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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-02
Disaster Oycriakcs Germans.

Potrcgrad, Nov. 3o.-It is officially
announced that the left wing OF the
German army in Poland is Ileeing to-
ward Thorn from tie Gombin region.
The reverses suffered by the Germans
at lodz rival the worst defeats during
the NapoleOnic wars.
The Austrians in West Galicia, be-
tween Prezemysl and Cracow have
been completely shattered. Cracow
will soon be invested, unless the Aus
trians decide not to defend the fort
reSs.
Strong positions at Kaprikoi, Turk
ish Armenia have been rccaptured
from the OttOmans who are neeing in
disorder to ErZorum with the Rus
slams closely pursuing and innicting
great loss.
'SfE fEaaSs sshe fssss sswos, wos,a~ssssSpsn,as.
aviators have dropped bombs In
;:siors, Lowicz. Plock and Wariaw,
killing twenty and wounding forty.
1t IS Unolicially reported that Ger
man right wing in South Poland has
been completely cut off with en0r-
NOUS losses, particularly III prison.
ers.
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sDRnEa l|E|IF0RCEMENTS,
kitchenef's Great Army Is Now
Ready For the Front.
ssh 1toops Pass Into Fssnce For Three DavsRxact N
5 Der Not KNOWN, But Believed to Exceed One Mllhnn-
Amee 8sein Offensive Movement in West Flanders-No
'@T TChaa(es In Other Sections. : = '-F>|'. ~ ~

say the dreadnought Audacious, re-
ported sunk Off the Irish coast. has
oeen raised and Is in a Belfast dry
dock. According to ]. ]. Spurgeon,
This report is current In Liverpool
and - accepted as true. although the
same secrecy is maintained as to sal
Frage operations as was tho. case re-
sarqing the sinking Of the battlcship
and the rescue of her, men by tho
Olympic. - ~
The report is that the Audacious
aid not sink when left vby the Olym-
Pic but that other vessels drew, her
into shallow water, where the hole
In her 6ottom was pasched suiflciently
teperrhit her being towed to belfast.
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British Reinforce French.

Paris. Nov. 2S.-British reinforce
ments have been pouring into France
for three days. A steady line of
transports have been arriving at every
harbor in northern France. Although
the exact number is unknown it is
known IL will reach over a million.
The arrival OF the British Is believed
to presage "a movement. to push the
Germans out OF France.
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GEN. WON MOLTKE PRISONER.
Claimed MS Wife Asserts He is Coop
cd UP iN Some Castle.

London, Nov. v0.-(3.55 A. MI
y Copenhagen dispatch to the Daily
News says the wife of Cen. Won
Mo'tke, German chief OF staff, has
written to a Danish relative that Won
Moltkc virtually is the Emperor's
prisoner at one of the palaces in
HoinburG as q result of his intcrfer-
once with the Grown Princes stratc-
sic plans in the west.
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Report Of Naval Disaster.

Paris, Nov. 2s.-An unconGrmcI
news dispatch states that the German
cruiser Bchertha has been sunk nc;,r
Libau and the German battlcship
Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse has been
torpedoed and sunk I'm the Baltic.
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Spryian Women Soldiers.

Vienna, Nov. 30.-Hleavy losses by
the ScrNians in their defeat by the
Austrians have forced them to fill the
Among the dead left in the field after
the fighting on the Kolubara ril e.
many women were found
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Moved to Sumter.

Chester, Nov. Ell. NJ. Causley.
u representative Of the International
Harvester company, who has been
maAiua his home in Chester for the
past ivW Years has been transferred
{" Sumter ana VIII make his head
quarters there in the future. He will
nov" his family from here about
March.
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A. &. LINE IMPROVEMENTS.
railroad Preparing for an Immense
HuSi:iCSN This Winter,

Waycross, Nov. 2S.--Trc auno,,occ-
mont was made today that none of the
Improvements contemplated by the
Ntlan,1" Coast Line viii Lc abandoned
ON account of recent depression. Thi.
system is preparing fer an immense
olumc of business and none Of thl
special tourists trains will hc drop
HCu.
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Massacre OF Christians Feared,

Athens, NOy. 30.--A dispatch from
Mltylene reports that Smyrna is
crowded with Christian refugees lice
ing from Turks who have been in
cited to massacre by calling Holy
war; Two Christians have been kill
ed at the village OlutEak. The Amer
lcan cruiser Tennessee remains at
Chios.
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Russian Generals Cauturcd,

Berlin, Nov. Set is officially an
nounced that siXty-fvc Russians, in
Guiding two generals were captured
by the Germans at the battle OF Kutno,
Poland.
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Russians Gross lfront;Cr.

