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QUARANTINE EXTENDED. Health {Officials Extend Duration Re strictions. . Columbia, Nov. 1.?Quarantine re strictions,- which have been in force over the entire State since October 7, will be lifted Sunday except in sev en counties. In these seven counties, the restrictions continue in force, and schools, churches, picture shows and other places oT public gathering will remain closed until conditions are such that the quarantine can be safe ly removed. The seven counties over which the quarantine remains in force are ... Marlboro, Darlington, Orangeburg, Lancaster, Hampton, Colieton and Spaxtanburg. AU restrictions will be removed Sunday from the other 38 counties in the State. According to Dr. C Y- Akin of the United States public health service, who has charge of the influenza con trol work, the epidemic is on the wane in 75 per cent, of the State, and he is of the opinion that the spread of the disease is definitely limited in ail i parts-of the State and that no newj communities will be invaded. Public health officers, who havej rendered splendid service to the Statej in this time of emergency, will con-] tinue their work at various points,! the control work being rendered pec-1 essary because of the tendency to- i wards an increase in the number of; pneumonia cases. It is likely that but few additions to the force of pub lic health service physicians will be made*, as the remainder of the cam paign against the disease can be un dertaken with the force in the field at the present timfi. - , . Reports received yesterday indicate thai the improvement in conditions which. has been noted on previous days continues, and that the . epidemic is weakening in' many- sections. A .number of changes were made yesterday in the location of public health physicians. Acting ?. Surgeon Brandt was relieved of his work in Wiliiamsburg County and went to ^nnettsville for hospital work. Act ing Assistant. Surgeon Walter was re lieved of his work in Clarendon Coun ' ty. Acting:Assistant Surgeon Blakely was relieved of his work at Fort Mill and was sent to Parris Island to in vestigate the influenza epidemic in the neighborhood of the marine barracks. Acting Assistant Surgeon Garrison was relieved of his work at Abbeville and jf*11 report to the office in Co lumbia". Acting Assistant Surgeon B^ev;.. was relieved of his work at Pendleton and Newry and was sent to Lancaster county to complete the organization for rural relief. Acting Assistant Surgeon H. M. Smith has been sent to Timmpnsjille. Acting Assistant Surgeon Hemingway has been relieved of his work in the Car verfs Bay section of Georgetown county and goes to the Hewitt neigh borhood in Florence county. During the 'epidemic, some 25 nurses and nurses' aids* have been se cured through the Red Cross and have beefi placed at the disposal of * Dr. Akin, who has sent them to various communities. Yesterday Miss A. T. Painter was sent to Bennettsville; Mis)S Barlow to Dillon, Miss Kate V. Greylish to Bishopville, Miss E. C Lateague to Dillon. Medical supplies were sent yester day; to Morrisviile and Lake City. ; THE SUGAR SUPPLY. No More Cancers' Certificates Will be Issued. Columbia, Oct. 31.?During the past summer, although the sugai supply of the American people was so limited that the food adminisra tion found it necessary to ration su gar on the basis of two pounds per person and to curtail the supply of manufacturers using sugar^ for can ning arid preserving purposes, it was possible for housekeepers to secure 25 pounds at a time, upon the signing of home canners' certificates. Deal ers are now notified by the food ad ministration that they must not sell any more sugar this season in lots ?l 25 pound? for home canning pur poses., ;.. The canning season is over, and "the food administation, acting upon advice from Washington, will riot issue any more home canners' certificates. Dealers may sell sugar t to house keepers only on the basis of twc pounds per person in the household, this sugar to be purchased by the housewife twice a month and a full and accurate record kept by the deal er and a copy turned over to the county, food administration in which the dealer is located. A Proof. There is no lack of funds in the coffers of. the National Republican Committee. Hundreds of thousand? have already been spent in primaries and hundreds of thousands are being expended in the pending election* for members of the House and Sen ate. is vTitere does this abundance ol finance come from? Surely it is not the accumulation of the contributions of the masses. 