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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-02-05
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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-02-05

Mrs. G. P. Graham o. Tolarsville'
passed through town yesterday en-
route home from Proctorville, where
she spent a week visiting relatives
AID friends.
Miss Matte Amnnons went Satur-
day night to Wadesboro, where she
will spend q week visiting at the
home of her brother-in-law and SIS
ter. Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Morris,
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-02-05

WANTED-GOOD TENANTS FOR
three or four two-horse farms
Tenants with their own stock pre-
ferred. Call on w. G.. Gilchrist
Lumberton. N. C.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-02-05

BRING YOUR HIDES AND FURS
to L. H. Caldwell and get the high
est market prices.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-02-05

IF YOU NEED A RANGE, COME
20 the Majestic Demonstration at
McAllister Hdw. Co.'s Feb. 9TH
10th.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-02-05

EGGS FOR SALE-THOROU
bred Rhode Island eggs from prize
winning birds 81 per fifteen. Flu
ture orders taken now. B. Sam
Edwards, Lumberton, N. c.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-02-05
DR.. CHAS. f. COSTNER
General Practitioner

GET YOUR CABBAGE PLANTS AT
L. H. CaldWell's.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-02-05

GET YOUR MULES FROM C. M.
Fuller He has a good assortment
and selling at the right prices.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-02-05

GO TO J. T. BIGGS FOR BURT
Oats, seed Irish Potatoes, Garden
Seed and Fertilizer.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-02-05
FOR SALE

lao acres Of land on the public road
between Fairmont and Rowland.
This property has a good house, and
can be bought cheap. If not sold
within two weeks will entertain a
proposition for renting same fol-
1917. For further information an.
ply to -~s--r-
McNAIR & PEARSALL
WILMINGTON, N. c..
Evening star., 1917-10-14

When the shells bursting round
Making craters in the ground
And the rife fires something awful cruel
When you ear them in the night
my Gaud, 1t makes you hghtD
An yer thinks of them poor souls a-going ONE
When you ear the sergeant .,s shout
'Get y'r respirntors out!
Then you looks and sees cloud OF something
white.
An yer knows before it's gone
That the 'orse wot's with you now won't be
Yer loves him him like yer wife
An yer wants to save is life o., .,.
But there amt no respirators, not 1or then-
was standing by is side
On the night my old 'orse died
e was choking mighty bad.
An lis eyes was looking mad.
An ! seed that-e-was dying-dying
fast.
An / want to tell yer 'ow
It's the 'orses wot gets us through.
For they strains their blooming carts out when
they're pressed.
We galloping like ell
When a bullet Its old Sell
l cd see the blood a-streaming down 'er face.
1t 'ad got 'er in the cad,
But she stuck to it and led.
TIL we comes TO action right
An then she fell.
'aden't time to choose.
'ad to cut 'er loose,
For she'd done all she cd afore gun:
When l looks at 'er again
Che was out Of all her pain,
An 'opes her soul will rest for wot she done.
If 1t 'aden't been for Nell
We should all have been in ell.
For we only got in action just In time
Amt IL occurred to yoI
wot the 'orses there go through?
They elps to win our fight an does 1t fine.
When is blood is flowing 'ot
From a wound what fe's just got
An is breath is coming ard an short an thin,
e can the men about
Getting water dealed out,
But not drop is brought to comfort i'm,
Tho is tongue is parched and dry,
e can see the water by,
But is wounds left to bleed,
An e can't tell us is need.
So 'e's lust got torbear is pain-an' think.
There are eroes big an small
But the biggest of them all
Is the 'orse wot lays a-dying on the ground
e doesn't cause wars
An 'e's only fighting yours.
An 'e gives is life for you widout a SOUND.
'E doesn't get pay,
Just oats and perhaps some nay.
II 'e's killed thinks a bit or I'M.
'Es just brave and good
As any man wot stood,
But Tiers mighty little thought or 'elp for i'm.
Note-Sincc the above roem was received
from, the trenches in France by the American
Red Star Animal Relief headquarters. Albany.
" ", Lieut.. Fleming has given his life to the
cause Of human liberty. The voice which comes
to us as it were from sphere where dumb
brutes do not suffer is call to civilization to
do its duty by the silent heroes of war.
Evening star., 1917-10-14
UPPER MARLBORO news

