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' WASTOO PREVIOUS e Sarcasm That Berlin Newspaper Probably Regrets. ^ n ' vi * a. I CjklJl.M I rrgpnccy i nai nrnci iwaii s?w>u?w* Would Soon Cross the Rhine and Enter German Fortresses Has Been Very Laterally Fulfilled. The most biting irony that came out of Germany during the war was contained in the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger. a little more thaia a year ago. Several of our soldiers had been captured by the Germans. They were dragged all over the empire and exhibited to the x i.. ~ i enraged popuiace, jusi to snow uic Germans tliat the Americans were kr ' not to be feared." The day the unfortunate prisoners arrived in Berlin the paper printed the following under the beading, "Good Morning. Boys Pr "Three cheers for the Americans! Clever chaps they are, it cannot be denied. Scarcely have they touched the oil of this putrefied Europe when already they are forcing their way Into Germany. Before long they will cross the Rhine and also enter our for tresses. That Is express train speed for American smartness. "It is our good fortune that we are equipped to entertain numerous guests ?and that we shall be able to provide quarters for these gentlemen. However, we cannot promise them doughnuts or jam, and to this extent they will be obliged to recede from their former standard of living. "As Americans are accustomed to travel in luxury and comfort, we assume that these advance arrivals merely represent couriers for larger umbers to follow. "We are sure the latter will come and be gathered in by us. At home they believe they possess the biggest ? and most colossal everything, but such establishments as we have here they have not seen. "Look here, my boys, here is the big r firm of Hindenburg & Co., with which L you want to compete. Look at its ac B. compllshment8 and consider whether ^ it would not be better to haul down your sign and engage in some other Sy line. "Perhaps your boss, Wilson, will reconsider his newest line of business before we grab off more of his young people.** "Clever chaps they are, it cannot be denied." Yes. they were "clever chaps." So clever that today, a short year after the sarcasm was printed in the Berlin newspaper, they are actually crossing the Rhine and entering tafe fortresses which seemed so secure jr when the flippant editor gibed the lit' tie handful of soldiers who had been overcome. Yank Artillery Made Rcccrd. The French take more pride in their artillery than in almost any other feature of their military service, writes C. W. Barron in the Wall Street Journal. In this war they made world rec ords in effective gunnery. The American boys watched the French move 13%-inch guns into position in 45 minutes with horses and motors. Then ^ the Frenchmen saw the American p boys do it in 12% minutes, and they r* did not use either horses or motors. Fifty American officers and men put the gun into place and they were the talk of the town at that French camp. WT Afterward the French called upon their I officers for themselves and all their | man power to do this work when the I tractor was not about 5 . " When the Germans met the AmerilL can gunners they thought a new kind H of rapid-fire three-inch gun had come 0 Into the war because it shot so much jH more rapidly. r Hew He Got Needed Umbrella. W. M. Hughes, the premier of Australia, once came by an umbrella through illicit means. He is fond of telling the tale against himself. * While he was walking home one | pitch-black night a sudden storm L broke and, seeking shelter from the h . rain, he hastened to the nearest door rway. After waiting there for a few minutes, he spied a small boy coming along with an enormous umbrella. The premier, thinking the owner might offer to share, called out sharply: "Hi, there, young man! Where are yon going with that umbrella?" The lad, startled at the sound which rapimcuujr ruuiiuaicu iiuiu uuwucrc, dropped the umbrella and fled up the street as hard as his legs would carry A him. He vanished utterly, and Mr. r Hughes' predicament was solved. Some Flier* Are Anchored. "I picked you out to write to because I can see by your eyes you're the lonesome kid," gushed a letter addressed to the handsome young aviator whose likeness had just appeared in the