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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-10-16

In" Greeks Of Charleston held a
meeting Friday and raised $4,000 for
the war fund Of their native country.
Eighty-five Of t en- volunteered to
return To Greece to fight against the
Turks.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-10-16

Newton H. Haker. OF Cleveland. The
central Armory was packed to the
doors.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-10-16

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. V. Wilson. of CO.
lumbia. are in the city for few davs
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-10-16

Mr.. James Simons. OF Stateburg.
was a visitor TO the city Saturday.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-10-16

The many friends Of Mr.. r. Gal
lagher. who has been quito sick for
several weeks. were very glad to see
him out on the streets Saturday and
on duty again Monday morning.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-10-16
SUMTER s. G. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 49, 1919
WILSON IN TAFT'S STATE.
NOMINEE GIVEN GREAT OVATION
BY OHIO DEMOCRATS.

speaks at Home OF Late President
Mckinley, to Whose Memory He
Pays Tribute - Makes Principal
Address at Cleveland-Attacks Bull
Moose Trust Plank, Declaring it a
very Significant Fact that Per-
kins Is Back OF PrOgressives Pro.
gramme.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25
SLANG OF THE RAILRoADER
Rocky Mountain Country Said to Be
Especially Prolific Of Terms
That Puzzle Outsiders.

Out in the Rocky mountain country
there is heard some Of the most ex-
press!ye slang IN the railroad world.
For instance, Hand me three!" Saw
'em ont" "'suce three!" "Amputate
'em" would mean three cars were to
be cut OF. "Tie EN- down" or anchor
'em" means to set the brakes. Out In
Colorado when they throw a switch
they bend q rail" When they cool
q hot box they freeze the hub"
To pull the PIN III to leave the
service. Flying light" IL to mag" or
miss . meal. BRASS collars, means
the ofYicials. License" 10 the badge
worn BY trainmen. A Smoke agent"
II a fireman. The main stem" 10 the
main track. Shuttle EN- up" is switch
ing. Observation Pullmans are known
Is "rubberneck" cars. Passengers who
ride ON them are known as "cinder
snappers."
To make . Joint" 10 to couple cars.
GIVE 'em the wind" II the term when
the air IL admitted to the train limo. A
"bum screw" is . bad brake. and sand
10 known a. "seashore." The above
expressions are used in other states
besides Colorado. One Of the most
general expressions used in the west
10 tho appellation given to cars not
equipped with airbrakee. They are
known. - "jacks.s
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25
THE ORDER OF THE DAY.


The responsibility for the Titanic dis
aster remains to be placed. The Ne
braska primary election returns are
yet to be digested. The outcome OF the
Cedar Rapids convention, as between
Taft, Roosevelt and Cummins, * sub
1ect to speculation. The question
whether the Missouri river can be
muzzled before 1t bites out a new chan
mel. making Sioux City an inland me-
tropolis, calls for an answer. Can
Mexico settle it's troubles without in
PREVENTION by the United States? Has
the seed corn been properly tested?
When will new chief Of police be ap-
pointed? All thrse and dozens Of other
matters Of more or less general or local
importance will have to wait. Sioux
City will be too busy to bother with
them today.
The paramount interest Of the day
relates to the question whether the
first game Of the season on the home
grounds Is to 90 where 1t belongs, in
the won" column of tie home team
Subsidiary issues relate to whether the
| home hurler can put the "pill'' over
the plate with plenty Of smoke and
| curves and whether the home batsmen
can slam It into, thru or over the fence
with sufficient frequency to draw
hoarse cries Of joy from the bleachers.
It also is highly desirable to ascertain
whether the new men are capable Of
| living up to the hattering advance
rotices or whether there will have to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25
THE uNspokEN MENACE .

