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KKST ( I !iK Foil s 1.1?ik::s. Kaiser's Men Get Helief Frotn ti Trenches by Long Trip. Traveling across Germany recent: from west to east. 1 was sudden aroused by an outbreak of robu cheering and the hasty opening < windows all along the corridor. \\ had just overtaken a troop train, ah going east. The variety of articles that we; produced from nowhere in the cour: of the next short moments and tosst across into the open doors of tl freight cars was astonishing. Cigar cigarettes, books, sandwiches, new papers, a business-like looking Has or bottle here and there?all with careless accompaniment of cheer greetings and good wisnes. In the wide doorways of the freigl cars sat soldiers, with hooted legs < thickly stockinged feet swinging ini space: further back, inside the ca , more men. lying asleep on the hea^ bed of straw which covered the floo ing, or scrambling to their feet an hastening to join their comrades i the open doorway and to answer 1 our greetings. All were unshave: unkempt, muddy, obviously worn at weary, but responding to the cal and cheers of the passing passenge: . v with a vim and enthusiasm too hearl vc >. and spontaneous to be other tha thoroughly genuine and convincing, did not need the terse comment of tt army doctor at my elbow, "just out < the trenches." to tell me that the: v were troops who had been, perhaj only the night before, at the actu; front and who were now simp V> changing to another locality of figh ing and death?without worryir about the matter in the least. tA half hour later we saw anoth< train of the same kind?but this tin we could catch only fleeting glimps< as it passed, for this second train wi traveling in the wrong direction. Ge many had evidently changed her mic and was now engaged in strengthei ing the west quite regardless of ti - . necessity of her threatened easter frontier. Along in the afternoon we arriv at (those marvelous and my terious institutions, the German ac British censorships, have their veniences once in a while. When or forgets the name of a place or how i spell it, it is only necessary to wri' and let it go at that, secure i the knowledge that it will be blamt on the censor.) A troop train w; standing on the siding. No guns th time, but hundreds of the same tyi of war worn men in more or less sba by uniforms. I approached an offlc< ????,? ovniaincH that I was a iournali auu ? thirsting for information. (It hardly necessary to say that an i; quiring foreigner who asks a Germj officer or soldier for information c military matters is extremely likel if he is afterward discovered to be journalist disguised as a respectab tourist, to get himself into trouble I inquired whether there was any o jection to my being told why a nur ber of troops were being sent ea at the same time that others we being hurried west. "No objection whatever." he a ? ewered. "We are giving all the men a sorely needed rest. They a traveling for health and pleasure. II a great scheme. Works like a charm I had to board my train again ju then, and I did so with a distinct ii pression that I had been guilty an indiscreet inquiry and that it hi Deen aaroiuy aaa wunwuoij va C]\- % Tied. A day or two later I came across i article in a Berlin morning papc commenting on the good results ari ing from taking tired men and sen ing them by train across the count from one front to the other, or sen ing them off. at any rate, for a lo: trip before calling them into the figh ing lines again. The idea was ori inally suggested, it was stated, by t! discovery that men who had bei transferred direct from the trench on one frot to the trenches on tl other had resumed fighting in no ceablv better shape than men who h; been given a week or more ?f idlene in close proximity to their own figt ing lines. It is all very simple and logic when one comes to think of it. and r apologies are hereby tendered to r unknown and temporarily doubt informant of . The physic strain of fighting for days and nigh in the trenches is bad. but the ment ctrain the ?rr?in nn the nerves, is good deal worse, and the effe< thereof, on the whole, more lastin The man who is relieved and w goes back to the rear for a rest is fi quently in no condition to take thin easy. He may not be encamped within t sound of the guns, but he is not p? mitted to forget the fight for an i stant. The wounded are being co tinuallv brougnt oacii ana pass along further to the rear: new troo are going forward to take their plac or to occupy other positions: activi and movement are ceaseless. O wearied trooper is nervous, dissat: fied, restless and often more or le rebellious. On the other hand, the maD who TKA IX WAK TIMK. ieHv%er a Woman se.