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TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1919. HAD LIVELY FIGHT T Art Man Found Coachwhip Snake No Mean Antagonist. In 0 todos herenc Mr. Q. M. Robbini of *?! ? ? Indlffei to Announce That He la Not j Jn,,rke< at All Desirous of Another 1 " . . ? . thousa ' Such Bout. . ? s* and a Some folk say a coachsnake won't ** jjJ* ^ chase you and tie you to a pine tree and whip the everlasting daylight out nonr p Of you. They scandalize this undent front \ trartWon as unscientific and contra- acros, dlctory to the facta and the evl- wns t( dence. < ? The defense now culls to the stand the M< one O. \V. Bobbins, whose initiuls may n or may not stand for George Wash- fj w Ington, and who watches at the Dowmun-I>ozler plant In Atluntn, Gn., by a night. turn t( Mr. Bobbins avers thnt the blunted W|tj, ) couchwhlp went us fur as pos- an?ri? alble?he chased Bobbins three Two times around his own garden to be- w,mn, gin with, and when Bobbins finally n>) turned and gave battle he (the coach- nnep whip) lassoed hltn and the ensuing j)u wrestling match simply ruined a large ence t pnrt of an acre of excellent radishes jrniors, and some fine young onions. Sarin Bobbins suvs he was out In the gar- cjaj,n. <len pulling sotne radishes when he wor(j '< discovered n six-foot couchwhlp j Rhan snake watching him balefully. Mind- f 'p )n t ~ * * ??-. ui im; inuiuion, nno despite the absence of plno trees, Robhlns turned r* n" nnd fled, nnd the conchwhlp nfter ? 'Rro him. Rntind and round the garden pr"* patch fled Robbing, the conchwhlp still 1 pursuing him. WR8 rt The chase ended near the barn, Kt'mon where Robhlns was forced to pause I'esf for brenth. Whether the conchwhlp tr,,ry. nlso was shy of wind does not np- 's no* p< nr, but he started crawling uncter Hock, the bnrn to think It over. r"' Robhlns, encouraged by this mnneu- psl ver nmL angered at the damage nl- throng ready wrought among his garden- tnllsmi sns, grasped the snake by bis dell- spires cately tapering tnll nnd dragged him, Sabl resisting furiously, from beneath the says: barn. Instantly the conchwhlp With ? changed his tactics nnd looped him- any thi aelf about Robhlns* neck. This n Ruslness picked up at once, nnd the gle of warm spring ntmosphere wns shnt- ennnte tered by rude exclnmntlons of the queath rough-and-ready variety. The conch- whose whip had a combination' grapevine love o and head hold on Robhlns, who was glance striving to achieve the deadly to? our pi held made famous by the late Mr. not In Ootch. revere The radish bed wns used as n mat, flag ni and the grnpple was fast nnd fn- land, n rlous. It Is always a difficult mntter erence to put a toe hold on a large und scl- his flu entitle snake, but Robhlns wns battling for his life and a few remaining radishes?and he got the hold. " ... Ther i iic- ursi iiimg nnnnins UIQ wns TO , rf)U|1(j unwrap tho snake from about his ! ' n<-ck. Tho next thine ho did was not ana n' etrlrtly In accord with tho wrestling ma *' regulations. Instead of pinning tho 'mm> conchwhlp's shoulders to the radish | ^ bod, Itohhlns dellherntoly nnd with | ' mil 11 oo aforethought popped his one- i higetln mv's skull vindictively ngninst the side , In,'n,s. of the barn. avallal The hnttle ended there. The snnkek measured two Inches over two yards. ''lo hide, a tlephants' Picnic. ^ An net not down on the program leather was given without eharge the other Sonn day In the old seaport town of Marble- compui head. Mass., when four elephants of a r,ltH |r small circus, named with tine allied thev di patriotism (Senerul Koch, General I'er- jt wou ailing, General Ilaig and Princess