The Society Of Sanitary and Moral
lProphylaxis with it's three branch So
cieties in America is organized for the
purpose of studying and preventing the
enormous prevalence of diseases of
| which there is little general discus
| sion by reason of their private nature,
blu. which are the most baneful and
prevalent which afflict humanity, un-
spoken menaces to public health and
the future of the race as virulent as
any we name glibly and involving
moral as well as physical destruction.
We protest against the great white
plague in the market place and the
parlor, but we whisper under our
breaths of it's black congener, as dead
" and more baneful and more pre-
valent
The doctors know. Their estimate is
that one eighth Of all human disease
and suffering come from these un-
spoken plaques. In point of prevalence,
it is asserted, that they vastly over
shadow all other infectious diseases,
acute and chronic. There Is abundant
statistical evidence to show that ~
per cent of the deaths from inflamma-
tory diseases peculiar to women. IS per
cent of all special surgical operations
performed on women, and over 60 per
cent of all the work done by specialists
in diseases of women. are the result
of these diseases. They are RESPONSE
BILE for from 70 to so per cent of the
infant opthalmia and for 20 to 25 per
cent of all blindness.
1t is impossible to discuss subjects
like this candidly, and with the full
array Of facts and statistics in a news
paper article The best that can be
done is to stir the public to investigate
its own danger. There should be more
and accurate general information upon
a subject vital to all and upon which
the average person is profoundly ig-
norant When it is understood that
the diseases of which we know least
and of which we are criminally care
less and idiotically prudish constitute
the most patent factor in the causation
of blindess, idocy. deaf mutism, in
sanity, paralysis, locomotor ataxia and
other incurable and destructive affec-
tons we shall be ready perhaps to
spend some part of the millions now
devoted to the support Of detectives
thus created in methods and means Of
prevention.
There should be a Society Of SAM
tary and Moral Prophylaxis in every
town in the United States. The doc
tore kroyy
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25
The Call of the Fish.

This is just the way ] feel:
/ want to take my rod and reel,
A can Of Worms-and other bait,
And with my mate
Go forth to cast a line
Where whitecaps tumble on the brine
1 want to dream and watch my bob
Prepared for blue or weak or cod.
I'll CATCH 'em. too.
Then when I'm thru
l waht to weigh EN-, clean 'ern, scale
'em:
Also split EN-, head anu tail 'etn
And spider EN- in melted butter,
And set my table While they sputter
The bluebird's call, the budding trees
1.-THE marble players on their knees
May make a hit with other folk.
Who have that angle that's joke
But anglers hail the time of spring
For just one thing;
Their one best wish.
They want to fish.
&C. W. Sutherland.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25
The CRUSADE AGAINST ERAIs.

Twenty-Five states are represented
in a crusade which the lawmakers and
school authorities of the country are
waging against the high school fra
ternity, according TO a report which
has just been issued for free distribu-
ton by the United States bureau of
education. or these, thirteen states
have passed legislative enactments
hostile to the secret orders, while the
school boards of important cities in the
other twelve states have adopted like
measures within their own jurisdiction.
All states having laws on the subject
provide a penalty of suspension or ex-
pulsion from school for all those who
laws were passed by Iowa, Minnesota,
and Nebraska, whose Legislatures made
it a misdemeanor for any one even to
solicit members to these organizations.
Michigan and Ohio made it a mis-
demeanor for school officer to fail
or refuse to carry out the anti high
which prohibit these orders are Cali
fornia. Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi,
Oregon, and Vermont. Massa chusetts
empowers the Boston school committee
to deal with the secret society problem
in its own way, while Washington
gives the same latitude to the school
boards If ita Ia rear cjrias
The United States bureau OF educa-
tons report also cites some of the
more important court decisions, every
one of which upholds the school au-
thorit1es in dealing vigorously with the
high school fraternity, on the ground
that the measures so taken are au-
thorized as a part Of the school board $
discretionary powers Most courts
cited, however. will not allow the Of
tending pupils to be barred from class
room exercises, altho they can he
barred from participating in all ath-
letic or other contests
The frat in school and college is an
undemocratic parasite on education an
annoyance and obstacle to educators
and usually clog on the advance
ment of large part Of its membership
1t doesn't belong.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25

