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A DUKE'S REVEN8E \ !t Gave to Germany Her Most Distinguished Regiment. THE DEATH'S HEAD HUSSARS. Organized Originally by Frederick William of Brunswick, Napoleon's Deadly Foe, the Famous Body of Cavalrv Fouaht Its Way to Renown, i The curt refusal of Napoleon 1. to allow Frederick William, duke or Brunswick, to burv tlie body ot his exiled father in his native laud inspired the urbanization ot the Death's Head hussars, the most famous regi ment in the present German army. Deeply moved by the ungracious act of the despotic Napoleon, Frederics William, after bis tirst paroxysm of indignation and rage had subsided, J vowed eternal vengeance against the French conqueror, and until the day of his death, whic h was June 10, 1815, j on the held of Quatre Bras, he was Napoleon s most implacable foe In ail the German states. Brunswick being barred to him by - -i- - - i ~ ? * I tne victories or me reieuuess ncutu invader, Duke Frederick William repaired to Bohemia after his father's death. He was without funds, but through the efforts ot his sister, then princess of Wales, English funds found their way to him, and he was enabled to set on foot the plans he had formed to revenge himself upon his enemy. All Germany was then under Napo leon's foot. His armies bad swept away all opposition. Prussia, Brunswick. Bavaria. Saxony, all the states were mere vassals of France. Hut though conquered or subjugated their hatred of the oppressor was intense, and underneath the surface a tire of hatred smoldered, which the duke helped to fan into the blaze that eventually sent Bonaparte to St. Helena. 'Thu rlnL-ti himcplf as Na poleon's foe. Men flocked to bis standard. He organized and equipped 2,000 cavalrymen and. in memory of his father, clothed tb^ra in black. A silver skull and crossbones adorned their hussar headdress, and the siiver lace slashings of the jackets were placed to resemble the ribs of a skeleton. "The Black Branswickers" they were called. With the gallant duke at their head they began a guerrilla warfare that was a continual worry to the French armies. Von Stein. Soharnborst and others gave them secret encouragement. Through Saxony. Hesse and Hanover the troopers gobbled up and put to the sword Krench detachments. K^cruits flocked to them. At Berneck the duke gave battle to the French (general Junot and whipped him. All Germany thrilled at the romantic accounts of the daring of the terrible "Blact Hussars." A Saxon army was whipped at Zittau and another force at Halberstadt. A pQ<rinimif irmffn llltO ail ai'mV. ^ a v n- - the only one Napoleon's troops could Dot corner and whip. The duchy of Brunswick was invaded and tbe French garrison alarmed Leipzig was surprised and captured. CLtil the battle ot Wagram the duke and his bussars rode over Germany at will. That victory gave Napoleon more time to devote to them, and the duke o-- rr> i. ?.i h,. *wasvrorceu ro nee iu cvu^hiiiu. out iuc "Black Hussars." wltb the death's head on their caps, continued the warfare in scattered bands. They were welded into a brigade in 1814 and, as a part of a division in the allied army eommauded by the Duke of Brunswick, rode into Paris after Napoleon's down fall. They fought again during the hundred days. The iJuke ot Brunswick did not live to see Napoleon's complete humiliation. He died on the field of battle wrjile trying to rally some reJ JL X 1 emits who started a stampeae ai iue first French tire. The fame of the hussars had reached such a point that tbe organization was continued in the Prussian army. Today its colonel is tLie crown prince of Germany, and among its officers are princes of a dozen reigning German families. The regiment presents a splendid appearance on parade, its picturesque uniform, or wmcu lue skuh uuu uiwabones on the headdress, are the most stinking attractions, imparting to the dashing cavalrymen a sinister and startling effect.?Kansas City Times. The Walrus' Defenses. A full grown walrus will weigh as much as 2,000 pounds, a mountainous mass of muscle and blubber. He is armed with tusks of ivory sometimes two feet in length, and when from his upreared bulk these formidable weap one are plunged downward upon au enemy they are as resistless as the drop of a guillotine. Such a thick layer of blubber lies under the skin that he is practically clad in an armor Impervious to teeth and claws alike, fct Nicholas. Flight of a Bullet. The same projectile propelled by the ~ rr! 11 rol fapf-har if nrn ?