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war. and | shall never forge, my first
view into its searching depths and
how ! drank in vlsually the broad
panorama spread out before me. II
was almost as IL I, had been trans
ported magically miles onward.
Two brown lines. previously in
dlscernible. could he plainly traced
scross the centre of the picture. These
were the advance German and French
trenches. Especially good vas the
view OF the enemy's field works. about
which the men, with their red caps
n trousers, could be seen moving
around. 80
Through the ordinary field glasses
they seemed nc larger than ants. and
yet 10y means OF the 'binocular teie-
scope the intervening interval OF g.
500 meters was seemingly So shortened
That these men appeared close enough
TO make me expect any moment to
near their. voices. ..,
There are two forms OF this optical
apparatus. one which a man can carry
easily n the other ~ big that II has
to he mounted upon a carriage much
after the fashion Of a field gun. Both
are operated by a scissorslike move
ment: in fact, the Germans call these
binoculars scissors telescopes" be-
cause by 4 suitable mechanical auxili-
airy they can be opened and closed
after the fashion OF a pair Of shears.
In this way the baseiine between
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|, "rnmo nj sail Ieu IA, iiz1y
with tho unusu,l words I'm, nnxinus
10 rlease.
II. led no way ia tho house where
Airs Homes met the hungry man M the
, door
So engaging was the manner of this
Young man nf tine rays from the great
world beyond the mountains that Mrs.
.jones immediately liked him. lie was
a nerf,c, cotnrac nf words and talked
necessarily She was not able to un-
derstand half he said but was pleased
with an Of II. He ran an rlihly but
always STONED short Of being smart
in th. sense tbat won, call forth
dislike. All the time M, WAS eating
corn brrl and bacon with the relish
of one who has long omitted the for
malitv # dining.
Slch was the introluct on of Spe-
cioI Agent Sn,uldinr Dowlinr into
the cumhorl,rds Rlly Card had asked
no aan,rtmen, far his holm in tho
m,,nshiners' case and Dnv,iry n, !
fallen into the plan with All the en-
,husiasm of adventurous youlh.
DnvIinp's stream or fan, wnn tho
FRIENDSHIP az Nv ZONES and his s.ns
as 1, had won his wife TIN. fuuitivc
was ,rcleI avn, in tho bg,s a,l ,o1
hv IN, m-nuu,ain.ers II. came !,
know Tho intim,tss az tho ZONES Fam
,,v and his stream of talk ent.rtairea
Them for DAYS and weeks Ue hiher-
mated with others of his kind for he
found IN. hills fan of men in hiding
He became n visitor AT many a cabin
and eventually struck the rock that
responded to his confidence.
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their detectives is heightened and by
a graduated scale attached IL is pos
sible to translate the visual angles
into distances. OF meters. o. course
the observer himself Is not exposed.
and thus from suitable cover the foe
can be watched and the range
measured and field guns. machine guns
and the soldiers rifles brought into
service only when it is known that
they can reach their marks.
The risks run In Observing the enemy
are fully realized by all of the bel
ligerents, for "potting'' and "sniping"
have cost dearly In lives and injuries
among h lookouts. This IL espe-
c!a!!y so where the Entertainments Of
the rival forces face one another at
short range. Therefore the British
have latterly supplied their men with
a combined armored helmet and
cuirass which weighs nearly fifty
eight pounds and is able to stop rifle
bullets except when fired from very
close range.
But even so the observer can do
nothing more than just look above the
crest OF his trench and then has TO use
his unaided eyes. The Germans have
certainly improved upon this
'nent. for with the smaller scissors
binoculars the Kaiser's fighting man
can look without exposing himself.
only the two small detectives OF the
instrument need be pushed above the
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track. This stick had been carefully
preserved.
Did You find any of the gun wad-
ding" asked the agent.
ven this ~precautiou was taken by
Lunsford. These men OF the noun
tains mostly load their own shells and
the wads in this case had been made
by cutting pieces out of a pasteboard
box. So there We're a number Of clues
at hand.
Special Agent Billy Gard stood on
the spot from which the, shot had
been fired. From. this point TO that at
which the buckshot had entered the
wall OF the cabin was not more than
thirty feet. 80.
