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^ V Friday, August 23,1918. ' THE ELECTION RETURNS. _ The Observer and The Herald and News have agreed to take the returns I the election jointly. In these times j y it is necessary to conserve all our i resources and to cooperate in every 7s L ' *^27 possible. f We will use The Observer office. I And the bulletins will be displayed from there and the special printed I returns issued from that office. We ^ are sending blanks to all the m&nwL agers, placing them in the boxes, and ?nve!opes addressed. We would thank S the managers to send by hand or mail rcr telephone the returns just as the count is completed. When one box is counted please phone that In and thus cooperate with us in getting the totals as promptly as possible. The Observer phone number is 87. Please remember that and call that number instead <7T calling it and The Herald and News also. We will also arrange to get the returns from the State and give them . out Just as fast as received! > In most cases the returns can he ' \ sent by phone. Read them from the / ~biank Just as the names come and vre ft <can take them easier. We ask the cooperation of the man Agere and our mends and we will do the rest. The Observer The Herald and News. 7""""******~ "* i ;* IHPSHHHHHSiHHMflflHtMHBflKNSS U. S. Food Administration. 'Sides savin' fats en wheat, we *ot ter save sugar. De bes* way ter save sugar is ter use syrups en honey. * A nice li'l pitcher full er 'lasses convoyed by a fleet er buckwheat j cakes is one er de bes* ways to j - '????* ???? " Twi/i r*A Riipn.r nroiick.? I " QVV Vi VO V, *? AM V* w ~ 4 w ?n It saves wheat flour too. p I \ x >"( m l[ \ L . 'f ,? ? c * _ I Ucc > r :>r.rn - 9 /- i o."^hn***>hn n';o r \ i ^ * ! 1' i : \ if ' ^ark tm l~ ?* ?/ *. - w ?l ?J V J 4u x ?/ /^~T / .->??-/ Q yyr^, VtJ?i 1 * "'** * ' " ? mmmmm?rur iiii?m" ?^?CTaMr>?riMi?-r-'re _ i fc. k/fo/41 r?i 1 W lvivuivai f OF THE J South $ Owned and Cont Schools of Medici Rated m Class A by the Cc the American Medical Associ ation of American Medical C Conference of Pharmaceutical I A Leader in Me in the --- TTTlfll WpH p 1>CW nikii ?_ coips of thoroughly efficient ; Located opposite the Rope Charleston Museum, thus aff< tensive opportunities for rese; Women Admitted on the i For catalouge address. H. GRADY CAL Calhoun and Lucas Str p -5UGAR FOR CANNING WILL BE OBTAINABLE fV^i'rnWa?Sn?rar win be obtainable n sufficient niru*tt>s for canning - - J W ^ A JminiofM. i ma ymr UIC r UUU AW^UiUiOUtr ton announces. All re+:rl rrocers of the state are b?> 5ng sunpl>d with bitnk certificates ( Arsons rie?iHng to cb??;r sugar for j "ann'r.e and reserving will be reqnir-' ^d to ?:*rn one of these certificates, j eaving the same with the grocer from : horn the sn^ar is obtaineti. They nust pledge themselves to return to fhe grocer any surolus sugar that is I 'eft over sfter canning. This arrangement <?oee not change i any way the regulatf?oe regarding ' i the sale of sugar for home use. Except: for canning and preservteg, persons residing in cities and towns cannot purchase more than from 2 to 5 pounds, and persons residing In rural ! AAn?mimH?o? mr*TO tSon frrtm K tn 10 pounds of sugar at one time. I Meeting of Council of Defense." ! Prosperity. Aug. 21.?The Newberry Council of Defense held a mass meet[ ing tcday in t . ^onrt house. Rev| erend Hugh JR. .Murchison, Field | Agent of the State ^uncil of Defense, was present and made a very instructive talk on the prevention of disease on/1 ftiir nntv " h*>re at home in the , ***.* VA VUi 1 great world conflict. After the meeting adjourned the Council of Defense went into executive session and planned to put on a sanitation campaign in the county. It was planned to have one meeting at each community center, or at least one in each township, the places and speakers to be selected later. By special invitation Dr. W. G. iHouseal of Newberry and ?