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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-08-01
piSSah News and Views.

Pisgah, July 27.--The drought on
us is playing havoc with the crops.
The fine prospect for corn short
time ago is gone. The crop at best
cannot make more than half, for it is
burnt 'beyond recovery. Corn that
was estimated to make 80 to 40 BUSH
bushels The drought caught it in it's
prime. Early corn will fare better.
Yesterday was the hottest day Of the
year here.
Trees in the woods are dying.
Cotton is opening, forced open by
heat.
The meeting ut Pisgah church was
q good one. Rev. J. NJ. Truluck came
and staid until Saturday. He preach
ed some fine sermons. The attend
ance was good all the week and in
creased to the end. There are seven
additions to the church.
Many visitors from off attended the
services all the week. Among those
noticed, Hon. Geo. w. Mosely, a
prominent candidate for the senate
for Kershaw county, and Misses Ethel
Smith, Lola Mcleod, Bessie Hatfield
and Kate MOsely, four pretty girls
from Kershaw county. The behavior
Of the people all the time was fine.
Mrs. Alma Bradley presided at the
organ during the meeting and added
much to the services by the fine mu-
sic she rendered. The church high
ly appreciates her services as organ
ist, as we'll as in the many other good
things she helps in.
n meeting will go on this week at
Smithville.
On the End Sunday in August q
meeting will commence at Mcleod
Church. Rev. S. d. Bailey Of Ker-
shaw will aid.
ANS'' ~hA' NOiS PSi lOi tIIc LUZ
eral services Of a lady at Marshall's
church yesterday. This week he will
aid Rev. 5. B. Hatfield at Beaverdan
church, Kershaw county in q meet.
ing.
Rev. Mr. Kenney closed a meeting
yesterday at Bethany church, Lee
county. He was aided by Rev. Mr.
Denny Of Georgia. There were IA ad.
ditiOns to the church. He says the
congregations We're large.
All the members of Pisgah Demo.
cratic club have enrolled. This clul
will scatter its vote, Blease and Smith
will get more than any. Jennings and
Pollock are not regarded as in the
race.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-08-01
EDGEF|ELD MEETING LIVELY,
PARTISANSIIIP MARKS SENATOR.
IAL MEETING THERE.
Crowd Seems Overwhelmingly Anti
administration But Governors
Friends Wax Warm.

SNNN W
Edgefield, July 29.-Voters who at
tended the senatorial campaign meet
ing here today were more nearly
unanimous in their anti-administra-
ton sentiment than those of any
county previously visited. The gov
ernor spoke first and left the grounds
Immediately. Probably half a hundred
followed in the trail, and the
scattered bursts Of resentment, when
l.. ID. Jennings and W. u. Pollock
were applying the Gaff, indicated that
few more than Il bakers dozen re-
manned behind. But this sparse fol-
lowing WAS rancorous i'm its partisan
preference. Few men met with In
the campaign have demonstrated
more plentiful supply Of political
rancor locked up beneath summer
shirts.
I'm going to vote for Collie any
way" wis shot back time and again
at the speakers, when some telling
blow had been struck and which the
anti-odministr,tiou
audience was cheering Justify.
There were approximately 1000
voters I'm attendance, though many OF
these came from adjoining counties.
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LEFT WITH GERMANY.
English Diplomats Say It's ''Cp to
Her" to Pour Oil On Troubled Wa
Special to The Daily Item.

Special to The Daily Item.
Iondon, July 3o.-ln diplomatic
oN"r\ thing now depends on Gcrmany's
T'lIN 10 the suggestion that she Sug-
H"St a diplomats solution. a reply
i8 expected hourly. The London stock
market cl"scd panicky. Foreign Min
Ntcr Grey said this afternoon: 81 re-
Grct am unable to say the European
situation is better than Yesterday"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-08-01
Iron Stands 100 Mars

In Delhi stands n wrought-ron col.
nmn which was placed there nearly
300 years ago and today shows prac.
ucally no signs Of deterioration.
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ponent paid Or. A. B. Knowlton for
the services Of DR.. Mcintosh and DR..
KnOwlton, and that depOnent holds,
in the personal handwriting of DR..
Knowlton, DR.. KnOwltons receipt for
said fee. The certificate is as fol-
lows:
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-08-01
10 In All Men, pouor

It Is prodigious Two quantity of good
That may be done by one man If he
VIII make business of it.--Benjamin
Franklin.
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ABOUT TIE CANDIDATES.

