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Science and AgrkwL
nirc 3?ing Taught—Gifts
tor SchooL
>cartoon, Dec. I.—The school
j-Sartj vn opened this Fall
fth a i-ger attendance than
erer before. By the end of tne
two veeks 66 scholars were
gifci'ed '.n the high school de
rarrcen: aad 110 in the grades,
caiir* a total of 176.
laere ire 23 girls enrolled in
cemest o iciecce and 15 boy* ia
igrie i.rure. These two new :
wurses v:.ca were aided this
till cave exceeded ail expecta
tions ~ referei-ce to tne rvuir
ber of boys and girls that are
takirg :? :hese new lines of
i .
In* school has procured a fine
W. X-.ace piano, and Prof.
sc:of ti:e agricultural depart
rnent, has received two fine gifts
far tne scaooi, a Sharpies cream
secarator and an incubator.
Thise sifts, it is hoped, are
be: :r.e :es?ir.ning of many more.
ii:s3 Osmond has organized a
class ?: srirls and women who;
areach of the school;
w::o come tw:ce a week to take
demesne science only. This is a
sc.enchd opportunity for those
*:o do Tict wish to take any of
tne niifc school work and yet ac
ciire a inowledge of this home:
science. Ic is hoped that many'
sore vr.ll avail themselves of|
mis ;Dpcrtunity.
Tne :i;:.ook for the sehool this
jear is =nJenriid success
y&soun x.ijecietl Full Crew BiM.
S: Louis. Mo., Nov. 30, —
Ccr:'.ice or.aial figures show;
;:.a: in "he referendum vote at
t:e eie_t.cn on November 3d
ine pecc eof Missouri rejectsd
the ?: Crew Bill, passed by the
Legislature and sgned by j
tie Governor, by one of the,
grea: st majorities ever register
e: in the state on any qmeatiow, i
liia 7-te being 324,085 against
and 1:9,593 for, or a majoritv of
Hi. i' 2 more thaa two to one in
cpposition to the bill.
This is said to be the first time
aJre*-;ia:ion affecting railroads
:as been submitted to a direct
ote of the pwo'e of any state.
Ra:ircad effi rials are much
ceased with cne result as indi
cating that the people are not in
fa;cr of measures which op
triss the railroads without any
rasuicing benefit to them.
A striding feature of the vote
*as :hat the farmers voted sl
ew: solidly against the bill, lit
te support being given it outside
'he:r.ree largest cities in the
fate, and in St Louis it was
ceaten by 15.417 votes.
The purpose of the bill was to
'i: :ire the employment on eer
a r. trains of extra trainmen for
«r.icr. experienced rai'road mar.-
ieciared there is no need
• ::m the standpoint of sifety or,
and whose employ-
Eent wculd have coet the rail
'cacs of Missouri a half million
coi ars a year.
, Tne people of Missouri seem to
taTe realized tfcat eventually
tfey -Quid have to pay the cost
eitner in increased freight and :
rasserger rates, decreased ser
v-ce, ;r deferred improvements
and registered emphatically
jteir disapproval of such class
legislation.
. B i:s similar to that rejected
; ? *".e people of Missouri have ;
teen introduced in a number of i
ita.es and hard fights made
:cr their passage but now that
pecp'e of one state have been
from, it is hoped that leg
waters of other states will recog
that such legislation is not
«3ired by the mass of voters.
■
The annual Freshman-Sophc
ttore debate was held at Lenoir
Uiilege, Monday night of this
The qjestion discussed
Resolved, That the United
-"•ates should subsidize the mer-
c "ir.t marine ships. The com-
J'itee composed of Revs. Dr3.
J and Deaton and Rev.
York gave the decision to
negative.
Mr. ard Mrs. W. S. Stroup en-
j 6 *ta:ned on last Monday at their
al residence on the Lenoir
foad. Rev. Dr. Murphy, Rev. A.
stacferd ar.d Rev. and Mrs.
h. Poovey at an elaborate
. nner. In addition to the min
p,s3 r - and Mrs. Julius
jovey and Mrs. Hutton were
tf eser.t,
%
i- , ■ R-W. Robinson has moved
'ami'y back to Hickory and
occupying their residence on
Street,
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
S.I L L mm
EMS M
Grimes Drag Company Changes!