>auic y*JYf%ZL ? UI 11 n. . v_ ? * m i?. ^ ? jected vertically than if projected on a horizontal line four feet from the ground. Thus a bullet fired vertically with a velocity of, say, 100 feet per second, will ascend to a height of 155.3 \ feet, while if fired with same speed horizontally four feet from the ground \ , will strike the earth at a distance of \ faat- -\pw York American. ? Knowest thou the moaning of this <Iay? What thou canst do today rise2y attempt to do.?Carlyle. FOOD, FINGERS AND FLIES. Three of the Factors Most Active !n Spreading Disease. There are three principal ways in which disease germs are carried from person to person, and these ways may be easily remembered by three catch words?food, fingers and nies. The most important foods which carry disease lire those which are eaten raw, since thorough cooking destroys disease germs and most cooked foods are only dangerous wheu they have been infected in the kitchen .-liter cook lDi;. Aiuoni; raw roods, too. many, like oranges, are safe because they are peeled before eating. Uf all foods the most dangerous are watr" and milk, because they are or ten polluted (by sewage in tbe ease ot I water, by human contact in the case of milk), because tbey are drunk I promptly without time tor tlie disease i germs to die out and because, usually in tlie case of water and often in the I case of milk, they are not cooted. The second way in which disease I orarrn^ ;irp mmmonlv snread is by | means of contact betwen people rhem| selves. Fingers, in tbe catch phrase, j which all who valttbeir health should j try to bear in mind, stands not only i for tbe fingers themselves, but for all i sorts of ways in which disease germs | may be exchanged. ' In measles ;*nd whooping cough and j scarlet fever and diphtheria and tuber; culosis and many other diseases the j germs are present in the nose and throat and are spread from person to person by the fingers, which go too often to the mouth and nose, by drinking cups and spoons and other things j which too ofteD are used m common I and by the fine spray throwu out from I the mouth in coughing and sneezing. | In typhoid fever and diarrhea and sim| ilar diseases the germs are found in ! the intestinal discharges, and here, too, j soiled fingers play an important part : in the transmission of the disease. The third common way in whu-h disease germs are spread is by means of | insects. Flies are perhaps the most i -<ropm r-.ornprs in most JILLi[/^l lUIil l uov v. t fjv * ??-* ? states. They often pick up infected material on their legs and bodies and carry it to food, and where there is no good system of sewage disposal tbey 1 may play a part in the spread of such | diseases as typhoid fever. A certain kind of mosquito carries malaria, and this, too. is important in certain dis! tricts. In tropical countries a whole ; host of diseases is carried by ins sets.? .New York American. COWBOYS OF SPAIN. II. : Splendid Horsemen, Dut i ney Spurs Without Mercy. ! The perfection of Spanish horsemanI ship is to be seen among tLe vaqueros, ganaderos aud garrochistas, by which | various names the mounted herdsmen j of the Andalusian plains are known? in brief, what we should call a cowboy. Every farm seems to maintain a large number of these, for each herd, flock or drove has its own herdsman, goatherd or swineherd, .as the case | may be. The vaqueros are a fine look| ing lot of men. Tall, thin, light and ! mnrfa thpv look ideal horse J JVVOCiJ ! men, as, in point of fact, they are, i though their mounts are poor. The vaquero rides very high on a , huge saddle, with a long stirrup and i straight Jeg, using a single rein and 1 a very heavy curb, but he has such ! beautiful hands that, although nsing this barbarous bit, he never cuts bis | horse's mouth about. It is different I with the animals' sides, however, for ; ha iisps his sours without mercy, and ? ? . j the white horses?of which there are a large number?all have ominous red stains behind the girths. All the herdsmen who look after cattie carry a long lance, called a garrocha, of thick and heavy wood, which, except when standing still, they always carry "in rest" and not "at the ; carry," presumably on account of its great length and possibly its weight With this weapon, in the use of which | he acquires amazing dexterity, the ; garrochista .is able to control the most *? 1 ' UAn/^ riAf nv^antn | unruiy uruies 'u iuc ui-m, uvl ! ing the savage fighting bull.?Wide j World Magazine. I I Making a Record. | Sir George Trevelyan told a curious little anecdote regarding an interview ! be had once had with Thackeray. The novelist was engaged at the time ic : writing "The? Virginians," and in the middle of tbe conversation be com menced to ask each of the young men in the company what was the greatest length they had ever jumped- The greatest jump claimed was twenty-twc i feet. "Well," said Thackeray, "then I will make Washington jump twenty-four." So reputations are made. ? London Standard. Offensively Officious. "You always go home exceedingly | early, old man." ! "Yes. Our neighbors are the cause of that." "How so?" "If I stay downtown a minute late 1 they come right over and condone with : my wife."