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"It ia too bad you missed tl 1 never enjoyed anything more in all my life! I think 1 shall coax Warren to eome to XV w York so that I can go to the opera." "t yod enjoy It too, Sybil?" Un asked, looking at me. s,' Xo, t did not! and yon knew 1 wouldn't when you left na. I dont ee why you Eire U'gpoiJ everything Tl -am sorry my going pritenteA your doctor has to -go when mt&AXJz I am so Vtlitiiyi(it,::'1 aid pettishly. ''"".' " Landry made no answer, bat naked Warren to read something in the book before hint. They talked ia technical terms for a few momenta; then Landry arrested my attention. He said: U is one of the most pitiful cases, Warren, that I rer have known." ' "Tell me If yoa will. It -premises to be interesting." " "The aae is interesting, but the cir comitanees are almost sickening. When hefirs i came to me, "Whot" I iaterrnpted ami ' "Mrs. Hyde; when she first came to me, as I started to say, she told me nothing save her general symptoms and for some time I worked in the dark. Then one day when her Bertes were overwrought, she tola! Miss Hopkins and then me. I intktei upon an examina tion immediately, and found she had fancer of the breast caused by a falL Her brute of a husband had come home drunk and had pushed her, and she had hid fallen against the corner of a heavy table and bruised herself horribly. She was proud and hid it from everyone, evr her maid, although it pained her m badly at time."; ' ; 'Did she tell him fcer : htisbard V Margaret asked, lr fscc tender with 1 ity. "No, most cf all she hid it from Win said he n.i-hcd ber, b-.t I have r.y nuiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil TT XT m i Jnl-Jc. 3 5 a 2 a Today few scenes from our newspaper in pictures CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM FRENCH DINNER To Official Washington Our answer to the Hun's Ruthless Submarine Warfare - Wheat From Australia Together Wih Our Regular Program nrTT . :::u::::::::::::::::::::!::::si::::;:.::::::!:: Havo Yot!i rcacmo lakan Tomorrow ' -------Aaf L UOU UT k iv n opiniSflZ oa , U t v--ou le member what w saw on tne root gat den one tffcjhti SyWl if ma will attempt, will threaten to strik strike ft woman to public, he is Apt t d H at home. She has gradually grown worse.' Only her' indomitable will bis enabled her t Iteef ttp.' s -But she didn't look fflr t thought she looked perfectly wellT' Margaret in terposed. 1 wai too interested to in terrupt" 1 '"" -She had a clever maid. She has been determined all along that he, her husband, shouldn't know he had caused her illnes. I have seen her without sny aid of the toilet, and she is ghast- A Second Inquiry. "What neryer Warren said, a note of admiration in his voice. . "Wonderful," Landry responded. "Bui, II i said, ; she lias gradually been gto ing worse. I have ' tried to persuade her to be operated upon but she has steadfastly refused. I have made her as A.. . . jf ". eF" ' i ii comfortable as I could, hoping she would consent before: it was too, late." "Oh, if people would only take such things in time," Warren said senten tiously. i.,; "When I was sent for tonight, I feared something terrible had happened from the wording of the message. My worst fears were, realised; He Byde -rbad come home drunk, and in an ugly frame of mind. ,8he had expostulated with him; and in anger lie pushed her rfgain t least that's what she said e did and again she fell and unfortu nately struck herself fat almost the same place. This time on the edge of a carved ehalr. All the brute had done after ward was to curse and leave the house, tier maid sent the message. She hat at least been obliged to take her into her confidence. I have sent a nurse for the night; mut shall go back again myself. toor little woman. I tell you JWamU, 1 never saw such courage. She begged me not to let him know he had hurt her." v f 'I shall probably not live long,' she said as calmly as the pain would per i't. 'And it would be a lasting sor row if he knew, or thought, he had been in any way the cause of iteven accidentally.'" "Oh how terrible!" It was Marga ret again who spoke. '7 I mi --3 e S g BE looked at hie v-atchr bl ti around ther flow1! - -. - Ill go with y if i msy Yott prob ably woat Temaii long and I'D smoke nulftldcV Wimu offered. V "tes, eftme ft should liklt to talk over -the ease whb'yoif. ! shall insist uboit the ttperttion tomorrow'' She ha already givoa in faf enouii!' t promise to see Doctor Ward.'i'"'v,-'f i- nHe'll persuade' her;" Warreif tejom ed M they passed hut of the room. Thea Margaret taidi i - "Isn't H terrible! Suck i lovely wo man, and - Ja&et said the other day that she was1 as lovely UK character as in face. i Rome way I liver can recon cile aueh thlngt coming to people like her, whi'e t'there seem to go free." TmtrrwtHiE' AfTESMATH. ' HOBSX AMBULANCES FOB THE AKEBICAH FORCES Albany, N. Y, Feb. 28. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wi'.eox,the "Poet Laureate of Humanity," ia on her way to France as pneral representative of the American Red Star Animal Relief She ia to Bee 'Icneral Pershing and to offer two motor veterinary ambulances, costing 110,000, ivcn by American citfeena through the Vmericaa Red Star.. r'-'A' J:r'i''i Dr. WilliAta 0. Stiimah, ' director reneral of the Red Star, interviewed at :he national headquarters in this eity aid the offer was part of the Red Star's tfforts to cooperate with the American irmy. "Our amy," he said "has one horse or mule to every four men and it Is necessary for the success of the ypnipajgn ? that the horse sapplies should be maintained at - that high standard. With ships becoming career iiid the demand for ship-space more1 im fietative, i is esaential that every cura- V horse should be saved. "The European armies are giving the treat possible care to wounded ani mals.' The British have a magnifilehi hospital service so efficiently managed that 84 per cent of the animal cases are being rure and shipped back to the batteiground. "The American amy must b aa well Equipped as the best of the European rrtl In ths respect, and w" ire ar tanging to have these ambulances sent form England to save time and ship pace: The ambulances are of the hew est typ and each will carry two horses. "Of conse, the Red Hint , will send is they are needed.; the offer throuah Mrs. Wilcox is just the beginning Huh order to inect the earliest emer gencies.' .. ;. . G00B SCHEME, ALL SIGHT But Basse is Hot Water Bottles ts , Bound to Hive Odor. '' ' Rocky Mount, Feb. 28.Many are the schemes of the HdU5ii imugglers. The story is going the rounds ho ai Elni t hy negro waa on a visit to his brother at , Hartford. - Co'nnectieuit, - recently, where rubber hoi water oottleS Ire man- fafstured. He v ing a desre to return to the bid Ifottfi State with a supply pf that Vevcrage which caused the aftti- saloon league to be organised tfie'Bot water bottle idea Seemed a safe one. Therefore, he" proceeded to boy out adjoining breweries and gave a number if bot water bottles all they could Bold. He then tucked the bottles safely into a box and aeni them oil their ifay re joicing to Elm City checked as baggage. All went well until he reached Elm City Me found the box with th contrabaftd, afld he also saw several men with shin ing luittons on jthelr clothes! The man, M doubt, believed the self -preservation Hter knowftiaftsafetyfirsttistheflrst kw. of nature4, tu'nied 'hit back on the box and the officers m disgust, and star t d out for no fixed destination, although he as In, considerable earnest to get there.. And be hasn't been seen since. The aroma given off by , the box didn't have ah innocent smell to the officers, arid naturally being Inquisitive, they pro reeded to take a peep en the toae. 'Arid this peep was the undoing of the son of Africa. 4' T' t ' 1 ; s i i i in s it i an i. r v w .. i mw ARE , .... v . v f ... .5.,... ., TAKE U S. CENSUS , , 1 -' a. ' f- ,i . , Plana Belnf Laid at Washington by the Officials for the National Census b 1920. Preparations are being made for the 1920 census, with especial attention to statistics covering the industries and employes in the oevelopment ef natural 'resources. A bi i providing tor the 1920 census will be reported in a few days by. the house census com Initte, of which Representative Har vey Helm of Kentucky is chairman. Supervisors and enumerators of pop u'ion and agriculture probably will number between 85,()00 and 00,000 and for manufactureree, mines and quarries nnder separate supervision, there will be 100 employes in the field With from ,),j Ier)iJjfnd othei employe. jtt 4Jl fensus., office;,. . , ' The bill is" expected to fofow recom- aarorV'.p pointed, jby. .the : director, jof ..the. .census, which suggested that the Fhiliippines, not included in the thirteenth census. Should not be included in the four teenth, and that a census of the. Vir gin Islands ia now in progress, and an other one is unnecessary in 1020. In Guam, Samoa and the Panama Canal tone special censuses can readily be taken at ema(J cost if congress orders Ity the committee revoTtedv' , ae . committee also recommended tnst the new census be 'extended to show the nationality or mother tongue of an persons m this country born iri tbreign cosjhtriei and nationality or foreign tongue ' of foreign born patents. It suggested that the popu. latkm enumeration; be based on Jan nary 1, iuao, instead ; of April 15, M in the past, that there be a bfen hial census of the products of manu facturing industries and tath the cen sus of animals slaughtered be dispen sed with ,; as approximately accurate Conclusions regarding meat and hide production" ean be reached from other sourcfrf, , MEIIcd WILL HAVfi SOME ' ' COFFfcl TO QtTZBCH THIRST Mexico City, Feb.. !. The manage ment of the National railways has chartered two merchant ships fo trans port from Puerto, Mexico, 100,000 sacks bf eoffe which have piled up there is result of the paralysis of sea traffic since the beginning of the yar, it Is announced. The coffee will be SenL it Is stated, to the United States ind U. iigerent countries 6f the old world. The inovemenf of this supbiy.'K is added, will prevent the threat of planters in the Southern part of this eouhtry and other neighboring republics Id Ttoftt M mud o coffee this season. Over subnly of the product lit Mexi his caused nrlce to fall to atl riftprecedented ftgiire. 