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RUB-MY-TIBM-Antiseptic, Re lieves Rheumatism, Sprains, Neu ralgia, etc. Development of the Economic League of Nations for after the war makes it appear as if it would have been economical for Germany not to have started the big noise. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. OUTWITTING A/licutcnant Iran d- PAT O'BRIEN- TO 'CjtM, b/mrALM OBR/£tr IKiMiSS BYNOPBIS. CHAPTER I—lntroductory. Pat O'Brien tells of Ills purpose In writing the story of his adventures. CHAPTER ll—Tells of his enlistment In the Royal Flying corps, his training In Canada and his transfer to France for ac tive duty. CHAPTER lll—Describes fights in which he brought down two German airplanes and his final fight In which lie was brought down wounded within the Ger man lines and was made a prisoner of war. CHAPTER IV— Discovers that German hospital staff barbarously neglected the fatally wounded and devoted their ener gies to restoring those who might be returned to the firing lines. Witnesses death In fight of his best chum. Lieut. Paul Kainey. V r CHAPTER V—He Is taken to the of ficers' prison camp at Courtral. There he began planning his escape. By great sac rifice he manages to save and hide away two dally rations of bread. CHAPTER Vl—He confiscates a map of Germany and Just half an hour later is f>ut on a train bound for a prison camp n Germany. He leaps through a window while the irain is traveling at a rtie of 34 miles an hour. CHAPTER Vll—For nine days he crawls through Germany, hiding during the day, traveling at night, guided by the stars and subsisting on raw vegetables. He covers 75 miles Defore reaching Lux emburg. CHAPTER VIII—For nine days more ho struggles on in a weakened condition through Luxemburg In the direction of iielgium. CHAPTER XX—He endures terrible hardships, swims rivers while delirious from hunger, living like a hunted animal and on the eighteenth day after jumping from the train he crosses into Belgium. CHAPTER X-When well on his way through Belgium he Is befriended one night by a Flemish peasant, who feeds him and directs him to a man in a Bel gian city who will help him to get a pass port. CHAPTER Xl—By mingling with Bel gian peasants he manages to elude Ger man soldiers and reaches the Belgian city where he finds the home of the man from whom he expects help. CHAPTER Xll—Huyliger forges t a pass f)ort for O'Brien and promises to assist ilm In getting Into Holland. l.ater Huy liger and his associates demand an ex orbitant sum for their services and O'Brien breaks with them. CHAPTER XIII—He spends five days and nights In an unoccupied house with out food except for the scraps he picks up In night forays. When I was nof at the keyhole of the door I spent most of my day on the top floor In a room which looked out on the street. By keeping well away from the Window I could see much of what was going on without being seen myself. In my restlessness, I used to walk back and forth In that room and I kept It up so constantly that I believe I must have worn a path la the floor. It was nine steps from one wall to the other, and as I had little else to amuse me I fig ured out one day after I had been pacing up and down for several hours Just how much distance I would have covered on my way to Holland If my footsteps had been taken In that direc tion Instead of Just up and down that old room. I was very much surprised to flnd that In three hours I crossed the room no less than 5,000 times and the distance covered waß between nine and ten'miles. It was not very grutl fylng to realize that after walking all that distance I wasn't a step nearer my goal than when I started, but I had to do something while waiting for Huy lfger to help me, and pacing up and down was a natural outlet for my restlessness While looking ant of the top floor window one day, I noticed a cat on a window ledge of the house across the street. I had a nice piece of a broken mirror which I had picked up In the house and I used It to amuse myself for an hour at a time shining It in the cat's eyes across the street. At first the animal was annoyed by the reflec tion and would move away, only to come back a few moments later. By and by, however, If seemed to get used to the glare and wouldn't budge no muttev how strong the sunlight was. Playing with the cat In this way got me into the habit of watching her comings and goings and was Indi rectly the means of my getting food n day or two later —at a time when I was so famished that I was ready to do almost anything to appease my hunger. It was about 7 o'clock In the even ing. I was expecting Huyliger at 8, but I hadn't the slightest hope that he would bring me food, as be had told me that he wouldn't take the risk of having food in his possession when calling on me. I was standing at the window In such a way that I could seo what was going on In the street without being observed by those who passed by, when I noticed my friend, the cat, coming down tlio steps