\ed Tea t<> Hun- I gry Soldiers in France. y. "!s there anything I can do for you, lyj a; tain"." i asked. st j He mounted his horse, looked 311 'o'.vn at nie. Then lie gave me one * his rare similes, says Mildred Al50 drich. in the August Atlantic. "No." he said, "at this moment j s ' there is nothing that you can do for . , i ?e; :.'e. thank } ;ni: hut if you could give "m :.ty boys a cup of tea. I imagine tlia; le: wo'ilH iii?t almil save their s- j lives." And nodding ro me. he said I to the picket. "This lady is kind enough to offer you a cup of tea." a I Then he rode off. taking the road s- down the hill to Voisins. i 1 ran into the house, put the kettle 1T on. ran up the road to call Amelie. 5r and'back to the arbor to set the t01 table as well as I could. The whole r- atmosphere was changed. I was going to be useful. r" 1 had no idea how many men I was lt* going to feed. I had seen only three. in To this day I don't know how many t0 I did feed. They came and came and a- came. It reminded me of hens running toward a place where another hen has found something good. It rs did not take me many minutes to di6cover that these men needed some,n thing more substantial than tea. ** Luckily I had brought back from ie Paris an emergency stock of things "if ... , . * J ? O Y\ A UK0 D1SCUH, ary jam auu cv e forth, for even before our shops were 1 )s closed there was mighty little in s ^1 t 41 them. For an hour and a half I brewed pot after pot of tea, opened 1 t- jar after jar of jam and jelly, and tin r l? after tin of biscuit and cakes, and although it was hardly hearty fodder * for men, they put it down with a 1 ie relish. I have seen hungry men, but 1 iS never anything so hungry as these 1 )c C 1S boys. r- m 2 td THE COLUMBINE. s a- i ie Some Reasons Why it Should Be 1 n Made the National Flower. f In mentioning the columbine the s s" thought flashes across my mind that 1 it would be most fitting owing to the * a" United States' attitude towards peace * ie i to again recommend the adoption of t0 this flower as the national flower, i writes Mrs. Alex Caldwell, in Southin ern Woman's Magazine. Its generic iC* name, aquilegia, from the Latin iS equila. an eagle, was suggested by j, 1S the curved spurs of the flowers, _ which resemble the talons of an . k" eagle. Columbine, or Columba, was er given to it because in certain posi- . tions can be discerned a ring of doves, 1S significant of peace. Another conceit , a~ | is that in the front view of the flowm j er can be seen a five-pointed star. )nJand in the long spurs we have the *'; horn of plenty. ,al It can be found throughout the . 10 * ^ whole country and blossoms in our t ' national colors, red, white and blue, bm 1 Prizes Sought hy Germahy. St 1 re Poland was formerly a kingdom, j The first partition between Russia, n" Austria and Prussia occurred in . se 1772; final partition in 1795. Rus- < r,e sian Poland was a kingdom under the J Russian empire in 1815. There were revolutions against Russia in 1830, st 184 6, 1863. The kingdom ceased to n~ exist in 1864. Area 49,000 square miles. Agriculture and cattle breed1 ing chief pursuits. Of the land, 55 1 ' " per cent, is arable. Extensive for- * ests. great mineral wealth. in Warsaw is 387 miles east of Ber- < ' ' lin and 695 miles southwest of Pet- * s" rograd. Population has grown from 1 d" 161,000 in 1860, to 276.000 in 1872; t *7 436,000 in 1887; 756,000 in 1901, < and 872,478 in 1910. Of these, one- < third are Jews and 25,900 are Ger- 1 lt~ mans. ( Warsaw has six great trunk Tines e of railway and is one of the chief < ftTl i commercial cities of Europe. It is a great market center and has two an- 1 e|nual fairs?wool and hops?that ' t,-! 1 " i have a great reputation, in addition, a<*! to its great railway connections. War- 1 ss|saw is beautifully situated on the ' west bank of the Vistula, which, with ! its tributaries, taps a great section ! of the east. Qy Riga is second to Petrograd as a Q" port-on the Baltic. Population 380,- ' e<* 000. The port freezes 127 days out :a! of the yeaf, but this is a moat im- 1 lts: portant point strategically. al j Warsaw is nearly as large as Bal- ! a! timore and New Orleans combined, ] 4 jand there are only three cities in the ' ijUnited States larger than the Polish I capital. which is a seat of learning, e"!art, music, science and manufactures gs|as well as of agriculture. he put on a train and shipped off far ;r- away from the fighting lines has eomn paratively nothing to worry about. 