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ENGLAND" B&?t?hm t? Restrict Sale of Xoaaon, ^4mf yir (By MaiDr-A large qnaati^.American motor Vehicles, possibly 5,000, may be ad mitted Into Great Britain in Che next few months, says. American Ch amber of Commerce in Lor.dor . This will in clude passenger cars, commer-Ci el; CO !*3 and motorcydles. TJp to the present tim<^. importers have been rationed on the basis of :?0 percent of their 1913 Imports, in pro portionate monthly quantities tip to September 1, 1919, at which time ths British government's *" t'*transttfrnii? policy*' is to be> r?considv red. Theose. importers who Established their busi ness later tha^t 1S13 have not been getting- anythjjjig at a?t The B^^d'^r^Va5ie recently re quested thW-- A&^can C ha in ber of Commerce in .-London to suggoi a scheme-whichXwo?ld give equitable consideration to all importers iron*' America, old and new. The Chamber, has suggested a$ a basis of distribution, the'.yearly aver age Of iiftpprts ^obtained by :tiding /the- totals rfcr 1912-191S-m4-1913 and dividing by four. This scheme ^'ives preference to those importers w hose organizations have been in ex> istence for a long time, but also takes into account importers who started^ ic 1914 and 191-5. The plan mxs.-heen raiihed unani mously by the . importers -tryd tae Board of* Trade is now circularizing the entire trade for their returns on this basis. - This is. declared to be only a tem pore iy arrangement, and not to be taken as ah indication of the. British government's, trade, policy on motor vehicles after September 1. ? . A,Matrimonial Priae. A'young-man .-who, during his brief career,'had, never been Required to do | very much-la bor at home, enlisted ? | ihe present" war, and i* now in a tr? lag camp. \ '^Somewhere in America," ! A ^ew days ago his mother received a letter from him in'which he said that he- bad neyeV worked sc? hard in his ? 2jfe,, that'he had been doing kitchen work,- maknag beds,- washing, and dryy ing,4ishes^^tc.,"axtd that when he re ?; rirhed''from the war he would make ; same fellow*-in "?California ;the v-ry \b*st: wife::there 'ever was;?Los Ange t ~.? ?... * &ist ij&e America. '^The Amu^ip&tt ^u::t England affords capse.fori nmij|a p$r%'Ie??ty and aston i&spkjit 5t-v;. h,:V" English kinsmen. , ,.A -Yankee- Solder- was being-shown p^rer-^u^?... chureh wherein hundreds^ ' "A - > great-many > people sleeps be- i twfieji.;^fejae^atega^ seid the guide,! fadica'U'p^;> ffc&r^vith a' sweep of bis hand. ^^^^^;S^3y; ' Same way over^in-^^^<?u^try.'-v>A'liy domt-you' .-^Ifeia^aj^ge5* fjtf er^esting. preacher ':1c Sfefe&rapm - . V ' SMART TELEGRAPH OPERATORS Held Profiteer! Telegrams and JtJ-#w^|,B|ffe Fe^ Famine ; Paris, ?ug,''^.?Vigilant telegraph ^operators in the central office here Saved Paiis from a possible famine during the recent^ food crisis precipi tated by the profiteers. Following disorders around the cen tral markets where .consumers raid ed the srands, ^nd overthrew them, scattering vegetables, fruit, fish and other food to the ground because of the high prices, a number of com missioni merchants sent urgent tele grams to producers outside of Paris telling them to hold back their goods till further orders. Many of the dis patches indicated that, owing to a I general decline in prices, the mer chants were withholding their goods from the market. The telegrams numbered about one thousand. They had gone past the j wickets into the operating rooms, .when the operator who was working ?tfne of the wires to Brittany noted a batch of them cancelling orders for' butter. Xpw he had paid ten francs [for a pound of butter that morning. I He consulted with colleagues oper j ating wires leading fo fish, vegetable, fruit and other centres and their I tables were loaded with similar tele-; I grams. None of the messages was I sent. j la a statement issued last nigh} the ' government said that it took the re-j j sponsibility for the action of the tele graphers. . They S?ll Joke in England. i "Just ask Dr. Jones to run round to my place right away. Our cook's j fallen down stairs, broke her leg; the housemaid's got .chicken pox, and my! two boys have been knocked down by; a taxi." j -'Tm sorry, suv but the-doctor was blown up in yesterday's air raid and; he won't' be down for a week."