Berlin, Nov. -(OniciaD The
tussians have reached the Angcrap
river. IS miles west of the frontier
OF East Prussia They attacked
Darkchmcn. hut were repulScd. Moth
ing worthy of note has occurred in the
western theatre Of war
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MOTORCYCLE ENtit VICTIMS.
Two Riders Ia Savannah Races .'a;a,;,
Injured.

Savannah Nov. 27.--S. -. Kelly,
another rider i'm yesterdays motor
c\cl" race who was badly injured dice
This morning. Vcrrill Is not expected
to live through the day.
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French Trenches Captured.

Berlin. Nov. 2s.-A wireless mos.
sage OF the capture OF French trench
- In the Vosges was officially an
nounced today. The general situation
Is uncha nged.
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American itanchcs Raiicd aud Cattle
Driven on.

Naco. Nov. 30.--Amcrican military
were notified today that
Villa soldiers raidcd ranches on tho
sid" Saturday night, driving
off many cattle.
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A dispatch from Berlin yesterday
said that Zekki Pasha, former COM
mandcr of the Turkish troops. has
been attached to the suite Of EN-
peror William as an expression of the
present relation Of Turkey and Ger
many.
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iIu.rr Nrproi riatipn CoD;Hitt"c E?.
turns from Juui.ct.

New York, Nov. 30.---Tho house
committc" on appropriations returned
today from the Panama Canal zone
On tie steamship AncUna. r'hcy ;u-
aroctcd the entire works OF the can
al.
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1HE TIDE TURNS FOR ALLIES
British Reinforcements in France
Cause Change i'm Situation
Allies Assume the Offensive Exert Strong Pressure n
German LineS-Reports From East Conflicting But Their
General Trend Indicates That Germans Are Getting the
Worst of Conflict.

ireland while q n, .tral flag
The trawler no = n docked here and
her crew ares
The takiD The Nestor caused a
sensation - as she made her
neadqUarte' - Fleetwood
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Petrograd. Nov. 2s.-A news dis
patch states that one hundred thou
sand Germans under Gen. Mackenzen,
VINO are surrounded in the vicinity of
brsesiny and Styrkow are battling
furiously to escape annihilation. Ma
chne guns and mitrailleuse are NOW
Int down the men. Before the dis
asrous battle OF Lodz the Kaiser
telegraphed Gen. Won Hindenburg:
distinguish yourself. the eyes Of the
world are on you.' but Gen. linden
burg failed to carry out his masters
behest.
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GERMANY PAYS INDEMNITY.
20 RccOmpcnsatc Invasion Of Duchy
of LuNpn,burp

Paris, Nov. 29.-Germany has paid
an idcminity OF 10000 marks (S37,-
COO to the Duchy of Luxembourg, ac-
cording to d Bordeaux dispatch to
the Temps. i
&C., Q2s gs the G Ger,nan..s FIRST acts in
else war was % 1[ds ~
neutral Luxemburg. The reported IN
dcmnity presumably is to recomb ense
for that act
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REPORT AUDACIOTS SAFE

New York. Nov. 27.-Passcngcrs
arriving here today on the Lusltania
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NEW g. y tNOR OF BELGIUM.

Gen. l. Won Bissing Succeeds
Won Der GOltz.
Ber,- Nov. 29.-(Via Rome)-
Field Marshall Won der Goltz has
been relieved as Military Governor of
Belgium and attached for the remain
der of the war to the encourage of the
Sultan of Turkey.
Gen. freihoff Won Bissing has been
nominated as Military Governor Of
Belgium.
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- R
Berlin. Nov. as.-.The news from
the front In Poland Indicates that the
Russisns are sttaiaing every efrort to
put an. aniiabls hen into ~ con.
Met that u now stherins stisS third
week. = - reported that Rus11a h,s
cent arobhd foussmiliida i men TO the
front In IN attempt TO -innict ,sAerush-
irs dsfsas qpon the 6eruAana Dsspits
this the csrpans stood their sround
shout .l-ods and lowiczs ) sndictlns
trsmendsas tcssc, upon. the attack IND
arnaisa Il = admittea thar tho Qer-
1nA1s GAINED no agvasfass thee can
e>ilsd Z ea4pIese Victory. ~ tho
~ ~ slke4 on = phatse eksriaed xs
~ n hchanesl. The f&port
ssilsP fscaP.tred Di411Gds Is
psnied tod&y. q III
The Washington times., 1914-01-22
What's on the Program in
Washington Today
Meetings, evening:

