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BIG GUNS ROARING * ON EASTERN FRONT Favorable Turns in Weather Promotes Activity of Warfare Operations. 0 ^TRENCHES SHELLED WITH HEAVY FIR^ Fighting is Especially Severe in the Neighborhood of Nicuport. 4 __ Berlin.?Reports from France and Flanders say that a favorable tin? in tne weather had been roll owe ! Ir active fighting on the western front Along nearly the whole line the roa? of artillery is heard, but the heavie t fighting has been done in the vicinity *of Nieuport, to the north of Ypres am in the Argon no. German patrolling parties brough' back word that German artillery ha' done Effective work against trenche \ of the allies near Nieuport. * The British artillery, it was said w",s hardly less active than that ol '. the Germans. On e o section cd* the f freest the Ihiti h fired 1J ,700 si. * upW p.el, TOO high explosive shells an< r.bbut the .".a no : '.mib^ ' of bt nd : veil in a period of twenty-four hours. Thf ! ino ouplosion mentioned in I've *:> day's official bull* tin of the Genua* headquarters staff Oc:c#f' ur in number. The Germans i rune ialcly occu pied the craters caused by the explo^ sives. v In another section rear Nouvillo tVl | Germans announced thai tho\ ruptiu'j ?'d three s tccossive lines of Kroncl trenches aiid held 'hem sucees3f'jdl; r.ganist eight counter attacks. It 5: affirmed that those tvench.es are st.T in German hands, although the figh irg* for possession of them has assumed the character of hand-to-hand cn* counters. The Germans also claim v good progress to the south of Avraf through the work of the sappers and miners. place noiselessly. Hngnr stood by the table, her back to the fireplace, watchincr the ilonr in her hands were the incriminating: photographs of the thumb prints of Blair "Stanley. As she turned at the sound of Blair's ndvance he struck her down with the 0 heavy iron i>oker, and she fell to the floor as though lifeless, In a crumpled heap. As Blair stooped to seize the photographs of his guilty thumb prints that had fallen to the floor a gleam of steel en the table caught his eye. It was the sheriff's handcuffs that Vivian Marston had brought to the house with her and left for Blair, as she said i mockingly, "as a souvenir of the white ^ knight's leap." I la gar moaned and stirred. Blair cotlld hear his mothef calling him in the hallway now. lie seized the handcuffs and clasped them on the unresisting wrists of Hngnr. Ticking her up, he thrust her in the "Tory's hiding place" and hastily swung the wall back in position, leav>( ing the unconscious and manacled form of IIagar imprisoned by the broken open chest in the darkened niche. At this instant he heard liis mother on the threshold and turned and fled with the photographs and the stolen money by the door that led to the inner rooms and was gone. ******* Far nwny a colored boy, who had ^ been driving n pig the day the gentlefolk of Fairfax held their vaunted tournament, is playing he is a hunver after eagles. lie has a wooden gun. this colored hoy who herds pigs while gentle white folk ride to tournament and to chase the fox, and with his wooden gun he plays a part in the destinies of those concerned in this strange story. For beneath a wayside tree he finds a handful of feathers. "Owls up dar!" says the mimic hunter, and he drops the rude wooden gun and climbs the tree. An owl tiles from its nest with a querulous screech. That evening an obscure negro urchin. whose lot it Is that he must attend to swine, leans over a noisome pen and dangles before an unapprecia five pig. gorging at his swill, the din tJ motiri from the sky! TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK. If you wish to start this Story subscribe to The Herald. We can furnish you with all back numbers. * * * Tk* Qulnlm That Dow HoT Affect TM llM* Becvise of Us tonic and laxative effect LAXAT1VK BROMO QUIN1NK is better than ordinary Suininc and does not cause nervousneaa nor 'ringing in head. Remember the full name and !