The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 21, 1918, Image 6
TELLS 101 HE IS RELIEVED
l.IVK!^ DIS?KDKR AX!) CATA1
op Tin; .\i/<r, WiriCD
OIT Da i. \itKS KKV. i\ \V.
vaxci: in sitiXi r> sta ? a <
isrpjjVa Presnkcr IpqtJ&io
Here is another signed siazeiiYeht
/ telling 01" what the mow natural herb
/ xnedigine, Di-'.yn. has accomplished in
a case of liver and k'ldnay eo^piairn
combimd with catarrh of the head;
"Dreeo-'hns done.me lots Ot good >a
"a very short time. My co^npiainl
was kidney and liver trouble and
catarrh of the head. I can sky truth
:.\'<'/tvd\y that Dreco i'-ts relieved me and
I expect by continuing to use this
medicine i shall be fully relieved and
I do now recommend it to any and all
who may .suffer with the above com
plaints."
::' (Signed/ JifV. 1*. \V. Vance,
Spartan burg, C
Mr. Vance is one of the most prom
inent colored, citizens of Sou^h Ca?o
lir.a. Kb is pastor 'in a Methodist
Episcopal church and a member o.
jthe South Carolina Conference.
?fj-*i Dreco is a combination -of roots,
aerbs? barks, berries noted /or their
medicinal va'uc. it is the go;>d oid
? ^natural medicine that our"~ sturdy
grandparents used in the days who?)
\ doctors wore few and hard to reach.
: Dreco has proven its value in ait
eases where a safe and ..uro natura.]
medicine is required. It is par
ticularly useful in kidney, liver and
_ S'oma^-h disorders, catarrh, rheurna
.? tism. headaches. nerv6usrress' and
Kindred ills. \
Dreco is'not an expensive medi
eine. It is within the reach?of all?'
poor a*td rica alike. !t is di?penst*d
regula?-]y by good druggist*-? every
where and is particularly recommend
ed in> Su'mter by Sibert's I >rug Store,
where' the Dreco man is making his
headquarters and explaining th<
medicine to all interested.?--Advt.
HAKD XX&ES COMME'XTS.
Acknowledges T;a?: he Voted ?oi
Blease and Discusses Loyalty.
?
Dark Corner, Sept. IS.? I will now
? make an attempt to write :? line o;
two for the paper. My ha-ads have
;&V-fteen so I could not write. We are
moving along very quietly in this eor
her. Lots of open cotton fend few
pickers to gather it.
:' The primary elections passed oi.
I very niceiy here.
g? ;? We had lie v. Reynolds from Sal-. ..
Church. Suinter, a few Sundays sigo.
, <?oroe again and bring itioso deaeom
fi- With you Bro. R. We are not afeaHd
, ol^hem if vcu "are. _ Vc'e also iiad Rev
;'v;; Haynes'TTom- Columbia on the night
of the Mivto preach for us.
? I am ^lad the eiectiQU is over; on*
abuse and ridicule in the papers. A :
f ha'-e beeh told that we will now
have soiiSefhing South Carolina has
never had: A Baptist governor. a*
Cooper is a deacon in the First Bap
tist church of Lau re as. Wolf is. also
a Baptist, so I learn. Most all, or the
greater portion, of the governors have
been furnished by the Episcopal
church of late; but any and all of
them have suited me. jjfoakes no di:
Xerenee wiiat denomination they bCr
long to..
1 And a great deakwas said aboui
k>S"alty in the late campaign. Nov.*.
Mr. ^Editor, whet is loyalty? A man;
i think, should be loyal to his Suit*
his country and himself. He should
pay his vta:;<s to his State, an ! "b<
ready to do whepever hi? State cal s.
Which I have done; He shouftl b
?ready to respond when his eountiy
calis?which, I have dear-. So I taia:
.1 have been a loyal iniin/to my State
and country; for widen i amr no;
faulted; but when ii comes ;<> my
self,-, if I don't sec fit to vote as seih?
?other man thla&s. I am accused of be
lag disloyal. Xow, Mr. Editor, j
have never let any a an dictate to or
^md never will; who I sh OA vote for. .*
voted for Blcase because i wanted to,
and I Could not have voted otherwise
are! h;:\e been loyal to n<>>,?'.?'. WheJlM
a candidate gpes*around tilling goo^
sound-minded men if they don-'t vote
st? and so they ougiit or <i<: become
dislo^il. I thing he ts oiT< ' in^ then:
an insult, and I will say right h> re i
5 our ,px>iiti?-,jar?s ever expect to unit'
?the factions in iljis St! ?? thart; it v.:?;
never-bo done by hard; harsh words.
