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DRAWING FRIDAY A SUCCESS. Draft Was Carried Out With Virtual ly Perfect Results. One Missing Number Out of 10,500 Later Discov ered to be 4,661. Tally Sheets Had Been Compared and Corrected and Master List Put in Hands of the Printer Saturday Night. Despite the fact that officers and clerks of Provost Marshal General Crowder's office worked all Friday night to complete the drawing that fixed the order of military liability of 10,000,000 registrants, the tally sheets had been compared and corrected be fore dark Saturday night and the master list was in the hands of the printer, says a Washington dispatch in Sunday's daily papers. General Crowder issued the fol lowing statement: "The drawing is complete and has been apparently successful. The offi cial tally sheets have been compared, sent to the printer and the proof is being received. Final copies will be ready for distribution not later than Tuesday. "The next step will be the certifi cation of the results of the drawing to 4,557 local boards, and the applica tion by each board of its chart to its serially numbered list. This need consume but little time, and when done, the order of priority of the nearly ten million registrants to re port for examination will be revealed. Such additional drafts as may be or dered by the President will be filled by calling men in the order of their established priority and no further drawing will be necessary. Each local board upon receipt of its chart, and upon notification by the governor of the quota to be raised by it, may proceed at once under regulations al ready promulgated, to summon men for examination. "I cannot let this opportunity pass without adverting to the very great value of the assistance which has been so earnestly and efficiently ren dered by the press. "Without the systematic campaign of public information that prepared the country for registration, the en rollment of ten million men on the fifth day of June would have been im possible. The generous support of the newspapers through the period since registration day is approached, and only the most thorough efficiency could have placed upon the streets, within a few hours after the first number was drawn, lists for each reg istration district, showing the names of the persons who would be sum moned for examination on the first call of the local boards." General Crowder also, made public the text of the regulations for theii application which will accompany the master lists. The only new feature shown is the plan for handling cards that are found to have duplicate num bers or are otherwise confused, and also of dealing with those received July 10 when the local boards closed their lists to begin numbering. By the plan worked out, these ad ditional cards will be given an order of their own by lot and will then be added to the lists of the districts from which they come and be affected by the drawing precisely as though they had been received and numbered before the lists were closed. Where several cards bear the same serial number, one will be drawn from the group, and retain the duplicated nnm ber, while the others will be regarded as unnumbered and the process of ad ding them to the lists will be followed. Power of Big Guns. Popular Science Monthly. It is not easy to tinderstand what the power of a pun really is ? its penetrating and destructive power. What we call a 15-inch gun ? which means one whose muzzle or hollow part is 15 inches in diameter ? will hurl a shell right through a plate or wall of the hardest steel twelve inches thick seven miles from the muzzle. The power of the very largest land guns ever made ? the German howit zers or 16.5-inch guns ? is such that one of their missiles cracks open a steel and concrete fort as if it were a nut. There are two classes of guns ? naval guns and army or land guns. Because they can be manipulated more easily than those of a ship, land guns are the heavier. From 8 to 10 miles is the greatest distance that a gunner can cover successfully at sea. The largest naval pun is the 15-inch English gun on the famous superdreadnoughts, and the largest land gun is the German howitzer. Of the two the nnval gun fires a shell weighing over half a ton, while the other -fires a projectile a ton in weight. But the new giant 16-inch guns of the United States, defending the Panama Canal and New York at Sandy Hook, shot projectiles weigh ing 2,370 pounds, which is over a ton. These immense steel guns can sink a ship before it has really come into sight on the horizon, the loca tion of the battleship having been determined by airplane or tower. ALASKA HAS MUCH COAL. Now Is the Time to Make Use of Inexhaustible Field. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer.) Responding to the statement that the United States will require 15,000, 000 tons of coal a year for naval pur poses; which Secretary Daniels re cently made, the answer of Alaska is: "We have the coal; com cand get it." The fact is that one of the wisest measures made f .?r the war, as is now demonstrated, was the provision for the construction of the railroad to the Matanuska coal fields. That was a great national project of prepared ness, the value of which will be fully appreciated if the Government fol lows the work promptly and lends ev ery possible assistance toward getting the Matanuska field opened up to the largest possible production. The coal from that field will meet the highest requirements of the navy. There is an inexhaustible quantity of it. The quicker the road is complet ed, the mines opened and the coal be ing moved to deep water the better. The Government has been paying extravagant prices to have coal trans ported from the Atlantic to the Pa cific for the use of the fleet in Pa cific waters, diverting to this purpose much tonnage which is needed great ly on every sea. It is an unnecessary expenditure and an unnecessary di vision of toftnage. The coal is in Alas ka; it can be reached by the railroads; it can be opened when terms are made with people who will lease and open the properties if given a chance to do so; or the Government might open mines for naval uses. As a military measure there are few things which would be of greater value to the country at this time than the opening of the Alaska coal fields to^immcdiate use. The navy needs ; the coal. The country needs the coal. Why not go and get it? Big-Scale Thinking. i War with all its horrors is a great [ quickener of men's minds. In ordina . ry times most men live in a small > world of purely personal interests. . Like the little husband in Mother > Goose's rhyme, they spend their days ! beating their own little drums in | their own little pint cups. ? But a world at war forces us all to , lengthen the radius of our thinking. ; Our horizon comes suddenly to rim . the whole earth and to include the i interests of all mankind. For instance, the people of North ; Carolina loaned the United States nine million four hundred thousand : dollars the other day, and took Lib ? erty Loan bonds as collateral. > It is nearly as much as the total . capital stock of all the banks of the i State; nearly half as much as the . bank account savings in North Caro | line in banks of every sort. | It is nearly three times as much as [ the money voted by the legislature to enlarge the buildings and increase the equipments of the educational and charitable institutions of the State. In February North Carolina decided to borrow three and a half million dollars for these purposes, and we were staggered at the total. Four months later we loaned the Federal government nine and a half million dollars, and never batted an eyelid! We are living in an immensely en larged world these days. ? University News Letter. Words and Stones. The home that George Meredith had built for himself was rather small, though it was extremely com fortable. "It's strange," remarked a lady visitor, "in your books you de scribe huge castles and baronial halls, ' but when you come to build you put up a little house like this. Why is ' it?" "Well," replied the author with a twinkle in his eye, "the reason is be cause words are cheaper than stones." ? Boston Transcript. Commander Rirley McLtin. GENERAL ENOCH II. CHOWDER. Short Sketch of Man Who Has Had Charge of Putting the Selective Draft '.Man Into Operation. Provost Marshal I'nited States Army. One of the army officers now most prominently before the public is the Provost Marshal, General Crowder. Enoch Herbert Crowder was born in Missouri in 185i>. His home is Kansas City, Mo., though he has little time to stay there. He is unmarried. He graduated at the United State* Military Academy in 1881. While from time he left West Point down to the present ling. Gen. Crow der has specialized in law, he ha.> had a varied career. He was gradu ated from West Point as a lieutenant of cavalry in 1881, and after several years' service on the Mexican border GEN. E. H. CROWDER he wont to the University of Missou ri in his native State as professor of military science and tactics. With the exception of a scouting expedition in to Mexico he was at the University of Missouri until 188C, leaving with a law degree. He was judge advocate in the l>e partment of the Platte in 1891, be came a major in 1895 and lieutenant colonel and judge advocate in 1M>8. In 1899 he was appointed lieutenant colonel of the Thirty-ninth Volunteer Infantry, but shortly afterward went back to the staff work. He was engaged in much important work in the Philippines in the t irly days of the American occupation He was a member of the commission which arranged for the surrender of Manila and of the Spanish Army and later was military secretary and le gal adviser to the governor. In this position he took an important part in the revision of the laws of the isl ands. Later he was an associate jus tice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. In 1903 he went to Manchut t as a military observer and was with Kur oki's army for a year. At this time he was sent to Cuba in 190?