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PAGE TWO FRIDAY, NOV. lOTII, 1916 THE SNIPER'S LIFE IN A BRITI8H DUGOUT An English "sniper" with Genera! Ilaig's army In France in a letter to a relative In England describes the con dltJons under whk-li ho and uls fellow snipers live when not in action. That part of the letter whlh tells of the sniper's life In hlo dugout Is as fed Ions: "We live In a trench the sUlos ot which are topjoj with masnes of mend ov flowers, mid iu this netting the wooden entrance, with a Beat on each Bide, looks tjulte picturesque. The en trance Is fitted with a curtain that cun be rolled up. but can bo released in an Instant, rnd would clo.se up the dugout tightly in case of a gas at tack. Everything Within Reach. "Just Inside the entrance at the top of the stairs we 'keep three petrol cans In which we htore water. ' Farther down the stairs we have on our right a rifle rack, on the left a sort of al cove cut Into the earth, in which we do the cooking for our Improvised supper parties. 8oiu shelves on tht stairs are Uttered. with the implement of our trade, such as snlposcopes, perl scopes, cleaning material, etc., and things connected with food, such ok mess tins, tins of tea or sugar, etc. The latter preponderate, reminding rut whut a lot of thinking about food wt do. But I suppose that In civil lift food needs at least ns much thinklnc about, only there Is always a woinai: to do the thinking. "Right at the bottom of the stairs with u. distinctive mark to show thai they may not bp removed from thai place, are a couple of pit ks and shov els. These are Cor use In case a sin should land r'trfit. In the doorway an block it up with debris.' Beds of. Wire Netting. "The dugout Is about live feet si inches high. Eight uu-s.ibors of the section and the otllcer II v l:v It. Thf beds tire wire tici ting (riMlier Itixuil ous in the trenches r iirrasijn'd in I wi stories. We lay our trt-'n: i.-.l wheels oh the wire, wrap ourselves in our ground sheets ami sleep t he sleep of the Ju l I alwnj'3 wear n woolen Bleeping cap because I do not like rats and mi. i- to run over my h.'ur. We h;ive i sleep with our boots on. The bed: ta ke up most of the space. "jo t h left contains a cotiple of snial! tables 'and benches and n partial screen be tween our partvuid the .office,' In which our nicer lives. The walls tire dec orated with picture postcards, mags sine covers and, of course, a f i rSalriisfathci's cartoons. . "You wl.'l gather thar liv the stand aid o? tue poor I;iw conunissloiKsrs vt are rather, 'overcrowded. Hut at oiw time sixteen of v biiiabl'.ed this dug' out -two on t-.u h bed end we .could rot move without'. disturbing eneli ot!t er 'when father turns wo a1 turn sort of thing. l!pt none of us stiff el by It. II does not. even subdue out bolsferonsticss. Imagine Us all talking. . bickering, . 'singing, cooking and gen rally clattering about, and amid till this noise mid buffeting about our orll cer has to make out his Intelligence re ports or whatever work .may be 'oh hand. As the evening draws on our discord generally settles down to more harmonious concord. There are a few fellows In the section who can har monize rather well, und so we general ly get in a rather jolly stngsoujr be fore settling down to sleep." THI3 "PASTOR" PR0VE8 " A WIZARD IN CRIME WILL SEND MAILS TO GERMANY BY SUBMARINE The postoffiee department Is prepared to accept a proposal, submitted by Count lternstorrr, the German ainbns sudor, that malls bet ween this "coun try und Germany be transported in merchant submarines'. Announcement to this effect was made ly Otto Trig ger, second assistant postmaster gen eral. The proposal Is that not more than tOO pounds of first class lettter i.iail be carried by each German .merchant sub marine leaving on American port nf the regular steam liner rate. The ' sug gestion' was made that submarine mail be placed In special containers, but the postoflice authorities rejected that, say ing the mails could .only bo handled With the regular equipment. German ntllcl.ils hope. '.that the plans can be completed In time for thr Deutscliland t" carry the first malt shipment on her second