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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04
Lead Pencils Cause oiphtheria.

Suffeld. Conn-Lead pencils. dis
tributed and collected each day in the
lower grades of the Bridge street
grammar school. are held to be respon-
sible for an epidemic of diphtheria
among the pupils by Or. w. Il. Cald-
we'll of the health board. He ordered
the pencils burned and forbade con
tinuance of the custom. Fifteen of
the forty pupils in two rooms have
the disease. some of the cases being
serious. Doctor Caldwell found that
nearly all the children put the pencils
in their mouths.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04
TRYING TO CORNER
THE POTATO CROP
ALLEGED DEALERS IN LARGE
CITIES ARE BUYING UP THE
SHORT SUPPLY.
WASHINGTON INVESTIGATES
Country Endorses Justice Derart-
ment's Endeavor to Break High
Food Prices.

Washington.-A new phase of the
cost of living problem was brought
to the attention of the department of
agriculture. T. u. Gill. secretary of
the Irish board OF agriculture. told
Secretary Houston that spectators in
the large cities of the United States
were actively buying up this years
short American potato crop and plan
ming to hold out for high prices. count
ing on the existing quarantine against
potatoes from many foreign countries
to aid them ip their undertaking.
Mir. Gill is here to urge the removal
of the embargo on potatoes from Ire
land and has been getting private ad-
vices from various sources on the po-
tato situation.
Secretary Houston and the Federal
horticultural board held conference
after Mr.. Gill's statement, but no ac.
tton was announced
Representative Mcclellan Of Tennes.
see, author of pending bill to pro-
hihit the keeping of products in cold
storage for more than ninety days.
was i'll conference with department of
Justice officials over the departments s
investigation of the storage of eggs.
poultry and dairy products. 1t is said
preliminary inquiry has revealed
that 80 per cent. of the presen- egg
supply held in storage is in the hands
of the great meat packers of the coun-
try.
Letters and kilograms poured in
from all parts of the country. from in
dividuals, associations of various kinds
and from business men praising the
departments efforts to break high
food prices by proceedings against the
alleged combination of cold storage
dealers. Interest in Attorney General
McReynolds' declaration that a sweep
ing investigation will he made of the
alleged combination and that if vio-
lations of the pure food act were dis
closed prosecutions could be looked
for. apparently is greater than in any
move the department has made in a
long time.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04
WOMEN CAMPAIGN FOR VOTES
They Will Urge Congress to Adopt
Constitutional Amendment

Washington weeks campaign bv
the National A0erican Woman Suf-
iraSe Association to secure the adop-
tion of constitutional amendment to
enfranchise women was launched at
Il mass meeting in Washington. Ii
was the formal opening of the forty.
fifth annual convention of the associ-
alton. An semDlage. which packed
the ediiice from footlights to gallery,
listened for nearly three hours to dis
cussions on various phases of the sui.
frage cause by conspicuous advocates
% the woman movement. Suspended
above the drop curtain was a huge vel
low banner bearing thel egend:
We Demand an Amendment to the
United States Constitution Enfranchis-
ing Women"
The association adopted almost
unanimously set of resolutions in
troduced by Mrs. Helen Ring Robin.
son, member of the Colorado state
senate. calling upon President Wilson.
lin his forthcoming message to con
gress TO adopt the woman suffrage
constitutional amendment as an admin.
istration measure and to urge con-
fress to take immediate and favorable
action upon it,"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04
American sattIeships cheered

Vile Franche, France.-The United
States battieships Wyoming. Utah and
Delaware sailed from here As they
slowly drew out the Wyoming's band
struck up the MarseilIaise and thou
sands of spectators who lined the
shores fluttered handkerchiefs and
cheered the departing Americans. The
ships of the American fleet will Join
company off Gibraltar and proceed to-
gether to the Azores There the fourth
division, comprising the Connecticut.
Ohio and Kansas, will proceed for
Guantanamo.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04
Mayor Shank Resiqns.

