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THE LAST SHOT. Ohio Man Claims He Ended War of Secession. A man is still living in Columbus who claims to have fired the last shot of the war of secession?David N. Osyer. He was a member of Co. F,-Ninth Ohio Cavalry. On the morning of April 17, 1865, that command was near Durham Station, X. C. It was keeping close watch on Gen. JotWheeler's cavalry, which was on the opposite side of an extensive swamp. Part of the Union cavalry was ordered to dismount and wade across the swamp to distract the Confederates while the rest constructed a corduroy bridge. They used their carbines so vigorously inai uic v/uuicutnnvu surmised that a very considerable force was coming at them and the road builders got along fine with their bridge. Near the other edge of the swamp Osyer says a Cofnederate bullet just clipped his sergeant's chevron and the skin on his arm. Looking for the source of the bullet, he spied the long barrel of a gun and the gray legs of a Confederate soldier in the ^-s^^Jforks of a tree in front of him, and h^ Sred at them. He saw the legs withdrawn and the owner of them crawl slowly away. Just then a flag of truce came in sight, and the Union men were ordered to cease firing. The occurrence, Osyer says, did not impress him at the time, but the flag of truce was really the sign of the end of the ' ?? l war, that tne general suncnu^i came soon and the troops were sent home. A strange part of the story is that long after the war Osyer met at Birmingham, Ala., a man named Amos Thompson, who was lame and he had been wounded in the Confederate service, and, comparing notes, they es\ tablished to the satisfaction of both that Thompson was the man who > was in the tree on the edge of the Durham swamp back in 1865, had > shot at Osyer and been shot in turn \ by him. Osyer's bullet struck Thompson in the knee and made him cripple for life. They agreed that they had fired the very last shot on each side in the civil war.?Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch. What the War is Costing. An estimate of the money expended on the EuroDean war, recently! made by a New York bank, puts the daily cost at $105,000,000 for every day of the conflict, in aggregate of all the nations engaged. Of this sum the largest individual portion is being laid out by Great Britain, with France next, Germany third and Russia last. Since 1914 the indebtedness of the seven principal nations . at war has been increased from twenty-seven to seventy-five billion dollars. If the war should end in 1917, it is estimated that interest on the combined debt of the nations participating will amount to $3,800,000,000 yearly. The most costly war previous to this great struggle wa^ our own civil war, which consumed eight billion dollars. Already this war has cost six times that immense sum although it has run but one-half the period. Overwhelming as these figures are, . the loss of life and the wreck of bodies is its most frightful expression. Frank H. Simmonds, of the New York Tribune, who is regarded, perhaps, as the best American authority on the war, estimates a total of eighteen and a half million casualties thus far resulting from the war, of which one-fourth are the toll of the dead. Mr. Simmonds apportions these huge losses, ten million to the principal entente nations, and eight million to the central empires, with half a million to the smaller powers engaged on either side. France, he counts as having lost 2,500,000 men, Russia 5,750,000, Great Britain 1,400,000 and Italy 350,000. The eight million losses attributed to tie central empires he apportions equally between Germany and Austria. Giving the aggregate number of dead as 4,500,000, he says that "in a word, the war that broke out over Serbia has already killed a number of men equal to the whole population of the little Balkan State." The casualty lists 01 jciuiupe, icsulting from the present chief employment of the nations of that continent exceed probably by a million the number of votes cast today in the United States in the election of a president. The treasurer expended amounts to one-third the entire wealth of this rich country. Little wonder, in the face of the stupendous accounts, that the slogan, "He kept us out of war," has been, all in all, the most powerful argument for the reelection of President Wilson, which, without doubt, the American people have accomplished today.?Charleston Post. Too Long. Edith?Haven't you and Jack been engaged long enough to get marriedY Ethel?Too long! He hasn't got a cent left.?Cincinnati Inquirer. \ MRS. DUVAL HEADS D. A. R. Annual Conference Closes at Johnston With Election of Officers. Johnston, Nov. 16.?The State D. A. R. conference in its session today dispatched a' large amount of business. Everything worked like clockwork. .Mrs. Calhoun has delighted all with her fine executive ability and gracious manner. Johnston has spared nothing to make the visitors time pass pleasantly. They have been dined, lunched and entertained in various other ways. The most interesting discussion today was upon the choice of the three "Carolinas" written by Miss Burgess. Reed .Miller and one presented by Mrs. Lockwood. The original State song "Carolina," by