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The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-10-24

Another prominent citizen who sue
cumbed to the disease was w. B. Cad
dy, who died at the home Of his son
in Dillon Tuesday night. Mr.. Gaddy
came up from his home near Gaddy's
Mill the week before to nurse his
son. Ralph Gaddy, who was seriously
i'll with pneumonia He stayed at the
bedside of his son night and day and
his vitality was at low ebb when
he was stricken. While Mr.. Gaddy
was seriously ill his mother who had
been i'll only few days. passed
away in an adjoining room. The son.
Mr.. Ralph Gaddy; is improving. but
his condition has been serious. Mr..
Gaddy was one of the most prominent
and progressive farmers of the Cad
dys Mill section. He was serving his
second term as county commissioner
from his district, and as county Of
ficial he was diligent and painstaking
in everything he undertook. He was
prominent in church and fraternal
work and his death leaves a vacancy
i'm the social and religious life Of
his community which will be hard to
fill.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-10-24

Dick Dewey Stanton, one of the
towns most promising young men.
fell a victim to the disease at one
O'Clock Friday. He had been sick
about ten days, and the cause of
his death was pneumonia following
an attack of influenza. Mr.. Stanton's
death cast a gloom over the entire
community. He held the position Of
assistant cashier at the First National
Bank where he W. held IN the high
est esteem by the banks officials and
his fellow-employees. Kind and cour-
teous, affable and generous and a
gentleman at all times, he was great
ly beloved by a large circle of friends
by whom he is deeply mourned.
There was no more promising life
in Dillon than Dick Stanton's. -asi,re,
OF energy and endowed Wit ~
usually bright and a. u'
was making pie n GU
the business "eo'e hinu ne
and 1t is ~"ce LOT hihiseii III
be 80. life of the community
-, peculiarly sad that he should
siown just at this time: He
Ned Saturday In the family
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-10-24

