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EE * r, L ? s* ' ? :- : u? \hzx TWO MEXICANS LEARN I OUR MEN CAN SHOOT Marksmanship of Americans Inspires Wholesome Respect PEONS KEPT UNDER CLOSEST WATCH I Pershing* Has Detachments oip Guard at Many Different I i Points. ! I Columbus, N. M.?Proof of the : ?;%rksmanship of American soldiers! h'is done more than any other (level-i <>y nont of the campaign in Mexico to! j .v..nke fear into the hearts of Villa's followers, according; to reports from! n voss the border. The straight shoot:-;rr done at Colnmhns. th.it nf fhr? lit i'e detachment that pursued the bandits across the line, after the raid, and tbet at Cluerrero and Aguas Calientcs was totally unexpected by the Moxi- j cans. "Villa's followers had boon taught : that the Americans were weaklings, rewards who were afraid to match "their strength with Mexican forces," i a naturalized Mexican said today.' '"They believed in their ignorance im7 Vicity in themselves and their ability :: conquer any force they should en-! c-. unter. 1 am convinced that before I've Columbus raid their feeling was J that of contempt of a larger man for j a smaller, weaker, antagonist." The first shock was given the Villa! bandits when 79 of their men wore] killed by half as many troopers of the thirteenth cavalry, who made the sortie across the international line after the raid. f?ut even then they did not realise their own weakness, soldiers .and civilians returning from the front *' porting that in the town through xdiich the band passed in its flight, its members boasted of their superiority ever the "gringo" forces. It was at j Guerrero that the contrast between the marksmanship of the two forces v as demonstrated. There the troopers i the seventh cavalry shooting cooly : jr,d steadily, sent almost every bullet Ve its mark, while General Hernan-h r-f-z's soldiers fired wildly as they ran, ' nearly all shooting high above the :< heads of the Americans. As a result! oiAy four American cavalry men were | slightly wounded, while 15 times that,] Dumber of Villa followers were killeo. ] t'-Kcl as many more wounded. i A similar demonstration of marks-,' roanship at Aguas Oalientes confirm- , *v:i the suspicion already growing in j ^ vie minds of the bandits that the abil-j ity of the "gringoes" had been mis-| represented, according to arrivals kere. 1 Impressing the Peons. j Army tYKLtt here point out that, although important, the moral effect j' Upon VfHa's command of the display; J American marksmanship is a minor j , consideration as compared with tlie j i effect Upon the peons. For it was in! . t'hihuahuu that Villa first held sway - 1 and it is in Guerrero that many of the I natives worship Villa as an idol. Real- ' ifcing this, General Pershing has taken every precaution to prevent outbreaks ' among the Villa adherents and has placed small detachments in towns ' along the American line of eommuni- ! cation not garrisoned by Carranza troops. "General Pershing believes that a "Wholesome respect for the baility of American soldiers will go a long way! toward solving his problems with the Datives," an ofiicer said today. The marksmanship of the soldiers is the result of a studied effort in the last few years to bring their shooting to the highest point of efficiency. Regular target practice on military reservations and bonuses paid to soldiers who showed merit h:i? done much to accomplish this end. Each year the departmental commander designates a period for target practice, each military reservation having both a rifle range and a shooting gallery. The first stop in making r marksman is what the soldiers call "the push and pull drill." It consists of salesthenics, training the muscles of the shoulders and arms for steadiness in aiming. Next they are taught to set their pieces properly for distance and to correct for windage, and errors in elevai-ion, this being followed by about two weeks of gallery practice. In these drills each man is graded as to his shooting ability, those men ?jualtffbhfc fdghest being rated ns "expert riflemen,* and given am increase STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH CAROLINA PEOPLE Congressman Ragsdale has accepted an invitation to make an address at the Confederate Memorial day exerercises at Florence on May 10. E. R. Wheeler of Marion, who was last week appointed an aide to Ambas sudor Shai p at Paris through the influence of Congressman Ragsdale, sailed on ?e New Amsterdam from New York. William S. Cook, one of the most prominent, men of Timmonsville, died at his home there last week. Citizens of Greenville voted for a special tax of $4,000 a year for 50 years to he used in the maintenance of a county library. After writing a note in which ho gave instructions as to the disposition of his body ami naming the pallbearers for his funeral, I). S. Ford, a locomotive engineer, formerly of Columbia, F. C\, but for a number of years a resident of Richmond, committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a switch engine in south Richmond. Lewis W. Parker, organizer and former president of the Parker Cotton Mills Company and formerly president of the American Cotton Manufacturers' association, died at his home on east Washington street in