Great . Lakes Recruit The handsome young aviator is a TTnwwg City man. "Now, Mary," he wrote to his wife, "in case you don't feel toward me as you used to, this is the time to speak up, as you will ob serve by the inclosed." And he sent her the letter. f . Lived Long After Burial Alive. John Boyle, who died at Jersey City,1 If. recently, was one of the four men rescued alive in 1891 from the Jeansville mines of J. C. Hayden & ; Co., when 21 miners were entombed for 19 days by a rush of water. The i four survivors ate a mine mule k drowned with their 17 comrades, k Boyle was widely known as a fiddler V In the Lehigh field, but lost his taste for the coal regions after his 19 days darkness and moved to New Jersey. ICO STRONG ON SYMPATHY Llvira Parkins Had a Fault From Which Too Many ot 'Jn Are Not Quite Free. "Is she gone?" Aunt Harriet Inquired breathlessly. Aunt Harriet's niece, Eileen, turned from the flowers she wns ;m*anging? flowers left by the departing guest "file's just going down the path." she replied. "Shall I eall her back? IX you want to see her again? I>id sh? leave anything?" "If you call her back, I'll disown you, even if you are my favorite niece," Aunt Harriet retorted. "Tell me the minute the gate clicks." Eileen's eyes began to dance Months of illness had not broker A nnt Pnoviat'a onirlt Sha It t)l# ? Uiil IKU 1 l^i <9 l I i* ?.>*?*, t V,. ? ? ?> flowers and devoted herself to tlit window. "Now!" she announced. Auut Harriet drew a long breath "I wish," she declared, "that Elvira Parkins never had had a mother! There, I've said it, and I feel better!* "Aunt Harriet!" Eileen cried, wltfc a laugh that broke bounds In spitf of her. "I know, I suppose I ought to b? ashamed, and maybe I shall be some day, but just this minute that seem? to me the most relieving thing I evei said in my life. Elvira Parkins is a good woman. She wouldn't hurt th? feelings of a fly, and she'd run hei feet off doing kind things for people I could stand the kindness, but what I can't stand is her sympathy. "IT I so mucn as mention a iwing* in my little finger, she will draw dowi her face and lower her voice and say 'I know?you can't tell me anythlni about It. My mother suffered thai way for years/ I have discovered thai Elvira's mother had an accident llkf mine and was hard of hearing iik< me and had a heart just like mine Elvira saw me dodging a streak of sun light for a minute, and she jurnpet for the shade and pulled it clear dowi rtorriA Ho r*lr oTl/1 nottcu) m V shfllll auu vauiu uavn uuu |/ubiw? *** ? ??der, murmuring, 'My mother had jusr such sensitive eyes. You must b< very, very careful. Mother suffere< so with hers the lust of her life.*" Aunt Harriet's mimicry was delight ful. Eileen was enjoying hersel: greatly. "Do tell me some more ol Elvira's conversation!" she pleaded 'Tm ready to vow never to be sympa thetic again as long as I live." Aunt Harriet sank back on her pil lows, but her eyes were twinKjmg. "I'm not saying that I'd advise yox to go quite as far as that, Eileen,' she retorted. "I'd only call your at tention to the fact that there's sym pathy and sympathy, and advise yoi to exercise a little care in choosinj the kind you use."?Youth's Com panion. Growing S.jgar Cane Under Paper. A new ami very o<id method o: growing sugar cane is proving highl] successful in the Hawaiian islands HrVinn flift nnnn ic hamnnintr tn cnrnilt yard-wide strips are laid lengthwlw over the rows of little plants and hel< in place with cane-field trash. The pa per Is strong enough to keep down an< smother the starting weeds, but not t< kill the stout and hardy young cane In five or six weeks the weed seedi beneath the paper have all germinat ed and been smothered to death, bu the cane shoots have either force< their way through or erected them selves sufficiently to make little tent like elevations. Laborers then pasi along the rows and with long knivei make slits in the sheets, permittinj the shoots to come through. The lib erated shoots at first are blanchet white,, but quickly turn green an< lusty. Weeding thereafter is almos wholly needless, because there ar< very few weeds. There is an increasi of ten tons (about 28 per cent) in th< yield of cane per acre. Half the laboi is saved and the production of actua sugar per acre is augmented by