of the opposite house with something in his mouth. Without considering the risks I ran, J opened the front door, ran down the steps and across the street, and ponnced on that cat before It conid get away with Its supper, for that, as I had imagined, was what I had seen In Its mouth. It turned out to be a piece of stewed rabbit, which I confis cated eagerly and took back with me to the house. Perhaps I felt a little sorry for the cat, but I certainly had no qualms about eating the animal's dinner. I was much too hungry upon niceties, and a piece of stewed rabbit was certainly too good for a tat to eat when a man was starving, late and enjoyed It und the Incident suggested to me a way In which I mUJw possibly obtain food again when another ave nues failed. Prom my place of concealment I fro aently saw huge carts being pushed thfouginKe streets gathering potato peelings, refuse of cabbage and similar food remnants, which, In America, are considered garbage and destroyed. In Belgium they were using this "gar bage" to make their bread out of, and while the Idea may sound revolting to us, the fact is that the Germans have brought these things down to such a science that the bread they make this way Is really very good to eat. X know It would have been like cake to me when I was In need of food; Indeed I would have eaten the "garbage" di rect, let alone the bread. Although, as I have said, I suffered greatly from hunger while occupying this house, there were one or two things I observed through the keyhole or from the windows which made me laugh, and some of the Incidents that occurred during my voluntary Impris onment wore really funny. From the keyhole I could see, for In stance, a shop window on the other side of the street, several houseß down the block. All day long German sol diers would be passing In front of the house and I noticed that practically every one of them would stop In front of this store window and look I Oc casionally a soldier on duty bent would hurry past, but I think nine out of ten of them were sufficiently Interested to spend at least a minute, and some of them three or four minutes gazing at whatever was being exhibited In that window, although I noticed that It failed to attract the Belgians. I have a considerable streak of curi osity In me, and I couldn't help won dering whnt It could be In that window which almost without exception seemed to Interest German soldiers but failed to hold the Belgians, and after conjuring my brains for a while on the problem I came to the conclusion that the shop must have been a book-shop and the window contained German magazines, which, naturally enough, would be of the greatest Interest to the Germans but of none to the Bel gians. At any rate I resolved that as soon as night came I would go out and In vestigate the window. When I got the answer I laughed so loud that I was afraid for the moment I must have at tracted the attention of the neighbors, but I couldn't help It. The window wns filled with huge quantities of sausage! The store was a butcher shop and one of the principal things they sold apparently was saifcage. The display they made, although It con sisted merely of sausages piled In the window, certainly had plenty of "pull ing" power. It "pulled" nine Ger mans out of ten out of their course and Indirectly "pulled" me right across the street 1 The Idea of those Germans be ing so Interested In that window dis play as to stand In front of the win dow for two, three or four minutes at a time, however, certainly seemed funny to me, and when I got back to the house I sat at the keyhole again and found Just as much Interest as before In watching the Germans stop In their tracks when they reached the window, even though I was now aware what the attraction was. One of my chief occupations during these days was catching flies. I would catch a fly, put him in a spider's web (there were plenty of them In the old house), and sit down for the spider to come down and get him. But always I pictured myself In the sume prtxllca ment and rescued the fly Just as the spider was about to grab him. Several times when things were dull I was tempted to see the tragedy through, but perhaps the same Providence that guided me safely through all perils was guarding, too, the destiny of those flies, for I always weafened and the flies never did suffer from my lust for amusement. The house was well supplied with books—ln fact, one of the choicest li braries I think I ever saw—but they were all written either in Flemish or French. I could read no Flemish and very little French. I might have made a little headway with the latter, but the books ail seemed too deep for me and I gave It up. There was one thing though that I did read and reread from beginning to end; that was a New York Herald which must have ar rived Just übout the time war was de clared. Several things in this in terested me, and particularly the base ball scores, which I studied with as much care as a real fan i>«**lbly could