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About, Gmo to haul out tho old Now Year resolutions arid ' warm *hcm > -^Germariy's war . debt bas . reached ten billion.dollars. But what ts that) compared to tho cost, in human lives, f Thu co^guoror of Liege ha? u?r rendered toi, tho groat conqueror that | will eventually got US.all. Thia tn thc Jailchanco for tho boy?.j iii Europe io^gqt out oV tho trenches. Wonder if von Papon and Boy-Ed over heard 'of' .thai Yankee Slang word' "fired." Shorlago of Gorman toys this year j sterns to nave made no inroads on tho j amount of Christmas shopping. ---o Tho abandonment of Gallipoli will] go down In British history ns ono bf] the mb? ? ntrotogic. moves bf the war. "Courage More Important Than a Bank Account." Maybe so, but a] r comfortable sized bank roll cari make oho feel plagued courageous. Como to think about lt, a "cut-glass battle bf gasoline would make a dandy .Christmas present for your friend ' .''Who owns nn automobile. Judging frbm'whet wa hav? lamped Uio express oiflce; wp- would ad-j viced tho druggists' to unpack all'tbs bromo-seltsier ,ou bona, and stack' it up around ?ho .fountain for po'st-J .Ctuistmiui use. The European ; * ? cor r e H pondent s ;-.' c?ulda't- make bid Francis 'Joesph out v;4?6d -'.sp . turned their attention to .. Bernhardt, but tLat eminent ,U?y Is?oi?sr to ce In the best of health do ^^?jt?yreports' that she was dying. ''Ohe who has riot three, and sevsh* ten th? cliildren is_iati :>,fallure as o v pl?senle'member o^.'fll(^^,^:'%??8"|.'im?] ??e^etera' obliege professor. Nbvr, ..-'fess ... up-have you, Sir, or Madam', your ihreeand eeven-tentbg? ^iWow: tho Epi?icopal church ' ls ec ta.bVtehihg a pension fund, Lvr the re iirsincut of al? ministers on half pay at the age of 68. . if this preacher :' rMjnfiiOflj huslne^s'i continues, : ther^i? .bo ?.'ru?it of mei*; frcni other eor.upa {t?n? io the' ministry '.'/''.'?.<}'? "ENEMIES OF THE GERMAN CAUSE" If hua i remained fur the Gerniun government to give extreme 'partisans In America sound advice which their own newspapers und toaders in this country ought to havo given them lone, ago. A rccont statement from Merlin to (lio Ameritan public tells activo pro Germans what tho majority of Ameri cans lmv(; known for many months thal violent efforts In behalf of the Fatherland only defeat their own purpose. Tho German government in this statement "docs mott emphatically declare to Germana ubroud, to Gor man-American citizens in thc United Statu;, to thc American people, all alike, that whoover IH guilty of con duct tending to associate its cause with lawleBBness of thought, sugges tkm or deed against life, property ot order in tho United 8tute? is in fact an enemy of that v?:ry cause and u source of embarrassment to the Ger man government, notwithstanding anything he or they may believe to thc contrary." The sincerity bi Germany's dis claimer of all responsibility for of fensive propaganda and acts of vio lence in this country need not bo dis ciiHRpd nt pr^Rflnt: Legal pri>C2di?r? now under way will soon sliow what connection, it any, Berlin has with the conspirncUd and crimes for which eighty German partisans, some allenB and others American citizens, are now under arrest in tho United StoteB. The point IB that, whether the activities in question wore inspired from Ber lin or not, they were foolish in in tent and execution, doing Germany in calculably more harm in a moral senso than could be compensated by any incidental material gain through interfering' with, tho allies' war sun^ piles. Thoro is no question that legitimate advocacy of the German cause has cufferod grievously In the. United States becauso of these plots and pro paganda. " Tho American public bas boen driven to such indignation that Germany has not. had a fair hearing. There is no question, olther, that Gorman-Americans u a class have suffered undeservedly from the mis guided zeal Of a few propagandists and fewer criminals. There has never boen any good reason why German Americanism should bo associated wlih criminality. . And yet many Gor men leaders, and particularly the German-language newspapers, which net;limo to speak .for. our German citi zens, hove HO uniformly pursued a policy of .