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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
WARSAW TAKEN TO-DAY.
German Official Report Summarizes
Results OF Great Campai1D.

German Official Report Summarizes
Results OF Great Campaign,
Berlin, Aug. 5.-The following Of
ficial statement was issued today:
Headquarters reports that Warsaw
was taken this morning Last night
Prince Leopold's Bavarian troops
broke through the outer and inner
lines, where the Russian rear guard
rs lnaking tenacious resistance.
Twenty-Five officers. forty eight hun
dred men and seventeen machine. guns
we're captured" The report adds that
the Russians are making violent re-
sistance on the road to Lomza, Ostrow
and Wyszcow. The pursuit Of the
Russians on the upper Vistula and
Bug continues.
The capture Of the Polish capital Is
the result Of the campaign begun in
May when Gen. Won Mackenzen with
a vast army drove the Russians out of
Galicia and then swung northward to
get behind Warsaw. Gen Won Hin
denberg who was waiting in Poland at
the same time drove southwark,
while Gen. Won Buelow dashed toward
Riga to cut the -Petrograd
communications.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
NO HOPE FROM ROUMANIA.
Count ReventlOw Sounds Warning to
Germans.

(
Berlin. Aug. 4.-tvia |Eondon. "A
warning that nothing can be expected
from Roumania is conveyed to the
readers of the Tages Zeitung in an ed
itorial this morning by Count Ernest
Reventlow. His article, which is
headed "Roumania's Falling Quota
tion." summaries the situation In the
following paragraph: .@<ass
Those friendly relations with Rou-
mania made sacred by tradition and
on the German side by firm confidence
can hardly longer be considered as
existing"
Count Reventlow points out Rou-
mania's refusal to permit exports OF
grain or to permit AMMUNITION for
Turkey to pass through its territory.
although Russia was permitted to
transship munitions to Serbia. He
says 1t had been hoped ,Roumania
would fulfil it's treaty obligations or
preserve at least an upright and well
wishing neutrality. but that the con-
trary came to pass.
Roumania's neutrality became
"malevolent." he asserts, with a ten
dency to enter the conflict on the side
Of Germany's enemies. The import
ance of Roumania's aid to Germany
and Turkey has been greatly LESSEN
ed, however, Count Reventlow insists.
Before Russia's Galician defeat Rou-
mania would have been a military
factor with the Muscov1tes. he says.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
PAINT LARGE FLAGS.
Germany Asks That American Shina
be Designated.

washington, Aug. 2.-Germany's
first response to the last American
note on submarine warfare has come
from the admiralty. which has re-
quested that American ships have
American flags painted on their sides
In proportions large enough to be-
recognized at a distance by Submarine
commanders. Many American ships
are painting the national colors on
their sides now, but it is said they
are painted too small.
Ambassador Gerard transmitted tho
request in a message.
-<1.N>s - xlSaR
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
GERMANY DESIRES PEACEP

Isnnensiai Newspapers Say Germany
In Wiling 20 Accept Peace Ncgotia-
ttons.
! Berlin. Aug. S.-Germany would
accept peace conditions based on an
even balance guaranteeing the prog
ress and safety OF all nations, says
the Deutsche Tages Zeitung I'm dis
eussins the peace proclamation of the
Pope. II declares that no country
would accept a proclamation by the
head OF the Catholic church with
srester cordiaiity than Germany.
tNote-This item was permitted to
pass the German censors. For the
sscond time In two days influential
German papers have expressed Ger
.msny's willingness to accept peace
negotiations. The question naturally
arises 'is Germany ready for peace.")
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
UNITED sTt|x xXR0TEsTs.
STATE DE- : ENT CONTESTS
SE' OF DACIA.
The IY bIved is American Right
to- Registry of Former Ger.
.Sel.

