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SOMETHING NEW IN WARFARE! Party of Highlanders Repelled Ger?! man Attack, but at Terrible Cost; They IpCst Their "Paritch." 1 . A wounded officer describes th*! novel way in which a small party ol | surprised Highlanders met an unex* | pected enemy attack. ; "The Germans got further into the j trpnrties." hp ivritps. "So far. indeed, i that they surprised a party of High- i landers in the peaceful occupation of porridge making for a section due for; night duty. The porridge makers had no time to seize weapons. Instead they seized their precious pot of por-. ridge and flung it in the face of the advancing foe. There were yells of rage * as the scalding porridge fell among the soldiers of the kaiser. One of J the funniest sights of the whole war, I am told, was to see a German offi* cer trying to look dignified before his L men in a uniform covered with nor-: Vsji0ge. The method of repelling the! t atfSfcw^vvas novel, but effective. It! ^ J was more deadly than liquid fire, I 4( fancy, for it put an end to the attack 1r that quarter. ! "When we relieved the Highland jj porridge makers we found them in a. terrible funk, they didn't mind facing J the worst attack the enemy could make, but they were quaking at the prospect of explaining to hungry com- | rades what had happened to tfce por- { ridge. I tried to console the man with ! whom this brainy idea originated by. AUll V!M V? f.nn/v VP. l^uuig uiiii lit; uugiii iu uufc luc ?. v. | lie would have none of my consolation. That may be,' he answered, "but j what aboot Wee Jock ?:?'s par- i Itch? Hell hammer h? out o' me when be comes back and finds it's a' f wasted on they German devils !*** i NO COUNTRY FOR POOR MAN j / I - I Brazilians Are Compelled to Pay Extraordinarily High Prices for All s the Necessaries of Life. j ? ' "HI ^ J3 ^ L J \ xuo ue jauwro, uie must wuauenui- I ly reconstructed city in the world, was g ^ also, until recently, one of the most ? pleasure loving. Today the president te endeavoring to instill war economy t into the nation before it feels the brant a of war?a by no means easy task. \ Economy is not easily preached in a 1 country where state lotteries are of ? daily, and public holidays of all too r frequent, occurrence. The most popu- j lar of the latter is the carnival, which \ occupies the four days preceding Ash "Wednesday. e Brazilians who complain of the high r cost of living will probably wish to see war economy continued in times of \ peace. It costs about $7.20 a day to ( li*e at all comfortably in Rio. Some * manufactured articles are now difficult to obtqUi, and the cost of everything "owing to the war" , and the colossal * protective tariffs, is such as to make i unaccustomed English folks feel faint f with terror. A ready-made drill jack- ^ et, though cheaper in back streets, will r be commonly priced at $10.80 in shops s on the Avenida Kip Branco. A tailor- $ made man's snit will cost abont $50.? 3 From the United States Naval Institute Proceedings. s 4 v' Almost Lost Precious Card. \ $ One of those "absentee registrants" ^ fgned up at the city postoffice one } day last week, and received his reg- c ^^^^tetion card for transmission to his* local board in his home town. This man must have been an absent- ? A minded registrant as well, as the se- ] quel will show. He calmly placed the ? registration card in an envelop^, ad- [ dressed the envelope to his local board, pnt on the stamp, and walked " ~ out into the street. " As he passed a trash box he dropped " the letter into the opening and went j his way with a clear conscience of j having done his first dnty nnder the j man power law. Luckily for him, a postman coming H k out of the building saw the mistake ^ I he made and rescued the letter from j the trash. By this time the registrant h B haa boarded a car, so the letter car- ]j Brier dropped the letter containing the h jjfcrecions card into the letter box.?. j Bftrashington Star. J ?i BH i h H Birdmen's Patron Saint. ! H The cardinal archbishop of West- 1 j^Binster, who has initiated the Guild j