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| SUtS WEAR GAS MASKS AT THE FRONT Versatility of the "Tin Hat" Is Demonstrated by Y. M. C. . ... . A. Worker. New York.?American singers who are assisting in the entertainment v provided for the American soldiers overseas by the Y. M. C. A. are wearing gas masks. I Baritones and tenors in the, American sector need only the "alerts" to slip their nosebags, because if they not do it quickly they will be out <xf luck, according to Albert Wider. hold, who sang in Dr. Parkhurst's church, Madison avenue, New York. V Widerhold was a member of the first niiQprotfoi cnnt tn T^Pflnce to Is*uU.KT*.JL UJ VVlbV VVMW vv *ing for the soldiers in the Y. M. C. A. huts. \ uNo one is allowed up there with-j out a helmet and gas mask," he said, referring to the front line trecches. MAs you pass a certain line you see a sign 'Gas mask at the alert,' which means you get it up on your chest, unbutton the clasp and have it ready to put on In six to eight seconds. All the Y men over here want to get up to the front A lot of them got there. ? ? - * - * ? ?? I take off my nat to tnose cnaps. The versatility of the tin hat is repealed in Widerhold's description of liis sleeping quarters. "My main trouble," he said, "was to get my tin jhat hung in just the right place to -catch the drip, for the roof had not l)een repaired since the last bombardment That part taken care of and "with one blanket pulled up to keep the rats from running over my face, I slept pretty well." ; GET LEAVE TO MEET KIN ) * I Soldiers Allowed to See Relatives Returned From Germany. Soldiers whoso close relatives? L specifically father, mother, children, brother, sister or wife?have been repatriated after imprisonment in German territory will be given spe cial leave or absence to meet mem on their return, according to a ruling of the French war department They have only to present an attestation of l the mayor of their home town that the facts are as represented. | What this means to the Poilu can I ^rell be imagined, since some of the H repatriates just now coming through the Swiss border have been prisoners jrimost since the beginning of the war. If the soldier had to wait his turn , :for his regular allowance of leave there is no telling how long it would be before the reunion could take place. V TURKISH BEY IS NOW REFUGEE HERE; Because he refused to sell his ideals -rto the German government, Salib Courdji, former president of the Otto? man official news agency, is a refugee In this country. The journalist fled from Turkey late in 1914, but the authorities refused to permit his wife and two children to follow him. They '*re now in France. In May, 1914, the Overman ambassador at Constantinople offered him 40,000 marks a year to exploit German propaganda in that city, bnt he refused. In August, 1914, he was offered 100,000 marks a year, but he again refused forcibly to sell his ideals. In September of the same year lie was obliged to give up his busi* ness worth 2,000,000 marks and flee from Turkey, as he was being threatened with assassination. JAP WANTS TO BE COP Anxious to Get on the Police Force at Los Angeles. If persistence is a qualification for a policeman Frank Ojo, twenty-four, an American-born Japanese, will soon 1 v? ?? T-rtc AntrolAQ fnroo Oln f WT7 VU uiv 0^. claims that as there are 12,000 Japanese In the city, and that as there are negro officers to look after the negroes, there should be a Japanese officer to watch the Japanese. Ojo's application has been turned down by Chief lintTer at least twenty tiraes4 hot every day sees him at the station In a renewed attempt to start work %s a cop. l HEINZ'S GREAT COLLECTION Ivory Carvings Owned by Pittsburgher Are Declared to Be Almost Priceless. j i During many years H. J. Heinz of Pittsburgh has gathered together one | of the finest collections of ivory carvI ings in America. There are probably ! a dozen notable collections of this i sort in the country, and among them ; the Heinz group of 1,300 pieces holds I distinguished rank, says a writer in i Scribner's. As a rich and fascinating field fo? a | discriminating collector, ivory o* wrings are perhaps without a peer. Ex ecuted in a material that has