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Children Cry for Fletcher's The Kind You Have Always Bought [ HOOP SNAKE KIULS DOG : * ? And Wound* Two Others Near Hickory N. V. ? Has Horn on Tall. The Hickory Record pflnts the fol lowing story: Messrs. Oscar and Mack Hefner Sat urdnv afternoon killed a boop snake af |toilet ARTICLES * n : ? Regulate All skin troubles and keep the skin soft, heal thy and pliant ? pores open and working, aiding the or gans of the body to furnish perfect health. See us for, JVIedicated Soaps, Massage Creams, Talcum Powders, Perfum ery, etc. We have everything you need to insure a perfect, healthy Skin. Zemp & DePass j Call or Phone No. 10 s ^ i? ? ? ? ? ^ . ? . v- 1 * Aer: It had killed a sniell dog aud struck two hounds with its, horn und caused thetn much suffering. ' On Sunday af ternoon Mr. Oscar Hofner went to the place where the hoop snake had heen killed and there found a blaek snake with half of tin* dead reptile swallow ed. l)r. Henry Abernethy related this snake tale and later it was continued by Mr. Oscar Hefner, son of Mr. Pierce Hefrter, who lives near t'atawba. As the young men were working in the field Saturday afternoon three dogs struck a rabbit's trail and were run niug it. Across the corn Held they ran ami into the hoop or horn snake. The reptile coiled into a roll, with its two-inch horn projecting from its head, and struck out after the dogs. It hit a small dog in the chest aud the wounded unimal ran about 25 steps be fore falling dead. The snake struck two other dogs bpt the poison was emitted with the first stroke. The horn is located in the tail and as the snake runs it winds itself in to a ball, with the horn protruding, and strikes wi^h^much velocity. Mr. Hefner said he went to view t ? th i.i dead . snake Sunday afternoon and there saw the blncksuake swallowing it. lie. killed the black reptile, J lorn snakes are not supposed to be in this part of the country, but have been seen many times in the mountains. A line ( 'a 1 dwell lady, Seeing in a north ern paper a denial of the existence of spell a reptile offered to send one., if the paper would send a gallon of alco hol as preservative. The paper declar ed she wanted to get a gallon of liquor, and her interest in horn snakes has waned since that time. How To Use The TELEPHONE Did it ever occur to you that you I might not be using the telephone in the right way? Do you speak sideways, above, be low, or six inches away from the trans mitter of your telephone? You should talk directly into the transmitter ? not simply at it. Keep your Hps about one inch from the mouthpiece. Speak in an even tone. It is not neces sary to shout. There is much that can be said about the proper way to telephone, but these little rules will help. Wbtn you Ttlspbon* ? SmiU \ SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY J. A. HOUGH, MANAGER. ? into me ? PCR5IAN GULF View of Muscat. TO THE world the Persian gulf is an unknown water, a land locked ariu of the sea where slave tripling, gun-runnlpg and piracy survive as legitimate occu pations, with a coast of towering cliffs and desert wastes where yellow sands rise In waves and float In stifling Clouds of beat? a region whose ob scurity aiul perils guard and screen mysteries and romances that date back to tho beginning of mankind, writes i/ouls A. Springer In Asia. To the European statesman, however, the Persian gulf Is an issue fraught with deep significance In the struggle f ot world commerce and power In Eastern politics. . , v 4 ; ; > , The traveler after leaving Aden and I rounding the Ras-el-Hadd feels that he Is tHily departing from the beaten lanes and entering a land that lies burled In a world of Its own. The un I friendly coast, range upon range of I high hills without a sign of vegetation or life, seems to raise a barrier against the mysterious Arabia beyond. Tn a recess of the cliffs, and so securely hidden that you do not catch a glimpse of It until the ship suddenly points its prow to the narrow entrance of Its harbor, lies Must/at, the first port. Two towering rocks, crowned by the ruins of old Portuguese forts, stand sentry on either' side, and