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International News Service.
RULERS.

The Emperor Francis Joseph Of Aus
trIa. The most tragic figure in mod
ern history, whose sixty-six years on
the throne have been one long sue
cession of family and national trag-
edies. The assassination of his heir
presumptive, the Archduke Francis
Ferdinand, at Sarajevo on June %,
last, was the immediate cause of the
present war.
King Peter Of Servia, whose king
dom, owing to his ill-health, is now
governed by the crown prince. As
cended the throne after the assassina-
ton of King Alexander and Queen
Draga in 1908.
The Gar, emperor of all the Rus
sias, cousin of King George, and
nephew Of Queen Alexandra.
The Kaiser, king of Prussia and Ger
man emperor. Cousin of King George.
King Victor Emmanuel Of Italy, SON.
fn-law Of the king of Montenegro, who
is ally of Servia and possible opponent
of Austria, 1taly's ally.
King George Of England, related by
blood or marriage to nearly every roy
al house in Europe.
Prince Alexander Of servIa, the re-
gent, who leads one of the Servian
armies in person.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-08-27
HERE is A GOOD WAY
TO GET RID OF PIMPLES

Battle your face for several minutes
with resinol soap and hot water, then
apply a little resinol ointment very
gently. Let this stay on ten minutes,
and wash off with resinol soap and
more hot water, finishing with a dash
of cold water to close the pores. Do
this once or twice a day, and you will
be astonished to find how quickly the
healing, antiseptic resinol medication
soothes and cleanses the pores, re-
moves pimples and blackheads, and
leaves the complexion clear and vel
vety. All druggists sell resinol soap
and resinol ointment-Adv
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of an aggressive war for at least
century.
Even if the Germans break through
the line of the allies or turn it on the
north or the south they will not find
the roads to Paris unobstructed. The
allies are not likely to put all their
money on one card, strong though that
card may be- The roads to Paris are
guarded by growing forces which at
present will not take any part in the
fighting. The battle line from Hol-
land to Switzerland is merely the first
barrier the Germans must clear.
Chicagoan Tells Of Trip.
Louis A. Dumond, the Chicago
municipal investigator, has reached
London after a fortnight of interest
ing and severe experiences in Ger
many and Belgium.
August 3, while I was in Hamburg,
the army began to mobilize" said Mr..
Dumond. Troop trains were running
in all directions and the regular sched-
ules were reduced hourly. The Amer
lean consul advised me to leave i'm
mediately and escape to London by
way Of Belgium l left Hamburg the
same afternoon and was due on the
Belgian frontier at 1890 a. m. The
train was delayed at every station and
at Cologne we were forced to wait two
hours. We reached the German from
tier town of Herbesthal at ten o'clock
the next morning.
There we found that the Germans
had violated the neutrality Of Belgium
and were marching in the direction of
Liege The Belgians had destroyed
the railroad from Herbesthal to Yer
viers, which place managed to reach.
The trains had stopped running and 1t
was impossible to return to Germany.
as Americans had been ordered to
leave that country.
Says Roads Were Blocked.
Il made numerous attempts to get
through Liege ahead of the German
army, but was unsuccessful, either be-
cause the roads we're blocked or | was
turned back by German bayonets. The
banks were closed and no shops, no
.els or business men would cash
checks, recognize letters of credit or
trust any one English and American
travellers had little Belgian money and
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HARD TIMES TO FIGURE OUT
With Nobody Making Any Money Vaca-
ZIONIST Could Not Understand
Who Had Got His.

We called on a friend at his office,
Wednesday morning. says the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer. The reason we
called was that he had been on a va
cation. and we wanted to ask him If
he had had a good time and to tell
him how we had missed him. But as
we were ushered in, he didn't look
ND from his work. He just went on
scribbling, waved US to a chair, and
said;
Now, don't distrust me any more
than you can help. Call me liar, but
don't rub it in"
What do you mean?" we asked.
Then he looked up, and said:
oh! l thought it was my wife
That's what was going to say to her
III tell you how 1t is. The summer
hotelkeepers say they amt making
any money this year. The railroads
say they are running at loss. Every
public servant is whining about hard
times-hasu't been able to make a
cent See? Well, spent $3.50 in the
last ten days. and I'm trying to figure
out how l could have spent that much
for board and bathing SUITS
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Killed in Runaway,

Forest City.-As a result of a run
away in Bostic, Rev. c. M. Erwin IS
dead and George Bridges, and son
seriously hurt. The runaway occur
ed about 3 O'Clock when Mr.. Erwin
and the other two occupants of the
buggy were enroute to Sunday school
at the Baptist church at that place.
While descending a hill in the town
of Bostic a holding-ba strap broke
or came unbuckled, the mule became
frightened and ran into some posts
nearby shattered the buggy and
throwing the three to the ground.
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DIPLOMATS.