D 900 10000 1000 100 0 0
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"The KnowltOn Hospital,

lows:
1.-THE KnOwltOn Hospital,
"No 1,515 Marion street,
Columbia, $. c., Jan. 10, 1912.
"His Excellency, Governor Cole L.
Bleaso, Columbia, s. C.-Sir: At the
request Of Mr. w. Z. Richey, or
L.aurens, s. c., and with the permis
sion of Capt d. ]. Griffith, superin-
tendent of the State Penitentiary
and of DR.. r. T. Jennings, surgeon Of
the same, we have this day visited and
examined Mr.. Il. A. Richey, now con-
fined in the hospital of the peniten-
tiary. We would report that we find
Mr.. Richey suffering from a marked
neurOsis, that the same closely simu-
| lates a true paralysis. We are in.
formed that Mr.. Richey has had some
| such trouble for the past ten years or
more, and close confinement is render
ing it more marked. We do not be-
lieve this condition will be improved
so long as Mr.. Richey remains a pris-
oner in the penitentiary We do be-
lieve that freedom, outdoor exercise,
ETC., would restore him to as good a
state of health as he has enjoyed for
the past ten years.
Respectfully submitted.
(SigneO "a. +. Knowlton. Nj. d.
(Signed) "James II. Mcintosh,
M. d."
/ can not understand why DIR. Nc
lntOsh denies the genuineness of his
| signature, and especially since waiting
| from the date of this certificate up
until July, 1914, and after the death
OF DR.. a. Il. Knowlton, when, as a
matter Of fact, the certificates have
been on file during the entire time,
| and the governor, in his statement of
paroles, pardOns and combinations
| at the session Of the general assem-
bly,, in 1913, presented said reasons
to the senate, and the same are now
a part Of the permanent files Of the
general assembly.
My reasons for employing DR..
knowlton and DR.. Mcintosh were be-
cause they were men we'll known
throughout the State, and had the
reputation of being physicians of
splendid ability and men Of high
character, and / felt that certificate
from them would have weight as com.
ing from men high in the medical
profession.
/ am thoroughly convinced that if
had the time and opportunity to
get together all Of my various papers
and memorandums in this matter that
l could easily and clearly establish
| the fact that this is the original sig
nature of DIR. James H. Mcintosh.
(Signed) w. II. Richey.
Sworn to before me this eth day
Of July, a. d. 1914.
| (SigneO w. Hampton Cobb.
Notary Public for South Carolina.
(Seal.)
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-11-19

entertainment. Yet this is what Will
liam Lloyd Davis had to do at the en-
tertainment on Monday evening, and
he got away with it. very effectively.
after the large audience had been
surfeited with the many good things
in the musical line presented by Miss
Grace Chadbourne and Miss Gertrude
Reeves. Mr.. Davis was introduced
for his address. The wave of weari-
ness with which the audience looked
forward to listening to speech when
they really wanted more of the music
could be distinctly sensed, yet Mr..
Davis took the audience in that mood.
In one minute he had them thinking
hard about cmmunity welfare, and
soon had them enthusiastic about
suggestions for the building of the
community spirit.
"The entertainment was highly ap-
preciated by all, and the Development
Association can certainly be proud Of
laving gotten together such an en-
tertainment as is furnished by Miss
Chadbourne, Miss Reeves, Mr.. Davis,
and the motion pictures of West Cen
trail Minnesota events"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-11-19
tai savings funds, are now among the
eager applicants for them.
Natures Armor,

HOLSTERS ami GRATIS are familiar ex.
amples of aruOr herring creatures
The Holsters nave wonderful coats OF
mail suggestive Of those devised nv
human warriors III the age Of cnIvairy
They combine perfect security with
ease OF movement. owing To their Inlnt
ed structure The manner IN wnIrn
crabs when at rest tuck their iegS i,.4-
meath them so ms to bring them under
the shelter of the hard carapate H. IN
tereSting. The crab Is dHIDiy project
ed. for it resembles u water worn tm.t,-
bic. and thus looks to large nSheS
which like To eat the rrIIstarran so
long as il Keeps still very similar to
the objects with which II Is sur
rounded
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-11-19
FINE ENTERTAINMENT.

