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.?U..... >-.? . I . HOW MODERN YEGG WORK! Up-to-Date Thief Would 8corn to Uei the "Jimmy" Employed by His Predecessor*. In tho American Magazine is ax exceedingly Interesting story entitled "A Fool and His Money," which hai ***-been written by a sixty-year-old crool who has earned a dishonest but com fortable living for 30 years. Follow lng is an extract in which the authoi describes a "gentleman burglar:" "He was young and handsome, ax excellent dancer, and always dresse< to the minute. The women were onlj too glad to get the chance to danc< with him, and he made many appoint ments of which tholr husbands 01 parents at home knew nothing. H< did thing on an elegant scale, ant would escort hi* Bitmtrlnor dnnco nor* mr home each night, using a taxi, o ct.tTrSeT Str' "At the door he would take th< night key of the lady and open foi her. Generally there would ho a cha on the froni. stoop, and at 1(9 close th< admlfjible dan?or would depart, tak lng the fcey with him. If the roDbpr] of the house promised good loot ant the lady was thoughtful enough (0 hot for her key he would return it. bu< on the next night of appolntme&t h< would make a quick Impression of th< key In soft wax. "In evening clothes and opera hai this burglar-dancer would ride up t< the house in a taxi in the early hourt of the morning, and before the veri eyes of the cop on the beat enter th< house and proceed about his buslnesi Tof collecting the family stlvor ant cash. He robbed a dozen and mor< houses and apartments In the Wee side before he was trapped. He put up a fight and was shot twlpe befon he surrendered. His c&reer made I mild yellow Journal sensation for i day or two." DIFFER ON TEMPORARY STARS Astronomers Have Two Views as t< How the 8omewhat Mysterious Bodies Originate. Most of the textbooks suggest tha temporary stars, or "novae," may re ult either from the collision of tw< bodies In space or from a sudden ea plosion or eruption of a single body Professor Hale, In his recent review of the last ten years' work at Moun Wilson, states that a more plauslbl hypothesis Is that of a faint star sud denly plunging Into a gaseous nebula The spectra of novae, after pasalni through remarkable changes, have usu ally been supposed to correspon* closely In their last visible stage wltl the spectra of nebulae. Observation at Mount Wilson, however, are In hai mony with an observation of Hart mann In showing that thero Is, at leas in some cases, a still later stage, li which the characteristic lineB of th nebular spectrum disappear, as If th star had finally passed out of the n< bula which caused Its sudden outburs of luminosity. On this hypothesis, th ^temporary brightness of these star would be analogous to that of a m< teorlte passing through the earth's at VnoanhorA onH rolanH InnanHaaaAnA M,.u (Miaou w luvauuoovvuv by friction.?Scientific American. Tolerance In Rusela. There is one test of a civilize* country which is now universally rec ognlzed. Religious freedom is hel< to be essential to national greatness Let us see briefly what thlB mean In all the Russias. The govornlni das.*, drawn from inner Russia, be longs, of course, to the strict orthodo: Greek church. The Baltic provinces are Lutheran Finland is Protestant, the southwesi era provinces contain a large propoi tlon of Roman Catholics and Jews; ii the Crimea and is the middle Volgi are Tartar Mohammedans; in thi Caucasus is a perfect babel of lan guages and consequently of creeds. Religious tolerance, initiated by th< reforming czar, Alexander II, Is on< of the tenets of government, and li nominally in force all over the em plre. Consumption of Gasoline. In estimating consumption of gaso line statisticians usually figure oon sumption by motor owners as the prln ^plpal demand on refiners and lumj other consumption as not