Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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u SEEING THE FIGHTING FRONT, j How Tourists Are Conducted On the Danger Zone. How parties of "distinguished neutrals," usually Americans, are "taken to the front" was told recently in a Paris cafe which the "war correspondents" frequent. "You've no idea how many people, women as well as men. insist on being taken to the front," said the officer who was explaining that it was his official duty to "guide" these parties. "There are men and women who come over here and explain that they have been sewing shirts for soldiers or collecting pennies for poilus for a long time and feel that in order to continue carrying on their work properly they should see war waged at first hand so that they could describe it at home, you know. "Well, we have several different ?1?? + V* r\c?r\ no rf ioc: places wnere vve iorc mt-jc v.v~. On& is on the old battlefield of the Champagne offensive of the fall of 1915, and more recently we have used our old first line positions in the Sonnne sector. Then up in the Vosges we have a spot where the fighting line today is several miles in front of where it once was. "As Safe as Chicago." "There are always plenty of troops. behind the lines all along the front, ' so that the old trenches never havej the appearance of being deserted, i And they look a little battered, too, as wo do not bother to repair them and strengthen them continually as we do the actual fighting positions. "We take our sight-seers out to a .rail-head behind the lines and whirl them furiously for thirty or forty miles in army motor cars, and then stop somewhere, in a spot auoui as safe as Chicago. There we hand out gas masks to the ladies and gentlev men, although the former usually refuse to put them on because it disarranges their hair, and we have to promise to warn them when a gas attack is signalled. "We also hand them all steel hel* mets to put on in case shells break near* us. "Ttfen we walk them a good distance,, until they are pretty tired, * <" explaining that it would be likely to ' draw the enemy's fire if the automobile advanced .nearer to the front. In a Real Trench. "Finally we lead them into a trench, making them keep down below the parapet all the time so that German snipers won't see them and pick them off. Once in a while we hand them binoculars and ask them if they don't see the grey clad Boches way over there, and they usually answer that they do. If an aeroplane flies overhead they usually spot - it at once as a Fokker?Taubes they call them still although all of that old model have been sent to the Russian front?and when they decide that it's an enemy machine it would - be discourteous for me to deny it. I let them all hide in a dugout or trench cave until the machine passes. "Sometimes I find a few poilus and get some practice grenades for them to throw out front, and when they go off like fire crackers it pro* duces some effect on the tourists, . ' who want to know right away if they ; are under fire." The officer was asked if he did not enjoy acting as guide to tourists, since there was no real danger in it. "No," he replied, "there's no real danger in it, but it annoys one extremely to have to wear a heavy steel helmet for hours when there is absolutely no sense in doing it, and to have to breathe through a gummy, acid smelling gas mask when the only gas anywhere near is the acetylene used for the automobile lights/' "Why Briar is Abandoned in Tropics. It has long been known that pipesmokers in the tropics have to abandon the briar. They usually wonder why the change of climate should work such a great change in the amount of satisfaction to be derived from a pipe. This has been answered by an English physician, Dr. Gilbert Brooke, who recently conducted a series of experiments in Singapore. These are his conclusions: Moist tobacco gives hotter smoke than dry tobacco. Fine tobacco gives markedly hotter smoke than coarse-cut tobacco. Smoke from briar is considerably hotter in the tropics than in cold cli mates, especially with fine-cut tobacco* Smoke from briar is always hotter than breath temperature, although with a coarse tobacco on a cold winter's day the difference in temperature would hardly be noticeable. Variations in air temperature or in the type of tobacco used have comparatively little effect on the temperature of calabash smoke?the latter always being cooler than the temperature of the breath. Calabash smoke is 14 to 24 degrees cooler than briar. A coarse-cut tobacco, dry and smoked in a calabash would seem to be the acme of cool pipe smoking.? Philadelphia Record. MORE AIRMEN NEEDED. Our Poor Equipment of Experienced Men. The airship has been even more effective than the submarine in altering the conduct of modern warfare. writes Thos. F. Logan, in Leslie's. Through its use much of the old time strategy has been made impossible. Some idea of the casualties experienced by flyers may be gathered from the statement issued by Germany that more than 1,000 enemy airships were brought to the ground last year. We are poorly equipped as regards experienced airmen. According to the Aero club there are only fifty reserve aviators under training, although the train [ ing of 500 aviators for the aerial reserve corps was authorized by the president last July. The club further declares that more than 1,500 applications from volunteers had been received direct by the aviation section of the array, and that fully 2,000 more young men had volunteered through its organization. The offer of Orville Wright to abandon his private affairs and devote his talents exclusively to the air work of the government is in gratifying keeping with similar offers by others in their special