|oolc fbr the signal ire of li. W. GRO^K. 21c. HAVE YOU BEEN SICK?; Then you realize the utter weakness that robs ambition, destroys appetite, and makes work a burden. I To restore that strength ami stamina that ?s so essential, nothing has ever equaled or compared with Scott's Emulsion, because its strength - sustaining nourishment iuv?gorates the blood to distribute * energy throughout the body while its tonic value sharpens the appetite and restores health in a natural, permanent way. NIf you are run down, tired, nervous, overworked or lack strength, get Scott's Emulsion to-day. It is free from alcohol. Scott {vc itowtic, IMoomticld, N. J. NEW HIGH PRICES IN DRUG LINES I Opium Costs Mors?Quick Silver Rises High?Potash Compounds Scarce. During the last few weeks prices of drugs and chemicals have continued tlie advance which featured spec-', tacularly the D)1 "> markets, and in, several instances new high levels\ l i ? 1 * ~ " nave Deen readied, says The IS'cwj York Journal 01' Cqpnnorcc. After a; period of comparative inactivi.y. opium furnished the surprise of yeste day's trading, the quotation on gum opium going from $11, at which point it had been maintained since before January 1, to 512.50, and on powdered opium from 2.2,5 to $12.50. Yhis is a high record fry nearly fifty years for this product. Although the importation of cpium into this country was not curtailed during 1915 to any groat extent as! compared with 1914, the xcport de-i mand was very large and as a eonsc-j quenco stoyks here a re lower than j normally, The market position c' this product is further strengthened' by the probability that with Greece's entrance into the war on either sided supplies from Turkey will be com-1 pletely cut off. Already there has] been noted an increasing dilTiculty in: obtaining from this source, and the possibility of introducing the Persian gum is being seriously considered, although this has been neglected in the past as being of poor quality. Previous to the war opium sold here at $7.45, so thut the advance during ho.>! hostilities has amounted to approxi- J mately 90 per cent. Trade factors pre- j diet a further rise in price, as the sun1 ply in hand diminishes. Among the drugs, antipyrene ha.' recently been the leader in the upward price movement. A little mole than a year ago this product could be purchased at $2.50 a pound, whereas $50 is now asked. This represents a $20 increase over the ruling quotation on January 1 of this year. Antipyrene is not produced in this country, dealers said yesterday, and the United States is chiefly dependent upon Germany for its supply. Switzerland and France also produce small quantities, but hardly more than enough to meet home requirements. Some shipments have been received by American importers through arrangement with the British and Ger-1 man governments, but this practice. has recently been- checked. Antipyl rene is used principally in medicinal; compounds, particularly in combinaation with aspirin, and the demand due to the epidemic of grip has exhausted stocks here. While the local supply is very small, importers explain the high prices as the result of speculation. One of the largest hand- j lers of this product stated yesterday he had disposed of all his holdings to regular customers without advancing! the price to any great extent, " but. that he had since received in forma j tfon showing that some of the good > sold had fallen into the hands of speculators. Sales at $75 arc anticipated ir. the trade. Quicksilver attains a new level almost daily now, rising $20.25 yesterday. When the price passed $200,! about a week ago, dealers said that a decline' might follow, but conditions' have not been improved since then| and the outlook is for a still higher j quotation. Sales were reported at $200 a flask yesterday, while the price asked varied from $250 to $2.75. j Weather conditions at the mines and freight congestion on the railroads! persist as factors preventing any material additions to local stocks, and dealers say that they do not know i how they can meet the demand. Closely following the movement of the quicksilver market, the prices of all mercurials are rising sharply. Calomel, which sold a year ago at 90c, and on January 1 of this year at $1.61 yesterday jumped 60c in price, going to $2.73, while blue pills, which sold on the same dates for 57C and 84c, ; respectively, advanced 28c to Sl.iw , All potash compounds have rec6 ntly advanced in price, the gai'r for . THE HORRY HERJ mmm |P^ # These are all cat II dependent upon the Km changes. Sloppy weat II winds, chilling blasts, cli || Thermometer dancing a |1 ing suit. All of the acute ca JjQ referred to, call for ( They call loudly, too these catarrhal conditic I y chronic. One bottlfc t < ? right tune will save r J J suffering and sickness. i\ THE PERUft M Co lu tn bus, (Sold ut all iii mm. m DON'T STAY BILK "Dodson's Liver Tone" Will Clean Your Sluggish Liver Gofer Than Calomel and Can kit Saiivaie. Calomel makes \-eu sick; you lose n. day's work. ( alomol is tjuicksi'.vcr and it salivates: calomel injures your liver. If you are hilious; f.vl lazy, slavish and all knocked out, if your bowels are constipated and your head aches or stomach is sour, just take a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone instead of usini; sickening, salivating calomel. i>o(lso!:'.