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*$btJHllou sjrralh 4L O. JORDAN Editor 8ubeoription Roto*: $2.00 per year ?r |1.M for six months. Subscriptions for lees than six months will be charged at the rate of 20 cents per MOtk. All'subscriptions are payable ha advance. Advertising rates may be had on awMchtien, end advertisers may feel oouored that through the columns dt thin paper they will reach all Dlllaa county, a part of Eastern Carolina and continguous territory in - Motlh Carolina. The Dillon Herald is published at the County Seat of one of the richdot agricultural counties in the Mote. It Is the official organ of the W>j and goes into 90 per cent of flto homes In the county in which It h published. The office is equipped wttk ma Intertype and modern high peed p^eaaea. Obituary sketches, cards of thanks, aaasasuications espousing the cause aC a private enterprise or a political asindldate and like matter will be flfciitriii at the rate of 8 cents per Mm. Contract advertisers will not ha allowed to exceed their space at amnaa rates or advertise anything foreign to their regular business without extra charge. Advertisements a occupy special place will be chargfor acocrding to position desired. Communications unless they contain Important news, or discuss- politely and properly subjects of real Interest, are not wanted; and If acceptable iu every other way they will be rejected until the real name of the author accompanies the same, mot u -ecssarily for publication, but ma a guarantee of good faltb. % MMAlii TOWNS NO BUSIXUSS DETRIMENT ??? * Ralph Waldo Emerson was credit-1 ed with the famous statement that if you build a mousetrap better than aapone else the world will make a pathway to your door, no matter if you lire in the wilderness. Some people think that is exaggerate*; but it isn't. Anybody with a big idea need not go te New York or Chicago to work it out-?he can make the citizens of the great cities come to his door. Of course, it isn't often done; but ft can be done. Two Illustrations occur to mind. There arc the Mayo brothers in Rochester. Minn. They lived in a err small town and practiced inedietae. But they were better surgeons titan others, and now people from all the cities of the land beat the tracks te their door. f'y* There is ?ut eye sr-icialist in Niles.. Stiftbv %ie gets pffftexts front all over the middle west. There is a music publishing firm < la OstEaloosa, iowa. If there is one' < thing that would appear as needing | i the bright lights of a big city to help j' \ it along it is the music publishing 1 buaiaoss. Yet there is scarcely a, kar ^ nr nrphaatru in iHn an_ i ^ tire United States that does not useM the Oskuloosa music. The appeal is1, nation-wide. Similarly, another j j, otic firm in Dayton, O., has its't tuff sung in a large percentage of a the churches of the country. v If you've got the idea, don't wor- f ry- about the rest. 1 But get the idea?that's more ini- | per taut that carting it ofT to a big town. t 1 1>|j It BOYS I1KNKF1TKI> ! 1 h There isn't the slightest doubt ' that the young men from Dillon county and elsewhere who have been called to the armies ?>i" Uncle Sam i have heen benefited in health amaz-; Ingly. Look at them when mey return a furlough. Isn't it a fact that every one of our lads looks healthier., stronger, and physically more fit than when he left? Most certainly mothers will agree | mat their hoys are being well taken| care of no far as developing health I sad strength are concerned. Good food, medical attention, fresh air and constant exercise have done tfceir work. It is an unfortunate fact that in private life few get eeougti of these health necessities, at least not in the proportion required Tfce army is regenerating the yenag men in it. MXPItHHH SKKVKIK NOW IJAI> With transportation by freight ex-; ivuiely unreliable, many firms arel slapping by express. The result is me express companies are getting to be its fast as freight used to be. Some firms hare shipped machinery by express?running to the thousands of pounds. AM of which may ha. >. aoweihing to do with the increased price of production we hear about. Merchants in Dillon are receiving mora goods by express than ever before. Boxes that formerly came by freight arrive by express. X The price of thrift stamps is constantly advancing. Buy now and get s, the advantage of the cheap rate. I Road construction la called unnec- < ecenrr wdeaa it If to help win the war. Now watch ?very road project being termed an essential to beat the: Kaiser. i r Don't worty about hurting the reelings or a profiteer. If talk ap- j piles to him he won't admit it. | Merely rebuking a disloyal gentle-[ man is like slopping a crook on the] iwelei - II M il PARIS BOMBARDED (1 THROUGHOUT DAY ? r (Continued from page one) ji He also touched on the possibility of' i a propeller being employed on the'] projectile. 