mo thing, the courage ana sacrifice
which illuminate nearly every story Of
the Titanic. It was something given to
generations Of Americans and English
as q heritage.
When thing braces a nation It has
the elements Of sublimity. 1t may be
doubted that all was heroism, courage,
and self-sacrifice on the sinking ship.
but these qualities were conspicuous
ana the mon and women whose acts
now are gratefully spoken Of deserve
to live in the nations memory.
America would only show its appre-
citation Of high ideals Of human con-
duct IL 1t built memorial to the peo-
pie who went down with the Titanic.
to the dead Of that disaster. to Archi-
bald Butt, to Isidor Straus and his
wife, to Benjamin Guggenheinl. to John
Jacob Aston. to William H. Stead, to
Jacques Futrelle, to the conspicuous
and the inconspicuous dead, to the pas
sengcrs and the officers and men Of the
ship.
A memorial, a shaft with their names
on 1t, should stand at the entrance OF
New York harbor, where every ship
that puts out to sea may receive its
inspiring message Of coura ge, discipline.
and sacrifice. and every incoming soul
may breathe prayer of gratitude.
Already the conduct OF those who
went down with the Titanic is mat
ter Of last weeks news. The disaster
made terrifying impression on the
nation but not an indelible one. The
acts Of its passengers and it's crew
were too fine, too valuable to the ma
ton which furnished the men and wom-
en-, to be allowed to pass forgotten.
The nation should give its apprecia-
ton lasting form, for other genera
tions to see and know how such self
discipline and high courage are es-
teemed.
We do this for men who fall in war.
Thermopylae sent no higher message
than the Titanic.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25

Desperate chanec 20 savs LtSs.
An interesting operation has Just
been performed In Sedan h6spitai.
Paris. Six months ago little girl
was badly burned. The Mesh Of her
back was completely carbonized. and
the doctors had no hope Of saving her
life. AS q last resource they decided
to make an attempt at grating hu.
man skin. The child's father, Q work
man, offered himself for the purpose.
The other morning. while under chloro-
form, all the skin was removed from
one Of his thighs and grated upon
the child's back. Only third Of the
huge burnt patch could be covered.
but the doctors have hopes Of her re-
covery. AS for the father. Il will b
. long time before he 10 completely
recovered.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25

be changes In the lineup before the
serious business OF reaching for the
pennant settles down anto . steady
drag. -. 81
All these matters are of such Inn
pcrtance that the only satisfactory way
OF passing upon them is by personal
observation They are things one
doesn't care to hear about or read about
without opportunity for comparing ones
own Impressions with, the spoken or
printed word. That is why Sioux City
Is going to devote the morning to get
ting things IN shape for the game. and
Tie afternoon to being in on It.
Politics and business and the rest
can 60 hang for this day and date.
The veaeor simply has to be started
right and the fans are going to do their
share to see that 1t is.
You may proceed. when you are
ready, "Andy!"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25
Topics of the Times

