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WAR GAS DUMPEDj FAR OUT AT SEA I ! Some Large Drums and 200,000' Loaded Shells Rest in 1,500 Feet of Water. WERE FOR USE THIS SPRING I Poisonous Fluid of No Commercial Value and Unsafe to Have Around? America Sent Gas for 1,600,000 Shells to Front. Washington.?The first lot of poison gas which the American army devel-t oped and manufactured for use in kill- j ing Germans in the great spring drive, scheduled for 1919, but halted by the * ** l\A/vrk #lio_ ' Signing 01 tue anuisuvtr, iiu? uitu vti.--posed of by dumping it at sen. It consisted of 200,000 poison-gas shells and some large drums or containers of poison gas, which have just been taken to sea from Baltimore and dropped into Davy Jones' locker. The gas dis- j posed of consisted of mustard gas and . chlorpicrin gas, both of which are very j dangerous and could not be used commercially. The 200,000 gas shells were brought i back from France on a transport about two weeks ago. After other! fcargo of the transport naa oeen unloaded the poison gas shells were taken In the same transport from Baltimore out to sea a distance of between sixty and one hundred miles and dumped deep enough not to have any effect on navigation an<J far enough at sea not to have any effect j on the coast. t Dangerous to Have Around. The containers taken to sea and dumped showed signs that they were soon about to begin to leak, as a result of chemical effect of the gas, and in the interest of safety these wore taken to sea and disposed of -under directions given by Major General Sibert, head of the chemical warfare service. Ultimately all of the poison gas in drums will bo disposed of in this fashion, but until' after the treaty of peace ; - is signed the army will be in no hurrv to get rid of a very valuable asset, and .. it is not the plan to take all this gaHto sea for dumping until after .the... signing of tne peace treary, except uj those cases where, through containers showing' signs of leaking ot for othei" j good reasons, lt; Is considered in th? interest -of safety to dispose of th*'r| gas sooner, v- r c **" : *1' General Sibert submitted to Genera! March, the chief of staff, a memonrn. i. . dum in reply to the statement thai . no American gas shells were fired a'., the enemy/" "In June, 191$," the memorandun { asserts, "the following shipment oj i '' gases in bulk was made to the Ameri can forces in, France to be exchangee ' for gas shell: Mustard gas, 15 tons; j chlorpicrin, .705 tons ; phosgene, , 4* tons. Further shipment fn bulk over j seas was stopped pursuant to a cable gram frOm France fitted July 21,1918 the reason for this being that Franc* had no more extra gas shells to b( Alll ~ J ...Uk ItMAiitAAn iiutru witii aujcx icau gaa. "There not being gas shell available j with suitable boosters and adapters i the gas plants were not operated tc j capacity. HoweveT, sales of some ex- l cess gas were made both in England | and to France. England was sold 90( i tons of chlorpierin and 368 tons ol | phosgene. France was sold 300*tons j * of chlorpicrin and 1,408 tons of chlo I rine, equivalent to 1.126 tons of phos- j gene. Phosgene is SO per cent chlo- j rine, and France furnished phosgene j eliell in exchange for this chlorine, li? j addition to the above 200 tons of mus j tard gas were shipped to England foi ; loading shell originally made for Rus- J >ia. These shells were never loaded '< and the gas, at least a large part ol j it was utilized by the English in load- ! ing shell. "There were, therefore, shipped to : Europe 3,682 tons of gas, or its equiv- ! alent, which gas was largely loaded Into shell and used by tie United States troons, or those of our allies, j against the enemy. Three thousand i mx hundred and sixty-two tons of gas , would have loaded about 1,600,000 I shells, two-thirds of them being 75 mm. and one-third 155 mm., a number which is thought to be at least equal to the total number of gas shells fired by the American troops in action in ' Prance, showing that, while American ; ? 