i??ir?. neiueu. Mcuratn, one ol two women letter curriers employed in WHatilngton. delivering her first letter. ??Wreck of a Uerrnan concrete shelter after the British guns had found It. 3?New photograph of aome of the KhmUd women of the Battalion of Death, which tried to defend the Winter palace against the attacks of the Maxl nallst rebels. OUTPOST DOGS ABE USEFUL TO THE ALLIES < O ' ? ' Far Deyond th<- first line trenches of the tilled forces these (logs with their keen sense of hearing stand guard. Long before the aoMlers In the trenches hear the slightest sound the dogs detect the Germans crawling across the ?tretch of "No Man's Land" that lies between the trenches. When tliey hear a Boche making his way toward their i Maters tlrey do not bark, for that would alarm the Germans, Instead they grcmUMt* nji ImIf Wanes up 011 their 1 lacks as a warning to the man at the "listening post" to be'on his guard. v,j '? | NEW DESTROYER PLANT IS OPENED The Fore Hirer shipyard having received large orders from the United , Mate* government for the construction of warships. merchant ships, and ?Pores of torpedo boat destroyer*. It has been found necessary to enlarge the plant and they have therefore taken the old government aviation field at ?quantum and are turning It Into a huge shipbuilding yard at the coat of $*000,000. Photograph ahows the Stars and Strlpea being ralSed at the new yard. Naval men and thousands of employee* took part In the ceremonies. DEFENDING ENGLAND AGAINST RAIDERS i Thin maaalre dlrtgllile Walloon la hut one of the irrCHt number of Mlmilnr crmft guarding the inaatH of Great Britain from attneka hy Zeppelin* and Oarraan alrplanna. At the left la Kleld Marahal Sir John French, at the heaJ ft the BrltUh koine dcfi-nae force*. SAVED BY HIS PARACHUTE Karl/ In the battle of Meuln rood. Id Dander*, a British observation bal loon and Its observer (rot Into serious difficulties. The observer, to escape Injury, chanced his life In the para- 1 chute. This British official photograph shows how the parachute carried him to safetj la a tree-top. The observer let himself down from his precarious position by means of the parachute ' ropes, which enabled him to reach an other truncated tree." Met the Coal Dealer. The Lady Reporter?How did you happen to lose the lightweight cham pionship? Kid McSwat?Tou see, It wan thla way, lady. I was outttn' down all comer* easy anil then my manager matched me with a coal dealer. Military Command*. Nervous Subaltern (endeavoring to explain the mysteries of drill)?Form ing fours. When the aquad wlshea to form four*. tl>* even natnbera tak*? Sergeant Ma)or (Inrerniptlng)?Aa you were) A squad of recruits never ?rlaher to do nothing, ?lr I?1-unch. CITY KITCHEN STOPS WASTE I Vagetablea Received at New York War In Broken Crate* Are Being Utlllied. * Kew Tor*.?Vf|?UWM received on rtMeaablp and railroad pier* In broken CTatr* or Imperfect container* her* am being utilised by the new city caaalof and drying kitchen u one of th? many method* adapted by the New Tart Otjr food aid eonmlttee to pra nat waate la food rappllea. The | kltrhen, located In an East aid* public school. purchased at bargain prices TO j cases of cabbage and huudreds of bar I rets of potato**, beeta, beaoa and food stuffs reaching here last week, which were wasted because of Imperfect packing. r?r the preseat the kltrhen will be operated eight hours dally, but later the time will b* doubled. Par Convalescent Soldiers. Washington. ? Convaleaceut homes for aoldlera are being built rft fort I MeFhersoD and Port Oglethorpe, Ga.. by the Ilrd Crou war council The**, are for the us* of men who mar fall 111 Id the training camp*, and who are able to leave the hoapltal but not yet able for duty. Amuaeinent and rec reation will be provided. The Same Thing. "Uarama." aald (We-year-old Paot, "la tbrra a country of Lard and what Kind of a flag haa It?" "No, there lan't," aald Ma mother. He thought a minute and aald: "Mamma. It waan'i Lard at all; It waa Ureeca." ? . ' ..I CENTRAL HOTEL FOR OCI? U ?7 'I ? I Twchirt' Assembly Will Hm Entlro Nmi Hotel at Their Oltpool' Accommodations Par All. Charlotte?Ths local entertainment committee for the Teachara' Assem bly baa arranged wtth the manage- ; ?ant of the Central Hotel to have tin. . hotel thrown open Monday, November I 2?, tor tha apeclal beneflt of the Teach- . ers' Assembly Thla will relieve all 1 doubt aa to the Inability 'of the Char lotte hotels to accommodate vlaKlnf school men who will be In attendance upon the Teachers' Assembly. The Central hotel has been remod eled Inside and out, and has bee> handsomely furnished throughout with mahogany and Clrcaaalan walnut. Telephones and hot and cold water have been tnatalled. It la strictly a modern hotsl In every respect. An Information and Registration Bureau will be opened In the lobby of ths Central and It will be sonsldered ons of the asselnbly