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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-21

two more being added to-day. They
are Frank jackson. assault and bat
terry. and John Schoffstall. receiving
stolen goods.
Contract Signed The county
commissioners late yesterday signed
the contract which had been made
with 7. Ellsworth Davies. Scranton.
the coai-mining expert, who will
make q valuation of coal lands in
this county.
Tipstaves Named-Tipstaves to
serve at the session of criminal court
opening on Monday and the session
of common pleas the following week
were named to-day as follows:
Quarter Sessions-John Potroff,
r. w. Green, NJ. H. Graham, Harry
Fulchner, Samuel Johnson, H. c.
Winters. Jacob Stauffer. B. r. Mitch
ell, ]. H. Chambers, w. ]. Winfield,
Hiram Graham, ]. U. Yentzer, Mil
ford Bail, William Strominger. and
George Peters.
Common Pleas-John Pottroff, R.
w. Green, NJ. f. Graham, Harry
Fulchner, Samuel Johnson, II. c.
Winters, Jacob Stauffer, Harry Ever
hart. Samuel Young, Noah Dockens,
John c. BATHS. William Writer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-21
HELD AS TRAINwRECKER

By associated Press
Toledo. Ohio, Sept. 81. - Suspected
Of having attempted to wreck a Bal
timore and Ohio train, James Nc
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
FERTILIZER UNDER CONTROL.
President Orders Action by Govern.
mcnt.

Washington, Feb. 26.-Governlnent
control Of the fertilizer industry was
ordered by President Wilson tonight
in proclamation requiring manufac-
turers and distributors to obtain Ii
censes from the secretary Of agricul-
ture on or before March 20. Authority
for the act is contained in the food
control law.
Licenses must be obtained not only
by makers, importers, storers and
sellers of fertilizer itself but of it,, in.
gradients as well. Applications for H.
cense will be made to the food ad-
ministration, but they will be issued
by Secretary Houston, who is charged
in the proclamation with enforcement
of regulations to be issued.
Dealers in some fertilizer ingre.
dients, including ammonia and it's
compounds, are already under license
by the food administration and thew
are excepted IN the proclamation
Among the ingredients not already
under license and now put under con-
troll are sulphuric acid, phosphate
rock, bones, sodium nitrate, potash,
salt, cement and blast furnace dust,
wood ashes, cottonseed hulls and
meal, potassium nitrate and tobacco
waste.
The following board has been
named by Secretary Houston to carry
out the provisions of the proclama-
ton: Charles w. Merrill, c. l.. Ais.
berg, Karl F. Kellerman, A. E. Taylor,
f. w. Brown and l.. L. Sommers.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
TO REPRESENT FURMAN.
kolb is Winner in Oratori9pl Con-
test.

Greenville, Feb. 26.-E. c. Kolb of
Sumter was chosen last night at the
annual inter-society oratorical ton-
test of the Philosophian and Adel-
phian Societies to represent Fuiman
University at the State oratorical con-
test at Greenwood in April. Mr..
KOlb's subject was Reactions OF the
War;" He is a member of the Phil
osophian Society. Second place was
won by d. II. Smith, Adelphian, of
Greenville. Mr.. Smiths subject:
War Conflict of Ideals" E. A.
Mcdowell, Jr., Philosophian, of
Kingstree was winner of third place.
His subject being The Double Chal-
lenge." The other speakers and their
subjects were P. B. Hair, 1.-THE United
States the Nation of Nations;" j. G..
Lee, Liberty is at Stake;" M. M.
Howell, Americas Answer to Ger
man Imperialism"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
A Secret of Success.

Try to do whatever you do better
than anybody else has done it before
that is the thought which the great
men who are to send messages to YOU
in The Progressive Farmer empha-
size over and over again. It is the
same idea which the late Senator DOL
liver expressed once in a sentence 1
have never forgotten: I'm no art is
it ever safe for a man to fall below
the best that is in him. 1t is the
same idea which found eloquent ex-
preston in the epitaph carved on the
tombstone of the Western cowboy:
He Done His Blamedest; Angels
Could Do No More And there is
an old verse which expresses the same
idea yet more explicitly and exactly:
IF I were q cobbler,
I'd make it my pride
The best of all cobblers to be:
If were a tinker no tinker beside
Should mend an old kettle like me-"
1t doesn't matter how humble the
next task before you may be, the idea
must be to give it the last ounce of
energy, will, and determination in
you, doing II a little better than the
other fellow.
do the thing that is next, saith the
proverb,
And nobler shall succeed.
"Tis the motive eXalts the action,
'Tis the doing, not the deed"
You have nothing to do with the
task the Lord has assigned you: that's
His business. You have everything to
do with how that task shall be done;
that's your business. And no man can
do a small job superbly we'll with
out fitting himself for bigger things.
Clarence Poe, in The Progressive
Farmer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
Patriotism Among "Wild Men,"

