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SECOND YEAR OF THE WAR REVIEWED. 4 *? 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 !?*? I I 'l Juil 1'llgC Three I On August 10 Oreat Britain started Iter iiiitloinil reglstor, or wiwim of ?|| men of ftghtlng age. 'I1*!* result showed a vh st reserve of man power. Certain Hcciioim demanded Immediate con scription, but they were hot success fill. Instead the eurl of Derby wua commissioned to start h vast recruit tug campaign. This produced h num ber of clause* of "ut tested men," who bound themselves to cpiiie lido the ranks with their age groups. Hut there were Mtlll hundreds of thousands unreached, and the public began to Nee that It whs discriminating In favor of the "slackers" and the cowtirds. On December 21 I>avld Lloyd (loorge, the minister of munitions an<l greatest man th? wur bus produced In < J real Britain, declared the country faced defeat unless greater effort* were made. A week later h* threat ened to reHign from the cabinet uu JeNN conscription was adopted. Conscription whm fiercely fought, but on January ^ t? bill Introducing It piiHHod Its first reading In the house of commons by h large majority. The bill wan finally signed by Klngdeorge May 2(1. ?. Allies Q?t Tooether. Their defeats finally taught the al lien that i heir efforts must be coor dinated. like their enemies', *lf they were to be effective. A now war council, with ull the allies represented, met In rails December 7 and a kind of International general staff wiim or ganl/.ed. It In known that (Jeneral Jo si-|ih .lolTre. French commnnder in rhlef since the beginning of the war. nixl the hero id' the battle of the Maine, was the presiding genius. The effects of the council were not to be seen for several months, but now they are being realized In full measure. To check a simultaneous allied of fensive. which I hey clearly saw com ing, the Teutons decided on two at tacks of their ovn n. This follows the well-known axiom of Herman mili tary strategy that the best defense Is nil energelie attack. The first of these offensive defen sives' was the attack on the French fortress of Verdun, where the works were subjected to a whirlwind of lire beginning February -1. ? The gains of the first week were great, and Herman critics foretold tb?V. collapse of flie French. Two of (lie defending fort*, Vnux and Douaumont, fell, and impor tant positions were, taken west of the Me use river as well. - Hut Jbffro rallied his men in splen did fashion and sold each yard of ground at an awful cost In Merman bli^od. Step by step the crown prince's men pushed forward, but today they are still more than two miles from the ruined fortress town and the resist ance of the French is as strong as ever. Austrian Drive Checked. The second Teutonic offensive was 1 organized by the Austrians in the j Trentlno. and they struck in the dl- j recti on of Vlcen/.a willi the object j of cutting off the northern end of Italy j from the iiiiiin portion. On May 2<>. ' >is the result of several days' vio lent artillery fire followed by infantry ! ru<tcw. they were able |o announce the capture of !!?!, Q00 Itallana. General Count Cadorua hurried about a hundred thousand men In mo tor cars to the scene, while nmny more arrived on foot or train*. Just when It seemed the Austrian* must reach the lowland* the counter-attacks were ? l?*l i vered. <Mi June ao Koine announced a splen did victory. In blood V lighting the Au*trlans, perhaps weakened by draft* to holster up their Kusalau front, were driven from peak to peak almost to where their lines had Mtood throughout the winter. In March the Itusslaus delivered vast hut futile attacks on the Ger man front at many point*, probably to distract attention from Verdun. The. Germans seemed to have been lulled, into security by these effort*, which t hey probably considered the beat the cxar could do. Rut the ten* of thou *a<i<l* of Muscovite hodlcN IIuIiik the OenuauH' barbed wire were but a pat ter of rain compared with the ntorm that was brewing behind the Russian Unci. At the beginning of June thl* storm broke with full force and, followliiK tin* principle of attacking the weakest point, the AuKtrliuiH holding the line front the marsh district southward were forced to bear the brunt of It. Russia's Big Push. Millions! of