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ferent as to whether my company was
desired or not. 1t was not yet dark,
but lamp burned on a nearby table,
and cheerful fire glowed at the far
Their end. But brighter glow OF light
streamed from a room beyond. and,
determined to miss nothing, was so
close behind Taylor that my quick
eyes caught what l believed to be
swift signal of warning to the man
within. This. however, was an i'm
preston born from my own suspicion.
rather than any real movement, for
Taylor took but single step across
the threshold, and stopped. leaning on
his gun. The single occupant sat up
right. before him the remnants OF =
light repast. his hand toying with
spoon, and kls eyes shifting from Tay-
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the assassin had escaped. But which
of the two was the victim? An in
slant l stood there. staring about in
the dark, bewildered and uncertain.
Then l grasped the lamp from the
table in the other room, and returned
holding the light in my hands. The
form of Major HARDWOOD lay extended
on the floor, lifeless, his skull crushed
by an ugly blow. Beside him lay
revolver, its butt blood-stained. Be-
yond doubt this was the weapon which
had killed. picked it up wonderingly
it was my own.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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INTERESTING
SpOQT
PARAGRAPHS

Rabbit Meanwhile of the Boston
Braves is playing basket ball this win.
ter.
Mike Kelley has signed a contract
to lead the st. Paul team again next
year.
The chances a fighter has for a
championship these days depend on
his press agent.
The Pittsburgh club denies that any
offer has been made for Eddie Mahan,
the Harvard athlete.
Charley White and Jack White are
brothers, but Jack has not proved that
fighting runs in the family.
Billiards is that wonderful, unique
and satisfying sport in which every
body can be champion all the time.
Billy Hart, who resigned last sum-
mer fri m the National league, is anx-
ious to get back into the game again.
Jess Willard will have a hard time
making ends meet. He won't fight
until March, then he gets only 1880.
Meanwhile of the Boston Braves has
put crimp in the hoy phenom' stuff
by announcing his twenty-fifth birth
day.
William H. Moore continues to lead
all Of the show horse exhibitors, win
ming no less than 90 frsts at New
York.
The next time they want to handi-
car Willie Hoppe in billiards they
misht make him shoot walnuts with a
toothpick
Jack WARRIOR, Yankee pitcher, who
was released Internationally, has
been signed to trial contract by the
Cardinals.
Hal Boy was beaten more times
han any of the high class PAGERS, yet
lie leads them all with $4,000 won
Turing the season.
August Herman is going to make |
mother effort to bring peace out of |
he present warfare between the Feds |
md organized ball.
,rhe president of the International |
eague says there is lean year ahead |
f ball players. There are several be-
ind some magnates.
Some major clubs will not send
couts to the bushes next season. Prob
bly, because there are enough bush
eaguers in the, majors
There is man in Pittsburgh, sixty
even years old, who still plays base
all. Joe Cantillon ought to land him
uick for his Minneapolis team
Judging from experiences of Mike
inn and Bris Lord, the man who goes
, Memphis As manager should not
love his household furniture with
i'm. One season IL the length Of his
~.
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Mistake Somewhere.

"Yaas." said Uncle Silas. my son
Bill hez got back from special
course he's been a-takin' at college,
with a piece O. paper signed by tn
'thorities sayin' as how he's an A. NJ.
dunno what an A. M is. but I'm
afeardey they's some mistake about
it. for judgin' from the time he gifts
down to breakfast he behaves mors
like q P. M. ter me-"
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New Workers Arc MIX Drinkers.

Milk Is becoming the favorfte drink
of residents of New York city. accord
ing to recent statistics of the health
department. and the number OF n
censed saloons is decreasing It 10
reported that the consumption OF milk
has increased In the city SO per cen,
In ten years.
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SEEK G0TCH AS IOWA COACH
Famous Wrestling Champion Wanted
by University Squad-Athletic
Board Is Hopeful.

Frank Gotch, Iowa's famous wres-
Ting star, may become the coach of
the Iowa university wrestling squad.
The university athletic board is in
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Not Boosting Of Year 1915.