lines. Mr. Wright favors the small, light-climbing plane, armed with a single gun. He holds that these are greatly preferable to the larger and more unwieldly craft, and is of the opinion that Zeppelins or dirigibles are virtually useless except for observation purposes. He asserts that a good military aerial observer can be trained in at out two weeks. Ballet Girls and the Bible. An interesting experiment in missionary work has been stimulated by a biblical play in New York. It is a large production, with a number of well known actors and a large ballet. The secretary of the Bible society has delivered at the stage door of the theatre a Bible for each member of the ballet. His idea is that the girls will read it in their dressing rooms while they are waiting for the call boy. Apparently he did not leave any copies for the principals, though he announces his intention to place a Bible in every dressing room in the city. The idea is an excellent one; it has already been put into practice in the case of hotel bed rooms. Perhaps it would be uncivil as well as inaccurate to assume that the ballet girls need Bibles more than other persons. There are good, bad and indifferent among them, as among any other class in the community; you can no more indict a profession than you can indict a whole people. Even the worst is doubtless kind to her mother. But it must be admitted that, moral or religious consideration aside, the Bible is a much-neglected book in these days, though no one can be considered well read who is ignorant of it. That may be partly the fault of those who profess most to respect it. The uninstructed do not always understand that it is not a mere collection of "texts," to be used mainly for argument or denunciation. The Old Testament is a library of ancient Jewish literature, filled, not only with moral exaltation, but with poetry and philosophy. There is nothing in the Greek dramatists more wonderful in its way than the Book of Ecclesiastes, though some regard it as purely secu lar, and hold that its note of pessimism should have excluded it from the canonical writings. Any ballet girl or other explorer after a good English style should devote nights and days to the study of it. Then there [ is the Book of Job?a magnificent drama, despite the flaw of the happy ending, a concession by the writer to the Philistines of his time.' It is somewhat difficult to consider so impartially the New Testament. Yet this is after all primarily a body ofearly Christian literature, of transcendent importance because it contains four biographies of Jesus, as j well as the writings of St. Paul, the [ first and greatest of Christian theologians. Even so it is quite as much a testimony of the authenticity of the church and its teachings as a touchstone of doctrine. Surely the whole world should read the Bible, and become familiar with it. The too general ignorance of it has already had a deplorable effect upon our younger writers, who have not the charm of their elders largely because of the lack of distinction and elevation of language which they drew from searching the Scriptures.?Philadelphia Public Ledger. Millennial. Twin auditoriums, each seating 19,000, are forecast for this town. They should be used, four years hence, for twin political conventions. The two auditoriums will be instantly convertible into a single one seating 38,000. When the two parties have adopted identical platforms consisting of a single plank calling for unlimited service to humanity the folding doors may be thrown open.? New York Sun. PROVINCIALISM. Conditions That Are Resjxmsible for It. Provincialism is a state of mind rather than a geographical condition, says Hamilton \Y. Mabie. in the March Harper's, and much of the literature which has the widest significance and the richest of meaning for the largest number of people came from men of intense local feeling and narrow local experience. The men who wrote it lived in villages or small cities, but they were not villageminded; what they lacked in breadth of experience they made up in depth of insight. If a writer goes deep enough he strikes into the soil in which all formative ideas have their roots. Madame Horr said shrewdly that Thoreau always spoke as if nature had been born and brought up in Concord. It was a keen criticism, but Thoreau unconsciously parried it by his remark to the friend who loaned him Kane's Arctic Voyage, that he had seen in the neighborhood of Concord most of the phenomena reported by the explorer. It sometimes seems as if provincialism throve more lustily in democratic than in aristocratic communities; but this is due chiefly to the passion for expression in those who feel the impulse of the liberated energy of the human spirit. In older communities men have little inclination to speak, as a rule, unless they have had some training for expression; in this country, on the other hand, talking is the inalienable right of the free-born American. He may speak out of a dense ignorance of the subject, but in his opinion and practice speaking is not an art which one must learn, but a public duty to which one is born. A Xovel Banquet. "It was a novel dinner." "That so. I presume they pulled a lot of new ideas?" "No. Only one." "Didn't they have cabaret singers, and balloons to blow up and explode, and a fancy dancer or two and a quartette?" "No. They did away with all of that sort of disturbance and announced that they had decided that possibly their guests might like a quiet minute or two during which they could visit with each other and carry on a conversation uninterrupted. You can't imagine the hit it made with everybody!"