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E 78 POPE DISTR[SS[D BY BOMBARDING Of CHURCHES Shelling of Church With Guns is Much Discussed at Rome GRAND RABBI'S MESSAGE Calls Crime "An Insult to What Hu manity Holds Most Sacred" Rome, April 1.-Pope Benedict ex pressed deep concern today at the death toll in the Paris church which was struck by a German shell.I The Pope discussed with Cardinal Gaspar ri, papal secretary of state, the atti tude which the vatican should take it being felt that the situation has as sumed a new aspect inasmuch as sneus from guns, instead of bombs from airplanes, are being used to bom bard Paris. 'Telegram Received at Paris Cardinal Amette, Archbishop - of Paris, yesterday received the follow ing telegram from Rome: "The holy father, deploring the fact that the bloody conflict which already has caused everywhere so much suf fering, has again found more inno cent victims, expresses his deepest sympathy. He sends the apostolic bleEssing to all the faithful in Paris and desires to know if it is necessary to send material aid to the families in mourning." The cardinal has received the fol lowing letter fromGrand Rabbi Israel Levi: "Your Eminence: I am the inter pretation of the feelings of all my French coreligionists in saying we are one in pious indignation at the crime which seems to have been intended as an insult to what humanity holds most sac redl." Victims Mostly Women and Children New York, Apr-il 1.-The official bureau of French information here to day receivedi the followving cablegram from Cardinal Amette, Archbishop of Paris, regarding the bombardment of a Paris church by the Germans: "On Good Friday, at the hour itself of the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, wvhilst the members of our flock were assembled in the churches to commem orate that great mystery, the Ger mans began again to bombard Paris after an interruption of several (lays. A big shell fell upon one of our churches and the roof collapsed crush ing numerous Christians who had come for dlivine service. "We have found at least seventy fiv'e dead andi ninety woundled, of whom the majority are women and children. Such a crime brings up the rep~robation of every conscience. In our deep sorrow we have the duty of echoing this reprobation andl of ap pealing 'to the justice of God as we implore Hlis mercy for the victims." Berlin Blames the French London, April 1.-Speaking of the loss of life in a Paris church from a shell fired by a long range German gun, a semi-official Berlin dispatch forwarded from Amsterdam by the Central News, says it is to be (ieplIored, but that every church within an at tacked fortress necessarily is subject to incidental hits. The responsibility for .the security of the inhabitants of Paris, the dispatch says, must rent with the French Government. -W-S-S "WHO CARES IF BONES ACHE?" WRITES WOMAN FARM HELPER Thousands of women in all parts of the country are volunteering to help out on farms that will be short of man power this season. The letter which follows is typical of many which are coming to the Unitedl States Depart ment of Agriculture. Department of ficials do net believe the women will be required in the heavier farming operations, but in the lighter tasks of labor on fruit and truck farms and in helping farm wives with their tasks there will be work for women hands. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's. The Old Standard Grove's Tsteless chill Tonic -Is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic propertIes of QUININR and IRON. It sets on the L~iver, Duives out alaris, Etiriches the - Slod and tidsun the Wholate . 6 ent-, "I want to inquire where I can vol unteer my services-in the agricultural labor for my country's service. I know this work is 'just as important as fighting, and as I was raised in the country and can drive a horse and am familiar with all the rounds of farm life, I feel I would soon qualify. My husband is now doing his 'bit' aboard a transport 'somewhere in France.' "I am wel1l aware of the fact that farm work is not easy even to the seemingly easy proposition of picking. beans, which in reality is a 'back splitting' job. "But who cares if one's bones do ache a little as long as the heart is happy in serving his country in this absolutely necessary accomplishment --food raising ? "Napoleon is quoted as saying, 'A man fights on his stomach,' so I would like to work to enable our men to be come good fighters. The German Bis marck in his world plans once said: 'America is a fine fat pig to be stuck later.' So I guess the Kaiser thought. I would even enjoy heaping raise some