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THE COUNTY CAMPAIGN PROVES A FAILURE The candidates for county offices have not had any audiences at any of their meetings when they were the only drawing cards At Young's Grove there was a pretty good attendance on account of tne reunion or tne auii family, and at Silverstreet there was a fairly good attendance of some who had been present at the children's day - exercises, but at the other places there were none to hear. 'At Pomaria and Longshore we believe there was no speaking at all. The audience and the interest were absent. So at the Pomaria meeting that was to be on Tuesday it was decided to call off all the campaign meetings except the one at Little Mountain and the one at Mollohon mill and the one at Whitmire. It is well. We told "you so" at a meeting of the executive committee that it would be well to have no campaign this year as the people did not care to hear speeches, but the motion was ruled out of order because of the fact that the rules of the party are mandatory as to a Transitu; a county campaign. ? Fact is it is too hot to be campaigning any way, but besides that there are no real great crowd moving orators in this campa;gi party, and there are no barbecues, and this is no time for that sort of thing anyhow, and it is well that the people gave heir disapproval of a campaign by not attending the meetings. " i T oHdv rwim Pamr> Jaokcnn. JLIVVW& J. A vJUi " "t-JTT|T Camp Jackson, S. C. j Aug. 14, 1918. j Dear Editor: I have just finished reading a copy of the dear old home paper "The Herald and News," of course you know I always am glad to have a letter from Mrs. Ward and the hoys and the Heralr and News is just like a letter from home, oh, yes it is home to me and will never be anything else for it has "been for thirty long years. Mr Aull I thought I would drop ia a few words from the camp, I have "been here nearly five weeks and like it fine, although the weather is very hot. but the camp has nothing to do with it for I understand it has been very hot in the northern part of the country as well. I am employed in the government post office here, we are working from thirty-eight to forty m?n on long shifts. It is our duty to issue the mail out to the various regimental officers. Our office is in a very desirous location, being in the circle of the fnain Y. M. C. A. audi torium, tie Hostess House, . tne Knights of Columbus Hall, the Camp Library and the Christian Science House and the Liberty Theatre, The Y M. C. A. offers splendid attractions for the boys, and they all seem to enjoy them very much. On Monday night I had the pleasure of seeing some of the real live sports at No. 140. Some splendid-boxing and also ?ome good wrestling. Mr. McDonald of Chicago is referee of all of the sports. Most of the boys here say it looks like the war will be over before they get a crack at Kaiser Bill, but they are anxious to get thiers and do their share when the time comes. I have not had much time to get around over the camp and look up the sure depend on them being 100 per UBO Avoirs 3M ;nq 's^oq XjjaqM0\: cent true blue. Mr. Holland ISIigh has been down to the camp twice since I /vime down and he always comes ou? S3 ^ ' to see me. I have written my mother to send me here paper as soon as she finishes reading. Hoping you and all of Newberry; much success. I am, yours truly, Arthur C. Ward f Grocer Had Nothing to Saft. The grocer thought one day that he would like a steak for his dinner as a change from the bacon, so he sent his little crirl across to the fcrutcher for one pound of steak. On receiving the steak, he thought i he might satisfy his curiosity by weighing it, and in so doing he found it to be four ounces light of weight. He brought it across to the butcher ] and said: "What Is the meaning of only giving me twelve ounces of meat instead of one pound?" | The butcher calmly replied: "I lost; my one-pound weight, so I had to use j vnnr nnp-nonnd Tifipfeet of tea." Use of Torpedoes In Warfare. Between 1878 and 1898, when the Spanish-American war broke out, there i were only twelve instances in which ! the torpedo had been nsed In actual warfare. The Russo-Japanese war in , a/1 TnoT\Tr Annnrfnnlfioa ffiP : iOVt auuiucu luau jr uyyviiuuiuvu | the use of this deadly weapon of destruction, and Whitehead's invention caused great havoc. The combination of the submarine boat and the torpedo had its first real trial In the present | war. ^ An Education. "Did you manage to give y&nr boy much schooling T "Finest possible," rejoined Farmer Corntossel. "Josh joined the army and | 4& being educated abroad." PICTURE OF GERMAN VAMPIRE!' Kaiser's Possession Embraces Many i Miles, but No Square Meals, Says j This Writer. ! The German empire, better known j as the German vampire, embraces 208,- j ; 830 square miles, but not a single . square meal, says the Brooklyn Eagle. I ; T* coo y Cl V (Tfil T1 fl < JL|# X w