>r. G. Y. Hunter of Prosperity, will make addresses at Zicn church, No. 9 town. ship, Sunday morning, August 24th, at 11:30. The subjects will be prevention of some of the most common diseases and sanitation. At this time these are very vital subjects and everybody should be interested in them. We trust that there will be a large crowd out to hear the addresses. All the people of the surrounding communities are especially invited to be present. T. M. Mills, Sec'v. Newberry Council of Defense COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON. Founded 1785. A college'Cf highest standard, open to men and women. An intentionally limited enrollment insures individual instruction Four years courses lead to iiie bachelor's Degree. The PreMedical course a, special feature. MilI itary training, established in 1917 unI der War Department Regulations, is J in charge of U. S. Army Officers. - - " - Hn-JnUVl j Address, narrisun irvcmuv/ii/Li, Pres. CliErleston, S. C. > Sicii^1 MO chipping nor j chrpHHino^ no wast- ,1 ? ingot bar coapwhen a you use GliANDMA. ! Now is the time to save I soap. GRANDMA does thit. I GRANDMA is Powdered Soap. Soap all ready for the tub. Measure it out by the spoonful. Glorious, babbling, cleansing - * ? ? ' *?nrr 1'inrl nf b'JCIS III U JJii/ aiy ttn'u water. Clothes white as snow ar:J just as fragrant and sweet '< as freshly cut clover. 5eidered Soap 1 zct Has It! I ? ! College I: STATE OF ji Carolina |l rolled by the State ne and Pharmacy >uncil of Medical Educators of ?tion. Member ot the Associolieges and of the American . Faculties. krliral FfliiPafinn /WiVUl &JUUVM?1V?* South. quipped laboratories. A full < all-time teachers. ir Hospital aud very near the ording the students more exarch and trainii g. j} same terms as men. j LISON Registrar, eets Charleston, Scu. Carol::-?. __ SET WiTSTO WORK Woman Proved Herself Heroine in Emergency. I With Husband Disabled by Broker ( ? r?? UC3 one cmpiu/ca unique oiyn<ai to Bring Help That Might < Save Him. 1 The following would be almost tmbelievable if the facts were not the talk of the community and if it were , not substantiated by the various participants. In Penobscot bay, three ini?es from Islesboro, is a little island known as Mark island, owned by Preston Player, a State street broker of Eoston, and he there maintains a big summer place. The keeper is Ralph \ Collamore cf Lincolnville, who in the ] winter, with his wife and two children, ; makes his home on the island in a little cottage. I On Wednesday, Jannary 23, he too1: < the boat and started for Idlesboro. ] Three hours were taken In making < the trip of three c.iles by water. He ' came back and upon landing and pull- ' ing the boat up onto the shore on Mark island he pulled the boat over onto him, pinning him down and break- i ing his leg. His wife kept looking for '< her husband's return and finally, at- 1 -'nrtpd hv his ernnns. found him s pinned under the boat. She is a frail 1 woman but with him hanging onto his injured limb, she managed to drag him 1 up to the cottage. There with the aid * of a leather wallet and sticks she set the leg the best she could. There they ! were practically isolated and help was ! needed badly. Mrs. Collamore, full of pluck and de- 1 termination to get help, went to the Player summer home. There she man- ! age4 to set agoing the electric dynar mo by which the place is lighted. She 3 turned on every light in that big house [ and put on also a red light. The lights were run all day Thursday and J not until 5:45 Thursday afternoon ] was the light noticed at Dark Harbor. Telephone calls were sent to the naval , station and the tug Zizania started to Dark Harbor to see what was the ( trouble. Dark Harbor was reached ; ubout 9:30 Thursday night. There no one knew what was the trouble at j Mark island. The Zizania cut her way j through the ice, in some peaces 8 and , 10 inches thick, for three miles to the ' Island. Captain Sherman and nine ! men went ashore. They made their way to the lighted house and there found no One. Groping along in the darkness they were frightened by the sudden uprising of a flock of turkeys 1 from a tree. Then they came upon ' the cottage in total darkness with the . 