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YORKViLLE ENQUIRER. gggrorgP 8EHK-WKKHLT. l m oaisrs sols. Pobliih.r..} ' % rfwi'S Utrsgapcr: ^or th< promotion of (he political, Social, ^gricullnral and (Commercial Jntcresls of tin f "S't- i .inoijt copt, nn cmi. established 1835 ~ ~ ~ YORK, 9. C., FRlDAt- OCTOBER4, 1918. . ~~ JSroTaO BOYHOOD DAYS OF PERSHING! Old AcqualotaDce Reviews Some J Family History. 1 CHILDHOOD DAYS SPENT IN MISSOURI c Father of the General Went Through * Some Rough Time* In the West and ' the General Himself Smelled the ' Smoke of Battle While Still a Youth. ' luliii K. I'i ishiM.'. latin r ??f >ei:eral s John J. Pershing. commander of the . American Kxpeditionury Forces, began , his career In Linn county Missouri, as j boss of the Meadow section, on the Hannibal and St. Joe railroad, in () great many brawny men from New York, Pennsylvania and other eastern ,, states came to Missouri during what ;| was called the "railroad era." along in , the 50's and up to tie- ''nil war. Mr. ^ I'ershltiK eume from feiiiisvlviiiita. Mis lirst work in Missouri whs that of a contractor. One of his contracts was on the North Missouri, u road then bo- r ing constructed from St. Uiuis to Ma- :i con. It was while performing his con- ' tract in MontKuinery county that he v met the girl that became Mrs. I'er- I1 ^ siting. As soon as the North Missouri '' ^ was in operation the Pershings moved to Linn county, ncur Meadville. and 0 Mr. Pershing took charge of the sec- ' tion as boss, lie also operated a house for the boarding of the section men ' and other railroad workers. Latertiiey 1 moved to the Judge Itrown house, near ' by. Hoth houses were about four and r a hall miles west of l*aclede. K Controversy Over Birthplace. H LiOinax of the Loinax & Stand- 0 ly bank, who came from Illinois to t< l.o-ledc in lsf?9. and who is said to l>e the oldest continuous voter in the r town, says Cenenil Pershing was born u in mi' JUIIKC (irwwil ?HK tier, 1 stiu. Many Laclede |HKt|>l?, how- s over. stoutly insist the general was c horn In their town, atul they i>oint out b the old Mallou house on Main street as I the place. ^ Mr. huiiuut, In discussing the matter n the other day said: t ' | know of this controversy between t the two places, and a while buck, when li Jim, John's younger brother, was here, t I asked him where he was born. He <J said in Iatclede. Then I asked him b where he was horn, and he replied: '<in a the Judge Brown plantation, four and v one-half miles west of town.' v "According to my recollection," Mr. t: Umax went on, "there was no postof- a th e ut Meadville, and the people about d that towi\ had to come to Iaiclcde for t their mail. Thut may have been the t reason the idea got out that John's li parents lived here when he was born, o Hut It is true they moved here soon a afterward. I clerked in thiystore Mr. . I'eru^yag conducted on the northwest ii corner of the square." "" Besides being one of the leading o merchants of Laclede, John F. I'ersh- o lug was the postmaster and at one h lime member of town council. He was <i what might be culled a "prominent cit- e Izen," as the term is used in the coun- 1< try. b As the one resident of Laclede most n Intimately associated with the gen- c; eral's father. Mr. Loinax was asked to a AoMcribe him. g "Well," he replied, with a whimsical e smile, "1 should have to do that pretty much like the schoolmates describe e the general to those people who came V here In the early days to Imild rail- 1 roads through Missouri. Some of the ti best families we have are the descend- h ants of those men. f A* Civil War Began. h "In the Tall of '61 the Pershings 3 moved to Laclede. Mr. Pershing be- b came sutler for the Kighteenth regiment of Missouri that year, and in a IN63 or '63 he held the same Job witli o another regiment. The I'nlon soldiers fi were paid $13 a month, and they were e allowed to issue orders for tobacco, a canned goods and such things as they n ^ wanted on the sutler to the amount of a $4.3,r? a month Mr. Pershing went with v the regiment to a number of places, p and finally tt was ordered from W'cs- tl ton to St. Isniis. Then he returned to Iatclede and opened up a store here, w Soon afterward President Lincoln ap- I; {minted him postmaster. Mr. Pershing n employed me as a clerk. I was then b 18 or 19." "Nothing ever happened?" y Mr. Lomax smiled. t< "Yes. there was something happen- p ed." he said slowly, "but it sounds so a much like a wild west romance that F |H>rhaps?" n "Tell it. please." h "It was along about the middle of g September, 1861?Saturday. 