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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-08-08

AS he was travelling with 9th.
er prisoners toward a prison
camp In the heart OF Germany,
o'Brien conceived the idea Of
leaplng through the car window
in a desperate attempt to gain
his liberty. There was one
chance in a thousand that he
would escape death or re.
capture. O'Brien took the
chance. Read about this thrill.
Ing exploit in the next install.
ment.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-06-21
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Heath Springs, r. F.. ID. 1, June
1.-THE people of this community
are thoroughly aroused in the inter-
est of War Savings stamps. Two pa
triotic meetings have been held at
CASTOR school house, one on Monday
this week. The following named are
members of the committee appointed
to canvass for War Savings stamps:
Messrs. w. j. Bowers, w. +. Mac
key, r. l.. Sims, o. c. Adams, Les
ter Faulkenberry, Misses Connie
llinson, Lottie Bowers, Bertha Grim
minger, Mrs. j. r. Bowers and Mrs.
Della Faulkenberry
Mr.. j. T. Green, of Lancaster, de-
livered patriotic address to a large
and appreciative audience on Tues
day night. A meeting will be held
tonight for the colOred people OF the
community at their school hous' ID.
The committee will meet for instruc-
tions Thursday night and canvassing
Y i'll begin Friday.
Mrs r. f. Crimminger has re-
turned from the Fennel infirmary.
where she has been receiving treat
ment, and her health is now improv-
ing.
Mrs. II. l.. Lyles is visiting rela-
tives in Columbia this week.
Miss Ruth Holden. OF Kershaw.
spent Saturday and Sunday Of last
week with her uncle, Mr.. j. X. Neal.
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ters OF Dismissary.
MRS. DMMA STOvER, =
Administrator
Dated May 29th, 1918.
1t a w-Fri. No. 64-4t. N,ss
, NOTICE TO CONTRACTORsj

Auction bids will be receivedl /
the site by Lancaster and Ches
Held counties on Monday, June 24
1918, at p. m, standard time, "a
furnishing all materials. labor an
equipment for the constructi&I
complete, ready for traffic, of Ia
Manus Bridge, over Lynch's River
between Taxahaw and Pageland.
The bridge is composeds of tw,
hfteen-foot spans and one fifty-foo
truss span, length over all eighty-
feet, containing approximatelyI2
$50 feet B-M. Lumber is to bel
Leaf Pine and White Oak. Cor 3<2$
plans and specifications on -
County Commissioners som(
Lancaster, S. c. and County -
visor's office at Chesterfield, SIC:
The right is reserved to reject .s
and all bids.
Il. III. KESTER. engineer
Lancaster Conf
E. r. KNIGHT. supervis3 4
Chesterfield Cod
67-4t.
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SUBMARINE GETS 80 TONS
COPPER FROM STEAMSHIP
U-BOat Stays on Surface Two Days
While Making Transfer From
Norwegian Boat.

New York, June 1.-THE au-
dacity of a German submarine cap
tain, who kept his vessel on the sur
race for two days while transferring
to the U-boat 80 tons of copper from
the Norwegian steamship Vindeg-
gen, which was halted 120 miles off
Cape Hatteras, was described by of
ficers Of the freighter. The Vindeg-
gems crew and that OF the Henrik
Lund, also Norwegian, were
brought to this port aboard the Dan
ish steamship Brosund, after their
craft had been sunk by the Teuton
raider.
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few days.
Mrs. Mamie Cousar went to Char
lotte Tuesday to consult DR.. Wilson
ant about her eyes. Rev w. s. Pat
terson took her in his car.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Wylie were Wis
itors Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Craig
Wednesday evening.
Misses Annette and jamie Craig
spent one day and night In York
county last week. They report good
rains and crops along the road.
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LEGAL ADS
NOTICE ~ FINAL DISCHARGE.