For. remember more llies ar4 caught
with si'.:;.;;- ?!ian vinegar.
1 have just heard of the bushing ot
"Mr. B la ?ding Ardis' aio house las:
night. 1 .have not learned the par
ticulars as yet
Mr. Manning Geddings; a Con fed
erate soldier, got his right ^shoulde!
jerked out of joint b a ..:?:?*? runnin
away wit!: hau a week or - rtgo at
Broa < 1 w: ty's Siding.
Mr. E. L. ;- : is. a ad ^jas beeKsl
very si.-k f->;- son.- --^i*- with r::'
tinal indigestion.
}la?d Times.
? (If our old friend read Xt& '? ?'
Poraai ie and I': 1: ?? : ? <-?. .. ..,.. ?
his re;?arks a;>'-.! .1 ? -ide?? Wilson
and sees nothing to '". an ?
prefers to line up on ih-:: ..--.d ?
J:is privilege to do so. \VW' tike him
too much to quarrel whhk hbn. As
Gen. X:rant -a^.J: '?The WaR'" is over.
I>et us harte peace/')
Don't V/ear Smoked Sfasse .
Worry is a pair of sino?e<] glasses
through which all the woi 'd lool ? son
ber. The sunshine is as'JgoMen as
ever, and the sky as blue. In:; througH
those smoked ?pa- ??>?>?? ever^lhmg
dreary. If some o? you would ?
pocket your worries, and sse whai th?
world really is !:::?'. it is pc^'y certnia
that you would make ep^yw;*- -. ? id
to do without smoked glasses in
future.
Srsraps Separated;
To separate stamps thai hi re jbe
coroo stuck together. Say a sin el oi
thin paper owr them and iron v. :.
hot iron. This will take th io apad
^ind the ^ue will still reiQaia.
31 BIM
Sriia Men of War Affected by Pa
thelio Soene,
?siy the P?.5s"nn of V.zile Cofnn cn Its
j Way to the Cemetery, but for a
Time It Heid Up Traffic in
a Channel Port.
!.' " There Trias some noise along the
Jetty and yet more noise in the "wide
and narrow streets of the town?
1 clanging street cars, whip-cracking
: fiacres, yelling newsboys, honking
taxis-, and soldiers and sailors tramp
ing tho pavements. Noise enough and
; of the kind befitting a channel port
; in war time; but for a time at least;
\' we heard the noise let down and the \
j bustle soured.
i In a wide street of shops appeared <
; a white-haired' priest with a white:
I crucifix held high before him. Be-!
hind him was another priest reading
; from a book of prayer. Two laymen j
came next, bearing a little white paint- j
ed table with a little white coffin?a'
I cheap board corns?resting on it. There j
j was a canopy of plain white boards \
over the little coffin. There were a j
few .white, blossoms on the canopy and
.beside the eoiun a few liiies-of-the-vai-,
ley^nly a few.
: ' tTwc other laymen followed the cof
?nn-bearvts; All ihe men were bare-:
headed. Three women?young wom
en and young mothers to look at?
followed the two men. One" of the |
young women was In deep black. A
group of little girls followed the young
woman. ' Two very old women came
last. No more than that, walking:
through, a crowded street at two o'clock
of a bright day! . ,
It.Was on us almost before we saw!
it. Ken took off their hats as it pass- j
ed; Worn^n blessed themselves. Some-i
times men's lips m^-mured a short
prayer, ahvays the1 -omen did. 3?he
soldiers' and sailors, when they were
French,, saluted nearly ahvays: the
British sametimos. The officers, If
anything, saluted more profoundly
than the enlisted men and, when they
did-net stop dead still, held a hand
to/their caps for eight or ten paces in
passing.
Two soldiers were talking with two ;
girls the. streets. One of the sol-1
diers .took Oix his cap. One of the:
girls stopped talking to say a little;
word of prayer. Both soldiers faced
about and ail sour gazed in silence for
long after; the little cortege had pass-;
ed cm Then the first "-soldier put on/j
his cap, all faced about and resumed;
tSeir talk, but more slowly and not !
ojate so loudly as before,
i An. English -Tommy was driving a!
street car?a swearing Tommy that'
yon could hear a block away. He
came, on' the mourners from- behind.