1 r. ., Iferab's Kem. ,, Mistress Vnrdh , ma- tinakanJ t. ing over these lamb chops you sent up. tie says they ire raw and he is acting like a wild man. : " Norah-Tben, shure, mum, If lie's Setingjike a woTd ma"nraw irfate is ust the food for him. Boston Trans cript. ., , .' 4 ., . FRESH TODAY Extra nice native and western beef and coun try perl: and pork eau- 'CALL C2X or Saturday Hun "Tobacco" Has Many: Ingredients But No Tobacco Paris, Feb. ft. '"The eternal 'pas de tabac" bids fair to haunt our ears like the 'pas de fenvmes" song in the 'Petit Due The wice of tobacco has risen, but there is no tobacco. AVe smokers would not find if the prices were in creased a hundred-fold under these con ditions, but what we want is tobacco." Such is the airy comment of a man in the street yesterday. " But still,? he Added, as he threw away a ha!f-smoked cigar, pulled out another, lit it, and puf fed away contentedly "thank goodness, I'm not a German." He paused signiflcatntly, drew a copy of thei "Liberte" from his pocket and be gan to read: "The tobacco found on German- prisoners has been analyzed and found to contain hops, twigs and leaves of fennel, cow's lungwort, mint, vervain, wild oats, briar and reed, pith from the elder tree, scraps of bark, scrapings from camembert cheese, brown paper, emery c!oth and pieces of umbrella covering!' , He had flung the "Liberte" from him at the word -'bark" and had been carried ftway by his feelings. "Yea, sir," he said defiantly, "the Germans are worse off than we are- for tobacco, but (and he filled a capacious pipe before continuing) that la no excuse. They deserve to be Worse off." - f ..' . SCHEDULE OF INTERURBAN . MOTOR LINES (Incorporated) Operating Daily Between High Point ant Winston-Salem and High Point and Greeisboro Leaves High Point, Elwood Hotel FOR WUfSToil ' B:00 A. M. 2:00 P. M. 'Leaves Winston, Zinzendorf Hotel, FOR HIGH P0IHT ' -10-00 A. M? 6:00 P. M. HIGH P0IHT.GREENSBORO LINK Leaves High Point, Elwood Hotel, ' . F0H GREENSBORO 9:00 A. M. - 1:00 P. It Leaves Greensboro,' Guilford Hotel, , FOR HIGH PfJlltX 11:00 A. M. - 0:00 P. M. CARS FOR HIRE FOR SPECIAL TRIPS ' THOlMtS. , INTERURBAN MOTOR LINES Closing Out ale or Positively everV yard of Piece Goodj, consisting of Percale's) GinghaihJi Dirr.ity, Outing, Sillis, CalfcdetCat must go. " Our sale prices are less than Wholesale cost. Ccme make your, selec tion while our stock is complete. ATLANTIC "WeSclinChcrrr." i A UTTT A fHTTTafh A 5 ;i 1 M V VV 1 liil 11 11 v ttt 11 u i; i -ViinniP .Mora ? l rHIi nRFN'q l PI Ain CllVC I . v s I ! T I ' I mmmm wauw UW1U' I S j; "ATS Just received by STREET HATS ;j j! Big variety of chil- express today, a Take , advantage' J I J; dren. spring hats beautiful lot of f Un yW jl ! in different colors. . ., , 8treet hats now tancy plaid dress ... I' I; Nicely made up. ... . . f wH,,e OU can ' v " lk m vanety of WVe money. Here j! 1 1 You should not ij ! , .. , colors anJ nlairU y" will find a big Ji tail to see these , . s J assortment of la- J ; children's hats be- Me dies Hats in dif- !j 5 fore buying. We good values? en- ferent colors; all i .il t. i ; , well made and tit ! j will save you tirely new; special t, . ' - c i big savings. See J r j; money. , $1.48 and $1.59. them. THE SP SAMPLE. STORE ; GEMER BROS. COMPANY Save While Yoii Earn Right "now there is heed for a conservation of t your funds. We. know not what the morrow will, bring. But if you are thrifty you will not feel the pinch of want nor will you have to ass up YOUR OPPORTU NITY when it comes. There are many U-boats Vin a mans life ready to sink him into the depths of want aiH povertybe armed against them with a savings account in sotne strong bank, ' "" . Four per cent compound interest on a saV r - ings account - $1.00 opens an account. " Every Accommodation Extended Commer cial Depositors BANK OF COMMERCE rO, E. KEARNS , ( President r G. A. POLLOCK, ' , Assistant Cashier ?i!!o Eczoffla Remedy ... . . THAOS MARtt , . . . ' . i, ' . STOPS THAT ITCH . Just a few drops .f that mild, soothing, cooling wash, Meritol Eczema Itemed, So highly recommended for Eczema, and the itching and burning ia gone. Scientific investigations have taught is that eczema is positively ft skin disease and curable through the skin alone. - This remedy is applied direct to the akin. f ypu axe afflicted with this distressing ailment we ask : you to try it on our gtwrantPfd A trial will convince you of jts gen-,, uiiis merits. Price 60c fc trial bottle. One dollar, for large sizes. J. A. HART LRTJG CCLIPAKY - M EGAtTY A, M. RANKIN - J. H. ADAMS ' jiw - riHiucui ,,. vice-jfresident' -1 H. A. JJILLIS ' Cashier'. '
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