below, built close to the sea wall, Is the town. Few places have a more picturesque situation and none could present a more enticing picture than Muscat's compact mass of little white houses set in the azure of an eastern sky and re flecting in the shimmering waters of Its harbor. But unfortunately for the foreigners who try to live there few places have such an appalling heat, a heat which a Dutch traveler described as "so intense that it burned the mar row In the bones, the sword in its scabbard melted like wax, and the gems which adorned the scabbard were reduced to coals." . Muscat Once Held by Portugal. Muscat was one of the first towns of this region to fall to the western conqueror. In Alphonse d'Alhu querque began here the peculiar sys tem of domination, religious persecu tion and colonization undertaken- by the Portuguese In the^me of their naval supremacy. They held Muscat against all attempts at capture by Arabs and Turks until the middle of the sixteenth century. The forts above the town, n line of fortifications, and a cathedral remain as evidences of their occupation. As the capital of Oman. Muscat is supposed to belong to the Ottoman em pire ; but, like other gulf provinces. It Is necessary for the Turk to come and get it If he Is to hold it. As he has failed to do this, Muscat is In reality ruled by its own sultan. Willie Muscat is not a political dependency of the British empire aft Is Aden? it is practically under the suzerainty of the Indian government. This was brought about early In the last century, when it ,was believed that Napoleon was about to seize Muscat as a base for attack upon India, through a treaty of which one of the stipulations was "that the friendship of the two states may remain unshook to the end of time, and until the sun and moon have finished their revolving careers." Muscat has, however, proved for years a constant source of trouble to the British, by being the headquarters of supplies for the persistent and cunning gun-runner. Through the pro visions of an old treaty certain Euro pean nations have the right to1 ship ' arms and munitions to Muscat. There they are purchased by unscrupulous dealers, loaded upon dhows and land ed upon the coasts of Persia or Balu chistan to be transported by caravan Into the interior of Asia. Through this source arms and ammunition reached the Africans of the Red sea coast, the Afghan army and every Afghan with money enough to buy a rifle, the Hill tribes of India and Per i slan and Arabian revolutionists. Along tha Arabian Coast. FroKo our steamship we catch a glimpse now and then on the Arabian coast of low white-walled, tile-roofed hoiuaea clustered around a minaret. On the opposite coast Is to be dis cerned a forlorn little town built upon the ruins of the great trading city of Jteak. Here ^as tha site of the first , English factory on Pervitin noil, built In 1017, and b?t>$ the wires of the Indo European telegraph line, after travel ing overlund from Karachi, disappear under the waters of the gulf* to reap pear 500 miles away at Buahlre to complete their lon? Journey to west ern Europe. The shlmat, the dreaded wind and rain squall of the region, suddenly settles. down upon the vessel and seems for a tliye ubout to drive It upon the rooks. Hut as suddenly as they came, the thick, black clouds lift. As they roll away there appear ahead a rocky promoutory jutting northward out into the sea and behind It rising to the height of 7,000 feet from the waves, t,hat pound at Its base the mighty unscalable rock of Musendan. It towers a gigantic citadel built by nature guarding the entrance to the gulf. The low, crescent-shaped coast, of which the vessel is abr'east. Is broken here and there by cliffs rising sheer out of the sea. Behind, rise range af ter range of reddish bills, and far In the distance the shadowy peaks of South Persian mountains. The water Is studded with islands, some scarcely more than rocky pinnacles, others rich in the green of tropical growth and showing minarets and mat roofs of vil lages. Here In this green bend much of the modern history of the gulf was made. Here after the capture of Mus cat came Albuquerque to