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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-27

Judge Chambers said. the Germans
had invited him to take a trip on a
man-of-war. But he regarded this
as a polite method of effecting his
deportation-am method that was adopt
ed with some success in the case of
his father.
"I'1l never forget the scene in the
courtroom which followed my de-
cision that Malietoa was king" said
three men-of-war. in the harbor and
the British had two. But the British
consul, who had two NAVAL officers
by his side, one of them Capt. (now
vice admiraD Sturdee. arose and said
he accepted the decision. He said,
also. that her majesty's government
was prepared to back the decision
with force. pointing to the men-of-
war in the harbor.
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bomb. To ignite the fuse, you had to
rub it on the STRIKER" just the same
as striking a match. The fuse was
timed to five seconds or longer. Some
of the fuses issued in those days would
burn down in a second or two, while
others would "sizz" for week before
exploding. Back in Blighty the NUM-
ton workers weren't quite up to snuff,
the way they are now. If the fuse took
a notion to burn too quickly they gen.
orally buried the bomb maker next
day. So making bombs could not be
called "cushy" or safe job.
After making several bombs the pro-
fessor instructs the platoon in throw
ing them. He takes a liam tin" from
the fire step, trembling a little, be-
cause it is nervous work, especially
when new at it, lights the fuse on his
striker. The fuse begins to "sizz" and
sputter and a spiral of smoke, like
that from smoldering' fag, rises from
1t. The platoon splits in two and
ducks around the traverse nearest to
them. They don't like the looks and
sound of the burning fuse. When that
fuse begins to smoke and "sizz" you
want to say good-by to it as soon as
possible, so Tommy with all his might
chucks 1t over the top and croucheS
against the parapet, waiting for the
explosion.
Lots of times in bombing the liam
TIM would be picked up by the Ger
mans, before it exploded, and thrown
back at Tommy with dire results,
After lot of men went West in this
manner an order was issued, reading
something like this:
ITO all ranks in the British army:
After igniting the fuse and before
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-18
BOND ISSUE TO RE MARKETED
State Treasurer 3. r. Lacy Takes Is
sue with the Council of State.

Raleigh.-With State Treasurer B.
r. Lacy emphatically voting in the
negative, the Council of State deter
mined to proceed with the issuance
and sale of 100000 bonds for the
states educational and charitable in
situations as provided by the last leg
islature in its siX-year building pro-
gram. The action of the Council OF
State followed the conference with the
heads of the institutions and the build
ing commission. The sentiments of
the institution heads were embodied
in a resolution which was submitted
to the Council of State and adopted.
The resolution itself was signed by
DR.. Robert H. Wright, of the East
Carolina Teacher Training School; DR..
l. B. McBrayer, superintendent Of the
State Sanatorium; DR.. J. l. Foust, pres
ident of the State Normal at Green's
boro; DR.. E. K. Graham, president of
the University of North Carolina; DR..
W. G. Riddick, president of the State
College of Agriculture and Engineer
ing; DR.. Albert Anderson, president of
the Central Hospital for the Insane;
DR.. John McCampbell, superintendent
of the Western Hospital for the In
sane at Morganton; Prof. J. T. Alder
man, acting superintendent of the
State School for the Blind and Deaf;
DR.. w. w. Faison, superintendent Of
the Goldsboro Hospital, and c. E.
Boyer.
The institution heads and the COun-
Gil of State by endorsement of the
resolution, believe that the State of
North Carolina is abundantly able and
willing to take care of it's institutions
in the moderate degree provided by
this act, and at the same time bear
her full share of her war responsible
tiles"
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CHAPTER Kill.
My First Official Bath.


Right behind our rest billet was a
large creek about ten feet deep and
twenty feet across, and it was a habit
of the company to avail themselves of
an opportunity to take a swim and at
the same time thoroughly wash them.
selves and their underwear when on
their own. We were having a spell Of
hot weather, and these baths to us
were q luxury. The TOmmies would
splash around in the water and then
come out and sit in the sun and have
what they termed "shirt hunt" At
first we tried to drown the "cooties,"
but they also seemed to enjoy the bath.
One Sunday morning the whole sec.
ton was in the creek and we were hav-
ing a gay time, when the sergeant ma
jor appeared on the scene. He came
to the edge of the creek and ordered:
"Come out of 1t. Get your equipment
on, drill ORDER and fall in for bath
parade. Look lively, my hearties. You
have only got fifteen minutes" A howl
Of indignation from the creek greeted
this order, but out we came. Disci-
Dline is discipline. We lined I'D in
front of our billet with rifles and bay
onets (why you need rifles and bayo-
nets to take a bath gets mel, a full
quota of ammunition, and our tin hats.
Each man had a piece of soap and q
towel. After an eigLt-kilo march along
a dusty road, with an occasional shell
whistling overhead, We arrived at a
little squat frame building upon the
bank of creek. Nailed over the door
of this building was large sign which
read divisional Baths" In a wooden
shed in the rear we could hear a
wheezy old engine pumping water.
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NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS.

