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Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24

Mrs. j. T. Williams of Gaines
boro is here visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Floyd Robinson. Aunt
Polly" has been conducting a
hostelery at Gainesboro for the
past forty years and has come to
be the veteran hotel proprietress
of the upper Cumberland coun-
try. She has a host of friends
in Carthage and is always a well
come visitor to every home and
business house in town.
Mrs. Marvin Kemp and little
daughter and Miss Dora McCIan-
ahan passed through Carthage
Tuesday enroute to their homes
at Grant. They had been the
guests of Miss Mittie Kemp of
Difficult for the past week. Miss
Kemp accompanied them as far
as Carthage.
Jack Baird. member of the
firm of C. D. Williams & Co., of
Hickman was in Carthage Mon
day evening.
Walden Flippen. son of Nj, and
Mrs. L. : B. Flippen. returned
Wednesday night from Elmwood,
where he has been visiting rela-
tives for the past four weeks.
]. M. Walden. who has been
the guest of his daughter, Mrs.
L. B. Flippen. and other relatives
for the. past three weeks, re-
turned this morning to his home
in Oklahoma.
E. N. Maggart, an extensive
produce dealer from Maggart.
was in Carthage Wednesday on
business.
Mrs. J. NJ. Vantrease and
daughter, Miss Villa, passed
through Carthage Tuesday en-
route to their home in Gordons-
vile They were returning from
Red Boiling Springs where they
had been for the past several
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. N. Gam of
Rock City were visitors in Car
thage Monday.
Miss Mary Smotherman left
last week for Villa RIGA, Ca,
to visit Mrs. Henslee-nee Miss
Claudia Walton.
Attorney w. v. Lee and j. T.
Hudson spent Tuesday in Sulli-
vans Bend.
L. B. Mathews, one of Smith
county's most popular peda-
gogues, is spending these hot
days at Red Boiling Springs re-
operating from his tutorial
duties of the past year. Prof.
Mathews. it seems, has been
falling to receive his paper and
in registering his complaint he
permits some of his allegiance to
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24
PROCLAMATION Is ISSUED
BY GOVERNOR I. c. RYE
Calls for Election to Vote on
Question of Holding COnsti- - -
tutiOnal Convention.
Whether or not the Estate of
Tennessee will have: ai:constitu-

Whether or not the estate of
Tennessee will have: ai:constitu-
tlonal convention will be decided
at an election to be held by the
people on the first Thursday in
August, 1916, in. accordance with
an act passed by the legislature
recently adjourned and by proc
clamation by the governor issued
Tuesday morning.
The proclamation is as fol-
lows:
Whereas, the fity-ninth gem
eral assembly of the state of
tennessee passed by act, emit
tied An act to authorize the peo-
pie to decide by vote whether
they will call a constitutional con-
vention and provide for the sub
mission of the question to the
voters of the state and the an
nouncement of the result, the
same being chapter 10 of the
Public Acts; and
Whereas, said act requires
this question to be submitted to a
vote of the people on the first
Thursday in August. A. d, 1915.
at all the voting places through
out the state, and,
Whereas, said act further re-
quires the governor to issue his
proclamation thereof at this
time. Now, Therefore, /, Tom
.. Rye, governor of the State Of
Tennessee, by virtue of the au-
thority in me vested, and in ac-
cordance with the provisions of
said chapter Ito of the public
acts of the general assembly of
1915, do hereby call upon, and
direct the state board of election
commissioners throughout the
state and all other proper election
officers to open and hold an cleo
ton by the qualified voters of
the state on the first Thursday
of August, 1916, submitting the
question of whether or not there
shall be held a constitutional con-
vention in accordance with the
provisions of said act referred
to, and make due and proper re-
turn thereof-all in accordance
with the general election laws of
this state and of chapter ITO,
acts of 1915, above referred to.
In witness whereof, / have
hereunto set my hand at the de-
partment in the city of Nash
vile, and caused the great seal
to be affixed at the state capital,
on this the 21st day of June,
1915, and of American independ-
ence. the one hundred and
thirty-ninth year"
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24
Marriage License.

