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INTERNED GERMAN VESSELS AT NEW YORK PIERS K.i,i It'll in ri ^ lii The I'llnrr . I < >11 i * 11 i 111. I'rimi- Klifl Frleilrlcli K o**n 114 Wlllielm II, I luiuhurg and Allcnmrniia i?' oil' < Mil* 11111 >? I r?<l 11 in I Thlriy flflli siriM'i himI Xorih river. New York. Nolo tin* Allciuamila Is coaling'up. A <(?ii->!;ini \ 1 i I* is In-Ill^' k?-1 > 1 hy the i i cii t ni 111 n si|hjiiI itiul I )i ?? police to fci1 ill il none ol" 111 * * ships attempts to 11 in U1 ? 11 run I #r sen. Tin' ships iiiiilei^u m thorough ln-<pe?l Ion ilall.\. GETTING HIS GOAT By DEAN HERRICK. Krlc Iliilley had been called up "oh the carpet," ami now stood cap in hand Hutenlng to Archibald Flnhav en's tirade. Flahaven pounded his desk and his npoplectlc fare took on an alarming color. "Anyway," ho hallowed, "I want you to let Viola alone." So that was it! Krlc had suspected uK much. It wasn't the number of *teel rails that had been scrapped i after all that was causing this tempest in the general manager's brain, liis hand clenched, then relaxed and an ! >imused smile curled the corners of ids lip.s. Hut instantly alive to his posl- ; f Ion. he sobered again. Flahuvcn sprung up. "Laugh, blast j ?<?n ! We'll see who'll laugh. I >o you | think I'm going to have my (laughter j waste her time on a day laborer? If I catch you flirting with Viola again, or so much as looking lit her. I'll not ? inly discharge you. but blacklist you as well." "Hut Mr. Flahaven?" "(Jet out !" "You'll be sorry. I love Viola and loves tin '" Mashed the young man. "(Jet out !" A notice to get his money and <|iiit reached his department alrtiost as soon ax he ? ]i? I. "All right." he said <*heerfull\ to the messenger. "Say, Tim, want to make a dollar?" "Sure !" "(Jo and bet I'atsy O'Hrien that I'll get the old man's goat it) two weeks." "Aw, go on !" That mghl. as pre-arranged by tele photic. Viola met Krlc at the gate of her fuiiter's premises. "Hello, dearest girl!" lie whispered cheerfullx. drawing her close. "I'm going away, dear, but I'm coming back before long. I've been discharged and I'm going to hunt more work. l'ut, tell tuc tirst, do you really love tne?" "Former and you know it. Kric." "And \ ou are willing t<> be poor and pack lunches for me. and have no* come home black as a miner every night ?" "I 'effect I j willing.'' "You are the very deareM girl in the world! Now I must go. (lood-by, sweethea rt." "Milly." said her father at break fast, addressing his wife. "1 wish you would do something for me." Mrs. Flahaven acquiesced with the celerity her husband always demand ed in advance. "Yes, Archibald." "(Jive a party I" "Why, Arch?" "Yes, yes. Give a big one, bang-up ?go the limit. Ilockwell. the presi dent of the company, telephoned that some of the bankers who own the plant are coming up for a couple of ? lays. Have it then !" "All right. Archibald. A dinner dance will be just the thing!" "And Viola, make the best of your opportunities !" "Yes. father!1' But poor Viola was w hite and miserable. Pays passed, busy ones for every body, wretched ones for Viola. One afternoon the desk phone in Flahav eii's otflce rang. Ilockwell asked hint to come to a conference of ntHclals at the hotel. Flahaven went. He was shown to a room where < hairs were arranged around a big mahogany table, but onl> one of which was oeeupled "How do \<>u do. Mr. Flahaven ? Won't \on sir down? We're both a Mt early l":* : 11? ? others will he In soon." "Fric Mil i lev ?>!">.., d ^t-ie-rn! manager, agha-v ''I'm glad > o i :?? ni? -!uI>t' smiled Kri<- ' I didn't tbihk 1 ?;i i :npor' anr The other Its speet h . " I" \ i been thinking r :i few things. Mr. Flahaven. i want -<?me advice. i Mice there was a \??ung man who happened suddenly by a death to fall Into a position he was not titled for. S... without telling anyone what be was going to do, he put on over ;? and d?-*ermin??d to |. -irn a thing or t\\<> about labor himself. Then ho happened to full in love with a Kir I, the daughter of a man who had worked Ids way up from the ranks to I tow or. For thin crime he was dln ? barged and hlackllstod. Now the young man had It in his power to dls <hargo the father, hut ho was trying, among otlier things, to learn self-con troj. So he got out of town and tuok a fow days to think It over. lie de rided to lot things go and not make :t fuss, hut he thinks he ought to tiave a reward. Now, what would you say was fair, Mr. Flahaven?" "Anything!" faltered the other. "Viola?" ">'es!" "All tight. Thank you, sir. Sup pose you announce the engagement at your hlg party, then.'" He rang a bell sharply, and a page appeared. "Tell the gentlemen to cofue In now," he said; "and you," turning to the general manager, "get out !" "Hut?" protested Flahaven. "(Set out!" thundered Eric, hanging the table us the other meekly obeyed. The conn rs of his mouth twitched. "1 dosci ved that much." he said to him self. "I guess I'm about even with nim now." And as six dignitied men came tiling into the room he reached for the tele phono. "This is Frio. Tim." he ex plained. "Collrrt that dollar from O'Brien. 