How the Liberty Loan campaign
Knocked at the door of wild men" in
remote mountain regions of the Phil
ippine Islands and found patriotism
there is one Of the most interesting
and significant stories told in cOnnec-
tion with the recent drive. 1t only
needs little imagination to picture
the three Bcnguet Igorots, heroes of
he story, tOiling with pickaXe and
shovel to remove from the earth, thei:
only trusted banking house, sacks OF
old Spanish and Mexican coins ac-
quired by hook or crook in the older
days of Spanish rule, when mystery
and romance were a little more plen-
tiful in the islands. And then the
picturesque procession, making It's
way over mountain trails, finally con-
fding their treasure to the hands Oc
Gov. Hilario Logan with the request
that it be sent for ''the use of the
This was surely Il most significant
contribution, coming as it did from an
aboriginal people that not SO long ago
rebelled against government Of any
sort that despised the uses of mol
ern civilization, and looked askance
at the motives Of foreigners True,
IN comparison with the amount con-
contributed by Baguio. and the total
amount from the Philippines, the
h1teen thousand pesos contributed by
the three wild men, was not espc-
cialiy noteworthy; but as an indica
'oh OF their loyalty to 1.-The great
chief across the seas" it speaks well
FOR the success Of American rule i'm
the Philippines.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
Lack OF Charm Cause of Diovrcc.

Madame Sarah Bernhardt, the
great French actress, in a signed ar
ticle in the November issue of Har-
per's Bazaar, attributes the numerous
divorces that have come. into the
courts OF late years to lack of charm
in the women concerned.
IF / stood at the threshold of
life." says Nine. Bernhardt, asking
of it something with which to buy
happiness, / should beg for charm.
For If one has charm, she will be
loved. And n woman must have love
to be happy. Beauty does not mat
ter. If a woman has charm she can
secure whatever she wants-love, sue
cess. power"
But the Divine Sarah also says that
this invaluable quality can be culti-
waited, and her prescription in Ha~-
per's Bazaar reveals the secret.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
How You Can Help the Food Admin
fStratOr

iStratOr.
Realize that the restrictions sug-
gested by the food administrators are
for the good of all the people and
to win the war.
That those who are undertaking
to enforce the food regulations are
doing so from spirit of patriotism
and service 10 their country and not
for pay.
Observe the wheatless and meatless
days strictly, and see that others do
SO. These are most essential.
Insist upon the wheatless and meat
less days wherever and whenever you
eat.
Good intentions and promises count
for naught. Both preach and prac-
tice home economics.
Talk food conservation.
Tell your neighbors OF practical
and appetizing recipe you have your
self used that economies in wheat,
sugar and fats.
The food regulations are all sure
and patriotic. and If you find your
merchants or eating houses are fail
ing to cooperate, report the facts to
the county administrators and give
your trade to those who appreciate
the actual necessity for recognized
rules.
Women's clubs should discuss prac-
tical household questions and leave
their iosen and Browning evenings
until the boys "over there" return
home.
When you use wheat Sc. that It is
mixed with corn meal and other
cereals.
See that your neighborss and par
ticularly your merchants are cooperat
ing and are not asking unauthorized
prices for foodstuff.
Be independent Of the outside
world and provide your table from
your own field or garden. Have food
stuff to sell. not to buy.
Remember that all you save In
wheat, fats and meats is for your SOL
diers and their companions in arm
les.
BE soldier behind the lines for
half an hour each day, and spend
that time in seeing that food crops
are cultivated on your fields or cul-
tivate your own garden.
1t it is not for you to be on the
firing line. do your bit in saving and
producing food.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
SMITH APPOINTS CADETS.
Senator Announces Appointments OF
Principals and Alterpates to West.
Point and Annapolis. :,