'Selfish Interests" realize that with a. Democratic administration theii chances of exploitation of the masse is knocked into a cocked hat; that in stead of being given preferred pro tection they will be dea1'. with on a basis, of fairness to all. That is what many of the "Selfisl Daterests" do not desire. And so look ing ahead they back up their desin. by assisting the Republican reaction aries in unstinted measure. . Their-motive is not "Benefits tc All." but "Benefits to Them." Will the great mass of the Ameri Jan people be equally as far sighted". Will they realize that that which i> to the special advantage of the f.:v. will and must injure them? If they do?let them say so at th? polls, when voting for members of tht House and Senate. May they not he blinded or influenced by idle prom ises or wrongful assertions, bu: guided by facts. Preparable. Small arms practice is, of course known to soldiers, but they prefer practice with l.arge arms that have dimples. * AMERICAN AUTOMATIC TRAIN. Remarkable System of Sending Sup plies io The Front. American Regulating Base, Advance Zone, France, Sept 30 (Correspond ence of The Associated Press)?The ?'automatic train" is one of the strange devices which has sprung.out of the war, and there is: nothing quire like it in the whole range of railway transportation. It has been develop ed by the American military authori ties here as one of the necessities ofi keeping up an. automatic daily sup ply of food, forage and all require ments, to every unit of the Ameri can Expeditionary Force in France.; To do this with unvarying regularity; each day, so that every man in every! division stretching over a vast areaj along 300 miles of front, would have his daily needs supplied was a huge problem. The only solution was to secure ab solute uniformity, or a standardiza tion of trains b" which the make-up would be automatic day after day. And out of this has come the 'auto r-f tic train" of the American army, which is one of the wonders cl American organization. "Watching the make-up of the auto matic trains" as they go forward to jtht American divisions on .the fight ing front, is like watching some gigantic jig-saw puzzle, for there is the same fitting together of confused Pi.rts, until at last all the pieces form ; a completed whole of "fifteen of these so-called "automatic trains" 50 cars to a train, each train moving off to, one of the American' divisions. Here at a small interior village of the American ^Advance Force is the I center from which the automatic trains move oui\: daily. The place is well forward in the advance zone, just far enough away from the fighting "to be out of reach, of hostile raids and and yet near enough .to permit the supplies to move^ forward with the greatest facility. / I \ . : tl was a sleepy village last Octob er, with 2,000 inhabitants; today it is a center of intense activity, with an American wording force of 22,000? eleven times the population of a year ago?with 72 miles, of yard trackage, 45 enormous warehouses, and rail ways radiating to. every point of the long front held wholly or in part by American troops. Last month 32,000 cars were moved, or over 1,000 a day in this stupen dous stream . of supplies goiric; for ward to the fighting forces. Colonel Hilgard, Commanding Of ficer, and Captain Bigger, regulating officer explained the details of these automatic tra ?;s, and later there was an opportunity to see the trains as sembled like parts in a huge puzzle and started on their way to the front. The basis on which the automatic trains are made up is as follows: 2 cars of refrigerated fresh beef, 2 cars of fresh bread, 7 cars of food comprised in the soldier's ration, 4 cars of fuel for cooking, 14 cars of forage for horses. 1 car of gasoline, mineral oil and lubricants for motors, 1 car for mail and packages. These are the fixed and practical ly invariable elements of each auto matic train, the same wants of food and forage being repeated day after day. 3n addition each division has vary ing wants of clothing, ammunition; medical supplies, etc., as it may be in the midst of the fighting or further back in a calmer section. These vary ing elements are added to each train according to the needs of the division. Thus, 15 trains go out daily in 15 directions, each train having some 30 to 35 cars in the fixed and automatic make-up, and some 15 or 20 cars with the varying elements of ammunition, medical supplies, clothing, etc., de pendent on the proximity to the fight ing. Orphanage Work Day. Inasmuch as the epidemic of Span ish influenza made it impracticable to observe Orphanage Work Day Oc tober 19, the day set apart for it, I wish to suggest that November 9th be substituted, and that all churches and Sunday