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gHBggg?—— Bromalgine. A HEADACHE REMEDY with a perfect record. For 25 years Bro Mal-G;.ne has been sold for sick-nerv ous-periodical and neuralgic-head aches; it has relieved thousands wrEHOUT AN UNPLEASTNA SYMPTOM. Bro-Mal-Gine is the only headache reznttdy sold in North Carolina that has the unqualified endorsement of as disputable physiciaqp as are to be found in the state. It gives splendid results when tak en for those aches and pains from Grippe and Colds. Its liquid—its pleasant—it does not depress the heart. Iifc. 10-25-59 cent bottles and at Fountains. THE BRO-MAL-GINE COMPANY adv. (Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspa per Syndicate.) CHAPTER X. i _ ;The Kaiser’s Appraisal of Public Men. No one ever speaks to the kaiser un til addressed. As that monarch’s opin ions on most subjects are firmly fixed and he will stand no opposition, any erroneous idea he may entertain ts very apt to remain with him. His ad visees were apt to leave him in errol rather than arouse his ire by attempt ing to set him right. But for the fact that'he was very fond of asking innu merable questions, his store of infor mation might have been extremely scanty. In the course of my conversations with him he frequently expressed his Views of men who were in the public eye. Upon what basis they were founded he did not always enlighten me, but even when I knew them to be erroneous I realised it was useless to try to change them and I did not often take' issue with him. When I did his eyes would flash Are, but I had ex pected that and I continued just the ea&ML The kaiser always seemed to take a particular interest in American af fairs, qpd while he professed to de spise sflur form of government he watched very carefully the careers of ourjjublic tpen. It is not unlikely that he imagined, as I have pointed out elsewhere in these pages, that he could Influence our elections by swinging the German-Araerican vote in favor ol the candidate he preferred, and he made a study of our public men in order that he might know which of them would be more desirable in office from the German viewpoint. When Mr. Wilson was nominated fot the presidency., the kaiser was quite positive that he wouldn’t be elected. Perhaps the fact that Mr. Roosevelt, for whom at that time the kaiser had the greatest admiration, was one of Mr. Wilson’s rivals, blinded him to the strength which elected Wilson, but the fact that the latter had had little ex perience in interna tianai politics un fitted him, in the kaiser’s estimation, for the important office for which he was running. I saw the kaiser shortly after Mr. Wilson’s election. “I am very much surprised at the result of your election,” he declared. “I didn’t think your people would be so foolish as to elect a college profes sor as president. What does a profes sor know about international politics and diplomatic affairs?” I haven’t the slightest doubt that the kaiser pictured our president as a counterpart of the typical German professor—a plodding, impractical, un ambitious bookworm with no hope o,r desire of ever earning more than $1,000 a year and no yearning for public ac claim, a recluse, absent-minded and self-centered, who spent the midnight oil poring over musty volumes and paid little or no attention to what was going on around him.! Such a man, the kaiser undoubtedly believed, the United States had elected as its chief executive apd his surprise was more or less natural in those circumstances. Wnon wuson sent men w Cruz the kaiser felt that he had ex ceeded his rights. "What right has Wilson to mix in the internal affairs of Mexico?” he asked. “Why doesn’t he allow them to fight it out among themselves. It is their affair, not his!” Germany had many financial interests in Mexico and looked with disfavor upon any move we made in that direction. When, however, the war in Europe started the kaiser made every effort to have America in international affairs provided we fought on her side. When I saw him just after the war started he said we ought to seize the opportunity to annex Canada and Mexico. “Can’t your president see the won derful opportunity bow for combin ing with us and crushing England?" he asked. “With our fleet on one side and America’s on the other we could destroy England’s sea power. This It America's great opportunity to domi nate the western hemisphere, and your president must see his chance to take Canada and Mexico!” As the war progressed and reports ' reached the kaiser of our increased shipments of munitions to the allies, the kaiser’s Impatience with Wilson be came more difficult to repress, and there was hardly aa Interview I had with him In which he did