continue his conquest in the name of Portugal, and following' him the Dutch, French and English in their early struggle for Eastern dominion. Built on Ruins of Ormux. The only port of entry Is Bander Abbasl, once the starting point for the great caravan .trade to Shlraz and southern Persia, now a sorry little vil lage with a shore .line' of stone and mud structures that may In the past have been defenses hut are today merely screens to' the poflr buildings behind them. But Bander AHbasi, old and ragged as It looks, Is built upon the ruins of another town, ancient Or muz. Its crumbling piers and founda tlons of public buildings and palaces show that Ormuz must have been a place of wealth and Importance. It was at least a prize worthy of fre quent raids of Tartar horsemen, raids so frequent that the Inhabitants rath er than suffer their wealth and trade to be thus Imperiled pioved their town to an lslamMour miles from the main land. The eastern coast Is rough and for bidding; the cliff 8 drop In sheer preci pices of hundreds of feet and the shore waters are strewn thick with dangerous reefs and hidden perils to the seaman. Natnre generouf^Jy aids Persia In keeping her secrets and hold ing the veil of her ?*xclU8lvenegs. There Is no port of large vessels until Bushlre Is reached, near the bead of the gulf. Bushlre Is the largest town and the most Important commercially of the coast. / Visit Your Parenta. If you live In the same place, let your bteps be, If possible, daily a fa miliar sound in the old home. If you are miles away ? yea, many miles away ? make it your business to go to visit your parents as frequently as possible. In this matter do not regard time or expenses ; the one is well spent, and the other will be pven a hundredfold repaid. When some day the word reaches you, flashed over the tele graph, that your mother Is gone, yon will not think them much, those hours of travel which at last bore you to the loved one's side. ? Exchange. We Need 8elf-Conf1dence. The more friends we possess who have faith In us, the better. * There Is something wonderfully Inspiring In the atmosphere of confidence. But if every one else goes back on us, be sure that the friend within keeps his faith and trust in us. We can better do without the encouraging words that come to tm from outside, all the InjntratJon doe to the faith of our f 1 1 nnA than W can dispense with self^bmWHi l s,? Girls' Companion. One Result. "Why do you persist In letting that fake donor treat your wife's throat!" "Doctor's all right. She can't speak above a whisper now.** WORLD SHORTAGE IN BEET SUGAR Crops Are 40 Per Cent. Less Than Pre-War Averages?Cen tral Powers Hit Hardest. CANE SUGAR IS ISOLATED. Allied Beet Production Fall? One-third In Rigid War Economy ? Practiced. , ? - The world today is producing forty per cent, loss beet augur than the iW war average. ? Counting the American, AUWul and Oevmgu-AuMtrluu crops, aa well dm the neutrals, the U. 8, Food Administra tion has estimated that the world shortage created by the light crop of 1017 1018 Ih at least three and a h?lf million tons. That the 1017-1018 crop of cane aug ar was two million tons In excess of ,the previous year does not rellove the general ?horta|fc Oubu and Java produce onedmlf of the world cane crop, and the Javu aug ar Is too far removed from America to transport when shipping Ih badly need ed to transport and maintain the mllU tary forces In France. In Java a large part of tho old sugar crop Is still awaiting shipment. Slnco It requires JftO to 100 days for each boat that Is Kent to Java, tho possibili ties of obtaining adequate shipments of Java sugar this season are remote. Allies' Production Fall*. Taking tho Allied nations as n group, oftlclnl reports show that beet sugar production Is less by one-third than the pre-war average. French beet sugar Industry has suf fered most by the war. The French yield of beet sugar Is now only 29.1 per cent, of the pre-war average. For the five years preceding the out break of hostilities In Europe, France produced an average of 752, 542 tons of sugar each year. For 1917-18 the French production was 210,418 tons. With 01 factories