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Soldiers' Boxes
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box from liniiit' occasionally.
lint it calls for a lot of work ? more some times,
than you can devote to it.
I ,et ns help you.
Your hoy will be delighted with a box from our
splendid collection of cakes, candies, dried fruits, etc.
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t.K> acres. J I -J miles Northwest from Klanc.v. tenant houses, barns
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IH1 acixw about 4 miles North of Camden. Sainl.v loam with clay
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Vfiei (lit euer\ ;d ing li'jii of viiinnuT i> pnst. \ ? >n r system ihmmIs
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The imti'iIs clarifying Mint f ti?* whole )>o<|v ikh'iI> to ho for
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T elep hone 30.
THIS "HELIO"' WAS CHARMED
Terrific Bombardment by German# i
Faded to Put tuppoeed -Signaling
Party Out of Commleelon.
One morning ? It was along the Alsn*
early In (lit* war ? a sudden hurst of
huh from a l>ai?k of cloud found two
British officers ly'.ng on a granny ridge |
enjoying a respite from the usual sod- !
den w<wtfeer and overcast sk les. To
gether, sdys Mr. F rederic Oolenum In ,
"From Moiin to Ypros," they gazed ou
the entrancing panorama.
A4 they looked down the woo<led hill* I
Hides Into the lower land that l?or- ?
dered upon the river, one of them sud- 1
denly called out: "Look I A hello!"
(?'nun a hedge behind Moussy eauie .
the tliihli. Hash, Hash of a heliograph,*
in regular intervals.
"Must be some fool sort of code."
aald the Junior officer. "I never saw
anything like It before,"
As they watched It the Germans saw
it, too. Hang! went a big, black "Jack
Johnson" not far from the spot.
Smash! came another. Still the Mashes
twinkled from the surrounding green.
The first two shells were the forerun
ners gf dozens that crashed through
the hedge and Into the turf, nil about
the tiny center of light. And then the
clouds shut out the sunshine and the
Hashes ceased.
The next morning a brief ten min
utes of sun caused eyes on the ridge
to wander valleywurd again. Sure
enough, two Hashes, Intermittent and
apparently quite without coherence,
came from the spot at the hedgesldo.
Soon the enemy howitzers played o,u
the vicinity more* fiercely than before,
and after the sun hud gone from sight
they kept up tjieir bombardment of
the unfortunate spot for half an hour.
Dozens of shells fell thereabouts, then
scores on scores.
That afternoon a cavalry officer had
a Journey to make, which took him to
General Monro's headquarters, near
Moussy. When his work was done he
continued a few hundred yards and
sought the spot that had suffered the
awful shelling. It was not hard to
Hnd. The hedge was smashed and
great, black holes gaped in the green
fields round It. No sign could be seen ?
of the hello party ; but that was not
surprising, since for more than half
an hour sheljs had fallen all about ftie
flickering light, until It seemed that
no man could live in its vicinity.
The ptaff officer strolled over to a
battery position not far distant nnd
asked for news of the signalers. The
gunners had wondered at the henvy
shelling, but had seen no human be
ings near the hedge before or after the
bombardment.
Nonplused, the officer walked back
to the devastated area, and, Just as he
was leaving, discovered the cause of
al4 the trouble. There, caught on a
twig of the hedge, swinging lazily in
the wind, was a bright-bottomed,
empty sardine tin, thrown carelessly
aside by some satiated luncher. The
sun, catching the bright bit of moving
tin, had made of it a tiny reflector.
Surely, never had so Insignificant an
object caused the Germans so great an
expenditure of costly ammunition.
Industry of Genius.
Most writers* recognized as possessed
of genius or of great talent have been
voluminous producers. In most cases
their talent or genius, as a rule, after
being stimulated by success, has lit
erally taken possession of them and
forced them to work hard and persist
ently. Balzac used to have rages of in
dustry lasting for many hours and
leaving him exhausted. Scott's prodigi
ous industry was due mainly to his de
termination to pay off a hoavy Indebt
edness. Dickens was niarvelously In
dustrious. But Thackeray was lazy
mid used to suffer greatly from the
thought of work undone. His rages of
work were not voluntary, like Balzac's,
but inspired by desperateness. But he
could take a themw for a novel and
stick to it till he had produced a
monumental work. If he had loved his
work more, however, he might have
made the world even richer than he did
by his unique gift and he might have
discovered In himself unsuspected
veins of genius. ? Exchange.
FOR
Bargains in
SALE
City Property
Robinson House Lyttleton Street $2,500 00
Stokes House .Mill Street . 2,850.00
McLood House .... LaFayette Avenue 1,350.00
Smyrl House Lyttleton Street 2. 600. 00
2 Adamson Lots Near Power Plant Each 150.00
Terms easy <>n the above property.
