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BARBED WIRE IX WARFARE. IWflerent Methods in Dealing Witli * Worst of Death Traps. How often, we hear of a superb attack held up by barbed wire! Nothing else stops our men in the charge ?no howitzer shell or rows of machine guns spitting death at 600 shots a minute, no rain of grenades and bombs, no walls of men in the now hated field-gray. But our storma<-v cot ct ranripH in That f ^ w wv? ?rr> accursed wire, which of all war's dread devices is the one that Tommy fears. Look at Xeuve Chappelle?that awesome artillery battle in which we made living tombs of the enemy's trenches, blowing in his parapets, riving and rending the earth with truly volcanic shock. Well, through a roll in the ground our guns overlooked 200 yards of wire, and in the trench it screened was a desperate foe. On swept the glorious Cameron ians, heroes of Lucknow and Spion , Kop. Col. Bliss was aghast to come up against a perfect jungle of galvanized iron filaments: endless rows and strands, criss-crossed and sav? agelv barbed; horizontal lines, perpendicular and oblique?the entire "trap" stiffened and stayed with side supports. There followed a traged> in two dreadful acts. There was no rushing this stuff, fence after fence of it, with men s , j bodies already asway like giant insects in a fabulous spider's web. The Cameronians stopped. Colonel and adjutant dropped dead. Lads behind them tore madly at wire, snapped at it with their pliers, struck at it blindly with the butt, stamp on it until boots were slashed to ribbons, and * feet and legs wet with blood. *>it;<m iintr, iuc* *>uc oiuu^uw* ^v*. To tackle these horrible swinging wires they had to expose themselves completely. They went down in silent swathes. Only 150 of the Scots survived. The second act of the tragedy was the advance of the Middlesex?the famous "Die-Hards," who were now to die indeed as the dour Cameron, ians had done. They, too, were held up. They also hacked at the wire, and hacked in vain. They lay down at last with a deep lane of their own dead and dying be. . hind them. "A sight so poignant," say6 one who was there, "that regiments following on broke down and cried before that bloody trail." But the C. O. of the Middlesex managed to send back word to the guns. And, loh The earth shook with high-explosive salvos; the horrible man trap vanished like fog before a gale. You see what shells mean? Barbed wire was first used on the big cattle ranches of Western America. Some of it was wolf-proof, and so protected the stock. From the United States it passed to South Africa, and enabled the Boers to fence vast grazing areas in a way never nrtccihia hofnre And when the war ? broke out those slim guerrillas showed us a new trick in military obstacles. They laid trip wires in the long grass. These brought down our un> suspecting cavalry, and the cruel barbs tore the floundering horses, driving them to madness with pitiless laceration. The poor brutes lashed out in frenzy, throwing other squadrons into hopeless contusion, and amid the welter Boer marksmen picked off our lads with murderous ease. In the Russo-Japanese and Balkan wars barbed wire played a big part, although it was heavy to carry about. But the stuff has attained its full and frightful significance in the present upheaval. It is often electrified, as at Liege, where the fieroic Gen Leman passed a current of 1.500 volts through his maze of strands?a per. ' feet net of shock and electrocutions! which distant gunners sprayed with shrapnel till the.trap was a shambles from which the stoutest heated turn; ed away. All manner of devices are now employed to deal with barbed wire. Pliers and cutters are not of much use: 80 per cent, of the volunteers for this work never come sack. Hooked javelins are thrown, with cables at the end. enabling the assailants to drag the wire away?a real "tug of war." Rockets, too. are used, with lines attached for hauling. But high-explosive shell is. after all, the best means of tearing wire an-av ivhpro it pvists alone a wide front, and is deep and high?a forest of death which defies all valor, by reason of the hurricane of fire behind ir. and the impossibility of tearing it down by hand and passing through. Necessary Steps. "Now. Tommy, what must we do before our sins can be forgiven?" "We must sin."