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STORY OF SERGT. TIMMOXS. Brave Lynchburg lioy Met Death Trying to Relieve Soldiers at Front. To Lieutenant L. J. .Morse, morale officer aboard the transport Pocahontas, which docked at Charleston Thursday, March 27, with nearly three thousand men and officers of the thirtieth division, goes the credit for solving what proved to be one of the most baffling mysteries of the war, the disappearance of Sergeant Charles E. Timmons, of Lynchburg, S. C., who is still officially "missing in acuun. Lieutenant Morse made the trip with Pocahontas as morale officer, in which capacity he worked day and night, with the cooperation of Robert Struthers, of New York city, and Thomas E. Babb, of Worcester, Mass., both Y. M. C. A. men, entertaining and caring for the wants of the officers and men throughout the long and tiresome voyage from France, and it was in this way that he came across the information as to the missing South Carolina boy. ] It is a story in which is blended strangely, but beautifully, sacrifice, loyal friendship, and pathos. Sergeant Charles E. Timmons, of Lynchburg, company A, 118th infantry, the old first South Carolina regiment, "was reported "missing in action" on September 24, 1918. For , some unaccountable reason his mother, Mrs. Charles Timmons, never received notification. Hearing notning irom ner son since eariy in September her intuition told her something was amiss and at once * every possible means of information was made use of. But to no avail? until the transport Pocahontas docked and word of the fate of her son was hurried to the heroine mother with all dispatch. * V v" * "When I was in Newport News in January," said Lieutenant Morse, "in charge of the personnel transportation work of the Princess Matika, Lieutenant Timmons, the brother of the mising man, asked me to see what I could find out in France. When I got to Paris I saw all the welfare oijganizations, the American Rea Cross; the Y. M. C. A.?all of them, and they tried hard to gain some knowledge of the missing veteran's v whereabouts, but in vain. To all purpose, Sergeant Timmons had vanish i ed. "Qn this last trip home on the Po * cahontas, coincidence or fate ruled + >io+ tVia eaviraont'o worv r>r(rani7!>tinn buab tUU 5VUUV O ? V* J V* should he aboard, including Major William D. Workman, of 315 Anderson street, Greenville, his battalion commander, Captain S/D. Willie, of 1 315 Earle street, Greenville; his company commander, Sergeant Harold R. Turner, of 117 Memminger street. Greenville; his first sergeant, and Corporal William Peeples, of Estill, who was with him when he met his end?for it appears practically cer/< tain that the brave South Carolinian is no more. "Major Workman, who was on special duty elsewhere when Timmons, who was the supply sergeant of his company, went out on the mission that was to prove fatal, at once wrote the sergeant's mother's." An excerpt from the major's letter folloWs: "On September 23rd the 59th brigade took over the line near Hargicourt with Charlie's regiment in the line. D company was on the left of Hargicourt and failed to send a guide to battalion headquarters to guide its ration party forward. Charlie volunteered to guide the ration party which consisted of about thirty men. Major Mahon showed Charlie the route on the map and warned him not to go if he had any doubts of his ability to find D company. cnarlie said ne was certain ne couia guide the party and took charge. The party was heavily loaded with water and rations and Charlie told them to leave their rifles at battalion headquarters. "The party started out with Charlie and Corporal Peeples in charge. On the second halt Charlie told the party to remain where it was while he and Peeples went on forward to locate D company. The two boys went on and on in the moonlight until suddenly they were challenged in German by two men who immediately opened fire at about ten paces. Charlie crumpled and fell without a word or sound and Peeples immediately jumped into a ditch. Machine guns opened fire and the Gerr ?ns began to advance. Peeples realized that he could do nothing against so many, but that he could save the rest of the party and started to run back. "He met the party and led them back to battalion headquarters. Char lie's friends at once started to form a party to rescue him or bring back his body if he had been killed. Just at this minute a large shell landed at the entrance of battalion headquarters and killed or wounded ten men. The wounded had to be cared for and Major Mahon, on examining the map and hearing Weples's story, realized . that Charlie had penetrated deeply into the German lines and that only j SUGAR BOWL DYNAMITE. Making From Sweets the Glycerine of High Explosives. A few cubes of sugar and presto! A shell breaks over the terrain to shiver into fragments which maim and kill! Just a few tablespoonfuls of molasses and science is enabled to blow the gnarled stumps out of the unyielding earth with the same material which makes the farmer wife's gingerbread. By the direction of Daniel C. Roper, the commissioner of internal revenue of the United States treasury department, a new process has been perfected for obtaining glycerine from sugar and sweets. The experiments on which the report has been filed were made under the sunervision of the chief chemist of the department, A. B. Adams, a member of the American chemical society. When Dr. Alonzo Taylor was in Germany about two years ago he found that the Teutons had run short of fats from which glycerine is usually made and had raided the sugar bowl. It was on this information that a special laboratory was established in the United States treasury and several experts, including John R. Eoff, W. E. Linder and B. F. Beyer began the researches into this method of obtaining glycerine. Pasteur, the noted French chemist, had years before discovered that a small quantity of glycerine developed in the fermentation of sugar and that it was traceable in wine and beer. The chemist, therefore, fermented sugars and molasses with yeast and from the mash thus obtained produced the glycerine. The wave Of prohibition which is about to swoon tVm nnnntrv tHIT Tint ctnn thp distillation of alcohol for industrial and mechanical purposes and for fuel. There will probably be more alcohol distilled than ever before, but it will be denatured and made absolutely unfit for drinking purposes. The manufacturing chemists of the United States are preparing none the less to produce it on a larger scale , than ever before, subject to the supervision of the department of internal revenue. Several large concerns are making alcohol from cheap molasses brought from the West Indies. This molasses, which is uneatable is known as "black strap." The treasury department of the internal revenue chemists have been able, however, to ferment it and to obtain not only alcohol but to so use the residue that they get glycerine. Four lots of "black strap" of l,OOfcO gallons each-, turned out a very excellent quantity of glycerine. There are 100 gallons of this clear dynamite glycerine as it is called, now on exhibition in the treasury department. Samples of it treated with nitric acid by a well known firm of explosive makers at the request of the government, produced as good a nitroglycerine as the market affords. Nitroglycerine, when incorporated with pulp or other inert substances, becomes dynamite. Thus out of the simple sweets of the sugar bowl | comes forth the strength which will rend the rock. Now that the was is over the de mand for high explosives will not' be so great, but at the same time^there are many uses to which it can be turned in times of peace. It is especially valuable for blowing up heavy and clay soils which would ordinarily resist the plow of the farmer. Excellent crops are produced from land treated' in this way and general shaking up is conducive of the better action of the nitrifying bacteria in the ground. Young Camouflage Artist. Bessie is a bright one. The other day her teacher set her and school mates to drawing, letting them choose their own subjects. After the teacher had examined what the other children had drawn, she took up Bessie's sheet. "Why, what's this?" she said. "You haven't drawn anything at ail, child." "Please, teacher, yes, I have," returned Bessie. "It's a war picture? a long line of ammunition wagons at the front. You cant see 'em 'cause they re camouflaged. ?Boston Transcript. an attack in force could possibly reach the place where Charlie had fallen. "We were under orders for a tremendous set attack and were ordered not to launch an attack before the zero hour on the day set. So nothing could be done." Sergeant Timmons was the first American to be taken by the Huns in that particular sector?the Cambrai area?and according to the men of the organization the Huns were not in the habit of burying the dead then, for they were retreating. To a man they are convinced that their popular comrade was killed and his body carried to the rear, and examined for possible information, then buried in some obscure grave. 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