The undersigned as administrators
OF the estate Of Il. Francis Kee, de
ceased, give notice that they will
make final return on June goth
1918, and apply to the Probate
Court of Lancaster county for Let.
ters Dismissary.
IT. LAFAYETTE KEE,
w. p. ROBINSON,
Administrators.
Dated May 29th, 1918.
1t a w--Fri. No. Sat.
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supplies. and it made us prouder
than ever that we are Americans.
A supper dance, next; we couldn't
miss that. We had feared, from ru-
mors we had heard, that dancing had
stopped, and the boys we had met in
so many American camps in France
had also feared it. They don't want
oftenest expressed wish is that when
they come back they shall find it as
lively and as cheerful here as it was
before they went away. They may be
| reassured. for as yet there seems to
be no artificial sombernsss. What a
JOY TO be in a crowded ball room
with the men in dinner coats or
evening dress and the ladies in Their
low-cut gowns of many bright colors
Music and dancing! May they stay
with us even when the days of sor>
row come, for they are OF wonder
full aid in carrying out the warfare
which must be waged on this side or
the water. There was an intermis-
sion here. too,. for a war fund cam
paign, and it was inspiring to us,
knowing the great need. to see the
enthusiasm with which thousands
of dollars We're subscribed by these
now thoroughly awakened Ameri-
cans.
They don't raise their money that
nearly four years at this war, and
the great mass of the people no lon
ger have the money to give, even at
tremendous sacrifice-so the enthu-
siasm of money-giving is gone Those
who have it give all they can, now
without the asking, as a matter of
course.
When we emerged from the dance
we found beautiful moonlight
| night, clear and pleasant and deli
ciously balmy. and the sky was dot
ted with countless brilliant stars
| People We're admiring the wonderful
night. but its beauty spoiled the
| evening for us. There was almost
gruesomeness in the clearness of the
| heavens and in the glorious redi-
ance OF the moon, for we had been
so long used to regard that sort of
night as certain warrant that the
Gothas would come, to feel positive
| that the air would be filled with the
whirr of airplanes, that the stars
all n
prove to be wing lights, that the
bursting of bombs and the spatter of
shrapnel-so much worse in city
of homes than over a camp Of war
riors-would make the night hid
eous with death and destruction.
Yes, we were home and safe, but still
there was in us the habit OF dislike
for beautiful moonlight nights: and :.
too, there was in us poignant sym
pathy for the people over there on
this night, if the skies had been so
clear. We wondered what all our
friends were doing, and if there had
capped.
Suddenly there came dreadful
sound. There was a fire somewhere.
and the fire engines came whizZing
along outside the park, sounding the
shrill, high-pitched rising and fall
ing wall OF the siren-in London and
| Paris and elsewhere in hell-ridden
| Europe, the terror-fraught signal of
an air raid!
We had no heart to enjoy our
drive, and so hurried home
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LLOYD GEORGE PRAISES
VALOR OF AMERICANS
Al Dinner of the Printers Society OF
London He Speaks of Their
"Supcrb Nalor."

London, June lO.-Premier David
Lloyd George. in replying to toast
to the success of the entente allied
arms at the dinner of the Printers
society of London said that British
ers have made unsurpassed sacri-
fees for great purpose and a high
ideal.
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Lancaster, s. c.. X. f. ID. Z, June
17.-This section is very dry now.
II has been about four weeks since
We haG any rain at all A good rain
would help us wonderfully.
The small grain is cut and most Of
il is hauled out OF the field The
wheat is nearly a failure on account
of the rust taking it. We are much
disappointed in II as the prospect at
one time was promising.
There hasn't been any peas sowed
yet. Stubble land is too dryefor IL.
They are scarce and no clay peas to
be had at all. 80
Gardens are about burned up and
will take lots to revive them.
Miss Mary Craig has gone to CO.
lumbia to take business course.
j. w. Craig went to Columbia with
her and returned Monday "a, -,
Miss jamie Craig went TO
Ca: zsx and took mas .-a
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REGISTRATION NOTICE.
State OF South Carolina,
County of Lancaster.

County of Lancaster. -.
To the Voters OF Lancaster Couuf
Under the act of the genera sG
semgly of 1917, all registratioh hE
tihcates will terminate ON Jun( H.
1918; and for the purpose oft<z III (
registering all voters OF the cot EM
the books of registratic fkn be ~ "a (
w the Office of the co III hhoard< ~
registration at Lancasti 49,
every day during the nj
and August Sunday ex
100 o'clock A, M. to 6
which time the voters q y
appear n person and al lE ~
Note. crease: That uI1 ! M n i!q
you must apply In psss9(
During this time vo( 3 :
lions OF the county i x$< "a
but for their convent
tration board will xiaiJk
during the month Of ~ W -
register the vol Z MA
will be paplsnedA fHI ~
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NOTICE OF. FINAL DISCHARGE.

