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" NARROWt 3T PA^T C
TO the wonderful history of the
nosporuB the great war is but
adding another chapter, for its
story runs back through the
centuries into the age of myth.
Concerning this strip of water that
separates the continents of Europe
and Asia the National Geographic society
says: One writer states that
there is perhaps no other locality in
the world surrounded by so many historical
souvenirs and adorned with so
many varied gifts of nature; another
that God. man, nature and art have
together created and placed there the
most marvelous point of view which
the human eye can contemplate upon
earth; still another remarks that upon
this planet there is no other stream so
wonderful?that its equal can be
found, if at all, only upon some other
star.
Dr. Edwin A. Grosvenor remarks
that there is hardly a nation in the
civilized world whose blood has not
mingled with Its waters; hardly a
faith, hardly & heresy, which, by the
devotion of its adherents and martyrs,
has not hallowed Its banks. Associations
the most dissimilar, the most
Incongruous, the most distant, elbow
one ancfther In every hamlet and village.
The German emperor, William
II. In 1889, disembarked at the same
spot which tradition makes the landing-place
of that other leader. Jason,
with his Argonauts In that sublime
voyaae of the fourteenth ?ntnr? ha.
fore Christ - *
Deep, Narrow and Swift.
The physical features of the Bosporus
are described by the same
author In striking terms. He says that
In its swift flow It Is a river, and in
its depth a sea?yet many a sea Is less
profound and many a river spreads
wider and has a less rapid current, i
Its average depth Is about 89 feet. At I
no point in the channel Is the depth 1
less than 147 feet, l
So sharply do its submarine banks'
desg^nd that large vessels, hugging '
the land too closery, though In deep J
^yater, often run their bowsprits and
rwds into houses on shore. The 8trait
of Gibraltar, which wrests Africa from
Europe, is sixteen miles wide; even i
the Dardanelles expands from one mile 1
to four. But at Its widest the Bos- 1
porus Is only one and four-flfth miles, t
The length of the Bosporus Is less t
than seventeen miles. Each Asiatic t
side Indenture finds a convex bend on '
the European side; each European bay '
Is met by an Asiatic promontory. t
Tradition pnno hflPlf fA q Hmo xv?V*on 1
countless apes ago, titanic forces hero 1
rftit Asia and Europe asunder; when <
the pent-up, resistless waters of the ?
Ftfsck sea tore through valleys and <
teveled mountains, in their sudden
southward rush to the Mediterranean. '
The volcanic origin of the region con- 1
firms this tradition ) i
Grsat Place for Fishing. I i
Seventy edible varieties of fish sport 1
In the waters of the Bosporus. They !
are mostly migratory. The strait is 1
the only line of communication be- '
tween the Black sea and the Mediterranean,
their summer and winter i
homes In their migrations countless |
shoals succeed one another at intervals
of days, and never did the men
in the crow's nest of a battleship scan
the horizon more earnestly for an
enemy than the lookouts for the fishermen
peer into the deep for signs of
a fish migration. As soon as the advanced
guard arrives, a signal is given,
and immediately the Bosporus becomes
black with fishing boats. So
regular are the fish in their habits
j nd so unchanging in their ways, that
Aristotle's account of th< ir movements
penrt -d twenty-two centuries ago, is
j rill an accurate c rial Ion of the varieties
and their migrations.
A hundred years tu;o Constantinople
end the Bosporus Ivng In the balance.
I'nctor Grosvenor n hate? how. after
k . the treaty of Tilsit. Emperor Alexander
of Buseia had In . <1 to Napoleon
,, tiTion the ei 'olute i>< ity to his
country of the possession of Coctantl;ri
uo;>fe He declared there was no price
P.. great, nrr cond'tion so hard, that
would n ? be rmterully accorded by
titm for tho city's acquisition. Napoleon
gazed In alienee, earnestly and
long, at the map of Europe, of which
be waa at that moment the autocratic
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arbiter, and then exclaimed: "Constant
tinople, Constantinople! Never! It
is the empire of the world!"
Sea of Marmora.
