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Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1918-12-26

Of her courtship-where she first met
her lover, their introduction, the I'M
preston she formed Of him at first
sight. She even remembers what her
reveries were and her wonderment as
to whether or not he thought Of her.
She remembers each call he made; all
that was said or done; how she had
detected his growing love for her even
before he guessed it himself. She re-
members the hour of their bethrOthal
and the conversation that brought 1t
quite Unexpectedly about.
As for the man she married, not one
man in a hundred can remember what
emotion swept across his heart at his
first meeting with her whom he was
to love evermore till death did them
part. Ninety-nine men out Of a hum
dred will confess to their wives. I'm
blest If I just know just how I hap
pened to propose to you." When a
man can forget that most thrilling OF
all moments in his life he can forget
anything. Such men nnd IL very easy
to forget their wife's or children's
birthdays, realizing that remembrance
would call for presents.
Many wives are glad to have the chill
dren not forgotten. But they are just
as we'll satisfied that he has forgotten
how swiftly time is running away with
their good looks and aging them.
Last, and by no means least, no man
or woman, no matter how happily mar
ried, should allow the old folks at home
! to imagine themselves forgotten by
them. 1t doesn't take much time to
write a few lines once In fortnight.
We should always remember not to for
get those who have been dear to US.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1918-12-26

ENG alone over Christ
mas isn't so bad, but q
whole week after that,
too! I'm lonely now
what will it be for ten
days, for Mary won't be
home until New Years
day?"
For the first time dur
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1918-12-26
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TAKE TIME TO LIVE RIGHT.

The season for good resolutions Is
approaching. Thousands are resolv-
ing to begin the New Year by COM
mencing some effort at self-improve-
ment.
Most people suffer from poor health
because they say "they haven't time
to take care Of themselves"
The business man knows he needs
exercise, but denies himself because
he hasn't time.
Most people run their lives In such
slipshod fashion that they haven't
time to eat properly, to think proper
ly, and to rest properly,
And the result is that they die ahead
Of time because they haven't had time
to live properly.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1918-12-26
CHIPS FROM THE RIME BLOCK.

Well, Angel Of the Record Book, turn
over one more leaf, and jot down my
resolutions. shall try to make them
brief. But, come to think about 1t,
what will all the angels say when
they see my resolutions, same as every
New Years day? I suspect they'll
say: "That duffer has dragged out the
same old set, and he'll smash 'em all
by Monday, or by Tuesday night, I'll
bet! wish we angels had harp for
each and every time he has made that
resolution to quit writing silly rhyme"
Poor Angel Of the Record Book !
You've got a man-sized job, writing
down the resolutions for the New
Years morning mob! I would sug.
gest you save your strength and over.
head expense, by making up some rub
Der stamps for ter or twenty pence.
Just save the stamps. this evening,
and file them all away. You'll need
them In year from now, another New
Years day!
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1918-12-26

street, and the house here, lopsided,
paint all faxed off and the lot Uttered
up with old wagon wheels and other
rubbish, they shake their heads. You're
behind the times-worse than that, you
delight in playing the 'don't-care old
hayseed,' who doesn't appeal to an up
to-date neighbor. should think, with
Mary, the thrifty Mary, always neat
as q pin and living in this old wreck
when she could grace a palace, you
would turn over new leaf. BY the
way, the good time to start 1t will soon
be here-January l. Think 1t over. 1t
means happiness for Mary, who de-
serves it, and profit for you, who have
let the golden chances slip by unheed-
ed all these years."
Robert Adams did not resent the
straightforward talk Of his visitor. He
was just in q frame of mind where the
suggestions implanted might take root.
He nodded a thoughtful adieu to his
relstive and sat down alone to cogi-
tate. The postman appeared with
letter from Mary and a small bundle.
The former expressed the delight her
long-anticipated visit had brought to
her people. The package, opened, re-
vealed Mary's Christmas gift to him
half a dozen handkerchiefs and two
necktles. All of them bore initials
or some ornamental needlework, and
his face softened as he realized how
many plodding hours his wife had de-
voted to the task to give him pleasure.
Then he smiled grimly. AS he fixed
his eyes on a framed portrait Of his
helpmeet his eyes grew tender. Then
they took to their depths a dreamy
tinge. Before his mental vision passed
q series of pictures born Of the vivid
suggestions of the day.
"Why, not?" he cried abruptly, COM
ing briskly to his feet. January first
Is q good time to begin"
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1918-12-26
GOO, NEW YEAR ADVICE.
"The oi familla. wish rings true. =,
A Harry New Year, friends, to you"