The undersigned as administra-
trix Of the estate OF 8. B. Slower. de-
ceased, gixae notice that she will
Hna returH o6y June 2sth
B. Ind apply to y the Probate
Cox pncsster county for Let.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-05-18

gale at sea shreds canvas. He felt
a bit panicky. He had always planned
a courtship of year or SO, meetings,
separations, and remeetings, pleasur-
able expectations, little junkets to the
aters and country places; In brief, to
witness the rose grow and unfold,
Somewhere he had read or heard that
courtship was the plummet which
sounded the depths of compatibility.
He knew nothing Of Fortune Ched-
soye, save that she was beautiful to
his eyes, and that she was as different
from the ordinary run of girls as yon-
der moon was from the stars.
Again she stopped, leaning over the
parapet and staring down at the wa
ter swirling past the stone embank-
ment. He did likewise, resting upon
his folded arms. Suddenly his tongue
became alive; and quietly, without
hesitancy or embarrassment, he began
to tell her OF his school life, his life
at home. And the manner In which
he spoke Of his mother warmed her;
and she was strangely and wonder
ingly attracted.
"Of course, the mother meant the
best in the world when she gave me
Percival Algernon; and because she
meant the best, / have rarely tried to
hide them. What was good enough for
her to give was good enough for me
to keep. 1t is simply that have been
foolish about 1t, representative.
should have laughed and accepted the
thing as a joke; instead, made the
fatal move of trying to run away and
hide. But, taking the name in FULL
lightly, ut sounds as incongruous as
playing Traumerei on a steam-piano."
He expected her to laugh, but her
heart was too full of the old ache.
This young man, kindly, gentle, intel.
ligent, II shy, was love-child. And
she? An offspring, the loneliest OF
the lonely, the child that wasn't want.
ed Many time she had thought OF
fiinging all to the winds, of running
away and hiding where they never
should find her, Of working with her
own hands for her bread and butter
Little they'd have cared. But always
the rebel spirit died within her as she
stepped outside the villa gates. TIC
leave behind for unknown privations
certain assured comforts, things Of
which she was fond, things to which
she was used, she couldn't do 1t, she
just couldn't. Morally and physically
she was a little coward.
Let us go In" she said sharply
Another moment, and she would have
been in tears.
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These four persons were about going
forward upon singularly desperate
and unusual enterprise. From now on
they were - longer to fence with one
another, to sHstt eyom this topic to
that, with the indlrvct azsaeuvers ef
house-cat intent upon the guest Ct
the Friday mackerel The woman'a
face was alive with eagerness; the
oldest man looked from one to the
other with earnest calculation; Wal
lace no longer hid his cupidity;
Ryanne's immobility of countenan&
was In itself a tacit admission to the
burning of all his bridges that h9
might become a part of this conclave.
Smuggling" said the major with
prudent lowering of voice. evidently
continuing some previous debate,
Smuggling is a fine art, keen spo*t-
ing proposition; and the consequences
Of discovery are never serious. What's
fine Of thousand dollars against
the profits of many successful excur.
sions into the port Of New York?
Nothing, comparatively. For several
years, now, we have carried on this
business with the utmost adroitness.
Never have we drawn serious atten'
ton. We have made two or three
blunders, but the suspicious Of the Sc
cret-service were put to Rleep upon
each occasion. We have Drospered.
Here is a gem, let us say, worth on
this side a Thousand; over there we
sell 1t for enough to give us clean
profit of three or four hundred. Forty
per cent. upon our investment. That
ought to be enough for any reasonable
person. Am / rights
Mrs. Chedsoye alone was unrespon-
sive to this appeal.
81 continue, then. We are making
enough to lay by something for our
old age. And that's the only goal
which never loses its Ulster. But
this AFFAIR.""
Talk, talk" said Mrs. Chedsoye i'm
patiently.
"My dear Kate, allow me to relieve
my mind"
"You have done SO till the topic IL
threadbare. 1t Is rather late In the
day to go over the ground again.
Time is everything just now
Admitted But this affair. Kate, -
big; big with dangers, big with pitt
falls; there is hidden menace In ev-
cry step Of it. Mayhap death; who
knows? The older grow, the more !
cling to material comforts, to enter
prises Of small dangers. However, as
you infer, there's no going back now"
mo-" assented Ryanne, his mouth
hard; mot if have to proceed alone"
She smiled at him. "You talk OF
danger" speaking to the major. What
danger can there be?"
THE unforeseen danger, the danger
Of which we know nothing, and there
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Because It wouldn't be real; 1t
would be going to the moon q la
Coney Island"
Wrong, absolutely wrong II /
told you that am stakeholder in
this company, and that the adventure
of the Yhiordes rug was arranged for
my special benefit, what would you
say2"
"Say?" George turned serious
countenance toward the adventurer.
why. the whole thing is absurd on
the face of it. AS joke, It might go:
but as genuine affair. utterly inpos-
sible."
mo" quietly. "I admit that II
sounds absurd, yes; but ten years age
they'd have locked up, as insane, Q
man who said that he could fy. But
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-05-18
sYNoPsIa

