Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

"WHO GUARDS 1HAT STREAM DMKE?" ' It Makes a Difference in the Sing- , ing of a Certain Cele- 1 brated Song. , < According to a returned British ] prisoner who was at liberty in Berlin 1 during the revolution there, "Deutsch- < land ubsr Alles," "The Watch on the 1 Rhine" and similar patriotic songs ] are just now highly unpopular in the i German capital. i Three English civilians who had eel- i ebrated the signing of the armistice 5 1 TTnt^r. siQn T in. i were COiJLlllIS ?UVJLi? LUC UUIE1 uv-u den singing "The Watch on the ] ifr Rhine." when they were stopped by 1 German soldiers, who said they ought < " to be ashamed of themselves for singing such rubbish. " 1 "I've come from the Rhine." one of 1 the German soldiers remarked. "You 1 go down there and try to keep watch, ( and then you won't sing so much; 1 about it." J "But we are English," one of the civilians replied. w* 'What!" exclaimed the astonished * soldier. "Then why sing The Watch 1 on the Rhine? w 5 "Well," grinned the Englishman, * yon see we are keeping it now." ; 1 , J MARRIES COUSIN i a avr innn tin t Ur LAIC nUoDANU ' '^'WttifrTi N >v?r P?r ln.?i, Mrs. Annie M. Mills Archbold, widow of John D. Archbold, who has became the bride of Judge Charles W. Dos^n of Dayton, Ohio. Mrs. Archbold, a daughter of the late Major S. M. Mills, inherited more than $12,000,060 of the $41,000,000 estate of her ^ late husband, who at the time of his death was president of the Standard \ A On company of New Jersey. ASKED CHEAP BURIAL Left a Note Saying He Wanted Red * k. Cross to Share in Savings. t Pinned to ihe shirt of J. H. Shunk, I - J -M 1-21 _ 1. 1a who uieu ox luuueu&u xu xus xuuui at a hotel at Yakima, Wash., recently, was found a note with $140 in bills. The note asked that he be given the ^ cheapest possible burial in case of h death, and that the remainder of the money, after paying his debts, be donated to the tied Cross. Shunk has no relatives in this part of the country, c k ko far as known. The note gave the F 0 names and addresses of a brother and 1 sister living in Wisconsin. 8 9 He had been working in an evapo- Jj rator here and the money evidently represented his savings. 2 RECORD IN BRIDGE WORK i a b Structure It Rolled Into Position in a " v - 1 Minute and 20 Seconds. o AU bridge-rolling records were bro- p ken when the five-span. 500-foot Bos- a ton and Maine railroad bridge over b Green river, at Greenfield, Mass., was fl pat into place in 1 minute and 20 sec- y ends. Ther structure weighs 2,700 tons, d It replaces a bridge built in 1876. The o ?aw hridcre is the second largest ever mt Moved by the rolling method. The B^j^ork was done in a fog so dense that workmen on one end of the structure t could not see workmen on the other c ^ end. The feat was witnessed by 1,000 a r spectators. v c | HOW TO AVOID INFLUENZA ? \ Doctor Says to Cut Out Fruits, Sweets !" and All Fried Foods* o To be immune from mflueoza cut ^ ABt fraits. ereasv foods, straw. confec tkn*ery, honey and fried foods. This is ? the advice of Dr. Frederick de Lne of ., A Beston, an expert , Here are some of Doctor de Lne's influenza pointers: ? kftuenza bacillus locates most c readHy in rheumatic people. ActdSiin the system are the cause of colds. Chocolate that we give our soldier Lfcoys makes add, and acid serves as for the influenza bacilli. Boiled * rite is a better ration than chocolate. q ? Relief. ' f . "The landlord says he is going to w raise oar rent" g "ATI right. Tbea we needn't worry g ^Pbying to do ft." SIMPLY PLACE OF DESOLATION Little for the Traveler to Enthuse Over When He Visits the Old City of Jerusalem. The allies' advance in Palestine has taken them through Jerusal^^) and the little village of Jericho. The plain of Jericho, the scene of so many historic incidents in the past, is once again caught in the old glaro of the spot light. Such a light reveals too plainly the hopeless poverty of the people, the tracks and holes in the rough walls of "he hovels, the fields and gardens, fallen