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COOKING "HITS" WSTRIGHI Utlans Devise Paiata for Soldiers in ?feand Canteens. / Stich interested In Amerl .wnlch is truly a gratify to a nation which irfashionable menus mostly in ^ tw^ hundred and more Gross canteens dotting ?ench and American lines of Bon have been a success ^oJtojjus..well as the Yank.; spell known French organiza the wounded, known as the :|3u, please, has opened a of model kitchens in French, it ??aHyin charge of ama-,' ^W?j jihe consult a prof es-; it?an.-provlded by the Amer* ' ^St&^ who. goes about' hospitals and outers sus [ ^iined.dletitians are1 service in hospitals, canteens on Bed 'Cross hospital The American. J3x-, Force took with it a train-:' for. each base hospital, are civilian employees recruited through the letitian Service of the Cross. :j Sross Motfef Farm*, :| ?le purpose of providing ; Edlk and vegetables for hospitals and well sol- - canteens and providing health icort exercise for the patients 5f? their convalescence the ::ifife established a number of l^djjgrfes in connection with ^^^sytb?r great practi ~ "given an enormous i entertainment to the men. ernment, more than in ... loaned some thousands altogether it is a scheme to everybody. j alone for the soldiers ; Cross does some of its in terms of cooking and food " ureau of Dietitian Serv- j to solve the food prob refugees. j Red Cross In France of huge figures, mar ms of transportation, tons ce. and it also thfnfrg in the white of egg or orange single boy. That Is why have affiliated them the- American Red Cross Christmas this year in the Is marked by the Red Boll Can. 5>not [can ifVES SAVED IN MINNESOTA FIRE devotion to duty on the part ! Cross workers in northeastern saved hundreds of lives, j untold pain and fed, housed tens of thousands of ! le?gees in the awful forest j devastated a district of 160 miles. - I Bed Cross immediately ! a committee, opened the anno- ! churches, and the courthouse j porary refuge for the victims. ' teen service in Duluth and also ' tor, Wisconsin, served hot j First Aid Department of j Service had physicians I ready to meet all the in-; | trains, and the Motor Corps j all the roads leading out of bringing in hundreds of peo were exposed to extreme peril,, iand^worked for 24 hours without jpause for rest r ip ??- :j !; Universal membership. The: purpose of the Red Cross Christ ?n Call, expressed in the fewest words, is to see that every id woman In every city and com throughout the United States, erever Americans may be, has rtunity to Join the Red Cross jrenew his or her membership. short of universal membership -^goai. A 1919 Red Cross mem button is to be given to each enrolling, as well as a Red ^Service Flag, with a cross for ember of the family enrolled, me in America and every busi .office should have on display a Flag1 the week before Christ inen the Boll Call will take Gn^Ab&rmtk World JVeedis a ZHhaj?, %TtJa3Dollan> Mapping the March of Influenza. (Alfred B. Williams in Richmond Times-Dispatch.) r Charts of the jnfluenza epidemic, | I now being prepared from official re ports by the bureau of public health,! ;will be ready in a few days for study; ,by the doctors. They seem to prowl (that neither climate nor climatic con ditions affect the spread of the viru lence of the disease. It swept over 'the American continent in six weeks, seemed to burn itself out and pracr itically disappeared. Now it is in [Puerto Rico, and is paralyzing indus ;try and causing general distress there. I The first report of it in this country I was at Lawrence, Kan., in March. It I was kept within narrow limits there, 'apparently being merely a local epi demic. About the same time it be came prevalent in - southern Russia. From there it spread westv^rd through Austria and Germany and eastward into India. It first touched our. territory in June, when it reach ed the Philippine Islands, where it spread with startling rapidity and made havoc. Then it aroused atten tion and anxiety at Washington, and was closely watched. It appeared at Honolulu in August. From the other side it arrived in Spain late in April or early in May. A case was reported at an American naval base in France July 26. A month later/ August 26, cases were reported at Boston and earlier iu August the disease was at Newport News and Norfolk. Coming from the Philippines and Honolulu, in the Pa cific, and from France, on the Atlan tic, it reached our eastern and west ern' shores almost simultaneously and then moved like wildfire. It was rec ognized as epidemic at Boston the second week in September and reach ed its peak of destructiveness there the-week ending October 5, in which it caused 1,214 deaths. The follow ing week the deaths were 1,127, and four weeks "later the number had fal len to 76. In- New York City the peak was reach 3d October 26, three weeks behind Boston, with 5,156 deaths, nearly 17 per cent, pf the cases. The peak was reached in Philadelphia