?Detroit Free Press. RUB OUT PAIN i with good oil liniment. That's the surest way to stop them. ^The best rubbing liniment is J MUSTANG LINIMENT ! Good for the Ailments of 1 Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. Good for your own A chest Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains, Cuts, Burns, Etc. | 25c. 50c. $1. At all Dealers. J E. H. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law General Practice. Loans Negotiated. Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up System The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GROVE'S TAS* ELES0 chill TONIC, drives out Malaria.enrichesthe blood,and builds up the sys? tem. A true tonic. For adults and children. 50c. A. B. UTSEY % LIFE INSURANCE Bamberg, South Carolina Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives oat Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. Opinions from Folks Who Know For malarial headache, Granger Liver Regulator entirely relieved my trouble.?J. Height, Wetumpka, Ala. Had heavy headache. Vomited twice to six times a day. Four doses of Granger Liver Regulator made me well.?Loundas P. Brindley, Somerville, Ala. Mother had sick headache. Granger Liver Regulator did her more good than all the medicine she had taken before.?Pearley Davis, Pacio, Ala. I never expect to be without it in my home.?Jenie Usey, Gadsden, Ala. It is a great saver of doctors' bills. ?Louis N. Kent, Honeraville, Ala. . There is none better.?Dr. T. E. Cothram, Alexis, Ala. All druggists sell Granger Livei Regulator?25c, Try it. [SALE OF LAXI> UXDEIJ ORDER OF ' * COURT. United States of America?Eastern District of South Carolina?In the ! District Court in Equity. S. S. Ray, trustee in Bankruptcy, ! Complainant, against Enterprise Bank, of Bamberg, Mrs. Bertha Riddle, Mrs. E. E. Ellery, Defendants. Under and by virtue of a decree made in the above entitled cause, filed Feb. 15, 1917, I will offer for sale and sell (subject to confirmation by the Court), at public auction, before the Court House of Bamberg County, S. C., at 11 o'clock, a. m., on the second day of April, A. D., 1917: PARCEL A: "ALL those certain lots of land, situate, lying and being in the town of Denmark, in tne County of Bamberg, in the State of South Carolina, on the line of the South Bound Railroad Company, 1 nown as lots No. 1 and 2 in block 53 on the map or plat of said town of Denmark, with the buildings thereon; bounded as follows: On the North by lot No. 3 j in said block 53; on the East by a I lane; on the South by Sixth street, and on the West by Palmetto avenue. ALSO "ALL those certain lots of land known as lots 21, 22, 23, and 24, being the western half of said lots Nos. 21, 22, 23, and 24, in said block 53 here by mortgage and bounded North by lot No. 20 in block 53; on the East by the eastern half of said lots Nos. 21, 22, 23, 24, in said block 53; South by Sixth street and West by a lane, measuring front on Sixth street, fifty feet more or less, by one hundred feet, more or less on said lane. Being same lots of land conveyed to Reka Rich by Philip Rich by his deed dated the sixteenth day of June, 1897, and recorded in the clerk's office for Barnwell County in Book 6-T, at page 173. ALSO "ALL those certain lots of land situate, lying and being in the town of Denmark, in Bamberg County, in said State, known as lots 3 and 4, in block 53 on map or plat of town of Denmark, and bounded on the North by lots now or formerly of C. L. Wroton; on the East by a lane; on the South by lot No. 2, in block 53, and on the West by Palmetto avenue, being thae same lots conveyed to Reka Rich by\ L. S. Trotti by his deed dated the first day of January, 1897, and recorded in Barnwell County in Book 6-H, at page 450. And being same land conveyed to the said C. C. Ellzey by Reka Rich* by her deed of conveyance dated 29th day of November, 1904, and recorded in the office of the clerk of court for Bamberg County, in Book E, at page 190." PARCEL B: "ALL those certain lots of land, with the buildings and improvemehts thereon, situate, lying and being in the town of Denmark, County of Bamberg, and State of South Carolina, and known and described in a plat of said town of Denmark, as lots Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, in block 54 of said town, which said plat or map was made by W. J. Gooding, Jr., civil engineer, and bears date Dec. 22nd, 1896, and is recorded in the office of the clerk of court for Bamberg' County, South Carolina." Terms of sale cash, purchaser to pay all taxes becoming due and payable after the 15th day of February, 1917. A. M. HUGER, 3-29. Special Master. RILEY & COPELANDl Successors to W. P. Riley. Fire, Life Accident INSURANCE Office in J. D. Cooeland's Store BAMBERG, 8. C. I Plies Cured In 6 to 14 Days ' Your druggist will refnnd money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. The first application gives Ease and Rest. 50c. Best material and workman- I ship, light running, requires little power; simple, easy to handle. Are made in several sizes and are good, substantial money-making machines down to the smallest size. Write for catolog showing Engines, Boilers and all Saw Mill supplies. LOMBARD IRON WORKS & SUPPLY CX). Augusta, Ga. ^ Dr. THOMAS BLACK, JR. DENTAL SURGEON. Graduate Dental Department University of Maryland. Member S. C. State Dental Association. Office opposite new post office and over office of H. M. Graham. Office hours, 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. BAMBERG. S. C. R. P. BELLINGER ATTORNEY AT LAW MONEY TO LOAN. Office Over Bamberg Banking Co. General Practice I To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It stops the Cough and Headache and works off the Cold. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. 25c. ) I J. F. Caller B. D. Caiter | | CARTER & CARTER Attorneys-at-Law GENERAL PRACTICE BAMBERG, S. C. 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