1 think? p apparently as ijulet and peaceful a day t< as tt is now. Suddenly somebody on the street shouted: ^ "'The bushwhackers are coming!" ^ "The warning was hardly given when some eighteen or twenty men ^ armed with revolvers and shotguns galloped into town- lieing Saturday. there were some 200 or 300 people in ^ to do their week-end shopping and it ^ eaused considerable excitement among them. No less excited was four-yearold John J. Pershing, the future general. as he "played soldier." ^ Repelling the Rallers. ^ "The sinister visitors were Captain Holtzclaw's command. There were a number of large, tine-looking men ^ among them, and they handled their horses like expert cavalrymen. "Soon after 1 saw them I stepped into the store and told Mr. Pershing. ^ who was behind the counter waiting on some one. He walked back to where v there were some guns. These guns had been loaded, but that very morning. It happened, we had discharged ( them in the air to avoid the danger of ' having loaded guns standing around. Finding the guns empty, he started forward. Just then some of the bushwhackers entered the front door. In f our store was a large safe which the r people of the town used as a general r safe deposit. At that time there was between IS.000 and $6,000 cash In the S safe. Mr. Pershing locked the safe ' and put the key In his pocket. Then ^ She went out the back door and around r on the street. Two of the gang walk- I ed up to me. and presenting their c guns at my head demanded the key of 1 the safe. I told them Mr. Pershing r had it. They looked at me like they I were going to eat me up. and then 1 k / . urned around and began helping, hemselves to Much things an they | wanted. In some places around town hey got money, probably $1,000 beonging to different parties, but Mr. i'ershing's action in locking the safe in >ur store prevented thern from maknir the big haul. I "Hut tragic events were happening ?utside. A soldier named I>ave Growler, fired from a window and severely vounded Lieutenant James Nave, of loltzcluw's command. A Holtzclaw artisan shot and instantly killed "rowder. "Squire John H. Jones, a lawyer, tarted to run, along with some others, ind they ordered him to halt. He kept n and they shot him. Jones fell and 'ershing ran to him, picked him up ind carried him to a store, where lulled, or he may have been dead when 'ershing went to him. "The next thing was a surprise to very body. Captain Iioltzclaw ordered II th<- |Hoplc to gather around him on he square and hear a little talk he tad to make to them. Rail Re-enforcements. "He began by expressing his sincere egrets at tin- killing of the two men. ml stated that his purpose in coning to I?iclei|e was to get two fellows iho had mistreated some southern ieople down in Charlton county. Then ic went on to warn the people that if e heard of any more bad treatment f southerners he would return to La- J lede and burn up the town. I "It seems that the men whom ('apt. ioltzclaw was seeking knew there was ? rouble coming and they hid out. One limbed down into an old cistern and emained there until the gang was _ B one. "While the raid was on two citizens f Luclede managed to slip out of own. They rode swiftly to Brookfleld -six miles away?and notified the raiload militia. An engine with steam '' ip was in the sidetrack, a car was oupled on ami the short train was !l' oon speeding down tho line to La- T lede as hard as it could go. The ai ushwhackers evacuated the town be- w lines, sending the wounded Lieutenant " Cave westward in a hack they com- a' iiandcered. learning this, the militia 10 ? s\ rain sieaineii wcsmuru .mu u.triiwn hi? hack. The soldiers tired into the "',l lac k, wounding Nave again and morally wounding The man driving. An- ?* ither man in the haek was wounded, iut managed to get away. Two days fterward he stopped at a house southrest of Laclede, and it turned out he .as treasurer of The gang. The J 1.000 ol nken from the stores was recovered, nd at a mass-meeting in town it was ecided to divide it eciually between 01 he widows of Crowder and Jones, the wo men killed at Laclede. It was a ittle curious that none of the owners t( f the money ever made any objection w t this disposal of it"Mr. Pershing sold his store along i thesevtmtiM and Uaveted on tte wned several farms in the county. as ne of which he operated and others e held as an investment While a ulct. methodical man. his mental enrgy was wonderful. He was always joking ahead for something imporSI int. and several times he came nighty near striking it rich. He be- J* ame interested in the manufacture of , new sort of stock car and made a ood thing of it. This money, how- { ver, he lost in some Chicago deals. s( "At one time Mr. Pershing was travling salesman for Kuhn, Nathan & ^ 'isher, clothing merchants of Chicago, le came ail through the western coun- |(j rv and built up a good trade for his m ouse. I think lie earned a salary of rum $4,000 to $5,000 a year. When . e got a little ahead in the world again jn 1? ~ ^mohu and IP. rcnninn mmiu >v ? c( ought some suburban property there. one characteristic