?New York Tribune. Glendale springs water for sale at Herndon's Grocery Store and Mack's Drug Store.?adv. > 3, MANY gi'EKR REQUESTS. Unexpected Legacies That Have (ii en Joy. "Mr. Louis, he was one of tl right sort." said an old hawker, < ! hearing that he had been left t! ! sum of 20 shillings by the will | the late well known geologist. "Mo every week he'd give me a shillii for luck. And now it's nice to fe j he hasn't forgot me." Two other beneficiaries under ti same will were an old woman in tl the city who sold bootlaces, and l one-armed newsbov. who were equ? I * . . I lv surprised and pleased at receivu a sovereign apiece, i Wills are. as a rule, the dulle I documents. In most cases the pro j erty goes to people who have a rig i to expect it. Now and then a wi ' like that of .Mr. Louis, leaves a b quest to some person who least e : pects it. I Some 12 years ago a resident ' Walthamstow went mad, killed h wife and child, and committed sv j cide. There was no money left, at [ a pauper's funeral seemed the fa : of the poor remains, when a loe undertaker stepped in and carrii out the funeral at his own cost. An elderly gentleman named Sim j som happened to hear of the unde ?taker's kindness. "He has a go< j heart." he said; "he shall he repa j one day." Four years later .Mr. Simpst j died, and it was found that he h; j left a sum of no less than 5,0< j pounds to the kind-hearted unde : taker. Little more than a year ago. i the will of an elderly colonel, tl 1 rather odd sum of 412 pounds w I left to his great-nephew. The reas< of this bequest was thus explaim by the deceased: "I am leaving yon this money." 1 wrote, "because on no fewer thj 103 different occasions you listene always with courtesy and interest, an old soldier's account of his oi big battle." The legacy, it will be noted, is ct culated at the rate of 4 pounds f each repetition of the ancient yarn ! The life of a newspaper editor is hard and not particularly happy on He meets with plenty of blame at little appreciation. Imagine, the | the surprise of the editor of a Swi i paper in Geneva, when a lawyei i letter apprised him of a legacy of I i. 000 francs (200 pound6.) left to hi j by "a regular reader." "I have always enjoyed your p I .. . 11.. J J I per, wrote uie uciea&eu, auu : wish the interest of this money to 1 j paid to you twice a year, the on condition being that on each occasit , you drink a mug of beer to my mer ; ory in the presence of witnesses." Twq years ago a widow nam< Ward, living in the American town Peru in very poor circumstances, r I ceived a legacy of a thousand dolla | (200 pounds) from a man who name she had never even heard. A letter inclosed with the che< explained that the donor had visit< Peru on a bicycle 24 years previou ly, and had been robbed of his mone Mrs. Ward, it appeared, had tak< him in and given him a meal, ar asked for no payment. A somewhat similar cas^ occurrt near Belfast. . Years ago a your sailor, who had been drinking mo: than was good for him, was run ov< by a dog-cart, and found lying* the road. A poor woman named Cronin pic' ed him up and took him into her co tage, where she and her husbar looked after him until he was be ter. "I'll never forget your kindness he said, as he went away. Years passed. Then, one day : September. 1912, came the amazir naws that they had been left the su of 2.300 pounds. i The once-drunken sailor had rise to be captain of a ship, had save money, and. having no relatives, le it all to his benefactors. One more "surprise"?this of different character. After the death of his patien Miss Mary Marchant. a doctor who ?as he is still alive?we will ca Smith, received a large box. Wit it was a letter: "This box and all its contents leave to my dear physician, Dr. Joh Smith." He opened it eagerly, to find wit! in it all the medicines which durir the past 19 years he had prescribe for Miss Marchant! "This scientific article states th< 10.000.000 germs can collect on pinhead. Wife, what do you thin of that?" "In that case, you had better kee your hat on, my dear."?Piitsbui Post. Prof. Rollin 1). Salisbury, of tl University of Chicago, says a coi tinuous process of contraction is ?