-condonerncnt of crime, and denunciation of things American that they have fostered this misconcep tion nnd ids tenod uh undeserved taint cn their own people. O: Now tho repudiation by Germany of tho policy which these : leaders ?nd organs7 havo oponly or covortly en couraged leaves them aa high and dry as Germany's back-do wu in the sub marine warfare Je ft Ihera, after they had stubbornly maintained tho prin cipi? of sea-murder and defended the Lusitania massacre. SENATORIAL ASI) PANTS . The sartorial question lu its rela tion to statesmanahip is brought to the foro by. Senator Lawrence Y, Sherman of Illinois. The two sena tors from that atato represent op posite extremes in- dress. (Senator Janies Hamilton Lewis, as thu world '.mows, ls the fashion plato of the na tion's capital, ' and . a source of per petual inspiration and pride to his be loved Chicago. Xe for Senator Shor .'ft*n-~woII,'- here are the facts'; every man may size tho,senator up fer him self. _ 8evcrat months ago Senator Sher man's campaign manager, W. S. Hosenfeld, inveigled him into a Wash? Ingt?n tailor's shop, had tho doors locked and then stood guard while tim senator waa forcibly measured for a dr?Bs Bult. 80 far, so go a. But lt appears that thc senator never wore the ?ult. Tho other day /Mr. Rosea feld made another attack. Ho sent Senator Sherman a letter from a Cook coun ty constituent, charactorixlng Mr. Sherman's disregard 6f fashion as a slanderous ?and criminal , jniarepre sen'tatl?vV. cf thc 'grt?v state of Illi ?0?S.\ Mr. Itosonfohl also o.dn<ul vig orous commenta of his own. V'?7heri upon tho senator wrote a reply, from Whloh these excerpie a re taken : ; . "I am sorry to make my friands ed much trouble.. I will try to have my irousers pressed at EU!table intervals, ?uy thro* or four. months apart. I ?)hoH hereafter endeavor to change my shirt every time the moon quar ilBitt so far as the pattern is con? iern?dl; ? never pay any attention to' it- ; A shirt ls a shirt. When X end a shirt that ls the right number; I hay it. ;:?Hr..,:. ...;.'vj "MoBt or my r.lotlica arc selected tlio camu way. lt is an exceedingly .simple syatem. It enables mn to save eo.iaJderablc time which I can uso fo other purpose. , "80 far un wearing, a black cutaway cont with striped troueers 1B concern ed, kindly put (hat in storage, ulong with the ?ilk hat. I positively de cline. "Moreover, I um confirmed in my course ot life by my colleague, Sena-! tor Lewis. What hopo is there of I competing with him In his ward robe? So I very contentedly resign j all claims to wearing apparel. Sen ator LOWIB keeps the gosBipi; guessing to much of the time that they never notice me, and thia ls a very happy arrangement for both of us. "I will keep the bng out of tho knees of my punts and not lot my brains get baggy any more than I can help. Thc latter. I suspect, lu prob-, ably the main thing, after all, al though Washington Dhows signs of it" very soldom." ; The public probably has the same Huspicinn. And even Illinois, if it wore perfectly honest, would doubt less confess to a secret admiration of Senator (Sherman's attitude. 'Abraham Lincoln, who also was from Illinois, would have scorned even to have hib trousers pressed. And there isu:t any question that, whether lt's n case of statesmen or of ordinary human beings, the average American prefers the baggy-trouBers type to tile Beau Brummel. DOMESTIC HAPPINESS Col. Henry Watterson, the famous editor of the Louisville Courier-Jour nal, was asked on his golden wedding anniversary what tho secret of mar ital happiness is. And he replied: .'Thera's no secret about IL .Mrs. Watterson has always let me alone, aud I have let her alone. When she saw I needed help she. asked me how she could aid me, and did it. When she was not exactly satisfied about anything, I just asked her if I could holp her. That's