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"Chpt. Uimwh" Again. Iw Dm Advocate: Greenville. Aug. 8? stranger came in to Greenville last night,, which in itself Is a daily occurence,! hat this stranger caused much cornMeat. His face was wan though refined and he wore his hair long over, his neck and shoulders. Little groups of men gathered about him at the fire department on j McBee avenue and this is the story he tells: He is H. M. Laurene, born' in Monroe county, Mississippi, September 28, 1870. His mother was Miss Sarah E. Pope, of Laurens, S. C., a second cousin of Postmaster Pope, of this city. His father was a French man. uapi. uavia Laurene, aia 10 the French ambassador at Washington, in 1859, and fought with the south throughout the War of the Sections. Oapt. David Laurene married in 1868 and returned to France with his wife and son in 1876. His son?the Greenville visitor?was educated at Christ college. Cambridge and Brein, France, graduating from the latter place as civil enginee^. In 1890 he went with the French army to the French Congo country in Central West Africa. There he met and married Miss Lois Hilton, born in Columbus. Ga., but whose father, Labarre Hilton, was of an adventurous spirit, and went as a prospector to the French Congo. A baby girl was born to the cou pie. The young husband was ordered to Join the forces sent to put down the uprising of the Kurd in Asiatic Turkey by the French government. In a fight, during which many were killed, he was taken a prisoner by Murad Achmet Bey, a Turkish tribesman and thrown into prison at Ambole. Turkey. Here Laurene was subjected to the most inhuman treatment, being forced to work?stemming tobacco, shearing sheep, emptying slops, etc., twelve and fourteen hours a day, and for seven days in the week. Half of his sleeping hours were spent in a dungeon with a piece of sheep hide as his mattress. In this place ho was kept for eighteen years during which time he learned the Turkish language and the different dialects of Arabian tribesmen On Decomber 3, 1915, Captaii: Laurene was releused by order oi Gen. P. Lenair. The prisoner hac forgotten how to speak English bul when he heard it spoken, word bj word it came back to his memory He had loft his wife and child at oauziH, uttuiarun, Ainca. upon mc release he found Bhe had remained at that place for sixteen years and then left for America, landing at Baltimore September 7, 191. He has spent nearly 16,000 in the search for his wife and daughter and besides has received" fully $16,000 worth of sympathetic advertising. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and with the very highest letters of recommendation. His daughter, if alive, is now twenty years old, and his wife thirty-eight. Have you seen them? The above is from the Charleston American of Aug. 10. In this, Capt. Laurene changes his statements in some details from those given here. He told the editor of the Advocate here that his father was H. M. Laurene, Sr. Instead of leaving his wife and baby in France, he now leaves them in Africa. He sticks to the statement, however, that his mother was Miss Sarah E. Pope, of Laurens, who, he said here, was a neice of the late Chief Justice Y. J. Pope. On this question, the follow lag letters are of interest: Laurens, South Carolina, Apr. 10, 1918. Mr. R. L. Freeman, Bennettsville, S. C. My dear Mr. Freeman:?I have your favor of the 4th enclosing a clipping from a recent issue of the Advocate in reference to Capt. Laurene, who claims that his father married Sara E. Pope of Laurens, S. C. about 1860. 1 have made inquiry of the older citizens here and they have no recollection of any such marriage nor do they remember anything c* Mise Pope having lived in Laurens. 