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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-03-29
HOW CHINESE FIGHT PLAGUE.
PRACTICES OF ORIENTALS RE-
LATED BY MISSIONARY.
Fantasies which Provided Weird
Remedies, Holiday Migration and
Sheer Ignorance Given as Cause of
spread OF Disease.

Louisville. KY. March 23.-Oriental
fantasies. thai provide weird reme-
dies In the face OF the mystery OF
sickness. holiday migration and sheer
ignorance are given as the cause for
the spread OF the plague In China,
by the Rev. Charles A. Leonard, a
Baptist missionary. OF Louisville,
with headquarters at Lai Chow Flu,
China. In a letter. which he has writ
ten TO friends here.
Mr.. Leonard's letter. posted Febru-
airy 8. at the height of the plaques
spread throughout MP1churla and
North China. reviews the progress Of
che disease. then sets forth a procIa-
nation by a Chinese official, In which
Is contained advice for baking the
malady.
Here Is one of the choice recipes
for advolding lethal sickness at
plague time in that part Of the
Orient:
After the opening OF spring boil
turnip Juice and any kind of creep
Ing vine. II Is recommended that all
the family. largo and small. drink It
when II Is warm. Thus the plague
will be avoided"
Here Is Rule No. 8. Of the official
list OF preventives:
Take one piece of horse bone.
wrap II In red cloth. put II In a small
bag and wear II on the side of the
body. men on the left and women
on the right"
III Is to be supposed. from the tone
OF Recipe No. 5. that the plague has
no chance at all. II follows:
Use OF the thunder pill. Ingre-
dents: take rhubarb. gold leaf flakes,
cinnibar and alum, I'm about equal
quantities. all ground fine and make
into pills. Take with water. Dose:
One NTH Of an ounce"
During the reign OF Klein Lung
(this was In 1750) the plague devil
was driven out by thunder pills in
To hiding I'm Kiangau and Chow Flu.
during the Chu-Pu's magistracy. All
who gave the prescription were able
to avoid the plague, and those who
lived by II were beyond reach Of the
plague devil"
Mr.. Leonard's assertion Of the Sc
riousness OF the plague and the pitt
fully inadequate measures resorted to
as means OF checking II, might be
taken to indicate peril to Europeans
and Americans stationed i'm North
China and Manchuria.
The missionary goes on to tell.
however. that all missions. which are
surrounded by walls. have set up a
rigorous quarantine. and that danger
to occidentals has been rduced.
Mr.. Leonard In his letter says that
the plague had its beginning In
Northwestern Manchuria. The germs
took up their abode In the fur OF a
sman animal much like the metmot.
The disease was passed on to the
Chinese and Russians. Just at this
stsse Of Its Development there came
tho extensive trave'ing from working
place TO home. incioent to the Chin
ese New Year. and by this means the
plague spread with remarkable rapid
ity. The letter tells of fnding corps
es In heaps In many towns.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-03-29
NATIONALS BATTLE "CONS."
Despite Fact That Uniforms Fail to
Arrive on Time Game will BE Play

Columbia, March 25.-There was
disappointment in local fandom last
night because the uniforms Of the
Philadelphia National leaguers did
not arrive in time for the game. The
uniforms are here. now, however, and
game Is promised this afternoon.
The real noise Of the season will be
here Monday. though. in the worlds
champions, the Athletics. who will
give Cavender's bunch a trailing.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-03-29

II you have trouble in getting rid OF
your cold you may know that you
are not treating 1t properly. There 1.
no reason why a cold should hang ON
for weeks and 1t will not If you take
Chamberlain Cough Remedy. For
sale by all dealers
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-03-29

Thc civic Lc0guc has it ON the
Commercial club. for the League
meets regularly and the club docs
Woltcrboro Press and Standard.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-03-29

When you have rheumatism in YOUR
loot or instep apply Chamberlain's
Liniment and you will get quick re-
lief. 1t costs but a quarter. Why
suffer? For sale by all dealers.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-03-29

Tho most common cause OF insom-
MIA Ia disorders of tho stomach. Cham
berlaln's stomach and Liver Tablets
correct these disorders and enable you
20 sleep. For salo by all dealers.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-03-29
Piano Tuning,