11 Alfred Capus. in The Figaro al-'< ludes to the making of the gun as u t great mechanical feet, but points out 1 that, as a military factor, the weapon < is entirely inefficacious. The Petit Parisien comments ur>on the bom- j bardment as an extremely minor in- < cident as compared with the gigantic \ battle in progress on the British j front. The Le Petit Journal says Jules Verne had foreseen this gun and ith declared, moreover, that it la al French Invention. "More than a', year ago," it adds, "we discovered , the secret of firing our cannon more than 100 kilometres. The secret lies ( in the greater suppression of the at-; mospheric resistance. The Echo De Paris declares the i bombardment is designed to give the impression that Paris is within range of the German guns. "It is a political cannon," the newspaper says. 1 Premier Qlemenceau's newspaper, L'Horame Libre, says the password of the hour is confidence. "'Germany," it declared, "had wished to', make it a complete offensive on all ] | ! fronts, as well as the 'front of the' | rear.' We are facing an enemy who , | wishes to end it as soon as possible. | That suits us. Every shell that falls ( I into Par's ir?v\~. !-?*o v. confidence in an ultimate victory." : ( The newspaper Le Journal, in its!article regarding the monster gun,: ^ says the piece of 240 millometres j calibre is of Austrian manufacture.' ( It is a very delicate piece of machin-j, ery which must be handled by expert > mathematicians and gunners, the'j newspaper adds, as the loading and ( pointing is a difficult task. It de- < clares each shot costs about $4,000. | "Thio .. - - ???.o is a new cuuveywon 01 our enemies," the newspaper comments. | The ordnance experts were oot| reauy last night to commit thmselves'a as to whether the shell was a sort of aerial torpedo driven by propellers; whether an inner projectile contained in the original shell is released by ( in explosive after the shell has trav- g sled a certain distance from the gun, ;r whether the original projectile tself reaches its destination propell-idl >d per hops by an explosive of a force iltherto unknown. : In yesterday's bombardment twen- ^ y-four shots in all were fired from' r: 20 a. m. to 3 o'ciock p. m., a shell Iropping every twenty minutes with uonotonous regularity. The bom-! q lardment presented all the charaeeristics of a bombardment by heavy! irtillery, there being regular inter-1 als between the shots and the shells ^ ailing within a restricted area. Ene- ^ ny aviators Hying high over the city luring the early hours of the bomlardment regulated the filing. The government decided that|a ho bombardment of Paris by long, listanco guns shall not interrupt the lormul life of the capital, but that! :he population shall, be warned of, ! he bombardment by distinctive K means, differing from the usual c warning for am air raid. i __o i r LEAI' FOB LIFE FltOM* * Ill'KMNti BALlJlH>\S ^ E Observer* ol the licitish Itoyal Fly- ' ing ( o'ps hewribe Thrilling Episodes Behind the British Lines in France | Feb. 15?Correspondence of the As"!f sociated Press.) ? Leaps for life from' burning observation balloons when ^ attacked by German airplanes were ^ described by observers of the British , royal Hying corps to an Associated | Press correspondent when he visited one of the camps behind the lines aj, few ?lays ago. These camps usually are located , ] just out of range of the howitzer' ^ shells, although still well within the t range of the German high-velocity j naval guns which devote their time to shelling the back areas. A balloon ascent at the front is1 never a light undertaking, and one day recently when the correspondent , visited a station in a fairly inactive! part of the line, six balloons contain-'j ing twelve men were shot down byj German airplanes, all within sight of one another. One of the German i..iF.aucD na? uuwiicu uy anu-airj craft fire from the ground. It was a day when the visibility , was put down on the chart as "good" , but there were many white clouds in the sky which offered good cover for j the German airplanes. I One of the twelve officers who were , I compelled to reach terra firma by the j I parachute route told the story of his, trip. "We were perched at 3,500 , feet," he said, "and had been up only half an hour when a column of smoke two miles southward attract| ed our notice.' 