shell*, manufactured largely In Brlti.sh, Japanese and American factories, blasted away wire, trenches, dugouts and observation points. Then the hordes of Sibe rians, Cossacks and others swept over the Held. The Austtiaus could not withstand the Impact and they gave way steadily. ' June 0, General Itruslloff announced the capture of 13,000 Austrluns; June H, the number for the three succeed ing days alone was 43,000, and the numbers kept mounting until on July *J0 General Shoovaleff, Russian min ister of war, estimated the number of Austro-Hungarian prisoners at 270, 000. The killed and wounded are un told, hut the number must be large enough to bring the total loss well over half a million. German support was rushed to the Austrluns, hut the foe captured Lutsk and Duhno, and reached the Stokhod and Lipa rivers In Volhynia ; overran all Bukowlna to the Carpathians and sent patrols of Cossacks Into Hungary to rftvuge the country. That -the czar Is anticipating further great gains of territory Is seen from Russia's action in mobilizing the males of the island of Saghalleu, Tur kestan, and one other district to build roads, dig trenches and do other work of organizing the ground won. Allies' Drive in Somme Region. Almost a month to a day following the beginning of the great Russian of fensive French and British opened their drive in the vicinity of the ' Somme river. They have gained grad ually but steadily, and the ofllclal re- i port* assert the losses of the attack ers are comparatively small. If is* also the claim of the allies that the I'Yimeo-British offensive can be kept up at its present rate Indefinite ly. and will not have to he slackened for lack of .shells, guns or men. The rate of progress Is much greater than ALL FORD CARS REDUCED IN PRICE P>eginning August 1st, Ford Cars will bo sold at tlu? following prices: Ford Runabout $345; Ford Touring car $360; F. <). H. Detroit. Plus $29.20 for freight and gas delivered. Your car is delivered the same day you buy it. A complete line of Ford Parts kept in stock. Kershaw Motor Co. Phone 140 Camden, S. C. McLeod & Phillips (Successors to McLeod Grocery) Heavy and Fancy Groceries FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Fresh Country Eggs Always Kept on Hand PROMPT DELIVERY Phone 205-L Camden, S. C. t It** Germans' at Verdun, but thecoun? try traversed It lest OtitlculL On the other hum I. tbe Verdun assailants have the advantage <?f attacking from tin* outside of h curve, while the Fi'i'uch ami British uuw attack from fn*jde the Knftnnr nn*jr?Hm' man# lii the Hue. Meanwhile the Verdun offen ?lve of the Gcnuana continue*. Outside of Europe the Genitalia have lost their Cameroon eolou.v on the went count of Africa, the remaining defend ers having crossed Into Spanish ter ritory and been Interned. Tlie army of ; East Africa still resists the converg ing col uiiiiis of Belgians, French and British but, nhut off from re-enforce menta, Ita doom would seem to he sealed^ On April 2f? Sir l(ogur 4'uaement, Irish knight, tried to laud from a Ger man warship on the coast of Ire land, hut was captured. The next day a revolt In Dublin ami other Irish cities broke out and the center of the Irish capital was burned. The revolt was easily quelled, the British announcing realatance had ceased on May 1. More successful was the revolt of the Arabs, led by (he grand shereflf, against their Turkish overlorda. Mec ca, Medina and others towns have been captured and are held still, probably i Willi British assistance. Doings in the Air. Recent months have aeeu a cessa tion of Zeppelin raids on undefended British and French towns. The cause of this Is somewhat of a mystery, as the Germans have claimed Important military results from their attacks. On September 7-8 there were two ralda on London, thirty peraons being killed and a proportionate number wounded. Fifty-live were killed by Zeppelins In a raid on London October 18. On January 20 the German dirigibles bombarded Paris, killing 23 and on February 1 Liverpool and other Eng lish centers were' visited and 59 slain. ? On April 2 a Zeppelin killed 28 In England and was destroyed on the Hrltlsh coast as It returned. Ou March B 13 were killed. On April (I It was announced that (he fifth Zeppelin raid In six days on the Hrltlsh. coast had been made. The