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^Germans Clain Of Out Announce Storming of Dou ? nor of Fortifications?F\ Have Given Waj Rorlin Fc!i 2(> (via London).?It was officially announced early this morning that Fort Dou Aumont. one of the fortiJtcations of Verdun, was taken by storm yesterday afternoon and is now firmly held by the Germans. The official announcement is as follows : "The armed Fort Douaumont. the northeastern corner pillar of the per mancnt main line fortifications of the stronghold of Verdun, was stormed yesterday afternoon by the Twenty-fourth t regiment of Brandenburg infantry and i> now firmly in German hands.*" The regular official statement issued ?ater today says that considerable advances have been made east of the JMeuse, in the region north of Verdun, in the presence of Emperor William. The war office also announced the capture of hills southwest of the village of , Louvemont and the fortified positions i 10 the east thereof. j Resistance of t:he French broke down on the Woevre plain alor.g the entire1 front to Marphoville, south of the high1 road from Paris to Metz, according to, the communique. "We are pursuing the retreatiag ener.iv.' the stv.^rneni says. It further rtforis that the French forces in the Champagne have made an attack on the German positions south of 3t Marie-a-fy, penetrating me nrst O rni:,.i: trenches over a distance of afc?'_ut J',c yards. T!:e .statement follows: "Western front: On the night of URS. A. H. TWICHELL PERHAPS FATALLY INJURED WIFE OF WELL KNOWN MANUFACTURER SUFFERS CONCUSSION OF BRAIN AND SPINE The State. Spartanburg. Feb. 26.?Mrs. Janie Rivers iTwichell, wife of A. H. Twichell, president of the Glendale and Clifton mills, lies perhaps fatally injured at het home on Pine street, and Glenn Brown, j her negro chauffeur, is in an unconscious state at the city hospital as a result of j an accident at Union street crossing of the Southern railway this morning when Southern passenger train No. 91 from Columbia struck Mrs. Twichell's limousine, completely demolishing the car and hurling its occupants through the wreckage. Mrs. Twichell was picked up unconscious and has remained so since the accident. Dr. L. J. Blake, her physician, late this afternoon issued the following statement: IN SERIOUS CONDI TipX. "Mrs. Twichell is in a very serious W condition. Her left ankle is broken and ; she has concussion of the brain and spine." Eye witnesses of the accident say the car and the train were moving in the same direction, both coming into the city, and that apparently neither the en- j gineer of the train nor the driver of ! the automobile saw the other until the ' collision came. Between Union street and the tracks of the Southern at this ! point there are a number of oil tanks j and buildings that cut off the view and as the wind was high and blowing in j the opposite direction, the supposition is j that no sound of the approaching train j reached the occupants of the car. Mrs. Twichell had been to visit a^ seamstress on Union street and was re-, turning to the city where she was to | meet Mr. Twichell, who waited for her at his office. News of the accident spread over the ' city rapidly and was quickly communi- j cated to Mr. iTwichell, who, with phy- i sicians and friends, hurried to the scene. They arrived before IMfs. Twichell had j 'heen removed from the wreckage, and j ft removed her to the residence on Pine I ' street. ? * 1 AT- TumVVI- I Jfrior lO ncr mama^c iu ;m. { ell. about ten years ago, Mrs. Twichell was Miss Janie Rivers of Spartanburg. She is related to prominent families here and throughout the State. Mr. Twichell is a brother-in-law of the late D. E. Converse, founder of Converse 11 r>f tbp fllpn conege in una o?u wv*.- ...~ dale and Clifton mills. Mr. Twichell succeeded Mr. Converse at the head of these properties and is one of the most j influential manufacturers in the State | The accident has cast a gloom over the city. 'ALMOST OVER TRACKS. John Hart, a prominent lumber dealer of Spartanburg, was within a few * -1 * J feet of the erasing wnen tne acciaenc occurred. He said this afternoon that the car had almost cleared the tracks when the engine caught the rear and lifted it upwards. The car in coming V * n Captuue *,r Line Defense \ ?1 Aumont% Northeastern Cor- j rench in Woevre Said to i v Bsfore Attack. PVKrnnrv 'C nri arlvanrr llV RntlS-ll do- : tachment east of 'Armentieres was repulsed. ; "In the Champagne the French made . an attack south of the St. Marie-a-P\ I position which we captured on February : 21. iThey succeeded in penetrating ou: i tirst line trenches over a width of about ; I j 250 varus. ! "East ot the Aleuse consiaeraoie aa! vances were made on the battle trout ' in the presence of the king-emperor, j 1 Our brave troops gained possession 01" ! the hills southwest of the village ot i | Louvemont and the group of fortified ! j positions situated to tiie east thereof. , i '*In the fierce rush forward Branden-: ; burg regiments pushed on as far as the I village and armored fort of Dou Au- i ! mont, which they carried by storm. i "In the plain of the Woevre the