The Barium Springs Orphanage has
received a bequest of $40,0 900 from the
late John C. Burroughs, a wealthy
citizen of Charlotte.
Glass has been found in candy
bought by a citizen of Charlotte and
the matter has been referred to off,
Gals at Washington.
A deep snow fell at Pilot Mountain
in the recent cold weather prevailing
over the State.
North Carolina has realized the one
million dollar mark in her Liberty
Loan campaign, with Cumberland
county leading.
The decomposed remains of body
washed ashore on Shell Island, about
two miles off Wrightsville Beach and
opposite Moore inlet, was buried by
the health department without the
Formally of an inquest. Coroner Hol-
den not deeming this formality nee
eSsary.
The town of Mooresville has won
the right to fly the honor flag offered
by Secretary McAdoo to town first
raising their quotas.
The $4,000 structure OF the Mt.
Zion church at Concord has been de,
stroyed by fire, with OILY $4,000 in
surance.
Thomas Frazier, alleged TO have
robbed a bank in San Francisco re-
Gently, getting away with over $4,000,
was arrested while walking along one
of the principal streets of Charlotte by
Detective Bradley, OF the city police
department, who recognized the man
from photographs sent out from the
California city.
Six North Carolina flour mills have
been disciplined by the food admins
tration and two have been ordered
to close down
Dr. Silvio Won Ruck, the noted tn
bercuiosis specialist of Asheville. is
lead.
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acquisitions Full Output.

Durham.-In order that American
soldiers in France and in training
camps for this country may be sup.
piled with their favOrite brand Of
smoking tobacco, the government has
issued orders taking over the entire
output Of the American Tobacco Com
pany's Bull Durham brand of tobacco
The tobacco is all manufactured at the
local plant, and the order is now opera
tive.
The order taking over the output of
Bull Durham does not mean that the
company's business has been COM
mandeered by the government 1t
does mean, however, that from now
until the time when all government
needs have been supplied. no Bull Dur
ham will be sold for domestic con-
sumption.
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ISSUES ORDER TO
HOLD THEIR GROUND
FIGHTING WITH BACKS TO WALL
HAIG SAYS THERE MUST BE
NO FALLING BACK.
READY TO STR|CK BACK?
"The Safety of Duh Homes and the
Freedom Of Mankind" Now at
Stake Says Field Marshal.

Great Brftain's armies stand at bay
in France and Flanders. After three
weeks IA combat which has eclipsed
anything that has ragged during the
entire four years of warfare, Field
Marshal Haig has issued a command
to his men to hold their ground at
whatever cost, and fight with the
knowledge that their blows are struck
''fOr the safety of their homes and
the freedom OF mankind"
The end of the first phase of this
giant struggle now may be considered
as passed. "8here must be no re-
tiroment," is Haig's admonitoin which
adds that the British now are fight
ing with their backs to the wall" The
withdrawal in Picardy was officially
reported to have been part of the al
lied strategy, but the period for such
tactics seemingly has gone into his
tory.
The order issued by the field mar
shall contains another sentence which
may. be pregnant with significance.
The French army is moving rapidly
and in great force to our support"
he said, and this is the first official in
timatiOn that the allies are ready to
strike back at the German invaders.
This blow may not necessarily fall in
Flanders, nor yet in Picardy, but may
be aimed at some part of the line
where Generalissimo Foch may be-
lieve he can cut through the German
front and cOmne1 the ToutOnS to re-
lax their pressure against the British.
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Highest Birth Rate.

Raleigh.-North Carolina cops the
list of registration states with the
highest birth rate recorded. According
to DR.. ]. B. Gordon, state registrar,
our birth rate for 1915 was 319 per
thousand population while the latest
published federal report for 1915
shows Connecticut and Michigan tie
ing for second honors with a rate of
only .26.7. Another very surprising
thing to many people according to DIR.
Gordon, will be to learn from North
Cardinals vital statistics that our
white birth rate is 1922 per thousand
whites as against only 81 per thous-
and for the colored population. The
fact that our white birth rate is higher
than our colored rate is found to con-
form to the findings in every other
registration state in the Union.
A still more striking finding is that
while North Carolina has a high birth
rate we also have a low death rate,
only 1870 per thousand population for
1916. In Analysing the death rate Dr.
Gordon finds that the white death rate
is much lower than the colored rate.
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FIVE THOUSAND
MOVE TO CAMP
ORDERS FOR ENTRAINING DUR.
ING FtVE-DAY PERIOD BE-
GINNING APRIL &C..
NUMBER OF WHITES CALLED
AIIotment0 Of Each Local Board Has
Been Mailed Out to Them-First
Two Calls Negroes.

