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WHfeliE SUBMARINES 0(1 OUT With English Channel Blocked Thir# t? omy ?arofwngftiiwwr rrm * Qtmian Port* into Atlantic. There ore two ways of getting Into the Atlantic Cufetui from German ports. On*4 le through tti? English channel, which has been blocked Mince the b e ginning of the war; the other In through the North sea, which English uhvhI Ntruti'K y ban tliun fur railed to close. The narrowest outlet of the northern route Jm between t tin Orkney island* and the coast of Norway, n distance of 'MO miles, Hut the depth of water at fhlM point In such Itiat submarines may easily dive below any mine or not sys tern that might hi* stretched across tht* wide neck of the bottle litre. Routh of this lino the water becomes shallower, and mine or not laying be comos effort I ve from Elamhorough llond directly across t ? ? the coast of Jutland, pus^ng oyer the famous I>og >v- get hank, with from M to 120 feet of water, to the shallower depth* over the Jutland bank. Helow that |>oint there la more shoal water, with frequent banks and ridges and flat* which have to be carefully avoided by mariners, mid which make submarine operation difficult. The problem, then. Ilea In the eost ??rn part of the North sea, where par ticularly deep water- ? KM) to fHX) feet ? ? iff the count of Norway, affords pus stip for the submarines, (lornian U boats cosily pass from the Haltlc through the Cattegnt ? an international waterway ? Into tbe^deep water found Inst off the Hkaw ut the tip of Pen mark, and thus Into the North aea, hugging the shores of Norway all the way. A stopper In the Onttegat would solve the problem, and the feat Is not impossible, although England would be greatly elded by the neutrality of Nor- 1 way and Denmark. Since under present conditions an actual blockade la Impossible, the evil has been reduced by canalizing it. In other words, the navy la forcing the U-boats to take certain narrow and difficult channels, and keeping hh close a watch possible over these routes. Hut they cannot stretch nets deep enough to block the only exit remain ing u> Germany. Ferliaps the "new device" which American Inventors hope will eliminate the U-boat us a factor In the war has to do with an effective stopper for thia outlet. ? Syracuse Post (Standard. Simplicity In Army Dress. The Loudon Times reporter who mot Ocneral I'ershlng ami his staff <?n the occasion of tliolr passage through (ho British metropolis was so much Impressed with the sim plicity of the oMleers' uniforms that he described them In some dot All for the benefit of the Thunderer's rend ers. Especially did he remark that. ooinpar?*d to those of the British army, the Americans' uniforms are unobtrusive, This may comfort some ? ?f our home folks, who have Imbibed 'heir bleu of official dress from watching a parade of the governor's ? tuff, says the Omaha Bee. As u mat of frtet, the American a nn j nffia'F ..ever fins been given to excess In the. witter of dress. While lie has always neon arrayed more definitely than was I'.ungha I>hln, he lias at no time ?ought to shame the noonday sun. iixl some f ? f bis greatest accomplish aienlh have been achieved at times when h's apiuirel was least Imp res* vlve. (Jcuertil (Jrs.nt received the sur render of Robert R Lee attired I n a battered service uniform, much worse for hard riding over dusty roads on that memorable morning, and many ?Morles are related of bow (ieneral Wilmington went among his men un recognized been use the lack <>f ofll '?l'j! designation Umbrella Went With Rjom. Jones was miserable. There lie vva% nlene, damp .and unhappy, eating i.!s Christmas dinner in the coffee room of it woebegone and lonely Inn. .Tones' motto has always been "Busi ness before pleasure," but he wished lie bad shirked the business which had summoned him to this part of the country at Christ mastldc. Tie dozed fur a while, and then in desperation betook himself to bed. lie was awak ened by the pattering of rain, and to his disgust he found water dripping on to tin* bed through the ceiling. He pulled the bell savagely, and nf ler a lapse *of time someone conde scended to answer It. '?You must find me another room, please," said Jones. "The rain Is leak ing: In like fur/T' j "Oh, is that 4al! you are bothering nbouf?" snarled the landlady's voice. *'lf you'd thought to look you'd have found an umbrella under the bed! Use : It, man !" A Cure for Conceit. .