always j been costly, too rare, Sls a rule, to be j subjected to poor or mediocre work| manship, they may well be considered ! as typical of the artistic development j of the time in which they were produced. They represent the art, more| over, not of one people, of one period, 1 but, it is scarcely an exaggeration to | say, of all peoples and all periods. ; From prehistoric ages down through ' the civilizations of Egypt and Assyria i and of classic Greece and Rome have ! j come priceless examples of sculptured ivories. The dark ages of Europe, so j meager in artistic treasures, have bei queathed us an unbroken chain of j ivory carvings. Much of the most in| teresting of such work must be accred. ited to the centuries of the Gothic re! vival, the thirteenth, fourteenth and ; fifteenth. The Renaissance and the centuries succeeding have yielded a ; wealth of carved ivories of great rich; ness and beauty. From India, China ! and Japan come ivories of deep hisj toric interest and especially in the ; work of Japan, of genuine artistic ! achievement, j Periods of exceptional turbulence, ; such as the fall of Constantinople, the ! reformation in England and the French revolution, have caused the destruction of Incomparable treasures. That so much has survived seems cause for wonder. The explanation lies in the |. very nature of the carvings. ! .. i TOOK FLING AT BOOSTERS1 j i Visitor's Suggestion Probably Did Not Tend to Make Him Popular I in Loa Angeles. Merle Sidener, local advertising j man, recently returned from a Western trip in which he visited the city of Los Angeles. He was Impressed with the boosting of the Los Angeles citizens and said he learned that an Oregon colonel from Portland was the guest oZ honor at a banquet in Los Angeles. The usual after-dinner speeches were made, all boosting the ! ^t*-rr n* Tj\a AntroloC hilt Mph ' VAVJ VA JUVO m?*V regretted that Los Angeles had not ' been founded on the coast. The speak| ers all said that had the city been on I the coast instead of ten miles or so ; from it, the city wonld be the garden | spot of the world. The visiting colo! nel was ealledronto speak and said: "Qentleme?! V vHm impressed with your city as miLu ?s you are and believe that I can suggest a way in "which you can accomplish your wish." All of the citizens present leaned forward eagerly, for this was no doubt the solution that had long been wait/tAnfinnA/1 lug 1UX. me tuiuuu wuuuucu . 'This is what you should do. Obtain a large pipe, run it from the center of your city into the ocean and if you can -suck as hard as you can blow the ocean will socn be in your city."?i Indianapolis News. I : . ' On That East Tenth Line. | They were fetanding around boasting about how bad their individual street car service was. Central said his was "rottener" than College. Pennsylvania said Illinois got the best of the cars, and the best of service. A South side man declared the South side service was the limit. After they ^ J ?11 iV,/%;m M/Minrlci a Hffla mQT\ J1H.U ail liau U1C11 IVUUUO O . ULUC mmi who lives on the East Tenth line , sighed and said: j "Of coarse, we don't speak of-it as ; skip-stop any longer?we say skipentirely. But that isn't the worst. The other morning one of my neighi bors and I were standing on the back { platform of an East Tenth street car. | Well, at Tenth and Sterling streets | the car swayed and bumped so vioj lently that it jolted a lead pencil out I of the pocket of my neighbor and?" ' | But the others were gone--?Indiani anAKe Votrc > I j Al^TVO* | Appropriate Name. As he polished his customer's boots ! the bootblack puffed at the end of a | cigar. Thinking to have a little fun j at the youth's expense, the customer i asked him if he always smoked cigars. J "Oh, yes, pretty often," declared the ; youth. j "What brand do you generally j smoke?" was the next question* i "Robinson Crusoe, sir," came the rej ply. j | The customer pondered awhile. ! "I never heard of that brand," he said. "It's a name I've given 'em myself." ?!J HVmi aoo cnv'nnp niH CttUU U1C Jf UUIU. JLVU HVVt O"' -I Crusoe was a castaway!" ? Mud Specialist Several officers from the front speak of a fainous bootblack in Paris who is known as the "mud specialist." The