Count Berchtold, the Austrian for
eign minister, who has been in charge
of the Vienna foreign office since 1911,
was ambassador at st. Petersburg for
five years before that and is a per-
sonal friend of the Russian foreign
minister.
Count sturgkh, the Austrian pre-
mier, to whom the emperor sent his
manifesto to his people. A member
of an old German aristocratic family,
who was in the confidence Of the late
Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Has
held office since 1911.
Count Tisza, prime minister of Hun
gary and son of the man who ruled
the country with a rod Of iron for Is
years. A man of striking individual
ity.
M. Pasitch, the Servian premier and
foreign secretary. Is s1xty-f1ve years
old, and has been in control of Ser
Was foreign policy for the past ten
years.
M. Serge Sazonoff has been Russian
foreign minister since 1910 and has
been called the pillar of the Triple
Entente" Was formerly in the Rus
sian embassy in London.
Herr GottIieb Won Jagow has been
German minister for foreign affairs
since 1913. Spent many years in the
German embassy In Rome.
Count Szapary is the Austrian am
bassador in St. Petersburg.
M. N. schebeko is the Russian am
bassador in Vienna
The Marquis di San GiuIiano, Italian
minister for foreign affairs, was for
merly Italian ambassador in London
N. Rene Viviani, prime minister OF
France and also foreign minister. A
radical Socialist, but firm supporter
of the triple entente.
Sir Edward Grey, British secretary
of state for foreign affairs. whose offer
of conference of the powers in Lon.
don to settle the dispute between Aus.
tria and Servia, though favorably re
ceived by most of the powers, was
not accepted by Germany.
Sir George Buchanan, British am
bassador In St. Petersburg since 1910
Has served In Vienna, Sofia and Der.
lin.
Sir Maurice de Bunsen, British am
bassador in Vienna since 1913. Has
been In the diplomatic service since
1877, and has been ambassador In Lis
bon and Madrid.
Count Mensdorff, Austro-Hungaria1
ambassador In London since 1904.
Count Benckendorff, Russian ambas
sador in London since 1903.
Count de PourtaIes, German ambas
sador in st. Petersburg. A noblemar
| CT Bohemia.
NJ de Sverbeew, Russian ambassa
| dor in Berlin.
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Who's Who In the
Great European War


Baron Conrad Won Hoetzendorf,
chief of the general staff of Austria
Marshal Putnik, chief of the Ser
Wan general staff, who was arrested
while passing through Austria A
noted strategist-
Gen. NORTH Won Auffenberg, COM
mander of the Austrian eastern army.
Former minister of war.
Gen. L. Won Frank, commander OF
the Austrian central army.
Gen. c. Potiorek, commander of the
Austrian western army.
Rear Admiral r. Loffler, in command
of the Austrian active fleet.
Admiral Won Essen, commander-in-
chief of the Russian Baltic fleet.
General JiIInski, chief Of the Rus
sian army general staff.
Prince Henry Of Prussia, inspector
general of the German feet.
Admiral Won IngenohI, commander
in-chief of the German high seas fleet.
General Count Won MoItke, chief Of
| the German army general staff
Nephew Of the famous field marshal
who directed German operations in
| 1870.
Admiral Won TIrpitz, the German
naval secretary. Has held Office I'M
! interruptedly since 1897, and with the
| kaiser has been the creator of the
modern German navy.
| Vice-AdmiraI Amero D'Aste Stella,
the commandments of the Italian
active fleet
| Lieut.. Gen. Alberto Polio, chief Of
the Italian army general staff.
General Joffre, commander-in-chief
+, of the French army. Born in 1852
and served in the Franco-Prussian
war. A burly country gentleman of
! great simplicity of character.
Admiral Boue de Lapeyrere, COM
mandertn-chief of the active French
feet. A former minister Of marine,
who did splendid work in reorganizing
the French navy at time when it had
sunk, owing to disagreement, into a
state of unpreparedness.
Gen. Sir Charles Douglas, chief OF
the British imperial general staff, who
has had considerable war service in
India and South Africa.
| Lord Kitchener, British war minis
ter and the most famous English SOL
der of today. The hero of Khartum
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For Caldwell County Roads.