Washington, Aug. 4.-Announce-
ment from Paris today that French
prize court had confirmed the seizure
Of the American steamer Dacia as a.
fair prize found the State department
preparing to protest the decision,
which carries with it forfeiture of the
vessel. 1t is planned to make this a.
test case Of the right Of a neutral to
grant registry to a belligerent owned
merchant ship.
The Dacia's cotton cargo is not in
volved. The British government, be-
fore the Dacia sailed from Galveston
last sprihg for Rotterdam, announced
that the cargo, consigned to Bremen,
would not be detained, the announce
ment being binding upon Frace. The
French government purchased the
cotton.
The issue In the Dacia case is the
right of the United States to permit
registry under it's flag of a vessel for
merly owned by German corpora
ton, but declared sold to an American
citizen. Great Britain has sanctioned
such transfers in wartime and could
not consistently seize the Dacia.
France has always held that the
transfer of a merchant ship to q neu-
trail power must have been effected
at least 80 days before the outbreak
Of hostilities.
At the beginning Of the war, the
United States served notice on the
belligerents that as they had not con-
sented to observe the unratified dec
larations of London as a whole, this
governmnet would not be bound by
them, but would stand on the general
principles Of international, law.
The protest against condemnation
Of the Dacia will rest on these prin-
ciples.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
WHEAT HARVEST RUINED.
Western Farmers Suffer Tremendous
Loss from Floods.

Chicago. Aug. 5.-As the result of
the long continued rains harvest cor.
ditions in Illinois, Iowa. Missouri and
Nebraska are the worst in years. The
crop loss is already enormous.
Thrashing has been delayed to the
greatest extent ever known. Much
grain is rotting in the water covered
fields. Shippers face serious losses on
contracts.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
STRIKE Is AVERTED.
Demands of Krupp Employees are Met.

Geneva (via Paris), Aug. Add
vices from Essen say that all the de-
mands Of the Krupp employees have
been granted and that a serious strike
mas been averted. The German mill
tary authorities brought pressure on
the krupp administration to this end.
Many skilled workmen during the
early part of the troubles refused to
continue at their machines. In the
ammunition department some were
replaced by women.
WORK continues on the production
OF war munitions night and day in
three shifts.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
CONSULT DONnNIONS.
Andrew BOnar Law Sees Opportunity
for All.

London, Aug. 4.-Andrew Bonor
Law, secretary for the colonies. speak
ing at FOlkestOne tonight, said il was
his belief that as a result of the war
the time would come, and come soon,
when the wohle self-governing domin-
ions would take part in the duties of
governing the British empire.
1t already was understood, he add
ed, that when the time came for
peace negotiations, the dominions
would have their say in those negotia-
tions.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
BRITAIN IS ANXIOUS.

English People at Last Realize Gray.
ity OF American, Situation.
London. 4.-The British Press has
adopted a cautious tone in discussing
the British-American situation. 1t is
admitted that a serious situation has
developed as the result of Great
Britain's refusal TO modify the order
~ council hut the papeEs believe the
differences can be reconciied without
imperiling the friendship between the
two nations
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
Turks Defeat Russians.

Constantinople. Aug (OficiaD. -
Sunday we occupied Russian positions
ten miles north of Tutach. also driv-
Ing the Russians from positions on a.
mountain range seven thousand feet
high. Mured Shinubasin is In our
possession. Intermittent artillery
duels continue in Gallipoli.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
ENGLAND IN WRONG.
Uncle Sam Getting Up Statistics to
Refutc Contention of Great Britain.


