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' 11 - - - " " VOLUME LY? DUMBER 66. , j *$lf t!?j?j& NEWBERRY, S. C- TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1918. TWICE A WEEK, $U0 A YEAR s ANOTHER INTERESTING LETTER { FROM JACK SMITH. i The following very interesting letter |^_ i has "been received by Mrs. A. Coke Smith from her son, Jack Smith, who wk has had some thrilling experiences r\/sind relates what he is permitted to tell cf them in a very interesting manner: Somewhere in France. July 8th, 1918. Dearest Mother:? Your letters of May 20 and 28 are just coming after weeks and weeks of no mail at all. I saw a criticism in a N. Y. Herald of the mail system for< the soldiers. I am glad some one - ? if ics nrftttv th?H IS WiiKlilg u.y?iuj it You asked me about my work. I ram not permitted to tell you anything more than I am killing the Boche! Isn't that enough? You say you would be so proud I had stayed at the University one . year more for my JB. S. That would have been glory for me?Wouldn't you rather have it a3 it is? My hignest duty is to my country. You have l taught me thai?and you always said P I could go when I could be of service I have had hard and steady work. ^ No time off. I wrote to Lyles for a i letter of introduction?if I get a I chance to see Paris; but it is difficult for combatant soldiers to get to?for non-combatants it is easy. You spoke of my letter of April 30 being cheerful?I'm rather proud of myself for having made that impression thru those?the most gruelling days of my experience. The mud was "knee deep everywhere?and Heinie was not stingy with his worst gas, whidh made it devilish uncomfortable. i|^ And oh! there was the hardest work! I remember I slipped headlong in a ^ maf Aw AW A rl n T?V ^ oucu uv?? ma i/t , fuoi'-v night, and lay there a few moments ibecause* it was so much more comfortable than any place I'd been. But it makes a man's/heart big to see the true American spirit under such conditions: Not the stolid, silent "carrying on*' of the British?but the fire and warmth that fires the spirit of a man when he slips off a duck board with a 75 lb load into water and mud ^ hip deep and laughs about it! But liere's what helps?you spoke of wishing to do canteen work. That's the thing that warms a soldier's heart,? to get to a canteen where he can have a smoke, a drink of coffee and crackers. It will keep more men out of "cafe's" than all the "out of bounds*' signs in creation. In one town where TTTA TTTflrrt TTTO C? A iQJo ltTOO T?TV> TT ^7 r, ^ 'uaivauuu ax uij tent rnrt hv threa w^on. Tf easy gun ranee cf t.*>p line?right in the "gas mask area." These three women made thousands of doughnuts and pies. One dav after that our truck team was en route, nnd ve clowo^ up Tor a bridge a^ray haired T. >M. C. A. woman stood by the road and each truck got a carton of cigarettes and we hadn't seen a cigarette for days! Those are the things tha^. count in our bard days. They me^n ^oMe than "knitted sweaters and temn^rance lectures. There sre multitudes of th'.ngs the v. M. . A.. Salvation ^^y and ^ j i _ t iT.^ i ine r<.ea an over nere makes a rp??n think of <he s'n'td In the wor!* **<] fVn't psk you what your r?1:<?iOn j; either. I harp not sent you a signed order for anyt.hins? 'because it is too much ^ of a ri?k to send pnvt.Jrne: now. The ? ^alus-ble ^rvokaece EWrlich sent in -? - -1- w^tv A ??nVi ciinnArf Af?c< IVlilK'H,v T,;'' u AM Y 'rvi vji ou (jpyi 1.^71 o, knife i^+her needful thi"n<9re' has never contf. Jnlv * c3ti7T r?ov'np-. Th? T>art of the countfiv I'm in now is the most # beautiful '*n T"> "i % T c* ?high aM p+eei>?valleys w^h lovely stream5? win^ir?"^r th^n T'k^ a <?ilv<*r rrhbon. ^Ar?d vast elevator! ^elds all about like a or;*zv_quilt. No wonder the Boch? wa,r?t^ it f : ' TJi^f ?