Lenoir-The bonds, which were vo-
ted for the improvement of the roads
in Lovelady township, this county,
early last spring, have at last been
sold to a Hickory bank, and it is I'M
derstood that the money will now be
available for the work at an early
date. The depression in the money
market has delayed and prevented
the sale of the bonds up to this time.
The road committee of the township
is now making active preparations
for the commencement of the work.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-08-27
GERMAN WAR BOOK
IS AID TO FOES
Take Advantage of Bernhardi's
Strategy Treatise.
WATCH OUTFLANKING MOVES
Teutonic Principle Is to Attack All
the Time With Superior Force
and "Overlap" Stories
Of Refugees.

London.-There is the best reason
Tor believing that the Anglo-Franco-
Belgian armies will take full ADVANTAGE
OF the candid exposition of German
military strategy contained in the book
written by General Bernhard of Ber-
lin. writes Edward P Bell to the Chi
cago News. The German principle.
according to this authority, is to at
tack all the time in superior strength
and always to overlap" In other
words, the Germans, said General
Bernhard. when the war with France
came, would hurl themselves with lr-
res1stible force against certain points
In the French line of defense and at
the same time outflank the enemy on
the north and south.
Allies Watch Flank Moves,
Ihe allies are especially vigilant in
watching for these outf1anklng or en-
velop1ng movements. They have every
confidence that their center of defense
is proof against any assault however
formidable. The allies expect to stand
firm against the invaders, permitting
them to break wave on wave against
the line of forts, guns, rifles and noun
tatns until they are seriously shattered
and wasted and until the Russians de-
mand attention on the east
Then the defensive armies expect to
issue from their trenches, earthworks
and mountain covers and take the
offensive. The object of this offensive
will be to seize sufficient territory tc
compel the Germans, hard pressed as
they are expected to be by the Rus
slams, to conclude a peace which will
be regarded by the democratic nations
as safeguarding Europe from the perils
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most OF us had to rent the cheapest
Kind OF rooms and buy food in the
shops, thus living on a few cents =
day. The Germans seized Verviers
suppressed the newspapers and sub
)ected the inha bitants to strict contro,
Every window facing the street ha<
to be closed. The houses were shm
and In the evening nobody was al
lowed on the streets.
Prevented From Leaving the City.
For many days every one was pre-
vented from leaving the city. Horses
automobiles and every other means OF
conveyance were appropriated by the
Germans unless the owners could show
credentials from the German army.
The Belgian citizens were reduced tc
state of terror. Cannonading began
at noon, August 4, and was incessant
day and night, rain or shine Houses
trembled, windows ratified and at first
1t was impossible to sleep because a
the noise. Afterward we got quit
used to the uproar
Il saw 1000 or 5000 Belgian prison.
ers marched through the streets OF
Verviers and it was pitiful to watch
the crowds Of relatives, fathers, moth.
ers, wives and sweethearts running
beside the prisoners trying to throw
bread and cigars to them. The cap
tives were not given time to catch
the gifts, but we're ruthlessly hurried
on by the German soldiers. We Amer.
leans sympathized heartily with the
Belgians. Persons who had escaped
from Liege told us that the Germans
had taken three forts, caused a small
fire in the city and captured $500 pris-
oners
Citizens Shot at Lieae.
August IA a party consisting of two
other Americans, myself and two Eng
lishmen and a Frenchman obtained
from the German commandant passes
to return to Herbesthal on the way to
AK la Chapelle. Armed with these, we
attempted to get conveyance to the
German frontier, but the cab drivers
were so terrified that we tried five diff.
ferent men before we found one with
sufficient nerve to take us. Even then
l was compelled to conduct the driver
to the German commander to get a
paper guaranteeing the safety of the
cabman, his horse and his vehicle. Our
horse was SO old that we had to walk
up the hills. The age of the beast, the
driver said, was the only thing that
kept the Germans from taking it.
while we we're in Liege several
citizens were shot because Of remarks
they made to German officers and sol.
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Greensboro Boy Gets Hero Medal.

