ttif \fws of pmnrci v Special to The Herald and Xews. Pomaria, Jan. 7.?The roads aroun : here are almost too bad to travel ove and everybody will either have to qui going or walk. Some of the road have been dragged with drags o scrapes, in ?act tia-e people around Pc ; rnaria have all set out to have bette roads so far as dragging and scrap I i"" if- nnneornori o n rJ oil aro WOrk nic^ i zy vviAov-Aiis-u. u ci uxi w*. i. ^ ?. ? - ' ing together along this line, we ar glad to say, for I know personall that there would have been severa ' miles dragged today if the rain ha not prevented the work. Our to-v. n had a pretty interestin election for officers on last Tuesda in which Mr. J. T. Kinard was elect ed intendant, Dr. R. J. Johnson. Jas , F. iSetzler, Thos. E. Rentz and .Joe ?o land wardens, for the year. Mr. 1 Packman Ricr.ardson was e:ecte police. 11 here has been a general stir u ? with the negroes in the way o. mov k ing about to different places especiall are thev moving away from the bac waters caused by the Parr Shoal com pany but it's not a hard job to ge ' plenty of hands aoywhere becaus j they are anxious for wages and crop this year. Alex Wicker who ?h<afc just moved t Mr. Joe Feagle's old Melts place ha the misfortune to lose almost every - thing he had on last Sunday night b i fire which destroyed the house. H ; saved an organ and some bedding ai ter the blaze was discovered. Ale I >! is a good o'd negro. > (Small grain which was sown plenti J fully last fall has been damaged mor , | or less by tr.-e wet c^lrl weather. Ther I is a lot of wheat to be sown yet thi ' spring or as soon as tae ground i - dry enough. T'ae following teachers have return ?d to work: Pro . D. F. Barber fror X. C. to Pomaria; Miss Ethel Seyt r frAm 1frv Vncmith \TlcC I\ Wi 1 , j liUlli XIC1C tvy '?> i l , ?'l * o O ? t j son to Sally; Miss Rosylin Sinn me I to 'M't. Pleasant, X. iC.: Miss Mari ii Summer to Manning; Miss .Tulia Set? ; ler to Presley; Miss Jessie Ruther ; ford to Central; Miss Olive Richard ^on to Whitmire; Miss Eugenia Hent (to Dyson; Mr. Joel Berley to Ciemso | college.. GOV. BLEASE PAROLES WILL MARSHALL: $ Petition Signed by Many Citizens of ' Newberry?If What Petitioners Say is True Should Have Rutin n/i ('Onvip. 1'VVH HXf v*? ?-vtion. Special to The Herald and Xews. Columbia, Janu. 7.?Governor Blease has received a petition for the pardon of Will Marshall. j _ j It will be remembered that Marshall _ [ is the negro who killed two negro v. women near Helena in 1913. The petition reads as follows: j "ST^/PE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, . County of 'Newberry. To Hon. Cole. L. Blease, Governor L of Soutr.- Carolina: ; Your undersigned petitioners, citie zens of Newberry county, in the State v aforesaid, wouid respectfully petition I your excellency to grant a pardon to oriA Wili Marshall, who was tried at _ the March terra o. the court of general sessions, 1913, Newberry county, con. j victed of murder with recommenda,i j tion to the mercy of the court, and n | sentenced by his honor, Judge Geo. E. !_ I Prince, to serve life sentence. He , killed two negro women for the killing s of one of whom the above-mentioned . trial was had and sentence imposed. n For the killing of tr.e other woman he was at the November term of the court Li s of general sessions, 1914, Newberry j county, tried, convicted and sentenc>a ed to serve at hard labor for life. a It seems that at the time of the s said killing Will Marshall was being attacked by another negro man, while defending himself he shot the women J who were aiding and assisting i'lis asjj sailant. Marshall made no effort to _ evade the officers or to escape. He ^ did not know at the time that he i'-ad e shot or killed any one nor did h? r know it until the following day. We believe that the prisoner should < be paroled or pardoned. r The governor laid particular stress j on the following sentence in ti'r.e petion.?"He did not know at the time r that he had shot or killed any one a nor did he know it until the following day." The petition, including the above statement, is signed by many of the XT U ~ trominent citizens 01 '.xewueiu among them being: 'Col. George Johnstone. 3 M. L. Spearman, commissioner of r public works. j J. J. Langiord, former mayor. s F. R. Fellers. r W. C. Schenck. George A. Addy. r A. J. 3. Langford. T. C. Davis. \ E. tA. Griffin. e | R. E. Allen. I R \TnP W-Alnie? y j xv ?uw. jLAVi"*vkj, 1 S. G. Brown. ,-j R. M. Lominick. W. T. Brown. ^ John B. Griffin. R. D. VvTicker. C. F. Summer. i u Pi-.Qr>ncl 1 onunfw cnnprvisor j . 2.1. V>?