an up-to-date score. I couldn't refrain from laughing when I come to an ac count of Zimmerman (of the Cutis) being benched for some spot with the umpire, and It afforded me Just as much Interest three years after It had happened—perhaps more—than some current Item of world-wide Interest had at that time. I rummaged the house many times from cellar to garret In my search for something to eat, but the harvest of three years of war had made any suc cess along that line impossible. I was like the man out In the ocean In a boat and thirsty with water everywhere but not a drop to drink. I was tempted while in the city to go to church one Sunday, but my better Judgment told me It would be a useless risk. Of course, someone would surely aay something to me and I didn't know how many Germans would be there or what might happen, so I gave up that Idea. During all the time f was concealed In this house I saw but one automobile and that was a German staff officer**. GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1918 That same afternoon I had one of the frights of my young life. I had been gazing out of the keyhole as usual when I heard coming down the Street the mensured tread of Ger man soldiers. It didn't sound like very many, bat there was no doubt In my mind that German soldiers were marching down the street. I went up stairs and peeked through the window and sure enough a squad of German in fantry was coming down the street accompanied by a military motor truck. I hadn't the slightest Idea that they were coming after me, but still the possibilities of tho situation gnve me more or less alarm, and I consid ered how I could make my escape If by chance I was the man they were after. The Idea of hiding In the wine cellar appealed to me as the most practical; there must have been plenty of places among tho wine kegs and cases where a man could conceal himself, but, as a matter of fact, I did not believe that any such contingency would aTlse. The marching soldiers come nearer, I could hear them at the next house. In a moment I would see them pass the keyhole through which I was look ing. "Halt r At the word of command shouted by a Junior officer the squad came to at tention right in front of the house 1 I waited no longer. Running down the stairs I flew Into the wlae cellar and although It was almost pitch dark— the only light coming from a grating which led to the backyard—l soon found a satisfactory hiding place In the extreme rear of the cellar. I had had the presence of mind to leave the door of the wine cellar ajar, figuring that if the soldiers found a closed door they would be more apt to search for a fugitive behind It than If the door were open. My decision to get away from that front door had been made and carried out none too soon, for I had only Just located myself between two big wine cases when I heard the tramp of sol diers' feet marching up the front stoop, a crash at the front door, a few hasty words of command which I did not un derstand, and then the noise of scur rying feet from room to room and such a banging and hammering and smash ing and crashing that I could not make out what was going on. If Huyliger bad revealed my hiding place to the Huns, as I was now con fident he had, I felt that there was lit- "I Figured I Could Put Up V Good Fight" tie prospect of tbelr overlooking me. They would search the house from top to bottom and, If necessary, raze It to the ground before they would give up the search. To escape from the house through the backyard through the Iron grating, which I had no doubt I could force, seemed to be the logical tblng to do, but the chances were that the Huns had thrown a cordon around the entire block before the squad was sent to the house. The Germans do these thing* Ir. au efficient manner always They take nothing for granted. My one chance seemed to be to stand pot In tho hope that the officer In charge might poeslbly coino to tho con clusion that he had arrived at the house too late —that tho bird hud flown. My position In that wine cellar wos anything but a comfortable one. Bats and mice were scurrying across the floor and the smashing and crushing going on overhead was anything but promising. Evidently those soldiers Imagined that I ought to-be hiding In the walls, for it Rounded as though they were tearing off the walnscottlng, the picture molding and. In fnct, everything that they could tear or pull apart. Before very long they would finish their search upstair* and would come down to the basement. What they would do when tlicy discovered the wine I hod no Idea. I'erhap* they would let themselves loose on It nnd give me my chance. With a l>ottle of wine In each hand I figured I could put up a good fight In the dork, especially a* I not becoming more and more ac customed to It and could begin to dis tinguish thing* here and there, where a* when Ihey entered the pitchy dark ness of the cellar, they would be aa blliyJ at bats In the nun. Perhaps It won twenty minutes be fore I