The Sea of Marmora, which is the ;
connecting link between the Dardanelles
and the Bosporus, is a quiet
sheet of water. Nature has been more
than generous in her provisions for
guarding this sea between Asia and
Europe against hostile power. The
Bosporus, its approach from the Black
sea on the north, is a deep, water- j
filled, twisting valley, whose surface
almost all the way is at the mercy of
the enclosing mountain heights. In
the south, the Dardanelles, while of
greater breadth than the Bosporus,
forms an easily defended channel, 47
miles long and commanded by its
shore heights.
Marmora sea is a wonderful amphitheater
for a modern naval struggle.
An elliptical bowl of bluest water, it is
enclosed by a hilly shore line, which
is bold and steep upon the Asiatic
side. From east to west, the sea is
175 miles long, while its extreme width 1
is about fifty miles. It has an area of
4,500 square miles.
Constantinople lies tucked away
near the northernmost point of Marmora.
at the opening of the Bosporus
outlet. In the west and south are
several considerable islands, of which
the largest, Marmora, has been famous
for its alabaster and marbles
since t^e days of Grecian sculptural
and architectural glory.
The Sea of Marmora is one of the
jnost famous and important seas of
passage in the world. Behind Its waters.
along the northern shore of the
Black sea. are the most fertile and
favored provinces of the Russian empire.
Russia's granary; while on the
eastern Black sea coast lies Russia's J
greatest oil port and her famous oil-.
bearing hinterland. This sea Is the I
most important avenue of Central
Asia's raw materials western transport I
and of the West's manufactures for J
consumption in the central East.
Benzol and Toluol.
Dr. Rlttman's production ef toluol
ind benzol from petroleum Is also of
mportancie If the process Is suffieienty
cheap to be of commercial iraw. In
:hls regard, too, the doctor wa? notceably
cautious not to commit Irimlelf.
Professor Lietnil made 'benKene ,
ind toluene" (benzol and toluoiy In
[877 from Russian petroleum. Later
he Nobel brothers did the same thfng ;
n their laboratory. In 1904 V. Oglojlln
described the preparation of bon'.ene.
toluene, xylene, etc.. In considerable
ouantltles, from tho Russian
erude oil.
It should, perhaps, bo noted that tho
Russian crude oil difTors somewhat
Tom that of Pennsylvania, being rich,
n hydrocarbons of the nanhthene se
ries, Instead of those belonging to tlie
parntfine group.
Plainly none of th early Inventions
was of commercial Importance,
for the hulk of the supply of benzol
and toluol still comes from coal tar.
The value of Doctor Rittman's process
depends almost solely upon lt?
cheapness.
Small Leaks.
A writer In the Scientific American
has figured what we lose by a leaking
faucet. If a faucet leaks to the extent
of two* drops of water a second,
the leakage would amount in a month
to a little over eighty-four gallons. If
the water rate is twenty-five cents a
thousand gallons, the money loss
be about two cents a month. If
thr. ioak is from a hot. water faucet,
th< ' ss would of course be larger, for
fuel has been wasted in heating the
escaped water. If coal costs $5 a ton,
the loss In water and heat will bo
rtr'v t n cents a month. "The fact
*' >? the loss is small." says the Sclen- |
i f Amt rlcan, "should not allow us to
.: ,-Joct small leaks, because by tils rear.ling
them we tend to become slovr!
fn all things Furthermore, small
leaks do not stay small The constant
leakage of faucets wears small passages
through the seats, and maken
tightness impossible. The next thing
is a Dew faucet with the accompanying
plumber's bill, which is notorious-,
ly not small."?Youth's Companion.
TIIE LANCASTER NEWS
ADMIRAL T. B. HOWARD
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Admiral T. 15. Howard, recently appointed
admiral of the Pacific fleet, is
in the harbor of San Francisco and the
'cur-star flag of an American admiral
is (lying at the Golden Gate for the
first time.
CATAPULT USED BY FRENCH
HmH. fy, i>*v. KSHMThis
c-atapult^ io the form of a big
slingshot, ia used in a French trench
to hurl bombs at the German positions.
Caring for 1 Marie.
How enormous in tbe task of caring 1
for the insane is shown by the fact
that there are- in all oar public Institutions
approximately 2T)0,000 insane !
persons, a number exceeding the number
of students enrofPed In all the
colleges and institutions In the country.
