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THE ROSS LAND AT AUCTIOI * ' , ? f ' ? t t ? ? ' . ?? i. _ * ; A ? -j IN THE TOWN OF BLANEY, S. C. jjj m mn afegssaai S3 We are going to sell 75 acres in the town of Blaney, S. C., known i as , , "Ross Land," (owned by Guy and English) which has been sub-div.ded to residence lots and small desirable tracts ranging from three to f to reside*! MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, at 10:30 A. acres each, at the price that the people are willing to pay on MOINU Monday, October 13, 19 l4 At 10:30 o'clock A. M. Sale Rain or Shine 75 Acres EASY TERMS | LADIES ESPECIALLY "INVITED | MUSIC BY OUR OWN LIVE WIRE BA1 ? - ? ? ? . . ? Sale Conducted by PENNY BROTHERS, The World's Original Twin Auctionee . , ' V / ?_ ; "? : .. " V. - '? ... ... . . " . .. . ' I ' Ml THE AMERICAN LAND CO., Agent J. M. MILLIKAN, Gen. Mgr. (We Can Sell Your Land) GREENSBORO, N. GIRLS WHO USE CUSS WORDS j Singular Admijsion Said to Have Been Made by the Members of a Graduating Class. It has Ion# been the fashion at col leges and schools to take a census of graduating classes to determine such vital facts as these: What is your favorite flower? How tall are you? Do you smoke? Are yon a prohibit louist ? At a girls' seminary a recent inquiry whs more sweeping. To 1 1? ?? intorrogn f I on : "I)o you swear?" L'(X) of the l!lf> girls answered yes. (till admitting 1 1 1 it t they swear is not proof that these feminine lips do utter oaths. So at least says the law in New York state, writes "(Jriant" In the I'hiladelplria I'ress. "Four or five people" must hear you swear, not for a second or two, but "for about five minutes"- that's the law in North Carolina. Down In Alabama they don't expect a man to swear from the housetops, but the law *ays that if three or four persons hear you Just once, good night | in Tennessee it Is not necessary to repeat the offensive words when a culprit Is Indicted for swearing. I saw on the veranda of a country club seventeen women of whom twelve were drinking an Intoxicat ini: liquor and seven were smoking cigarettes. Hut if that census at the uirls' semi nary is an index, more women swear than dally w ith .lolni Ihirlej corn or Lady Nicotine Quer\ : Why do w??iucii Insist on being so mil! h like men '' OWED MUCH TO STEREOSCOPE How Commanders During the Great W?r Got I nforrnation of V it j I I mportanct. Tl;?- . M fash. ??[.?? ! si .ipe j pla>c ! li import. it. f i art in the j world wiiv. It Mippiie-1 an alible to . phot .1; 1 .1 ) 1 j - Mixpped from airplanes, that . ??;!?! ? ? ? ? t be i>b* a .10 1 :'rom she 1 'Til Mian . 1 .1 :? 1.- IV. :.?:?? its use j the ? !>:.? : ft.- ; Mcr> ?-s. .. ? 1 ? . . I ; ;,iis steep * ? l <?- that <; I ? ' "?! in p.-'- j Hires |>k>* !\m' r > s?.Mwn in their true chara* t ? Ms! '? anl the j lives i> f men w lin woiihl ln\.' to cover 1 the ground in atta?k were vived The airplatic camera look s d.rectlv down on the spot to be photograph)*], making a picture as a or.e >?>??)' man would nee it. A stereoscopic e.men In which the lenses' are t w 1 a ad three-quarters Inches apart, would not produce ?he stereoscopic effect. 1'ho togTaphera decided to take pictures 100 yards apart to give a view, Just aji a jflar^t, with eyes 100 yards apart. would see It. Those pictures were put on cardboard, and viewed through the stereoscope. At ttrst a cottage looked like a tower, a hucket like a w<?ll, a trench like a canyon, etc. Thj' officers soon learned to translate these eccentricities, arid the problem was solved. True pictures, giving Just the exact information desired, were then obtained by the airplane photogra phers. The "Biblers" The Czeeho-Slovaks, having attain ed national Independence, attain also the privilege of reading the Bible in the national tongue, so the British Bi ble society is planning to print Czech Bibles purchasable for .r?0 cents each. Austrian* and Italians have long culled the Czeeho-Slovaks "Blhler's." The Czech Bible was flr*t printed In 147B, but when the Czechs came under Austria the priming and reading of the Bibb' in their own language was forbidden. Copies of the Czech Bible were printed in other lands and smug gled in, but were burned if discovered. Religious persecution, dating back to the time of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer of the fifteenth century, com bined with political persecution to make the Czech Bible rare, but all the more highly valued. Although, in mod ern days, the Austrian government permitted "the circulation of the Czech Bible in the army, it continued to prohibit the circulation among the Czechs at home. Americans Eat Little Mutton. In fJreat Britain about 'J'J per cent of all meat consumed is mutton. In France it i? about 11 per cent. In <'Htiad:i it N not quite 7. and in the I'nited States is only about 3V? per cent. Last \e:ir ( P.'IS) the consump tion of iiresx-l fioat (lard excluded) In ?h?' I'nitc.l Stales averaged lf?U poini'l- per person, of which only .*> \\ > re mutton and lamh. I h< Britisli the ("anadians. and the I' ( fin !i all -.intlaf t s pes of people and hatit'i; 1 a'?:ts of .life similar to A ineMi'a i;s u v ?? l< meat than Ainer* ban- <!o 1 .ii t a n.u. b larger pr.. portion com. ?. from ?L?-ep. The I'nited States t'ef- i*s i pruvipnllv from cattle nr.-! I.ol's I'ork ? or.?. iimp* ion is about 1 ( ? s, :? : . ? ? I i of.Mimp! 'nti about ? i:: .1- --??at a- our 1 1 . of mut t ? ? n i ? lt*l 1 .(!