Mr. Edmund r. Murray offers his
services to those who need an expert
and experienced Piano and Organ
tuner and repairer. References fur
nished and work guaranteed. Address
EDMUND r. MURRAY,
Sumter, s. G.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-03-29

blessed is the healthy nature; It
Is the coherent sw-rOy co-opcratiyc.
not incohcrcnt sclf-distracting, self
destructive Ouc.-CarIylc.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-03-29

"A Cold, LaGrippe, Then Pneumonia.
is often the fatal sequence. Foley's
Honey and Tar expels the cold, check.
the lagrippe, and prevents pneumonia.
1T Is a prompt and reliable cough
medicine that contains no narcotics.
1t is as safe for your children as your
self. w. W. Sibert
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

eign shipping concerns. and the latter
fly flags of nations other than the UNI
ted States. And the main reason why
the trade of the sea has gone to other
hands is that foreign nations have
been substituting ship building and
ocean mail carrying for years, while
the United States has been doing MOTH
ing In that line. No portests have
been heard from the people of Eng
land and Germany, the present great
maritime powers of the world. against
the activities of those governments in
providing ship subsidies.
If the ship-buiIding nd1stry in this
country could be greatly stimulated by
the proposed ship subsidy plan, or a
broader one, 1T would mean work for
many. many thousands Of hands in
the cities along the sea coasts of the
United States Wouldn't that be of In
direct benefit to the people of Kansas
and other interior states who have
produce to sell to the workers who are
in position to buy? 1t would seem
so, and just as much. surely, as is the
benefit that has been obtained by the
people in the eastern states from the
railroad development of the west that
was brought about largely through
government aid or from the reclama-
ton and irrigation projects which are
now being developed in the same FASH
ion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
THE SHIP SUBSIDY

In discussing the ship subsidy bill the
Atchison Globe said the other day:
eff the ship subsidy measure finally
passes, and 1t now seems to have the
best chance it ever had, 1t will mean
that government money will be de-
voted to building up a private enter
prise, with the only possible chance of
reward the prospects of using the
ships of such private company in case
of war. And there is no probable
profit in war, which makes the whole
game look like a losing proposition to
people located as far as possible from
salt, water. And if this sanctified steal
is put over that orators may swell up
and tell of our Old Flag taking it's
proper place on the high seas, do not
lose sight Of the way the measure
passed the senate"
But surely the Globe does not con-
tend that a ship subsidy is the only
proposition where government money
has been used ito building up a pri-
vate enterprise and which it might
be added has been of advantage to the
whole people of this nation. A large
portion of the marvellous and rather
sudden railroad development of the
west which has been responsible in
the main for the rapid and wonderful
development of this great section of
the country, was brought about
through the loaning of government
money and the substituting of the rail-
road promoters with land grants worth
untold millions. Then, too, millions of
dollars of government money is now
being spent each year in reclamation
and irrigation projects in the west and
the southwest. And it may strike some
of the people in sections Of the coun-
try that are far removed from the
scenes of these activities that this is
an expenditure of government funds
that will not be to their advantage in
any way. But they will be, for any
thing that works to develop and make
prosperous any section of the country
is certain to be Of benefit. even though
most indirectly to all sections of the
country.
So it is with this ship subsidy. 1t
| seems to be the only possible way to
encourage ship building in this coun-
| try. And that is a sore necessity For
many years now the United States.
with one Of the largest seacoasts of any
of the nations of the world, has been
falling behind as a maritime power.
| Most of the millions of tons of freight
that are exported from this country
each year is carried either in foreign
built ships or ships built here for for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
.HYHAWKER JOTS