1 ii- He iravels through his own country. : ed i he meets and talks with people who ps:are not weighted down by the anx- ; ^ ??> ,- f,,r thn ninri'nw nr cnhorort an ft ! < OjHTl.. . 'A A AAA. x,. tyj depressed by the constant imminence ur of sudden death, he is cheered and 1 is- feted and made much of all along the ss line, and is made to feel what he has i I done and is doing is appreciated.? ; is: From the New York Times. 1 I WKATHKK PKKIHC'TIOXS. How to Tell When it is doing tt I lain. In the August Woman's Home Companion. Rollin Lynde Harti vrites a highly entertaining and ex :eedingly practical article entitlec "Let's Talk Ahout the Weather." He ells how to guard against lightning low to treat people who have beer struck by lightning, how to tell wher t is going to rain, and so on. Or lie subject of predicting rain lie vrites in part as follows: "There are plenty of soundly selenitic weather signs that are right beore our eyes and vouched for by the iest meteorologists. For instance, the ring around the moon." which is proluced by a thin filmy cloud made ui vf mlniitA nortir-loc- r?f 9 ctStP nl SI 11IIJIUIC (/U1UVIVO Wi. *vv u wvvvw v. hings not built to last. Either somt mlooked for commotion will put ? itop to it in a different manner or il vill pour 'cats and dogs' within thret lays at most. In S6 cases out of ? lundred. the rule holds good. A stil jetter sign is the 'ring around th< ;un.' "This is science, pure and simple ind so is the old maxim: 'The farthei he sight, the nearer the rain.' It is jot pessimism that makes peo)!e on the coast predict a downpoui vhen they can pick out the separatt louses on a far-away island, or peo>le in mountainous regions call it too good to last,' when a distanl >eak comes into view. They art ;hrewd meteorologists in making hese predictions, and also in declarng that sounds carry better when a ain storm is brewing. "Of all nice, convincing weathei ;igns, however, a 'sickening sky' is jretty nearly the most reliable. Wher he deep warm grows paier, aim mu vhitish. and your spirits drop, anc shadows fray at the edges and disippear, then you have a sickening ;ky. Rain is not being brought up eady-made from afar, it is being nanufactured directly overhead. "The color of the sky, then, is i airlv trustworthy sign in and of it self, and so is the color of the clouds ntensely white clouds against an inenselv blue sky m^an bright weath?r ahead. Grayish clouds on a lightsh blue foretell rain." Tne Looking Hen But Does Not Lay In the poultry raising departmeni f the current issue of Farm and Fire ide appears an account of a dront sen. This hen looks fine but she i! 10 use as an egg-producer. Follow ng are some facts about hen: "This hen laid only 78 eggs dur ng a full year after her first egg. "Her full sister laid 203 eggs ii ler pullet year, beginning when foui nonths and five days old. Severa ?ther sisters did nearly as well. "Her mother has a record of 21( iggs, and her father is fully as wel >red for heavy egg-production quali ies. "This drone hen was hatchet Uarch 14, 1913, and when matur< veighed 7 pounds and 3 ounces. Sh< s norraai in evciv ?aj cav-cj-i uses to lay well. "Her first egg was laid Decembe 17, 1913, when nine months old She began to molt the following Oc :ober, and laid no n>ore until thi spring of 1914." The War in Palestine. Mount Carrael, whose lower slope lave already been under French shel ire, is heavily entrenched by th< Turks, although the mountain is sa :red alike to Christian and Moslem iccording to an Associated Press dis jatch. On the lower slopes is situa .ed the town of Haifa. The Germai consulate in the town was bombard id by the French in retaliation fo :he Germans' desecrating the grave >f the soldierk of Napoleon. Carmel is a hill, or rather a grou] jf hills, bounded on two sides by th Mediterranean and overlooking th plain of Kishon. Above the towi stands the famous Carmelite monas tery. On the summit of the mount Lhe German colony of Haifa, whicl :ame there 60 years ago to await th second coming of Chri6t, has erecte< i monument to commemorate th visit of the kaiser, Haifa is an important point, as i is the terminus of a branch of rail way tapping the Hedjaz line, whic! crosses the desert regions betweei Damascus and Medina. This railway spanning the Jordan river, is use by the Turks to transport Ara troops. A Minority Report. A small, meek country negro, wh had always lived on one place nea Frankfort. Kv., married a big dom ineering woman, and very soon after ward moved into town, where th keeper of the local bar met mm in in street. "Hello. Gabe," he said, "what mad you move to town? I thought you lik ed country life." "Well. .Mistah Franklin," explainei Gabe. "I uster lak de country. Bu mah wife, she didn't lak it. and I"v*< done got so dat when she don't lal i thing I jest nachelly hates it."