a week ahead of New York, with 4,218 deahs. Richmond's worst week was the same as Phila delphia, with 4,717 cases in that week and 197 deaths, comparatively a small percentage of fatality. In Vir ginia, outside of Richmond, however, the week ending October 26 was the worst, 27,327 cases being reported. Philadelphia suffered more than any other large city in the country in proportion to population. This is attributed to the number of large camps in the neighborhood and to the hosts' of shipyard workers. St. .Louis was the most fortunate of the cities. The worst week there was that end ing November 5, with 257 deaths. The States south of Virginia were at their worst stage when she was. Il lustrating the difference in the mor tality rates, the reports show that while the epidemic was raging most violently it caused in Philadelphia 260 deaths to the 100,000, in Wash ington, 160, and in in St.- Louis, 20. The disease is not new. It has been traced back to the. 15th century, when it was epidemic, and with the same characteristics that mark it now. Always its spread has been ra pid and the decline has be&i sudden. In 1892 it was known to have started at Constantinople, and reached San Francisco in six weeks. In 1847 it was more violent and fatal in this country that at any other time, the records show. Scientists in this country and Eng land are sure they have found and identified the bacillus, and are ?qual ly sure they know the means of com cunication; the dispersal of "drop lets" from the infected. The experi ments with inoculation as a preven tive have not been- successful thus far. Therefore the fighting of the disease must be left to the public, in cooperation with local health autho rities. We are warned of the possi bility, if not the probability, of an early Teturn,, perhaps next spring. The best preparation for it will be to have all in readiness at the very first notice to take to the masks and to accept and enforce the rules ~o thoroughly taught us. One fact very definitely learned is that influenza does not follow lines of direction, but spreads all ways at once and more swiftly than any other epidemic disease. It was in its fiercest ma.ig nant force simultanenously in Arizona and the District of Columbia. France Found Her Soul. You have become a forge of snow white fire, A crucible of molten steel, O France. Your sons are stars who cluster to a dawn And fade in light for you, O glorious France! * * * As Joan of Arc amid the apple trees With sacred joy first hc.trd the voices, then Obeying plunged at Orleans in a field Of spears and lived her dream and died in fire? Thou, France, hast heard the voices and hast lived The dream and known the meaning of the dream, And read its riddle: How the soul of man May to one greatest purpose make itself A lens of clearness, how it loves the cup Of deepest truth, and how its bitter est gall Turns sweet to soul's surrender. ?Edgar Lee Masters. Tnderstanding. Now when I stand in some great crowded place, I see th^ souls of other women stare Out of their eyes?and I can glimpse the care And worry that has banished light and grace From every life. Upon each woman face I see the mark of tears, the hint of ' prayer That, one short year agro, had not been there? I see what time will never quite erase! Before you left, I did not notice eye?; Because I knew that I might touch your hand, I did not dream the dread that swept our land. Ah, dear, the months have made me very wise? Now. one with every throng. I un derstand, And heart meets heart, and I can sympathize! Margaret K. Sangst er in Good Housekeeping. A Prophecy?When and How Will The War End? (From Manufacturers Record, Aug. ? 3, 1915.) "Shortly after the war began the Manufacturers Record editorially pre dicted that it would last at least three to four years, and gave the reasons therefor. We have never seen any justification for changing that view. "Without pretending to any gift of prophecy, the Manufacturers Record would offer the following speculative suggestions: ? "The European war will last two years longer, i "Germany and Austria will not only have to pay, as far as money can re pay, all that the war has cost Bel gium and France, but Germany will lose Alsace and Lorraine and possibly some additional territory. Moreover, they will have to pay an indemnity of not iess than ten billion dollars. "Constantinople will fall to Russia, and Turkey will be dismembered and the Turkish power driven out of Eu rope. "The Hohenzollern and ^Hapsburg dynasties will be blotted out, and the men of these families %who at the close of the war are living will probably be imprisoned for life, and perhaps some of them may be executed. "Many of the officials responsible for m?rder in the killing of the Eng lish nurse and others will have to pay the penalty with their lives. It will j then be too late to appeal **r mercy., They showed no mercy, . id we j doubt if any mercy will be shown to them. The leaders who took