A new card club at Eldorado is
named: Marriedandgladofit.
It occurs to the Lawrence Journal
World that "a girl who isn't stylish
may look swell when she has the
mumps."
Another argument against the bank
robbery business, as the Hutchinson
News sees it, is that the men who rob
the Kansas banks go outside the state
to spend the money.
Noting that the seventeen-year To-
Gusts are said to be due this year,
the Burlington Republican says: They
have been due SO often that people
have about quit worrying about them.
Observing that Hutchinson has a
notion it would like to have a mag
nificent Forum like Wichita's, the ever
ready Charlie Blakesley suggests: The
way to get one is to raise $500, 900 by
popular subscription.
Some people, suggests Miss Carlson
in the Lindsborg News, who have the
eternal rest and enjoyment are evil
IDENTIFY trying to make themselves ac-
customed to that kind of life while
here on earth.
IT have nothing but praise for our
new minister" remarked pompous
Mr. Brown, as he paused in the
church vestibule to draw on his
gloves. Nothing but praise" $50 I
have observed" remarked the deacon
who had passed the plate.-Mankato
Advocate.
A smartly dressed woman, wearing
the tightest of tight skirts, says the
Concordia Blade, with fur trimming
around the edge of the skirt was
walking down the street today, and
as she passed two little boys, heard
one of them say in singsong voice
Standing room only"
Some advice for. the girls from VIII
Palmer: The grille who throws away
all dignity and writes soft, foolish and
silly love letters is liable, some day,
to feel her cheeks burn on account of
them. Always try to keep a level head
when you write love letters, and new
er forget that they often do turn up
years afterwards in most distressing
and embarrassing ways.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
rFrom the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Recordl
A fellow can't even learn the glue
business unless he sticks at it.
Borrowell-Im stone broke; down
to my last dollar. Icy Mark-Not to
mention few of mine.
Without processing to know any
thing about Womens fashions, golf
skirt must be sort of tee gown.
Many a fellow is considered a good
story teller at his club who can't make
his wife believe him when he gets
home.
When a baby can look at an old
bachelor without crying the mother al
ways thinks he is a good father
wasted.
Nell-Maude says she is putting
something by for a rainy day. Belle
Yes, saw her buying a pair of silk
stockings yesterday.
Sillicus-They met on a railroad
train, quite by accident. and in less
than two months they were married.
Cynicus-That's what comes Of neg
lecting to take out an accident policy.
Muggins-That boy of mine is going
the pace; I think I'll have to send him
away somewhere. Buggins-Why
don't you send him to the equator?
Muggins-Why the equator? Buggins
oh, he'll have less latitude there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
"Good he said heartily.

Good" he said heartily.
As she fitted from one thing to an
other. doing her work somewhat uu
handily he watched her with deEghg
on the stage, everywhere. she had
seemed SO. remote until now. She nao
been sort of a goddess-woman, not
wife in the intimate close domestio
sense.
the hearth woman that satisfied him
best.
He helped her joyously. making
the toast, broiling the birds that ne
had brought, peeling dish of peaches
They ate their dinner with the little
table drawn close to the big fireplace.
Arnold kept on his corduroys. and his
wife did not change her dress. 1t was
their first release from Formally IN
their welded life.
1t is the best ever" Arnold said,
with enthusiasm. ''You have always
been sort of a dream ladv co me be-
fore. For the first time you are real
woman"
But I can't do this always" she
told him. I'VE must have maids, you
know
But now I know that you can do
IT. he said; that you can come out of
the clouds and touch real things for
little while"
7 believe it is the real me- she
part of me. There was a grandmother
who was the wife of dairy farmer.
! remember when I was a little girl
] used to watch her make tarts and
cookies, and 1t seemed to me If l
could do things like that when I grew
up that life would be perfect. Then
I found that could act and I was
switched off from my proper destiny"
She smiled at him. Perhaps / shall
switch myself back again.
"And make tarts and cookies for
ia
She shook her head. "oh. no, but
Ia like to be what they represent.
Yet have a right to do 1T? Doesn't
my genius belong to the world %
ut does" he assured her. But lis
ten, for six months we'll come up here
and live like any common couple, and
the other six months the world may
have you"
That was why the world wondered,
when, at last, the famous Miss Travers
retired from the stage.
How could she do it?"-(Copy-
righted 1911 by Associated Literary
PreSs.(
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
KANSAS COMMENT
ANOTHER ARGUMENT.