Hands aad Name
Changed.
Messrs. E* B. Menzies* Z. B.
Buchanan and J. Teiius Miller
Lave purchased tile stcek of
Toads and fixtures of the Grimes
Dm# Company and hereafter the
business will be known as the
Menzies Drug Company with E.
B. Menzies as aeneral manager.
The ctesl was made last week j
and the old company will collect i
all outstanding (fefets owtnjr tait.
Mr. Menzies. the new mana
ger of the store, ftas been in the
druyr business in Hickory for
something like 20 years and is
one of the best and most experi
enced druggists tn the State. He
has been with Grimes Drug Coin
pony for a number of years.
It is not k*H}wn what business
Sr. Grim will take up* but is
*iacereiy toped he will remam in
Hickory as ne has been one of
our best and most desirable citi
zens aad has s host of friends
here,
"HAMLET" AT LENOR COLLEGE.
Shakespeare's Greatest Ploy to be
Presented by Swdents Monday
Night.
On Monday night, December
9,1914, at 8 o'clock Hiekory peo- j
pie will have the apportoaity of j
seeing "Hamlet"' one of Saakes-i
peare's masterpieces, presented
by a strong cast of Lenoir Co'-
iege students.
All lovers of the great works [
of this mister are familiar with |
the plot and will be eager to see
the production.
Much time and energy has
been exoended upon coaching,
scenery and eostuminsr and there
will be n«w thing? presented
along all lines. The Hickory
band will assist. >
Reserved seats sfte cm sale at
Lutz's Drug Storv and you had
better reserve them early. The
prices are 25, 35 and 50 cents.
Mooresyiße Boy Killed in a Motor
cycle Race
Savannah, Ga., Nov. 26,—One
rider waa killed and two others
seriously injured, one probab'y
fatally, in the second annaai
three hundred miie jjoto-cyde;
race here today over the Savar.-!
nah motor race course.
The dead:
Gray Sloop, Mooresville, N. C.,
neck, back, hip and leg broken.
The ir j'ired:
Z D. Kelly. Savannah, left leg |
crushed and serious internal in-i
, juries. Recovery doubtful.
K, H. Verrill, Cnicasro, badly
bruised and larcerated and slcut! i
may be fractured. Pay3icians
believe he will recover.
The race was won by Lee Tay
, lor cf Mlddietown, Ohio, whe i
completed the twenty-seven laps
in Joseph Wolter?, of
Chicago, was second and Irving
Jenke, of Milwaukee, third.
There were thirty-three entrant?.
Sloop's death resulted when he
lost control of his motorcycle, rar
: over a small embankment and
crashed into a tree. He W33 dead
when lid reached btm.
Kelly was hurt when he struck 1
a tree while rounding a curve
He was thrown fifteen feet, his
machine falling on top of him. j
i Verrii crashed into another ma
chine ahead of him and was
thrown with terrific force to the
ground, The other rider was not
I hurt.
Later —Kelly died from his in
i iuries.
The National Convention of
Ginners will meet in Memphis,
; Term., January 1 and 2 Among
i things to be considered at this
I meeting wiif be the advisability
of nailing each gin up in 1915 as
soon as half the number of bales
ginned in 1914 have been ginned,
to start a movement to use noth
ing but eotton bagging and to
extend the present system of the
Ginners' Association in buying
bagging direct, We are asked
to invite every ginner in the
county to attend. Reduced rates
on railroads.
Notice to Piano Owners.
I
I will be at home about Decem
ber 15 and will remain until Jan
uary 1. Those wishing pianos
tuned will phone 324 L.
I am spending some time visit
ing the different piano factories
in Chicago and Cincinnati and 1
am sure that I will be better
prepared to do your work.
E. E. ANDEKSON,
A&f'U Zt, '
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, DFCEMBER 3, 1914
PfflS m CLASSIC
Unknown Stretcher Bearer De
scribes Horror of Horror*.
Farmhouse, the Refuge of Wcunded
and Dying, is Somberted by Artil
lery Ghastly the Scsnes
That EMM. .