'There goes No. 10,'| said my observer, and we brought >( the balloon had gotdear la time, rust then two similar specks appeared suddenly from under another balo^n, wurning us that the boehe ems >ut for a wholesale^kU|ias this time, [t seemed like a full minute before ire.saw a thin black streak curl ud from this seooad balloon, and the rolume of smoke Increased as the Mdloon sank, with eTer-satherind momentum, down to earth. Six more white specks now appeared and ilnce it was evident that the entire line was beins attacked, I fare the jrder to haul down. "At l.uoo feet I ordered the winch topped. No more bolloone had been tucked, and although onra * was now the only one up. I could see British fighting planqp ascending from the earodromes behind us to chase away the enemy. So I decided to venture up again. We asceiyled to 3,000 feet this time, and soon were at work again. "Then suddenly something happened. It happened swiftly as in a dream. We didn't even see the German albatros approaching, but .our ground office? and his scouts gave us the alarm just a second-or two before the hawk was on us. I heard my observer, at the telephone, say suddenly, "What's that? Stand by! Good Heavens!' Then he turned calmly to me and said with a smile, 'Sorry, old man, we must get out at once.' He helped me over the side first, and I had t confused notion thut somewhere or other, near at hand, a machine gun was baar>ng away briskly. "I dropped, and heard a 'wumph' as the parachute left its case. This wa8 the last sensation I attempted to analyze as I fell like a stone for 3000 feet. 1 saw the balloon shoot violently upwards, and then my view was blotted out by a large white umbrella, which suddenly appeared above my head, and I realized that the parachute had opened. I didn't look down as I felt my body swaying pnsilv in the breeze. The road above rf.<A .... . . A'hrtro" had done its work and ihe balloon was atire. V'ou cannot, of course, manoeuver a parachute, and there is always the possibility of the burning balloon >vertaking you and burning your only ueans of escape. "But before I reached the ground, [ saw, far in front, the .Albatross irashing to earth, minus a wing. She had been hit by a cluster of ani-aircraft shells. "The next thing I knew was that I vas lying in the middle of a ploughd held, while a short distance off I aw my observer coming across to-| vard me." All twelve of the oncers of the wrecked balloons escaped safely on his ccoasion. They are not always o fortunate. At this same station few days before an officer was shot nd killed while dropping in his parbhute. His balloon had been set fire by a German airplane, and as su-.il he and his companion took to leir parachutes. They had hardly ot clear of the balloon when the sticking airplane swooped down on lem, its machine gun in full play, ne of the officers was killed, and Ithougli the other escaped -his parahute was torn by a bullet and sevral of its cords were cut. Few men ave been nearer dewth and lived to )11 the tale. The balloon commander told the Lory of an officer who had gone up lone and whose balloon was shelled rhen flying at 4,000 feet. One these cessions it is dangerous to haul own for the position of the winch } thereby given away to the enemy unners. At last, however, after a loud of sharpnel smoke had appeard almost under the basket and no esponse came down the telephone rire to inquire as to whether every-j hin&, was all right the ground officer ;ave the order to haul down. Ten ninutes later the car touched the rround and the observer was found ying at the bottom of the basket mconscious, but unhurt. It was a >ad case ot shell shock, from which he officer was several months in reovering. A few days ago, at a nearby staion, a balloon suddenly caught fire or no apparent reason. The two ob?ervers tried to escape in their para hutes, but the blazing balloon overlook them and they were killed. Theories as to the caues of the disister were numerous, but the one nost generally accepted was that the palloon had been fired by an electric *park from a thunder cloud. The fact that the wire cable had parted near the balloon was said to give support to this theory. It was the parting of this cable which was generally responsible for the death of the observers, because it made impossible the towing of the burning balloon clear of the parachute. PROUHAM Dillon (bounty Baptist Union Pyerlan Church' March 30-31 I. 10. A. M. Organization. II. Home Missions. 