RAleigh.-Local boards throughout
the State are being mailed orders from
the dice of the adjutant general for
quotas of men to be entrained during
the i've day period beginning April 26.
North Carolina is called upon to fur
nish 5,O56 men under the three calls
from the war department effective on
the date mentioned, and the Office
here has completed the work of ap-
portioning the quotas for each local
board.
This total of over five thousand men
to be sent to training camps is di-
vided into three calls The first is for
2,0O1 colored men, to be sent to Camp
Grant, Rockford, ILL.,, this being the
number due from this State under pre-
vious calls. The second call is for
1897 cOlored men to be sent to Camp
Jackson for training, applying on the
new call. The third is for 1857 white
men to be sent to Camp Jackson, ap-
plying on the new call.
The board asre asked to bear in
mind previous instructions with re-
gard to deferred, being placed o. the
end of the quotas wherein is the first
class. Those boards which have no
men but such as are so engaged have
reached the end OF their quota and
must furnish the number called for,
even though that number include
those who are actively, completely
and assiduously engaged in the cult
walton of a crop. The war department
has ordered that the exact allotment
under each of the calls be furnished.
The call for 1857 white men to be
sent to Camp Jackson is allotted as fol-
lows: Alamance Is, Alexander 4, AL
leghany 3, Arson IL, Ashe s, Avery A,
Beaufort IA, BERTHE 9, Bladen 8, Bruins
wick 6, Buncombe No. 13, Buncombe
No. IA, Burke 9, Cabarrus 16, Cald.
well 8, Camden 2, Carteret 6, Caswell
5, Catawba ID, Chatham 10, Cherokee
6, Chowan S, Clay 2, Cleveland IS, Co.
lun1bus 13, Craven IS, Cumberland II,
Currituck 4, Dare 2, Davidson IA, Da-
vie S, Duplin ID, Durham 20, Edge
combe 16, Winston-Salem 27, Forsyth
II, Franklin 10, CASTOR 20, Gates 4,
Graham 2, Granville 10, Greene z,
Guilford No. 1 8, Guilford No. Is,
Guilford No. 9, Hartford 10, Harnett
II, Haywood IL, Henderson 8, Hert-
ford 6, Hoke 5, Hyde 4, Iredell IA,
Jackson 6, Johnston No. 1 8, John
ston No. II, Jones 3, Lee S, Lenoir
10, Lincoln 7, Mcdowell 7, Macon 5.
Madison 9, Martin g. Charlotte "a,
Mecklenburg II, Mitchell 4, Montgom-
cry 6, Moore 8, Nash 20, Wilmington
IA, New Hanover 2, Northampton 10,
Onslow 6, Orange 8, Pamlico S, Pas
quotank 2, Pender 6, Perquimans 5,
Person z, Pitt 10 Poolk 4, Randolph
II, Richmond IL, Robson No. 1 IL,
Robson No. 10, Rockingham 16,
Rowan IS, Rutherford II, Sampson
IA, Scotland 8, Stanly Is, Stokes 8.
Surry IL, Swain 5, Pennsylvania s,
Tyrrell 2, Union IA, Vance 9, Wake
No. 1 10, Wake No. 2 IA, Warren 9,
5, Watauga 5, Wayne 19,
Wilkes u, Wilson II, Yadkin 5, Yam
cev G.
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"EVERY POSITION MUST BE
HELD TO TIE LAST MAN"

