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FRIDAY, JUNE 15.
TRAPSHOOTING FOR WOMEN
BRINGS ii~"rr •
THRILLS, HEALTH AND POISE
Midget and Giant Trapshols Meet;
She Weighs 90—He 360
Mr*. Ada Schilling, of Portland, Ore.,
tlnie*t trapshot in the world, and George
J. Tuchett, of Los Angeles, most mas
alve gun wlelder, together at recent trap Wz’Z
khoot.
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CALIFORNIA IN THE WAR
By Stewart Edward White of the Vigi
lantes.
Burlingame, Cal.—it has been naid that
California is not awake to the war as
are the states on the eastern seaboard.
I believe the statement, was made that
California was not awake politically in
the last election. If so. she has in both
instances, the faculty of walking in her
sleep. There may not be quite the same
insistence on dreadnaughts in our front
dooryards and bomb proofs in the cel
lars. for we are fortunately free from
the hysteria of invasion. But in the
essentials, the people fully realize the
gravity of the situation and are doing
their best to meet circumstances. •
The community in which I live is twen
ty miles from San Francisco. It has
always had the reputation of being the
typical home of the wealthy and luxury
loving. Fout of its clubmen are taking
aviation at the school in Redwood City.
Another large group has installed rifle
ranges and is practising regularly with
the army Springfield rifle. The owner of
a nornamental thousand-acre estate is
putting 865 acres into potatoes—“every
thing but the formal garden.” Four
busines.s men of my acquaintance, men
whose interests are very large, are clos
ing out their Interests in order to give
their full time to the needs of the coun
try. A dozen others are giving up part
of four days a week—a great deal of
their time—to attend a private course of
intensive instruction, under the tuition
of a regular army officer, aiming to fit
them for commissions in the reserve
corps or the militia. These men are
studying not only the ordinary drill regu
lations. and so forth, but such subjects
as hippology, military law. artillery en
gineering, and the like. They not only
give up the two hours a day for four
days of the week required for the quiz,
but they put in practically all of their
evenings studying the subjects covered.
This is done in no dilletante spirit. The
enlistment from this immediate vicinity
would compare favorably per capita with
any other part of the country.
The state at large filled up its quota
AN ENJOYABLE
VACATION
—lt will be, provided you
have the necessary travel
ing luggage that will not
embarrass you. Our
SUIT CASES AND
TRAVELING BAGS
—will fill that important
feature and at a big saving
of
25? to 50? OFF.
on today’s prices. We ad
vise your selection while the
line is complete; later we
may be compelled to with
draw these wonderful
values.
ALL STRAW HATS
20? OFF.
—Think of this wonderful
reduction so early in the
season. Now is your op
portunity, every imaginable
style and quality, 20 per
cent off.
F. e. MERTINS
854 BROAD.
Phone 101,
for the Marine Cor* " Mir first of any
state, and stand. -I number of
enlistments about < all the states
of the Union. Th » t of the fact
that in population It; a ds much lower
in the list. California has also adopted
the principle of a state constabulary; it
has organized a force of one thousand
paid men who are to take over the po
licing of the state, leaving other men
free to help in other ways. Three times
a week in San Francisco men gather in
great numbers without uniform, without
enlistment, simply for the sake of learn
ing the rudiments of military education
under army officers who volunteer their
services for the purpose. For two hours
these men drill. There Is nothing conic
pulsory in the attendance, yet the ranks
are always filled to overflowing. These
men are from the numbers of those who
are yet in a position to enlist, who have
not been conscripted, yet who hope when
the time comes to have gained some lit
tle preparation towards efficiency.
Two years ago certain far-sighted men,
among them Thornwall Mullaly, foresaw
that the war was to he a long one and
that eventually the United States might
become involved. They organized the
San Francisco Cavalry Troop, a purely
voluntary organization. Encouraged by
the regular army and furnished by it with
equipment, this cavalry troop has drilled
and studied regularly ever since. It Is
now in a position where it can be used
as the nucleus for a full cavalry regi
ment. This example of preparedness in
advance by individuals ts almost unique.
About every city and village in the
state has Its home guard drilling regu
larly for service wherever required. I
have not been east for seven or eight
months.
It may not be possible that the east
is more Interested In the war than the
Pacific Coast. If so. that must be an
interest practically' to the exclusion of
all others—or it may be that California
makes less of a fuss about it.
REFUS ES THE POST
London. —Some of the morning pa
pers say that Lord Rothermere, broth
er of Lord Northeliffe, has refused the
food enntrollership. Lord Rothermere
was the fourth person to be offered
this difficult and thankless post.