-3 "When lecturing in the north of England;" says Sir Ernest Shackleton, the famous explorer, "before It was time for the proceedings to begin on ' ? ?ne occasion, I took a peep through ' the curtate to see what kind of an audience I was likely to have. Thing-* , looked promising, and I said so. "'Yes,' said the chairman, 'I think you are going to have as big an audi ence as the handbell ringers had last ( week.' "That Is the sort of thing," added Sir Ernest, "that keeps mc modest." j Still Hoping. "Now that we are engaged, yon c mustn't even look at another man." **I can't promise that." j. "You love mo. don't yoa7^ "Ye#, Henry, but bow do I know thatTwoat be able to better myself 1* THINGS THAT MLT WILL DO ii ?? ? -v- - Um It to Remove 8t*ln? Ifld Olfl ?Big H?fp In ths Kitchen. Suit .uiul hot Water will thaw $ fror.cn tlrti lit pip*. IteinoVo tea stains from delicate chlnu cups. Spread In blackbeetle haunts It will kill the |M*StS. Added to enow It will make the mixture much colder. I Salt iiikI water, warm, will stop chll ! Mains from itching. Thrown on a fire It wUI extinguish it burning chimney. Added to tho rinsing water It will ? I prevent clothes from freezing. | I *1 it <-??<! under baking tins In an oven ? It will prevent their hurulng. Suit !h said to stop neuralgia If v 1 1 1 fted Into the nostril on the affect- i ed nlde. It will quickly clean a discolored hath or enamel uteiiHll. A lump of Halt placed in the wink will keep the drain clean. Placed first In the frying pan It will preVent grease from sputtering. Salt and water ruhhed Into the scalp In good for falling hair after Illness. Salt and water removes the lines In new curtains and makes washing easier. Salt and water will prevent the red borders In towels, etc.. from running If the towels are steeped lu It for 24 hours. Thrown on the tire once a day It will prevent the accumulation of soot In the flues. A teaspoonful of salt to a pint of warm water ruhhed into weak ankles Is said to strengthen them. Added to potatoes when nearly done salt Insures flourlness and pre vents thehi from going to pieces. Sprinkled over carpets before sweeping it will preserve tho colors and keeps away inothH. ftuhhed into an Inkstaln on a deal table, after the spot Is dampened, salt wlH remove the mark. Salt and coal dust mixed with wa ter, put Into tins to mold and dried make excellent briquettes. Thrown on fallen sdo^ salt will prevent the carpet marking, and en ables the soot to be swept up cleanly. Twelve Big Ones Growing. Twelve 10,000-ton ships are now on the ways of a single company In Se attle. Under the stress of necessity methods of construction have been de veloped that promise to revolutionize the ship building methods of the world. To begin with, the vessels are all standardized. Parts are fabricated for a dozen ships on the same plans. The material Is carried from the shops to the .ship on aerial tramways. The work Is done largely by machinery. The old method was to rlvot the sides together plate by plate. The new method puts the plates together in the shops in large sections which are swung Into place by heavy cranes. This wholesale way of throwing ma terial together makes It possible to launch a large ship In 00 days Instead of six months or a year. If the East ern shipyards are able to keep up wflh PhcIHc coast in the ritfe for quick building, the American merchant ma rine will be something for the world to reckon with In a very few years. ? .Nebraska State Journal. Raise Turkeys on Ranches. Exclusive turkey ranches are found In tin* unsettled foothill regions of Cal ifornia and In parts of Arizona ami otlu?r Western states, whore a thou sjiiiiI or more turkeys are raised each reason. The establishments are located where the range is unlimited and the natural food of the turkey, such as 1:1:1 ^hoppers and other Insects, green vegetables and the seeds of various wood* ;ind grasses. Is