The president is said to have been
awaiting Judge Archbald's explanation.
But if the judge bought the hands Of
the railroad and profited many thou
sand dollars thereby an explanation
which explains would be a peach in the
explaining business. Under the circum-
stances the best thing the president
could do would be to turn the charges
over to congress for com plete investi-
cation.
Sherman spent a little less than 3d.
900 in his Illinois senatorial campaign.
This is long way short Of the $780,
600 fund" but it is too much just the
same.
McKinley's protest against the
switch of the southern delegates from
Taft TO Roosevelt is futile. The south
ern delegate is business matter not
a sentimental or political condition.
Jesse James train robbing work
seems very crude in the light Of mod
ern methods.
If the threatened strike of engineers
shall be averted by government inter-
vention a step will have been made to-
ward a better method of settling indus
trial difficulties. The strike should
become obsolete. 1t doesn't belong
with this century.
Now is Judge Archbald's case enter
ing upon an era Of investigation SINH
lar to the Lorimer evolution?
The commerce court seems to have
lived up to it's name If not its purpose.
In spite Of the Titanic disaster it is
predicted that European travel from
the United States will break all records
this summer. Why not? The disaster
should and will make ocean travel
safer than before?
There isn't as much difference as
appears between a Pottawattamie
proxy and a salable work horse this
spring.
One person in 500 was in Jail in
January, 1910. That's large number
out.
Among the Personalities in the
Hampton Magazine for May is an in
teresting description OF Senator Dixon,
Of Montana, the manager Of the poll
teal campaign Of Colonel Roosevelt.
The article shows the character of the
man to whom the ex-president has en-
trusted the management of his politi-
cal fortunes. Another prominent per-
sonage who 10 discussed is Mr.. Talcott
Williams, head Of the new Pulitzer
school of Journalism at Columbia Uni
versity.
The action OF the democratic state
convention in Alabama in adopting a
platform which endorses banking and
currency reform IL taken to indicate
that CONGRESSMAN Underwood, of Ala
bama, chairman Of the house ways
and means committee and democratic
eeader, favors banking reform along
the lines Of the monetary commission'a
report.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25
THE CONVENTION,

iowa StandpatterS controlled the
convention and did as they pleased. II
pleased them to send the four.de1e-
sates-at-large to Chicago for Taft. 1t
also pleased them to vote down reso
luttons favoring presidential preference
primaries and the Sherwood bill known
as the dollar day pension bill" The
convention was theirs
1t was not surprising to see them
vote unltedly against a preference pr.-
mary. The caucus is the star of their
hope. 1t is also the exclamation Of
their control OF the convention. But
old soldiers who favor the pension bill
and who are in dire need Of the added
We're it to pass congress and escape the
threatened presidential veto will Won
der, perhaps, what reward their fealty
to the standpat crowd has brought
them.
So far as the progressives are con-
cerned the defeat was richly earned by
apathy and delay. There was no or
gained effort on their part to hold
their own. Leaders slept and individ-
uals stayed home from the caucuses
To be sure there was the usual caucus
manipulation where standpat commit
teen1en had the chance but the real
reason for standpat control lies In the
efug4ial1ness Of progressive rank and
file and leadership.
Ths standpatters won because the
entire federal Office holder population
OF the state got busy. Their service
was e1emplihed in the selection Of In
1er1A Revenue Collector Tobin for
Taft door leader in the convention.
kxho pfogresztves lost because they sat
I'LL That - tho explanation There
mo excuse. But there is to be another
Hsan0 other conventions Every good
& uP loses 0RSe now and then but
= good lawyer he does not let
o1al0nAl loss worry him for he
b 4GAAt he viii win the next one
y q - has won the majority Of his
% tho past. The thing to de
I've have the next case better
md tho necessary witnesses
- such personality that at
Re stripe Of I'd Hunter can
g n them but In such num-
B vsrdict can be controlled
49, q L. a.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25
FORWARD OR BACK?

Before any man was named for a
delegate to the Cedar Rapids conven-
ton from Sioux City, he was called
upon and entered into an agreement to
not have any opinion or conviction Of
his own that would permit him to set
UP for himself at any stage Of the pro-
ceedings of the convention. To the ex-
tent possible. this course has been pur-
sued everywhere else, and no doubt the
old railroad corporation crowd every
where thruout the state, with Ed
Hunter, the democratic lobbyist, at
their head, will hold out to the last
against any recognition Of the fact that
Mr.. Taft is not to be the nominee Of
the party; will insist that Mr.. Cum
minis must not be, and will vote that
Mr.. Cummins or Colonel Roosevelt or
body holding their views as to pub
lie duty must not be. The old addition
division and silence crowd has been so
near to possession Of the pie counter Of
late that they have high hope at this
time.
1t will be no less misfortune than
a disgrace if Iowa shall assist in push
ing the party and the country back into
the old slough where Roosevelt found
it,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25
FELT TRUST WAS BETRAYED
Fact That His Old Betsy" Had Hurt
Him Panied Engineer More
Than Actual Injury.