5 A ?v\ At*! /in n I gas was Dot aciuaxiy liieu 1U /Uiicm.au j shells in the war( it was fired against the enemy, and that America fur- : nished at least as much as she used. ; "In addition to this, 18,600 liven | drums loaded with phosgene were ; shipped to France. These contained 279 tons of gas, and some of them, at j least, were fired at the enemy. A9 soon, as shells were available they were loaded with gas, and 25,000 shells, 75 mm. caliber, were shipped to France on August 7, 1918. On August 9 another shipment of 50,000 sheHs-of the same, caliber was made, ? utter which time shipments were made .. . :i$. fast as shell and .boosters were ... . "The first shipment of shells would have reached France by September 1. They \vor/> unassemble'!. .A" comr ' pflnuif r>;nr,-. hov.r-ver, were si:?pj decrement ?V W-J ::i . . JietM u> .? so-nbie :-Iu:is in Frnr.r . - ^ Ti'o t*I.- c !<;>t in such assembling * iho "i , n ;:suii for the ;e lis ?r ! om! y 1 ;< 1 T^rjv.f clii U 4 lii-O v' lO? KLINE TO SPEAK ON 5 NATIONS' LEAGUE ' Dhautauqua Audiences Will Hear Masterly Address. j f \ Speaker Points Out High Cost of Hate t and the High Returns of > Just Dealing. $ 1 "The New Competition" is the sub- r joct of the lecture given by R. K. P. f Kline at the coming Redpath Chauiau- t qua here. Iu it. among other ques- 1 tions, he discusses the League of Xa- f tlons, pointing out the law of the high < cost of hate and ilie large proms oi ; i just ilea lint:. This will be one of the i t vital lectures of ihe week. i > There is no question which has j aroused more interest than the proh- j { lem of the League of Nations. The | 1 ! t R. E. P. KLINE. * < entire world has been stirred by it, and j the policy of nations for many years t < may be determined by it. Every Amor- j ^ ican citizen should welcome the op- j i portunity to hear Mr. Kline in his t ;reat lecture. ' I Mr. Kline is an eloquent, forceful T speaker, who talks from a comprehen- 1 >ive study of his subject. He has Jec- ( :ured on various circuits of the lied- s path Chautauqua for the past twelve s rears and has earned a ?reat reputa- * :ion as a platform speaker. BEYOND ALL MEED 0? PfiAISE < .. _ ? ? . \ Impossible to Form Words Thft W:U ( >*- r* l_ i\ r UO even oirnpis ou^uuc w American Mothers. 1 f Just before the war:- the "cellar * mother" was . spoken of- with underr ? standing (i^ ...America), if notwith I laughing sympathy?the woman who i decoyed husband and sons into the t Cellar, and then sat on the door, re- < solved that no mankind of hers should t engage in such a fool business as i war! , v : % . ' ! . Many of the mothers who so spoke ( had made the schoolmaster's life a | burden by their nervous telephoning 1 when Ned or Harry went to school; yet i when the country demanded it and i their boys were ten years dearer, they { j gave them to the war without a sign ] of anything but pride, Lucy H. M. j j Soulsby writes in the Atlantic. \ \ They had never been trained, like : < English mothers, to live through ordi-! i nary life with a boy in danger on some ! i frontier firing line; but they learne<3 < heroism and nerve when the need : i came. i ; The American mother learned daily I self-denial, too; the most extravagant of nations learned thrift in food eonservation ; and the most set in her ways of any woman on earth, the New Eng- ' land house mother, altered those ways in that most unalterable part of her house, the kitchen, where every- ; thing had been "thus and so" for gen erations. | And this thrift and adaptability were not drawn out Y>f her by the needs of her own men, but by a quick J : ? 4.4fi.tnnnotKo which lilinglim U y c ? v ui?/cuajj , 4 3.000 ralles of ocean aDd felt, with all j Sir Philip Sidney's chivalry, for the , stranger of alien race, "whose neces-1 ?