InlS Is very line room, with won
derful fireplace at each end or course
there is none of the old furniture left
here, but the walls are hand painted
in the same designs as the old tapes
try was when it was inhabited by
kings. After this. l was conducted in
to the guard room, very large room
where the kings guards were always
in waiting to do for him, good or
bad. The Duke de Guise was warm
ing himself by the fire in this room
when the king sent for him to come
TO his private study, and on his way
there was killed by some guards, at
the kings instignation. 1 will come
to that later. Next we came into the
dressing room of Catharine de Med
icis. OF course this room was at one
time very richly furnished and dec
GRATED, but at the present you see
only the walls painted with the same
designs as the old tapestry. Here you
can see, as you enter the room, the
old walls, which are 2 yards thick.
That is. going from one room to the
other, you pass through a door in a
wall this thick. Next door to this is
the bed room, also the death room, of
lCatharine. These walls are beautifully
painted in the old designs, the same
as others, and with the initials "H''
and "C". Then we entered the pri-
vate chapel Of Catharine, where, Z
presume. she did her ps4y1ax ~
Gontinusa ~ pees fjYs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
ROYAL FAMILY CONFORMS
TO BRITISH FOOD RULES
Sovereigns Place Buckingham
Households Under Rigorous
Rationing System.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
LONDON, February liking George
and Queen Mary were among the first
in England. as was Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson in the United States. to make
their household conform to the rigor-
Gus rationing system of a food minis
ter or administrator. Like the White
House at Washington, the royal fam
fly and staff at Buckingham palace
have been placed on the diet suggested
by the man chosen to conserve the ma
tion's food supply in England. Lord
Rhondda.
From the early days of the ministry
of food the king has insisted that every
suggestion for self-denial which has
been put before the people of the coun-
try must be Loyalty observed through
out the royal household.
Sir Derek Keppel, master of the
household, said in an interview this
week:
I'VE are all in line here with the ra-
tions, and 1 am saying no more than
what is common knowledge when tell
you that 1 never knew any people so
thoroughly conscientious in this matter
as the king and queen. They accept
the restrictions with the most notice.
able cheerfulness, taking real pleasure
in bearing their share of the food hard
ships.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
PATRIOTIC ONLY IN WARTIME.
Toxic Paper Compares Western
Spirit With Japanese Feeling.
Of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press
TOXIC. February G.-Studying the
apparent indifference of the Japanese
people. both toward home politics and
the great war questions of the day,
the Yorodzu. one of the Toxic lead
ing dailies. says there is nothing in
which the Japanese people, today, are
really interested but in economic oues-
tions. Continuing, the paper adds:
The patriotism of this people reveals
itself only in the time of war and par
ticularly on the battlefield. 1t Is not
SO universal and steady as the patriot
ism of western countries. which has
been exhibited in this great war not
only on the battlefield. but more par
ticularly in the determination of the
whole people occupied in peaceful in
dustry at home to back up the work of
the battle front, The spirit with which
their property and various other per-
sonal interests with silent determine
ton is revelation to the people of
this country. The japanese ought to
see, if they have not seen already that
the boasted patriotism of our people is
very narrow and rather superficial
con- pa red with the logged tenacity and
the universally of the western patriot
ism. Furthermore. we are in the habit
of considering patriotism as the spirit
peculiar to soldiers. The upper class
and the general public have no clear
Idea of what patriotism means outside
of the battlefield. Nothing has been
more ignoble than the way the rich
people of this country have pursued
their selfish interest in utter disre-
gard of the national interest,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
TAI-TOU DIES IN ABYssINIA.
Dowager Empress, Late Emperor
Meneik's Wife, Had Noted Career.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LONDON, February Is. - Tai-Tou,
Dowager Empress of Abyssinia, died on
February II. at Adds Abeba
The empress who was a widow TO,
the fourth time when, in 1853, at the
age of thirty. she married Menelik,
then simply King Of Shoa, was I wom-
an of great force of character. A prin-
cess of Tigre. she was of very fair
complexion and had rena-ka bly, small
hands and feet In her youth she was
celebrated for her beauty. From the
first, as became daughter of the King
of Gondar, she took an active part in
the troublous politics of Abyssinia, and
was concerned in all the civil wars and
intrigues which ended in the raising of
Menelik-to whom she bore no children
to the position of Negus- Negust; Gem
peror), in 1889. AT Adowa, where the
Italians suffered crushing reverse
she accompanied Menelik to the battle
headquarters and put her own heredi-
tary troops in the field
During Menelik's long illness she
practically governed the country and
kept it from internal disorders;
On Menelik's death, at Christmas. 1913,
his grondson. Lidj Jeassu, a youth of
eighteen. became emperor, but the
young ruler failed to maintain order
and largely on Tai-Tou's initiative he
was deposed in September. 1915. and his
aunt Zeodita. Menelik's elder daugh-
ter. was proclaimed empress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
UNWRITTEN LAW CRITICISED.
Use in Soldiers Pleas in Capital
Crimes Stirs England.

Correspondence of the Associated Prfss.
LONDON, February employment
of the "unwritten law as cloak be-
hind which soldiers may plead justifica-
ton of capital crimes resulting from
conjugal infidelities has again aroused
criticism throughout England The ac-
ton of a London judge in binding over
to keep the peace soldier who had
shot his unfaithful wife dead has called
forth the comment from the Manchester
to treat certain offenses by soldiers in the
same spirit as the church granted in
dulgences to Crusaders"
In the most recent case, the accused
pleaded guilty to manslaughter in kill
ing his wife. and the crowd. accepting
the plea. offered no evidence on the
charge. In deciding the judge said:
Il have to inf1ict punishment such
as a reasoned and instructed public
opinion will believe is fitting to the
case, and 1 believe that no body of in
structed and reasoned men would be-
lieve that punishment in a sense of inn
prisonment is fitting to this case" He
then ordered the prisoner to be bound
over ito come up for judgment if
called upon"
Commenting on the case, the Man
chester Guardian said: ITO allow the
of private vengeance is to dis
solve society into its anarchic atoms
and to negate the reasons of state
which substituted the national and
royal courts for the courts of local and
personal prejudice"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
JOKES IN'FACE OF DANGER
IN FRONT-LINE TRENCHES
Sergeant "Kids'' Young Private
About Boche Mistaking Latter's
Open Mouth for Dugout Door. q

