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pmu . .|.i i i i i % 1 STOWAWAY ENJOYS SIGHTS OF LONDON Very Simple the Way La Raviure Tells It. London.?Strict as ImmlgnUlOn OlRCluls iiml Ullll'IM'S urt?, it J" 811)1 %|?08.slhle to cross the Atlantic as ? stowaway, eat not square mortis daily for sown dayH \\liilt> mingling with the pnHSdbycr.s and crow, and / ilien outer (Leal Hrilnin without *u hi itch as a (j nosi 1 j mi from the iiuihorl,. tics. |l;i\moiiij La linv^rt', twenty eight, who says he lf\od in Myiqiiotio road, Chicago. tlUI It.' Trawler* who have experienced the thoroughness ??t the Luropeau Invest Igniluna of foreigners at porta an?L frontiers, pins .the usual ticket and passport Inspect loos of stewards and others aboard ship, merely go through formalities In noway essential. La Uaviore proved it. He hoarded the Olympic in New York 15 hours before the vessel sailed, made himself comfortable, traveled to Southampton, landed, trumped to London, and was going for a walk- with two newly found girl friends In Drury Lane some time Liter before the police called hi in 4to account. Then he was fined $10 or given one month In Wormwood Scrubs prison for the offense of entering ICnglund Illegally./ Set the Sights. Afterwards he restored himself to the trust of the ofltclals and spent a month doing the tower, houses of parliament, Westminster abbey. Kew gardens. and other points of Interest. La Ituvlere was even given a police registration card such as all Americans and other foreigners who slay In F.nghind any length of time must have. Ii all sounds easy as he explains it. II,. walked up the Olympic gangplank. .slmcd his luggage in the crew's ipmrters, and went for a walk, lie came hack al eight, gol lii.-i Pag, and 1 pa ke,I out an unoccupied third class Main nolo. Mattresses and other tin iin >! bedding were stored in the room. ai,,| <it,i o| these he built a screen to shield himself from the door. Then ; he made his lu-d behind and turned in j for the night Whcli lie Woke Up next j morning he was at sea. La Ka\ierr stayed in his stateroom until e\cuing, when he grew hungry. So he changed his clothes and went on deck. Then he learned that the night crew was about to he fed, so he dashed hack and got into his seaman's clothing In time to follow the crew in to supper, lie helped himself and nobody asked any questions. lie made this quick change twice a day for seven days. He ate - lunch with the day crew and at night he feT with a different watch. Nobody suspected. The rest of the time he lolled In deck chairs and mingled with the passengers. La Uaviore 'mount to debark at Cherbourg, but found this Impossible be- , cause of the landing card necessary j to board the tender. So he went on | to Southampton and was unlucky j eie-ugli to arrive there in mid titter- , noon, lie saw two gangplanks taken ' aboard, one for the passengers an I | the other for the crew, wlm immcdi- i ntfly began unloading laundry. '1 lien he did his quick change for the last j time. He left his bog behind to avoid i customs officers and walked off the ship with the er,wv. On to London. He was unable to get out of the dock yards at Southampton because the only exit Is through a gate In a high steel wire fence nnd litis is guard ed by immigration oflleers. Hut be waited until dark and then Jumped the fence. the last hurdle of his crossing tnflen. Then lie walked to London, a fructlon less than 80 miles away. He confe.'ised to a policeman guard Ing the door of an American organization In Ix>ndon that he entered as a Htowawuy without a passport. Tlda policeman. I/a Itaviere claims, refused to arrest him then, hut when he saw him on the following day strolling with two pretty Wngllah girls he put hlro under arrest and took him to the Immigration oftlce In How street. lie was convicted of entering the country Illegally and on the same day they to.ik him to Wormwood Scrubs, a pri^m on the outskirts of I/ondon. Tl ,. r.. ?... w I-? l.iu tpiiiilnmnl ?v..a of The best. ft --r his sentence was finished La j H.ivP-r,' was s.-nt automatically to ' P.r.\*< n p-is.'ii to await deportation, j II,, . ... 1 ? > the til.rile oflh-e for r T Mi d to pel ;sh o'T t is exporl I r- he \VT? v"o\vr?f? p-s frce-fo-q In 1 11 " s t- 11 ,-rhert S it: to>in?- j v.. ,r\ " 'I'n-oo .-P.-ut t-is ibtfo u'tics -y,ia eonsiil ir otthdaN vv. re nnx ! 