London.—The Chronicle publishes i
tha following account of the bombard
ment of a farmhouse, situated between
the French and German, lines and tem
porarily a refugs for tile wounded.
The article is a translation from thej
notes of a French corporal stretcher
bearer. The Parts Temps says the |
work of the unknown author mar be
compared with the most striking pages
of some Russian writers:
"*» now heard the whis-z-z that
those who have once heard can never ]
forget. The shell was coming straight
toward us. We fell flat, in the twin
kling of an eye, our noses to the
ground. Happy he who finds a drain
or ditch at such a moment Yet we
had time to ask ourselves whether It
would pass over or catch us In this
ridiculous position: and I saw the past
and the future.
"We got up, muddy and peevish. A :
faint smell of dynamite filled the air.
We passed through the gateway. The
yard, surrounded on three sides by
the farmhouse and servants' quarters,
was quiet and trim.
"We entered the kitchen and three j
ground floor rooms were full cf wound
ed —French and German. Many of the
unfortunates. lying en the blood
marked straw, had horrible wounds, j
A soldier ask 3 for a drink; as he rises, j
wtth hand stretched out for the glass
of water, a bullet comes through the
window and strikes him full in the
heart The poor bellow sinks without
a sigh.
"Mast of the wounded are taken
away in a lull of the combat. It is
three o'clock in the afternoon. Firing
recommences, more violent than ever.
The shells whistle ceaselessly. An
adjutant, terribly wounded, begs to be
nut into the cart, which seems to him
a guaranty that he will be among the
next to be removed. Scarcely Is he
Tatrf there than a shrapnel bursts over
the cart, killing ftim The firing sounds
more dearly.
"A wounded In the kitchen
caHs me. Struck by a ban in the
breath. He is supporting himself by
axav arm, which slips on the bloody
straw. With the other hand he feels
in his overcoat pocket, which is glued
up with congealed blood, for a letter
which he hands to me. his eyes full of
tears. "My sweetheart," he murmurs.
And I 3ee tn his fingers a little lock of
black hair which he presses tenderly
te his lips.
"Raising my ey?s to the ceiling. I
see the plaster break into a huge
star, and through a gaping hole the
end of a great shell appears. The
ceiling sinks funnel-wiae; at the same
moment the roof cracks and the shell
explodes. Then all is dark . . .
Presently I come to myself, half suffo
cated with dust and the fumes of dy
namit?.
"The house Is riven from tof> to bot
tom, and we can see the calm, blue
sky through the broken roof. The
least seriously wounded men disen
gage thefr fellows. Nearly all of us
are bleeding. The poor lover is dead,
disfigured. Shells have struck the
house on two 3ides.
"They manage to get into the cellar,
and here the German wounded, hungry
and desperate, burst out into com
plaints of this war of immeasurable
.agony Into which they have been
driven.
" 'My poor wife! My poor children!*
cries one of them, wounded in the
stomach by a fragment of shell.
"At this moment, tn a dark corner,
we heard a sob and a woman's voice
rose out of the shadow. 'AH of my
own children are dead and my hus
band was killed up there in the yard.'
It was the fanner's wife. She had
watched, helpless, the work of de
struction. Children, husband, goods,
she had lost everything. And I saw
onca more the emaciated dog up there
baying in the yard before the clotted
blood of his master."
HONOR LOVE TRAGEDY COUNT
Mielzynsfci Gets I row Cross of First
Class for Valor on Field
of Battle.
Berlin.—Count Matthias Brudzewo
Mielzynski the ex-member of the
reichstag who shot his wife and
nephew in hi 3 castle near Graetz in
February, has received the decoration
of the iron cross of the first clas3 for
valor in the battle of Angus to wo.
Tha Mielzynski tragedy, the result
of a love affair, caused a sensation at
the time of its occurrence.
The count was tried on a charge of
manslaughter, but was acquitted.
Making a Battleship.
London. —The British admiralty ee
ttmates that it takes 600 working days
to complete a warship costing $10,000,-
000. In this time the warship has not
only to be built, launched, armored,
C\ted out with machinery, armament,
and so on, but tested by speed, gun and
torpedo trials.