CORRESPONDENCE of the Associated Press.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. February 21.-what is
known back in the United States as .
"kidder" cannot be suppressed even in
a front line trench in France.
Seven men were standing in a trench
section All looked as if they might
have been rolling around in the mud
and they were well bearded. High in
the sky an airplane circled round and
round over the German lines. A SER
geant took look at it through his
field glass.
"Boche" said he. Then a moment
later ne added. Headed this way"
The machine came closer and closer
over head. One young private who had
just come up from a replacement divi-
sion and had not seen many airplanes
German airplanes-before
watched this one intently. His head
kept going back, back. back until hos
neck was on a right angle with his
body. And his mouth. which had open.
ed lust little as his head started
going back, finally was wide open
There he was looking up open-mouth-
ed. Then the sergeant saw him
Hey, there" cried the sergeant, you
better close that. First thing you
know that boche will see that opening.
think its a dugout door and drop
bomb in it,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
SOME PARIS THEATERS
FIND WAR PROFITABLE
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
PARIS. February 13.-Despite the
greatest war in the history of the
world, some of the Paris theaters took
in more money at the box Office in
1917 than in 1913, the year before the
war began. Others about held their
own, while some showed decrease.
The receipts of the Odeon for 1913
totaled S71.557 francs; for 1917 they
reached 1,153,254 francs. The Ambigu,
which had received 622,oo6 francs in
1918. reached 675,971 francs last year.
The Antoine figures for 1913 were
1,012.944 francs; for 1917. 1,2O2,1 43
francs.
On the other hand. the Opera
Comiques receipts fell from 2,94S.I32
francs in 1913 to 2.5o3.14 for 1917.
and many others suffered similarly.
The Coincide Franchise was second
with 1.7l1.997 francs and the Chatelet
finished third with total of 1,543.5I6
francs. Receipts of the Antoine, Odeon.
Palais-Royal, Opera. Porte St Martin,
Varieties. Sarah Bernhard and Gym
nase were in the order named. 1t must
be said in favor of the Opera. however.
that it has been running under
handicap, as it had fewer starts than
the others, averaging only three to
four performances per week.
One reason advanced for this pros
nerity is that the prices for seats were
greatly increased in 1917 Besides, the
floating population of Paris has great
ly increased.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
BUILDING AFRAID SHELTERS.
Residents of Edmonton, London
Borough, Providing for 10000.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
LONDON. February 3.-Air raid shell
tiers for 10000 persons are being con-
structed by. the residents of Edmon-
ton, one Of the outlying London Dor
oughs. The borough contains mainly
working class dwellings of the cottage
type, and it was found that there were
only one or two buildings oe sufficient
ly solid construction to be classed as
proper afraid shelters. SO the resi-
dents appointed a local civil engineer
to take charge of Inc work. and began
to dig shelters of the cyclone-cellar
type in all parts of the borough.
The government gave them 10000
sandbags and they expect shortly to
be able to shelter 10000 persons In
most cases, the excavations were made
in vacant lots or back gardens, bolster
ed by wooden beams and railroad ties,
which were then covered with earth
and sod and finally rooted over with
sandbags. Each shelter will scconmo-
date at least five families. Other shell
tiers are in protected railway culverts
and embankments. Each Will be provid-
ed with lighting, seats and small
stove, so that tea can be served COM
fortably to those waiting for the '.A11
Clear" signal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
Goes Up 1000 Feet Alone.