>. where he became head of the? department of State and justice and also head of an advisory council which < irried thi-ough the tremendous task of re vising the old laws of the island to eliminate the conflicts with th ? new constitution of the young republic. Gen. Crowder was a deh ite to the Fourth Pan American ('< tigress. He was made brigadier gen ral and Judge Advocate General in 1911. When the selective draft law was passed he was the natural : election for the mighty job of working the machinery for raising the great Na tional Army. He was given the title of Provost Marshal General. Lighting the Capitol Dome. Literary Digest. The old method of illuminating was to make the illuminated objects sources of light ? to cover them with lamps or to install great search lights upon them. This illuminates the surrounding region rather than the object that it is desired to make conspicuous. The later way is better ? to place the lights outside of the ob ject and so direct their rays upon it that it will shine in glory while the sources of illumination are hidden. This is the method now used to illum inate the Capitol dome at Washing ton. Says a writer in The Electrical Review and Western Electrician (Chi cago, June 2): "Against the somber shadows of night, at this critical moment in our history, the inspiring white dome of our Capitol at Washington, high above the Federal City, stands re splendent in rays of shining light ? a radiant monument to freedom and de mocracy. The plans for illuminating the Capitol dome were perfected for the recent inauguration of Presi dent Wilson, and the spectacular re sults were so satisfactory that the system has been made permanent. "Flood-lighting was the method used to illuminate the great dome, which is 135 feet in diameter at the base, 218 feet high above the roof, and is surmounted by a bronze statue of 'Freedom.' Eighty-four projectors, each one equipped with a 400-watt 1: nip, were used. These projectors were placed in four banks, located about two hundred feet from the dome, on the corners of the House and Senate wings. By placing the projec tors in these positions it was possible to throw the light from different di rections on the thirty-six columns at the base (representing the thirty six States in the Union at the time the Capitol was designed), and thus eliminate excessively dense shadows. Some shadows are desirable to bring out the architectural beauty, but if the shadows arc too pronounced they , become objectionable. "The building proper was also lighted to a low intensity, to form a setting for the dome and to relieve the contrast between a very light dome and a dark building. The tuild ing is about 750 feet long and 250 feet wide. The central portion, or main building is of sandstone painted white, and the House and Senato wings at the ends are of white marble. Surrounding the building on three sides is a wide concourse bounded by a parparet. Thirty-four flood-lighting projectors, each equipped with a 400 watt flood-lighting lamp, were moun |ed on the ornamental posts that aro Like a Boy at 50 Bubbling Over With Vitality ? Taking Iron Did It Doctor says Nuxated Iron is greatest of all strength builders. Often increases the strength and endurance of delicate, nervous folks 100 per cent, in two weeks' time. New York. N. Y. ? Not louts ago a man came to me who wan nearly half a century old and asked me to give him a preliminary examination for life Insur ance. I was astonished to find htm with the blood pressure of a l>oy of 'JO and A3 full of vigor, vim and vitality as a young man: In fact, a young man ho really was notwithstanding his age. The secret he said was taking iron ? Nuxated Iron had filled him with renewed life. At 30 ho was In liad health; at 4 '1 he was careworn and nearly all In. Now at 60, after taking Nuxatcd Iron, a mir acle of vitality and his face beaming with the buoyancy of youth. As 1 have Bald a hundred times over. Iron Is the Kreutest of all strength builders. If people would only take Nuxated Iron When they feel weak or run down, In stead of dosing theiOMlVM with habit forming drugs, stimulants and alcoholic beverages I am convinced that In this way tbey could ward off disease, pre venting It becoming organic in thou sands of cases, and thereby the lives of thousands might be saved who now die every year from pneumonia, grippe, kidney, liver, heart trouble and other dangerous maladies. The real and true cause which started their dlWUM w is nothing more nor less than a weakened condition hrouglit on by lack of iron In the blood. Iron is absolutely neces sary to enable your blood to change food Into living tissue. Without It, no mat ter how much or what you eat, your food merely passes through you without doing you any good. You don't get the strength out of It, and as a consequence you become weak, pal.i and sickly look ing, Just like a plant trying to grow in a soil deficient In iron. If you are not Strong or well, you owe it to yourself to make the following teat: See bow lone yop can work or how fnr you ran walk without becoming tired. Next take two Ave- grain tablets of ordinary Nu* ated Iron three times per day after meals for two weeks. Ttten tost your strength n^ain and see for yourself how much you have pained. I have seen dozens of nervous, run-down people who vera iJIInK all the while double their strength a'ld endurance nnd entirely Ret rid of all symptoms of dyspepsia, liver and other troubles In from