Meetings. evening:
Masonic-New Jerusalem Lodge, No. 8;
George c. Whiting, No. %. and Tenn
ple-Noycs. No. %. Washington Chap
ter. No. .. Royal Arch. William T..
Hunt Chapter. No. 10. Eastern Star
odd Fellows-COlumbia Lodge, No. 10;
Excelsior, No. II. and Salem. No. %.
Maccabees-Ge Georgetown Tent. No. 6;
District Tent, No. s.
knights Of Pythias-Harmony Lodge.
No. u.
S0cialists-LStudy in economies, The
District Charter" the Ingram Memorial
Church. S:lJ o'clock: study class.
Young Peoples Socialist League, Sl1 L
street. S:l5.
National Union-Bancroft Council, No.
4G5. Typographical Temple, 100 p. m.
Oys:er roast. EIk's Club, s n IN.
Meeting, A r. Talbot Camp, Modern
NUodmcn of America. 3l6 Pennsyl-
avEia avenue southeast, s p. m.
Meeting. Columbia Camp, Modern
Wcodmen of America, Pythian Tenn
pie. s p. m.
Meeting. Washington Camp. Modern
Woodmen Of America, Typographical
Temple, 8 y. m.
Capitol Council No. 8, Independent Or
der, Sons Of Jonadab, Schrott's Hall
3O4 street southwest, 8 p. IN.
Addresses on "A Charter for the City
of Washington" by Leonard Tuttle
and James Hugh Kelley, under aus
Dices of Study Club in Economics
Ingram Memorial Church, p. n.
The Washington times., 1914-01-22
SHAOKtEFORD ROAD
BILL.

The Shackleford dirt-roads pork
barrel measure has come forth once
more. This time it comes from the
new Committee ON Roads, created
seemingly for the very purpose of
putting steam behind this particular
grab.
II is proposed to begin by appro-
priating about $24,O0O,00O a year, TO
be spread over the rural mail routes
Of the country. That would spread
it out so thin that it would ac-
complish nothing worth the while,
and would merely amount to a dissi-
patton of the amount.
But it would do worse than that.
Let the Federal Government once
break into this business of building
or financing country roads, and we
will see the States, the counties, the
townships, lying back, waiting for
Uncle Sam to take bigger share of
the burden off them.
The Shackleford road measure is
bad sociology and bad economics. II
is presumed to be good politics, but
the event will prove that it is not
even that.
Throwing away the Governments
money in order to make the play OF
doing something for the farmer
will not fool even the farmer very
long.
Pork barrels are not popular
enough with the people who pay
more than a billion dollars to the
national budget annually, 20 make
the creation of new ones by. an
economy" Administration goUd poll
tics.
President Wilson is quoted as op-
posed to the Shackleford plan. No
doubt The President has proved
himself conservative constructive
and sensible The bill is none OF
those things.
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NO GRAB AT JOBS.

The House Committee on Rules is
deserving of congratulations On its
action II refusing 70 bring out a rule
for consideration OF the patronage
rider on The postal appropriation
bill.
Without a rule, the rider Tould be
subject 10 a point Of order and would
be duly knocked out So the patron
age-seekers went 10 the Rules Conf
mittee and asked a rule.
The rule being nov denied, it is
practically certain that the rider is
dead. IL would have transferred
about 400 assistant postmasters
throughout the country from the pro-
lection Of the civil service act, and
made them instantly political plum
Ger.
In this regard, as in no small nun-
Der OF others, the Rules Committee
has demonstrated excellent discre-
ton and judgment in refusing to use
its powers to further improper legis-
lation. The Rules Committee need
not expect to be very popular with
the House, but it will be mighty
strong with the country, if it con-
tinues using the clear-headed judg-
ment that commonly marks its ac-
tioDS.
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AT HOMES

Mrs. Willard salisbury Will be at
home today at her residence, 1901 +
street. -
Mrs. Claude \. Swanson MI not be
at home today. --
=
Mrs. Lee s. .Overman, wife of Sena-
tor oveTman. will not be at. home to-
day, but will receive at tie Cochran
on January ..
Mrs. Morris Sheppard VIII not be at
home today.
Mrs. william Alden smith, who has
Just returned to her home in the Ave
nue. of the Presidents, viii not be at
home today. but will receive next
Thursday.
Mrs. Francis E. Warren, 17Z0 Avenue
of the Presidents, will receive today.
Mrs. Henry breckenridge will not be
at home today.
Mrs. John Franklin Jameson will not
nc at home Saturday, January 81. but
viii receive for the last time Saturday.
JGnuary q.
Mrs. Byron s. Adams. Miss Adams.
and their house guest. Miss BTrnes,
will be at home tomorrow afternoon
from 8 until $50 O'clock
Mrs. Joseph Strauss, nf the Dresden,
will not receive tomorrow, but will be
at home next Friday.
The Washington times., 1914-01-22
INCREASE ALMOST INCREDIBLE.