not give vent to his feelings in that connec tion. “My officers are becoming stf in censed at America’s attitude,” he told me, “it will be impossible for me to restrain them much longer.” And when, on another occasion, he accused Mr. Wilson of discriminating against Germany, he made the re mark: “Wilson’s in the hands of the Wall street group!" But, perhaps, the most bitter de nunciation I ever heard him make of , Wilson was shortly after we entered the war. I had been summoned to the great army headquarters to see him, and when he entered the room he appeared to be in a towering rage. Indeed, his condition was so apparent that the kaiserin, who was also pres ent, sought to excuse him with the explanation that he had been very much upset and had been sleeplhg very poorly, and she asked me to treat him gently and tried to soothe him at the same rime, but he told her to leave the room and resented her shoe ing me that she petted him. we said utue wnue i wasrat wort, but when I was through and was pre paring to leave, the kaiser stepped toward mo and said: “Davis, Wilson is a real scoundrel!” My face flushed, I suppose, at this insult to our president, and my re sentment was so apparent that the kaiser immediately patted me on my right shoulder and apologized, i “I beg your pardon, Davis,” he de clared, in a quieter voice. “I know you’re an American and I beg your pardon for hurting your feelings, but if you only knew, you would realize what a scoundrel your president is. When it comes to throat-cutting, Wil son should have his cut first!” Whenever the sun shone for the kaiser he grew so optimistic that he failed to pay the slightest attention to tnc clouds gathering on the horizon. After the Italian collapse, for instance, he was so enthusiastic about his mili tary success in that arena that he failed to realize that America was slowly but surely forging the thunder bolt that was to strike him down. “Now how foolish It was for your president to bring your country into this war!” he said. “Americans will now see, when it is too late, what fools they made of themselves when they elected a professor for president. Now America must pay the bills!” In this remark and others of the same import the kaiser's expectation of being able I to exact an enormous indemnity as pert of his peace terms was clearly In : dicated, and he felt that America, hav ing profited the most and suffered the least of any of the belligerent powers, would be in the best position to fill his depleted coffers. The last time I saw the kaiser when he mentioned the president was in the fall of 1917, shortly after Wilson had replied to the pope’s peace proposal. | “Wilson is an idealist, and an ideal ist can accomplish nothing!” was his comment. “He went into the war that I he might have a seat at the peace table but he will never get It. I shall pre j vent it!” Of Wilson’s peace notes, which were ' issued before America went into the i war, the kaiser remarked: “I think I I am right, the others think they’re right, i America has all the money. If Wilson really wants peace, let him pay the bills and take care of the indemnities | and the war wfll be over! It is very 1 simple.” There was no man of modern times 1 whom the kaiser seemed to admire so ! much, before the war, as ex-President j Roosevelt. The kaiser was convinced i tliat Roosevelt had prevented war with | Japan by sending the American fleet I around the world and showing that it j v. as fit. This brilliant stroke of states | manship, as the kaiser termed it, was a topic that he referred to on several j occasions. It was a forceful demonstra ! tlon that was very much after his own ; heart. j “What I admire about Mr. Roosevelt ! most,” he said, “is the fact that he has j the greatest moral courage of any man I ever knew!” The fact that Mr. j Roosevelt had given Germany’s fleet i twenty-four hours’ notice to steam | from Venezuelan waters didn’t serve I to lessen the kaiser’s admiration for nun. I heard him shower praise on Roosevelt many times and I haven't the slightest doabt that he was quite sincere. After the war started, when Roose velt showed very plainly that no mat ter what nice things the kaiser might have thought and. said of him, he cer tainly didn’t reciprocate the feeling, the kaiser was very much disappointed. “I’m terribly disappointed in Mr. Roosevelt,” he declared. “After the way my wife and I entertained him when lie was here as our guest, for him to take the stand he has is very ungentlemanly. I gave a great review for him—the greatest honor I could be stow upon him and a thing which had never been done for a private citizen. He was not president then, you know. I used to admire him very much, but now I think the man