An ordinary shotgun at thirty
feet" he reflected. remembering his
squirrel hunting days. Shoots almost
like a rife. The shot at that distance
are all in a bunch not bigger than
your fist. Yet the shit in The cabin
wall We're scattered. The man with
the gun must have been further
away
Gard stated this view Of the matter
Ia the mountainer. but that individual
showed how II would have been i'm
possible for the h. q to have been
fired from IA greater distance because
there was IA depression that would
have placed the man with the gun too
low down TO see in at the window.
THE hot must have been fired
from "a sawed off shotgun" said the
special agent. "only "A short barrelled
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True Story of the Daring Exploit of
Two Young Agents Of the
Department of Justice

eminent as he drove his customer out
to the Tenney farm, where he was to
ask to be put up.
"You see." he said. they have al
ways made mOonshine whiskey around
here and they just won't stop for no
body. q.
Then along comes Tom Reynolds
and San Iunsford and me and some
more OF us. We see that n amt right
to fight the Government'and that whis-
key is no good anyhow. 80 whenever
We find out where there In a still, We
tell the venue agents about It. Well,
We git warnin's that We better not do
1t no more, but them fellers can't
skeer NE 20 we go right ahead.
Then. one night, Tom Reynolds
starts home from Wheeler late In the
evenin'. but he don't never get there.
Next mornin' We find his wagon stand
in on to the side OF the road and
Tom Ia down in front Of the seat dead
with "A load Of buckshot in his head.
SAN Lunsford has. still got the
Idea. though, that the boys ought not
to make m%oonshine, so he goes right
ahead report!n' every still he finds.
so things goes on for two months.
Then. one night, Sam was up late
with one OF his babies that had the
collie. lie was settin' before the fire
a-rockin' the baby when, bang. some
body shoots him through the winder.
We'll that shot didn't quite get
sam. Did you ever try to shoot the
head OF Il chicken as 1t walked across
the yard? Its head moves ford and
back and 1t IL mighty hard to hit II.
That's the way with Sam rockin' the
baby, ! reckon, Anyway the buck
shot just got Sam in the back part
OF his head and didn't kill him. Next
day his old woman picked the buck
shot out with a pocket knife because
the doctor was afraid to go. Now
Sam IL as well as he ever was and
he Amt changed his mind about the
stills. Him and me reported two of
them last week"
A little further along the road
wound into a hollow down which
flowed a brook. out Of the brush II
this hollow stepped the. form OF a
mountaineer with a rifle across his
arm, Todd drew up his team.
What. have You. got -thsre?" asked
the man in the road. \
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ADVENIURE OF UNCLE SANS DETECTIVES IN TE CUMBERLAND

Summer boarder," said Todd.
Where's he .goin'?' a the query.
"To Tenney's." answered Todd.
The mountaineer walked around to
the back OF the wagon where Cards
little wicker. grip was carried. With
out a word he opened the grip and
carefully examined. everything in it.
Seemingly satisfied he waved permis-
sion for them to proceed.
young Teller" he said to Gard In
parting. you are in durn bad COM
pany. You can't never tell whether
you will git back when you start out
with that skunk"
To which Todd grlnned as he drove
on.
They amt never made the bullet
thatll kill me-" he said.
II was three days later that Billy
Gard, squirrel rifle on his shoulder,
walked into the clearing about the
house OF Sam Lunsford, the mar who
had survived the charge. OF buckshot
In the back of his head.
Gard already had the measure Of
his man. No sooner had he presented
himself than he put his business up to
the mountaineer. cold turkey" as the
agents say when they lay all the cards
on the table. Would Lunsford help
the Government in getting the facts
that would bring the murderers of Tom
Reynolds and the men who shot him
to JUSTICE? l.unsford would do all he
could.
"Whom do you suspect? ?" the agent
asked.
There are SO many Of them agin
me-" said Lunsford, that it Is hard to
tell which ones done It,"
"Wlll You show me just how you
were sitting when you were shot?"
The mountaineer placed the rock
ing chair in front of the fire directly
between a hole in the window and a
spot In the opposite wall where the
buckshot had lodged themselves, pep
perlng up a surface two feet square.
Thus was 1t easy to trace the flight
Of the shot through the room. The
special agent examined both window
pane and wall,
Gould you tell where the man stood
when he fred" he asked.
Yes" said Lunsford. Il looked for
tracks next day. Let me show you"
He led the way into the yard and
there pointed out a stout peg which
had been driven into the ground not
a dozen feet from the window.
THE tracks came up to there and
stopped" he said.
did you measure the tracks,"
asked the special agent.