mere Is one argument in favor of an
oAlTa session of congress that will ap-
peal 70 the great plain people. It is the
opporlunlty to see Uncle Joe Cannon
run with the Democratic majority.
inere is all the difference in the world
pstWeen being in power with responsi-
piily ana out of power with the privi-
iese TO DO as you please. The Repub-
LEANS nave been on top in congress 50
careworn trying to enact Iegisiation-
NOW they will be in the minority, can
nave run putting tacks under the pneu-
!natic tires of the band wagon, and
laugn at the anxious Democratic
statesmen as they try to drive the
mules over the corduroy road of law
making. In two years. time the Re-
puoHcans VIII be fat and sassy, full of
WIZ ana vinegar, enjoying every mo-
ment of life, while Champ Clark and
woe BECOME
And the Republicans can do this.
!hey can raise more points of order,
demand more roll calls, propose more
embarrassing amendments and make
more prlckly speeches, when they don't
care what happens and only hope the
democrats will make some mistake.
which they are sure to do. Joe Cannon
VIII renew his youth and his neuten-
ants Will drink the elixir of life. Many
a Republican insurgent will follow the
lead OF cannon when he raises the flag
OF the ouccaneer. The Democratic in
surgents Will occasionally join with the
Republicans and the way Champ Clark
Wlll nave to turn handsprings to keep
his speakers chair will be a sight
worth trip to Washington to see. An
extra session of congress would not be
q total evll-Hutchinson News.
RESUBMISSION'S CHANCE SMALL.
The Kansas Editorial association,
without one dissenting vote, passed q.
resolution declaring that prohibition of
the liquor traffic was the fixed and
settled policy of Kansas people. and
that all talk and schemes for resub-
mission originated outside of the state.
The editors are from all parts of Kan
sas, they are close to the people and
know what they are talking about If
there Is ever another legalized saloon
IN Kansas it will be after the Ethio-
plan has changed his skin and the
leopard his spots.-JeweI County Re
publican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
THE DITTY OF DREADFUL NIGHT

THE DITTY OF DREADFUL NIGHT
A tomeat sat beside the house
Inhabited by me,
And sang q tune by Richard Strauss
From one a. m. to three.
he tore up slumber by the rootsl
threw. resolved and grim,
pair OF large and vicious boots
Unerringly at him.
He died Beneath the blankets sprawled,
closed my eyes once more,
When-lo.-that cat came back and bawled
"oh, Promise Me-" till four.
My rage in Berserker state,
a heavy chair I SHE'D
With superhuman vigor straight
AthWart that cat. He died.
spoke one final fearful curse,
slept. inert and flat,
woke-to find the universe
unmitigated cat.
hurled a jug with deadly hand.
He died. I slumbered Nix!
He initiated Sousa's Band
From four-eighteen till six.
But I'll cut short this tale of strife
And tell you in line,
Killed that tomeat, life by life,
Until I'd bagged all nine.
I slumbered, freed from his faI-lals:
woke. upon the verge
OF madness. All his bosom pals
Were singing him a dirgai
-Ihomas r. Ybarra. in the New York
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IRON the Atchison Globe.1

A man who brags rarely makes good.
Poor advertising: A dirty apron on
a butcher.
Hunting for a soft snap is no way to
find one.
Bad weather Is good weather to a
duck hunter.
Some of the best sellers are books
you shouldn't read.
Advertising will bring results in al
most every line but rain-making.
It would add a good deal to the joys
Of life If baseball players and sailors
talked English.
When a politician can't think of any
other excuse, he says he doesn't want
to stultify himself.
No one has much sympathy for the
mule, but no one has much on the
mule in this particular.
Some persons never think there
much in a newspaper unless they see
their own name mentioned
There may be such a thing, but we
have never encouraged an umbrella
large enough for two people.
To a baby's notion the grandest day
in his career is the day when he gets
his first shave in barber shop.
When a man asks you to be reason
able, that is his way of asking you to
accept his side of the argument.
Some families afflicted with 1ongevi-
ty accomplish nothing more than to
arouse curiosity to know the reason
why.
Disappointment is the feeling that
comes over a fellow when his Christ
mas suspenders give out before the
end Of February.
man who hasn't any confidence in
a bank, might do better if he didn't
have too much confidence in socks and
old cook stoves.
Some boys seem to think the most
important requisite of higher education
is to acquire a working knowledge of
the latest slang.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
Meteor Crossed Her Bow.

