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EXPERT AERONAUT 1 ATTRACTS ATTENTION ONLY "MIRACULOUS STUNTS IN THE AIR CAUSE TRENCHMKN TO TAKE NOTICE. Doings of Noted Pilots?Supremacy Depends More 011 Skill of Pilot Than Quality of Machine. (Correspondence of Associate Press.) "In a service like the flying corps the standard of values is on a very different plane from that of average lay minds," writes a llritish military expert from the front. "What is little short of miraculous to the unitiated is hut a commonplace to the airmen, and a pilot's acheivement must be vtry fine indeed before it is regarded W'th undue interest by his fellows, far less by himself. "This enlarged perspective is extended, though to a less deg.ee, to the soldiers in the trenches, to whom he antics of an aeroplane, or squadron t ,* I 1 ? u iMciujJiancA, imve iuii^ Nincc co'isi'd I to be a novelty. But sometimes an un- < definable touch of 'class' about the t manner in which a pilot handles his t machine immediately attracts the at tention of the men below, and h e < whole trench here will be filled with J eager and observant spectators watch- 1 ing his every manocuver. i Earnestly Scanned. ' "Every plane coming up from the 1 rear is earnestly scanned until its 7 identity is established, and once it is 1 known that 'he' is coming, the soldiers lean back on the fire-step, and wonder what new 'stunt' will be introduced ' for their delectation. The pilot in turn 4 seems conscious of what is expected of him, and the more cheerfully takes * his risks along the 'Archies' because 1 it provides the tried trench-dweller 1 with a little mild amusement. ' "One such pilot existed just at the 4 time when the Germans introduced 4 their much overrated Fokker. This type of machine, and the tactics ' evolved with it, certainly scored an initial success against some British 4 airmen. But improved planes are constantly being brought out, and each side has always in use a certain num- * her of machines inferior to the later I enemy planes. When the two types 1 come into conflict the odds are nat- 4 urally in favor of the better machine. ' Supremacy in the air, however, de- 4 pends more on the skill and resourcefulness of the pilot than on the qual- 4 ity of the aeroplane he flies, and it is 1 to such resourceful men that the Brit- 1 ish owe their undeniable supremacy of 4 the air, a supremacy often challenged, ' but never broken, even when for the 4 time the Germans have had the better 1 type of machine. 4 A Famous Pilot. 4 "The fame of the pilot mentioned 1 was not confined to any particular ' sector. His name was never menJr tidrKlw ifti TynW. u na L hpWflL, L L .Vl 1 France in every rest camp, village and town, men chucked hugely over his doings, and were frreatlv rhpfroil thereby. Here is one of them. ; "A British machine was engaged on ^ a reconnoissance over the German lines when it was attacked by two Fokkers. The observer saw the first Fokker coming, and used his gun so well that the German fluttered down to earth sorely damaged. The second Fokker, however, dived right behind the British machine and so deluged it with machine-gun fire that the pilot had no course left but to attempt a forced landing. The German quickly recovered from his dive and was coming back to finish off his adversary when our pilot dived from behind the clouds. .The German saw him coming, banked sharply and started to climb. Stalled llis Machine. "The Briton "stalled" his machine, and managed to put several shots into the enemy from beneath. One shot killed the observer; another put the engine out of commission, and the Fokker, mortally hit, nose-dived steep ly, mrowing the dead observed out into mid-air. The pilot managed to 1 regain control before bis machine c crashed, and contrived to effect a landing of some sort. But our pilot was not finished with him. He circled ' overhead until the German had got clear of his machine, and then he de- t scended further, and sprayed the Fokker with machine-gun fire till it burst into flames. He then started to climb. "Clouds of German anti-craftshells pursued him, but he managed v to get right over the German firing 1 line before