Ui. AiU^jUVlUs?) tJAA p*. ??MV. | duchies and 3,876,531 grand goosesteps. ! ] In outline and Inclination it is likely ; irregular. On the east it hounds Len- j < ine. On the north It is hounded by the j < allied fleets and on the west by Gen- , eral Halg. - I j The principal waterways of Germany ; , are the seize and the Kiel canal. The i high C's now under its control are con- 3 fined to the opera house. The Kiel j canal is used for exercise by the bot- ! , tied ships on pleasant Sundays. j } The seaboard, greatly restricted, like j all other kinds of board, Is known as ; the high cost of living. The country j ] is not entirely op tne ievei. u nas xu ;. the interior a large table land, entire-;. ly empty. There are also deep depres-! ; sions in all parts of the nation. ; ] Berlin, the capital, was established 1 , in the thirteenth century on the Spree j river. It has not yet recovered. The j . inhabitants are divided into two main , classes?junkers and junked. The present fooler is Kaiser Billious II. His principal occupation is look- j ina for a place in the sun. There is , something warmer than that in store for him. It sounds something like ( Helgoland. The crown prince is the ^ barely apparent. The national motto is "Spurlos ver- , senkt." J CAPITAL WELL WORTH VISIT ! i Merlda, Chief City of Yucatan, It by No Means Lacking In Attractions i for Tourist. j A capital which most tourists never i visit and of whose very existence many Deople are ignorant is Merida, i the chief city of Yucatan. Yucatan is 1 one of the richest Mexican provinces and, to go further into the intricacies of geography, forms the right arm of the Gulf of Mexico. Merida, its show city, officially began to exist in 1542, when the Spaniards laid the corner stone with much ceremony and proclaimed grandly that the very loyal and noble city of Merida, chartered by ! his most Catholic majesty, Philip II. 3 was now on the map. 3 *1' -Li "* r 14. t since uieu menua ims giuwn vjuuoiue*ably, acquired a plaza, cathedral, university, hotels and a goodly number of millionaires, and considers itself a city of some importance. ^ One governor of Yucatan, with a j well-developed sense of civic and na- j tional pride, tried to separate the ^ wealthy citizens of the capital from s some of their surplus change for im- ^ provement of the city. The millionaire element could not see how it would s gain anything by installing the beauti- i fully paved boulevards described so i eranhicallv bv their nromoter and re- c fused to contribute. But the governor t placed a tax on the henequen, the chief source of Merida's wealth, and with the proceeds, which ran into millions of dollars, he laid pavements which made walking and driving in the city a joyous affair, instead of the unpleasant necessity which it had been. Thracians Used "Tanks/* The modern tank had its precursor, iiowever, in crude, says the Christian Science Monitor. One can read all about it in Alexander the Great's ex- 1 ploits. Just to show their dislike of l Alexander in particular, and of Pan j Hellenism in eeneral. the Thracians in vented war machines la the shape of i loaded wagons and conveyed them *"> ] Mount Haemus, so as to command the i pass through which Alexander's soldiers must march. At the critical mo- 1 ment, the big, lumbering wagons, load- < ed with rock, were launched straight ] on the helpless men below. Alexander, however, met this onslaught j by ordering his men to lie down, and to interlock their shields above them, j so that the vehicles could roll over a ( road of shields. By this maneuver, ( we are told, he saved his army from , annihilation. Misunderstood. Santo Domingo?A few evenings ago ( ?ur warden, Sweet (who, by the way, j doesn't deserve his name at all), was ( dining at a "Fonda" with one of our ? doe-eyed damsels and was looking over < the menu when he asked her whether j she would have a Httle shrimp. She t blushed deeply and answered In sub- j dued tones: "Oh, Mr. Dulce, you are j so sudden/' Sweet, of course, denies ( fMo Vsiif rfAn rsAi*)iano IrnATTT him luio, UUl JUU pciliapQ UVU c auu TT aaaui ^ like we do.?"Slim Jim," 44th Co., TJ. r S. M. C., in the Marines Magazines. j f Wasn't Doing It for Fun. ( A London banker was disturbed dur- ] ing an air raid because a British threeinch gun, mounted on an automobile truck, took up a position directly in front of his house. He went out and j asked the officer in charge to move j the gun farther down the street, as j. the racket was too much for his nerves, T and got this reply: "Look here, do t 'you take this for a blooming hurdy- ( gnrdy V t ?' I] Here's German Efficiency. \ German industrial efficiency is so < nearly a fetich in the popular mind r that It is a distinct shock to hear It a i challenge'7 *>y competent authority. t "In m ouns days," said a con- t tractor sit a recent trade gathering. *we awarded a contract to bridge one j of the swift western streams to a firm of German