? Punch. They'll Need Them. Visitor: There is considerable crit- i iticism against you, Casey. They say that you refused to allow, your daughter. to - join the society for sew-j ing bandages. Casey: Oi shure did. Visitor: What dp you mean by such; unpatriotic conduct - j Casey: Unpatriotic nothin'. They] said they were going to sew the bandages for our soldiers. 'Tis an in- j suit to ovr men, say Oi. Let 'him rua:k? - baikdages-for fthe GermaiisJ They're the byes who will need thim. , As a Itelic . ? } Ethel: Oh, Charlie, would you just, as leave* propose all over again and do-it into this phonograph? Charlie: Why? * : Ethel: Why, I want to have some thing to. remember you by after you have gone in and spoken to pupa about it.. ? , - - . ? - What Follows the- -ffliL* .(Literary Digest.) Just nothing- at all; that seems to be the answer to this question, if we are to credit'an investigation recently made by the Board of Health of Buf falo. N. T., and reported by Dr. W. A. Evans, the author of the "How to :Keep Well" section printed in nu merous dailies. The .14.000 persons who had the influenza last year in Buffalo?and survived it?are in bet ter health today, Dr. Evans assures us, than }if rhey had had typhoid, or even measles, or than if they had gone through a major operation. ?There is no other severe disease," he says, "which would have left so few semi-invalids in its wake. The re sults here, dicust-puncture in particu lar, several popular fictions of which perhaps the chief is that in fluenza renders . its victims an easy prey to consumption. The Buf falo investigators found absolutely no evidence of this. Says'Dr. Evans: J'ln the early spring they (the Buffalo health authorities) threw a corps pf investigators into the field to.fchscover what had been the afterr effects of the 'fiu." There were 32,38$ cases of influenza reported between October'3, 1918. and April 1, 1919. Cf these, 2,179 died. An investigator called on each survivor and asked whether there had been any after effects of the disease. There were T4S who claimed they had never been the same since they were acutely sick. " 'Flu.', is a severe disease, and some after-effects can be expected. But there is no other severe disease which would have left so few semi-invalids in its wake; 748 out of 28,880 is a small proportion. "The figures of this survey were published in the April bulletin. The June bulletin carries a follow-up story. Two months after the first visit an in spector called on each of the 748 who claimed to be suffering from after effects of 'flu.' They were informed by 501 that they had fully recovered; 210 reported that thf-y were improv ing; 4 had died. 1 "Of the o iginal 748 there were 220 who claimed tp be suffering from one form or another of lung trouble. Examination showed that 28 had con sumption. Of these 11 were on record as having had tuberculosis before they had-the 'flu,' 8 were cases of new tu berculosis, although several were, in families where there were cases of consumption. Eight cases of con sumption could be expected to devel op in eight months among 32,880 peo ple who had never had the 'flu.' "The evidence indicates that influ enza does not increase the tendency to consumption. ?s one person of th^ Tii had died from consumption dur ing tbJfe two months' interval, but 'k< evidence was that he had the disease before the L';>ii'ci::i;; of ^nmienza came along. "Of the 206 cases of rheumatism where it was claimed that the dis ease was due to 'flu,' 128 said at the second visit that they were well, and 78 that they were improving. '?Of the 46 cases of heart-disease. .26 said 4hey were well, and 19 that I they wf.ro ?tilfcxmdfer th'' physicm-Vs I care. j , "The. secpnd visit showed that the ! persons with eye, ear, nose, and throat. I trouble which had been charged up to I the 'liu' were about all well. Their j troubles had not been serious. "It is very certain that 33,880 ca.;es j of pneumonia, typhoid fever, diph ! theria, measles, or almost any other jgrave disease, or 33,880 major oper ations done under an anesthetic, 'would have left more