-- ti. ^ x * y V-WAJLAV^T ,_ i J. L. Burns. I?. B. Au 11. j J. R. Davidson. E. E. 'Williamson. P ' \V. J. Swittenberg. J. W. Smith, Jr. v P. D. Johnson. T T ro r>lrin i /. 1 . .TiWi wvnm. t_ E. H. Leslie. R. D. Smith, Jr. e A. H. Hawkins. s J. D. Xance. John C. Adams, health officer. 0 E. S. Werts, county auditor, d C. C. Davis. B. F. Goggans. v Jno. W. Taylor. j Benj. Halfacre. J. C. Halfacre. x O. L. Buzhardt Roy R. Cannon, J. R. Thornton. [. T. "L. B. Epps, keeper of county e l' ome. e Tf these prominent citizens knew of s this fact., it seems t.hat they should s have beei witnesses at the trial, and if they had testified to the statement i_ here signed, the governor is satisfied n that the jury would have returned a (t verdict 01 "Not Guilty." He has, _ therefore, acting under the petition, r and affidavits which have been filed o with the petition, granted the relief r. therein prayed for. .Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Hutchinson and 7 children are visiting her sister. Mrs. n H. H. Wells, and other relatives in Ne wherry. WHY WE GAN'T FLY | The Reason Man Is Unable to Rise In the Air Like a Bird. I ! HE LACKS THE BREASTBONE. In the Bird It Is Very Massive and ! Developed Like the Keel of a Yacht, i and Therein Lies the Secret of Ita Enormous Wing Power. | Man has always longed to fly like a j oira, ann un we aucieui ulicujiuo ??. j flight were based upon the flapping of i wings attached to tinman arms. These efforts were given up long age j when it was realized that mau was not and could not he strong enough to ! sustain himself in the air by the use or ! his arms. A man can only just lift i himself with his arms?chinning the bar. for example-but he finds hiuiseit : pretty Heavy after tie tins done it a i few titnes. | The reason why no man will ever b , able to fly with self moved wings is j that his breastbone is not big enough, j A bird's breastbone has along its mid' die a de^p keel, from which spring the enormous muscles that draw down the wings when flapping or hold them level ! wheu soaring, the muscles, in other words, that supj>ort th? entire weigh! f 4. 1 ?^ . . J , or me uiru. j The most powerful fliers bave the : deepest breastbones. Look at the skel i etou of an aibatross. a condor or a j humming bird in a museum and you i will notice that tbe Keel of its breast bone projects like the keel of a racing yacht j You can see this keel, only mucb ' smaller in proportion to the size of the bird, on the carcass of any chicken 01 j TUFKey HIter me Lueai uus Dctrii r?r | moved, and the tender white flesh froir the breast is nothing but the muscle? with which the bird flew wben alive. You notice that,even on a chicken | which is one of the weakest of fliers this flesh forms the greater part of the ! body. On a bumming bi^ there is lit I tie else but this mass of Wying muscle : In other words, the humming bird is ! nothing but a tiny flying machine, i An albatross has a vast spread ol wings, and its small body 1s little els* but a pair of powerful pectoral mus cles. These are attached by tendon* to the bone called the humerus, whict is the counterpart of the upper arn bone of a man. They spread out like i solid fan and are fastened to tb( breastbone with its deep keel, to the clavicles, or "wishbone," and to th( ribs. A niHn's breastbone has no keei. His humerus, or upper arm bone, is hinsec to the clnvicle. or collarbone, and shoulder blade. Flis pectoral muscles which move the nrm forward, and del toid muscles. which lift it. are attach ed to it by strong tendons and spre;>( j fanlike over his upper chest, heing in | serted in the ribs and collarbone. These are the muscles that do th< I same work for man as the pectora ! muscles do for a bird. These are'th< ! mnsploc on which he would have t( rely if he were to fasten wings to his arms and try to fly Compare "hese muscles with those o: an albatross and you will see how. in | adequate they are. Though an alba ! tross weighs only a few pounds, it h:i: ! pectoral muscles that are actually lar ; ger than those of the most powerfu j athlete. j In order to have muscles powerfu | enough to lift his weight in the air bj '1 ? " ? ? ? -? -- ?. . I\n/\n o I IiappiUg W1UJJS 'd LUtiii a uieaoiuum ; would have to develop a keel like i bird's and his collar bODe would hav< to be changed to a giant "wishbone." Some writer on aviation has calcu I lated that this keel and "wishbone* | would have to project at least six fee i in order to furnish attachment for th< necessary muscles, for man in propor tion to his size is far heavier than ai albatross. This bird has small anc ! rrarrr