High Price fcr Matches.
t-endon. —Matches are to scarce at
the frost an officer of the Seccnil
3nerwood Foresters paid |3.c£ ice a
gf nr g
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TIE una
By ROSE WALLACE
™ ■ lcaigiHa fP ß
(Copyright, 1914. by the Xrmapa
per Syndicate.)
Winona sat on the edge rf® stress
shaking salt over crinf greet
branches of ws
tercren. the first
time Qawae Mad
iscn saw Iter.
He «en»
there ta-jaint and
to get alray from
his sister's many!
girl |
fri en 4s, wh c
seemed; always tc
be occupying
porch amf lawn
and pergala at
home.
He was trying to
get his picture in
■f ,\ye3 •/
hia vision, and was squintinfc and oth- •
erwise distorting his face when he
saw her drop into his caaras, as it'
were. He was making bits of scenery
to frame for a frieze in hie study.
Some how or other, as ytf w g Mad-1
Iscn began to sketch in contour
of the landscape and to wqgk in bits
here and there, the girl warned a
necessary touch, and he leCler take
her place on his canvas alatost with
out meaning to.
A pouring rain prevented the artist
from going to paint on the next day.
but bright and early on the third
morning he wended his way to the
hiiltcp with palette and eaeai all
necessary paraphernalia.
He had hardly begun to mix his
colors when the same gW in the
same dress and with the same salt
shaker in her hand took iMr seat on
the edge of the stream ami began to
pick and eat watercres*. George
Madison laughed to himseiL It was
almost weird to think that she should
have returned, and he was sure she
had act seen hi™
"If she's there again ITS say she's
nutty," he said inelegantly to him
self as he folded his easel.
But she was there, and she con
sume vi quantities of watercress and
hummed and seemed content to he
alive. The artist began to wish she
would notice him, and ye* he could not
move nearer and get die same picture
on his canvas. He believed as he
Icoked at his nearly comgMted picture
that it was the best thi*gsa had done
yet, and the girl tn her worful frock
and golden masses of hair sitting
graceiuily on the edge of the stream
was not the least of it.
There was hardly an excuse left for
the young man to go again to paint :
on his canvas—it was finished. But i
he could not resist the desire to seek j
his place again and see if perhaps'
something might not draw the girl' 3
attention away from the stream.
When he arrived he looked down
and there, complacently munching
the fresh grass at the stream's edge,
stood an old cow The girl stood
near by, evidently afraid to sit down, j
She looked about her as if for help j
and her eye fell on George Madison 1
well up on the hillside beyond.
As if she had summoned him, he
ran down the bank and picked up a
stick. "ShaU I chase her away Vhe
asked.
Winona smiled gratefully. "Oh —
I wish you would." she said.
The cow moved on with a little
suasion and the artist assured Winona
tha: she was perfectly harmless.
"Nevertheless, I wouldn't have the
courage to sit down peacefully whiie
a cow stood near me," the girl ad
mitted. "And I must have water
cress."
"Are you—do you like it so much?"'
George asked.
"Yes —it is a French cure for bron
chial or pulmonary weakness, and I
was not sure that I had not one of
them, so I am taking the precaution
of not letting anything get a hold on
me. I must have health," she de
clared earnestly.
"You look as if you enjoyed it—
now," the artist could not help say
ing as his eyes dwelt on the wonder
ful fairness of her skin.
"I am perfectly well now, I think,"
the girl went on, "but it is due, I am
sure, to the fact that I have dili
gently followed the advice of this old
French physician whom I met in Nor
mandy. I have eaten watercress to
the exclusion of everything else, and
in order to have it fresh and to be
out of doors as much as possible, I
have come here for it every day and
made my meals of it. I live only a
mile from the stream," she added.
"And—does it satisfy you?" George
asked with wonder.
"Perfectly: as long as i do not see
the family at home sitting down to
tempting meals of other things.
That s another reason why I come
here to have solitary feasts of this."
"And another reason I think —is
Fate," the young artist dared to say.
What the girl thought of his re
mark she did not but George
Madison knew that it was Fate, nev
ertheless, that had sent Winona across
his path. And so it proved to be.
Third Largest City.