after-effects, ! more chronic bronchitis, more chron ! ic invalidism than followed In the jwake of the epidemic of 'flu' in Buf falo." ? I Wales Miners Now Get Big Money. I Swansea, Wales, Aug. 24.?The va Ication season is furnishing ample ev j idonee that. South Wales, once noted j bocaii.se of t* > low wages of its peo j pie, is now enjoying :t prosperity which admits of luxuries for miners land their families hitherto unkov/n. Colliers who easily make $40. a I week even at their seven-hour day, [and si eel workers who make $90, are I much in evidence, their particular sport being flying. Some of them have been up in the pleasure flying y machines half a dozen times, and .ev I ery time it cost them $5. Many, of j them have their own motorcycles; j and some have automobiles, an un heard, of extravagance even in the 'munition manufacturing days, j But the aristocrat of all workmen about. Swansea is the coal trimmer J who works on the docks. Five of ! them work together and experience ! no difficulty whatever in clearing up ^100 a week. They have so much work to do that the best of them fre quently have to sublet their turns to lesser paid men and thus they earn more while they sleep. . General cargo workers loading and unloading ships easily earn from $40 to $50 a w;eek, while foremen who have a share in the earnings of each gang under him frequently count $150 for a week's labor. Contrasted with, the wages paid be fore the war, the figures given are almost unbelivable, for South Wales jwas known as one. of the poorest dis tricts even in ^Great Britain. Brindisi, Italy, Aug. 20.?A sepul chre, of terra-cotta has just been dis covered in the excavations^for the new docks here. It dates back to 27 B. C. Besides containing the bones of an ancient warrior it contains many coins and trinkets, some of which re late to the consulship of Marcus Vespasanius Agrippa. The sepulcher will be piaced in the Italian Civic Museum. The other rt>::b'.. i I w< ;;: to the thea'er With a low-brow friend 1 And the orchestra played "The Little Brown Jug." And he thought It was the national apt hem And stood up, And I did, ^oo, Darn him., ?Arkansas Gazette. (iermajis Ridding: for UalSan Ti-rt'le. London',' Ahg~ lu?Jjxixiih ' traders are advised by consular agents at Home that Germany is making a strong bid for Italian patronage. By extending to Kalian buyers three months' credit at one percent inter est and the quotation of prices for de livery at Genoa, whereas British firms quote f. p. b. London, a large volume of business is being attracted by the Germans. Italy's most pressing needs now are said to-be dyes) inks, hosiery; shoes, chemicals, machinery, 'typewriters,! heavy oils, meats, preserves and cloths. Chicago Mother to Recover Son Through Efforts of Red Cross. Paris, Aug. 31 (By Mail).?Joseph Fringer, a, thirteen years old Chicago boy who was taken to Germany by his father in 1914 may 'be restored to. his mother in the Illinois city, bs a result of his adoption as a mascot by one,of the American units at Coblenz. The boy's mother is Mrs. Ejnma Fringer of 38 Dearborn Street';"'South Chi cage. He was brought by American mili tary police the other day to the office "of Captain Paul E. Peck, formerly dean of Grinnell College, Grinriell, Iowa.'and now head of the home .ser vice work of the American Re<J Cross in Europe. Captain Peck learned that in 1910 the boy\s father died and the' mother remarried. Early in 1914 the stepfather, George Fringer, took the boy from Chicago to Germany. Then came th<e war." the. stepfather ,enterr ed the German,army" and was killed. For a time the boy made his .Jipmc with relatives in Berlin and then'drift ed to Coblenz where he "attached hira, self to one of the regiments. The doughboys helped him in writing a letter to his mother who responded immediately urging hinV ' to come back to her at once. When the regiment left for Amer ica several unsuccessful efforts were made by his soldier friends to smug gle the boy ahbard the transport, tiut each time he was defected and sent ashore. Finally he was sent baekto Paris. The Red 'Cross took up the boy/s case with the American Passport Bureau? and has secured proofs of identity that wiir enable the boy to start for home and mother shortly. The New Republic. "England will soon be a republic if she changes her money to dollars and cents." "How's that?" '?Have to give up her sovereigns." ?The, Lamb. Milton and Italy. How delightful was Italy to Milton I I His Allegro and Penseroso show that I he could fully appreciate both its mirth and its majesty. He returns not the less to live out a career of illus trious service in his own country, where his brave heart and philosophic mind were of more avail tf> his timV than even his sacred song to onrs.