Not Boosting Of Year 1915.
There are a few persons who wiz
not boast OF the year 1915-John Nc
0raw, Connie Mack, Francis Oufmet,
Jerome Travers, Chick Evans, Maurice
Mclaughlin and r. Norris Williams.
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IL COpE1fCHT
&c HfCLURG kO0
SYNOPSIS.

Confederate Sergeant Wyatt of the
etaunton artillery is sent as a spy to his
native county on the Green Briar by Gen.
eral Jackson. Wyatt meets q mountaineer
named Jem Taylor.
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communication with the Humboldt
Hercules, and the local officials think
they will be able to secure the big
mans signature to q contract for the
coming season.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-23
Very Unfair.

In q speech at Greenville last week.
Mr.. {. L. Blease one Of the candi-
dates for governor, took occasion to
denounce the appointment of Mr.. John
Lee Davis, of Columbia, as a member
Of the board of mediation. He declar-
ed that Mr.. Davis was an employee Of
The Columbia State and intimated, if
he did not charge. that he was there
fore controlled by The State.
Mr.. Davis is the representative of
organized labor on the arbitration
board. He was appointed by Govern
or Manning upon the recommends
tiOn of the South Carolina Federation
Of Labor. the central body of the labor
unions Of this State. It is true he is
connected with the mechanical depart
ment Of The State but it is not true
that The State controls him in any
way. He is his own man. AS to The
State controlling his politics, we are
sure The State has never attempted
to control them and it could not if it
tried.
The governor also critised the ap-
pOintment Of Mr.. John A. Law, Of
Spartanburg, as member of this
board saying, that he was a president
Of cotton mill. Certainly he is.
The law provided that labor should
have one representative on the board,
capital another and the two should
select the third. There has been no
criticism on the part Of capital as to
the selection Of Mr.. Davis and there
has been no criticism on the part of
labor as to the selection of Mr.. Law.
Each side has perfect confidence in
the &ppointee of the other side.
The. gentleman selected by the two
as the third representative is Mr.. I.
H. Hunt, of Newberry. and everybody
seems pleased with his selection but
Mr.. Blease. He also criticizes him.
We trust that the occasion will new
er arise where the services of the
board Of mediation will be necessary
but If it ever does we believe every
body will be satisfied with it's findings.
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The Perfect Husband.

Another perfect husband" has been
fcund-this time in Brooklyn, N. Y.
According to his own testimony ne
worked every day. stayed home every
night. saved his money, bought q
home. gave his wife $500 every Christ :
mas. never took a vacation, never
saw a ball game. never went to the
theatre. never attended a clambake or
picnic OF any kind, never drank or
smoked or chewed. never failed I'm
faithfulness and affection to his wife.
And yet his wife has sued him fo,,
divorce. alleging cruel and inhuman
treatment. She's bigger than he is
too.
1t looks. from here. az IL The hus-
band were little too perfect. If he'd
got out and had little fun once in
"a while, and sort of freshened up. in
stead OF sticking around the house un-
III his wife got tired Of looking mt
him. or IL he'd had n vice or two. no
might never have drawn that divorce
suit.-Ex.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-23
NEGRO DOCTOR HELD FOR
COURT.
Police Allege He Attempted to Per-
form Criminal Operation Upon
White Girl from Sumter.

The State.
b. A. Everett. negro physician, of
2129 Gervais street was arrested yes
terday morning by Detective Strick-
land of police headquarters on war
rant sworn out before Magistrate
:Fowles on a charge of attempting TO
perform a criminal operation upon
"a young white woman. Everett was
released later in the day on a cash
bond Of $500.
The patient is a II year old girl,
who says that she is from Sumter
She came to Columbia some days ago
and went to boarding house, where
she stayed until Thursday. The girl
was found yesterday by detectives at
the home of Dora Suber, a negro wo-
man, in the 1900 block of Lincoln
street. There she had been since
Thursday, the police say, and there,
It Ia alleged, the negro physician has
been treating her. She was taken to
- AOSNA AAOSPASoA yCotCl Ody
and placed in care of the city physi-
Clan. Late yesterday afternoon a
warrant was sworn out against her
and she was then placed under arrest,
although she will remain at the hos
pital for the present. The Columb bia
police department has written to her
father regarding her condition.
Dora Suber, the negro woman in
whose house the girl was found, was
arrested and placed in the police sta
zion on six, distinct entries: Disorder
~ conduct" keeping a disorderly
house." ''vagrancy," held for investi
gation'.' violation Of the prohibition
law (storing)" and held for Magis-
trate Fowles." She was released late
yesterday on bond of $40O.
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VIII be Ready Next Week.