Indianapolis. lnd.-Samuel Lewis
Shank resigned as mayor OF Indian.
apolis. The resignation is the result
Of labor troubles in the city and a
threat of impeachment proceedings
by committee of business men un-
less further disorders were averted.
Harry II. Wallace, city controller, sue.
ceeded to the mayors chair. Shank
offered his resignation after he had
conferred with number of union la.
Dor officials regarding an impending
strike of teamsters who told him there
was little hope of averting the strike.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04
WASHINGTON AS A SURVEYOR
George Washington Perfect Surveyor,
Say Government Experts.

Washington.-Geor Washington's
surveying done in 1851 when. as ii lad
of 10. he ran lines with chain and
compass through the wilderness of the
Virginia hills for Lord Fairfax, has
been checked up by government sur
veyors who have just made their re-
ports and who found the work OF the
immortal patriot perfect
Washington, running his lines with
primitive Instruments and bon fires OIL
hill tops, left monuments and boun-
daries to which technically educated
surveyors, using high power transits
and all the refined and accurate meth.
DDS of modern instruments. allow they
have been able to find no variation
From the top of Middle mountain in
the Massanutten range the old Fair
fax line may be distinguished without
the use of instruments and can be fol-
lowed by boundary fences da .ng from
the earliest days and by blocks of
timber which come up for the county
lines and stand out like squares upon
n checker board. Down across the
valley of the south fork of the Shenan-
doah as far as the eye can. distinguish
the line shows plainly.
Washington's survey blaZes cut into
the trunks of trees and long grown
over have been rediscovered and all
are several feet higher from the
ground than those the woodsmen of
today would make. Some authorities
contend Washington made them from
the saddle with "A long handled AK.
The government has been retracing
the old lines because it is buying land
through the territory which they run
for the new Appalachian forest re-
serve.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04
Picked His Wife From 400 Women

New Hork.-Ernest w. Darrow. a
contracting mason OF Patchogue. Long
Island. celebrated Thanksgiving Day
by taking his pick of over 400 wom-
en- who had offered to be his life
mate. Darrow had been advertising
for wife since last May and the
several hundred applicants not only
besieged him by letter, by telegraph
and by telephone. but many visited
him in person. Miss Julia Stagg. an
English girl who landed in Canada
from England, won and the couple
were married
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04
"DEATH-PROOF" MAN UNHURI
Emerges From a Crash With Ruffied
Hair-once Fell One Hundred
and Seventy Feet

Kansas City, Mol +. Trout.
known among his friends as the man
who can't be killed" the other day
was sorted out from pile of wood
and scrap iron that had constituted
motorcycle and buggy and found
once more to have narrowly escaped
certain death" Trout was precinitat.
ed among the scraps by a collision.
lie was found to have sustained q
skinned knuckle. His hair was
mussed up.
Five years ago Trout fell 10 feet
from the top OF an office building
upon which he was working. crasbed
through a skylight at the bottom of
the light court and landed on his feet
on the smooth tiles OF the ground
floor He was in a hospital a few
DAYS with bruises. abrasions and
sprains.
About year ago Trout was somer.
saulted over fence into a cabbage
patch when his motorcycle collided
with cat. AT that time his left arm
was fractured. The cat was killed.
trout has advertised his business
by using as a delivery wagon a two
wheeled top buggy hitched TO a mo.
torcycle. His latest mishap resnltea
when this contrivance ran into tho
curDing at 25 miles an hour. Trout
was arrested recently for driving his
motorcycle so miles an hour with his
fve-year-old son on the handlehars.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04
over s2oo.ooo Stolen bx Clerk

New fork.-The theft of more than
100000 worth OF Union Pacific Rail
road company and General Electric
company securities from the Farmers
Loan and Trust company of this city
became known when James f. Foye.
80 years old, former SIS a month
clerk of the trust company. was ar.
rested as he stepped from a train
from Philadelphia. Foye was charged
with being fugitive from justice. At
police station. where Foye was search.
ed. the police alleged that a certified
"hacL for sa7 nOO
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04
Sultan Loses Suit in New York

