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SsifftiJ prIce Performances 2 and 0 p. m. admitstoall *>" AOMIHHION ANO H r S f H V I O SCATS ON SALE CIRCUS O ft V AT W. Robin Zemp's Drug Sto^e without extra charge This is the Original John Robinson Circus CAMDEN Thursday, October 23rd INVENTOR OF"BIG BERTHA"IS INSANE Ghosts of Victims of Huge Gun Have Unseated His Reason. i. . ? . ; . -i I* ; ' ' ; SUCCESS BRINGS REKORSE ? o ? ' Men Whoae Mind? Failed to Stand Up Under 8train and Horrora A - . af War Mia Only Com - paniona. Berlin, ? The inventor of the "Big Bertha," which llrsi shelled Paris on March i!H, 1018, from a distance of nearly 80 miles, now Is mi Inmate of the Herman atttte asylum in Ajuler iiHch. Men whoso minds failed to atand up under the strain and horrors of war are his only companions, The inventor does not . associate with the other Inmates. <At rare in tervals he speaks with fhe doctors or nursu* in the hospital, 1>ut then only a few words. Hut, once when an American soldier entered, the Ger man's face lighted up like that of a child with a new toy. To the aston ishment of the hospital attendants he at once approached the visitor and began to converse with him In Eng lish: As he talked his interest In the young American seemed almost pathet ic. Hp asked of America, America's I>ar| In the war. what America ex pected to do with Gernufny, and par ticularly was anxious to learn what Amerl/a thought, of the Herman air raids (during the war and the bom bardment of Paris by the "Big Ber tha." Tells Story of Life. Then, as if afraid that the young soldier from overseas was about to sentence liim to some horrible punish ment, be suddenly began to tell the story of his own life. Af a . young man lie had sTmTft>4---alv the greatest universities in Germany. Chemistry and mechanics bad been his favorite subjects, and in these he showed great aptitude. Ax was nat ural in Germany at that time, his re searches soon took him into t lie field of perfecting weapons of war. His work In this line attracted the atten tion of bis government. Tliey gave him every opportunity for study. He was sent to Knsrlnnd. America and France. Pi ilms" places he studied ut close .range the guns used by the armies, the <-hemlc.il composition of j explosives mnl tin* methods of manu ' fact urine great shells. When he fe | turned to Germany he was given stock ' In the Krupp works, at Essen. Profit ing by his studies aud what he had learned in other lands, this man set about to develop what would event ually be the mightiest cannon in the worl d. I Then came August. 1014, and the I war. According to the Inventor, his efforts were redoubled. The big guns, which destroyed the forts of Belgium, were not sufficient. For years, the Inventor said, be had dreamed and planned h weapon that would reach Paris, and .when the war came he, together with fhe greatest scientist of Germany, began working npon the cannon. Success Brought Only Remoraa. In the spring of 11)18, the Inventor said, t hey believed their plan hnd been accomplished. The great gun was finished Mid moved to a spot in the lines from which Its shells could reach Paris. Finally came the day when It was fired on Paris for the first time. Apparently it was a suc cess. For a few days all Germany celebrated, the Inventor said. For him. however, ibis Joy was short lived. Hardly had the celebration end ed when the allies seemed to take on a new lease on life. Instead of dis couraging I hem the gre;il gun ap peared to have driven them to great er effort <. "Then came the stories of the stif fening* caused by the gun." the in ventor ^ 1 i ? 