**ty was greater than hers." | ] s ? SOON WILL BE OF THE PAST < 11 Georgia Wild Cows Seem *> Havt J Served Their Purpose, and Art j < Fast Disappearlnfl. ! j The plney woods cow, long a efcum 1 of the razorbnek hog, Is fading from 1 the Georgia landscape. It is a polgn- i ant thought. She Is one of the last 1 ? * x 4 links that binds Georgia to tne pasu Thousands of her roamed over the great plantations that would now be condemned as undemocratic. She was usually red and white?a "pided" cow ?inclined to have a poor figure, humpbacked and somewhat knockkneed, and her eyes were closely situated. Id the manner which psychologists shaks their heads over, because it indicates the criminal bent. But upon th* piney 1 woods cow Georgia in the old days 1 depended entirely for milk and but- i ter. Many planters had hundreds of them, but they all ran wild, and one * of the spring sports was to round * thorn up and mark them. If a choice * ? I SI II 'III MI I SI If Ml It I Iff i il | ?l 111 t 11. *??*.-? Tiard to feed, bein? ui>acrustoined to civilized fodder, for pinov woods cows cat jrrnss in summer and souse their h'^ads up To fh^ eyes in ponds iri the wuiit'nr\:n? for water jrrass and rv>ss Ti ev "nlw.jys have a foriorn a5-\ _c of *h?'!ii rtiil dwell on: the ' !" -iv< of Parks' mT!l pond, which c.v i- ;! / *irrnds of a^res. and butchr f * * vt i>*:p with hors.s ^ r.: ?: <; w York Post. i SILKS OF GOKtituU* ujluH Huguenot Collection Exhibited in Ne\ft York Declared to Be a Marvel of Preservation. What is perhaps the most wonderul exhibition of old French silks in tin \orl<J' is to he seen in the library ol he International Buyers' club at 13( .Vest Forty-second street, New York ays Scientific American. The <*ol ecuon comprises more man <ou speci nens of silk manufactured hy the de ioenilanls of the Huguenots who set led In Spitalfields and Bethnal Green vondon. after the revocation of the diet of Nantes in 1685. It has lately ome into possession of the Interna ional Buyers' club and is said to N he most valuable of its kind in th< vorld. The fabrics of the collection are as lurable and the colors as brilliant as il hey were turned from the looms yes erday. The disintegration of the silt anncjnar one sometimes sees in i in iese mandarin coats has not taker lace. Indeced. the old French silt Yorkers did not develop their art froir he ancient Chinese, who jealous!.! niarded the secrets of their era ft die silk industry was originated ir he western world by two Persia i nonks who had resided in China am a ir\ hvnntrlif f a Ponfftori ? WUl WVV 1/4 l\J VMIIClUil :inople the eggs of the silk worm ir i hollow bamboo tube. From thes< rontents developed the silk industry o: Europe. There is an elusive delicacy abon he French silks that quite defies de icription. Many of the French pat eras are quite up to date and are sai< o be in line for any reyival of styles rhis is particularly true of the tin: jatterns in checks, blue, red, green an( >rown in fields of white silk, all o: vhich are adapted to cravats. Tb< orgeous colors are shown in the silk! )? upholsteries; the most delicate an< jvaiescent in those evidently intend ?d for women's apparel or draperies i-Vonderful dyes the French weaver ised, vegetable dyes that increase ir heir beauty as the years go by. Gold >ure yellow, brilliant gold, is shown vhite, ivory, flesh, roral. turquoise, ap ico i, ocean jireeu. a sues or rw.se chartreuse, honey maple, genmium ;carlet, cardinal, garnet and a thou ;and other tints that would b<* li;ir< o match today even when ' we hav< 523 shades of navy blue alone. The strength and durability of ?h< ;ilks in this.-col lection, soirie of whi**l ire hundreds of years old. sugj:o*i ;h;i vith reasonable care t.hey .ave. pro.; igayist disintegration ..of thf .u'g^s rhere is not a crocked, worn or tiiii sample among ttiem. The brilliance.o: heir dyes;' some of whose4, formula: ire at present lost to the "world, i: evidence that- the world may nevei )C forced to be completely dependen ]pon any one nation, for Its dyes.an< Jiat the forgotten lore in the art o lyeing fabrics reveals the varied fu :ure that may be revived under th< ;pur of. necessity. m / . ??: One of the Last of Old-time "RedsJ Tom-o-Wah-Teet, who rememberer the first coming of the white man t< the Klickitat valley, Washingtoi state, has gone to the happy huntinj grounds at the age of at least