abundant. Ad- | vantage also Is taken on these ranches , of the turkey's relish for acorns, and where these are plentiful hut little grain need he used for fattening In the fall. The large Mocks of ' turkeys are managed much like herds of sheep, he lm: taken out to tlie range early In, the morning and brought home to roost nt night, says tin exchange. They are herded during the day hy men ei ther ? .ii font or on horseback, and by dogs especially trained for the work. _ Alaska Coal Helps in War. The Alaska railroad from Seward, on the coast, to Fairbanks, 170 miles Inland and located on the Tanann river, a navigable tributary of the Yu kon. which was ordered by act of congress In 1014, has been completed f :? r enough to Justify the expectation that It will be ready for use early in IP IS. It taps two coal mines, the Ma tunuska and the Nenana. which arc believed to be inexhaustible, ami the product of which has been found >>x eellent for use on locomotives and steamboats. The railroad w''l bring this coal direct to tidewater, and when the supply Is brought into use, it will provide -sufficient for all naval bases In the Pacific "and release thousands "f cars now used In transporting coal across the continent. This will help fltht the war by providing increased , transportation for men and munitions. : Promotion for Rear Admiral. The title of rear admiral always seems odd to the layman. says the Sprlnetteld Union, but never more so than when it Is worn by a naval com- i mander who Is at the front and, so far } as one may gather from the vague hints the cables carry, putting In good work against the enemy. Comment* i Ing cn ? his, the Boston Transcript wnggests promoting, such officer* to th? i title of "front admiral," WOllMUKM IN ACTION. L' nffVcoald tf?, the*heuuorrbage From Another Page.) ?. .A ? * from my wound continued J? *?w ?? profusely that I *M beflanln# to M very diwry and weak. Qt? 1 (righted our regimental dressing a?a ttoo i?ud signed to my four bjtw" 'J? carry me toward it. I couldu C talk German. The station wan in au old German dugout. Major Gllday waa at the door. He laughed when ha aaw ina with my own ?|?ectal ambulant "Well, what do jfau want?' he asked. "Most of all," I Huld. "I think I want a drink of ruifi." He produced It for me Instantly. "Now," said he. "my advice to you ta to kelp on traveling. You've got a fine special detail there to look after you. Make 'em carry you to I'oaierea. It a only five mllea, and you'll make it all i right. I've got this place loaded up I full, no stretcher bearers, no assistant*, no adequate supply of bandages ami medicinea and a lot of very bad case*. If you want to get out of here in a week Juat keep right on golug uow." Aa we continued toward the rear we wore the targets for a number of hu morous remarks from men coming up to go Into the fight. "Give my regard* to Blighty, you lucky beggar," was the most frequent Haying. . ?'Bir me," said one cockney lommy, "there goes one o' th' Canadlana with an escort from the kaiser." Another man stopped and asiced about my wound. "Good work," he said. UW ift? to have a nice clean one like that my I noticed one of the prUonera grin ning at some remark and asked him U he understood English. He hadn 1 spoken to me, though he had ahown th?^ greatest readiness to help me. "Certainly I understand English," ht replied, speaking the language perfect ly. "I used to be a waiter at th? Knickerbocker hotel In New York.' That sounded 'like a voice from home and I wanted to hug him. I didn't However, I can say for him he musl have been a good waiter. He gave m? good service. Of the Inst stages of ray trip to Po zleres I cannot tell anything, for I ar rived unCOuSclous from loss of blood The last I remember was that the for mer waiter, evidently seeing that 1 was going out, asked me to direct hire how to mxeh the field hospital stattoc Ht Pozleres and whom to ask for whet he got there. I came back to con sclousriess in a clean hospital cot thi next morning. I realized as I lay on that cot I wai out of the modern hell for a time, anc my mind drifted back over the day* just passed. Wounded men, grim re minders, were all about me, many ol them