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LIKE HIS IMPERIAL MASTER Von' Buelow, Under the Wings of the German Eagle, Typical as of Ill Omen to Mankind. From Brand Whitlock's story of Ger man oppression in Belgium in Every body's Magazine, we take the following account of a single Incident that oc curred in May, ^014. just before the war. Mr. Whitlock, with other diplo mats, was the dinner guest of Mr. Von Buelow, the German minister to Bel gium. "We were standing by a table in the corner of the room, and from anions the objets d'art, the various trinkets, the signed photographs in silver frames, with which it was loaded, he drew forward a silver bowl that he used ns a cendrier. As I dropped the ash of my cigar into it, I noticed that lt was pierced on one side near the rim by a perfectly round hole, the jagged edges of which were thrust Inward; plainly a bullet hole ; doubtless it had a history. I a&ked him. "Tes, a bullet hole,' he said. Tn China it stood on my desk, and one day during the riots a bullet came through the window and went right through it' ? "Several of the guests pressed up to see; such a bowl with its jagged bullet hole and a history was an excellent subject for conversation; the German minister had to recount the circum stances several times. "1 have never had a post.' he said, .where there has not been trouble; In Turkey it was the revolution; in China lt was the Boxers. I am a bird of ill omen.' " MAKE LIGHT OF ALL RISKS British Aviators Think Little of Dan ger When There ls a Chance to Hurt the Enemy. The daringly low flights of English airmen at the front are shown in the ? official notes to awards of the military cross : Lieut. Richard Aveline Mnybery, Lan cers and R. F. C.. after attacking two airdromes in succession at very low al titudes and inflicting considerable dam age, attacked and dispersed a number of mounted men and then attacked a freight train. He next attacked and shot down a hostile machine at 5U0 feet, and before returning attacked a passenger train. Seeon 1 Lieut. Walbtnke A. Pritt. R. F. C.. in attacking a hostile air drome dropped bombs from a very low altitude and attacked and destroyed two enemy machines almost as soon as they had left the ground. A machine gun then opened upon him ^ra the airdrome, which he liv .ately at tacked. Botli on K outward and homeward journey was under very heavy fire. Or ne attacked a mo torcar and s' ,i one of the occupants from abou* af ty feet, afterward attack ing Infantry on the march and inflict ing severe casualties upon them. Second Lieut. Alexander A. N. Pent land, R. F. C., descended to within twenty feet of the ground and fired into eight hostile machines. On his return i journey he attacked a train with con siderable effect from low altitude. He has always shown fearlessness and de votion to duty in attacking enemy bal loons and troops on the ground, ?fi* Finland's New Flag. . The Russian revolution will probably result in lengthening the list of the world's flags by several additions. Fin land, which, since March, has ceased to be a grand duchy and has declared her independence and status as a re public, has now decided on her national colors. She will have three different standards: the national flag, the flag of the merchant service, and that of the pilot and customs services. The national colors are those which were acclaimed at the time of the revolu tion, the yellow lion of Finland sur rounded hy nine white roses on a red ground. The flag; of the merchant service will have a yellow perpendicu lar cross on a red ground and in the top right-hand corner, nine white roses set symmetrically In three rows. The pilot and customs services flag will be the same, except that lt will carry the yellow of Finland instead of the white roses. Fought With Owl. t An employee of the Helena Land and Lumber company near Perkins, a short distance north of Escanaba. Mich., had a desperate encounter with a huge owl while walking through the woods late at night. His first warning of the attack was j when he was struck on the head andi his fur cap pulled off. The zrent claws of the bird next were fastened to his skull and his face. After a desperate fight in the dark the man succeeded in securins a gond . hold on the owl and killed it hy dash ing Its head against a tree. The owl Is on exhibition at the camp and is said to be the largest ever killed in that viclnlr;:. $500,000 for Muskrat Skins. Thc annual January fur auction] closed at St. Louis with sales totalins aproximately .S.'?.itfO.OOO. A lot of 710.000 muskrats brought $500/100. Many of the skins brought $1.50 each, an average price for good pelts being 75 cents. A few years ago muskrat skins sold on the market a* low as five cents each. A collection of beaver brought 925 per skin and the small lot of martin from Alaska s?.'t a record price of $57 each. Extraordinarily high prices paid this year were said to be due to the high o.nnlity <?f the furs. More than 350 buyers from all pnrta pf the world attended the sale. Robert Lane took a dislike to Iiis new neighbor, Burton Price, within a week after the latter had moved from another part of the town next to the Lane home. Price was a quiet, unas suming man with a large family, his children happened to break one ef Mr. Lane's windows in playing ball, their dog rooted np some of the garden stuff Mr. Lane had carefully planted and that was the start ef Mr. Lane's ill "feeling. It is true that Mr. Price stepped over to his neighbor's house, Insisted on paying for the windew and having thc garden damage repaired. That mollified