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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-07-27
SUMMER WORK OF
HIGHEST ORDER
Session at Winthrop School One Of
Most Successful in History.
New Attendance Record.

Rock Hill Special to The State,
July 24.-The session of the Win.
throp summer school, which closed
Friday, has been from every point of
view the most successful in the his
tory of summer schools in South
Carolina. The attendance of $50 is
in advance of any of previous years,
and the unanimous opinion of teach
ers is that the quality of work done
is superior to that of any former
session.
The short course for prize winners
In home demonstration work not only
brought over 100 people to the col
lege to enjoy for a short time it's op-
portunities, but carried back into
homes all through the state inspira-
ton for better and nobler home life.
The lectures were of an unusually
high tone and all had a practical
touch, which made them of immedi-
ate use.
The social life OF the school was
enjoyed to the utmost and was varied
from the evening games on the
campus begun by DIR. Wyche and car
ried on through the session to the
tennis tournament, which brought
out the best in the line of good play
ers. This was concluded Thursday
and Friday, when DR.. Thomas and
Miss Henderson won the champion
ship in mixed doubles and DR.. John
son and Mr.. Brown the championship
in mems doubles.
On the last two nights and the af-
ternoon Of one day the Coburn play
ers gave three of their outdoor plays
on the beautiful campus to an exceed
ingly appreciative audience. These
plays were "The Yellow Jacket"
"The Imaginary Sick Man." and
Jeanne dare"
One young woman who attended
summer school at one of the largest
Northern universities last summer
said that she got as much, and In
some respects more, from her course
here this summer at one-fourth the
cost.
This week President T. w. Palmer
Of the State Normal and Industrial
College at Monticello. Ala. with two
of his board of trustees, paid visit
of inspection to the college. He
made careful study OF the plant
and of the methods of instruction
Ind he and his trustees departed
highly pleased.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-07-27
SUBMARINE SENDS
FRENCH SHIP DOWN
In Waters Around British Isles Ger
many's Undersea Boats Again
Become Active.

London, July 25.-German subma-
rines today resumed their activity in
English waters, sinking a French
steamer and four British trawlers.
One undersea boat is reported to
have been destroyed by bombs and
gunfire.
The French steamship Danae.
Liverpool for Archangel, was sunk
off Cape Wrath, Scotland. The
trawlers Henry Charles, Kathleen.
Activity and Prosper were sent to
the bottom in the North Sea. The
crews OF all the vessels were saved.
The Danae was attacked by two
submarines. Crews of the trawlers
say one underwater craft was sunk
by bombs and guns fired from the
trawlers.
The Danae was a vessel of 1,5O5
gross tonnage and was 357 feet long,
35 feet beam, and drew IA feet of
water.
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Sunk in North Sea.

London, July 25.-The British
steamer Firth Of Aberdeen, bound
from France for Firth of Forth, was
torpedoed today by submarine in
the North Sea. Four of the crew
were drowned by the explosion. The
vessel was OF 400 tons.
The Grimsby trawler Perseus was
destroyed today by mine. Her
crew of ten was killed.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-07-27
SUBMARINE SINKS
AMERICAN VESSEL
Leelenaw Filled With Flax Tor
pedoed Off Coast of Scotland.
LOAD OF CoNTRABAND.
Crew and Captain Of Steamship
Were Saved and VIII Give
Their Dispositions.