: The m~puntaineer, had done so, and
had cut q stick Just the length Of the
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Long Chase After Moonshiners and
Murderers--Ruse by Which They
Were Finally Trapped

sessed Of the desire To XII, to he
known among his fellows as "A bad
man, THIS younger Jones il was who
had aimed his fathers sawed off shot
gun at Sam l.unsfurd as that hulking
hEure of a man swayrd back and forth
as he rocked the baby that suffered
from collie. The patriot Hill, VIII
Jones the horn murderer. a father
and son 10y the name of Hinton, had
been III" murdercrs OF Tom Reynolds.
There were no others who would go
SO far as To Kill to avenge their fam
cied grievances,
Tie summer was dragging to its
close as the conversational special
agent got his information together.
The yellow was stealing into the trees
of h hi.lsides when Billy Gard, he
whose health had been broken behind
the RIBBON counter. came back to Ten
ney's for another few weeks in the
open. lie wandered into the woods
and met the fugitive from the South
Carolina jail, The jail bird and the
ribbon counter clerk talked long to-
gether and when they parted the plans
were laid for the nipping off Of the
men who would murder for their stills.
II was a week later ana the quiet
of after midnight rested upon the lit
tie mountain town of Wheeler.
But murder was planned to take place
that night in Wheeler and 4. Spauld-
Ing bowling knew al about il.
As the town slept four stealthy
'iGures crept down the trail that cuts
acr,ss the point of the H~unchbaCk.
Soft footcily, rifles In hand. they
passed down "A side street beneath
the dense shade of giant syCamorcs.
1t was but three blocks from the
woods To Main street. Reaching this
artery of the town, two of the men
crouched IN the shadow while two
others crossed the street and went a
block further, turning to the left.
Each group then shifted itself a hum
dred feet to the left ana paused again.
So stationed the four men found
themselves in front and back OF Todd's
livery stable,
The mOuntalnecrs, two IN front and
two in the rear If the building, swung
themselves to the top Of the fence and
leaped To the ground inside, Rifles at
hip they started To close in on the
building. Each party entered at op-
pos!te ends Of the corridor down the
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The Mistake - By M1Fson

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Tho hreecb door closed with q clanp
and he flied his lungs with air. Then
ir Mitch black arkne he heard the
grinding NJ the how mort as IL lifted
and felt tho chill ri the inrushing cold
wafer shock followed that nearly
deprived him NJ his senses. and tho
next instant ne was out in the black
water. with hjs fingers driven into his
ears and bis nos,riIs a,mos, torn anar,
nv the nressure NJ three at~mospheres
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ne estimated 100 tndt ne reuuife"
nan d secoiu ior tacn MUM anu mat nv
must KICK ou' loo .fhes 10 hiahe 'he
surface lie counted as ne klcheo' ana
before zen hau gone py the reai agony
IN MS lungs hau begun. ana 'nS
agony remained Win MN anu IN
or ased WIN 'he Iessetlhg Oh the pain
III MS ears anu hos'ris'
At fifty he dared remove n fneer
To use the hand In swimming. The
pain on his eardrum prevented his re-
leasing the other. and he swan one
handed toward the light. At seventy
five. with lungs bursting and eyes
starting from their sockets. he valued
life more than the sens Of hearing,
and struck out with both hands.
And every moment, from the begin
ming Il that upward swim of 100 feet
through the eternity that followed the
release Of the second hand. until, with
his head out of water. he expelled the
air from his lungs In n succession of
sobs and groans. his mind was oh
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MOVES ACROSS HALL.
Candidates BEDROOM Is Thus In
Another County.

W,sHrNGToN. Pa. July 3.-After
moving his bedroom across the hall so
he will sleep in tabell county instead
Of Wayne county James 4. Hughes of
rear Huntington. W Va. has an
nounced his candidacy for the Republi-
can nomination for Congressman from
the new Fourth district.
Mr.. Hughes recently completed four
teen years Of service in Congress. hay
ing represented the Fifth district ever
since q, was created. Foresceing "A pos
sible change in the districts he built
his home with the county line running
through his hallway.
Heretofore his parlor has been in
Cabell, while he slept in Wayne county,
In the Fifth Congress district. But
the Legislature recently redistrictcd the
state. putting cabell county into the
Fourth district, in which Mr.. Hughes
preferred "a rUu. Consequently he
showed his parlor into Wayne aud his
sleeping room into tahcll to make him
eligible to run in the Fourth district.