the sword | in the campaign to conquer Europe j will themselves perish by the sword. "In the end Germany will become a republic and the good people of that country will rebuild its prosperity and its humanity and seek to atone for the horrors which have been brought upon the world by Kaiser ism and Prussian militarism, and then friendship of European people will take the place of present hatred. "These are suggested merely as : speculative predictions. Two years hence we may be able to see how nearly we forecasted the future." Cantelou Brothers, Montgomery, Ala., send us the foregoing clipping j from the editorial columns of the Manufacturers Record of August 3, 1916, and express their deep interest in the fulfillment of the prophecy made more than two years ago. The prediction made August 3, 1916, that the war would last two years, followed a prediction made in the latter part of 1914, in which we took j the ground that the war would last at least three to four years, and in \ which we gave our reasons for the be lief. What may be the indemnities which Germany will have to pay is not yet known, but the war did last "two years longer," and Germany and Aus tria will have to pay a vast sum to Belgium and France. Germany will lose Alsace and Lorraine. The Hohen zollern and Hapsburg dynasties will be blotted out, and we believe and trust that the men of these families will, as predicted, be imprisoned for life or executed. At the time that editorial was writ ten we believed that there were-^some "good people in Germany," and that they would come to the front and or ganize a republic and seek to atone for the horrors which have been wrought upon the world by Kaiser ism, but We have, as yet, seen no in dication whatever as to the fulfill ment of the thought we then had that some "good people" might still be in Germany. We have seen no evidence of any desire to atone for the* hor rors committed. It is barely possible that there are some few Germans liv ing who ? have some goodness in them, but as to that part of our edi torial prediction of August 3, 1916, we are yet a little uncertain. It would seem just now that there is no evidence in Germany that the proportion of "good people" is equal to the proportion found in Sodom, and that proportion was not sufficient to keep the Almighty from utterly destroying Sodom and Gomorrah. Shall we undertake to say that God was wrong when he destroyed those cities of wickedness? Shall we undertake to prove that Almighty God knew not what He was doing; knew not the punishment which should be inflicted upon sin ners ? Unless we are ready to take thatj position then we have no right to sayi that God shall not use America and j the allies, for He uses human agen- J cies for His work?for the full pun- J ishment of Germany. Monk's Cowf. The cowl, or hood, was originally a covering fop the head to protect it from the inclemency of the weather, and was worn by all classes without distinction. Its ready adaptation to j conceal the features led to its adop tion at a very early age by m ? ks and ascetics. As these multiplied ?nd formed themselves into various dis tinct orders, their hoods assumed a different fashion in cut, color and ma terial. From the monks it passed to the cathedral and collegiate churches, and from t-iem to the universities. No One to Copy. Charley had twin cousins of his own age. Tbe twins looked much alike and were neat and clean. Charley's mother said to him, "Why, Charley, look how nice your cousins look and how dirty you are!" Whereupon he answered: "Well, mother, they just need to look at each other to see how they look and I have no one to look at to see if I look right." Earliest Form of Shoes. The earliest shoes known were san dais of hide, leather or wood. When one encounters the word "shoe" in the j Bible he may be sure that it is the| sandal that is commonly meant. In j Egypt the sandal was woven of palm leaves and papyrus. As a symbol of the subjection of their enemies the j Egyptians often painted the figures of j their opponents on the lining of theii sandals. RECONSTRUCTION IN FRANCE. The French Government Plans to ' Finance t'<e Work. Philadelphia, Dec. 12.?To recon struct the destroyed portions of France architecturally as they were before they were ruined by the Ger mans is the purpose of the French government as outlined by Bernard J- Shoninger, formerly president of the American Chamber of Commerce at Paris. ;The French government plans to accomplish this by reimbursing indi viduals for their shattered homes, mills and factories according to their value before their destruction, Mr. Shoninger recently told the executive committee of the Philadelphia Cham ber of Commerce. Ultimately, he said, Germany will pay the bill for restoration. Throughout the war, he added, French boards of appraisers have been estimating the values of prop erty destroyed by the Huns and now have accurate data. To those who de sire to' rebuild, the French ; govern ment will issue indemnity 6bonds up to 80 per cent of the former value of his property. While the external ap pearance of the buildings rebuilt will be retained. Mr. Shoninger said, the interiors will be constructed in mod ern, sanitary style. Referring to the fact that the French government has made ar rangements to purchase materials for reconstruction by pooling or combin ing its orders, he suggested that American manufacturers would be asked to supply some materials and that they promote the formation of selling combinations so that possible huge-orders for construction materials from France could be rapidly assimi lated. The Future of the nun. (By E. E. Harriman of the Vigilantes) There must be a future for the Ger man. He can not stop and resolve into a mere memory. It is out of the question for the civilized nations to annihilate him. For their own sakes they can not be as savage as he planned to be. However many may be killed in this war, there will still be many millions left to propagate. What manner of future awaits those millions? What will - they do? What will be their status in the world? How will they prosper, Already many thinking people are considering the matter of German trade, German industry, German debt paying. The nation itself is making active prepartions for the after the war campaign. When the war is ended Germany will find herself handicapped with a double load. The debts she has in curred through the financing of the war, and the rehabilitation of devas tated countries. In order to pay either bill she must be able to manu facture and sell. She must hawe mar kets and supply them. In order to secure' markets she must first establish confidence in her wares and in her business methods. She must gain a certain, and very de cided, amount of friendly regard or the rival salesmen, the rival manufac turer, will hold too great an advan tage. She can only hope to be a scavenger otherwise, for the other na tions will leave her only that which they do not wish to handle. How is she going to acquire the necessary standing, the confidence of buying nations, *to give her these markets? Once she would have sent her thousands of emigrants to colon ize, with rigid instructions to demand German goods and thereby create a condition that would force importa tions. That day is past, if the na tions are wise, for in all such cases German's colonial' idea carried with it the control of politics through colony ballots. It .is inconceivable that any nation should ever again cater to the German vote or allow it to be in control of even a fraction of national activities. With all nations on guard against Germarising influence, that plan must be abandoned. If Germany, in her stupid disregard of all rights and prejudices, should attempt to again get control of any part of the nation al affairs of America or Canada or Brazil, for instance, it will probably lead to the barring of intercourse with her definitely. It is difficult to ascertain where she can first gain a foothold. With her reputation blackened by her own acts, her rotten methods, thoroughly exposed, it will be a hazardous thing for any nation to attempt to deal with her. It is a matter that calls for the sober, calm study of master minds, the consideration of all nations op posed to Germanic ideas and the autocratic demination of Germany. It must be made a matter of the most careful consideration, for upon the policy adopted by the nations will de pend much of their own welfare. There must be a limit set for Teutonic activity, a bound beyond which they dare not go or it will be only a ques tion of time until the world will again have to take up the task of beating Hun devilishness. It is time for the nations and their deepest thinkers to begin to plan and consider, for it will not be long now until the Hun will be wanting to em igrate from Hunland to escape the burdens he has helped to create. He must not be allowed to shirk his task. He must be the one to pick up the burden and stagger along under it. He must not be allowed to shift it to other shoulders. The forces of many nations have been harnessed in the effort to ham mer some reasonable degree of sense into the Hunnish head. Next will come the prodigious effort to hold him to his work and force him to walk the straight and narrow path. It is to be almost as hard a task as fighting- him into submission, if the way he is preparing for a commercial campaign is any criterion. Unless he is so hedged about by rigid, inflexible guards that he can do only the right thing, he will soon be doing the wrong one. It is folly to j think that getting a whipping will change tbe Hun nature. A cracked crown will not ensure a rejuvenation or any degree of reformation. H? will be no more spiritually redeemed than he will be physically restored by the war. The living Hun will need a process of refining that will require more than one generaion. The dead Htm. thank God. will help to hold