ten to four teen days' time simply by taking Iron in the proper form. And this after they bad In some caws been doctoring for months without obtaining any benefit. Hut don't take the old forms of reduced Iron, Iron acetate or tincture of iron simply to save a few cents. You must take iron In a form that can be easily absorbed and assimilated like Nuxated Iron if you wa*it It to do you any good, otherwise it may prove worse than use less. Many an athlete or prizefighter has won the day simply because be knew the secret of great strength '\nd endurance and filled his blood with iron b^foro be went into the affray, while many another bas gone down to Inglori ous defeat simply for the lack of iron. ? E. Pauer. M l). NOTE Xtnated Iron recommended above hv Pr K Siiucr, In on* of the newer ors.inlc Iron rom ?KHinrts t'nlike til* older Inorganic iron prndTKM 11 la easily aaalmllated. doen not Injure the teeth imiko them hlark. nor upset the atomach ; on the contrary. It la a most potent remedy. In nearly all forma of Imtlgentlon. as well na for nervniiv run down condition* The Manufnrturera have anrh (rrenl confidence In Nuxated Iron that they offer to f< rfell $ 1 00. 00 to any charllahle iuatltutlm If they canm< take any man or woman under flfl nho larka Iroi and Increase their atrength 101) per eent or over In four weeka' time provided they have no aerloua or khoIc trouble. They alao offer to refund your mrvney if It does not at leant double >otir strength and en durance In ten daya' time. It la dlapenaed In thl< city by all good drugglata. HOOD BROS., Smithfield, N. C. CREECH DRUG CO., Smithficld, N. C. placed on this parparet. These posts were originally designed to take large opal globes. Most of these globes were removed and blocks of treated wood were placed in the fit i ters to which the projectors were bolt ! ed. "This illumination has attracted a great deal of attention and favorable comment not only from residents of Washington, but from the thousands of visitors from all parts of the country and from abroad." STRANGE MEATS PERMITTED. Portland Opens Markets To New Supplies. Jackass, mule, donkey, burro and horse meat may now be sold in Port land meat markets. The City Council has adopted an ordinance providing for the regulation of their sale. The meat must be plainly labeled with letters at least one inch high, and must be inspected by the regular meat inspectors of the city. As adopted, the ordinance says Dobbin and Billy and Maud, before being sold to the housewife, must un dergo thorough inspection and be la beled "horse," "mule," "goat" or "jackass," as the case may be. The first horse meat market has been opened and the first shipment of 22 wild range mustangs, rounded up by Indians in Eastern Oregon, has been received, with more to follow if the demand is sufficient. The butchev says he is able to cut meat prices in two and his quotations for horse flesh range from 4 cents a pound for soup cuts to 12 V& cents for T-bone steaks. ? Portland (Ore.) Correspondence of New York World. WANTED AT ONCE. Man to log saw mill, four miles north of Selma. Timber stands thick and long bodied. Will sell two carts and let him work them out. Will pay $3.00 per thousand feet one-half mile. See me at once. G. LESTER MASSENGILL. Four Oaks, N. C. Books at Bargain Prices We have a few books, slightly Shelf worn, which we are offering at prices that should be attractive. Any book in the following list for I 15 Cent?, or 4 for 50 Cents The Boy Scouts with the Motion Picture Players. The Boy Scouts of the Flying Squad ron. The Boy Scouts with the Geological Survey. Wallingford, by Chester. Trolley Folly, by Phillips. The Motormaniacs, by Osborne. Chimes from a Jester's Bell. Four in Family. The Fifth String, by Sousa. Eccentric Mr. Clark. Four Years of Fighting. Flower Fables, by Alcott. Camping Out, by Stephens. Wood's Natural History. The Water Babies, by Kingslev. Greek Heroes, by Kingsley. Coming Back with the Spitball. Poor Boys' Chances, by John H*b berton. The Young Editor. V Frank's Campaign, by Alger. Folly in Fairyland, by Carolyn Wella. Hospital Sketches by Alcott Adventures in Frozen Seas. Left on Labrador. Merle's Crusade by Carey The Boy Geologists. .. .by Houston. Story of John G. Paton. The Story of Livingstone. The War Lords. Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles. A Book of Golden Deeds. Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger. Moods by Mrs. Alcot Charlie Codman's Cruise. See Kings and Naval Heroes. Friends Though Divided Henty. The Lion of St. Mark Henty. Through the Fray Henty. Endurance Test; or How Clear Grit Won the Day. - a Under Canvas; or The Hunt for th? Cartaret Ghost. Elsie Dinsmore. (3 copies). Her Senator, by Gunter. Under Two Flags, by Onida. The Rivals of the Trail. Chums of the Campfire. The Chouans, by Balzac. Hans Brinker; or the Silver Skate*. Mr. Potter of Texas, by Gunter. The Schonberg-Cotta Family. Larry Dexter in Belgium. Larry Dexter and the Stolen Boy. Tales From Shakespeare. Dora Thorne, by Braeme. The First Violin. These Books Are Great Bargains THE HERALD BOOK STORE Smithfield, N. C.
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