Greenville last week. Practically no cotton is now being offered for sale over the State. Gov. Manning commuted the sentence of death imposed upon A. C. Tolbert of Greenwood to a life term in the State penitentiary. Tolbert was convicted on tHe charge of killing his wife. Qov. Manning went to Greenville to attend tho funeral of Lewis W. Parker. Governor Manning has not made any statement on the matter of signing the two-quart a month bill, but th<? protests against it are quite strong and there is increasing doubt as to whether lie will act favorably. ???? ?o Warning to Women Do not neglect Nature's Warning Signals. If you suffer from headache, nervousness, sick stomach, constipation, palpitation, hysterics, or a dull heavy feeling in the head, TAKE KEED for nature is saying to you as plainly as if the words were spoken, 4I NEED HELP." The tissues, muscles and membranes supporting your womanly Drgans need strengthening?need a tonic, need FOOD. STELLA-VITAE will supply what is needed, will supply it in the form that will bring quickest and most lasting results. STELLA-VITAE, tested and approved by specialists, has been PROVEN TO BE nature's Great Restorer of strength to the womanly organs. For THIRTY YEARS it has been helping suffering women. No matter how many remedies you have tried, no matter how many doctors have Failed to help you?you owo IT TO YOURSELF to try this great medicine for the ailments of women. t THE TRIAL WILL COST YOU NOTHING unless you are benefited. . _ I we havo authorized YOUR denier to sell you ONE bottle on our positive, binding GUARANTEE of "money back if NOT HELPED." AFTER YOU are satisfied he will sell you six bottles for $5.00. Go or send this very day, this very hour, and get that ONE bottle and be convinced that you have at last set your feet firmly on the road to perfect health and strength. I Thacher Medicine Company Chattanooga Tenn _ , j in pay of five dollars monthly. A slightly lower grade classes a man as "a sharp-shooter" with an increase of $!1 monthly, while others qualify to a two dollar increase. Drilled in Combat Firing. Field firing combat practice, or drill under conditions similar to those iii battle also has been a regular part of the annual work. This practice is competitive, each company being grad ed on its efficiency as an organization hv tho rn?nlfvi In if tlin pany commander is given a tactical problem in the working out of which silhouette target, usually kneeling or prone, by means of mechanical contrivances are suddenly dropped before the troops on the field and the men are graded on their percentage of hits and misses. The cavalry and infantry drill is similar except that the cavalry practive is complicated by the weaving in and out among the horsemen of targets reset. THE HORRY E J WHAT OTHER PAI Forced to Curtail. It looks now as if the scarcity or fertilizers will have more to do with decreasing the acreage of cotton than all the advice and experience the farm ers have had.?Fayettville Observer. Entirely Too Cheap. j "Cheap money for the South," goes i a headline. Well, we know a man who j has a bale of Confederate money that has never been spent; and if that isn't cheap money we don't know what is. ? Pickens Sentinel. Mind Culture. I)o with your mind what the farmer dose with the soil?cultivate it. The fallow mind, like the fallow soil, produces nothing but weeds.?Times & Democrat. i All For Self. The trouble with some people is that they expeect a man to work for nothing and give them the benefit.? Exchange. Naturally. Of course the low-necked gown always looks better on the other man's wife.?Daily Record. No End to Fraud. What next? New York reports painted fish gills as the latest idea for duping the public.?Charelston Post. Strenuous Contract. Asa rule, the girl who marries the - < l . vmiin sun oi a doling mamma is entering upon a strenuous contract.?Daily j Record. Likely a .Man. When a woman decides to stand up for herself it is a pretty safe propo-; sition that she is getting ready to sit1 down on somebody or other.?Morn-! ing Star. What I)it It. I I The New York American publishes a scurrilous cartoon of Former Mayor Ciaynor, who has been dead for some time. It is these delicate and tactful little characteristics that have won for the Hearst papers their present niche in the respect and affection 1 of the American people.?Columbia State. CALOMEL IS MERCI ! ACTS ON LIVE I "Dodson's Liner Tone" Starts Your Liver Better Than Calomel and Doesn't Salivate or Make You Sick, Listen to nte! Take no more sickening, salivating cnlorncl when bilious or constipated. Don't lose a day's work! Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the hones. Calomel, when it conies into contact with sour hile crashes into it, breaking it up. 'J'his is when you feci that awful nausea and cramping. If you arc sluggish and .."all knocked out," if your liver is torpid and bowels constipated or you have headache, dizziness, coated tongue, if breath is had or stomach sour just, take a spoonful of harmless Dodevn's Liver Tone on my guarantee, NO HIGH Will mean a saving of mone^ if you trade at Toddville. It i River six miles from Conway, ( Steamers making this point i Clyde Line at Georgetown. j WATER R/ i I I I I Water freight rates are low own property stands for no us and we will give you the be A hint to the wise is sufficu 1 DUSENBU | Toddville, iL tERALD. GONWAY. 