Tat, to 8U|,j Jumped a stone wall, escaped the elr- hodv \ eus and took to the woods. The per- anvhod aonnel of the clreus, aerohats, riders, oil clowns and canva*nen. followed, and 8|[in so did many of the townspeople and half a dor.en nolleemon hut phants made the woods first, and there they spent the day wfth "a lar?e and Grat appreciative uudlence" watching on profess the outskirts. Peanuts and bananas, ^y usually a temptation to elephants, nnces. failed to entice them from their New grandd England Jnnglej hilt as twilight fell, nn>' 'r and habit suit (tested feeding time, the stower big beasts came peacefully out of the other ? woods utid allowed the trainer and his fnndf assistants t#? lead them back to the ','or n circus ftroutids. Ami all Marblehead ,,n(' Went home to belated suppers. SHI to tucl Germany Seeks Wool Substitutes. |" r s" Reqrch for wool substitutes will onjb doubtless continue in Germany, where '?ran sheep rear I lilt Is not likely to Increase tf" mnterlall.v. Pops' hair and even hti- 1 ',,f s" man lyilr have been tried, as felt ma- *'nts, a terlal of limited supply, and the long r"' halt of women found military use dur- of> ? lag the war. A possible new Industry Is to he based on the white, silwenImired rnbblt. The hair may be spun .Tncle Into very fine soft threads, suitable frrr 1 1 weaving certain fabrics. and plan* are calling, said to have been made for breeding Jillseveral millions of tin- animals. Jack .lane's Oil in Mexico. out. (! IlArent investigations width have self, been made on the Pacific const of Me*- Jill? Ico reveal the exls'euce of rich de- you're posits of petroleum. These discoveries Howl, ore of great Importance, because they will ultimately serve to intensify mnrltlmeMratllc and seem to presage for Anal some of the western ports of Mexico from tl a futtire as promising us that of the nat Tanjpfeo or Tuxpnnm. luces t Is divh S mple Budget Sy&tsrr. tciiiin" "Every young wife rhould linvo a 'V*"* budget sytrin to govern ht r rxpondl- nf lures. ' ' "I know I have one. I pay what I , can and owe the refrO Syria, . THI IING FAST TO 'RELIGION I Apr I Refutes to Believe That the w 11 Left lerican Nation a^ a Whols " F*"'_TAW"- ' And Won ur universities we find multlof young men who claim nde to the Christian faith. The rence of their adherence Is In p 1 contrast to what I observed University <jf Cr.lro. where are N*m*B nds of youths, Moslems in name. Was I Iso In spirit. Captain Arthur Mo unute writes In Leslie's. >amnseus. In Aleppo. In Brou* The '1 In ninny other cities of the well-knowr nst. I hnve often been hold up In Vcr>' many )t n bazuar by a fishnet drawn the confirm the entrnneo. On Inquiry I way in wl ild. "The master he?s gone to R name. Five times a day throughout changes u islem world the raezzln, or call ou* ?f < yer, echoes from Its mlnnrets, quite part herever they may be the faith- fascination >w themselves. Before sights very flrst-< lose I bare my hend, and I re- hand, won a our superficial western cities name with ess of boasting and pride of mologlst dl connects It generations ago Emerson was Every one, ? his famous essays, In which that Llsbni td the name of God on every It makes r In these more superficial times cal city f ve not gained by our IndlfTer- derer Is ?] 