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vwo 50,890 PERISHED | IN SERS RETREAT ^ I Horrors of the Flight Into Albania Described by An American EX-U. S. CAVALRYMAN TELLS EXPERIENCE ]?ien Died So Fast They Fell at Every Few Yards. | Rome, Italy?Henry Haller, formerly of the Fifth United Stales cavalry, who was one of the few Amcri< ans in the Serbian retreat, declares, t.nat during the journey to Podgoritzaj 5n Montenegro in a four-days snowstorm more than fifty thousand men died. "They died so fast," he said, "that they fell every few yards all along' the voad. The wagons and carts wentj yight over their bodies. Nobody thought of trying- to turn out of the way. but there were so many they | could not but drive over them. The! wads were full of nuuiholes. At one; place I saw no less than seventeen j Worses dying in one immense puddle,) unable to pull themselves out. "1 saw hundreds and thousands of, v.nggod men, with thier feet swollen j too much to wear shoes or to walk on them crawling along for miles on! their hands ami knees through the! blinding snow, finally stopping* and dying soon afterward. They never made any appeals for he!]). It wouldn't have been any use. Besides,! they were too far gone to know what they wore about, that they were dy-! ing. Their last effort to keep going! was merely a mechanical operation. Of course the great mortality all along our route was due to the barren I nature of the country we were traversing", with no shelter for but aj comparatively few of us. There were, even no forests where we might have lelled trees and build temporary quarts rs. Our fires for the most part were Fundi. with barely enough wood tc heat water." Haller, who was on a visit to Budapest when the war began, enlisted in' the Austrian army and was serving as a bugler when, six mouths later, he vtas taken prisoner by the Serbs and then finally was marched with 75,000' ether Austrian soldiers across Ihcj ar-ountains into Albania and there turned loose on the shores of the' Oriatio to fight for life against chol va, fever anil starvation." "We were supposed to have started of, that retreat," said Mailer, "with ?? Serb army of over two hundred thou sand men and about seventy-five thou wand Austrian prisoners. Not many more than a hundred and fifty thousand of the whole lot got over the; T> ountains. It was not because the Austin a as or the Bulgarians pursued i)S however, with nuuh activity. We lied merely because of disease, hunger and exhaustion. "The worst part of the journey began at the Albanian frontier. The Albanians have in times past been badly treated by the Serbs, and they took this chance to square old scores. They J fhot, killed, robbed and murdered usi at every step of the way. For in-1 stance, at Linn, some Serb oflicers and. a company of stragglers on horseback! were met in the middle of the road by a few peasants and ordered to give up their horses and their money. It was plain highway robbery and they refused, The peasants ran away and "within a couple of minutes more than a thousand shots were fired out of the bushy hillside, killing most of the Serbs. Ate Leather and Paper. "The food problem was terrific even in Albania. A half pound of bread was sold at ten dinars, about two dollars. As 1 had a little money at Sturza 1 bought five pounds of oka beans. Had I not been able to get these beans, I would today be a dead man. I had just said to myself: "I ean*t go any further/ when I persuaded a peasant woman to sell me the beans. I ate beans twice a day, making a soil of soup out of them, putting in a little salt. At that I was far luckier than the feilows who had to boil harness leather for five or six hours in order to make the hot water taste like soup. I saw men act like savages, eating pieces of brown paper. ? "There were, perhaps, not more than t>y? thousand women among the retreating horde with us, and it is a ( MMMMMmMMMHMMHMNMMMMMiWPMMIiiVMflWMPMn 'iMMaaMMMMMaiMMMaMaAMMiMMMwmmmmmmmmmmmam STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH CAROLINA PEOPLE | The secretary of state has issued a commission to the Exchange Restaurant company of Charleston, with a capita! of $2,500. The petitioners are Walter B. Wilbur and J. J. Murray. Saturday night as a late freight was noaring Eutawville, within about 150 feet of the engine a man was seen lying on the track. The engineer stopped his train as quickly as possible, but not until the eginc and two cars had run over the man. News has been received of the death of Judge Baseom H. Palmer of | Florida. He was a brother to the late 1))-. G. G. Palmer and has a number of nephews and neices in this State and North Carolina. The Florence Tailoring Company, 1 Inc., of Florence, was chartered with a captital stock of $1,000, tile officers i mi \ r r*i . i . or my i. i\i. oievcnson, president, and M. K. McCown, treasurer. The plans for the first annual automobile show in Columbia are taking definite shape now and the various committees feel that each day brings additional proof of success. "The insurance commissioner has failed in his expectations to provide relief; the warehouse commissioner is about to fail in his efforts to secure the insurance necessary on cotton stored in State warehouses/ said Gov. Manning in a statement on the insurance situation. Holding that the college is not a im 11 \ 1 i / > n d'? mi i' I U a A AI I wf U o r p UWUV V I?