Washington, Feb. Ex-senator
Smith today made the following ap-
pointments to Wet Point: PRINCIPAL,
johnson Hagood, Barnwell; first al
ternate, John b. Cornwell, Chester:
second alternate, Charles M. R. Bull,
Stateburg; third alternate, James N.
Sloan, Greenville. Also the following
appointments to annapolis: Princi-
pal, William E. Eager, Jr., Charles
ton; first alternate, John E. Conner
ford, Charleston: second alternate,
Eugene e. Elmore, Anderson; third
alternate, Peyton G. Bowman, Jr..
Sumter.
The examinations for West Point
will be held Marcn 19 and for An.
napolis April 16 at the usual places
for holding them in South Carolina.
Among the well known South Caro-
linians here today were DR.. George
w. Dick of Sumter and Christie Benet
of Columbia, both of whom called to
see Congressman Lever. Mr.. Benet
is here on business and Dr. Dick is ac-
companied by other members of his
family.
The friends of Col. T. @. Donaldson,
of Greenville, will be pleased to know
that the president today nominated
him to be brigadier general.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
GAS ATTACK ON AMERICANS.
Three Soldiers Killed and Nine Bad
ly Gassed in Two German Efforts.

~ N0SSSu HI I@O OcIIndn EMOfJS.
With the American Army in
France, Feb. 26 by the Associated
Press) Three American soldiers
were killed and nine badly gassed in
two formidable gas attacks made by
the Germans on the American po-
sitions in the Toul sector early this
morning with pro5ectiles.
The enemy also heavily bombarded
the American batteries with gas shells
but without result.
Only the excellent preparatory
training in quickness by the Ameri-
can troops prevented the projectile
attacks, the first experienced by them,
from causing more casualties.
The attacks We're made within ten
minutes Of each other and were di-
rected at a certain wood. Seventy
five eight-inch shells of so per cent.
gas. and 20 high explosive shells were
from German mire &hrowers. The
flight Of the projectiles was traced
through the air. the gas shells
bursting in the air and the high ex.
plosives detonating when they came in
contact with the earth. Large frag.
ments of shells flew from both mis-
siles.
The gas caught some Of the. men
before they were able to adjust their.
masks and overcame others while
they were asleep in dugouts.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
WAR sAvIN,.. STAMP SALES.
Americas Already Exceeding Those Of
Great Britain.

Washington, Feb. 26.-Receipts
from the sale of war saving stamps in
this country are already exceeding
those from the same source in Great
Britain, figures made public today by
the national war savings committee
show. For the past four weeks to.
tai receipts at the treasury from this
source were s4O,oOO.O00 as against
$37,OO0,0 ,000 in Great Britain.
AS the total American war savings
are now in excess Of 100000 and
are averaging nearly $4,000. 600 a day.
1t is expected that the first $780,
ooo'oOO will be recorded in the third
week Of March, or in a little more
than three months after the first Of
fering of the stamps by the treasury.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
AUSTRIAN SUBJECT ARRESTED.
Effort to Enlist I'm Army at SEWER Gets
Enemy Alien Into Trouble.

Camp Sewer, Greenville, Feb. a.
Armand de Rivaud, an Austrian citi-
zen, was taken into custody today by
G. j. Lyon, United States marshal, af-
ter he had tried to enlist in the army,
and is being held until instructions
are received as to his disposition. De
Rivaud has been playing in the or
chestra of one of the shows at CAMP
Sewer for the past few days. Ac-
cording to de Rivaud, he was formerly
q second lieutenant in the Austrian n
army. but came to this country in
|1912.
When the United States entered
the war he attempted to attend the
officers training camp at Plattsburg
and when he was refused went to
Canada, where he was detained until
he joined the show about two weeks
ago. De Rivaud stated that his at.
tempt to enlist today was caused by
genuine desire to serve this coun-
try and by wish to escape from the
taunts of the soldiers at Camp Sewer
who were always asking him why
"he didn't get into it,"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
GAMBLER BLACKMAIL CASE.
Mayor OF Atlanta Takes Man and
Woman into Court,

Atlanta, Feb. 27.-when the case
against Mrs. H. H. Hirsch and J. w.
COOK, charged with attempted verbal
blackmail Of Mayor Asa G. Gambler
was called this morning in the Fulton
County Superior Court, the State de-
cided to sever the hearings and try
Cook first. The preliminaries occu.
pied only few minutes, and the Jury
was completed i'm twelve minutes.
Mayor Gambler, the first witness call.
ed, described his acquaintance with
Mrs. Hirsch and incidents of the al
legged attempt at blackmaii in his Of
flee in the Gambler building. which
formed the basis OF the indictments
Mayor Gambler described Mrs
Hirsch's visit to his office on February
oth' when Cook also appeared. "At
that time." he said. Mrs. Hirscb re-
moved her coat and later her hat
When Cook suddenly appeared ana
said. "our honorable mayor. this 3,
nice" I suspected there had haer
trap laid for me-"
Mr.. Gambler denied taking liberties
with Mrs Hirsch on her vo,,o,.
visits to his office.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
HERTLING'S WAR SPEECH
German ChanccllOr's Voice is For
War and to Deceive Public.