schools throughout the State, of all denominations, use the occasion for a grand rally in the in terest of their respective orphanages. There has never been a time when the needs of the orphanages. were more urgent, and it is hoped that there will be a unanimous response to' this call. Speaking for the Method ists of the two conferences, I feel sure there will be a cheerful and united rally on that day in the interest of their institution. T. C. O Dell. Superintendent Epworth Orphanage. Lincoln's Advice to War Critics. Lincoln was no enemy of worth while criticism. But when a man. told him something was wrong, ht wanted that same man to tell him also how to make it right. He al ways objected to criticism that was merely objection?the criticism oJ the professional grouch (of which we have plenty in the present wai just as he had in the Civil War); and here is what he said to such critics: "Gentlemen, suppose all the prop erty you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blon din, the tight-rope walker, to carry across the Niagara river on a rope PTould you shake the cable and keer j shouting out to him: 'Blondin, stand, ap a little straighter?Blondin. stoop j ! a little more to the north?lean r J little more to the south?' Xo: ;cu would hold your breath as well cj your tongue, and keep your hands off until he was safely over. "The government is carrying an immense weight in this war. Untold treasures are in its hands. It is do ing the very best it can. Don't badger it. Keep silence and we'll get you safely across." Relief Committee Notes. We request that all bills be sent ir at once; if not sent in now,'we shal" conclude that no claim will be made We shall appreciate donations o; funds. We thankk all who have helped us Chic League Relief Committee. FROM A COLORED SOLDIER, j Son of E. E. Jones, Teacher in Lincoln ! Graded School Writes the Follow ing; Letter. American E. Forces, in France, October 3. My Dear Mother: I wrote you a few days ago saying : that. I had not heard from you forj. sometime, but today came your veiy. interesting and cheering letters of 1: August 5th and September 1st. I was indeed glad to hear from you because! I could not imagine why you had not: written me. I am glad that you received the little souvenir O. K. because I had begun to get afraid that you all were not going to get them but Cordelia wrote that she had received hers and I received a letter from Rosa, so 1 thought that all reached there O. K. I have not received the papers yet. Doubtlss they were thrown aside so that letters could get in the mail and will be sent to me at a later date. We are now on the real front where the belching of the cannon is fierce. Sleep is almost impossible as the noise is a continued one. . As I am writing there is a battery of guns, I which are near me, that are firing at a rate of about 25 per minute and I every time they fire they shake the earth. They are our own guns and of course we endure them O. K. Many, many : aerpplanes are flying over us, protecting us so we ar?! O. K. We have ruh the Germans so far away ] that we can't even .hear their "big .guns shoot today. We sleep on the ground: under, our tents which ar< very! small and I am sitting on a box writing. We are now in territory which we ran Germans out of in the last five days and it is some sight. The shell holes over it are as thick as holes in a honeycomb and there are many interesting things to be seen about in the woods. It is wonderful to see how the Huns had things fixed up. Everything was fine, just like a city, even having a small railroad system running through here. They had no idea of er -r giving up this territory, but the American big guns and men were too much for them, i am now inside the Hindenburg lines where the Germans thought we would nev er get. During our travel lately I have crossed the Aisne river, seen where Joan of Arc was born, and traveled over road built by Julius Caesar as well as saw one of the old palaces of King Louis XVI. There are certainly some historical places around here and still more to be seen I am told. JACK FORBES WRITES. Interesting Letter tfVom Former Deputy Sheriff of Sumter County. The following letter from Lieut. Jack H. Forbes to Ex-Sheriff Brad ford will be read with interest by all of his many friends in Sumter coun ty: At the Front, France, Oct. 11. My' Dear Sheriff and Miss Annie: Your very nice and enjoyable let ter sent on September 10th came to me yesterday. I have written several times to you all and hope you have received them, although this mail proposition is very uncertain. Yet each day we are get ting mail in a shorter time the quickest being 15 days from New