Greensboro-Robert Jones, who
worked so heroioally on the Guilford
hotel elevator during the fire in the
hotel building a few weeks ago, was
recently made the recipient of hand
some gold watch and chain. The
watch was a gift of the Dixie Fire In
surance Company and the chain a
present of S. Schiffman, jeweler. In
a recent meeting of directors OF the
Dixie Company attention was called
to the fact that he had not been re-
warded and the directors decided to
do something for him.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-08-27
INTERNAL REVENUE REPORT.
Collector Osborn Makes Greatest Re
port in History.

Collector osborn Makes Greatest Re-
port in History.
Washington.-Accor to the re-
port of Commissioner Of Internal Rev
enue Osborn for the fiscal year end
ed June 80, 1914, the collections dur
ing that year were the greatest in the
history of the bureau. The total col
lections from all sources amounted
to $3SO,OOS,S93, while for the fiscal
year of 1913 they amounted to $344,-
424,453, an increase for 1914 of $685.
5S4, LAO.
Under the corporation excise tax
$10,671 ,O77 were collected in 1914
while from the corporation income
tax there were received $32,456,662.
The amount derived from the individ
ua1 income tax placed on the statute
books by a Democratic Congress net
ted the Government $2S,253,534.
The principal item comprising the
decrease in ordinary collections for
1914 was distilled spirits, amounting
to $4,781,165. The increases were
$2,666,116 on cigarettes and $814,522
on fermented liquors.
The internal revenue tax on cigars,
cigarettes and snuff produced during
the year 1914 $79,9S6,639, while on
fermented liquors $67,081, 512 were de-
rived from the Government.
The total internal revenue collec-
tons in the state of North Carolina
for the fiscal year 1914 aggregated
$11,947, 27O. In the fourth collection
district Wheeler Martin took in $747,-
OPS, while Collector Johiah W..
Bailey turned over to the Governme nt
S4,784,1S1 In the fifth North Caro-
lima district, Collector George H.
Brown turned in $176,063, while his
successor, Aston D. Watts, collected
$6,324,733.
The state of North Carolina con-
tributed to the treasury of the United
States $S4,410 as a result of the cor
poration excise tax, and from the cor
poration income tax the state paid in
$173,267. Individuals in North Caro-
lima paid a tax of $46,566 during the
fiscal year of 1914.
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Eat Raw Potatoes.

The German troops in Belgian Lux
emburg are said to be starving and
many of them are reported to have
dropped unconscious owing to their
privatlons. In some of the dead off,
GERS pockets raw potatoes were
found, while the soldiers are said to
have dug up unripe turnips and beets
to eat
Many horses belonging to the Ger
man Uhlans found dead in Belgian
Limbourg were declared after post
norton examination to have starved to
death
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-08-27
WAS WAITING FOR REAL HEAT
See Necessity for Shortening
Hours Of Labor in the Field.

A st. Louisian who responded to the
Macedonian cry for help from the
Kansas wheat fields tells this story:
THE farmer told us we were to
work ten hours day, but that when
it got hot he would knock off an hour
One day, after we had been out in the
blazing sun until we were painting for
breath, we came in to dinner to find
the mercury up to ia. We thought
the farmer would say something about
short hours that afternoon, but he
didn't AS We started out to work l
said to him:
One hundred and fourteen in the
shade,
Yes he answered. DO you feel
1t much?'
No l said, I don't mind it par
ticularly; but when does it get hot out
here?'"
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FINANCING A GREAT WAR.