mrba ri familla. wish rings true,
A Harry New Year, friends, to YOU"
A mo who keeps up the custom Of
sendIn New Year cards to his friends
inclined this year q second card bear
Ing tese wor's:
"Istead OF returning evil for evil.
trv o returI evil with good; to say
noting i'll II others; to act kindly
eva with dmb animals.
Live this one day, two days, or
u,re, andcompare the state Of your
rInd wlttits state In former days.
"Make ae attempt and you will see
low the ark, evil moods have passed
AWAY anhow the souls happiness has
increase
"Makthe attempt, and you will see
that t gospel Of love brings the
create and most desirable Of all
things
On .ese cards is written, ''Thls Is
Tolst's advice. It Is good to pin ON
a caldar where 1t viii be seen every
day..
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1918-12-26
Only Keep Green Ones

Don't carry over any old bills inp
the New Year-barring. OF cours'
green bills.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1918-12-26
NEW YEARS DAY

stood On q tower In De wet
And New Year and id Yer met
And wind, were roasns and blowing:
And ! said % year dat meet In tear.
Have ye .ush t,a.iwo'h the mo"insl
Science enough an exploring
WanJerer, comis and going
Matter enough f. deplorins
Bu. .ush, tha. iwoeh the howins'"
Sea, a, my fe,were flowing
Waves on h single pouring
Old Year roins and blowing g.
And New var blowing and roaring
ALFRED Lord Tennyson.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1918-12-26
[l11,FlIBlIl:s|B

The midnight hour, solkmn and drear-
The bells ring out out good old yeor.
/ listen to the tldinti9e sound
Vibrating DER the eoaf ftry round.
Alas! my friend has 10 depart,
My good, old year, it pains my heorti
He 1pas aVith me mid sunny rays,
And clung to me in cloudy days,
Il friend in joy, q friend in ,Voe,
Yes, such pas he, but he must goi
No more he shall return to me,
With all his charms and gifts, so free.
And Ah! it grieves me too, the thought.
That I've not used him, as / ought
And ,Uhen I think about this year,
Forever noaO to disappear,
No1U also of the years of yors,
Rnng out since long, to be no more:
With chiidhoods sport, gpten dreams I
dreamed,
When fancy's rays upon me beamed,
With dear old home, and all its charms,
And smiling eyes and loving arms,
With beekoning hopes of RAINBOW hue,
With hearts sincere, that stronger grezO,
The bells say sadly: "Gone for aye,
apay"
Ah! cease to ring thou moarnfM bell,
/ do not like thy funeral kneH,
Curtain mine eyes, thou blessed sleep,
And let me Joy in drsamland rsapi
The notes are hashed-the year is dead.
And zUkat he pds and gaze has fed.
But no-once more hear it ring,
Noy moVing aOith steadier s1cing,
Bounding, saUeet notes, conveying cheer,
The bells ring in the bright Nezy Year.
NezV life, new hope, nsV peace, ne1u
cheer.
FareweH the old, yelcome New Yeori
Yes, church bells, ring from lofty spirs
That heavenWard point, 1ith hope to
INSPIRE!
The happy song IS ID your elang,
Which one sweet night Gods angels
sang:
"Glory to God and peace on earth
Good 1viH to man." at!l&R birth. ..
Rev. S. F. REDERus.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1918-12-26
A Good Resolve.

Resolve to be better natured during
the coming year.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1918-12-26