has gone crazy and lost his mind. I never thought he would turn against us like that!” He did not seem to realize that a patriotic 5= !T American owed allegiance to hi* own country. In 191ft I asked him wJiether he had heard that Mr. Ford was on his way over from America in a' chaffered ship with a delegation. "Who, Peace-1 I told the kaiser what I had read of the Ford expedition. “How can your country allow a man like that to do this thing—a man who has played no part in the politics of his own country and is entirely ignorant of International affairs—a man who, I understand, was formerly in the bi cycle business and knows very little ontside of business matters? “I haven’t the slightest' doubt Mr. Ford is a great business man,” the kaiser went on, "and I am sure he means all right, but what a mistake it is to allow a man so ignorant of world affairs to do a ridiculous thing like this!” I told the kaiser that it had been suggested in some of the American papers that If Ford really wanted to end the war, all he had to do was to pay Germany $100,000,000 and buy Belgium back. “One hundred million dollars!" the kaiser repeated, and then after a mo ment's reflection,: as though he had been turning over some figures in his mind, “No, Davis, ft will cost much more than that to get Belgium back!” It occurred to me that If the kaiser really meant what he said on that oc casion, all his talk about “peace with out annexation” was obviously a myth and that the only hope of Belgium’s redemption lay in the military defeat : of Prussia. Subsequent developments I amply confirmed that fiew. In the winter of 1916, we were talk ing of the sentiment in America and , the conversation turned to Von Berns i torff. von Kernstorn nas ueen aoing very ! good work in your country,” the kaiser | commented. j “Well, your majesty,” I replied, “it is ! said in America that if he had not been i such a clever diplomat he would long j ago have been compelled to leave.” | “From all I hear,” the Ifaiser said, “he hasn’t had a very easy time”of it. 'The American press as a whole has been conspicuously anti-German, al I though I understand that one of your j newspaper publishers has been friend j ly to us. Mr. Hearst, for instance, has ; helped our cause very much in your country. He has been telling the truth about affairs, which is more than most of the other papers have been doing!” Just before the king of Greece abdi cated, the kaiser referred to the atti tude of the American press again. “The way the American newspapers and the press of the allied countries generally are presenting the Grecian situation to the world is absolutely false and a disgrace 1” he declared, bit terly. “They are entirely misrepre* i i senting the facts. Mr. Hearst i* the only one, as far as I can find, who has revealed the real conditions and told the truth about them. My, I wander ! what the people have to say now that Mr. Hearst lias Anally exposedjthe 1 whole-thing!” It was only a j time afterwards that the king abdicat ed and revealed unmistakably which papers had correctly interpreted the trend of Grecian politics. The kaiser spoke to me manytimes about the writings of William Bayard Hale. “Have you been following Hale’s ar ticles?” he inquired. “What he h» writing about the war is excellent and is really the best material published. He voices my sentiments exactly, and it would be well for every American to follow this writer’s work.” I had to confess that there was one American at least who was not only not following Hole’s writings, but had never heard of the writer, and the kaiser seemed to he somewhat dis pleased. He referred to Hale several times subsequently and in the meanwhile I had ascertained that the man in ques tion was the representative in Berlin of the Hearst newspapers and I sub sequently learned that he had pub lished a book called “American Rights and British Pretensions at Sea,” which explained at once to me why the kaiser was so enthusiastic about him. In the course of one of our many conversations on the subject of Amer ican munitions, the kaiser paid his re spects to Mr. Schwab. “What can one expect from Schwab, who is using the Bethlehem steel idjint to work against us?” he asked. “He is of Austrian Jew extraction and would work against anyone for the sake of the money that’s in it!” ‘Tm following affairs in America very closely,” he told mfi-^on another occasion, before we entered the war. “Not all of your senators are against us. Senator Stone, for instance, is taking a very strong neutral stand, I understand, and it is a pity there are not more like him.” Just before I left for my trip to j America In 1916, the kaiser called on l me and I told him I was leaving. “Well, Davis,” he