York over to 'where we are in these, mountains where the machine gun barrage and big gun shelling is mu sic to our ears. I hope long before now, you, Sher iff, have fully recovered and are u\< and out again. We are giving them Hell over here and they are crying for peace. Every day or so the Boch aeroplanes come over and drop peace propositions, but we only laugh at the poor fools and only remember poor Belgium and remember the Lusitania. I want tc see every one killed or on his knees begging for his life for it wih always be with me, "Remember pooi 'Rob Purdy." As you know, there is so little we can write that it's hard to make up a letter. Saw Joe Chandler and Pokey Hood a day or two ago; every body well and happy and ready to give them all we got. Was with Theodore Ravenel for an hour yesterday; he had some Sumtei Daily Items of July but they looked good to us. We read every line, every advertisement and especially the card.4 of candidates for the county offices. Reports yesterday spoke of the bril liant fighting of the 30th Division over on the Flanders front, so guesf the Gamecock City is well repre sented in deeds of valor on that part of our front. It's not long now 'till we all will be ready to come back home, for. we have got the difference and the Hun is. on the run, so I am looking forward t< cranking up our Fords again very soon. O I will write from time to time and hope to hear from you all and that you all keep well and happy till I see you in the spring (maybe). Remember me to all in that "Best little town on eart>." Very fondly yours. Jack. My address: 3OS Military Police U. S. A. P. O. 791, American E. F. France. Favors to Few or Fairness to All Why is it that the "Selfish Enter ests" as a whole support the Repub lican party? It is because they have been made to realize, that they cannot expect either special favors or special priv ileges from the Democratic party. Whenever favors and privileges are granted to few. it is done at the ex pense of fairness and justness to The record of the Democratic ad ministration so far has established ! and will continue to establish, that the welfare of a nation, whether a* peace or at war, must be based upon the fundamental principle of "special privileges to none." Solicitor J. n. Fowles. Gov. Manning has appointed James EL Fowles. Esq..-of Columbia solicitoi of the Fifth Circurt to succeed Wad Hampton Cobbiftwho died last week. LETTER FROM THE FRONT. Manning Drakeford Writes of His Experiences in France. Somewhere in France. Dear Ma: Will drop you a few lines; hope this will find all well and getting on nicely. I am well, just back from the front; saw my first real battle Sun day night. They threw pretty large! shells on us for about two hours, but did not get any one in our company. Sunday evening I was going in the Y. M. C. a: just as I started in the door a large shell burst over my head, cutting a large tree down, the limb struck me in the back; of course I didn't fall any further than the ground. It' didn't hurt, only gave me a little scare. They will have to shoot better than they have been doing to get us. I often think about when we used to read about the war. I didn't think I would ever be over here, and now we all know exactly what it is and what those poor people had to go through with. Well Ma, how is everything in old Sumter? Just as usual, eh. Well some of these days we will all be back and I don't think the time is as long as it has been. Ma, the last letter I got from you was when I was at New York, but I know you have been writing just the same. Oh, I would give anything if I could only get a letter from home. Write often, maybe I will get them some day if you don't hear from me, remember I am writing just the same. I would give anything to see you all and that time is coming soon. It sure will be a happy day when we get back to America. Oh well, Ma, don't worry about us in- France; we are here for a good cause. If we all don't get back we can't help it, it is God's will and must be done, so don't worry about us, but for my part I feel sure I will come back. Those Dutch can't shoot straight enough to hit me. Well, I have no news; will close, hoping all are well. Write soon. With much love to. all, your devot ed son, Manning. The Allies Still Hold the Initiative. The battles of August and Septem ber are to be regarded as a struggle for the'retention of the initiative, for : the power to dominate the situation and direct and compel the develop ments. We must lay aside all thought of geographical objectives if we are to understand the , strategy which Foch has preached for more than a quarter of a century and has prac tised during more