Following are The marriages
licenses issued by county clerk,
J. A. Kemp, during the week:
Ollie Agee to Kate James.
Il. S. Underwood to Fannie
Wilson Anderson to Hazel
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WlFES TONGUE STILL 9 YEARS
Under Same Roof With Husband, but
Never Spoke

New York, Jan. 6.-The fact that
chester |. Richards. wholesale shoe
dealer at 80 Reade street, and his wife
hved In The same apartment for nine
Years without soaking to each other
and didn't separate because they were
afraid of what their friends would say
became known yesterday when Mrs.
Maria Luisa f. Richards asked Supreme
Court Justice Golf for alimony pend
ing suit for divorce.
Mrs. Richards says she finally had to
leave the apartment in The Turrets,
Riverside Drive and Eighty fourth
street, and went to live at Hempstead,
Il. |. She had detectives trail her hus-
band, she says, and they followed him
from his office to a Brooklyn hotel,
where he met a blond woman one day
last summer. The detectives sent for
Mrs. Richards and the party forced the
door of a room, after which Mrs. Rich
ards identified the man as her husband.
Mrs. Richards told the Court that
when her final quarrel with her husband
took place last March he said:
g don t care for you any longer. You
are fool to stand for me and to live
with me.
Justice Goff appointed William Ar
rowsmith referee to determine the
amount of alimony Richards can paw.
He is not defending the suit The couple
were married in 1890, when Richards
was Fl and his wife 10.
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WITCHCRAFT AT TURKEY RUN

Conditions existing in the village of Turkey Run,
Pa. as revealed in a court trial in Pottsville the
other day, are most startling, for it appears that
witchcraft still operates there The plaintiff in
the case, Mrs. Short, accused one Mrs Iemanowsk
of assaulting her, and scratching her cheeks till
blood came, whereupon the defendant explained
That she was forced to draw the old woman blood
in order to break a spell which had been east over
Mrs Zemanowsh by the woman whom the defend
ant declared to be witch.
1t seems that Mrs Zemanowsk's voice had
started to fail her not long after she had accepted
drink of whskey from Mrs. Short She of course
lid not seek medical aid, because she was certain
that she the victim of witchcraft She knew
that her throat had not become weak through nat
ural causes when there was an old woman around
who was witch and could cast spells
She of course consulted the neighborhood's au-
thorities witchcraft and at their advice drew
the witch's blood, yet in court the old woman won
her case, and what was more the drawing of the
blood failed to improve the bewitched one voice
Victims of witchcraft are heard of frequently in
circumstances similar to the case at Turkey Run
They are assuredly persons to be ptied for they
are forced to battle against mystic forces Of evil
which they seldom overcome.
Since they are restrained by the law from attack
ing their tormenters, they should in some way be
protected from spells by this same law. All per-
sons susceptible to the charms of witches ought to
be put IN some place apart from enlightened per-
sons where they would never be heard of more
The sorceresses, deprived of victims would then
be powerless, and wtchcraft would be at an end
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1900 Life Savers To-day