a shell burst near enough * ^ to injure him. His machine stopped in its course, its nose fell, and down ' it went, diving steeply to earth. A J thousand feet, five hundred, two hundred. Everyone's heart jumped in ex- s . pectation of the ?rash. Then the plane righted. Along the German line it f sped, faster than a swallow, and its 1 machine gun spat venomously into the * crowded trenches. It was only a ruse, J just another flight of the genius which 1 marked the pilot from the ordinary, and as he mounted heavenwards and 1 flew towards the safety of his own ! lines, he leaned over from his seat 1 Iand praily waved his hand to the haf- ' fled foe." ( LOT OF STUDENT AVIATORS. I Washington, May 28.?Another lot < of 1.r,0 student aviators for the armv went into training today at the six colleges which are aiding the govern- I ment in huildinpr up the corps. Prof, fioode Holmes, head of the en- [< IKinuiTingr department at the Univer- < sity of South (Carolina, has been or- ! tiered to report for army duty at Fort Sam Houston, Tex. I>o your Liberty Hondinpr early. Boston Transcript. WHOLE STATE LIBERTY BO 'BUY A BOND FOR BABY" GOVERNOR MANNING I BANKS LEN1 Columbia, S. C.?Special.?One of ? Sie greatest exhibitions of applied pa- * riotism which this state has witness- < Ml in many years is now being dis- i jlayed in the great drive for the sale i if $8,500,000 of the Liberty Loan t xmds. People from every walk of i life, capitalists, bankers, merchants 1 md farmers are subscribing to the is- 1 me which is to finance the war for t iberty which the United States is j iow waging. i All banks have opened their doors 1 jo applications for the bonds; so that < my person who desires the bonds has . inly to go to any bank in his town ' rlipta lilq nrvrthootinn will 11 " W|rFltvi?UUlI Will liU illllllWUl- J itely entered. Tho Amorican people, 1 ind ?specially the farmers and merchants of the South, have not been a 1 x>nd investing people to any extent; < lut. under tho drive of patriotic enthu- l ilasm, they have rallied to the Liberty < Ivoan idea by the hundreds of thousinds; and small wage earners every- i where have responded with every < nanifestation of eagerness. 1 This has extended to the utmost 1 farm districts of the state. Local f committees have been organized in < svery community; men in automo- 1 biles have volunteered to see every . farmer of any means in the entire c farming districts and these have been 1 followed up by salesmen of various 1 kinds who have gone so far as to proiuce the application blank and secure i !he farmer's signature. i The "Buy a Bond for Baby" slogan t bas become popular in thousands of i homes. Governor Manning himself i showed the way by subscribing for . twenty bonds, one each for himself, i lis wife, a daughter, seven sons and I fen grandchildren. Following his lead, i parents in every direction have in- 1 rested in the bonds for their ehil- < iren to serve as a foundation for a sav- | ngs fund for the little tots, to be < idded to in years to come. ] fractically all tho big corporations 1 if the state have arranged plans 1 whereby their employees could secure < be bonds by having small sums do- ; lucted weekly from their pay enve- < opes. Many merchants in the larger 1 :owns have established booths in their t stores at which applications blanks could he signed and information se- i cured. Most banks have worked out 1 ilans where by the bonds could bo < sought on the installment plan. i One of the greatest contributions 1 & raunnntyi. \i%? srA vnti". ' Institute! has been the action of the Insurance men of the state, both life ? ? flre, and the commercial travelf ANKEE BRAINS PRODUCE I OF TEN WORLD WAR WONDERS v Of the ten wonders of the world var?implements of war never used tefore?eight are the product of American brains, it is shown in tabuation.s made today in connection with ompilations on the probablity that t'ankee ingenuity will produce the big dea that will put the U-boat out of >usiness. The two non-American inventions tie of German origin and such has teen their use that no American rerrets not having been their creator. These two are the Zeppelin raider md poison gas. They have done much o bring upon Germany world conlemnation. At the outset of the war the world marveled at tales of the great 42 entimeter German guns and credited Jerman efficiency with a marvelous nvention. Though shrouded with secrecy, rmch now is known about this monster gun that fires a shell more than hree feet high and weighing 1,70."