11 > ; ^ in him. hot lliey coult! do p.,? lung v . thoiit proof of h:s A in erica n Ct:..'eiisti;p. This lie could llot supply w tl.oiit a passport, and it was necessary to write to ('hicago for his birth ccrt ;f;c:itub New Yorker Owns Goose That Lays 11-Inch Egg Pen Van. N. Y. ?Peggy .T.. owned by Mrs. J. F. (Soundry. Is no ordinary goose. Peggy lays eggs so large that "tie of them, mixed with two quarts of milk, will make enough custard for the family. Kvery spring Peggy goes on an ec<t? centrir produetlon schedule On alternate days she lays a huge doubleyolked egg weighing ten our\C?s. It measures 11 Inches around. When hot weather sets In. she settles down to one normal egg a day. Chancellor Must Guard Great Sei>l of England Crcat la meaning and great In powor, the Ureal Seal of Knglaud la yet, comparatively, a small thing. Made of 'Silver? h tpetal e??y to clean?It In1 shoot aeveil Inches In diameter and weighs Ii' pound*. The lord chancellor Is pv eoMtndlun and responsible for Its safely. and It Ilea within hbt-tHacretlen to keep It where he thinks lit. In day* none l?y those in whose custody It lay have spent anxious momeiits. Lord ('hancellor Kldun, in lh?i, reign <?f Heorgo III, used (O sleep with It under his pillow! One night his house caught fire and he hurled It in his garden for safely. Next day he had litigation where he had hidden It and eouh! not'recti 11 for some time. Whenever a new Ureal Seal Is Introduced a special ceremony take# place. They new seal U sent from the mint to the king. The lord elutneellor, untitled of this hy writ, takes the old Ureat Seal to the palace and hands It, In two halves, to the king. The loitertaps It three times with a small, eggshaped hammer, thus defacing the seal, which Is of very soft metal. The old seal then becomes the perquisite of the chancellor. In modern. time* It has.heroine customary for hli^t to send one-half to his predecessor In ofllee, as an act Of courtesy.?New York Times Magazine, Spaniards Misled as to New World's Gold Store The gold which so Inflamed the Imagination of Spain w hen Columbus returned from his first voyage to the New world probably was mined hy the Indians In Haiti, says Dr. Herbert W. Krleger, curator of ethnology of the United States National museum, who hendeil an expedition conducting an exploration eft Indian sites on that Island. Actually, ho says, gold was scarce. The natives gave the Spaniards a false impression l>y hammering It Into thin plates which then were shaped Into objects of personal adornment, They had discovered, lie says, an alloy of gold -and ropper?known as "pale gold"? which was used for lance heads. Ofjminents of gold plate were worn In the ears and nose and suspended about the nock. Uold mining, Krieger says, was very primitive. A bole was dug In the sand, the nuggets extracted and then beaten, into thin plates with stone hammers. Queer Old-Tirrtfe'Fiddles Lord Chesterfield considered It beneath n gentleman to _Ue seen piping or fiddling, and advised Ills son If tie loved music to bear It, to pay fiddlers to plav for him, but never to fiddle himself. Quite Contrary to this ad-, vice, It was the fancy of a certain fiddler to exercise his musical talent while Homo burned. Hut not many musicians are so barbarously inclined. The fiddles used In the Tenth century < at the fairs and merrymakings of the Anglo-Saxons are probably representations of those queer;looking stringed Instruments cut upon "the stone of the Egyptian and 'trecian monuments, or ' of (lu> long pattern inotiocliords which have existed in India from prehistoric j limes, according to some commcnta- ' JoJ-s, though it is usually conceded \ that the fiddle dales hack to Hg.vptiat) j Utiles. I Pronunciation Varies The pronunciation of "slough" varies with the meaning. When the word means a hole full of mud or a deep, miry place it is correctly pronounced "slou," riming with "now." This 13 the pronunciation of the word as employed In John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," where the Slough of Despond Ir a deep hog Into which Christian falls at the beginning of his Journey and from which Help extricates hi in. Wheu 'Jtfotigh" refers to a marshy placengPUa piece of low, wet land It la pronounced "sloo," to rime with "too." In this sense the word Is frequently spelled "slew," "sloo," or "slue." When "slough" moans the cast-off skin of an animal of reptile which sheds It Is pronounced "sluff."