j Germans declared that war munition factories and supply depots had been j destroyed. Since then England apparently has | been Immune from the Zeppelins. This j may be due to the large number of [ dirigibles lost, or to the outcry against ! (he Inhumanity of the practices of the I Germans which was raised In neutral countries. . One other Important moral defeat was sustained by the Germans when l hey hurried Edith Cavell, a British nurse, to execution, as announced by Brand Whltlock. American minister of Belgium, on October 22. The greatest naval engagement of history in number of men engaged and number slahi was fought June 3 near ilie Skaggerrak, in the North sea. The result was inconclusive, each side claiming a great victory and the re ports varying widely In estimates of losses on the two sides. If the Germans, as they assert, serl- I ously crippled the British grand fleet, we will probably soon see them come out of Kiel again, to finish their task. At present, however, the British block ade is broken only by the merchant submarine I tcutschlaml. which reached Bait i more .J uly 1). Kaiser Yields to America. The year has also tin* culmi nation of (In* submarine dispute be tween the I'nilcd Sillies Mini Germany, which termlnale.il in the kaiser's capit ulating ii n < 1 promising to warn iner eluiiil men before attacking. A l"-bout sank the liner Aral?ie Au gust lit), two Americans h??inu among i lie ?lain. Two more of our nationals died when the Hesperian was torpe doed September 0. On November 10 several Anierieans died In the torpe doing of the Italian liner Anemia. It is thought two Americans were lost iu the sinking of the Persia in the Medi terranean January 2. The crisis was precipitated March 'JO. wlien the Brit ish channel ferry .steamer Sussex was torpedoed without warning. TVo hun dred and thirty-five prisons were killed and several Americans were in jured. This flagrant violation of the rules of war caused President Wilson to press Germany for sweeping assur ipces. which were given In a note May ? ? on condition that the I'nited states force Great Britain to conduct her blockade legally. Mr. Wilson an swi-reil he would accept t h promise, hut without the proviso. The many times heralded Tui . o-Ger miin invasion of Kgypt has not \et ma Jei ialiy.ed and probably never ?()nf the other hand, the Itusslah ^rantl duke has added to his laurels hy cap turing the Important inland city of llr/erum February 17, Hitlis March 4 and the seaport of Trehi/ond April 19. The Turks In counter-attacks pressed back the Russians in Persia, hut. recently the czar's men have ad vanced rapidly In the northern part of Asia Minor and the resistance of the Turks seems to have been broken. Exploits of the Moewe. < ?nly oue German commerce raider n< l n submarine distinguished Itself in the year. The fast Moewe sank many allied ships off the coast of Africa ami reached a home port In safety March 6. On February 2 a Ger | man prize crew brought Ihe Appani, a British capture. Into Hampton Roads,, having come all the way across the At lantic with her. The ownership of this vessel Is still In tfye American courts. Two more natlonfe have been drawn Into the war. The entrance of Bul garia has been described. On March 10 Germany declared war on Portugal. Portuguese i?nd German tn>ops had 1 - 1 1 1 J ? ? clashed In Africa some time before and Portugal hud Just ?eUed the tier man ships In her harbor*. The *o tlort* of the republic were Induced by a treaty according to which ?he proiu He* tP xc?Uh? -to tiritiit Jttrltulu'ii ??udei a nee whenever requested to do so. The Brit I ah lost the equivalent of aeveral army corp* when Lord Kltch? ener wa* drowned June 7 In the sink liu' of the cruiser Hampshire by ? whMe <>n III* wav to I(u**ia. CHKSIKK I ADV K(|JW \lls>, Kale l(oNl>oreUKh Meet* Sudden Heath In Atlanta. t 'I ??*?+!?? r, A UK- I'J- ? The body of Mtw Kale Koshorough. who wiih killed lit Atlanta last night by an automobile, arrived In Chester tonight and will be hurled at Hvcrgreen cemetery tomor row after funeral services at St. Murk's episcopal .church. 