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The Washington times., 1917-09-04

an easy woman to WORK for. Hslsa
could we'll imagine her exciting
the nsry tempered Katie to quick
wrath By her Insistent interference
and constant msddling. but she ala
not say 20. Mrs. tsvsnA howsvSr.
was too quick for her.
~You were going - ~ ssmo-
thing; cut with IT." she remarked
bluntiy..
No. I want" protested HsIsa.
nushing uneomfortshly.
Helen curtis." returned Ma
Stevens severely. ARE 20 e are
yOa not . friend Of miner
we'll sAid poor Helen. arivsa
into . corner. don't you think 20
bother Katie . lot. Emilyr'
How DO you msanr'
We'll" said Helen. determined
TO tell everything now that abe had
started. asking her to do too much,
taking away her days out ana sub
stitutinB others, not allowing her
TO have friends in. and littIa things
like That"
But Helen. she dossn't do any
more than Mary does, nor ~ much,
and A. for asking her to change
her afternoon out once IN . vhIlA
why I can't see anything In that
I know; that's the way . man
looks At II Warren thinks lust TIE
ssm@ He argues that after an q
servant should never question su-
thorfty. but figure that . ssrvnas
has feelings. and I InEs 10 traaA
Mary ~ fairly a. know k0Nr
And do you Let her have nrisnn
In the kitchenr'
why, certainly I -. - 90
always 70 home early, snd I hGuO
never had 70 rsprovO lEazTFoPEAR
actiona-
well. perhaps wv aSAG
But vAs fur4ous last NINA KaoO
was terribly fmpsrttnsut 10 Ia W
had some unexpected eomp@Y -
dinner. and when I tstd hsf EbouS !.
it she dew into . ragS. and G1<mmo2
the Kitchen door almose IN myheAS
How did you tSil barr
why, simply told her, I'D
HrA stsysnA surprised How
would you have gone about Itr
well, I should.havO stated n -
nicely - I could without making
Il seem an undue command Ies
possible to appeal to . girls pride.
you know; TO make hsr fSSi that IN
. way you and she are partners IN
distress and must make the best Of
thingA OF course I may Be all
Helen added quickly, -it's
just my idea. put I've really learned
= great deal through experiences and
what Mary has told me herself.
You might try my way anyway, and
zee how Il workA"
Cwateh for Tie 1szt fAstAEneae e
GAls intsrestfnG sSz3as.)
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Their Married Life
A NARRATIVE OF EVERYDAY AFFAIRS
Helen Gives Mrs. Stevens Some
Advice on Dealing with
Servants.

Copyright. 1917. International News Services.
kOHY HATS the matterT' Helen
wv asked Of Mrs. Stevens As
she opened the door Of the
apartment.
oh. matter enough. Hslsa- Are
yOu alonO-can I talk 70 youf I
came ever hare because I am Aetu-
ally Gfraid IN my own apartment
Hslsu laughed Mrs BtsvOnSs
manner ala not forSbodO anything
too GwfuNit was . mixture Of sx-
aspsration and psrplsxity; but
Helen. Whe knew Ara stsvsns's az
sitabls nature ana her manner Of
sxAEEsrAting tribes. ala not worry.
-Is this MArTs day outf-
Helen nodded
well. ala play In luekr'
Is Il somsthing about KatiSf-
Helen asked.
Is III That Eiri will Be the
death Of me yet Helen, she u
simply awful and am such .
coward about trying TO get . new
one that I simply cannot discharge
her"
Good maids are hard to get
Helen agreed; still you don't want
to accept too much. Emily; you
know how tyrannieaI that makes .
girl"
Il know, and % does -Satia- The
only one she II really afraid Of In
the house 10 Mr.. tsvsnA Why II
Il. Helen, that Q maid always re-
speets the man Of the house more
than she does the WomanF
Helen considered why, I don't
know she said finally. 7 thought
once not long ago that It might be
the fact that the man pays her. %
course that's psychological and I
may be AL wrong. but I persuaded
Warren to let me pay her UageA
and after . little trouble he turned
over the money to me-"
And now you pay her reGulaTiyI
Yea But then have had 20 lit
de trouble with Mary that I don't
think the case Is . general one Il
Just happened that from, . remark
Mary made she had an idea that
Warren was the head Of the house,
ana ~ everything Of that kind BE-
longs peculiarly to woman's realm
I decided to establish ny Superior
ity then and there"
Mrs. Stevens sighed You're %
lucky. Helen Mary just Gdorss this
family. Imagine an ordinary girl
taking care Of winifrsd ~ she does
and being such An exemplary watt
rsss besides-
Helen was about To rstort that
she was unusually kind In giving
Mary privileges. but she bit her
tongue In her effort to curb her
sudden impulse. Emily tsvsnG. while
. jolly, Eood-nAtured kind Of wom-
an and an excellent friend. was not
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Something UnIearned.