Mr. Lane somewhat, but the next evening Mr. Lane stepped over to thc Price home and returned, his brow like a thunder cloud. "What is the trouble, Robert?" in quired his wife. "That Price ! Pre through with him. Netta," to his eighteen-year-old daugh ter, "I hear that you let that Price cub walk with you to the seminary. Cut it out! As to the smaller children, I leek to you, Martha, te see that they don't associate with that brood nest door." . "Why, Robert!" echoed Mrs. Lane, "whatever has crossed yeu?" "Price has, and PH see that he re grets it. I stepped over in a kind of neighborly way to ask him to vote for Waller for sheriff. Price informed me calmly that Waller was not the kind of a man he could recommend." "Well-could he?" challenged Mrs. Lane, significantly. "You know Wal ler associates with the worst class In town." "Never mind. Tra going to try for mayor this fall, ain't I?" demanded Lane. "By catering a bit t? Waller ia the spring county election, he'll return the compliment and help me win out in the fall, won't he?" So within a week there was a set condition of feud between the two fam ilies. 'Til fence those vandals in," he vo ciferated, and hired a carpenter to build a fence twelve feet high. Mr. Price continued to bow courte ously to Lane, although the latter re buffed him with a scowl. It nettled the latter to the point of distraction when he discovered that the spite fence made an excellent surface for the Price children to play handball. He nearly collapsed one evening when he came upon Netta, receiving through a knothole in the spite fence a rose poked through by her ardent lover, young Dudley Price. "We won't have to stand that fac tious brood much longer!" he remark ed to his wife. "Soon as I'm elected to the mayoralty I'm going to move to a better par; of the town." One evening Lane arose to face a decidedly unpleasant Incident. During the night some nimble burglar had scaled th< spite fence, climbed into the upper ronni and made off with a lot of jewelry and money. "If it had not been for the fence,' began Mrs. Lane, and then thought it wiser not to further disturb her dis gruntled husband. A week afier that fcnne came home to view wreck and ruin. There had been a furious windstorm about noon, and fully ">0 feet of the fence had been blown down. "If it hadn't been for the fence," be gan Mrs. Lane again, but again sub sided, for Lane was boiling ever with ill humor as he began to realize that his unneighborly tactics were bearing bitter fruit . ;. The fall election neared and the town was split up between the two main political parties and' an indepen dent group, comprising the workers in the plant at the other end of town, where Mr. Price was employed. One day the manager In eharge of the Lane campaign came to him with a rather anxious face. "Tell you, Lane," he said. "It's go ing to be a close shave." "Why. how can that be when we rep resent the usual majority party?" "Well, to be plain with you. there's a defection. A good many are shying away from you." "What for?" "That spite fence business hasn't made a very good impression with the conservative class. It'? true your op ponent will lose a good many votes be cause he has antagonized the mill peo ple, hut their independent votes count up in the hundreds." As the days went on Lnno began to realize that his manager was n pretty shrewd analyst. Lane became gloomy over the prospect. The night before election he came home restless and pessimistic. It was a foregone conclu sion that he had lost weight in his own party. About eight o'clock someone called him up on the phone. "Mr. Lane? Yes? I am about to ad dress the Independents at the mill," a voice spoke. "I want to ask you a question." "All right," replied Lane, wondering who his interlocutor might be. "Are you in favor of putting through the new road for the convenience and property benefit of the workers?" "Decidedly. Who ls this?" "I'm your neighbor, Price. On your pledge, Mr. Lane, we'll see that you are elected." And he was, and Robert Lane learn ed his lesson. If he winced when he compared the kindly impulses of his neighbor with his own soured nature, he felt he was on his way to reform as he removed the last vestige of the spite fence. Sind was not adverse to having Dudley Price call at the house twice a week. AID FOR PIG CLUB MEMBERS Increased Membership Will Be Great Help in Increasing Production of Needed Pork. .. >?, (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) . One of the most potent ways of in creasing the number of hops is by en couraging more boys and girls to join pig clubs. In the past these clubs have been markedly successful. They have been the means of introducing purebred hogs ?into many communi ties and raising the standard of hogs as well as improving the conditions under which they are kept and the care given them. The number of pig clubs in the Northern states on June 30, 1917, totaled 1,037; in the South the number of community clubs is be tween 2.000 and 2,500, and in almost every club are found members of pig clubs. Although the number .is large, it is possible to increase it greatly by forming more clubs in counties where there are agents to direct properly the efforts of the young people. In order to stimulate these activities, the department during the past year has added to its force several pig club specialists, and a number of the agri cultural colleges have done likewise. In this work, it is of first importance that proper instructions be given to the members in regard to all phases of swine husbandry so that clubs will be successful