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to measure the shoes Of the Jones
household. when an opportunity Of
fered. and tie knots in "A string to ind.-
cate their length,
Ii was a week before this task had
been completed 10y the boy. but the
results indicated that the foot Of a
certain pair of shoes in the Jones
home was Ike unto that of the man
Of the sawed of shotgun. Scraps Of
cut up shoe boxes had been found.
white ON n side and brown on the
other. and from these had evidently
been made wads FOR reloading shells.
Thus far was Special Agent Gard
bl to carry his case toward "a solu-
ton. There We're twenty men in the
~ne!ghborhood who might have been
implicated with Jones il he were
guilty in this attempt and in the kill
ing Of Tom Reynolds.
So the summer boarder left the Ten
ney farm, stating that his health was
greatly improved, but that he would
come back two months later for an
other stay.
A week after this there was nailed
up at every post office and court house
within "A hundred miles OF Wheeler
n notice of reward for an escaped on
vict. A short, stout curly headed
yonng OUTLAW hal broken jail in south
Carolina and when last heard uf was
bearing in this direction. FIFTY dol
lars reward would he paid for his cap
ture. His picture appeared with the
notice.
After stu another week the Jones
children We're playing in the woods
back II their house when a strange
man called them from n distance. The
youngsters approached cautiously. The
man was NJ less cautions. lie was "A
short. curly headed young fellow with
a stubby beard. with his clothing in
shreds ard very dirty. lie looked as
though he had slept in the woods for
"A month. There We're stripes acr SIS
nm under garment that showed
through his open shirt.
DO you suppose" said the man OF
rags, that your nav could stake a
hungry man to 81 or 81 worth Of bread
ANA bacon and wait for remuneration
until the executors of his estate act?"
"fuh don't mean yuh want some
thin to eat, do yuh?" said young Lem
Jones.
son" said the curly headed one.
your instincts are clairvoyant. You
have demonstrated a hypothesis, con-
hrmed a rumor, hit upon a great truth,
sleuthed a primal fact to its lair. The
plain truth Is that | haven't had any
thing to eat in so long that I,.have
forgotten my last meal, am the hun
sr!est nan in the world. ] could eat
'tacks with d SPOON"
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middle through which a wagon mich,
drive. Nothing interfered with their
progress and no sound was heard en-
ctpt "A sleeping horse occasionally
changing feet on the board floor of
bis stall. Stealthily the four figures
rathered in a cluster and turned up
the steep stairway that led to the
sleeping room of Todd. With every
rifle ready for action they pushed open
the door. The moon coming in ut a
window disclosed what seemed to 10
"A sleeping form in the bed. Dclh-
erately the four rifles came TO hear
upon II. There was n pause and then
from the leader came the order.
Fire"
Every finger pressed the trigger of
its rifle. Every hammer came dovn
on its cap. But 10 report followed.
Not IA gun had been discharged,
Come on out IN the open. You
sneakin' towards came n ClamprOus
voice from the barnyard that was rec
ogniZed as being that Of Tod Come
out in the lot and I'll larrup YOU all"
The men N the room looked puz-
2led, one at the other. and then at tho
form on the bed, They approached the
latter and found II 10 he but a dummy
20 represent Todd. They had been
trapped, They would fight their way
ont.
The mountaineers charged down
the stairway. As they came into '1a
moonlight at the opening OF the barn
they faced the tall form Of q msn
they knew we'll, the United s'G''S
Marshal OF the district. With no gun
in his hands the Marshal raised hs
hands on high.
Listen. men," he commanded. "a
parley. You are trapped. There are
armed men at every corner ~ tH.'
building and every man wEo ruus 90
Of ii Will be shot dead. Your powder
has been wet and none OF you 80" nI'
"A shot, You can't fight armed men
There Is but one thing FOR you -
and that is To surrender"
So had these young detectives 4.
the new school worked out a m''' ~
ticult case and one which later ni'''''
IN the ourts. to he effective, F." ever!
man arrested is now servinE a ~
term in prison and the harN,'Np'
the defiance Of law in this !ts'V"
broken.
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IN the face Of it one might have
questioned the wisdom Of Sc
- lecting for a task so difficult a

tbV u VI ~ ia iitikhl Il
questioned the wisdom Of Sc
Letting for a task so difficult a
man who knew absolutely
nothing about It. When the work in
hand was the apprehension OF a band
of violators OF the law who had for
years defied and intimidated the Who'll.
countryside, this course seemed even
more unusual. But the wonder would
have still further multiplied itself Il
the casua observer could have seen
Billy Gard but once as he sat
n%ervously on the edge OF the zane seat
of the day coach as the accommoda.
ton train pulled into the hill country.
