Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FEAR GERMANY MAY LOSE. Teuton Officers Taken Prisoners in Flanders lhive Talk Freely. British Headquarters in France and Belgium, August o.?German officers captured in the battle in Flanders have discussed quite freely both the military and political situation as it affects the fatherland. Germany's loss in man-power they admit to be serious. The interesting information has been volunteered by these prisoners that the entire class of 191S recruits j now is in the field in its entirety, and, what is more significant, it is said small elements of the 1919 class were on the battle front. The whole trend of the statement made by these captive officers is that they are beginning to fear they may lose the war. More depressing than anything else is the fear that there may be another winter campaign. Peace without annexation or indemnity is endorsed by all the officers who have discussed the question, but most of them have indicated that they favor the annexation of Eastern Belgium and a part of the coast of Flanders, if such a thing possibly could be done. Terrible Cost. * The men are highly intelligent. An officer who has madrt a stuay or economic matters saiti uie war already was costing the fatherland ten billion marks annually in interest charges. He appeared to be deeply impressed by the gravity of the situation. Almost without exception the German officers still maintain that Germany is innocent of causing the war and say there is "all manner of documentary evidence to prove it." Gas Shells Effective. Discussing the present battle, the ^ German officers say that the British ^ gas shell bombardment on the two nights preceding the opening of the infantry charge was most effective and that the Germans suffered heavily. The Guard Fusiliers were heavy gassed Sunday and Monday nights. Sunday night they were still in their supporting positions, but the following night, preceding the battle, they were in the process of carrying out a relief movement. The men wore gas helmets, but the gas clouds from the British penetrated the helmets and large numbers of the tropps were overcome. A German division which was be. ing held in support on the back line crossing the Ypres-Menin road also suffered severely. So disastrous was the effect of the gas at this point that at least one battalion which was being rushed up to the relief of the men in the front lines never reached its objective. It is the irony of fate that it was in this section of the front that the Germans early in the war Sor the first time in history inaugurated use of gas shells. Refined Savagery, This. "They have cut out my tongue. 0, For God's sake send help." These words were written under a stamp on a letter received from Fred Stone, aged about 27, by a friend in North Carolina, according to reports received from Kingston, N. C. Stone holds a commission in the v British army and was captured by Germans. The letter itself contained no reference to torture, but his friends say the Germans would compel him to write only of kind treatment and that his message under the ~ " ? TinitA onnoal for niH SlttUip ? clz> a uxubv v.v. it . , New Luminous Paints. A ?-?i? New Luminous paints for varied uses have been brought into increased demand by the war, and the best results have been obtained from those consisting essentially of prepared zinc sulphide with a small percentage of radioactive material. To determine the brightness and life of different mixtures, elaborate tests have been made at the British National Physical laboratory. It is found that increasing the radium adds to the brightness, but also inI creases the cost and the rate of de* cay, the differences in brightening and decay becoming much less after a few months. Keeping cost in mind, it is concluded that the most satisfactory paint has one part of radium to about 5,000 of zinc sulphide. ?^ In Him. i "Children," said the teacher, instructing the class in composition, "you should not attempt any flights of fancy, but write what is in you." As a result of this advice Bobbie turned in the following composition: "We should not attempt any flites of fancy, but rite what is in us. In e me there is my stummick, lungs, liver, two apples, two cakes and my dinner."?Current Events. Did He Have It? "Well, little miss", said the grocer, "what can I do for you?" "Please, sir, mother wants a bottle of good-natured alcohol."?Boston Transcript. h" BUT ONE CASE. Only OiLe Trial for WiUUcraft't in the South Held in Tennessee. This case of witchcraft was in the year 1835, and originated on the | banks of Obey's river, a tributary of the Cumberland, and in Fentress j county, Tenn. It was first tried be! fore Joshua Owens, a justice o.t ths peace at that time. An old man named Stout, who lived in a very quiet way in the neighborhood, who did not attend church, who had been sitting up late at night, reading strange books, and about whose early history nothing | was known, was suspected of being a wizard, and when a daughter of one Taylor was taken violently ill with a disease that the doctor could not diagnose, it was determined to arrest old man Stout for bewitching her. A large posse was secured, and guns were loaded with silver bullets, for it was thought that nothing less would kill a wizard. The old man was arrested and brought to trial before Esquire Owens. A vast array of witnesses testiI fied as to his habits, and added that they had seen him escape from dwelling houses through the keyholes in the doors, and that he had thrown people and animals into strange spells by his influence when they were miles away from him. The officers and posse subjected him to a great many indignities, and he was held to await the action of the grand jury. When court convened Judge Abraham Caruthers, who was on the bench, and who founded the great law school Cumberland university, at Lebanon, Tenn., and Gen. John B. McCormick, the prosecuting attorney, refused to indict the old man. The action of the court and the attorney general almost precipitated a riot, it is said, in the court room. Old man Stout then sued the officers and posse for damages, and they pleaded as a defense that they were in the act of arraigning a criminal, and cited the statutes of Henry VII and James