->? I lo-se H'e (be aUIIUlli ii \ era ges f< >r la ?t \ ea r. Bag Changes Into a Float. A British invention for the relief of! aeronauts making voyages over exten sive s!r? !? hes ,?f n!er consists of a more or less circular gas bag in the renter of which is stretched a "floor"! of heavy fabric, ordinarily, the raft Ik carried by the airship in the de Ah ! e<l state; hut in the event of acci dent it can be Inflated In a few mln qjes to form a most serviceable r?fL The bug 1h really a series of bugs, each being inflated through a separate air val\?, **'mr'le oar locks and a pair of oars are provided for propulsion pur noses. CAR /UST KEPT ON MOVING Lucky for Sleeping Occupants That the Road Had Been Cut Up Ly Heavy Wagon. I recoil a funny motoring Incident that might have turned out decidedly otherwise if it had not been for a mere chance, writes a correspondent. It occurred in the country during the early spring. A young feilow and his sister were returning In the wee small hours from a dance in a neighboring town. 'He was driving a flivver. They were both very tired, and finally they both dropped off to sleep. It so happened that late the day be fore a heavy farm wagon had passed that way, leaving deep ruta in the mud, and during the evening these had froz en solid. The car got Into these ruts and ran along them with no one guid ing It for some time. The tracks turn ed several corners and finally turned Into a farmyard and went Into the barn. The fllv turned the corners and fol lowed the tracks into the yard. It was going straight on and would have smashed into the barn door had not the girl waked in time to see the build ing looming up just In front of them. Realising the situation immediately, she Jammed on the brake and stopped the car u few feet from the closed door. I am assured that this is a perfectly true story. KNOWS NO NORTH OR SOUTH Southern Doughboy Who* Fought in France Is Strong for the Appella tion "Yank." The monicker. Yank, 1$ going to stick .lust rend what this fellow, who wns born south of Mason and I Mum's llnr, w r! t ??s : "1 <?. tin- from u line of 'rebels' who bonst ihnt they did not surrendi-r. I'ntll 1 wit- <|Uite .t husky chap I be lieved that "d Yankee' was one word and 'Republican' its synonym, . and knew the 'rebel yell' as a varsity ho> ktinwj his college yell. Before i the war I wore a slouch hat, rode | horseback and shot squirrels. I still ; say cawn br?ad, think Dixie should be our na'ional air. that Robert E. Lee ' wss the world'* greatest general, and . Jefferson Davis, suh, the world's great eat statesman. "But. speaking for myself and a not overly small bunch of fellow 'reb els,' I s sb exactly satisfied with the honest hard fisted, firm-Jawed and seemingly inevitable nickname of Yunk, and say, with one of the papers hack home : "'Let Yank be the official battle name of our hoys, and the "rebel yell" their official battle cry.' " 1b truth, the South and the North are welded. ? Stars and Stripes. Cutting the Nation's Tire Bill. "Forty maki'K of motor tires were submitted to the bureau of standards by the office of the quartermaster ge* eral." writes Thomas H. Uzzell In Ev erybody's. ' "They were given labora tory 'durability runs.' after which they were autopsied by the rubber special ists. Their carcasses' were cut up and the pieces boiled, roasted, stretched. The results were discouraging. Even the best of them seemed to suffer from improper 'toughening.' "So into their little rubber-mill went the experts, with notes furnished them by the 1 1 re manufacturers, and pro ceeded to make up tire rubber which bad the proper of tough ness. They succeeded. They passed out the word: 'The trouble is that yon makers are not sifting your zinc oxid before mixing It with the rubber com pound.' "The makers began to sift. Better ; tires resulted. Some $30,000,000 were | iaved to the government. And today j pou are enjoying a rut In your tire bill ; t>y getting better tires? a result of j [hat experiment with zinc oxid." Successful Woman Trapper. Trapping predatory animals Is *cinrcoly the kind of occupation In which a woman might be expected to | distinguish herself, even wltto the great extension of the range of feminine ac | livltles to which we have been accus j tomed lately. Mrs. Ada Tlngley of Ida ho, Is reported, however, by the North ! western division of the United States I biological survey, to be s<? successful I in this employment that her male ri vals are finding It hard to keep up with her records. Her victims are mainly coyotes, bob cats, wolves, lynxes and mountain lion*. At S :30 every morn ing Mrs. Tlngley mounts her cayuse .and rides off to her traps, of which site runs si\ lines, of .V> each. She us es a ti-h bait prepared by a secret formula. < >n occasion she ran use a .3'J < aliber rifle with almost perfect accuracy. Make Big Gun by Shrinking Liner. In making a llMnrh gun at an east ern arsenal t h #* lfner tube. 36 feet long, was finished and rifled before beinc sh run1< into place. Customarily? th? liner I* flne-bnrH and rifled after the shrinkage operation, and this is declared to be the first time a gun of such large size was ever assembled i after the tube was finished. ? Popular Mechanics Magazine, AROUND THE WORLD WIT fUE AMERICAN RED CROS Public Health Nursing. In the midst of Its multifarious war duties the American H bo neglect Its obligations to the civilian population at hpme.'l tne conflict It maintained its Bureau of Public Health Nursing, f nrst aid, home nurelng and sanitation, and disaster relief. PI ie r work for the babies was effort by public health nurses Imj accompanying photograph shows a Red Cross public health nnrt ? mother in the proper preparation of the baby's diet. ? ? A Screamingly Funny Scene fro m Uie Great Comwiy ???! Nauxbty WIfeM a* the Oper* Hotu e Friday Evenln* <**M