8. O. PERS ARE SAYING Yes, Indeed. "Is the horse to disappear soon?" asks the Lynchburg News. There's no telling, but fodder is now a lot cheaper than gasoline.?News and Courier. Let The King Be. If tiler's any one brand of fools whom we loathe it's the pompous fool, J who thinks he is the King Lice always. I ?Marion Star. All I'nfortunate. "German crown Prince should be J able to smpathize with the Georgia i poach crop," opines the Greensboro I News. Not to mention the Hon. Pan; cho Villa ?Columbia State. Not All There. All the heroes are not in the trenches . A New York judge has sentence*! Colonel Roosevelt's secretary to .*>0 days at hard labor?The State. ( "Smile Squad." ; The Charlotte News urges Char1 lotto to have a "smile squad" and makes these observations that are easily universally current: "You have I possibly visited a city where everybody seemed bent on their own affairs; where no one greeted you or seemed to take the slightest interest in you. Then you have entered some wide-awake town where every fellow :.. t i _ i . * " muu wiiosc store or snoj) or factory or home you entered made you feel that you were the long-awaited guest. It is the thoughtful, considerate, friendly, human town which draws people to its borders and keeps them there, the town which puts an intrinsic value uuon the smile."?Spartanburg Herald. Plant Corn. Cotton may bo very low in the fall; tobacco may not be worth the work on nut in the crop?but corn is worth $1 a bushel at any time in the year, and the farmer must not lose sight of this fact. Cotton becomes clothing-; tobrrcco is a luxury, but corn is a necessity food, for man and beast and there is always a demand for corn. Plant corn. Don't gamble in cotton. Plant some cotton and some tobacco? out don't forget to plant corn!?Ma ion Star. JRY! IT SICKFNS! ;r like dynamite Here's my guarantor?Go to any drug store and get a 50 cent liottle of Dodson's Liver Tone. Take a spoonful tonight and if it doesn't straighten you right up and make you feel tine and vigorous by morning 1 want, you to go back to tbe store and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the sale of calomel l>ecaus? it is real liver medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore it can not salivate or make you sick. 1 guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your system and making you foe! miserable. I guarantee that, a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family feeling line for months. Give it to your children. It is harmless; doesn't gripe and they like ita pleasant taste. ?. ? * ?> i i i i i - i-i r r-r ~r ~r- tt i rents i to you in the prices you pay s located on the Waccamaw >n the line of the Waccamaw n close touch with the big \TES LOW one! our store situated on our vc'u rent charges. Trade with efit of the difference, int. RY 8c CO. s. c. . FOREIGN lTKMs GATHERED AND CONDENSED FOR EASY READING The senate passed the finance committee substitute for the house free sugar repeal resolution extending the present duty of 1 cent a pound on sugar until may, 1920. The Oklahoma Democratic convention elected delegates to the national convention with instructions to vote for the renomination of President Wil son. The report that Francisco Villa Is dead of blood poisoning resulting from the wound he is supposed to have received in the fight with Carranza soldiers at Guerroro was the j chief topic of discussion in Columbus,; N. M. The submarine issue between Germany and the United States was discussed in all its phases at a meeting' of President Wilson and his cabinet. Dr. Emerich Hitter, former German confidential agent, serving a sentence in the Ohio State penitentiary, was* j granted permission by Warden Thorn-, ' as to manufacture dyes by a secret German process. i "Lyncote " the home of Mrs. Payne " j Erskine, one of the show places of i , Tryon, N. C., was destroyed last week 1 by fire. Tho loss whii'h irwlfwtoa i?ii ported furnishings, handsome oil paintings, an extensive library of Mrs Erskine, who is an author of many splendid stories, will total several! j thousand dollars in actual value while | it will be impossible to replace many j of the things. I . ? i A spy was put to death in London I : last week. ? Marked progress toward solving the | problem of supplying Gen. Pershing's columns and more evidence of cooper-J at ion by Carrar.za soldiers to the pur-I suit of Villa were recorded last week. | ' The losses by fire in the United, States and Canada during Marc h this| year, as compiled from the carefully kept records of The Journal of Com ?..cn.c ;inu commercial bulletin, | shows the unusually large total of $J58,680,250, which is more than double the record. The great niajojrity of Mexicans do not yet know that American soldiers ( : have crossed the international line. 1 ! In view of the pressing nature of the situations with Germany and I Mexico, President Wilson abandoned | his plans to go to New York and cancelled his engagement to speak before j the Young Men's Democratic Club there Saturday. The Russian sailing vessel Impera-j tor, on a vovage from Gulfport, Miss.,I * j for Marseilles, has been torpedoed in j the Mediterranean. COLDS QCICKLY RELIEVED. Many people cough and cough?