-r Julia Ward Howe. ...... A Word for tfce Him. Beyond totally disarming ^Germany and" keeping her~that'way,''making her restitute, repair, rehabilitate, and cough until she is hanging over the ropes, to say nothing of cramping her in a disciplinary strait^jacket for two generations, we believe allies should be conciliatory and generous with .Germany.?Houston Post. IPrices Get Us All Up. "Did you try the simp2e plan ofj counting sheep for your insomnia?" "Yes, doctor, but I made a mess of it. I counted 10,000 sheep/put *em on, the train, and shipped 'em to market. And when I'd got through counting the money I got for "them at jpres ent prices it was time to get up."?? Farm and Home. '-' ? Be Knew. "Oh, come! come!" * we sheered. "Did you ever actually know any per son who was buried alive?" "Well," replied the venerable Mis sourian, "j once had a second'cousin who, was elected lieutenant-governor." ?New York American. "There will be fewer "divorces," she said to a reporter, *iwhen men treat women asy therir equals. " 'Do you know tfie kind of wife my ideal is?' a married man -once said to me. " 'Of course I do' said T. 'Your ideal wife is the kind that's ?ckled to death over a birthday present of: a bag of flour.'/'?^Washington- Star. Why Hair Stand? on En* * When hair ?tauds od ?fd on tM back of a do$ or\iat when frjgfctened it i^,.mpY^ by ^ to rth^ r^jtf.. She, hate if?Diclecis like a little seed buried ta7g$/fesl^ At tached' to either siae ^>f this- seei^are tiny -maseles whieh: ;n?V diggonf?ly through the #e^^ftoia..tfe -Mji&fyit of the ?pffle?" " Uttle^?^es are. llfee/ t&?- j|u> rojpes ^.a.-teni-^^ey are i^'|^'?lljBt^:'<^? cfes,;aa<i whVn"!^^?^ & jsxpe rienced the$e muscles prpraptlv tighten up'.to sucii a manner as to ^c?st" the hair, very ottf'eklv, . : ' ? ?.?.,.- .:.,.:;, ^ , Naturally. ^ A new baby ^ister arf ive^ at Fred? die's boose. 2f?xt day at kintfergar? ten the teacher asked him vWhat rffcey, were going to name his new little sis ter. Freddie thought deeply a minute and then exclaimed: "Oly we're, go ing to name it Mrs. Ttockmortoflt after my mother." / ; 7 Eye of the SUrfigh. At toe end of each arm in {he star fish there is a kiltie red-eye-. It does no? form an image, but has consider able sensitiveness"to distii^jsh^gdif ferent degreed of ..light Jnab^^^' fish to become aware ^dls^t^? nation that differs frpja tfce ' Ipg area. ? . .. ^ ? The Dr H. Fur mail NEAR BETHEL CHURCH Tues. 10:30 A. M. This is an Awfully Fine Farm of 375 Acres, Subdivided into Small Farms, so as to Reach the Demands of All. This place is best known as the Dr. J. H. Furman, Old Home Place or (Corn Hill Farm) now belonging to Mrs. S, M. Dabbs. Lying 8 miles Scrtithwesfc of Sumter, near Privateer, S. C. Only one mile and a half from Bethel Church and Graded School. Joining lands with for. Ii. B. Furman, W. E. Culp and others. This is a very fine! farm in a iii^h state of cultivation, all underlaid with red cl?y arid very productive. Has good home surrounded with a magnificent oak grove, several tenant houses and all necessary putbuildings. This farm being so close toBethel Church and School and in such a high class community makes it a desirable place for a home. It is quite seldom you have opportunity to buy such farms as this at auction so take advantage of this. Attend the auction Tuesday, September 30th. Time 10:30 A. M., rain or shine. Place on the premises. Buy one or more of these farms and pay for them with rent money. Why do I say rent money? Because the terms are so easy you can do it. Only 1-4 Cash, Balance 1-2-3-4 and 5 Years. Band Concert Cash Prizes Free. ellin gents, LAND GREENSBORO, N.~C.