1 1 'has been dltllcult to learn t he full details of the tragedy. It HW'tiw that Miss Koshorough was visiting her lirotlier. ami un she ' endeavored t ?? cross a stn?et in Atlanta, she passed iichiml an automobile safely ami be fore she knew It was struck by an automobile which she did not sec rout ing. She was 'hurt at p o'clock ami died at midnight. She was one of Ches ter's most popular young women. I*\?r ?ioun' time she iiail conducted a uioun tiiln school at Kdgmoul. N. ('.. for the llpisittpal church ami her splendid work there is a matter of everlasting record. She Is survived by her moth er. Mrs. W. II. Koshorough ; a brother in Atlanta and another brother. John Koshorough of Clcmsoti College. Ilogs Simplify Labor Problem. Clemsou College, S. C.. Aug. 15.?* Labor Is the most costly thing that tluvjSouth Carolina farmer lias to buy, so the less labor he has to use In bar* vestoiug Ids crops, the better off he will be. A splendid labor saving plan is to let the hogs harvest that part of the corn crop that would he fed to them, rather than for the farmer to harvest the corn and haul It to the li.'gs. Fields should he enclosed and the hogs turned on the corn just when the grain begins to glaze. The hogs soon learn to break down the stalks in order to get to the ears. Very lit tle of the grain Is lost, and the stalks arc trampled up enough to make them easily handled when the Held is plow (?. the next year: and. a large amount of organic matter is left on the land. iVshies saving the farmer the labor of hanvvMng ami hauling the corn, the l.oirs ac, ay fertilizer factory and man ure spreader. This plan is used ex tensively in some parts of the United Mates, and there Is no reason why it >hou!d not be used here. Win not i r\ it this fall. The State Hoard of Health has Is sued an order forbidding a child under H'? years of age to travel on trains in South Carolina without a health cert liicate. This Is a prenrnthuiafy measure to prevent the spread of in fantile paralysis. Believed Them True Stories. When Haute published his "Infe/no' the simplicity of the age accepted it as a true narrative of hi< descent into hell. When the 1 I topia" of Sir Thomas More w js nr-t published il o< isii tied a ple.isant mistake. This political ro inai '.e represents' n perfect but vision ary re, nubl!'- in >iu island supposed to have been newly discovered in Amer ica. "As this was the a "e of discov ery." - ( ; ranger, "the learned Hu dncus and other* i ? ?? ?k it for a genuine history and < 'ti v 'dered If a> highly ex pedient that ? is-iouaries should be sent thither in order to convert so wise a mi t Ion to < 'hrist ianity." It was a long while after publication that main readers were convinced that (Julli vet's travels were fictitious. Long People Are Seldom Fat. Sonic persons are born with a nor mal tendency to become fat, others with a tendency to leanness. It Is the same anions the lower animals. The hog i* ? Nort of machine for transform ing the odds and ends of food Into fat, but the farmer knows beforehand that n little pig with lone: legs and snout will work nfl' die fat as fast as It can be made. s<> a long legged person sel dotn Incline^ i>? obesity. Elephant Trumpeting!. An elepham rushing upon nil small ant trumpets shrilly with fury. I 'ear Is similarly expressed in a shrill brassy sound <ir |>y a mar from the lungs, plea sure by a <-i>iitlnued low squeaking through the trunk or an almost Inaudi ble purring >otind from the throat. VHIKTVjSKVKNTI! ANM'AL MOl N |AIN F\C I 'KSION via SOI TH KRN RAILWAY, Wednesday, At (it ST 23rd. 191(5. Kxtremely low and attraetne round trip e:;eursion fares from Caiiiden. S. O.. to Ahy villi*. N. < $7. "hi Atlantic ( 'it > . N. J. Hrevard. N. ('. ... 7.7"? Flat Kin k. N. <\ ?{..V, (ireenvllle. S. < . o.fk'i Ilendersonvlfle. N <\ (Ui." Hot Springs. N. <\ x.7"t I,ake Toxoway. N. < S.7.1 Saluda. N. (5.4." Try on. N. <*. 0.4," Walhalla. S. ('. r?.9n Waynesvllle. N. . n.00 Washington. 1 ?. ('. , 10.25 Propotlonately redufa?d fa res In ef fect to various other rbsortx in North Osrollua. South Carolina. Tennessee and Virginia.. Tickets will Ih* sold *>r all traiiis Wednesday. August i^'.nL. with tlnal limit to rearh original starting i>oint prior to midnight of Sep^emlnT Kth, 1?1? Similar fares in ?>fTi"?