The third largest city on earth is
not Chicago, but Paris. Chicago
comes in fourth, with Tokyo, Japan, as
s very close competitor. The figures
are: London, 7,252,000; New York, 5,
114.000; Paris, 2,9C0,0C0; Chicago, 2,-
200,009; Tokyo, 2486,000. Peking,
China, trhich was for a long time the
largest city in the world, has a popula
tion, ot only 700, m.
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WAR Oil M SEA
i Remarkable Letter From a
French Mava! Officer.
Pictures a Night of Tense Watching
in tha Dark—ls Broken by the
Discovery and Destruction
of a Torpedo Boat:
Paris.—There has come to me,
vrites Paul Scott Mowrer in the Chi
cago News, a remar(table letter from
a naval officer, who Ls cruising with
the French fleet in the Adriatic, hunt
ing "he Austrian fee. It gives a vivid
picture of the solitary drama of war
at sea. Here if is:
"It is a black nigkL The " ind is
terrible, the swell monstrous. Ari
lights are out. Darker than the night,
without a single noise aboard, the
ships, one behind tha other, watcir
upon the sea that nothing may pass.
Ten miles to the north, ten miles to
the south, they are holding their blind
course. All seems to sleep.
"Our lookouts at bow and stern, lost |
in shadow, are rolling and pitching j
jjjee phaitoms. while not a single
sound, breaks the incomprehensible
silenee. But the amncn are ready.
There is a man "beliind each loaded
piece, his finger on the trigger, never
closing his eyes from the moment he
goes on duty to the moment of his
relief. Aloft, the searchlights, too,
are ready at tcuch of a button to blaze
forth, to seek out, to harass. And on
the bridge, the officer on whom de
pends a thousand lives, the officer cf
the watch, alone before God, his eyes
on his glass, peers for hours and
hours out into the black night and the
swelL There must be no failing now
of sight or mini or decision. That
moment of failing might be the very
one in which the enemy, crouching
between two waves, launcned a tor
pedo or sowed a sinking mine.
"For an instant ia the unreal dis- j
tance, great pai«t brushes of light'
appear. They grope across the *ky
and sea, stop suddenly, and the wind :
brings the sound ol a storm of shells. |
Then no more. Lights and cannon |
cease. The night, the swell, the silence.
But the heart beats faster. Out there.!
they" are roving. Perhaps presently j
It will be my turn. I want to smash
the lenses of the glass and Cluminata
the whole stretch ot ocean. Which
way wiH they ccme? Suddenly some
thing white phines an. a erect*, like the
mustache of fcyun under a how. '
" "On guard! Fifteen hundred
yards! Eighty degrees ta starboard!
Light searchlights! More to the left!
Leeway fifty-eight! Fire!
"All the crouching shadows leap
asunder. In the bright 3heaf of light
is a pallid specter with three or four
smokestacks which plunges like a,
greyhound over the foam. Fifteen
cannon at once are spitting ceaseless
ly. Our phantom ship has become a
volcano.
" 'More in the right! A thousand ,
yards!'
'"The hostile torpedo boat disappears ■
in an aureole of blows, behind foun
tains of water, very white under the
livid electricity. But still on it comes,
bringing death.
" "Eight hundred yards!*
"The blows are falling nearer to it.
They make a wall of water and iron.
In the aureole of spray appears some
thing red, black, yellow, like a hit in
the eye. A shell has struck the belly
of the torpedo boat and it has blown
up.
" 'Cease fire! Searchlights follow to
the end!*
"We go to look, to pick up the dead
and the wounded. Nothing is left —
hardly a few splinters of wood.
" 'Lights out!'
"We return to our course, to the
wateh. the silence, the obscurity. The
men who serve the guns lie down.
The gunners stand and wait. The
officer of the watch, who has saved a
thousand lives, once more stares
searchingly into the dangerous dark
ness. -The boat rolls and pitches. It
is cold and gloomy. But the sea is a
little freer and France better pro
tected."
NO CRIME TO DOUBT REPORTS
Vienna Judge Acquits Man Who Ques
tioned Truth of Austrian
Cfficia! Ne-vs.