Now. James," said the teacher, IF
there were eleven sheep in a hsld,
and six jumped the fence. how many
would there be lsft?' None" re-
piled James. 'whyr' WELL" said
James, you may know arithmetic,
but you don't know sheepP"
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Venus GrOlUing Brighter NOlD.

THE bright sarke object low in the west after is
the planet Venus, now coming back into the evening
sky after journey behind the She will get farther
from the and continually glow brighter and brighter
Professor ScrvisS
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Rolls or biscuitA which have &
greater surface In proportion TO
their size. dry out more rapidly
than loaves OF bread. II IL good
planning. therefore, not to provide
more than will be used at a meal or
- least q day after baking. For
similar seASaRS hsAA6= 1tAxa frNSA-
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Fur VIII Be Much Used.

FUR win be used extensively trimming. but not &
clusively. It is rather relief to know that the plain
suits cloth collars of high soft character will be
quite much fur. This will be relief from the fur Of
poor quality, which has been detiment rather than
trimming of late years.-From Good Housekeeping.
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longer IN the loaf than Gftsr It II
sliced.
No more than will be needed
should be cut for any one meal. and
one loaf should be used up before
the next Is cut into. When the
bread needs freshening II Is . good
plan to cut the required slices and
put them into the oven for Q few
DinRtAA mat hafnzA RaHE1nR
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velized from the photo-plsy THE
Fatal RinE.")
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-12-26
Bs Ralph Henry barbour
or The Vlgilautes.

nave tried hard to write an intro
ducrion to what follows, bat i CAM
lind tile risht words And after All Il
any introduction needed? L think
not 80 ] have just written that IT,
tie up therefor 1 want to believe
do believe--that the spirit emanat
ing from this letter Of an American
boy who volunteered for the Ambu-
lance Service in France and was at
the Battle Of Verdun on his twenty
hrst birthday Is in reality the Amer
lean Spirit--and will leave COM
ment to you who read this.
Dear Mother and Father: Your
letters came to me yesterday. and
now I wish had said nothing about
aviation until nearer the end OF my
ambulance service. arm sorry you
take aviation SO hard, for the mortal
ity is only eight per cent. more than
that OF the infantry. The whole
argument amounts TO this: am first
OF all OF military age and must take
mp some service. now that we are at
war. am physically lit for aviation,
while there are millions over here
and under age available for ambulan-
GERS and camions. Do you wish me
to be called an ambuscade when /
come home? And that is what they
call us here. now that America is
ot war. The air life is a bit more
dangerous, but death comes from q
little bullet and is quick and clean
One is not blown into infinity by mar
mite or other high explosives, which
leave unbelievable holes in ones
body. One fights man to man in the
air.
Il must do some military duty, and
my six months experience and my
kr owledge of French are of value to
those whom am trying to help. At
ter all. II am not to survive this
war. what difference does it make
how l so about IL? No one wants
to come home more than do. No
one is more fed up on this war than
/ am. but my wishes and your wishes
are almost nothing. Our sorrow Is
like sunshine when you think of the
sorrow caused by the death OF the
100000 men who have died since
1914. One learns to feel that
death Is easy after watching these
Frenchmen die. And are you, my
mother and my father. going to re-
fuse to sacrifice one son. when mil
ions OF others have done far more p
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DO Women Ever Look Ahead?