UPPER MARLBORO, October 13-The
second contingent of selected men from
Prince Georges county, numbering six.
left for Camp Meade a few days ago.
They are: George Arnold Norton. James
Laing. Morton Emory Nichols, Garland
| Waters Frye, jeremiah p. McKnew
and Harry Tarlton Jenkins.
| Following dinner in a local hotel the
men were rendered reception in the
| courthouse. Addresses were made by
States Attorney S. Marvin Peach, Judge
Howard Duckett and Robert w. Wells.
DR.. John e. Sansbury, member Of the
| county exemption board, presided. The
county has now furnished sixty-two of
| the one hundred and ninety-seven re-
quired.
| The liberty loan campaign Is being
pushed energetically in Prince Georges
| county. At recent meeting here of
| county bank presidents, who make up
| the committee in charge of the cam
1 paign in the county ways and means
of obtaining subscriptions We're dis
cussed. This committee is composed OF
| the following bank presidents: DR..
Charles A. Wells. Upper Marlboro;
Jackson II. Ralston. Hyattsville: ]. Enos
| Ray, jr.. Hyattsville; George W. Waters,
jr., Laurel. and Francis II. Carmody.
Seat Pleasant. George W. Waters is
| chairman of this committee. Members
| of the women's section. for the county,
of the State Council of Defense are
taking an active part in the campaign.
Mrs. Ossie Klinger of Riverdale, is di-
irecting their efforts and representatives
of the organization are pushing the sale
| of bonds throughout the county. The
| county is expected to subscribe s324,-
| 900 worth of bonds. In the interest of
the campaign patriotic rally and ex-
hibit under the auspices of the Prince
| Georges Women's Defense League VIII
be held here on the closing day of the
campaign. October 27.
| A dance under the auspices of the
| woodyille Chapter of the Red Cross was
held Friday evening in the town hall
| there.
The diphtheria epidemic. which en-
! braced practically the whole county, ap-
pears to have passed. So far as is
known no fatalities resulted. Schools
in some sections were closed for few
| days.
a large number of government employees
being taken on to handle work incident
| to the war.
Evening star., 1917-10-14
RED CROSS FUNDS REPORTED.
Sixteen-Inch Shell at Union Station
Contained $8O.74.

The Red Cross finance committee re-
ceived yesterday from Joshua Evans,
jr., chairman of the committee on re-
ceptacles for silver Offering, a report
of the third opening of the Red Cross
sixteen inch shell in the waiting room
of the Union station. which shows that
ss0.74 was found in the shell. including
$1.42 in Canadian coin, and that hun
dreds had contributed. This is graft
flying to the committee as showing the
general interest taken in the Red Cross
war service fund.
Steve Vasilakos, the patriotic Greek
who has a peanut wagon near the
White House. brought in s25, proceeds
of his sales for his third Red Cross
week. He gives the gross proceeds be-
cause Of his desire to serve through the
Red Cross the United States and hu-
manity. He says he will have another
Red Cross week later on.
Other contributions announced yes
terday were Admiral and Mrs. F. F.
Fletcher, $40; X. G. Dalmark. SO; Jack
Polkinhorn. ten years old, who has sold
papers and magazines and made $3.50.
Evening star., 1917-10-14

Conover Upright -..-........-..e .es56
An art style. original cost $3.50.
$3.50 SS-Note Player Piano. $3.50
Good condition. fine tone
$3.50 Ss-Note Player-Piano. ...... 1878
Extraordinary value.
$3.50 sS-Note Player-Piano-... s495
Best value offered.
Evening star., 1917-10-14

blockade Germany would have been
compelled to withdraw from the strug-
gle. The great mining basin of Briey,
which crosses the Franco-German from
tier. extending from Luxembourg to the
environs of Nancy, is the richest and
the most powerful in Europe. Lower
down. between Dieuze and Nancy, is a
huge bed of rock salt, in parts seventy
meters in depth. This is utilized by the
innumerable chemical industries at
tracted by the salt and its derivatives.
To the east of Metz there are the coal
mines of Saarbruck, whose annual out
put surpasses 100000 tons; in the
outskirts of Pochelbronn are oil wells
furnishing annually 10000 tons; lower
down, in Alsace, to the north of Null
house, mine was discovered some
years ago which contained chloride of
potash. This mine extends over a sur
is utilized. in the manufacture of ex-
plosives and chemical fertilizer.
Importance Of Mines.
One can thus see the primordial i'm
portance, economically, of the posses
sion of the territories annexed in 1871
and the many problems it creates. 1t is
also to be observed that, despite the
21.O00.000 tons of iron ore drawn from
annexed Lorraine and the 15,000,0 900
tons which are drawn from all its
other mines including Luxembourg. Ger
-. - oS.oie Inc war Ahporteu dpoul
14.00O.00O tons of raw material from
Sweden, France and Spain. 1t was with
the object of overcoming it's dependence
in this respect that Germany sought to
annex the Briey and Longwy basins.
from which France derived 80 per cent
OF Its total mineral production, namely
about 20.000,000 tons per year. Ger
many's claim in this can in no way be
justified but by right of conquest. and
It Is to be expected that 1t will main
tain its claim to the end Of its strength,
unless 1t is offered compensation else
where.
The possession of Lorraine and the
French Briey basin raises the following
economic question: If Germany should
cede Lorraine to its neighbor it would
necessarily fall under it's economic
domination; il. France were to cede
Briey the reverse would occur Either
solution would be equal to a crushing
defeat for the dispossessed
Evening star., 1917-10-14
PIANO
SAL