said, “be careful not to run against any mines or be torpedoed. You’ll probably be pulled into England on your way over. We understand all boats are taken there for examination." Then, with fire In his eye. he added: “If you should see my cousin the king, in England, kick Mm on the shins for me!” To Be Continued, #**#**#****♦ J. E. CARPENTER Attorney-At-Law Office 2nd floor Bank of Maxton Building Maxton, — — -- — -- N. C. *♦***•♦«**** | FMFESMOML CUDS j Dr. T. D. GROOM, h okKtikt fe-. VI ax ton. N. C. MCINTYRE LAWRENCE & PROCTOR ATTORNEYS-A T-LA W, Lumberton. N. C. G. B. PATTERSON Attorney at Law Maxton, N. C. S. B. McLEAN Aunmey-at-Law 1 Room in Bank of Robeson building Maxton. N. L. A. W. McLean ” L. R. Varser Dickson McLean McLean, Varser & McLean and H. E. Stacy Attorneys At Law Lumberton, _ _ _ _ N. C. HENRY A. McKINNON Lawyer Bank of Maxton Building Maxton _ _ _ _ _ N. C. JUNIUS J. GOODWIN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office on ground floor, McLeod Bldg Opposite Robesonian Office LUMBERTON, N, C. ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF SUPPLIES SENT BY Y. M. C. A. Cost of Sweets and Smokes for One Month Reaches Staggering Fig ure—Armistice Didn’t End Smoking on Any Front New York, Jan. ...—Almost $4,000, 000 worth of smokes, sweets, sporting goods, chewing gum and other com inodities was shipped to France during the month of November by the Army %nd Navy Y. M. C. . for. the sar v’. ! — of the American Expeditionary For cob A statement to this effect has jusl been issued by the National Wai Council and tends to demonstrate that the demand fbr supplies of this char acter has not been reduced by the fact that hostilities have ceased. ' - In exact figures the value of th« supplies shipped to France was $3, 895,908 and each month’s quota trill ap proximate this total until the forces overseas have been materially reduced by demobilization. The demand for tebacCo, cigars and cigarettes has not diminished since the armistice was signed, as witness the fact that $1,351,000 of the total amount went for the purchase of the weed in some form. In the ship ments were 464,911 pounds of tobacco 198,065,320 cigarettes and 99,700 c* gars. As for confectionery, there were 213,800r pounds of hard candy, 175,918 pounds of chocolates and 329,280 pack ages of cough, drops, not to mention 537,600 tins of jams and 6,541,300 pounds of sugar. The chewing gum conignments totaled 6,100,000 packages ■—enough to load every slot machine in the United States. Y. M. C. A. SECRETARY HONORED FOR BRAVERY Brooklyn Man Is Awarded Croix de Guerre by Commander of Polish Forces Paris, Dec. 11.—“For heroic and un tiring work for. the soldiers while un der fire,” Stanley Modra, of 2123 Ca ton avenue, Brooklyn, a Y. M. C. A, secretary, has just received the Croix de Guerre from General Haller, com mander-in-chief of the Polish army, and has been mentioned in the offi-1 cial citations. He is the third Y. M.: G. A. man thus honored for conspicu- i ous bravery. Modra has been with the Polish! forces continuously since his arrival in France five months ago, and has given many notable exhibitions of gal lantry and fidelity to duty. During the last days ef the hostilities he served ] with the First division in the Vosges, | in charge of a hut in a narrow valley j between the first and second line j trenches. From this hut he made trip: after trip, carrying supplies to the men at the most advanced posts, and was ' under fire repeatedly. When the fighting was at its heavi est Modra and the men associated with him in Y work continued their minis- j trations to the soldiers, serving cocoa, cakes, when the men were in position | to receive them, and cigarettes. This service contributed much to the high morale of the troops and won not only the praise of the officers but the last ing gratitude of the men. y j-U i',. w FLOWERS Seasonsable cut flowers, palms, ferns and floral arrangements for any oc casion. Prompt attention to out - of town orders. SCHOLTZ, the Florist, Incorporated Phones 441-442. No. 8 N. Tryon st. Charlotte, N. C. Barnes Brothers Drug Company, Agents I POWDERS, SOOTHING LOTIONS, ANTISEP TICS, ETC, ETC. are essential to Baby’s comfort at times. It is yur fault if you lack any of these. OUR SUPPLY IS COMPLETE OUR PRICES MOST REASONABLE In fact, we make a specialty of catering to the comfort of His Majesty— BABY PHONE 19 | \ | i “Y” ENTERTAINERS i NEEDEDJN FRANCE While eertainbrancheg of the wort ! the National War Work Council of the T. M. C. A has been doing for some • time are being curtailed, one type ot ij sendee is being called upon for mere l ! oo-operation than ever before. Al | though for some time there have beeo I! approximately 460 to 