] George Percival Algernon Jones, Vice
president Of the Metropolitan Oriental
Rug company of New York, thirstng for
romance, Is in Cairo on business trip
Horace Ryanne arrives at the hotel in
Cairo with a carefully guarded bundle.
Ryanne sells Jones the famous holy Yhi-
ordes rug which he admits having stolen
from a pasha at Bagdad. Jones meets
Major Callahan and later is introduced to
Fortune Chedsoye by woman to whom
ne had loaned $50 pounds at Monte Carlo
some months previously, and who turns
out to be Fortunes mother. Jones takes
Mrs. Chedsoye and Fortune to polo
game Fortune returns to Jones the
money borrowed by her mother. Mrs
Chedsoye appears to be engaged in some
mysterious enterprise unknown to the
daughter
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CHAPTER vl.-(contInued.)

Some one was sitting down beside
him 1t was Ryanne, in evening
clothes, immaculate, blase, pink
checked There are some men so hap
PLY framed that they can don ready
made quits without calling your atten-
ton to the fact. George saw at once
that the adventurer was one Of these
fortunate individuals.
Makes a rather good picture to
look at; eh?" began Ryanne, rolling
a flake-tobacco cigarette. Dancer"
mo. Wish 1 could. You've done
quick work" with admiring inspection.
No flaw anywhere How do you
do it?''
Thanks. Thanks to you, l might
say. did soyae tall hustling, though.
Strange, how we love these funeral
toggeries. W. follow the dance and
we follow tbs dead, with never a
variation in color. The man who In
vented the modern evening clothes
must have done good business during
the day as chief-mourner."
why don't you send for your lug
gage?"
Ryanne caressed his chin. "My
luggage is, believe, in the hands of
the enemy. 1t is Of no great import
ance. never carry anything of value,
save my skin. I'm not like the villain
In the melodrama; no discriminating
documents, no lost wills, no directions
for digging up pirates gold"
II suppose you'll soon be off for
American" George asked indifferently.
81 suppose SO. By the way, saw
you at the game today"
mo! Where were you?"
"Top row. l am going to ask a
favor of you 1t may sound rather odd
to your ears, but | know those two
ladies rather we'll. l kept out of the
way till / could find some clothes.
The favor / ask is that you will not
tell them anything regarding the cir
cumstances Of our meeting. am
known to them as globe-trotter and
a collector"
That's too bad" said George con-
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tritely. But have already told
them"
"The devil you have!" Ryanne drop
per his cigarette into the ash-tray. If
I remember rigAsly, you asked me to
say nothing"
II know" said George, visibly en-
barrassed. Il forgot"
well, the fat is In the FIRE. dare
say that can get round It, 1t was
risky. Womea like to talk. ! expect
every hour to hear OF some one ar
irving from Bagdad."
There's no boat from that direction
till next week." Informed George, who
was stickley on timetables.
"There are other ways Of getting
into Egypt. Know anything about
gscing-oamelsf"
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You don't believe