-t w<?ni other points. \ For further information and tU-kets call on L. W Manheim. ageiar. Cam-; den. S. C. John M. Villepigue & Co. , i. ? ??"' r* ' " ' . " COAL and WOOD CAMDEN, ----- SOUTH CAROLINA Heckles* DriviiiR. On Sunday m f lei'Ut m hi will It* Mr. J. F.. Campbell and wife and little boy nitc returnliur from Camden they were run Into li.v an automobile, occupied by (?ih' white* man and two negroes. Tlir occupants seemed not to realize tin1 tact that anyone wan in Pile road ahead of them. The road conditions would not |>eru?lt a vehicle in giving any road at this place. hut had they slowed up until Mr. (Campbell could have gone ahou.t thirty feet further, he could have given all the road neees ?sary. It appears that some jieople while driving a ear think that Wie en tire road and acres on hot h sides l?e long to them and that under no circuit) s to i tees must a vehicle detain a car one minute. Hut just so long as no one will resent tills practice of reck less diivng. those in the cars will ex pect the vehicles to take to the woods for them to pass hy. A man in a bug gv has as much road rights as the owner of a car. We have no prejudice against automobiles, but Phe reckless way in which some drivers handle them they should be put on the public roads handling shovels Instead of driv ing ears over them eudaugertng the lives of innocent women and children. Oor. Notes From liethune. r.ethunc. S. ('.. Aug. 10. ? The farm el's ..I' |'h is section are now busy pull Hiu what little fodder the storm left tlfPm. and cotton, is beginning to open. Cotton picking this year will not ex tend on into, the winter for farmers have not made it to pick. Children's day was observed last Sat n ri I ii \~ nt Snmlv (li'm e iuuJ ? ? a-t tcuded by a la rye crowd. Kverythng went oft" nice as is usually the case. A la rye crowd from this section at tended the campaign at llethuue last Monday. Miss Mace\ Howers. of Heatii Spring has been visiting friends in this sec tion during the past several weeks, but has returned home. ^ The writer witnessed an interesting game of ha set ml I Monday afternoon be tween Haley's Mill and Little Creek on the Met h line dlaniond. Haley's Mill was victorious by a score "of 4 to H. I'.oth teaiiiN presented a mixed line up. Orphan's Work Day. For several years past the last Sat nrday in September lias by many of our citizens been observed as Orphan's Work I>ay. The idea is to yei men ai d women. i?oys and girls, to ilevcte file earning or tl:e income of the day to the support of some orphanage. We understand that all institutions invite co-operation in this plan and that Sat urday. September .'toth is the day agreed upon. Notes From IMsg&h. _ .. I ItcmlKM't. S, Auu. 14.~Tl*d have ceased to come at last and ^ ers are eultlvatiiiK their cottony hut it is small ami yellow and will] be very productive. All fortUwii^ ready to harvest This ban Uvb year <?n every grow In# art Me, | the little chickens were a falbir*, | the peach crop was a fallufriij MCCtloll. Revival nervlces are lit prof Plsgah church, Hev. Itotvnlnli slsted hy Mr. l'hUII|?s, t?f |>aU. The revival meeting . at Creek closed Friday night, f Mr. _ certainly did a great work and hei Mrs. tJreen are welcomed hack lit (Mir section. 1 Mr. David (Jillls ami wife wmU recently on thMr return from Pij ?deuce, where they had l>eeii vtsifl Mrs. hurry Smith. Miss Kate Turner and Mta El Rush, of Stockton, are vlsltlug 1 aunt, Mrs. Larry Smith, of ProridS Mr. and Mrs. J. E. (iillls wml 1 tors Monday at the lfhme of Mn^ij I ves. " 1 -A Miss Kate Hampton. ,?ister of era l Wade Hampton, died in Coin* yesterday. aged 02 years. J 'CD 0 Seed ? just issued, tells all i Crimson Clover, \ Alfalfa and all Crass and Clover Seeds for Fall Planting. M Wood's Fall Seed Catalog ?lio gives full and complete Infor mation about Vegetable Seeds that can be planted to advanwj and profit in the late Summtrw] Fall. It is altogether the mostae ful and valuable Fall Sfeed Ctbkf issued. Mailed free to Gardeners, Growers and Farmers on request Write for It. T.W.WOOD 6 SONS SEEDSKEN, - Richmond, Vi. Vacation .. ' WW I ? T ime Mountain and Seashore Excursion ? VIA SEABOARD AIR LlNEj "The Progressive Railway of The South-~; Wednesday, Aug#* 23, 1.9li Final Limit Returning Mid-night Sept. 8, 1916 J Atlantic City, N. J. - - $15.25 Baltimore, Md. - - $12.25 Norfolk, Va. - - $8.25 Washington, DSC. - - $10.25 Richmond, V*. r - $8-25 v ' Wilmington, N. C. - - j Above fares will apply from. CAMDB5N. S. 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