Refute Contention OF Great Britain.
Washington, August 4.-The State
department has assembled a mass of
statistics to refute the British as
sumption that increased expectations
from the United States to Halland and
the Scandinavian countries indicates
that some Of these goods are finding
their way in to Germany and Austria.
The figures will be included in a pre-
dminary draft Of reply to the three
British notes made public yesterday
which is being prepared by President
Wilson. A study of trade conditions
between the United States and neutral
European countries has been made by
the State department, and investiga-
tions Of Scandinavian and Dutch trade
by the department Of commerce. A
report from Consul General Skinner
ct London. on the foreign trade Of
Great Britain for the six, months end
Ing 'JanssSo ,shoWs that 4 British ex-
ports to Scandinavian countries and
Holland have increased, as have
American. The State department will
contend that there can be no more
assumption that American goods 60
Ing to these neutral countries are
bound for Germany than that British
exports will reach Great Britains ene-
mics.
The London report showed that,
while Great Britains exports decreas-
ed materially in the first six months
of 1915, imports increased. Re-exports
during June, the first month during
which the British order in council was
fully effective. showed an increase Of
$2.9O4.83S.
In cotton Great Britain's imports
increased by 1,314,592 centals of 112
pounds each. OF the re-exports Of
cotton Consul General Skinner said:
Holland and Sweden each took about
five times as much cotton in June,
1915, as in June, 1914, and during the
past half year Sweden received 142,-
SAB centals and Holland 259,62S cen
tails Of cotton, as against 1852 and
1873, respectively, as in the same
period Of 1914" Large increases in
all lines of cotton goods and cotton
yarns from Great Britain to Sweden,
Norway. Denmark and The Neither
lands during the first six months Of
1915 are shown. Despite a general
decrease in exports Of manufactured
copper. Great Britain sent Norway 317
tons. as against 4S tons in 1914. In
creased American copper exports to
Scandinavian countries have been
cited by Great Britain to sustain her
contention.
Encouraged by the announcement
from London that a part of the cargo
Of the steamer Neches had been re-
leased, officials determined to day to
press informal negotiations for an
agreement that would release all the
vast quantity Of American bound
commodities now lying on Rotterdam
docks. The British note in the Neches
case set forth that if it is alleged that
lin particular cases and special cir
hardships may be inflicted
on citizens of neutral countries, his
MaJcsty's Government are ready in
such cases to examine the facts in a
spirit OF consideration for neutrals.
Foreign trade advisers of the State
department are forwarding to London
afiidavits covering hundreds of indivi-
dual cases in which they allege that
are being inflicted.
TuII II 4,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
BosdBARDING MALBORGHETrO.
sssi'sns Pushing Vigorous Campaign
Against Austrians.

Rome. August 3.-Italian howit-
rers are rapidly reducing the defenses
NJ Mslborghetto. The operations
against Goriza are proceeding sue
cessfully. Prisoners and wounded de-
clare that the lighting In the Isonzo
Is 80 herce that the trenches and
river are choked with dead. A vio-
lent artillery duel is progressing at
Csdore.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
Anarchy I'm COnstantinopIc.

Rome. Aug. 5.-ReliabIc advicos in
dlcate that anarchy is rife i'm Constan-
tfnople, and Turkey and Germany are
on the verge of break, the Turks
having demanded the recall of Gen.
Won Sanders.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
Turk Position Taken.

London. August 3.-The Allies
have captured a fortified ridge from
the Turks on the Gallipoli peninsula.
according to- the official announce
nent today. The position was taken
at the point OF the bayonet.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
FIGHTING IN FLANDERS.
indications are That Another Big
Hattie IN I'm Progrcss.

Amsterdam, Aug. "a continuous
stream OF German wounded is pass
Ing through Countrai from the Flan-
ders front. indicating that another
big battle is being fought there. The
sound of artillery has been heard for
seventy-two hours.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
AMBASSADOR To LEAVE.
Life Threatened by Turks and he Will
Get out Of COnstantinOplc.

Turin, Aug. 5.-The Gazette Del
Popoio announces that the Italian
ambassad dor at Constantinople has de-
cided to leave because he Is not per-
mitted to communicate with Italian
consuls and his life has been threat
ened.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
THREE CHILDREN PERISH.

Tragedy Mt Wisconsin Summer Colony.
Lake Belavan. Wis. Aug. 5.-Har-
vey, George and Mary Bryant, three,
six and nine years old were burned to
death in fire which destroyed six
summer cottages early today.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
RUSSIANS DRIVEN BACK.

Germans Advance Ffrty-Rvc Miles at
A"mza and Cross the Narew River.
"e"eVa, Aug. 6.-The Russians de-
Tending Lomza have been driven back
Do miles, permitting the Germans to
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
SMALL SCALE BATTLES.
Ffghting Oh Western Front is of Little
Importance.

faris' Aug. "a (Ofticia) Around
saucheze grenade fighting continues
accompanied by artillery fire. Sharp
artillery actions are under way in
the Aisne. Rifle. grenade, and artil-
lcry lighting continues in the Ar
gonnes. After violent bombardment
and a fierce attack the Germans occu-
Pied some parts of our trenches at
Lingekopf in the Vosges.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07

Dispatches From Berlin States That Princi-
pal Papers of Empire Say That Country
Would Accept Offer of Peace.