engir.eers. Guess what they did! Blamed ii they didn't build the ! cutwater of the piers downstream." \ \ WAR BEGAN IN APRIL, 1913! * Huge War Credit Was in That Year j Voted in Germany and Supported j by Socialists. When did the war begin? April, 1913; not August, 1914, as the press always has it, writes Charles Edward Russel in Harper's. The real declaration of war was made by the German reichstag when it struck observing , dnmh on/1 /" Villi H\r nocciriff nn UU1U1TC "uu V"'" |JUO(HU8| "" extraordinary war credit of $250,000, 000; and to that act of belligerency in a time of profound peace the socialists En the reichstag gave practically their j support. All men in the world accustomed to : make upon the day's news an intelli- j ^ent diagnosis must have gasped and ) stared at this portent. Unless Ger- J m.inv deliberately Dlanned now to ' bring down upon mankind the war her j armament had silently threatened these ! many years, there was no good reason i for this perilous saber rattling; cer-! tainly none appeared in the state of , Europe. Yet the socialists seemed to be for it; that was the incomprehen- i sible fact. f August Bebel, then still active, was the ablest and most famous of their leaders, and criticism from many lands seemed to goad him into a defense. ' [t was of a nature to chill the last hope in any friend of peace. Two , reasons he gave for the reichstag's action. One was that President Poincare of France, who had been but new ly elected, was a warlike and danger3ns man, and no one conld tell to what lengths he might go. The other was that in the Balkan wars the Turks, taught by German officers, had been beaten by the Serbians, taught by French. The judicious might grieve indeed ; when they came upon such an offering j from such a source, and anybody able j to read might see that war was close . at hand. I ANGRY AT BEING DISTURBED __________i I Did Gentleman Vastly More Annoyed at Constable Than He Was at Hun Air Raiders. "He wasn't half angry," said a con- ; stable to me, smiling reminiscently as le cast his eye over what remained? nostly top story only?of an old-fashoned house which had suffered in a *ecent air raid. "You should have leard his language!" "Curious thing," I said, "the top floor ioesn't appear to be touched." "Yes, that's where he was," said the nonstable. "Of course, we thought he , vas a casualty. We cleared away the nhhish. and somehow or other got up :o his rooms with ?n ambulance and :he doctor. The door was closed, so we started prying it open. That's when :he fun started. "The door was flung open, and there stood the old gentleman with a big j >ook in his hands, his 'specs' on, and n a proper temper. I just caught a flimpse of a cosy armchair drawn up ' :o a blazing fire. ** 'What the does this mean ?' j le says. 'Haven't I been disturbed j mough this evening? Get out of it, j ill of you.' And without troubling to l shut his door, he went back and sat \ iown with his book beside the fire, j nuttering most awful. It gave me . he biggest shock of the raid."?Lonion Mail. ; i Not Equal to it. They had not been married very j ong, but she had grown cold and list-! ess; so one evening, after she had i rawned about seventeen times, he said: "You seem to be so cold and indiffer* ^r i ' T T fViAOA ?nt, juaivina. nave )uu xutguncu lappy days when I was paying you ! ny addresses?" "I should think I hnven't! I should i :hink I haven't forgotten those happy I lays. I never had less than three fel-: ows every evening calling on me." "But, dear, haven't you got me to j pay you attention now?" "Yes, I suppose I have. You are dong the best you know how; but you lon't flatter yourself that you are iqual to three, do you?"?Stray Stories. Comments Sailor's Bravery. For gallano-y in rescuing from Jrowning a lad eight years of age Secretary Daniels has commended Arthur Dtto Radcliffe, a seaman of the United States navy. Alongside of the United States steamship Wadsworth, on which ;he sailor was stationed, lay a tug. A j small boy played about the deck with 10 thought of danger. Suddenly he fell overboard. Before the warning rarne the child had floated seventy-five rards or more from the tug and ship. Then Radclilfe came into action. Jumpng into the water, he swam to the boy md brought him to safety. Radcliffe jnlisted in the navy in 1915, at Des koines, Iowa. "Germ-Proof" Money. To a bank in Spokane, Wash., beongs the distinction of circulating the irst antiseptic germ-proof national >ank notes. The United States treas- j lry is still experimenting with devices o laundry dirty bank notes to bright :risp ones, but the Spokane bank has :he first sanitary money on record, rifty thousand dollars in bills, put out >y the bank, were signed with an Ink =aid to consist largely of carbolic acid, rhe result is the bills are saturated vith an agency which means death to he most vigorous germ who'd live here. 1 , Her Repartee. "John, I wi?h you'd stop snoring." the