about the gener- ttl I'm father is notable. He was an ex- jt client penman and could write the nest letters I ever read, both as to onstruction and penmanship. He was tl) well educated man. As a business )h urn he was courteous, energetic and m I ways optimistic. His business re- |1{ erses didn't discourage him. He sim- (|, ly smiled. suid he guessed all was for Jl( lie best and kept plugging away. CJ1 "The Pershing family were all very u; ell liked in Laclede. They were real- w f popular, every member of it. I ever heard young John talk about elng a soldier or an Indiun fighter. ty idea was that he and Jim, his 0f ounger brother, were looking forward jK ? a business or professional career. sc lut John in his younger days listened a great deal to the talk of Captain ^,1 lewitt about the Civil war. and there's o telling what ideas got into the lad's uf ead from that. He always showed a jn ood deal of interest when older peo- Ci le were talking if they could really |>( ?ll something- el Family Now Scattered. st "In a iruiet, effective way John F. vv 'ershlng was one of the most influen- ,n iuI men in town. He didn't talk much ut rather listened to what other peole would say. Then he would give lis opinion, if called on, in a few rords. When he started on anything e would keep at it until he had thor- i inrhiv doveloned iL His iileas were I Iways good and practical, and they orked out as he had planned. In hose instances where he met with usiness reverses, it was not through ny fault of his own planning. "When young John was home from Vest Point, looking handsome in his ftlcer's uniform, it was decided to lave a group picture taken of the amiiv i have one of these pictures d the bunk here"?indicating a big ranted picture on the wall?"and I wouldn't take a farm for it. The famly Is now widely scattered, some of hem dead, and this was probably the list time they were all together under he family rooftree at Laclede." That Turkey has demanded money rom Germany, threatening to break elations if it Is not forthcoming, was eported at Geneva, Monday. It was aid that at a recent diplomatic conerence in Berlin, the Turkish Grand 'Izier Merier requested a loan, denanding cancellation of previous Turksh debts to Turkey. The sultan, ac ording to advices, told Mezier, before le went to Berlin: "I am tired of Gernan domination over Turkey. Get >rompt satisfaction to our demands or eave Berlin immediately-" 1?American battery of 155-mllllme Menin road after the retreat of the Get iunt. FIGHTING WITH BAYONET. ritish Revel In SucTTWork: But Germans Don't Like It. Tin re is no i|ii< stiiin of the fact that ..inin nnl liLi- tin. Imvnnet. 1 doesn't suit his temperament. \ The British, on the other hand, have , ways h-il the world with the weapon, hey invented tin- kind of bayonet we , e now usinp, which boars little re'in Ida nee to the old-style Instrument. , is a one-edged knife with a handle, | taehed to the rifle muzzle, and In ( rm suggests a likeness to the short ( vord of the ancient Roman lesion- ( '.v. At close quarters the bayonet may 'ten I ployed to preater advan- j pe as a knife, chiefly for thrustlnp, . i the Roman soldier used his favor- v a weapon. It Is held low and thrust , ovarii at the enemy's vitals?a sort ( jab that is hard to ward off. t I'so of the bayonet as a knife Is an lportnnt part of the instruction given ^ ir fighting men while in traininp. Hut j 1 the rules of bayonet practice now ( cepted for the American Infantry nre , pied from the British "manual." y hich is the text book of the final aulorlty on the suliject. It was the British who developed. , e system of bayonet Instruction by t le-lilfllnlk'Ht Of "tbwamti-a."?-wtrtctr e usually sacks stuffed as solidly < i posslblo with straw and shavinps. id sometimes strenpthened by the , troduction of wood sticks to eoun- ( rfeit human hones. In practice work these dummies are ( is|>end?*d from overhead horizontal >les or attached to stakes driven into ( e pround. Most commonly they oe- k ipy trenches, which infantrymen uler traininp ferociously attack. It ( the business of the attackers to alt the dummies swiftly in vital ( irts, which are sometimes indicated j i painted sjiots or attached disks. One of the points inost difficult to neh the averape recruit is that he list not thrust too hard. The vital ( irts of a human body a re easily pen- ( rated: it is successful aim that is lportunt. If the bayonet passes ( ear throuph the adversary's body it j in not be easily withdrawn, and in ( ic meantime, while tr.vinp to wrench loose, the soldier is helpless apninst second or third enemy. j The bayonet (and the same rule ap- ^ ies to its use as a knife) must never drawn back for a thrust. It list always be held in advance of the i idy. countInp upon the impetus of \ e charpe and the forward stretch inp t ' the arms to plant It in