ITS q curious fact" said the old
railroad engineer to the patient watt
ers in the village barber shop. that
man. after he has run an engine .
long time, comes to regard 1t as hui
man. and to expect Of 1t rational and
even highly moral behavior.
"'She's little mite cranky now and
then you'll hear man say tolerantly.
and have to coav her up bit. but
here he always begins to swell with
prtde-'there's nothing mean about
her. ! can trust herr"
That's true, every word" listener
burst out. eagerly, land when he fands
she's gone back on him. no doesn't
know what to make Of it. He's hurt
and mortified clean through. There
was old Davis. who ran on the East
Bridgewater branch Of the Old Colony.
You knew Davis?"
Tho engineer nodded. For fifty.fve
years." he said.
Then you know the story better
than ! do. You tell It," urged the
listener. So :
1.-THE details don't matter" the enst.
neer responded. readily enough. but
one day the old mans hand was crush
ed-by his own engine; one that he
had handled without accident for
years. We fixed him up the best we
could. and he bore all our fumbling
without q whimper; in fact. he didn't
seem to feel it, although it was plain
enough that he was pretty we'll broke
up. But when we started him on
home. he turned to us with tears In
his eyes.
Boys he said, and 1t was the first
word he'd spoken, boys. wouldn't
have believed It Of Betsy! wouldn't
have believed It OF the old girl! =
Youths Companion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25

the limbs to dry before cleaning. If
1t is convenient wash the legs with
tepid water. while the mud is still
fresh, and then dry them with towel
or rub cloth, fairly good results may
be obtained. But better method con-
sists in scraping the most Of the mud
off while fresh and allowing the rest
to dry, then with a brush it may be
removed thoroughly and without irri-
tation.
Clipping horses legs is not a
good practice. The long hair Of the fet-
lock may advantageously be removed
since it adds no warmth or protection
to pastern or heels,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25

would seem to be the railway engine.
The state department Of France,
which - concerned with the manage
ment Tor mismanasement) Of rail-
ways, has found on the Western rail-
way IA locomotives which are - old
as the line itself. They were built In
1864. when that portion Of the rail-.
way bstwesn Rouen and Paris was IN
process Of construction. Further, they
are ascribed to the ataIier Of an Eng.
fish engineer named Budiccon The
name does not appear English or
Scotch. stu the work Of the bearer.
remains, for those locomotives Of the
vintage Of 1886 drag trains about tho
environs Of Mans and Rouen today
London Chronicle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25
A Mothsr's cars.

A careful mother will not give her
child a medicine without knowing It II
medicine is Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound for Group. whooping cough.
bronchitis, and all affections Of the
throat, chest, and lungs. Best and
safest for children and grown persons.
Contains no opiates. Mcbride q VIII
Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-25

[Chicago Tribune.1
But what this unspeakable catas-
trophe reveals above all Is the sublime
disinterestedness Of race which has
shown to what point its conception OF
manhood helps 1t to resist the tempta-
tons Of self preservatior to which man
naturally Is addicted.
The Titanic may have represented
the embodiment Of civilization, but 1t
was feeble and precar.ous beside the
heroism demonstrated before destiny"
This is the tribute OF q French writer
in the Temps. The same thought has
been worded countless times in the last
week in English, gratefully and thank
fully; gratefully and thankfully be-
cause we feel that there was some
thing that arose trium phantly as the
Titanic sank.
Sermons have been preached about
It, much has been written about 1t.
Men and women have spoken Of It with
sense Of spiritual exaltation. It was