< ing on inside the earth, and will coi tinue until all the chemicals withi it have beer, transformed into t! densest compounds millions of yea: hence. Earthquakes are a result < the contracting process. iSs&l... Ut:--'.. FIliST YKAU OF THE WAIU Continued from page 2. column 4.t v can and to the Dardanelles, where it torpedoed the British battleships I Triumph and Majestic, and proceeded to Constantinople. The voyage 5!) from Wilhelnishaven to the Dardatie nelles required one month. ^ The aeroplane, almost an unknown ^ quantity at the beginning of the war * so far as its military value was conel cerned, has proved its practicability so thoroughly that it must be rated (16 with the submarine and the heavy he . . gun as one ot the great features ot j the war. In fact, it lias exercised a dominating influence over land operlg ations. and to its use perhaps more gt than any other single factor may be p ascribed the deadlock month after I month in the principal fields of bat^ tie. It has rendered priceless service ' in reconnoitering. taking the place of cavalry. It has caused a revision of the tactics and strategy of war. Aerial observers, flying over the op. posing lines, are able to discover us , . movements of any large bodies of \ troops, rendering that form of stratet gv based on surprise attacks or j quick movements in force impossible. Aeroplanes also have been of great value in locating enemy posip tions. enabling the artillery to get1 r the range and fire accurately on the! unseen foe. i(j Dirigible balloons also are employed. but to a much less extent. Although Germany still is constructing ^ Zeppelins and has used them effectively for long distance raids they are ]r_ generally regarded as less valuable than the aeroplanes. Automobiles are used to an enor-J in ie mous extent, all private machines be- j ag ing requisitioned in some of the countries at war. In some instances )n great numbers of automobiles have been utilized for rapid transportation of troops. Their main service, however, is in the handling of food in . supplies and ammunition. Armored] aiitomobiles. armed / with machine to Qe guns or light field pieces, also have been utilized. tj_ Many new weapons of war have or been treated with varying degrees of success. Poisonous gasses. project* ed from tanks in the trenches, are a e reported to have enabled their users ^ to capture opposing positions in sevn eral minor engagements. Sieel darts ggiand incendiary bombs dropped from ., aeroplanes, and new types of hand . _ grenades also have been employed. ' while in France both sides are said m to have made use of apparatus for a_ spraying burning oil. j The political effects of the war, k tremendous as they must be, cannot be .' yet be gauged. The principal result * Ithus far is the definite rupture of the ;n i n_ j traditional alignment which divided Europe for years into two alliances 1(j with a theoretical balance of power: Great Britain, France and Russia forming the Triple Entente", and Gerrs many, Austria-Hungary and Italy se constituting the Triple Alliance. From the day Austria-Hungary became involved in serious difficulties with Serbia there was little doubt s_ Germany would support her ally in y. case Russia adhered to her tradition>n al policy of defending her Slavic kinsmen in the Balkans. The en I ax vuv " ?^led as a natural sequence to her aljg liance with Russia, and Great Britain re joined in after Germany's invasion ei of Belgium. Italv was thus the only one of the in six nations concerned in the two alj. liances which was not involved at the t_ outset. Proclaiming her neutrality, l(j she utilized the opportunity to seek t_ from Austria the territory to the north of her border which she has ,, long desired. Failing to obtain full satisfaction of her demands she de. nounced the Triple Alliance and joinlg ed the allies. The Triple Entente *?*?? Vine nnnvortod into thp Oliad m ?ao iuu? _ ruple Entente, as it is sometimes called now. Germany and Austria-Hungary were strengthened by the adhesion of Turkey to the informal alliance with a Germany which had sprung up in recent years, and in November Turkey t entered the war. Montenegro took m up arms with the Serbs, and Belgium. jj on being invaded, joined the allies. ^ Japan. Great Britain's ally in the east, opened war od Germany, folI lowing Berlin's refusal to surrender [n Tsing-Tau. There are thus eleven nations now at war, of which eight form what are known as the allies. lg Historians are agreed that the asl(j sassination of the Austrian Archduke . Francis Ferdinand :n Sarajevo. Bosnia. on June 28, 1914. while the im" ' *1-- ? r mediate cause ui me v?ai, ?ao nw.. _ the determining factor. Europe had ci j. been on the edge of the precipice for a decade. Perhaps the chief ttnder,p lying factor was tlie development of the national idea demanding that political divisions should he made to correspond with