en- ! cmy's resistance broke down along the j entire front as far as the neighborhood j I of Marphoville to the south of the na- j ! tional high road fr >m Paris to Metz. j ! Our troops are closely pursuing the re- , j treating enemy. ''The capture of the village of Cham- j j pneuville, reported yesterday, was based ! ; on an erroneous report. I I "Eastern theatre: Apart from suei ; cessful engagements participated in by j ! our vanguards there is nothing to re- i | port. I ''Dilt-nn * l-i -i f Tina citdifmn ic nn- ! xjcx irwciii luvaii v . i uv ouuauun w?? ? changed." I down was caught by the steps of the j baggage car and this impact shattered j ! it, Mrs. Twichell being thrown out and ! i falling under one of the glass doors. | ! Alter the train had come to a standstill 1 i the negro driver was still in the wreckage holding to the steering wheel and j ivac pKIp to rrawl nut. Hp moved onlv _ --- - , a few feet, however, until he dropped unconscious. I j The train that struck the car was in ! charge of Conductor Boney Chase and F. B. Long was the engineer. So statement has been made by the members of the train crew. At midnight Dr. L. J. Blake, attend: ant physician upon Mrs. Twichell, made I the following statement of her condi\ tion: "The reaction from the shock has | been satisfactory, but s-he is still unconscious, due to concussion of the brain, of the second degree. There are hopeful symptoms, but it will probably be three or four days before a definite statement can be made as to the outcome. Practically her entire injuries consist of a fracture of the left leg at the ankle, and the concussion of the brain." M ! SHOULD GIVE ANIJIALS DESERTING ATTE>TIO>* I Progressive Farmer. A valued correspondent, Mrs. Irene Brown Jenkins, Ellendale, Tenn, writes a timely but severe criticism of the i manner in which we treat our livestock. The arraignment is severe but it is just, and a splendid appeal to our best intaroctc itifl nnr fmmamtv Every year official statistics proclaim the fact (?) that more animals die from exposure in several Southern States than in Northern States, like Minnesota, for instance. If it wer not tragic one might look upon such a statement as a joke; but as a matter of fact more cat tie do die from starvation and exposure in the Southern States than die from exposure and starvation in the Northern States. Practically no livestock die j from the direct effects of exposure in i Southern States. That is, if they are j healthy and receive a fair amount of j feed they do not die trom exposure, in our mild climate, starvation is a more important contributory factor towards i producing their death than exposure. The need is, as Mrs. Jenkins says, for ' better treatment and feeding of our farm animals, rather than for more of j them. Until we learn to care for and j feed them better, it is more or less a I question as to whether we should keep | more livestock. The man who is lookI incr for the best rustlers; who consid ?o - - ers the animal that will consume or live on the least feed the most profitable; who depends on cane and the range for winter feed and tfoinks his profits are largest when least is expended for feed and care is not likely to find the growing of livestock profitable, and the less he keeps the better it is for him and for the livestock business as a whole. The Herald and News one year for SI. This offer is open to old of Hew subscribers aDd is good until March Another Account of How j the Dutch Fork Came to be \ \ In the last sketch we told how the Dutch Fork came to be. In our digging and delving in the records and traditions of the long gone years we have come upon another account given us by Capt. D. A. Dicket, which we shall now relate: Up in the bleak and mountainous section of Pennsylvania ! and Maryland many Germans had settled. The rigors of the winters, however, were too severe for them and they were not satisfied. Some of these settlers had relatives and friends who had come to South Carolina and had written tn thrsp relatives of the salubrious climate they enjoyed in the South. Becoming- interested, they held a conference concerning a change in their home in the North for one in the South.. O " Capt. John Adam Summer, a man of prominence in the | colony, was selected as the community's representative to go to this sunny land and spy out the country, so to speak, and report. Living- as near neighbors to these settler?, who had conic over from the fatherland on the invitation of Wm. Penn, were two tribes of Indians, the Iroquois and the Delawares. The former were bloodthirsty and warlike, the Delawares were peaceful and kind. l'?oth tribes were friendly to the Dutch j who had settled in their midst and were at peace with them. I The Delawares had a treaty with their Iroquois neighborsN binding them to do all their fighting, and by virtue of this , compact and peaceful disposition had earned the sobriquet of "squaw men." These tribes asked their paleface friends to be allowed to send runners ahead to announce the coming ot j. the great paleface chief who was a friend of theirs, the Northern tribes being" related to the (Southern Indians, all being of the Algonquin nation, they had no trouble in sending the news ahead. Capt Summer was received with marked attention wherever he went, owing to the forerunner's report from his chief of the coming of the great white chief from the big waters. . I Journeying: ever southward, in time he reached the Wachovia settlement, in North Carolina, where Winston-Salem is now. and spent some time in prospecting. Not being" satisfied with the country, he resumed his journey ' to the South, having been told by the Indians that so many moons away and beyond the two rivers there was a fine country j full of game and wild animals. Following their suggestions and with his faithful Delaware guide, he crossed the Catawba and journeyed toward the setting sun. !, ... i1 One bright morning in June, 1740, as he looked out over the panorama spread out before him his guide told him that one day's travel from the high hills (of Fairfield county) where he was, was a paleface settlement. This was the goal for which he had left his home in Pennsylvania and journeyed through wildernesses, swum rivers and endured privations. He was indeed glad to be once more among his own people 1 and glad were the Saxe Gothans to welcome one of their kind from the far off North. Capt. Summer spent the balance of the summer in prospecting and selecting a suitable section to which he could lead a colony he expected to bring South the next year. Some of the settlers of Saxe Gotha had crossed the Saluda and found a goodly land, and had made homes for themselves along the river. His prospecting .led him to the section in the fork of Crims creek and Broad river, and finally decided that this was the Eldorado he was seeking for his people. Capt. Summer's first visit to South Carolina was in the year 1740. Returning to Pennsylvania late in the fall, he made a , goodly report?not of the Promised Land exactly, but about the snnnv section about which thev had heard. j! Having found the land fertile, the game varied and abundant and wild animals, the deer, bear and buffalo plentiful, Wild turkeys, quail and other game birds, enabled him to make a report that heightened their desire to make the change. j He found the wood aglow with fragrant flowers and the 1 branches filled with songsters which made the day and night 1 tuneful. He made arrangements to start South with his colony early j! in the following year (1741). On the trip to South Carolina ( there were many trials, but after weeks of travel he brought his I company safely, without the loss of a member, to the banks of the Broad river (Ewadpeena) at a point known as Cohes Falls, < where the great Parr Shoals dam now is. Crossing the river, 1 he was welcomed by the chief of the Saludas, who made for him a grand pow wow at his chief village near where the town ot . Little Mountain is now. , After selecting the location for each colonist, they went to < work to carve homes of out the wilderness for themselves. How well they succeeded you can judge by the progressive people who live in the original settlement of the Dutch l<ork. In 1742 or 1743 Capt. Summer, accompanied by a young man, Adam Abtain (Epting) returned to Pennsylvania and brought 1 a second company of colonists, who also made their homes next j door to the first settlers. When visiting in that section of Pennsylvania from whence , these settlers came, three years ago, I was struck with the < - * ? - _ t._ r ,1 similarity ot the names up mere wnn inc names 10 uc iuuuu at the present time in the Dutch Fork in South Carolina? < Sommers, Rikard, Miller, Kinard, Singley, Mayer, etc.?show * ing the common origin of the peoples of the two sections. At the time of the settlement of the Dutch Fork 1741-45, 1 there were two religious denominations, the Lutherans ami : the German Reformed?the same condition that exisis in Pennsylvania today but which has passed in South Carolina. The * ' 1 1 -< T 11 f t-o oerman iormcci navm^ gunc jcu^civ nuv x^ub**v.xiwi church, while same have gone into the other denominations. ! Rev. Theus, who died early in the 19th century, was the last minister of the German Reformed church of which we have any knowledge. I remember the death and burial of the last member of this church, about 25 or 30 years ago, in Lexington TT:- <" tAUDm- A \T5rV? county, ri^r iunerai was piwuicu u^ mc av^v. *?.. who was then pastor of Grace church, Prosperity. 11 f ; Pound One pound al Linen Paj packages of E 25c. Don't miss tunityto buy paper. See my wir Mayes' Book ? The House of a' W nil 11 MWH1WTIMM3BBM?B?M PROVIDES CHANGES IX THE NATIONAL GUARD j f I FEDERALIZED MILITIA, WITH \ SPECIAL RESERiYE, TO FORM | THE BASIS OF ADDITIONS Washington, Feb. 26.?The house mil- j itary committee agreed today upon the : general terms of a bill it expects to get' before the house in ten days providing for a regular army with an authorized! peace strength of 143,000 men; a feci-! erali/.ed National Guard which would J reach a fixed minimum strength of 424,- | doo in four years; adequate reserve sys- j terns for both of these forces, and or- ' ganization of civilian training camps ivith wide discretion reposed in the war department as to the terms of enlistment, training and government. Members of both the house and senate military committees frankly admit-! ted today that they had doubts whether J a requisite force could be enlisted in the \ National Guard, even under the proposed federal pay and regulation provisions ' and a growing tendency to provide for a federal army reserve in addition to the regular army and federalizd National Guard was manifest in both committees. 