worse off than I was. I had seet all kinds of bravery ? British officer* climbing calmly over the top wltt monocles In their eyes and canes is their hands Into almost certain death like a man getting Into a tub of watel where he knew he would get wet. "Come on ; let's go I" they woulc drawl. My respects to thvni. And also to the enemy. THo Germar nrticpr8 fight to the >uot. Few surren der. My hat olT to them. And the dead brave Major Lewis and pool McFarland, my close comrades. Anc only the other day I read Lance Cor poral Glass, the man I carried In aitoi our first bombing raid In Belgium, hac been killed in actlou In France. I sau It in a Montreal paper. They vaccinated me for everything while with the army ? everything ex cept against being shot. If a mat could invent an antitoxin for tha> well, he would be a hero. The sixth article of this remarkable personal narrative will appear soon It Is entitled : No. 6. ? Decorated for Bravery; Horn* and Uncle Sam. Thi* concluding: article of the series re lates In detail how England cares for th? wounded. How the king and queen came to the bod of an American boy and dec orated him In a L?ondoo hospital for gal lantry. Interesting. Intimate and amus ing Incidents told by and of the wounded Tommies. Trying to fight for Uncle Sam Enormous Flrte Imposed on Earl. It seems Incredible that a fine should be Imposed upon the head of the house of Cavendish too large for him to pay But that was so when the fourth earl, afterward first duke of Devonshire, was fined ?10,000 by the Judges ol James II. It was all for a blow struck in the pnlace at Whitehall. The earl and hln enemy, Colonel Colepeper, exchanged high words, and, according to one ver sion. Colepoper struck the earl, who knocked him down ; according to an other, Colepeper refused a challenge, and the earl then struck him with his cane. The fine was Inflicted upon the earl, whose mother vainly offered on his be half bonds for ?00,000. which Charles I had borrowed. He fled to Chats worth, Imprisoned tbe officers of the law sent to arrest him, but had to give a bond for the fine, which was can celed when James fled. ? Boston Her ald. Two Kind*. "There are players and players.* "Rxplaln yourself." "One kind plays to many a full honse and never gets a hand1! the other plays many a hand nnd never gets a fflll house." ? Boston Transcript. V Not Enough? atayor ? Did the prisoner offer any resistance? Police Officer ? Only a dollar, your honor, and I wouldn't take It. ? J Read the long list of Want ads in another place in this paper. ? - BACK TO FIOHT THEIR KIM "Rainbow" Division Contain* a Can* pany of Pennsylvania Q irmana Wha ?till Speak Mother Tongue. Kaston, Pa.f the mouututoou* llttla city which guards (he eastern entrance to the Lehigh valley, suffered recently the deeply moving shock of pathoa and patriotism which must come to the towns and cltiea of America, one ufter another, iim the flower of their hoys III organized array march off to war, says the Plttxhurgh Dispatch. Baston's military organization, af fectionately known an the City Guard, in now the 'One Hundred and Forty ninth machine-gun company. It left for Mlneola, N. Y., to Join the "Raln bw" division, the first stage of a Hwlft Journey to France and the battle front. i In the ancient city of;8peyer, upon the Rhine, 1m u line of tomba In which' repose the old warrior emperors of Germany. The legends say that they arose by night over a century ago, fer ried the lthine, and caused the defeat of Napoleon at Lepslc; and that they will arise again to protect Germany in her greatest crisis. This company of Pennsylvania soldiers, heavily tread ing through the streets of Haston, pre sented a far more Impressively Impend ing fatality, for these were Pennsyl vania German boys. Their names were Kldenour, Lehr, Rlchenbacher, Kochcr, Darmstadt, Klefer, Scherf, Selplc, Vol kert, and so on. Two hundred years ago their forefa thers came to America from the Pfaiz, of which Speyer was the capital, and these boys, notwithstanding their edu cation In our greatest schools and col leges, and their two hundred years of family history upon American soil, still xpeak with fluency the ancient