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CAUGHT IN ZONE OF FIGIil EXPERIENCES OF COXFEDERATI OFFICER'S WIDOW. A^ter Varied Adventures Mrs. Keit and Daughter Return to South Carolina Home. A trip by steamer through the low er portion of the North Sea. with th< knowledge that mines had been sowi in that territory, and not knowinj whether the ship would be blown uj or not: having a cannon ball fire< across the bow of the ship and thei another to force the stopping of tin , ship for examination, were anion; the incidents experienced by Mrs Laurence M. Keitt and her daughter Miss Anna Keitt, of St. Matthews, 01 *>>air return from GprmanV. wheri they were when the great war brok< out. Mrs. Keitt, who is the widov of the late Col. Laurence M. Keitt. i gallant fighter in the war betweei the States, is not unaccustomed t< some of the fortunes of war, bu these and other incidents which oc curred while she and her daughtei were near the fighting in Europe tak< precedence, she says, over other ex periences. Mrs. Keitt arrived in St. Matthew; about ten days ago from New York where she landed from the Holland American liner, the New Amsterdam on which she and her daughter em barked at Rotterdam, Holland, ter days before arriving at New York The steamer was piloted from Rotterdam through the Strait of Dover anc the English Channel by a Britisl cruiser, and another British cruisei followed to render assistance in cast the steamer struck a mine or met with an accident. Later, when th< New Amsterdam was rounding the southern part of England, a cannor ball sped across the bow and was very soon followed by another, aftei which the commander was quick ir bringing the ship to a stop. A British warship approached immediatelj and after satisfactory examination in which it was found that the ship was a neutral, she was allowed tc proceed and for ten days she made her way across the Atlantic through rough and stormy weather, finally docking at New York to the great satisfaction of Mrs. and Miss Keitt who already had experienced unusual conditions in the war zone. Spend Summers in Europe. Mrs. Keitt and Miss Anna Keitt are regular visitors to Europe, having spent eight summers there, the greater portion of which was spent at Wiesbaden. Germany, and the> were at that place when the war commenced. They left for America during the last week in May and arrived in Wiesbaden the next week, anc about the 2nd of August were making preparations to go to Lucerne Switzerland, but the great Europear conflagration commenced without warning and all aliens were giver six hours to pack up and leave. Having arranged their luggage, a landau was engaged and a start was mad? for Homburg, a watering place fifteen miles east of Wiesbaden. Eighl times they were halted by military police and passports were demanded Along with these folks was a beautiful young married lady who hac come to Wiesbaden from Paris tc spend a few days and had made theii acquaintance. Everything being peaceful at the time, she had onl> enough money to last several days after which her husband was to joir her in Wiesbaden, before returning to Paris. When the war commenced overnight, as it were, all communication with other sections was severed and this young lady was placec in a serious predicament. Tearfulh she explained her situation to Mrs Keitt, who insisted that she joir them. Upon being stopped for the firsl time by the military police, passport: were demanded, and they immediate realized they had none: not to b( outwitted, however, Mrs. Keitt gav< an exhibition of her resourcefulness and produced a paper of identfic-atior issued in 1907 to her and her daugh ter by the then governor of Soutl Carolina, the Hon. D. C. Heyward when they left this State on a journe: to Egypt. Closely the police inspect ed it and finally handed it back wit) the admonition to proceed. This op eration was repeated successfully si: times, but when the next stop w& made the matter assumed seriou: proportions, for these people ha< realized that the previous examiner were unable to read English and ha? evidently attached more important to the imposing seal on the pape: than anything else, but when for th< eighth time passports were demand ed and the fictitious passport wa presented, the police took the pape and informed the sojourners that tin officers desired to investigate it. am they disappeared in a building wher evidently Irish military anthoritie were quartered, there was some un easiness but there was an extreme!, agreeable suprise when the solum returned and politely banded the pa per back with a smile and motionci that everything was all right. Suspected of Being Spies. M By the time the soldier had returnL ! ed from headquarters a large excited j crowd had gathered and when Mrs. ^ Keitt inquired of some one of the meaning of it she was informed that they (.Mrs. Keitt's party) had been * suspected of being Russian spies and the crowd was anxious to note the outcome of the investigation. Simultaneously a shudder and a sigh of " relief overspread their beings arid 5! they proceeded with a feeling of hav1; ing narrowly escaped a situation that 31 might liave endea senousiy ior P: them. * j Very soon they nrrived at Hom* I berg and lodged at the leading hotel. -1 with the proprietors of which ar'; rangenients had been made by the * proprietor of the Hotel Rose, of Wies> baden, to care for his guests during 1 the unusual period. They" spent a s few weeks there pleasantly and re2 turned to Wiesbaden after the Ger ' man troops had gone beyond that 1 point and were in France. The hus1 hand of the yound lady, in order to 5 join her, was compelled to take a 1 circuitous route, going from Paris 1? ?