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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER QP
GUNS ON THE
FRONTIER 10
AT THE FRONT
Portrayed By Dutch Journalist
Who Has Just Returned from
a Tour Through Alsace-Lor
raine Lines and Before Ver
dun.
The Hague.—A well-known Dutch
journalist who has just returned from
a tour through Alsace-Lorraine and
right through, to the German lines be
fore Verdun, gives in Het Leven some
Interesting pictures of the position on
the German frontier and at the front
Particularly significant is what he
writes regarding the admitted super
iority of the French artillery and the
clever ruses they adopt. He writes
‘l proceeded by train to Metzland
thence set off by motor, with an Ober
lieutenant as an escort, to visit the
fighting line. Across the French
frontier and on past Latour and
\\ oevre we met an ever-increasing
number of infantry, artillery, and
transport columns and the further we
went the busier the scene.
“German officers to whom J spoke
in this neighborhood were by no means
satisfied over the progress of affairs;
there was no progress to be noted,
principally because the French artil
lery had proved itself superior to the
German. The French seem to have
dragged their heavy guns out of the
fortress and to have placed them in
(the open field. Moreover, it is as
serted that the French artillery can
reach at least two kilometres farther
than that of the Germans.
Austrians.
“We passed on by St. Hilaire and
Butgneville to Harville, where we were
only 12 kilimetres from the great for
tress of \ erdun, whose guns were
sending out their terrible messengers
of death. Not far from that point was
a magnificent battery of 30 centime
tre motor howitzers. I was not al
lowed ta approach it, but German of
ficers told me that the Austrians had
suffered terrible losses. The French
shells raked even the best sheltered
positions—a fact which gave the Aus
trians much food for thought. At last
they found the solution. In a tree
close to their battery, they found a
Frenchman armed with a field tele
phone who promptly informed Verdun
of any change in the position of the
Austrian guns. The brave French
man was given short shrift.
Pocket Telephones.
But the instance does not stand
alone. Repeatedly have the Germans
found country people in trees and in
cellars, all with pocket telephones.
“The Germans have made such act
ions almost impossible now, but still
they admit they are not by a long
way where they would like to be
Everywhere I heard in Germany of
ficers and soldiers alike speaking with
great joy of the fall of the Fort de
Camp des Romains. Now at last
there -Vas a gap in the line of sorta
At the fighting line itself I heard a
very different story. Yes. they had
taken the fort and the Bavarian sol
diers had acted magnificently, but
whether they could hold the fort was
another question. The French guns
In the forts of Paroches and Leonvllle
were so excellent that they completely
coverd th Camp ds Romains and the
gap was no gap at all.”
MADE U. $. CITIZEN
DURING CIVIL WAR
One of Most Curious Cases Yet
Confronted By American Em
bassy, London, Has Now
Come Up.
London.—The American embassy
here has examined many curious
claims to American citizenship during
the war but none more unusual than
a moidly oath of allegiance dated 1563
It was presented by Charles Engels’
now a resident of London, but at the
time of the taking of the oath a pris
oner of war in the hands of the Fed
eral forces in Alabama.
Engels went to America from Ger
many as a boy of 18 in 1856, and set
tled in Brooklyn, N. Y. At the out
break of the civil war he was in Ala
bama and joined the Confederate army
ehere. One of the first Union forces
penetrating that state captured En
gels and promised to parole him if he
w r ould take the oath of allegiance to
the United States. He did so and. re
turned to New York, subsequently
coming to London where he'has been
keeping a small shop in Bloomsbury.
At the outbreak of the war he claimed
citizenship, but the author
ities compelled him to register as an
alien enemy. Engels made no protest
until the recent attacks on German
shops caused him to fear the same
fate for his establishment and he has
now asked the embassy to decide
whether or not he is entitled to the
protection of American citizenship. The
embassy has been unable to find any
precedent for Engels’ case and has
submitted the question to the State
Department at Washington for a rul
ing.
The Oath.
The oath reads as follows:
“United States of America, State of
Alabama, County of Jackson, I, Char
les Engels, of the County of Kings and
State of New York, do solemnly swear
that I will bear allegiance to the Unit
ed States, and support and sustain the
Constitution and laws thereof; that I
will maintain the national sovereign
ity paramount to that of all State,
County, or Confederate powers; that
I will discountenance, discourage and
forever oppose secession, rebellion and
disintegration of the Federal Union:
that I disclaim and denounce all faith
and fellowship with the so-called Con
federate armies, and pledge my honor,
nay property and my life to the sacred
eprformance of this .tr.y solemn oath
of allegiance to the Government of the
United States of American.