American fat pigs to defeat them in their designs. "-loping you answer quickly and tell me where I can enlist my services, I remain, Very sincerely, --W-S-S AIDING THE LABOR SUI'PLY The Departments of Agriculture iand Labor through representatives of the various States cooperating with the agricultural colleges and other agencies are doing the following things to aid the farm labor supply, according to a recent statement of Secretary Houston: (a) Making a sur vey of the farm-labor situation in each community with a view to discover .ng possible surpluses of labor in or der to be ready to assist in furnish ing labor, wherever it is needed; (b) assisting again in shifting labor from State to State, as in past years; (c) promoting fuller cooperation among farmers in the same community; (d) making available, so far as possible high school. boys in rural districts who have had experience in farming and who are not normally regularly or fully employed in farming operations; (e) making every effort to see that there is no obstacle in the way of the production of a larger supply of farm machinery and its fuller use as a supplement to hand labor. --W-S-S FIRST OF STANDARD TYPE Wooden Ship to be Launched April 7 Washington, April 2.-The first wooden ship of the shipping board's standard Ferris type to be launched in Gulf waters will go overboard from the ways of the Universal Shipbuild ing Company ,of Houston, Texas, April 7. The vessel is of 3,500 tons. To date seventeen wooden ships have been launched. Four took the wa ter last week, three from Oregon ship yards and one at Tacoma. For Indigestion, Constipation or Biliousness Just try one 50-cent bott'e of LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN. A Liqu'd Digestive Laxative pleasant to take. Made and recornnended to the public b; Paris Medi cine Co., manufacturers of Laxative Cromo Quinine and Grove's Trstecss ch I Tonic. SUMMONS State of South Carolina, County of Williamsburg. In Re Kingstree Swamp Drainage District. To All and Singular, the Land-owners Within the proposed Kingstree Swamp D~rainage District Whereas, a petition signed by a majority of the resident land-owners :m proposedl drainage (district aInd by the owvners of more than one-half of the land in acreage which will be af fecte3d by or assessedl for the expenise of the Proposed improvements has been filed in the office of the ('lerk of the Court of Common i'leave for Wil liamsburg County, in whjic, I oucntv a patrt of the lands are locatedl, in which petition is set forth and described a specific body or dlistrict of land in this County andl the adjoining Counties of Clarendon andl Florence is subject to overflow, is too wet for cultivation and the public bengfit, utility, health, convenience and welfare will be pro motedl by draining the same and by improving the natural wvater courses therein, andl, Whereas, the said petitioners have (duly filed the bond requiredl by law which has been by me approved, and, Whereas, undier and by virtue of the provisions of law in relation thereto, it .is directed ,and prescribed that the said Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in whose office the said peti tion shall bo filed andl shall issue his Summons to b~e served on all the land owners within or to be affectedl by the saidl proposed dIrainage district re turnable according to law. Now, Therefore, and in pursuance of the said provisions of law you and each of you are hereby summoned and requiredl to b~e andl appear before me in my office in the Court H~ouse at Kingstree, in the County of Wil hiamsburg and State aforesaid, on Monday ,the 22nd (lay of April, 1918, at ten (10) a. mi., o'clock on said day, then andl there to show cause, if any you have, why I should not ap~polnt a dlisimterestedl and competent civil and drainage engineer andl . wo resident free-holdlers in the County or Coun ties in which saidl landjs are located as, the board of viewers to examine the lands describedl in the petition and to make a preliminary report thereon, and further then and there to show cause, if any you have, why the area embraced within said proposed Kings tree Swamp Drainage District as de.. scribed in said petit Ion should not be and become a drainage district under the provisions of law In relation thereto and drained and Improved as is contemplated by the law and taxed and assessed therefor thereunder. I In' Witness Whereof I have here unto set my hand and the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas for Williams burg County at Kingstree this 18th day of March, 1918. H .0. BRITTAN~ P Clerk of the Court of Comnidn .Pleas for Williamsbung County