Russians Still Holding to- Warsaw, Although German
Armies Are Gradually Surrounding Polish Capital and the
Forts Are Being Bombarded and Unceasing Efforts Made
to Capture Forts BY Storm-ltalans Are Fighting Hard
For Further Progress Into Austrian France Indecsive
Battle Still Rages-Brtish Ideas of Blockade Will Be Re-
jected by United States
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07

cross the Narew at number Of
places. The Germans lost three thou
sand in the battle around Kavno
which is still in progress.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
DaCia a Legal Prize.

Paris. Aug. 4.-The French prize
court In decision made public to-
day declared the selling Of the Da-
cia was legal.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
GERMANS CAPTURE RIGA.
Loss a. Important Baltic Port Ad-
Matted by Rnssla.

Petrograd. Aug. 4--while the war
Office admits German gains In Cour-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
ENCIRCLING WARSAW.
@ermans Slowly Drawing Tighter the
Ring Around City.

ring Around City.
Berlin. Aug. 3.-Gen Won Buelow's
calvary army which swept through
Mitau Sunday Is now only twenty
miles from Riga. Gen. Won Macken-
ren's army southeast Of Warsaw also
made further progress and now the
gap In the circle around Warsaw is
only one hundred miles wide east of
the city. Meanwhile Gen. Won Hinden-
burg In batterins Warsaw and Novo-
seorsievsk with sixteen and seventeen
inch guns without sacrificing his men
In an attempt to take the forts by
storm.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-08-07
FOOD FOR STRAVING.
Red Cross Help for Destitute Ameri-

cans.
Washington, Aug. 5.-The Red
Cross has purchased six thousand dol
lars worth Of food in New Orleans to
be dispatched to the starving Ameri-
cans in Mexico City tomorrow.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-29
CORN CONTEST FOR WOMEN.
Prizes Valued at $1,000 Awarded
by Cedar Falls Bank.

Cedar Falls, Dec. 27.-Because
they helped their husbands and sons
to grow good corn IT'S wives of
Black Hawk county farmers were
given more than $1,000 in prizes in
special women's corn contest co l.
Quoted by the Cedar Falls National
Bank. The contest was conclude J
with three-day corn show ending
Saturday, when the prizes, consisting
of handsome silver trophy for
sweepstakes, several 10o-piece Havi-
land china dinner sets, kitchen uten-
sils and fancy china, were awarded.
Every woman not winning one of
the seventy-five prizes offered were
presented with piece of hand-paint-
ed china.
The bank kept "open house all
day Saturday. An orchestra dis
coursed music while women visitors
muched bon bons. Every woman
visiting the bank was presented with
a box of candy and every man was
given a good smoke"
The corn show drew an immense
crowd on the closing day and the
bank was filled to overlooking all
day long.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-29
How Long Your Nails Grow.

The growth of an average finger
nail is about one thirty-second of an
inch a week, or nearly one and one
half inches in year, so those aristo-
cratic Chinese who proudly exhibit
nails six to eight inches in length
must have refrained from cutting
them at least four to six years. Fling
CIR nails grow faster in the summer
than in winter. The nail on the mid
die finger grows faster than any of
the others, and that of the thumb is
slowest in growth. The nails of the
right hand grow faster than those of
the left. A nail is supposed to reach
its full growth in about four and a
half months, and at this rate a man
seventy years old would have renew
ed his nails 262 times. On each fing-
er he would have grown nine feet OF
nail, or on all his fingers and thumbs
no less than 90 feet of nail.-St.
Louis Republic.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-29
mo Girl Can Disappear Success
fully" Says Burns.

Why no pretty girl can leave her
home without leaving some trace
behind that can be followed if TAX
en- in time is explained by Detective
William j. Burns in the December
issue of the Woman's Home Com
panion. The story of how he discov-
cred Edna Kent, who laid her plans
with the greatest cleverness, is a
proof of his point
The guiding clue in this case rest
ed with negro porter. There were
several others that in the end would
have answered equally well, ''but
any porter" says Mr.. Burns, "can
usually remember a pretty girl who
has Travelled alone in his car.
1.-The worst of real detective stor-
les is that when the mystery has
been explained you see it's nothing
but good common sense properly
applied" he says. Every person
who steps out of the beaten path,
even innocently, leaves footprints in
a dozen different places, if one is
only trained to see them"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-29
When the New
Year Arrives