on hundred and ten. He was known am liked by everyone In the region, ,an< would tell vividly of the events o iays when white people Invaded thi territory of the Yaklmas and Klicki tats. He was present at the counci ?f Walla Walla plains in 1855. am was a warrior under Kamiakin in thi Eakima Indian war that followed. EL ;ook part in the block house battl< ind massacre of white settlers at thi Cascades, where Lieut. Philip EL Sher idan was in command of the troop sent from Fort Vancouver to defen< Li 4 04. i-U A MTA Liie garrisuii. Aiitrr me rvvuu wu ?rushed Toro-o-Wah-Teet was alway friendly to the whites, and his man; services have been repaid, for sine* tie became nearly blind about fiv Fears ago and could no longer suppor tiimseJf and his aged squaw by work Jig on farms. Those he once aided hav< looked after bis wants. Fewer Accidents Now. and Whv. War conditions, by bringing Iarg< aumbers of new and unskilled work ?rs Into industry, bad In general thi effect of increasing considerably th< dumber of industrial accidents, boti actually and relatively to the numbe: 3f persons engaged in certain indus tries. Information recently receive< 3y the inspection and investigatioi service, department of labor, indicates iowever, than in general the numbei >f such accidents has now returned t< approximately normal figures. In 1 comparatively short time before th< entrance of America into the war, th< iffect of workmen's compensation law! and safety work had reduced the num )er of industrial accidents almost 5( per cent, Tlie temporary increase du< to the influx of war workers has now ? ? Cl -I A : raiUBiiea.?ocieuum; Auiem-au. Lost Diamond Mine? A fabulous fortune awaiti the mai *ho discovers the lost diamond min< )f Arkansas. There are Indisputable indication; :hat such a mine exists, according t< i statement by Capt. ' Frederick C "'acker, an English diamond mining ex >ert who bus twice come to tin's conn ry from Kimberly, South Africa, ii search of the lost mine. Due to the peculiarity of the natural irocesc by which diamonds wen orme?l in the dim ages of ihe'_;-,..?t P;>r*K*f>r snifl fho imMr???tinn! >f a diamond field may l><?' found ? otic from tli?? Th"S( ndic;jti<jr:s haw been f- ;:n?; :i> ;t wr *!n rr~*'..r r.f A::s. 1m?{ ,I:?? ;,"rH as- t,-.r !. i' , i;. 'etui- u;j Uk!uiiu*-a line. L j exerts. 1 BETTER THAN ASPIRIN i FOR COLDS AND FLV r ; The Improved Aspirin Tablets, Tailed i Aspitone, Are Slightly Stimulating ; Instead of Depressing to the Heart. 1! Do Not I'pset Stomach. r 1 1! Physicians and druggists are en' thusiastic over Aspitone, the new and improved aspirin tablets that are said . to be slightly stfmulating instead of - depressing to the heart. They explain . that severe colds, influenza, fevers, J headaches, neuralgia and rheumatism 1 are almost invariably attended by a weakness of the heart and require ? stimulation rather than depression Heart failure, they say. is especially * to be guarded against, in influenza f and pneumonia, hence they recom* mend Aspitone. k a nontle laxative with one or two ^ tablets of Aspitone. as needed, is now . the physicians favorite treatment for j severe colds aLd threatened pne;;j monia. Tt will usually cut short a co'rt or sore throat over night. Aspl 1 tone tablets are also being used with j splendid results for the relief of paiu in headaches, neuralgia and rheumaj tism. The leading druggists every? where are row supplied with Aspitone f which is sold in sealed packages, price 35 cents. They may be obtained c locally at Gilrler & Weeks and P. E Way's Drug Store. 