1. The Field, W. C. Foster. 2. Our Obligations, H. A. Willis. 0 III. Sermon, Joel I. Allen. Recess for Dinner Afternoon. Foreign Missions. 1 The Field. J. A. Uanelev. 2. Om Obligations. W. B. Sherwood. Sunday Morning The Sunday School and Missions Sermon, W. B. Sherwood. i _ _ / ? _ nmr ^hi'l!" i u^lisliTrnrT?* hereby sirs* tlat books of sshaertptto* to tho cs?IUl stock of Riverside Cmi torr ftsMiditlaii will bo onnosd at the oBce of Bethso * Moors. 1* Dillon, S. CM at It o'clock noon Friday. March tt, 1911, Tho proposed capital stock of said 'Association la to ov fi.wrtnincM mto so iudm of the par value of 9100 Mch. A. P. BBTHBA. JU R- BEGAN. A. B. JORDAN. 2-29-It. / Corporators. I ! KOTKS OF FINAL DISCHARGE Notl'ee la hereby given that B. A. Moody. J. A. Campbell, and J. D. McIntyro. Executors of the last will and testament o(bJ. H. Moody, deceased, hare this day made application unto me for a final discharge as such executors. and that the 21th day of April. 1918, at my offlce, at ten o<Clock in the forenoon, has been appointed for the bearing of said petition. JOE CABELL DAVIS. , Probate Judge Dillon County. 1 Dillon. 8. C., March 27. 1918. !?3-28-4t. I DON'T RISK NEGLECT j Don't neglest a constant backache , sharp, darting pains or urinary disI orders. The danger of dropsy or. j Bright's disease is too serious to ig| nore. Use Doan's Kidney Pills as I V - - - I nave juur ineuus ana neignoors. A Dillon case. C. E. Peck, gave the following statement December 21, 1914: "My kidneys were out of order and I had dull pains in the small of my back. Pwas so sore and lame I could hardly ! bend and it was just as hard to. I straighten. 1 had headaches and I spells of dizziness. The secretions j passed irregularly and I had other l symptoms of kidney trouble. I read of Doan's Kidney Pills and after us..ig them as directed soon got relief from my trouble. I keep Doan's on hand now and when a kidney thedicine is needed they never fail to give good results." Lasting Benefit On January 29, 1918 Mr. Peck said: "I have had better health the last foui* years than I have ever hitd in my life. I give the credit to Doan's Kidney Pills as they gave me a cure four years ago. I am glad to confirm my statement of 1914." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't i simply ask for a kidney remedy?get | Doa^fs Kidney Pills?the same that ' Mr. Peck had. Foster-Milburn Co.. Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.?3-18-21. 4 PLANT 1 Having contrs Seed Potatoes I s These potato will make no mis I beleive the ] will be good. Come in Dairy Feeds, Hog A limited qu< I offer a g< Syrups in kegs, Canned Goc | Paper and Paper COFFEE: I this line of goods Grocery Line. II appreciate past fa Yours ve M , Stubts ^ 4 r -late. | ' Oxfords , |1 I Fnr Summer I Our shoe stock in summer footwear is up to the m minute for Ladies, Misses, Children. * v ?? Irving Drew's just opened up. Call and look the m line over?it will prove interesting?prices reas- V onable. We have a large line of Pumps and Oxfords for m small girls and boys, something for Everyday and m also for Dress. This is the F^riry Tale Line. * C W. L. DOUGLAS ' i ni ] A c i_ * if IiMioes ana uxioras ior ivien. m. ^ 4 NOTHING BETTER 1 $3.50, $4.00, $4.50, $5.00, $5.50, $6.00 and $7.00 C YOU WILL DO WELL TO COME TO THIS f STORE FOR YOUR FOOTWEAR ? 9 L. Cottingham I DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA 1 ?? I I I II I ???? RISH POTATOES I' acted for two cars of Maine grown till have a limited quantity to offer. Hi es are of the best varieties and you take to put in from one to ten acres, price on potatoes the coming season | and inspect my line of 1 Ill 111 : Feed and Chicken Feed. H antity of Appier Seed Oats . I wm ~\ to offer. H Dod quality of FEED OATS. iffl half barrels and kegs, Fish in >ds, Tobacco, Cigarettes, Wrapping ||| Bags. can give you a close price on H . Call on me for anything in the IHI* ivors and will thank yqu for any business given me II ry truly, I * . A. STUBBS, J Wholesale Grocery 1 ' 11| 1 flip'