^ on/1 thrnutrh UUUUglJ omuciiauu auu . WUC>U r varia, and that was a happy union i when these two folks met. The troops of the kaiser being in France there was no immediate dan3 ger, so Mrs. and Miss Keitt, having, ? as is their custom, purchased a re" turn ticket to America, waited for the arrival of the New Amsterdam at " Holland, the ship on which they had 1 obtained passage. One *of the most depressing sights noted, said Mrs. Keitt, was the great ' numbers of dead and seriously wound1 ed soldiers on the railway platforms, in the trains and all around. It was i certainly pathetic, she said, to see the ^ German youths between the ages of i 17 and 20 years, of which there were i thousands upon thousands, on their 1 way to the front, not knowing whith5 er they were bound, but going in obedience to commands, and a more 1 pathetic sight could hardly be wit" nessed than that of seeing these r young men. mere boys, returning from the fight with bullets in their ) bodies, battered and torn. Faithful to the Kaiser. ' One of the most impressive and rer markable things noted by Mrs. Keitt . was the wonderful manner in which 1 German soldiers and civilians follow' ed the admonition of the kaiser to maintain secrecy. The soldiers going to the front, outside of knowing they , were to fight, were unaware of their [ destination. Civilians scarcely spoke , of conditions. This awe-inspiring comparative silence and the impossibility of communication with the outside world caused many to be affected with nervous prostration. These IJ folks, however, being accustomed to I j travelling and having sufficient funds | along, took an optimistic view of the I situation and did the best they could. (| Travel was uncertain and trains I would be suddenly commandeered and -! | the passengers put off, sometimes in towns and sometimes out in the I woods. J Mrs. and Miss Keitt were exceed| ingly fortunate 011 their trip from .Wiesbaden to New Amsterdam and r j were not inconvenienced in the least. ; They made the trip across the Rhine j and through Cologne. Germany. I j where they spent an entire day rest(! ing, after which they proceeded to .! Rotterdam and embarked for New , York 011 the New Amsterdam. The . most depressing feature of this trip was witnessing the great numbers of l dead and wounded. The one thing the Germans were constantly doing, said Mrs. Keitt, was searching and keeping a sharp lookout for Russian spies, many of I whom they suspected were in the . country, and on several occasions Mrs. Keitt and her daughter, as well l as other people, were closely watched as suspects. t At the beginning of hostilities, she 9 said, considerable feeling was expressed against the English, whom 1 the Germans hold responsible for the 1 war, on account of her supposed jeal; ousy of Germany, and her inspiring j' France and Russia against Germany, and feeling was expressed against , France and Belgium, but less severe, and severe racial feelings was exnressed against the Russians, whom according to the opinion formed by j Mrs. Keitt while in Germany, the kaiser will do all in his power to ^ keep out of the Fatherland. There 5 was no feeling against Americans, at , first, said Mrs. Keitt. and they were j treated especially well and every s courtesy was extended them, even , more so than to citizens of other naB tions. This good feeling toward the r Americans, however, she said, was ? later somewhat tempered, possibly more from the fact of their speaking s the English language than anything r | else, for it was through that means I the Germans were reminded of e ' I j the Kniilisli. against whom they have p j bitter hatred. I sj (\>m|uii*e<l With Our War. -| Mrs. Koitt made a comparison of y! t!ie jtresent war with the war ber tween tlie States in tliis particular. - that the former conflict brought out 1. ail that was good, noble and pure in [the men. and especially the women j hut the Kuropean war. as judged by XKGKO ATTACKS WHITK MAX. iiloodhounds Put on Trail.?Poss Searches for Accused. Sumter, Nov. 1ft.?Oscar Swintor colored, is alleged to have made murderous and seemingly unprovofc ed attack yesterday upon I). T. New man when the latter went to hi house to deliver a message for J. 1 Hodge, for whom he was working about a money matter between Hodg and Swinton. The report states tha after delivering the message New man turned and started off, when th negro, who seemed enraged by th message, made for Newman with a: axe. striking him in the back wit the blunt end of the weapon. So fa as learned the attack seems to hav been entirely unprovoked and cam as a surprise to Newman. After th | negro had struck the blow he strucl I tifina mnro nnr<p nn the lee helot the hip and on the ankle. The oc curence took place on .Mr. J. 1 Hodge's place, in the Concord sectioi of the county. Newman finally got away after out runnftg the negro, and collapsed a soon'as he reached the nearest house The negro, finding Newman beyom his reach, at once made off, and