IN the Womans Home Companion
man who calls his confession 1.-The
Hlris Who Wanted to Marry Me" saws:
Just word in passing Why is it
mat 1t never occurs to a certain type
OF woman that there NAV be some
men IN the world too good for her to
marry? Every man with any brains
at all knows that there are some wo-
men in the world too good for him to
marry. The average business man.
shies on from the brilliant and beau
uful woman, lest, marrying her, he
should be patiently outclased through
iiIe. lie vans a woman who is just
ms equal in looks and intelligence-
no more-at least not so rnuch more
tnat he will suffer in contrast. But
women apparently never give such
considerations moments thought. /
have seen brilliant men loaded
through life with women who caught
them very young, and who stopped
growing at neineteen, while the men
Kept right on. Those women must
nave known, in the days when their
fiances We're quoting to them poetry
which they couldn't understand, that
they weren't the equals Of their men,"
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DO You Know the Glory OF Sacrifice.

DO You Know the Glory OF Sacrifice? 4?
Happiness can be obtained in
many ways in this world of ours. and
one OF the ways is through sacrifice
In story called Aunt Julia" in the
January American Magazine, this
passage occurs:
" 1 thought you loved me so much
mat you wouldn't want me to go TO
Europe and get killed, and you be left
alone, and all the Farringtons nerisb
entirely, replied the lad miserably.
I thought thought--you loved me.
Grandmother
Love you?' cried the old lady.
O dear Father!' She choked back the
emotion that swayed her voice and
made it q cracked and ridiculous
thing. 'Oh laddie, you'll never know
how I've loved you, as I loved two
other boys and a man, a bravo man
once long ago. But / am not so sell
fish in that love that ! can't see
things that are worse than getting
shot on battlefield. It's come to me
that folks wonder witty I've kent
strong and smiling under lots of other
folks troubles since, laddie. And III
tell you now, because any other time
itd sounded like Dragging It's be-
cause / sacrificed SO much. once in
the dear dead past. And / know the
glory OF such a sacrifice, the glory of
unselfishness. the strength that comes
from being brave enough to give what
L have given. love you, laddie, I
love you as loved those men back in
81. But I'd rather lose you nobly,
honorably, a strong, brave man,
obedient to our country that my 9TH
er boys died to preserve, than have
you spared to me--a coward. I want
you to be brave and strong. I want
you to face your duty. If the Far
rington lines got to end, laddie, I
want it to end in young man who
chooses agony and death on a battle
field to running away in order to live
and keep up the family with one lit
tie blOtch Of dshonor on II any,
where"
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sislness Methods of the Rca cross