1 would suggest that you communicate with Mr J. F. Caldwell of Newberry, who can give you more information about the Popes than any one I know who is now living. With personal regards and bcsl wishes, 1 am, Very truly yours, R. A. Cooper. R. A. C. (W.) Newberry, S. C., May 10th, 1918 Dear Sir:?I received yesterday afternoon, on my return home, after several days absence, your letter ol 4th instant. I felt pretty sure that there has not been a Miss Sarah E. Pope in Laurens county within the last sixty years or longer. But I have consulted Mrs. Paul H. Anderson (nee Sarah Strother Pope), niece of the late Chief Justice Pope and daughter of the late Dr. Sampson P??pe; and she agrees with me. So we think "Capt. H. M. Laurene" must have had for a mother some one other than Miss Sarah E. Pope, of Laurens. But in order to do the claimant all the justice In my power, I am about to write to Dr. D. S. Pope, of Columbia, brother of chief Justice Pope, concerning the matter; and I shall request him to write you his Knowledge or opinion of the matter. Fraternally yorus, J. F. J. CALDWELL, Mr. R. L. Freeman, Bennettsville, S. C. We have not heard from Dr. Pope. We ktv* other reliable information that Capt. Laurene has been Investigated by the United States department of Justice, oa the suspicion that Cspt. Laurene was a German spy. The department found thai his real name is not Laurene and that he has never been to France or Turkey. His story is made up from his own imagination. Since, however, he is not doing anything | against the government, he is not moles ed. u From a Co-Worker In the House. As erery man who works conscientiously for his constituents should not I be ashamed to give an account of his s to war ship, and in view of the fact that m ny people in the county have not ha? an opportunity to know how I have worked for their interests in the gei eral assembly, the following letter a hich came voluntarily from 'a co-wo-ker in the House is published for tie information of the public: theater, S. C., June 7, 1918 Hon. Janes W. Hamer, Lit le Rock, S. C.. Dear Hamer: ? I receded your letter several days ago and have been intending to answer moe promptly but a numbei of things have come up to interrupt me. I do not know when I have had anything to give me more pleasure than resting your letter. j^hile s member <f the House it was certainly my sole ibject and desire to repre] sent my people to the best of m> j ability. I therefore prize most highly what you have been kind enough tc say abou me and about my work down theie. Like yourself I feel thai the past too years in the House hat been work a great deal to me and i that I hare made friends whom ] shall r.ev<r forget. I have been giving quite a good deal of tlought here of late to the i question tf returning to the House i j for another two years. I really en?! joyed being there bo much and as ilsociating rith you and other of mj i friends thit from a question of peri sonal desie I wanted very much tc I return. I aso wanted to go back ar.<] continue sane of the work which yon . and 1 had started. On the othei l hand I hac to face the certainty oi T being out o my office and away froir I my persona business for forty days I during the very busiest time of the r year. Herebfore 1 could leave the . office in chtrge of my brother whe t is in partnership with me. Now i however, he is trying to get into the L army in soue capacity and will ir L all probabiliy not be here next Jan; uary. Consequently I have had tc i: definitely mike up my mind not tc !offer for reelection. I am verj I glad, indeed, to learn from your letiter that you ire thinking of offering for re-election I do not know of an} member of tie House who worked harder than y>u did during the last two years in tie interest of the tax payers of the State and whenevei any question of spending money recklessly would cune up I always felt I that there were at least two of ue I there to fight it. Especially will 1 (never forget hov hard we worked together on the btl to abolish the tax commission. You had the bill drawn and the rest of U; signed it for introduction, but 1 ha e always felt that ! you were due the credit Wesucceeded 'so well in the Hcuse that it has airways been a regnt to me that the Senate could not ta "brought arose." While I regret exceedingly that mi personal affairs ke?p me from runJning for re-electioi I am certainly 'glad to know that :ou intended tc * to go back to the Legislature. 