^ Liver Tone is real liver medicine. < You'll know it next morninjr hecause yon v ill wake up feeling line, your liver will he working, your headache and (1 "ni'-ss ?jone. your stomach will l>< s'?eet and ho.vels rem la r. You will feci Lke wevkintr. "S <?j:" 11 he cheerful: i'u'l "I* energy. vijjmr and ambition. j AMERICAN BANK I WILMING1 COMMERCIAL & Si RESOURCES ?DIREC J. G. L. OTESCHEN?German Coi JURGEN HAAR?Grocer CUTHRERT MARTIN?Grocer GEO. O. GAYLORD?Merchant V. SIDBURY?Real Estate and Ca\ B. G. COLLINS?Former President South Carolina P. S. COOPER?President First Nat CHAS. E. BETHEA?Cashier of th( JOS. T. KING?General Supt., Tra W. B. COOPFTR?Importer and Ex* MILTON C ALDER?Vice-Preside E D WARD ATI REN S?Wholesale 1 JNO. J. KUCK?Manufacturer | A G. WARREN?Owner A. G. War W. B. DRAKE, JR.?Vice-President Bank, Raleigh, THOS. E. COOPER?President of t ?OFFI Thos E. Cooper Milton Calder Chas E. Bethea E. Fred Banck, Robt L. Henley iodide potash last week being 25c a pound. The quotation for the muriate has increased $50 a ton, this prod uct being in strong demand at $500 a ton. Other changes since the first of the year have been recorded in the prices of chloroform, due to the shortage of raw materials; of biuc vitriol,! owing to the rise in copper; of borax, attributable to higher production costs, and of codliver oil. The grcator difficulty in obtaining Norwegian oil at present has sent the price to $100 a barrel, compared to $80 on Jan uary 1, and $21 a year ago. Newfound land oil is also higher, due to the partial embargo there. Among the drugs and chemicals the prices of which have fallen rectnly are glycerine, carbolic aid and menthol. o HELP YOUR LIVER?IT PAYS. When your liver gets torpid nnd your stomach acts queer, take Dr. King's New Life Pills and you will find yourself feeling better. They purify the blood, give you freedom from constipation, biliousness, dizzi- j and indigestion. You feel fine? Just like you want to feel. Clear the | cbmplexion too. 25c. at druggists.? adV. i VTJ5 CONWAY. S- C February and B| March bring weather U conditions very trying H to most people. B Colds 9 coughs, D sore throat, tonsiTitis, B catarrh, bronchitis, VI pneumonia, are all H prevalent. ul arrhal conditions. All fc]! same cause, climatic her underfoot. High rfc I ranging from day to day. El jig. Barometer follow- ^ tarrlml conditions above Ell li >. If Perunais neglected n BB ?ns are liable to become )f Peruna used at the Era nonihs, even years, of S3 fe A COMPANY j| . . Ohio gjjjj Drug Stores) 1 B3S& tiwsLaLZv !?bj riw hk WlyA Yf&SS QiPtf \ tii I n O I y y U k ^.3 a ^ r ?H? CdM^TfPSTFil i ?W?ij fetfitu) S <j ?I Ml Your druggist or dealer sells vo'.i a 50 cent I;11 of Dodson's Liver Tone un !< r my peroual guarantor rial it w ill clpan your sluggish lie; Im?it? ; i' an nasty calomel; il won't male, y.ui > ck n<..! yon can cut anything y.u want w .it.out being ~"?i 1 ivatc?!. on: ,.!ru,',/?st guarantors that eacii spoonful v.ili si.lit ymir liver, clean your bowels ami straighten you lip by morning or you get your money bark. Children gladly lake 1 balsam's Liver 'i\>ne because it is pleasant tasting and doesn't gripe cramp or make thein sick. 1 am selling millions of bottles < Dodson's T.ivc?* Tone to people a 'no Lav found Ibat tbis pleasant, vegetable, liver medicine lakes the place of dangerous eab?mel.i Huv one bottle on my sound, reliable guarantee. Ask your druggist about mo I TRUST COMPANY | ["ON. N. c. WINGS BUSINESS $2,500,000,00 1] I ITORS? insel >italist Burroughs & Collins Co., Conway, ;ional Bank, Dunn, N. C. ; Bank asportation of the A. C. L. System sorter of the Bank Druggist ren Ice Cream Co. and Cashier of Merchants National North Carolina he Bank CERS? President Vice-President Cashier Asst. Cashier Asst. Cashier f-JAX "1 ^ BISCUIT J| .