The work Of the Red Cross is be-
ing conducted with an economy and
efficiency almost without precedent in
any organization. and this primarily
for the reason that II has been enabi-
cd to have the volunteer services of
AN exceptionally large number OF the
important business men OF America.
II Is enjoying the devoted service,
without pay or expense Of any kind,
OF some Of the most experienced and
snccessfui OF our business men and
social workers Its operating expenses
are moro than met by its membership
dues. so that every cent contributed
to the War Fund goes for relief.
All expenditures OF the RED Cross
are being subjected to the constant
and continuous scrutiny of auditors
under the direction of the war de-
partment. SO that every dollar con-
'riouted will be carefully accounted
FOR Reports In great detail are be
ing constantly made to the people,
and u is the policy Of the war council
70 Conduct all the affairs Of the Red
Cross during the war as an open
book.
commissions representing the
American Red Cross are todav n,
work In France, England, Russia
serbia. Rumania, and Italy These
commissions have been composed O,
some OF the ablest and most success
'ni American business men and work.
ers along lines OF Red Cross activity
ihey are advising the War Council a.
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to the means by which the Red Cross
can most effectively extend relief tc
peoples and armies In those coun-
tries. and after their recommends
tions have been acted on by the War
Council. these commissions are exc
cutting the work Of relief carefully and
efficiently and with the purpose OF
making their activity an expression
of the fne friendliness and desire tc
help on the part OF the American
people as q whole.
The REQ Cross is not seeking t<
compete with any existing relief or.
i,Anisation. but aims TO coordinate the
relief activities OF. all organization.
for a common purpose. 1t 10 the am
bition OF those who are conducting
the Red Cross in this war to make
it's emblem IA symbol OF the heart and
soul Of the American people in their
efforts to extend a helping hand e
a bleeding world.-From How Rec
Gross Money Is Handled and Spent
by Ivy Lee. In the American Re
view OF Reviews for December.
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FAITH IN PERSHING
French and British Commanders
Have Confidence in His Ability.

Washington, Dec. 21.-Diract as-
surances OF confidence Of both Brit,
lsh and French commanders in Gen
Rershing's ability and their satisfac.
tion with the breadth and soundnes,
OF his preparations to make American
arms effective on the western front
nave reached Washington with the
return from Europe of Major General
Hugh l.. Scott, who was in confer
ehce today with Secretary Baker and
other officials.
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The American Spirit

Perhaps ! am wrong TO urge yol
to let me so on, but / have all the
papers made out and take the medi-
cal examination soon. In America we
are taught that ores country comes
first, and am now TO throw over the
legacy OF the RevolutiOn? In France
an aviator is considered worth n
thousand men. Can you imagine my
being worth q thousand men? How
ever. this Is no time for joking. Only
think Of the millions who have lost
more than can ever be. OF mothers
who have lost several sons as well as
their husbands, and their daughters,
ruined by German officers; of hus-
bands fighting. never knowing the
fate Of their sons. wives and daugh-
ters. God Is watching me, and If any
thing should 60 wrong. sorrow little
and thank God that you could sac
riice one so dear to you In the cause
Of right. When YOU have decided,
write me Mt once. All my plans shall
stop until hear again. Once more
let me assure you that / realize how
much i owe to you and Dad. and will
come home at permission: come homo
only to return, for could never stay
away from this war now until 1t
ends"
The permission he asked was CIV
en-.
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Every American who had read the
newspapers the past three years ought
% know what German victory would
mean to us. For we have had prac-
tical illustrations OF what IL meant TO
Belgium, France. Poland, Servia and
iioumania. Germany pretends that
she Is lighting to give other countries
he benefit OF hcr alleged supcrior
civilization. In every country where
she has had an opportunity to apply
this "kultur" II has meant the viola
tion OF every human right and every
dccency Individual liberty AMI
freedom OF thought have been crush =
cd out i'm those countries slavery re.
established in the world. and a deter
mined policy OF determination put
into practice. 30 that I'm the event OF
victory over nations still unconquer-
cd there will he tho least opposition
from the rightful owners Of the ter
ritory seized. III German victory
would mean anything different for tn
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-12-26

Tho real expense I'm connection
with n newspaper Is not the sub.
scription price" Henry Wallace used
20 say. ITS the time YOU give to
reading II aftcr you get IT," This idea
g. one that can't be too often empha-
SIZED. If mans life and intcllec.
ore worth anything like what they
cN;ht 10 be. he will spend several dol
la's worth of time each year reading
hla favorite paper, and he had better
a.icnd an extra dollar OF so getting a
T'ncF worth while rather than DO sat.
iIed with anything lnfcrior.--The
liDcTC Css.Ve Farmer.
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Tint Reasonable.