To-day there is little army of 2.
600 sGPero bat silent heroes who night
ly for eight months of the year patrol
the longest and one of the most dan.
serou5 coasts in the world. Ii one could
behold tine scope OF the work in a
single glance he could see that these
1000 men meet at a thousand stations
on dark and lonely shores and exchange
brass checks and bring these checks
with them, on Their return to their life
stations as evidence that they had
Patrclled the coast. Never has one OF
these faithful servants failed to CONC
back promptly with the check of the
patrol, unless he was hated by Il case
of distress and even then his fellcN
Fatro! comes ON to meet him. Scores
OF men give their lives TO the devouring
sea 10 save the Life and millions of
property. There are now 290 stations
On the sea and lake coasts of the Unit.
ed States. There are men in the service
that have saved as many as so lives
and literally every man in the service
has been an actor in one or more of its
ten thousand hero stories. In 1872
rescue service was rendered to 1871
vessels carrying $500 passengers, the
total value of these vessels and their
cargoes being s11 100000.
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were responsible for the horror of this morning
not having occurred long ago, but there always
the danger that small flash of flame or puff of
smoke from a burned-out fuse would start panic
which might result in death in the subway into
which human beings are crowded two times day
as closely as it is possible to pack them.
The subway patrons knew this. THEY HAVE
HAD TO TAKE THE DAILY RISK. The business
concerns of downtown New York with its skyscrap-
ers, many of which individually hold thousands of
persons so crowd the narrow island that it is inn
possible for all the workers to get to their places
of employment without using the subway. Their
daily bread depends On it and they HAVE TO
TAKE THE CHANCE.
The surface cars run too slowly to carry people
from five to ten miles to their work in Lower Man
haitian. The L" lines, though faster than the sur
face cars, do not afford sufficient accommodations
to haul the great throngs each day. Only the SUBJ
way is left for hundreds of thousands of workers.
They have to it simply because the terrible
gestion of traffic in New York leaves them no other
course
The congestion is growing daily by leaps and
bounds as the number of people employed in the
downtown skyscrapers grows More subways are
being built but nothing like fast enough to meet
the growing demand and until the subways are
multiplied sufficiently to make their operation safe
by limiting the number of trains and the number
OF passengers to train and until the stations are
made sufficiently large to handle the crowds with
out herding them worse than any cattle are herded
New York will be in constant danger of repeti-
ton of the disaster of this morning in which, luck
lily, the death toll was small
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GETTING HARD ON sHoPLIFTERs

The shophfters seem to be having difficulties
these days in getting away with the goods in New
York City Department store detectives assert that
during the past year their vigilance was too much
for the men, women and young girls engaging in
thlevlng expeditions, and that the number of shop
ifters has diminished considerably, especially the
number of professionals.
The great trouble now appears to be with the
amateurs who for the most part. do not steal from
necessity. kleptomaniacs, the persons who pilfer
merely because of insane desires to do so and not
because OF the value attached to the, objects of
theft, hard TO deal with, because they are in
many persons of means and when caught
make passionate appeals to be permitted to pay
for the goods found them and to be released.
That no more than one shoplifter out of every
ten caught actually steals from necessity is the
experience of the detectives The other nine carry
on their work because of some strange fascination
which it has for them. When caught they gener-
ally have great deal more money with them than
the value OF the goods they steal.
Department store heads have been rather lenent
with kleptomaniacs, especially with the wealthy
ones who have social positions to maintain,-but
a new policy has been announced for the coming
year. The warning has been issued that 10 kindly
consideration will be shown to shoplifters caught
hereafter, whether they be professionals or anna
teurs, with or without social positions
When men and women on whose persons stolen
articles found are turned over to the law with
no distinctions made, and prosecuted if for nothing
more than the theft of paper of pins there may
be some hope of checking the kleptomaniacs who
continue to trouble after the professionals
begin to fall off.
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THE NEW YORK SUBWAY HORROR

What all New Yorkers had been dreading since
the subway was built and what most of them knew
to be inevitable and only matter of time, has
occurred-fre and panic on an appallingy large
scale on the underground railroad in which there
was at least one death
Early this forenoon enough details of the horror
in the tube beneath Broadway and Fifty fifth street
were available to show that the disaster that oc
CURED at the height of the rush hour this morning
was by far the worst in the history of the New York
subway Later and more definite details are printed
on another page of the Star-Independent.
Riding in the subway in New York, even in the
quiet periods of the day, is hazardous at best
Riding in the subway in the morning rush
hour, - when thousands of homes in Upper Man
haitian and The Bronx are pouring their hun
dreds of thousands of men, women and children
through the various tubes into the offices and stores
and factories where they are employed in Lower
Manhattan, is and always has been like flirting with
death. 1t was just certain as that night follows
day that such disaster as that of this morning
would occur Even the people who use the subway
knew it. The subway patrons simply have been
taking chance tremendous chance,-that they
would not be the to suffer when the inevitable
should occur
Steel cars and the concrete walls of the tube are
no guarantee against disaster They, perhaps
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-06
Life Saving 100 Years Ago