OF one of the finest lots of new and
Semade uprights and player-pianos in
the history of Washington's greatest
Piano House. A complete clearance
Of practice pianos at low prices. Any
piano bought during this sale can be
bought on Easy Monthly Payments.
Gall or write for complete list.
Hallet & Davis Upright. .-.--..... $50
Not modern. but good tone.
61scher upright SIO
Extra good practice piano.
Gilbert & Co. Upright. .........e 800
Cabinet Grand
Gabler Upright. 800
Fine tone and Al shape.
Estey Upright. ....-..............e1 800
Excellent condition.
Columbia Upright. ht......-..~.....-.S1c S1c5
Cabinet Grand
Knabe Upright. -112S
Handsome design.
Fischer Upright. ............--.-.S1 $3.50
Extraordinary bargain.
Evening star., 1917-10-14
by RENE ARGOS.
III RENE AHCUS.
Especial Correspondence of The Sunday
star and Chicago Daily News)

Especial Correspondence OF Inc SunWay
star and Chicago Daily NeUso
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, August s.
1T is daily more evident" recently wrote
the Cologne yolkszeitung. that the
struggle for Alsace-Lorraine Is becom-
ing more the pivot of the war
Alsace-Lorraine the pivot of the war.
The accuracy of the formula forces one
to reflect. This deceptive question is
the most difficult of all to solve. Let
us look at it from its historical and
political viewpoint.
We will start with the fifth century.
1t was at that period when the Roman
empire began to disintegrate, that the
Alemanni. or Swabians, established
themselves in that part of the world
known today as Alsace. They called
themselves the "Elisazon," which. ac-
cording to etymologists, means resi-
dents abroad" In 4S6 the FRANKS OF
Clovis defeated them at Tolpiacum, as
a result of which Alsace thereafter be
longed to the kingdom of the Franks
until the ninth century. In $40 the
treaty of Merson gave Alsace to Louis
the German, and it was then only that
the Inhabitants of Alsace began to
speak German.
Latin Rule All-6OWer1ul.
German scholars themselves admit
that the splendid civilization of the Ho-
henstaufen, the only prosperous period
which Alsace, momentarily Germanic.
enjoyed. was of French origin and ex-
preston. AS early as the renaissance
there was a movement tending to
render more intimate the relations ne.
tween this country and the kingdom of
France Strasbvrg, a free city. and en-
joying the rights of both peace and
war. corresponded with Francis l. who
styled it his very dear: great friend.
Latin rule was everywhere all-power-
full. And when Alsace was made
French, at first In part only. through
the treaty of Westphalia. and later al
most entirely through the Incorporation
of Strasburg, the act met with the ap-
proval of the inhabitants Alsace gave
itself to France of its own free will. In
the words of Michelet. 1T was not an
abduction. it was a marriage. and never
was marriage more faithful"
Certainly, notwithstanding all COM
ments, restrictions and scientific inter
pretations. there can be no doubt as to
the attachment of Alsace-Lorraine for
the political body of which Paris is the
headquarters. This is as true of them
as that the Danes who live in the north
of the Elder are true Danes and the
Polea of Posen, violently annexed by the
Prussians. are still true Poles The rule
of iron and abuse which Germany, VIC
torious in 1871, was forced to apply to
the territories it annexed. proves that
it has neither the heart nor the soul of
their inhabitants. In the time of Julius
Caesar the frontier of Gaul was the
Rhine. The revolution returned this
frontier to France. A German, Forester
by name, in speaking for Germany, at
the convention of May 81, 1893, de-
clared:
"Frenchmen, the Rhine is yours by
right Keep your Mayence and you
will thus prevent hostile armies from
invading France" And this was the
wish of Frederick II. Let us further
add several statements borrowed from
the celebrated German publicist. Maxi
milien Harden.
Evening star., 1917-10-14
THE GUNNER'S STORY

A Fighting Soldiers Plea for the Snrerin!
War Horse.
BY Lieut.. L. Fleming, British Army
Evening star., 1917-10-14
What Harden Says.