individual can tell every soldier client what section of the trenches he hails i from merely by examining the n/ d on ' his feet. It is said that If: rarely makes a mistake, and can spot a man's .battle station anywhere . between Ypres and Verdun with marvellous acs??r?tion of the V U1 UV.J t v long line having its' characteristic brand of mud. We will win I Nothing else really m I ! Lhmmm^mLhm YORWAERTS DEMANDS A DEMOCRATIC GERMANY/ ? - i Amsterdam, Sept. 29.?A aarK, ai-; most despondent picture of Germany's position as the result of 'Bulgaria's defection is drawn by the official or- j gan of the German socialist part7' Vorwaerts* The paper sees the possibility of Austria-Hungary and Turkey following: Bulgaria's example. In an immediate creation of a truly democratic German government fVorwaerts sees the only salvation of the empire from; utter defeat, invasion and destruction. The fact that the article was permitted trt hp rvnhlished and that ex cerpts were allowed to be sent beyond the German border is regarded here as extremely significant. The article follows: "We must today consider the following situation as possible: - ?- ? 1 - - i '^Bulgaria deserts tne quadruple alliance and makes peace with the entente. Austria-Hungary and Turkey join in this step. We lose our influence in Poland and the Ukraine. Our southwest army reaches no further than Bondenbach (In Bohemia, near the Saxon frontier.) "Then the German people stand alone against America, France, Brit a in and are fighting with their bac^s to the wall. "Before our eyes the picture grows ?Gerhian soldiers are discouraged. The west front breaks. The enemy streams into Germany. German towns are enveloped in smoke and flame. < Mo Wash the Woolen Socks You Knit with Grandma j GRANDMA'SP v r> ji our utoi I I this war? tatters until we do! j 8 ,p I ^m I I p The retreating army and another army, that of fugitives from the invaded regions, roll eastwards. The stream rwerfloods the towns, spreads depression. There is no food and no coal. Industry is stagnant. Hundreds of thousands die. "Bloody attempts are made to crush revolutionary outbreaks: The war is inside instead of outside, the German frontiers. Death everywhere. "The government no longer has strength of resistance. It concedes all the enemy demands. T>?11 Vioro hn>ht HlVCU bUlO UC11 WUUIU V u>A0?i. spots. For muoh would &o to the devil that we social democrats have long wished would go there. "But we do not want to pay this price when our wants can be satisfied much more cheaply. "It is not a question of conquests, but of obtaining peace without disorder and unbearable burdens. "The government must do everything possible to come to the confer ence tatfle as speedily as possible with its allies. But it must be a democratic German government' Concluding Vorwaerts appeals to the German rulers "to do their duty and realize that the people must be self-governing." TUESDAY CWI MZAZ. ? VHEATLESS Js|gl| raSHOBKEABCUXaU MHlllllRil z^mmnEAXXivsTiDonr ESss/ CONTAINING -WHEAX I I Wasting Bar Soap! ^ TO?^prifterflvno.wherTI 'IN GRANDMA is around. No bar soap lying in water wasting away. No chipping, slicing or shaving off more than you need. GRANDMA is a won* derful soap?and it is Powdered, That's the big secret. You just measure out what you need, no more. Sprinkle it in the tub and presto?just like magic, millions of glorious, cleansing suds in an instant Then, the whitest, clearest, freshest clothes that ever hung on a wash line. owdered Soau i .... i :er Has It! j TYPIFIES SPIRIT OF FRANCE Brave Thirteen-Ycar-Old Girl, With ; Two Small Brothers, Doing All the Work on Farm. When the work in your war garden seems tedious and you straighten your aching back and look longingly toward the inviting shade of the trees or toward the arm chair on the awningcovered porch; when you mutter to yourself that it will not matter much whether the weeds do choke the beet patch?it may help you to finish your task if you call to mind a story told in "My War Diary" by Mrs. Mary King Waddington. In a village near ours, says the au- j thor, a girl of thirteen is running the ! farm. At the beginning of the war it; was a thriving farm with a man and j his wife, six sons and one