rled life Robert Adams helpmeet had
taken a vacation, or rather had gone
Oh visit to an invalid sister, and her
husband had begun to miss her Woe
fully. So smoothly had life gone, so
many burdens had Mary lifted from
his shoulders in her patient, plodding
way, that he missed her guiding, help
full presence dreadfully. She had left
everything in trim order. The house
was neat as pin, everything provided
for comfort to his hand, but the irk-
someness Of the intense solitude was
beginning to get on his nerves.
81 reckon I never knew her value
till just now," he muttered. "She
shames me with the contrast between
the inside neatness and the outside
disorder, and as he glanced from the
window he had to confess that he was
q careless, slovenly man. The front
fence had two out Of every five pick
cts broken or missing. The barn was
an antiquated ruin. The porch wobbled
and the clapboards Of the house were
bent and -bliStered for the lack
of paint.
He glanced into a mirror as he
passed 1t, his neglected beard tousled
and awry. He looked down at the
grimed and threadbare suit he wore
and flushed. He had just come from
the sleeping room upstairs, and, rum
maging a bureau for some papers, had
happened across a stored-away me-
mento cherished by Mary, a photo
graph of himself In his early courting
days. 1t showed q neatly dressed,
arrow-straight young man, scarcely
comparing with the careless, shabby
looking individual he presented now.
The front gate gave out rasring
sound. 1t did not click, for one shat
tered hinge alone supported 1t. The
crack-toned house bell issued q hollow,
growing sound, and Robert went to
the door to greet his brOther-in-law,
local real estate agent, who held the
bell knob in his hand, as 1t had come
loose, trailing half foot Of rusted
wire with it.
81 nearly broke my neck stumbling
over that sidewalk Of yours" he OBJ
served. "Not much like Mary's domain
here, eh?" and he bestowed an approx
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

The survivors, including Paul, were
taken to village behind the German
lines, where they were kept for three
weeks. Paul's papers sometimes re-
posed for safety inside his trouser leg.
He had hoped 70 use his knowledge of
German to gain his freedom. but an
officer who had been to one Of his con-
certs before the war remembered him.
The next best thing was to attempt
an escape. But Pau. was caught and
brought back for punishment. He was
strapped to post by his elbows, which
were raised behind him and tied. For
SIX hours he hung insensibe. Then he
was taken to the hospital. When he
was revived his first search was for
the papers, but they were still on his
person. During the night he dropped
from the hospital window. This time
ne made successful getaway. the
.apers reached their destination and
Paul won another decoration.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

He was not actually hurt, but so badly
shocked that he was speecheSs for two
months. while his right side was par
alyzed.
When ne got well he went back TO
Petrograd and turned his attention to
another patriotic enterprise, giving
concerts tc arouse the rational spirit.
This service wor him the diamond bar,
conferred or him by the Grand Duchess
Olga on behalf OF her father
Tall and slight, Paul has The sensj-
tive face Of an artist, ye. the bearing OF
soldier. He walks With Ugh. ,.,np,
a reminder OF German shrapne He
loves 70 talk about the war, but inten-
sive questioning is necessary before he
VIII dwell on MS own exploits.
Paul IS Jew and proud CT it. That
is why he has strong DISLIKE for he
Grand Duke Michael, who al the out
set ot the way ordered general hang
lng o. Jews. Furthermore, he rcsen.s
the statement of Semitcs that
Jews VIII not hght. II WAS only one
Of thousands Of his race who rushed
20 Join the colors
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

shipping with as little injury as pos
slble to commerce and industry, and
the modification of the complete re-
strlction was brought about on this
basis by the publication of the War
Trade Boards first list.
These conditions were outlined as
the circumstances Oh which inlporta
tion could be made:
When the articles mentioned
were shipped from abroad prior
to April Is, 1918.
When coming by rail from
Mexico or Canada when the
goods in question originated in
those countries or in others
from which such goods were
being licensed for import.
When coming as return
cargo from European ports, and
then only when coming from a
convenient port; when loaded
without delay and when the i'm
portation from Europe was not
specifically prohibited in the list.
All imports, even if not listed,
to be licensed.
The list, which included eighty
two separate classifications, ran as
follows:
Agricultural Implements
Animals, live. except for breeding pur-
poses.
Art works
Asbestos.
Beads and ornaments
Backing, and all preparations for clean
ing and polishing shoes.
Manufactures of bone and horn
All breadstuffs except wheat and wheat
Hour including imports from Europe.
Broom corn.
Candle pitch. palm and other vegetable
stearin
Cars. carriages and other vehicles.
All acids.
Muriate of ammonia
All coal tar distllates except synthetic
indigo.
Fusel oil or amylc alcohol
Citrate of lime.
All salts of soda except nitrate of soda
and cyanide of soda.
Sumac, ground or unground
Chlcory root, or roasted.
Clocks and watches and parts thereof
Cocoa and Chocolate prepared or manu-
factured.
manufactures of cotton.
Cryolte, except not to exceed 20G0 long
tons for the year 1918.
Dials.
Dice, draughts, chessmcn. billiard balls,
poker chips.
Eggs Of poultry.
Electric lamps.
Explosives. except Eliminates and gun
powder
Feathers. natural and artificial
Manure salts.
Manufactures of vegetable fbres and tex
tile grasses. except Jute.
Fislhooks. rods and reels. artificial bait
Fluorspar.
All fruits except pineapplcs and bananas.
All nuts except cocoanuts and products
thereof
Gelatine and manufactures thereof in
cludng all from Europe.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