One hundred and twenty-nine wears
ago yesterday, the Massachusetts HUI
name Society built its first hut ON Lo-
veil $ Island, near Boston to succor the
stranded mariners along the dangerous
and desolate Cape Cod coast. From that
little dark red hut, the first house of
mercy of the sea to be erected, arose
score of like huts along the coast that
had been bleaehed with the bones of
sailors for two centuries. In 1907 the
first life boat station was organized at
Cohasset and out of that sprung the
most efficient life saving service of all
the seven seas. At first if the wrecked
and half frozen sailors was lucky
enough TO land at one of these huts he
found dry clothing and food and bed
ding and wood and the old flint tender
to kindle a fire. This new haven of
refuge lacked only the voice of hui
man brother to welcome him. 1t was on
stormy March night in 1907, that
the hrst hte boat on the American
coast battled through the raging surf
and picked up half dozen sailors from
stranded schooner. In 1S4S Congress
recognized the noble work of this So
eiety by granting it an appropriation
Of $4,000. Then the government or.
ganized small service of its own on
Cape Cod, but not till the winter OF
1871 did it put its heart ardently. into
a national life saving service.
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T,onaue-End Topics
Failed to Scare the court House

"I'll blow the darn thing down.
That s me, every inch of me. Seel'
The speaker was drunk who
was wandering through the corridor on
the second floor of the Court House
the other day and in his boisterous
spirit Thought he could scare Court
House attaches and employees.
Do you know who l am7" he fair.
ly screamed as he interrogated an office
caller. The drunk was addressing a
man of powerful stature, a muscular in
dividual who could have crushed his
would-be adversary in a moment.
"Yes you're hard guy" he replied
as he brushed by. The "rummy' made
for the back stairway as fast as he
could.
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Scranton Gets Tri-state Inaelder

Scranton, Jan. 6.-Manager Bill
Coughlin, of the local New York State
League team, and Hugh Jennings, lead
er of the Detroit Tigers, of the Ameri-
can League, held conference here, and
as result, Jennings agreed to turn
over to the Miner pilot, Infelder Sharp
and pitcher named Balzel, who was
drafted from one of the Eastern Asso-
citation teams by the Tigers. Sharp is
the clever little infelder of the Will
mington team, of the Tri-State League,
and he was also grabbed up in the draft
by Jennings. The latter thinks that the
youth needs more development before
being ripe for big league service and
has consented to turn him over for in
struction to Coughlin.
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II You Could 0aIy
Be a Stomach
You'd Go to Bed Rather Sore at the
Work You'd Have to Do

Fancy a master that works a horse
so long, without rest, that the poor old
beast at last has to 90 to a bone pile.
Fancy yourself doing the same thing
with your stomach-the noblest of all
our physical organs.
just imagine yourself devoting
hours Of ceaseless work to the diges-
tion of meal which you cannot di-
sest because of wrongful ingredients
given to you by the blood.
Is not a man very foolish to imag-
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work when the juices it receives are so
filled with alkali or acid that they
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THE SONGS OF OTHER DAYS
Selected BY j. HOWARD VERT
"The Rusty Sword"
No. 316.

In little roadside half hid by
A woman old and on a recine
lei Ice is sorrow its there,
And not her
As drink the lmpd from the homey dripping
| the wall before a naked,
! glance at the aged speaking
Twas by gallant soldier,
| looking where the owe
Wishing the breathing
a coming, soldiers, all
bringing many
buried him there by the willows his
child
Watching the pearls drop downward her aged face,
l ride silence fromth lionel
But now have reached the willows and leap ground
gather wayside flowers to his
if Grant has led him. if he has fought
l American solder--and S
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S22.27 LEFT OF $4,000 ESTATE
Missing Husband Can Claim It ANY
Time in Three Years