“(Signed) „ WM. JN WILES,
"Lt. Col. A P. M "
Engels is * firmly convinced that
•uch a binding oath made hlm*k citi
zen of the United Statesr and Is con
fident that the State Department will
tustaln his contention.
BRAVERY OF TRE
ALLIES TROOPS
Many Narrow Escapes and
Deeds of Worfderful Bravery
Made By British and Belgians
Recuperating.
London,—Many narrow escapes and
deeds of wonderful bravery have been
made by the injured British and Bel
gian soldiers now recovering in Eng
lish hospitals. A young lance corpo
ral of the King’s Royal Rifles, who is
recovering from a bullet wound in his
knee owes his life to a crucifix which
he picked up in a? enemy house where
he was billeted. A strange impulse
compelled him to pick up the crucifix
and put it in his haversack.
During an engagement a few days
later many of the corporal’s comrades
were killed by bullets which were al
most spent. The young corporal was
hit in the knee and later found when
taken to a hospital that one of the
spent bullets had also passed com
pletely through his knapsack, but had
been deflected from his body by the
crucifix, one of the arms of which
had been broken off by the bullet.
Private W. Hinton of the First East
Lancers poses as the luckiest man in
the army. He was hit by three bul
lets within a mimite without serious
injury. One bullet flattened five
rounds of ammunition in his belt. An
other smashed the magazine of his
rifle and a third passed through his
cap.
A Letter.
A letter from one of the Royal En
gineers describes the remarkable
pluck of Lieutenant R. Pottinger of
Tedmouth. Pottinger and his section
were attempting to blow up a brigade
under fire. They laid the charge and
the section retired. Lieutenant Pot
tinger and p sapper remained behind
to light the fuse. The charge did not
explode. Th sapper then fired ten
rounds of ammunition at the charge
without success. Pottinger then said,
“I’ll make the thing go off.” He
shook hands with the sapper and
walked to the bridge. There he put
the muzzle of his revolver into the
charge and fired ail six cartridges.
Even then the charge did not go off
and the men had to flee leaving the
bridge intact. If the charge had gone
off the young lieutenant would have
disappeared completely, but the ap
proaching Germans would have been
robbed of an easy entry into the al
lies' territory.
One of the officers on the 111-fated
Cressy which was sunk by the Ger
man submarines was severely injured
on the head, had both his legs broken
and his feet crushed as he was thrown
into the air by the explosion. His
body was sucked under the water by
the sinking cruiser, but was picked up
by one of the rescue ships.
Down-Hearted.
Twenty-four r.ours afterwards the
injured officer regained consciousness
and his first words were, “Are we
down-hearted? No!”
A sergeant of the line was made ad
jutant for liis coolness and bravery
in one of the engagements in Lor
raine. With three men the sergeant
was sent across an open field to at
tract the fire of the Germans so the
colonel could tell where the enemy’s
trenches were and what their probable
strength was. A hail of bullets was
directed at the four men. They made
their way to a small farmhouse where
they climbed up on a tile roof and
from the shelter of a chimney began
firing at the Germans. Angered by
the imprudence of the four soldiers
the Germans directed one of their bat
teries on the house and razed it.
“My smartest patrol leader Is gone,”
the colonel remarked, as he. saw the
building crumble. The three privates
were no more, but the little sergeant
was soon seen running across thd
field toward his command. When
the sergeant arrived breathless at
headquarters the colonel asked with
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Union Increases Service
TWO connected telephones make the simplest form of tele
phone communication.
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Three segregated pairs give three lines for telephone talk.
Unite the three pairs by means of a central office and an
intercommunicating exchange system is formed, giving fifteen
talk tracks.
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Five pairs thus connected give forty-five lines of communi
cation, and so on, in regular mathematical rule.
Millions of such groups are thus connected in the Bell
System.
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DYSPEPSIA GONE! NO INDIGESTION
GAS, SOURNESS-MS DIAPEPI
Time it! In five minutes your
sick, upset stomach
feels fine.
When your meals don’t fit comfort
ably, or what you eat lies like a lump
of lead iu your stomach, or if you
have heartburn, that is a sign of indi
gestion.
Get from your phnrmaoist a fifty
cent case of Pape’s Diapepsin and take
a dose Just as soon as you can. There
will be no sour risings, no belching of
undigested food mixed with acid, no
stomach gas or heartburn, fullness or
heavy-feeling in the stomach, nausea.
mock severelty why he did not stay
to continue the fire.