lirrhf lo<T<a whprpfls m.in's leSTS an | solid and heavy. The albatross' lonj ! win? bones are hollow tubes. This makes it plain why experiment I ers in flying long ago gave up the ides ; of self moved wings and flight lik< j that of a bird.?San Francisco Chroni ! cle. i Ceremony ana (jannon Balls. I There is a tale told about an office j j who was conversing with Marlborongl i during a bot engagement and insiste( ; on taking off his hat and bowing pro I foundly every time be spoke to th< ; duke. That great man suggested tha j at such a time they might very wel j waive all ceremony But tbe office; bowed deeply to bis commander's sug 1 -..ffinn inet ov; hn was bendim l 1VSJU, 44IJVJ v ^ down a cannon hall cleared him an( took off the head of a comrade. Thi officer on comirm up auam and seeing what had happened remarked calmly "Your ?!*aee pei<-e:\e> r:: :T 'Tie lose: I nothing hv n- ;it? ii. <> i.wi.cioii News UNCLE SAM'S NAVAL EXPERT. | One Who Does Nothing but Play With Toy Battleships. In a long, low building down near the river in Washington tbere is a man who niavs witn tov shiDs on a toy ocean. And as a result of his play he can foretell exactly how the big battleships of the United States navy will ' behave in a storm at sea, and he can predict to a nicety how much horsepower will be needed to drive the great transatlantic liners laden with their passengers and freight. He does this before even the keels of the ships i havp hppn laid down. He is a naval constructor in the ( ] United States navy, and the toy ocean i on which he works is the United States < experimental model basin. The sheet i of water in the basin is 500 feet long 1 and fifty feet wide, with a maximum 3 1 depth of fourteen feet , j But in this limited space the naval , expert working with a wave maker, a 1 <irno7Yinmrcar a tnxxrin& hridce and I other Apparatus, can solve all the me- t chanical problems connected with the i construction of a ship, its probable , roll when struck by giant waves and j the horsepower needed in its tremen- , > dous engines to drive it through the i j water. He works with wooden models c twenty feet long. S&me of them weigh . ; 1.000 pounds, none of them more than 1 . 2,000. The other countries of the i wnrld iisa nnraffine models, but he ( . j "1 - I I , works entirely with the miniature ships of wood. : j The drawings and plans of the bat- < i tleships to he built by Uncle Sam are 1 . i turned over to the constructor by the 1 . | navy department s bureau of constrnc. ! tion and repair. In a little shop ad- < i joining the building which covers the i . | model basin the models are made and ] r j painted. Bags of shot each weighing j < ' j twenty-five pounds, are kept on hand j , ! to bring the model up to the corre? j sponding weight of the big ship. The . final tests are made in the 'toy ocean" near by.?Popular Magazine. ' UNSEEN COMPANIONS. Familiars That Are Born and Dwell In j j Our Imaginations. Real men and women are not the 1? -vi ? ^o?*A inho 1 1 OUiy |Jt!U|iie. W UI uiiuun ai c (uuuui^u | as truly as any other country. Every ' child has his invisible playmate, to t whom he talks more freely than to his t f parents and with whom he goes upon j * strange adventures?a tiny Columbus, with whom he embarks upon the wa' ters of the bathtub to discover a new 1 land, or a roving De Soto, with whom < 1 he slips iarough the garden gate unat1 tended and unafraid, always before be "j J is three years old, bent upon an excur- j i sion into the wilderness which lies ( - ii-l J t? * across tfie oroou in tne uem ui iu iuc t woods. * If you are the father or mother of * this child you never can understand 1 that?how the timid baby who was * never before out of your sight could have gone so far alone. Why. when you found him. stained with his trav1 els. very tired, almost nodding, he was still confident, preoccupied and bent upon a further pilgrimage into the un? known. It is because he was not ' alone. He was accomparled by an - other whom he knows better than he } will ever know father or mother, one 3 of those companions of his own fancy, about whom he never tells you or any ^ I one else ' | These people grow up like other peo *1 pie. The little child has his familiar. 