London, July 26.-The American
freight steamer Leelenaw bound
from Archangel, Russia, for Belfast
with cargo of fax, was torpedoed
and sunk Sunday by a German SUBJ
marine off the northwest coast OF
Scotland. Captain Belk and the
crew were saved, landing at Kirk
wall in their own boats.
Keen interest was displayed in
British official circles today over the
news of the torpedoing of the Leele-
nav, but comment was withheld un-
til the receipt of further details
which the admiralty has requested.
Tomorrow the Leelenaw's crew
will be sent to Dundee, where the
American consul will take their de-
positions.
American officials will make a
rigid investigation especially with
regard to the point whether the crew
was removed before the torpedo was
fred, as the Leelenaw was carrying
a conditional contraband cargo from
one belligerent port to another.
The Leelenaw left New York May
II with cargo Of cotton consigned
to Russia. She was detained at Kirk
wall but was released June 26 with
PERMISSION to proceed to Archangel.
where the cotton was discharged and
a cargo of fax was loaded for Bel
fast.
No details of the torpedoing Of the
Leelenaw have been received beyond
a message stating that that the crew
had been safely landed at Kirkwall,
Scotland, from which place they noti-
fed the American consul at Dundee
of the sinking Of the vessel.
An Official statement of the Ger.
man government issued April 18,
1915, set forth that flax is contra
band OF war.
The Leelenaw was commanded by
Capt. d. B. Belk. Her crew consist
ed of seven officers and 80 men and
she was owned by the Hardy Steam
ship Company.
The Leelenaw was formerly called
the Earnwell. She was $50 feet
long and OF 1924 gross tons.
Under the name of Earnwell she
was wrecked some years ago in a
tropical storm off Colon and the
steamship company abandoned her
to the insurance underwriters. The
latter brought the vessel to Norfolk.
where she was rebuilt and sold.
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Cherokee County Struck by Hail

No"hSs oHeCh W uhfI.
Gaffney Special to Spartanburg
Herald, July 24.---A destructive hail
storm passed over the western sec
tion of Cherokee county yesterday
afternoon, doing considerable dam
age to growing crops in that section.
J. G. Pridmore, local agent for COM
panies which write hailstorm insur-
ance, is now investigating the extent
OF the damage. A number of people
In that portion OF the county have
policies with Mr.. Pridmore's agencies.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-07-27
DardanelIes Bombardment.

Paris, July 27.-s Havas dispatch
from Athens says bombardment Of
Turkish positions inside the Darda-
nelles has continued for the past
three days, the allies object being to
destroy the enemy's positions on the
Asiatic shore.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-07-27
PRESIDENT ORDERS PROBE.
Gets Assurance of Activity Of Com
merce Department.


Cornish, N. H., July 25.-Presi-
dent Wilson today ordered that the
department Of commerce investigate
thoroughly the sinking of the excur-
sion steamer Eastland in the Chicago
river with loss Of many hundreds
of lives. Acting Secretary Sweet of
the department sent the President
word that the cause of the disaster
would be looked into and the Presi-
dent directed that nothing be left
undone to fix the responsibility.
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CAPT. OTIS p. Mills DEAD.
Prominent Mill Official and Citizen
of GreenyilIs.

Oh GreenyliS.
Greenville Special to Charleston
News and Courier, July 24.-Capt.
Otis p. Mills, president and treasurer
of the Mills Manufacturing Company,
and one of Greenville's most promi-
nent citizens, died suddenly last
night at his summer home at Cedar
Mountain, N. C.. The news of his
sudden demise reached the city late
last night and the entire town is
his loss.
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Electrocution of Becker Postponed.

New York. July 26.-On Supreme
Court Justice Ford's request for
more time to consider the application
for a new trial made oy Charles
Becker, under death sentence for in
stigating the murder of Herman
Rosenthal, execution OF the former
police lieutenant was postponed to-
night from Wednesday until Friday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-22

