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====== ROMANCE OF THE SOUVENIR. Often Stories of I>aring Are Invented to Add to the Interest. The boys in France used to say and perhaps you have heard it too, that the French were fighting for terriv tory, England was fighting for supremacy of the seas and the American ^ doughboys were fighting for souvenirs. While I do not exactly subscribe to the saying myself, it is a fact that the lads from the States were awfully keen about laying their hands on all kinds of souvenirs and mementoes of the Germans and French and I doubt \V if among a couple of million Sammies who were overseas from the beginning to the end of the war, there were a dozen who returned without some German or French article. French soldiers and French civiltft/na worp rmirlr tn lparn nf the weak ness of Americans for souvenirs, and they managed to secure them in great abundance to sell to the boys at a big profit." The tradesmen had German guns and bullets and clothing and shoes and in fact articles of every description which they offered for sale and the doughboys were eager to > ^ buy anything "made in Germany." German money greatly depreciated on the financial market long before the end of the war; although the American souvenir hunters boosted it up all that they could and many Frenchmen and even German prisoners made a good thing out of selling German coins to the American lads ^ for several times their value. ' German Buttons. Absence of buttons from the unlforms of^German prisoners confined in various sections of France in which I was stationed from time to time was > - quite conspicious. It happened this way: Americans would capture a big! m: Knnnli a f Mormon nyieonorc \Tur?v I/UUVU VJL U1UU yi lOVUVl aumm^ f ' times before they fed them they s, would cut the buttons off their uniforms and send the buttons back to the States as souvenirs to relatives and friends. ' The other day I was talking to a certain York county young lady who was wearing a hatpin, the knob of which was a button off a German military uniform. j She told me that a young friend of **v' hers, a lieutenant who lives in anothv. er State had a hand to hand encountgsT er with a German officer during the fierce fighting on the Somme. The PI battle lasted long and waged furiously until finally her "looey" shot the M German officer dead and just for 0 * greens cut a few buttons off the dead Hun's coat, one of which he sent to . her and she had it made into a hat.;v -pin. took her story in all seriousness p- and listened to her glowing account of her hero's adventure and his vicv'f tory with the utmost respect, al $).l though I didn't believe a word of it, .since I had known friends of mine - to buy German buttons for two francs ? a pieee and cheaper and spend twelve hours over the composition of a letter y. <" Which they sent some doll back here ik the State, and in which letter they told how they had cut the buttons off ||| the coat of some German soldier whom they had seen in mighty conflict. "Is the friend who sent you tne A,..- ? ; button a first lieutenant or a second ^ lieutenant?" I politely inquired. V '"Why, I think he is a second lieut \ tenant," she replied. "I am not real sure. Is there a difference in lieu j tenants," she inquired. "Yes, ma'am, there is a difference vin lieutenants," I said. And then she laughed a happy little W laugh and said "he is a very brave r lieutenant, don't you think. And he . Is so thoughtful to send me the butV ton." . The conversation ended there; but I could not help wondering what non . com or buck private that lieut. bought the button from. But all that is a digression. Most of the souvenirs expect buttons consisted of articles of war captured Corman? in thpir flicrht. You a. a via* vivammmw 0 3^ v see after the Jerries started to running towards home, they dropped everything they could, including guns, canteens, helmets, ammunition, surplus clothes and all. Millions of 4pllars worth of this property was discarded and thrown into rivers and . . ^ creeks along the roads, in the woods ?just anywhere the necessity for less weight and more speed appealed - stronger to the fleeing soldiers. Allied troops following^ stopped to pick up some of these articles, especially the Americans?for souvenirs. Among other things I sent home a German helmet picked up out of the m Rhine river. I didn't pick it up myP self. I never got into Germany. But a friend of mine rturning from conv voy up into Germany brought back a ~ whole automobile truck load of helmets and other accoutrements of the Germans. He sold them like hot cakes and realized a goodly return for his enterprise. Rings From Coins. French souvenirs were almost as much in demand as German tokens. Notable among these souvenirs was the French two-franc piece. The K SUGAR SHORTAGE THREATENED. Head of Sugar Hoard Says Still Chance to Buy Cuban