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Soldiers in Tre Know Bu ft A/i M ZTwnn/tA FAmi JLVJLXZI VIC JL i c#ccic m # vikl jl # Roar but Have Single Tot tory." Devotions Arras, on the French Front, Dec. 26. ?Hundreds of big shells tore the air over Arras all Friday afternoon. The echoes of these were the last compliments of the season and they had no j sooner died away than the life ofj Arras began to show itself through re- | opened cellar doors and windows in preparation for the usual Christmas eve preparations. IThe people of the Artois rise above their afflictions due to the war and the spirit of Arras survives among the heaps of ruins. "It would really he a shame if we | ihad not got used to it during all these; months," said a woman selling postal cards and stationery by a candle light on the first floor of a building, three i parts open to the sky. "What we've' got to do," the woman continued, "is to hold out for final victory and lasting peace." After the usual systematic shelling; died down rifle shots and the occasional ractle of machine guns was all that broke the stillness of death that I settled over the city. The cathedral j where midnight mass was said last; year under the thunder of cannon,; stood out against the twilight in rag- j ged ruins like a spectre witt? crumb-! ling walls of demolished buildings ail! around and giving til? aspect of a gigantic cemetery with decaying headctr\ri nc ccvxi^o. Invisible Music Speaks. The rattle of machine guns struck j up against and a few rifle shots rang | through the clear air. Toward S o'clock ; the soft strains of an organ were heard from an invisible source. Going tnrough heaps of stone and glass to j a chapel entrance one could see a | candle light flickering through the darkness a short distance away. Staff officers', a.vaiting for dinner, led the correspondent of the Associated Press : to an adjoining room which resembled Iia /->ro:c r nf r> 'ninifl fnrf* PXtinct 'VOl- ! car.o. "If it continues much longer you are likely to have your fining room also ' opened' to the weather." said, the cor-1 respondent to r lie cflieers. "That is quire possible," replied a I captain, "but the destination of a shell | is something over which we have no control yet, have we, lieutenant?" But the lieutenant was absorbed in J an illustrated paper which had just; arrived and made no comment. Santa Clans and the Christmas spirit, | notwithstanding the war, were in evi-1 cten-ce everywhere along the Artois battle front, where the correspondent passed Christmas eve. They were in the trenches and shelters with the simple soldiers; in the temporary barracks where the traditional Christmas theater was replaced by an improvised concert and 'vaudeville which almost rivaled the best Paris could do in time of peace. In the quarters where the officers celebrated with no less sim piicity and dignity and in the first little church still defying shell fire, which one finds behind the battle front, midnight mass was celebrated. As Fourth of July. From the road running almost parallel to the trenches, rockets shoeing oil into the air from both lines recalled the Fourth of July fire works in America. An officer explained that t'nis l was partly due to habit. "Fuses are set off every night," the officer explained, "even when the moon shines brightly as tonight, and besides I Inquiry Into Fertilizer Cost. A Washington special to t'he News t and Courier says: ! In view of the fact that the prices of1 nitrate of soda and acid phosphate for 1 the coming year have increased nearly ; 100 yer cent over the prices for last; year. Chairman A, F. Lever of the agri- j cultural committee of the nouse of representatives has asked the federal trade com mi..-; ion to investigate for the < purpose of d-:te: nining whether die increase in prices is due to natural causes or to a combination of (Coalers in meise essential U rtiiizcr ingredients.; The matter is eery important to Southern cotton growers. The Cotton Futures Act. Ruus and regulations of the cotton futures act have been amended by the secretary of agriculture so as to permit tne filing of "rep^cement disputes" with the seer: tarv on or before the fifth business day succee ivsr me ider of rejected cotton; reducing to $5 the mir":rai;m as^es-m^t in snv dispute and making: it optional i7i?tp* - v f mandatory for the office of markets I to furnish a m^rncr I riches t One Sentence i of Christmas as Cannons zst, "Peace Through Vic ; Led by Warriors. . the Germans may, as last year, have | an idea that we are going at them be-1 ! fore morning." I ! The fuses multiplied at the approaching midnight and on the stroke J of 12 the lines as far as the 'horizon was illuminated as 'by a long line of bright stars. Flashes of different colors could be seen far away to the north, although no reports were heard. "T'ney are firing away up there around Souchez," a lieutenant ex piaiircu. (Several miles up the deep wide ditch with 12 inches of chalky mud at its bottom, just far enough from the German line to permit tranquil sleep, soldiers entertained each other with simple folk, songs of their home regions and examined parcels from home and talked of victory. One soldier read a little note from home which said: "This year it is I who play father, j This year I broke Dpen my savings j bank and am sending presents to papn! at the front." (The soldier didn't explain who th;;j writer was, but his thick, coarse beardI failed to hide a touching smile with i which he accepted the reversal of, Christmas roles. .? . ! "They're singing over mere, vsaiu a 1 soldier just back from the first line j trench. "They've got an orchestra: and they're shouting to beat all, but! it doesn't scund ivery gay." uPeace Tlirongh Victory." Meanwhile the impromptu concert in j the trenches went on in tones that: were light, gay and confident. The! same phrase was heard in all the j toasts given here. It was "Peace I through victory." A little farther from the trenches! in a bombarded barn covered by an ; improvised roof the midnight watcn! was preceded by a concert in wnicn i the soldiers who joked the military on; staee in neace times reversed the; order cf things and with the greatest; zest caricatured the civilian behind the' zone occupied by the armies. All along the reads in this region I two linos d. --seu in different directions.' See () wU.-i pick, shovel and rifte- were; going to take choir turn in the trenches while o1 hers were going back to th? eld village church to swell the congregation. Officers, including generals, co'oneis, captains and lieutenants, with a sprinkling of civilians and many women, were in attendance. As in* the quarters of the soldiers near the trenches everything in the ( attitude of the servic? brought cut the 1 same note: "Peace through victory." i A chaplain with the red riooon or uie Legion of Honor on his surplice, who \ had lost several brothers and has four: more in the army, all of whom have, b.-en cited in orders of the day, and; he 'himself twice cited for heroic con- j duct, preached of "Peace through bic-! tory." A stretcher bearer with a (military! medal and a grenadier with a war i cross on his breast sang a Christmas j anthem to the accompaniment of the j modest old organ piayeti -Dy a simpie soldier with such a master hand that the strains were quite as aspiring as! the best cathedral music. The last notes, "Peace on earth, good will toward men," died away as the congregation was filing out of the little church, while in the distance the booming of cannon recalled "No truce for Christmas." ELECTION HEALTH OFFICER. At a meeting of t'ne board of health ^ nvniT + r\ V\n V. cJ ^ r\r\ rninrcHav > Vi 4^IC?UCii J tv/ U ^ LLViU. vu ; December 30th, 1915, at 4 o'clock in j the afternoon, a health officer and aj secretary will be elected to serve the j following year, 1316. The health officer's is fifty-five ($55) ' dollars and the secretary's salary ten ; ($10) per month. . All applications for tlnse positions, must be in writing and in the nands of j the secretary of this board not later j than 12 o'clock noon on day of said j election. By order of board. S. S. Cunningham, Secy. 12-21-23-2t At Hartford School "Ten Nights in a Barroom" will be played at Hartford schoolhouse Frl(loy p "'"m^er ' y the same aV.o vn rf xr 1 * vnrr ' ' r\' n r, n a-' ~ > * 1 j fi-r. ? ' mber 22 j > ne i- :* 1 _ _ 1 |f DAYS "OF BOLD ??????? I Immense Output Follows Discovery of Metal in California. For Eleven Years, From 1850 to 1861, the Yield Was Prodigious, Amounting in 1852 to Over $65,000,000. Washington.?"The historically important discovery of gold in California was made in January, 1848, at John Sutter's mill on South Fork of AmeriI can river, near Coloma, a point only I | ten or fifteen miles southwest of the town of Auburn," says a statement by the geological survey. "From 1850 to 1853 the greatest yield was derived from the gravels, and the largest annual output for : this period was more than $65,000,000 in 1852. There was some reaction in 1854, due to previous wild speculation, but a production of about $50,000,000 a year, chiefly from