$4,000 the club is indebted to the
stockholders for the non-payment OF
of stock.
Judge Bartholomew alleges that
the club is in an embarra ssed fl
nancial condition and is losing money
every day. He further alleges that he
has been informed that the corpora
ton controlling the club is about to
dissipate it's property and assets by
transferring the club to unknown
parties without providing in any way
for securing the payment to it's stock
holders or debtors sums already due
them The case will be heard tomor-
row before Judge Vincent Clifford of
the superior court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-22
QUAKER MEDITATONs.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
A man seldom gets to the top by
betting his bottom dollar.
man sometimes has to be pretty
wise to realize his own folly.
Self conceit is the plaster that en-
ables q man to get stuck on himself
Somehow or ether we don't hear so
much talk about universal peace as
we did year ago.
When the political orator realizes
the decay of his family tree, he can
still take the stump.
The man who finds it easy to Dor
row trouble experiences more difficult
ty in getting rid of it.
The only man who can afford to do
without the sense of humor is the
man who has dollars instead
No, Maude dear; just because wo-
man bites her nails is no indication
that she is fond of lady fingers
shes just as pretty as she can be"
exclaimed the youthful adrnirer. 'tEv-
cry girl is replied the dealer in cos
metics. It's her own fault if she
isn't
They were talking about a German
town landscape gardener who had just
started a nursery. "A nurseryi" ex-
claimed a suburban Mrs Malaprop.
Goodness me, I didn't even know he
was married"
There is nothing more important
to a woman than saving her soul"
shouted the evangelist UNLESS it Is
keeping her shape murmured the
fashion editor. who had been sent to
report the proceedings
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-22
JACKSON is HERE
New Player Manager Arrives in
Town This Morning.
He Brought Ridgeway's Signed
Contract With Him.

With gripsack in southpaw and
Ridgeway's contract in gripsack, J. B.
(Jimmy) Jackson, the new player
manager of the local baseball team,
arrived in town this morning, and re-
ported to the headquarters of the
club.
Jackson is a young looking clean
cut, business like fellow who makes a
very favorable impression and APP
pears to be on to the ms and outs of
the game. When asked what he
thought of the outlook, he said:
We'll, l wouldn't like to say be-
cause / know very little about the
players and the local conditions Mr.
Savage and 1 have been going over
matters most of the day, and I can
tell you more about what 1 think of
things after L see the players work
out"
Mr.. Savage has notified the players
that their meal tickets will be provid-
ed by the Fifth Avenue hotel this
spring, and they will report there as
soon as they arrive. Nelson and Cam
are both expected to arrive by the
middle of the week.
jackson, the player manager, saws
he is in fairly good condition himself
as they have been having pretty
weather in the east and he has been
doing considerable work However
he is anxious to get the other men to
work as soon as they arrive and those
who come in before the end of the
week will probably be put at it the dav
after they report
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-22
THE INCREASE or CRIME.

There never has been year in the
last fifty, writes Judge William n.
Gemmill of Chicago, in the March
Case and Comment, the Lawyers
Magazine, when our social standards
were not raised a little, and Whepever
they have been raised and enacted
into law, the number of our social de-
Iinquents have increased, not because
these delinquents have become worse
than they were before, but because
they did not instantly respond to the
new demands made upon them by leg
islative enactment. The law is made
to fit the average member of society,"
and it's greatest value is it's constant
insistence that the men and women
whose morals are below the average
shall raise their standards.
An examination of the records of
our criminal -ourts today will disclose
that more than SO per cent of all the
people who pass through them do SO
because they have not responded
readily enough to the new demands
which society is constantly making
upon them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-22
EDUCATING FOR PEACE.

Permanent world peace, like other
world movements, depends for its
success on education, as the Kansas
Industrialist says. In this connection
the work of the American School
Peace league deserves special COM
mendation. Its purpose is to promote
through the schools and the teduca-
tional public of America the interests
of international justice and frater-
nifty
Through eminent speakers and the
wide dissemination of literature the
league has, it's last year book points
out, led both the teachers and the
pupils of the country to turn their
attention as never before to the i'm
portance of educating public opinion
toward a better substitution of law
for war as a means of settling inter-
national disputes. The league has
secured a wide observance by schools
of May is, the anniversary of the
opening of the first Hague confer
ence in 1899, for the purpose of
concentrating the attention of the
pupils one day in the year on the
historical and ethical development of
international relationships num-
Der of successful peace pageants have
been given by school children. not
of July and Memorial day. The Sea-
bury prize essay contest, which is an
nually conducted by the league, re-
suited in ninety-three essays by school
children on subjects relating to inter-
national peace. Essays were received
from competitors in England, Ger
many, and Holland, and from twenty
eight states of this country.
One OF the most important pro-
jects of the league is being under
taken by its history committee
which plans, general course of
study in history for the elementary
schools. Many educators have long
felt that histories place far too much
emphasis upon the political and mill
tary phases of history and far too
little upon the development of the
social institutions which belong to the
everyday life and responsibilities of
the average citizen. Again, the place
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-22
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