0 that which was the heart of been rath on's message. Turdetanlr e socialist syndicate will ex- Spain. Si "If you will only leave out the nny differ religion' we won't object." But tradition, 't leave out the word "religion,** which the that word I see America's great- '? to say ?d today. There are hypocrites ten Ulyss iund and the cynic points me to Hps, says but I answer: "I hnve seen a ns Allssul nan, the secret of his goodness Then cnm< 'llglon, and a good life Is an ar- nnme, hut t that I cannot answer." the happy dte appearances to the con- city on tl: 1 believe that America even yet calling It so far away from Plymouth Romans c iiic viimiim miciwii, HIIII!1.SI Al ASPIllil >f garden follies, and In the gny- same Idea Irl, there are many In the giddy Portuguest who still hear like a magic Phoenician nn the memory of the white and nppen of New England. that to tin >atlor, the French modernist. 's hut a st "Man Is Innately religious.** And whi ?speclnl truth I believe we may It carries p American Is Innately religious, furies, ton ntlon had Its origin In the strug- Phoenician fnlth. The Huguenot, the Cov- each. In \ r nnd the Pilgrim have he- shores of icd to us a national sentiment deed, was potency is not merely In the Moor In 1 f our country, hut also In alle- how King to our God. Therefore, today, through n [itrlotism should express Itself, at last, w flippancy, hut In the deepest Flemish ci nee and devotion. God and the captured I re one and Inseparable In this mances of tnd the citizen who does not rev- nnd epoch hlfc God can not truly honor "re the b g. Castlllan i Its period In the si: May Mean War on Rata. Portuguese e Is not enough leather to go self Into N Fish skins are susceptible to years of g. and there are rat skins which 1(140, whe good leather, large enough for town undc purposes. They would do for fiom the ! Inds of gloves and mittens, says curthquaki tie Journal. They may he sewed rebuilding *r to make cloaks and other gar- rnous Can and thcy%rc not too small to he n ?I f<?r parts i>f boots iind shoes. T.lsbon hn tieral rule jis to leather is that the beaut; Irker the fur Is the [loorer the who write ml vice versa. According to this, to attempt hie would |n*oduce superior beauties o red-roofed ebody with the gift of guessing dure of It les that there are 100,(HH),000 "peerless i this country, and the damage "The eyes r> would feed a good-sized army, "upon a s Id take at least fi.OOO skins a day hnllt up w dy a small modern tannery. No- great and vants the rats; they belong to Lusttnnian ly that can catch them. That Is the semhln ly problem?to catch them and many mar lem, and then deliver the goods, of delleat* westernmo Another Degree. '!/ ... .W I A T AI tS 11 hill idfather Is a learned Indtnna _ .. f)vp miles ?or?one who Is greatly respect- ? . .... ... . . . mous Had, nil his neighbors and acquaint- .. .. _ . . , ..... .. , . tban three Rut his little three-year-old rrow cl a lighter knows hlra quite another "nrrow < om any other person, as the he- #ca ' 'J*' of anything she may wish. The 1 r* ? ' 1 venlng his mother left her with "n< soine nther while she went to a party. '^J1 ?, while everything went all right n * an . en baby began to get sleepy. At me time rhe longed for mother t her In bed. Then she pitched Ice high and walled loud and r^lf> now turnstile hi dfatlier presented money, trlnk- hy heart b I everything the house ottered. Here, si II the baby walled. More pres- hrel^t at tl nd flniillv tin. I.nt,u t~vl. who bud f to uttor this rebuke: "I want now I'm tryin' for my mudder." "Hut I In Itor pleade I "Th? n y Classified. one," ?nld ? Sny. Jill, you iliifn't know tlint allowed ft tin electrician? I missed my ' leaves Ills change. How's that? 1 Why, lust night, over at the electrle light fuse burned ? . , . ( luess who fixed It? Me?I?mv o sad -Huh! You're no eleetrlclan?' ttu'ii " ''"t nn Idiot!?Pennsylvania Puneh n ujxe ami I ___ i likely to m Anatolia. I oIIh, mentioned in lie* news >< ? i\ ie peaee conference In Paris. Is P"1"' l'nne of one of the live large prnv- ' ir districts Into which Turkey ?