In New York the expenditure!
for the insnne- Is one-fourth of the
total snnual appropriations of the
afuto
One Good Reason for Being a Woman. I
lly nature man belongs to the hunt
in the open, and woman to the Are in
doors, and Just here lies one of the
best re.asons for being a woman rather !
than a man, because a woman can get
along without a man's out-of-doors
much hotter tbun a man can get along
without a woman's indoors, which
proves woman of the two the la-tter !
bachelor, as being n?ore self-contained
and self-con??nte<f Every real man
when abroad on the hunt is always
dreaming of a hearth and a hob and a
wife, whereas no real woman, if she
has the hearth and the hob. is longing
tor man's hunting spear or quarry. It
she is indeed a real woman she ht very
' ly longing to give a man the com- ,
fort of the lire, provided he will not
stay too long at a stretch, hut get out
long enough to give her time to brush
i;-> h'.s hearth and rinse his teapot
satisfac torily to herself - Atlantic.
A HOUSE
BURNS
ns easily wher times are hard
as when timet arc* godd. How
would it bo with you should
your house burn now, if you
have no Insurance. The
Farmers Mutual policies cover
Fire, Wind and Lightning.
Addr- Ha
i D. E. BONEY,
Yorkville, S. C.
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APRIL 16, 1915.
COTTON NOT ON
CONTRABAND LST ,
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London. April 14.?The British ^
government lias decided against plar-' '
ing cotton on the contraband list. I
A question was asked in the House |t.
i of Commons today on this subject n
end Neal Primrose, Under-Secretary
of Foreign Affairs, on behalf of tlu
Foreign Office, replied that after a
careful consideration jt had ooeu . ,
found that the military advantages to
be gained by declaring cotton contra- ,
! band were insufficient to render mv !:
| a step expedient.
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To Xcutrul Countries. I'1
Washington, April 14.?As under-! h
stood at the State Department the ef- f{
feet of the announcement in the|a
House of Commons today by the Un- |
der Secretary of Foreign Affairs that . P
cotton would be held non-contraband I S(
will be confined mainly to neutral e
countries of Europe.
It is presumed no exception will be
made in favor of cotton cargoes going ?
directly to Germany.
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It is anticipated, however, that ^
there will be no further trouble about a
shipping cotton to Spanish Meditera- ^
nean ports and Italy and other South
European countries, possibly also
shipments to Sweden and Norway will
move freely, although officials are not ,x
quite clear as to the latter countries. y
Shipments to Holland, too, probably
are exempt by reason of the embargo |p
on transshipment to Germany.
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Lot the Flyless Town Come. p
Greensboro is set down in the books w
as a flyless town. To what extent ' h
Greensboro is a flyless town we are j a
not going to say, but it is certain that jtti
few flies are making their homes in cm
Greensboro just now, for the fly h
swatters have been so active in Ul
Greensboro during the past two years d
that few remain, and the few left are a
trying to get transportation to some '?
other town outside the war zone. , n:
What has been done in Greensboro ju
may be done in Salisbury, and in anv tl
other well behaved city or town. It c<
is only a matter of taking the fly se- cl
viously and treating him as a danger- rl
ous pest?screen against him, swat ir
him, and destroy the breeding places tr
and it will mean?less and less tlie3 a
?until, happy day?there no longer ?
remains In civilized countries this
pest of earth.
Now the best time to kill a fly is *
now. tiverj crrouing (iihcd ucsiruy- u|
ed means many flies destroyed. The M
earlier we begin the better it will be. fc
for if a fly once gets a start there is ci
no stopping him. Then in our cam- II
oaign to get the city cleaned up good 3<
and clean it is necessary that we em- b<
drace the fly in our calculations and vi
destroy as much of him ae is possi- la
>le. Let the flyless town come, and 01
come quickly.?Salisbury Post.
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IT'S NOT WHAT WE i
Our Friends S
Mrs. W. F. JAMKS, No. 82 Har
that she has been using LITZIAN!
Years in her home. Likes it ABC
its FINE FLAVOR, and the SAVI
Ll'ZIANNK goes as far as TWO P
gives Perfect Cup Quality.
Save Your LUZLA
IF YOU want the nice PRESENT
the REILY-TAYLOR CO., at New
CATALOGUE. ? ? ? ? ?