Crop. Washington, Oct. 3.?Told by George A. Zabriskie, president of the sugar equalization board, it was practically certain that unless some legislative action was taken immediately sugar prices would increase after January 1. the Senate committee investigating the sugar shortage today requested W. A. Glasgow, counsel for the food administration, to formulate legislation designed to alleviate the i situation and to make possible nego tiations for purchasing the 1 920 Cuban sugar crop. The committee made its request after Mr. Zabriskie had testified that, despite urgin% by the sugar equalization board. President Wilson had failed to authorize purchase of the Cuban crop, after he, at Chairman McNary's insistence, had presented his correspondence with the President. The, Cuban government withdrew its offer of the sugar crop September 23, Zabriskie said. He added, however, that means might yet be found to obtain the Cuban sugar if legislative action could be had immediately. It would be necessary also, he said, to make nrnvicfrm fnr onnlniiation of the SU gar equilization board, which automatically goes out of existence December 31. The Young Naturalist. Little Jimmy was fond of giving realistic touches to his reading lesson. He had been corrected repeatedly by his teacher for adding matter that was not in the book. The lesson was about pigs one day. Jimmy read the concluding sentence: "And the little pig said, "Wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee,?." Just then teacher interrupted him. "Jimmy, read that last sentence again. Can't you see that in the book there are only two 'wee's'?" Jimmy looked up defiantly. "Teacher," he declared, "there never was a little pig that said 'wee, wee,' just twice, and then stopped!" American lads wanted them to make j silver rings. The coin is slightly smaller than our fifty cent piece. By beating them down with a hammer they may be fashioned into a very 'beautiful ring. Thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of these coins were made into rings and sent home and brought home by the American soldiers. Indeed the supply of French twofranc pieces disappeared at such a rapid rate because of their conversion into rings that the problem was one which caused much embarrassment to the French government, which seriously considered the idea of discontinuing minting any more of the coins. German prisoners made big money fashioning toys, etc., out of bits of wood and iron which they sold to the American souvenir fiends. ' I know an American second lieutenant who purchased a German pistol from an American soldier who found it on a battlefield. The lieutenant paid 500 francs for the weapon and he told me that he woifld gladly have paid twice that sum to obtain it. Many American soldiers brought back pictur'es and jewelry, etc., to their girl friends. The articles?most of them would sell in France and Germany in times of peace for a few francs, yet the purchasers paid many times that price?old rule of supply and demand, you know. All Kind of Prices. There was no uniformity of price for these souvenirs. This French tradesman had a beautiful bead handbag for which he received fifty francs from an American officer. The merchant next door perhaps, had one indetically like it which he offers for forty francs and a third merchant down the street has one for which he asks 100 francs, despite the fact that it is just like the others. Oh, it didn't take the average Frog more than three shakes of a sheep's tail to get on to the fact that the average American doughboy over there had absolutely no regard for money and that it was simply a matter of relieving them of it, as best I they might. And they did. I'll say they did! But in conclusion, I am going to I put some of the girls wise to a thing or two. When some ex-buck private orlieut.handsyoua line of talk about his personal heroic stuff and pro| duces a bunch of buttons or a German pipe or pistol or cigarette case or something else in proof of his statement that he captured it from some Jerry in hand to hand combat, you just ask him right easy like how many francs he paid for the souvenir and in what French town or village he bought it. You see I have been over there ana I happen to be on the inside of a- lot of this kind of stuff. Maybe I have handed this line of talk to a girl or two myself. I am not saying about that, however.?Lewis M. Grist in Yorkville Enquirer, Colds Cause Grip and Infineon ! LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove the cause. There is only one "Bromo Quinine." t E. W. GROVE'S signature on box. 30c. ! J. F. Carter B. D. Carter J. Carl Kearse Carter & Carter & Kearse ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Special attention given to settlement of Estates and investigation of Land Titles, i BAMBERtj, S. C. i NOTICE TO CREDITORS. 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