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Workmen in a munitions factory near London packing chlorine for ship
ment to the front. All of them have to wear respirators.
CUPID INWAR TIME
Weddings in a Hurry Are Now the
Fashion.
Romance Surrounds Almost Ail War
Marriages and All Records for
Speed Are Shattered—Char
ters Ship for Ceremony.
London. —A newspaper edited and
published in some inexplicable man
ner by the British soldiers in the
trenches has the following society
note concerning the recent wedding
of a young officer:
“Twenty-four hours after the cere
mony the bridegroom left for Bou
logne by the famous 'one o’clock spe
cial’ from Victoria station, and before
midnight he was cozily installed in
the ‘Carlton’ dug-out, pelted with
something far hotter than confetti or
old shoes. His bride went back to
her mother’s and dreamed of the time
when he’d come again—unannounced
as good fortune is, and equally hard
to recognize.
“We’re eating cake here, and wear
ing the mufflers her bridesmaids gave
us. Meanwhile the colonel is writing
a letter of thanks and promising to
keep an eye upon young D for a
day or two, until his head comes down
out of the clouds, and the sniper be
comes a real institution to him again.”
Weddings in a hurry are now the
fashion in Britain and honeymoons,
far from being a real ‘moon’ in length,
are often not even a day. Better be
a wife for five minutes, one bride is
quoted as saying, than an old maid
all your life. Another woman was
heard to remark: “Thank God, he was
my husband for a fortnight before he
was shot. Now he can claim me in
heaven.’’
The other day a Glasgow man re
ceived a summons on an hour’s notice
to attend the wedding of one of his
soldier friends. The intrepid son of
Mars had arrived unexpectedly and
astonished his own particular corner
of the world by announcing that he
intended to be wedded and away in
thirty-six hours. The best man was
afterward heard to assert that the ex
citement of arranging and carrying
through the ceremonies at the regis-
QUEEN TURNS NURSE
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The queen of Bulgaria, whose ability
as a nurse has been manifested time
and time again since she established
in Sofia one of the finest and best
equipped hospitals, has again taken
actively to the work which she loves
so dearly. The alleviation of the suf
ferings of her subjects has always
been the thing nearest her heart, and
So, while the soldiers of her kingdom
are marching to the war, she is de
voting her time and attention to nurs
ing the sick orphans in the orphan
ages of her country.
trar’s, before the sheriff, and in
church, in addition to the lunch, the
speeches, a subsequent visit to a the
ater, and send-off at the station, all
within the time limit, had made a
confirmed bachelor of him.
A bluejacket on one of the Harwich
destroyers made a strong bid for the
matrimonial speed record. He could
only get two hours' leave of absence
from his ship, but he used it well. His
fiancee and friends met him directly
he reached the shore, and they drove
in a motor car to Ramsey church, a
good three miles. There the wedding
was performed and the newly-married
c.uple drove back to Harwich to have
a "top speed” wedding breakfast.
The witty Lady Randolph Churchill
says the nearest approach she knows
to a marriage made in heaven was the
case of the aviator who flew' over from
Dunkirk recently, married his bride,
and then flew back again.
Romance surrounds almost all the
war weddings. The story of how a
farmer’s son, Sergeant Crees of the
North Somerset Yeomanry, wooeil and
won a peer’s niece for a bride reads
more like a figment of the novelist s
brain than an actual occurrence.
The gallant sergeant came scatheless
through a lot of the stiffest fighting,
but the day arrived when he found
himself among th' “casualties” in
Rouen hospital. Thence he was in
valided home and sent to the V. A. D.
hospital at Oakley Manor, Shrews
bury. The sister second in command
here W'as Miss Jackson, who belongs
to a wealthy Shropshire family, and
whose father fought and died for his
country in the South African war.
Lord Hatherton of Teddesley Park,
Staffordshire, is her uncle, and she
has no end of aristocratic relations,
all of which, however, did not prevent
her devoting herself to nursing the
wounded soldiers. Thanks to her care
and devotion, Sergeant Crees recov
ered from a serious operation, and a
warm attachment sprang up between
nurse and patient, which led to their
engagement and ultimate marriage.
Two members of the medical pro
fession were recently made as one on
the high seas. They were Dr. Percy
Wallace (First British Field hospital
to Serbia) and Miss Dora Woolcock
of the Wounded Allies First Field
unit to Montenegro. It was when
they arrived at Saloniki that Doctor
Wallace and Miss Woolcock decided
to marry. She was bound for Monte
negro, he for Serbia. They found
that the wedding could only be per
formed after a three weeks’ residence,
unless the marriage could take place
in a British ship outside the three
mile limit. Accordingly, a ship was
chartered, and three miles from land
the marriage service was read by the
vicar of Buxton. Claude Askew, the
novelist, gave the gride away.
MAKES MODEL OF HIS JAIL
San Francisco Prisoner Works for Fun
—Wouldn't Work for His
Children.
