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, HERO BELITTLES DEED Doesn't Think Much of Act That Won Cross. I All He Did Was Swim River Under J Fire and Rescue Wounded Frenchman. Pittsburgh.?"Now listen, get me! There's been so much hot air about L this hero stuff that I want you to get J It straight. I saw this French bird ' -across the river and I went and got Aim. If I hadn't sdTueone else probably Leonid have taken the same chance." In these words CapL Walter R. Plannerv. who was awarded the Cross K -of War for swimming the Marne river B and rescuing a wounded French sol|px ^ler at the time the Germans held the Aisne-Marne salient, disposes of any ? attempt to make a hero of him for the -deed. At the time Flannery was a lieu~tenant He is at his home here on a forlough. The wounded man lay on the bank across the river from where the Americans were stationed at Savigny. Disregarding a French officer's warning that it probaWy was a ruse to at"fcract Americans over that the Huns wiisrht learn what division ODDOSed ttiem, Flannery waited until nightfall, when he stripped to his underclothing and swam across. The Germans -spotted him and most of the trip was nder water. Flannery tells the rest of the story as follows: "When I got over I found the man. -All the French I knew was lei, ici'? liere, here'?and then the bird went hysterical and refused to come into ? the water. He was too weak to tie the rope I had brought along, so I had to drag him in. We got over all -right. "*"ut the joke was that a couple of <iays later I got orders to report to a /inlnnal rtorc won X1 lUUVli VViUUVli JL1\.(4U\(UUI VV4V 4&bout seven miles away, so I hoofed it back, expected to be put on patrol duty of some sort I presented myself and couldn't find out what the program was. They told me to go stand behind a major. I did, but the major kept rambling around, and me after Mm like a goof. j "Then I was told to go forward on , ^ the parade ground, and a French general lined me up, pointed a sword at me and turned on the French. It wasn't much of a conversation, for I didn't know what he was talking about, so I just grinned. Then he let down the sword, pinned this on me?the Croix de Guerre?started kissing me. Say, that mustache tickled me from ear to ear. I'm off saving men :aher this.** , ; a * Blind Man (Sets Work 2 in Munition Factory * 2 Willlmantte, Conii.?Connecti- J cut is believed to be the first 0 state in the Union to provide 2 munition work for a blind man. 2 John B. McCarthy of this city, 2 who lost his sight two years ago, ? has been at work for several ? weeks in a nearby munition fac a tory crimping primers for big * guns. He was aided in securing employment by Superintendent | E J. Martindale of the United * States Employment agency, and J Stettson K. Ryan, secretary of J the state board of education far 1 the blind. ' 2 1 . . 1*0MAN SHERIFF MAKES GOOD 4fhen She Goes After an Offender, He Had Better Surrender Peacefully. Coleman, Tex.?Mrs. John R. Banal ster is the new sheriff of Coleman -sonnty. All who know her say that when she buckles on her six-shooter rod goes out to make an arrest the offender had better make peaceful surrender if he knows what is good for him. It is not meant by this that Mrs. Bannister, is a woman of the roughman type?on the contrary she is an assuming, quiec ana prepossessing in looks. The sum and substance of it 1s that she belongs to a stock of westerners that does not know what fear te when it comes to fulfilling what she Relieves to be her official duty. Mrs. Bannister's husband, Captain Bannister, who died recently, was sheriff of Coleman county for many years. CDs wife astfsted him in his work in - many ways and is said to be thoroughly familiar with the details of the office. It was but natural that she should be elevated to the vacant position, her friends say. "LEISURE PERILS FIGHTERS" Library Chief Says Books Keep Yank Soldiers Out of Trouble Overseas. j New York.?Declaring that the leisure hoar of the American overr seas is the hoar of greatest moral peril," and that good reading does much to fceep lonely soldiers straight. Dr. M. L. Rainey, field manager of the American Library association, has reported to the New York state branch bow soldiers, sailors and social worfc 1 'V ?ri **, Msil era nave uwu piviwru mui guvu icouIng matter. Doctor Bainey said that in ten months the association has es-t fablished 42 libraries for the army, and stocked them with 600,000 books and 2,000,COO magazines, all of wfclcfc had been contributed. The working i force consisted of 318 persons, om- j Jaird of whom served without oar. ?ui THINGS TO LEARN IN NAVY ] Old Fetty Officer Reminds the Recruits There Are Some Things That Cannot Be Taught. The ol<l petty ollicer in charire of ?1 1! w /ii'n>v ? iIoi-m hronlh :Hi(l I I1L Ml III."' ??i * ? u v?v x J' v.. looked down the long lines of newly enlisted apprentice seamen. A few ??f the hoys won? from the poorer quarters of nearby cities and towns: some ( were from the farming districts; but the greater number were undergraduates from colleges and universities flocking to the colors at the first intimation of their country's need, and all were astonishingly transformed by the mere donning of uniforms and caps, into potential sailors for the ships of the United States navy. The petty officer cleared his throat, writes Harriet Welles in Scribner's. Somehow the sunshiny parade ground, bordered by cheerful yellow brick barracks and backed by the