Miss Burgess, was retained. Over $1,700 was pledged to the mountain school. It was decided to have a State essay medal and the design presented by Miss Francis Pemberton, of Greenwood, was accepted. The luncheon given at noon by the Apollo Music club, New Century Literature club and U. D. C. was elaborate and beautiful. Election of Officers. The session closed with election of officers as follows: State regent, Mrs. E. W. Duval, Cheraw; State vice regent, Mrs. H. L. MeCall, Bennettsville: second vice regent, Miss Louise Fleming, Greenwood; third vice re gent, Mrs. J. A. Bailey, Clinton; recording secretary, Miss Edith Delorine, Sumter; corresponding secretary, Mrs. A. P. Johnson, Anderson; treasurer, Mrs. F. M. Hicklin, Chester; registrar, Mrs. John T. Sloan, Columbia; historian, Mrs. F. C. Cain, St. Matthews; assistant historian; Mrs. E. C. Vontraskow, Camden; genealogist, Mrs. John C. Davis, Clinton; auditor, Mrs. J.' B. Johnson, Rock Hill; mountain school trustees, chairman, Mrs. F. H. H. Calhoun, givers of land, Mrs. Harrison Jones, Mrs. H. B. Carlisle, Spartanburg; Mrs. H. L. McCall, Bennettsville. The culminating social affair was a reception at the home of Mrs. M. T. Turner, the chapter regent. Three hundred attended. The home was exquisite in its decorations. The Emily Gieger chapter with the citizens of the town feel proud to have had the pleasure of entertaining such distinguished a body as the South Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution. The next place of meeting will be in Camden in November, 1917. FLYING IN THE CLOUDS. Bursting Shrapnel Nearby That Could Not Be Heard. Sergt. James McConnell, of the American Escadrille that is fighting for France, describes, in the World's Work for November, some of the experiences of flying in the clouds: "We were over Belfort and headed for the trench lines. The cloud banks dropped behind, and below us we saw the smiling p*ain of Alsace stretching eastward to the Rhine. It was distinctly pleasurable, flying over this conquered land. Following the course of the canal that runs to the Rhine I sighted, from a height of 13,000 feet over Dannemarie, a series of brown, woodworm-like racings on the ground?the trenches! "My attention was drawn elsewhere almost immediately, however. Two balls of black smoke had sud denly appeared close to one of the machines ahead of me, and with the same disconcerting abruptness similar balls began to dot the sky above, below and on all sides of us. We were being shot at with shrapnel. It was ^interesting to watch the flash of the bursting shells, and the attendant smoke puffs?black, white, or yellow, depending on the kind of shrapnel used. The roar of the engine drowned the noise of the explosions. Strangely enough, my feelings about it were wholly impersonal." A Slave to Precedent. "Help?help!" with a rising inflection, cried the man in the creek. "Help, I'm drowning!" "How many times have you gone down already?" we asked, for we had but just arrived on the scene. "Once?ug-gug?" he replied. "Help?help!" "We intend to do so to the best of our ability," we answered, "but not yet. You mifst go down twice more, onnnr/linar trv (all rilloc hpfnrp WP. Can avwi Uiu^ wv utl A U?VS/} w rescue you. When you have done so we will exert our utmost endeavor in your behalf, but until then we cannot go contrary to tradition. Our respected grandfather was a member of congress and early instilled into us a profound veneration for precedent."?Philadelphia Ledger. German scientists have invented a glass for X-ray photography that absorbs only from 10 to 15 per cent, of the rays, permitting much sharper pictures to be made than heretofore, j Read the Herald, $1.50 per year. I i Wait a minute- t i ^ ? 2 \ Don't start out without sup- 2 1 Mm t I P^eS' ^?U nee(^ eX^ra SP1Ml Plu&s and an extra tire. ?? Sir IWhere to get reliable goods ^ i|, at t^6 *owest Pr'ce *s y?UT J? j ^ oniy proi)iem'an^tiie an_ ? A *" swer is right below. A > ^ Call on us for anything in auto service?you 11 get satisfaction 2 *8" and a lower price than you expect. " 4 THE MUTUAL GARAGE ? m House Phone 55 C. A. ASENDORF, Prop. Shop Phone ^5 >9* Jm DENMARK, S. C. ? Southern Railway PREMIER CARRIER OF THE SOUTH. PASSENGER TRAINS SCHEDULES EFFECEIVE SEPT. 17, 1916. All Trains Run Daily. No. Arrive Bamberg From No. Leave Bamberg For 5>i Ancnsta and intprmedi- 24 Branchville, Charleston ate stations 5:05 a. m. and intermediate sta-^ 25 Charleston, Branchville _ tions 5:05 a.m. and intermediate sta- 25 Augusta and intermetions 6:25 a. m. diate stations 6:25 a. m. 18 Augusta and intermedi- 18 Branchville, Charleston ate stations 8:43 a. m. and intermediate sta35 Charleston and inter- An^ncfa anfi inTormoHV^ 43 & m mediate stations ...,10:57 a.m. 3o Au5"sl* intermed " . rt_ . -j. ate stations 10:57 a.m. -2 Augusta and intermedi- 22 Branchville, Charleston ate stations 6:37 p. m. an(j intermediate sta7 Charleston, Branchville, tions 6:37p.m. and intermediate sta- 17 Augusta and intermeditions 8:17 p. m. ate stations 8:17 p. m. Trains Nos. 17 and 24?Through sleeping car service between Bamberg and Atlanta. N. B.?Schedules published as information only. Not guaranteed. 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