1 u'ot tho old man's goat to day.-' (Copyright. i?> tin* M< CIure Newupu pt-i Syndicate.) ('harlio Tumor. a \\ 11it?- man was a? ? 111it r? I in t lie ("la i fiid'Mi cmiiiiI.s Court of u'riirral si *s> i on s t liis \s ? ???k ??I killing his ni iu'lilx't- I'ud Horry. Turnor hoard a 11.? i? in tin- roar of his In nn* olio niulit. and ^i-i/.im; hi< mm. wont ? ?nt ?> 111\ o-iiijati'. L'pun uuiiii: to th?? i??mi ??f t-is :o<idon<?' ho >>l*-oi ved the form of ,i ai.in in tho aot of oiiloriiu m wiu.tou ..t ,.ii,- room tho h.?u?.o No hailod tho intruder and r<..-i\in_' no roplv. atl< i w :i i t i 11 _r .i ^ i > M i ? lout |on,_'l!i of tine' t'oi ,i r o |. i \. 111 od with fatal olloi-t ?.o\. ijioi- .Manning h.i- paroled < W I '' * t ? ' >? i.f M;|| l.olo .olUltV \\llo \\,|v I t , ill-: .1 ! I \ O \ > : I I" ?ol 11 olh III tho I ???a; tont i:t i \ 1"i k i 11 i 11 Tola W riirht !" ? \ . ? - i- ~ i j. i i. ? 1 i ? in l? i ? I le a I! h HE WENT TO THE MOVIES ? <'ii?:? I. I'.i rnxtKi tT !!i? ? 'li?inissp?l (itriiiiu, iiul'H-sndor Jk?! .ftor If I'.-mI tifllvertMl jh<- i?<?t?? from' 'h?> kalM-r v\hi<h rc?Milt?*f! in (ho rup furr of f!11.1?.1 nn11'* rHn ti??n*. Me was on hl? wnv to .?? j?i? 'i;r-f h?' ' ?:: ? '">? wnr ll!m<. i FLICKER IS AN ANT EATER Unlike Its Woodpecker Cousin the Bird Spends Much Time on the Ground. The flicker la America's most impor tant ant eater. It has an appetite for those little creatures that Is almost be yond understanding. United States scientists examined the stomach of one bird and found more than live thousand ants. The stomachs of two others contained more than three thousand each. It is the only member of the wood pecker family which spends much time on the ground. It may he that Its appetite for ants has compelled It to forsake the treos, and the diet of boring insects which its relatives on Joy. At any rate, you'll see it quite often scooting along highways or hop ping over lawns. Yes, it is here now, and If Its appe tite is normal this year, Its family probably baa consumed several mil lions of ants by this timo. You'll know it by its mottled brown and black body, the red patch on its head and the black crescent at its throat. If you need any other identification, watch it when it flies, and see the white patch beneath its tail feathers. Perhaps you would like it to spend tho summer with you. An invitation in the form of a bird box, with an opening big enough to admit the bird and room enough inside for one of its breadth is almost certain to bo accepted. BIRD VIOLATES UNION RULES Martin Works Sixteen Hours a Day in Labor That Greatly Benefits the Farmer. Union hours do not bother the mar tin. Ho will spend as many as 16 hours a day working as a farmhand. He doesn't pitch hay. or harvest oatS, but he does something almost as valu able?destroys harmful beetlos. Since he always establishes himself in col- ( onies. you can see why the farmer would wish him to settle in his neigh borhood. lie is a member of tho swal low tribe. So tho farmer who wants to invite these birds puts up colony houses for, them. Instead of one-roomed tene-, merits, like those eroded for the wren and the bluebird, the martin wants a hotel, with as many rooms as the landlord wants to provide The birds, which arrive here about April 5. will return to one of these houses year after year. Formerly they wore moro numerous than now?tho English sparrow drove many away. About the middle of August the mar tin gathers his relatives and friends In a flock and starts south again. The martin s feeding ground covers a territory within a radius of three ; miles from his home. With 200 or 300 birds feeding 16 hours a day over this territory?do .you wonder that the farmer appreciates the purple martin? Dig Up Old Relics. Subway diggers in the lower end of | the city are finding all sorts of rero lutionary and Indian relics, says the New York TimeB. Most of this por- j Hon of Manhattan is made land and (ho odds and ends and refuse of a cen- i tury ago. Upon what was once the [ camping grounds of tho Uritlsh and I American forces on Washington Heights endless proof has been gar nered from the buried campflre# of the armies to show what regiments ! were there, what kind of ammunition | they used. What they ate and how i they passed their time between bat- i ties, likewise Indian arrowheads, pre- \ clous bones and skulls, and tho toys of children. Those kitchen middens?? , as the scientists call them?are ea8- ' lly detected on the side of a cliff or the wall of an excavation through the discoloration of the earth whero the massed fragments are collected. Cap!, and Mrs W 11 Kdwanls of Chester. r?M ontly celebrated tin* tH)th anniversary <>f their wedding, ('apt. Kdwanls wa< M years <>f age January , and M I'dwnnK w:i- <1 last Or- i t oh?