EMBARGO ON WHEAT
Buenos A i res. Paraguay and Uru
guay today formally anounced an em
bargo against exportation of flour and
from their borders.
SENSATION OF THE
ran m NiEDici
Dill SALE HERE
Calotabs, the New Calomel
Tablet That Does Not Gripe,
Nauseate Nor Salivate,Proves
an Interesting Surprise to
Local Druggists.
Th« horrors of Saturday night Calo
mel-taking are a thing of the past.
According to local druggists, the new
de-nauseated calomel tablet is a grand
success, the.triumph of modern phar
macy, Not the slightest danger or
unpleasantness attends its use and
yet It exhibits ail of the liver-cleans
ing qualities of yie old-style calomel.
There can be no doubt that calomel
is the most valuable and universally
useful of all medicines and now that its
objectionable qualities have been re
moved its popularity will have no
bounds. One tablet on the tongue at
bedtime, a swallow of water, no taste
or unpleasantness whatever. The next
morning you are feeling fine, liver
clean, splendid appetite. Eat what you
please—no danger. In ordering the
new de-nauseated calomel tablets ask
for "Calotaba." Sold only in original
and aeaied parkagea containing twenty
doaea, price thirty-five centa. Your
druggist has authority to refund your
money if you are not perfectly delight
ed with Calotabs.
Merchants Who Invest in AUGUSTA HERALD Advertising Get Large Profits
(By Mrs. Ada Schilling:, Pacific Coast
Champion Woman Trapshot.)
Less face powder and more gun pow
der!
This is my recipe to women for health,
fun and self development.
I mean trapshooting and field shooting.
To steady the nerves, sharpen the
judgment, whip up the red blood, and to
banish petty soul qualities there is
nothing like it.
It is a pity that only about one wom
an in 50,000 has yet discovered this—
that men have so long been allowed to
monopolize this exhilarating sport.
Since I’ve smelled powder and felt the
delicious little kick of a gun at my
shoulder 1 have lost all interest in pink
teas and women’s usual gossip fests.
Shooting teaches a woman to be
steady, unruffled, sure of herself. It
takes her out into the field and the range
on an equality with broad-guage men—
a sportsman’s exact equality which
makes no flattering or derogatory dis
tinction between the sexes. And Am
erican women can stand a little more
of that!
It. is an absolute cure for that exag
gerated self consciousness that too often
becomes monstrous selfishness for lack
of an engrossing outside interest.
There is an indescribable fascination
in breaking the blue-rocks, the "clay
birds.” thrown at unknown agles from
the trap. Eye. hand and brain must
act together in perfect accord. You've
got to think fast and act instantly. No
time to muddle, to see-saw, to rely on
woman’s sadly overworked "Instinct” in
facing and measuring life.
You concentrate—bang!—and the tar
get is shattered. You've got what you
aimed at.
To aim at a thing and to get it in
stantly—that appeals to a woman per
haps even more than a man. And it is
for this reason, probably, that a woman
becomes tremendously enthused about
trapshooting after she’s once bagged her
first bird.
Field shooting is even better for those
who have no qualms about killing game.
There is exhilaration in the tramp afield,
excitement in stalking the game, a
primal satisfaction in making the hit.
and wholesome weariness and appetite at
the end of the day.
This is the day of the gun. in a dread*
ful and sinister sense, but American
women can get something fine, inspir
ing and broadening out or the gun as a
sport.
T advise every women who has any
leisure for recreation, and enough money
to buy a gun, to shoot—for the good of
her soul as well as her body.
(Tomorrow Mrs. Schilling gives point
ers in handling the rifle.)
FRANCE’S WINGED NAVY
Stories From tho Air Boy—Young
Pilots Fight Against Odds.
VYhen ttie Navy that Flies was in
vited to "co-operate with the Royal
Flying Corps on portions of the line
in France, where its experience of
escort work and offensive patrol would
prove of the greatest value"—or words
to that effect—it accepted the invita
tion with suppressed exultation and
detailed certain squadrons of fighters.
It admits having selected picked pilots,
because there was the credit of the
old navy to consider. Each squadron
was entrusted to the care of a sea
soned veteran of fully 2B summers, and
of the fight leaders there was one that
had even turned 21.
The navy that flies did not waste
much time looking about it. One fire
eater. setting off to explore the coun
try some 30 miles behind the German
lines, came upon a school of "Quirks.”