BHt St Michael for Airmen, invites all j 9^Bman Catholic airmen "to place ?j ^^Hmselves under the protection of St 3 hv tninine' thp enild." No H Rsire a doughtier champion,: " London paper, but the ; f i Russian airmen, who in vs of the war decided on | eir patron saint, is per-. )re plausible. It is, at all j i that these days have j irely new meaning to the j tee of the powers of the. mm F Every Sensation. V The following is from a letter writ- j W ten by a member of the United States } I tank forces in France: "I ran the { gamut of all sensations from fear to ] hatred, and the latter was what I car- " Tied away. Any nation that fills the b^ies of the dead with bombs in or^ Kto kill the chaps that come out to ( Rr them, has no consideration from ( 1 K and that is what the Germans do, , ^^Hong other things." rFire Clay Substitute. } The great resistance to heat of ordinary coal ash has suggested the use of this material for fire bricks in place of fire clay. It is claimed that a suit- . able binder ha? been provided in a ( new process, and several thousand ex- j . || perimental bricks already made are [ J Ifebeing tested, both as a fireproof build- ^ ^material and as a furnace lining.' { PAL TO TOMMY ATKINS ' i Only a little wiry, French terrier, nit a pal to this lonely Tommy out on !No Man's Land." Picked up between he lines during a raid the little dog and Teat big man have become inseparable. The terrier has at last found a >eacerui nome even ir ir is oniy m a in hat of a British Tommy. i y'man needs sleep Driver Risks Court Martial to Let Him Get It noideni Which Shows Hew the Y. M. C. A. Stands With the Arnfy. Bv F. M. BATCH ELOR. "No boys, I'm not so very tired," aid the Y. M. C. A. secretary. "Just i little after a week of that," indicatng with a wave of his hand the counry behind, from which came incessant ;ounds of artillery and machine-gun ire. But he was dead tired, and the ambulance driver who was giving him t ride knew it The secretary's head >obbed from side to side as the ambuance thumped along the rough road. It intervals the Y. M. C. A. man slept, oughly roused whenever a shell-hole olt threw him against the side of the rehicle. * : The ambulance was stopped by the iide of the road so that the driver night tighten a loose bolt. "I guess I'll lie down for a minute vhile you are working," said the Y. M. \ A. secretary. In a second he was iound asleep by the road. Aa hour later the driver shook him. "Sorry to wake you up/' he said, but I absolutely must be getting on. 'm- likely to be court-martialed now :or being so long on this Job, bui 3 vould rather take a 'month and a nonth' than have robbed you of thai ileep. I decided that the war could ;o on for an hour without me, whll? rou tore off 40 winks." This is just one of many Instances howine how the Y. M. C. A. stands rith the army. That driver, had volintarily risked getting into trouble ritli his commanding officer because te knew the Red Triangle man need* id sleep. t Id 11111111 ill 111 111 11111J r SAILOR SYMPATHIZES I ? WITH LORD BISHOP I ? Queenstown.?The Right Rev- 4 J erend Doctor Browne, Lord Bish- 4! ? op, is a person of consequence, J j as his title might indicate. ??. j? He had settled himself comJ fortably in the corner of a first ? class compartment when, just * j! as the train pulled out, a happy 5 and carefree crowd of American [J sailors piled into the compart- * ment J J They were on leave and every- * ! body's friends. ! "Are you a priest?" asked * j one. * ? , "I suppose I was at one time," U was the good-humored reply of & ? the man who was known * J throughout the land as "his * |? lordship." * j[ "Well, I was a chief gunner at * L* /v?