by neglect into a riot of weeds and wild flowers growing rank. It is better to look at Jericho at sunset, and not too critically even then. In 1 soft light the wretchedness of the thatched huts is less insistent, the .iasuine and oleanders seem sweeter and the ragged Bedouins acquire pictur;squeness in spite of dirt and squalor. . It is only a short walk through the slain from this Jericho of the present to the two other sites which have jorne tne same name, vme, rne .lencao )f Old Testament, destroyed by Joshua, s only a memory, its reality proved by jits of unearthed walls and pottery.! Fhe third Jericho of the triangle is the Jericho of the New Testament, the city )f palm trees which Antony bestowed ipon Cleopatra and which she later. ;old to Herod the Great. Made gorgeous in the reign of Herod as a city >f palaces, it is now only a wreck of j rtones and battered towers. The palms 'or which it was famous are gone, with the palaces and circus which they .V.J.J mi T?_J ~ !,, /, muueu. xut; piuiu ui jentuu is n ?vnlerness, bound to civilization by its nany highways and its tiny village. A 'ew miles to the southwest lies Jerusalem, connected with the village by he robber-infested road along which he good Samaritan traveled. All about lie plain rise the cliffs, mounted by 1 rfeep and winding trails. It is not an ittractive region, but even if it were nore wild and desolate than it is it vould still be much visited, for at svery step are landmarks of history. | iLADLY TOOK "WAR" BREAD lorrible Thought Quickly Cured Small Girl of Unreasonable Prejudice j Against the Article. "Oh, mother, must ! get war bread?" Little Daughter had been asked to jo to the bakery for bread for her ichool lunch. "It's wheatless day, dear.** "But I don't like war bread. It's so lark and different. And the rules iren't for children, are tliey?" "No, but you know we were asked o send one million bushels of wheat o the allies by May first We have jiven our word, and our baker is tryng to help by making this/special >read, which has almost no white flour n it whatever. But. of course, if you lon't feel you ran help in this way, -ou may buy a lighter loaf." "Little Daughter started off. In a ew moments she returned. Mother rawrapped the package. There was he small, dark loaf, indeed different, rat really most palatable and nourshing. little Daughter's eyes were flowing. i "Mother, the baker asked me if I i iked war bread, and I said I did." Mother looked up in astonishment. But, my dear, you just said?" "Yes, mother, I know I just said to rnn T didn't liko it. hnt T was afraid f I told it to the baker, he would hink I was a German."?By Jane )ransfield of The Vigilantes. . Bread Without Wheat Flour. ' ! The New York Herald announces hat a New York chef has a "wonder ecipe for making bread without vheat flour." Jean Ricroch, chef of he Biltmore hotel, is responsible for he recipe, apd he now gives it to the ountry, without money and without rice. Mr. Ricroch told a Herald reporter the ingredients of the new bread rp ?s follows:. "Twentv-five nounds f rye flour, 25 pounds of graham flour, 5 pounds of corn flour, 25 pounds of rushed oatmeal, 1 pound of Tard and ' pounds of yeast." This, it is exilained, is enough to make 150 pounds t bread. The yeast and rye flour hould be mixed first and the others dded alternately. Smaller quantities f bread can be made by using smaller . roportions. The receipt doubtless is j good one, but It does not provide for ; read without wheat flour. Graham our is unbolted wheat flour. So, -hile the bread is a wheat saver, it oes not do away entirely with the use f that grain. Resourceful and Brave Cook. That a cook should perforin an act of i he utmost daring in the pursuit of his ! ccupation as a purveyor of food seems : lmost incredible. N^et that is what I cas done bjr Willian^B. Gray, a third- ! lass ship's cook in the United States j aval reserve. During the cold weath- j r of last yrinter the Roanoke marshes r> TMnrtb P?rrd in a wpre frozen and oats were voable to reach the keeper f a