[ from the beginning of Fall right! through to Spring. Others gr "dd; after cold. Take Dr. King's Nov. I)is-j covery ami you will gei almost im-. mediate relief. It checks your cold, i stops the racking, rasping, tissue-tear) I ing cough, heals the inflammation, ! soothes the raw tubes. Easy to take, Antisentie ami Henlinor f!nt > f.O/. bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery and keep it in the house. "It is certainly a great medicine and I keep a J bottle of it continually on hand''! writes W. C. Jesseman, Kranconia, N. H. Money back if not satisfied but it nearly always helps. o Better Than Gold. And all the while the North Caro-1 lina cotton mill men were swapping and trading emergency supplies of dyestuffs there was a carload, more; or less, forgotten where it had been stored in an old warehouse in Dur- i ham. It- was better than finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. ?Charlotte Observer. o The British steamer Zent has been torpedoed without warning west of; Plistnot I-'rtl-f t'-Al'n-Ut ^ 1 - "W..V.V. ui Kj iiifiiiucin ui nur I crew are missing and are supposed to have been drowned. Two men were killed. Captain Martin and nine of the crew have landed. MUSTANG For Sprains, Lameness, Sores, Cuts, Rheumatism Penetrates and Heals. Stops Pain At Once For Man and Beast 25c. 50c. $1. At All Dealers. LINIMENT I f - ' - -v.-.i Good Health Doubles the Value of Your Services A half sick man is not worth half pay. A man or woman in poor health makes a poor leader, a poor sort of a parent. % The value of Poruna in the home can scarcely be estimated. It prevents many of the common ailments. It is an excellent remedy for coughs, colds, catarrh, grip, spring fever, tired-out feeling. I Pit down and thlnlc it over. See whether you can afford to go on half sick. Some people prefer Perun* Tablets to the iluld Poruna. I j NEED OFRAILROADS ^ KHtSSINB ISSUE ! Eyes of Border Turned to Washington For News 1 of Relief t J El Paso, Texas.?The eyes of the ? border are turned north anxiously J looking for some intimation from Washington that an arrangement had been made with General Carranza | permitting the use of a Mpxmuii railroad by the American expeditionary force. \*nvy that it is definitely known that Villa i* fleeing south far ahead of his American pursuers, there is a fixed I opinion here that on the railroads hinges General Pershing's main, if not only, hope of capturing the bandit. This opinion is not only expressed bv the American refugee colony here, where pessimism is the rule, hut is hold by army officials who, among friends, give their opinion of the situation in candid terms. With Villa's flight toward Parral and the practical certainty that he is not far from that town, it has ceased to become a question of using the A Northwestern railroad. The present J need is for the Mexican Central rail- , road. 1 This road, which is one of the Mexi- J can National lines, runs almost due fl south from Juarez to Chihuahua, a distance of 227 miles. From Chihuahua it swerves to the southeast to Jiminez, a run of 14G miles. At the latter town a branch line runs 5(3 mile*? west t> Parvr.l, while the main line continues southeast to Torreon, 148 miles from Jiminez Junction. The Mexican Central railroad, like the Mexican North western, is in a badly dilapidated condition as the re- . suit of five years of warfare and brigandage, which has devastcd north cm Mexico. Almost every bridge has boon dynamited or burned and temporary tracks are the only substitute. The fine oil burning engines, equal to (he best in the United States, with which the road was formerly equipped have disappeared or are wrecks. The it: - rotting slock is mostly burned or in a state of wreckage. At the same time the American troops could make far greater speed by the railway than they could hope to make any other way in the opinion of staff officials here. Before the wreckage of the road, the running time to Chihuahua City was eight hours and thirty-five minutes, from | tlienre to .1 i?v>it- - ? 1 v.... w.i *., utc uours ana H twenty-five minutes, a total of ID % hours and MO minutes for the (>16 I miles between Juare/. and Torreon. Even under the present conditions trains have made the run from Chihuahua City to Juarez in 16 hours and ic is believed that with American * crews and engines this time could be l materially reduced. There is some fear expressed here that friction may be caused between the American authorities and the defacto government over the assertion of the Carranza generals that Villa is still in the Guerrero region and wound cd. It is felt that General Carranza might object to the American troops going further south as long as his field commanders maintain the bandit I is in the mountains of the Continental I Divide. At the same time the fact I that thus far the first chief has shown 1 no disposition to interfere with the 1 movements of General Pershing's umns is regarded as a reassuring that any serious differences n Invigorating to the Pale The Qld Standard general strengthen I OfcOVK'S TASTliLKSS chill Malariu.enriche* the blood,and builds .eiu. A true tonic. I'or adults and