1 and the young man his his "ideal," ai' ways a woman-not the one he marries nor even the one he might have married. but one whom he never saw in 1 the flesh, a veiled and inscrutable presence who never forsakes him. And 5 when he grows old and the wife he , 1 did marry grows old she remains youni;. ' fairer than the lilies, sweeter than hon eydew upon the leaves in June.?Corra ~ Harris in Harper's Magazine. & i J s Romance. They were at a tea on Morningside? ) she extremely pretty and engaging j despite the fact that she was in Teachers' college and he an earnest student * of the law. They bgd really gone quite far along the pleasant road of romance. He inquired civilly what de- i gree she pursued. ] "I aspire to an M. R. S.," she replied demurely. , "T rfiiro snv it's hard." he answered absenfmindedly. Hours afterward under the green shaded light in bis own r room it all came to him suddenly.? ] | New York Post > 1 I 1 u J. A Composite Church. "7U:1- o ro mflnr h^ailtiful w line iuc>c ci? w c churches, it is an old saying that the I 1 choir of Beauvais, the nave of Amiens. J r the portal of Rheims and the towers < ' of Chartres would together make the 1 * loveliest church in the world. The * glass in the great windows of nave - and transept at Rheims was one of Its ? greatest charms. Almost all of it was * made at the time when such work was ' 3 most beautiful. J CENTRE OF FIGHTING NOW UPPER ALSACE | VIOLENT ENGAGEMENTS IN THAT SECTION f* But Little Change There According . to Both Petrograd and Berit_ liU. Upiper lAlsace appears to be the jenjtre of the most iinjportant fighting n the Western war arena. Violent mgagements are being fought in the egion of Sennheim, which the French . ? ? . :aii uernay, about eigat miles aortavest of 'Muelhausea. (French. forces have occupied the leights around Sennheim and also lave driven the Germans out of Stein)ao'i, a ivilLage farther to the north. At other points along the front here bias been only intermittent canlonadiog. Both Russians and Germans aniAilnr>o nn imirvirtnnt Vioc to.Von )lace on the (front along the le\t hank )f the Vistula. In West Galicia the Russians are naking steady porgress, and accordng to their official statement, have captured many Austrian prisoners. Russian, troops have crossed the jrown land of iBukowina and occupied Suozawa, near tfce Austro-Rournanian lOUUCi . ' A Berlin Tageblaat correspondent at Austrian headquarters explains the 'ecent change in the situation in Gaicia toy the statement that the Russians have been reinforced from Kiev. Another German correspondent says .he Russians are bending every effort ,o reach the fortress of Cracow, but lave met with repulses and heavy osses, owing to tfce well selected Aus;rian [positions. British warships have bombarded >ar-es-Salaam, capital oi German Sast Africa, where it is reported much laraage was inflicted and all German vessels in the harbor were disabled. The British government will reply o the American note concerning con;raband within a few days., Engand and her allies are said to haive eaci ed an understanding with Italy iuu pi uj-uiotra LU mj sanciavtui^ ?,w ill the countries affected. It was a German submarine which sank the British battleship Formiaible New Year's day in the Jpng^sh Channel. This announcement is made i rom Berlin, which was so advised by i wireless dispatch tfrom the subnarine. The Formidable, according tee same authority, met with disister off Plymouth. An Italian battleship and a coast ;uard have shelled Durazzo, Albania, vhere a Mussulman committee had iemanded from Bssad 'Pasha,; the jrovisional president, that the French md iServian ministers be handed over ;o them. An attack on the city bv the Mussulman rebels followed a refusal to comply witu this demand and the talian legation was applied to for Rntt'i, Italian and' FVenrh lesa lion officials and members of the .'talian colony have embarked on the warships. Xarried. Mr. James S. Connelly, of Chappells, >vas happly married on last Sunday ifternoon to iMiss Emmie Maud Mayson, of Saluda county. The ceremony ?-???? BAufnmiHit ihor naRpv J. V\ dO i/Ci IVi ui^u uj ^v.wvv. , R. -McKittrick, at bis home. Petition to Legislature. To the public: Tbere ftas been a committee appointed to carry a petition around asking the legislature to pass a prohibition law, of the sale >f liquor in the State of South CaroIJ? iKoonmo law until the L11IC, UUL UUL iv/ people have had a chance to -vote on the law, and if carried by a majority of the voters, then it becomes la/w. Can you refuse to sign this petition. It is only asking tnat the people be given a chance to vote on this question. J. H. Wicker. Rev. D. P. Boyd and ramiiy uavc moved in the Methodist parsonage re- . eently bought by the Methodist for that purpose and he has already started work on the Broad River circuit which. is composed of three churches? Mt. Pleasant. New Hope and Morris Chapel at Pomaria. We are glad to welcome Rev. Boyd's family to Po-' maria.