The balloon commander told the story
Of an oficer who had gone up alone and
whose balloon was shelled when flying
at 1000 feet. On these occasions 1t is
dangerous to haul down. for the posi-
ton of the winch is thereby given away
ever, after a cloud Of shrapnel smoke
had appeared almost under the basket
and no response came down the tele-
phone wire to inquiries az to whether
everything was all right. the ground
q@cer gave the order to haul down.
Ten minutes later the car touched the
eTound, and the observer was found
lying ut the bottom of the basket. un-
conscious. but unhurt 1t was a bad
case Of shell shock, from which the Of
A few days ago. at a nearby station,
. balloon suddenly caught fire. for no
apparent reason. The two observers
tried to escape in their parachutes, but
the blazing balloon overlook them. and
they were killed. Theories as to the
cause of the disaster were numerous.
but the one most generally accepted
was that the balloon had been fired by
an electric spark from thunder cloud.
The fact that the wire cable had parted
near the balloon was said to give sup
port to this theory. 1t was the parting
OF this cable which was generally re-
sponsible for the death of the observ-
ers. because it made impossible the
towing Of the burning balloon clear of
the paFachutes.
One Of the officers at this station was
up In balloon few days ago when 1t
Vas shelled and the cable severed. The
balloon started at twenty-five miles an
hour for the German lines. The oficer
threw all his maps and documents over
board and pulled the rip cord. He and
the balloon fell about 1000 yards from
HE German lines. -. :
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
CHARGE TURMOIL TO BERLIN.
Labor Troubles in Argentina and
Uruguay Laid to Agitators.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, January 20.-Belief
that German agitators still are using
large sums of German money trans
ferred from New York to foment revolu-
tionary labor troubles in Argentina and
Uruguay is widespread in both coun-
tries. 1t has been stated in government
circles here. that Ambassador Naon was
bringing from Washington proofs of
the activity of German agents in fos-
tering conspiracies against the govern
ments of those two South American
countries and Brazil.
It is widely believed here that both
Argentina and Uruguay have been kept
in continual turmoil through labor
troubles and anarchistic outbreaks sole
ly for the purpose Of interfering with
any assistance they are able to give
the entente allies and with the object
of indirectly effecting the allied cause
by seriously damaging the financial
condition of allied industries which
have been established in these two
republics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
cocoanut Oil Mills Started.

Likewise the cocoanut planters have
been carried along on the crest of the
wave of success During the early part
of the year prices rose steadily as
American manufacturers demanded the
product at any cost. But freights also
rose. This led many business men to
figure that if it were possible to sell
the raw copra-the dried meat of the
Gocoanut-at profit. it would be much
more profitable to extract the oil local.
ly. save a large part of the freight
costs and count that saving as profit
During the year fully twenty cocoanut
oil mills of small capacity were started
in Manila alone, and in the provinces
as many more were inaugurated.
The tobacco planters. manufacturers
and dealers have also had a year of
unparalleled business success. The de-
mand for Philippine tobacco and cigars
from the United States has been such
that Philippine growers and planters
have been unable to meet it The year
saw the cigar production of the islands
very largely increased, while the acre
age planted to tobacco was also large
ly increased. But there are no signs Of
abatement of the demand.
A similar story can be told in every
line of Philippine business. The coun-
try is literally rolling in money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
NO MARDI GRAS IN PARIS.
Flour Restrictions and Paper Cost
Hit Pancake and Confetti.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
PARIS, February 13.-Mar1i Gras again
passed uncelebrated and almost upper
ceived in Paris. The traditional pan
cake. victim Of NJ. Borets flour restric-
tons. was absent this year, and the high
cost of paper made confetti rare. The
children and the recruits of the contin-
gent Of 1918 celebrating their acceptation
by the medical examiners had the streets
to themselves.
The only real celebrations were among
the Chinese munition workers. whose ce-
lestial New Year came with the opening
of the carnival. Several thousand Of
them, divided into groups. were treated
to free exhibitions at the circuses and
cinemas. while real Chinese celebrations
were organized at the refectories of the
different contingents. Chinese feasts were
served and presents distributed as nearly
in accord with custom at home as pos
sible. But the Chinese celebrate too quiet
ly to make their festival at all resemble
the Mardi Gras Of other days in Paris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
Swedish Finance Minister Once
Cobbler. r