3 - . i door open but no signs of life about- 1 Going in they found the courageous little woman asleep, the injured man 1 half asleep and both children slumber- 3 Ing. The tug went back to Dark Har- ! bor and there found a doctor who was brought bacfc to Mark island. The . Zizania remained at Mark island until four o'clock Friday morning when . the injured man was attended to.? ; R>in!7or Commercial. ; < Britain^ Indians. : The Indians in the British army on < the western front, notably the Sikhs, that highly disciplined military force ' from British India, have little in com- 1 mori with the American red men. They J come from the other side of the earth; * they are sons of a deeply religious i sect, and for 50 years or more have 1 been an important factor in the British dominion of *he far East. They are tall, well-built, handsome men, most of them with beards, and i in perfection of drill and military bearing they are not excelled by any troops on the western front. But while their methods of fighting are quite dissimilar, the Sikh fighting force being a well-trained military ma- ; chine while the American Indian is a fWible unit, there is one thing in which they are very much alike. As a 1 humorous English writer?Punch and Its punsters still live?puts it: : "I hnve had nn opportunity to study both the Indians of the East and the Indians of the West, and while they nre very dissimilar in most things, , when it comes to courage, I may be , excused for saying that it is Sikhs of XX As\r7/\r\ f\? AfllDT* I'' yiitr uliu u naix. ui niv- uuivi . Stenographers to Go to France. A unit of 25 expert women stenographers, who will wear a distinctive nniform, is now being recruited in the United States for overseas sen' ice. This group will be assigned to the quartermaster's corps of the : American expeditionary forces and ^ to the headquarters of the staff of General Pershing. Each applicant /or service must be an experienced , stenographer. She will be required to own in her own equipment four uni- j forms (two for winter and two for summer service). She must pass 8 physical examination, and will be en- i1 gased for the period of the war. The ! salary now stated is $1,000 a year 1 with the additional allowance of $4 <: i J a day for the first month and $2 a day < for the remainder of the time. j' i; The Upper Class. | j "So you wish to marry my daugh- j j rer?" said tne prouu purtrin.. "Yes, sir," replied the youns: man. i "How much money are you making?" i asked the governor. I j "For ty dollars a week," was the re- I p?y. j "F rf~ dollars a weok: my j daughter can make i!mt in a muni-, tions plant and not work overtime." RISES IN DEFENSE OF DOG Toronto Newspaper Man Vigorously Condemns Silly Proposal That They Be Killed Off in Wartime. A wrathful correspondent of the 1 Mail and Empire suggests that dogs ought to be killed off in wartime or else such a stiff tax imposed upon their owners a3 greatly to reduce the dog population. Similar views have been expressed since the war in England. Only the other day Lord Claud Hamilton said mat pet aogs are a nuisance and that if he had his way he would "slaughter all the Pekingese dogs in the country and have them made into meat pitis." Not long ago Punch presented a picture of a toughlooking citizen grooming an equally tough-looking bull terrier, while a cu-11 rate addressed him as follows: "Don't j-ou think, my good man, that in wartime you would be better employed in beeping a useful animal, a pig, for instance?" "Yus," growled the dog fancier, "and a nice fool Td look ?oin' rattin' with a pig." Proposals to destroy dogs are founded rather on personal prejudice or ignorance than m a consideration of the advantage to be gained by their extermination. The assertion that they consume much food that might better be converted to human use is not justified. As a , rule dogs live on table scraps and odds nnd ends of food which would other- j tvise be wasted. As for the Hamilton j 5Uggestion about making Pekes into meat pies, it is probable that all the Peke? in the British isles would not provide a single enjoyable meal for ane battalion. It is true that dogs frequently kill, sheep, but they also kill cats and rats and thus help to square the account [n thousands of farmhouses they con Ftitufe an invaluable guard for the women folk. They even do such chores as driving up the cows, churning the milk, fetching and carrying and performing other services that make amends for the undeniable fact that Li?? 4-v^tw Vinit> nn cx fnmlfnrp I uit'jr gci men. uaii uu vuv .?.? and come into the kitchen with muddypaws. At the front they are doing war work of undeniable value. In Belgium they are beasts of burden. They carry messages from the trenches to headquarters in the rear. They guard ngainsl enemy raids; they locate the wounded lying in No Man's Land, and are a real pal to many thousands of homesick Soldiers. A proposal to abol- j ish dogs is about as sensible as a pro- ! posal to abolish nephews, and has a"bout as much chance of succeeding.? roronto Mail and Empire. \ Zeppelin Limitations. Basing his statements on accurate measurements of a Zeppelin that was brought down in England last October, on known facts regarding the - * ? 