or course. the flnanciers could have
prevented the war-that Is, If the gov
ernments would respect the financiers
and protect them in their refusal to
supply money. But when nations go
to war, the civilized rules of mine and
thine are apt to be forgotten, and the
more general the war is the greater
must be the disposition to take the
necessary money from those who have
it and tell them to sue for a settle
ment when peace is restored. Napo-
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great funds for future wars, enriched
his lieutenants and for a time made
France prosperous by levying upon
the people whom he conquered.
It is a pretty theory that there are
great capitalists who have power to
make or prevent war as they choose,
who rule kings by power of gold and
who may decide the fate of nations.
But there is no capitalist who ever
could collect a debt except as some
government was pleased to make II
col1ectable.
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diers. Apart from this the Germans
paid for their supplies The larger
portion of the population who work in
the wooden mills are reduced almost
to starvation. The Germans buy most
of the meat, bread and other supplies,
and no supplies can be brought in
from the outside.
AT Herbesthal we were searched
and examined by German officers, and
were then allowed to take q military
place we got cab to the Dutch from
tier. At the village of Baaz they told
US that we could get train to Mas
tricht On arriving there we found
the Dutch army modified, practically
all the trains used for soldiers and the
main roads and bridges blockaded to
resist an army of 10000 German sol
diers Just outside.
1--WE deemed it inadvisable to wait
at Maastricht for possible tram, and
the next day we hired an automobile.
This broke down at ten o'clock that
night The chauffeur worked frantic
ally two hours to repair the machine,
but at midnight announced that it was
impossible to run on account of fiat
tire. Finally he consented to go on.
Left Stranded In Auto.
AT 1 a. M. we were still twelve
miles from Helder, whittier we were
going. The chauffeur stopped in the
village of Durne. He refused to bulge
and left us stranded in the middle of
the road while he reused nearly every
one in the village in search of horse
and carriage. He returned in an hour
or so and announced that it was i'm
possible to reach Helder, and that we
must spend the night In Durne. The
next morning we got a train from
Durne to Rotterdam. We found that
city flooded with Americans from all
parts of Europe, most of them pos
sessed of only the clothes they were
wearing. The next morning we caught
train to Flushing, and thence came
on a crowded boat to England.
German officers in Lege assured
us that they had captured the forts,
driven the Russians back on the east
ern frontier and would be in Paris In
two weeks.
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Mo Chance for Him

William Dean Howells is the presi-
dent of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters, and in Mr.. Howells' pres
ence in Boston one day novelist OF
the best seller type had the bad taste
to ridicule our limitation French acad-
emy," as he called it.
Mr.. Howells listened to the novelist
with his good-natured smile, and then,
with his good-natured laugh, he said:
Our American academy is like
death. People never joke about it IN
less they know it's very far away"
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"A desperately exhausting fight 1t is,
dispersed as they are in parties over
their immense front. The wounded
German prisoners, as they came in,
we're treated with just the same care
and their death was dignified with the
same respect as we're our own friends.
II was even allowed to speak to
some of the wounded prisoners in their
own language. Not one had word OF
complaint.
poor fellows! They all believed
they had been fighting against the
French"
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Grateful for the Assistance,

A burglar, in the act of breaking
open safe, was greatly astonished,
III raising his head, to see a man in
entity watching his proceedings. He
u'ed to escape, but the man stopped
hin, saying:
10 on, my friend. l am deeply in
crested in your work"
no" sou the thief inquired in great
Surprise.
because l have lost the key to this
''le and if you manage to open it you
sDail be handsomely rewarded for your
tfouble"
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Signature cot Of &Hxzzzzw
In Use For Over 80 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
Swapping 1t Back.

Bruddren and sistas," severely said
good old Parson Bagster, glazing
ominiously at his congregation, mo
Gan one pusson widin de sound O. muh
voice pay so cents to go to de circus
tomor' dat wouldn't dig up a single
dme to hep out de revival dat, as de
tumble instrument in de hands O. de
Aawd, | was conductin' last week."
Well, sah," replied Jim Dinger, the
gambling man, who seemed to think
'he ministerial gaze was directed at
MIN, de revival had only one clown,
whilst de circus advises twenty
Puck
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GERMANS THINK ENEMY
FRENCH AT HAELEN

London. - Godfrey Young tele-
graphed from Haelen, Belgium:
Zine fellows, these little Belgians
Intelligent and quick to respond;
rather weary now and strained, for
many have been already long In the
deld. Day and night they have been
fighting at odds Of ten to one. They
are men who think, and they fight bet
ter for it.
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Two Is Company.

They strolled together along the
sands of the seashore He was smok-
lug placidly, but her eyes roved about
the deserted beach and the empty
ocean. Suddenly she stopped, threw
up her hands and turned on him.
How utterly deadly dull it is here"
she cried. Not one single human be-
ing to f1irt with. You, at least, have
me-but whom, in heavens name,
have II"
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When Shimmerpate gave his little
son, Sammie, a drawing book the lat
ter gazed intently at the picture of
arms. legs, feet and heads on one OF
the pages.
What do you think Of it, SOM"
queried Shimmerpate.
1T must have been an awful explo-
sion," replied Sammie