For this special agent OF the De-
partment OF Justice. mind you. was to
take up a piece of work upon which
local constables and sheriffs, United
States marshals n revenue agents
had failed. There was murder at one
n OF the o he was to travel and
the gallows at the other. And Gard
was a nondescript youngster who
booked less than 30, neither light nor
dark. large nor neutrality-suspicious..
easily lost in a crowd.
And now This slip OF a lad was
going back into the Cumberland
after a community Of moonshiners
who had defied all local authority and
Nhrown down the gauntlet to the Fed
eral Government itself. lie came alone
with a little wicker grip.
II am looking for a place TO board"
the special agent told Todl. the liv-
cry stable man at Wheeler, the noun
tain town at which he had stopped
OF. II have been clerking in II store
N Atlanta and got pretty well run
1oNR. The doctor said ] ought to
stay In the mountains for Il month or
two"
The liveryman was accustomed to
driving summer boarders u to the
few places where they might stay in
the Cumberlands. He sketched these
possibilities and told OF the location
Of each. Gard already had the map OF
the country well in mind and selected
the farm near SIM L~unsford's, he be-
t6g the mountaineer whom the agent
Assst wanted to cultivate.
9Fbod reviewed the situation as be-
twSsp the mouptaineers and the Gov
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Iolfro. Ohio. July 3-Drug victims
nave become so numerous here within
the last few weeks that officials headed
by United States Revenue Collector
Frank II. Niles OF the Toledo district are
seeking to establish a farm near the
city where the victims can he sesregatc,
for treatment.
NJ present the county and city ia.,s
arc crowded with drug addicts following
u crusade by State, Government, and
local officials. MANY Of the victims are
young men and women.
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NEW N FINDER IN
! USE BY THE GERMANS

~ Nen',ons " ,ne uer'ia
w. A.. - ,,.. -. ...., -
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.s.ss 80" a.,,,nan ,ni, n,ss.as
- a" asa,,,n. ~ .,,a ,a,asoon,o
,,,.,.n ,S,. 100. ,n.,r,,,nn, corn,Inas
49,. sma,.m y. ,"su
~
opticai y nndins hinges pom
the iehsth OF ohe visual "aseiine' me
interva' between tne eyes or tne oo-
!ec'i.es o, '"e "pPa'a'"S. u "o',e
the oaseiinc the easier II ~ 10 make
errors because ,ne ansies lor"'eu Wy
the cohVergihs INES reaching .owaru
tne horizon are 'sss pronounced" Una"
wneh the pass Is a lohs one ana ""e
same point OF coheeh'r"''"h fN'S's'
The older form OF opera glasses and
held glasses were so arranged that
you looked directly from h eye piece
through TO the objective. but to-day
the best Instruments are not NO FASH
toned. Instead. you look into the dark
Intervals OF the glasses. and rejecting
prisms bring the images To you from
n wider spread detectives which
cover a much bigger field.
Even with this Improvement, how
ever, you are moi obtaining telescope
vision because the magnihcation Is
not ample enough for that. nor are
you able to Judge distances much bet
Ter. Now the military man wants
something more than the power OF
seeing his foes better; he wants to he
able to know Just how far away they
are. so that HI can train his artillery
accordingly and make a greater per-
centage OF his projectiles score de-
Structively.
An instrument that will accomplish
this the German opticlan has provided
in the form Of a double telescope
which gives great mi gnifcation. a
wide baseline for optical surveying
and thus the capacity to see way into
the distance and to measure with re-
markable accuracy the remotehess OF
chosen objects. In short, the inventor
mas made II feasible greatly to broaden
in effect the visual base between the
pupils Of the eyes.
The method employed Is not funda.
mentally and in its separate features
essentially a novelty, but in its COM
bined form It il a new arrangement
OF lenses and prisms. that Is prov.
Eng day by day OF the utmost value
20 the Kaiser's fighting men. saw
ink their needless exposure and hap
hazard rusfies upon normally con-
cealed positions OF the foe and
enabling the field artillery to do It's
work with greater precision.
The working principles involved are
clearly illustrated in the little diagram
that accompanies this article. The
great Eyes of the apparatus are called