lighthouse, who was consequently a danger of starvation. Gray made , sled bjr pattkig runners upon a lifeoat, loaded it with food and hauled t across the ice, which was broken and ossed by strong, and dangerous curents, to tlbe lighthouse, thus saving be keeper's life and enabling him to ontinue at his post of duty. Gray Is i native of North Carolina. Some Financier. "The fair defendant has been Befitted/* -So I hear." "Is she thinking of going on the tage?" "Not yet She's too smart for that [he's going- to marry her lawyer, and ave a corking big fee." DIFFER OVER ORIGIN OF DO Whether AM Kinds Hafl a Csmmc Ancestor Has Long Been a Matter of Dispute. The ancestry of the dog has bet the occasion of much controversy, a cordirj,? to Loo S: Crandall\s boo "Pets." Many naturalists have coi sidered that it is descended from single ancestor, such as the commr wolf of Europe. Darwin, lioweve leans toward the theory of multip origin, and advances much convincir ?r? cnt\nAi*f nf hie? Tf J/M'UI III t *71 1110 nviiru xv widely known that many savage trib< have dogs, which appear to be simp half-tamed representatives of the pa ticular wild doglike animals inhabitir the same regions. The dogs of the American plains Ii dians closely resemble the small pra rie wolf, or coyote: the husky of tl north country is plainly not fnr r moved from the gray wolf; the Ge man sheep dog and the Samoyede ai strikingly wolflike in appearane Whether our preseut dogs are the r suit of crossing these many simp derivatives of wolves and jacka among themselves, or whether thei was an original ancestral dog, now e: tinct, with which the blood of oth< species has become mingled, we ha^ not yet been able to determine, thous so many primordial animal remaii have come to light According to St. George Mivart, tl dingo is the only wild dog still exis ing which meets the requirements < an ancestor of our modern breed This species is found throughout Au tralla and fossil bones which have bet round snow its presence mere iro very early times. MOLLUSKS MAKE GOOD SOU Thrown Up on Florida Beaches by tl Waves They Are Collected and Sold to Motets. Along tfie Florida beaches a ve; common and familiar kind of rock wholly composed of the shells of small species of moll^sk, oval in sha] and half an inch long. It is call* "coquina," and is hard on the feet rw-ksv TT?nTiro if fViAllf AQC? viic u*u iv oaiwco. In beds below the line of low ti< are mollusks of the same kind, alrv Their bivalve shells are pink, blue ai of other colors, quite brilliant, so th in places the beaches are beautiful the eye, great numbers of them beii thrown up by the waves along tl shore. Under such circumstances they so< die, of course, leaving their pret shells to adorn the strand. But the are always plenty of live ones at tl water's edge, and these are gather* tn rmnnfitv of snmp nf tho xcintpr r sorts by boys who collect them wi rakes and carry them in baskets to tl hotels for sale. They are used for soup, bell pressed to a pulp in order to extra their juice. The latter, strained ai heated, affords a very delicious tab beverage .known as "eoquina broth It is particularly recommended for i valids and persons with weak dige tion. The Sap of Spring. When the sap of spring is burstti the fetters of winter the general h man heart beats high. A few of i philosophers receive amid the rich b sober tints of autumn a happiness th we would not exchange for any oth season, but we are a minority, ai small. The head of one of the mo important departments at Washingtc who thinks about the processes of ma kind, has a theory that makes a reg lar curve of the relation of the seaso to the appetite for war. As the bu open, every nation thinks it is on tl edge of victory. This curve rises for while, begins to decline in the summ and gets well down in the auturo The period therefore, when statesme if they had decided to make peac could do it most easily, is from tl days of gold en rod and autumn browi to just before the greening of tl buds. The story of coal, a trag story to the poor, helps