Paris, Tuesday, Feb. 26.-The con-
census of opinion in official and dip
lomatic circles regarding Chancellor
Won Hertiing's speech is that it is a
war speech" and not a peace
speech" delivered largely to create
division between the allies, and i'm
press the public of Germany and
abroad, that the military officials do
not rule Germany.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02

Berlin. Feb 2s.-Germany's mill
tary operations on the northern Rus
sian front is taking no real contest,
u Is officially announced. Another
Esthonian regiment placed itself un-
der the command of the German staff.
In Minsk the Germans captured fifty
thousand rifles and Two thousand ma
chine guns.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
New York Mail.

AttW OTh MILL.
The business Of being woman
would be, very simple, Nat Goodwin
believes, If we took tip from Mrs
Antediluvian Ancestor That Iadv
made the family cave a magnet. With
In its wall her master never knew
boredom. Few neighbors could coax
him forth, even for u game of skull
bones. His mate served him with
beauty. wit, wisdom, comfort and
what not. Every replica of his imapa
was trained to add to the household
interest. In short, Mr.. Ancestor had
u "home."
THAT Is all man wants today" Mr..
Goodwin says. That is what ne
means when he clamors for 'the old
fashioned woman"
ut bores me to tears to talk of
matrlmony." Mr.. Goodwin added.
My attitude is that of confirmed
optimist. My own record proves that
nope conquers experience.
am very old fashioned In my
'oeas' IT | have any. think a wo-
man ought to do everything she can
10 make herself beautiful and intelli-
gent useful and interesting. and then
make herself subservlent to her home.
i""' Is what my mother did. get
ooth my ideal and my optimism from
her"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
THE HOUR OF RECKONING
Pan.Gcrmans Denounced and Warned
by a German Paper.

Hague, Netherlands, Jan. IS (Cor-
respondence)-P Germans who did
what they could to make the war in
evitable" are denounced by the Frank
furter Zeitung and are warned that
their hour of reckoning is coming, in
an article published in that newspa-
per. The article is reply to a criti-
cism by the Pan-German writer Herr
Eigenbrodt. who accused the newspa-
per of entertaining an anti-militarist
spirit" Retorting to the critic, the
Frankfurter Zeitung asked what has
happened in this war" and answered
the question by saying:
THE army which enlisted at the
beginning of the war has failed by
long way in numbers. Masses of men
have had to be added to it and train
ed within a time far shorter than
that which even we contemplated.
"The conception that England de-
sired to seek decision by arms in
any circumstances was the basis OF
the Pan-German policy. They cher
-ished the idea of the imminence Of
this world-war because they longed for
it. In the first number of the Pane
man News, at that time the chief or
gan OF Pan-Germans, these words
were written, the hour we have long,
ed for at last has struck; the holy
war;"
1T is impossible to say that the
war was desired abroad but it is not
difficult to see what one is straining
every nerve to bring about. Anybody
who did not go about with his eyes
shut knew that Germany, except for
small group, did not wish for war,
but what that small group, just these
Pan Germans. could contribute to-
wards making it inevitable, that they
did.
If we along with others have any
| reproach to make to ourselves it is
that we did not more carefully watch
the doings of such people. They were
takers whom one thought a nuisance
put did not take as seriously as the
damage which they subsequently did
proves that one ought to have done.
The effect Of Pan-German outbursts
upon foreign public opinion was not
considered at the time but they
alone can account for the flood OF
hate towards Germany which showed
itself at the beginning of the war and
which found the German public COM
paratively unprepared. We could not
understand it and we asked ourselves
how it was possible. Now we have
found out. From the writing OF
Baumgarten and other publications
we have seen that not the good Ger
man people but the Pan-Germans
earned a bad name for Germans in
the world. We are not so foolish as
to look upon the enemy as angels. The
consciousness Of the innocence felt
in Germany at the beginning of the
war, though understandable, was not
justified for now we see that agita-
ton on the part Of Pan-Germans
which they carried even beyond our
frontiers created a false impression
upon foreign public opinion, an i'm
preston that the German people and
their government were animated by
plans for conquest and deeds of vio-
lence. and this opinion was encourag-
ed by chauvinsts in those countries
abroad.
German people do not yet know
the extent of the damage done to
them by the Pan-Germans, but the
hour Of reckoning for them is COM
ing"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
MANY LIVES LOST.
Only Thirty-eight Saved From Brit
ish Hospital Ship.

