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VV ><ALt A HiI.LIOH QTJWAK >W* !OAl*t> QM4H/P IACH Yt AM. ** r\>*? AtllM'C A ? ; CVMANC/Wl F7KLM POOVIOR ArttRlCAVrrH 7*0 MILLION ran s otjv&au each yeah, OVER V 5 per cent, of the sug^r used in the United States is delivered .by ships. There is produced about 800,000 tons of beet sugar and 250,000 tons of can** sugar in Louisiana. The total consumption of the United States is about 4,50.0,000 tons of raw sugar, which makes about 4,250,000 tons of refined sugar. If our coasts were blockaded as Germany's now are, we would have available for the use of the people of the United States* bnly one pound of sugar for every four we use. Under such circumstances there is no doubt that the American people would get along on this limited supply without complaint,. The United States Food Administration is asking every American household to use not more than two pounds of sugar per person each month for domestic use. Reducing our sugar consumption here means that .we will be able to help supply the needs of France, Eng land and Italy. Sugar conservation on the American table also means conservation of ships. The Army and Navy have sent out an "S. O. S." call for ships. "Save Our Ships to Transport Troops and Munitions to France, in older that we may keep the fight ing front where it now is and not allow it to extend to our own homes," is the message. There is ample sugar in the world for all require ments ? in fact, there is a large surplus, bufon account of the ship shortage it is not available for use in this country. Java, which produces 15 per cent, of the world's cane crop, ;s too far removed. It requires 150 to 160 days for a ^hi,> to go to Java and return. ARMY T BIG AID TO SOLDIERS (Above) Boys write letters and enjoy refreshment# from Y. M. C. A. tent during rest period on practice hike. (Below) Standard War Work building; 450 constructed or authorized. "If* always on th* Job." That's what th?' aoldlor* and sail- 1 urn of T'ncle Sam say about tho War Work of the V M C. A Athletica arc* organized. reci PHtional games ar?* f ered, educational elapses are maintained, social timet* are ar ranged with entertainer* and moving pictures, Bible, classes are conducted and a atrong program of religious work developed. Building 108 at Camp Greene, Char-i lotte, N. C., was crowded tbe night Dr. j Q. R. Stair gave hit famous sermon on "The Potter'^ Clay." The invi-l tation had been given and men were etgnlng the War Koll and were being presented with the customary RoldierA' Pocket Testament. On? young man approached by Physical Director As thur E. Bagley upon the question of making a decision, responded affirma tively at once. When the Testament va? handed to him he aaid: "I am do ing something for you that I refused to do for my mother. When I left home In Idkho a month ago, ahe aaked me to taka a pocket Testament with me, but 1 thought It was no part of a soldier's kit This old Y. M. O. A. has surely made me change my mind. I'm going t? git down and write te her not to worry a?y more." A different kind of work is shown in the experience of Captaiu Stanley Borleska of the Portland, Oregon, troops at the same camp. Borleska was a member of the University of Michigan football and track teams In 1S14 and was chosen for the mythical all-star western intercollegiate foot ball and track teams that year. He told Bagley what the "Y" had meant to him He said: "When 1 oame Into this camp I wondered how I was groin# to keep in physical condition. 1 saw no opportunity or place to do any train in* You Y. M C. A. fellows hare ! sort of made opportunities for me to recreate and exercise, for since I have j been here, I've averaged three even i lug* each week out with my company football team " To keep up this work in Amerloa, to follow the Holdiers and sailors across the seas and to extend the same aenr i ices to our a. ilea, the Y. M C. A. ia conducting a great nation-wide cam paign for $36,000,000 from November 11 to 19. The fttatee of Alabama, Geor gia, Florida, Mississippi, North and South Carolina and Ten leasee have been aaked to contribute $1,(00,000 of this Cbeoks may be aent to the local committee or to O. K. Calhoun, De partment Campaign Director, at AJL> laata, Oa. | IS