^nr T o rr? d?**+?r)pr 1?T>^&r p lo^kiris: berord these lovely >io?a ?T!rJ fV?A??p with ] |B(T jy?*p^n ! trsBl "* * '"' f^V>? A5rr>ia 1<^ fV* <a ! boom: *>**'' vr?:T b^eath^ess for a J momen'?ti?o no'?*p a.1* rf a locomotive r"?>*r?o? hv?th.- 3. s?c?rpn*nor i ."rash "n'""i Port're i" ^mrsfncr *i*ms3lf 1 . t much th"? r^oriniiig! i \ > July 15.?Yesterday there came out in the N. Y. Herald a few names of those who have been decorated for bravery in a recent gas attack?my name is among them and I am wearing my bronze Croix de Guerre with its green and red riDnon?nopmg yuu will -be proud. For me it doesn't mean so much?it was only in the line of my duty. ! T have my gold service stripe on i my left arm. I feel very glad of it? , until I go way back of the line and ; see the field clerks in fine tailored uni' forms wearing the same thing. They have never heard a Boche gun! But I suppose all is fair in love and war. But I've gotten to be an unerring i:idge of the puality 'of the contents r>f r>Vve as w?ll as of ^avv blue The enclosed pictures a French sold;er took for us. Above me is a Cuban?Carlos Diaz who was only in TT. ;S. two years. The one on my left 's Dominicus Tirpstra?from Amsterdam?who sneaks five languages, and ^s 'been all over fb.e world. Was rm^e a tea planter in India. Seven of tbe men are my squad. The trench is not in "action." I am well?being taken care of so do not worry. , , Your boy, , Jack. S. S. Convention \os. 2 and 3. \ The township Sunday school con, vention for Nos. 2 and 3 townships will be held at Unity church on Fri day, August is. The following program will be obrerved: ? j How to Make RvMe Studv Attractive Delightful.?Dr. A. J. Bowers and O. Cannon. ' How to Get the Men Into the Sunday School,?fP. ?. Mitchell, Rev L. P. Boland and B. V. Chapman. The Bible the Text Book of the Sunday School.?Rev. W, R~. flBouk- j night. B. H. Caldwell and Mrs. T. E. Chandler. , ! What is Repulsive to Memfbership *r? the Sunday School.?Mrs. J. C. Puncan, Miss Ola Brown and Miss Margaret Renwick. I I BUDDHISTS HOLD SPOT HOLY i Famous Pagoda, Built by Hermit, Has Long Been Visited by Throngs of Pious Pilgrims. Sightseeing in Burma Is apt to be one pagoda after another, and at that the tourist misses most of them One that he usually does not see unless he is especially energetic, or iius an insatiable taste for pagcdas, is the Kyaik-hto-yo pagoda, one of the most holy spots in Burma in the eyes of the Buddhist Burmese. ! The Burmese say that the builder of * this pagoda was a hermit, a theory which seems probable enough, for it is built on the top of a steep hill in < a location which could appeal oniy to one of solitary inclination. Even the i crest of the hill must nave been too ; close to the world for the holy man, for he located his shrine on a huge KatttI rl aw trrV* 5 aK morr va KAr?n cfQO rl vr UVWIUC1, TT U1V.U uuaj uo?c ci^auj enough in his day, but which now seems ready at any time to siip of? ! into the valley several thousand feet below. [ Assured by the Burmese guide that , ! the rock has rested at this critical j ' angle for many centuries, the visitor, ' j already breathless from the reckless j ; ascent of a Burmese hi'I, climbs a! | swaying bamboo ladder to view better 1 the old pagoda. The great rock, with j | its shrine forming a tiny pointed cap, ; ! seems even more unsteady from here, j but the guide feels no uneasiness. He is pnnfiripnt: that somewhere below the pagoda is a lock of Buddha's hair, and this alone stays tlie bowlder from j its fall. j In the early spring pilgrims from all . over Burma journey to this forsaken j spot to piace flowers on ttie rock and j offer their prayers and gifts. Jewels | and other offerings are tossed with an j ; invocation to Buddha into the chasm J below the rock. As they leave, they j place lichted candles outside the ! shrine and, as they cross the plain jin j the evening they can still see tiAy j points of flame marking the sacred ' spot for other pilgrims who may follow them.?Chicago News. t FOOD WU- VIN ism I THE. ISUIUSf i m i L__ i _ ? ALLIES TAKE ONE THOUSAND HUN OFFICERS Sn:::~er of Prisoners Captured So Far is* Fieardy Drive Estimated at 36,030, Including Many Officers. Ai:rr. 11.?Tbe number of prisoners taken so far in the Allied otensive in Picardy is now estimated at S6,000, including more than 1,000 officers. More than 500 guns have been captured, according to the latest advices. The pivot of the German resistance at this stage of the 'battle, it now ap_ pe^rs. is the town cf Noyon, about rr id way between iMontdidier and SoisFons. The enemy is throwing in reserves fom this base in an effort to n-event, regardless cf cost, the Allies from gaining control of the XoyonTT ?-1 aU nil a1ta<3 nrif V? tvi o ci.;i jii ruttu, wmtu i/uuiv.cu nu iiia,fecial, guns and troops. The Germans are expected to make a desperate stand on the Rone-Noyon line to permit the colunms which are retreating in the direction of 'Nesle and Ham to reach safety. Hun Resistance Stiffening. The resistance of the Germans Is stiffening against the Fourth British ! army under Gen. Rawlinson. They are reacting violently in the region of T/hons, which chanped hands twice during the nierht, hut which this morning was firmly held by the British. All the bridges across the Scmme, between Feronne and Ham, a stretch of about fifteen iles, have been destroyed by Allied aviators. ?The Germ^n* have b-^en attempting to throw temnorarv bridees across the stream, but. the Allied airmen are now systeatically bombing these improvised structures. All the morning reports shew extreme confusion among the enemy fork's in tJ^eir precipitate retreat. Among t*he prisoners taken are generals, colonels and officers of all oher grades. 'Eleven divisions o? Gens, von Hutier ond von Marwitz b?ve been identified by prisoners taken. Mr. H. D. Adams of Columbia was i visffing his family from Tuesday until Wednesday. HOUSE BUILDING IN KOREA Operations Always Begun by the Construction of a Most Ingenious System cf Flues. When a Korean begins to build a house he first lays down a system o' flues where the floor is to be. The jo flnoc h*>orin nt n rK7l:?i V . built in an outer shed or in a closed alleyway connected" with the hous.\ From the fireplace the flues branch out like the ribs of a fan and end in a trench at the back of the floor space. This trench, in turn, opens into a chimney, usually built at some distance from the house. When the flues are completed the builder "arefu'ly covers them over with flagstones; he then cements the whole floor and covers it with a sort of thick oiled paper for which Korea is famous. The rest of the home is then built round the completed *oor. The heating system works in this way: When it is time to cool: the rice fop the morning meal the housewife lights a little straw or brushwood in the fireplace in the outer shed. While the rice is cooking the her.t i'roin the fireplace passes through the flue^. heating the stone flags of the floor and diffusing a pleasant warmth that Innntil if- is t:mf> in nivniire- tht? next meal. Tv;o heatings a day generally suffice to keep the floor warm. On the floor the people sit by dny nntf sleep by night. The heavy oiled pnper that covers the floor prevents any smoke from entering the room. Center of Agricultural Production. > The center of agricultural production of the United States, according to the value of pron and nnfmnl nrnrincts for 1917, is in west-centra I Illinois, as shown by a diagram just issued by the department of agriculture. The states of greatest production are:: Iowa, $1,330,000,000; Illinois, ?1,255,000,000; Texas, $1,045,000,000; Missouri, $947,000,000; Ohio, $851,000,000 ; Nebraska, 3774,000,000; Indiana, $706,000,000; Kansas, $735,000,000; New York. $700,000.000; Minnesota, .504(1000,000; Pennsylvania, $030,000,000; Georgia. &G05.000.000'.