He was in a hurry, and by clanging his
bell he could have crowded by. But;
he hohl the car in check, nursing it
so as not to f lighten the two old worn
ess in the rear?until they came to a
Wide square. Here there was room.
He clanged his bell, not too loudly,
turned on the juice, and hurried to j
make up for lost time.
?cn are being killed by the mil
lions over here, and other men who
have been there?these very men on
these streets?will tell you that they
hardly turn their h?ads to see one j
more killed. But a child is different? |
James-1?. Connelly, in Collier's.
One of the Women of France.
I saw a very good-looking nurse in a I
French hospital dressing a man's head
which had been seared in a powder ex-;
plosion. She chatted in good English
as she prepared the wound for another
application of the remedy. I 'did not
know until later that she was the:
Baroness de Rothschild, herself the
founder of the hospital. When I dined
at her chateau that'evening she told
me that she worked with the wounded j
every day from 7 a. m. to 1, *when
she went home to luncheon; that she
returned to her task at 4 and quit at 7.
in the evening. It gave me a new sen-'
safion to hear this beautiful woman in
evening dress and jewels, whose wealth
it would be difficult to estimate, telling i
how she had become one of the work
ing women of France. It was odd by
the old standards, but e'est la guerre.
?Irving Batcheller in the New York.
Independent. i
Ail In the Point of View.
Pavlowa says when her company ?r? j
r:\ :d in Buenos Aires all the papers
were full of their praises, except a lit
tle new native paper, which published
an article saying nothing eise than
that "they were surprised that the men
and women of the company were sc
immoral."
As Mrne. Pavlowa is very particular !
about her company th^t hurt a lot and
she quickly made inquiries as to whyj
so astounding a statement should have
been made. j
"Why," answered the editor, "the
girls go about unveiled with short
skirts on and the men often wear ncj
hats 1"?Detroit Free Press.
J~?-r.r3 New Military Airplane.
giinmtic military airplane has jus!
.:: ?iii?h ? at the nnlLtitry arsenal.
Tt'?kyo. Ii v, -? Chieiiy designed by ih*
late Li? iitviiant Sawada. who met a
r?glc death at Tokorozawa. The ma
has h en a year and a half un
der construction, during which Vv.nt
-. ast improvements has been made ir
a er 1 navigation. This airplane h
equipped with three ICO-horsepo-wei
engines, and is capable, o* mnlfttain
ing 56 miles an hour for six hoars
continuous flight The machine wil
carry live passenger&u
vii'?i L/ L. C: i i v^a DilLlHrvrrtO !
Old-Timer Missourian Writes cf P*
rlod W!\en Game Was Plentiful
Where ftovw' Cities Stand.
Samuel Colo, who came to central
Missouri a boy, told these hunting
stories r
"When I was about twelve years old
I started one tnorn'ng to hunt for
game. My brothers had an old flint
lock rifle; which I carried with me. It
was a large and heavy gun, and was
go heavy that I could not shoot it
without using a rest. I came up the
river, keeping near the bank, until I
got to where the courthouse now
stands in Eoonville. Under the trees,
which then covered theground in the
courthouse yard, I saw five deer stand
ing together. I selected one of the
finest looking ones'and fired. At the
crack of my gun1 he fell; but when I
went up to where he was, he jumped
to his feet, and would have followed
the other deer towards the river, had I
not rushed up and caught hold of him,
patting my arms' under his neck. He
pawed me with his sharp hoofs and
horned me?his hoofs making an ugly
gash in my thigh and his horns strik
ing me on the forehead. The marks of
both hoofs and horns I carry with me
today. I held the deer until my dog
came up. I then loaded the gun and
shot him again, this time killing him.
This was the first deer I ever killed,
and although it was a dangerous un-j
dertaking, the experience only spurred
me on to gather trophies of a similar
character.
"I killed five bears Just below the
town?where Boonville now stands?
and killed twenty-two bears 'In
three days. I killed four elk
in less than one hour. There were
a lew buffaloes in the country
when I came, but these were
soon killed or driven further west
ward. I never killed a buffalo, but
caught five calves of a small herd near
Pettis county line. I have seen as
many as thirty deer at one sight at
Prairie Lick. One day I went out upon
the prairie. In. the spring of the year,
and saw about twenty deer?all lying
down except one; this one was a sen
tinel for the herd. I approached with
in three hundred yards of them and
then took my handkerchief, which
was a large red bandana, and fastened
It .to a stick, and shook it a little
above my head, when they all sprang
to their feet and came toward me. A
deer has much curiosity,^nd they were
determined to find out, If they could,
what the red handkerchief meant.