> sounds from a cement emplacement. I.ouis Gathman, American inventor, daims he originated the type of shell hat made the preat pun possible and | 1 tffered it to our war department. The pun throws a shell 15 miles. Poison pas and liquid fire, twin in- , mentions of fripht>fuln6ss, is solely a jerman product, thouph ancient his- 1 ory shows use of similar apencies. f 'our hundred years before Christ helium and llatea were "smoked out" >y poison pas, probably penerated by nirninp wood saturated with pitch ind sulphur. The submarine merchantman? >robably the preatest wonder of all? s in all essentials an American invenion. Simon Lake's studies made it possible. (lermany developed the dea in the Deutschland. Trench cities have been looked I jpon as (lerman wonders, but are nerely amplifications of methods and deas first effectively worked out in America during the civil war. The Zeppelin and the super-Zep are Jerman inventions. The largest are from (>00 to 080 feet long. Six engines levelop 1,100 horsepower. One can arry from two to three tons of amnunition. As mysterious as any war wonder lave been the British "tanks." They ire declared to he veritable infernos inside, because of the incessant noise if machinery, intense heat, and longing of bullets against the outside. Groat l>attlo pianos aro (lie mosf spectacular of all air fiehters?the direct outgrowth of an established American invention. Big tractor hi AIDING IN ND CAMPAIGN SLOGAN IS POPULAR SETS EXAMPLE-ALL DING AID. *rs in donating their service? salesmen for one or two days to th ause of the bonds. These men haw made a personal canvass of the stat< 11 practically every town, going froi ?tore to store and lions? to house i m effort to secure subscriptions. Thi movement was originated by Carro D. Jones, of Columbia, president c ho State Underwriters' Association md was put in operation under th tupervision of a committee of wihe Prod S. Munsell is chairman. Th >ther members of this committee ar lames A. Catheart, John \V. I.illart T. llale Dick, W. S. Henley, George I Dial, Jesse T. Reos? and A. S. Gai ard. Due to the efforts of these men, th illottment of bonds for the state i constantly dwindling; and their e 'orts will bo continued until tho clos }f th? campaign on June 15. The campaign has also had and i itlll having the utmost oo-operaticm c ;h? women's clubs of the etate. Th .uiuc.vun urbanizations nave contrib* red their time and efforts wlthoi stint; and women and girls have bee conspicuous in all the movements i behalf of the bonds. Especially o June 6 was Hi is true, at the tim when all those around the registri lion places were given bond liten cure by prettily droosed girls. Although June 5th was officially d? gnated as Liberty Bond Day, o which there should be definite efforl :o secure a subscription from ever nan in the state, the campaign is b 10 means over. It will not end unt June 15. the day upon which sul icriptions cease. There will, tlicr Tore, be no diminution of effort on th oart of the numerous committees wh !iave the promotion of the sales i charge. It is earnestly desired by th government and by the IJberty Ix>n Central Commit tee for South Car ina that the allottment of $8,500,Of which has been assigned to this staf tie several times oversubscribed. Th effect of having this bond issue ove mliscribed "will have the same mori effect upon the enemy as a great d Teat; and this is what is trying to I secured. Liberty Bonds are itho strong** security that any man may own. The liave the backing of the greatest go srnment on earth, they are absolute! secure, and the money thus derived to he used in fighting the battles of th govern nre nt. The plain duty of everyone of oi citizens lies straight ahead: Bi Liberty Bonds! And do it now* dunes have become almost standai vith the British. Everyday utility gives the machii run the palm. This is an Americi nvention. The Lewis gun, American, is said ead all as an air-cooled portali veapon of light weight and so simp hat no tool kit is required. Maj ohn II. Parker, U. S. A., is credit vith first demonstrating use of t nachine gun in offense. It is sa >y some that rapid fires turned t ide at San Juan. Periscopes?eyes of the U-boats vere first used in the 17th centui onsisting of doubly bent tube tel scopes. 