heard what sounded like my death-knell to me; the soldiers were coming down the cellar steps! I clutched a wine bottle In each hand and waited with bated hreatb. Tramp! Tramp 1 Trainp! In a mo ment they would be In the cellar proper. I could almost hear my heart beating. The mice scurried across the floor by the score*, frightened no doubt by the vibration and noise made by the descendlog soldiers, (tome of the creatures ran across mo where I stood between two wine cases, but I was too roach Interested In bigger game to pay any attention to mice. Tramp I Tramp I "Haiti" Again an order was given in German, and al though I did not understand It I am willing to bless every word of It, be cause It resulted In the soldiers turn ing right about face, marching up the stairs again, through the hall and out of the front door and nwayl I could hardly believe my ears. It seemed almost too good to be true that they could have given up the search Just as they were about to come upon their quarry, but unless my ears de ceived me that was what they had done. The possibility that the whole thing might be a German ruse did not escape me, and I remained In the cellar for nearly an hour after they had appar ently departed before I /ventured to move, listening Intently In the mean while for the slightest sound which would reveal the presence of a sentry upstairs. Not hearing a sound I began to feel that they hud Indeed given up the hunt, for I did not believe that a German officer would be so considerate of his men as to try to trap me rather than cnrry the cellar by force If they had the slightest Idea that I was there. I took off my shoes and crept softly and slowly to the cellar steps and then step by step, placing my weight down gradually so as to prevent the steps from creaking, I climbed to the top. The sight that met my eyes as I glanced Into the kitchen told me the whole story. The water faucets had been ripped from the sinks, the water pipes havelng been torn off, and gas fixtures, cooking utensils and everything elpe which contained even the smallest proportion of the metals the Germans so badly needed had been taken from the kitchen. I walked up stairs now with more confidence, feel ing tolerably assured that the soldiers hadn't been after me at all, but bad been merely collecting metal and other materials which they expected an elaborate dwelling house like the one In which I was concealed to yield. Later I heard that the Germans have taken practically every ounce of brass, copper and wool they could lay their hunds on In Belgium. Even the brass out of pianos has been ruthlessly re moved, the serious damage done to valuable property by the removal of only an Insignificant proportion of metal never being taken Into consid eration. I learned, too, that all dogs over fourteen Inches high had been seized by the Germans. Tills furnished lots of speculation among the Belgians as to what use the Germuns were put ting the animals to, the general Im pression apparently being that they were being used for food I This, however, seemed much less likely to me than that they were being employed as dispatch dogs In the trenches, the same as we use them on our side of the line. They might pos sibly kill the dogs and use their aklns for leather and their carcasses for tal low, but I feel quite sure that the Huns are by no means so short of food that they have to eat dogs yet awhile. Indeed, I want to repeat hero what I have mentioned before; If anyone has the Idea that this war can bo won by starving the Huns, he hasn't the slight est Idea how well provided the Ger mans nre In ttyat respect. They have considered their food needs In connec tion with their resources for several years to come and they have gone at It In such a methodical, systematic way, tuklng Into consideration every possible contingency, ..that provided there Is not an absolute crop failure, there Isn't the slightest doubt In my mind thut they can last for years, and the worst of It Is they ure very cock sure about It themselves. It Is true thut the German soldiers want peace. As I watched tbem through the keyhole In the door 1 thought how unfavorably Ihey com pared with our men. They marched ulong the street without laughter, with out Joking, without singing. It was quite appurent that the war Is telllaj on them. I don't believe I saw a single German soldier who didn't look as If he had lost his best friend —and be probably had. At the sumo time there Is a big dif ference—certainly a difference of sev eral yenrs—between wishing the war was over and giving up, and I Han't believe the German rank and file any more than their leaders have the slight est Idea at tills time of giving up at all. But to return to my experience while concealed In the house. After tli" visit of the soldiers, which left tho house in a wretched condition, I decided that I would continue my Jour ney towards the frontier, particularly as I had gotten all I could out of Huy llger, or rather ho had gotten all be