4-Urx lifting power oi nyarogeu gu?, uu mc state of the barometer during the Sight, on the temperature of the air recorded in the airship's lo<r, Jhadno > Juhoz writes in Aeronautics as follows: "It would appear from the foregoing that the latest type of Zeppelin Is designed to attain a height of 17,000 to 18,000 feet when over its objective and after dropping its bombs, but is capable of going even higher under stress of circumstances and at the risk of suffering some slight damage [>n returning to its base. "These conclusions accord well with Mr. Warner Allen's statements that these airships are built with a view to ! flying between 16,000 and IS,000 feet. I Or course, on a short flight they could | go higher, in view of the reduced quantity of petrol to be carried." Western Soldiers Rugged. The "earlv to bed and early to ri.c ' slogan is noticeable on the faces % the boys in khaki who are driving here from the West and other parts of the country. T^hese youths are certainly typical of the real American. Health, brawn and muscle are their principal characteristics and with all this ther'e is a certain amount of chivalry that is not seen in New York. The average New Yorker is a pale individual. Indoor work, of course, is ; responsible for this and he always is : in such a hurry that he thinks of no one but himself. Some of the New j York youths marvel at the appearance ! of these visitors from the West. They cannot understand why they should be so ruddy. The explanation is easy. It is because they spend more time in the open. Nevertheless the appearance of the boys from other parts of the ! country is causing jl< kiuu? ui jealousy.?New York Times. Non-Inflammable Celluloid. The usefulness of celluloid as a substitute for various materials is lessened by its extreme inflammability. Considerable interest has, therefore, been aroused by the invention by a professor in a Japanese university of a non-combustible, or at any rate slow-burning celluloid. fironrnnf this Sub V line UUl stance requires a great deal of heat to kindle it, and burns very slowly. The new material is made from the soy bean, which the Japanese have found so widely useful, and it is said, Includes the use of formalin to produce a durable, hornlike substance. Et is claimed that the Japanese product will be cheaper as well as much preferable to the combustible celluloid to which we are accustomed. A Grand Passiorv "She seems interested in that aviator." "That is hardly the word for it." "No?" oiiys she loves tht* very air ho throjgh."?D.rmingham AgeHerald. VICTOR NOW LOVED War Has Brought Popularity to Italy's King. His Democratic Ways, and Courage in the Face of Danger, Have Greatly Endeared Him to Both Soldiers and Citizens. The war has cast some kings down from their thrones and held up others to the scorn of the world. But it has also made some honored and beloved, not by their own people only but by millions of the citizens of other coun- j tries. King Albert of Belgium is one; | King Victor of Italy is another. Vic- ! + J rv? rvncl rs CT Qfi/1 ivi uao nvir uic lui^yi/oiug uuv? heroic bearing of Albert, but his soul . has risen nobly to the occasion. The extreme democracy of Italy, ! says Mr. Herbert Vivian in "Italy at War," has always expressed itself in j the freest criticism of the monarchy, j During the agitation of May, 1915, ' when many persons feared that Italy might shrink from war, the name of King Victor Emmanuel HI was frequently taken in vain. The press pub- i lished impudent caricatures and openly accused him of being swayed by Austrian sympathizers. Poor little man! So small, and ^ 11^ AM t U A l*n? A rawer muuc; nc uuo a wife, worthy daughter of the old Hon , of Montenegro, and he finds much i homely happiness in his sturdy fam- j ily. Bnt he has been the subject of many slights and much indifference; Indeed, only In Italy is it known