AT certain periods of the year
"a there are certain diseases that
"A sweep the country; In the
spring influenza afflicts man
kind; in the summer, rose fever, and
in the early autumn the hay feverites
shuttle and mangle the English lam
guage. But with the beginning Of the
year an epidemic Of a disease Of the
most virulent sort spreads over the
civilized world, causing ninety-nine out
of hundred Of its inhabitants to raise
their right hands involuntarily and
swear by all that's holy they will hold
fast to the straight and narrow path
forever and forever.
The symptoms of the disease are al
ways the same. 1t Is better and more
generally known than the common
cold; 1t is more regular in its appear
ance, and more persons suffer from it
than from any other affiiction, yet
physicians and psychologists have
never found a remedy or isolated its
germ. This microbe, once taken into
the system, can never be eliminated.
The same victims suffer from it year
after year, and each year end hundreds
of thousands of new sufferers join the
ranks.
The disease first makes its appear
ance in December. A victim beams
beatifically around poker table and
announces, well, boys, swear off
on the LIST"
Jan. l arrives. Simultaneously sew
eral hundred million persons rise,
yawn and glance at the calendar. In
voluntarily the muscles of the right
arm contract, elevating that member
toward the ceiling. In state of tenn
porary stupor the victim voices good
intentions. Some Of the more serious
cases even rush off to a notary public
to record these thoughts in black and
white and pay said notary S.. The
stupor is attended by either lapse
of memory or a distorted mentality. In
the first case the victim has entirely
forgotten his attack Of the year be-
fore; in the second he says, as he has
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-29
FINDS REMARKABLE CASE.
University Psychologist Tests Eng
hshman Who Has Rare Defect
of Being Unable to Distin-
guish Between Yellow
and Blue.

In an Engliishman who enlisted
for service with the Canadian contin-
gent psychologists believe they have
discovered a person color-blind to
blue and yellow-a phenomenon as
rare as the proverbial white crow.
DR.. Mabel Clare Williams, assistant
professor of psychology of the Uni
versity of Iowa, is now at the Nela
Research Laboratory, Cleveland,
Ohio, making tests with delicate in
struments, which are only to be had
there, to prove that the case is real
ly what it seems to be. The English
man is on a furlough while the
tests of his unique failing are being
made
About four per cent of all persons
are color-blind but only to red and
green. The usual color-blind person
cannot distinguish between the col
or of strawberry and it's leaf but
has no difficulty in separating blue
from yellow. If the tests prove that
the Englishman has the rare form of
the discovery will
have much theoretical value in the
science of psychology.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-29
GILBERT BEDE SAYS,

Anyway, when a woman brags of
making fool of man, it is ac-
Acknowledgement that he wasn't one
to start with.
What's the idea of hollering for d
big standing army-what we want is
one that will hot foot it after the
enemy.
How exasperating folks are who,
instead of being convinced by our
argument, try TO talk us into their
way of thinking.
Gradually it is becoming accept
ed that education is for the purpose
of teaching young men and women
something useful for later life.
Any old girl is pretty when al
dolled up-the test of her sweetness
and beauty is how she looks in a
bingham dress about the house-anG
don't forget that that's the way you
have got to take her most of the time
afer the wedding.
A clever woman, who gets medi-
OGRE husband, has the sympathy of
all the gossips. Why is it that they
overlook the clever man who marries
a silly woman? Perhaps it is because
the latter is SO common as to attract
little notice.
After woman has made a success
Of grand opera she is likely to be re-
ferred to as beautiful, but she has
then passed the stage when such
comments would have been of value
to her. A woman whose frame for
beautiful voice is established, doesn't
care what folks say about her face.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-12-29
Dec. 81.

Best day Of all the year, since l
May see thee pass and know
That IL thou dost not leave me high
Thou hast not found me low,
And since, as / behold thee die,
Thou leavest me the right to say
That | tomorrow still may vie
With them that keep the upward way.
Best day of all the year to me.
Since i may stand and gaze
Across the grayish past and see
So many crooked ways
That might have led to misery
Or, haply, ended at disgrace;
Best day since thou dost leave me free
To look the future in the face.
Best day of all days of the year
That was so kind so good,
Since thou dost leave me still the dear
Old faith in brotherhood;
Best day since i. still striving here,
May view the past with small regret
And, undisturbed by doubts or fear,
Seek paths that are untrod as yet.
Chicago Record Herald.