London Field Marshal Sir Douglas
address to "All ranks of the British
army in France and Flanders" says:
Every position must be held to
the last man. There must be no re-
tirement With ouH backs to the wall
and believing in the justice of our
cause, each one of Us might fight on
to the end.
"The safety of our homes and the
freedom of mankind depend alike up
on the conduct of each one OF us at
this critical moment"
Field Marshal Haig announced that
the French army sis moving rapidly
and in great force" to the support Of
the British.
The special order says:
"Three weeks ago today, the enemy
began his terrific attacks against us
on a 5O-mile front. His objects are
to separate us from theFrench, to take
the channel ports and to destroy the
British army.
''In spite of throwing, already, one
hundred and six divisions into the bat
tie and enduring the most reckless
sacrifice of human life, he has yet
made little progress toward his goals.
1--WE owe this to the determined
fighting and self-sacrifice of our
troops Words fail me to express ire
admiration which I feel for the splen-
did resistance offered by all ranks of
our army under the most trying cir
cumstances.
MANY amongst us now are tired.
To those, would say that victory will
belong to the side which holds out the
longest. The French army is moving
rapidly and in great force to our sup
port. There is no other course open
to us to fight it out.
Every position must be held to
the last man. There must be no re-
tirement. With our backs to the wall
and believing in the justice of our
cause, each one of us must fight to
the end The safety of our homes
and the freedom of mankind depend
alike upon the conduct Of each one of
us at this critical m9ment"
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IaiIed forEnticina Labor.

New Bern.-Harrell Nalepasse was
placed in the county jail in default OF
a justified bond in the sum of four
hundred dollars, afte" probable cause
was found on a charge of enticing
laborers to leave New Bern for anoth-
er State. Nalepasse says he is in the
employment of the Richmond Cedar
Works of Richmond, Va, ard at the
hearing in police court he admitted
that his mission here was to get la
eorers for his company. 1t was stated
hat the defendant has visited othsr
owns in the state
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Woodmen Buy Liberty Bonds.

Kinston.-The national camp of the
Woodmen of the World invested $685.
600 in Liberty Bonds through Elisha
B. Lewis, State manager for the order.
The Woodmen are putting $1,0OO,0OO
into the bonds, purchasing at many
laces in the country. The subscrip-
ton here was the only one in North
Carolina. Kinston's allotment gets
the credit The order holds $4,000
900 worth of first and second loan
bonds
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throwing the jam-tin bomb, count
slowly one! two! three!'
This in order to give the fuse time
enough to burn down, so that the bomb
would explode before the Germans
could throw it back.
Tommy read the Order-he reads
them all, but after he 1gnited the fuse
and it began to smoke-OrderS were
forgotten, and away she went in record
time and back she came to the further
discomfort of the thrOwer.
Then another order was issued to
count, zone hundred! two hundred I!
three hundred!' But Tommy didn't
care If the order read to count up to
a thousand by quarters, he was going
to get rid of that liam tin," because
from experience he had learned not
to trust it.
When the powers that be realized
that they could not change Tommy
they decided to change the type of
bomb and did so-substituting the
''hair brush,' the "cricket ball." and
later the Mills bomb.
The standard bomb used in the Brit
ish army is the mills" It is about the
shape and size of large lemon. Al
though not actually lemon, Fritz In
sists that it is; perhaps he judges 1t
by the havoc caused by its explosion.
The Mills bomb is made Of steel, the
outside of which is corrugated into 4o
small squares, which, upon the explo-
sion of the bomb, scatter in a wide
area. wounding or killing any FT1tz
Io To- mn eOr+unofo enough to be nit
by one of the flying fragments.
Although a very destructive ana Ell
fcieut. bomb the mills" has the con-
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-18
SOUTHERN YARDS ARE
ASKED TO SET THE PACE

Washington. - Southern shipyards
were called on to set the pace in
building ships in an address made by
Chairman Hurley, of the shipping
board. before the shipping committee
Of the Southern Commercial Congress-
Mr.. Hurley pointed out the south's ad-
vantages in coast line and climatic
conditions and said there was no rea-
son why it should be second to any
other section in producing ocean tom
mage.
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Model for All Others.

Special from Washington. - The
shipping board is making plans for es-
tablishing a shipyard to build con-
crete ships at Wilmington, N. c.,
without waiting for congressional &C.
ton on the appropriation OF 10000
900, which has been asked for ex-
perimental work with the new type
of construction.
Five yards are to be established,
but the site at Wilmington Is the only
one definitely selected. The Whining
ton yard is to be the model for all
the other yards.
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WILL BASE QUOTAS ON
NUMBER IN CLASS ONE