\'iscv;u.Mii, $50acc0,000; California, $575,000,000; Michigan, 5534,000,000, and IC-nlucky, $520,000,000. BATTLE BECOMES MORE STABILIZED ; t j * Fighting is Very Bitter.?Some -Slig-Iit ; Retiremens Necessary.?Enemy Calling Reserves to Save Sitoalon. i j London, Aug. 11.?Today the situation south of the 'Somrne was becoming mors stabilized. There has been 110 important Allied advance in the 12 bourse and at some places a slight retirement has hcen necessary. The fighting has been desperate and "f ? ^ing dong character, and for the moment any big advance on this front is not expected. The enemy apparently is calling upon his reserves to help him save all material possible. , GIVE INSIGHT TO CHARAGTER Shape of Eyebrows Reveal Vigor, Insincerity, Lack of Vitality, and Many Other Things. It is now conceded that the Greek eyebrow is qnite in accord with the conception of mere physical beauty in women. Like the rosebub mouth, it does not indicate the highest order of intelligence and the arch is expressive always of greater sensibility and greater sense of character, says London Tit-Bits. Scant growth of the eyebrows invariably denotes lack of vitality; on the contrary, heavy, thick eyebrows indicate a strong constitution and great physical endurance. They are not beautiful on a woman's face, however much they may signify either mental or bodily vigor, and when they are not only heavy, but droop and meet at the nose, they are disagreeable and are said to accompany an insincere and prying nature. Romantic women usually have a very well-defined arch in the center of the eyebrow, while a sense of humor is indicated in the arch nearer the nose. Long, drooping^ eyebrows, lying wide apart, indicate an amiable disposition. Where the eyebrows are lighter in color than the hair, the indications are lack of vitality and great sensitiveness. Faintly defined eyebrows placed high above the nose are signs of indolence and weakness. Very black eyebrows give the face an intense and searching expressing; when natnral, they accompany a pascinno+Q fomnPMmPTit Vprv Hfhfr PVP brows rarely are seen on strongly intellectual faces, although the color of the eyebrows is not accepted simply as de7 n >ting lack of intelligence; the form gives the key to the faculties rind their direction. Red eyebrows denote great fervor and ambition; brown, a medium between red and black. Reaily Serious. The Newiyweds had unwittingly chosen their abode in the neighborhood where scandal was rife. One morning one of the neighbors sent a hoarse whisper over to her chief confident: "What's the trouble between the Newly weds?" "Her husband tried to keep something from her." "Oh, that's not serious! Men will have their little secrets." "Ah. you don't understand! This is serious. He tried to keep a dollar and a quarter of his last week's pay." j Use Common Sense. In a desire to help food conservation j many women go to ridiculous extremes. I Children and growing youngsters, should be well nourished, war or no' war. Mr. Hoover wants us to use com- j mon sense in oar conservation. Put-1 ting youngsters on half rations is very j far from common sense. If you cut1 down their butter or sugar, increase; their consumption of milt.?People's j Home Journal. Ash Tress for Airplanes. The appeal of the Aerial league of I the British empire for ash trees for j aeronautical purposes has resulted in! between three and four thousand trees I being offered within the last few weeks, according to "Flight." The government requirements in the nex' twelve months are expected to exceed 200,000 trees.?Scientific American. I H ONE SPOON, PLEASE. gj > , I ? 