County Supervisor West has had
the roadway leading to the river put
in good condition: The deep suliies
washed across the road have all be IN
filled and the road made passable to
where the fiat is being built. Mr..
West says he has been receiving nu-
merous inquiries from all sections of
the State wanting to know when the
Camden highway would be open fer
travel. He does not know definitely.
but states that, he hopes to have the
flat in operation by the middle of the
following week.-Camden Chronicle.
August Is.
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No 0reat Loss Caused at Brownsville.
brownsvillc. Tex, Aug. IS (By
ksdio to San Antonio. Tex.)-Damage
hsts from the hurricane was slight up
to- o'clock tonight. although the wind
during the day reached velocity OF
20 miles an hour. The barometer
marked 1877 during the middle of
the afternoon but at O'Clock 1t rose
to 1856. ~ ,S....
At dark ti,e territory In the reaches
of the storm szfendsd from Corpus
Christi to Tampico, Mex. There was
thsn nd Sign OF abatement.
The wind tonight changed from the
northeast to the southwest and was
blowing out to sec. ~ ,-t ~.
The damage here consisted mostly
OF broken plate glass windows and
levsiied fences and trees. Hundreds
OF army tents are down and the
troops moved into the city. Commu-
nSestion, by telephone and telegraph
is lost.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-23
GERMANY KEEPING PLEDGE.
Submarines Sinking Ships But Inter-
national Law is Observed.

Washington, Aug. 1S.-Secretary
Lansing announces that Germany is
not violating the submarine war
pledges though many ships are being
sunk. Official Investigations show
that the pledges are abided by.
Major General Bliss, assistant chief
OF staff of the army reports to Secre-
tary of War Baker that he found con-
ditions among all the militia on the
border excellent. He is preparing
long detailed statement. He arrived
at his Office today.
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If President Wilson fails to save
the country from a strike 1t will be
the first time he has failed" was the
remark made to us yesterday, and by
a member Of organized labor. He did
not expect the president to do any
thing rash. but his remark came out of
the confidence he has IN the president
of the United States TO treat all i'm
partially and to see that organized la
Dor is fully protected. 1t was a re-
mark worth bearing In mind, showing
the confidence that the masses have in
Wilson.
In this great crisis, involving the
welfare Of the public and in which
several million people, including SYM
pathizers, are arrayed against each
other, the president of the United
States has q great responsibility; is
bearing a heavy burden. But he is
facing 1t promptly and resolutely, and
this must strike admiration from ev-
cry breast. Much depends upon his
efforts. He is truly "the man Of the
hour" and fortunate it is that the
country has such a we'll balanced
mind, cool head, to handle the pres
ent great crisis and to work over it.
Yet some times Is heard some one
'contendins that President Wilson is
without Judgment and making light of
the burdens he has to shoulder.
What would you do If you were in
his shoes? How erect would you stand
and how conservative would be your
Observation-Disclosures Dispatch.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-23
CALDWELL Is Bss1GADE ADJU.
TANT.
Assned to -Boraer Rost BY war De-
partmenb-Other Military Matters.