History" he says, did not occur ex-
actly as it is written in Berlin. 1t is
well known that Metz passed to France
under Henry II; that during the reign
of Louis XIII the French entered Ger
many; that Turenne did not conduct
his celebrated campaign In the midst
of peace; that in 1856. not by conquest.
but as the result of a carefully prepar-
ed treaty. the duchy of Lorraine was
placed under French sovereignty;
finally. that the Swiss city of Mulhouse
gave itself to France in 1888. During
the period that elapsed between the
cession Of Metz and that Of Mulhouse.
Brandenburg, under the second elector.
Joachim. became the Prussia Of Fred
erick William III. It's area increased
from $4,000 to $4,000 square kilome-
ters. The major part Of this increase
in territory was obtained through vio-
lence. This is particularly true Of the
37o00 square kilometers of Silesian
territory, which Frederick II took
from Maria Theresa, and of the 100000
square kilometers which Prussia ap-
propriated at the time of the division
Of Poland and accomplished by virtue
of a diplomacy which itself conceived.
It is to these territories of Poland.
more than to that of Alsace-Lorraine,
that we can apply the term of the
The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-17
Threads as compIexiOn charms.

Threads as Complexion Charms.
 The girls of Roumanlan country dis tricts take great pride in a clear, healthy complexion, and just as the girls in our own rural districts a gen. eration ago would get up before break fast and steal down unObserved on the first day of May to wash their frecAes away in the dew of the morning so the girls of Roumania take red and white threads, twist them into cords, from which they suspend coins around their necks. These talismans they wear from the dead of winter to the moment they see the first blossom of spring, feeling sure that thereby they will guarantee themselves a milk white complexion, rosy cheeks and ruby lips. National Geographic Magazine.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-17
LONG WALK FOR JUROR.
Trains Did Not Serve, So Merrill Foot
 ed It For Many Miles.

Trains Did Not Serve, So Merrill Foot
 ed It For Many Miles.
 Leavenworth, Kan.-How would you like to take a little Jaunt, say twenty five or thirty miles, at the present time? Sure, a nice little walk. We'll Kirby McCrin so sizes up a trip of that length.
 Kirby was among those summoned to sit on a jury. There happened to be no trains coming to Leavenworth when Kirby desired to start That didn't bother him, neither did the high price of shoe leather. So Kirby walked to Kansas City, a distance of about twen- ty-seven miles.
 Tt was just a nice little stroll" said Kirby. "I take long walks often and there is nothing like 1t to preserve ones good health. At Kansas City caught an interurban car and came to LeaYen- worth. intend to walk back when l get through with the jury work"
The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-17
MlLITAR& TRAINING FOR
 HALF 4 MILLION BOYS
Defence Society Plans prITS In High
 sehools Throughout Country.

New YErk.--Wlth the d ect of great. ly reducing the time required to make competent soldiers out of raw recruits, the American Defense society set In motion comprehensive plan for or gapizlng the junior and senior classes of every boys high school in the coun- try into military training units. New York state alreay has military train ing of high school students Every other state in the Union has received the 'call to arms"
 The action was taken by the mill tary defense committee of the society after consulting Major General Leon- ard Wood. Volunteers will be required to read the constitution of the United States and pledge themselves before the mayors of their cities to uphold it. Then they will receive certificates Of enrolment, charters and detailed in- structons for military training week by week. A ten mile hike each week and setting up exercises will be re- QuIred of recruits, who will be com pelled to put themselves in first class physical trim.
 The society and It's advisers are par ticularly anxious that the boys of the country should not be taught anything that they would have to unlearn If at the age of eighteen they were called to the colors after leaving school. For that reason close order military drill, the manual of arms ana such only will be taught where competent instructors are available.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-17
.SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OLD,
 HIKES SIXTY-FIVE MILES
Samuel S. Gavin, Atlantic City Lawyer, Celebrates Natal
 Day With Long Walk.