than four years of this colossal war. We must dismiss any notion that the controlling pur pose of our great commander is to take territory or places, whether the iron mines of Briey or the coal dis tricts of Lens. We must perceive that not even the expulsion of the Germans from France is the underlying objec tive of Foch. / ? What we seek, what he has sought ever since he took th? offensive, is to intensify the strain upon the " Ger mans, to increase the number of local defeats, to taks advantage of each dis advantageous position or mistake in generalship, to strike and to weaken the enemy. But the weakening of the enemy is only a preliminary step to bringing him to battle, to the de cisive battle of the war. It is a profit able thing for Foch to be able to re gain areas of French territory, it is a useful thing to be able to seize centers of ocmmunication; but these are all incidents; the main purpose is to weaken the enemy's miltary strength and the resisting power of his morale. To do this we can see exactly what Foch has done in the past four weeks. He has attacked Ludendorff on the ; flanks, in the center, wherever there has been an opening, arid he has tak en more than 100,000 prisoners and perhaps a thousand guns in addition to the captures, exceeding 75,000 j which were made in July and the first days of August. He is teaching the German army and the German peo ple behind it to expect ultimate defeat by accustoming them to frequent lo cal defeats. He is taking- a toll of guns, riiaterial, men, which is an ever-growing tax upon German re sources. More than this, Foch is>~jompelling Ludendorff constantly to meet him at the point selected by a foe and se lected because it is a weak point. If you think of the German commander as endeavoring to pull a row-boat to i the shore and being unable to row be cause he has to devote all his time to bailing, and perceive that the task of bailing grows more difficult all the time because new leaks are constant ly appearing, you will understand the general situation of Ludendorff.? From "Forward All Along the Line," by Frank H. Simonds, in the Ameri can Review of Reviews for October. Hagood News and Views. Rembert, Oct. 31.?There is a lot of influenza in our community, par ticularly among the colored people John Portee and Willie Alston both colored died this week and quite : number of others are down with it Charlie Freeman is up again. The doctors: are kept going nigh: and day. I think the situation is im proving. ? We had a gracious and much needed rain last night. There is lots of cotton yet in the fields. Some folks are nearly through picking. Most corn is yet unbroken and there are quantities of peas un picked. The hay crop is a bit short but that gathered is in the finest condi tion. "Hagood." The Reopening of The City Schools At a meeting of the City Board o< Health, which 1 in my official capac ity was invited to attend, the mem bers after having carefully consid ered the expressed opinions of four teen physicians of the city, decided to extend the quarantine until the tenth of November. I am authoriz ed by the Board of Health to an nounce that the schools will reopen on the eleventh day of November. Respectfully submitted. S. H. Edmunds. Superinendent City Schools, ' SUGAR ALLOWANCE INCREASED. Fifty Per Cent. More for Individuals Today. Columbia, Nov. 1.?Beginning this morning, the rationing of sugar will be increased 50 per cent. The allow ance for households by the food ad ministration will be three pounds per person per month instead of two pounds as previously allowed. The same ratio of increase will be made to restaurants. The increased allow ance is made possible by the manu facture of beet sugar in the West and the new crop of cane sugar now being marketed. The following tele gram was received yesterday by the food administration: "The rapid manufacture of the new crop of beet sugar in the West and new crop Louisiana cane sugar in the South together with the freer railway transportation conditions, the reduc tions that we have made in the con sumption of sugar in the manufactur ing trades and the patri tic conserva tion in the past four months enables us to increase the household allow ance of sugar from two pounds per person per month to three pounds per person per month with the same ratio to public eating places as from November 1. This makes good our promise to increase the household al lowance of sugar at the earliest pos sible moment that our supplies would justify and makes it possible for the householder to more freely use the apple, cranberry and grape fruit pro ducts and to use the fruits canned during the summer without sugar. "The