? Pathfinder Magazine. Feeding Young Alligators Alligators are first given a diet of earthworms and minnows. I'pon this they are kept for two rmmths, when dead mice are occasionally given them. As soon as they show an increase in size (Inequality of fond is correspondingly I lure.i sci|. Marl )i worms are then I eX'|i|.|e?! fr-en (]tc 11 * * ? s unite small j rodents are g \e|i f qq.y. ;j, alter- j T.at urn with trog* tis)i and s.r.ips of You re re? and ?r-arrow-; are { sou!i ad led to the list Tl??-y are iisii- i ally fed* twice a week, and at in-wt 'firee times a week. How Negrito* Wed When two Negritos, a people t)f the Philippine Islands, are united the whole tribe is assembled, and the affianced pair climb two trees growing near to each other The ciders then j bend the branches until the heads of the couple meet. When the heads have thus come Into contact the marriage is legally accomplished. Real Fairy? An Indianapolis woman had a guest with beautiful, long. bh>mj hair which ptu\ed a source of wonder to the ! trostess' little daughter tine duv she -nl transfixed whtfe the jrucsr tet down tier hair and began brnsjing It Never had the child seen a lything like it. and tlnully said: "Art you real I) a fair)?"?Indianapolis News. MEMORIAL TO RISE ON FORTRESS SITE Old French Defenses Are Discovered by Laborers. a Har-is*I>uc.?A? excavations for tho count ruction of an Aiiiertcnu mouument wore being tuude on tho peak of Montafucon, In the Argonno, tl?? foundations of an old fort row a built there by (iodefroy do Bouillon In 1070 were discovered, Tho American monuiuent is tp comtnemorato tho l.fii- soldiers of the United Stales army who were killed there In September. 11)18, when the position was taken from the (Jormons. The old fort Is said to have been destroyed and reeohstrupted In the l\Jevepth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth < and Seventeenth centuries and Anally burned with the village during the Thirty Years' war by the Swedes. (hxlefroy do Bouillon was a young vassal of Emperor Henry IV, from whom ho received the title of Mar* tpilsato of AnverS at the death of Godefroy-Je-Bossu. The fortress was dismantled when tho l>uc do Basse Lorraine left with the Crusaders. Explorations are being made by Baron ltenaux, curator of the Verdun museum and library, under tho auspices pf the ministry of fine arts, In collaboration with Canon Almond, hlstorfCal savant of the Meusp, and other authorities. Among the tlnds so far are on entrance stairway, a series of galleries of different sl/.es, small rooms In one of which was a stone bench, and several piles of hufhed wheat, Indicating tho destruction of 1(530. These were all discovered at a depth of eight or ten meters. The American battle monument Is to be made of reinforced concrete faced with Burgundy stone. It will be 200 feet high, overlooking the entire battlefield. Dedication ceremonies are scheduled for this summer, unless present excavations postpone the work. Car Breaks Record With No Oil in Crankcase Elgin, 111.?A world's motor "dryrun" record Is chilpipd to have been established here recently, when an automobile processed with a new lubricating fluid was driven 318.7 miles In 12 hours, 33 minutes, with absolutely no oil in its crankcase. Mayor Myron M. Lehman and a group of Elgin business men witnessed mechanics drum all of the oil from the car's crankcnse and padlock the motor hood i.t the start of the test. City nnd state officials checked the car In at the end of the test nnd certified to the mileage covered. Numbers r> nnd (5 connecting rod bearings were burned out but otherwise the motor was In perfect condition. Tho fluid used In conditioning tho car for the test is a concentrated extract, which when introduced Into a motor with the regular oil and with tho gasoline, penetrates tho pores nf the metal nnd then forms a thin film over the outer surface of the hearings. This provides not only a selfluhrlentlng surface <>n the metal, hut a built-in supply underneath which, when released hv fictional heat du* 1o an Inadequate amount or total absence of oil, furnishes the necessary lubrication until Its own reserve hips been drawn out of the pores and exhausted. Hospital U. S. Forgot to Light Now Has Fixtures San Antonio. Texas.?The $300,000 Ilandolph field hospital, which operated on a daytime schedule for five months because the War department' forget to appropriate funds for lighting