Lurianne Is In a I
HUSBAND R
nrcPAi
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After Four Years of Discouraging"
Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave ?
Up in Despair. Husband C
Came to Rescue.
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Catron, Ky.?In an interesting letter
from this place, Mrs. Bettie Bullock
writes as follows: "1 suffered for four *
years, with womanly troubles, and during ?
this time, 1 could only sit up for a little 11
while, and could not walk anywhere at >
J. At times, I would hce severe pains s
i.i my left side. s
The doctor war called in, and his treat- "
ncnt relieved me for a while, but I was 11
>oon confined to my bed again. After A
that, nothing seemed to do me any good. [
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A STITCH IX TIMK.
It is not so very long now until the ,
uphold season will be here. While
he disease is generally said to be
tost commo** the latter part or the
ummer and a the early fall, as a
latter of fact it becomes pretty ofm
in the spring and in early suniler.
There were a number of cases of
er in Spartanburg last year. It
be that the causes therefor hnv.?
een removad or it may be that thev
.o not been. There is 110 unfailing
ay of telling.
Tixo safest plan and the most efictive
way of ridding the eit> of the
I sen so is by the inoculation method,
lie efficiency of this treatment has
mg been established to a satisfaeon
of the medical fraternity and of
II who have made any study of it.
The inoculation treatment is n simle
one. comparatively speaking, and
eldom makes the person taking sick
nough to miss his work. Some do
ot feel it at all. It is certainly to
e preferred in every way to the risk
f having the dread disease.
This would be a good time for all
ho have not been Inoculated to be.
hey may save themselves suffering
nd money If indeed they do not save
lelr lives because no man knows
hen he takes fever whether he will
ve through It or not.
In this connection the following
om The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot is
ery interesting:
"The announcement that typhoid
i epidemic In Przemsyl. the great Gacian
stronghold recently surrender1
to the Russians, is not at all surrislng.
The conditions under which
ar is being waged In Europe are
ighly conductive to the development
nd spread of this disease. When
ten In enormous numbers are crowd il
into relatively small 'areas an.l
ave to live in the midst of extraorinary
exigencies, opportunities for
issemination of the typhoid germ
re, of course, gretely multiplied,
ut, while this is all true, it by no
leans follows that the resultant sitatlon
is one which cannot be more ;
tan measurably controlled. On the
jntrary, timely precaution, as conlusively
shown by the British expcence,
will avail to reduce to a mlnnum
the danger from typhoid to
oops In the field, no matter how
irge their numbers or how limited
te areas in which they may be conasted.
"Replying to a question asked in
House of Commons a short time
So as to typhoid in the British army,
[r. Tenant, under secretary of state
>r war, said that up to that time
ises of the disease among the Engsh
forces numbered 4 21, of which
05 were soldiers who had either not
sen Inoculated and he had had only
iccine at all or incompetently Inocu_
ted. The deaths totaled 35, only
le of which was a soldier who had
?en Inoculated and he had only one
JAY THAT COUNTS
peak For Us
ris St., Anderson, H. C.f states
SK COFFEE for nearly Five
>VE ALL OTHERS because of
NO IN MONEY. A Pound of
ounds of ordinary coffees, and
lNNE Coupons
S they entitle you to. Write
r Orleans, for a PREMIUM
Class By Itself. .
ESCUED
RING WIFE
had gotten so weak I could not stand,
nd 1 gave up in despair.
At last, my husband got me a bottle of
)ardui, the. woman's tonic, and I comfalsifier
if P*Am ??? ?? ft?*
.......if, ih a wan mc VCIJ 111 9|
ose, I could lell it was helping me. I
an now walk two miles without its
iring me, and am doing all my work."
Ii you are all run down from womanly
roubles, don't give up in despair. Try
iardtil, the woman's tonic. It has helped
note than a* million women, in its 50
ears of continuous success, and should
urcly help you, too. Your druggist has
old Cardui for years. He knows wliat
t will do. Ask him. He will recotnnend
it* Begin taking Cardui today.