ha not yet been apprehended althougl he was trailed several miles las night by bloodhounds, which wer sent over in the afternoon from Co lumbia. The posse spent nearly al night looking for him, but failed V catch him. Newman is reported to day to be getting on nicely, with i chance to recover, as no vital orgai was struck by the blows. Drinking Among Women. London, Nov. 19.?The matter o drinking among women, as well a the admiring public, is strongly en gaging the attention of the authori ties in London and the provinces While the closing hours o public houses have beei made earlier throughout Eng land other measures are discuss ed. One is that women be barrel from the public houses altogether since many of them have more mone; to spend while their husbands an away at the war. Another proposa is to exclude women from drinkinj places in the morning. Nina Boyle, who is at the head o the political and militant departmen of the Women's Freedom league makes an indignant protest in a let ter to the prime minister's secretary "It is my duty to warn you tha I these repeated attacks on our liber I ties are provoking the deepest indig j nation among men and women alike,' j says her letter. Miss Boyle alsi wrote: "May I point out to you? j "That the allowances paid to wo men are their own money, ana ma they have the same right to speni their money as they like as men have "That no attempt, apparently, i being engineered to regulate the al lowances of soldiers and sailors many of whom, according to informa tion supplied me. are spending thi money paid them by the governmen I on drink and immoral women with out restraint. "That there has been no increasi in drinking among women since tin j outbreak of war at all proportional to the increase of drinking anion? : men. "The probable reason for the state ment that more women are drinkins now is that at the present time pub lie houses are so thronged with mah customers?of whom an enormou! number are men in uniform?tha women cannot gain access to th< premises and are served outside where naturally they are more con spicuous." From the seeds of the castor oi plant a German chemist has extractei what is said to be the most power ful poison known. the temper of the Germans and other: in the territory visited by Mrs. Keitt brought out all that was evil, for, sh< said, even the women are bitter ii their expressions of hatred and ba< wishes for the enemy and their sym pathizers. Wiesbaden is only a few miles fron a fortress which was in action sooi after the war commenced, and thi: was one reason for the order for al civilians to get away. As to the length of the war, Mrs Keitt says there was little expressioi by the Germans but that there is m doubt that the kaiser was fully pre pared for the fight as, she says, in ai incredibly short time after war wa declared troops were moving int< France. Mrs. Keitt, a lady of high refine ment, cultured and intelligent, take great interest, in the awful traged; , in the other hemisphere and feelins } lv referred to the misery and desola tion abroad in that land. Her recita ; of the foregoing incidents and ex periences was extremely interestin and portrayed some of the unusua I experiences incident to the grea ' war. She expressed great hope tlia the war might soon come to a cdos and end the misery, a portion o , which it was her lot to witness. A HOOK A (.KM AS HE ISN'T. e A Fable in Words of One or More I Syllables. i.j "You have sent for me," said the a book agent, entering the busy man's ' office. ~! "Yes, yes," said the busy man. ?l "Have a chair, please. Shan't keep you long." "I can come some other day, if vou e prefer, ' said the book agent, edging , toward the door. ej "-No, no!" cried the busy man. "I e; want to see if you can sell me a set n; of Dickeray." Ij | "I suppose I could," replied the rl book agent, "but I don't believe a e j busy man like you will ever have time ej to read it. Why, don't you wait une i til you have retired from business k! life and then decide whether you are v still interested?" " I shall make time to read it," in' sisted the busy man. "Rather a false notion that, about it being necessary for a man to read ' standard works," said the book , agent. "Life can be complete with[j out stuffing one's self." s "I must have it," said the busy (i man sharply. "I want something t nice in crushed levant, with gold e tops and all that; a limited edition - de luxe, if you have it. 1 "Of course we have it," said the 0 book agent, gravely, "but don't you " think a plain edition in cloth would a suit your purpose just as well? 3 "I know what I want!" cried the busy man. "Won't it be something of a drain on your purse?" suggested the book f agent. "This paying for books montn s after month becomes monotonous. - A man may think It a trifle at the - start, but after the first six months i. it gets on his nerves. Why not go f to a regular store and buy your set j 1 of Diokeray in cloth at a cash price j ' for about one-sixth of what I can of-1 fer you?" * "Oh, all right," growled the busy ' man. "Have it your own way. But I'm sorrv to have taken up your e j time. _ "Oh, that's nothing," said the book agent. "Some day you may havej f a real need of something in my line t and then I'll be glad to sell it to you. Good morning." 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