campaigning around Warsaw, Paul act
ed as scout, guiding surgeons over the
battlefelds and warning them Of the
whereabouts Of the German patrols
When he was slightly wounded his
father ordered him home.
Paul only waited for the small hours
Of the first night while the household
slept to make his second escape from
home. He rode to Wilma as fast as his
horse would carry him. Then some Of
his friends in the cavalry hid him in a
horse train bound for the front.
Back to the struggle came Paul, am
btlon burning bright within him TO do
II die. Soon his gift of languages
he can speak nine, Russian, Polish,
Ukrainian, French, German, English,
Hungarian, Chinese and Japanese
t. be OF service, for he offered himself
as u volunteer spy. The first duty as
signed him by his commanding officer
was to investigate a village which Rus
sian aerial observers reported impreg-
nAb!e, because it was naturally protect
cd by bog and further defended by B
battery Of heavy artillery
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

sells unfit for essential imports. This
will enable ships to bring in large
proportion of the 1917 imports while
setting free cargo space for essen
tlal purposes. (Quebracho extract
is not on the list)
A large saving $4,000 tons) is
also effected in paper, crude paper
stock, and manufactures of paper,
although wood pulp and books and
other printed matter are excepted.
The "long haul" here plays a CON
siderable role, as large part of the
paper stock was brought from East
India.
In the general category of miner
ais saving Of about $4,000 dead
weight tons is effected. Total i'm
ports of the minerals specified
amounted to Z65,O00 long tons in
1917, large amounts of which, par
ticularly Of lead, are not affected by
the restriction, coming, as they do
from sources to which the prohib
tons Go not apply Among the edi-
bic substances mentioned are fish,
dairy products, dried, preserved, and
frozen eggs, meat products and pre-
served meats, including sauages,
bacon, ham, etc, tea waste, and edi-
hle substances of minor Importance
which do not receive special classi-
tication under the tariff lists.
Other commodities are glass and
glassware, though precautions are
taken to insure the country's sup
rly for optical purposes; cork and
manufactures thereof, though the
largest part Of the cork comes un-
der permitted imports from the Med
iterranean and Channel ports; leo
rice root, in which a saving of 10,-
eco tons is effected; and bones, hoofs
and horns, in which the restriction
saves 16,oc0 dead-wsight tons of
shipping.
The list itself was printed in this
form:
No import licenses for shipments made
after May IS, 1913, will he granted for arti-
cles on this list except as specifically herein
provided These provisions authorize the i'm
portation of the specified commodities only
when the goods originate in one Of the
countries designated in the particular pro
vision covering such commodity, and do not
permit the importation of godas originating
IN other countries but coming through such
designated countries.
Licenses for the following articles may be
granted only for shipments coming from
Canada:
Lime.
Tale and soaDstone
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

The second list OF restrictions
which may be had in No. 9 of
May Of the War Trade Board
Journal, was issued on April %. A
statement which accompanied the list
said that expert calculation and
study estimated that restrictions "in-
troduced" by the second list would
result IN a yearly saving of about
lon00o dead weight tonnage. Ac-
companying this estimate was the
figure Of total imports in 1917 of
the commodities involved, amounting
to 10000 long tons. The statement
they continued:
The restrictions will not operate
to cut off entirely imports in the
commodities included in the list, and
mention of a commodity does not
necessarily entail any appreciabRe
shortage of the commodity in uues-
ton. This is due to the fact that
only small quantities of certain COM
modlties are imported by sea; Of
others we have adequate supplies
available in this country or which
can be imported from adjacent coun-
tries or under the backhaul privilege
from convenient European ports.
"Of some of the commodities, such
as condensed milk, for example, we
have even an exportable surplus"
The largest individual item on the
list Of savings is quebracho wood
about 2S,000 tons. This wood, used
in tanning, can still be imported
When carried as deckload or in YES
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