*' s " led. It lies between the Medl- ! an and Hlnc|* seas, and the tils- , the home oif the greater part I ,1T Turkish population, numbering ; '.>10.000 people The other four Istrlcts of Turkey are Armenia, i * >r,< ,ut* Mesopotamia and Kurdhdun. 5 LANCASTER NEWS, LANCAS1 T IN HISTORY I 1!" i/worvca ncc t Epoc drously Beautiful Is the ( City of Lisbon. i w\iy do the Victorian e| through a g; i Capital Haa Had Many exciting, int Through the Centuries? I sometimes t? Last Stronghold of tho 8al(1 that nob or In That Country. ! real delights j lived before r of a name, especially a ^'nillarly, w it i name, in Interesting to -V,,U"K person people ontslde the ranks of ,,u> delights ied etymologist. The strange I,oss,f)|e to be ilch. through the centuries, !,'r "f a vo,u gradually changes and ''ra>'- to wa" ntil It has really changed I:iIo,'s "ow " usual recognition, yet never of Uo s from Its original, has a revl<?w of Swl i all Its own. Lisbon Is a ,,<e terrors oc lass example. No one, off- Needier Stow Id think of connecting the frtendshlp Ulyssen, and yet your ety- Col,tidences o Ives Into the subject and so Wl*re turned without apparent difficulty, true, yet Haw of course, knows the legend not (lisr a owes Its origin to Ulysses. ,h<> l,,ss,'r I'h' 10 difference that the mythl- ",')ri an<l Ju ounded by the great wan- ""tlsfyliig lit leclared by Strnho to have features of ier In the mountains of People really t, In the extreme south of 'n "luglng uch contentions never make ""Ida <>n ence to a well-established u"inen dress An., so tne oldest name by ^ ^ )n city ever was known, that ^ OUslpo, came to be writ- w ippo. This on Phoenician ^ , the authority, appeared ,e wh,( ^bo. or the friendly bay. m4 wpre ? the Romans, changing the stagnntl sealing their appreciation of ^ thJnkf.rs situation of the beautiful , stQnt cnnsMf ic heights above Tugas by n ln YhU, Fellcitas Julia. After the " a me the Moors with their ina, still carrying out the FORGOT P , and after the Moors, the ?, with the Allssubho of the Eminent La i carried a step further. y00 Freely irlng as Llssabona. From So p I.lshoa or Lisbon of today ep. 1 Sir Thoina nt a history there Is ln It 1 \m nddre one safely through the cen- honor among chlng lightly on the story of "Too many i, Roman and Moor us ?fnH from h turn, held sway along the ,ir,? nk?. an Friendly bay. Lisbon, In- whom I over the last stronghold of the OVer his whis Portugal, and the story of "'Yes.' su Alfonso T lnld siege to It 'she's a very lany months, In 1147, and, ous, of cours 1th the aid of English nnd just now. ? rulsers on the way to Syria as so0n as 1 It, Is one of the great ro- 0f tj1(, room history. Other landmarks kn,,w In the s ln the history of Lisbon nttle details urnlng of the city by the urmy of Henry II, In 1373; Of SDlendor nnit cr??tniiin * ^ ^ - stcenth century. when the ? empire was spreading it- ^ Tndla and Afrira; Its long humiliation from 1SS0 to n Lisbon was a provincial X r Spanish rule; Its release Spanish bondage; the great s of 17.V?; and the grand of the city under the fa- X ivallio. V* 10 had a gracious task: V s always bet-n famous for ?*? ; of Its situation, and few JIL > ^ about Portugal today fall X once ajrain. to convey the *4? f Its blue waters. Its white, houses, the wonderful vers gardens, and over all the blue of a southern sky." i rest." says one writer, ?* succession of amphitheaters ith tier unon tier of houses, X small, which the sorcery of sunlight trnnslgures Into nee of a cltv of palaces and Ashev islons built up of marbles X ft and varied hues." The Waynt st of European capitals ?