of great lm portance. However, President Brace of the National Association of Dyen and Cleaners, recently called attea *tlon to the great amount of gasoline used by cleaning establishments. He mm J m ul?l U1H rnUDUAl CODSUIDptlOO Ol ftioliM for this purpose In the United States exceeds 70,000.000 gallons and Is increasing all the time. Clean era, according to Vr. Brace, nse gasoline as laundries do water, and In fig urlng on the consumption of gasoline In this country he says the statisticians must not forget the great demands mads -on the refiners by tbt cleaners.?Wall Street Journal. Made Right at Hom?. Dorothy lives In Kenwood yeooe and Is spending a part of the wnirth year of a busy existence In kindergarten. Returning home one aftemocm after an entertaining talk by her teacher, Dorothy hurried to the home of her grandma nearby and Informed that person of how clothes ere mM* "You Bee, grandma," aald the excited and well Informed mlaa, "we i don't have to go across a big ocean to get our dothea. All the nice, warm things we wear are right here at home waiting for us. All you hare to Is to go out and get a sheep, for all f^^our wans clothes are made right from I the fleas of A sfcee#." jartltmpolfr i -.. t 5 PARADISE FOR "JOY RIDERS", i b Work of Army Chauffeur* Would | Make Oldflelri's Hair Permanently Pompadour. i From St. Die to Le Rudlln is in the , neighborhood of thirty miles, and we t i did it in something less than thirty < i minutes, writes E. Alexander Powell t In Scribner's Magazine. We went so < . fast that the telegraph poles looked ] r like the palings in a picket fence, and f we took the corners on two wheels so y i (is to save rubber. \ 1 Of one thing I am quite certain?If I r I am killed in this war, It is not going t 3 bo be by a shell or a bullet; it is going t - to be In a military motor car. No cars 1 r savo military ones are permitted on < 3 the roads in the zone Qf operations, < 1 and for the military ckfS no speed - limit exjglj. As a fos^t the drivers i 5 tear through the count as though j they wfioTn tne lerbllt cup race. < 3 Sometimes, of course. Q wheel comes t r off, or they meet anotner vehicle when { t going around a corner at full speed? < i and the next morning there is a mill- i . tary funeral. c r To be a driver of a military car in t 1 the zone of bperatlons is the Joyrider's t i dream com6 truS. The soldier who < t drove my car Steered with One hand i 3 because he had to use the other to 3 Illustrate the stories. of his exploits I in the trenches, Respite the fact that t we were on a mountain road, one side < > of which dropped away Into nothing- \ i ness, when he related the story of how < r he captured six Germans slnglehand- f 5 ed, he took both hands oft the wheel | i to tell about it. It would have made | 1 Barney pidflold's hair permanently 3 pompadour. I t 6EEMED LIKE HOME TO BIRD ! I -V?1 1 Canary Finally Successful In Breaking i 1 Into Jail, and May Serve ( Life Term. I > Having been born in a prison cage, I it was only natural that a canary, re> gretttng the breaking of home ties at | a moment when the door was left open, should pause tn his recalcitrant ( career when he Rnw the hunilredo nt t barred windows of the TombB prison, >- remarks the New York Herald. H 3 always had associated bars with a well-filled seed dish. I This runaway canary had been try- ( v ing for several days to break into Jail, i t mistaking it probably for a bird cage | e ?a Jail bird cuge. A "down and out- 1 I- er" at the penny coffee stnnd under | l. the Tombs wall caught the hungry , S and remorseful bird. John Crowley, a i- turnkey, who had watched the little | I follow for days, gave the outcast 15 , ti cents for the bird and took him inside ; s the prison. I ' There the canary was happy again, i > Ho flew about the cagewalls, ate j t greedily from the bird seed