Columbia. Aug. 18.-Maj. j. Shapter
Caldwell Of Charleston. who recently
resigned the post Of assistant adju-
tant general Of South Carolina and
who. has been adjutant of Camp
Moore. the mobilization camp near
Columbia. will be assigned by the
war department, on Gov. Manning's
recommendation, to be adjutant of the
brigade now In cantonments near Ell
Paso. composed Of the First and Sec
ond South Carolina regiments and the
Second Florida infantry.
I Notification to this effect came to
the governors Office yesterday from
the militia bureau In Washington.
MAJ. Caldwell Is now In Columbia
preparing his records and accounts,
and presumably will be ordered to
his border station so soon as he shall
have been checked out as camp adju-
tant He has been succeeded as as
sistant adjutant general by John d.
frose OF Columbia. former adjutant
general Maj. Caldwell had been rec
commended for the vacant first lieu.
tenancy Of the Olympia company in
Maj. Marchants battalion. Second in.
fantry. or course another recon-
mendation for that post will be made
now.
MAJ. Caldwell did notably efficient
service as brigade adjutant at Camp
moore and his work in that capacity
was commended by regular army Off
GERS who had opportunities of observ-
ing 1t.
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Weeds.

Chop. cut or NOW them down. Plow
dig or pull them up. Any way to
get rid Of them before they have a
chance to ripen seed, and now is the
time to be up and doing. One weed
growing where two grew before shows
that some one has been on to his job
growing where only one grew before
shows that Mr.. Farmer is wide-awake,
and. with little perseverance. it. a
whole lot easier to grow fewer " .eds
where weeds ought not to be than it
Is to grow more corn where corn
ought to be.
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The South IL Marvel.

In very thoughtful address before
the Virginia bankers recently Presi-
dent Fairfax Harrison, of the South
ern Railway, presented figures to show
that with all the marvellous growth
industrially Germany had not made
such advancement nor increased her
wealth in proportion to the South dur
ing the period from 1872, when the
Southern States began to recover from
the paralizing effects Of civil war, to
1913, when the last industrial census
was taken. Germany prior to the out
break Of the world war was known as
the workshop of Europe, and her
manufactured products found their
way into every civilized port of the
globe. Notwithstanding this fact, Ger
many during the period named in
creased production of coal only 421
per cent against 6,434 per cent in the
South. During those years the South
increased her iron output 2,542 per
SOhI uSdiIiSt oOO hOT Iermany. FROM
1880 the consumption of cotton in the
South has increased 1,46S per cent
against 226 in Germany. We increased
our railway mileage 244 per cent.
against 81 in Germany, and our ton
miles increased 1854 per cent. against
an increase of 372 per cent. in Ger
many.
These figures would be amazing
were they not Of such common obser-
vation that we fail to realize their full
significance. We have become so ac-
customed to hearing of great new en-
terprises crowding upon each other in
every Southern State; our cities are
growing so rapidly in population and
wealth, so many millions of dollars
are going into public buildings, public
highways. streets and parks, and the
value Of farm products is increasing
with such leaps and bounds that we
have become used to them and little
appreciate our marvellous growth I'm
every line Of busines sactivity.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-23
A Civil War Parallel in Europe.

I For two years the South kept the
Initiative. She struck at Antietarn, at
Gettysburg. at Shiloh. Three times,
twice in the East and once In the
West. she sought decision. She failed,
and with Gettysburg and the con-
comitant fall of Vicksburg she lost the
initiative forever. Henceforth it be-
came question not Of conquering the
North, but OF holding It OF until the
people Of the North weariea Of the
sterile sacrifices and the terrible cost.
1t took nearly two years after Get
tysburg to bring Appomattox. Grants
great offensive, of which the North
expected so much, led only to the
drawn battles Of the Wilderness and
Spottsylvania and the shambles of
Cold Harbor in 1854. Yet in this ter
rible campaign, counted as a failure
at the moment. Grant won the war.
The South had neither the men nor
the resources to replace the losses.
While the lines before Richmond still
held, the Confcderacy crumbled to
dust.
Now this Is in sum what the Allies
expect to happen in the case of Ger
many. They expect that the Germans
and the Austrians will no longer be
able to replace casualties as the Brit
ish, the Russians, and the Italians
patiently can. Russia's man supply is
inexhaustible; she has already proved
this. Britain Is only beginning to
draw heavily on hers. Italy has made
no draft to speak Of. But France,
like Germany and Austria, is ap-
preaching, If she has not reached, that
point where she can no longer send
fresh men to the front to replace loss
es and each casualty therefore dimin-
ishes the total Of the men in the line.
The Allies believe that the Germans
and Austrians are holding lines far
too extended for their numbers. Lee
did this at Richmond and lost his
army. Napoleon did this in Eastern
Germany in his last German cam
paign and suffered defeat, which
turned out to be fatal. fhe Allies be-
lieve that by steady and concerted at
tacks upon all fronts they will pres
emily wear the Germans and Austrians
down to the point where they must
shorten their lines or court disaster.
But to shorten the lines is to confess
defeat. To evacuatc France or Po-
land is to lose the war absolutely, be-
cause these are the prizes Germany
holds against her lost colonies and
ocean cOmmerce.-From Germany
Loses the Initiative-Britain Begins"
by Frank H. SimOnds. in the American
Review Of Reviews for August.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-23
THE HARVEST.
Everything Ready for Development of
Paris After War.