2 < J :z Make one spoon of sugar <T ? Do the work of two. t! i & H i ? Keep the program going ? j t * ? I ti Until the war is through. r ( r: ' v > * \ V ^ I *? ??? '?????* 4 * ******** * * * * p RED CROSS WORK. * ******** * * * * The surgical dressings rooms will r be opened for work Tuesday, August V 13, hours, 10 to 12:30, 5 to 7; and b every day until the Fuly allotment is OV finished. G Tuesday morning, wearing the blue Y veil, Mrs. H. T. Cannon, grey veil, I< Mrs. L. W. Floyd. v Tuesday afternoon, blue veil, Mrs. ; ti W. G. Houseal, grey veil, Mrs. C. H. j "V Cannon. j#ti Wednesday morning, blue veil, Mrs. j f< Leland ISiimmer, grey veil, Mrs. Hal ' h Kohn. ? Wednesday afternoon, blue veil, Mrs ii C. D. Weeks, grey veil. Miss Lucy ti Speers. j c Thursday morning, 'blue veil, Mrs. : F. E. Dibble, grey veil. Miss Agnes t vua^iaaii< j] Thursday afternoon, blue veil. Mrs. i *( J. P. Fant, grey veil, Mrs. H. H. Ab- j, rams. 1, g Wicker-Robertson. t ^ ^ Miss Lizzie Wicker and Mr. John W. Robertson were married by tho ^ Rev. F. E. Dibble Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock, at Central Methodist ^ church parsonage. It was a very t. quiet wedding. No cards. Miss Loris ^ Wicker and Miss Marie Wendt wit- g nessed the ceremony. tl Card From County Medical Society. h Whereas, one of our fraternity, Dr. ^ J. M. Ki!bler, the medical member of _ the local exemption board of Newber- , d rv county, has rendered most valuable ^ services to our county in his'uniform loyalty, courtesy and even handed jnstice to all selectmen; and recognizing the fact that Oris servce was ren- -S dered at great personal inconvenience * and :0<SR- hprfi*#Tf? ho :* Resolved, T'*-". ve, the physicians i of Xetyberrr L'' unty, e> tend* to * him <5 nvr abso^?t' eoi5io:x?v riansr? a-nl ,-r hearty appro ? u ,a; <i appreciation if >t .bis official "oiJoct an-.l effort* in > rvamtaining the ^li^h standard of ohysical fitness of the selectmen sent r mm our,county ' , ^ Members of Newberry Medical Society. Death of Miss Blalock. f Miss Mamie Elaloclv died at a hos piral in Columbia Saturday, 8:45 p. m. Her body was shipped to .New. v !?erry Sunday afternocn and was conveyed to the residence of .Mr. L. I. h Blalock, brother of the deceased, whence it was 'Monday morning taken t to Rosemont cemetery, where the bur. ial service was conducted by the Rev q F. E. Dibble. The Junior Division of the Mission. v ary Society of Central Methodist w{lT moot rtivf 'Phil rc fiat* n UUUHJU. Will UbAV 1 UV>A , rm., at r>:30 o'clock in the church. SUGAR EXPORTS SMALL TO NEUTRAL NATIONS i; \ Only 797 tons of refined sugar were shipped from America to neutral na- C tioq.5 during the first five months of ? this year. This amounted to only 3.2 per cent, of the total exports to all . countries. Mexico received more than ; ^ half the amount we exported to neu- i t< trals. - .. L7mrr7x^ +j? * " SAVE SUGAR. \ Sugar means Ships? ? f] Ships mean Soldiers? * j Soldiers meah Victory. j * i * FRANCE AND BELGIUM GET AMERICAN SUGAR e Ninety-five per cent, of all refined 6U!?nr sort from the United States to IM the Allied nntions went to France and Belgium during the first five mouths ^ of tliis year. France got 72 per cent., or nearly 33.000.000 pounds, and Belgium received nearlv 11,000.000 pounds, or 23 per cent. M In each country this sugar was doled ir out by a strict rationing organization. The entire amount to the Allies in v these five months?23,701 tons, almcst half of which was shipped in May?is C: only about one-half of 1 per cec/t of Tmr total annual consumption. fc ERSCnVAL PARAGRAPHS PROSPEROUS PROSPERITY. Prosperity, Aug. 12.?Word has been eceived from Boston by Mr. A. G. Pise that his son Robert K. Wise haa -i- - ? - ? - TT een accepted in uie u. ?