dialect of the German Palatinate, locally known as Pennsylvania German. Fate is sending these boys back to the land of their forefathers . to overcome by their living presence the spiritual assistance of the ancient kings of Speyer. It is Rhenish legend against Pennsylvania machine guns. And theirs indeed is soldier blood. Their names reflect many soldiers of distinction from this county In the Revolutionary, Mexican and Civil wnrs, their fathers having made in their time the same march of the same route as that mode by the boys on their way to camp. There Was a Reason. Bridges? t wonder how Ilenpeck came to buy an auto. Do you know? Rivers? Yes. He said he thought maybe his wife wouldn't be so free to Hud f?ii?!t with him after yhe saw how much trouble he was having with his car. ? Judge. l.KTTKKS TO SANTA CLAU8. v CmfHlfii, S. C.f Dec. 10. * Di'iir Santa Claus: 1 want a> pa'r of la rue vases and soiuc apples, oranges candy, and all kind of nuts and spark lers nnd tire crackers and rbiuan can dles and a locket. From Irma Ar rants. mm* Camden, ,S. C.t Dec. 18, Dear Santa ClitUs : My name is Wil lie May Tldwell, and I live on the W? teree Mill Village. and I would be so glad If you would bring me a doll. I will be satisfied. I do want a doll baby so had. Your lltt'e friend, WlWle May Tldwell. i Wateree Mills. * House No. 38. Camden. S. O., Dee. 10. | Dear Santa: I want a wagon and a gun all kind of fruit and flre crack ers and roman candles. From Curtly. Ar rants. j Camden. S. C., Dec. 10. Dear Santu Claus: 1 want some ap ples and candy and a saddle and a little rubber doll. Olator Arrants. Camden, S. C? Deo. 10. ! Dertr Santa Claus: I want a wrist I bracelet and a pair of vases and fruit and Krmaii candles ami fire crackers.; Kim a McLeod. frtttt. nuA ft*? eraeker# and | <and lot una aiwrklera. From ' I Malcolm Mili^ J jCfttudett. 8. I?., Ikv h I 1 >ea r Santa: I want u Cart a*4 i " doll, ?o?ae fruit and nut#. From tK>t M(i?o4. (Ufl lneaHentfera arv uo\r employe W iuan<' of the Ooverument department, at Washington. Alteration* ure' being mmle whfcfc wilt double the aeatlng capacity of tie Nia.ii Academy at Aunapoiu. L The atrength of t.u- mmii rc.s4.rv> 1 force i* 40,250 men, 70 per eeat aq whom volunteered for general *mim ftvery i>oftal employee in the Uuite<r Staten ban heeu Imdrueted to take u active part In the campaign for tlte ?alo <?f war-aavlugn stamp*. in ?r. 1 der to roach the desired salon umr* | of $2,000,000,0<H> by January 1, 191^ It will t>e necessary to koU suffldeat utauxiM to average IflftSO for each qui, woman, antl child In the country. Liberty ltonds at Bank. All parties subscrlblug ft?r JJbertj liomU, both , Issuea, who have ur?t al ready. received their bonds, will plea* call at Bauk and get their bond* We have the bonds now antl would life to make delivery promptly. Firat National llank The 1917 Red Cross Christmas So*l 1 The spirit of C hr J s t m a s -~i4> others Is In that seal. Put it* on your Cbrlatmu mail, The seals cost one cent each. The money goes to fight Tuberculosa In your v -'TOmuii It j' and to protect yo? and your family against thi?* disease. Yon m?*t buy three times, as many thU ye* r. War increases Tuberculosis. fa the flfst million men examined for the 4 Arihy over 26,000 new cases of Tuber culoids were discovered ; thousands more will break down in the training camps and at the front. Help to provide proper care for these boys and protection for your commuuU ty Against the spread of the dlseue. Buy Hied Cross Christmas Seals froi the committtee In Camden ? T K. Trot ter, chairman, Mrs. C. V. DuBose, Mrs. Alice Richardson. About on a Level. "If you will average the thing op,* says B. P. Walkor, "you likely wllifiai that the girls who marry for montf strike about as many bargains as tbs girls who marry for love."? Kanui City Star. V 1 V Brings more happiness to everybody all the timfe- than any other gift in the world! Comes in nine different styles to suit *> ' *v ' 0*1/01 purse, every taste, every home. - Victors and Victrolas $10 to $400 can be. Stop in today. Term* easy ai / - i ' * The Camden Phone 15S Camden, S. 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