11 was an American engine hat first made naval use of the pe: scope and it was in America in 18 hat an approach was made to t nodern instrument. Chief Engineer Thomas Pougheri >n the turreted monitor Osage, i rented a periscope to prevent Sout *rn troops from picking off the m vho peered over the side of the sh Monster flying whales are the lati :errors, but little is known of the They are, of course, a development the airplane idea and American in ?eption, therefore. They are said have an armored body of whale sha invulnerable to machine gun fire. Several of the large hotels in N< fork city are employing women to i place the men called away for w service. WHAT IS m u mm LAX-FIR LAX-FOS IS AN IMPROVED CASCARA A Digestive Laxativi CATHARTIC AND LIVER TONIC Lax-Fos is not n Secret or Patent Me cine but is composed of the follow old-fashioned roots and herbs: cascara bark blue flag root rhubarb root black root may apple root senna leaves and pepsin Tn I,a x-FoS theC vscara is improved the addition of these digestive ingrc cuts making it better than ordinary C caka.and tliusthe combination acts only aaast mulutii.g laxative an t cntli tie I i t also as adigc live and liver toi Syrup laxatives are weak, but Laxcoiiihincs strength with palatable, < malic taste and does not gripe or dist the stomach. One bottle will pr Lax-1?OS is invaluable for Coustipatl Indigestion or Torpid I.iver. l'rice i CAPTIVE WOMEN'S SCREAMS I QUICKEN ALLIES' STORMING Of GREAT GERMAN REDOUBT [Dead Girls, Naked and Horribly Mutilated, Left Behind by Invaders in Retreat; Babies Jabbed by Bayonets, Wounded Soldiers Clubbed. k - (By Milton Hronner.) "When I hear Americans doubt'ng the truth of the stories of German trocities in Belgium and France, 1 j ! don't know whether to laugh or swear. , s As one of the lirst hundred thousand ' e English sent to battle 1 not only saw e atrocities committed by German - >1 diers, but am myself a victim of n them." n So said A. II. O'Connor, a Brookly s boy, who, with his father and live 11 other members of bis family, crossed >f the Atlantic and joined the English ; | army. e O'Connor joined the First Life h Guards of the Household cavalry and e saw service in Belgium and France, 1 e Chappelle, Loos, Hill (50, llohenzollern I, taking part in the defense of the road j. to Calais, the battles of Ypres, Ncuve 1- redoubt, Armentiere, Arras and the o*;iiiiiic* uiiimisivl'. in me inner ' e he was permanently disabled, and reIs tired from service. He was decof* rated by the king for bravery. Back in America, he expects to deliver talks on his experiences, is "Over in Brooklyn," said he, "I had if many German acquaintances and e when I read of German atrocities in l- Belgium I could not believe them. , it Now it makes me shudder when 1 n think of what I have seen. ' 11 "My regiment was helping in the n great fight to keep the Germans from e going Calais-ward. It was during the ft- battle of Ypres. We took a little Bela\r gian village from the Germans. "As, with my comrades, I charged s? through the streets, I saw the naked o bodies of women, girls and babies. :s They were terribly disfigured by ba\ y onet jabs, even those of helpless bay bies. 11 "You know, in those village fights b- we had to chase the Germans out e- from one house to another like ter>e riers after rats. to "In one house we saw two Germans n ransacking the drawers of a bureau, to On the door were the dead bodies of .n two naked girls horribly mutilated o- and cut open. 10 "No Germans got out of that house to alive! is "The next time I myself saw Gorr man atrocities was later in the cam s.1 paign when we finally took their raft mous Ilohenzollern redoubt. These >e works were wonderfully strong. The Germans