him where h<- belongs by the thinning out of evil blood when he j died. So let us plan now for what comes later, that we may enjoy life with no fear of despotic oppression in the fu ture years. We must weld a steel ring, such as Kaiser Wilhelm loved to' rave about, that will keep the Prus- j sian on his good behavior for the next two thousand years. In that length of tim<-. the world of decency may make some progress toward the elimination of the savage part in his nature, and so bring him to where he is a safe neighbor for decent people. The Navy Heard From. Dear Editor: Allow me just a little space In your paper. I have never written to your ! paper before but censorship is releas | ed to some extent. j Krother send me the Item quite j often so I always have home news. I ! left with the S. L. I. in 1916 and on jour return 1917 I decided the navy j was the best place for a young man, so at once I was transferred and was safe aboard one of Uncle Sam's best ships and was soon serving in foreign waters. I cannot explain some of the exciting tb'-gs that happened, but one I will mention: We were patroll ing the North Sea and the "tin fish" subs were playing hide and seek with us but they didn't get us, our gunners were too good for them. One of them ran into our propeller and dis abled one engine. We made port all right and he made bottom. Have ex perienced several incidens equal to that and even more, but when I would feel disheartened I would just think of the poor boys on the western front, and know that I was blessed to be so well protected. Today we we.e in' the greatest con voy that has ever been in history. We met the defeaed German fleet and es corted them to their place of intern ment. This day will be remembered by all of the British "grand fleet and also by the boys of the American Sixth Battle Squadron. Now about the work of the navy. Nobody seems to give them any credit, but take a tip from a friend they have done their bit and will continue to do so when the soldiers are returning home to their parents, friends and sweethearts. I had an advanced leave a few weeks ago and was talking to a chap in London who had been over about two months. He was almost crying to go home. I gently reminded him of our French and English comrades who hadn't seen home since 1914. He then piped down but still insisted that we had nothing to fight for. Talk about sports, we have every thing from playing checkers to foot ball. We have baseball, football, box ing, wrestling, boat racing and swim ming, when the weather permits. Speak about eats in the navy, they are very good. I am still alive and healthy. I always thought tha'<3 sheep were made to make, clothes in stead of filling them up. I have eaten so much mutton in the last year that I almost bleat sometimes. Have just finished supper, which consisted of cold roast lamb, bread, butter, tea and sliced fruit. I still think that I am one of Sumter's boys and am proud of my home. Hope it will be my luck to convoy Captain Brown and his good old Co. L back to America soon, as I still have a feeling towards the company. Sincerely your sailor friend, H. E. Hatfield, U. S. N. About Time, Too. An officer inspecting sentries guard ing the line in Flandei'8 came across a raw-looking yeoman. , "What are you here for?" he ask ed. "To report anything unusual, sir." "What would you call unusual?" "I dunno exactly, sir." "What would you do if you saw five battle ships steaming across that field yonder?" "Sign the pledge, sir."?Tit-Bits. This is Made in Boston. "So this, is your famous Beacon Street?" said Major X. as he strolled with his friend along past the State House. "Frankly, I'm surprised. I had always heard that it was a very exclusive street, you know." "Well, so it is," said the other man. "Eh! old chap, how can you say so? Why, it positively verges on the Common."?Boston Transcript. A Bad Beginning, Etc. ? She?"When we go anywhere now we, have to take the street-car. Be fore our marriage you always called a taxi." He?"Exactly. And that's the rea son we have to go in the street car now."?Boston Transcript. Concerning Peace. (By Theodosia Garrison of the Vigi lantes.) That we have purchased with tre mendous price.? That we will take. We have no mind to make a bargain twice, No larger gain to make, But this we buy across the sword's red blade We swear sh.ill justify the price we paid. Not with small counters did we seek this thing, But with the blood Of youth, men's might and human suffering And stricken' womanhood.? These to the market of your wrath we brought And we shall have in full the Peace we bought. Trickster? and swindlers in the wide world's mart. Not yours to say. Nor. cringing, still withhold one little part For which we pay. Our dearest treasure in the scale is cast. Think you we shall be cheated at the last? Secondary Consideration. Widower?*T suppose that when you recall what a handsome man your first husband was. you wouldn't con sider me for a minuteV" Widow?"Oh. yes. I would. But I wouldn't consider you for a second."