? Saturday Evening Post. FRANCIS F. CARROLL ? Attorney-at-Law Office in Hoffman Building > GENERAL PRACTICE. I BAMBERG, S. C. ' LODGE MEETING. ? Bamberg, Lodge, No. 38, Knight , of Pythias m*-ets first and fourt l Monday nights at 7:30 p. m. Visit mg brethren cordially invited. H. L. H INN ANT, 1 Chancellor Commander, ? F. C. AVER, Keerer of Records and Seal. E. H. HENDE3R0N J Attorney-at-Law BAMBERG. S.(C. ) General Practice. Loans Negotiate* r > Invigorating to the Pale and Slckl; t The Old Standard general strengthening tonii GROVE'S TASTELESS chi'l TONIC, drives 01 Malaria .enriches tbeblood.and builds up the syi , tern. A true tonic. For adults and children. SC i RILEY & COPELAND ! Successors to W. P. Riley. Fire, Life Accident INSURANCE . Office in J. D. Copland's Store BAMBERG. 8. C. ; No. Six-Sixty-Sh This ia a prescription prepared especial! ; lor MALARIA or CHILLS 6. FEVER . - Five or tix doaea will break any case, an if taken then as a tonic the Fever will nc 1 return. It acts on the liver better_tha Calomel and does not gripe or sicken? 25 i Dr. THOMAS BLACK, JB i DENTAL SURGEON. 1 Graduate Dental Department Un: I versity of Maryland. Member S. C . State Dental Association. Office opposite new post office an over office Graham & Black. Offlc ) hours, 8 30 a. m. to 5.30 p. m. * . BAMBERG. S. C. LIFE, FIRE, LIVESTOCf HEALTH and ACCIDENT INSURANCE Agent for Superior Monument C< Can Save you Money on Tombstonei W. MAX WALKER - EHRHARDT. S. C. Piles Cured la 6 to 14 Days Your druggist will refund money if PAZ i OINTMENT fails to cure my case of Itchin - Blind,BleedingorProtrudingPl!esin6toI4day The first application gives Base and Best SO : RUB-MY-TISM 1 Will cure your Rhenmatisn Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps ) Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts an 1 Burns, OM Sores, Stings of Inseci Etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used ir ternally and externally. Price 25c 3 PAPER HANGING 3 HOUSE PAINTING WINDOW GLASS REPLACE All work neatly and promptly don Prices reasonable. " When in need of anything in th line come to see GEORGE EAVES BAMBERG, S. C. *? - /v x ** _i 10 unvc uui maiaria s And Build Up The Systei 1 Take the Old Standard GROVE' TASTELESS chill TONIC. You kno what you are taking, as the formula " printed on every label, showing it , Quinine and Iron in a tasteless fora _ The Quinine drives out malaria, tl Iron builds up the system. 50 cen 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AN DEBTORS. s All persons having claims again! the estate of Annie Carter, decease* will file the same with the undersigr P ed, duly itemized and verified, an e all persons indebted to said estai p will make payment to the undersigi ed. 0 JOHN E. CARTER, - Administrator of the estate of Annie Carter, deceased. J Ehrhardt, S. C.. July 28th, 1915. e NOTICE OF DISCHARGE. 1 To all and singular the kindre and creditors of Elisha Morris, Si deceased: t Take notice: That the undersigi _ ed will apply to the judge of probal . for Bamberg County, at his offic Bamberg, S. C.. on the 31st day < a August, 1915, at 10 o'clock a. m., fc % an order of discharge as Executoi a of the Will of the Elisha Morris, Sr . deceased. ( 01 TiTPUAUn MfVRT? IS FRANK 'jOYNER Executors of the Will of Elisha Morris, Sr. July 2Sth, 1915. ?j CHICHESTER S PILL? THE DIAMOND BRAND. a L*<Iin! Alk jour l>rn?Ut for /A I fc W I?Sm t'hl-ehc8-ter s Diamond i?raud/^L e . IMils In Red and Gold me!il]|c\V boxes, sealed wish B'.^e Kil.bon. \J e ! W ^ w] Tike do olher. Iluv of rour ? I I'/ ~ Of Drnsrlxt. Askfnr('IIMTtfE8.TEB I W DIAMOND BRAND PILLS for S ' yf M yearsknownasBest.Safest.AlwaysReliaii ei SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERVWHER " " 31 R. P. BELLINGER e ATTORNEY AT LAW i Office Over Bamberg Banking Co. -j General Practice i ? | TAKING AN AUTO APART [J_jj==j| I ^ I is easy. Anybodv can do that. Q[=JrJlr\ I ft But putting the parts together ' 'I y J again properly is a different r ) /i> proposition. So if your car 1}? ish , iT gets out of order don't tinker 1 h with it yourself. 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