in bringing to market a large percentage of the pigs under their care. Clubs should not be or ganized unless there Is ample assur ance that sufficient feed will be avail able to bring the pigs to maturity. Swine breeders' associations have been active for a number of years in assisting pig club members to secure purebred hogs nt reduced prices. This has made it possible for members to obtain good stock with which to lay the foundation for a herd of purebred swine. The result has been the intro duction into many communities of de sirable breeding stock and the stimu lation of more widespread interest in good quality hogs. Swine breeders' associations doubtless will be willing to continue in the future the assistance given to club members in the past. Bankers in many states have real ized the value of pig clubs as a means of materially improving rural condi tions5 and at the same time increasing Enthusiastic Pig Club Member With His Prize Pig. the production of meat and teaching the members good business methods. Not a few bankers have made it pos sible for worthy club members to se cure pigs on their personal notes. In this way n well-bred pig is obtained through the efforts of a county agent or pig club lender or specialist and a banker. The member is given the opportunity to pay for it from the pro ceeds of the pig ns a meat animal or from the sale of offspring in case of a breeding animnl. Often the member enters Into a business agreement (with the parents' consent) with the bank er and thus secures a pig when oth erwise it would have been impossible for the child to have joined the club. In other instances the bankers have bought bred gilts to be bred and) given them to club members with the understanding that two pigs were to be returned for the original gilt loaned. These pigs in turn are lent to other children. This plan is the so-called endless chain contract. Either plan has resulted in increasing Interest In pig clubs with its accompanying ex pansion in the supply of pork products and the instruction In swine husbandry which is a part of thc club work. The banker thus helps to lay a foundation for the prosperity which will be last ing. The money received from the sale of hops will bo expended in fur ther developing the county. Every merchant in the county will profit, the banks will get more deposits, and the farmers will have more money with which further to develop their farms. Suitable Hay for Horses. 5To make hay suitable for horses at hard work alfalfa must be allowed to become rather mature before cutting; In fact, the field should be in full bloom before the mower is started. Pigs Get Better Start Pigs wised by a mature sow get a beltc-v start while young and give greater profits than the pigs from o young, Immature sow. 99 "State Units Now Training Within Sound of Enemy A cablegram from France, publication of which was recently authorized, contains the following information: Part of the National Guard has arrived in France and is undergoing intensive training behind first line trenches within the sound oi the guns at the front This Brings the War Home to YOU In a short time these gallant young men, whose parents, brothers and sisters, wives. and sweethearts are your own neighbors, will be IN the front line trenches, under the murderous fire of enemy artillery, and going "over the top" to meet the sweeping hail of the machine guns and the bayonets of the Huns. If these soldier boys-YOUR soldier boys-were three miles away instead of three thousand, you would bend every energy, exhaust every resource, make every sacrifice, to make sure that they were fed, clothed, armed and equipped as no soldiers ever were before. Is your duty any less imperative, any less sacred, because it is your neighbor's boy who is defending your country, your flag and your home from German frightfulness on the other side of the ocean? Is it not a splendid privilege as well as a duty to deny yourself luxuries, to save food, save clothing, above all to save money, for our soldiers? U. S. Thrift Stamps Save Lives and Shorten the War There is one thing you can do, every day, to help the Government provifle the guns, ammunition, food, clothing and other supplies which our soldiers and sailors ?MUST HAVE to win the war, win it quickly, and come safely home again. Go today to any bank, any postoffice, or any store where you see the W. S. S. (War Savings Stamps) sign displayed. For 25 cents you will receive a U. S. Thrift Stamp and a card to paste it on. The card has spaces for 16 stamps, costing you $4. When it is full, exchange it-with a few cents additional in cash-for a War Savings Stamp, for which the Government will pay $5 January 1, 1923. These War Savings Stamps are as safe as U. S. Bonds. They are the safest investment in the world because they are backed by the entire resources of the country, t and the profit you make on them amounts to four per cent interest, compounded quar ' lerly, if held till January 1, 1923. Buy a U. S. Thrift Stamp with every quarter you can possibly save. Every stamp helps to stamp out autocracy. Every stamp saves priceless American blood. Every stamp is a blow for Liberty. Every stamp will help bring peace to the world-a perma nent peace, grounded in justice and righteousness. . Se SJ Every Stamp Helps to Bring Those Soldiers ^?FIJiu3-1 ai*d Sailors Home Again Alive and Victorious rwTTFn ?TATES fl O . UNITED STATES ' (GOVERNMENT THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY The Bank of Western Carolina s. c. We Solicit, Protect and Appreciate Your Business GIVE US A TRIAL