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The Wateree Messenger $ Published Every Wednesday by CH AS. W. BIUCHMORE, Prop. ; ? Entered ma Second Class Matter at tl*?> Pos toff ice at Caatden, 8. C. r r?; . ' Subscription $1JM A Tear is Adraaea _ Wednesday, February 16, 1988 i i , 1 i 1 ? ? Officials, who do too much shaking down sometimes experience a shake up. We are skeptical about that "domes tic allotment" plan after observing mess the stork has made of it. 11 ? i ? > ; It looks as if the Technocrats made the mistake of putting all their egg in one basket. And then there was the one sO dumb that she thought racketeers -were tennis players! Correct .this sentence: '^1 have no difficulty in dealing with women, be cause ^understand them. i. The severest critics of business are "intellectuals" who got that way at colleges endowed by business men. French attd German cabinet- posts have aforded quite a bit of very temp orary employment this winter. 1 ;New York Is to have an antinoise campaign, ifi which the speakeasies will doubtless lend hearty coopera tion. Uncle Sam will again talk over the war debts, and our guess is that the result will refute the idea that talk is cheap. Americanism: Thinking good will for a product is made by long-winded harangues to radio listeners who want entertainment. When a politician becomes a nui sance in his home state it is possible to get partial relief by sending him to the United States Senate. An Indian girl winner of a beauty contest is called "Pretty Bear." We understand that most of the bathing beach favorites have been that way too. A new universal language called "Basic English" contains only 860 words. Inasmuch as it makes no dis tinction in the user of "will? land "shall" we are for it. 35 YEARS AGO Thirty-five years ago this month events were moving rapidly toward that short but spirited ' struggle known to history as the Spanish American War, which freed Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines fr;om Spanish misrule. American feeling was running higv against, Spanish atrocites in Cuba when the battleship Maine was blown up in Havan harbor on February IB 1898, killing 266 officers and men. On April 11 President McKinley told Congress that in the name of human ity and civilization the war being waged against the Cubans by the Spaniards must stop. ' On April 19 Congress demanded that Spain with draw from Cuba, and authorized the use of American land and sea forces to accomplish this result. -."War of ficially began on April '21. Regular Army and National Guard Jtroops were moblized at Tampa, Mo bile and other Southern points; Dew ey's fleet was ordered from Honp Kong to destroy the Spanish fleet at Manila) Sampson and Schley pre pared to meet Cervera's Spanish flee* which was on its way to West Indian waters from Cape Verde Islands. The ?nd of April thus saw the stage set for action. On May 1, Dew ey easily defeated the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay; on July 1 the main as sault on Santiago by Shatter's Army began; on July 8 Cervera's fleet war destroyed while trying to escape frotr Santiago harbor, and the Spanish land forces at Santiago surrendered to Shatter on July 17. Aside from minor engagements in Porto Rico the fall of Santiago virtually ende<' Spain's resistance, hostilities beinp formally ended by the protocol of August * Peace wm declared through thr Treaty of Pari*, signed on tiecembe' JO, 1898, and later ratified by hot* nation's whereby Spain acknowledged Cuba's independence, ceded Port* Rico to the United States and receiv ed twenty million dollars for the PhtltpplnM. Then# are the high spots in a brief ;i but dramatic war & which had far reaching consequences for many mil lions of peopte and established the United States as * great world pow LINCOLN'S WAR AIM The recurrence of Abraham Lin coln's birthday on Febxuary 12 re vives memories of our first martyred President, now revered in the South as- well as in the North. So rich In human Interest was Lin coln's life that it presents almost un limited material for the writer? ma terial of which wide use has been made during the past sixty-odd years But by the present generation it if probable that Lincoln's paramount j aim during the Civil War is not do well understood as it should be Doubtless the general impression If that his chief object was the abolition of slavery. While Lincoln was always against slavery on principle, his original ides was to abolish it by paying slave* owners for their property from the national treasury, thus gradually emancipating the negro. Such a pro posal was made by him as early ar 1849 when a member of Congress and was renewed in 1862, while the war was in progress. But his real aim during the war was the preservation of the nation .is one union, with the abolishment of nlavery as a secondary consideration This is best illustrated by his famour letter to Horace Greely on August 22 1862, in which he said: "My paramount object is to savr the Union, and not either to save o* destroy slavery. If I could save tV Union without freeing any slave, "7 would do it; if I could save it by free ing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some an<J leaving others alone, I would also do that." A NEW COLLEGE COURSE Washing machines are going to college. But in this case the regular procedure has been reversed. It is the institution that is doing the studying. When the University of Ne braska ends its observations next June it expects to have new informa tion of much value to housewives. American washing machine manu facturers are represented by a full ar ray of washers which home economics experts of the university and of Mc Call's magazine are using in a serie? of tests. Each washer maker today knows from factory tests how the housewife can get maximum benefits from his machines. The Nebraska study is expected to produce a num ber of special discoveries for the ben efit of housewives in general. Disused space in a University building was fitted up at small cost as a home clothes-washing room, to show the ease with which any house wife can equip her home. Each wash ing done by the investigators is for a fafnily of two adults and three child ren. I It is practical work like this that makes our educational institutions of greatest benefit to the greatest num number. ' Manufacturers, educators and editors cannot be endorsed toe strongly for this cooperation in fur ther lightening women's household ef