? Orange Peel. The Red Cross year has been chang ed from May to May so as to now run from Xmas to Xmas. Tin' dollar you pay now is for the year 1919. Have you joined the Red Cross for 1919? All you need is a heart and i dollar. Wipe Out the Profiteer. (By Mark Swan of The Vigilantes.) From the lowest, to the super low est, we loathe the obscene Beast who drowns women and children on un warned vessels?who burns ' villages, destroys orchards?outrages women? ?ind bombs hospitals. We ransack the dictionary, and exhaust the vo cabulary, endeavoring to select adjec tives which will fitly describe him, and his works and finally we sum ev erything up in the descriptive word? "Hun." Now what shameful word is left us to apply to the men?who are among us yet are not of us?who use the war as a means of extorting bloated profits from those whose brothers they pre tend to be? The Prussian, at least, is an open enemy. He warned us, for forty years, that he would do what he has done? he has never tried to conceal his bes tiality, in fact seems rather proud of it. The spy, the propagandist?the dynamiter who blows up munitions works?for all of these there can be found some shred of excuse; being Prussian, it is their business to do what frightful thing they can?and ours to hang them, if we can catch them doing it. But for the profiteer, the briber, the apostle of the filthy creed, ."Get it?no matter how?just get it"?the men of our own nation, of our own blood?pretending to be our own kind ?hypocritically calling us fellow cit izens, while they pick our pockets, there is no excuse?and there is no t appropriate adjective?to call them "Huns" would be complimentary. Here we are, a hundred million of us?drawn into a world nightmare, trying to do our best, to help, trying to bring the colossal disaster to an * end; some of us "Treating 'em Rough," most of us skinning the lay ers off the old bank roll for Liberty bonds; boosting the Red Cross?plug ging for the Y. M. C. A.?and what is he?the profiteer doing? Why just lining his greedy pockets ?wallowing in illegitimate profits? which in the last analysis resolve themselves into the blood of brave men and the lives of little children. And even in this deviltry there are grades. The man who extorts for his hoarded food?or his hoarded coal ?is low enough, in all conscience, but he may only be a creature without a soul, so that the vast agony has not touched him. Not being a victim, he cannot realize there is such a thing as war. His penalty should be merely confiscation and banishment. But for the debased scoundrel, who bribes some other loathsome creature to help him foist counterfeit clothing ' or ammunition?or poisonous food, on the army?on the very men who are fighting for him?there is no punish ment outside the ultimate depths of the Seventh Hell. We could stand them up against a wall and shoot them?but it would be a shame to desecrate a decent wall? we have a myriad lamp-posts, but why shame honest rope? Just as we lack words to describe them?we lack punishment to inflict. We can only recall with regret the passing of the rack and the wheel. What would happen to a cook who fed his company poisonous food? What would happen to an officer who sent his men forward to meet the enemy?equipped with blank cartridges, or to a quartermaster who for his own profit dealt out shoes with paper soles? Is the crime less, because it is committed 3,000 miles away? We owe our boys protection. We owe ourselves protection. Punish the profiteer. Kill every man who gives such a bribe?kill every man who takes such a bribe. Do it legally and in the proper way. Before an angry people do it?illegally?and in a hor rible way. WEAK, WEARY WOMEN Learn the Cause of Daily Woes and End Them. When the back aches and throbs, When housework is torture. When night brings no rest nor I sleep, i When urinary disorders Nset in, l Women's lot is a weary one. Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak kidneys. Have proved their worth in Sura ter. This is one Sumter woman's testi mony: Mrs. E. B. Elam, 316 W. Liberty St., Sumter, says: "About six years ago I had quite a bit of kidney trou ble and I felt pretty bad. Headaches bohered me so that I could hardly stand up and dizzy spells annoyed me so, I thought I would fall over many times. My nerves were all unstrung and I would jump from the least fright. My kidneys acted very irregu larly and I knew they were in bad shape. Finally, I heard about Doan's Kidney Pills and started taking them. I must say, Doan's positively cured me of all kidney trouble and I haven't been bothered since." Price 60c at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mrs. Elam had. Foster-Milburn Co.,? Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.?Advt. (51) |? Geo. H. Hurst, Undertaker and Embalmer Prompt Attentin to Or and Night Calls At J. 0. CRAIG Old Stand, N. Main Phones: