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a?M???MM?*?? ?p?i ? {!OLOREI> AMERICA* TROOPS 1 L IX GREAT ALLIED OFFENSIVE American Soldiers of Color \re Domonsfratin? Their Heroism, Ink trepidity and Bravery in Pick ardy and in Vicinity of the JIarne. m ? J^^^With the American Army on the "Marne, July 18.?American colored 1 troops homed to holc^ the Allied lino .again?t ?.he fifth German offensive. ^ They requested the favor of bein^ . permitted to take over a part of the line of attack, though they have ; been holding part of a French sector for the last three months without re 1 lief. They are now rendering con- j 1 snirmons service in the Allied offen. y ve launched against the Teutonic j irces and their valorous conduct has roked high praise from the com- : . anding officers. : j The American soldiers of color, i particularly, have made a wonderful , f impression upon the French popula- j i t'ion, both civil and military, and they j 1 have received the unstinted praise ? and commendation from hio;h French , t 'rlr^'k^ia 00)1t*{l9rp. ! 1 UL11UCI 5. ' 1 UCU i uuic ( auuiv v- v?* ?0 ? T cool-headedness and bravery under i ? fire, as well as their desire to engage j < in the fiercest engagements?all these y things ar'l many more have demon- t strated conclusively that the colored t American soldiers are fighters un- c surpassed and unprecedented and < i A M# fe Y( y\ A ^ Larger a Packages i BfiRANDMA'S P( HB Your Groce ^!knd You avQ tosgw and no I Vj ? A! k Medical BL OF THE S South C r^v' Owned and Contro StklB n ? / 9ft A 1 vf Schools of Median &| Rated in Class A by the Com }i' , the American Medical Associ?t i| ation of American Medical Col ?| Conference of Pharmaceutical I * I A Leader in Me< in the ? L New building with well eqi ^ cotps of thoroughly efficient all I Located opposite the Roper Charleston Museum; thus affor< I tensive opportunities for resear* Women Admitted on the sai For catalouge address. H. GRADY CALL! Calhoun and Lucas Street k :hey are acquitting themselves creditably and nobly whenever called upon or ^iven an opportunity to defend i -e and Stripes on the western front. 'nu.v Hnnc 1ic?,l littjp nr nO 1 UC it IH-1CU? ""-VI ? res.peci for rho colored Americans' fighting avil?Ty until they encountered these Amtrican blacks in several fights and now they have inmost respect for the fighting quali:ies of I'ncle Sam's black warriors, who are playing no small, part over :iere to ibring victory to the Allied side.?-Houston Observer. NEGRO TROOPERS HONORED. Kissed by French General and Decorated With Crosses. Lewiston, Pa., July 19?-Lieutenant lames Black, formerly of Lewiston, now in the front tranches in France, .vhere he has been fighting the Roche 'or more than a year, says: "It is a nistake for the colored people of th^ LTnited States to feel that their boys tre being shoved to the front against ;heir will. The fact is. it is hard to jeep them from sroing too far. Only resceraay two cui'jrea nuupsis weir "ailed before the entire regiment ;vhile a prominent French general jinned crosses of honor on -thei'* reasts and kissed them on both 'heeks. These men will be sent home )n a furlough to tell their own story.'' [\ _ ? /T1 >?v ^ ' WP ; fust a tfiblesptjonful of v. u. . .n D^1A. the voiidenul 7->~ 273d j '!'! i i ' i I oap m water. tr.e j < i\ 1 iU' i-iilpi'.'.t.<Hcir -Vj j whenever you v. . : h or clean. | 1 \nd you save st .ip. You know jj ust liov/ much to u.-.t'. *- - *- \\ \y b tTT\*v>rj*i w /> ? ? 1 ^ 511 t ll. Miupic." T. V ? ? >ut up with the "fuss and bother of I >ar soap lyi:i?r around and wasting may. wht*n she can now have this | narvelous powdered so?;p. i >wssred Soap ir Has HI only <isked t waste Bod ' 'J*/, f . ^SbwKet: ' ' 'it'' : jKsS?' 8 \55* * r-Tce A"f iocNT* KMZMUBMKHEKUXKWreanMB ' College TATE OF Carolina lied by the State te and Pharmacy ncil of Medical Educators of ion. Member ot the Associlieges and of the Ameriean ^acuities. iical Education >outh. lipped laboratories. A full -time teachers. Hospital and very near the ding the students more ex:h and training. ne teims as men. [SON Registrar, :s Charleston, Sou. Carolina. | nMDMHananDMBHHMnHBBMHDHBI ' DF WHAT USE IS THE RAT? Place of the Predatory Rodent in Balance of Nature Perhaps in Remote Past. One of the zoological details connect ed with the rat is its failure to sustain nny discoverable relation with the balance of nature. The balance .f rxityirri coumc r>i?m ! rtm 1 >1 v t?v<?n nil over the world, for no kind of life can become wholly extinct without affeetfr:ir prejudicially the general environmor-v T'10 ra-" seems