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MONDAY DECEMBER 28
MIGHTY CHARGE
GIVING ALBERT
TO THEIIIIIES
Further Particulars of the
Magnificent Rout Accomplish
ed by the Chasseurs d’
Afrique.
Northern France. —X have just ob
tained further particulars of the mag
nificent charge by the Chasseurs de
Afrique by which the allies retained
possession of Albert. The Germans
attacked Albert time and again with
great feroicty. The busy industrial
town was reduced to a mass of ruins
by the bambardment.
In order to dislodge the enemy it
was found necessary to have recourse
to a vigorous counter attack. At the
same time great masses of German
cavalry were reported to be about
five miles from Albert.
The French staff sent forward a
regiment of chasseurs uc Afrique to
meet this cavalry body which proved
to be the Prussian Dragons of the
Guard. The Prussians were threaten
ing the French line of communication
with Aveiuy.
The gallant Chausseurs, mounted
upon their little Arab steeds, advanc
ed along the road to Becordel. From
this point 1 quote the words of a
Chausseur of the party, now in the
hospital:
Dead.
“We rode through a little wood. In
a ditch we saw the figure of a man
lying face downwards in such a natu
ral position that he looked as though
he was asleep. Two of us dismount
ed, and, o- turning him over, discov
ered him to be an Uhlan, who had
oeen hsot in the head at close quar
ters, and could not have been dead
long. We were puzzled, as none of
our people had been out in this di
rection. However, we left him there,
and followed on. We all felt as calm
as possible, and were eager to meas
ure our strength against the Dragons
of the Imper • 1 Guard. At a mile or
two from Las Basselle we made a
halt. Our colonel held a council of
war with his officers.
“Let us fire at them first, before
charging,” said the captain of the
third squadron, which was mine.
“No," replied the colonel, "our or
ders were exact,” and, drawing his
sword, he cried, “AUons, mes en
fants!”
“The colonel turned in his saddle,
looking at us all, and, rising in his
stirrups, waved his sword. It was a
gesture which might be regarded as
‘banal’ at manoeuvres, but on this oc
casion there seemed nothing out-of
place about it, as he shouted in a
voice of thunder:
“Escadrons, garde a vous, pour
charger, sabre main, au trot au galop
marche!”
The bugles sounded the charge, and
all the officers repeated the words of
command.
Splendid Spirit.
The spirit of all the men was splen
did. We all felt this was a supreme
moment. Off we w r ent. Our dear lit
tle mounts broke into a gallop of their
own accord. They seemed equally
with us to un'erstand what was afoot,
the drunkenness of battle was upon
us all.
“Rapidly the distance between us
and the foe was diminished; it was
not long before we came well into
sight of the enemy’s lines. It was a
solid, compact line, apparently mo
tionless, but which, nevertheless, was
advancing towqrd us at a walk, as
they felt certain of victory against
our onrushing torrent.
“We got close together and had our
horses well in hand. Our feet well in
our stirrups right up to the heel, our
spurs into the flanks of our mounts,
our swords grasped in our left hand,
our carbines in the right, we ap
proached rapidly. A great cry went
up. Charge!’ ‘Charge!”
"Who gave that cry?” All of us!
From every throat came the word,
from us all frantic hurrahs were ,
shouted as - e bore down upon the
enemy. Off went our carbines at the ,
same time; they were soon laid aside,
and we seized our swords from our ]
left hand. At ‘the thrust’ we charged,
side by side, into the living wall
which confronted us. Indescribable
cries, the clashing of steel upon
steel, the squealing of horses followed. ]
Then began the lust for slaughter, and
the groaning of the wounded.
The Struggle.
“In my turn I hacked at a beach
for myself and drove into the strug
gling, swaying mass, cutting right
and left, carried away by the turmoil,
helping with a mad frenzy my com
rades to mow down the enemy like
ripened corn. The Dragons of the
Guard fell around us, leaving many a
riderless horce, which tore here, there
and everywhere, adding to the confu
sion and panic amongst the enemy.
Like an avalanche we broke through
right to the rear of the German lines,
the Imperial Dragons crumpled up
before us, most of them galloped off,
the rest lay upon the ground dead and
wounded, while many a horse trotted
off, his head high in the air, with
bleeding flanks, carrying away the
limp figure of a motionless rider.
“Suddenly a rattle is heard; it is
the machine guns of the enemy open
ing fire upon us, and the German ar
tillery is seen coming into action. We
immediately broke out into open or
der, changing our front and at the
same time we heard the reply from
our own artillery beginning, whilst to
our left and right our infantry attack
was developing so rapidly that the
German artillery, fearing to be out
flanked, retired upon Gulllemont.