was going to get out of me. During my concealment In the house I had made various sorties Into the city at night, and I was beginning to feel more comfortable even when Ger man soldiers were about. Through tho keyhole I had studied very closely tho gait of the Belgians, the slovenly droop that characterized most of them, and their general appearance, and I felt that In my own dirty and un shaven condition I must hove looked as much like the average poor Belgian as a (nan could. The only thing that was against me was my height. I was several Inches taller than even tho tallest Belgians. I had often thought that red hair would have gone good with my name, but now, of course, I was mighty glad that I was not so endowed, for red-haired Belgians are about as rare as German charity. There are many, no doubt, who will wonder why I did not get more help than I did at this time. It Is easily answered. When a man Is In hourly fear of his life and the country Is full of spies, as Belgium certainly was, he Is not going to help Just anyone that comes along seeking aid. One of the German's most successful ways of trap ping the Belgians lias been to pose as an Kngllsh or French prisoner who has escaped, appeal to them for aid, impli cate as many as possible, and then turn the whole German police force loose on them. As I look back on those days I think It remarkable that I received as much help as I did, but when people are starring under the conditions now"forced upon {Eotx un fortunate people, It Is a mat tempta tion to surrender these escaped pris oners to German authorities and re ceive the handsome rewards offered for them —or for alien spies, as I was classed at that time. The passport which I had described mo as a Spanish sailor, but I was very dubious about Its value. If I could have spoken Spanish fluently It might have been worth something to me, but the fow words I knew of the language would not have carried mo very far If I had been confronted with a Spanish Interpreter. I decided to use the passport only as a last resort, preferring to act the part of a deaf and dumb Belgian peasant as far as It would carry me. Before I finally lift the house I had a remarkable experience which I shall remember as long as I live. To be continued. LISTEIIM BY SIGNAL CORPS HEN REMARKABLE DEVICES BY ÜBI OF WHICH GERMAN ME3- BAQEB ARE CAPTURED. WIRES FAR AWAY TAPPED •tudont Army Training Corps Plant Changed to Conform to Loworod ~ Draft Agoa—Soldlora Want Lamon Drops and Solublo Coffst. The llitening-ln service of the signal corps of the army Is one of its Inter tstlng activities. Information of the enemy and his movements Is always of use, and sometimes of great impor tance. The signal corps operates numerous listening-in stations close to or within the enemy's lines, at which, by means »f devices recently perfected. It Is able not only to Intercept any radio mes tage hot also to determine accurately the location of the radio Instrument which transmits It This Information is R> location Is transmitted to the irtillery, which proceeds to put the radio station out of business. German telephone wires have been made to divulge their secrets, though »uch wires are well within German ter ritory where It Is Impossible to tap their lines. This Is accomplished by one of the most Ingenious Instruments thst has been produced. By means of It our signal corps man can sit In his Dugout on the front line with a re reiver to his ear and hear any tele phone message well within the enemy territory, even though several thou sand Ilunn may Intervene between him ind the nearest point to the telephone arlres being used by the enemy. The signal service of the army came into existence with development of the telegraph during the Civil war, and *as expanded greatly In the Spanlah- Imerican war. It was then a mounted srganlzatlon, mobile as cavslry, and used largely to serve the needs of the cavalry. It developed practically a perfect system for open warfare. A new system had to be originated fer trench warfare and experts began the study of this problem and the use of telephone and telegraph lines and the radio ax soon ae the present war itarted. Signal corps men were among the first units sent to France after the United States entered the war. The French system of signaling lias keen adopted In part, but with many purely American Innovations. The whole fighting area within ten miles of the front lines Is a muss of lines of Information. There is the wire net, or telsgrapli and telephone; the radio; the visual, or searchlight and fire works, and the messengers, runners and motorcyclists. Plans for the student army training corps have been changed by the war (apartment to conform to the lowered draft sge». The war department will utilize the plant, equipment and organ ization of the colleges to maintain a reservoir of officer material for train ing as officers and technical experts from which It will be possible to meet the enlarged needs of the various branches of the