* T Llelf In leisurely fashion over ^ 'a ' s, extending for more than ::: Flat F along the shores of the fa a de Lisbon, and for more Breva miles Inland. Reyond the IJalsar tnnnel leading out of the ? >ugh which flow the wa- RitltfCt e Th(?us lies the open sea, ?* 800 ml lea away over the the west are the Azores.? J Science Monitor. V ? V The Essential. I A doorkeeper at the museum* ^ nr! learned the hook of rules efore taking over the Job. Ir. you ii111 leave yotir urn?e door." he said to a \isitor ailed to hand over that ar nven't ?u umbrella,* the visd. : ou must so hack and ,?et _ _ _ the doorkeeper. "No one Is I aU ? pass In here unless he VJUI1 umbrella at the door."?Kx- 2 ? f Consoling. ".randpn, why do you look f ?Ah my lad. I was Just *4^ s lere 1 am seventy years of have d nothing that Is ake posterity reiuemher me 2 n * I i X >h. ?e.!, don't worry, Maybe you'll still have a $*'* live in history as some- X jK idftlfher. \ JiL ? ? ^ ^ The Kind. your hlrthstono?" JL by the knocks 1 nin always J in life, I should soy It was ER, S. C. rpi u/nRTU VA/UM P : "nd rrfln.-n.ont Is , tn>\ WUnlh WrliLt ( tnnt to divuljre. Hut It is n? I our rasp is to succeed, that .uke for Those Who Smilo acquainted with all you hs h Which Had Many stiffor. t >f course you will \ Good Points. that what you toll me wll beyond the four walls of heathen rage against the I shall regard your contlde >och? Men who lived solutely sacred, and you net :.t part of It found It hosltntiou in revealltiK all. f< erostinK, amusing and ho sure that no other human iprll.lo rr., II I I / c. niK-.umiu uikt ever learn from me the detu ody could understand the troubles." Well, that gave of society unless he had confidence, of course, and. the French revolution, this Is what she told me.' " at young person, or neur- -?? , of today can experience London and the Bin of the time when it ?as Affep the n<,wg fp(|#1 Stra, gin at ease the first chup- storks have returned wl me of Dickens ?>r Thack- of ?|e wup to the ol), Alsat|u t Impatiently for Heorge apo to be geen dn?y Hs io\el or even to hear the pluming themselves In the hert Buchanan's famous ?r<li:lu. colne8 the news fr. inhume.' 1 here were, too. ; OI|P ,,f jbp unusual featt casloned by Mrs. Harriet ; flpst SI,rlnR uftPr th? Wlir i: e when her tierce Puritan j ,.nrp (,f tbe beautiful large aluced her to print the ; ,j(p English capital. So writ f Lady llyron! Uur eyes , s,,ondent of the Observer. towards England, it is , (,,, jj,,, fringes," he says, "k tliorne and Emerson were now ?pilto common, and in 11 ussed, but read. Among y?u mny Rpp thelr won,|e hts there were (.ail Ham- ( handsome Jays betray ,mes Fields, whose very in many wooded ga erury essays were great knpw t,,pm not by |helr . the Atlantic Monthly. t||p whlte flllsh of t,?.,r wi did not spend their time ro\v-hnwi;s and carrion crow Munnlta ' or in rending jn? be common ; and eve the sly, nor dnl all the t bll?. |lt>Pn ?eon where fn in the magentas and sol- ,ms bppn unknown." An(j ich contemporarj satirists ; jju,y imve come, t. > doubt tiles of the mhhlle periods | w?, hp f(lUnrt nf so convlncl m rmgeme. -j ue Crimean j th?,r w<.,corae that the). rs, so microscopic to the j 8gnjn ng, the Franco-Prussian h preluded the chaos of _. . ents that Wept our minds ,, The Cl,,m of Ing; a- d there were doers Kvory now ,,n<1 11 in Europe worth our con- mnn ?>*where t? ration.?Maurice Francis ^en-sent phrase.' wh ( Review with It Instant and alums I Illumination on a question. 1 columns of explanation am ROMISE TO CLIENT men. s of eloquence might t | Such a phrase catne froti wyer Talked Altogether I Ihinlels, the secretary of ' Over His Whisky and 1 States navy, the other di da at the Club. ' course of one of his speed J land. "No Englishman." d? s IJptou spoke In a Y. M. , Daniels, "has more claim to ss in New York about than I."