mor< than a ton. The paper used is mad< out of "bagasse," which is the residue of the cane after the sugary sap hai been squeezed out of it. "At Attention" Before God. Paying tribute to the services per formed bv the British Y. M. C. A.. W Gordon Spriggs, writing in Assoeia tion Men, the organ of the Ameri / Qn "V " ie rominrloH rf ronll made by Field Marshal Sir George White to an inquiry addressed to hin at the close of the three mon ths' siege of Ladysmith, South Africa, in th? Boer war. Sir George was asked tc explain how he maintained his cheerfulness and upheld the spirit and mo rale of his weary troops amidst sc much discomfort, depression and un certainty. "Because," said the field marshal, "I stand at attention before God every morning so that I may receive my daily marching orders." Here's Flapjack Frying Record. Here's the world's flapja<k frying record: Eight thousand six hundred and forty in 20 hours, all fried on one hot cake plate, four feet square, at the rate of 36 every five minutes. The big flapjack fry started at 7:30 o'clock one morning up at the front and continued without intermission till "3:30 o'clock the next morning. Yanks just out of the trenches ate the hot cakes, swimming in rich sirup. The frying crew was made up of Salvation Army men, led by Ensign Fred Fluderson. Hostilities Are at an End. Jane had broken her second doll that morning, and mother, very much provoked. was putting rhe careless baby through the third degree when from the depths of the apron in which the swe&ty Uttle face was buried came the wortfs: "Mother, did you know the wai was ?Y?rr' WAS r3ABLE TO WALK AT TIMES, SHE SAY i To Move Around She H;.d to I'ush ( hair Before 11, r?lr;:u 11 pcrieuccs?Mornings Were Mise able for Mrs. Durham* But the A ftr noons ftrosght Her More Cor fort. > Though she had suffered with rhe I J1.. ~ V. ~ A/MlU ^ ,1-. 9 lliaijSlli sD UdUiy MIC uuuiu nut ?U f at times during three or four yen and Lad been troubled a great de [ with other ailments, Mrs. J. T. Du I ham, of 2210 S. Main St., Anderso declares that "Tanlac relieved n . rheumatism and other troubles ai i got me in good shape in three week k af:er a lot of other medicines hi ? failed to help me. *'I suffered with rheumatism : badly 1 could not walk at times," coi t tinued Mrs. Durham, "and for seve ! a! hours every morning when tl > ' . i * * i t rneumausm was particularly Daa ' would have to sit in a chair after b ing helped from my bed, and then n muscles would get po I could mo' around by pushing a chair before m , I generally was able to get aron.' enough to get dinner, though I cou t never get breakfast. One of my lej * was badly drawn, and ] hurt all ovi and suffered torture. I had rheum; tism badly for three or four year but I had been bad health f< about 9 years wtfen I began to tal Tanlac. I also was troubled a gre; deal with indigestion and headache and my nerves were almost 'gone \ pieces.' I could not sleep well ai my system was weak and run dow qtv/1 T folf tfrrorl nut- oil thp timA "The Tanlac soon got me where - could do my own housework, for r quickly relieved the rheumatism ar 1 that drawing in my leg. I am stror and I feel well now. Tanlac certain | is a -fine medicine for rheumatism, I think. I very seldom ever feel a pa: in my body now, so well did Tanl< _ hi?oolr nr> tVio yTioJiTrtaf-j-cm Tbp mp t icine also built up my -system in ge: t eral, gave me a fine appetite and r * lieved the indigestion. I could n eat anything hardly when I begs . taking Tanlac, but it got me so could eat anything I wanted. I cs i dleep well now and the Tanlac r * lieved the nervousness. I suTe do fe * fine and the improvement in my co; r dition is due to Tanlac." nil/lor- Woote \'owhjK'rv fi { . Prosperity Dru<_r Co., Prosj>t?rity, LI t fie Mountain Drug Co., Little Mou1 | tain S 0.. W. C. 77olloway, Chr T-ell^. S*. C.f Y/hitnire Fharmae * u'hnmire. s. C r ' i. *suu:|?1jo aj9A\ sjeqio 'sauti 2t 3 -jq?y dip paiqaq jo jcubiujoo al j oj eqoog i<mud eqi ?q ?ba\b ucjfji aae - pnq saaqjom pun sjoqju; ssoqM sic j dUin dja.w saa3n;a.i esain jo aubj j sajOBpads injfjjd pajaasaad Siua^C aao .. ubiu djoto aoj saBaija*> ?it pajdnoo i sba\ qoiqm aoabjj jo jjbd jbqj jo jn - }U8S ajd.w oq^ uaiu p(o pan cszpnq t 'uaaiOM or-5 jo aaoBjji oj uamej aqx i *9|3E)d9ds s;uwwd We Gin Cotton Tuesdays a>vd Friday a Parties who have seed with us f< I meal will please get the meal x January. Prosperity Cotton C 1 Mill Co. 12-31 1 * WANTED?Two saw mills to cut ha 1 million feet lumber. Wanted at one I H. 0. Lons. Silverstreet. 