“Sorry, sir, but the pigs knocked
my house down,” was the reply.
Antwerp, one of the four largest
ports in the world, is 53 miles from
tile sea.
GIRES! CLEAN AND BEAUTIFY HAIR
NO DANDRUFF —25 CENT BE
Stop washing hair! Try this!
Makes hair glossy, soft
and abundant.
Surely try a “Danderine Hair
Cleanse" if you wish to immediately
double the beauty of your hair. Just
moisten a cloth with Danderine and
draw it carefully through your hair,
tiiking one small strand at a time, this
will cleanse the hair of dust, dirt or
any excessive oil —in a few minutes
you will be amazed. Your hair will
be wavy, fluffy and abundant and
possess an incomparable softness,
War Will Cause
High Poultry Prices
Food values In many lines have already
advanced as the result of the European war.
Canada will need poultry to make up her short
age.
There will be a general increased demand
in this country, due to greater shipments of
meats to Europe. In fact, Europe will become
largely dependent on America for her food
supply, which fact will raise the prices of food
in general. Poultry foods will have to he re
lied on largely to ipake up the deficiency here.
It is really the poultryman’s opportunity. Read
next week’s article on the subject.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
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THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.
debilitating headaches, dizziness or
intestinal griping. This will all go,
and, besides, there will be no sour
food left over in th© stomach to poison
your breath with nauseous odors.
Pape's Diapepsin is a certain cure
for out-of-order stomachs, because it
takes hold of your food and digests it
just the same as if your stomach
wasn’t there.
Relief in five minutes from all stom
ach misery is waiting for you at any
drug store.
These large fifty-cent. cases contain
enough “Pape's Diapepsin” to keep the
entire family free from stomach disor
ders and indigestion for many months,
it belongs in your home.
WITHIN HIS RIGHTS.
Employe—Mr. Brown, I should like
to ask for a rise in my wages. I've
Just been married.
Employer—Very sorry, my dear man,
but for accidents to our employes out
side of the factory we are not respon
sible.—London Opinion.
lustre and luxuriance.
Besides beautifying the hair, one
application of Danderine dissolves
every particle of dandruff; invigorates
the scalp, stopping itching and fall
ing hair.
Danderine is to the hair what fresh
showers of rain and sunshine are to
vegetation. It goes right to the roots,
exhilarating, stimulating and life-pro
ducing properties cause the hair to
grow long, strong and beautiful.
You can surely have pretty, soft,
lustrous hair, and lots of It, If you
will Just get a 25-cent bottle of
Knowlton’s Danderine from any drug
store or toilet counter and try it as
directed.
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1— Augusta Made Articles
Will be on display in the prominent re
tail shop windows of Augusta during the
week of November 16-21.
It will be worth your while to inspect
carefully these displays. Familiarize your
self with Augusta Made Goods, and ask for
them in your future trading.
2 Trade at Home Week
The week of November 16-21 will be
Trade at Home week for the people of this
city. All organizations are endorsing the idea
and pledging their members to the principle of
Trade at Home.
What helps the manufacturers and Mer
chants of Augusta helps all the people of Au
gusta. It means bigger wages, more employ
ment, larger pay rolls, more prosperity for all
Augusta. ■ >
3 Augusta’s City Market
Demonstration
In order to encourage the farmers to
bring their country produce, poultry, etc., to
Augusta, to test out the demand for a city
market, The Herald will open up for the week
of November 16-21 on the 600 Block of Broad
street, headquarters for a City Market. No
charge will be made for its services. Farmers
who wish to avail themselves of the service of
the Headquarters are invited to do so without
cost to them of any kind, y <
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On Saturday, November 21, a cordial in
vitation is extended to all fanners in South
Carolina and Georgia to send wagons to the
Herald’s Open Air City Market, on the 500
and 600 Blocks of Broad street.
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The housekeepers of Augusta are invited
to visit Augusta’s Open Air Market on the 500
and 600 Blocks of Broad street on Saturday,
November 21, to make purchases and to give
orders for future supplies to the farmers of
this section who are ready and willing to sup
ply the housekeepers of Augusta. t
Make your plans to visit Augusta during
the week of November 16-21. , v
If you have anything to sell, you can sell
it in Augusta during the week of Nov. 16-21.
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Mr. Farmer, talk the plan over with your
and be represented with one or more
wagons at the Open Air City Market on the
500 and 600 Blocks of Broad street, Novem
ber 21st.
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Address for further particulars,
The Herald’s City Market
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AUGUSTA GEORGIA
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