had dug down 50 feet below st the surface and had comforts down I iy there apporx'mating those of a hotel I v- ?real room with beds, carpets on I ly the floor, mirrors on the wall, lights, I is etc. I i?J "We subjected this redoubt to a ter- v h-ib]? artillery fire for a long time. ir Probably an hour elapsed between ly the ending (nf the artillery fire and our going o* ?r, as we say, and taking ?. the place. "In that hour we Life Guardsmen could hear a constant screaming in J'u | the redoubt. In the sector of the * v 10 redoubt which our regiment captured, in; I saw bodies of at least HO women. ^ c: many of them stark naked. The sav*? apes, who had taken these women ni:. ' c away from their French villages, and 'j , held them captives here, had com- ' ' 01 mitted awful crimes. 1 saw dead woj* I men their breasts hacked off. In this s .^same sector they had buried 20 of ; " their poor victims. *' c( "In the first Somme offensive I ~. personally experienced the chivalrous 11 ~ j acts of our German enemy. T was 1 I put out of business by bayonet o, c~ j wounds through my left arm and side. k 1 e.r'lt was in a field over which the "J I rival forces fought back and forth. , ' ] "During one of those scrimmages, hp| ^ 11* a German came along and, seeing me lying there helpless, hacked through my hoot, cutting off three of my toes. J1"' My will power alone I remained con- 1*1 I scious. s< en "When T saw the Germans retreat- d 'P*1 ing, I closed my eyes and played dead. 1 ?s 'knowing the Huns have a habit of m* 'clubbing wounded men to death as they ,? retire. Perhaps I did not look dead "1~ enough. At any rate one of the Ger? mans clubbed me across the jaw with Pe' his rifle butt. "When I woke up fen weeks later I was in a war hospital in London be inp nursed by ex-Queen Amelia of "e" Portugal. The war office records rc ar show \ and others had been Iniried or partly by debris thrown by a hupo d< German shell. They found life in me. si but it took all those weeks to brine tl' me around. And evon then I could th ^ not talk. ly J? "The tap that German soldier pave p vjik a wounded and prostrate foe kept me c: & dumb for six months. Even now any in sudden nervous shock keeps my vocal tl cords paralyzed for from five to six h hours."?Record. h; <? n NEW SEAPLANE. ? dlillV . r, Santos Pumont. Brazilian Aviator, is 1 the Inventor. a Paris, .Tune 4.?Santos Pumont. tinpioneer Brazilian aviator, has invent- ' ed a powerful type of seanlano for 1 tiphtinp submarines, according to a J' Turin dispatch to the Petit Journal. I The dispatch says that the new ma- j by! rhino will be manufactured in th di- ! I'nited States and supplied to all the ' AS;! allies. not! m - t UNCLE SAM BUYS CASKETS.' 1 iro- Washington, June 2.?War's prim p urb a-nect was broupht home to America , ove today when the war department con' 'n? 11 acted for 200,000 caskets, dolivery ^c* to be made as required. 'n I 'A Horseshoe I with , I 7? ? J g lire V ' I Ml IS "wish you X well" stuff is all |/ right for conversajgj tion, but I must dc liver more than that ? or go out of business. Therefore, I invcsti9 gated before I tied up D with DIAMOND B "Squeegee" Tires. K What I found in Di K looked good to S? when wo say SRB'S A RECORD THAT WOULD DELIGHT TEDD Dalton. Ga., .June 2.?Dalton lias nily the Colonel would like to met reive children have been horn ; family within ten and one-ha :?rs. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hayes we irried August 6, 1905, and the ildren were horn as follows: .In 1907, a son; December I. 190S, so irch 22. 1910, twin jrirls; Octoh , 1911, twin jrirls; September 12, son; December 23, 1913, so bruary 10, 1915, twin boys; Man . 191(5, twin hoys. Of the twel ildren born six are living, the othe in^r in infancy. avs Phosphates M a k Beautiful Women and Strong, Healthy, Vigorous, Robust Men. ivsicians all over the world are pi Tilling phosphates to build up ri own down enemic conditions an those who have treated their pa tients with \rtfo-IMiosphate arc changing thin, eneniic women with toneless tissues, flabln flesh, into the most beautiful rosy cheeked and plump round formed women imaginable. Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Jacobson said ii cent interview that 90 per cent, lemia comes from nervous lire: ;wii ? nn ii uui uiii^y i?u runri'ini ipplying the necessary phosphates io nervous system that is lacking ie food you eat, and this can he cpiii ' supplied by taking one or two rain Argo-Phosphafre tablets af ich meal, and at bed time. Tt will mny cases make a pale scrawny f; ie picture of health in a few days, ve seen women that I expected wo ave to be kept, under treatment lonths restored to perfect health lie or two weeks' time. SPECIAL NOTICE. The Ar hosphate recommended by 1'r. E. acobson contain: phosphates such re prescribed by lending physici; iroughout the world, and it will lund the most effective form renting patients with Nervous I' epsia, Stomach troubles, I'.rain V nd Nervous Prostration. Tt will ew youthful vim and vigor. : uild up the whole body. If your dri ist will not supply you with Ar 'hosphate, send $1.00 for tv > wet reatnmnt. to Arro Laborati i< . 'orsyth St., Atlanta. Ca. A baseball nine is called a tent ii is quite improper to tell w he umpire is called. i ? A night school for women has h pencd in Vera Cruz, Mexico, that Diamond Tiros arc? c; ad 0 stake our reputation on, wo ?S monds are mighty good tires. ed to pay a cent more thr n mileage you can ever hcixj ibit cf coming into our rtcrc EPa ir, gasoline and accessories. Sjvf aok your present tiros over ialiy. We may be able to tell B w to get more mileage cut Diamond T Ire m usf del'?vcr v tlue in service. If ever a |*?-; >nd Tire fails, a cheerful, j? adjustment wilfi be ''' 1 Union Hardware ? Union, S. C. ' $ MEN WANTED. Y According to a circular dated May OKI ?lw. ci uiv cmuiiivcinivi ii i'C|jai uiiriii t. wants l'50ti men to volunteer for serin in the business end of the army for If the duration of the war?that is to say, in the quartermaster enlisted rere serve corps. The kind of men wanted :ir are drivers of wagons and auto ly trucks, bakers, office clerks, farriers, n: overseers of laborers, storekeepers er and skilled laborers. North Carolina, South Carolina, n; Tennessee* Cenrgijp, Alabama. .Misrh sissippi, Florida, Arkansas and l.ovivi' isiana are the States expected to prors duce this quota and, because of the attractive pay and the practichility of the work, it is hoped tht tiie desired C men will lie produced in that order The pay ranjrcs from to $~>1 a month, in addition to subsistence, clothing and medical attention; the grades range from that of lust class privates to sergeant, first class according to qualifications?and there . is a 20 per cent increase of pay in |n the event of being sent abroad to i serve. Those interested will be furnished wit' full jHtrticulars on applxiny i<> | the;r nearest I . S. recruiting station, > <" a; i . event of none being handy, i bv w- i' tig direct to the i >opart menf I (Quartermaster at Charie.-tou. S. < V. I IV 1 ll'l? I l l CTI I.- I ' Lll'T OFT VOl U COHNtf I \|)|?U a l ow Drops Then Lift Corns or Calluses Off With l ingers. 7'! No Fain. i !"i No humbug! Any corn, whether J'1 1 harib soft of between the H?es. will ' 7 ! loose li'.'ht up and lift out. without a '* I particle of pain or soreness. V I This drug is called free/one and >s a "'| compound of ether discovered by a lc(. j Cineinnnt i man. ' A-k at any drug store for a small II ( bottle of ftee/one, which will cost but ''."la trifle, but is suflieient to rid one's ,n I feet of every corn or callus. l'ui a few drops directly upon air L'?. 'civic. ; ching corn or cal'us. Instantv the soreness disappears and shortly a the corn or callus will loosen and < in lJ ho (i ofT with tho finpcrs. ' This drmr frcezono doesn't oat out itho corns or calluses but shrivels thoni without even irritatinjr the surroundac. i intr skin. 1(~ dust think! Xo pain at all: no sorc' ' no or smarting when applying it or fte'ward '. If your drufraist don't J'1, have freczono have him order it for 10;yf'"* ? ' '"ici : man has acquired a ropwta11 i<m for wisdom he ran -ay sillv '' ( ' h u.'s ai -1 yet his friends will applaud ithem wisdom. When a woman finds that her dross p? i doesn't match her complexion it i always easy to chanpe her complexion.