Correspondence Of the Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, February 26.-Swcden's
new minister of finance, F. v. Thomson.
used to be a cobbler. An orphan at the
age of nine years. he found himself
bound out" to a farmer. After a Pc
riod of this employ he apprenticed him-
self to a shoemaker and at twenty
three he settled himself in. Ystad as .
master in this trade. Being an orator
and possessed of ability as an organ
izer. he found appeal among the social
lists and soon was able to cease cob
bling and enter q bank. where he be-
came an Official AS a boy he had few
opportunities to educate himself He -
known today as moderate soc&al19c
and is a good friend OF Hjalmar Bxaut-
ing, whom he succeeded in the Swedlsa.
cabinet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
ITALY's MUSICAL DECADENCE.
TaustG Torrefraca Gives Two Rea-
sons for the Retrogression. \

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
ROME, February 15.--Italy's musical
decadence has commenced, according to
Fausto Torrefraca. interviewed by the
Idea Nazionale. Formerly italy ex-
ported not only musical instruments.
musical publications. operas. songs and
the like. but also singers, artists.
choruses and stage scenery" he stated.
"In thirty years she has fallen behind
in all these branches. and even her
voice may be said to be failing. There
are two reasons. One has been Ger
man competition. We have abandoned
musical culture. The government has
not done it's duty in providing proper
schools and teachers. Both Mascagni
and Puccini. our best known composers.
serve purely decorative roles. without
helping"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
U.BoAr LOSSES UNCHALLENGED
Percentage Now of British Destruc-
ton Believed Much Higher.

CORRESPONDENCE of the Associated Press.
LONDON. February 10.-The Germans
have never attempted to challenge or
contradict the statement of Sir Eric
Geddes that between 40 and so per cent
of the submarines operating around
the British Isles since the beginning
of the war have been destroyed. The
percentage at the present moment, the
Associated Press is informed, is even
higher than the figures given by Sir
Eric Geddes. and the new order of
merit established by the German en-
peror for submarine crews that have
survived three undersea expeditions is
believed to be designed not SO much as
a reward for successful achievement
as a stimulus and encouragement to
submarine crews to persist in their un-
equal combat with the British and
American navies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
Butter and Tea often Lacking.

THE royal household is a large and
varying one. Its changing character
makes some difficulty in the rationing.
but if any error is made in the calcu-
lation it is in the direction of less
rather than more We keep in constant
touch with the ministry of food, learn
ing each day whatever new regulations
may be impending.
quite often recently the royal larder
has been empty of such commodities
as butter. margarine and tea, ard we
have gone without, from king down.
The king and queen have repeatedly
spoken to me to impress me with the
duty of sclf-denial in food and drink.
The king in the first days Of the war
pledged himself to total abstinence
from alcoholic beverages, and that
pledge holds good today over the whole
household.
THE king actually tries always to
anticipate restrictions. A long while
ago he insisted on coal economy in the
palace. Waste of fuel or coal consti-
tutes a grave offense among the serv-
wants of the king"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
ENGLISH SIGNS IN PARIS.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
PARIS. February 13.-Enslish signs
have been placed in the subway stations
of Paris owing to the increasing number
of Americans and Englishmen using the
system and the inability of many of
them to read the French signs
The subway company has also mobi-
liked its English-speaking employees and
placed them in stations most frequented
by Americans. Most of the. EMPLOYEES
are girls. The rules. regulations and
tariffs of the subway system have been
printed in English on an attractive
poster by large American express conn
pany and these have been placed in all
the subway stations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
UNDER WIFE'S THUMB.
British Actor Credits Women for
Control of u, s. Workmen.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 4.-'Why is the
workingman in America so well under
control?" asked Sir Johnston Forbes
Robertson, actor, at meeting here to
support the work of the Y w. c. A.
Because there the working man is
under the thumb of his wife"
He added that in America the work
ing woman 'is a highly intelligent
woman, and the consequence is that
Mr.. Gompers is having practically no
trouble with the vast and powerful
unions all over America.
Practically" said Sir Johnston,
america is a woman's counfrv ana in
my view, a jolly good job, tool"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
Papers Water Mark Stirs Germans.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM. February 26.-There is
great excitement in the German lib
eral newspapers over the discovery
that the German fatherland party is
sending out its letters on paper with
the watermark. Extra Strong" in
English. was this paper furnished
by the English fatherland party?"
asks the Leipzig Volkszeitung.