the territory inhabitle ed by the various peoples of Europe: !i- that each people, with common lan0 guage and customs, should have po1 litical independence and a "place in in I ,i,0 cnn " TIip stmtrade to attain le this end kept Europe in political turfs moil. France aspired for Alsace and jf Lorraine, Italy for Trieste and the Trentino, populated largely by Ital DKOWNKI) IN ISLACK 1S1VKK. J. I'. Itea^in .Meets Death While in S\\ i mining. Kingstree. August 12.?Int'orma! tion of the drowning of Mr. .1. P. j Reagin in Black River at Martin's j Crossroads, about six miles from ; Kingstree. reached here late yesterday afternoon. From information reI ceived it seems that Mr. Reagin. acI companied by two boys by the name 1 of Player, went to the river about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon to go j in swimming. Soon after going into the water Reagin disappeared. The boys could not see anything of him: his clothing was still on the beach where he had left them. They became alarmed and went home, where they reported that they believed Mr. Reagin had drowned. A search was immediately instituted j and the body recovered near where he had entered the river an hour la-! ter. Mr. Reagin was a farmer, mar-j ried and leaves a widow and three | children. The deceased is a brother of Mr. J. J. Reagin. who has charge of the Standard Oil company's business at Kingstree. Mr. Reagin's remains will be buried this afternoon at Mount Verl non church cemetery. LIGHTMXG KILLS YOUTH. IV>lt Sets House Afire, But Mother Extinguishes Blaze. Anderson. August 11.?The sixyear-old son of John Phillips, a farmer, of the Honea Path section, was killed, and a four-year-old daughter was shocked when a bolt of lightning struck a chimney of Phillips's house | this afternoon. The house caught j fire, but Mrs. Phillips extinguished it before the flames made much headway. Mrs. Phillips and four little children were in the house when it was struck. ians; Serbia for Bosnia, Roumania for Transylvania and Bessarabia. Austria-Hungary, within whose boundary is a complexity of races with va-, rying claims and aspirations, wasj particularly menaced by the growth: of this idea, and it was one phase of! this agitation?Serbia's desire forj Bosnia?which brought, on the crisis, i The same motive brought Montene-j gro and Italy and influenced Russiaand France to go to war. The growth of the national Idea was attended by the growth of mili-j tarism as a means for securing these1 desires. The greatest standing armies in history were built up. comipulsorv military service became wideO cnnrmnns TiaviPS Were opi cau nuu vuv* _ _ constructed. Out of it all, with the mutual suspicion engendered, grew the situation which kept Europe in fear of war. Armed to excess, the nations await-' ed the war which finally came. TAX SALE. State of South Carolina, County of I Bamberg. By virtue of an execution to me! directed by G. A. Jennings, treasurer of Bamberg county, I have levied upon and will sell at public aution ; before the court house door in Bamberg. S. C.. on Monday, the 6th day of September, 1915, the same being legal salesday in said month, during the legal hours of sale, the real estate described below, to the highest bidder for cash, said sale being for non-payment of taxes due and owing the State of South Carolina and the county of Bamberg: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the town and county of Bamberg, said State, containing 5 1-2 acres, more- or less, bounded on the north by lands of C. D. Dowling: east by lands of Washington Rivers: west by lands of Joseph Milhouse: south by lands of Thomas Grant. To be sold as the property of estate of Sam Spell. ALSO All that certain land situate, lying and being in the county of Bamberg, said State, containing 3 acres, more or less, bounded north by lands of Dr. I P M Smnalr- southeast bv Mrs. Anna J. Grayson: west by road leading to colored cemetery. To be soljl as the propertv of Char.otte Davis. ALSO All that certain piece or parcel of real estate with the store building thereon situate, lying and being in the town and county of Bamberg, said State, fronting on the south side of Railroad avenue, containing and measuring 20 feet, more or less, front and rear and having a depth of ninety feet at either side line, and bounded north by Railroad avenue, west by lot of G. H. Smoak; east by lot of Heyward Johnson, and south by lot of J. A. Nimmons. To be sold as the property of Jno. F. Minnigan. ALSO All that piece and parcel of land lying, being and situate in the town and county of Bamberg, said State, containing 4 acres, more or less, and bounded on the north by lands of Ida Mitchell: on the east by Bin- , aker's Bridge road: on the south by lands of Ellanara McMillan: on the west by Jones A. Williams. To be sold as the property of Sim McMillan. 