CASTLE OF OLD ROMANCE Haddoti Halt, in England, Has Been t the Home of Man/ Persona Who Were Famous. Haddoo Hall is oik* of the old eat ; manor bouses in EnglamJ. It was old when William tin? Conqueror came from Normandy. wbtn 80x00 fforold i fell nt Htnttfogi and Kngiund jjtassed into 1 1??? hjintiw of the Norinnua, The iboita of foni urit's of noble families, ? *??? i VverHs, I ( ii t in oils, Vernon*, all famhus In English history, haunt Its oaken halls, an exchange observes. Swept, willful I>orothy Vernon tripped down the miiim' wide stair by which Kim escaped to meet her lover on her sister's wedding night. The park Is the Hame as It waa when young John Manners nerved the old barouet as a game keeper and won the daughter of the manor. At the death of Mistress Dorothy's father, Hlr George Vernon, tip hall ffUHxed Into the hands of the But lands, who hoyi it to this day. al though they do not use it aa a real" dence. The place la open to Visitors. The hall, a low, oblong building, is ivy covered and gray with age. Over the northern ramparts stands the I'everel tower built by the first Norman own er. ' To the south are the terraced gar dens, where Elisabeth on her famous visit to thesHall walked with Doro thy. The drawing room has a floor of solid oak, cut from u single tree In the park. The walls of the room are carved with the arms and crests of the Vurloua families that have owned the manor. Before the huge fireplace the queen must have sat as' she watched the dancers, among whom were Dorothy and the earl of Leices ter. , _ lladdon Hall Is a castle of old ro mance. The story of the lovers and the queen has been told In almost every tongue. Tt Is the English ver sion of Romeo and Juliet with Doro thy* Vernon and John Manners fur nishing the leading roles In many a novel and play. TOWER OF BABEL NOT LOFTY It Was Only 140 Feet High But Waa Constructed Upon an Elevated Foundation. _ The tower of Babel was only 140 feet high, but as It was bnllt upon an elevated foundation It was the loftiest object In Babylon, a city of low build ings, spread over a flat plain. This description of the most famous struc ture of ancient times has been ob tained from recent translations of old Assyrian records, some' inscribed on tablets of burnt clay. The tower was a temple and the architectural pride of .Babylon. The lowest of its seven stories was 272 feet square and it was constructed of the only available material, sun-dried brick, faced with burned brick, It was probably topped with an astronomical observatory, or rather one for the use of astrologlsts, a calling followed by many priests of Babylon. Babylon, with a population of 2,000. 000, was then the metropolis of the world, and Its great area, twice that of London, was encircled by a wall fin miles In length. The tower of Babel was a temple, containing wonderful golden statues and other treasures, and It Was In attempting to describe these that the tongues of men were confused. The Age of Innocence. Youth, like spring, taunts the person who Is not a poet. Just because It is formative and fugitive It evokes Imag ination, It has a bloom too momentary to be Self-conscious, vanished almost as soon as it Is ,s<?t?n. In boys, as well as girls, this beauty discloses Itself. It is a delicacy as tender as the first green leaf, an Innocence. like the shim rnerlng dawn, "brightness of azure, clouds of frugrance. a tinkle of falling water and singlhg birds." People feel this when they accept youth as Im maculate and heed Its mute expec tancies. The mother whose hoy Is at twenty has every right to feel he Is Idyllic, to think that youth has the air of spring about it, that spring is the morning of the gods. Youth is so often handsome and straight and fear less, it has Its mysterious silences, Its beings are beings of clear tire in high spaces, kin with the naked stars. Yet there is In It something not less flerry | which is far more human. Youth is } also a Oolumbus with mutineers on j board. ? F. H. In the New Republic. ?s Barristers and Solicitors. The English keep up most of the old distinction between physicians and surgeons, barristers and solicitors. A barrister alone can address the higher courts and the parliamentary * tees ; a solicitor most keep to oSee