Vienna. —The courts are being over
worked in trying persons who are ac
cused of violating the government's
orders which forbid the dissemination
of alarming news. Host of the arrests
are the result of reports of police
spies.
The judges are very severe and con
victions are inevitable. Up to the
present only one person, a hall porter,
who was accused of having said that
he did not believe the official reports
about Austrian victories, has been ac
quitted. In this case the judge ruled
that unbelief in official reports does
not imply unpatriotic sentiments.
The military authorities of Cracow
are forbidding the entry of refugees
from Galicia. This prohibition is a
prelude to the evacuation of Cracow
by noncombatants, in view of the ex
pected approach of the Russians.
Germany's Gunmakers.
Berlin. —Krupps. the gunmakers,
who build the leviathan nowitzers with
which Liege and Namur were shelled,
employ in normal times of peace 80,-
000 work people, make nearly 110,000,-
000 profit per annum, and spend about
$1.7 50,000 a year on their work-people's
holiday and Christmas fund*
Democrat and Press Consolidated IS«S
new nmiK run
IB M JI LEMHI
Royal Furniture Company Will
Begin Operations in Janu
ary—Fine Cera Crop.
Lenoir, Nov. 29. —A new en
terprise that will mean much to
Lencir and the suTounding coun
try, is the Royal Furniture com
pany, recently organized here.
The products manufactured by
this new concern will be what is
known as case goods, dressers,
washstands, bufftts and otter
household furniture. Machinery
is now being installed in the
building formerly occupied by
the Moore-Stone Chair company,
which will be the home of Le
noir's latest enterprise. It is ex
pected that the new factory will
be in full operation by January
1, 1915. The capital is all sup
plied by local men, and the con
cern has ample backing to guar
antee its success. The tfSiers
are, L. E. Rabb, president; J.
Russell Powell, secretary and O,
P. Lutz, general manager.
Caldwell Superior ecurt for
the trial of civil cases has been
in session for the last two weeks,
with Judge William F. Harding
presiding, and it will remain in
session fcr another week. So
far the most important ease dis
posed of is that of Mrs. Ella G.
Montgomery against the Caro
lina and Northwestern Railway
company for the death of her
son, Robey Montgomery. Mr.
M mtgomery was a flagman on
the above-mentioned road, and
while making a coupling of cars
on the Lenoir yards, some two
years ago, was eaught between
the knuckles of two couplers,
and his life crushed out.
The case was strongly contest
ed on both sides, the plaintiff al
leging that the coupler was de
fective, since two unsuccessful
attempts were made to couple
the cars before the intestate
went between them. The de
tense on the part of the railrood
was contributory negligence. The
jury returned a verdict in favor
cf ttwt plaintiff and p*ifird the
damage at $l,OOO
- A. McCail, of Flnley, a
community in the northwestern
part of the county, reports that
he has raised this year 91 1-4
bushels of corn on one acre of
land, and Mr. McCail says that
this was no prize fere either, for
he had several other acres jhst
as good- From reports gathered
from every section of the coun
ty, Caldwell has tee best crop of
corn this ye&r within her history
and this is expected to go far to
ward mitigating any depression
suffered in other enterprises,
especially lumber.
While there are many car loads
of cattle shipped from Lenoir to
the various markets, yet it is not
often that cne has the pleasure
of seeing IS7 head in a single
drove, as was seen pass through
here lasi Thursday.
Taxes.
This is the last chance to pay
without paying the penalty,
which is equal to 12 percent.
Beginning December Ist, I will
be at City Manager's Office in
rear of Southern Express Build
ing every day from 2p. m. to 6
p. m. except Saturday which
will be from 9 a.m. to 7 p, m.
until January Ist.
Brookford Friday, December
4th. 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.
West Hickory Norris & Mar
low's Store, Friday, December
11th from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.
Please meet me and get your
receipt.
Respectfully,
J. P. liurns. Deputy Sheriff
Mr. WOliam Sherrill Dead.
Mr. William Sherrill, who lives
Just across Catawba River in
Lovelady township, Caldwell
county, died Sunday night at the
age of about 75 years, death be
ing caused by blood poison.
The funeral was held at Rocky
Mount [Methodist Church Tues
day afternoon at 2 o'clock, and
was conducted bv Rev, B. A.