the solitary exception to the general experience that iut^r>rorirn with the fauna of an environment invites disaster through an of ^h<? balance of nature, says a writer in Current Opinion. Other forms nf life, vegetable or animal, uprot it by tbeir absence. It was thought until recently that a peculiar species of flea orMdd thrive upon the rat alone, cr omn rlrmht is thrown UOOn tills Men by reports of plague investigators. There is. howeverv another view of the connection of the rat with the balance of nature, according to the Paris Revue Scientifique. The rodent has achieved its task, performed its duty. The work was accomplished in past centuries, probably in Asia. Rats will attack very large organisms. Even the elephant is not respected. It is widely known that certain varieties of Asiatic elephants have a great dread of rats. Cases are recorded in which a huge elephant has succumbed to wounds made in its feet by rats. The rats gnaw the hoofs of horses when it can get at them. It would exterminate the pig if it could find a neutral in man. In brief, all the evidence suggests that there has raged in the past a great warfare between the rat and certain gigantic forms of life. The brown rat seems to have had much to do with the extinction of certain great beasts in A<ia. Perhaps the mastodon was routed by the rat. la any event, the rat may have played a glorious part in eliminating the bulky monsters that in time pa si kept man down numerically .i^st as today lite robin plays a glorious part in eliminating from the soil the pests ia.it otherwise would keep the crops The very voracity of the rat must have boon of great zoological importance when it had to attack, perhaps, a herd of mastodons. The rats traveled. then, evidently, in swarms. They swam rivers in swarms. Xorhing could stand them or withstand them. Having eaten up everything that could not run or fly or fight back, the rat turnad to Europe and had to satisfy itself with new habits and different foods. Its connection with the balance of nature was destroyed and it is today a meaningless survival with nothing but a somewhat doubtful claim to a char* acteristic flea. Name German Shells. There are about 200 separate and distinct kinds of shells fired from German guns, and each and every one of them has been given at least one nickname by the English Tommies. Some of them have been given several. The biggest kind of high explosive shells, for Instance, are known indifferently as "Dirty Dicks," "Jack Johnsons," "Coal Boxes," "Flower-Pots," "Crumps," "Black Peters," or "Whistling Willies." The smaller kind are "Black Manas" or "Woolly Bears," according to whether the smoke they emit when bursting Is black or white with a yellowish tinge. High-explosive shrapnel and trenchmortar shells'are respectively "whizzbangs" and "pip-squeaks," from their habit of giving only these warnings of their approach. "Archibalds" are antiaircraft shells. Dried Eggs. r nnn* A# atrrra In Tilnolnnd JLUe lligli tvai VL CfefeO IU UUQ.UUU has led to the birth of quite a new big business in dried eggs and eggs in solution. One large firm selling dried eggs has undertaken an extensive advertising campaign to push these eggs upon the attention of retailers, who in their tnrpi are being enabled by other advertising matter to attract their custom to the goods. The 4?ied eggfc which they advertise are entirely soluble and take up the water like a lump, of sugar and thus give the perfect creamy liquid 7>t a beaten shell egg ready for instant use on mixing. Dried eggs are no longer to be regard^ as, war food ; they have come to stay. This firm predicts that in the near future the properly dried eggs will have become one of the very largest used and most important of our foods. i .... Rabbits a Real Pest As a fair illustration of the rabbit pest in certain portions of New Zealand, and especially in the drier sections of the South island, it is stated that on an estate lately taken over by the New Zealand eovernment. compris ing 12,440 acres of freehold and a pastoral run of 19,250 acres, there were killed or captured about 120,000 rabbits In order to clear up the property so as to make !t suitable for the location of returned soldiers. World's Need for Wheat. Exports of wheat from the United States to the allies between July 1, 1914, and January 1,1918, totaled more than 389,000,000 bushels. Wheat flour exports exceeded 24,600.000 barrels. The total in terms of wheat shows (hat the United States has sent the allies nearly fiv* bushels nf wheat for every person in this country. l7n til tne nexr uurvesi