dishes, ( n took a splashing bath in the bright i ? sunshine, and sarg joyously. The bars 0 made htm feel at home, and he may i >* serve a term for life there. j t 0 Admired American Inventions. b As far hack as 1876 some of the forh eign commissioners to the Centennial showed their keen appreciation of the b importance of invention and the advantages derived by America from its encouragement. One of the Swjss commissioners said: "I am satisfied 1 from my knowledge that no people 'r have made in so short a tlmo so many 1 useful inventions as tho Americans, i. and if today machinery apparently s does all the work, it nevertheless by / g no means reduces the workman to a t ) machine. lie uses a machine, It is x true, but he is always thinking about somo improvement to introduce into i, it, and often his thoughts lead to fine ; inventions or useful improvements." >- The reports to parliament of the Briti Ish commissioner said that "as reel gards extent of invention and ingonub ity, the United States was far ahead i- of other nations," and that "Judgod i by its results In benefiting the public, b both by stimulating inventors and by ( a giving a perseveringly practical turn ? to their/labors, the wAmerican patent r law must be admitted to De'the most successful." , Hsr View of 8elf. \ She was a typical East side girl and, ] . though plainly dressed, was very pret- ] ty. While walking through Van Cort- j > landt park she heard for tho first time of the game of golf and observed the ( i golfers as she was asking her com- . i panion, a sprightly young girl, some- , thing abont the game. The girl ex- , i plained. "My Gawd," responded the , i other. "And do they walk all over , I these hills?" Then she observed some ( - more players on the links in the far ( i distance. "Do they play It away off , there, too?" "Oh, yae," replied the girl. "They play It all over the place." "Well," concluded the East side girl, i dismissing the subject with definite t finality and a shrug of her shoulders, c . "that's another of those aloe games 8 i I'd like to learn?-1 don't think i" him** York Time*. \ Poisoning by jUroplane Vsrnlsti 0 The enormously increased produotion of aeroplanes fltfrlng the #ar lend* point to a warning regarding the c varnish employed. At the aerpPbap ? works In /obannlsthal a humblf dlf workmen employed In the varnishing a department were taken seriously ill, c and two deaths resulted. The moat t] important symptom was Jaundice due B to decomposition of the blood. On investigation the cause was found to n be poisoning by tetrachlorethane, the only solvent known for the highly n combustible acetylcellulose. These accidents led to an order forbidding the use of solvents containing a high per- . centage of tetraohlofetha^e. * flafsg- V 1 ? rBE LANCASTER NEWS, FKH CAT CAUSED MUCH TROUBLE fiyy| Family Pet Has Besn Formally Cau> tioned that "The Cave" Is Not Public Property. Out in Woodruff place a number of small boys have banded together and lone what most boys have done if _ hoy were real-for-sure boys?built a *at? :ave, says the Indianapolis News. Ap- "Wh: jroachlng this cave is a long under- several ground tunnel about two feet square, bundaa A'hat thero is in this tunnel in the vay of side chambers and the like, the athers and mothers never will know, )Ut at the inside end of tho tunnel is he den, about five feet square, built n a side hill and as dark as the most ^3^ :avernous depths of a Wyandotte Wf i One of the youngsters belonging to ;he band of cave dwollers hurrie* ^ lome from school the other afternoon _/"\" lonned nls cave outfit, and made for c4vs$ he tunnel. Crawling in flat on the p-ound, he made his way toward the len. Arriving there, he heard a scramjling noise just ahead and two fiery spots loomed up In the darkness. His eeth chattered with fright. He contra] :ouldn't back away, he was