the enemy's .? ireass. If it sticks fast It may us- si illy be released by llrinp the gun, i hich breaks the bones that hold it. | A jab at Heinle's throat is sit once c e most disconcerting and, If well- t ? I1..4 1.. X I11CU me lUOSl imiuemanix ui.tiiumih I ' thrusts. It will at least force him t ick. giving a chance for a thrust at I inie other vital part. If he turns tail : puncture in the kidneys will tlnish 1 m. I The Hun. it is likely, has a bayonet < his own. It is a deadly kind of duel- t g. Skillful fencing may win the imhat. Hut no foul is barred. The isiness is one of killing: and mus- i e, quickness, presence of mind and * eadiness of nerve in the midst of I ild excitement are the qualities do- i anded. < DOUGHBOYS American Infantrymen attached to *q rout* to the froot The First divt&ic Bm I I ter heavy artillery which helped captur -mans. 8?Latest photograph of King A MIGHTY ENGINEERING WORK. Yaster Achievements In France Than On the Panama Canal. American army engineers are doing nnre constructive work in France Inlay, writes a correspondent from Fours, France, than was ever done on [he Panama Canal, stuiiendous as the ngineering project was, and more also ;han was ever done in a day on all the river and harhor work of the United States. This comparison gives some idea of the magnitude of the army (instruction now going on in Kuropc. seceding the most gigantic oiierations rver undertaken nt home. Tlie Panama constructing force was lo.ouo men: here Is a good size army n Itself. It includes engineer troops mil laborers of till kinds for the constructive work and foresters for furbishing the materials of construction, rutting down forests, running saw lillls, supplying timber and lumber. 'Phi call for timber Is so tremendous hat the forestry force will have to >c Increased before very lone:. Already It Is running seventy sawmills, ind 200 more are required to keep up vith the construction. With this in rease the engineering force engaged >n construction will reach more than wUw ?? ? >>' ?? vmk> - on he Panajja. Xyyialj the. la.rgeat.1 pet" ' ?lous constnicilve work the United States ever undertook. Traveling across France from the icacoast one sees the magnitude of his American constructive work at very hand, from the ten miles of new locks and piers tit the ports, then the \merican railway, telegraph anil telephone lines, vast areas of warehouses, dinps and factories and ilnally the great 11etches of military eatni>s and barracks for this army of over a million Vmerican troops. Hut while one sees his work in immense detached parts, t is only at army headquarters that letails are available on the magnitude >f the work as a whole. On the one item of timber and lumper for this construction the army orcstcrs are called on to furnish learl.v 5fl0.tMi0.00fl hoard feet of timber. >f which about. Soo.OOti feel is sawed umber. This 500.000.u00 feet is no oiigli guesswork, hut is the estimat" if requirements cnrofully worked nit by the engineers. The precise otaI of these estimates Is I.St.792.000 'ect, or over 90.000 miles of lumber. Aerial Ambulances.?All flying fields >c<l with nlrplano ambulances to car y Injurod nvlntors quickly from the icone of an accident to a field hospitd. A standard training-plane is to he isod for the ambulance, the rear cocklit being cleared and enlarged sufflr iently to permit a combination itretcher scat to be placed in it. The njured inrson Is placed with his head oward the pilot and rests easily. The list airplane ambulance Is being operited successfully at Gcrstner Field, Lake Charles, La. They have been inroduced at Texas fields, and all field oinmanders have been Instructed to 'ollow the example. Iowa was the first state to subscribe ts quota to the fourth Liberty loan. South Dakota has also subscribed its 'ull quota of the loan. Both suites vent over the top during the first three lays of the drive. BRINGING UP THEIR M/ a machine-gun battalion of the Flrat dl n la one of thoae that ate belac um<I 1 i " ^r //x vy rlW^HV ^ / // /i /ij||flflRKj^^^U e Solssons. 2?British cleaning up the .lfonso of Spain, taken while on a bear ' SUNDAY JOY RIDING. Saving of Gasoline Sufficient to Load Ten Ships. . The saving effected by the autoless Sundays luis enabled the government to send to Krance len shiploads of gasoline, of 50,000 barrels each. M. L. Kequa director of the oil division of the fuel administration declared in a speech at Cooper Cnion. New York last Monday night. If the American people had not complied with the fit"! administration's request, ho added, the* ton cargoes could not have gone forward. Tho oil administrator presented an array of interesting figures on oil pro luotion and consumption upon which tin* request for vaseline conservation !