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F DIED HERO'S DEATH American's Tribute to Soldier of il _ 4 : l me Leyiun. r ?' B Victor Pronounced Typical Member of B That Wonderful Body of Men S Which Has Made French MiliP tary History Glorious. I have just seen a legionnaire. Tie happened to be of my company, the Seventh. "Do you know that Victor is dead?" he asked. Tt seemed to me ^ almost impossible. The legion without Hk Vietor! I asked how he had died. f44He was killed, but he gave them was the answer. Of course he did; that was his habit. "I am one of the five who are left," continued my \ informant. ^ In April we were 120 strong. There may be more now, but ,they must be recruits. Victor a short time ago captured ten Germans and received the military medal. Now he is dead, at kis post, writes Algernon Sartoris in Chicago Daily News. Sergeant Bouligny. an American legionnaire, has a snapshot of Victor. Underneath is written: "A typical le " krnm gionnaire. victor w?? ? Diaun, uum In Morlaix. He was tattooed all over. There was nothing in his military note{ boob save records of his numerous campaigns. He was a soldier, pure and simple. As Bonllgny says, he was typical of all that was best in the legion?courage, honesty, bravery. His history was written in his heart. He wore the medals of Morocco, Tonkin, the war cross with several palms nnd finally tpe military medal?a glorious record. Victor acted always as a stimulant; he was always gay and always kind. \ On one of our long marches he saw } that I was suffering. He came to me and offered, to carry my haversack in addition to his own. I declined his offer, but his courage and kindness * went to my heart, and in spite of sore feet I arrived in Mount Meton with I My company, thanks to* Victor. j Among the soldiers Victors name was proverbial for gallantry. On the tanks of the fetid, rivers of Annam, ?n the burning sands of Morocco, Victor was there. In the mud and mire of the trenches of France he was also tbere. Always kind, always thoughtful of others! Simple and unaffectej!, lie related deeds of valor that would move a stone; deeds that would enrich the already glorious military history of France. I asked his comrade how many J Bodies Victor got. He answered: 'com R!m he? WAS whirl* L n UCU X laoi own >nu. .V B log his gun about his head. There W were about a dozen dead Boches | around him. I think an officer killed I him witl^ a revolver; I couldn't swear to it, but I think so." nn">" * oaur Vfr?frtr in Paris a IT1ICU A iacc on" >vtv little while ago I asked him bow he *ad won his military medal. "In a Ut of bravery," he answered. Victor was always having those fits of bravery ; they are common in the legion. , Now he is dead on some lonely battlefield. bat his is the death that he would nave asked. In the words qf T <3en. de Castelman: "It Is the best possible death," the only possible death for such as he. > \ Wrong Kind of Animal. This is the latest Paris boulevard story. Hindenburg died, and since he was a marshal he went to heaven. But the German functionary at the door said to him: "Marshal, you must enter on a horse." Hindentyurg descended to hunt for a horse and encountered the German crown prince. ' "So you're dead, too?" he said. "Yes," responded the kaiser's son, ate too much Holland cheese. But show me the door to heaven, where, naturally. I go." Hindenburg took the crown prince ~ by the arm and they got in line be hind the other neaveri-ooumi pi tennis. The line moved up and finally they reached the door where the German functionary again blocked Hindenbnr<r. "Marshal," he sa^d. "I told yoo to get a horse, not an ass." UOOmea to LHsappoimmeru. k On, a tnun, n few evenings ago, two I business men were discussing the dinw Ing car service which has been established by the railroad administration. when the hegro waiter came to take their order. "How is this dirtier tonight?are you proud of it?" one of the men asked the waiter. "Well." he said. "I ain't ashamed of It?exactly. If a gentleman is hungry enough it will taste good. If he is not very hungry, he will not like it, perhaps. And if he is very hungry ?n that he likes it. he will still he hungry when he eats all we bring him." "If I'm not hungry I can't eat th<> stuff, and if I am. I'll not hav? enough?" repeated the man. The waiter grinned. Find Steel Ladle fn Oak Tree. A steel ladle, seven inches Jong, supposed to have been tksed by Indians In melting lead for bullets many years ago, was found imbedded in the heart ?ff a red oak tree sawed up for fire wood at South Atyoona, Pa. Kings 011 the tree indicate that" it was more than one hundred years old. The ladle, made of the finest charcoal steel, is believed to hrve boon ?Tr:ven into the t~ee when It was a sapliDg. SIMPLY REFUSE TO BE OLD Many Men Considered Beyond Thek 1 Prime Enter the Lists Whh Their Youth Renewed. Two thousand years ago Cicero wrote of the occasional old man "whose mind stands out of the reach of the body's decay," and only a few months ago a farmer of seventy-live, whose body as well as his mind was stlil young, went into an employment ollice in Philadelphia to obtain ?m position in a munition factory. There are men who come back front retirement at an advanced age and make great successes in this or that industry. Doctor Osier spoke of the old Roman who cut loose from his own companions and by living with young men extended his years to ir>0. A successful newspaper editor ar ine a^e 01 sim.vthree was asked to head an important department in a great university. At first lie thought he was too old, but