return voyage. Cats' Fur Causes Divorce. Because the white fo. furs' -her hus band gave her once adorned a cat a Chicago couple huve been dlv6ned. "Before taking Chamkerlaln's Tab lets my husband suffered for several years from Indigestion, causing him to have pains In the stomach and dis tress after eating. Chamberlain's Tablets relieved htm of those spells right away," writes Mrs. . Thomas Casey, Geneva, N. Y. Obtainable everywhere. Alert young clergymen and prosper! ous business men of Pougbkeepsle, N Y.; quiet church folic of New Ham burg a few miles down the Hudson em! old widows and bard listed farm ers of the back river country rubbed their eyes and read the newspaper paragraphs over and over again the other morulng when they came upon lines that had to do with their pastor and confidant, the Rev. Arthur Worth lugton. For four years the old and the young of New Hamburg had greeted affec tionately the tall, white hulled clergy man as he passed along the village streets. Space limits prevent a detailed story of his half century r so of depravity. lie was born at Sa liberties, N. Y., la 181S. He left the grammar grades of his native town when sixteen years old, or In the days of the civil war, to enter the army, lie was too young ta fight and therefore served as an order ly until the end of the war the one bright spot In his cctive career. Studied at Columbia. After the war he relumed to New York ind studied law at Columbia. He then went to Albjc.y, where ho was selling insurance when he met a good looking girl working ns a telegrapher. Ho Induced her to accompany him to New York, where he was married Iu IW. (.'ailing himself Crawford, he took his bride, to Philadelphia, where they lived almost two years. Then he deserted her and her infant daugh ter mid returned, nothing daunted, to Albany to sell more Insurance. He bought some horses there, but the transaction was so shady that he was arrested, mid on Oct. 11. 1S"(, he Mas sentenced to serve three years In the Albany county penitentiary. When discharged from prison on June 1(1. IS".'!, be headed for Boston, where in the spring, of 1N71. posing as a bachelor,, he married the daughter of I a Hostou clairvoyant. That was a busy married year for him, for in n short time he deserted his Boston bride and went to Chicago, i On Sept. G..1S7I, ho married the daugh ter of n prominent 'Chicago Judge, forged the judge's name for $.1,000, borrowed money tight and left from his wife's- relatives u rut deserted her. In April, 18S,'I, ho was back In lios ton and met a wealthy 'man-led wom an. Ho persuaded her to : leave her husband, '-and the couple- eloped t Charlestown, W. Va. There he vie (iml::ed a wealthy coal r:-ln . r..tme; liana out. of .:?.iim. Crawford's nan, -now being '-.Itltlge John, 1. Crawford' On March lu, I.SSC. he deserted t! Hoston woniini nod tied fYoiii Chiii-lt-town with fill her morey .He stoppc,. off nest, at Grlilin, (!a , nu ! a piv;-. girl belotiting lo.a rich family, ntu: promptly, married her. .Crawford Iu duced the bride to start' him n s tht head of a private bnpk. She'. let him have .f':t'00 to go to Cincinnati to tu. sales am! other fixtures. lie never. canie back. ,.- Next ei a "General.'' Out In .Spokane, Wash., he blew-In .D0.0tN) In it year ami next showed up In . Providence, It. I., whore he was married In November, 1S8T. to a South Providenco 'young woman, whom he took to Grand Forks, N, IV- lie descried the Providence girl in Dakota and arrived In New York in lSt. The advertising of a Mr. and Mrs, John J. I'lunkett, who headed a cult, attracted 'him.. In a short time he Induted Pltinkett to give up Mrs. I'lunkett' to him, .whereupon' the "gem ru!" and Mrs. TlunUelt were married by an "agreement" ceremony and con tinued the business. The Man ha tin n newspapers got after the "general" 'about this time, so he decided to leave. In August, 1S1K), the man and his latest wife turned up in Clirlstehureh, New Zealand, where e de.ierted bis latest wife and married another- woman. Shortly afterward Vortliing(n" began a seven year prison sentence In Melbourne, Austra lia, for defrauding 'a widow out of $0,- UCHt. Poses as an Oxonian. He