Washington-The war departments
plan for basing draft quotas on the
number of reg:strants in Class 1 in
stead of upon population was sustain
ed in the house after an all-day fight
over a resolution passed by the SEN
the. authorizing the change. Oppon-
ents of the plan champiOned an
amendment by Representative Schall-
enberger Of Nebraska to base the quo
tas on total registratio and liability
to service, which was defeated.
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f1dence OF the thrower, I'm mat he
knows 1t will not explode until re-
leased from his grip.
1t is a mechanical device, with
lever, fitted into slot at the top,
which extends half way around the
circumference and is held in place at
the bottom by q fixing pin. In this pin
there is small metal ring, for the
purpose Of extracting the pin when
ready to throw
You do not throw bomb the way a
baseball is thrown, because, when in
a narrow trench, your hand is liable
to strike against the parados, traverse
or parapet, and then down goes the
bomb, and, in a couple of seconds or
so, up goes Tommy.
In throwing, the bomb and lever are
grasped in the right hand, thu left foot
is advanced, knee stiff, about one and
half its length to the fro1,t, while
the right leg, knee bent, is carried
slightly to the right. The left arm is
extended at an angle Of IS degrees,
pointing In the direction the bomb is to
be thrown. This POSITION is similar
to that Of shot putting. only that the
right arm is extended downward. Then
you hnrl the bomb from you with an
overhead bowling motion, the same as
in cricket, throwing: it fairly high i'm
the air, this in order to give the fuse
q chance to burn down so that when
the bomb lands, it Immediately ex-
plodes and gives the Germans no time
to scamper out Of its range or to re-
turn it.
AS the bomb leaves your hand, the
lever, by means Of spring, is projected
into the air and falls harmlessly to
the ground few feet in front Of the
bomber.
When the lever flies off it releases
strong spring, which forces the firing
pin into percussion cap. This ignites
the fuse, vA61sf+ burns down and sets
Off the detonae~r, charged with fulmi-
nate of mercury, which explodes the
main charge of ammonia.
The average British soldier is not an
expert at throwing; it is a new game
to him, therefore the Canadians and
Americans, who have played baseball
from the kindergarten up, take natu-
rally to bomb throwing and excel in
this act. A six-fOot English bomber
Will stand in awed silence when he
sees little f1ve-fOot-nothing Canadian
OutdlStance his throw by several yards.
I have read few war stories Of bomb
ing, where baseball pitchers curved
their bombs when throwing them, but
pitcher who can do this would make
"Christy" Mathewson look like a piker,
and is losing valuable time playing in
the European War bush league, when
he would be able to set the ''big
league" on fire.
We had q cushy time while at this
school. In fact, to US it was a regular
vacation, and we were very sorry when
one morning the adjutant ordered us
portatiOn and ratiOns to return to our
units up the line.
Arriving at our section, the boys
once again rendered us the glad mitt,
but looked askance at us out Of the
corners Of their eyes. They could not
conceive, as they expressed it, how q
man could be such a blinking idiot as
to join the Suicide club. 1 was begin.
ming to feel sorry that 1 had become
a member of said club, and my life to
me appeared dOubly precious.
Now that was q sure-enOugh
bomber / was praying for peace and
hoping that my services as such would
not be required.
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The Joys Of the bath are de-
picted by Empey in the next in.
staIIment.
CTO BE CONTINUED.)
Great Writers Lazy.

Shelley had an indOlent vein. He
was very fond Of the water, and many
of his finest poems were composed as
he idled at his ease in a boat. he
made the best of his short life, how"
ever, and that cannot be said for Cole
ridge, who seemed to be afflicted with
that lack of will to work which some
people call laZiness. lie had one al
the greatest minds, but he left eveS
his finest poems mera 6Hagmen+R>
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sinking Iusitania
Arthur
England and enlss the British
recruiting
Empey desperate
Williams news., 1918-06-14
PERSONAL AND LOCAL

At Johnson & McSonkey
 Miss Mildred Smith is work ing for Johnson & McConkey. At Babbitt-Polson
 Leonard Ramey has gone to work for Babbitt- Poison Co. From Phoenix
 Ralph Johnson came up from Phoenix Monday. For Few Days
 Mrs. I. P. McConkey came down from Flagstaff for a few days, the first of the week. From Albuquerque
 Richard R. Archer, of Albu- querque, N. M., was Williams visitor Sunday and Monday. At Flagstaff Saturday
 Messrs. Ed Johnson, Jerrie Lee, M Duffy and G. H. Spell mire were at Flagstaff Saturday Visitor Sunday
 Mrs. E. l.. Dodge, of Maine, was the guest of Mrs. Harry Dial Sunday.
 Home for Summer
 Mrs. Alice Barclay has re- turned from Clarkdale to spend the summer in Williams. From Ash Fork
 MT. and Mrs. Rambeau and guests motored up from Ash Fork Tuesday morning. Locates Here
 MT. Elmer Berg has located in Williams, and is now with Johnson & McConkey. Returned from Camp
 Harry M. Owens has return ed from Camp Cody, because of physical inability to serve in the army.