Philadelphia.-Samuel S. Gavin is an attorney who was sixty-fve years old recently, and he personally conducted the following celebration:
 He walked sixty-hve miles. Elapsed time, midnight to S:15 p. n.
 And did 1t on an empty stomach.
 Then he came home.
 Took a rubdOwn.
 Ate a big steak.
 Smoked big cigar.
 And said that he was of" the walk ing stunt again until he was seventy years old, when he would walk seventy miles.
 MT. Gavin Is a ruddy checked, agile, athletic man who bellies his age He has been celebrating bis birthday in this manner for a number of years, so at midnight he left Atlantic City and began his hike. He came to Kaighn's ferry, which is slXty-one miles from the shore, and thence to his home, distance of sixty-fve miles. Mir. Gavin attributes his ability to make these trips to regular system of living. T get up in the morning, take cold bath and eat a hot breakfast" he said. ''Then keep myself on a regular schedule and walk whenever l get the chance. shall cut out walking birth days after this and cOnfne myself to five year periods. About the time am one hundred the CObbs Creek boule- yard may be done and may take a century run over that
 "Oh, I forgot something. l get busy with the dumbbells every morning"
The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-17
suruson RspIsosd MuIe,s Ear.

Flushing, O.-The ear of valuable mule of the Belmont Coal company has been saved. While being worked in the mine a live wire came in contact with the mules ear and burned 1t of close to the head. Dr. V. Fl. Stevens was summoned and he sewed the ear back on the mules head. The opera ton was successful and the mule will not be disfigured.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-17

In the matter of the estate of J.. D.. Reynolds an insane person.. No- tiea is hereby given, that G. w. Hinchman, who was heretofore on the 10th day of April, 1916, ap- pointed guardian of the estate of J. ., Reynolds an insane person, by reason of the death of the said J. E. Reynolds, is no longer authorized to act as such guardian, and that the G. W. Hinchman, has filed with this court, his final account and re- port, as such guardian, which said report will come on for hearing in this court, on the 11th day of June, 1917, at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at which time and place objections to- or protest may be heard against said account.
 J. J. KENNEDY,
 United States Commis
 sioner and ex-officio Probate Judge. First publication, May 4, 1917. Final publication, June s, 1917,
The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-17
SYSTEM AND PRINTING

Don't put 1t off, but order your printing now which You will need when you put 1A youT new system.
 The Daily 'Alaskaa job department Is be'ter !eQuipped than ever to do your work. Prices right and work promptly executed. If.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-17
TO CURE ANY DISEASE.
The Cause Must be Removed, Same
 Way With DandruR.

The Cause Must be Removed, Same
 Way With Dandruf.
 Kill the germ that causes dandrun' falling hair and badness, you will have no more dandruff, and your hair must grow luxurlantly. Newbro's Herpicide not only contains the dandruff germ destroyer, but it is also most delight ful hair dressing for regular toilet use. No other hair preparation is on this scientific basis of destoying the dandrur germs. It stops all irritation, keeps the scalp sweet, pure and wholesome. Re- member that something claimed to be just as good" will not do the work Of genuine He-plcide. Sold by leading druggists. Send 1Oc. in stamps for sam yle to The Herpicide Co.,. Detroit. Mich.
 One Dollar bottle, guaranteed.
 At all Drug Storse. Adv.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-17

this interesting topcoat. Large bone buttons fasten it, and the collar and cuffs are featured in a reverse of the material The girlish hat is black Ve- Iours with a grosgrain band.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-17

What kind of leather makes the best shoes%
 Don't know. but banana peelings make the best slippers"
The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-17

sAN-TOx. COUGH DROPS, Admin istered on sugar. Acts almost in- stantly. The prescription or an eminent physician. Keller Bros The san-Tox Drug store.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-17
STEAL CHICKENS, BUT
 LEAVE AN AUTOMOBILE

+ Kansas City, Mo,-Chlcken ! I. thieves who robbed the hem ! 4. roost of farmer near this city l :. the other night were unable to .: z. get their automobile starter to ! i. work, so they left the fIvver be- l + hind. Although the farmer ap- I !. propriated the machine for the ]
 I. two dozen chickens stolen, be, ] .s. said he thought the thieves got ] -s. something the better of the bar 1 T. gain. + q 4. 4. 4. I. .i T. .i 4. 4; 4. .ss..;
The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-17

In the Probate Court for the Ter ri1ory Of Alaska, Division No. l, at Haipes, before J. J. Kennedy, U. 5. Commissioner and Ex-of- ficio Probate Judge.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-05-17
FOR UTIEITY.

Pepper and Salt Mixture In Wool Gives
 This Smart Coat. -HeavJ wool mixture in gray, with 8 belted waist line and faring skirt gives