too fright- 'Gets-l sned to go forward, and thero was jfome" r 10 chance of escape at cither side, onds t< The fiery spots became active and the 8 , , notnlni >oy became panicky. bundle Just what happened in thero tho ^ff'a lc mtsldo world wl'l never v.now, but razors when tho cat?It was tho family cat? noUirioi :ame out of the tunnel it was going "Gel some. No cat ever moved faster, and S^ere, t didn't stop until It had reached a ^gopi jam threo lots away. mende' And the boy?when ho emerged his remedj !aco was as white as the arctic snow J. F. I md ho was moving rapidly for the >peu. The next afternoon the boy painted a sign on which were the PR/m words: "The Cave" in white paint, on t blazing yellow back ground. Gazing yyr|ter proudly at tho sign ho explained: pf "Now, If that fool cat can read, he'll keep out of there." DNE SET OF BRAINS ENOUGH poom each s Slever Man Makes Mistake When He dedica Takes to Wife Clever Woman, time c Says Writer. The pi forter The wife of one of our most cole- the n nrated literary men said tho other eve- slay, i aing that a talented man should al- the dr< ways choose a wife with nothing fur- lyric j ther than domestic accomplishments, plcasu 'It is a great mistake for brainy peo- advent pie to marry brains," said she deci- ly is sively," according to London Tit-Hits, gracio and, happily, few of them do it. Put partak two geniuses together in matrimony, revere and you have put two cats in a bag? proces nervous, fretful, irresponsible crea- jviy Lures, with no patience and less com- flr8t j mon sense, who will bo always worry- panza Ing each othor and tugging in opposite ours 0 directions at the matrimonial chain. If vented they are both talented in tho same line blesse< they will wear each other out in cherry tho expression of different "ideas; but jowls < If they have separate abilities, there the ju will be pretty often a Jangle about bluebe which one is the more important. cf iem What a clever man wants is a clear- ..g0I headed, sensible wife, who will forget |W6en his vagaries in remembering his bril- maj. liancy and remain a constant shield ?he cn between his sensUiveneas and dieKffrnoohln thlnpa- onmollilnff Tn fan* - - .. _0 ?.. ? . renritc like one of Uiose cushions Bgllorq put down on ttie aide of the vo6scl_ to I ^ ? keep It from Jarring too roughly against the dock. Look nt me. for in- j\jew g stance; I never wrote a word for pub- Band ( Ucation, painted a picture, composed Crated music or did anything clever in all Give my life. But I make my husband Just f the sort of wife he needs." ton G1 . - -wY- * - ? , _ Gets His Soup at Sea. Because he is bound for Ixondon, SPLIT where it is impossible to secure a sup- | ply of the special seaweed out of which Declare a soup is made that is especially fa- I Kr vored by his countrymen, Captain I "5- f.->, Takai of the Japanese steamer Kenkon ' Maru No. 8, appealed to the customs ] The officials, the Philadelphia Record says. 0f yeai As a result Captain Haral of the 1 feasor Bteamcr Senju irfaru, also Japanese, 1 Bity 0f was given permisson to transfer to neither Captain Takai a portion of his supply tained of the delectable dainty without which 1 Qf the tho voyage would be a dismal one for even p< tilm and his crew. Captain Haral is the lar, homeward bound and can soon replen- j these i Ish his stock. i Rock, ( The seaweed In question is found twenty only In the Orient, and it contains a This st gelatinous substance which thickens : lent op - 11 ' aio nuy, uiu uu a jKH-uuur uppeai 10 formal, Lhe oriental palate. In fact, the Japa- ; 0f tins iese sailor claims there is nothing else found i ?o good in the soup-making line. It the rtx a found by fishermen at the bottom of ters we ;he sea and, washed and dried, It finds bmj BU1 -eady sale In China and Japan. afterwa " - differer By a Lake In Winter. trees w The deep sense of peace which fills gtead o he woods at midwinter Is nowhere szpresoed moro fully than where a lylvan lake or pool reflects with calm lurface tho grayness of the patient ? hies. tot; ** Strained by the autumn soourlngs 1 f11. ? if the hills, und the decay of lnhumer- ! * ble leaves, the water is rarely clear J ,nd bright, as when It mirrors the on0? ** learer heavens of spring and sumIt gleams to the slanting light that r trlkes between denser masses of }, !"