service. The length of time during which men will be trained In the colleges will depend on the needs of the service. As fast as one group of trained men Is drawn from tbs colleges Into the serv ice their place* will b* taken by a new quota obtained by voluntary In duction or through the draft. In thl* way the educational facllltle* of the country will be used 40 maintain a constant supply of 4>ien who sre trained to meet the needs of the srmy. Under the regulation* selected young men who sre physically flt for mili tary service, who are elghtee'fl years •f age or over, and who have had a grammar school education may be In ducted as volunteers lato the army and enter upon a course of special train ing. Those who have bid only a gram oar school education will enter ordl narlly "pedal training detachments to be trained along mechanical lines of military training. Those who prove In the course of their mechanical train ing that they are officer material may be transferred to a unit In one of the colleges to be prepared to enter a cen tral officers' training camp. Toung men who have had a high school education will be allowed to en ter the college for more advanced training as officers and as technical experts ef various kinds, sccordlng to their experience and abilities. Those who show promise onder thl* training will he kept la college until qualified te eater an officer training camp or be sent directly Into the servlc* as tech nical experts; those who do not show promise under the training will be •eat either to noncommissioned offi cers' school*, to the nearest depot bri gade or te detachments where men are trained according te their technical or mechanical abilities. Do not «M galvanized utensils !»' making preserves, Jellles~~6r" fruit Juices, ««r department of agriculture expert*. Some of the dnc with which the vessels are galvanised may be changed to aalta of zinc, which will give the prodnqt an acrid and astrin gent taste and render It nnsoltable for human use. Mexican laborers la Texas have de veloped the taste for cottage cheese. Government experts have taught then hew to make it. The remit is a sav ing In meat. Lemon drops and coffee are popolar with the army. There is such a de mand for lemon drops that the quar termasters corps Is having difficulty in obtaining the desired quantity and quality. About 200,000 pounds of lemon drops are used each month at the present time, or about 19 per cent of the amount of candy furnished the army. The lemon drops being supplied the army sre made of pure granulsted sugar and flavored with an emulsfon made from the rind of the lemon. The extra sour lemon drop Is the favorite with the soldiers. It has the thirst quenching quality of lemonade. The formula was prepared specially, and Is being followed by the candy manu facturers supplying the army. The entire output of all factories In the United States making soluble cof fee Is being purchased by the quarter masters corps for the army, but It Is not sufficient to meet the demand; new companies sre being organized and large capital Is being expended to Insure a largely Increased output. Soluble coffee Is used In the front Una trenches, where It Is not possible always to have hot water because It cannot be brought up from the rear and fire to heat wnter causes smoke which Invites the Are of the enemy. The men csn make good coffee from tho cold water which they carry In their canteens. Increasing needs of the military force* for woolem hat brought an or der from the woolen* aectlon of the war Industries board stopping the manufacture of woolen or worsted hand knitting yams, and calling for reports as to stock held by the manu facturers, and wholesale and retail merchants. The Red Cross Is buying up these stocks at a nominal profit to the hold ers for us* In Its war work. A much greater supply fs required, and the Red Cross will take up stocks of yarn suitable In quality and quantity as rapidly as they are offered. Large manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers reported their xtoeks on hand promptly, but many small mer chants throughout the country have failed to report to the woolens section, and reports have been received they are continuing to sell to tyelr custom ers. The wnr Industries board has no desire to penalize thoae who have re ported their stocks of yarn for the benefit of those who have not so re ported, and aska for Immediate replies from those who hold unreported stocks of hand knitting yarns and compliance with the original order of the board. The yarns affected Include both wool en and worsted In Oxfords, khaki, nat ural and natural gray colors with the eouats, make, quality and cost price. Reports should be made on lots down to CO pounds. Ths United Htates ha* vust known ■ulphur deposit* guaranteeing an abun dant supply for the manufacture of sulphuric acid and other necesiary war material* for the successful protecu tlon of th* war. Two Kraut plant* are now turning out mo*t of the Rtilphur needed. One