you don't believe 2"
my friend, l believe In all things
that haven't been proved impossible.
You've been knocking about here long
enough to know something Of the
tenacity of the Arab and the East In
dian. Given just cause, an idols
eye or holy carpet, and they'll fol
low you round the world ten times, II
need be. never worry needlessly,
but lay out before me all the points
Of the game. There Is one man in Bag
dad who will never cease to think OF
me. This fellow is an Arab, Mahomed-
El-Gebel by name, the real article,
proud and savage, into whose keeping
the Holy Yhiordes was given; Ma
homed- El-Gebel, the Pasha's right
hand, sheik in his own right"
But you haven't got the rug now"
mo, Mr.. Jones, l haven't; but on
the other hand, you have. So, here
we are together. When he gets
through with me, your turn"
George laughed. Ryanne grew
thoughtful over this sign. Percival
Algernon did not seem exactly wor'
ried.
Aren't you a little afraid?"
II? Why should I be?' inquired
George innocently. Certainly, what
ever your Arab friends arguments
may be, moral or physical, I'm going
to keep that Yhiordes."
Was he bluff1ng? Ryanne wondered.
Did he really have nerve? Well,
within forty EIGHT hours there would
come test.
Say, do you know, l rather wish
you'd been with me on that trip-that
is, If you like rough game" Ryanne
said this in all sincerity.
81 have never been In rough game,
as you call it; but I've often had q
strong desire to be, just to find out for
myself what sort of duffer I am
Ryanne had met this sort of man be-
fore; the fellow who wanted to know
what stuff he was made of, and was
ready 10 TlSh LIS ulu6 W h1u OuI. Lac
experience had taught him to expect
nothing Of the man who knew jdst
what he was going to do in crisis.
did you ever know, Mr.. Jones,
said Ryanne, his eyes humorous, "that
there Is an organization In this WORLD
of ours, a company that offers a try
out to men of your kidney?"
whats that? What do you mean 2
What l say. There is an established
concern which will, upon application
for liberal purchase of stock, ar
range any kind of adventure vol
wish
"What?" George drew in his legs
and sat up. What sort of jolly Is
this?"
You put your finger upon the one
great obstacle. No one will believe
that such concern exists. Yet 1t is
a fact. And why notf"
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officers and directors In the United
Romance and Adventure Company,
Ltd. sat in the majors room, round
the boudoir-stand which had tempo
rarily been given the dignity Of a
table. The scene would not have been
without interest either to the specula-
tive physiognomist or to the dramat-
ist. To each 1t would have represent
ed one Of those astonishing moments
when the soul OF a person comes out
into the open, as one might express It,
incautiously, to be revealed In the ex-
pressions of the eyes and the mouth.
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MHu VVstf'IU FtWdy OHSCdtII6u'
fore are unable TO prepare for 1t. Yox
do not see 1t, my dear. but 1t is there
nevertheless"
Wallace nodded approvingly. Ry
arne shrugged
Failure is practically impossible
And want excitement; crave 1t a.
ysu men crave your tobacco"
And there, we are, Kate. 1t really
isn't the gold; it's the excitement Of
getting 1t and coming away unscathed
II could only get you to look at al
sides of the affair! It's the Rubicona
CTo BE coETINURE,s
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CHAPTER VII.

Ryanne Tables His Cards.
During this time Mrs. Chedsoye, the
major, Messrs. Ryanne and Wallace,
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-08-16
Notice for Publication

Coal. Serial No. 019361
Department Of the Interior, u s. Lane
Office at Miles City, Montana July 10 1915
h Notice is hereby given that
Thomas W. Browning,
of Paris, Mont. who, on July 16, 1918
made HID. application, No. 019361, for
SaNW4, NaSW4, SE4SW4, Lots 2, 3, A,
section 2, township 10 N. range 43 east,
M. P. Meridian, has filed notice of inten-
ton to make three year proof, to establish
claim to the land above described, before
Peter Roryik, U. S. Commissioner, at Cir
clf Montana on the 9th day of Sept. 1913.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Andrew Thibault, Charles billiard, Chesley
Bigney, William Meadows. all of Paris,
Montana.
7-19 8-16 G. w. Myers, Register
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-08-16

France has long been noted for
its Percheron horses, the province
of La Perche being the original
home of this great breed. The
war has broken down this busi-
ness. Conditions are so serious in
France that a horse buyer for the
French government said recently
that France would be In the market
for all the American surplus pure
bred breeding stock offered for sale
at least three years after the close
Of the war.
BeIgians Wiped Out.
For several decades the Belgian
government has encouraged the
Belgian horse industry by govern
ment subsidy, offering large prem
fums for the best horses exhibited
at a series OF district fairs or
shows. AS a result, when the war
opened in 1914, Belgium was known
as one of the leading horse pro.
ducing countries. None of this In
dustry remains, as the invading
Germans have wiped 1t out COM
pletely.
There is only one place where
foundation stock for the horse In
dustry of Europe can be bought In
the immediate future--Anerics.
We will lead in horse breeding
soon.-Copyrighted.