San Francisco. —Joseph Swanson,
serving a term in the county jail for
failure to provide for his children, has
proved his ability to provide for them
it he cares to try.
During three weks in jail he mod
e'ed a wooden replica of the building
in which he is imprisoned, with a saw,
jackknife and a pot of glue. The win
dows are made of celluloid panes.
Swanson has presented his model to
Sheriff Barnet, who has placed it in
his collection of curiosities.
HURLS ALIMONY ON PORCH
Probation Officer Gives Ohio Man
Lessons in Proper Way
to Pay.
Akron, 0. —Probation Officer Switzer
recently gave Harry P. Hood instruc
tions as to the proper way to pay $5
a week alimony he was ordered to
give his wife.
Hood tied up J 4.50 in a small pack
age and threw it upon the porch of
his wife’s home. Mrs. Hood ask^d
Switzer to make Hood give up the
additional 50 cents, r.nd added that It
would be more satisfactory if in fu
ture the money was paid through the
court.
THE BULLETIN. IRWINTON. GEORGIA.
Cmi TO FREEDOM
Prisoners Make Daring Escape
From German Camp.
Cut Barbed-Wire Fences and Flee in
Night — British Sergeant Tells
King of Remarkable Feat of
Self and Private.
London.—An interesting account of
the escape from Germany of two pris
oners of war, one a sergeant and the
other a private of a British light in
fantry regiment, has just come to light
through the audience granted by the
king at Buckingham Palace to Ser
geant Birley and Private Haworth.
King George personally questioned
the two soldiers at great length re
garding their escape. The story told
by Sergeant Birley was particularly
interesting.
“It took us just four days and five
nights to get free of German soil after
we had once broken out of our prison
at Westphalia,” the sergeant said. "I
went to the front with my regiment,
the First Gloucesters, as soon as the
war broke out, and was captured on
October 29, 1914, near Ypres. On the
way to the prison camp in Westphalia
we were pretty roughly treated. One
night fifty-three of us were locked in
a church and had nothing to eat for
more than-twenty-four hours. At last
they emptied a basket of moldy bread
on to the floor and left us a bucket of
water. During the train journey fifty
three of us were crammed into a
closed railway van for fifty-six hours.
Only once were we allowed to get out,
and that was for a few minutes. For
food we had some scraps of bread.
“At the camp I made several plans
for escaping, but never got a favora
ble opportunity. I managed to get
myself transferred to another camp
and there began to make my plans
which have succeeded so well.
“It was not an easy matter. The
camp was, of course surrounded by a
high barbed-wire fencing. On each
of its four posts a sentry was posted,
and night four powerful acetylene
lamps lighted up the whole of the
camp.
"The great night came. We waited
till one of the sentries had his back
turned, and then wriggled on our
stomachs to the fencing. I then man
aged to sever one strand of the fence
and, to my mind, the tang of it made
the greatest noise I've ever heard.
But the sentry walked on. With beat
ing heart I snapped the second strand.
That made an awful noise. Still the
sentry walked on. Then we crawled
out, free men. I am glad we outwit
ted that sentry, as he had caused us a
lot of trouble.
“We had to crawl for 100 yards be
fore we could get any sort of shelter,
and then we moved away as quickly
as we could in the circumstances.
During the night a compass which I
had was a real friend.
“The only food we had was a few
biscuits and a little chocolate. When
ever we came near a farm the watch
dogs barked. In the nights that fol
lowed the dogs always smelt us when
we were stealing apples in the or
chards. For three days we had no
other food but apples.
“It wasn't safe to travel by day. Al
though we had plenty of tobacco, 1
had laid it down that there was to be
no smoking day or night until we were
out of the country. The smell of Eng
lish tobacco might easily put an in
quisitive German oil our track.
“When we actually crossed the fron
, tier into Holland w r e were in a pretty
bad condition, so cramped with sleep
ing out in the wet and our feet swol
len and bleeding we could hardly
stand. The first Dutch farmhouse was
a godsend.”
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“Ginger,” mascot of the battleship
। Oregon, recently got lost while on
shore leave. Later he showed up
along the water front and was given
five days in the brig for failing to
show up at four bells in the evening.
Bans Dope Kiss in Prison.
Seattle, Wash.—County Prison Su
perintendent Hally has put an official
1 ban on the kissing of women prison
ers by visitors.
A few months ago he gave notice
I that no more kissing would be allowed
I in the visitors’ lobby of the men’s sec
i tion, following the discovery that
: "dope” in various forms was being
• transferred to prisoners by the lip-to
1 lip route. A similar discovery, he
nays, was made in the women’s ward.
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Not Guilty.
There had been a railway collision
near a country town in Virginia, and
a shrewd lawyer had hurried from
Richmond to the scene of the disaster.
