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V. LUME XXXIII. LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27, 1918. NUMBER 32 .e a nr r IM iM n I 11 WAR 0AE DEVIL First of the American Heroes Storm No Man's Land. News of United States' Declaration o: War on Germany Signal for'Bound Over the Top. It was night in the trenches of Frnnee. tni the Canadian Contingent lay watchrul for the foe, on duty at the listenine posts, and night patrols crept stenltlily about in No M'i ts Land. Ti.Ir hayonets were rubbed with lm1) black so that the sudden bursting of it star homb would not he. tray their p)resence. In this particular Canadian section, writes Ilenry James Buxton, were one hundred or more stalwarts from the United States-men who went over the internallonal boundary Into Canada so they could enlist. These Americans were together in one section of the trench. One of these was Private "Scotty" Anderson, farmer, telegraph operator, who had tapped the key from Boston to 'Frisco. Scotty was long, lean and lank, with arms like bean poles. But his muscles were steel, and his courage without a blemish. Said Scotty to his pal, Jack Murdoc:;: "This is too slow for me; why can't we go over the top once in a while, and take a slam at the Boches?" "Time apparently ain't ripe," replied Murdock. "Ripe," snorted Scotty disgusted ly; "we'd soon make the Boches ripe if we got at, 'em with our bayonets." Just then a sergeant hurried into the trench from a communncating pas tge. "Boy's," he cried excitedly, "the United States has decltred war with Germany." Scotty was on his feet with a whoop. He grabbed the sergeant and said: "fSay that again." The ser geant repeated the message. Scotty grabbed an American flag with one hand and seized his gun with the other. "Come on, Yanks," he yelled. "over the top for us; we've got to celebrate this I" With a whoop 100 Americans fol lowed Scotty over the top. The ser geant yelled something about orders, but he was brushed aside. Yelling, the Americans rushed over No Man's Land, and leaped into the German first line trench. The on" slaught was so sIdden that the Ger mans were taken by surprise. A score or more were shot down before they were aware what had happened, and nearly a score more surrendered. The Americans returned to their own trench with their prisoners and the3 were greeted as heroes by their Cana dian comrades. "We had to do something to cele brate the entrance of Uncle Sam or the job," Scotty explained to a as perior. Logging in the Northwest. In some of the high altitudes in the lumbering districts of the Northwest logging trains are employed to brine big loads of cut timber from the for eats to the mill. The snow, in a wna helps this situation, for it permits th use0 of an ingenious caterpillar tracto steam engine of great power. It is practically speaking, a locomotive a the 'cog-wheel type and the fron trucks are sleigh runners, wichel or jsteeredl by at man sitting In front, hi hands on the steering wheel. Tile "er gineer" concerns himself with the sam duties its though he were running on track, while the fireman has to kee steami upl. SpecIally dlevisedl sleighi as wIde as thle locomotive itself, ar used to carry the logs, and the tracl lesd engine is of such power that it ca drag eight iad more truckloads of thi character att a timne. coelanders Are Intellectual. S Durinlg the crisis whieh has hie virtunily continous since 1W74, I people of Iceland have acquaired stock of polilcal acumen, whieh, au mented by high notional inttelle)ctuali and literacy, fully qualifies them f ,a confict with D~enmnv , says a writ4 Iceland is among til first countri of the world In literacy. Few in tl island can neither road nor write, al one author has deciared that eve other manlf on the atreet is a po Literature isaInot confined to any pi ticular class-one of the most lucid( iscr'iptions of the land ever writton ~the work of a guide, while many Aishi 'men write pottry of mierit. Use Paper as Puol, ICvery househoald In Italy saVes the oddi bits of papler. Tlhiesa il 'soaked In water and11 kneaded into hii fthlpt in 1he sunl to dry, Thelay iw serve to giVi' a liittle heial late'r W.~ alk downg a faishionalie st1reel F' Milan andf yout will see"il Iyally rtho houises of the kh-0xhne BIG GAME PROBLEM Meat Shortage Points to Need of Conservation. Plan Proposed to Establish Sanctuaries for Wild Life in the National Res.rved Forests. Ml,. Iloover predicts a meat famine which \ill last for years. As Ini oTet to tls. I"etuse ( 'a wf wr 'iii W ites in ('oilier's. it is 'i' 'lpo 'sed to establish gaue s:ai'tuaairies" in the national re served forests. where all kimds of big gaune Inay breed :miuolested. aad bills legalizing such sanctuaries are Pend ing in congress. The general movernent for a great Increase of killable hi: game in Amer iea has come Io be trimed tirughout the country "the Iiormalay plan." It gets its naine from Dr. William T. Ilornaday. direto.r of the zoological park in Nw York. Doctor Horuaday Is foremo'st ammon the naturalists of the country, vice president of the United States Ar:my league and trus tee of the Amneritaan 1Defense society. For more than twenty years this chain pion of big game has been sounding a warning te the American people that wild life was becoming extinct and that somue day our desolated forests would be looked to in vain for relief from Ia scarcity of home-raised meats. had congress and the legislatures of several states awakened to at realiz ing sense of the importance of pro -tecting wild life ten years ago there might still be a food problem before the American public today, but it would be less of a calamity than it now is. Doctor Hornaday. a conservative, ac curate man. estimates that several mil lion head of big game would he avail able for the market annually if proper precautions had been taken a decade ago. lie gives it as his opinion that even at this late day, if well-protected breeding places