1 I have not the slighter doubt but thai | the people of your ounty will send jyou beck because ! kiow of no mem' ber who has a better rtcord. it maket | me feel good to know that you stand j ready and willing to %o back anc | keep up the fight whici we meinben I started for lower taxes. I trust thai sometimes in the near luture condl . tions will make it possible for us t< . meet in the Legislature again. B< {that it may I feel that . can carrj |' always the most pleasant r*collecttoni ( of our friendship and association to gether. If you are ever tp in tbii / part of the country be sur t? look m< '1 up. ' | With kindest personal regards fo , yourself and family, I am. Yours most trul/, J. M. HEMPHILL. rO NOTICE. The Act of 1017 requires ever; person to secure a new rcgistratioi J certificate and no person will be ul ' lowed to vote in the general electioi wunout such certificate, even thougl ; they are otherwise qualified. Tb< Act provides further that for thi ! purpose of such enrollment and reg istration the supervisors shall keej the books of registration open at th< county seat every day between th< tiours of 9 a. m. and 6 p. in, durinj th* months of July and August 1918 and in addition thereto they shall at tend during the month of Septeinbei 1018 at least one day in each town ship for the purpose of registering such persons as are entitled to regis tratiou. Therefore, pursuant to the provis ions of said Act notice is given that the board will visit the following places on the dates named: Fork Sept. 2; Latta, Sept. 3; Little Rock Sept. 4; Hamer, Sept. 5; Lake View Sept, 6; Dillon, Sept. 30. F. M. PAGE, E. A. BETHEA, j H. McRAE, 8-22-2t Commissioners. to dM M Mini af Vm. | Tha niatoka of Bngland at Um be'sloaiii of the war and of tk|p country lever sinoe hag been the failure to i comprehend the magnitude of the BtruRle. Lord Kitchener told Bngjland that it would be a three year wur, and later on he was quoted as saying that it would last five years but England did not believe either I prediction. Shortly after the begin! jiug of the war, using the Civil war in /this country as an illustration, the i Manufacturers Record took the {ground that the war would certainly last throe to four years. We cannot see any reason for believing that 1 i it will not last lust as long again, un less the United States backs down 1; and accepts peace terms which would I | practically mean a German victory. Germany can continue the tight for ': some years to come, bo far as all the 11 facta which we can gather indicate, 'Iand this is the view of German ofj ficers. A correspondent of the New York 'Herald, reporting an interview with three German officers who were reicently captured, quotes them as say|ing "a great surprise is in store for the Americans pretty soon," and to this they added: "Hindenburg is going to win this summer, probably, but if he doesn't ' he will next year, and if not then the inext year, and in ten years if he has | to fight that long." "Will the people of Germany stand the war so long as that?" j "The German people want to win j the war and they know they will, America, or no America." | Two officers were bing questioned by American intelligence officers :when one of the Americans, in a per. fectlv oolite ?tv. said: | "You know, don't you, that the ' Americans are fighting a political ' war?that they are fighting the Ger5 man governu?cnt, not the German peo"ple?" , j The three officers jumped to their ' feet like automatons, and in unison ' said: "Das ist eins." (They are one.") '[ These officers were not boasting I merely, und we have no doubt were expressing what they and the army ' and most of the people in Germany ' absolutely believe. 1! Considering the situation in Russia ' and the tremendous danger through - our long and unjustified delay in '.urging Japan to enter that country, there is a possibility that within the ' next 12 months Germany will by its 1. domination of Russia und the enor' j moui man power of that country be'. come very much stronger than it was ' at the beginning of the war, four years ago. The situation is one of 'jtremendous Import and of a danger |. beyond estimate. I With Germany in control of RusII sia's vast population and its bound ; less resources, the world's civilisation would be in greater danger than ,at any hour since Germany invaded 'j Belgium. To ignore this danger ' | would cause us to live in a fool's ''paradise, as we did for the first two (or three years of the war. I it is good to see secretary Baker, : even at this late hour, waking up to 1 the need of an army of 6,000,000 men ': but Mr. Baker must broaden his vision and double the size of the army needed if we are to prevent this war dragging on through the 10 years in | which the Oerman officers said Ger1 many would continue to make war. r! The meaning of this situation is an enormous increase in the production of iron and steel and ships and traus' portatlon and foodstuffs, j Against this