* loud In tints of yellowish suffusion . rotn the rainsooured clay, or in a w ? irange Jade-greeti opaqueness. . Where the naked tfees upon the iargln of the lake project the whole . ' ingth of their reflection Upon Its un- ! ? toyed water, they present an 1m- J . 0 resslon of enormous columnar height, | J? err^J uch as can Defer be equaled after ' ^ is 1 saves of the summer add suba**' ^0 m v-?' KITARY 15. 1016 liy Swear, Dear? Use ^Gets-It* HI IP for Corns!" jj vuli ' o )Hew Plan. Simple. 8ure as \\ _t w_ . Applied in a Few Seconds. ]| THE BE jr. John. I never knew you to 5 { ich lanKuagre! I've told you ? * 1 times Tt's no use to try those i ;es. salves, tapes. Piasters. and * -<? Shingles, Lin T*\ ,,oart^*nS' Cc Wouldn't Lom Your Temper, John. j I Used 'Gets-It" for Those Corns !" j, ptions for corns. Here's some * t'. It's Just wonderful how easy. and clean* It makes any corn Ight off. Takes but a few sec > apply. It dries at once. Put . ...... ock on right over it,?there's * i ?*** > * -*-r-n r g to stick or roll up, form a ij _ of your toe, or press on the T B J# It's painless, simple as rolling V ?g. Now put away those knives. T * X and scissors, use 'Gets-It' and jl have a sweeter disposition and ~ re corns and calluses." Is-lt" is sold by druggists every- T. 25c, a bottle, or sent direct by i, rrence & Co.., Chicago, 111. X In Lancatter a**d recom- -$ rpi d as the world's heat corn v 1 flC r by Lancaster Pharmacy and * dackey Co. ? vst y "1 UN SING THE LUSCIOUS Pit * V With a Subject Worthy of His + ?TT?^L^T en Dilates in a Rhapsody |j? I Hi Worth Reading. ^ ^ ub celebrate the gastronomic of the age?the pie. It graces 10 its prese eason. but most especially is it - ? ted unto midsummer and the I1; if berries, black, red and blue. ? le is both friend and foe, com- i! Awaiu ufai and avenger. It is mighty in j j International lightiest. It can mercilessly ! ind it can soothe and assuage ? Holder Into loping spirit. It is a poem both . r . u f T ind elegiac?singing the sheer T liopny lOl le res of the senses and again, per- T ure, the pains thereof. Dead T ElllOtt-C l'es: the pie when overeaten, but ?s us, yea, and beneficent, when V Endorsed bj en of in due measure and in 3 ntial awe of the lawful gastric 5. blessings on the head of him who Tjip WlflC nvented sleep," sighed Sancho v on a memorable occasion. lie 4. 4. 4.1 4^ 4. + ; < n the head of him who first in- ' I pie. May he dwell forever on 1 isles of pie among the MASTER'S orchards of Elysium. May his lellght in mincemeat, pumpkins. rtaTF of sout1 ilcy squaBD, the tooth-staining ' Coanty of 1 rry, the pippin apple and oodles court of com on custard. i j, Gregory. Adm uethlng felicitous and fruity be- of T. E. Gregory, < two crusts"?that is pie. Long J- Catoe and wave! Begin at one corner of Plaintiffs, - 1st and eat Judiciously glong the _ , ? _ vs crust In ofder that something 1 Gregory, ?anJ m ?ke I wSrVnd l. T. < the best at th$ last. ? .. heartfg' rtolcethftt it is our Under and by vh tiap to dwell within the great icrein of kJa Honoi Ingland pie belt, and not a thou "residing Jadgr, of ntles from certain Justly cele- Jrd, 1914, I will pie foundries. j outcry, for cash, b 1 us liberty, or give us death. 