fixtures, is now doing full time duty. A full personnel, eight oflicers nnd 32 enlisted men. had been on duty since the hospital was completed? with the exception of light's?Inst November. Emergency treatment was given from dawn to dark. The chief surgeon, however, ruled It was too dangerous for a nurse to try to And the right patient In the dark. Scotch Clans, in Feud 200 Years, Sign Truce London.?The Campbells and the MaeLeans, two famous Scottish cluna who have been battling in a feud for 200 years, have agreed to n truce T"h<? pence was announced In a telegram sent by the duke of Argyll, chief of 'he Campbells, to Col. Sir Fitzroy MaoLean. The occasion was the nim'? seventh birthday of Colonel Mini.earn He lives in I mart castle on the Isle i f Mull. 300-Year-Old Bean Sprouts in Museum San Antonio. Texas. ? la rue white bean, picked up In the rnirw of Grand Quivir^^ind believed to be 300 years sprouted Into n living stnl^^t White Memorial museum here. The bean was found In an ex cavntion 70 feet from the surface at ruins located 100 tndes south of Santa Ke, N. M Franciscan missionaries founded a mission there In 1020. and prior to thut time the Plro Indians maintained a settlement there called Tsblra. The bean was soaked in water for five hours March 10 I.ess than two weeks later a stall: six Inches tall had grown fro a the seed. J MAKING ?f HOLLAND ^ Dutch Damsel* Talking Shop. (Prepared. l>y National OeoKraplilo Socloty, Washington, L>. C.) ? WNU 8?rvlce. VKHKTABLICS, not fish, will be tho products of the broad expanse of the Zuiderzee, which now is ' having n complete change of face. Drttfnage and lining the Zuiderzee will add move than 1,000 i square miles of fujm land to the Netherlund's area. The work when completed, will cost the Dutch government some $1150,000,000. Long ago the ocean said to the Hollander, "You shall have no land here.'1 The Hollander said to the ocean, "We will have a country here"; and they have one, In spite of water, winds, and waves. In Holland all Is new?the gulfs, lakes, and Islands have come into existence under man's observation. He has seen within historic times sand close a river's mouth, land converted : Into water, and hikes dry up and dis! appear. ! The ordinary agencies of change? ! wind and wave, rain and Hood, and the ( rise and fall of land?have here found 1 a favoring Held for their activities. Long after the greater part' of the continent of F.ti'ope had become fixed and stable, Holland began Its geographic formation and is still pursuing processes intended to hold or enlarge its boundaries. By the aid of old maps and docuI nients we can learn what Holland was I at the time it -first found a place and 1 designation on the world's charts, and following them in sequence one can j note the changes that have been 1 wrought by the action of the waters of ! the rivers, the waves of the sea, and the hands of man?In short, how Hol, land was made. The power of the rivers one can see In the inundations; the action of the sea In the sand dunes along the coast; and the transformation by man everywhere. Before tho birth of the Rhine a great part of the Netherlands, as we now see it. was a sea, limited on the Herman side by a rocky coast which now shows itself in the Tuotoburgor ! Wald hills. The uplifting of the Ardennes inclosed a sea in the interior of Hermany which, shielded by the Alps on its southern const and pro- j tooted from the cold winds of the i north, became full to overflowing from ! the melting ice. Finally tlie pent-up waters broke through, and in the bed thus formed the Rhine lias since been flowing. How the Land Was Formed. With tlie rush of tlie waters masses of rocks were hurried along until the moving force exhausted itself; smaller particles were carried fnrther, and when the sen was reached Its resistance robbed the river of Its final burden, and sand dunes formed the northern boundaries of Holland. The pebbles and grains of sand on which rests the soil of CJelderland and Overyssel and the Island of Texel show that their primeval home was the basalt regions of the Rhine. The result of the conflict between the waters of the rivers and the sea Into which they seek to find an outlet is seen in the deltas of our largest streams. Before reaching the Dutch frontier the Rhine has lost all the beauty of Its banks, and flows In great, lasy curves suggestive of approaching old age. The indecision of senility Is now ?