New York.-The Sultan of Turkey
was losing litigant in the appellate
division of the supreme court of New
York. His highness sued to recover
$4,000 from the estate of Hovhannes
Tavshaniian. a wealthy Armenian rug
dealer. murdered in this city in 1907
This sum was left To Tavshanjians
mother. who died before receiving it.
Because she died intestate In Constan.
tinople the sultan claimed the money
The suit was decided against him by
the supreme court and the appellate
division affirmed the decision.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04
CAT HOBO FR|7
OF RA|LRQ
'''':;: :::: -
Halls FROM D!EA
Train Crews Tell Of Seeing r
Various Points Along the Linl
ing Last Two Years-Was q
Box Car.

San Diego, Cal.-Tom, hobo cat
oar tourist, sensational high ju
and all-round well-known raj
character, has made his headQua
at the Santa Fe d street freight h
for the last four months. He is {
seen almost any time, sometimes 81
ing on bale of cotton and someti
outside on a favorite box car bT
beam
Little is known about Tom exd
that he appeared here four MOI
ago when freight train pulled
from Santa Ana. He crawled out
the brake rods in true hob0I
shook the dust from his fufNeoat
and strolled into the warehouse, where
he has made his home ever since.
Caboose crews tell of seeing him
at various points along the line dur
ing the last two years, and it is said
that he came originally from Denver,
where he was born in a box car OF
the Denver and Rio Grande.
Charles Webster, employed at the
freight house makes Tom his special
care. although all the other employees
there vie with him for the favor of the
hobo cat. But Webster is the only
ono from whom Tom will accept food.
WEBSTER buys fish from a fish house
across the street and keeps the cat
supplied with plenty OF food all the
time. The cat scornfully refuses all
proTe:s of food from anyone else.
Tom can jump from the ground to
the top of Il box car. He demonstrates
this remarkable feat of agility sew
eral times a day. whenever the notion
strikes him to take the sun. He will
iisht buzz saw, and no dog ever
made him run, according to the rail-
road men. =.
His friends in the freight house
watch every outgoing tnrti-.l2n0 'fuY,.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04
Soldiers PatroIIed Zabern.

Iabern, Alsace. Germany.-So Soldiers
patrolled the streets i'm order to hold
in check the to"nspeople. who are
highly incensed at the repressive
measures of the German army officers
and the arrest and detention for al
legged disorderly cor duct of thirty citi.
Gems who, however, were discharged
by the civil courts So strict were
the measures taken that there was
no signs Of rioting.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

Another stranpe thing about eti
quette is that you wash your hands in
the fingerbowl. but mustn't pick your
teeth In the dining room. You may
also give the waiter hale a dollar. but
you must not offer tip directly to the
proprietor OF the hotel.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

Woman correspondent writing to
this office asks Should a woman
tell her husband everythiag?" We
would answer to said query that II she
doesn't she is not taking advantage OF
woman's assumed prerogatiye.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

Electricity Is a great civilizer. Here
Is China threatening to discard it's
picturesque decapitations for the more
urbane form OF electric chair execu-
tions
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

One prominent Milwaukee woman
says that If the cigarette habit is not
checked we shall soon have a nation
OF idiots. This seems to throw some
light upon the problem Is cigarette
smoking Il cause or an effect?
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

An English visitor says the Ameri-
can young women are very charming
and pleasant. but that they are all
alike and do not know how to firt.
Perhaps the foreign critic does not
recognize expert work of the latter
kind when he secs It.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

A New York man explains that he
drinks highballs because his wife sea
sons his food too highly. When a
man wishes to be driven to drink he
doesn't have to look far for an excuse
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

a st. Louis man has invented con
trivance with which he can walk on
water, but a sapient paragrapher
points out that st. Louis water is con-
siderably thicker than the water found
in some other parts of the country.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

become imbued again with the old
wanderlust and hit the road"
The caboose crews are especially
eager TO get him, and it is said the
Los Angeles railroad men have
standing reward of $40 for anyone who
will bring the famous railroad cat to-
their town.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