1 SAYS BRINK WATER IF YOU WISH TO GROW FAT AND PLUMP. r I Thin 3Ten and Women, Do You Wrtnt > to Get Fat and be Strons? j The trouble with most thin folks . who wish to gain weight is that they i. insist on drugging their stomach or s stuffing it with greasy foods, rubbing 1 on useless "flesh creams'' or following some foolish physical culture stunt, * while the real cause of thinness goo:; , "touched. You cannot get fat until vovr digestive tract properly assimil. * ps the food you eat. Drink a glass j -Vfi f0ur or five times a day 2 and take the following preparation n reliable druggists almost - f>. which seiningly embodies r elements needed by the I rrrnns. to help them qonvert ib"ocrl a-to rchj fat laden blood. This 3 ... t. "'- iq called tonoline, and f pvich remarkable testimony, is given 3 ,-*s sr^essful use in flesh buildS * ' * ' ' which comes in the r * < t form of a small non-injurious tablet; I v,, -^03] ail(3 mixed with the d' f food, tends to prepare fat, a ? J *" '1 %>* . J 1 .. ? r J Conde e ! . i 3 ; . ' ! The Natio I1CW L s a From repor s y Showing Conditio e i e t B j RESOURCES i Loans and Investments . . . : i I Liberty Bonds and Treasnrj Certur J I ??. e i_j.Lt^J caies 01 inueuieuua* . J i '* United States Bonds .... r > I Cash and due from Banks and 3 United States Treasury . . . ) i 7 . i l ! i i B !- THE NAM B. C. MATTHEWS, President. I i ; State, Co? ir * ; iVfCist&i: ' I a w I i flesh and muscle building elements so | ! that the blood can readily accept and I carry them to the starved portion of j i the body. You can readily picture the . transformation Uiat additional and previously lacking flesh making ma- j | terial should bring to your cheeks. I filling out hollows about your neck i shoulders and bust disappearing, and j ! vour taking: on from 15 to 30 pounds | ' I j of solid healthy flesh. Tonoline is j harmless, inexpensive, efficient?the | Newberry Drug Co.. have it and are ! authorized to refund your money if! j weight increase is not obtained as j | per the guarantee found in each hirge ; | package. ! Caution:?Tonoline is recommended | j only as a flesh builder and while ex ; i cellent results in cases of nervous in- j j digestion, etc., have been reporter! j I care should be taken abo;:t using it i j unless! a gain of weight is desired. | A Wonder, Why??Because T-eaoh's ! Oriental Wonder, the great germ! I destroyer and blood purifier is all j ! that its name implies. For rheuma. | tism. indigestion, kidney or bladder j troubles, stomach trouble and. fe- j male trouble. By mail, prepaid, j price $1.00. Address all mail orders 1 T T r'nliimhin Q CV Rox 477 I I <J . JlJ. uatto, K/. W- ?? ? i I I ??? ???? I i Make This Bank Y | every 1 TWO FISTED I TWO LEGGED RED BLOODED ; AMERICAN i must put his limit i VICTORY L Complete payment ty Loans and ge Loan; Campaign The Exchc Of Newb | "The Bank of ! 1844 ! :nsed Stat OF nal Bank of tdiyf kjuuui va t to the Comptroller of tl n at the Close of Busi i $ 975,413.18 Capital Stock . Surplus and Undr 215,373.13 Circulation innnnnn/1 Deposits . . IWjUUV.VU Bills Payable (sc Bonds) 93,089.65 D.n D .. Bills Payable ant 51,383,875.96 11 DAW AC NOT) LL DttlliY VI llii T T. K. JOHNSTONE, Cashier. ifcy and. City r Federal Reserve ? A H "WMI ? ManMv i I Citation for Letters of Administratis THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, fl| County of Newberry. Ry W. F. Ewart, Probate Judpe: Whereas, Lizzie Wilson made suit to me to grant her Letters of Admiir istration of the estate and effects o: H Kmma Phillips. ^ These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said Emma Phillips, deceased, that they be and ap- m pear before me, in the court o:t pro- 9 bate, to be held at Xewberrv on 1 Tuesday, 22nd day of April, next, af- 1 ter publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administra tion should no; be granted. Given und^r my hand this 5th. day of April Anno Domini 1919 ' W. F. Ewart,. * P. J. N. C. - 1 !;iI)S INVITED FOK FERTILIZER. ' f I I'ids for ton to fifteen tons of fertilizer will be received up to 12:00 jnoon. April 11, 1919. J. C. Sample. 14-4 3t Supervisor. our Business Home * * r ' t ' h \ . AAW Dnwnc ounuj s now On previous Libert ready for the Victory opens April 21st. inge Bank erry, S. C. the People " ' ' ement Newberry ; 4 rolina j le Currency iness March 4,1919 ! J ? * t \ I ABILITIES I 100,900.00 rided Profits . . 30,962.06 100,000.00 i A 726,216.07 | sored by Liberty 177,000.00 I Redisconnts . 249,697.83 i ^ $1,383,875.96 | == ! ' (BERRUC , W. W. CROMER Accistanf rashlW. * Depository System \ V