*-*,-u in iiie separation of the Rhine into two parts. The main branch shamefully disavows its name and throws itself Into the Mouse, a river of French origin ; the other branch, insulted by the name of Dannehrog | canal, after going nearly to Arnheim, j I separate*.into two puri*. one emptying ' | tnto t lie Zuiderzee : t he other, regain- ! I ing Its early name, though qualified as j the I.ower Rhine, g.-es as far as Duurstede. where it divides for the third time. During the reign of I.ouis Bonaparte a canal was opened through the dunes and the Rhine again conducted to the sea. The mouth of this canal Is protected by enormous dikes and breakwaters and the sen Itself is held in check by locks, or sluice-gates. When the tide is high these locks are closed, to prevent the waters of the'sea from invading the land; when the tide fnlls they nre opened, to give passage to the waters of the Rhine ! which have accumulated behind them, and then .1.000 cubic feet' of water a minute pass out. Continual Battle With the 8ea. The rivers of Holland, like nil rivers whose lower reaches have tut | little fall, drop sediment Along th^se lower levels, especially at their months. The sea has resisted this encroachment, and In retreating has conllnun. ly fought to regain lost territory. ;t i ; ~ ... .. ?-rj- i?* . hus thrown barriers across the river channel to mage the rivers themselves destroy the land of their creation; it has burled the rich alluvial soil fathoms deep under unproductive sands, and where it does not throw up sand dunes as a fortress against Itself, the state must accept the challenge and wage a royal battle. The other rivers that have contributed to the weal and woe of Holland have been less vacillating In approaching their outlets, but equal vigilance hus been needed to keep their waters from Inundating the land. Dikes must be built on both banks as high and as far upstream as experience demands. Along the North sea there are places where, owing to changing winds, the sand cannot accumulate In quantities sufficient to form protecting dunes. Here sen-dikes must be built?veritable fortifications. They are built of earth, firmly packed on the sea-face, and partly paved with dressed Norway granite or Rhine basalt blocks. Beginning at the t'op, the dimensions arc as follows: Thirty feet across the top, on which there is a double-track railroad for the transportation of materials with which to make repairs. On the sea-face It Inclines at an angle of 30 degrees for a distance of about 40 feet; then the slope is one in three. Here the stone paving begins and extends about .10 feet. From this point for 100 feet a sod surface is maintained, but beyond that for 110 feet, where the forces of the storm-lashed waves beat hardest, the surface Is faced with stone. This carries the face to a point about three feet below high tide; then a flat pavement is laid out to and beyond the low-water line. As a precaution, three rows of plies are driven in to hotd the facing In place, and two other rows of larger plies, with their tops protruding, extend along the line where the waves are most aggressive. Costly But Necessary. The amount of labor required to construct such fortifications can hardly bo Imagined- and the cost is wellnigh beyond conjecture. The piles, all of which came from other lands, cost, in place. $4 each. This defense Is not an idle precaution. When the west winds drive the waters from the English channel to meet those deflected by Norway's unyielding shores, they 1111 up the North sea and seek their old course across the Netherlands. The sluggish current of the Zuiderzee is n weak contestant with the remorseless tide of the North sea. Consequently Its shifting sands threatened to close up the harbor of Amsterdam and also rendered precarious the navigation out to and around the Helder. It was therefore decided some years ago to construct a ship canal directly to the ?