1 . "Instead of killing sol diers we tiiiil murdered women and children M> nights became aleep When I did drop 1 1 > i ? > 11 dor.e my d renin* were terrible. I became sick with 'he thoughts of m\ work. I lo>t weight. I could no? face niv family. and the sight of women and children ? ? i ; t he street made nie faint. Then sni'ie! (ting snapped."' Sucks Poison From Snake B it. Colonic, s. IV ? Heroic action r?f his ?not In r in king p< >ison injected from the fangs of n rattlesnake /from his leg. sM\edvthe life of tlaylord Town -end <e\i-n year* old. of Mellette c..iint>. The boy was- walking with his parents ncmaa the praiie near their home, when the snnke. which had heen concealed in n cluster of weeds struck him a* he passed. A friend of the family lanced The wound causing It to bleed freely, after which Mrs Town send sucked out the poison. The fangs of the snake struck the hoy twice above the ankle. Eight Shot ? t? Kill Mad Dog. Topeka Kan. ? -"A dng-goned hard ! Job!" exclaimed I 'elective Harvey I ^ illlains as he retreated from a sup j posed "mad dog" after having emp 1 1 1 ed hl? revnlrer at the animal. "Some dog to kill," he declared Then Hiram Sturm, who lived near I by. arrived on the sc#?ne with a re volver and a billy. He flrod three shot* at (be dof and flniahed the Job with the bill/. Sight Large Sea Serpent; Immune to Bullets. Heno, Nev.? -Doubt not the au thenticity of thin. for the nation * wont dry long since. Four hunter# report a *ea ser pent 25 fee t long in Yuramld Ukti largest ft^ih witor body west of the Or eat Lakes. It has huge tins and a serpent's tail, comes to the surface of the wa ter and Its hide In impregnable to bullet*. The hunters who shot the an imal hut who report It dived af ter being lilt unhurt are J. S. Neflf, Mike N agy, W. J. Neff and M. (ient. They were camping on ?he' shore of the luke when the monster was first sighted, they ' i itld. SHOW YANKS AROUND Y. M. C. A. Conducts Sightseeing Tours Through France. i Battlefields and Castles of Leading In* terest After Paris Hat Been Seen. Chaniilly. France.- The progress of the sightseeing doughboy 'through France, after he gets through with battle fronts, Is from one beautiful spot to another. Of course, the hattla fronts come first, and the Y. M. C. A. trips to Cha ( ea u-Thlerry , Belleau Wood, Itheims, Solssons and the Che niln-des-I ?allies are so popular that ths boys have to draw hits every day for the coveted free tickets, as only 100 persons ran be taken 011 each trip. Hut all the other trips the Y. M. C. A. has arranged for American -soldiers and sailors are studies In beauty and art and history amjd pleasures and palaces, and the eagerness and in telligence with which the boys go on these expeditions is plain evldenea of their essential soundness of heart I and mind. The first day, as a rule, the boys get aboard the big "Y" sightseeing auto mobiles and see Paris. Then they go by special train to the palaces of Versailles, Fontalnebleaii, Malmaison find St. Germain. Next they corns buck to Paris and spend a day in the Louvre. And then those still keen for palaces are Invited to take another trip to the Jewel of them nil, the fa mous chateau of the Condes and Mont morency* at Chant illy. Thousands o' American soldiers have visited Chantllly this year and have learned something of a place which many wealthy tourists overlooked. In deed. though many Americans vls[t<v1 Chantllly In years before the war, a large percentage of them saw only ths race course and never visited the chateau. Yet many experts hold that thongh a number of other museums outrank it in size; nowhere in the world ? not excepting the Louvre ? is there a more exquisite collection of objects of art. WHISKERS AS OLD AS HE IS And Former County Auditor In Cali fornia Is Hovering Near the Eighty Mark. Santa Ana.Cal. ? Who's got the old est whiskers? Other towns have entered contest ants in the race for oldest hirsute adornments, but Santa Anu only now Jumps into the fray with a set of whiskers sixty-one years old. If any body can beat that, let them come for ward or forever hold their peace. The proud possessor of the aged beard, is .1. H. Hall, former auditor of Orange county, who Is now dividing his time between Santa Ana nnd the East. Captain Hall, a CJ. A. It. man, never has shaved, and the whiskers which now adorn lils face are on ths roots of the "fuzz" which showed up when lie was In his teens. NrATKMKNT Of tlx- ownership, iiDimytfiin'iit. ?tc.t rwiuimi bv the net of CoQfreq* of AU* gu*t -4, 1013, ??f The < 'tiiuiii'ii Obroal^l published weekly ut Camden, X. C? for October l*t. 1!)IU: Suit- of South Carolina, County of Kerkhaw. Before mo, a Notary I'ublle iu am) foi t b?i Si?t?< ami 4t>uitly aforesAid B. N. 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