1 ALSO All that lot or parcel of land situate. lying and being in the town and county of Bamberg, state afore- 1 said, containing acres, more or less, and bounded north by lands of J. j B. Black: east by lands of Mrs. J. E. Yarn: south by estate of G. W. ! Dyches. and west by Annie Silcox. To be sfdd as the property of the estate of H. W. Silcox. S. 0. RAY. Sheriff for Bamberg County. ? August 12, 1915. c * - < ' . ' ' s ' ' ' - . - ; | stands between | you and a Bank |j |||! I^^^^^^^ccount.but ^ We invite you to discuss with us the matter of saving money in this strong progressive Bank. We are interested in the welfare of jfM this particular community and those ??% who live in it, and wish to impress upon you the fact that the officers of this Bank are here to give you cheerfully all the information vou desire. If voite spend money,?you can save money with our help. Start with $1. 4 per cent Interest Paid on Savings^ Deposits. PEOPLES BANK S Bamberg, - South Carolina / totTs/Stva V*at t ey*f r,r\r?a.tavfbtk.t, -"Hi WLLLUL? 1VI\ VVViJJUlN ;.;?j||g A #tanharfc College nf Erfmrmrrtt, Bistfnrtum ani Clyararter Established 1894 & A Faculty of 83; 427 Students, from 20 li la States. Accredited by Virginia State Board of Education. Hundreds of grad- ;/sgS nates now teaching. $160 pays charges ; . ggW in Academic Department; $200 In ColHe Leading Training School for Girls in Virginia Where can parents find a tolltw with an flat a record, with rati typgrigawj '? ?--- - ?. ..e m* in.ii mn^ntii mitf For ratalone and application blank ?ddre*? GEO. P. ADAHS, Secretary, BJadurtoaCfc ? ? .m WOFFORD COLLEGE SPARTANBURG, S. C. A Christian College with high standards and ideals. Well equipped Laboratories and Library. Strong Faculty and full courses. Next session begins September 15th. Write for catalogue. HENRY N. SNYDER, President WOFFORD COLLEGE FITTING SCHOOL A high grade preparatory school for boys. Individual attention. VTSgj Careful moral training. $185.00 pays all expenses. Next session September 15. For catalogue address i . HEADMASTER, SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA JOHN F. FOLK | REAL ESTATE, STOCK, BONDS Real Estate for Sale. 1 GO-acre farm, 2 miles from Bam- ^'fpt 94-acre farm near Midway. _ ___ 290-acre farm near Hunters Chappel. j (lF66IlVill0 I 1 house and lot, Bamberg, 4 rooms. I 1 house and lot, Bamberg, 6 rooms. V^OIIiiiflS Coll6(I6 8 vacant lots, different parts of ?J 'iaflSB Bamberg. , Greenville, S. C. -gtfm 2 90-acre farm near Ehrhardt. Affords complete advantages for *'^^0 2 dwellings and lots in Ehrhardt. a broad, libera!education. Trains 4 vacant lots in Ehrhardt. its students for lives of fullest . 2 desirable lots in Denmark. efficiency and responsibility. 353 acres near Howell s Old Mill. Equipment, faculty, courses of Stocks .ndB^ds for Salo. LculBlral ?? 10 shares Bamberg Cotton Mill ?t,rely .n hatmooy vnth preKnt. | 'tock day requirements. M charpg Ppnnlpc: Rank stock 9 Administration. Instruction and dor- H Id snares reopies oank SIOCK. ?1 mitory buildings equipped along the Bf rtfS 5 shares Enterprise Bank stock. i most modern lines, for convenient, Bi I - comfortable life and eflicient work. fi Rood and Mortgage Real Estate ?&?USSZ?!?lZ&?i!? I Value. H. L. and M. A. degrees. Literature, . ^ ? . , Languages. Sciences. Practical train- My $400. S per cent, interest, due in initio lmmestie Science. BusinessCourse, ?, vears leading to diploma. I rnmmitniratinne frnm nnrtips hav- Thorough courses leading to diplo- I (. oninmnicatio.is trom parties na\ masjn Conservatory of Mosfe, departments I ing real estate, stocks or bonds for Of Art, Expression, Physical Culture, Kindergar- I " . , ' ten, NornalTrainiag Course. ^nliAitpn ? ' * This institution aims to afford the I |/\|j*T rs p/\f IT- best educational advantages obtainable 1H 1*1 H rill IV at a miuimum cost. For Catalogue address JV11X1 A A hi _ ?.OMH ??; ??-?: ;?? f DAVID M. RAMSAY. D. D., Pres. i Glendale Springs water on sale by B c r B .*38 Jack's Drug Store and W. P. Hern- I Greenville. S. C. J Ion, 50c for 5-gallon jug.?adv. ?==aggs=5 HBaBfii ' ^