/v 4-1 /\ M +Vk/\ A r unr uuiC) me jatAic itpuvu, ^ [I "bat I have been disrated also? $ j| through booze!" * HAS NO FEAR OF DEATH fcfled Negro's Prayers Are Heard and He Is Now Assured a Private . j ftravp. HIT" i Macon, Mo?Sandy Patton, an aged aegro, inmate of the Macon county Infirmary for many years, will not be juried "on the county." For years the iged negro has lived in horror of this ind says he has prayed that he be spared the disgrace. He knew of no; )ne who would pay for the funeral expenses. When the will of Mrs. John H. Sriffin was filed for probate a few lays ago, it was found she had prodded a sum of money for his burial. Sandy, a former slave, wept with joy at the news. He has no fear of death low. warns i wins in oamc v/umpcui/. Topeka, Kan.?Martin Litke, a farmer of Council Grove, does not ask exemption^ for his twin sons, George and ferry. Ail he wanted of the district Iraft board was that they should go :o war together. The board granted ;he request. ALWAYS LAND OF TROUBLE ' Barbaric Invasion and Czarism Have Molded Russian History, to People's Sorrow. The backwardness of the Russians can he pretty adequately accounted for . by three historical factors. There is, ' first, the Mongol yoke which rested upon them for nearly two and a half centuries. During the wonderful thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, while England was establishing her parliament and democratic models were be- I ing worked out in the free self-govern- ' ing city states of Italy and the low countries, the Russians lay flattened under an alien Asiatic despotism. r>y the time they had rid themselves of the Mongols all legal rights of individuals, local communities aud social classes had disappeared, leaving the power of the czars unlimited. In the second place, for a long time i after the Muscovites had freed them- i selves from the Mongols, their settle- t ments in the rich treeless steppes to s the south of them?the famous "black s soil" destined to become the granary a of Russia and, indeed, of Europe? were exposed to raids by the nomad g Tartars hemming them on the east and south. Until the days of Peter < the Great the Russians were for the i most part confined to the less fertile t forested region of the North, where ( they were safe from the incursions of j the nomads. Let one imagine how our T economic development would have suf- g fered had our ancestors been confined ? to the wooded region- of the upper j Ohio and the Great Lakes because the fertile prairies from Indiana to the Rocky mountains lay open to the raids. j of barbarian horsemen welling up 2 from the great populated area fn the . Southwest! ( Then there was the Romanoff autoc- { racy, which in Shakespeare's day } crushed the bulk of the people down j into serfdom?which later became sla- j very?and kept them there for two { and a half centuries.?Edward Als* ( worth Ross in Asia Magazine. , APPEALED TO GIRL'S VANITY ! ] ^ * ?x ^ A ? ? ? ^ I D TU Ueparxmcnt oiuic vicia riw^u ?%. He Had Some Little Knowledge i of Human Nature. 1 Among nonessential citizens, a place ; must be given to the summer girl who does all her swimming on the beach, * in silken togs which never could stand ( the cruel ocean waves./ Whether this * type is still in existence or not is a I question, but at any rate a conversa- i tion overheard recently in a depart- < ment store gives ground for suspicion. J The ambitious clerk was selling a ] high-priced bathing suit jand was man- 1 aging the operation in a masterful way. .i She finally pinned her victim, a fluffy girl, down to a choice between two; < one Wa's blue with green trimmings, 'I the other, purple with white. < "Do you ever have photos taken In; your bathing suit?" asked the clerk. "Why, sometimes," said the girl, j mystified. ; . - 1 "Well," said the inspired clerk, "the J reason I ask is because often girls j ' ' - it - U-t A. t J 1 nave saia mat luey wuiu &uiu? witu contrasting colors because they show up so much better in the pictures. That's why you might like this pur- ' pte with the white border better than the other, which wouldn't show up 1 nearly so well. I didn't know whether : you had thought about it or not, but 1 often girls do have their pictures taken on the beach, you know."?Indianapolis ' News. ' i. 1 j . Surely a "Real Lldy." The cabby was brougnt before tne magistrate for using violent language to a lady. "But she ain't no lidy," he protested 1 fiercely. ] "Indeed!" quoth his worship. "And J do you know a lady when you see ' one?' - * "Of course I do!" indignantly an- 1 swered the man. "Why, only the other day I saw one; she give me a parnd 1 note for a shillen' fare and walked away. "I, mum.' I calls, 4what abart ] yer change?