I* In Louisiana and the other In Texa*. There are two other known deposlta which can be opened up quickly In case of necessity. Preliminary work on on* of than* I* under progre** to meet any unexpected emergency, *uch a* destruction or damage by hurricane a* occurred recently at the Louisiana plant. Hulphur I* melted In the ground by ■team and hot water and forced to the aurface through well* where th* molten eulphur solidifies on exposure to the air. The aolphur depoelt underlie* a bed of qulckaand through which It I* Impossible to delve shaft* and mine In the ordinary way. The development of thl* project I* on* of the Interesting mechanical achievement* of the past decade, and the United State* I* now by far the greatest producer of eul phur. Colonel Churchill, chief of the mil itary Intelligence branch of the gen eral staff, warn* American editor* against publication, an authentic and reliable, of statement* In lotter* from American prisoners in German camp* of the excellence of the food and gen- Mel treatment of th* prfioner*. An officer of the military Intelligence branch who spent two yeer* iff the war In Germany report* that there are certain rule* laid down by the German military authorities for all prlaoner* In letter writing. The price they pay for the transmission of their letter* I* that they mu*t state that they are well treated, that the food 1* good and that they are contented. The letter* of the prlnoner* are carefully censored at the prl*on camp and any statement* made contrary to the rule* Ixild down for letter writing (Imply mean* destruc tion of the letter. It I* concluded, therefore, that any Information coming from American prisoner* In Germany 1* absolutely un reliable and should not be publlihed In American newspaper* or magazine* a* In any way authentic. A few letter* from apparently contented American prisoner* In camp* have made their appearance already In American news papers. Ths ordnance department is making a campaign to obtain large quantities of walnut lumber which Is required for the manufacture of aircraft propeller blades and for gun stocks. Owners of walnut trees are asked to put their property at the disposal of the govern ment to help win the war. Uen and women will have fewer varieties In shape and color* of fur and felt hats from which to make se lections this fall and next spring. The government has ordered conaeryatloa of material. NO. 30 GRAHAM CHURCH DIRECTORY | Graham Baptist Church—Rev. L. "'I U. Weston, Pastor. Preaching every first and thirall Sunday* at 11.00 a. m. and 7.00 Wfl a. Sunday School every Sunday at 9.45 a. ra. W. I. Ward, Supt. Prayer meeting every Tueaday at 7.30 p. m. Graham Christian Church—N. Main Street—Rev. E. C. Lester. *j Preaching services overy Sec ond and Fourth Sundays, at 11.00 a. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 10.00 a. M.—W. R. Harden, Super intendent, New Providence Christian Church —North Main Street, near Depot- Rev. P. C. Lester, Pastor. Preach ing every Second and Fourth Sun day nights at 8.00 o'clock. Sunday School every Sunday at 9.46 a. m.—J. A. Bayliff, Superin tendent. Christian Endeavor Prayer Meet* ing every Thursday night at 7.46, o'clock. Friends—Worth of Graham Pub lic School, Rev. John M. Permar, Pastor. Preaching Ist, 2nd and 3rd Sun days at 11.00 a. m. and 7.00 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 9.45 a. m.— Belle Zachary, Superin tendent. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at 7.30 o'clock. Methodist Episcopal, aouth—cor. Main and Maple Btreets, Rev. D. E. Ernhart, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday at 11.0# a. m. and at 7.30 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 9.45 a. m.—W. B. Green, Supt. M. P. Church—N. Main Street. Rev. R. S. Troxler, Pastor. Preaching first and third Suo daya at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 9.46 a. m.-J. L. Amick, Supt. Presbyterian—Wst Elm Street—, Rev. T, M. McConnell, pastor. Sunday School every Sunday at 9.46 a. m.—Lynn B. Wllliamjon, Su perintendent. , P . r ,? ,b J. Uri «> (Travora Chapel)-. J. W, Clegg, pastor. Preaching every Second and Fourth Sundays at 7.30 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 130 p. m.—J. Harvey White, Su perintendent, PROFESSIONAL CARDS JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney.at-Law GRAHAM. N. C. ttlllc* over Hrtlissl laakol "imeaiie J\ S. C OOK, Attorney -at- Law. IRA HAM, N, a Offlo® Patterson Building Hooond floor. . , , , , DR. WILLS.LONG,JR. . . : DENTIST : : ; Ira ham, . . ■ ■ Nerth Carallaa OFFICE IN BJMMONB BUILDING ACOB A. I .OHO. J. ELMER LOM €1 LONG ft LONG, A.ttorn#jra and Cooiuwlon at Law GRAHAM, N. C. JOH N H. VERNON Attorney and Counselor-at-Law PONKK-OMee WSJ Residence lit BURLINGTON, N. C. 9*^ " DIGESTONEINE 1 ! Nature'*' Restorative, is 111 Ma. Not only i (> »n quick, lure relief from in dips. J lien's ill* Heartburn. Dizziness, ' Sour Riiincs. Acid Mouth. 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