headquarters. The local oommKtee are very greatly re lieved because of this arrangement. The school men over the state need feel no apprehension as to accommo dations while la Charlotte. The new management of the Control hotel will observe the same rates as advertised In the program. The Central will compare favorably wtth any hotel In the city and reflects great credit upon Charlotte. It Is now expected that ths Teachers' Assembly In Charlotte will break all records as to attendance. The other hotels in the city also are arranging to tfcke care of a largo number of school men Everything Is in readiness In Char lotte for the Teachers' Assembly and a great meeting Is expected. Copies of the program for the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly have been issued from Raleigh. General sessions, In which all the teachers will take part, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock, Wednesday evening at 8:30 o'clock, Thursday at noon, Thursday evening at 8:30 o'clock. Friday noon and Fri day evening. These sessions will bs held In the First Baptist church. Separate conferences will be held dally of the followtng organizations ?nd branches of the teachers' assem bly: Primary teachers, grammar grade teachers and superintendents, asso ciation of -county superintendents, as sociation of city schools, association of hlgl\ school principals snd teach ers. association of city high school principals and teachers, department of higher education, department of agriculture and home economic work agrloultural workers and the home economic workers, ' department of school boards. North Carolina Music Teachers' Association, and a meeting of community workers. Seeking Co-Operation. Raleigh.?The Mnsportatlon com mittee of the North Carolina council of defense. Col. Benehan Cameron, chairman. Is Issuing an appeal to the people of the state for extraordinary co-operation of shippers and railroad managements In the use of all freight cars that are available to their utmost capacity and on the fastest schedules to overcome the extraordinary de mands that are being made for the movement of supplies for civil and military purposes. The appeal serts oat that a set of simple rules already being observed to some extent and likely to be very generally put In operation has already given a large degree of. relief with far greater relief promised when the rules become generally observed. All ship- j pers are urged to pur??iase from the nearest markets, be prepared to store the largest car load deliveries; group order* to carload lots when a single order Is not that much; and promptly I unload cars as they will stand Idle the least Mt of time possible. The railroad authorities are urged to load heavyweight freight to 10 per cent In excess of marked capacity of , cars and pack lightweight shipments to the closest space Qroup small ship- I ments for carload transportation and handle cars on fastest possible sched- ! ules with prompt placing of cars for unloading and use most direct routes In all shipments. NORTH CAROLINA BRISKS." The French army officers stationed at Camp Greene visited In Stateavflle tills week. Robeson and Cumberland counties were among the many that went "over the top" In the Y. M. C A. campaign. ExOovernor Locke Craig, who has been critically III at his home In Ashe ville, has plowly but surely improved and his physicians state now that un less some unforeseen setback occurs ? his recovery Is assured. North Carolina's death rate for the past year wm 13 deaths per thonssind j population, compared with 13.8 for the previous year. There waa very little change In the birth rite. This Is the announcement just made by the State board of health after compilation of 'the health statistics from every quar ter of the atate. The deaths In the state for the past year were 1131. of which 18.714 were white people and 11,657 negroes, The negro death rate Is six points higher than the death rate of the white people. That (s, the death rate of the nfegroes Is 17, and that of the white 11.1. The agttcuituml extension service of the State College of Agriculture and Engtpeering Is launching a cam paign for the utllltation ol waste wood In wood lots throughout the state, es pecially where located in reach of towna. both aa a profitable saving of valoahle material otherwise gonig to waate and aa a means of reducing tha demand for coal, which is proving to be ao scarce and high priced The conservation of a vast quan tity of aoft Henderson county corn lad the making of pork more plenti ful. I* the dual mlaaion to be served in 'he Importation of 1? Keytuc^y hog*. MdmonalI SliNBSfSQWOL Lesson (By RIV B. B. BUTCL1FFE. Extension Department Moody Bible Institute.) (Copyright. 