placer mines, was maintained up to 1861. "At first the gold was won chiefly from the gravels alohg the present \ streams. Those who first got posses-! sion of the rich bars on American,! Yuba, Feather and Stanislaus rivers i and some of the smaller streams in ! the heart of the gold region made at times from $1,000 to $5,000 a day. In 1848 $300 to $700 a day was not unusual luck; but, on the other hand, the income of the great majority of miners was far less than that of men 1 i who seriously devoted tneraseives 10 trade or even to common labor. "The gold pan, the 'rocker,' the 'torn,' the sluice and the hydraulic giant, or 'monitor,' named in the order of increasing efficiency, were the tools successively used by the miners. Into the 'rocker' and the 'torn' the miner shoveled gravel or 'dirt.' rocking the machine as he poured in water and catching the gold, often with the aid of quicksilver, on riffles set across the bottom of his box. Sometimes a stream 1 was diverted into a flume to lay bare j the gravel in its bed so that tne miner j could get at it. "In sluicing, the gravel was shoveled into a similar but much longer, box through which a stream of water was allowed to run. "Tho n rii criar>t u'as omnlnvpd X AiV/ iAJUlUUiiV 5^""'' T? *-* V wv. to wash into long riffle-set sluices immense quantities of gravel, especially from the higher (Tertiary) deposits, much of which was too lean to work out by hand. Water was brought for many miles in ditches and flumes from the high Sierra and conducted under great head to a nozzle, from which it was projected wiih tremendous force against the.gravel. "It was the vast quantity of refuse washed int > the. streams by these hydraulic operations that brought about the conflict between mining and agricultural interests, finally decided in favor of the farmers.V j BIG HAUL FOR "CRIPPLE", This Eeggar Kept Record of Receipts ?Gives Police Hard Battie. | Allentown, Pa.?William Newbeck- < er, a perfectly healthy man, who can; twist his arms so that he looks crip- j pled, did such a prosperous business begging in Allentown that he wrent on a spree and he was locked up, giving the bluecoats a fight before they land- j ed him in a cell. At court it was found out that he had a roll of several hundred dollars. Newbecker, who covers the entire East, kept a book showing his daily receipts. His best day here brought $14.50, and the average for some time past wras $10 a day. He was fined $5 for drunkenness and told to leave; Allentown. NO NEW JOBS AT PANAMA ! ! Canal Office Warns Unemployed Not to Seek Work at Isthmus. Washington.?The blockade of the Panama canal by earth slides has not created new work for Americans in the Canal Zone, and the canal office here issued a statement in an effort to counteract published reports which | have drawn many Americans to the isthmus in search of employment. "General Goethals indicates," the statement says, "that the number of j men continually being laid off on account of reduction of force is in excess of the vacancies which were temporarily created by the work on the slides, and the influx of men looking for employment on the isthmus is entirely unwarranted." They Rescued "Tige" iiunim.ilten, j:ki.?.v uus to William Wilcox, living %west of Andrews. followed a coon into a ten-inch tile ditch recently. Hunters spent hours in trying to call the dog back, but got no response? The owners dug up the ditch at several places and finally located Tige forty rods from the opening and in an eight-inch side ? ditch. The dog was exhausted, but still alive. . 1 nnol All. Apr*' r to see a tor : V- >ov livine o the an derne >ed ' NOTICE OF A>>TAL 3IEETIXG [ Of County Board of Commissioners, j Notice is hereby given that the an-i j nual meeting of the county board of commissioners for Newberry county will be held in the office of the county I supervisor on Thursday, January 6, iyitj. , , j The law requires that all persona i holding demands of any kind against ; the county, not previously presented to j I the board, will file the same, properly j ! itemized and sworn to, with the clerk; thereof on or before the first da^y of j January, 1916, so that they may be ex- j amined and ordered to be paid at said meeting. i Jas. C. Sample, County Supervisor. J H. C- Holloway, Clerk, etc. D12-20-27J3 I - f iLi g & ? r? -s^': I What Splendid I Light I the RAYQ Gives! 1 TTS glow is so soft I and bright thatyou can read all evening without tiring your eyes. The Lamp is the most popular kerosene lamp ever | made. 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