Relatives and alcohol are blamed
for most of the woes that are aired in
the court of domestic relation. AS
for alcohol. IL is possible to sign the
pledge
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

The latest in prison reform is NOV
ing pictures to entertain the convicts
in San Quentin. II is to he hoped the
films will he carefully censored lest
anything be introduced to currupt the
manners and morals OF the inmates.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

Over I'm Paris the women have be-
gun to wear high silk hats Woman
haters who have been compelled to
wear high hats will consider the pun
ishment no more than the women VINO
are adopting them deserve
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

Investigation has proved that n wren
eats more than its own weight in two
days Fortunately. birds are never af-
ficted with the gout
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

The woman out west who "clucks"
In her sleep Ike a hen" seems to have
laid herself open to the suspicion that
she is no spring chicken.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

Whtn ,he scientists take to eXplod-
Ing powder by X-rays from any dis
tance Perhaps the gun toter" will be.
come discouraged
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

Professor Munsterberg has invented
machine which indicates whether
man is telling the truth of lying. If IL
comes into general use diplomacy will
have TO be re-established on new
basis
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

new baseball play. written by
woman, is described as "sweetly pret-
ty baseball is no pink tea affair.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

lt is said that women will wear
vests this winter. All right. just so
they don't carry cigars in the upper
pockets.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

Kansas City is going to have a busy
little oiicial-a municipal guardian to
settle family rows in the home
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

It's such n fine old world that but
FOR our motto Live and let live" we'd
never obIige the underiakers by leav.
ing IT,
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

The editor of "a "love-column'' says
She doesn't know what "steadies" are.
Anectation pure and simple.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

aviators have returned to their own
land to lead double lives of thrills
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

Each new guess about the cause OF
cancer shows how far away the an
swer remains
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

"A girl likes for you to tell her
about baseball. especially If you will
demonstrate the squeeze play
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

Shot Sharks by Searchlight," reads
headline. No. it is not the loan
shark to which the writer refers
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

Should woman whistler" asks an
exchange Certainly. II keeps her
from talking.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

A synonym. Johnnie, is the word
you use when you can't think of the
right one.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04
man doesn't have to give security
when he borrows trouble.
Charity covereth a multitude OF sins
and exposes n multitude or sinners.

Now the billiardists can begin trad
Ing their complicated championships
again.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1913-12-04

Anyway, why not put the yeggs in
cold storage?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-28
MANY LIVES
SAVED BY NON
SURGICAL METHOD.
Gall Stones, Appendicitis, Ovarian,
Trouble, Tumors and Liver Trob-
BILE Cured Without the Use
of the Knife.
Wonderful and Very Potent MedicIne4
That Reach the Disease Used
by Doctor Wells. \

How often Is 1t that We now pick
up SOME daily paper and see that
some poor soul has been taken to ths
hospital and operated upon, and died
from the effects of the operation, cons
monty called surgical shock. While
some few cases where pus has formed
1t is absolutely necessary to operate,
and pus cannot be absorbed and 1t
must have its outlet. But we also!
note that where the non-surgicatl
treatment is given by DIR. s. M. Wells,
they get cured without the risk of the.
operation and a surgical shock. For
instance, Mr.. ]. II. McCubbin of S28
South Sixth street, Quincy, who had
two tumors removed from his head
by DR., Wells without the knife Also
Mr.. William Murphy. who says he
passed a good many gall stones and
Is now about well, after short treat
ment. Mr.. Murphy was about to give
up in despair. but today he says he
feels like a different man. Not one
or half dozen but hundreds say the
same thing about his work. Those
who had been unable before to take
medicine In their stomach, never find
it that way with his medicines as
they always agree with the stomach
and 1t does its work much better and
the patient begins to gain at once.
This is the report given from a ma
jority of his worst cases. His work
Is Just beginning to be appreciated
here in Keokuk and he says after he
has been here a year or two a good
many physicians in the land will be-
taking up his methods.-Adv.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-28
PEEVISH CHILDREN
SUFFER WITH WORMS