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CROCKER BUILDING PHONE 43
IN AFRICAN JUNGLE
British Aviator Relates Experi
ence of Four Days.
Forced to Abandon Machine, He Had
to Make His Way Through Almost
Impenetrable Bush, In Con
stant Fear of Death.
Horrible experiences of a British
11 \ in t ? >1* wlii> came down in tin lOnat
African Jungle are described by blin
in a letter just received by a relative
at London.
The aviator, Lieut. <). (Jarrood. went
up to hottib a Herman ambush on the
Ituliji river. hut through engine trou
ble ha<l to descend In the bush, the
machine landing with broken propeller
In a bog. It took him four days to
make his way to a place of safety.
lie tells how in the dusk he was
confronted with an ugly black animal
about four feet high with vicious
tuskn. He climbed a tree and pre
pared to put in the night there. Later
he opened his eyes and saw something
like two green electric bulbs about SO
feet from the tree. They moved around
In a circle. This continued for 45 min
utes. He says:
"The tension was unbearable. I
wanted to scream, shout and yell all
In one, but Instead I burst out with
?The Admiral's Broom,' and with a
full-throated bass I roared out the
three verses. No applause, but a re
ward ? the leopard slunk away. Why
had I not thought of It before?
"I went through my repertoire. I
laughed as I finished 'Two Eyes of
Drey.' It seemed so ridiculous. Then
I got on to hymns, remembered four
verses of *0 God, Our Help In Ages
Past,' and sang the 'Amen,' too. The
whole thtyg had its ludicrous side."
Next morning while swimming a
river he passed seven yards from a
crocodile's mouth, but Just reached
the bank In time. Without food, or
arms ? his only weapon of defense his
anils scissors ? his progress through
the awful hush was about 100 yards
?an hour. His clothing was Irf ribbons,
md his flesh exposed to the t horns,
swdfd grass aud flies.
He swam seven more rivers that ,
lay and sank down exhausted against
t tree. He could hear a lion roaring
ibout 600 yards away, and, somewhat
learer, the grunting of a hippopota
mus He continues :
"Being exhausted, I more or less
ost consciousness for perhaps half an
lour or so. Nothing phprt of a hippo
?harglng could have rn&de me climb
i tree. Am afraid life had little to
)flfer about that time.'*
It was while lying here faiat the ?
leute,nant had the annoying experi
ence of surveying two large babboons,
:he slae of a small tnan, quarreling
)ver his trousers, now in threads, and
imong the tops of 40-foot trees.
It was not until he had passed an
other horrible day and equally terrible
night in the bush that he at last was
picked up by some natives.
"Their eyes seldom left me," he
idds. "Undoubtedly I was a strange
light ? my legs bare and bleeding, my
*hort vest sodden, dirty and torn, no
trousers, of course, Just a dirty sun
ftelmet, a short stl.ck In my right hand
tnd with four days' growth of beard i
>n my dirty face." I
Us? of Barbed Wire In War.
The jmrt that barbed wiro hns play
ed In the war is reflected to some ex
cent by the foreign commerce reports,
observes the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
This is peculiarly an American prod
uct, the BUdden invention having been
utilized on a large scale by John W.
Gates at St. Louis.
The descriptions from the front
show the effective use made of this
simple invention, which the late Sena
tor Ingalls said was suggested by the
manner in which milch cows avoided
bramble bushes. It was woven and
twisted Into a barrier that seemed Im
pregnable^ until Hie British developed
the use of artillery In such amazing
fashion. The study of fortifications
has been followed from the beginning
of human history, and it is a singu
lar fact that a simple fencing device,
designated for an untimbered country,
should surpass every other obstacle to
the progress of a modern army.
Art of Egypt.
Art history, particularly in the
branch of painting, has undergone
?</ine radical revisions in the last quar
ter of a century, as a direct result of
Egyptian archaeological research.
Painting, as we know It today, is at
least 3,000 years old ? and we have
found thw originals to prove It. The
site of ancient Thebes, now represent
ed by the modern villages of Karnak
and Luxor, has been one of the richest i
quarries worked by modern scholarly i
excavators of various nationalities.
Ten years ago the New York Metropoli
tan museum's exp?*dltlon established at
Thebes n special school or atelier for
the purpose of copying and recording (
the brilliant-painted scenes and Inscrip
tions uncovered in the royal tomb chap
els of Kgypt's rulers of more than
thirty centuries ugo.
Too Many There.
Major general (addressing the men,
before practicing an attack behind the
lines) ? I want you to understand that
there Is a difference between a re
hearsal and the real thing. There are
three esaentlal differences. First, the
absence of the enemy. Now (turning to
the regimental sergeeflt major), what
to the fteeoad difference?
Sergeant Major ? The atmenee of the
general. sir.
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