II is becoming mc:n ana more cvl
dent that to win the war In Europe
we need many more engines and
freight cars in this country. not to
mention more double tracks and bet
ter terminal facilities. Uncle Sam will
have to loan the railroads the money
they need as "a war necessity
Greenviile Piedmont. And then
rates that will enable them to pay
back the money?--Florida Times-Un-
ion.
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hted states there is no proof Of Il
IN Germany's acts And by her acts
not her words. Germany should be
Judged.
The defeat of Germany means no
only the liberation of tho countries
which she has overrun. and others
which che threatens, hut II means
something far greater. I'm the worlC
crisis through which we are now
passing, we have national leader
whose thought on the main issues o.
the war is never clouded. President
WILSON. I'm making his great distinc-
uon between the prussian autocratlc
government and the real German peo
pie, has Expressed the facts 80 clear
~ That 1t would be presumptuous in
any one clse to attempt n better ex-
PLANTATION. The defeat OF the Prus
sian government means not onl,
freedom for tho world i'm general, but
freedom for the German people
JAMES Fl. COLLINS.
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a WAR PRAYER.

James Waterman Wise of tn,
Vigilantes.)
Father, we beseech Thee
Guard our boys tonight.
Keep. we pray their footsteps
On the paths OF right.
We have sent them gladly.
For the fight Is just.
Yea. their cause is holy.
Glorious their trust.
Hold their fates, o Father,
In Thy wondrous hand,
Bring them back. il may be,
Back to grace our land.
For we loved them dearly
But our path was clear
Honor bade us send them.
Father. be Thou near!
But II they must leave us,
If II be Thy will.
Father, we implore Thee,
Guide and guard them still.
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Nkw YonK COTTON MAaKEr.
Open High Low Chose Cos,
A Suggestion.

a movement Is on foot In Boston "a
supply with proper quarters and roc.
rcation centers the thousands CT wo
mon now engaged in war supply worR
or near camps. The best way to solve
this problem. and that OF soldier rec.
reation NJ the same time is to allow
tho women and the soldiers TO enter
tiln each other under respectable
conditions. s.--Columtia state.
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MESSAGE on RAILROADS.
President Wilson Will Take ND
Transportation Question After HoI-
idays.

Washington, Dec. 21.-President
Wilson will send to congress a mes
sage recommending the enactment Of
legislation TO meet the transportation
situation Immediately after the holi-
day recess. Until it is received the
terstate commerce committee to with
hold making an investigation. as pro-
vided under the Cummins resolution
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-12-26

Certainly there is nothing the south
is going to overlook this winter in IT'S
north feel perfectly at home. This
snow is only little feature OF the
work Of the camp activities commits
sion.--Spartanburg Herald
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1t is said that a good any OF the
alien Austrians are well pleased at
the declaration OF war against that
country. They came to this coun-
try because they believed it a better
country to live in than the one they
left.-Knoxville Journal and Trib-
une. ,, 4se,...,. &
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Bigger Armies Now.

There are $4,000 soldiers at Camp
Sewer, near Greenville. That is as
large an army as some of the south's
genearls fought some of the bloodiest
battles Of the Civil war with. And
there are many cantonments and
camps in the United States besides
Sevier.-Newberry Observer.
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So She Was Acquainted.

When her lawyer told the Jury that
Mrs. De Saulles had 'hypothyresosis'
they did not know whether, 1t was
corns or consumption, bur they knew
it made her look awfully pretty
Memphis Commercial Appeal. -
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At any rate. according to his- own
statement, Blease is willing 10 run for
the United States senate. Thus ali
doubt is now removed.--Greenvills
Piedmont. He will have 70 run like a
scared rabbit to keep in sight or old
Ben Tillman.--Jacksonville Times.
Union. @ :.
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A Pious wish.

We hope that the thousand people
more or less, who asked US yeeterda,
is 1t cold enough for. you:' will b
sent to the front line trenches with,
the next 80 days.--Spartanbrrg jour
nal.