sparkling blue of Narragansett bay and the distant. pointed spires of Newport sunnmrl tnn fneOtlsrrUOllslV peaceful compared.with the things of which he was trying to speak. He cleared his throat again. "I'd like to' remind you, lads." he said, "that there are some things In our navy that you'll have to learn for yourselves. We can teach you the manual of arms and the drills; and there are schools here to train you for any branch of ship's work that you have a leaning toward?wireless, electricity. signal corps, hospital corps, engineering, cooking and yeoman's work?hut what you've got to get. if you're to he of any real use, is the spirit of the navy! "Maybe there's those with education AnA?irrli f a AVttl.tin eiut'lf fA ITjYII lhvu^ii iu rApinni iiuu oj/iiii i" I haven't got the words. I. only know what it means in actions. Summod up. it amounts to about this: Aboard ship there ain't no you ant! there ain't no me; there's just us! And we're working together under the flag of the finest country on earth." NO VEHICLE FOR AN AVIATOR Motorcycle Which. Was "Jogging Along at Only 64 Miles an Hour," Injured Rider. At present T am in the convalescent ward of an American aviation center in Italy, recovering from a slight accident wherein the motorcycle?the silly beast?shied at a dog and ran off the road while I was jogging quietly jiloner nt (U miles an hour. Lieut. Paton MacGHvray, IT. S. A., writes !n Atlantic Magazine. These crazy cycles seem to poke along, after one has been riding in a pl;?ne near the ground, making twice that speed. Hence the temptation to run wide open on "high." I had my usual luck?motorcycle almost a coinp'ete wreck?but I was gently tossed 20 or JM) feet'from the scene of the accident and thus got out of the way. When found to be suffering from a sprained left ankle, a rather deep gash down t;> the bone on my left shin, a dislocated thumb and a face that is a sight to behold?I never was a beauty until now?It's quite wonderful how the little experiences of life make a new man of you. And really aviation. I am finding, has its dangers. Were tt lot that the accident occurred the l'ne of duty" I should probably be explaining to some stern court-martial why our camp has one less cycle. The commanding officer forbade hm? riding a motorcycle again, saying ratker delicately that aviators are too valuable to waste; but somehow or other I have rather a sneaking suspicion ifcat it was merely a tactful way ( saying that motorcycles in Italy are too valuable to waste on this particular aviator. His Autobiography. A# IG one Ol lite im^ uuac uuoimaio the army lot long ago a new librarian was set to work by the American Library association. She was a very charming young woman, and very anxious to please all of her "customers." though some of them didn't even wish to look at a book. In her rounds she approached one of the patients and he declined to be interested in her wares. A* the next cot she stopped and offered its occupant a book. "What's it about?" the patient asked. j w0h. this is Rambi." said the librarian. "It's about ft girl who niar^ ried a man without his having ai/^ thing to sa.r about if." "Hold on there." shouted the man who had declined all hooks. He raised himself up on his elbow and reached out his hand. "Give me that book. It's iriy autobiography."?From a Bulletin of the American Library Assocla-; tlon. | Human in Spite of Stars. A private of tfie buck speci?*s was \ watching a plane fluel in the skies, j "Quite a sight." snid a voice beside | him. and his head nearly dropped off when he saw thnt it belonged to the genera! commanding the division. There is a story in that same division about the same general, which describes how he was seen one day recently walking along and chatting with a top sergeant. This shows that a use ftas at last been found for top sergeants. Thnt division did its share, and paid its price for the doine, when it helped to drive the Hun back across the Marne. That night some one softly j oi>ened the general's <loor, nitfi tnen as softly closed it. And the word went i around that he sat with his fice j burled !n; bia hands, and his fn?me! nuiverincr with sobs.?The Stars }?n<l 5>rij?es. WAR PROFITEER IN HOLLAND He Has Grown to Surprisingly Large Numbers and Is Always an Object of Contempt. Though he litis fined his pockets with gold iht? Dutch war profiteer is a marked man, Isaac F. Marcosson writes in rhe Saturday Evening i'ost. I was walking down the Hoogstraat? tile leading retail business street in liottenlani?one day last June, when my companion. a widely known Dutchman, tagged at my sleeve, pointed to a man driving in a smart new dog cart and said: "He's an 'ower.' " "What is thaf?" I asked. "A war profiteer," he replied. I then discovered that the Dutch have coined this phrase to indicate the despised type. It is a combination of ~ - - ? i the first letters or tue two ljuicii words Oorlog winst, which means war profits. When pronounced it sounds like "ower." Holland "has the number" of these gentry. They are spotted wherever they go, and by an interesting system. It was explained to me by a Dutchman in this fashion: "Whenever you see a man with a new raptor car or a new carriage you can put him down as* a profiteer. No self-respecting Dutchman will buy a new vehicle these days. Besides?as far as the motor is Ann/mi'iiuil I-A) !O crm vpo fliwl toft * to OV.UI V\/ WMV* VVW high for the ordinary man. Some profiteers try to disguise tlieir cars by buying low