Advice, like war dispatches, is con-
flicting.
There are a mighty lot of dead
among the living.
Often your doubts double-cross you,
and keep you miserable.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned boot and shoe store?
1t is all right to sing Liberty" but
a great deal of it isn't good for you.
Age is also apt to exaggerate the
opportunities it neglected in early
youth.
Why do you expect your grocer to
sell you goods cheaper than to any
other person?
Such fortunes as are made in pat
ent rights are made by selling them,
not by buying them.
Soon be spring, and the Girls Who
Show Through may parade as before.
Gosh, how we dread it!
Considering the length of it's vaca-
ton, the bee ought to keep busy dur
ing it's working season.
If you had capital. you could spend
it, which is about all poor man real
ly knows of his financial ability.
These little white dogs that are
built like a mop, so often look as if
they had been used for that purpose.
Among the other advantages of
temperance is that it removes from
many men their chief temptation to
try to sing
What, by the way, has become of
the old-fashioned boy who thought
that if he killed a toad the milk in his
fathers COW would turn to blood?
The best way to cook a potato is to
bake it and the fact that it is also the
easiest way. probably explains why in
dustrious housewives rarely serve
them that w3V
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-22
Jayhawker Jots

Another Harbinger of Spring, to the
Madison News: The butter was soft
enough to spread nicely last Saturday
at supper.
AS the Troy Chief advises: You
would tell anybody else that 1t was
none of his business; but you can't
talk to the assessor that way
One of the town characters had just
passed, relates the jamestown Opti-
mist There is this difference" re-
marked old John Tellit as he tamped
his pipe full of Old Style, between
that fellow and the Lord. The Lord
knows it all, and G. is all nose"
Editor Kelley of the Toronto Re-
publican seems bent on defeating with
ease all contenders for the medal that
is hung up for the possessor of the
largest optimism. "Cheer up he
urges. cit is only four weeks until
the pieplant pie season. And in six
weeks it should be possible to have
green gooseberry pie"
Sayings by Click Fockele in the
Leroy Reporter: So far as known,
the knocker is the only animal that
kicks with his mouth. The
genus boy is a living refutation of the
theory that to be healthy one should
eat less - 1t is no uncommon
occurrence for a dead sure thing to
come to life long enough to kick a
hole in a mans pocketbook.
This seems to approach the limit in
the realm of mud. The Pleasant Hill
correspondent of the Shawnee Chief
reports: 'It has been too muddy for
news to circulate" But, after ALL it is
a valid explanation for shOrter-than-
usual string of local news items.
When the roads are almost impass-
able, the comings and goings of the
folk in the rural districts are not ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-22

throughout two lives Leeta will feel
.No-she-she-ne feels any
thing; she-she-does not choose
Jean cried-then could have bitten
her tongue for the ungenerous speech.
You must marry her. she went on.
Her heart is set on you-always she
has had-whatever she-even thought
she wanted"
Then and there came an emissary
OF kind fortune to the pair. He was
most sportsmanly clad and carried a
gun rather gingerly. "Can you tell
me-" he begun, eff 1 am on the way
to Fair Oaks? I seem to have lost my
way--why, Miss Jean-it can't be
YOU
Me. Not my ghostl'' Jean said.
suddenly shaken yet presenting to
David Mr.. Archer Crane, "a friend
from home" she added descriptively
Mr.. Crane beamed. "Who hopes
very soon to be-something more-a
cousin" he said blandly, unless some
of the Fair Oaks beaux have persuad-
ed Leeta to throw me over"
There is not the least danger, sir"
David said heartily. Come aIongi
Jean and I will gladly show you the
way Copyright, 1915, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-22
BE FRENCHMAN,
Somebody Made Way With Fred Zuta-
vern's German Overcoat.