Quirks, M may be explained for the
benefit of bipeds, are young Roche
aviators in an embryonic stage. From
the convenient ambush of a cloud he
watched their antics for a while as
they flopped about above their aero
drome. and then, descending like a
thunderbolt, he tumbled three over
scattering the remainder, and return
ed to make his report.
An Early Morning i'Bag.”
Rut sterner work lay ahead, and a
fair sample of it is contained in a re
port of another young gentleman who
went scouting single-handed over the
German lines early one morning. He
was attacked by two single-seated Al
batross machines and a Halberstadt
fighter. Into the engine of the latter
he emptied a tray of cartridges, with
the result that it immediately went
spinning down; to make assurance
doubly sure he fired another BO rounds
into the whirling wreck as it fell.
Three more Albatross machines whir
red to the attack, and in his subse
quent report he noted that the head of
one pilot precisely filled the ring of his
sight. He saw three bullets actually
strike the pilot’s head, with the not
surprising result that the would-be
avenger heeled over the span to the
ground. By this time he had been
driven down to a height of 200 feel
above German occupied territory, and,
having lost sight of the remainder of
his aggressors, he decided to return
home at that height.
His adventures were by no means
terminated by this decision. An
astonished company of German cav
alry drew rein and peppered him with
rifle shots as he whisked over the top
of their lances. Five minutes later
another Albatross attacked him. He
rocked the machine In giddy sweeps
until within 50 yards of his opponent
and side-looped over his (this, remem
ber, at 200 feet from the ground), fired
a short hurst and drove the Hun off
for a moment while he regained equil
ibrium. Then once more the enemy
swooped upon him. “These operations”
he states, "were repeated several times
with a slight variation in the way I
looped over him (flying agatr.st a head
wind). When he was about 150 yards
behind me I looped straight over hirn
and, coming out of the loop dived at
him and fired a good long burst. I
saw nearly all the bullets go into the
pilot’s back, Just on the edge of the
cockpit. He Immediately dived straight
Into the ground. I then went over the
German trenches filled with soldiers,
and was fired on by machine guns,
rifles, and small field guna in or out
of range. There were many shells
bursting In and about tho German
trenches."
The report concluded with estimates
of the strength of various bodies of in
fantry and cavalry, movements of the
convoy and artillery, noticed during
the Intervals, between aerial somer
saults. The pilot landed at the first
aerodrome he i*w, adding, in expla
nation of such an Irregular proceed
ing, that his machine was badly shot
about.
The squadrons fought from down to
dusk, generally a day’s Journey for a
horse behind the German lines. They
fought at altitudes at which In -prlng
a thermometer registered 60 degrees
of frost, returning with petrol tanks
frozen and hands and feet and ear*
swollen by frost-nip. One squadron
had a hundred decisive fights In a
month (omitting skirmishes) and ac
counted for 25 Roche machines. Its
log (unofficially termed "Game-book”)
contained such entries as the follow
ing: “Four machines sent up; man
aged to hag five Huns before break
fast
A naval pilot a Canadian -attacked
a single-seated Albatross scout at 8,000
fast above the German lines. lie dis
posed of him after a short engagement,
and was then attacked by seven others
who drove him down to 3,000 feet and
shot his machine to pieces He
plunged to the ground and crashed
amid the wreck of his machine a cou-
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Mrs. Ada Schilling in shooting attire
ple of hundred yards behind the Ca
nadian lines, breaking ,i leg and dis
locatin ga shoulder. A furious bom
bardment front German heavy artillery
was in progress at the time, and he
crawled for shelter into i shell hole,
where he remained front 3 a m until
■i p. nt. Fire then having slackened,
a party from the trenches who had
witnessed him fall f'otn a height of
3,000 feet went in search <f Ills body
with a view to burying it, and found
hint ronscious and cheerful, (hough
very thirsty.
It's a stomach and kidney regulator.
Try Mertins’ Crystal Water. I’hone
101.
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WOMEN! IT’S CHEAP!
USE LEMON JUICE TO
MAKE BEAUTY LOTION
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In all weather* the akin and com
plexion can he kept wonderfully clear,
aoft and white hy the u*e of thl* Inex
pensive lemon lotion which any girl or
woman can ea*lly prepare.
The Juice of two fre*h lemon* strain
ed Into a bottle containing three ounces
of orchard white makes a whole quar
ter pint of the rrio«t remarkable lemon
*kin heautifler at about the cost one
mu*t pay for a small Jar of the ordi
nary cold cream*. Care should be
taken to strain the lemon Juice through
a fine cloth ho no lemon pulp get* In,
then this lotion will keep fre*h for
months. Kvery woman lyiow* that
lemon Juice Is used to bleach and re
move such blemishes e* freckles, sal
lowness and tan. and Is the ideal skin
softener, smoothener and heautifler.