When one of the largest of the number
came within gunshot distance I shot
and killed it I often repeated. the
-handkerchief ruse with great success.
I have killed and carried to the house
three deer before breakfast."?From
"Missourians of One Hundred Years
Ago," by Walter B. Stevens.
Bible Stops Bullet
When that American Sunday school
scholar gave his nickel for a Testa
merit for a soldier in Europe he did
not know that the Testament would j
stop a bullet within an inch -of a
French soldier's heart and save his1
life.
But Eugene Dufalh that gallant
French soldier whose life was saved
by that Testament knows it, and he \
will always be grateful to some un-1
known American Sunday school boy, I
or it may be a girl, who that Sunday i
back in America did his bit toward the
1,200,000 Testaments and Gospels
which have gone to Europe through/
the co-operation of the World's Sun- j
day School association and the Amer
ican and other Bible agencies.
This'new Testament was given him
at Dieulefit the first camp in Dau
phine, by the French Bible society. On
January 10, 1917, he was carrying It
on his chest in the Schonholtz wood,
before Altkirch (in Alsace), when a !
bullet from a machine gun glanced
from a tree or rock, struck him on the I
breast and entered the Testament
German Soldier Slang.
The first attention attracted by j
Boche soldier siana was enlisted when'
they dubbed the 420-mm. gun "Big Ber- |
tha," says the BmMetin des ArmeesJ
The machine gun is "stottertante" (the J
aunt who stutters). They also say
"the organ of death." "the colic can
non." "the old chatterbox." When thei
French machine guns are in action the j
Boche in his dugout, exclaims:
"There's a Franzman at his sewing I
machine."
T!:e casque Is the "tulip;" the knap-j
sack, the "monkey;" epaulettes are!
"soup plates;" noncora stripes are "cu
cumber parings.? The various arms;
have their sobriquets. The Infantry-j
man is called the "sand hare;" the!
chausseur is the "green frog;" the!
trench digger is the "mole" or the
"ditchnian;" the white cuirassier, the:
"??< ur bag;" the uhlan, the "lamplight-!
<v." and the green hussar&with yellow I
trimmings are "the egg and spinach." j
Food Consumption. -j'
Studios of the monthly per capita
consumption of wheat, meat, fat and
sugar In the United States and in Eu
ropean countries, show that, in gen
eral, people in the United States eat
th-i most per person. The German
=rngar ration for 19.10-1917 was hardly
more thr?i one-tenth of our consump
tion and in meats we consumed almost!
sit times as much an the Germans!
were allowed. France is <?n a slightly-!
more liberal di<-t than Germany, yet
'h;* French sugar rat inn is only 1.1 j
pounds per month per person, as com
pared with 7.4 pounds in the United
States. England, though commonly
considered Country of hearty eat
ers, uses even less fat than France,and
Is about midway between France and
the United States as regard meat and
iu^ar consumption, 1
Salem Home Demonstration Clul
Meeting:.
On Tuesday afternoon. Sept. l?tn
at.4 o'clock the Salem Home Den:
onstratiori club me: :;t the Salen
School House. The subject of the
meeting was "Food for Mother and
Baby." and quit'- a number of mothr
ers and girls attended the meeting.:
Dr. Sophia Brunson kindly eon|
sented to lecture to tin- mothers mi
this occasion and ver> ably and t'oree
fully discussed the diet, clothes, <?:;
??reise and general welfare of tie
mother. The talk was plain and nori
technical and proved to be very in
structive and interesting to the club
members.
Following Dr. Branson's lecture
Miss Alice Martin talked on rh<^ care
and feeding of infants, discussing nat
ural and artificial feeding, giving the
advantages of tin1 former ami the
proeautions to be taken in both meth
ods. The demonstration consisted in
modifying and pasteurizing a day's
nourishment for a. four months obi
infant.
After an open discussion on tie
subject, the club adjourned to meet
agaft) on the 2nd Tuesday afternoon
m October.
Meeting of PJcasant Grove Home
? Demonstration Club.