1*17. Wee tern Newspaper Union) LESSON FOR DECEMBER 2 NCHEMIAH BUILDS THf WALL OF JERUSALEM. * LESSON TEXT?Nehemlah ?:T-H. QOLDEN TEXT?The Lord I. my Helper and I will not f*a r what man ?hall de unto me.?Hebrewa ll:?. The lesson of November 18 (poke of i Nehemlab Journeying to Jeruaalem. After his arrival he spent three days In looking over the work; then he told the prlerita and other leaders his , plans. Enthusiasm was awakened, all dames were aroused, the work of the building of the wall of the city was apportioned among the people, and , soon half of the wall was completed "for the people had a mind to work." I. The Wrath of the Enemy, vv. 7-fl. The progress of the work kept up the anger of Sanballat the Horonlte and his friends whe formed an alli ance to hinder the wall being built (w. 7, 8). When God begins to work through his people, Satan la aroused and tries to-lnterfere. It Is no sign that a Christian Is out of the will . of Clod when opposition Is felt The enemy will always be on hand to try i to hinder whenever a renl work for j God 1a going forward. Dead formal , Christianity runs smoothly 4nd with ! deadly monotony and Satan lets it alone, but as soon ns some results of reul work are seen, opposition la at once felt. Thus It was when God t sent his Bon Into the world, and so j It has been In every movement for ' , God In the church, and so It will be I In the Indlvldunl Christian life. From j the next verse (9) we would almost think that Nehemlsh had heard our Lord's Injunction to "watch and pray." Mnny do much watching and fall; many do much praying and fall; but none eter turns to watching and pray ing without finding victory. Prayer alone menns sloth; watching alone ' means pijde; but watching and pray-' J Ing victory. II. Internal Opposition, w. iv-u. Sanballat and his friend" were not the only ones Nehemlah had to cqn tend with. Among those that worked on the wall were some shirkers and ' grumblers. They had become discour aged In the work and began to say , they could never complete It (v. 10). . If 8At*n fairs" to hinder tfie work from the outside, he will attempt to create dissatisfaction on the Inside. Internal confusion of the church Is more to be dreaded than open opposi tion from a known enemy. Dissension and confusion In the church can usu ally be traced to workers becoming dis couraged. The plot of the enemy to make a surprise attack was dis covered by the Jews who lived out side the city. They reported it not once, but ten times, with the sugges tion that the work on the wall be stopped, and safety sought by leav ing the city altogether (vv. 11. 12). When the enemy's open opposition falls and discouragement has been; tried, an attempt Is made to bring fear | upon the workers. But the Bible Is j full of exhortations for Christians to "fear not." Could these workers on the walls of Jerusalem have seen the unseen. It would have made little dlf-, ferences to them whether the enemies were numbered by tens or thousands, and could Christians today realize that Ood Is for them, all opposition would be as nothing. (I Cor. 10:13; Rom. 8:31; Phil. 4:13). Nehemlah at once proceeded to allay the fears (13, 14). Armed forces were arranged about the walla to guard .ncnlnxt the reported surprise attack. The warri ors were placed so that In the event of battle tliey would he protecting their own particular families. Then Nehemlah made a short-speech of en couragement to the people, the heart i of which wjs3 "Itememher the Lord , which Is great and terrible." Remem bering him would drive the fear away, i They who arc on the Lord's side are' already victors even before the bat tle has begun. Someone said to a great general before a certain bat tle began: "I hope the Lord Is on our side." The reply was: "I trust we are on the Lord's side." When this Is true, there need be no fear whether the enemies be few or many. Nehe mlah then exhorted them to light for their families and their homes. This two-fold secret of the victory is pre sented to us over and over In this book of Nehemlah. and nowhere Is so prom inent ??. In thU^Ur^s- Victory for the Christian depends on two things: We must trust In the Lord as though all depended on him,, and we must work and light as though all depended on us. This Is the secret of the suc cess of Nehemlsh. 'HI. Ths Progress of the Work, (w. 18-21). The speech of Nehemlah hav ing quieted the fears of the people and the enemy having heard that their plans were known and that Ood bad hrcifht their counsel to nought, all the ptn/ple returned to the work with renewed enthusiasm and purpose (IS). There was a rearrangement of forces (16-21). Half of the people worked; half, full armed, stood guard. A trum peter was beside Nehemlah. so that at the first alarm from outside all the workers and warriors could be called to the threatened spot. Then, after all was done that cotrtd be done In the way of protection, they went ahead with the building of the wall, encour aged with the word of their lender "Our Ood shall fight for us." So the Christian Is going ahead In spite *"? , . i4