12-24 r COLTWBIA MAX'S FAMILY 1 GREATLY HELPED BY DREC< j i "My Daughter Was Cured of Bed We [ tins In One Week*?My Wife's Nerves Are So Much Better. Sow.*?L E Ellison Gives Testimony. i Here's an interesting story told t n Columbia Mills Co., employe "wi lias every reason to be proud an thankful of the work r-ccomplished-i hig family bv the new herb--and-ro( medicine Dreco. Tt is the story < Mr. L. E. Ellison who resides at, -55 . Elm .street. Coumbia, and is give ' here for publication so that other pz 1 rents may read and benefit by his e? ; perience. This is what he says in I signed statement: j "My wife recently underwent a ! operatoin at the hospital. Her hea was opened up for catarrh and afte three weeks she came back home t , recover. Her nerves were in a tei i ! ri'Ma nATi^itiAn onil oVia woo nftnetotii j uuig V/V/nu11 iv/ii iiiiu one ?ao iswuovc*u . j ly troubled with headaches, con stipe j tion and failure to digest the food sh j ate. She couldn't sleep and had n ?appetite at all. Her condition wa I, greatly rnn down when I decided < , j try a bottle of this new herb medicin , j Dreco which I have seen mentione ; | so often in the newspapers. I wan j to say ris:ht here that Dreco has don | her more good than the operation o 1 all the medicines she has taken. Sh | has gained strength very fast and he ,\ nerves are so much better now. I fact it is wonderful what Dreco ha i done for her. ".My 12-year-old daughter has bee j afflicted with bed wetting all her life j but in one week after taking Dree 3 -t, iy 3 ;s; i I : Unlil r, agre ^ ; cat) I I Pos r, with sleej I aoce ? H IS PV "i I COI)t ' I men I 4CQl l E Your :' R in ' I she Is cured! Not. one time since has in she wet the bed." e- Nature never intended that human el beings should be weak and sickly. Shs q- therefoe has provided natural medicines to keep us in health ani 3..! strength and man has hut to undertt i stand and use these natural medin-' cines properly to live and enjoy life p- i to the utmost. y, Dreco is made up of just such nat! ii-rn'! incrrcu^ionta rnntc hprhc i and berries. It contains nothing of I) 1 a mineral nature nor fc there any a opiates or injurious narcotics in it. q ; P. is safe and easy to take and its * i results are quick and efficient. ^ i Dreco is sold by better class dru;r * : stores everywhere and is particularly O I 0 , recommended in Newberry by Gilder 3 ! Weeks. i ?tmmmm?i ?? i i^??^????? r "I imagine \ [, office tall >yj 1 -j - i mi ^i. _ ? 10, > i nai s me se id t j . ? i man s success in U * i phone. H ir He pictures 1 with the man with t-J j ' He "sees" his ? | phone. oi | And he talks ;-i ! carefulness and con i.j l ' esy, because he kn< 0 - on his voice and m O J ' .. 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Ewart, Prbate Judge: Whereas, John Young made suit to me to <rrant him Letters of Adminis tration of the estate and enects 01 Patsy Young. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said Patsy Young, deceased, that they be and ap- . pear before me. in the court of . bate, to be held at Newberry on Tu?6-.. day, the 2Sth day of January* next after publication hereof, at 11 o-'clock: in the forenoon, to show causes tf anr thev have, yhy the said admm istraticn should not be granted. Given under my hand this 6th da J of January, A. D. 1919. TF. F. Ewcrt, J. P. N. C. SIMPKINS' IDEAL PROLIFIC COTTON. One of the best and most productive sarly cottons; grown ninety days from planting to boll. It has produced as much as three bales per acre averaging 40 per cent, lint and in tests madeit the Arkansas Experiment Station it iveraged first out of twenty-eight varieties tried. This cotton also took first premiums it the North Carolina State Fair for several years. The advantage of planting an early naturin<r "o'ton lik ethe Simjkins is well understood by all cotton growers, particularly where danger of boo! weevil exists. By express, freight or parcel post )er bushel f! o. b. Georgetown $2.50 Prompt shipment. Order now for spring planting. ENTERPRISE TRUCK FARM, Georgetown, S. C.