*orth sea. This great work was completed In 1870, with the sea terminus at IJmui- ; den. The sea being higher at high tide than the water In the harbor at Amsterdam. It was necessary to have big locks at that end. The traffic through this canal is so great that tha water let through In the locking would aoon become a source of danger. The harbor of Amsterfinm >? therefore, chut off fro the Zuiderzee by means of dikes, with a series of locks to i>ermlt: Ingress and egress. Protecting OLkes Everywhere. It is not the sen alone that calls for the defending dikes. Every outlet Into the sou must have embankments bigh enough to overtop the highest incoming tide, for twice every day j these outlets become estuaries of the | sea. and the land would be covered by the invading brackish water If It were not for the dike-like -banks. The farmers frequently build their dwelling houses under the lee of these bnnfcs. and front the deck of a passing steamboat on*.* can literally look down the ehlmne>, though he may hardly, as same *have claimed, see what the farmer' wife is cooking for his dinner. The Dutch word polder Is a term applied to any area of land protected by an encircling dlke*and drained by its own system of pumps. Some of these are barely below the general level and need only a slight cmbnMr^k 1 inent; such are usually of firm soil, and after the removal of the water become nrable field*. Others were originnlly ponds or lakes, or deposits of muck which have to be Inclosed by I more substantial embankment*, and the removal of the water In ihe first Instance as well as subsequently Is a serious matter. Spring Hill N?*a Mr. and Mrs, M. ft cr\b\ of A* gust#, Ga., were wpek end gUtMs , I Mr. and Mm. Lonnie Hancock. LittU I Marvin Cribfc, Jr., who has been vU I Hiiig Roan Cannon and Dot Hancock I returned home with them. Mr. and Mm. M. M. Player left I Wednesday for Black stone. yft I they will apend a t*w days. * I Revival meeting will begin Sunday I July 24, at the Methodist church. I Rev. J. A. Graham will be assisted I by Rev. Walter Johnson, of Green- I ville. Miss Rosa Mcleod has returned I home after a week's stay in Camden the guest of Mr. ami Mrs. S. W I Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Moseley, Jr nnd son, of Walterboro, spent' last I week end with tjte farmer's parents, ] Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Moseley, Sr. J Mr. Garvice Hancpck returned 1 home Tuesday from Ashoville, N. C. I where he has been attending sum- I mer school for the past six weeks. Miss Genevieve Moseley has gone I to Walterroro to spend a few weeks. I Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Peeplea I and Mrs. Fraalbr Mills, of Bishop. I ville, were visitors here Sunday. Mr, Gus MdSween gave a swim- I ming party Wednesday at Hancock's I i pond. After the swim watermelons I ! were cut. ! The Rev. Carlisle Smiley, of Uke B City, is the guest this week of Rev, I and Mrsv J. A. Graham, I , Mr. Clatlde Wilson spent Sunday B in Paxville visiting friends. I Jules J. Jusserand, former PTench B ambassador to the United States, died H yesterday morning, aged 77 years, I from a chronic kidney disease, iji his I home in Paris. He was the ambas- 'H sador of the French government in B; Washington for 22 years, the longest I service in the history of the diplo- H matic corps there. He was highly re- I spected, known to be very desirous I for firm friendship between hi| coun- I try and this; and had the personal 1 friendship of $?he presidents from 1 Roosevelt to Coolidge. His unfailing H. tact and statesmanship were of great I value during the trying days of the I World war before the United States I became a combatant. | The Taxpayers League of Gaston' ' county, NrC., Sam A. Roblnson. pres-. B ident, has addressed a letter to J. H. I Sapark, chairman of the Gastonia city I school board, asfkinsg that the city's j school term be cut from nine to 8?ven months, j CapudineJ I It gives relief by soothing IM . ! nerves ? not deadening I I I I # them. Contains no opiates. I I Won't upset stomach. j Being liquid, it acts quicker W j y than,pills or powders. . ?mm Sold at drug stores in singe I I <|<,M, or 10c, 30c, SO* ""Ml j NO-Mb-KORN I FOR CORNS AND CALLOUS* J Made ii Camden Aid Far Sab V1 DeKalb Pharaaey?Pboot H ROBT. W. MITCH AM I Architect Crocker Building, j Camden, S. C. ft KBRSHAW LODGE Ne. D I A* F' M' Cjr C\o Regular communication * M A ^' this lodge is held on the firnt Tuesday in each monto K ?t 8 p.m. Viaiting Brethren are ww* . orned. W. R. CLYBUKN, J. E. ROSS, ? Worshipful Maater.' H Secretary. 1.14-27*" M DeKALB COUNCIL No S8 Junior Order U. A Regular council seoopd l* ' ^ * fourth Mondays of month at 8 p.m. Visiting Brethro j ire welcomed. J. W. THOMPSON' j L. H. JONES, Council** Recording Secty. j I EYES EXAMINED II and Glasses Fitted I THE UOFFER COMPANY I JeweUra mm4 Opliai^