(From the New York Globe.)
Though the war stands as It stands,
speculation goes ON in France about
'afteH the war;" as 1t has every day
since the day the war began. Reports
from Paris indicate that the "boos-
ters" in the capital are already pre-
dieting a great boom for the "City of
Light" to follow Immediately the
close of hostilities. They are already
setting forth the line on which 1t is to
be carried out. The plan is to develop
Paris as vast centre OF manu-
factures. The experience of the pres
cnt war has impressed business men
with the danger Of locating SO large q
proportion Of the important manu-.
featuring of the country within easy
striking distance of an alien and hos
tile country. .
For upward Of year and q half
one-tenth of the total territory of
France has been in the hands of the
Germans, and that tenth is the richest
manufacturing region. To be sure. it
does not contain great manufacturing
cities like Lyons. Clermont-Ferrand
and Limoges. but it does contain Lille
and the host Of subsidiary cities round
about which among them controlled
In such large measure the industries
and the wealth Of the nation. It Is
proposed after the war to remove as
far as practicable all this manufacture
Ing to the immediate vicinity of Par
Is. and it is pointed out that Paris has
the Facilities of communication by wa
ter and by rail to support such a
concentration of industry.
Obviously Paris. which, as things
nave been. was frequently mistaken
for France, will wax greatly through
the change in population, in wealth, in
power. More than ever before the
country will be centralized in it's CAPT.
tai. But, one asks. will the Paris the
world has known and loved remain.
or In Its stead shall we find a vast hu-
man beehive labOring under a smoky.
sooty pail such as holds the English
cities of Leeds and Sheffield in per-
petual gloom, not to mention certain
American cities which notoriously
suffer from the plague of smoke?
Paris and it's environs are now by
no means poor In manufactures
though they do not compare with the
projected Paris Of industry, and in
spite of those manufactures the city
has kept itself remarkably clean Of
ar. 1t would indeed be calamity If
aa n penalty for Industrial develop
ment the "City Of Light" should
awake ono day 4 city of darkness.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-23
GALVESTON NOT HURT.

Galveston. Texas. Aug. 1s.--Thc
su1 coast storm was not seriously felt
In Galveston. Thousands Of persons
thronged the seawali boulevard today
watching great waves break on the
riprap at the foot Of the barrier. The
maximum wind velocity was 40 miles
reached shortly after noon. The max
imum tide was four feet. The wind
velocity was decressinr tonight and
normal conditions were expected to
prevail tomorrow.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-23
GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED.
They Fail to Rccapture Lost Positions
on SOmme.

Paris, Aug. 18.-G crman counter
attacks today near Maurepas on the
Somme front were repulsed. The
Germans are shifting forces from the
British to the French section on the
Somme front. They delivered strong
assaults in an effort to recapture the
ground lost Wednesday, but were re-
pulsed. At Verdun the French at
tackled all along the Fleury -Thiaumont
line, hurling Germans from the Fleurv
positions.