this curve, bi there is in it much of sheer poetry, i dependent of more solid things.?No man Hapgood In Leslie's. How Scouts Can Help Nation. Offer your services to some garde er as a patrol. He will be able to p? you for your labor. Make his crc hpst in vnnr npJfhhnrhood. Sho the world that the boy scouts can rif to any emergency. Plant a garden at home. No ma ter how small the space. Forego tl flower garden this season. Plant ve etables. If you have no garden, u< a window box. You will be delight* with the results, no matter how sma the crop. Do it now. Offer your services to your teach* to help in securing the necessary ii formation to establish school and hon gardens. Don't be a slacker. A et Trrvnr r>itn nvcflnirp 1 help conserve the food supply of o\ country. Have them offer vacant spa< for cultivation. Show your patrio ism. Arouse theirs.?Scout News ar Bulletin. Ship on Girl's Back Bar to Society. A ship on a girl's hack Is a bar 1 her entrance into society, according 1 State Senator Alfred J. Gilchrist, < New York city. The senator declar< that a Brooklyn girl is barred from ? ciety because, when ten years old, ship was tattooed on the girl's bac She cannot wear a fashionable, lo\ dress hocniise of the snrendir sails across the ooe:m on her bac: The seBncor, therefore, asks for a la imposing a fine of $500 for any or who mars a young1 woman's beauty. yi- idttMMMBMM G ^x%^y!v',,'*'''''''''''?'^ I p Si ene from "The Lo ? ONLY CHANGE IN MACHINERY ry Hand Knitting Now Done in Exactly T is the Same Manner as It Was Many a Centuries Ago. M d? ^ There are a few touches of humor In the countryside revival of knitting, such ss the over-large and-the envious feminine group about the lady who, th ,e with practiced skill, deftly turns the sr 1(i heei of a sock, but behind it all is a cz fine display of service, says a writer in H the Detroit Free Press. When you ps lg see a sweater or muffler in process of fa tie evolution it may interest you to know ta that the work is being done just about ii )n as it was when the art was in its In- h? ty fancy. There have been great improver'e ments in knitting machinery, however, sa he and the first of tliem was directly due a to a somewhat common malady?un- hi e_ reciprocated love. . aj th The Rev. William Lee ?f Cambridge th he university, as the story goes, was deep- b ly smitten with a maiden of his native th towri, Woodborough, Nottinghamshire, wj ct hut in spite of his ardent wooing could wj id make no impression. The fair one pr le calmly kept on with her knitting, then so i." the common occupation of English wj n- women* 1 loi s- In revenge Reverend William swore th he'd invent a machine which would de- sa stroy the market for hand work. He fa kept his word, but Queen Elizabeth re- wj ng fused to grant a patent and to give her go u. financial support because too many of hi us her subjects would be deprived of their pr means of livelihood. So the inventor Hi at took his machine to France. This in er story may be entirely fanciful, but in sti Q(j 1589 William Lee did revolutionize hi; lS{ hosiery making by producing the knit- 1 >n ting frame or stocking frame. Ameri- f n. can names in the list of those who ' ^ have labored to perfect knitting ma- ai ns chineryare W. C. Gist, Almet Reidjand ve Griswold. ki he 1 In er WHAr SCOTLAND IS DOING ? in. n, This Little Country Has Already 'e, Cheerfully Done Very Much Mora t0 i? Than Her Share. iEl is 1 ie We are pretty well acquainted In this th ic country with the part Canada is tak- i at Ing in the war. We.have been advised Qi n- from time to time of the Individual or r- sacrifices being made by the people T< to the north of us. We know only in co a general way what other people are th doing. So it comes as refreshing news loi _ to hear from the lips of such a man it: as Harry Lauder the heroic work and cii * sacrifices of the Scots. is w More than 300,000 Scotchmen are under arms, or have given up their j lives in the struggle. And Scotland t_ is a small country. In the cities and ro ie towns there are no more eligible men ta ?no more men fit to bear arms. They tw * have all departed. Scotland is a land be of old men and women and little chil- [m jj dren?