how near he was exiled In May, 1915. Bnt the time for pity has gone by, and the king is now by far the most popular man in the, kingdom. He Is almost a dwarf, with a colorless face slightly bronzed by the elements, a crisp, manly voice, and a way of laugh- j Ing with his eyes. He stands erect, { with his short legs wide apart. His ! hnir is hednnini? to erow gray, and I there are furrows on his forehead and I beside his mouth, yet he bears him- ! self like a young man, walking fast! and never tiring. He speaks little ! and simply, always to the point, look- j ing men straight in the eyes and awakening strong feeling wherever he goes. He buzzes about the battle front in a little gray motor, without escorts^ and with no precautions for his safety. : fte sleeps little and cares not where; he is quite happy in an Alpine hut or on straw. His fare is of the simplest? a little cold meat, bread, cheese and chocolate?and he is always ready to share it with the nearest soldier. He "Tn" to evervone in a fatherly way, and welcomes familiarity from the soldiers. They treat him as one of themselves, but none have ever taken advantage of his good nature. He laughed heartily when an old soldier called out V> him: "Nay, majesty, what be doing here? This is no place for thee. Get thee gone at once!" I He interests himself in all the men he meets. "Dear me," he says, "what a lot of post cards! Are they all for sweethearts? Give them to me and I will send them with my own letters. Such things should not be delayed." "Why do you look so gluin? No news from your family? Cheer up! I'll send a wire for you to inquire." The soldiers see him praying with glistening eyes over a dying comrade. "For your majesty," gasped a dying soldier as he stretched out his arms. "Not so, my son," was the grave reply, "for Italy." Another incident that happened on the battle front gives a pictuii of the AAOMfffl Tn fho niirldf nf shpll Ulllg O JLU U1V fire a lieutenant who had fallen, mortally wounded, called a foldier, gave :.."m a few keepsakes to < onvey to his family and then ordered him to fly. But the soldier tried to carry the lieutenant to a place of safety. Some gunners called to him through the infernal fire: "Save yourseif! Save yourself!" But still he remained. In l1-- -1:-A ? TV./->*/->? Vi r\rn />nnM hA Hie UlMHUtC <X UJUiUi uuiu v-vv.*^ heard, and the whisper went round that the king had left the field. The soldier still struggled with the officer's body, but the lieutenant died in his arr.s. Flinging himself on the corpse, the young fellow exclaimed with tears: "Even the king has gone away!" Then a hand touched his shoulder, lie shook himself, rose and stood at attention. "My dear boy," said the king, "the car has gone, but the king is still with you." And there he remained till the end of the day. I Enemy Son of British Princess. Claremont, the fine old mansion and j property at Esher, in England, where j the greatly lamented and once tre mendously popular Princess Charlotte, daughter of George IV, spent her mar- j ried life, has been turned into a girls' j * ? j? .Li rrvirt i SCiiooi unuer my pressure ui wui. j duchess of Albany owns it now, whose : son, the duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, is married to a niece of the German emperor, and is in the war against us. ! There is a pretty strong feeling in England against permitting him to inherit the beautiful property at his mother's death. The Horrors of War. "This war is dreadful!" "**" ? I' - i.1 i-i- _ _ *"YVny, wnai S lilt' uituttrr uuw; "One can never tell when the laundry is coming home."?London TitBits. Another Yarn Exploded. "SIv r.tys she is only twenty-eight." "Twenty-eight! Great Scott, she has a son who was In the first draft." . i TRIBUTETO HERO F. H. Simonds Eulogizes Col. Raynal C. Boiling. Services of Aviation Expert, BefofU His Untimely Death, Were of the Greatest Value to the Country He Loved. ~~ The men whom we could least spare, and there are none we would willingly spare, are the men who are giving their lives to stem the fury of the " 1 v i. 17 TT ixeriuan uuaiuugiu, wnics s. uu Simonds in American Review of Reviews. It is this thought which must bo in the mind of all who knew CoL Raynal C. Boiling, degd to the enemy in the early days of the great German offensive in