The Atlantic was --ectacular few
hours before dawn on Sunday when the
White Star liner Arabic was about 400
miles east Of Sandy Hook, two days
behind schedule because of stormy
weather. She ran into a snowstorm IL
Iumined by vivid lightning. and later.
when the electrical pyrotechnics had
passed, and while the snow was driven
in fantastic eddies and spira1s and bill
lows by furious squalls, a great cannon
like roar shook the bridge, where Chief
officer Williams and the commander,
Captain Finch, were on duty. The man
in the crows nest, away UP in the
foretop, was even more startled than
the men on the bridge. What seemed
like a ball of blush white fire that pre-
ceded the roar vanished kissing into the
sea- The flash blinded the Observers
and the defamation stunned them for
part of a second. But they finally agreed
that the flaming visitor was a meteor.
1t appeared to be about the size of
water bucket. 1t passed athwart the
bow of the liner about - = = above the
bridge, breaking into several pieces as
it did so. Some Of the fragments ap-
parently hit the foremost. The man in
the crows nest felt no electrical shock.
For a few seconds just before the me-
teor was snuffed out by the sea the
whole frothy space about the ship
for an eighth of a mile was as bright
as the white light district on festi-
val night and the snowfiakes glistened
like gems. No meteoric fragments
were found on the decks, but at day.
light marks were found on the fore
mast 80 feet above the bridge, where
one of them had hit.-New York
Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
HUlHOR OF THE DAY

The late Senator Pettus, of Alabama,
was devotee of draw poker. He did not
care whether he won or lost. All he want
ea 70 40 was to sit at table, draw cards
at rate Spring. in east Tennessee and be-
gan his hunt for a game At last he To-
he was going to spend the. night in the
game ea,, But" objected the friend, that's
way said Pettus. what else can 1 do?
It's the only game in town."-Popular
The husband came home very late the
other night from an important political
2 row. growing. and swearing to himself
till his wife called to him from upstairs,
he he nhodte my {h asaI there t1
hat racks here. and dunno which one
to two hats my Re sa5 s5s got
soothingly. Hang one on each rack!'-
Argonaut
day." said Farmer Korntop. did YER
replied Farmer Nearbye ''I'll send my
eyer Want to h the JOB JOB aid in Rnpr don't
Catholic Standard and Times.
The Cannibai King-see here. what was
The Cook-Stewed cyclist, your majesty.
The Cannibal knight tasted burnt. The
caught him, your majesty.-Human Life.
TN Baltimore says senator Depew.
II made the acquaintance of a beautiful
little girl with yellow hair. This little
girl and I talked of a number of things.
We depored many of the evils of modern
life. Then for time the little girl was
silent, lost in thought. Finally she sigh
ed and said: Why can't the toy shop
man call for orders every morning, the
same as the butchers and grocer dor -
Blue Bull.
The occupant of the fourth floor flat
was looking through the pages of the die
tionary the agent was trying to sell him.
NO he said, closing the book and hang
ing it back. II don't went It, It's TWEEN
ty years behind the times It defines
.janitor' as the 'caretaker' OF a building.
He's the observation-disclosures
Yes said the clubhouse bore, ST sup
pose owe some of my success to the fact
that we've been golfers in our family for
generations. I was recently looking up
my ancestral tree Did they throw
any nuts?" asked the quiet man In the
corner.-World of Golf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.1

IF'rom the Chicago News
When anger comes wisdom takes a
vacation.
Some women are good to look at,
but bad to be tied to.
Give a girl a present and she will
not worry about the future
One kind of a brute is a man who
refuses to fiatter a woman.
Many a man who swears at a big
monopoly is nourishing little one.
We feel sorry for the widow who in
vests her insurance money in second
husband.
Perhaps some married men talk in
their sleep because that is the only
chance they have.
It's an easy matter for a married
man to keep posted on what's going
on in his home neighborhood
If a man succeeded in discovering
perpetual motion he probably would
not feel as proud as he did when as a
boy he discovered that he could whis-
tie through his teeth.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

A mans duty is too often in the
opposite direction from his desires.
X y
There is also considerable of the cow
ard in a man who claims his faults are
hereditary.
x \
The moralist Is inclined to be a little
stronger On preaching than he is on
practice.
II
If every Individual got his due and
no more, many would even be worse off
than they are now.
X X y
An old Latin proverb is to the eff
feet that no one ever became a viii
lain all at once.