I, making witchcraft a felony, which they declared had never been repealed in Tennessee. Thus ended the first and only trial for witchcraft in Tennessee by the conviction of the persons who had arrested him -and subjected him to great indignities. DANCE MUSIC BY WIRELESS. Catchy Fox Trots Sent 31 Miles Through the Air. Dancing to music transmitted by wireless was a novelty ottered tne other night to guests at a house party in the home in Morristown, N. J., of Theodore Gaty, vice president of the Fidelity and Casualty company. The music was played in the laboratory of fche De Forrest Radio company at Highbridge, this city, and was received at the Gaty home on an instrument so delicate that it has picked up radio signals sent from the German government station at Berlin. The fox trots and waltzes played 31 miles from the Gaty home were made sufficiently loud by an ampiflying device designed by P. F. Goodley, an electrical engineer of Montclair. The plan was suggested after music sent from the De Forrest laboratories had been heard by accident. Music has also come over the Gaty aerial from New Rochelle. The receiver caught the sounds so distinctly that it recorded remarks of the sender and the grinding of the: spring as the phonograph was wound. ! Mr. Gaty and his two sons, one of whom is a student at Cornell univer sity, have made a hobby or wireless and have a very elaborate plant. Spurned His Money. A judge who used to wear very lon^, waving hair, was on his way to eourt when he was accosted by a little street bootblack, with an exceptionally dirty face, with the customary "Shine, sir?" He was very importunate, and the judge, being .impressed with the terrible state of the boys' face, said: "I don't want a shine, but if you'll go and wash your face I'll give you sixpence. "All right, sir." "Well, let me see you do it." The boy went to a neighboring fountain and made his ablutions. Returning he held out his hand | for the sixpence. The judge said: "Well, you earned your money. Here it is." But the boy said: *T don't want your money, old fel low. You can take it and nave your] hair cut," and forthwith scampered! off.?Life. Super-Knergy. Little Jane aNd Josephine werej busily engaged in helping mother dry i the dinner dishes. "But Jane, yon didn't get that plate dry." objected her sister. "Yes, I did," exclaimed Jane eagerly. "I dried it so hard that it perspired!"?The Delineator. Head The Herald, $1.50 per year. Don't Poison With that Caloi It is almost a crime to dose children with calomel?that nauseating, poisonous mineral that some folks still think is the one thing that will relieve constipation, headache and other bilious conditions. I wouldn't give calomel to a dog unless I wanted to kill it. When you need liver or stomacn medicine, use a safe, guaranteed vegetable preparation like Martin's Liver Medicine. It tastes good. It acts powerfully on the liver and bowels without pain or griping. And it often saves one from a spell of sickness. One of the best known men in Haddock, Ga., is C. H. Keller. On the 12th of May he wrote the following letter to the proprietors of Martin's Liver Medicine: "I have five children in school and all of them showed decided sallowness and were very sluggish. I gave each oi them a dose of Martirt'* Bi^er Medicine night and morning for tw? day*. Their complexions cleared up and they are now normal children in every respect. The medicine did not interFor Sale By MACK'S DR1 I mm IU1 Enlist For Colle Genral Wood says: "Urj THEIR EDUCATION." Secretary Baker "says: tions; second, food; third NEWBERRY I offers a large number of large and able Faculty, succeeded in keeping the cation within the reach of I NEWBERRY I maintains the four college 1 entrance requirements, a: NEWBERRY offers courses leading to OLOGY, TEACHING, BUi NEWBERRY offers a course in MILT hours a week, with credit NEXT SESSION OPE 2 Write for catalogue and I || PRESIDENT J.I ATA. A^A aT^ A^A A^A A^A ATI AT? T^T T^T y 0 T^" y^f T^T T^f | "Tll I Hartford Fire 1 Y V Came Back f ?? T Y I Am Prepared to HI T * ?? Do you believe f NESS and RECI V I can protect yo f you want my pi X SWAP" | G. MOYEI i . e j mi E. H. HENDERSON Attomey-at-Lafw j General PdmUm. Louk Negotiated. | I / t Your Child Sickening mel. fere with them in school and did not gripe like liver medic.jie formerly used. My youngest child, three years old, was sick last summer and it took careful nursing and the attention of physicians to save him, and I am sure that a few doses of Martin's Liver Medicine has prevented a recurrence of the same trouble. Therefore I feel it my duty to others to let them know what Martin's Liver Medicine did in my home." You run no risk in buying Martin's Liver Medicine. It is a recognized y/4 nrflnorofirtn TTiaflo POnTfl lTI C otaiiuoiu MWW* % ? 0 to the prescription of a prominent Southern physician. It is composed of absolutely pure drugs and is guaranteed to give positive satisfaction. If after taking a bottle of it you are dissatisfied with the result, carry the empty bottle to your druggist and you -will receive your 50c back. If your druggist hasn't Martin's Liver Medicine; he can easily get it for you. Do not accept any substitute. There is no other medicine "just as good." L'G STORE, Bamberg, S. C. I 1 ION I HOOTS! I VI/AJA 1 AMI B ge in September I *e young men TO FINISH BE "We need first; muni- H , EDUCATED MEN." B ( COLLEGE I Courses of Stydy, under a fl And for sixty years it has fl cost of a real college edu- fl ' the people. fl ( COLLEGE I classes, with the standard fl ad a Sub-Freshman Class. B r COLLEGE 11 LAW, MEDICINE, THE- I B 3INESS, ENGINEERING. I B f COLLEGE I TARY TRAINING, three B XS SEPTEMBER 20 , j| descriptive literature to ppf IENRY HARMS I iRY, S. C. || ! Old V t Insurance Co." I to Me Again ? ~*} X Ink Your Insurance T in PREPARED- t PROCITY, if so f u from fire, and V itronage, "LET'S V ' | IICK1NS0N 1 ? i ' - J J. I TJia Quinine Tbat Boes Not Attest The Heas Because of ks tonic and laxative effect, LAXATIVE; BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary Quinine and does not cause nervomsoess'aor ngring ia hcbd. Remember the fuH aame smd look for the sisrnature. of E. W. GROVE. 25c. Read Tiie Herald, $1.50 a year. 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