Hrt/a to: Chattanooga Medicine Co.. LadlM*
dvltory Dept.. Chattanooga. Tenn., for Nportol
rut ructions on your rate and6t-p?ga book. ' Hotaa
raatmant for Woman," tant In plaJa wrappar. j-4#
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injection of the anti-typhoid virus,
jout tiie same time and in the buuic
lace a member of the British medl. 1
corps, replying to criticisms of
inoculation made by.a member of the
house, contrasted this record with
hat in the South African war, in
which there were 58,000 eases of typhoid,
8,000 of whlcn resulted fatally.
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"Other instances, only less convincing.
of the efficiency of the typhoid
antitoxin could be cited, but what's
he use? Those who are open to qonviction
are already convinced; the
| comparatively few who wilfully shut
i heir eyes not even a miracle would
vnil iiiiikn ??<n And wllst* nnH.
typhoid inoculation has accomplished
; and is accomplishing among the so^L
diers of various nations it can also
he made to effect In the case of civilian
population. The community
which today permits itself to become
the scene of a typhoid epidemic has
only Itself to blame. A preventive is
available which needs only to be applied
to be effective."?Spartanburg
Journal.
"A Man Can Make a Start Toward
Ilettcr Farming Without Money."
Five years ago I thought I could
not make a living without raising cotton,
but every year found me with
the same old complaint?nothing to
begin my next crop on. If I made
money one year I lost it the next.
My wife suggested that we make a
change?she was always quoting The
Progressive Farmer to me. I told
her that folks with money could farm
%?iat way but a poor man had to make
! all cotton.
Hut finally I decided I could do no
worse by changing my plans. We
had one milk cow and a bull. w*
lost the cow, then traded the bull for
two heifers and bought another cow,
and in a few weeks she died. We
bought another cow on credit and he- I
gan sowing clover and cowpeas and |
small grain. In the meantime we ordered
six pure bred white Leghorn
hens and a cock. \V< so:;1 ono;gh J
l.llttn. ,.l,lnl,a,,u .,.,,1 ........ < ? I..... ? >
nrnn null ? (
.Jersey bull calf, and 1 sold the only
hog we had and bought a pair of |
IJuroc-Jersey pigs. Result: We are
living at home, have six milk cows,
10 yearlingB, a fine flock of chickens,
a pretty fair start of hogs, plenty of
vegetables and fruit, and I consider
my land almost doubled in value.
My five years' experience trying t >
farm according to The Progressive
P.'.rmer proves that a man can make
a start without money to begin with.
?F. R. Clifton, in The Progressive
Farmer.
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More Corn and Ijcsm Cotton.
The farmers' operations in Abbeville
are very backward this year.
On account of the rains very little
[ deep plowing has been done. We
i hope our farmers will plant "more
corn and less cotton" when the
weather does clear up.?Abbeville
Medium.
Health Promote* Happiness
Without health, genuine joy is impossible;
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ailing? You don't hhve to. Take one
small Dr. King's New Life Pill at
night, in the morning you will have
a full, free bowel movement and feel
much better. Helps your appetite and
digestion. Try one tonight.
Ah! the Invigorating Whiff of the
Pine Forest!
How it clears the throat and
head of Its mucous ailments. It is
I this spirit of Newness and Vigor
from the health-giving Piney Forest
brought back by Dr. BellB Pine-TarHoney.
Antiseptic and healing. Buy
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The Liver is a blood purifier. It
was thought at one time it was the
seat of the passionq. The trouble
w it h most people is that their Liver
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in the blood due te bad physical
states, causing biliousness, headache,
dizziness and constipation. Dr.
King's New Life Pills will clean up
the Liver, and give you new life.
i'^Bc at your druggist.
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If you wunt quick and real relief
from Hhemumatism, do what so
many thousand other people are
doing - whenever an attack comes on
ithe the sore muscle or joint with
Sloan's Liniment. No need to rub It
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lug. It goes right to tho scut of trouble
and draws the pain almost immediately.
(let a bottle of Sloan's
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and have it In tlio house?a.'dttnst t
Colds, Sore and Swollen Jmnts,
Lumbago, Sciatica and like ailments.
Your money back If not satisfied, but
it does gi\e almost instant relief.
Malaria or Chills & Fever
Prescription No. 666 it prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS A FEVER.
! Five or tlx dotet will break any cafe, and
if taken then at a tonic the Fever will not
retum. It acta on the liver better than
Calomel and doe# not gripe or sicken. 25c
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