London, Feb. 2S.-It is unofficially
stated that there were one hundred
and eighty-two persons on the British
hospital ship Glenart Castle which
went down Tuesday in Bristol Chan
mel. or these thirty7eight have been
landed. The survivors who landed at
Swansea declared that the ship had
been torpedoed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02

+ Washington. Feb. 2S.-No further
word from Ambassador Francis re-
Earding his plans to leave Pctrograd
had been received here early today.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02

SO far as we are concerned I'm the
United States the movements OF va
rious kind and forms against the al
most immeasurable evil resulting
from the habitual use OF alcohol arc
now approaching their elimination. A
few months ago. exercising the war
power. the government stopped the
making OF, whiskey. 1t has now, by
similar order. reduced the alcohol
content OF beer to something like the
vanishing point. Within a very few
years the number OF States prohibit
Ing the liquor traffic has increased
from three or four to twenty-seven
The great State of Ohio. which has
always heretofore been strongly
against prohibition. was almost even
Is divided In November of this yeav,
tht votes for prohibition being some
thing under $4,000 and the votes
against II being just over 524 900. The
complete abolition OF the liquor traf-
&c In the city of Washington and the
District Of Columbia went into efrec.
only a few weeks ago by act of con-
gress. with excellent results already
apparent.
Hitherto, the prohibition move
ment has proceeded in localities un-
der the local option system, and In
States under the plan of State wide
prohibition. Those States which have
adopted prohibition are now, by vir.
tue of recent Federal laws. better pro-
tected than they formerly were from
The violation OF their own police sys-
TENS by the bringlng-in of liquor
from adjacent States.
"A few years ago Il would not have
been thought possible by most OBJ
servers and students OF politics that
We were approaching the eve OF sub
mission by congress to the legisa-
lures OF the States OF an amendment
To the National Constitution, pro-
hibiting the liquor traffic throughout
the United States. But already the
"nti-saloon movement has actually
won that victory. The prohibition
amendment. under leadership OF Sen
ator Morris Sheppard of Texas, was
adopted In the United states Senate
last summer, and ON December II IL
was passed by the house OF repre-
scntativcs by "a vote OF 2S2 10 1928
There had never been any dispute as
10 the attitude OF the present house.
while there was some question wheth.
or or not the necessary two-tbirds
majority could be obtained In the
senate. When the amendment haa
been accepted by three -fourths OF the
states II will become a part OF tho
National Constitution. This means
that thirty-six States must consent to
nationwide suppression OF the max
Ing OF the traffic I'm liquor as n bever-
age.-From The War Against Alco-
hol." by Albert Shaw. i'm the Ameri-
can Review OF Reviews for January,
1918.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
TOLL INCREASES.
Eighteen British Vessels Sunk During
Week.

London, Feb. 2S.-Eighteen British
were sunk by mine or
submarine in the past week, according
to the British admiralty report to-
night. OF these IA were vessels of L.
500 tons or over and four were un-
der that tonnage. Seven fishing YES
sells were also sunk,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
TRAGEDY AT HONG KONG
Hundred Women and Children Killed
by Collapse of Race Track Stand

London, Feb. 27.-In the collapse
or the Chinese public stands at the
Hong Kong jockey club races Tues
day, hundred women and children
were trampled to death, ACCORDING to
a Reuter- dispatch from Hong Kong.
FIRE broke out in the wreck and sew
eral hundred others were burned to
death.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-03-02
SfETHODIsTs PLAN CELEBRA-
TION.
Centenary Of Methodist Missions In
America Next Year.

Nashville. Feb. 2S.--Southern
Methodist editors from many States
are here today for conference with
the centenary commission of the
church TO formulate plans for the
celebration of the founding of Meth
odist Missions In America. which is to
begin I'm 1919.