next appeared In Europe In 1011 and then 'returned this country, ap pearlng In Ponglikeei,sle..nit far from his birthplace,- and told local Presbyte rian clergymen that he was a grad uate of Oxford, an ordained .minister and had had papers to prove his status, but had lost them In n shipwreck at sea. The North Hlver Presbytery liked him, Just as every one he met seemed to be won by him. and accepted him tentatively. They kept "Worthlngtou" I oil juVbaHon fpr a J'ea F.ajiil-tht JLbe was assigned to the church at New Hamburg. At the first signs of real trouble "the Rev. Mr. W'orthlngton" departed, leav ing his wife and four children to shift for themselves. It Is believed that he Is now In Canada, late advices saying that he had been seen receutly In Mon treal. . Indian, at 122, Works Daily as Labor er Remembers Back to 1810. Mfizatlan, Mexico, claims as a resi dent a reputed oldest man in the world. Jose Juan Velasquez, an Indian, who. according to all records available, Ms 122 years old. Velasquez, has the agility of a man of less than half his years and works dully as a laborer. He possesses a re markable memory und Is familiar with happenings dining the Hidalgo revolu tion for Mexican Independence from Spain In 1M0 1M. TAKE "CASCARETS" IF ' HEADACHY, BILIOUS AND CONSTIPATED Best Bad HIGH COST OF DYING ADOS TO WOES OF LIVING To the h'gh cost of living Is being added as sircat n trial the high cost of dlmr. For the last few years the prices of under takers, cofl'in makers and em baliners havi! kept pace with the upward trend set by the grocer mid tin- butcher. Now comes a further item to told to the house- holder's woes over the soaring price of flour and coal cotlins are to increase $." apiece la price. That applies only to the cheap est ones too. The higher priced articles will advance In greater. proportion, for upon them Is ex pended more dye and varnish and i't her chemicals hitherto im ported from Germany. Under takers s-iv that the situation Is serious and that if the prices of burying materials should contin ue to Increase they Intended to start a campaign in favor of cremation. For Liver and Bowels, Breath, Bad Colds, Sour Stomach. Get a 10-cent box. Sick headache, biliousness, coated tongue, head and nose clogged up with a cold always trace this to tor pid liver; delayed, fermenting food In the bowels or sour, gassy stomach. Poisonous matter clogged in the in testines, instead of being cast out of the system Is re-absorbed into the blood. When this poison reaches the delicate brain tissue it causes Conges tion and that dull, throbbing, sicken ing headache. Cascarets Immediately cleanse the stomach, remove the sour, undlgeste food and foul gases, take the excess bile from the liver and carry out the constipated waste matter and poi sons In the bowels. A Cascaret tonight will surely straighten you out by morning. They work while you sleep a 10-hent box from your druggist moans your head clear, stomach sweet and your liver and bowels regular for months. 25 CENTS DESTROYS YOUR DANDRUFF AND STOPS FALLING HAIR Save Your Halrl Make It Thick. Wavy and Beautiful Try This. Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy hair Is mute evidence of a neglected scalp; of dandruff that awful scurf. There Is nothing so destructive to the hair as dandruff. It robs the hair of Its lustre, its strength and its very life; eventually producing a feverish ness and itching of the scalp, which If not remedied causes the hair roots to shrink, loosen and die then the hair falls out fast. A little Danderine tonight now any time will surely save you hair, j Get a 25-cent bottle of Knowlton's uanaerlne irora any drug store or toilet counter, and after the first ap plication your hair will take on that life, lustre and luxuriance which is so beautiful. It will become wavy and fluffy and have the appearance of abundance, an incomparable gloss and softness; but what will please you most will be after just a few weeks' use, when you will actually see a lot of fine, downy hair new hair growing all over the scalp. No Doubt About This Foley Cathartic Tablets are Just a plain, honest, old-fashioned physic. They act promptly and