operating, as com pared with more than 200 that wero in existence before the war and before the general campaign of dostructlve ness launched by the German armies, France nevertheless managed to manu facture more beet sugar In 1917-18 than in 1910-17, when the total output was 202,410 tons. Italy In 1917-18 produced 100,800 tons of beet sugar, which was 60,000 tons less than the previous year and 110,250 less than the annual output of sugar for the five year pre-war pe riod. One of the great difficulties experi enced In Italy's beet sugar Industry was finding sufficient labor to handle the crop. Thousands of men usually employed In beet sugar production were called for mllltury service. The yield per acre amounted to approxi mately half of the usual quantity of beets hnrvested. Passed The Hopse. ? Washington, A ug. 24.? The 'iicw man power bill extending tin? selective draft to nil men between the axes of 18 and 4."i years* Was passed by the House to night with only minor changes in tho original draft of the War Pepartinent. Oil: Uje first roll call only two neg ative votes were cast? -by Representa tive London of New York, the Social ist . and Representative Gordon, of Ohio, Democrat. The linnl vote was announc ed' as 330 to 2, Notice Debtors and Creditors. All parties indebted to the estate of I .owery, deceased, are hereby noti fied to make payment to Edna Lowery Davis, 331 Manning Avenue, Sumter, S. (!.. and all parties, if any, havihg claims against the said estate will send them duly sttcMtcd, to the. same address within the time prescribed bv law. EDNA I/OWEHY DAVIS, Onalitied Administratrix Estate of < < '. . i/owery. i'amden, S. <\, Aug. U0, 1018. lln'iutt*K" MM' New*. i raimhm, S. Aug. 'JO. AH of tlw rhihlvrn \?f srluin) looking forward Id i li?* < hum i It) |{ ??f st'lioul on llit* ninth of inwf month, W" ? < Itnvc ?t good t.<irps |.l ttNU'hors and <? x | ?*?!? I .1 .(rVi'Vsfnl yoar. Mis* Noll ? Wilkes will bo jnlncifHl, Ml** M?r> Simpson, of I osl'u\ will tuach the inlVrtttodiato Kradex, unil Miss Anna Kiito A I ford will I'oiiimtii' to loach tin' 1'irat. Rrudo. ?. Miss Uford win* IniH recently under go lp> an operation tor appendicitis |x doing ui?H?ly, five are ulud to say. Mow* ovor, she will not li? aide to loach' the first week or so of school. Mix* l.nello Mioklo will supply fol' her. Mih.scm Dora unil Kate Uardiier will loavo Saturday for Clinton whore tluer will visit Miskoh Itnhy ami lOvolyn Wren. Mrs. Will K..l.hins of Itocjv Hill, with hoc four ehihlron, *pont tho past week Olid with hor s|st?>r, Mrs. Frank Dixon. Mr, CJltjuwy lllackwell and MUs Vic toM<t tJardnor woro married on Saturday night by tho I'roluito Judge. Tho yniiiiu couple has our hen! wishes, Mr. Spires* wife and family returned Unlay aftor a Iojjk visit to Mi*. Spires' parents near Sutntfr. Collins Brothers Uhdertalfer$ far Colored People ? ? ? ?/_. ^Pi ? ,j' ? .? . . . L Telephone 41 714 W. DeKalb St. | 1 A "Leaky Shoe on a "Leaky" Day ' " - /*. ?' ? 'V . ; v " ? - V p ? What eau be inure annoy Lug? And It 's dinimui, toe. But, oh! So easily remedied. Just nt?p Into my st?ok> and have them made water-tlpht, and go on your way rejoicing, C. C. WH1TAKER Buy Them And Help Win The War FOR SALE EVERYWHERE GROCERIES ? Good and Better Wo have (Jood GrocerleH ? ?v r. TSli3?>. Anil then wo have better. The k<hhI groceries are Intended for those who must make a dollar Ntretcli to the limit. They are .just an wo describe them ? good. Our he tier groceries are noticeable for being jiiHt a little ahead of all other* ? they hear the plain hrand of excellence. Whether you want good or better groceries, we guarantee to please you. LANG'S HIGH GRADE GROCERY X> . CONSERVE! Save all your meal and fertilizer sacks. Do not throw them in damp places to rot or allow them to be placed next to acid or other fertilizers where they soon become worthless. All good sacks, free from holes, clean and fit to be used in sacking cotton seed meal will be purchased by the Camden Oil Mill at 10c each. The sacks to be inspected by us. By returning saeks in good shape, you will save $2.00 on each ton of mfal purchased. Do not bring less than five sacks at a time.