Riverhead, n. Y, Jan. 6.-Litigation
has eaten up the estate of Mrs. Ella
Burleigh, who was burned to death here
four years ago. If r. w. Kathan. a
lawyer of Brooklyn, had insisted upon
his full bill being paid the estate would
be in deot $40. AS it was he cut his
bill from $3.50 to $500, and the estate
now nets s22.27. The estate was worth
something like $2,600. Mrs. Burlcigh s
husband disappeared about year be
fore her death.
Relatives sought to obtain the estate
and carried the case into the courts. The
light has been carried on since. Now
the administrator is ready to pay over
10 the county treasurer $22.27, and the
husband can claim it at any time in the
Dext three wears.
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MERCHANT MISSING A WEEK
E. A. Reincke Of Wall Street Firm May
Be Victim of War

Tarrytown, n. Y, Jan. 6.-The po.
lice learned yesterday of the disappear
ance of +. \. Reincke. 81 years old, of
16 South Broadway, Tarrytown, a
member of Gravenhorst & Co., commits.
sion merchants of 90 Wall street. New
York City. Nothing has been heard
of him since December 80. whom he
left his home TO board the $50 train
from Tarrytown for New York.
Members of his family fear that Mr..
Reinc Ike is victim of aphasia or that
his mind has become affected over the
war. Financial difficulties are not be-
lieved to have been responsible for his
disappearance, as it is said that lust
before the war he made $4,000 in a
business deal. Mr.. Reincke has a wife
and three daughters living here.
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Alice, Where Art Thou"

The birds sleeping gently sweet Lyra geameth bright
Her the forest all tonight;
The winds signing by cooling fevered
The stream flows Alice, where art
back this
One back this even' m
Vowng Alice, e
The silver rain falling. falleth now,
And all things gently, ah Alice. thou?
I've sought thee by lakeet, I've sought thee
And in pleasant wildwood, dandchi
I've sought thee in the forest, I'm looking
I'm looking heavenward OH the
I've sought thee the looking
Oh, there mid the stahne, Alice | know artt thou
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Big Increase in Drug Arrests

New York, Jan. 6.-As result of
the Nampaign waged under Commits
sioner Woods against the drug traffic,
figures given out at police headquar-
ters yesterday show that almost four
times as many arrests for selling or
possessing narcotics were made in 1914
rs in the year preceding. The total
number was 1850, of which 947 result
ed in convictions and 391'cases are still
pending. The campaign was under the
personal supervision of Secretary Guy
Scull and prosecuted by special drug
squad.
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Mr.. Brubaker Again Under Knife.

Daniel ". Brubaker, messenger at
the Attorney Generals Department,
who has been very i'll for some time
with gangrene of the left foot at his
home, 11011s Capital street, was said
to-day to be improving. On New Year s
day Mr.. Brubaker submitted to the am
putation of another toe, the third that
had to be removed to stay the progress
of the disease, and it is thought now
that there will be no necessity for fur
ther amputations.
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LYkENS VALLEY COAL SHIPMENT

The shipment of coal over the sum-
nit Branch Railroad for the week end
ing December 81. 1914. together with a
comparison with the Corresponding
week last year, was as follows:
short Mountain Colliery
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After the smoke of battle blew away the FIVE candidates
Tor the Speakershp had group photograph taken lust
snow now harmonious everything had become Have the
defeated candidates so forgotten what of them
SAID about the Philadephia contractor bossess"
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REALLY


"Ah, my day is spoiled l off without nv caa
rettes'
"Agernon will let you have of his"
Dear me! can't smoke cigarettes with another felahs
monogram them. Louisville Courier ournal
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TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
IDEAL

An ideal husband who remains unconscious of the
fact that his wife is growing stout-Topeka CAPITAL
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NO ROMANCE IN THE TRENCHES

so Lady Gladys is back from the front?"
Yes, she couldn't find anybody interesting or romantic
to nurse. Pittsburgh Post
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THE DIFFERENCE

Teacher-"What is the difference between militarsm
and mtancy7"
"Militaney is the feminine of miitarism.''-
Judge