regulations are also revised to the extent that any person may pur chase his whole family allowance at one time if he so desires; that is, any family may purchase a month's sup ply for the entire family in one pur chase from the retail trades." GREAT LIBERTY LOAN. People Oversubscribe Fourth Loan More Than $800,000,000". Washington, Nov. 1.?The Fourth Liberty Loan was oversubscribed more than eight hundred and sixty-siy million. Fina~ reports which were an nounced today showed a total of $6", 866,416,300. All districts oversubscribed their quotas. The Richmond district went one hundred and twenty-three per cent, and was second on the list. Boston was first With one hundred and twenty-six per cent. RUSSIA FORCES HARD WINTER Great Scarcity of Fuel and Food. London, Sept. 25 (Correspondence of The Associated Press).?Russia is facing a winter of hunger and cold augmented this year because of the extreme scarcity of fuel which pre vails in all parts of that country. The lack of coal has been keenly felt ever since the )oss of the Donetz basin to the Germans early last spring. It affected the railroads and caused fac tories to be shut down. The Czecho-Slovak operations in Siberia and in the Ural region have prevented any relief from that direc tor. The stores of wood in Moscow anfl Petrograd, owing to the lack of trans portation facilities and other difficul ties too numerous to mention, . are far from sufficient to meet the de mands of a long winter. A Moscow paper estimated months ago that the supplies of wood in that city would hardly suffice to satisfy the needs ol public utilities this winter, and that in consequence all private enterprises and homes could not hope to get even a limited quantity of it. To one who bis experienced the discomforts of a cold Russian winter even under better conditions, the situation is far from alluring. The chilly atmosphere of an unheated apartment, darkness in the streets and homes, the quiet of a city undis turbed by the rumble of street cars and motor vehicles, and, lastly, the uncomfortable feeling of an empty stomach?such are the prospects of the coming winter in Russia. Silent Air Raids. London, Sept. 30 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?Ever since the big Zeppelin night raid on Lon don October 17, .1917, the public has believed that the Zeppelin command ers stopped their engines and allow ed the giant craft to drift silently with the wind across the city which was unaware of the enemy's presence until bombs were actually dropped. But the facts, now made known, wer. "-hat the apparent silence of the Zeppelin engines was due partly to abnormal acoustical conditions, part ly to the great height at which the airships flew in order to be above the range of British anti-aircraft fire, and partly because some of the engines did stop?although not by any desire of their engineers. The few engines that stopped, prisoners have disclosed, did so because the crews were too height-sick to operate them. Experts say that the abnormal acoustics of that night are not likely to recur and there probably will be no return of the "silent" Zeppelin. Airplanes, on the other hand, are ca pable of making a silent descent upon a town, as was proved, it is pointed out, by the raid of British machines on Mannheim on the night of Aug ust 25. One pilot glided down to 200 feet from an altitude of 5.000. He was enabled to make a direct hit with every bomb dropped and he circled around for stven minutes, sweeping the Cadiscb poison gas fac tory and other works, also search lights, with machine gun fire and finally got away soot free. Herb Gardens in England. London, Sept. 17 (Correspondence) ?Herb gardens started during the early part of the war are now provid ing medicinal herbs to chemists in various parts of the country. Lady Elphinstone started a garden in the Grounds of Carberry Towers from which she distributed seeds to cot tagers in the district, with the result that these gardens are now produc ing herbs in abundance which be rore the war were only imported from Germany and Austria. TEACHING SOLDIERS TRADES. Y. M. C. A. Organizing to Instruct Soldiers in Various Branches of In dustry. _i. London, October 20 (Correspond-? ence of The Associated Press)-^Thou sands of American soldiers who hare never had any trade are going to have a chance to learn one under" the tutelage of Young Men's Christian Association instructors before: they return to America. It is hoped hy this plan that the soldiers, ho matter what their vocation before the war, will go back home better equipped for it or for something better than be fore they enlisted. . ' . i.