-^qd crippled soldiers. It is not isl the Scotland of three years ago, with bo 3r a husky set of strapping young fellows sti tilling the fields and working in the Bit mines and mills. av Not only that, but the people do not pe t complain. There are no riots because wi ir of the conditions?no murmurings br ,e against their fate. The war is on; the an Scots will fight it out. That is the I ^ spirit one finds in Scotland, among I those old men and women and among i ' j the little children. It is the spirit one a ! finds out in the trenches, where the w? ^ Scottish soldiers stand on guard and . meet the enemy face to face. he - ?? rrrall th< ^ J nc lusiory ui ocuumiu is iw wtn, understood to call attention to it here. h? ^ The record of the Scots, made in the i long ago, still is fresh in the mind of ^ k every one who knows history. So It * [ isn't necessary to state that the Scots rei are born fighters, that they ar.e not an k going to give up. They have done in ? ^ this war exactly what those familiar 1 D ie with Scottish history expected them to *? flo. And they will not fail at any time j in the future.?Columbus Dispatch. m veMiU' ? the Ope 00K PHOTOGRAPHS OF CZAR 1 -op? &2TL? 6prisoC".edFormer Russian Ruler. ^ 1 In "Donald Thompson to i ????? -,rtnre of the' ar after the revolution had begun, e went out to Tzarskoye Selo, the ilace near Petrograd where the royal mily were confined, and from a disnce saw the czar and his son walkg in the yard. "The servants must ive told him,| writes Mr. Thompson, or the czar sent word to me to come ying that he would allow me to make picture as close as I wished. I told m that I had met him before in 1915, id had made pictures of him then at e front and at .Lemberg. He remem>red and immediately spoke of Meuse, e English photographer. While I as making pictures and the camera as being re-loaded so that I could it In some new film, several of the Idiers came up close, while the czar as watching how the camera was aded. They were smoking. One of era elbowed the czar away and at the me time blew smoke directly in his ce. But the czar didn't show that he as annoyed by this. After I had made me motion picture films of him and s son, and also some still photoaphs, I saluted and said 'good-by.' e answered 'good-by.* While walkg away I glanced around. He was ill looking after me and talking to s son." i I I I I "Strafe" Made Prize of War. The British have taken "strafe." In t announcement from the Oxford Unlirsity Press the fact is officially toade lown. The captured word has been eluded, not to say Interned, in the : test volume. Volume IX, of the Oxford ctionary. And as a trophy of war it ls been treated after a characteris!ally British fashion. Its flat Teun "a" has been changed to the long aglish "a" as of "safe," and from 1 7n Rvllables it is reduced to one, so j, ' -' J ? ? ? at it may rhyme with "chafe." Nor does the process of eliminating' ?rmany in this verbal instance stop j \ the mere point of pronunciation. I ) the compilers of the Oxford lexi-' n it is "v. slang." So in captivity is word of portent originally fierce ses not only in quantity but in qual7. To quote the London Times, as ted by the dictionary makers, "strafe becoming a comic English word." j " i York Road Set Free. The final step in clearing old York ^ ad of its toll gate incumbrances was ken recently and six toll gates be 'een the city line and Hatboro win ^ reafter cease to vex the users of this , iportant highway. Philadelphia abolled all toll gates within her limits * me years ago, but these nuisances 11 continue to maintain a state of >ge about this city except on the Delrare river front, where the ferries rform a similar part The ferries ? . * 11 remain until the Delaware is idged, but ?he toll gates must go, d a*e going.?Philadelphia Press. 