A rare tribute has been paid to the
Community Lecture and concert pro-
gram which is to be put on here Fri
day evening, Nov. 20, at 8 o'clock, to
assist the local candidate for Queen
of the Corn and Alfalfa Exposition at
Benson, Nov. 1928. j. C. Morrison,
editor of the Morris Tribune, is its
sponsor:
Zone of the most difficult tests of
the ability of platform orator is to
have to make an address at musical
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-11-19
The Best
be subject to the same rules as war

be subject to the same rules as war.
ships.
Vessels will not be allowed to coal
except the amount necessary to carry
them to the nearest friendly port. No
belligerent can embark or disembark
troops or munitions of war in the can
al except in case of accident.
No more than three vessels of any
one belligerent will be permitted at
either terminal port of the canal with
in week after its departure will lose
privileges precedent in departure from
the canal zone and in passage through
the canal.
Except in cases of distress and then
only to make the craft seaworthy YES
sells will not be permitted to use the
canal repair docks. Wireless appara-
tus on warships in the canal zone can
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-11-19

be used only to transact canal bust
ness. Airships of belligerent nations
will not be allowed to land or fly over
the canal zone.
To the proclamation was attached a
protocol of an agreement between Ac-
ting Secretary of State Lansing and
Minister Morales of Panama that hos
pitality extended in Panama waters to
a belligerent vessel should serve to
deprive such vessel Of like hospitality
in the Panama canal for three months.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-11-19
POSTAL SAVINGS INCREASE.

The war in Europe is proving big
boon to postal savings in this country.
From the very day hostilities opened
across the seas postal-savings receipts
began to increase by leaps and bounds
and Withdrawals fell off result quite
contrary to the predictions of many
well informed persons, who, in their
imagination, saw lines of feverish de
positors, at post office pay windows
anxious to again return their savings
to the bootleg and bodybelt depositors
whence they came before intrusted to
Uncle Sam. But the forecasters failed
to reckon on the absolute confidence of
the American citizen, regardless of
the flag that first met his eyes, in the
ability and purpose Of the government
to carry out it's obligations, not only
among the nations of the earth, but
with the humblest citizen of our land.
Two important results have follow
ed: thousands of people largely of for
eign birth accustomed to send their
savings abroad, are now patrons of
our postal savings system, and enor-
nous sums of actual cash has been
released for commercial uses among
our own people at time when the
need for every available dollar is
pressing.
The growth of the postal savings in
United States has been steady and
healthy and the system has filled an
important gap between the tin-can de-
pository and the factory paymaster.
On July l., when affairs were running
smoothly here and abroad and the
transmission of money orders across
the Atlantic was safe and expeditions
there was approximately $4,000, 900
OF postal savings standing to the cred
it of about $4,000 depositors. Since
then over $10,000,000 of deposits have
been added and the number of
depositors increased enormously. This
unprecedented gain is the more strik-
ing when it is considered that the net
gain in the last three months is larger
than the gain for the entire fiscal
year 1914. Scores Of offices have done
more postal savings business since the
war has been going on than was done
by them during the previous existence
OF the service. The increases are con-
fined to no special localities but have
been felt in every nook and corner of
the country. New York city alone
made gain in September of more
than million, while Brooklyn show
ed relatively big increase. Chicago
reported larger gain in the past 8
months than for the previous twelve
months. More than 1000 new ac-
counts were opened during the period,
bringing the number Of depositors in
that city up to over $1,000.
The unexpected increase in postal
savings business has not only added
greatly to the general administrative
duties of the system, but has brought
up many new and interesting prob
lens which have called for the careful
personal consideration of Postmaster
General Burleson and Governor Dock
cry, Third Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral. But their task has been light
ened somewhat by the promptness of
depository banks in furnishing addi-
tional security to meet the ABNORMAL
deposits. A number of the very lar
gest banks in the country, which have
heretofore declined to qualify for pos
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-11-19
LAWS To GOVERN CANAL
President PrOclaims Rules Establish.
ed for Belligerents in Panama
Waters.