'n Lancaster. ailing that, give us pie.?Dos- ,.unnrK , ,e8nl V obe the first Monday it " v <* -a nellig the fitli flay of ,7 !onvi 11 k described rei JTERS OF THE FAR PAST J j - " ?hc same being a ve ed by Scientists Who Ought to truest in remainder low to Be Many Millions of 1 of Owen Gregory f Years Old. ! gory, in and to all t ? 2CJ"' 1 ( <r tract of land, si discovery Of splinters millions ; heinp in the State rs old bat be^n made by a pro Jina, and in Lancas ?r California. The wTM<;r? are | one.haIf (82 i-2) decayed no/ petrified, but re- ,ess boun4s4 and t the grain and distinct gagrkiugs lows: North by land California redwood, gftd It Is ______________ 38sible to whittle shavlagB from ~ ger splinters. The discovery of . i splinters was made at Mussel '^iHl-iiHivHHo.^^^allfornla, a bank of lock about miles out of San Francisco. mm iratum of rock offers an excelportunlty for the study of rock &-.V; ,ons. and It was while on a trip i ' kind that the splinters were I y%Cf A embedded In the sandy base of jk. Furthermore, these splinre contained In a stratum which ^+ '40%.<jj ik under the sea and had been ird raised and turned over in a it position so that the redwood Vtj'fef' ' '" '' 1 ' ere In a horizontal position lr- _ . f vertical.?World's Advance. 1^-; Luztann ( you in < The Unwelcome Truth. further | i Braddon, the English novel- WVv pound of IU a yuuiuu?r, ioaao |DW,OW . for tw ler book*, ber publisher's shire ujoo.ooo. , coffee. J s Braddon's groat success, Bhe tire COnt >ld me, wan due to her avol? cording t i ber books of truth Truth. c h d, Is the one thing the average satisnea e&der doesn't want. Por truth, Wj* eftipty CI X is unpleasant. from the Illustrated her yy. by ft ollf nM:w ked her busbat' &p i ?rge, how do yot. ? the new wj>' Coffee tO< 're h:?d my hair rtr ,T" . v,, .. . ill, my deer,' Qt+ began, Ho i the truth?' lIMI >p right there, Oeoi . e, bis wife pted. *8top right Wheha you Tiea you ho gin iu.j that I don't '* *41'* & o bear yea."* - Washington **' Thfi Heil .1 IT ,i I T .iii. * 7 i DIFFERENT LINES I 1ST GROCERIES THAT || e ?? n irvMnr ^ iui>t,r UAN BUY* i * i p J ne, Cement, Ceiling, Flooring, Weather- '' ?'p ?? >al, Wood, and Hrick. ;J " DELIVERED PROMPTLY. ; p Iwards & Horton \ k MNTS '"""""""I OF MERIT !S i i 1 ;se have brought the | DERWOOD I >EWRITER nt leading position. ? nd Prize, Highest Honor Panama-Pacific * Exposition. * rnational Speed and Accuracy Typewriter * n Years. T ;on Medal for Mechanical Supremacy. 2 ,* \\ orld's Champions and all Great Typists. * t __ _ i hine You Will Eventually Buy" j; -+ !-+-; -+-r+-;-+-;-+- KALE. and of Black won} East by lauds of _ Amos Mungo; South by waters of _ . onT ,v. Flat Cre?k; and West by waters of I CAROLINA, Flat Cree)t L- A- WITTKOWSKY, - . . Masrter Kerhaw County r., of the estate Fob 9th 1916?4t?15-22-29-3 loceascA. Martha Owe? Gregory, , !fi LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. State of South Carolina, County Gregory. R. B. 0f Lancaster: By J. E. Stewman, ngram, G. C. judg? pf I'yohate. Gregory, Defends, whereas g F Williams pas made ? o ' 3ul* me I?ramt bim letters of o t r>o,vL administration or the estate and efr * ' - vLrVmt^.' feots TTarriet Whaley, deceased, sell at nubile These are' thercfore, to cite and etore the Court admonish all and singular the kindSouth Carolina, "J"* creditors of the said Harriet -mr* of S'lle on ^baley. deceased, that they be and March' 1916 aPPftar before me. in the Court of thereof the foL ''robate, to be held a Lancaster on ? eft.nte- 15lh <la>' of February. ,1916, next. 1 rir*ht utip nri ilftcr publication thereof, at 11 CKory d"ce?"d "'0,0<k "> '""noon. to show stcd one-halt In^ raus0- " an>' tho>' "h>' 0>e said m ' loon, administration should not be granted, upon the death oj undor h d tfcl u d ind Fmma Ore- ' ' hat piece, paro*lI?* February, Anno Domini 1916. tuate, lying and ^ =; ^^MAN, Probate Judge. of South Oaro- Feb. 1st and 8th. ter county, near ? 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