‘‘Since that day Albert has no lon
ger been bombarded, and when our
•plou pious’ pass by La Basselle they
say with enthusiasm:
“ ‘lt‘s Just here we ate up the Dra
gons of the Imperial Guard.’ ”
at JAUREZ MARCH 17TH.
Chicigo.—The date of the heavy
weight championship boxing contest
between Jack Johnson and Jess Wll
tard has been set for March 17th In
luarez, Mexico It was announced to
<ay by Willard's business represen
tatives. .
ARABIAN NIGHTS.
*What became of that lucky brother
of yours? He used to be a regular
Alatdin."
“Fe’s a sort of Aladdin still. He's
got \ Job with the railroad company
rubbfeg up lamps.
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Wants to Know What Has Become of
$135,000,000 Colton Loan For South
Peter Radford, National Lecturer of Farmers Union Gives
Interview. While Crop is Largest on Record. 2,000,000
Bales Will Be Left in Field By Discouraged Farmers.
Fort Worth, Tex. —Peter Radford, na
tional lecturer of the Farmers’ Union,
has given out an interview on the
$135,000,000 cotton holding plan, pres
enting the farmers’ viewpoint. Mr.
Radford wants to know what has be
come of the money and invites the co
operation of the business interests of
the nation in warehousing and finan
cing the cotton crops of the future.
“The government officially estimates
the 1914 cotton crops at 15,969,000 bales
This Is the largest production in the
history of the cotton industry,” said
Mr. Radford. “The 1911 crop held the
record to the presant year with a pro
duction of 15,690,701 bales. I estimate
we have atleast two million bales in the
field, much of it deserted by the dis
couraged farmer and will probably
never be gathered. The 1914 crop
also ranks among the largest In pro
duction per area, averaging 208
pounds pel- acre and reaches the low
water mark in prices. The price of
ficially estimated for the 1914 crop is
6 cents per pound against an aver
age price of 12 cents per pound in 1913
and a production of 182 pounds per
acre.
"The value of the 1914 crop Is six
cents less per pound or $480,000,000
less than the value of last year’s crop.
This is a greater financial blow to the
South than the freeing of the slaves and
It has sent millions of Southern farmer
and their families staggering down the
thoroughfares of proverty, but the
South is brave and can meet adversity.
When the war was over we beset our
swords into plowshares and we have
the courage and ability to transform a
calamity into a blessing.
“The Farmers’ Union asked Congress
to meet the emergency by lending
money on cotton so as to enablt poor
farmers to hold their crop, but the re-
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quest was rejected or rather modi
fied by the government agreeing to
Join with bankers in providing a
fund 0f5135,000,000 for lending on cot
ton. The anti-trust law had a special
construction placed upon it, the pat
riotism of bankers was appealed to and
headlines full of hope were flashed
across the columns of the leading news
papers of the nation for a few months,
but where is the money? ,No farmer
has ever seen a dollar of it. There is
nothing quite so destructive to those
in distress as false hope, and if this
movement which has been so persis
tently heralded to the world has failed,
we are entitled to know it.
“I want to call attention to the
fact that the farmer—the owner of the
property Involved—was never con
sulted in the transaction. The story
was told him as children are told the
story of Arabian Nights and the bed
time story of the rainbow with the pot
of gold, and it seems to be about the
same sort of literature. The farmers
were never taken into the confidence
or the councils of the business men
and the government officials engaged
in the transcation. Wo do not know
why.
Honest Effort to Help.
"It Is perhaps sufficient to say that
a business movement having for its
component parts the most powerful
forces on the American continent
made an honest and strenuous effort
to help the farmer and failed, and
the farmers of the South are now
drinking the bitter dregs of that fail
ure. Approximately three-fourths of
the cotton crop is now out of the
hands of the producer and the poor
farmer who most needed the money
has already squared accounts and has
begun the struggle to overcome the
deficit that has taken school books
from his children, shoes off his wife
and threatens the .shelter of his fam
ily, and It Is to his permanent relief
that the government and the business
men of the nation should now turn
their attention.
"There must he comprehensive plans
adopted for financing and warehous
ing the cotton crops of the future and
more nearly co-ordinating production
with consumption and a system of ru
ral credits and co-operative business
methods that will give the farmers
cheap money. It cannot be accom
plished by Interviews, resolutions and
speeches. It takes capital, farm prod
ucts, co-operation and legislation and
all these eeonomle elements arc avail
able and need only a master hand to
arrange them.