work and courts of first instance. A man with a grievance goes first to his solicitor, who then Instructs or br*#s a barrister for him. If that barrteftr in the course of the trial wants a eq* tsln evidence removed from the ra<DCd he moves that It be struck out and act stricken out as an American lawyer would say. Only barristers may becoaae j edges. An English barrister, Just like Ms American brother, takes a retainer, when he Is engaged. Hut the rest of his fee does not wait upon the term ination of his case. He expects to; re ceive a "refresher" from titie to tfine. No Room. "Have they a family skeleton In the ciosetT* "No. They nsed to have, hot her do thee crwsft? it LITTLE CAST ASIDE How Military Stores on Mexican Border Are Salvaged. j Nothing That It la Possible to Repair, or In Any Way Make Uceful, la Ever Thrown way aa Worthless. ? . The most extensive Healer In Junk on t lio Mexican liorder wears an olive I drab uniform, two bars on hiH shoul tier* ami a serious look, for business is always rushing with ('apt. .Fred Fe lix, Uncle Sam's Junk man In the car airy division here, writes the Fort Illlss (Tex.) correspondent of the New York Sun. As head of the salvage und reclama tion department of the general quar termaster depot herd, Captain Felix ami his force of enlisted men are re pairing and salvaging supplies which have heen discarded by the United States army In the border district. Three warehouses, a part of the forfcj machine shops, and IJIg yard down town, are used for this work. Tents which have been torn by the winds are repaired by men who have been sailors or who have experience in repairing canvas. Canvas cot cov ers which have been torn are cut up Into small pieces and made Into'cloth lug bags. These- cot covers were for merly discarded. A tailor shop has been established where worn and torn Uniforms are rcpnlred, buttons sewn on, the uniforms steam cleaned and pressed and returned to the owners. Army shoes which have been worn by many marches over the desert sands near the fort are half-soled by machinery, ripped places stitched, new laces Inserted and the shoes sent back for further wear. Not a scrap of leather Is permitted to be wasted by the reclnmaiiou and salvage depart ment. Shoes too badly Worn to be repaired, and cavalry boots, are rip ped to pieces and the leather used for repairing other boots and shoes. The scraps are then sent to market for use In the manufacture of composition belting. Recently 1.% meat grinders for pre paring meat* for cooking were con demned and sent to the reclamation department to be sold for Junk. In stead, the parts were separated, reas sembled and five good grinders obtain ed, while the remaining parts were stored for repairing other grinders. Brokep ports were sold for Junk. Wagons, automobiles, tank wagons, soup kitchens and every other kind of field equipment Is received by this de partment. Wagontnakers replace worn parts of transport and ammunition wagons with new ones. All automo bile parts are classified and a crew of garagp men repair the cars as they come to the shops. Even tracks for caterpillar trucks are kept for repair ing those big trucks which haul sup plies over the desert. Broken spurs, ragged guidons and flags, eyelets from wornout puttees, harness, saddles, the ropes and even "bull whips" used by the army mule drivers are salvaged In Uncle Sam's big Junk shop here, and the govern ment Is saved thousands of dollars by repairing army property which other wise would have to be replaced with new. Potash From Cement Dust. ? Extraction of potash from dust is claimed as a possibility. .Tamos I). Rhodes, a Pittsburgh manufacturer, <'lalms to have made the discovery, and at his own expense has arranged to ereet a large experimental plant ad joining the plant of a cement company at Pastalla, <>., for the purpose of ex perimenting for 120 days. The f'astalia plant is In t,he hands of a receiver and It was necessary to get permission of the United States district court before Mr. Rhodes could enter into any agreement with the re ceiver. This was granted. Mr. Rhodes said he could extract large quantities of potash for fertilizer from the dust and waste of cement mills that will be of great benefit to the country In Increasing the