Washington, Nov. 14.-President
Wilson tonight issued a proclamation
laying down rules and regulations to
govern the use of the Panama canal
by the warships of belligerent nations.
It forbids the revictualing of belli-
gerent warships in the canal Except
SO far as may be strictly necessary"
and the transit of such vessels
through the canal must be effected
without unnecessary delay. Prizes will
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-11-19
Method IN Her Madness,

"Why do you quarrel with your bus
band 40 these daysi Have you ceased
to love himY
NO. hut the cook enjoys It. She lin
gers with Us. hoping to see light
Louisville COurier-JOurnai.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-11-19
Chinese Beqqars.

Beggafs in China are taxed and have
districts allotted to them in which to
nuke APPEALS for charity.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-11-19
Society Note,

"She was once hendliner In sOci-
ETY. Yes: Now she isn't even q
fOOtnOte Smart Set
Las Vegas optic., 1914-12-31

"NOt I-but Destiny, II It Will"
window. she was dressed and clam.
bered out upon the sill
Sweetheart My hravest little
woman!"
The hook hung steadily within six
inches of the window-Iedge. Alan ex-
tended his arm.
Nothing to fear. except lest held
you too tight, dear onel"
Without a word Judith set her foot
beside his in the hook. surrendered to
his embrace. and closed her eyes.
Immediately they were swung away
from the window. over toward the op-
posite sidewalk. and gently lowered to
the street.
Maybe this isn't a good schemel"
Alan exuIted in the innocence of his
heart. "But ! think it is. And those
workingmen think 1t great lark-I
told them the simple truth. you see:
that we were eloping!"
BY way of answer Judith breathed
only word of tenderness.
And that instant the hook paused
Las Vegas optic., 1914-12-31
ITO be Continued
catarrh Cannon be cnret


with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as they
cannot reach the seat Of the disease
Catarrh is blood or constitutional
disease, and in order to cure it you
must take internal remedies. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
|acts directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surface. Halls CataITh Cure Is
not quack medicine. It was pre-.
|scribed by one of the best physicians
in this country for years and is a reg
Iular prescription. 1t is composed Of
the best tonics known, combined with
the best blood purifiers, acting direct
ly on the mucous surfaces. The per.
tect combination of the two ingre.
dents is what produces such wonder
full results in curing catarrh. Send
for testimonials, free.
If. J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton
Las Vegas optic., 1914-12-31

much on the job: no cnance here to
steal unseen into the building.
This in itself might have been
deemed a suspicious circumstance:
not for nothing does an honest night
watchman so deny the laws of nature
and the tenets Of his craft. But Alan
merely praised the man while cursing
the very fact of his existence; and, ac-
costing overcame with hank-notes
what seemed an uncommonly stubborn
reluctance, and got his way.
He could not know that another
skulked behind a barrier OF lime bar
rels and overheard all that passed and,
when Alan had ducked smartly into
the unfinished building, rose and stole
after him with footsteps as noiseless
as cats and face that had the saw
agery of tigers when it was tran
silently revealed In shaft of moon.
light.
At length Alan gained the grldiron
of girders on a plane with the lighted
window across the way, and crept
along one of these, gingerly on his
hands and knees, until he came to It's
end and might, if he cared to, look
down hundred feet to the sidewalks.
That view, however did not tempt;
he kept his eyes level; and was re-
warded with bare glimpse Of a pret-
tily-papered wall, framed in the lace Of
half-drawn curtains.
And of sudden-whether through
fortuity, or instinct, or the psychic
logical attraction of his steadfast CON
centration--the tenant of the room
came to the window and stood there
for little, looking pensively out, alto.
gether unconscious of the watcher in
his aerial coign.
Again a horrible uncertainty har-
assed him. Was the woman Rose
or Judith? That she was one of these
he could plainly see. But which? Dared
he assume his hopes fulfilled?
With difficulty he detached his
hungry vision from her, and drawing
from his pocket small notebook, tore
out blank page, placed this fiat on
the girder, found pencil, and with
the assistance of a ray or two of
moonlight scrawled a message of al
most stenographic brevity.
When he looked up from this task,
she had vanished.
Sitting up, astride the girder, he
took his watcll-a cheap affair he had
picked up when reclothing himself in
the garments of civilized society, at
Providence. that mnrnins---nnened the
Las Vegas optic., 1914-12-31