"Th proble mhas three factors: the
farmers, the business men and the
government, and If all three elements
will unite we can easily work out
plans for relief, and the organized far
mers of America are ready to do their
share.”
BWEET POTATO IN THROAT.
Atlanta, Ga.—As a result of a piece
of sweet potato lodging In her throat,
little Clara. Lovelady, baby daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ixrvelady, of
Carroll County, Is dead In a local san
itarium, where the child was brought
for treatment.
The baby, Just 15 months old, was
eating a piece of sweet potato when a
fragment got Into her windpipe. Local
doctors were unable to dislodge It and
the child wss brought to Atlanta. An
operation wu performed, but the t.'jy
failed to recover.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
STUDY IT OF.
WORK’JROBLEM
Joint Convention American As
sociation Labor Legislation
and National Conference on
Unemployment.
Philadelphia.—“ Workmen’s compen
sation" and "unemployment" were top
ics for discussion at the annual meet
ing here today of the American Asso
ciation for Labor Legislation and the
National Conference on Unemploy
ment. Some sessions of the two con
ventions will be held Jointly and many
prominent men were on the programs
for addresses. Congressman Daniel J.
McGilllcuddy of Maine has for hla
subject "The Need for a Workman’s
Compensation Act for Federal Em
ployes,” while John Mitchell, former
president of the United Mine Workers
of America, will read a paper on the
general subject of compensation. Oth
er speakers Include Henry R. Seager,
Columbia University; Chas. R. Hen
derson and Chas. R. Crane, Chicago.
A feature of tomorrow's session will
be reports by several investigators of
the American Association of Unem
ployment. who have been at work In
Oregon, Massachusetts, New Jersey,
Illinois, New York and Indiana study
ing the “out-of-work problem."
SLATON WANTS GEORGIA TO
HAVE OFFICIAL AUDITOR
Atlanta, Ga -Governor John M. Sla
ton Is urging that the state have an
official auditor, Just as any other
business Institution, inreply to a let
ter asking his opinion on enlarging the
powers of the governor, he wrote, in
part:
“I do not believe In any more power
being given any one official than Is
absolutely necessary for the discharge
of his duties.
"It would be unwise to offer the
governor the temptation to Interfere
with other departments of state who
is necessarily unfamiliar.
"The state of Georgia is practically
the only state which has no auditor.
This Is a serious handicap to the In
telligent administration of the state’s
affairs. An auditor could give thei
governor information as to the neces
sities of the state's Institutions and
those of the various departments and
would aid him In determining whether
warrants for money should be granted
and the size of those warrants.”
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JUNIOR INDOOR NATIONAL
CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES, N.Y.
Nsw York.—Athletes from Chicago,
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Wash
ington, Syracuse and a half dozen
other athletic centers throughout the
East will bo seen in action at the
Thirteenth Regiment Armory, Brook
lyn, tomorrow night, in tho Junior In
door National Championship games.
Yaltf, Princeton, Dartmouth, Penn
sylvania, Columbia, Syracuse and Col
by are some of the colleges which will
send men hero to try for a champion
ship title.
The two-mllrt run should prove the
feature event of the games, with such
men as LaFuna, of Philadelphia',
Weeks of Boston; I.emberg of Brook
lyn and Fogel and Flynn, of New York
In the running.
WILKES COUNTY EAGLE.
Atlanta, Ga. —A Washington, Ga...
visitor brings the story that a Wilkes
County negro last week was attacked
by an enormous eagle which made at
the negro as though about to carry
him off.
The negro, who was hunting, was
armed with a shotgun, and brought
down the bird, which measured nine
feet from tip to tip.
A thought for today.—Some honeyed
words come in the natural oomb, but
most are strained.
"Did your barber shut up Sunday?"
‘No; he merely closed his shop.”—
Indianapolis Star.
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25 pounds Granulated
Sugar.. .. *1 40
Arbuckle’s Coffee, ground,
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Irish Potatoes, good and
mealy, per peck .. .. ~25 f :
15 bars Lenox Soap 50 (
Best Sugar Corn, 3 cans .. 25*3
Best 3-lb. Tomatoes, 3 cans 25 f -’
3 cans Libby's Pork and
Beans .. .. 250
3 packages Blue Blbbon
Mince Meat •250
Brown-Bye and Black-Bye
Peas, 2 quarts .. 250
Lady Peas, per quart .. .. 150
Cranberries, per quart .. 100
3 quarts for 250
Van Camp's tall cans Cream,
« for 500
Pli.e lot Celery, White Let
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Beans, Spinach; in fact, v go
tables t o numerous to mention;
at reasonable prices.
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