>as"d ami voiced the opinion that more "(biolinc had to he saved if a scarcity wgs to ho averted. He said: "We will need this year to meet only a normal increase in consumption not less than UR.000.h00 barrels of crude oil more than last year. We used more than 16.000,000 barrels in 1S97. This grew to 166,000,000 barrels ia 1007. If we are to meet the normal rate of growth we must have not less than 365,000,000 barrels in 1918. This is 66 per cent of the total production ."r* ha j ^ ifne production has Increased more than 8,000,000 barrels but our consumption has more thnn kept pace with this. Our stocks of kerosene are 2.000.000 barrels less thnn on the first of this year and our stocks of crude oil arc 12,000,000 barrels less. "All demands for export will continue to be met from the 350.000.000 hairols of crude oil, the 80.000.000 barrels of kerosene and the 170,000.000 barrels of fuel oil that will probably be produced this year." The 500.000 barrels thus exported, lie said, was equivalent to 20.000,000 rations, which represented an approximation of the saving accomplished by 'he nutolcss Sunday. How Heinie Got His Furlough.? British officers on the French front arc telling a story about a lanky good-natured Australian who brought in n band of prisoners. He noticed all were happy but one. He told the prisoner who spoke English to ask the sullen "Heinle" what he was grouchy about. The solemn one said he was blue because he was to go on leave the next day and wanted to see his wife and children. "Oh." drawled the Australian, "Is that what's ailing him? Well It is tough luck to be caught on the eve of a furlough. "I guess the British government won't fret itself over a humble Fritz, seeing the huntin's been so good of late. Tell your gloomy friend to beat it while the goin's good and not to linger before I change my mind." Bystanders say they could scarcely see that Helnie through the dust his lightning quick feet were ma....igSurgeon General Gorgas, head of the health department of the United States army, retired this week, having reached the age for retirement. He is succeeded by Major Merritt W. Ireland, who for some time past has been chief surgeon of the American expeditionary f A??nnn In 1?MnnA iwvio in L i ante. 1 iCHINE GUNS Bl^.: i|vT^B 11*1 on paeelng through a French Tlllag e d the ailleC great offensive against the ( ! l i .'w.v;, SOLDIERED WITH PERSHINt Story of a Grizzled Old Veteran a! Gamp Sevier. THINKS BUCK JACK GREAT LEADER Interesting Light On the Expedition In Search of Villa?Had the Slick Old Bandit Surrounded and Could Have Caught Him: But for Reasons That i l? I* Nn( Ika SoUiar'i Business to Know, Let Him Go. (Passed by the Censor.) Correspondence of The Yorkville Enquirer Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C., September 25.?In the person of an old [veteran of more than twenty years' service in the United States army, whom I ran across the other day, I found a man who formerly soldiered under General Pershing, the leader of our boys over there, and who has more than a speaking acquaintance with the great American chieftain. At one time this soldier of whom I write, was sergeant of the guard around General Pershing's quarters. He was with "Black Jack," when he was in Mexico after Villa some years ago, at the time that gentleman got a little obstreperous and it became necessary to teach him a thing or two regarding the power and prestige of the United States. I shall not give this soldier's name in this story. His name doesn't matter. Until a few months ago he was a quartermaster sergeant, senior grade. Now he Is a second lieutenant and not the ' 1 ?i?L v? ?? r,x/\mntlAn hp. oesi pieaseu ?ku mo ? cause, from a financial standpoint, he is not so well off as he was when an enlisted man. That works this way: A quartermaster sergeant of the senior grade receives $81 per month. In addition to that he is entitled to an increase of several dollars per month in hiH pay for each re-enlistment. Having done several "hitches," the re-enlistment pay of this officer brought his monthly pay to something over $100. Besides that, while he was an enlisted man he received his board and his clothes free of charge, and his dental work and medical attention were also gratis. As a second lieutenant he now received about $144 per month- Out of this he has to pay for board, clothing and other incidentals that were formerly furnished at the expense of Uncle 3am. Since the army Is his "game." as he says?that is, his life work?he naturally looks after the financial end of It' too, and he calculates that now since ho is wearing the black and gold hat cord and the gold shoulder bare of a second lieutenant, he is skinning himself out of $33 per month. A most Interesting character Is this aflfey. QLirkoftt .1. jrdy.a. - He Is 47 Wf nfiSsUI! ^es are clearer, his stride is firmer, his muscles arc harder and at the same time more supple and powerful today than are