'Tell T. R. It's Mike." Prom New York comes the story of former resident of Belleville who is kept bu6y night and day answer j telephone queries regarding the 1 alth of Theodore Roosevelt during j b latter's recent illness at Roosevelt spital. : J The man had a telephone number J nilar to that of the hospital. ' rhe limit of his patience was c - - ?? iched, nov/ever, wnen a man cmieu d said: "Tell the colonel that Mike cks called. Hell remember me. J a the bellow that shook hands with ; n at the depot the day he came to * lentown.'* j S - . ? ... ^ K ira House, Jan. 20 PLAN AIR POSTAL SERVICE Is Expected by Englishmen to Be On* of the First Innovations When Peace Is Declared. Airplane postal service will be one of" Jhe first innovations of peace in Eng^ and. The problem is already beingforked out in detail, even to the cost i )f postage and hours of collection and i lelivery. It is also said that within, j me first tew montns arrer peace a. j jans-atlantic airplane service will be-; established. Airplane engineers say-, :hat the problem of constructing a. nachine for transatlantic flight haa )een solved in theory, and machines, tfhich would cross the Atlantic could )e built to-day if it 'were not that the ong distance busses of war time must ilso be heavy weight carriers. The nost interesting result of the*e peace plans Is that It has been found po?K jible to arrange the collection and delivery of letters between London and Slasgow with such dispatch that a cor* respondent in London will be able to receive a written answer witnin tne working day. Applied to the middle West, an exchange says, this meaaa. :hat a Kansas City business man will >e able to send a document to St*. Louis, Chicago, Madison, Minneapolis^ Sioux Falls, Omaha, Oklahoma City,. Port Worth, Texarkana or Little Rock sriien he reaches his office in the morning and receive it back duly signed hectare he goes home. The estimated aofctage for this service works out at: 3 cents per ounce. And Spain, Too! Although neutral Spain may not be? n the wa? 'he Spaniards are certainly^ n It. The French have been perfectlyveil aware that hundreds of Span?^ ards joined the Foreign Legion, at the jeginning of the war; so that Paris was not taken the least by surprise tvhen 300 Spanish soldiers paraded In rrensh uniform to receive decorations 'or valor. The Spanish colony patri* >tically welcomed them with fiery ;peeches, while the French loaded them vith medals. Three received the reyard of the Legion of Honor, and scores the Croix Miiitaire and the >olx de Guerre. Since, from a strict y legal point or view, me egionarles have imperiled their naIon's neutrality, it will be Interesting :o know what Berlin will have to -say ibout it; or rather about the 56 sink* ngs of Spanish ships and the 56 protests made by Spain, which "friendly" Sermany has consistently ignored,?*^hrlstian Science Monitor. Siam Studies Philippine Health. The Philippine model sanitary house jrhich has aroused so much interest not rnly among Filipinos but also amonjf esidents of neighboring countries, has )een adopted by Siam, and contractors, ocated at Bangkok, having secured instructions from the Philippine health service, have begun the construction of i number there. The Siamese are ceenly alive to the importance ?r pro* noting public health, and Inasmuch as he health problems of Siam are very similar to those of the Philippines ow? ng to climate and products, delega* ions of Siamese have arrived from Ime to time in Manila for the purpoae >f studying Philippine methods, one of hem last year, being headed by hi& loyal Highness Prince Rangsit, brotlK T of the king of Siam. v~n vduvsvi in rionwvt The bread ration of the French soU liers has been cut from' 25 ounces to 11 ounces, the civilian bread card aK ows 10 ounces per day, which is about >ne-third of the average bread coiw ramption of the French peasant vorkman. The manufacture of crack* ;rs and pastry has been absolutely pro. iiblted. Consumption of sugar has een reduced 49 per cent and of rice il per cent. The import of dried vegetables has boon reduced 52 per cent ind Ox frits 48 per cent. Eif^iihr .