motor car numbers." The profiteers have grown to such numbers in The Hague alone they occupy a whole residential district. By a fitting irony it is located near the peace palace. Here they have taken possession of scores of imposing residences. whose owners have not been able to maintain them under war conditions. It is the domain of the Dutch new rich. Holland imposes a tax of oO per cent on war profits. Since 1915 it has yielded the government nearly SlfJO 000 000 whieh would mean & gross total of nearly $300,000,000. But these actual taxes are about as fair an index to real figures as the inheritance tax in America is to real inheritances. Besides, there is the huge pool of untraceable profits garnered by the farmers, who have been among the principal profiteers. LEARN BEST FARM METHODS S : Modern Principles of Agriculture Being Instilled Into the Youth of Our Ally Italy. The use of scientific farming methods is spreading and developing in T*"'" * i-Vm oliminoHnfr nf wnsto nrifl JLIUJ%V 9 Hit VilUHUU VTA. ?? wvcv ?*MV> the replacing of the old-fasliioned devices is becoming a fact in the fertile land south of the Alps. One of the most useful agencies for popularizing these modern methods are agricultural institutions where boys are taught the principles of modern farming. The department of civil affairs of the American Red Cross has recently given material assistance to one of those schools of agriculture established by the Salesian Fathers in the fields just outside the Porta Furba, one of the historic gateways of Rome. This assistance has been conveyed through an It^inn organisation, engaged in work similar to that carried on by the A. R. C. and known as the "Comitato pe gli Orfani de Constadini Morti in Guerra." The boys of the school, all orphans of peasant soldiers, are given training in scientific and practical farming, the object being to strengthen their attachment to the soil, also to convert them into good and intelligent fanners. Lectures and classroom iastruction are accompanied by field work with modern tools, under the direct supervision of the younger fathers of the institution, who work side by side with the boys in the fields, teaching aud demonstrating. j Atrocious. H. G. Wells brought back with him from the Balkans?he explored the Balkans before the war?a pair of Bulgarian boots, which he sometimes wears in the privacy of his Sussex home. Joseph Conrad visited Mr. Wells recently and found him attired in these boots. Mr. Conrad studied the boots a long time, for they .were remarkable?of soft red leather, the toes pointed and curled up, the fronts embroidered with gold thread and strips of white for about the tops. k "In heaven's name. Wells," said Mr. Conrad, "where did you get J1 those boots?" ? WfAllt* /ml/vtMrxr o fhniflt iVl I ?? ril^f \ WMM lUp, <1 I I 11 IV. his feet beneath his chair. "I bought them," he confessed, "tu Bulgaria." "Ha, ha. ha!" laughed Mr. Conrad. "I've heard a lot about Bulgarian atrocities, hut I never expected to come across a pair of them in Sussex." AH He Wanted to Do. When David Jackson, negro, of Brooklyn, was arrested for failing to register in the draft, he resented the remarks of officials who were convinced he was trying to avoid service. Ai indictment having been returned, Vtt% n-oo orrnlfmofl hofdPD tho n tlf ui I (u^uv.u imv ^v^. States district court. "Ah can fight any ten Oermans you pick out Just hold up the first ten Huns that come alonx iiere. and Ali'll show yon what Ah can do. Ah'll lick them one at a time or all together, and not even use a eun." "On you want to go into the army?*' arked Judge Oarvfn. | "Ali sun* do," reolied Jackson. "Why rf'dn't you register?" "Ofc. Ah know nothin* ahout jour fussy old laws." said the ne.iro. VIII Ah want to do !s fig'it." m s Hi KM H n f1 sss ? 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The law requires a tax on a'l note and mortgages and money; also income tax on incomes of over $2,500 There is a capitation tax on all dogs of fifty cents. All male persons between the age* of 21 and 60 are liable to pay a poll tax of $1.00 unless otherwise exempT All persons owning property in more than one school district will be required to make returns in each district, as the tax books will be made jp by school districts instead of townships in 1919. Be careful to state whether you have bought or sold real estate dur ing the year 1918. J. B. HALFACRE. County Auditor nation for Letters of Administration THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County ot .\ewDerry. By W. F. Ewart, Prbate Judge: Whereas, John Yount; made suit to me to grant him Letters of Admini* tration of the estate and effects o? Patsy Young. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindr?'! and Creditors of the said Patr ' Young, deceased, that they be and ar pear before me. In the court of pro bate, to be held at Newberry on Tue? day. the 28th day of January, nexf after publication hereof, at 11 o'cloc"' iii the forenoon, to show cause, >'r any they have, yhy the said admin istration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 6th dav of January, A. D. 1919. W. P. Ewart, J. P. N. C SPECIAL TEACHERS EXAMINATION SATURIM'* The state board of education h- = arranged that a special teachers c miination may be given Sturday, Jr i$th. at the court house. Thoso tear' era wishing certificates may stand a* T secure them Saturday. Examinati' i begins 9 o'clock, bring tablet and peicil. C. M. Wltebn. Sup't Education.