mine. There is no part of this army game that he does not know. He has been a doughboy, has soldiered in the artillery and the cavalry. He is a "shark" on army paper work, and he has army regulations at his nnger tips. Ho can get In the kitchen and cook a better meal than can the majority of lads who have begun to learn to cook since the country went to war. N'o matter what it is, this man can do it. Naturally so, when the "army is my game." His face is rough and tanned and his hands are big and tough and much resemble picnic hams, yet he writes a most beautiful Spencerian hand and should he decide to take up some "game" other than the army when the present show Is over, he could command a handsome income as an Instructor in penmanshipThere are comparatively few gray hairs in his head and he could easily | pass almost anywhere for a man of 35 or younger. The wonderful physical training he has received through twenty years' service In the greatest army in the world is responsible for that. He gives his men a spiel like this: "You fellows, the majority of you have some other game than the army to play for a living. You arc in the army because your country needs you to help in whipping hell out of them Huns. While you are in the army you are to be a regular. There are certain rules and regulations governing the conduct and management of the army. You got to live up to 'em. I got to live up to 'em Everybody has got to do It. All I want you to do is to watch them rules and keep on the right side of 'em. I'm your commanding officer, but I am a man and I have been a buck private and if It were not for certain circumstances I might be now nil I'll meet any 01 you utua uu/-iuo the time " That's the line of talk this old regular puts up and already he is developing a wonderful spirit of happiness and contentment among his men. "He's a hard old geezer." they say, in discussing him among themselves, and then they add: "but he's fair and on the level, ain't he?" This is by way of introduction to a little story I thought I would write about this old timer and General Fershing. He was in a talkative mood the other night and he started to talking of his old soldiering days. He had no idea that a part of his conversation would ever get in print and it might be he would bawl me out if he should ever see this story. However he doesn't know me from the ace of spades, or that I write occasional newspaper stories, so I do not worry. General Pershing's name was mentioned during the conversation some way or other, and to the astonishment of all of us the usually reticent old veteran suddenly grew enthusiastically reminiscent. "I know General Per* shing," he said, "and a fine man and a ?""mminHer ho la Of course a 6ICOI WUtlll??uv. .? ? great many articles that are now being published about the American chief arc more or lean rot; but too much cannot be said about hia efficiency or ability. "I was with the general on that little business trip down in Mexico when that rough-neck Villa got gay. We didn't get him. No. But don't you think we couldn't have got him- Fact ,la we had him surrounded when we . .1^.. . ..-r. .v . .ii.;-';, J received order to fall back. I don't I know about the whys or wherefores. I know we got them orders and we let i the dirty scum go. "I waa sergeant of the guard around Oeneral Pershing's headquarters on that never to be forgotten trip. I had soldiered with him before; but on that [ punitive expedition I had a better chance to see and observe him. He is a very nervous kind of man and a regular demon for work. He never keeps still, but when you are called to his office for interrogation or conference and are standing at attention, he | is walking up and down the room all | int* lime. i lie uni> uuic lie la nun u> when he Is at his desk engaged on { sonic paper work or something of that ' kind, and. he doesn't do much of that. "I guess I know quite a bit about General Pershing, in fact a darn sight more than the average American, and 1 am mighty proud that I do. I had a recommendation, one of them, 'To Whom It May Concern' affaire, which was given me by the general. "When I took my examination for a commission I attached his letter with it, thinking surely that I would get It back. "It got lost somewhere " "Hate it?" "Why I would rather have back General Pershing's letter than to have my darned commission." Jas. D. Grist. r SPANISH INFLUENZA. The Same Old Disease Under a New Name. The epidemic which has been given the name of Spanish influenza and which seems to have spread over a considerable portion of the European continent. has made Its appearance among passengers on transatlantic steamers arriving in New York. These patients began to arrive some months ago, and since that time the health officer of the port has kept In close touch with the situation. Home of the cases which