>. uiucers Iaterial School as a candidate for th? ommission of Ensign in the Navy, oung Wise enlisted last fall at Charjston as a second-class seaman, but ras soon selected to take a special raining course at Camp Plunkett, Vakefield, Mass. During his appreniceship there he studied constantly 3r the examinations which he would ave to take to qualify for this school. Ie has now safely passed these examnations and is at Harvard university aking tne reqtnrea tnree montus ourse. A cablegram has been received by he mother of Allen Lester announcrig his promotion to the rank of ina3r in the regular army. Major Lester 3 a Prosperity boy and took his col3ge work at the Citadel where he was raduated with first honor. While at he Citadel he won a scholarship to Vest Point srraduating in the clas9 of 914. Since then he has been sta 'oned at Fort Sill, Okla., and then n the border where he was made 'aptain. Since the return of the roops from Mexico^ Captain Lester as served as instructor in the Ofcer's Training Camps at Chicago and t Charlotte. At the beginning of tiis year the war derartmen* offered im a mayorship in the United States eserves to be stationed in this country ut Capt. 'Lester preferred to go to 'ranee with his lesser rank. It was ecause of his distinguished service a France that he was commissioned iajor. Chas. W. Curtain, agent for the U. !. bureau of entomology has been vi3n Prosperity for the past few days ookis.g over the insect situation on ting in Prosperity for the past few fers looking over the insect situation .-n ro"-> wl fhe possibility of the exent of iHessian fly in wheat for next 'ear. . . Willie Mack Lester has be?n com^siop?d ?s assistant pay master in he ft". S. Navy. t ion* Arthrr Shealy leaves this fT Fort Oelethrope to take the hre-i ninths training course. Wm. Ward of Camp Jackson is home or the week-end. Miss Gertrude Sobb leaves this reek for Atlanta. Mr. J. A. Counts has been spending lis vacation in Columbia. Mr. L. A. 'Black leaves this week forhe northern markets to buy the fall tock of sroods for Black's Drv Qoo'js :o. Lieut. and 'Mrs "Ralph War'] of rork, Pa., are spending a few days rith Mr. and Mrs J. M. Ward. Dr. E.X. ivibier has returned f.rum month's stay at Glenn Springs. Mrs. Nancy "Wheeler spent the weeknd in Newberry. Miss Margurite Morris of Lake Cfryt 5 the guest of Miss Joe Langf:rd. Pickenf Lan^ford is home frora lamp Bailey, at Lake junuluska, N. I ' * * if T> - ? A AT*?e rf TIT ri CvVlQ 1? crVl n : v. <r?tiu .*zi />. tv . i Tr. *nd Mrs. G r>. 'Bedenbaugh moDr?'1 to Camp .Jackson last week. Mr. and Mrs. H. T. iRawl have reurned from Scotland Neck., N. C. t"c T^a,"r-- sixers. Misses Jennie and. laude Leggett, returned home with lem. Mrs. G. W. Harmon and Mis'5 Rv ecra Harmon are spending the week t Ninety Six. Mr S. S. Hirge nas g:?ne 10 on business trip. Dr. and >Trs. <?. Y. Hunter hava *o H?ndersonville. Carl Fellers has returned to Fitzfjralri. oa.. pffer a visit to '.is sister, fiss Fdna Fellers. Johnnie Lan^foH has gnne fo Coimb'a for treatment at the B.optM ospital. V- *nd V rT. of C>lumf'a. Rev. and Mrs. E S. K/>hn of fount Follr. *N. n . Mv= vsen >? rfrTnt.ivos in .in I rr'i'n^7 Prpsrer'-''^ CarrcH Mills has re^T*;*'! f-?m St. [atthsvrs TTu?rs ' a ??.<! "*r"1 o* 'i inncry d-^rrg tres.?-? "s.~on. Mr. and.'Mrs. T. R. Sifford hive :*ft ir their l?cw br,rn<?. Liico'r,+r>n, ?,*. C.