Don't be angry with your child be-
cause he or she is continually irrita-
BILE. In ninety-nine out of one hundred
cases you will find that the trouble is
worms.
Among the common symptoms of
the presence of round worms are
nervousness-whi often leads to
epilepti-form attacks ;-dizziness YER
tigo, capricious appetite, restless
sleep. itching of the eyes and nose,
nausea and often hysteria Round
worms are several inches in length,
and infest the stomach. Occasionally
several hundred are found in single
person. Thread worms are smaller,
often not longer than a quarter of an
inch. The symptoms denoting their
presence are about the same, but in
this case the child has no appetite.
Jayne's Tonic Vermtfuge is unsur
passed in removing worms. Not only
will it destroy them, but its tonic er-
fects will restore the stomach &c
healthy activity AS Jaynes Tonic
Vermifuge seldtm purges, the indica-
tons Of it's beneficial results will be
the improved condition of the person
using it.
Millions of parents have praised
this medicine for more than eighty
years Insist upon Jayne's Tonic
vermifuge, and accept no other. Sold
by druggists everywhere. DR.. D. Jayne
& Son, Philadelphia, Pa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-28
Good Roads Sermon.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Feb. 2s.-lf President
Arthur c. Jackson of the National
Good Roads Association can find any
scriptural phraseology dealing direct
ly or remotely with the subject OF
good roads, every minister in Chicago
will be asked to take 1t as text next
Sunday.
The good roads association Is in SEES
sion here this week. President Jack
son thinks that fitting finale to the
meetings will be an argument for i'm
proved highways sounded from ey-
cry pulpit in the city. But he admits
that the pastors should have some
thing to start from.
Two young women secretaries
thumbed through Gideon Bibles in the
LaSalle hotel in an effort to supply
the missing link.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-28
HAMILTON WOMAN
AS A LEGISLATOR
Or. Nena Jolidon croake First Woman
Legislator and First to Offer
Bill In Washing
ton.
WOMAN WAGE BILL
The Speaker Announced the Order Of
Business and Immediately
Or. croake Was on Her
Feet.
WAGE
BILL


A few weeks ago The Gate City
told the story of DR.. Nena Jolidon
Croake, formerly of Hamilton, ILL.,,
being the first woman elected to the
legislature in the state of Washing
ton. She entered upon the perform
ance of her duties at the opening OF
the session Of the legislature Of her
adopted state and has been busy
woman in that body. She would not
be in accordance with her nature II
she failed to be always active and
alert.
Recently she acquired another dis
tinction, that OF being the first W.
man in the state of Washington 10
Introduce bill In the state legisla-
ture. We CLEAN these facts from an
Olympia dispatch to newspaper OF
the state.
Dr. Croake's bill provides for min
imnm wage OF $1.25 per day for wo-
men In the state. 1t was labeled Bill
No. and marked the opening of the
thirteenth legislature. No sooner had
Speaker Taylor announced the order
of business, says the dispatch, when
the Pierce county legislator, DR..
Croake, was upon her feet with her
| pet measure
| Her women's minimum wage bill
sets the lowest wage for women work
/ ing in Offices, factories, laundries,
stores or other commercial pursuits
| at $1.25 a day. For less than eight
/ hour days the minimum Is fixed at
| 16 cents an hour. Practically no ex-
! ceptions are allowed, excep. for do
nestle servants.
Women employed at piece work
must be guaranteed the minimum
wage. The state labor commissioner
is given power to enforce the law
4 and It's violation by any employer /.
made a misdemeanor, punishable b,
imprisonment of not exceeding sixt.
/ days.
There is an interesting history con
nected with DR.. Jolidon Croake's fam
| lily dating away back to the revolu
tionary war and stepping across the
broad ocean to France AMI this NIGH
be written into an entertaining and
| instructive story. 1t will be.