attracted the moat attention occurred on the Norwegian liner Hargensfjord, which arrived in New York after having had more than 200 cases of sickness and four deaths during the voyage. Eleven sick passengers were transferred Immediately to the Norwegian hospital In Brooklyn, and the clinical history of thoac coses was observed by Dr. Edward E. Cornwall in whose service they were placed. The history of these cases, says the New York Medical Journal, Including as it does the blood count and bacteriological studies, Indicates that these particular cases, at least, did not dlfi fer materially from the classical inl fluenza already well known in this country. In a letter, Dr. Fernandez Yl arra, who has recently returned from a nine months' stay In Spain, where he had an opportunity to obIfcf ftnldemlc In Madrid, agrees IhalTne disease does not dlffer'mTrt?rlally from the grippe or epidemic bronchitis, and is of the opinion that its spread in Spain was due to the unhygienic conditions found in that country. where little attention seems to be paid to the ordinary rules of hygiene. Four patients, writes Dr. Cornwall, entered the hospital with histories, symptoms and physical signs which suggested influenza, and seven of them with histories. s>mptoms and physical signs which suggested pneumonia a complicating influenza. One of the patients. who entered the hospital with ^ a temperature of nearly lOfl deg. F. and ( signs of pulmonary edema, died two j hours after admission. Another, who f had signs of consolidation involving nearly the entire right lung, Bhowed ( progressive weakening of the heart, ? and died on the third day after admission. A third, with consolidation involving the right upper and left lower ( lobes, died on the third day after admission. At the present time, August 19. 1918, all the remaining cases are ( either frankly convalescent or are pro- { gressing favorably. One of the patients who entered the ^ hospital with a diagnosis of Influenza, gave the following history: Five days before admission he had a moderate ( chill and felt chilly for two days after. He also felt very weak, had a poor appetlto and suffered from a frontal headache. He did not go to bed until ( one day before admission, when he felt j too weak to keep up. Shortly after going to bed he had another moderate chill. This patient states that ten years ago, when in the United States, he had an attack of sickness with symptoms almost exactly the same as these of the present attack, except that the headache was not so much frontal as lateral. Meanwhile, with Spanish influenza eases coming in on and off, there is considerable difference of opinion as to whether the illness is really a true Influenza, with conflicting statements passing to and fro. It seems the likely conclusion that some of the cases were Influenza and others supposed to he were not.?New York World. Mending for the Soldiers.?Real, red-blooded Americanism Is athrob In the heart of every woman In the Piedmont, as is evidenced by the fact that on Saturday alone at Camp Sevier the conservation and reclamation division received offers to repair 53,000 more pairs 01 nose man were on uunu hi the time. For the past week hundreds of garments have been shipped to the various Red Cross chapters throughout the Piedmont and indications are that there will be no let up until every garment has been repaired. The response of the Red Cross chapters to the appeal sent out several weeks ago to assist in the repairing of soldier clothes has been most gratifying to the Camp Sevier reclamation officer. Each day has seen an Increased number of orders for goods to repair until Saturday when it was impossible to fill all orders. However, every one will be given an opportunity to participate in the work as more ' garments will be shipped at once. I Word received from every town where | Camp 8evier goods have been sent for < repair is that young and old alike are { entering into the task with enthusiasm that has not been witnessed since the days of '65. In almost every home < from the red hills of Newberry to the ' North Carolina line deft Oncers and < willing hearts are now mending socks, i shirts and sweaters for the boys who 1 wear the khaki.?J. D. G. jjr MOTHERS MAKE BAS MASKS fork That Calls lor Hie Mast Scrupulous Care. LEAK OF GAS MAY CAUSE DEATH Devoted Women Have the Whole Thing Under Their Personal Super vision, and uo it witn a reeling That the Least Mistake Might Mean Death to Soma Loved One. Realism pervades the United States iras defence plant at Long Island City. The visitor sees in the workers the mothers, wives and sisters of the men n active service who grip the conictousness, the women who sit quietly it their work making gas masks to lave the lives of the boys over there, heir own and other women's sons, tusimnds, brothers or sweethearts, t Is the spirit