all." Thia doesn't cover the wholo grouud, by any means, but It prob ably contains the essentinl recipe for matrimonial success. The di verco courts show that domestic felicity hr likely to bo duo to on? of these ivo causes: ? Either ono partnor trlea to inter fire too much with the other's free dom, or CIBO one la too Indifferent io tho other. Either may be fatal. Thu Watterson 'family, apparently, has solved tho problem by finding tho middle ground. Each has. had what evory self-respecting man or woman wants and needs-freedom to preserve his or, her own Individuality, living his or her own life so far os marital partnership permits. But this mutual freedom has not been . indliYoreuce. While each has gone his or her; owu way,;each-has-always known that, the other atood ready for instant sym pathy and help in caso .of heed. Col. Wattera'on could make a. fino editorial out of that if he wanted to. Weather Forecast-Fair Friday: Saturday party cloudy, probably rain j light to moderate variable winds. . , --o-- . Somebody got in a hurry to cele brate .tho coming of Christmas last night and oxplodid a large firecracker on' McDuffle street just behind .the business district. . Nearly all of tho local police, thlnk'ir'g that someone had ? un amuck and were shooting up the towri, ran "awn there to aee.what had happened, but after searching for a long time, they. decided that the noise; clime from a firecracker and not a pistol. The Topsy Turvey girls at the Pal metto wer? g/eotcd by ono of th? largest' audiences of th* week last hight. The, show waa very.''jp^; and? ' one of tko numbers was- so popular that. after seven encores had been given, tho manager announced thar lt was impossible for them to ?teep .that up all night .since 'they had something else to do: . / Th? . Newman Musical company, playing at the ; ?inderaon thia w??fc,] wHl : change ' billa "again today, p je~ soutlng "Tho Waiters Union." This j company ie attracting, much at?n ilon hy the : shows; ii?lhieh aro being ] put on. '. A five pleca orchestra will famish music mt the Rose ?1111 dane? cn Mon? iday! hight, Robb l? Webb having con? serited y?si^rd^y to plaj'- tho trom Mr. W. R. Osborne lias been ap pointed chairman for Anderson coun ty by tho executive committee of thc Columbia convention of tho Laymen's missionary movement. A statewide! movement is going on with the pur pose of securing the largest possible j attendance of the laymen of all tho churches of tho ! various denomina tions at thc convention which will be held in Columbia, February C-0. AB a result of bohiK culled to Del ton yesterday morning at 2:30, Sheriff Ashley discovered that (?oorge Wash ington, a negro, had been seriously wounded by Cleve Fair, another ne gro. Fair escaped and his where about are unknown. Tho causo of | thc shooting ls unknown. If you havo not bought that Chriut nias present, you had better get it this morning. As announced several days ago, the stores and nearly all of tho business IIOUHCR will he C1OHB3 tomorrow and (Monday. Business has been good for the pust few days, Monday being one of tho jest day of tlie seasons. Clerks have been busy, and they will bp about as happy as the children when tonight comes. -O Take off your hats To Adam Tlpe, For He invented Thc first pipe: -Cincinnati Enquirer. Our. bows we save For Noah Wirt, For us he gave The See-more skirt. - -Columbia (State. Off comes our'hat Though thoughts may rankle, To the modiste that Put watch on ankle. -Fayetteville Observer. We make our bow Just where we ought To tho guy who ssld: Make dress sUirts short. ; --Memphis' Commercl 1 Appeal. Off comea our ltd. To Lucinda Crews. She wears furB O? top of her Shoes. . -Wofford - College Journal. . Weil doff our top To Mary Ana quick. Who with such g^aec " A -VSports a little,, stick. ? . _^o ^The county treasurer's office and all. others tn the court hou=>e viii be closed Saturday, and Monday. They will bo opened again on Tuesday and all ot them will remain open today. Special Christmas .telegram ' blanks have been delievered to patrons