500 entertainers ' in France, many difficulties have sur ( rounded this type of service and the I; thousands of shows which have been | given in France have only been pat j over in spite of almost superhuman, difficulties. Now, however, with the period of demobilization forcing upon the ^rmy new problems has a real spirit of oo-operation been shown by the Army authorities. Therefore, Oen> eral Pershing has detailed Oolonei Kelly, from his own Staff, to act os entertainment officer for the A. B. F., which position places him as the liai son officer between the Army and the "Y” Entertainment Bureau in Paris. Theatres and large buildings are be ing taken over, mechanics supplied by the Army are putting them into opera tion and the "Y” is producing shows, given by soldier talent alone, and also dramatic and vaudeville performances and miscellaneous musical programs, the personnel of all of which must be recruited from this country. | Owing to the large number of men in the Army with entertainment abil ity, no efTort is being made to send men from this side. Women, however, are wanted for these positions in large numbers. 125 must be sent out from this country every month, which will reouire the co-operation of every i* eruiting agency throughout the coun try. All entertainers are supplied with | uniforms, Life, Accident and Health ' insurance, transportation, and allow j {150.00 per month for living expenses | m France. The women should be preferably be tween the ages of 23 and 30, neat and attractive and possessed of a pro nounced ability in their particular line, i The field for entertainment now j reaches from the coast towns in France right up and into Germany, for while the “Y” cannot do much with the Army of Occupation in the way of Canteen, it can supply entertainment and is doing so on an increasingly targe scale. Information may be ob tained from W. C. King, Peters Build ing, Atlanta, Ga. DOUGHBOYS INVADE HISTORIC RESORTS Haunts of Napoleon Are Home to A. E. F. Troops Through Ef- : forts of Y. M. C. A. Forces to Better “Loove” -Ferifctimi Paris.—Where Napoleon ifl “aid King Edward VII of E&gbmd spent aiany leisure hour* the American en listed men are now at play. The fam aus yacht club at Cannes, founded and patronized by King Edward, and St. Sauveur, where'the third Napoleon was wont to go with his court, Indicate the variety of attractions offered by the T. M. C. A. in the leave area system oper ated in co-operatTon with the military authorities. From the Alps to the Pyr ennes and from the Brittany coast to the Riviera, there are seven "Y” leave areas in which 50,000 soldiers can be entertained at one time. Preparations are now under way to increase these much-appreciated facilities to double their present capacity. Representatives of the army and of the Y. M. C. A. are now traveling from one end of Prance to the other seek ing new spots in which to set up leave areas. The experiment at Aix-les-Balas has been successful from the start, as America now knows pretty well from first-hand information: carried home by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who organised the woman's canteen work at Aix. "Aches and Pains" was an ideal spot for the experiment, but six others have been found and put in operation, each equally satisfactory as the original model. Consequently it is with opti mism that the army and the “Y” seek to increase the centres where sure cures haye been found for homesick doughboys. Location, climate, hotel accommoda tions, opportunities for entertainment and sight-seeing and th$ moral and physical cleanliness of the area are all-important in the selection of a leave resort. As soon as a site is selected the largest available is ob tained by the Y. M. C. A. as its main center of operations, men and women are assigned to service and negoti ations are begun to secure reduced prices from such entertainment en terprises as cannot be duplicated by the Y. M. C. A. and every effort is made to give as much service as pos sible. The army provides transpor tation and pays the hotel bills, thereby enabling the soldier to enjoy all the attractions formerly restricted to kings and emperors and malefactors of great wealth. The Jetty Casino at Nice and the Mnnlclpal Casino at Cannes are the centres of attraction in the Riviera for the 8,500 men who can be accom modated in this area. Many offloers -favor this Mediterranean section and there is a “Y” club for them. Every thing except- the gambling that waa stopped by the government at the be ginning of the war is at the disposal of the Americans. Golf and tennis and other athletio sports, bathing, boating and the companionship of the local population are the most popular at tractions. I