supply. It is understood that the United States government is watching the ex periment with Interest. Dogs on the Battlefield. Experiments made, in the training of dogs as messengers with th'e ar mies in the field have, it is stated, given satisfactory results. The dogs which have proved most receptive under instruction are chiefly half bred collies and retrievers. A rather poor breed of bob-tailed sheep dogs has also done well. All have been trained to perform their errands during heavy firing, both rifles snd guns. They can be fired over as easily as the ordinary sporting dog, and, what is quite another thing, they will fare fire at close range. Many have shown amating skill in getting over, under and through all sorts of obstacles, Including wire. Destination ? Berlin. H. T. Bennett, n Seymour traveling man, was standing on n depot platform In a Kentucky town while a group of colored men were waiting to entrain, and overheard the following conversa tion between one of the conscripts and a colored girl who was bidding him goodby : "Well, Shui. are yon goin' with this bunch? I suppose you are goln' to France right soon, stn't you?" the girl asked. * "Not eKHcflr," replied the soldier cnndldat;-. "1 suppose I'll go through Frartce, but, you se?\ I'm on my waj to Berlin." ? IiwVnnapolto News, ^VKITKS I ICOM FH.WCK Ti lls uf Coot if Hunt mitl Kxplain* What The During l?. Herman llaruch, wfeo i? now in -n vli*4' i? prance ami who loft Camden n-. ,1 hp ini't r .ii tin. mm Kervuaw Cjlunrtlvi i i o - w I Ill. il >t" !ii^ brother ami in < uii' leu ( In* follow ing interesting let ter hear I J rot her and SiMar: Well I h .* v?t had my first ioM- and ant rcudy for another tbut not trying to break au> records getting; it) an it is very ex vitiug at/ tin"* ami not half aw hail as it could be. Have had some very interesting and funny Oxjieiieuroa, one of thi'iii is tlit* lunch talked of cootie hunt which usually begin* about bed time. It even beat* fishing and 1 have hat) a hundred times better luck a-s the li r- 1 time 1 tried I caught about t<'n but sJnef I have learned the game 1 am uiuie successful and find that th^y arc more plentiful in the 'seums of your >hirt and breeches A not he v sport is rat hunting, as they grow very large, in these parti*, and Homo are a* lur^e as un ordiyary sized cat. The last to he mentioned hut uot least is the duckiug game. The way this is played; First you hear a whist* ling noine coming your way and then it is np to you to know bether you should duck or not.- And if you mias your Kite** the lirst time you will he counted out for good and he the main party in the march. Frit/, has one had habit of dropping things from the sky, but you do not have to >vorry about this as it is a case of hit or uiiits as you never hear them falling, . ' ? Trout Found in Town. J. K. Spencer found a small trout, about two inches long, on high ground near Drake's stables, Monday morning. Home people think that it raUied dowp during the. rain Sunday night. There have been many freports, In different parts of the country, of small tish and frogs raining down, as tbey have been found on high ground after rains. It is an impossibility, however, for lish and frogs, or even their eggs, to get up into tho clouds. The more reasonable theory is that they swim up from streams and ponds in the sur face water during heavy raius.-rllen nettsville Advocate. "The Reason Why.* 1J. A. Thorna* Kluek folk the be-?. I hey iirt- -?i.-utittmn, ,f?d all im-.ii. wu-. ru\ > m>. ami Hie fwl 1 ? i 1 1 <l?>wn. a rauae wery effect, ^3 ciHiM' un?? l)i>' < n,>, i r?fuiyve*iJS The I'oult i> ?rv h^l made to relieve all !!..? Fowl family *ueh as Cholera and walk ?3 the He us ,> The Hog Heiiuxly win lk .M Ueop "if the cholera, ami if JJjJl the tirat *ta#>*? will mrc ?t u.f J |)qn't forget to keep ?u iuu,i|3 tie of Karris' Colu- Ueaxxlj f..r n,J It is so simple with ilroppn.^H <hl Ul t an nlve ii Alv? a liottlii* lis' lleallng Uejnedy for Cua* Urulsrs on man ?>r l?e?*k fwj fall. jk These reilieilltt*.' are all to viiii l?> your dealer, to ,4jS tloii, or your money buck. ^ Made by <>U1 Kentucky Manuf, inn Co., Padueah. Kentucky. ' For sale by Hprlnga 4?hiimov den, S, i\? adv. 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