March. Among all the Americans who felt and foresaw the coming of this war to our own conntry, none with clearer vision or more instant response set himself to fllffro nf nrennriner himself and of striving to persuade his fellow-countrymen to prepare themselves. He chose for his work the aviation branch and for the three years, while the war was still remote and meaningless to millions of people on this side of the Atlantic, he devoted his life to study and to practical training in flying. When at last the war came, no American of his age counted greater material success or was richer in the things men sacrifice for an ideal, than Colonel Boiling. General solicitor for the United States Steel corporation, respected and honored in the legal profession for his attainments and his promise, recognized as the one whose influence an<$ power for usefulness in the future was to be great, happy in a home which ga\*e him all that a man can hope to receive on this side of his life, Colonel Boiling laid aside all of these things to respond to the call of his country# not only willingly but ready trained for practical service. For those who knew him and loved him the tragedy of his death, a death which all who knew his daring ~ ' ?"* nn-foiliriff vncnnnco if morlo LUC UUiaillUf, i to^iuuuv ????? to every challenge of danger and difficulty foresaw, does not lie in the fact that he m^t the death he expected and they expected for him. Rather it is found in the realization that a man who might have done so much more in aiding his country and his countrymen to prepare for the real struggle, whose services were so essential, whose loss was so irrepaiv able on the practical side has been lost to ns at this jr^ave hour. Colonel Boiling did not die before he had done much which will count in the future and will be a portion of the history of American organization for the conflict Penny Postage Gone In England. ! Penny postage, which disappeared at midnight Sunday, June 2, was one of the great triumphs of peace, and succumbed only to the demands of war. Although the price has gone, the principle remains, and nothing has been a truer index to the march of progress than the penny stamp. Its first tjsp fn 1840 for inland postage amounted almost to & revolution. That date fixes the "great divide" between the old postal systems and the new. The penny stamp, probably more than any other influence, exercised a power in holding together the scattered bonds of kinship and acquaintance throughout the far-flung British empire, and as a factor in imperial trade it provided the facilities upon which modern |- trading depends. j Many years ago King Edward, then prince of Wales, said he looked forward with hope to the day when every English-speaking man, in whatever ~ ^ ~ ~"U part or ine wona iie imgiii ue, suuuiu be regarded as being as much an Englishman, so far as the penny post was concerned, as if he lived in Kent or I. Sussex. Origin of "Crater." The word "crater," from the hole made by a mine and afterward fought for, has thoroughly established itself * * - * J-t? Ti. m tne language 01 me ireucues. al highly obvious and inevitable borrowing from the volcano. But the volcano itself took the word from the original "crater"?the mixing bowl (from the verb meaning to mix), in which the Greeks from the earliest known times, mingled water with the wine that they seldom cared or dared to drink neat. These craters, which stood in conspicuous positions in the hall, were often of huge size, and the resemblance to them of the volcano's orifice struck all ancient observers, who used the word "crater" in the modern vol cumc st'uae. Airplane Flare Perfected. Perfection of an airplane fiare for use in night bombing expeditions w&s announced by the ordnance department. The flare is released from the plane in a parachute and is set off by air friction. At a height of 2,000 feet it will cause a light of more than 400,C00 candle power over an area of one and one-half miles in diameter. The glare prevents detection of the plane from the ground it was explained. Pigeon Messengers. British naval pigeon service has 4,000 pigeons for messenger duty in France and elsewhere. Of these 3,000 birds are loaned by 300 British pigeon fancier:;. Pigeons often make 250mile continuous flights carrying war messages. .