im* gi-t-ui u-vu m for wheat from the United Stains. ' : I j ftf.rs, 3i!!tops Really Doubted \ o^cuc o mouui <x\jy, | Seemed a Singular Thing Until Ex- ? planation Dawned on the Pair Who Were Going Through the Regular Program. i "We keep," said Mr. Billtops, "a record of Mrs. Bil'top's weight. There h is a drug store in our neighborhood v which we pass in our daily walks b where they have a nice beam scale, a and about once in ten days or two weeks we stop in there and weigh Mrs. e Billtops; and then, when we get f home, I set the weight down in the ^ record. a i<rr*r_ a ?. a? i j ? j ine greatest anierence oerween any : two weights takeu so far this year is f< | two pounds; while the difference be- p | tween the first weight and the one just n ! taken is only three-eighths of a pound, ii ; So you can see her weight is running k very true. "It might seem that all this was tl rather a humdrum commonplace per- v formance to go through, but really ti i there's a good deal of variety to it. ir "For instance, in winter, when she h is wearing a heavy cloak, we weigh Mrs. Billtops with that cloak on. Thus j the first weight we get is the gross ! weight, and then from that we have tl j to deduct the tare, this being the ! weight of the cloak as previously as- C certained at home, to arrive at the net, k ! which is what we set down in the rec- a i ord. tl "So you see it is not all quite so t: ' simple as it seems; and this spring, n 1 i. ir_.. "O:J14. - ;* Wlien 1VIIS. joiiliups JIUl UU J.U1 lUC lii..TL XI time her lighter-weight spring coat, It , we ran into a regular incident. "After weighing her, as usual, with " her coat on. we remembered That we $ had forgotten to weigh this coat be- S fore starting out. but this was a light coat that coiil'! be easily removed and tl handled, and so how Mrs. Hilltops t removed her cwr and we weighed her 7' with tlx1 f;>at <>lV. But do you know, !. she weighed I'.reeiseiy the same with her coat off ns she did with it on! r ; 'Mrs. Billtops and I looked at each a f other ir. m!ld amazement: ' ut then at the same moment we both made the L same discovery. Still standing on the i scale Mrs. Billtops was holding the c j coat she had just removed! c< j "I am not sure that Mrs. Bilfctops is ii i quite as much interested in all this p weighing business as I am, but we T both laughed at that; and really I t; j should say that taking everything to- r< | gether we get a let of fun out of weigh- b ! ing Mrs. Billtops."?New York Times, p if The Simple Lifers. Y 11.1- ?? ??^ ^ n livery stjusauie iuau nuu wvmau uu- ? day is a simple lifer. There ace so many things which are difficult to get, A so many controllers are hemming tis in with prohibitions that we are mak- P ing our lives simpler and more simple every day. Curiously enough, the large majority of us are feeling all the better for it. We walk where we once motored, and the exercise sets the a stagnant blood in our veins running d' with fresh vigor. We eat less and di- i1 gest more. So little have we felt the it deprivation that most of ns are de- S claring that for the future it is to be tl the "simple life forever." There are, d o# course, some who s!ruggle?in their E absurd vanity to keep the old life alive. Their time is mainly spent in evading the orders of the food controller, or in discovering new sources of extrava- ^ gance. Some day they will realize their ^aistake and join the happy army r< of "simple lifers." You cannot have s< your cake and eat it. Our cake today "i is victory in the great war for freedom, truth and justice. That can only G ha mirs if wp denv ourse^es all the t< other cakes we once loved so much. 01 The *Bimple Sifer" !s Joing his duty bi and that is why he is happy. His I Is the vision without wjiich, as Solo- rc mon told us, "the people perish.**? London Express. tl s< - - . it! German Subterfuge. * The Almanatif de Gotha, annually 1 "made in Germany," was well known j befdre the war as the social register . of Europe, a kind of "Burke's Peer- ^ age" of the continent. Naturally it J has been ostracized for some time, from " the best allied "socfetyiT and now it is entirely superseded by the Almanach ? de Bruxelles, which, in a first edition, ^ has recently miet a warm welcome In ^ France. The German publication, it ^ appears. Has been a poweriui cnanuei ^ of espionage. Officials of every coun- ^ try in the world have innocently sup-; piled It with information about prominent people, family frees, armies, na-! ^ vies, and what not Some oY this in-1^ formation was ostentatiously paraded on the pages of the Almanach, but . one would like to know how much of | ^ it went privately into the files of the German intelligence department World's Aluminum Supply. fs Though Switzerland led the world in hi fho oqHv PlPPtrnlvHf nroductlon of w iitV VV-MV s aluminum, France has been the chief tr producing nation since 1896, and supplied as much as 39.2 per cent of tile world's annual total at the time of the a< outbreak of the war. The 10 plants tfc for electrolytic aluminum had ih 1914 c( an aggregate of 140,000 horsepower gr with a capacity of 19,000 tons a year, The three plants of the United States Si supplied 26.8 per cent of the world's product; the two plants of Switzerland, 12.4; the two English plants, 7.8; the one Canadian plant, 5.2, and the ^ two p1* ats of Norway, 4.3. French snpremaoy hns been due to th^ supe rior qualify of the bauxite mined. J ^ foung Gridiey'j Letter the Real ' United States." ixpert in English Composition M?.y Have Had Some Criticism to Mak? But She Could Not Misunderstand the Meaning. The members of the English class ad filed out of the recitation room, -*ith the exception of Gridley, who, y special request, was now standing t the teacher's desk. To the casual observer, Gridley was boy of about fifteen, with a wiry raine. a well-shaped head thatched ith straw colored hair, a large mouth nd sray-blue eyes. "I am surprised that you should ofsr this as an exercise in English comosition," Miss Stanhope said with a ote of sarcasm in her voice, pointlg to several sheets of paper that ty on her desk. "You told me to take any subject hat I was interested in, if it was orth while, and then put plenty of me into it, and I did. It took me lore than two hours," protested Gria?y. "I should hardly call the subject rorth while," began Miss Stanhope. "It was the best game there's been lis season," said Gridley. "We will let that pass," the teacher antinued. "What I object to is the inguage that you have used. What in I to make of such expressions as iese: 'The south paw artist,' 'a free icket to the initial bag.' 'Duffy was ailed at the plate,' 'two of the visors crossed the pan'? Really, Gridjv, do you call that English?" Gridley's mouth widened in a grin. I don't know about English. Miss Itanfcope. but I guess it's United tates," said. r*ri> ^ Stanhope smiled herself, ali^ugh >]ie would hnve preferred not > cti,, f *t??p Irr which was Inglish. very seriously, and it pained < r :i ' t pupils *?:<! not. ' 11- 'v' be Ciuoriiv.*, as far as I in cs'h1 <r.\d. "It conveys bsonitcly no meaning." "Why, didn't you over see a baseall game?" esclainvd Gridloy. "Xo. I believe not," she admitted, ml she perceived at once that her onfession of ignorance was far more 1 foresting to Gridley than any dislay of her knowledge had ever been, 'ho happy thought occurred to her to ike advantage of the fact. "No," she ?peated, "I know nothing about baseall, but I should like to learn. Sup ose you try being the teacher and see ? you can make this all clear to me. ou will have to begin at the begining and be very patient with me." "Do you mean It?" said Gridley, with le Joy of the enthusiast in his eyes. Then for more than an hour he exounded baseball, while the English ?acher faithfully groped her way to n understanding. "You must think me very stupid,** fie said more than once, and G^ldley, Ithough he did not dispute her, reoubled his efforts to express his mean1 g in words fitted to his pupil's capaconri nf thp hour Miss tanhope was pretty well versed in ie rndlments of the game, and, incientally, Grldley had gained a little in inglish and a good deal in his liking >r the teacher. , Til hand in a better composition ext time," he assured her as he finally ent his way. The promised composition was duly ?ceived, although after the lapse of >{ne four years, and it came from somewhere in France." "Perhaps you have forgotten me," ridley wrote, "but I haven't forgot?n you, or the hour that we spent ae Friday afternoon, going over my aseball 'piece.' I little thought that should not see you again, but we ioved from the city quite unexpect ily the next week, jhow i am iarler away than ever from the old Aool." But here lg the composition | iat I promised to pass in, not about j aseball this time, but about the big I ar over here. I'm is a harder school j jan Bayport High and there's no | 2ance to play hooky. But I'm glad to j 0 here and ifs tip to me to make 50d." Miss "Stahhope accepted the state* ?w ita o]?mnc& but as evl I Cil t| Ul/l/ J.V1 * vv I ?? &nce of the seriou* purpose of Gridy?little Gridley of the straw-colored air and the contagious grin. "There will