behind the workers that tolds and fascinates. This great wartime factory has p-own up in an emergency to combat he (ierman gas attacks. Its grlmtess extends from the receiving -ooms, where ail material is inspect >d before acceptance for use, through tach department, following every op ration until the gas mask is completed; the experimental gas chamber, vhere men In khaki tests makes unler concentrated gas charges; the nilitary guard and the medical rooms, vhere the industrial army is kept ihyslcally fit. Realism is in the face if the workers who bend over the >enches and machines, speeding their Ingers to increased production; it ooks from the eyes of the women in he final inspection division, to whom alls the responsibility of pussing the lnlshed mask for shipment to the solliers on the firing line?for a leak nay mean fatality. To Safeguard Thair Own. Any curelessness may result in brok n fabric that means a gassed flght r. The women workers have known his. and the consciousness of It adds lOnsltlveMgs to their touch andkeenleas to T(eir sight as they assemble he parts of the mask or Inspect it vhen completed. The visitor learns hat most every woman in the gas lefcnce plant has a son, a brother or i husband in service; a large percentige of whom are brides of men who lave gone to France. Mrs. Elizabeth McArdle, In the :heck inspection department, has four ions in the army and navy. Miss E. Joyle, working In the final inspection if the masks, has four brothers In the .'anadlan Army. Mrs. Betty Rlng;old of Forest Hill took up the work vhen her son went to France, and she las been advanced from an operator o a forewoman in the gauge departnent Mrs. Christina Schubert of droQfcland has an eighteen-year-old >on~la'ttit Marta* Corp*-'~ "* Thore are men and women here chose names are known In the world if art and letters. Before the war nany of the operators or department nanagers could be found at the clubs, n the art studios, holding positions of mportance in various industries and irofesslons. Charles A. MacLellan, illustrator, he man who does the humorous, redlalred boy cover for the Saturday Svenlng Post; Martin M- Branner, an idvcrtislng illustrator; Kankin (Prlvite 'Doc" Itankin, of the military peronnel), whose works have decorated he pages of national publications; I. J. Fleming Illustrator?these are a ew of the familiar names picked from he groups at the gas defense factorl-s. Gardener White, sergeant In iharge of the military personnel, and , noted amateur golfer, also la there. Several prominent artiste' daughters are working at the machines, as veil as the daughters of two railroad ireoldents. These young women are ntensely interested in their work, and ikill in production Is the one qualification for distinction In the rank and lie of the mask builders. But There is Something Else. But sentiment and courage cannot leep the factory running, supply ma hines, raw stock, light heat and power?an essential Is money that the \merlcan people lends to the Oovernnent to pay the bills: It is the Amercan dollars put Into Liberty bonds that nakes the wheels run smoothly, that urns out gas masks to save the lives )f our men on the firing line. Wlth>ut money little can be accomplished oward winning the war. Through the Liberty Loan the war vorkers at the gas defense plant are enderlng double service to their counry. If asked about the war In the bird campaign, or what their plans ire for the fourth loan, their answer s simply: "We did the best we could; ve will try to do as well In the next oan." The records of the Liberty bond jooth show that S460.000 In Liberty L<oan coupon books were pledged by the mployees of the gas mask plant in ;he Third Liberty loan?almost half a nillion dollars, loaned to the Oovernnent by a few thousand men and wonen; and by the end of August more han $60,000 had been paid on the tonds subscribed. Between $600 and 11,000 Is collected every day at the >ond booth. Corp. Hiram Tompkins, formely of ;he foreign exchange department of he Guarantee Trust company, treaajrer of the war activities of the plant, predicts a brisk campaign for the fourth Liberty Loan. "We aimed to raise $200,000 in the hlrd compalgn," he said, "and we :urned in $460,000. That speaks well 'or what we will do in the next loan, sut we do not like to talk about It low; we prefer to act when the ;ime cornea." George Dobleer won the Liberty loan marathon race in Chicago laat Sunlay. going the fall distance, 20 miles, 186 yards, in 3 hours, 16 minutes and S seconds. There were fourteen starters in the race and eight of them went the distanceDozens of non-commissioned officers ind men of General Boehm's army have been shot, following an attempt at revolt, according to advices from the Swiss border. Von Boehm's army has been severely battered in the present offensive operations of the Allies.