Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-02-11

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organized several of these places.
worked in the hospitals for couple
of years, went to America in 1916, and
interested a number Of wealthy people
in New York and other parts Of Amer
lea in this movement and is now hand
ling the situation. She speaks perfect
English and is of course woman who
has travelled lot and knows Germany
, as we'll as France. Her accounts Of,
the bombardments of Paris are inter-
esting, and now since the censorship
is raised I may tell you some things
Of interest. The Germans were firing
from a distance Of about IS miles and
had three guns trained on Paris from
three angles. The first shot fell short
few miles, the second went over the
city, the third hit in the city and they
planted them at intervals
searching for the railroad stations with
only lateral deviation Of few hun
dred yards. They never succeeded in
hitting Of the stations fairly, but land
ed several in front of the Care d
FEST, blowing to pieces a lot Of the wo-
men who sell papers in the little kiosks
in front of the station, and killing a
number of people who were passing in
the street cars. One, as you know, hit
the church Of ST. Gerva.is on Good Fri
day, and killed over 100, mostly wo-
men and children. Another hit a ma
ternity hospital and killed several very
young infants and their mothers. OF
course, the people thought 1t was an
air raid at first and when they were
told it was gun 75 miles away refus-
ed to believe it, thanking the Germans
were about 20 miles from the city and
that the officials did not want to tell
them the truth. The French aviators
destroyed one Of these guns in three
days, another later, but never succeed
ed in destroying the third. The Boche
had several dummy guns which would
fire blank charge at the time the 9TH
ers were fired to deceive their air men
and think they deserve great credit
for their work. Three of the shots fell
in the Seine near the bridge Of Boule-
ward st. Michel.
"Dr. Brown is the only person I have
seen who actually saw one Of the peo-
pie Intentionally mutilated by the Ger
mans. She dressed this girls arm,
which had been cut Off by German
soldier with scythe blade, below the
elbow. She stump was infected and
she had to re-amputate. The girl told
her (ndirect evidence) that another
girl had had her arm cut of and bled
to death. I would consider DR.. Brown
quite reliable. One soldier has told me
that he saw with his own eyes several
French soldiers who had had their
heads blown off by rifle held close
to their heads, when they were lying
on the ground. This was on an ad-
vance, and from the nature Of the
wounds. they could not have occurred
otherwise. Toward the end the Ger
man became much more docile. Some
of the Americans threw a little rough
stuff" into him, and he quit.
"I occupied the room in which La
Fayette was born, during my stay at
the chateau-it is a tower room, fine
view from the Window circular
room with a hardwood floor laid in a
big star shape-the design, mean. 1
had a comfortable, modern bed, and
enjoyed my nights rest, for these
French beds are f1ne-feathers and a
down comfort over you. 1t was not
very cold, but we had big snow night
before last up there, showed over a
foot, and up the mountain little ways
about Is inches. had my arctics and
good pair of leggins and got along
all right. We drove to LIE Puy-the
radiator pushing the snow out of the
way and 1t was slow work-about %
miles. I drove back from there last
night in a Ford, putting the woman in
the closed car. and I neTer had pref
tier drive. The road winds all around
like a snake. The fir ire were load
ed with snow, and it was moonlight
and it could not have been more beau
tiful. took some pictures yesterday,
which should be good. A picture Is
the only thing can offer you to tell
you how things looked. I called on
the cure at Chavignac. He is a pleas
ant fellow. You can get more infor-
nation from these priests about the
history Of the country than from any
one else, and ne as usual set out some
fine Malaga win, which they keep on
hands. The housekeeper Of this cure
sent over to the chateau for dinner
some Of the finest chestnuts I have
ever eaten-they were fixed saute', and
I wish you could have eaten some OF
them. All the meals I had at the
chateau were good ones. Always a
good thick soup, some mutton or beef
or chicken, caulif1ower, potatoes, pie
and cheese, white and red wies. Nine.
LIE verrer always enjoyed her cigar
ette after dinner when we were having
coffee, which might not be to the style
of some Of you, but have long since
grown accustomed to women smoking
and remember how grandma and the
other old ladies enjoyed their tobacco
and SNUFF years ago. They make some
nice lace in the Province of Haute-
Loire and they are fortunate in hav-
ing Miss Perry, who has found lot OF
these old designs and pricked them out
for the lace makers and they are re-
producing the old patterns. In appre-
citation of my work there I was pre-
sented with gift for Madame Mac
Connelr, a fine linen and lace bordered
table cloth, worth about 500, which
I am sure pleases Agness. 1t is a nice
one all right.
THE history Of La Fayette is quite
interesting and you all may know 1t,
but there are one or two things will
mention. He married at Ia girl OF
IA. They raised three children. one