for deer and elk were provided throughout the vast area of the wild timber and brush lands of the I United States, at least a million buck might be slaughtered annually. leav ing the does to go on multiplying the denizens of wild life in our forests. This story of literally living on thi fat of the land is no fable: this ide of going "back to the tall timber" t< get our chilly meat is no daydream Where did the thousands upon thou sands of Indians get theirs? It is widely known fact in the Southern states that many tenants of the cottoa lands live three months of the year of rabhits, squirrels and birds witliou buying a pound of Western raises meat. It is an equally widely knowi fact that in the extreme northern ani western states land owners who ar fortunate enough to be within rang of our decreasing tribes of big gam live by their rifles much of the tim' There is nothing visionary in the Horn aday plan for food relief. Meatless Mince Pie. Meatless mince meat, another cul nary triumph in the art of food cot servation. has been brought to th housewives of the country by the n tional emergency garden eommissie as a worthy companion of pumpki less pumpkin pie and gingerless ginge bread. iThe new minee meat. oflIelally d, r serihed as a "camouflage," wvas trie on nyve hundred troops on a tranaspor who peronouinced It perfect andl enti for more. IHalf a package of seeded raismin half a pound of prunes stewedl wi lemon juice andl peel. one-qularter cam ful sweet cider, four tablespoonftu brown sugar; chop the raisins at prtmes tog'thaer and the result is sai Sto be ai meatless mInce pie which w accord with the food administratiot Smeatlesa Tuesday. Sleeper Tax Hits Porters. However patriotic may he the mioti of the traveling salesmen and the ge -cerl public who ride in sleeping cai ethe negro porters assert they are bei a' lng an unequal part of the new wa tax, says the Kansas City Star. Where the porter formerly receiv ra tip of 25 cents for shining the she r and brushing off his passenger, the Sgre says the tip now is only a dime. "M~,y tips have beeni reduced or ut half," one porter said. TIhe government since the first November has added 10 per cent to t rsleepe'r fare as a war tax. As it n< stands it IN the porter andl not the pl isetngr who Is patying the tar. Effective Shells. Conatroiversy has long raged regai lng thle net ual nman-killng power of t il big guns. It ias been declared ti re ;,10,itxi woth i o(f big shlellIs (lust Is, Bred to Itill one of thle enemlfy. P ill hnpla it is true t hat an cuiorme me utnountt of steel must lho hurled by it big gunis to iuasuro fatailities Yeti of Iwituil t ulmble'r oft tnen kil led on t btes by nritillecry (ire perobulily rains ionte tulitius. EX-KING DOES USEFUL WORK Manuel of Portugal Now Director of School for the Re-education of Maimed Soldiers. Royalty has sut ered much in the present war. even at the hands of its friends. When the interaIlled confer cte in the itt rest of pernaniently disabled soiliers was concluded in Paris. : party of delenates journeyed to Englaad to inspect the great s' hoots established there for the re-c dncation of mien taimed in hattie. One of theSo schoolk in partih'alar exelted the vial tors' adni ration heiause of its mar velous equipmint and seetat ily per feet innana em nt. This way nil the more rena rkahie hecause the director of the school was a very youns man. So much Iitnpressed were the visitors that before leavin they waited upon the ynt hfuil director and fairly show ered him with praise. "It Is both a great responsibility and a high honor to you. sir." said their spokesman. a distinguished French sel entist. "to have been placed at your age nt the head of so important a school." "I agree with you, Doctor but in times past I have had occasion to direct matters even more linportant than these." replied the young nian. who was none other than the ex-King Manuel of Portugal. ngraved 'ards and Invitations. Advertiser Printing Co. You'll find it true economy to buy "DOVE" Under muslins because of their good wearing qualities and reas onable prices. I" This is an ( months. It is dulge her tast( and inexpensiv Dozens of popular "Dove of every garm beautiful assor Ladies' C< SLadies' Mi Ladies' Mi S Ladies' Eri Ladies' Mi Ill Cilduren's Children's Children's n- V L d usi n PLENTY OF STORAGE PLACES; Woman Who Has Made Home Into a Veritable "House of a Thou sand Closets." One little woman living not far from Novew York. says 1:arriet Siwan't 'iille pie Intl 31other's \(a aziin''. l bt'oen able by the expenditure of a in dlerate st1111 of intolney to trati-f'rmn an Imprae tie::ble 'l-metle's dellini into one ill vhich houst'keepin It not only a pleasure. but w\her the tilr' 1 - tu41 of storin nw'ay ulothin has ben satis Anm'nv.r her frlimn-'.N i i 1 .known as "thiu' l e of n l'ausant! ,l ets." w\hi'h i- nearly If t, litra'?y trute. l:ver little 'ubby hole blow the sinl !t'- has l eon utiilized fo ,llowtt space. There' ar. l'nks of .-. eon both the second and :ttit 1 r' '.1 :ac northinl of a cedlt'o!'t w'' n :1nd air antd electrie lilht. for the recep tion of the owvnuer's thoi.'e- U es ston . Sone of the' closets arto cedar lined. others sheathed with :4mtled hoards of North Carolina 'i'. wi' shellacked to keep out the moths and frequently sprayed with a Hqttid in which oil of cedar plays a part. A printed list of every article con tained in the drawers and cupboards is tacked in plain sight in order that the frantic search for inanimate things that seetm suddenly to have taken v.ings and flown away, may he entirely obviated. DOVE )pportunity such as < i chance for the wo a for chic, dainty st: e, that their purchas lesigns, tailored and Make," renowned I ent. Come to unde tment of DOVE U )rset Covers, 35c., 51 slin Drawers, 50c., islin Skirts, 85c., $1 tvelope Chemise, $1. islin Gowns, $1.00, Muslin Skirts, 25c. Muslin Gowns, 50c. 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L.ACE TO T RADE."