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DUCK Trap. LlntOlnNllle, 1of lew WEEKS
visit to her sister, Mrs. A. =. Carver. Mrs
Celestia A. Bonghton of Washington, d. G.,
is visiting at Mr. and Mrs. \. j. Donnells'
! School in Dist. No. closed Saturday after a
Very successful term taught by Mrs. Nettle
| b. Mariner. Miss Milie Wellman has
gone to Boston to visit her uncle Mr.. Frank
Wellman. Quite a number Of friends and
relatives assembled by invitation at Mr.. Ca
leb Lambs July 4th for a good old fashion
ed holiday. Now if anyone can spend day
at Mr.. Lambs with his son Alfred and wife,
MIR. and Mrs. William Heal, Master Ralph
+. Written, Mr.. and Mrs. William Seekens
and son and daughter and Mrs. Helen Foss
and not enjoy himself, ne don't know how.
A good dinner preparel,to which an the
invited guests and the members Of the fani-
is sat down. After dinner music was ia
order, Mr.. Heal with violin and his daughter
Sadie at the organ; then Sadie With violin
and her mother at the organ. Every one
Vas happv. including tie scribe.
| Troy. |. NJ. Knowles, ESP, Is the first
One around hele t. harvest Ills HAY crop.
| With erew Of six men le finished Gp
last Saturday might. offers are Veil into
| laying ANA help is III geNu demand Nh.
Charles Bagey is falling rapdiv. ana !
Thought That He Can hve hut Short time.
| The Rev. /. II w Wharf of H., kland, pre-
siding elder t'a tins district, preached at tile
church last Sunday i. nl., after whieh seven
received the ordinance pt ,prmklng aud
the services cl,,sed With tine ordinance ot
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THoRNpEkF Farmers are having in earn
e,t this week The click If the mower Is
heard. by Your scribe, long before the Ola
haylnaker appears above the eastern hori-
ION. 1t is hardly necessary to state that ii
is not our mower, but that Of our worthy
elghbor across the woods. Several new ma
ciilnes have been bought by our farmers and
there IS considerable trading among second
hand mowers. ....M Mr. Alonzo Higgins has
been hired to cut and harvest the grass on
the Granville Small place. Frank Walker
cuts the grass the Patterson farm, South
Ridge Wages 500 per day for good
men.. A baptism service was held at the
church Sunday, after which Mr.. Aonzo
Davis was baptsed by the PASTOR Rev.
David Bracket. Mr.. Benjamin Chandler
and wife of Lewiston, We're present at the
afternoon service and their singing in the
choir was much enjoyed. Mrs Nancy Har-
vey of Swanville formerly Of this town, is
visiting friends here. 1t has been % years
since she visited her native home Miss
Charlotte Higgins and Bert Stevens are
busy this week with reckoning their profits
from the sale of ice cream and lemonade at
the church July 4th.
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these are very interesting because Of
their antiquity. Many of the old brass
pieces bear a date in the seventeenth
century and were Enthusiastically mount
ed in Mexico at the time of the Spanish
conquest. The most curious OF all
this ancient display is what is believed
toS be the oldest breech-l loading gun
ever conceived since the invention of
gunpowder. 1t came from China, and
for many years has been in the naval
museum at the Washington navy yard
The breech-lOading attachment con-
sists chiefly of cutting out section of
the powder chamber, inserting charge
OF powder, stutting in a plug and let
ting her go. 1t is q curious continuance,
and shows that the principle of breech-
loading guns was among the earliest
ideas of civilized man. The gun is
said by some to be ever so many CEN
turtles old. Contrasting this little piece
with the rapid-fre ordnance of to-day
displayed at Jackson Park by every
nation is well calculated to impress the
human mind. Modern. rapid tire ord
nance has attained IT'S highest growth
and development within the past five
years. In the artillery display Of every
country there is something marvellous
and novel. What the old thirty two
pound cannon did to win victories for
Nelson and the galaxy Of American
commodores, who in the early part Of
the century did so much to glorify the
American flag, the light rapid-tire artil-
lery of to-day is able to accomplish ten
fold. The proved inventions in this line
of artillery are so numerous that they
almost become wearisome. The Amer
leans have four types of equal value.