The hewly organized Pleasant
Grove Home Demonstration club met
on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 12th at
the home of Mrs. W. \V. Cunning
ham. The subject for lh<> afternoon
was the home uses of Muscadine
grapes. Grape mincemeat was made
by the ..Home Demonstration Agent.
Miss Alice Martin.
Mrs. Cumiingham. -who is a very
wide-awalce leader in the ooaimun
ity. is very much interested in the
work and very generously offered the
use of her kitchen and the materials
for the demonstration.
New York. Sept IS.?A;.committee
or prominent Swedish and German
Frms has been formed in Berlin tor
the purpose of organizing a. Genr.an
Sw.edisis econornie, association, says a
Berlin despatch in the Cologne Ga
zette. The object is to bring together
a1! German'and Swedish firms enter
!lining close mutual economic rela
tions. .
Ancient "Cathay."
Cathay was an old name of China by
which that country was known to Eu
ropeans during the middle ag^s. The
British Encyclopedia says: "Cathay is
divided from Khitai. the name which
was properly that of the kiugdom es
tablished by the Khitan conquer
ors in - the northern provinces of
Chine about A. I).- 007 and was sub
sequently applied to the whole of
China." Khitai is still the Kussian
name for China.
^ v i . _ ; j
A Word for the Rattler.
Thejpfference between a tattler and
a TaTftj^Ts' that the snake gives the
other fellow a chance and the sneak
won't.
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ex Theatre
Monday, Sept. 23
?Featuring?
THEDA BARA
The premier siren of the screen portrays the passion of Egypt's
vampire queen. \
!
The high cost of kissing the modern Cleopatra is cheap com
pared with the price Caesar paid. The highest, priced production
ever screened. Cost over one million doiars ,to produce. Same
as the play. Shown for nearly one year in New York, at one to
two dollars :i ao-.a. Worth coming- miles to see.
Be Sure and See Cleopatra
LIEUT. PUTX?>J DEAD.
With Americans in Lorraine, Sept.
S U*.?First Lieut. David E. Putnam, of
; Jvewton, Mass:, America's ace of aces
j whs killed late yesterday while pa
trolling along the American lines. He j
was Hying with Lieut. Robertson, of;
'Fort Smith, Ark., when suddenly he'
was attacked by seven German ma- ;
chines. Putnam was shot through j
the heart and his machine glided1
within the American lines.
I la good Observations.
Pome years ago one ginnery did thel
Work of our community. Now two j
'with far better outfits can not.. That|
is development. There is more cot
ton made on forty r.cres than was
then made on the er tire plantation*
j (Dinkins). And this is irue of'nicst
j of the land around here. What is i
true of this community is true ofi
many others in Sumter county.
We know iand that was considered!
worthless. Would not sprout cow peas j
as tbe saying goes, that now produces i
more than a bale1 per acre. And the
end is not yet.
The cotton there is open in tbe
Gelds because it opened early, fast,
and because of the scarcity of labor.
Don't talk of a gale. Yet it is not too
late for one.
We dined with .Mr. Charles San-j
ders Sunday and of course he has ?
tine crop. An enterprising, intelli
gent farmer with the fine body of i
iand that is his, such crops as he j
grows are not surprising. He is noti
alor>e there, for his neighbors can
boast of fine crops too. God is bless
ing us and so helping us to Win the
war. Don't you believe it? Are you
asking for his blessing as the presi
dent requested?
Mrs. Sanders was in Columbia.
They have four boys in the service.
No slackers here. None of them have
taken a job to keep out of the war:
A. H. Sanders beats any one we
know catching cooters. "We were at
Hagocd the other day and he had
barrels of them which he oteimed to
have caught with hook and line. G?s
is a splendid fiserman.
Can't the Germans lie, though?
What will they say as to who began
the war since the latest disclosures.
They need to learn how to withdraw
without losing so many men. Foch
a strategist? Yes, he is. We kept
asking during the lull of the last Ger
man drive, "Why djbn't he shew some
of his strategy? When, bless your
life, he was showing it by keeping
still till the proper moment to move
when forthwith results began to
show. How we delight to sit and read
and chuckle. It seems we have done
more of the last lately than in all our
life before. 3?he news can't come fast
enough for us.
And yet there are a few Cerman
sympathizers sneaking around. They
would not admit it now for all the
world, but occasionally some expres
sion will leak out that betrays the.,
wolf's ears.
"Hagood."'
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