effectively on the bowels without pain, griping or nausea. They keep the stomach swoet, the liver active, and the bowels regular. They banish biliousness, sick headache, sour stomach, indiges tion. At Gardner's Drug Store. WAR OR NO WAR Fires Keep Coming And We keep paying My Companies Are lots more Able tobear a Loss than you are; Therefore, BE PRUDENT And insure With Took the Hurt Oul of Her Back. Mrs. Anna Byrd, Tuscumbia, Ala., writes: "I was down with my back so I could not stand up more than half the time. Foley Kidney Pills took all of the hurt out." Rheumatic pains, swollen ankles, backache, stiff joints and sleep disturbing bladder aliments indicate disordered kidneys and bladder troubles. At Gardner's. FRANCIS WOMACK, :- HEADQUARTERS FOR HIGH PRICES :- i: I J 4 :a .w-i i Js raia .' '.-- i.: ..-X - ; - WA TO MY FARMER FRIENDS: I am glad to say that tobscco is selling at very satisfactory prices and alt of .my customers are highly pleased with returns. I am making the highest averages ever made h any previous year on this market fcr the same grades of tobacco. -There is a keen demand for al! eclnry tobacco and bright smokers and cutters are especially sought after. In grading your tobacco b: careful to not mix fillers with your smokers, as it hurts the sale of the latter. Get your tobacco in good orier and when ready ta market, drive straight to Watt's Leader Warehouse where you will always find good accomodations and can count on getting the topjitjhe market. Yours Faithfully, - U J. N. WATT, Proprietor OUR FORCE: R. L. Snead, Bookkeeper; Will Hutcherson, Auctioneer; Joe Benton, and Charlie Turner Floor Managers; M. E. Fagge, Book Carrier. The Insurance Man. We Will Supply Ally thing Wanted IN PERFECT GALVANIZED IRON ROOFING, V CRIMP ROOFING, TIN ROOFING, GUTTERING, SPOUT ING; CHIMNEY PIPE, BOTH ROUND AND SQUARE; WELL TUBING AND SEWER PIPE. STOVES, RANGES, HEATERS, LAUNDRY AND COOKING STOVES, FIRE BOARDS AND PIPING. ; . - PLUMBING GOODS CLOSETS, LAVORATORIES, BATH TUBS AND BATH ROOM SUPPLIES OF ALL KINDS. : GET OUR ESTIMATES ON PLUMB ING AND SEWERAGE CONNEC TIONS. K. G. Glaastohe. c tlx j s2d asa n&t 3$ tii ins s. Read the AdTertlsemer-ts todavt APPLICATION. For Employment In the Cigarette Factory of the AMERICAN TO BACCO COMPANY. Single - f Married children- Name Reference Past Occupation or experlene- IIow soon after notiflcatlon can 70 a report far workt PoitoCce address to which nolle tnsst be sent Date 1 . j .' 1 They Give You That Finished Appearance Here are the weaves and fabrics, that represent the manufacturer's highest art, that are now being shown in the fashion centers of die world. Here are serges, worsteds, cassimeres, cheviots, home'spuns and tweeds that give you a new idea in rare and refined patterns. ADLER'S Collegian Clothes Conceded by our customers to be the most attractive examples of expert clothevmaking ever "displayed. Such beauty in style and perfection in tailoring has , never been shown before in clothes at our prices. , You will find your favorite pattern, weave and color made up in a cut and style that will fit you as if made to your individual order. S. S. HARRIS; h 1 ' A1 - I II Ox Jno. D. HUFF1NES FIRE INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE City and Farm Property Bought, Sold or Exchanged. OFFICE NO. 200 CITIZENS BANK BUILDING M5to$35 WANTED! FOR CASH HIDES, TALLOW. WAX. WOOL, FURS, SCRAP RUBBER, BONES RAGS, FEED BAGS, SCRAP METALS AND IRON. FOR SALE Gasoline Engine, Pulleys, Shaft ing, Hangers, etc. Also Agents tor the Union Metal Jc Bread Board, the only all-metal sanitary bread board on the market at $1.00 each. PROMPT RETURNS MADE ON ALL OUT OF TOWN SHIPMENTS. Walker Hide and Junk Co Reidsville, fhoni u; N.C '5 BULBS! BULBS! I NOW HAVE OX HAND MY USUAL FALL SUPPLY OF BULBS CONSISTING OF PAPER WHITE NARCISSUS, ROMAN HYACINTHS, (white onl) DUTCH HYACINTHS, (single and t double, in all eolors) TULIPS, ( several varieties.) FREESIAS, JONQUILLS, and CHI NESE ULUES. . Call Early Before Stock is Broken! Charles Felzer. THE DEPENDABLE DRUGGIST AT IT FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS
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