* 'Don't be a blinkin' old ' fool!' ses she; 'keep it, and git drunk ( enough to kiss yer mother-in-law.' ! WV , J CI ?* VI OJUipy UV vnuvv*, umphantly, "that's what I call a real 1 Iidy."?London Tit-Bits. ' , 1 ' ; " !? Something Like a Beard! ' 4 Mistakes of military signalers ar * sometimes amusing. A German pris- { oner escaped from an internment camp. < and to facilitate recapture a descrip-i i tion of the man was circulated. Th< description contained a succession oi ' ssibilaLt sounds, which rendered its re-! eepUqi by telephone somewhat diffi- ? | ? *? ?,tt.i I \Jiie siguuier, unci snugguug vcn-i .itly with the prisoner's name, ap-; pearance, etc., finished the message j with "height 5 foot 6 all beard anc moustache." The possibility of a 5-| ; foot-6 beard wandering about on Its; lonesome was questioned, with the re! 1 suit that the following correction was , circulated?"Please read 'small' foi ] 'all.'" j . , Japanese Airmen for Italy. ! . Japanese military flyers accompa-J < nled by mechanical workmen, willj ] soon be sent to Italy. The qoestioD| of sending Japanese airmen to thai! , country has long been considered by' ] the war office. All negotiations concerning the question with the ItaliaD } government having recently been concluded, the war office has issued a note to the airmen and workmen who have , volunteered, assuring them of the de-j { cision. At first twenty airmen were ( expected to be sent, but the numbei has been reduced to fourteen or fif , teen. , 3 TROOP SUPPLIES 3 MONTHS AHEAD Irmy Could Get Along for 90 Days If Not Another Pound Went Over. fflST STOCK IN RESERVE Held in Miles of Warehouses Extending From the Coast Inland to the Fighting Line?Daily Deliveries Made. Tours.?The American army in Eu ope could be fed and clothed and all ts creature comforts looked after for hree months if not another pound of applies was secured. This was the statement made here by officers of the irmy quartermaster's department, vhich directs this mammoth work of supplies.' It gives an idea of the vast stock )f reserve resources stored in the niles of warehouses stretching from he coast inland to the fighting line, md it is a comforting assurance, too, hat this huge reserve will be kept ip through the coming winter period, io that the American soldier's warmth, ts well as his food and clothing, will >e fully looked after. Some Big Job. It is a huge undertaking to feed a nillion men even fot a single day?a nillion men scattered to a,thousand joints, in trenches, on battlefields and ;amps, along 300 miles of front and for i depth of 500 miles. And when are idded housing and clothing and the period is extended through the win:er months of cold and frost, with the prospect that another million or two )f men may be headed this way before long?with these elements one gets some idea of the magnitude of the ! supply problem for a million7 or more nen. Here at the center of the system, tvhere the receipts are regulated and :he distribution made, there was an opportunity of learning some of the Setails of how the system operates. In the food branch alone it takes sver 4,000,000 pounds of food every lay to feed the army. This prodigious daily consumption of. food; em? traces 1,000 pounds of flour baked into a million pounds of bread every day, 875,000 pounds of fresh beef, 875,000 pounds of potatoes, 200,00C pounds of sugar and 125,000 pounds oi tomatoes. The pepper and salt for a single day is 42,500 pounds. Army coffee is roasted at the rate of 70,000 pounds a day, and it takes 20,000 pounds of solidified alcohol tc cook this coffee through the month. The beef is the bulkiest product nsed each day, and occupies a daily space of 45,000 cubic feet, or about the dimensions of a business block, oi solid meat. Flour comes next, requiring 25,000 cubic feet of daily space, and potatoes about the same. A Few Daily Items. These are only a few of the main Items. But the list runs all through the many requirements of the oversea array ration, with vast quantities in each case. Here are some of the other daily items: Bacon, 225,000 pounds; beans, 75,000 pounds; rice; 50,000 pounds; onions, 250,000 pounds; evaporated fruit, 70,000 pounds; jam. 70,000 pounds; milk, 62,500 pounds; vinegar, 40,000 pounds; lard, 40,000 pounds; butter, 31,000 pounds; syrup. 