-ijh quality soda crackers, parent of line of 122 crackers and cakes. One for every lacio : nd every need, affording delightful mealtime changer* I nouc oy V i/dCKSOnvillC v^racKer WCTKS ~ , ; 'Apt.? 09z 's^siSSnJtrrv *CIGI MM?w ,,'AOU st; |>OOSi SR SRAl I UOI)UJIlddR |)Uo.)os oqj .iojjr s.rnoq .inoj 'poauoddR -sip jsoiujt; pt;q ssdujjijs oq; Sfuriuoui }xou 'dsi.id.ms Xui oj, *poq oj juoan put? Xpeuj juouuurj s^iRcqg patjd -dR 1 'iun; ^upnoo 1 jqjs os jpou ; a*iii ihtav Oiuoq olurd i '}ooj jom 1(11a\ uorqsodxg ruirurj oqj puno.ir Sux -diuRjj .lajjR 'XRpunjRg istjq,, ISO^UM ' l^D 'Xiaqaoa '.idjsiog *h uiajoj^ qnjaopuoAV. xpraa si U 'Xrair uiRd oqj sdaup ii?pojinboi ifuiqqiu ou?uiqs oqj uo piRj Xiduitg 'paudAOOsip jdao Joqiq uitid jsojRo.i;J oqj si -ApuRq juduiuirj s4utJo[g jo 1 ^tWq llttius r ddoq noX jt AAuoit.ioui -iuo X.idAd joj po.indd.id ojn noX jrqj Xjpopodxourt aqinb soiuoo ji XqRrun , puu ouioq XaoAD oj jojisia r si uirj INIVd NOdil ilVM NINE EXAMINATIONS FEBRUARY AND APRIL For Various Positions Under Government in Civil Service Departments The Secretary of the Fifth CivilService Districts, with offices at 202 to 298 Post Office Building, Atlanta, Ga., announces the following examinations to be held during the months of February and April, 1910: APPRENTKE MAP ENGRAVER, (Male). February, 28. 1910. Front the register of clligibles resulting from this examination certification will be made to fill a vacancy in the Geological Survey, Washington, !). C\, at $1.25 per diem when actually employed. Age 1(> to 18 years. Aplication Form 804. |, CHEMIST (MAl l") February 22.| 191 (?. Salary $1,200. To fill varan-j cies as they may occur in the position of assistant chemist the Ordnance Department at Large. V. r.tertown Ar-. senal, Mass. Age, 2' to 25 years. Graduation with a bncivdors' degree, from a full four years' cours? hi chcm istry in a college cr univc^-ii r. and i in addition lit leas' two > experience in the A i:\h\si-' of i n ami steel or ti e aetv.nl ne t'\n; sleel, are prerequisites tor com idor...ion V this position. App'i .. iv. ii Form FU'J. FIELD AGENT IN MARKETING! and 0?*ganizati.>:i (Male) 1 bruar;: 1M. 19?<>. Salary *! .200?$1,6 >0. Ago 2i"> to do years. To tTl a vae ney in the OlVice of P.I- -kcts ami P.v. .1 ganr/.ntion foi duvy in the Pacific Northwest. The npplhvn'. an t show that he ii%- had at least iwo years' educational training in a coPcgo or university and at least one years experience in some phase of marketing or distributing farm products in the Pacific Northwest. Form 1212. FOUNDRY HELPER (MAI E) February 1M1, 1916. Salary $600?720 Age, IS years or over. To fill vacancies in the Bureau of Standards, Depl of Commerce. The applicant must show that ho has had at least 2 years' experience in a foundry or machine shop, Form 1312. SKILLED LABORER, QUALIfied as Elevator Machinist (Male) Feby. 23, 1916. Age, 21 to 85 years. To fill a vacancy in the Department: of Agriculture, Washington, D- C., at $840 per anr.uvp, App^'crrts must alioW Hint they liuvc kcv,\ d apprenticeship as machinists, Jth't ontf experience in the repair cr coiisirUC-1 tion of electric elevators. ASSISTANT IN HOME ECONO-1 mics Extension Work (Male and Fe-| male) February 29, 1916. Salary Salary $1,800?$2,500. Age, 21 to 50 j years. For positions in the States Relations Service, Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Applicants must have received a Bachelors degree from a college or university, and had at least 2 years' practical experience in home economics extension work in the Northern or Western States. Application Form 21 IS. BEE HANDLER (MALE). February 29, 1910. Salary $1,090. Age, 20 to 50 years. To fill a vacancy in the position apiarist in the Indian Service at Pima Agency, Ariz. At least one years experience in the handling of bees,, a part of which must have been in the hiving and domesticating of col j onies of wild bees, is a prerequisite for consideration for this position. Application Form 1800. PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH Chemist (Male. February 29, 1910. Salary $2,000. The applicant must show that he has graduated in pilar-1 macy from ;? recognized school or college; that he has received the degree of Ph. D. in chemistry or pharmacy I and that he has had 5 years' subsequent experience in a research labor-; atory in chemical pharmaceutical investigation. Application Form 21 IS.' COPYIST MARINE ENGINE AND; Boiler