matter with you now?" "Nothing, only I'm getting tired of iese sleepless nights." | flDHHMraHBMiBHBH I Proof the do Avoid O Mrj. Etta Dorion, of C "I suffered from female troi like a knife through my bacls strength so I had to go to bed. but I would not listen to it. I Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable bottle brought great relief and All women who have female T.trrlic. "P\ "Pinlrha.m's Vfiirfttabli (JU/UAW JU> A How Mrs. Boyd Avoid Canton, Ohio.?"I suffered fr caused me much suffering, and I would have to go through an < get well. "My mother, who had been he ham's Vegetable Compound, ac fore submitting to an operation my troubles so I can do my hou difficulty. I advise any woman1 female troubles to give Lydia E table Compound a trial and it ~ ? * " ?r? ar . lor toe in. ?mrs. iXL^LXiiXi l>uj I N. E., Canton, Ohio. 8 Everif SicR"W I LYDM I VEGEXfl I Before Sul ^NCL ' * lOUiUIg UVJU? (?U grm this government in which the v home army; the home army he 120 million Allies must eat. MODERN HEALTH CRUSADE 1 ENROLLS MILLION CHILDREN | ? Movement Under National Tnberculos- ] is Association Broadens.?Endorsed i J by American Red Cross and Work- !, ing With Junior Red Cross.?South j Caolina Has Enrolled Over 2,000 j t Crusaders.?Every County Waking {, Up to Health Work Auiang Our ; VililUl Vlii . L < That nearly 1,000,000 boys and girls 1 throughout the nation have now been 1 enrolled as Modern Health Crusaders, 1 and that recruiting to increase this (< membership to still greater numbers J1 will soon begin, was announced today ,J hv the National Tuberculosis Associa. { 3 tion, under whose direction this move- 11 ment is conducted The Crusade, the 1 Association states, "centers about a simple but fundamental program of 1 health 'chores', on the part of children, and enlists the rising generation ; of the nation's citizens in a better un- , derstanding of individual and public . it SomeWi Operatior Wto save T V OUJ O lbles which caused piercing pains : and side. I finally lost all my The doctor advised an operation thought of what I had read about Compound and tried it. The first six bottles have entirely cured me. trouble of any kind should try e Compound." ed an Operation. om a female trouble which two doctors decided that / V >peration before I could J ^ v Iped by Lydia E. Pink- f 1 11 l-trico/l mo trt frv if V>n / i f LTAOVU UiV WV Vi J 1 *J W" i II M . It relieved me from /! \\ ijfj i se work without any y { \\ ]/ who is afflicted with / \ w J !. Pinkham's Vege-/ * ; will do as much / sr T'f-} > :d, 1421 5th St., I M Uyj y\ foman SholM .i i E. PINK! lBLE CON Tmittirid Tn An ^UTOIA E.PINKHA1 ? SAM'S PA i (Cov Cueing more food, and savin; tromen of America have co-op re must help the fighting for lealth essentials." "The American Red Cross/' the As sociation announces, "has now officia y endorsed Modern Health Crusad< 3. D. Gibson, the general manager c ;he Red Cross, has written to the mar ?oror? nf its fourteen divisions, incluc w v/i. ?v?- ?. ?? _ ng the foreign division, bespeakin ;heir cooperation in this movement. J i letter to the Associaion Mr. Gibso says that he 'takes pleasure in endors ing the program of the Health Cri saders as giving an interesting an jseful held for patriotic service < :he school children and the promotio ?, 1*?, n, XJ V 31 Danontu weuaic. . u.. ? ?. bracken, National Director of the Jui ior Red Cross, also commends tt movement, in a statement herewit made public, 'to every school child i the nation.' During the summer D MacCracken says, the divisions of tl Red Cross will be 'supplied with Mo< ern Health Crusade material for di l ?n c^Vina1 tPafViprc; nT cnouuun IU an sv/u^v. iv?v? the individual score cards for tl daily health chores, which each chi must perform to become omen I pound! . Operation ' M MEDICINE CO. LYNN,MASS* 11 RTNER ^ ofi Lift *?* irtesr of Life and Charles Dana Glbaem.) g food are all war-time efforts of erated loyally. We are all in the ces and home armies over there; ??m member, will "be made available for A xrtf e/?V?AAl tiitJ t VV tiIILy UIXlllVJUQ U1 cvuwi \ w*4vi>~" jMm| 1- ren in America.' 0 j "iXew insignia for the coming year/' )f the Association's announcement con- jlS u eludes, "have now been prepared for j the Crusader hosts. These consist of I ,r a button fo- the Squire, a silver pin a for the Knight and a gold pin for the a l Knight Banneret. The button shows I T of nror* against' rlispasp and" J JjiUCI LJ Ub rf Ui ____ j. the metal pins show a Crusader bow(j man about to let his arrow fly from flfl ^ j behind his Modern Health Crusader ,n i shield." c- The movement in rhis State is fosti fired by South Carolina Anti-Tuberie culosis Association, which holds that fl ,h ' the "health of the child is the power fl in of the nation." The growing rrtm aH r. bership of this organization to o^? 13 2.000 shows the interest of oui M S- ?* ? id J j3 666 cures by removing the cause- ^ Id ; 8_5 tf % 1 4 *