Fred Zutavern, member from Bar
ton county in the house of representa-
tives, is mourning the loss of his Ger
man overcoat and he is not comfort
ed by the possession of a strange gar
ment which some other person left in
the place of his. The strange coat is
a good one and SO much resembles his
own that Zutavern did not inm ediate-
ly discover the exchange but his wife
detected it Sunday morning after the
legislature had disbanded.
The Zutavern overcoat is a memento
of the Barton county members visit
to Germany a year ago. He priced it
on that account, as well as the fact
that it cost good deal of money, even
in Germany. Zutavern has left for his
home in Great Bend hoping that good
fortune may yet intervene for the
restoration of his cherished garment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-22
I Clara lns@ramJudson

ing the old fellow to write better, why
don't you teach yourself to read more
easily what he does write? Some
sense in that maybe.
But how teach YOURSELF" you ask
Listen and I'll tell you
Get some pieces of window glass
any size will do. Maybe your mother
has the glass from an old picture
frame that she will loan you for an
hour. Or you may find a broken bit
of a mirror or window glass; some
where. some how, l am sure Won can
get some glass.
Now shine it up till it sparkIes
bright and clear and you are ready
for your lesson.
Get mother or your sister to light
the fire under the teakettIe. When
the steam starts to come out of the
teakettle spout, hold your glass a lit
tie above the spout. And keep it there
covered with little beads of steam
Then run and lay the glass out of
doors, Steam-Side up.
If there are several of you playing
together, take turns at the teakettle.
And as quick as one PERSONS glass is
steamed, let them run out doors with
it while another takes his turn at the
spout.
After the glass has been out of doors
a few minutes you can begin to see
queer things on it. If the day is very
cold, pictures will come in a few min
utes. If the weather is moderate you
will have to wait longer. But sooner
or later, Jack Frost will write you a
message on your glass He will write
it with the steam you put there for
him.
And when the message is written
and firmly frozen onto the glass, bring
it in the house and see IL you can read
it-that is the most fun of ALL
Maybe he has made picture, we'll,
what is it a picture of? A house? A
boat? Mountains? Trees? That is
what you are to study out.
Z Or maybe he has written in queer
Take your pencil and
connect his marks together till they
make real writing. If you are quick
and clever you can make a whole
story before it melts.
Try again and again till you have
learned to translate Jack Frost; isn't
it fun?
Tomorrow - Miniature Morning
GiOries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-22
GORDON VS.. HOUSE.
second Consignment of Church At
taclxs Delivered Sunday.

Rev. Robert Gordon, in his sermon
last night before a crowded church,
continued his fight against Jay e.
House for mayor. He dwelt on the
lawful consequences of the election
of Mr.. House." He told of the evils of
liquor and what would be done in re-
gard to the enforcement OF the pro-
hibitory law if House becomes mayor.
1.-The breweries,'' he said, would open
offices in Topeka, and from there send
out their attacks on prohibition"
There isn't a man in Topeka
against whom 1 bear a hard feeling
said DIR. Gordon, "but I hope we are
going to his (House's) political flu
neral" The pastor dealt with the in
cident of several years ago in which
Mr.. House was brought before the
court in a liquor inquisition. 1t was
the famous mot Unfriendly Justice"
case. How could Mr.. House consist
emily start an inquisition against
jointists?" said DIR. Gordon.
Gordon brought down the house by
reading a quotation from letter writ
ten to him by House, in which was the
statement: 1.-THE only thing regret is
that can not skin you as you should
be skinned
After the sermon a collection was
taken to continue the fight against
HnTSa
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of the United States in relation to
world history has been sighted. The
committee points out that 1.-The prob
lens of developing our resources, OF
extending our Industries. of develop
ing education. and of working out the
unique experiment of a federated ma
ton have been solved by the repre-
sentatives of different nations imbued
with the American spirit of liberty
and Justice" 1t further shows that
since the birth of the union. its life
has been intertwined with world
movements, and that in the future our
country is destined to play a larger
part than ever before in the councils
Of world affairs