These are the Hotchkiss, the Briggs
Shredder, another type invented by
Ensign Dashiell, of the navy, and yet
another whose name is not now re-
called. England exhibits the Arm
strong rapid-fire gun, to be seen at the
fair, which is fully the equal of any of
the American type. The chief feature
of the Armstrong rapid-fre is it's cali
bre, it's ightness and the rapidly with
which it can be handled. 1t has a six
inch bore, weight six and one-half tons,
throws 1OO-pound projectile with
seventeen pounds of smokeless powder
and is fired by electricity. The best
trials Of this gun show speed Of five
aimed shots in fifty-fve seconds, four
Of them striking the target at range
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HAD BRAINS AND PLUCK.
With These Young Claude Shrop-
shire Won Success rs a Lawyer in

With These Young Claude Shrop-
shire Won Success MS a Lawyer in
Paris. ..s-st.. FH>E
The career of the new vice consul
general to Paris, Claude Shropshire, of
Georgia, shows what a young Ameri
can with no other capital than brains
and pluck can achieve. He is tall, Of
slender figure, with pair of very fine
dark eyes and face betokening intel
lect. He is only twenty-seven years
of age, and just four years ago, un-
acquainted with any person in Europe
and ignorant of any language save his
mother tongue, left his home in North
Georgia for the capital of France He
quietly announced to few friends his
determination to seek fame and for
tune in Paris. but according to the
Washington Post, they not only dis
couraged his vaulting ambition, but,
to use the slang of the day, gave him
the laugh" What could a youngster
OF twenty-three. who had only three
years experience at the bar and who
couldn't speak word of French, hope
to accomplish in that great city?
iii go and try it, anyway" was
Shropshire's answer, and he went.
LUCK favored the enterpISlnS young
man from the start, and he got place
with the United States legation, va
cancy occurring through the resigna-
ton of one of the legal advisers. He
|. studied the language harder than he
ever labored at any college textbook,
and in six months time had fair vo-
cabulary at his command To-day he
could pass muster as native Partisan.
He had a taste Of bad fortune, too,
for in a big riot that occurred during
a great demonstration for an eight
hour working day he suffered severely
at the hands of the mob. He was
knocked insensible and had all his
clothes torn off. but the French gov
eminent made lin handsome apol-
ogy for the i'll usage of the commune.
Mr.. Shropshire, in addition to his gov
eminent service. has built up a fine
general practice, and is associated with
one of the biggest legal. firms Of
France. He is not only skilled in the
law, but is an orator Of high rank. He
was noted at college for his eloquence
and his natural genius in this respect
has been vastly improved by his later
associations. It is considered that Con-
| sui General Merss is fortunate in hay
ing such an assistant, and in Paris the
appointment was received with great
satisfaction. 4<24f
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the fair. There has never been, per-
haps, so interesting and varied an eX-
hibition in modern artillery as is now
in Jackson Park. The very latest in
ventions in the way of ordnance.
heavy and light, in all the nations of
the earth are there to be seen, and
what makes the display more interest
ing is that each new invention or i'm
proyement is accompanied by its an
stance, in the British display, con-
tiguous to some ripe old smooth-bores
of the days of King George-guns
taken from Nelson's flagship Victory
appears the first attempt in ritled artil-
lery. The Whitforth breech-loading
Title was Il creation Of the Crimean
war. 1t was effective while it lasted,
and for some uses was valuable Access
sion to field and naval ordnance. But
with the advent of steel armor plates
and the Introduction Of heavier and
powerful ordnance the old Whitforth
rifle ceased to be manufactured in Eng
land. Near this obsolete specimen are
several types of the Armstrong steel
high-power gun of to-day. The Eng
ilish government has ceased to manu-
facture any larger gun that what is
known as the siXtytive ton Armstrong,
but NO gun as large as that is on eX-
hibit. The largest is a thirty-ton gun
which corresponds in type with the
American eight-inch rifle. These Arm
strong guns in their various sizes and
weights form the heavy batteries Of
England's new battle ships.
The German exhibit OH eavy ordnance
is mostly confined to the Krupp pavil-
ion, which is not yet ready for the pub
lie. When it is thrown open it will be,
perhaps, the grandest display of mod
,ern artillery the world has ever seen.