the cry is raised of a ' labor shortage. It is true that there is a scarcity of labor. This is partly due to the unwise exaggerated prices ' paid for labor without compelling laJ bor to give an adequate return. Nc one would begrudge him wages if 9 those who get these wages would work with the tireless energy and the honesty of purpose of the men in the i trenches. ' Many laboring men are proving ' themselves slackers by loafing much 5 of the time, or at least not driving their work with enthusiastic and tire9 less energy. The potentiality of labor e is equal to our needs, but it cannot under present conditions be fully der | veloped. We should look, therefore, 1 to China and to Japan for more la borers to help to produce the enlarged food supply needed and to increase the entire output of the country. It would be a fatal blunder not to recognize the seriousness of the task y ahead of us and to plan for an enorI nious increase in the production ol munitions of war, in the creation ol aian army of 10,000,000 fighting men x and in the expansion of iron and steel e?and steel making commensurate with vn?tnoua of ft I vu? V4 HIV *nui IV a v aiidUItf. _ j Le us not for one moment anticipate any early ending of the war. BlThe fight is still a long and desperate ' and bloody one, and we must steel T;our hearts to the task. It is not a question of our willingl ! ness to do so, but merely a question rjof our doing it or else being destroy_ I ed. ? o Par Sanitary Bakers. A waxed paper baring r?oard, a sheet t of which can be discarded when soiled and Immediately replaced with anoth, er tinder It, and also a waxed paper rolling pin, with a cardboard core, so that the covering mdy be thrown away In the Interest of sanitary baking have been invented by a Connecticut woman. Subscribe to The Dillon Herald. em?a?ma??? who wM<li>'?f?<li?>Btefcard IL. and dM and was Med la Italy. Thomas Mowbry, got (Mn Bfcata epeare oaa at ths finest epitaphs ta literature aad Una became a person age of great later eat to hie deeceodante," obesrroa a writer la Leadoa Tit-Bite. Two and a half centuries later the 0x110*0 bones were claimed by bla family from the authorities of Venice, and brought to England, but the tombstone was left behind, and only a few years ago was discovered doing doty at a paving atone 1 Dm Mtafes Tint Dm Nat Affect fee DM Hi of of Its (oak udbntht HNct, LAXAriVK UOMO OUUIIHC U batter than onUaaiy Jainlac ud don aot caw mm*?on> bo; srstiwswmeskfrs: n Food MTmfi of nullum* o ment to send enormous food *1 Out* savings in cereals out of skipped to Europe. We increi America's "box from home" b Allied nations. | TE inru a I ii l u | Frida X On Friday Augt ; X Demonstration % Company's | Titan X Demonstr f : % ! X Oomnncfr/ift i ] ^ w?i tvif v*n I i4. ; | Come and si % in plowing, t | Palmett | DILLG - " ty osed is a Mnthm, the process for lis <w<if snoot istlBf been perfects* sithti fee lut half century. Tbla *snr produces brand highly pleasing to (to ays fa* palate, as Compared with tbs cosrsa brown bread of our ancestors, bat there is a growing tendency on tbe part of dietetic students and physicians to denounce white bread as das Iran tire of health and rigor.. "I should prefer to be deft be elected by them." That la the statement made fron paign by OCTAVUS COHEN, the Al Governor. Mr. Cohen is an Attorney and Monde's Corner. IOX FROM H< Draws by Our f Americans during our first n lipments abroad for our fightm a short crop?amounted to 184,fl ased our meat and fat shipment > our army abroad and the chri LACTC NSTRJ y August ist 23rd, we wiii with the Interna S 10-20 Kei Tractor ation will be in edj Ion Will Begin i and Will Last le what our Tn harrowing and vw 1 ;o narcro W, - - .TL iff w*T!jTtfT ^j| lis It yoo <otf w?ll? Y?, It ?t b? ?W- . ;|SB i \^H nted hv BImm vntM than in ! 'S a the VERT BEGINNING of the caaa- T ^ iti-Blease candidate for Lieutenant- ? -at-Law, with offices at Charlaaton ^ OME ~ . | : J Wia>wn. WUlitma, Division of Plotorlal Publicity. 1 v iur of war enabled this fovea ; f forces and the Allied nations, j <$ >00,000 bushels; all of which was / ? 844,600,000 pounds. This was | <5 liann and military Areas of the i ^ ?" 1 )R | ! i m v A ir t u iun I i 123rd | < give a Plowing ? ' tional Harvester 5 ( rosene | ! ge of town. x < at 10 o'clock, i | Ait n y 1 ictor will do I j all belt wor. i -/I. */ :1 fare to. | j ; HHHR ' i