*A1 I f IUV Olipi CI1IV, V>\'U1 V 11UO ordered a new trial in the case of J. W. Vermillion, administrator, against the Woman's College of Due West. W. F. Vermillion, son of the plaintiff, was fatally injured, it is alleged, when a balcony fell while he was attending a musical entertainment at the college in April, 1914. Action for damages was brought in the circuit court for Abbeville county, and a nonsuit was ordered. The iVcision was written by Associate Justice Hydrick. FRIEND, ARE YOUj DISCOURAGED?! I i Does everything look sort of dark and' gloomy to you? Do you have the "blues?': | 1 )oes it take supreme effort for you to gc , about your daily work and keep yoursell I hall-way cheerful? This feeling of discouragement, despondency and gloom is the result of a sluggish Liver. Just plain Liver trouble makes a big pile of unhappiness?makes lite look hardly worth living, sometimes. Get your Liver in perfect working order, i by taking Dr. Thacher's Liver & Blood Gyrup, and you'll soon feel like a different person. The sun will shine brighter. People you meet will seem more agreeable. You'll get keen ENJOYMENT out of life. You'll tackle your work and your food with relish. You'll feel TWENTY Y i: A R s Y O U N G E R. You'll find yourself possessed of the courage and hopefulness of youth. DR. THACHER'S lives* and Blood Syrup acts as a tonic and sircngthener to the Liver. It encouragesand helps that im-. pert ant organ to do its work easily and more successfully. THEN the stomach and bowels, and every organ of the body ; is also able to do its work right, for "King Liver rules them all" and when your Liver is right \ Ou are \\ ELL. Lope, happiness, courage, success? those arc yours when your Liver is active and strong. If you haven't got a bottle of Dr. Tliacher 3 Liver & Syrup at hand now, go or send for it AT ONCE, i and give your Liver the help it is calling for. Til I.N you'll see the sun break through the clouds and you'll be hopeful, happy, WELL. All dealers sell 50c and 51.UU bottles. THACHER MEDICINE COMPANY, rhatrannnda. 'IVnnmeft. fact worth recording that they were kindly treated and given whatever comforts were available by soldiers who were otherwise dead to every feeling. I lave seen such men, gaunt, staggering along, half-naked, with a few pieces of cloth for shoes, unable to speak, with barely strength left to stop near a dying horse and cut a stringy steak from its flank, straighten up for iv moment near one of the women's carts and smilingly tender their last mouthful of food to some of the women. The treatment of the women on this dreadful retreat was to me the most wonderful, the most moving, the most heroic part of the whole retreat. These poor women in their flight from their homes had in many cases been unable to bring enough clothes to cover them. Often they were with out stockings or undershirts, or hats,) or shawls or cloaks. I have seen time and time again some freezing soldier take off his overcoat and force it upon some one of these women, and seem almost ashamed to look upon her (Continued on page Three.) THE HORRY H WHAT OTHER PAf Takes Law. Love may make the world go round. Hut it takes law to make it go square. ?The State. How Sad. Britain has banned the importation of automobiles, and it is rumored that she is thinking seriously of excluding even Fords.?The State. Only Fair. It is all right to criticize the faults of others if you arc willing for them to take the same liberty with your faults.?York News. Trite Truths. A wayward girl You never find, But what some man Poisoned her mind. ?Charlotte Observer, i Well How. Georgia is a prohibition state, ye: the stock of whiskey of the Orangeburg county dispensary was sold to a firm in Augusta.?Williamsburg Herald. Talk Merely. A man who originates a lie is moan but energetic; a man who passes it on is just as bad and infernally la/y in the bargain. Vers Libre. Rock beer, A lone robin in a tree. Ten small yelling boys And a bat and a bail And a mask | in a nearby lot, A seed catalogue, And a sluggish fly? Spring has came! ?Luke McLuko. Crisis Coming. The paper crisis is coming faster than the people might think. The last issue of The Nation "regrets that a shortage of paper which could not | be foreseen compelled it to issue in greatly reduced size." And the Nation Is a metropolitan paper, at that. The Observer would not be surprised to some of its contemporaries coming along in wrapping paper dress CALOMEL DYNAMIT MAKES YOIUICI "Godson's Liver Tone" Starts Your Liver Better Than Calomel and You Don't Lose a Day's Work Liven up your sluggish liver! Feel fine and cheerful; make your work a pleasure; lx> vigorous and full of ambition. Hut take no nasty, dangerous calomel because it makes you sick and you may lose a day's work. Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel crashes into sour bile like dynamite, breaking it up. That's when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. Listen to me! If you want to enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced just take a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver NO HIGH Will mean a saving of monev if you trade at Toddville. It i River six miles from Conway, c Steamers making this point i Clyde Line at Georgetown. WATER R/ Water freight rates are low, own property stands for no i us and we will give you the bo: A hint to the wise is suffici< DUSENBUI Toddville, ERALD, CONWAY, S. C. m ARE SAYING before the war ends.?Charlotte Observer. His Turn Now. Senator Patterson of Barnwell county, who kept on introducing a resolution in the senate for an investigation to see if a law had not been violated by the superintendent of the asylum, has himself been Indicted by a federal grand jury for violation of the Harrison anti-narcotic law.?Spartanburg Journal. Good Advice. i Don't neglect everything for cotton. There is no guarantee that the price will be any higher than usual next fall.?Williamsburg Herald. Will This Come? If Villa is captured serious international complications arc likely to arise when the time coir.es to do the shooting.?Dillon Herald. Preparedness. Always on the job, news bureaus have furnished the daily papers with copies of Villa's life history. Ourn is in type.?Anderson Intelligencer. As Villa Will Discover. A skclton army is not necessarily all bone.?Exchange. Cant Effect lTs. The boll weevil won't hit us as hard if ,ve have a large live stock industry i.i this country.--Georgetown Times. The Invitation. Candidates come forth. The ghost will walk for five dollars.?1 irnes & mocrat. Was It Fun. We bet the little boy who threw the ball of yarn which started the fire which burned thirty-six blocks ir. Nashville got what was coining to him.?Times & Democrat. Don't Tell Much. Senator McLaurin should challenge Mr. Bryan for an oratorical contest. He writes well. But we don't learn much about the insurance business from his address to the people.?Daily Record. ES YOUR LIVER! I A tin CAiiuiTro \ HNU OHLIVft I CO Tone tonight. Your druggist or dealer soils you a oO cent bottle of Dmiwn'B Liver Tone under my personal moneyhack guarantee that each sjx*>nful will clean your sluggish liver l>ettcr than a dose of noaty calomel and that it won't make you sick. Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver medicine. You'll know it next morning Itecnuse you will wake up feeling line, your liver will 1h? working; headache and dizziness gone; stomach will be sweet and bowels regular. Dodson's Liver Tone is entirely vegetable, therefore harmless and can not salivate. Give it to your children. Millions of people are using Dodson's Liver Tone instead of dangerous calomel now. Your druggist will tell you thai the sale of Calomel is almost atoppe entirely here. I RENTS i to you in the prices you pay s located on the Waccamaw cf r in tne line ot ine waccamaw n close touch with the big \TES LOW and our store situated on our ligh rone charges. Trade with eefit of the difference, cnt. RY & CO. s c ll F4?K KKiN ITEMS GATHERED AND CONDENSED FOR EASY READING James W. Gerard, the American ambassador, seat an inquiry to the German foreign office concerning the sinking of the steamship Berwindvale, off Queenstown. Great Britain has declined to re lease .'IS Germans, Austrians, and Turks removed by British war ships from the American steamer China off, the Chinese coast. Eight to fifteen thousand employes and an investment of from five to ten million dollars is what R. P. Gibson of Itocky Mount, says the National Dye & Munitions Company, of New York and Washington, of which he is the representative, has in view at Cumnock, six miles from Sanford, N. C., on Deep River. "Germany is ready to make peace and the chancellor has officially said that any reasonable peace proposals will be considered," says Dr. Michahellas, the new German ambassador to Norway. A victory for the British over the! Turks on the Tigris below Kut-el-| Amara has been reported by Gen. Lake, in command of the British forces there. Treasury officials say that Curl E. Whitney, a Now York lawyer, had filed charges that a number of deputy internal revenue collectors in that city are involved in the recently disi covered tobacco frauds. More than 100 deputy collectors are in New York but only a part of them are suspected of participation in frauds in the hundreds of cigar and cigarette manu j factories In which the government is believed to have lost $20,000,000 in , uncollected internal revenue. I The grave of General William! Croom, a revolutionary soldier and! prominent member of one of the! South's most noted colonial families,! situated in an ante-bellum graveyard1 near Tower Hill, N. C., was opened by persons unknown to the authorities recently, according to the sheriff. The Austrian minister at The Hague has informed the Dutch government that no Austrian submarine was near the Dutch steamship Tubantia when she was sunk. ? I ? I STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, GIRO LATION, ETC ., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 21. 1912. Of The Horry Herald, published j weekly at Conway, South Carolina,' for April 1st, 1916. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ) j County of Horry. ) sr' Before me, a Notary Public in an<| for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared H. Ii. Woodward, who, being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is thei Editor and Manager of the Horry j Herald and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership,! management, etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 44.*>, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to! wit: 1. That, the names and addresses of j the publisher, editor, managing edi-' tor, and business managers are: Publisher Conway Publishing Company. Editor H. H. Woodward. Managing Editor H. H. Woodward. I Business Managers H H Wnnfiwuni 2. That the owners are: Conway Publishing Company, a corporation,, H. H. Woodward is the only stock-' holder holding 1 per cent, or more of! the total amount of stock. !i. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of bonds,] mortgagees, or other securities are None. 4. That the two paragraphs next! above, giving the names of the own- j ers, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upjon the books of the company but also, in cases where, the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relataion, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; and that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumtsances and con ditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon me nooks of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any inter| est direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. H. H. WOODWARD. Sworn to and subscnoeu before me this 28th day of March 1916. (L. S.) K. J. SHERWOOD, Notary Public for South Carolina. derunaJ BL A STANDARD FAMILY REMEDY 1 " I For over forty years it 1 has been used as A TONIC *1 AND STOMACH REM- yj EDY. Peruna aids the ap- g I petite and gives new life to H digestion. ^1 MEXICO ONCE AS BIG AS II^S. fl It is Still Equal in Area to France* 1 Germany, Austria Hungary and t- I The British Isles. ^ I Before Texas became a part of thevl United States and the Mexican war. 1 added nearly a million square miks * I to our territory, Mexico, then a &toun- j I ish colony, and the United StatesIcov- 2' cred approximately equal areas of* North America. Now the extent of J. Mexico is less than one-fourth of that of continental United States, says at bulletin just issued by the National . Geographic Society at Washington. In | this statement there are given some : very interesting figures which jion- r trast the present size of the \two j countries. Mexico, however, still has territcjMfl ial expanse nearly equal to the gregate of France, Great Britain Ireland, Germany and Austria HuiaQH gary, but its total area (7G7,00?H square miles), is loss than that of dl^r five largest States?Texas, Californ- H ia, Montana, New Mexico and Ari- 11 zona?combined, all of these exc^l? Montana having been a part of Ne\y I Spain 75 years ago. None of the 31 ij political subdivisions of Mexico are as ^ large as any one of the five States named, but four Mexican States con- i tiguous to the United States aggre- | gate an extent greater than that of '\xas? (,'hihuahu;^ thy largest Jfcxi- 1 can State, appr?>xi*nates in Area (27,- I 000 square miles) that of Utah, Sonora (77,000 square miles) of Nebraska, Coahuila (63,000 square miles, of Georgia, and Durango (40,000 square miles) of Kentucky. Nine subdivisions of the United States (including Alaska) are larger than Chihuahua, 15 of greater magnitude than Sonora and 32 larger than Durango. l*he rugged and desert character of the Mexican border States, supports sparse populations, except where mining exploitations and cities resulting therefrom have concentrated settlements. The mountainous ridge with limited littorals, which as a narrow jv?ninsula extends southward about ^?30 miles from the United States boundary, and separates the Gulf of California from the Pacific Ocean, is not a State, but is recognized as the territory of Baja California, which in area (58,000 square miles) closely approximates that of Florida. The Gulf of Calif >rnia and the shifting Col oh* do river practically isolate Baja forr.ia from the balance of the lie pub lie and prevent overland communication with it. Topic, on the Pacific coast (! 1,000 square miles), smaller than Maryland and Quintana Roo, adjoining Yucatan, are other territories. The United States is adjacent ^ Mexico tor 1,800 miies, and for a tf/istance equal to that of St. Louis fr<Vo New York, the Rio Grande rivWr forms the boundary. Except when in flood this river is apparently an unim portant stream and readily erossedll t'oi the normal flow is well utilized^? for irrigation in both countries; but has carved in a part of its coiirs^J canyons difficult of exploration. "The " changes wrought by freshet which shift the channel, have demanded the attention of an international commission, whose function was to adjust a boundary along the Rio Grande to meet the varying conditions. The uncertainty of this is illustrated by a claim once under investigation thatir^ portion of the important city of |?! Paso, Texas, was Mexican soil. The remaining 700 miles of the international boundary to the west separat iuk uur neignnor republic from New Mexico, Arizona and California is through an arid desert section, much of which is mountainous. This is not a direct line, but has five changes in alignment, which have been accuratesurveyed and established by 258 pfjpFmanent monuments easily distinguish able. Allowing for impassible canyons, mountain barriers, etc., probably 1,400 I j miles of boundary must be under sur j veilance to prevent smuggling or the passage of contraband articles. Railways in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona are close to the border, ^ahd these transportation avenues unite I the two nations at seven points. o O. J. Coffin in his graveyard talk in. The Charlotte Observer, says that .: it's just as well to send opportunity [ I your address so that it will have no ft trouble in finding you.?Spartanburg v j Journal. , 1 I