be something doing when e fellows get Into Tie game," wrote ridley, "and, take it from me, we 111 hand the kaiser his all right" The thought was badly expressed it MJss Stanhope thrilled at the spirit ?hind the words. "It won't be long now before It is 1 11 over and I am back in little old ' * ? " VT7 Qnf An i merica ugum, mc xcuci vw . The tears came to Miss Stanhope's i res. "Ah, soldier boy," she thought, , t is well that you over there have, lith, while so many of us back here ive only hope. Perhaps your faith I ill help to make your prophecy come ! ue I" "I guess," said Gridley, at the end, ' hat this won't take a very high mark ' ? - ^ U.... T 1 * English, but," ana rne m tough her own eyes \iere a little (11?, J >uld almost see the twinkte in his' ay-blue ones as he wrote the words, j perhaps it will get by as 'United, tatos.'"?Youth's Companion. I There Ara Others. ?*fT7 hnchiind is sure some para* X?AJ wuvu?-v. - - _ >X." j "Hew" that?" "He's so tisht with his loose lange."?Florida Times-Uaioo. tzv n>mty campaign NOW IN PROGRESS. Th^ counrv candidates onened their campaign Thursday af'ernoon at Keitt's Grove in So. 1 township. There are only the candidates for thr* legislature to speak this year, unless the candidates for probate judge should desire to enter the arena of : oratory, which is not likely. The itinerary for the county candidates was published in The Herald and Xpws some time ago. but for tha information of those who may be interested as well as the candidates themselves we are printing It again. KeittS fi-rovp Thurso*.' An trust t at 2:30 p. m. Mt. Pleasant, Monday, August 5, at 2:30 p. m. Youngs Grove, Tuesday, August 6, at 2:30 p. m. : Longshore. Wednesday. August 7, at 2:30 p. m. Silverstree*. Friday, August 1), at 2:30 p. m. Oakland Mill. Friday. August 9, at 8:30 p. m. -Pomaria. Tuesday, August 13, at m | Chappells, Wednesday. August 14, at 2:30 p. m. | Whitmire, Saturday, August 17, at I 2:30 p. m. { Newberry court house, Tuesday, | August 20. at 2:30 p. rn. Mollohon Mill. Tuesday. August 20, ( at 8:30 p. m. Jolly St.reot. Wednesday, August 21, at 2:30 p. m. , Little Mountain, Friday. August 23, I ' ? i. . O A cit. n. m i ,VvTil!owbrcok Park. Saturday, Aug- c M. 2', at. ?:Z0 p. m. i The Herald air? One Year for :) ; ; v Zl 5J). -'AT, IMLLT CI;: jtJu. S. C.. jlow'ay. Aijgnst 5th, i:t 10:20 A. ?<I. Address Welcome, Rev. .T. L. Cromer. Chapin, S. C. Reply, M. L. Mauney, Cashier First i National Banlv, Cherry ville, N. C. Address. Lenoir College, Present : and Future. J. J. George. Cherryville, In. C. j Address by Dr. Simon Peter Long, ; pastor largest English Lutheran ! Church in America and one of the finest speakers in America. Afternoon Session. Address by President Fritz of Lenj oir college and Dr. S. P. Long. | This is going to he a great day for Chapin and we want everybody to j attend. Bring yorrr dinner basket and come prepared to spend the (Jay and help along the cause of Christian education. You will be glad to hear Dr. Lonf We were fortunate to get him. Tell your friends and urge them to attend. Dr. Long has spoken all over the 'United States and to thousands of people and we want 5000 at 'Chapin at least. J. J. George, . President Alumni Association Lenoir ; College. I j. THE LAW AGAINST SPEEDERS I 1 This is to give fair warning to persons who shall hereafter violate the law against exceeding \h3 speed limit for motor cars in the ci'y of Newberry that the law ^o;ng to foe enforced strictly, and that violator* will be subjected to heavy fines without regard to precedents. The lives and limbs of pedestrians are in con: stant danger from persons who Insist in running their cars' ibeyond the speed permitted by law, and it seems there is no way to put a stop to this practice except by heavy fines. J. W.'Earhardt, 7-19 3t Recorder. 1? Cotton Weighers Association. [ The members of the Pomaria Cotton Weighers Association will hold its annual meeting at Pomaria Thursday, August 1st at 4:30 p. m., pursuant to an election to >be held at Po" * All. . 1 maria. S. C., on August ?tn, to eiect a weigher who shall serve for one year. All candidates for above named office will be required to pay their feea not later than noon Thursday, August 1st, 1918. Jos. W. Alewine, D. L. Weda-man. President. SeeandTreas. July 23, 1918. ~ ESTATE NOTICE. Any persons holding claims against the estate Dr. Orlando B. Mayer, deceased, are notified to render a statement of them to me, duly attested as required bv law. ani all persons indebted to the estate will make payment to .me. Harriet Jones Mayer, 7-22-13 it Executrix.