40,000 pounds. These being included in the oversea ration, every one of the million men is entitled to his full allowance, and it must go forward to him wher- , ever he is. So that besides the vast daily, stock there is the question oi unfailing daily delivery, first by railways and camion trains, and then to i the individual soldier. Besides this 4,000,000 pounds of food moving forward daily to the troops, ; each man carries witn mm two aays emergency ration, 5 pounds to the man, an additional 5,000,000 pounds of food for an army of a million men. Of the emergency ration, carried on the back, there is outstanding every day 2,000,)00 pounds of corned beef and 2,000,XX) pounds of hardtack, 300,000 pounds of sugar, 62,500 pounds of coffee, 20,[XX) pounds of salt, and 500,000 pounds of solidified alcohol for heating and cooking while on march. YANKEE BAPTIZED ON A RUN Made Chaplain Hurry Because H< Wanted to Catch Up With His Company. American Army at the Marne.?A long line of dust-covered Yankees were pushing their way through a shell-battered village near Chateau-Thierry toward a ridge oi hills from which came the rumble of artillery fire. At a crossroads they came upon a chaplain, waiting beside a broken-down sidecar. One of the loughboys fell out of line and walked rapidly up to the crossroads. "Say, Chaplain, baptize me quick, will you?" he urged. "We'll be in the line to-night!" The chaplain walked away from the sidecar. , , "Do you believe" he began. < "Yes, sir; I believe everything!" interjected the boy; "but Tve got to | catch my company. Can't yon make it' juick?" | In lez'6 than a minute the ceremony; ivas over and he was running np the read. J EX-KAISER \0W CUTS DOWN TREES. I Amerongen^ Holland, (VCa Lou- i don), Dec. 13.?Despite his ha :dic?-D I of being lim-ced in- the use of his lei'c j hart*-! thp fnrmpr Vainer everv riav i? 1 busily engaged chopping trees in th? forest surrounding the Bentinck castle, while the police chase off curiouoerso s trying to catch a glimnse of the imperial refugee Count Hohen-o'ler ??lc-o eoes hunting, but seldom has much luck. Occasionally he and the ex-kaiserin walk in the woods, but these ped?~trian exercises are not very joyous affairs, enlivened by sallies of laughter and wit, but on the contrary, theyj i ~ \\t* LdUlCd YY 11 AsXm Come and see c buy. We will s Seven jewels 10 AL Men's night wi bargain prices. Come today wt complete. Av< P. E. WAY Newber Rar . Will close ou { at & great . make room. get one while - *. less than yc where for oni ??? TU D... me rui * I For 1 & I Christrr I We H I f f> * $ | ?Pictui | ?Cut G I -Silver !> | ?Perfu | ?Leath | ? Cigars | ? Statio | ?Fount | ?Pockc | ?Fine i r ?Edison > Etc I Gilder & We* & r " ' ' ~ resemble dolef. I pilgrimages on pet;i? ientia;y giOu;:ds. The former emperor avoids talkin?: about war a-.-d his responsibility for it. brt garrulously d'scusses for hours* art. engineering, foreign natio*'s politics. He indulges so much in the.se^ soliloquies that the whole Bentinck household has become bored and i ?n ^r. everyone says mat uiey win uc giau. when- he moves on. He retires at TO. in the evenings. His nights are restless. "By the World Forgot," as portray; ed by Heda Xova, will be the attraction at the opera house Wednesday,. Christmas day4 and Win jDesmontft will be in- "The Pretender" Thursday.. Also "The Iron Test." st Watches as Gifts >urs before you ave you money, and 20 year cases. SO ist watches at * \ tileour stock is >id the crowd. r, Druggist ry, S. C. I* / ' j 1 . f I ?> t our ranges reduction to ^ Come and , *% *% WV' " f\ : JfVW vait iva | >u pay else- I e not as good. 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