Yorke of this city.
The deceased is survived by
several children, his wife haying
died several years ago.
Stewards Meeting.
The board of stewards of the
Hickory Circuit is requested to
meet at the First Methodist
Chorch in Hickory at 11 o'clock
December 9, 1914. A full atten
dance is desired.
B. A. Yorke, Pastor.
Hives, eczema, itch or salt rheum
sets yon crary. Can't bear the touch
of your clothing. Doan's Oitment is
fine for skin itching. All druggists sell
i% 50c a bo*,—adv*U
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Maintenance of 1 Disciplinary
Quarters" Aboard Ships
Is Recommended.
Washington, Nov, 29.—Aboli
tion of all hut two of the naval
prisons in continental United
States, those at Portsmouth, N.
H , and Sfore bland, CaL, and
maintenance of disciplinary
quarter aboard ship were recom
mended in th-- annual report of
Cant. Ridley McLean, judge ad
vocate general of the n&vy, made
public today.
During the past prisons
have been maintained at Mare
Island and Portsmouth. Boston,
Norfolk, Cavite and on ship
board.
In recommending the transfer
of disciplinary barracks from
shore to ship. Captain. ATeLean
pro Dosed to close the Port Royal,
S. C., detention barrack?, and
transfer the detentioners from
that station to the gunboat Tope
ka which would be moored in the
Portsmouth yard. The cruiser
Philadelphia would serve similar
purpose at the Mare Island yard.
The reduction of the number
of naval prisons is made possible.
Captain McLean thinks, by an
order already approved by Sec
retary Daniels to substitute loss
of pay or discharge for many
cases which previously have in
volved imprisonment. The de
tention ships would deal with
minor offenders or prisoners
whose good conduct • warranted
their transfer from shore prisons.
Of results obtained by the de
tention system, Captain McLean
said:
"As a humanitarian system it
is excellent in that it requires a
recalcitrant to work for his re
habilitation, and on discharge be
is a better and more useful man
than when he entered the service
and by virtue of having accom
plished his own redemption he is
a stronger and more capable,
self-reliant man.'*
Road Witt Operate Tcaias by Wire
less.
New York, Nov. 2?.—An
nouncement was made yestetdav
that the Lackawanna railroad
has determined to operate all its
trains between Hoboken and
Buffalo by wireless and to main
tain the regular telegraph system
only for use in emergency be
tween these points. The per
fection of the wireless and its
cheapness in orperation when
compared to the old wire system
made its adoption practical.
Government experts inspected
the new wireless station at Hc
boken yesterday and retuned the
instruments so as not to inter
fere with the wireless station m
the navy yard, concerning which
the government had made com
plaint.
Lackawanna officials agree that
the wireless in addition to re
ducing the cost of maintenance
will insure service at all times of
the year. The metal towers in
Hoboken and Buffalo are con
structed to withstand all storms.
A test of wireless on running
Lackawanna trains, made recent
ly, showed that all difficulties
concerning the general installa
tion of wireless on Lackawanna
trains had been removed. L. B.
Foley is superintendent of tele
graph for the Lackawanna.
Increasing Travel to South America
1 With the greater part of
Europe shut off to travelers by
the war. the opportunities for
exploring the less familiar coun
tries ot South American will
doubtless appe? 1 to
cities as Rio and Buenos Aire3
should offer amo'.e entertain
ment and instruction. The facili
ties for going thither have been
greatly extended and improved
in r«»cent years; the voyage is
quite as comfortable, if not as
quick, as tbat across the Atlan
tic. Already the steamship com
panies are preparing for a rush
of American tourists. This move
ment, if it fulfills expectation,
will be a favorable factor in the
betterment of trade relations be
tween the United States and
South American nations. The
vast amount of travel to Europe
has been a stimulus to business,
and the same result is bound to
follow in this case. Personal in
terest counts for a great deal,
even in the processes ot buying
and selling.—Philadelphia Ledg
er.
Maggie Lucile, infant daugh.
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Day
died last Saturday night and was
buried on Sunday, November 29,
at Houck's chapel. Rev. Dr. Mur
phy conducting the funeral and ,
burial service*.