*r We Beg to Announce the Return to Our Office ol the Follow ing Leading Insurance Companies: THE AETNA OF HARTFORD; THE HOME INSUR ANCE CO., OF NEW YORK; THE HARTFORD FIRE IN SURANCECO., OF HARTFORD; THE LIVERPOOL & LON DON & GLOBE, LIVERPOOL; THE SPRINGFIELD, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS ; CONT INENTAL INSURANCE CO., OF NEW YORK; THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA, OF PHILADELPHIA. THESE SEVEN COM PANIES ALONE HAVE TOTAL AMERICAN ASSETS OF OVER $170,000,000. LET US PLACE YOUR BUSINESS IN ONE OF THESE GIGANTIC INSURERS. THEY WRITE T'!RE, TORNADO, HAIL, HEALTH AND ACCIDENT, AND LIVE STOCK INSURANCE. 1012 Broad Street Telephone 52 Williams Fire Insurance Company R. M. KENNEDY, Jr., President - E. N. McDOWELL, Manager An Agency Doing Business in Camden Since Shortly After the Close of the Civil War FOOD RI NMNG LOW. Food Controller Makes Serious Speeeh Before Prussian Diet. I.cixlon, March - Tin* I'rus* ia.t food fontroller, Dr. *?rjs?' Michaelis. made in tin- Prussian Diet yesterday what <In- K?H??iHsehe Kictune: rails a serious ^|km>.-1i on the food situation, says .a U'Miter dispatch from Amsterdam. Dr. Miehaeljs declared that the distress was such that a more severe state of things, especially in the large indus trial centers, could hardly he imagined. I !e indicated the jKissihility that all surplus stocks of gram would he eje haunted and said that very radical measures were needed to enable the people to hold out until next year. "We have in the third year of the war." the f(.x>d controller is quoted as sayint:. "discovered that anionu all subscriptions of the people the gen eral feeling evinced is not one of that endurance for which we had hoped. This is human nature, but it is high ly intolerable and may have most se rious results. "We have not perceived in the towns that -tern supervision which is ab solutely necessary in the distribution of foodstuff's. Bread tickets have been illegally used on such a shocking scale that our entire reserves wore exhausted. So when i>otatoes failed and bread was ordennl as a substitute! there was none available. . Flour has | been similarly red need owing to sini-j ailar irregularities in the mills." Dr. Miebaelis concluded by urging the utmost severity to remedy the) shortcomings while there was yet: time. The sj>eooh caused a sensation and the Socialist Ilnfer, who followed, ae-[ cording to the Kheinisehe West fa 1 isehe Zeitung, declared that the junk ers arc to blame if a famine snj>er-1 'veiled. An attempt was being made, he said, to shift the blame on Eur- ! "The selfishness of the agrarians." he said, "is the cause of the high prices." The minister of agriculture then s|H?ke and vigorously defended liim >df against attacks. He alluded to the critical situation ereated by the partial success of the Entente's plan of starving (Jermany and added: "For the small bread ration one can only make the Almighty responsible, who has not given ns the harvest we exjN'eted." .Inlivis Cannon, a young merchant of (Ireenville, shot and killed an unT known negro early Sunday morning while the negro was engaged in the act of breaking into his store. EXCI KSION RATES Via Southern Railway Sjrstm Camden, S. C. Atlanta, (ia., 8.40. Account International Assoriitl I Rotary Clubst- tickets on sale" i 15, 10 and 17 with final limit] | 25, 15)17. Macon, Ga, $7.60. Account the Chautauqua of tl*| and Southern Conference for i tion and Industry: tickets March 17th to April 4th, Inelusir final limit returning April 10.191 New Orleans, La., $23.01. | Account Southern Baptist Conij tickets on sale May 11 to 16 in with final limit returning 1917. Limit may .he extended| June 15, by dejx>siting ticket an n.'ont of fe*? of $1.00 Washington, D. C. S15.M. j Account National Society Dm of the American Revolution: on sale April 10 to 15 with fin April :iO, 1017. Washington, I). C. $10.8.1 Account 27th Annual ReunionI Confederate Veterans and 22nd i Reunion Sons of Veterans; tk sale June 2 to 7 inclusive witkj limit returning June 21, 1917;J sion until July 0 by deposit!^ and payment of fee of 50 cent*. To The Publid WE BEG TO ANNOUNCE THE RETURN TO SOUTH CAROLINA OF SOME | THE OLD LINE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES THAT WE FORMERLY REpR"jl SENTED AND WE ARE NOW IN POSITION TO OFFER YOU IMMEDIATE ANII| AMPLE FIRE INSURANCE PROTECTION. C. P. DuBOSE & COMPANY CROCKER BUILDING REAL ESTATE, RENTS, INSURANCE PHONE