daughter.) Then the blow fell, and all the men in France were mobilized; the father. and his two eldest boys went off at once?four hours after the decree of mobilization was received in the vil-1 i lage. The farmer had no time to put j I his house in order, but left the farm I i i I In the hands of his wife and the two | ! bier bovs. ased fifteen and sixteen. The i ! man and his two eldest sons are now I dead, the two next are in the army, j and the poor mother, a wreck phys- j ically and mentally, cries all day. The i ' girl and the two little boys do the ! whole work of the farm. The young| est, who is omy ten years old, ; cannot accomplish much, but he does rtATOO O rt rl to | 111UJJU&C iw naau 111^ who uuu vu j carry cans of milk or baskets of bnt- : | ter. y j I see the girl simetimes; she is per-' j fectly well, never complains and never ! ! asks for anything?except occasional J ly for a warm petticoat, or a nooa to I keep her head and neck warm and dry ! when she is working in the fields. | There are hundreds of girls doing that work all over France.?Youth's Companion. AS HAVE OTHER HUN THINGS ! Man Complains That His German* Made Clock Has Completely Gone to the Bad. My old alarm clock has gone to ' smash. That may not be a news item " \ ? -i ??A ,.n nf nor n may not interest yvu, uui uy ??. I our home the fact that the alarm clock ; wouldn't go any more was an event of j interest. It was ticking away on the : shelf at a quarter to 11 the night of 1 July 17. I took it up to wind it One twist, and?rattletebank, siss boom ah. Something went ail to pieces in the . wur&a. j More twists, shaking, putting the clock to ear and final determination that it was done for. -1 thought to look it over before depositing it in the ash can. On the back was scratched the month and day of the purchase in 1912. I was looking on the face for the last time and studying it closely. Then down at the bottom I saw in small letters: "Made in Germany." There it had been ticking away on the chAif vpjir nfter Tear, sounding its alarm regularly, and' yet never before had I noticed that detested inscription. Probably if I had it would have gone into the ash can long before. Just like a lot of other "Made in Germany" things that we didn't know were1 around until we found theis out But the old German clock is busted, the works have gone to smash, it has sounded its last alarm, and as I meditated on it I thought how true of everything else "Made in Germany," including the juggernaut war machine, 40 years in the building, with, which tne Kaiser was wj nuc uuuawuiucu over all the rest of the world, ^he works "is busted."?E. E. K., in Syracuse Post-Standard. Mustard Gas Invented Here. ! The report that an American inventor laid before an agent of the bureau of mines 15 months ago a formula for mustard gas, which the Germans are now supposed to be using, is to be taken up by the American In1 ventors' association. Ti?e allegation brought to the attention of the assoI elation at its meeting the other day was to the effect that Benjamin P. Brooks, chief chemist of the Commercial Research company of Flushing, L. L, gave a formula to the government bureau and heard nothing more from it. A few months ago it was found Germany had hit upon the gas, according to F. J. Hemen, president of the : association.?Washington Star. Fewer Jaoanese Silks. Just as we had learned to value Japanese silks and crepes and so on, especially as substitutes in these times of shortage of so many materials, we hear that certain ships engaged in the Eastern trade, and that brought us these serviceable and charming materials, have been loaned to the imperial government, and that has cre ated a scarcity in transportation faI cilities. So georgettes, crepe de chines, and so on, are added to the list of growing scarcities and advancing prices. Added to this, little silk is coming from the French and Italian markets. Her Record Still Still. A certain family has a colored servant who, while very attentive to her duties, has never beei> known to give anybody a civil answer. Purely as an ! experiment, tne iaay 01 me no use | brought her a new calico dress, and ! gave it to her, saying: "t .m glad to have the pleasure, t Matikiy. of