forts. Millions of homes have wash ers and the university's study will aid all of them. W Erick Leslie Newton told a guard at Port Leavenworth prison that he learned counterfeiting from books ir the library of an Ohio reformatory. WEATHER MYTHS Perhaps many credulous persons are now watching for a verification of their weather predictions, based on whether the < ground hog saw hip shadow in their localities on Ground Hog Day, February 2. And 'even if their predictions/ are not verified, they will doubtless offer some sort of alib< for that venerable forecaster. Then about March 21 these same folks will ^atch for the "equinoctla' storm" which is supposed to occur about the time when the sun "crosser the line." * j, Of course, no one with any know ledge of meterology pays any atten tlon to either of these ancient super stitions, but in the popular mind they cling with grim tenacity. Owing to the erratic habits of thr weather, any kind of prediction will come tfue occasionally, but scientific observers tell us that in the present state of human knowledge it. Is im possible to predict weather condition* more than a very few days ahead. Prom records of the last 50 years kept by the United States Weather Bureau, it ii shown that atoms arr no more frequent (faring equinoctial period* than at other time* of th< year, In fact, the most destructive of all storm s ?western tornadoes and West Indian hurricanes? occur prlncl pally in the summer and fall, at per iods farthest removed from the equinoxes. But old superstitions die hard, and those concerning the weather are a mong the most persistent. When Jerry Demirdian of^'tyor c ester, Mass., recovered his automo bile which had been missing only one day* he found the radiator, wheels starter, headlights* battery and the toolt^c removed. Alex Cisasld of Seattle, Wash, slipped a^ay, clad 9nly in a* night gown and a blanket, when he became terrified by glimpses of gleaming I instruments to be used, for his opera tion. >? ' ' V Think A Bit By R. EL a (This is one of a series of articles by one of our readers. The author invites comments ? favorable or ad verse. ? Ed.) vvv.v-^J . A POEM TO THE COMMAN MAN Oh the poets' like to sing Of the power of a King, Of the strength and manly beauty of his form; How he saved the ladies fair, (He protected every hair) How he killed the dreadful "vilHan for his wrong. I Now it's strange we never hear I Of the ladies who weren't fair, | Or the starving little farmer in some nook; Or about an ugly lad Whose poor countenance was sad When he couldn't take to wed the stern king's cook. Though we never read their fame They were people just the same, And of course they had some feelings in their hides. They, too, shed a noble tear If a rascal harmed a hair Of the common girls they planned to make their brides. I now vary from the form Set by sages all along And shall write about a sweep of the streets : He had hair unkempt and red; There was nothing in his head For what should haVe gona-to-^br^kr , -had gone to feet. Now he seldom took a bath, (But should this inspire a laugh? For I write of one too poor to own a tub.) Yet he loved a little lass Whose poor father cut the grass From the garden of the good king Hub-a-dub. But the father was quite stern: His fair daughter was too young; And besides, the luckless suitor had < no sense. He was trifling and unkempt And would swing from rope of hemp, (Being sure the king would kill him for his stench). But the maiden's sense of smell Was quite lacking (so they tell)' For she liked to linger in the lads strong arm. She would often wield a broom Just to help the would-be groom; And their happiness they sometime showed with song. *{ ! Neath the beauty of the moon (Which doth make all lovers croon) They conceived a valiant plan to tie the knot: When the waxing moon did wane She would meet him in the lane And from thence slip quietly to the Pastor's lot. But the father heard the plan (Hideous, stern, austere old man) For he, too, had loitered out beneath the moon. So the stem, impassive will Of the father did prevail And he knocked the trturdy lad into r swoon. But among the common folk One can't easily provoke A sad lovelorn to relent to stern old Fate. Even while his jaw was sore He conceived a plan once more, And to execute it he could scarcely wait. ; ;> By the grapevine telephone He communed with lady lone And requested that she meet him at her bam. While the cows end hogs looked on A kind preacher made them one. And they nevermore should be sad and forlorn. That's not all though, Reader, Wait* Whan the father got It straight He forgave them, there was nothing else to do. , Now they have a son or two And a daughter, Mary Lou, A**'1 tttth proud grand-dadn, If any are hut few. Woman Loft 20 r W Pounds Of Fat ? r . LOST HER. PROMINENT HIPS DOUBLE CHIN-? SLUGGISHNESS ' Gained Physical Vigor ? A Shapely Figure. V . ? n ? If you're fat? -first remove the cause! Take one half teaspoonful of Krue chen Salts in a glass of hot water in the morning ? in 8 weeks get on the rcalea and note how many pounds of Tilt Tiave vanished. Notice also that you have gained in energy ? your skin is clearer ? you j eel younger in body ? Kruschen wil' fcive any fat person a joyous sur prise. But be sure it's Kruschen ? you 1 oalth comes first ? and SAFETY 'irst is the Kruschen promise. Get a bottle of Kruschen Saltr from De Kalb Pharmacy or any lead inf? druggist anywhere in Americr (lasts 4 weeks) and the cost is but little. If this first bottle doesn'r convince you this is the easiest SAFEST and surest way to lose fat ? your money gladly returned. David Kolb, 17-year-old ' Detroit youth, was sentenced to six month? in the house of correction on charge', of breaking and entering and steal^ ing a three-cent stamp. I ? Police uncorked the cork leg of B D. Oakley in Paducah, Ky., and found $45, alleged to be part o? $475 stolen from the safe of a dairy. The nerviest burglar that police of Denver have arrested in many months is Johij Anderson, who stole $4 ir I cash from a pair of trousers in poller headquarters. Relieves Women's Pains Here is an example of how Cardul ha* helped thousands of women: "I was very thin /and pale," writes Mrs. F. H. Scott, of Roa noke, Va. "I suffered from weak ness and a severe pain in my back. This pain unnerved me, and I did not feel like doing my work. I did not oa re to so places, and felt worn, tired, day after day. 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