He noticed an old colored man with a
badly injured head, and hurried up to
him where he lay moaning on the
ground.
“How about damages?” began the
lawyer.
But the sufferer waved him off.
"G’way, bos, g’way,” he said. "I
never hit de train. I never done sich
a thing in all mah life, so help me
Gawd! Yo’ can't git no damages outen
me.”
Know* Tetterine Cure* Eczema.
Mocksville, N. C.
I have a friend in the country here who
has suffered for years with Eczema, and
I told him if he used Tetterine he would
soon be relieved, for it is the only thing
that I ever used that would kill it.
P. S. Early.
Tetterine cures Eczema, Tetter, Ring
Worm, Itching Piles and every form of
Scalp and Skin Disease. Tetterine 50c;
Tetterine Soap 25c. At druggists, or by
mall from the manufacturer. The Shup
trine Co., Savannah, Ga.
With every mail order for Tetterine we
?ive a box of Shuptrine’s 10c Liver Pills
ree. Adv.
Long Known.
“Father,” said the minister's son,
“my teacher says that ‘collect’ and
'congregate' mean the same thing. Do
they?”
“Perhaps they do, my son,” said the
venerable clergyman; “but you may
tell your teacher that there is a vast
difference between a congregation and
a collection.” —Christian Register.
Money Saved.
"Ever make any money in the stock
market?”
“No, but I’ve saved a lot by not play
ing it.”
Another Slap.
Sarcasticus (to friend who is exhib
iting his new 4d car) —Cute little
thing! I suppose you wash it in the
sink.
The small boy who refuses a piece
of pie at dinner when he sees that the
supply is running short is a true hero.
Don’t ask a truthful man for his
honest opinion of you unless you are
prepared fora jolt.
Landlord’s Way.
John Barrymore, the actor, was
talking about Germany’s submarine
policy in New York.
“When Germany told us we Amer
icans might cross the seas in safety
provided we used such ships as she
offered, I nearly died laughing," he
said.
“I was irresistibly reminded of the
poet who complained to his landlord:
“ ‘Landlord, I really must insist on
your repairing my doors and win
dows. They close so badly that it in
terrupts my work. It blows my hair
all about my face.’
“ ‘Humph,’ said the landlord. ‘The
easiest way out of that difficulty is for
you to get your hair cut off.’ ” —New
York Times.
Rub It On and Rub It In.
For lame back and soreness, sprains
and strains, sore throat and stiff neck,
you must rub on and rub in thorough
ly Hanford’s Balsam of Myrrh. Re
member that one good application at
first is better than several light ones.
Adv.
Zero.
“We don’t hear much about Doctor
Cook since the time he claimed to
hav discovered the North pole.”
“No; I daresay he never fully re
covered from the terrible frost he en
countered.”
COVETED BY ALL
but possessed byfsea beautiful
head of hair. If yours is streaked with
gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can re
store it to its former beauty and lus
ter by using “La Creole” Hair Dress
ing. Price sl.oo.—Adv;
Passing the Buck.
"Our head bookkeeper can add up
four columns of figures at rnce.”
"Doesn’t he ever make mistakes?”
"Oh, sure, but he’s got an assistant
to blame them on.”
Sorry He Spoke.
He (during family quarrel)—l sup
pose some idiot proposed to you before
I did.
She —No, when you did.
A woman’s greatest need in life is
love.
Divergent Opinion.
He had a lot of money, but no dis
coverable ancestors, and so it came
that he affected contempt for pride of
birth. And there was another man
whose family-tree was tall and um
brageous, but who possessed no other
assets worth mentioning. A discus
sion between these two men was of
profound interest. Each avoided
hurting the other’s feelings, but it was
easy to detect an undercurrent of an
tagonism. They concluded: “Say what
you will,” asserted the one, “it is a
fine thing to come of good stock.” “It’s
a finer thing," replied the other, with
finality, “to own it.”
Bugs.
"Isn't this awful!” exclaimed Mrs.
Gabb as she looked up from her news
paper.
“Isn’t what awful?” demanded Mr.
Gabb.
“Why, here’s a woman who com
plains that the insane asylum is filled
with bugs,” replied Mrs. Gabb.
“Well,” growled Mr. Gabb, “what’s
the blame place for, anyway?”
Impossible.
"Now, as to the Balkan situation —”
“You’ll have to excuse me. I’m in
a hurry.”
“Why, I was going to sum up the
situation in two words.”
“It can't be done.”
Outclassed.
"Were you much impressed by the
majestic roar of Niagara?”
“I was at first, but later on, when
my husband put up a roar about our
hotel bill, Niagara sounded like a
rippling brook.”
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System
Tako the Old Standard GROVE'S
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what you are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it is
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The
Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron
builds up the system. 50 cents. Adv.
A term in office will in most cases
kill the reform bug in a man.
The man who is an expert with th*
garden hoe seldom plays golf.