Draftsman fMa'e). April i 12, 1910. Entrance salaries range1 from $2 tc ?228 p?r diem. To fill vacancies in the Navy Dopt., Washington, D. C. Tiie opportunity for a appointment of Qualified eligibles is: If .Mnir,;\. i m- iippilCUMT. HU1SI SHOW that ho has had a good common or high school education, including' instruction in elementary mathematics and. drawing. Age, 18 years or over. Application form 1312. The following are the places at which these examinations will be held! in the Fifth Civil-Service District: Alabama?Birmingham, Dothan, Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, and Opelika. Florid**?Gainesville, Jacksonville, Key West, Miami, Pensacola, and Tampa. 1 Georgia?Athens, Atlanta, Augus- i ! SEVX8 ??? ' ~ ??? JAPAN HAS TAKEN MARKET FROM U. S. Cotton Goods Trade With China Finally Lost to America Now HEAVY GOODS TRADE COMPLETELY GONE Japanese in Ten Years Have Run Us Out of Market. \Y a sh i1 i g ton.?J a pa nose manufacturers have captured the American cotton goods trade in China so completely, savs a Department of Commerce report issued today, that all hope of renewed American business lies in an entire change of the class of goods manufactured for Oriental export. Ten years, the expert declares, have seen American cotton goods sales dwindle in China a> I he Japanese business grow. Now Anevifp.n lis hope lersly d 1st a need by the Japanest, either mud extend their 1 : dr by selling another (lass of goods at the expense' of Knpland o?- dismiss hopes for further Chinese bus! icss. The report was pvi pa al by Ralph M. Odcll, a textile ex per; N " the bureau of foreign and domestie commerce, after six months i'.ve ligation in China. Increasing cost of production in Knglund because of the war, ?dic report says, "has created an opportunity for American mills to introduce into China lines of cotton goods they heretofore have not sold. Sheetings and drills, formerly sold, must be left to the Japanese and to new Chinese mills built and building. China for many years has been the largest market for cotton goods in the world. Tables contained in the report show that from 1002 to 10113, eleven years, the Japanese cotton goods trade In China increased nearly nine times* while the American trade dropped to one-third what it had been. Reasons for this as given in the report are better selling and distributing methods and lower prices for Japanese goods. British trade has remained stationary. The Japanese began, the report say#, by imitating the American prodticC in a cheaper muteriul, This allowed the Chinese dealer's Wider margin of profit and gave the const?m?r a fabric that compared well in appearance with the American cloth. In Manchuria, the report says, the Japanese enjoyed special advantages in reduced rail rates and immunity from certain Chinese taxes. o COLDS NEED ATTENTION Internal throat and chest troubles produce inflammation, irritation, swel ling or soreness and unless checked l<, once, are likely to lead to serious trouble. Caught in time l)r. fell's Pine-Tar-Honey loosens the phlegm and destroys the germ which have settled in the throat or nose. It is soothing and healing. Pine is antiseptic; honey is soothing?both together possess excellent medicinal qualities for fighting cold germs. Insist on Dr. Boll's Pine-Tar-Honpv. V|, . . %*V gists.?adv. Prospects for passage of a government ship purchase bill are believed to be bright by administration leaders Why Is He, Anyway. The French are mystified by Colonel House, in which respect the French have nothing whatever on us Americans.?Daily Record. !K)X SUPPER. There will be a Box Supper at Shell School House on Saturday before the second Sunday in February, 1016. We expect to have some nice speak ing and singing by the Children, and iilso from the older folks. We will say if anybody wants a nice time and a lot of fun just come to Shell on the night of the 12th. liio public is invited. If you want to split your sides laughing come to Shell for we expect to have a time to be long remembered. Boys bring on the money, the girls will have the boxes. "P.'* ta, Macon, Savannah and Thomasville TENNESSEE?Bristol, Chattanooga, Jackson, Knoxville, Memphis, and Nashville. Mississippi?Greenville, Grenada, Hattiesburg, Holly Springs, Jackson, Meridian, Vicksburg, West Point, South Carolina?Charleston, Chester, Columbia, Florence, Greenville, Greenwood, Orangeburg, and Sumter.