Speaking Of the Whitworth breech-
loader, there is on display in the Amer
lean exhibit unique and somewhat
amusing production of the brain of
Col. Colt, inventor of the Colt revol-
liver. It was during the civil war, when
every thought was in the direction OF
human slaughter, that the colonel con.
cluded to build a gun on the model OF
his revolver. In fact, it was regular
Colt revolver on something like two.
ton scale. 1t held six shots, and the
revolving motion was conveyed by ma.
chinery turned by a crank. The cali
Der Of the barrel was three inches and
the weight of the ammunition and shell
about twenty pounds. The colonel built
two of these guns. Unfortunately one
of them at the first trial met with ar
experience which rather discourage
Its further manufacture. All it's cham
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RINGING SOUND IN THE EARS.
In Many Cases That IL the First In-
si5 dicatiOn of Coming Denfness

Z i
In Many Cases THAT IL the First In-
dicat1On of Coming Deafness.
SE. The normal ear is capable Of hearing
consi derably better than is necessary
for the ordinary purposes of civiIiza-
ton; in fact, is endowed with what
may be termed "superfuous hearing"
Proper tests will discover the loss of
even small portion Of this superfuous
hearing and warn us that we are grad
ually becoming deaf-in fact, already
partially deaf although we may not
have noticed the slightest deficiency.
This is referred to by the Popular Sci
ence Monthly as explaining why it is
that many victims Of certain forms Of
chronic deafness believe their COM
plant to have been sudden in it's be-
ginning, when in reality it has been
progressing for several years; the long
er time having occupied by the gradual
4 loss Of the ''superfuous hearing and
the patients attention not having been
directed to his aff1iction until the snec-
essary hearing" was eneroached upon.
The great majority of all forms of
deafness are dependent upon and di-
rectly resultant from affections of the
nose and throat. The earliest SYMPTOMS
Of beginning deafness in many cases
Is a ringing sound in the ears. Many
patients describe it as a noise all
through the head rather than in the ear
itself. 1t is at first intermittent and
occasional. The ringing may be pres
I S91 nn1s9nnfi-
BILE, when suddenly the sound will
Z change, becoming much louder, and
the notes jumping high up in the scale
where it will continue to ring quite
loudly for some minutes, and gradually
die away, to appear again some time
afterward. 1t may reappear in a few
hours, as the trouble with the ear pro-
crosses. Ringing in the ear may also
be the prelude to an acute attack of
earache; but it here very soon follow
ed by pain, which so predominates over
the ringing that it is no longer heard.
II the hearing is properly tested just as
soon as the ringing in the ear has be-
come more or less constant, some de-
gree of deafness will be detected. AS
the case progresses, even before all the
so-called superfluous hearing has been
destroyed, the patient will realize that
he is becoming deaf.
For this condition there is nothing to
be done by the patient himself Ad-
vice from a physician should be obtain
| ed just as soon as diminution of hear
| ing is suspected. Much can be accom-
| plished, however, by the patient to-
| ward preventing the deafness becoming
worse. Careful attention shouldbe de-
voted to the general health, to keep
the nose and thrOat in rs healthy con-
dition as possible-to prevent taking
cold" especially colds in the head. Els
posture to changes of weather should
be avoided; the feet never being al
lowed to become wet, or if they do be-
come wet the shoes and stockings
should be changed for dry ones as soon
as possible. Turkish baths and plenty
Of outdoor exercise are strongly recon-
mended to stimulate the circulation
and inure the system to changes of
| weather.
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An Old williams Gun, Breech-
on exhibit weighs LOO pounds, and is
for the big Pinch gun on exhibit in
the war department The ancient and
obsolete projectiles are also displayed
in great number. They include every
thing from what is known as the old
'"bar shot and "chain shot, down to
the ingenious explosive projectiles in
vented during the war by the confed-
crates, some of which were very
novel. The "bar shot was made by
splitting a cannon ball in two and con-
Meeting the two halves by an iron bar;
their purpose was to- cut rigging and
ship sparS. The chain shot was on
similar principle, except that two can
non balls were connected by a long
heavy chain. This was for the same
purpose. When Farragut attacked the
forts below New Orleans, these things
were fired from the guns Of the enemy
in great numbers, and the horrible
noise that they made was we'll calcul-
ated to wake the dead or turn a strong
mans hair gray. They came through
the air like shrieking demons, and any
body who ever heard one will cheer
fully forego a repetition Of the sensa-
ton. Another curious exhibit is an
Olu-IaSnlOned furnace for heating shots
to fire at ships. These two are relics
| of by-gone ages. Probably the last
time a red-hot shot was ever fired at
| a ship was at the same battle of New
| Orleans. They used to tell a funny
story about a confederate officer who
had charge Of red-hot shot battery
| at Fort Jackson. The science of war
was new to the confederates in those
1 days, as well as to the federals, and he
! was not expected to know all about
firing red-hot shot His battery con-
sisted of two guns. For two hours he
blazed away at the passing feet, and
after the affair was over every shot
that had been put into his guns was
found in the ditch below the muzzles
of the guns. The secret was that the
men, in their supreme haste to get rid
| of the red-hot shot after it had entered
the gun, would run the gun out. so
quickly and with such force that before
the captain of the gun could reach his
lanyard to fire, the hot shot would roll
out at the muzzle, and the result was
that nearly every shot he fired was
only a blank cartridge. t'%
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the heart of every patriot are contained
IN small hall that in itself is repro
duction, on an abbreviated scale, Of
the Apollo hall in the castle of Yer
sailles. 1t was in this salon that Louis
XVI. officially received March 20, 177S,
Silas Deane, Benjamin Franklin and Ar
thur Lee, the American ambassadors
sent by congress to sign the first treaty
with France, and by which treaty the
United States was first recognized as an
independent nation. All the exhibits,
tapestries, furniture and curios, dis
played in this hall of honor speak elo-
Quently of that period when Gen. Wash.
ington was alive to guide and direct
the destinies of the new republic.
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Connally, Messleurs Alfred Dutcns,
Fernand d'Orva Cabanis and Lucfen
Faucon; national bureau OF personal
property, bureau Of coinage and medals,
national mandatory at Sevres, and
President Carnot, OF the French re-
public. 81 81. 55 a! #zs@. 5s5 ~ &. ss
Reminders OF the First President.
The majority Of the relics OF Presi-
dent Washington and his wife were pre-
sented to Lafayette by the heirs Of
Washington, and We're received by the
gallant Frenchman when he visited this
country in 1924. Their genuineness
none can doubt. The finger rings con-
tanning the locks Of hair Of Washington
and his wife were given by Mr.. Gus
It's, grandson of the president, to Gen.
Lafayette. Oct. ~, 1924, while the lat
ter was at Mount Vernon. The marble
bust Of Gen. Washington by Pilon was
given by the city Of Paris to I4afay-
cite in 1871, and is considered q very
faithful likeness There are several
other busts of Washington; one by Hou-
don is the property Of NJ. Lucien Fau-
con, Dy whom it is loaned for the ex-
hibit. Another, also by Houdon, was
presented to Lafayette, and is now
owned by Baronne de Perron. "A piece
of tapestry worked by Martha Wash
ington at the age Of seventy is from the
library Of Lafayette. An autograph
letter Of Washington's to the French
general, dated New York, June 3, 1890,
is a valued exhibit highly priced by its
present owner. Other interesting rel
les are a pair of pistols carried by Gen.
Washington during the war, which he
bequeathed to Lafayette, and an UNI
brella that Washington once owned.
Several authentic portraits of the. first
president are also exhibited. y.
The souvenirs of Gen. Lafayette in
relation to the war of independence
are both numerous and interesting An
autograph letter from the French gen
eral to Washington written Oct IA,
1777, was returned to the writer after
the death of the president, by the lat
ters family. 1t was the first letter
Lafayette indited to the commander OF
the American army. Plans of battle.
fields in which the Frenchman partici.
pated; the sword Of honor presented by
congress, together with the letter writ,
ten by Benjamin Franklin that accom-
panied it, Lafayette's reply; autograph
letter of President James Monroe tc
Gen. Lafayette, dated at Washington
Feb. s, 1924; sword of honor presented
by the officers of the Ninth regiment
New York artillenry, Sept. 10, 1924
! One relic that will provoke smile
is malacca cane bearing the following
inscription:
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The walls of this historic salon are
decorated with wooden tapestries, en-
bossed with gold. The largest piece,
from the royal Gobelins mandatory,
is Il representation Of the siege of DOuai
in 1867, by Louis XIV. Tapestries,
also from the Gobelins, portray the
ancient arms of France and Of Ma
varre On the walls beneath these tap
estries- are hung the more important
portraits, paintings, sketches and var1-
GUS other souvenirs, constituting part
of the historical collection. The three
beautiful pieces of buhl furniture, which
bear the busts Of Washington and La
fayette, are Of black and inlaid with
copper and tortoise shell and are or
namented with gold bronzes and medal
lions illustrating scenes pertaining to
the reign Of Louis XIV.