?Louisville Courier-Journal. Caviar. I Caviar Is the roe of the sturgeon pre| pared as a table delicacy. As a disb ; too rare to be known by the generality of people and the flavor of which I would not be relished by an uneducat ed palate, Shakespeare makes Hamlet speak of it Gallant. ' Beautiful Widow-Do you know, I'm j forty years old today. Gallant Baehej Jor?Madam, you are twenty, f nevei j believe more than Lidf of what 1 hear, PICTURES OF BATTLES. | Warfare Has Always Seen a Popular , Subject For Ariists. From the earliest days of history war j has given inspiration to tlie artist, and J the work of his hands comes down to ! us on the walls of ancient Kgypt, worn i with the passing of thousands of 1 J years; from the ruined temples of an- ; I tique Greece, built centuries before the j i Christian era. The picture writing of ' I primitive aud savage peoples describes ; exploits of war; many archaic war ? pictures, brought to view after ages of j burial under desert sands, b<>ar much ! similarity to Indian drawings or our . own near time and land. Once, years ago, away up on the I Poplar river, in Montana, 1 bought? I bartered for, 1 suppose I should say, I as the purchase was made mainly by | the medium of tea, tobacco and sugar? ' 'nn;,, - vrl" 'Alio riorht isi't' flip hiwlf f?f I ll |M1UI,UU . vvt i " v- , the war chief of a baud of Yanktonnais- | ; Sioux our troops had "rounded up" ! j and brought iuto the agency. The skin J 1 was a fine "black bull," tanned on the underside to the softness ot the finest j chamois leather and decorated with j naive pictorial representations of thp j deeds of war of old Kill-Them-In-a-Hole I ?as the soldiers translated the name ! driven the chief trom some episode in his murderous career?which in color, in grace and firmness of line were curiously like pictures from the pencil of some artist of the Egypt of old. The glory of war is the theme; the i exaltation of the sovereign, the con; queror, forms the chief motive of the war picture of antiquity. The monarch was the hero before whose terrible sword all foes gave way, to whom victory came through his personal might and prowess. The warriors of the ! | Greeks are shown as models of virile | ! strength and grace; their attitudes in i 1 the furv of combat lost nothing of j j artistic beauty in the realism of the ! rendering. The influence of the Greek | masters of their art is evident in bsttle i pictures of a time twoscore and more ' centuries later.?Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum in Scribner's. ! MEDIEVAL PUNISHMENTS. " \ % OI<4 I PnnlanH That HilVfi , Sac u ct viu W . .. \ Never Been Revoked. Althcagb tbe stocks, like the pillory ' aDd tbe ducking stool, have been done j away with, a lot of punishments surI rive in England which are every bit as , i medieval. j The most ludicrous of these exist in the two services?the army aud navy? which were renowned in the past for the cruelties practiced in them in tbe name of justice. "Keelhauling" as carried out in the navy used, of course, to amount to execution by drowning, | while in the army "running the gantj let" was a popular way of punishing j j troublesome soldiers. Here is another queer punishment i which never has been removed trom I the statute book. If you are motoring | | or driving in England beware lest you j ! run over anybody, for if you do so and ! | cause his death your motorcar or car ; riage can be confiscated. Even a fa 11i ing tree that caused the death of a bnj man being can be taken from its owner Tiie strangest punishment which still j survives under modern law in England j j is that of "outlawry." Only a few j I vears ago?in 1906 to be exact?a law- j ! yer charged with forging a check was "outlawed" in the Glasgow high court By this sentence the person ot the accused is declared forfeit He cannot i bear testimony in a court nor sue nor [defend an action. He cannot act on a jury nor vote at an election nor act as j tutor or guardian to another person. ; If any one robs him be has no redress. * If any one kills him it seems rather doubtful if that person can be hanged. I ?Pearson's Weekly. One of New York's Tiny Streets. New York has some queer streets, and Edgar street is one of them. It ' has been bailt up solidly on both sides ! frou end to end for generations, but j ; it has nu numbers, and no one lives