"The Gar later will receive his pun
ishment,' said the young Russian, "for
unjustly sentencing SO many people to
Siberia. Still, he is not such a wicked
person as the Empress. II was she who
forced her husband to declare himself
commander IN chief of the Russian
army when he was totally ignorant Of
military strategy. This was because
She herself wished to direct the army
according to information she received
from German generals"
During the revolution Paul was cap
tain Of college boys police force Of
900, assigned to guard property and
protect the lives of citizens.
'Kerensky was often at our house"
he said. 81 am astonished at the re
ports thas have been 50 widely spread
Of lis physical weakness and i'll
health. i wish every man know had
Kerenskys physical endurance. Why
during the revolution he never slept for
whole month, and hardly had his
clothes off during that time"
Pauls father is on the way to the
United States While the war contin-
ues the boy viii do all in his power
to be OF service to America. At pres
cnt he is making speeches for the
Emergency Fleet Corporation. Later
he expects 20 so on a concert tour,
giving half the proceeds to the Red
Cross Sill letcY nc hopes 10 20 home,
but not until his country has become
the United States of Russia.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Regulating Modem
Desires and astes

The new phases Of the American
import business began last Novem-
ber, when President Wilson issued
his first proclamation under the au-
thorlty of the trading with the en-
emy act, forbidding the importation
OF certain essential commodities ex-
cept by license. A second proclama-
ton was issued on February IA of
this year extending the import IL
cense to all commodities entering
the United States. The proclama-
tions themselves were of news mo-
ment at the time. But they are in
teresting now only as indications of
the multiplied quality of modern life,
and manifest by their saturation of
facts something Of the complexity of
modern desires, demands and tastes.
For actual illumination of the sub
Ject they must defer to the more
ample and complete lists later issued
by the War Trade Board. outlining
the conditions under which certain
importations could be made and pre-
sentlng an actual picture of the i'm
porting business as it has come to
exist for the United States.
The first of these lists was pub
lished on March 23, something more
than a month after the Presidents
complete restriction by proclamation.
The proclamation achieved the i'm
portant and immediate end of con-
serving shipping. The secondary
aim of the government was to save
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

ing them without finding out anything
Of any Importance. Then I overheard a
group Of officers saying that ten more
cannon were tc be made the next
day. Soon learned that the big guns
were wooden and camouhaged, and also
that there was "a passage through the
bog. crept back to the Russian lines
and reported what | had discovered.
We Immediately advanced on the vii
lage, gaining our objective with the
loss of single man and capturing
1000 Germans"
This accounts for one of PauPs deco
rations.
Another adventure was longer and
more perilous. This was when Paul
was acting "a his colone's orderly
during an engagement near Koyno.
When he received his death wound the
colonel held in his hand plans of all
the Russian positions. with the num-
bers and dispositions of all the units.
Paul, seizing the precious papers from
the dying officer. started for head
quarters. On his way he met the dvis-
ion commander, who paid no heed to
what the boy tried to tell him, but
curtly ordered him to deliver mes
sage to the men in charge of certain
machine gun 1t was t,cklish mo-
mcnt. If the $40 men behind the gun
failed to hold their position the rcgi-
ment was in danger of being sur
rounded. Some 1000 Germans were
advancing upon them. Although Paul
delivered his message. tho enemy won
the day.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

goon's uniform is covered with
medals-the crosses of st. George Of
the third and fourth classes, the medal
Of ST. George and the diamond bai Of
the RomanoFs, said to be the last deco
ration conferred by the late Car.
Back in the days before the war Paul,
now connected with the Emergency
Fleet Corporation, was a violinist. lie
etudied with Auer, knew Heifetz in his
salad days and gave concerts when he
was eight years old. But when Russia
.ook up arms violin was far too tame
weapon for Paul.
HIS father, a prosperous surgeon IN
petrograd who had served his country
in the war with Japan, Immediately
joined the colors. Paul, then aged
twelve, asked nothing better than to go
with his father But his mother had a
different idea, 80 there was nothing
left for the adventurous lad to do but
TO run away from home. The police
put on his trail brought him back, but
nc managed to make himself so dis
agreeable that his mother, discoura gcd
and convinced that her son was un-
manageable, resortcd 10 a very old
method Of compelling recognition Of
parental authority and turned him over
10 his father
DR.. iogolcvitch was secretly proud Of
his sons determination to see the war
ard serve his country. He arranged
Tor Paul To be cavalry messenger.
For five months, during the days of