^ .. Fifty instructors from the United States already are busy with c^a^* es of American soldiers in the. United Kingdom and at least fifty more. are needed before January .1, 191ft; '. It :ls estimated that for each of the ov& hundred Y. M. C. A. secretaries en listed in this work five volunteer in structors can be obtained from the . ranks of the soldiers. This would give a "faculty" in the British Isfc? of six hundred men capable of teacii ing 10,000 men In actual class worfci between 10,000 and 20,000 in corre spondence studies and of giving lec tures every week to from 25,000 to 50,000 troops. The work in France is much great er, of course, and there the Y. M. C. A. is receiving the cooperation .of the military forces in fitting the American soldier for a useful occu pation when he has finished the job under Generals Foch and Pershing. This great Y. M. C. A. plan is bas ed upon the work the New Zealand Y. M. C. A/ has done in. .England which has challenged American ad miration. American workers have visited the New Zealand camp for convalescent troops in the southeast of England where the New Zealand ers are cultivating. intensively, ajjgto acre farm and where the New Zea land troops are learning to be better ' farmers than ever. ~ Technical instruction for American soldiers is to include the study:;:or automobile gas engines and aircraft engines; mathematics, from.arithme tic to trigonometry; .mechanical draw ing, agricultural drawing and topo graphical draughting; plan reading and estimating; principles of me chanics; principles of electricity; arts and crafts; general principles of ag riculture, which will include model farms and demonstration in truck gardening and the raising of poultry, hogs, cattle, etc., with courses in dairying and every other branch'.of farm work. b _' ; PRISONERS CAPTURED BY AL Third of Million Enemy. Soldier Cap tured Since Beginning of Offen sive in July. . Paris, Nov. 3 (Havas).?Since the great off ensive began on the Western front on July 15 last, the allied arm ies have captured 362,355 prisoners, including 7,990 officers as well as16,217 ' cannon, 38,622 machine'guns'* ana 3, . 907 mine throwers. The allies during the month of v4&r tober captured 108,343 prisoners, in--"" t eluding 2,472 officers, as well aa: 2, 064 cannon, 13,639 machine guns and 1,193 mine throwers. ' ? r ' , -?. Letter Received From Corp. A. B. Cato. My Dear Mamma: I am well as can be; am now. liv ing in a real house. I now have a , b*g fat bed to sleep in and'I do not have to pay much for it. When I go to bed I sink down until I can hardly get out next morning. When Papa puts in his order with W. H. Grover at Norfolk, he roay mention that I see his son often, and he is* getting on nicely; he is not very well, though, at present. I wish you would go to' see Mrs. Wadf?rd and tell her that Cecil is with me yet and is just makihg" it fine. Why I ask yoh to do this I think Cecil is like myself, does hot" like to write. I have had a letter from C?rrte, Mattie, also Blanche, since T have been away from the States. Blanch said in her letter that the baby was learning to talk. You may tell her that I am learning to talk also. You tell me about the boys oh this side, but you never give me any ad dress. Tom Brown could be .right at me and i would never know it I heard from Bill Hudson from Aiken today; he was makmg pretty well. I think you can write, most any thing you want to, so all of. yo? to gether can write me lots of news. In regard to the weather, why it is not so bad. It is just about as I ex pected, judging from what I heard before I left When I come home I I can tell you all about it and don't guess that will be long. Of course you know I am trying to do my bit. It is not tiresome for me to pass my time away working on bicycles, auto trucks, and so on. I received yours and Tom's letters a few days ago. Haven* any more time at present, so will have to close my letter. So all of you write real soon. Your devoted son, Corp. Asquilla Cato. 6th M. T. O. Co. A., A. E. F. Czarina Betrayed Kitchener. (Louisville Courier-Journal.) Henry W. Mapp, who was at the head of the Salvation Army in Rus sia, says the czarina caused Lord Kitchener's death by secreiiy inform ing Potsdam, and that through the treachery of the czarina all informa tion conveyed to Russia which would be variable to Germany was forward ed forthwith. New Hun Submarines. Copenhagen, No. 3.?The Ribe Stifts Tidende says it learns that Ger man engineers have constructed sub marines as iron clad cruisers. They are 34 0 feet long and of about 2.000 tons. The vessels carry 80 men in their crew and are armed with 25 tor pedoes, two 15 centimetre guns, with 200 shells and two 8.8 centimetre