giving you this dress." "Y7r:out hab had dat" pleasure uf yer bad any regard fo' my * - -*<? ' ly.is the cmeious reply.? Chicago News. ALL MBS MUST BE 01 SUE K Food Administration. fssiye? Important Regulations Regarding Cotton Seed and Oil Mills?Price of 8eed Stabilized?All Expected to Conform t? Regulations. ? Columbia.?William Elliott, food, administrator for South Carolina, has announced, in a bulletin issued to sellers, buyers, ginners and crushers of cotton seed, that the State of South Carolina shall constitute one zone, based upon the stabilized program recommended by representatives of cot ton seea producers, which nave oeea accepted by the Food Administration. This means that all yields fo^ South Carolina shall be on the same basil, which is as follows: (43 gallons.) Pounds oil 322* Pounds meal 940 Pounds hulls 490 t>- a_ .* jv .ruiwus imiers 149 Pounds shrinkage ........... 102% Total 2,000 (36 per cent protein.) The price of all reasonable sound seedt irrespective of the actual outturn yield, shall be: $72, car load lots; $69, wagon lots; f. o. b. any railway station in the State, the zone of origin of all cotton seed determining the price. The price of seed at the landings Oft . navigable rivers in which boats .are. f actually operating shall be the jfame ' as the railroad basis pr^c? for bulk | seed, to which may be added the cor rent market value or the Dags in wwca such river seed are packed. This cost of bags sball be added only when bags are famished by #arty selling the seed. No deduction from the price will bo permitted except for proven damaged | or nnsound seed. Proof of such damI aged or unsound Quality must be fur: nished to me. No deductions will bo I alkwed for dirt or trash unless ac companied by sworn certificate (or actual written agreement with the seller) showing actual weight of each dirt or trash taken from each carload it wagon load, and the name of the ginner or dealer selling each seed. To conserve the use of freight can, cottonseed may be hauled from the ! railroad station* to mill points aaa tue seller may receive as com pens*tion for such hauling an amount equal to the rai^oad freight for the same distance. This cost of hauling to be treated by the purchaser as freight on seed. ?: v j Seed from any point may-toe soM ! at tile carload price, in quantities of | 20 tons or more, for delivery by wagon i within ten days. 1 ? Additional regulations on the handling of cottonseed will be found in ' Circular No. 40 issued from Washingi ton under date of June 14, 1918. I In handling this crop it is expected by the Food Administration that therei will be a co-operative spirit on the j part cf all interests to the end that i waste may be eliminated and con* j servation in every way be promoted. BREAD PRICE FIXED Br FOOD ADMINISTRATION Columbia.?Maximum bread prices ?for one pound and one and one-half pound loaves?bare been established by the Food Administration). (The maximum price for the one pound loaf is fixed at 10 cents, and of the one and one-half pound loaf at 15 cents. ? ?* Li? v?4v These maximum prces uppi/ uuuu the cash and carry plan end the credit and delivery plan, and, as stated in a~ telegram received by William Elliott* food administrator for South Carolina, from Herbert Hoover, federal food administrator at Washington, are based upor investigation made by the bah* ing division of the Food Administration, into the manufacturing and cos; of bread. Furthermore, investigation shows 3cent and 12-cent wholesale prices in many sections. These wholesale prices, says the Food Administration, warrant a retail price of nine ctnM for a one-pound loaf and 14 cents for a one and one-half pound loaf, ca&a and carry plan. EXCHANGE BASI8 FOR FARMER AND THE MILL Columbia. ? Concerninf the exohang of cotton seed for me?i, the to - lowing Q&9 Doan agrveu uyuu oj vj~ ' | Advisory Committee of Farms a. I Crushers, as announced by the Fo-1 Administration: A farmer can- exchange meal for seed and get tbe amount of meal contained in the seed delivered. This :* 940 pounds of meal to the ton of sec . Tha balance to be paid in money / r The- mills will deliver p.w rata additional meal as they zlxj .1 hivA iL J ) ?' *ZiLiZ ? .... r.. ^ V . ." . v.