then he had this idea: "It is true that I am sixty-three, but there are one million men in this country today who are only twenty-three. i will join tnat group anu iook at every( thing from their viewpoint. ; "That will be the motto of my life from this moment. Victor Hugo said that forty was the old age of youth and fifty the youth of old age. I will make the sixty the age of adventure." These you may say are exceptional cases. But there is nothing exceptional about the fact that in many of the groat commercial universities today fairly large numbers of men from forty to forty-five are taking courses. In one of the correspondence schools the average age is nearly thirty-live, which, allowing for the many very young clerks and the like who are enrolled. Shows how tin' older fellows an* still learning. It is literally true that age is to a considerable extent a habit of mind, largely within control of the individual.?Albert \V. Atwood in Saturday Evening I'ost. What Germany Escaped. Aerial torpedoes in the form of diminutive airplanes were among thv? American war-waging prospects when the signing of the armistice ended the. struggle. A powerful weapon 01 aesirucnon wnieh could have been used witn terrific effect against fortifications, cities and opposing ar:nies was in process of experimentation, according to facts which have leaked out at Washington. The secret of the invention has been closely guarded. Even now the' authoritiesare unwilling to make public the details. Except that they ap* pea red toylike, compared with the airplane, the construction was similar, engines and planes being provided. TTnMfco flirntanes. thev necessarily had to be self-propelling without pilots to guide them. The torpedoes had a range of 60 miles. By means of a wonderful mechanism it was claimed to be possible to direct their course with great precision^ At the exact moment desired the torpedo would explode, destroying the miniature airplane, of course, but causing widespread destruction. The torpedoes were designed to carry 300 pounds of TNT. . I i Keeping Up the White House. President Wilson has been extremely /tnncopvoHvo In nllnnHn? PTn^ndi* tores for the White House since he has occupied it, and not a dollar has been expended, particularly since the declaration of war, that could possibly be avoided. Last year, however, the walls in the state parlors were reDanered. but the same desijm of wall paper was kept in al! of the rooms. The handsome patriotic design of the blue field and stars, which was restored in 1903. and which has been so popular, still graces the wfills of the blue chambers. The rugs were replaced by new ones, while dainty new curtains of lace were hung under the heavy draperies. All the furniture has been reupholstered in the same pattern. These small renovations have given to the first floor at the White , House a very attractive appearance. ( | "Hospitalized" a New Word. , A new war word has appeared, which, unhappily, we are likely to hear | very orren in rne lurure. rne worn is "hospitalized," says the Manchester > Guardian. It is applied to soldiers who have been a long time in hospital. whose minds have Iain fallow and have lost mental fiber. So far , little has been done in an organized way to rectify this deterioration. It is chiefly among officers \yhero "hospitalization" is evident. In many cases young officers who have been seriously wounded and had a long con valeseenee have found, when they went back to the army or were invalided out and returned to their nro1 fession or business, that they were far from what they were before, their mental energy having weakened, and they were unable to grasp affairs. Shop at Home, Buy Downtown. i "The war made a new kind of Christmas buyer," the clerk at one \ of the uptown stores safd the pther , day. "They are not at all like the un* ! decided, unpleasant hangers-on of tor! mer years, the women who come to an! noy and annoy before they finally buy. Now they are brisk and alert. They know what they wish and buy it when i they see it without the usual quibbling and indecision of other years. I ? think n woman described It best when she said the other day: , "Last year I came downtown and . shopped half a dozen days before I did I any buyi^f*. This year I shop ;it home i and then vhen I jret dmvnfovn I buy." ?IndiflQuf olis New& 1 I and Y\ I I 11R11 A 1. Ivy in m FIJ I t Our strate th m i !! I I ! MANKIND'S DEBT TO THE DOG Possibly .Few Realize How Much tho "Nobler Animal" Owes to His Faithful Servitor. We ha>e been accustomed lately to think of dogs, as also most other things, in terms of war; but our debt to the dog dates hack to very many centuries before the black year of 1914. Dogs are our oldest friends of the animal world, and It ,4s believed that, since the time man began to domesticate them, they have made more rapid strides in Intelligence than we have ourselves. The day may dawn when we seek to preserve all living things through altruism. but that day is long distant. A writer in London Answers observes dogs have survived to the tune of over 175 different species, because they are useful. As shepherds, Scotch collies are cheaoer and more effective than the average human being. Pointers and setters are usecL with the gun. Other varietfes are employed as protectors and comrades; while the errands of mercy achieved by St Bernards are known to the world. A St. Bernard that died a few years ago won a .medal for saving twenty-two lives. But when a dog ceases to be of use to cs it falls on evil days. The original bull dog was invaluable to man in handling cattle. When fences were invented the bull dog began to decline. and the present day bull terrier, used as a pet. marks a phase tnat ts very likely lead^g toward extinction. Recalls Wasted Time. "I happened to be late at a meofinjr the other (fay and somebody asked who Ann Brown was and I didn't say a word and I happened to think just tn#n tnnt somebody is always we ro everything and that somebody is always early to everything. If I give a formal dinner party somebody always comes early when I'm In the dining room giving my final orders to the butler. and then again after everything Is all ready I have to wait 15 minutes for a tardy guest and get real fussy but must not show ft. rtl bet," says Ann. "that I've wasted thensands of hours of my young life be? ing on time for engaj^raeji*? ?f all kinds.'