?Christian Science 1 business men. " r business men," he said. Tunnel Through the P; onor thoughtlessly. They The- rigors of mountain \\ eminent divorce lawyer position from the national heard one night prattling war. and a difference in ky and soda at the club. united in the past to id the eminent lawyer, effective joining of French beautiful woman. Nerv- j 'sb railways, says Popular e?of course very nervous Magazine. Work on the | So I said to her gently, ! heen carried on sine* 11*1-1 'd sent my secretary out i nn'' 't now announced t : "Now. my dear lady, I I tunnel from Ax. In France se cases there are many I cr Spanish side which a woman of j^ur | broken through, and will < " ' fi*s1rnhie union more firmly United States Railroad , Director (icncral of liailni nithern Raili SUMMER EXCURSl From LANCAS ille, N. C $ 8.82 Hent esville, N. C 10.32 Tryo Junaluska, N. C 10.20 0 . Salu< lock, N. C 7.44 rd, N. C 8.82 B,acl n, N. C 10.74 Hick :rest, N. C 8.04 High (War Tax Extra AND MANY OTHER ATTR4 Tickets on Sale Now. Final Qnortrl VA7?* 1-.^ ?. - ? u^f^nu x uui y awanuu ill Mountains of Weste Tennis Horseback Riding M LIVE 01TD00I % IN "THE LAND OF TH IHROUCH SERVICE. < < L B. CAUTH LANCASTE1 < J* ?? <? ?? * * 4 -- . ^ ^ 9 PAGE THREE . ' j French Patriot's Letter. I be fill I v ^ remnrknble story of the patrlot. . " : Ism and devotion shown by c Frcnch' V. 'J American fHmlly Is related In the 1 '* '"T Petit Nlcols, the rontlnentnl edition .m K" of the London Mall states, this room. .. .. ' . _ . Af fh<* mifnrpnir nf ivor n noh. ' i i ."S "l> onn named Callles. forty-four year* < ?.is? no who kept a drug store In Los >r you "iay Anjte|og> Cal.. left his wife, daughter " ing w i two sons to coine over and fight * o >"it native country. He wus naorH r more ta||y wounded before Verdun in .Tangent emeu. m,rv loirs, but before dying had the following cablegram sent to ills wife: "I die facing the enemy. Let our two sons eonie out and take my pluce sburg that in the ranks. Adieu." th the end On receipt of this cablegram the n city, and two sons, Joseph and fieorgc, lolned time past, up and In due course arrived In France. Pluce de Joseph was killed in 1017, not far mi London from the place where his father met ires of this hb- den tit. He was thirty-four and s tin' pres- was also a druggist. i r birds in fieorge failles went through much es a corre- fighting without a wound until at ten of London, o'clock on the morning of November :estrels are 11. just before the nrmlstlce, lie was lan.v places badly gassed. He recovered and has rful flight, been In convalescence at Nice pendthelr pres- lag his departure for his California rdens that home to resume his legal studies. screech, or lugs; spar New Insulating Material. s are coin- a new insulating material that is n the mag- Incombustible is made by mixing 51.7 r years he j,er pt?nt powdered asbestos, IT per cent III, W I llll f I ? -- puwutrca tnicu, "jo per rent mineral some way rubber (a soft substance found in deng them of posits of oleaginous schist) ; 1 per cent will couie rosin and 0.3 per cent of bisulphide of selenium. After washing and evaporating in the ulr, a hard, non-nbsorb ede. ent substance is obtained which, on is given to heating, becomes plastic and can be utter a j molded to any shape, leh brings ' ? t startling r;:rz e*unburn itterly fall. Apr^ V:,PoRub SS i Jose]ilitl? | lightly-?it soothes /a-7.Cj the I'nlted the tortured slsin. 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