Just try It! flat three ounce* of
orchard white at any pharmacy and
two lemon* from the grocer and make
up a ciuarter pint of thl* sweetly fra
grant lemon lotion. It naturally should
help to soften, freshen, blench and
bring out the roses and hidden beauty
of any skin. Those who will make It
a habit to gently massage this lotion
Into the face, neck,, arm* and hands
once or twice dally may he repaid with
a skin that. Is flexible and young look
ing and a peach-like complexion.
940 Phone
Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear and
Novelty Shop .
SATURDAY SPECIALS
Ladies’ Black Silk Boot Hose, 2]*)£
Ladies’ Seamed Silk Hose, '7E?
at / DC
Ladies’ Black and Fancy d* i /A/A
Silk Hose 1 ,UU
Lisle Thread OCp QCp
Hose at JJL JUL
Ladies’ Lisle 1 g & O C
thread vests 10CJ.Z7C ZDC
Genuine Lisle Thread Union rtC
Suits, for /DC
Crepe de Chine Camisoles, Q*7
$1.50 values, for %J 4 C
Crepe de Chine Teddies, d»o IQ
$3.00 values, for 1 %/
Soft Dove Muslin CQ QQ
Gowns, for D«7C Oi/C
Warner’s Rust-Proof Corsets, d* -|
Beautiful line of Shirt Waists, d|i
values up to $2.00, for m) 1
Special sale of black and fancy Silk
Skirts; values up to $12.50, QQ
for «po.i/0
The Shop for Smartly Dressed Women
The House of Truth SCHNEIDER’S 11 The House of Truth.
Yes! It’s Going to be Summer
And You Are Going to Need
Summer Clothes
Men’s Genuine Palm Beach IA
Suits Selling at fJJV* all
Made from a genuine Palm Beach cloth, either in pinch-back or the conservative styles.
New English models in plain grey, tan, fancy checks, stripes, etc. They are perfect in
finish and perfect in fitting. See our Palm Beach Suits before you buy.
Men’s Mohair Trousers HQF
Selling for
These Trousers are made of the very best quality of Serge and made in the latest styles.
They come in all sizes and colors. A wonderful bargain if you need trousers.
Men's New Low Shoes
$3.95
We will sell tomorrow men’s
new Low Shoes with Goodyear
welts, the newest styles in gun
and tan, button or blucher
lace. This is an exceptionally
good bargain, so do not miss
it.
All ,
Mail
Order*
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in Full
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Priestley’s Mohair (PA QF
Suits for Men at t|/v*v«l
Nothing more serviceable for a well dressed man than
Priestley’s Mohairs. We have a wonderful selection of
these fabrics made in the very best and most stylish suits.
Any style suit for any man, be he large or small, and they
are cool and comfortable.
Men’s Tropical (PA QF
Worsted Suits at
These suits come in grey, tan and blue and are unlined;
they make good light suits for summer. All wool and in
the ncwer.t styles both to suit the young and the more con
servative man. Ar, extra good value for so small a price.
Men’s Genuine Palm (PA QF
Beach Trousers at v£i*v«J
Just received a new lot of men’s extra trousers, made of
genuine Palm Beach cloth. This is just the time to buy
an extra pair of trousers for your last summer’s suit, then
you will have a new, cool suit for summer.
Men’s Genuine
Panama Hats
Selling for Only
*2.45
Men’s genuine Panama
Hats, they come in va
rious shapes and in
fact, any style to suit
any man, the most com
fortable hat that you
can wear in summer.
SCHNEIDERS
THE STORE THAT SELLS AS IT ADVERTISES
One lot of fine Shirt Waists; *7Q
values up to $1.50, for 4 %/ C
A new line ot' White Wash Skirts, i
special for this sale $1
Umbrellas, rain-proof, guaranteed for
one year; special, A JJQ
Ladies’ Handkerchiefs, all linen i r\
tor ... lUC
Chamoisette Gloves, in white 7C
and natural, for /DC
Special sale of Sheets and Spreads.
1 dozen Hemmed Napkins, “j QQ
Sateen Petticoats, in white, black, d* i
and fancy, special 1
Specially priced for this sale, a few fine
Tailored Suits; values up dJ7 CQ
to $20.00, now V / .DU
House Dresses, d* i TO d* P?Q
from sj) 1 tPO.DU
“ $1.50 "$15.00
Special showing of Leather and d* -|
Silk Hand Bags Cp JL
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