oa : 'it, and no one does business there.!: >; The letter carrier never stops. It has j, : only one door, and that is kept locked and never used. Fifteen long steps take one along the sidewalk from one ; I end to the other. Queer iittle thor- j 1 ougbfare is Edgar street, lying be- j : : tween Broadway and the Hudson, be- ! ' *- '" nlrl Vnnr 1 (' low itet'ior suei;u iu uiucsl viv* m.n York.?New York World. j , The Question Box. i i What kind of glue should I use to ! . | make a yardstick ??A- B. C. j Piease tell me how to tighten a hick- i . cry nut? F. M. F. | i Why is it I cannot get any music j, \ from a bandbox??Mrs. I. G. j Can you teli me why it is that a fire j I breaks out at the start and goes out at j ! the finish??Helen M. How can I sharpen a nutmeg grater? . ?Mrs. S.?Wisconsin State Journal. Terrorized. Binks?Why, Where's the breakfast? ! Mrs. Binks? Hush, dear! The cook ate i i.r*. rr^nH a fa 1* all? Yfr<a ! I I it. Olil&S VI uukt aifc >b U>> . | Binks?Yes, dear. We mustn't say anyj thing. 1 think cook is jnst the sort of ,, woman who would go round and say we starved our help.?Cleveland Plain | Dealer. "Crabbed Age and Youth." ! "Now, Thomas," said the teacher, i1 can you explain the adage, 'Old men , i for council and young men for war?' " , I "It means," replied Thomas, "that j ' " *'J nnominlirin Ci n f? Hion I ! ^16 OiU Lueu UU luc ^ucunuiB ?uu i ' kt the young men do the fighting."? ' i London Fun. A Pirate's Brutal Remark. L Captain Kidd buried his treasure. . j "If I were Mrs. Klcid i wonia nme j . | it in the top bureau drawer," fcte as- j serted.-New York Sun. ' k - J : A Card tc of Rural Tel( We are anxious to see other parties and connectec condition as to furnish effi< owners of rural lines are re! we want to co-operate wit! All lines require a th sionaily if vhe best service recommend that every lij overhauled at least once a ? experienced telephone man cost of this work when div of the line, makes the am small, and this cost will be improved service. If the owners of rural t lion are experiencing uuuu will appreciate their talking Manager or writing us fu what we can toward helpii dition of your line. SOUTHERN BELL T1 AND TELEGRAPH BOX 163, COI i 4 | Better Light a I j^KUS^rsm iigni and old eyes alike. J. give you kerosene ] | steady, generous g^ corner of the room. |J The RAYO does not smol Fj solid brass, nickel-plated. || clean, easy to rewick. At I STANDARD O Washington, D. C. (NEW J1 p } Norfolk, Va. n < t fn Richmond, V*. JBAL III THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, I COUNTY OF NEWBERRY, By C. C. Schumpert, Probate Judge, j Whereas, Robert L. Stokes made I suit to me to grant him letter of administration of the estate and effects of J. D. Stokes. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kini dred and creditors of the said J. D. I rior.0.0cai-1 that thev be and aD- I UIVA.CC, U\.UVuon-U, - ^ _ pear be ore me, in tine court of probare, to be held at Newberry, S. C., on January 19th next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not he granted. ftivpn under mv hand this 4th, day of January, Anno Domini 1914. C. C. Schumpert, J. P. N. C. Atteiit/on Pens/oners. I will be in the auditor's office every Saturday during the month of January | to receive applications. The board is called to meet the first! J U'/.k ,,nr.Tr -o T! d "VTurph to I .VIOilUcl V III rcuiuai < auu v- , consider these applications. J. W. Reagin, Chairman. 1-5-td. Spec/al Teachers' Examination, January 15, 1915. Special teachers' examination tor uncertified teachers and all prospective teachers will be held in Newberry court house, Friday, January 15, 1915. By order of the State board of edu- j cation. Geo. D. Brown, Co. Supt. of Ed. | m i r t j I --J ul-lU. > Owners : *phone Lines | i i that all lines owned by 3 with us are kept in such ;ient service. Wh;ere the sponsible for their upkeep, j 1 them. \ orough overeauling occa- I is to be obtained. We j tie connected with us be j fear, and that at least one j j assist in this work. The ( ided among all the patrons tount paid by each man more than offset by the t elephone lines in this sec :*-u ^ c iic wim men aciviLc, we I the matter oyer with our lly. We will gladly do j ig you improve the ton- * ELEPHONE ' GOMPANY ( iUMBIA, S. C. i 11' i ? i i f l!!!' 1 i ' i! 11! Ij i' i H!. ': );! 1 i H l! I:!! l >r! 11; I i 11;:, | :1;' j i: i ; ggggHg&HSiii M k = nd More of It J. "y i t is best for young M w < #r\ n LA.MFS gj ight at its best ?a g v that reaches every H ce or smell. It is made of Pi It is easy to light, easy to gj : dealers everywhere. ||f IL COMPANY i ERSEY) Charlotte, N. 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