les, Pablo Fresquez, Cruz Roybal, Desi
derio solano; polling place. house Of
Pablo Fresquez.
Precinct No. So, Las Colonias- -Judg
les. Cleofes Gallegos, Guadalupe Roy
bal, Epifanio Quintana; polling place,
house of Nazario Valencia.
Precinct No So. Judges,
Julian Salazar, Julian Lucero, Ricardo
Medina; polling place school house.
Precinct No. 54, Hillside Judges,
H. A. Schmidt, W. r. Calhoun, John
Paulson; polling place. school house
The first Judge of election, named
in each of said precincts, in the fore.
going list, shall receive and hold, in
his custody, the ballot box and other
election supplies, as may be neces.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-12-31

the Hotel Mono lith.
pack of the case, and closed it upon
the folded message.
Then drawing back his arm, he
breathed a silent prayer to the god of
all true lovers, and cast it from him
with all his might-with such force
that it almost unseated him at the end
Of the swing. But nothing less would
have served to bridge that yawning
chasm.
And the watch flew straight and
true, squarely through the lighted win
dow and to the further wall ~
At that very instant of his exultation
over an obstacle overcome, he heard a
sound behind him Of heavy breathing.
The assassin had come that close
upon his prey when Alan turned and
discovered his peril.
The same moonbeam which had
aided Alan in the composition Of his
message struck across the others face,
and showed it like hideous Chinese
mask of deadly hatred, with its eye
balls glaring and its lips drawn back
from the naked blade gripped between
its teeth-a stiletto nothing short Of a
foot in length.
With a sharp, startled movement,
Alan swung himself bodily about, SO
that, seated again astride the girder.
he faced the assassin who sat up.
straddling the girder, lis feet hooked
beneath it q stiletto poised in his
right hand to strike.
But even now Alan was in little or
no better case than before. II he faced
the thug, he faced him with no arms
other than his bare hands. He had not
even pen-knife in his pockets.
With low cry Of desperation Alan
snatched off his hat soft and shape
less felt affair, and flung it squarely in
the fellows face.
Before he could before.
that is, 1t dropped away and cleared
his vision, Alan had bent forward and
grasped the wrist of the hand that
held the knife.
He snatched simultaneously at the
other hand, but it eluded him.
Alan had this advantage, as long as
the knife might not strike-that his
right arm was free, while the assassin
had only bis left. With this he strove
Las Vegas optic., 1914-12-31
CHAPTER XIV.
The Time O Night.

Not ill-pleased to be left to his own
devices (whose proposed character
iDigby would never have approved had
he so much as suspected them) Alan
none the less deferred action until
after midnight.
And espionage was all he feared
save and except always. of course, fail
ure to find his Rose.
It was about one in the morning
when he arrived inconspicuously (but
mot SO much SO as to seem deserving
of police surveillance) in the neigh
horhood Of the Riverside drive home Of
his mortal enemy, a grim white house
that lowered, stark and tall, upon q
corner.
His preliminary reconnaissance pro
vlded little more than comfortIess ex-
ercise. Huge, still, its wall bathed in
the. milk and ink Of moonlight and
shadow, all its windows dark but
ona-and that one, in the topmost tier,
showed only feeble glimmer, so slight
that Alan almost overlooked it.
But once discovered, it focused upon
itself his thoughts with a power little
less than hypnotic.
He believed with small doubt that
Rose was a prisoner within those
walls; that Judith must have CON
veyed her there with all speed.
And, this being the presumptive case,
that small, high window of the light
might we'll be hers.
Directly across the street from the
Trine residence, on the opposite cor.
ner, colossal apartment structure
stood haIf-finished. etonewcrk to It's
second story. gaunt iron skeleton rear.
ing above.
To his infinite disgust, Alan found
the guardian very wide awake. very