?Exciiangt. TO ALL CONCERNED. Fair and final noticc is hereby given hat on the 1st of March, 1919, executions will be issi;od for all taxes duo o;\7t of Newberry .nJ unpaid on that late. ':>y order of the Town Council. J. W. Chapman, -d Clerk and Trea-j. t /'Ill Always 'be the S* / JUST rift's F (Red Steei '4 . ? /*** . -a ways be the standi FIRST IN \ST IN CAREFU . FIRST IN Cm many, customers an< ese three points and ult Pays-- to i We have I Sj SWIFT HI Sales G Factories: Wilmingt a| Summi _ / MODEL ON AMERICAN CLUBS France Considering Adoption of Our Methods of Teaching Farming to Boys and Girls. France Is considering the adoption of Uncle Sam's methods of teaching better farming and home making to boys and girls. Representatives from the French high commission, lately in this .country, made a point of studying carefully the methods of the federal department of agriculture and the state agricultural colleges In conducting boys' and girls' clubs. Much of the information thus collected has been widely reprinted by the French ( press, accompanied by editorial comment expressing the view that, the r man or woman power of France hav- | ing been depleted or disorganized by war. service, France for some time to ' come will be dependent in large part ! i upjon its younger population for its | food supply and suggesting the formation in France of a nation-wide system of boys' and girls' clubs patterned on j those in America. It is expected rliat j i these clubs will grow staple prod wis | ?garden produce, wool, farm grain i and forage crops, poultry and farm j animals on farms not devastated, the j i very soil of which must first of all be ' pnt in condition. They will stimulate | production by the young people of France through organized contests not onlv in fnrminz but in home enter- 1 prises such as bread making, garment making, cooking- and home management. ! - * ! Easy Money. I "Yo'i have grown rich as a stock promoter." "Yes." replied the man who wore a diamond scarf pin. "How did you get into that line of t business?" i "I realized early in life that it is ! 1 human nature for people to count j their ghiekens before they are i I hatched." j "Well?" ' "That makes it easy to sell them J phony eggs."?Birmingham Age-Herald. j ! NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. } Notice is hereby give that I will make a final settlement of the personal estate of Ernest Wise, deceased, at "0 oVlork a. m., on Friday, the 21st I ? ?a 1U1Q of + Vl O f)f U&y Ui icuiuaij, jarj*r, ux ?**v v.-vw ? the Judge of Probate for Newberry ! County, S. C., and will immediately , 'hereafter, apply for a discharge ao j *dr,:"istrator of said estate. Henry Wise, ! As Administrator of the Estate of 1 Ernest Wise, Deceased. Nsas5 ? the Staple Ci outh AS ll"^g * Brands) ird Fertilizer of tfa QUALITY L MANUFACTU: DP RESULTS . 1 growing business that T 7 FT*7 ? ?2*Z>2J'l Vcash goods, Order "Manufactured by: and CORiP Fertilizer Works) mice: CHARLOTTE, h on, N. C. Greensboro, N. C. Chester, S. C. i FOR SALE BY er Brothei Newberry, S. C. TOUCHED MEN IN RIGH f SPOT W II /? 4 Ifn*u> I ro? v? r%? vamp vvv< v^mi j ? ??* Feeling of Soldiers Gathered to Subdue Bloodthirsty Hun. War's changes are being shown fn greater degree in the Y. M. C. A. activity, remarks the New York Sun. The psalm-singing official bas passed. Is his place is the athletic director and entertainer, of red blood. No better example of the metamorphosis could have been had than in an incident nor long ago at Camp Mills, the great i-ong lsiana concentration t-auiy where the men were equipped just before sailing. One of the old-style officials was holding a meeting and was expatiating' at length on the care the men should take of their souls. His audience, already partly homesick after months of 'training, was restless and grew glummer and glummer. The camp secretary watched with dismay tiie effect the speaker was having on the soldiers about to sail. I The climax came when the parson, after a final appeal to the men to face death bravely, said: "We will now sing 'Ring the Bells of Heaven.'" That was too much for the local camp man and he jumped to his feet, holding up his hand to the man at the piano to stop. Then he shouted: "Boys, before we sing this 'Ring the Bells of Heaven' don't let us forget that first we must 'Wring the kaiser's damned neck.-' The shout that went up broke up the abashed parson's meettng and "Ring the Bells of Heaven" was indefinitely postponed. SHOElSlfAIil | ????? ) W T-T Tve'Uev. a lumber salesmr.ii, cf i Omaha, found Ncoiin Seles s> U-.rh ! and durable tliat one pair cf cclc: served on a second pair of uppers after the first pair of uppers had worn out in ten months of hard v/alldng. 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