pretended lesson is formulated in
words, but in which the whole sug-
ge5tion Is prurient. The .ordid pur-
pose of the promoters is % make
money out of stimulating lssoiv-
ious ideas in those who otherwise
might not be encouraged in' them.
Then the pursuit Of education in sex
hygiene is full Of janger-tf carried
on in general public schools
The Parents Duty.
The sharp, pointed and summary
advice of mothers to daughters, of
fathers to sons, Of a medical profess
sor TO students in n college upon
such a subject is, of course, wise,
but any benefit that NAY be derived
from frightening students hy dwell
ing upon the details % the dread
full punishment of vice is too often
offset by awakening curiosity and
interest that might not be developed
so early, and IS too likely 10 get
the thoughts of those whose benefit
is at stake in a direction that will
neither elevate their conversation
with their fellows, nor make more
clean their mental habit. They will
learn all that is wise for them to
learn through the natural communl-
cation OF their parents and their
family IHeulCdl dQNlSeIs
II deny that the So-calIed prudish-
ness and the avoidance OF nasty sub
jcCtS in the last generation has ever
blinded any substantial number OF
girls or boys to the wickedpess Of
Wee, or made them easier victims OF
temptation. 1t had generally been
possible for them TO recognize sin
and to. know that they ought TO avoid
ii without leading them into an at
mosphere which they can hardly
breathe without polluted suggestion.
The moving cause of this grotesque
and dangerous addition to the cur
TiculuIn in education Is the view
that the sins of the individual are
not his, but those of society, and
that society, by giving him knowl-
edge OF evil, will give him or her 4
panoply against its temptations.
cannot think the small amount of
possible good can make UP for the
great dangers of this experiment.
End of Socialism.
Referring to the heralded social
unrest, which, it was said. would
lead to an upheaval, Mr.. Taft issued
a warning to his hearers as to their
readjustment in the new order of
things. He said:
THE relevancy of what ] have said
is as q basis for warning you not to
permit the assumed coming change
in the relation Of government and
society TO the individual, which
many persons are proclaining as al
ready at hand, to affect men and
women of your condition and oppor-
tunity in your practical view as 10
what YOU must do i'll pursuing and
achieving happiness. There Is a
great deal Of socialism and socialistic
aspiration of an unfounded but influ-
cntiaI character floating in the at
mOspherc Of our present day
thoughts mingled with sensible am
ticipatiuns by the less inspired, OF
real and possible progress. Some men
are dreaming dreams and seeing
visions, and there is nothing that
anGers them SO as the effort, by
few practical considerations and the
results OF experience, to awaken
them.
I'VE are not going into socialism,
and>if we were. it would substitute a
tyranny of the majority and q dead
level of retrogressiOn that would not
mean more happiness for anybody"
The Washington times., 1914-01-22
THINK OF THIS.

4..iladelphia is nationally looked
upon as the foremost example of a
ity corrupt, contented, and hopeless.
Washington is nationally looked
upon as rather a model city, be-
cause it is the nations ward and a
national center.
Yet the municipal authorities Of
Philadelphia are right now on the
VI erge of securing universal street
car transfers for the people of their
city, while Washington is still. after
a decade and more of effort, awaiting
the initiation of serious effort for
transfers.
The Washington times., 1914-01-22
TRIMMING STATE RIGHTS

While Mr.. Wilson's Administration
and Congress are endeavoring to
narrow the debatable ground around
the antitrust laws, the Supreme
Court is giving attention to the mys-
teTies in the twilight zone between
Federal law and the multi-State
laws.
On Monday the Supreme Court up
held the right Of railroads 20 begin
proceedings to test State rates in the
Federal courts rather than in the
courts Of the State. In another State
case the Supreme Tribunal decided
that State courts must accept as true
alleged facts set forth in petitions for
removing cases from estate to Fed
eral courts; if attacks upon the
truthfulness of the petition are to
be made they must wait until the
case gets into the Federal court. In
still another State case the Supreme
Court upheld the rights of Federal
courts to dismiss : proceeding be-
cause the suit was begun in the State
court with a defective service.
All these decisions are important
for the reason that they are not only
deciding particular points of dispute,
but making it more and more clear
that where there are conflicts Of
Jurisdiction and clashes of interest in
general way, a judicial order is
steadily coming out of disorder by
transferring authority from dozens
of States, where it is next TO i'm
possible ever to get harmony and CO.
herence, TO the one sure plane of 4
power centralized and uniform.
As the United States Government
gees further and further into the
regulation and supervision OF the af-
fairs Of the American people IL what
ever States they may be resident il
is inevitable thai the old doctrine o.
State sovereignty shall slowly fade
from the vision Of this race.
The Washington times., 1914-01-22

Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood will en-
tertain informally for her cousin, Mrs.
Alfred Hawes5 of Toronto. Canada, to-
morrow and next Friday from until 4
o'clock at her home, 1919 Rhode Island
avenue.
Miss Jessie Herriott and Mrs. L. Clyde
Shade have cards out for >ths second
Of series OF informal Studio Even
ings' at Studio Hail., 1913 Connecticut
avenue, next Tuesday at 3:30 o'clock.
Mrs. A. d. Bockius and Mrs. Rather
inc Brandt, mother and sister of Mrs.
Pomerese, are visiting Senator and Mrs.
ktlee Pornerene' Of Ohio and viii be
their guests all winter.
Mrs. jackson, wife Of Senator William
P. jackson OF Maryland, will entertain
at large tea this afternoon at her resi-
dence in New Hampshire avenue, from
until 6 o'clock She will be assisted
by Mrs E. S. MARROW of Washington; /;
Mrs. H L. Matthews. of Philadelphia,
a house guest; Mrs. E. A Abbott, also
Of Philadelphia: Mrs. r. G. Munroe, OF
Eew York: Miss Hanna of. Bel Air.
Nd: the Misses Herbert. of California,
and Miss ShircIiff. OF New Jersey.
Mrs. 1. T. Mann is entertaining at n
luncheon party today.
Mrs. Chauacey B. Baker, wife Of Lieu
tenant Colonel Baker. L., S. A, will be
hostess' at an auction bridge party this
afternoon. --,. ~.
Miss Anna Bryan. daughter Of Capt.
B. c. Bryan. L. S. N, and Mrs. Bryan.
will be hostess at-an auction bridge
party this afternoon at her home in @
street in compliment TO her house guest,
Miss GLADYS Hstealey.- of New York. (.
.--.. .-.-..s - - .-.-.- sEt-f - =
/ Mrs. John, Hartness CBefIe Harpstes
Hartness) OF London, England is visit
ing here, the guest of Mrs. Edith King
nan Kern, 1872 G street. Mrs. Hart
ness is an illustrator and lecturer, and
is prominent in press circles in both
England and America, and Is the Amer
lean secretary Of the LyceIIm Club OF
London and the English representative
OF the League OF American Pen wom-
en-.
.'. - s.
The French Ambassador and Nine.
Jusserand will entertain at a large din
ner party this evening at the embassy
In compliment ITO the Russian Ambas-
sador and Nine. Bakhmeteff.
The Washington times., 1914-01-22
A SIGN OF THE TIMES.

The State of New York yesterday
sold $61,0OO,OGO of Az per cent
bonds, getting 1O6.O77 for them;
that is, a cash premium of S,10O, 900.
4 single buyer took the entire issue;
tive or three other single bidders
stood ready to do the same thing at
only slightly smaller premiums; and
the total subscription for the issue
was about six times the amount Of
tered. =
The times are surely getting bet
ter. Just little while ago the uni
reTsal complaint was that bonds
couldn't be sold at any price, and it
was almost literally true. Now New
York makes the best sale in its en-
tire history. And business is reflect
:nS the cheerful influence of Just
such conditions.
The Washington times., 1914-01-22
CONSERVING RADIUM.

4 very pointed question COLES up
al the first suggestion Of withdraw
ing from entry those -public ands
that contain radium ores. Secretary
Lane has recommended that policy.
So have most of the people WHO have
taken any active interest in the mat
ter.
The case for Withdrawing the
lands is perfectly plain. The Gov
ernment owns them; they contain
radium; radium ought under no cir
cUmstances to be a monopoly or the
basis of private exploitation. There
tore, the Government should keep it.
Perfectly sound. But
On the other side opponents of this
policy boldly insist that if the lands
are withdrawn, the radium will never
bc taken out of them. They say the
Government would have 10 spend
vast sums On prospecting and eX-
ploration, which would never be done