'Members said they favored a prac-' tical test of the possibility of forming a federal vounteer army in peace times on lines somewhat similar to the continental army plan. The apparent intention to abandon the continental project wholly was one of the causes lead? - r . I ing up to ttte resignation 01 secretary Garrison. THE S EM ATE PLAN. The senate committee has agreed tentatively to a plan under which training camps would be authorized in every congressional district where sufficient men volunteered for training under an obligation for war service. .'The maximum j force to be thus raised in any district ! A'ould be a battalion or substantially the J same number as proposed for the first j r*ear of the Garrison continental army j }lan. The camps would be under comnand of full completements of regular nand of full completements of regular This tentative plan is in addition to :he regular army and the federalized National Guard proposals and is intend-' id to reach men who would not be iound in either of these services. Representative Kahn, who has advo- , rated an extension of the camp training ' :o men who would not enlist in the reg- J ilars or National Guard, said today that' A-ith 30.000 men already enrolled for | ntensive military training this summer, j. vithout government aid, he had receiv- j ?d assurances that fully 100,000 would available next year under his plan. ! The house committee arrived at its' -egular army figures today as a com- j promise after suggestions of a peace j strength of 220,000, 180,000 and 150,000, iad been voted down by narrow mar- i jins. THE REGULAR ARMY. A non-partisan vote finally fixed upon 1 [37,000, or 2,000 more than recommended by the war department, with a provision designed to allow a percentage :>f overenlistment in order to maintain cfroncrth at all times. With this .IJCIL JU VI *?> . v- ? ? provision the total strength authorized tvould be sufficient to provide officers to carry out work of instructions at schools, among militia regiments and for ctfher special duties. One thousand idditional men in the commissioned personnel was agreed upon as against an increase of 786 proposed by the war department. The increase over the department figures would be in field and coast artillery, the former being doubled over its present strength. A total ot 12 regiments or 108 batteries is contemplated. The coast artillery would be increased to a point where the regulars to man Paper Mayes' Roy>er and two Invelodes for t > this oppora supply of \ idow. c Variety Store rhousand Things. BonnBBBnnnHaHaBHWBMiMV) ail mine and torpedo defenses and one nait tne guns in fixea lortmcations would be available with an additional > completement to man the proposed complement to man the proposed The bill also provides that a National Guard officer from each organization be detailed to attend the regular service schools, receiving the pay of his rank in the regular army while on such duty. It contemplates authorizing the president to draft the guard into the federal service at any time he deems best, without waiting specific authority of conrrri.cc nnrl u'/Mild r*?mnvp all rpernrHnn* on use of the force outside the country. MAY ADD TO REGULARS. Several members of the house committee are in .sympathy with the senate committee's proposals for the regular army, which contemplate, as tentatively agreed upon, a complete reorganization and a peace strength of 175,000 men. In the same way, it is said, members of the senate committee are willing to accent the judgment of the house body on the scheme to federalize^ the ' N*at:'.nn! Guard. The house committee will hear army ' officers Monday in connection with the 1 scheme for government cooperation in ; establishing plants for the fixation of J atmospheric nitrogen at available water j power sites. The total product of these plants would be available for powder manufacture in war time. A provision will be inserted in the general bill after the hearing, providing for government aid in the project as a war measure. A plan for civilian training camps, it ; was stated, will be worked out in conI i.:? irmv irvrirnnriatirvn Kill | IlC^UUIl Willi L1IV- ai iiijr v^4 ? >. | to be considered later. ! The bill will be given a final review Wednesday by members of the committee, including Chairman Hay, who expects to get on the floor and secure immediate consideration for it early in the following week. 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'Believe rae or not, old chap, I was on the point of being nrHainfd last AtlCUSt/ "'I say. And what stopped yon, then?' inquired the other. "'This d?d war, of course/ was the reply."