Two Precious Locks of Hair. 49,
Chairs, desks and bureaus from the
library Of Gen. Lafayette are arranged
beneath the large tapestry of the siege
of Douai. Beautiful showcases of carved
wood with gilt facings, of Louis XIV.
style of manufacture, occupy the cen
ter of the salon and inclose a number
Of the most precious relics Of the col
lection, among other things two finger
rings containing locks Of hair from
the heads Of Washington and his wife.
Presented by Lafayette to City Of Paris.
The sword of honor presented by con-
gress in 10 to Gen. Lafayette is one
of the most conspicuous of all the relics
found in the salon. A series of his
torical paintings include, among others,
the reunions Of the American and
French generals after the capitulation
of Yorktown, portrait of Gen. Lafay-
cite as he appeared during the war,
George Washington in his camp and
portraits Of several celebrated French
men who fought in the American army.
It is interesting to note that major
ity Of the historical objects contained
in the hall of honor is owned by the
legitimate descendants of Gen. Lafay-
cite. Prizing them very highly they
have yet been glad to intrllst to the
French commissioner the precious relics
that reflect equal credit on two great ma
tons, and particularly on their ancestor.
The names Of the owners are Nine.
La Baronne de Brigode and Nine. La
Baronne de Perron, both grandd augh-
tiers of the general; NJ de Sahune La
fayette, Nine. de Pistoye, Nine. de
Pussy, NJ Gilbert de Pussy, Messieurs
Maurice de Pusy Lafayette and Xavier
de Pussy, count Antonin de BEAUMONT,
Marquis de: Lasteyrie, Nine. de Cham
brun, Messieurs de Remusat and de
Carcelle, Count d Assainy, Vicomte
1'Aboyelle, grandson of Lafayette; Mar.
.Iuis de Monfort, descendant OF Mes
sieurs d'Allone, a descendant Of Mes
! deurs d'Allone and Of Viomenil; Col
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..Getting Into a scrape."

The red and fallow deer which for
merly roamed through the English for
ests had habit of scraping up The
earth with their forefeet to the depth
Of several inches, sometimes even or
half a yard. The stranger passing
through these woods was frequently
exposed to the danger Of tumbling into
one Of these hollows, when he might
be said truly to be lin a scrape' = he
college students Of Cambridge, in th:ir
little perplexities, picked up and ::p-
Piled the phrase to other perplexing
matters which had brought man NOR
ally into a fix.
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bers being loaded, test was made of
the gun. The charge fixed for explo-
sion went off all right, but so did all
the others. Result-four dead men
and more than a dozen in the hospital.
In charging the principle of his revol-
yer the colonel forgot that he was en-
larging everything in connection with
it, and particularly did he forget that
he was enlarging the quantity Of
illuminate Of mercury, which, ex-
ploding by conclusion, could not very
well withstand the explosion of another
charge near by it. When this re-
suit became known Col Colt ADAM
doned the manufacture of heavy ord
nance and stuck to his revolver. The
gun-which did not explode, because it
never had q chance-is on display in the
army exhibit. There are several other
curious relics in the ordnance exhibit
Of the navy One Of them is old 'I4ong
Tom," the famous bowchaser carried
by the privateer General Armstrong
In the days of the revolution. This
vessel, after capturing British frig-
ate in the English channel, and subse-
Quently carrying destruction to the
British marine, was finally wrecked Oh
one Of the Azores. The gun was sub
sequently fished up, and for more than
eighty years has been mounted on one
of the forts in the Azores islands.
. Not many months ago the king of
Portugal, thinking it would be grace
full act to return the old gun to it's ma
tive country, presented it to the United
States, and last summer an American
man-of-war brought it home. 1t is now
at Jackson Park, and attracts scores of
visitors. 1t is of bronze, of the old
fashioned type, has bore of about four
inches, and it threw a shot weighing
eighteen pounds. In the, days when
such guns were built the length Of the
gun was the only known way to secure
a long range, and so Long Tom," as
he lies there on his back is almost as
long as modern five-inch high power
rifle.
Captured From Mexico.
OF the curious old Mexican field
pieces captured in the Mexican wal
there is an unusual display. Some OF