in the city hy the local. Western Union of fice In- the notice enclosed with-the blanks lt .ls stated that telegrams of Christmas greetings will be deli ever ed to the receiver on the same kind of blank's. J. Hard to Do Tour Own Thinking. Men boast that they aro not. influ enced-they claim to do their own thinking-; - JuBt how many make good the boast we do not know, but wo dd know that the number l's not large. Perhaps In nothing do we deceive our selves^'more than-when we imagine that ti d are doing our . own thinking Just now regarding the problems- that confront the country in the program for preparedness. Every ; loyal American loves his count ry and want!? tho beat thing done in order to safeguard its futures Many abhor, war and In a slight way realise Its terrors. [They read of our unpre paredness and they -favor a program that will guarantee Our national safe ty. Again they read of the havoc ho ing wrought by. modern warfare end they canr,)t believe that sort bf thing is right. And lt ls here that lt ta hard to do one's own thinking. Tho spell binders get in their work. What tho United States needs is'a Sane program bf preparedness that'will not run into militarism out will place the country In position to meet ?hy emergency; Until -the fimo comes tor all nations to disarm, if that happy day. shall I ?Vnr ble?8 the worlds vThb case that can bo made out showing the utter' defenselessness of the'. United States stirs the blood of th? most optimistic peace advocate, ; yet /theirs- are- a" tew things that may bo said in favor of our ability to take -care , bf' the coun try;--. However, tue Reporter shall stand for tho president's program un til, wo are shown that there ls some thing else that may ba/???e that will meet the needs bf the hour in a better , ? ': ? ? ? % The Better of Two. ' ' $8p?t> inadequate defense nVib J? real ly worse thai? the man who believes *- dl?1?moment. - We do not ques ifett the heart throbs of either, but so far as the mind goes the former is a greater blunderer than the lat ter, and for tho Vslmplb , reason that hs would call upon the government to make expenditure, which would be taro vb. away, when, tho latter ' would save' the ..country money, even if the country got ita face,smashed,, jnafc Ilk? would happen in tho case ot Inf antjicteht naUoo?lfdef?nae.^-WiTmin?-; ton piajMtch. For Li This store off( markable assisi fitting service, selections. Men's and Youl Suits $10 to $: Boys' Suits an coats $3 to$i: Men's Hats in 1 kinds, to please } Suspenders.. Cuge. Caps..21 tir.rtcrc. Canes. Umbrellas..$1.0 Hand Bags. :. . .$2.5 Suit Cases.$1.0( Pajamas. .. .$1.00 tc Bath Robes. . . $3.0( Neckwear.. NEW POLITICAL PARTY Englishman Opposed to Coalitlo., GOT? cn-ment Now In Com.ol. London; Dec. 23.-A movement to ward forming a new political party len own as the national -aa been int Gated by Sir Arthvr Ma rich nm wtth ? the object, so hiB critics assert, ol opposing the present coalition gov ernment. In the leadership of the new party are associated tho ' names of tho principal discontents in parlia ment, including Slr Edward Carson. Lord Charles Ber caf ord and Slr Hen ry Dalziel. But t'.io announcement seems to have been made before the nisse of the founders were ripe, and no serious support has been given to the movement by any section ot Gie preys, while most of tho papers aro trying to kill it with ridicule. There was also an effort to laugh it out'ot parliament. ? A letter .from Markham, whlcO/,-.[ is taken as a manifesto of tho new par ty? boa appeared in ono of* thc leading conservativo -papers of London. No definite constructivo policy is worked out, but a great deal of fault has been a strong critic of- the government yet ho has mao * no speeches timi have beea widely quoted or comment ed upon. He is a coal and iron mag nate and, while representing a liberal coastltuoncy, ho . is popularly con sidered the leader or- tho big business | element. As far; the other discon tents. Carson is known ns a tighter of j forceful personality, but he is an ad vocate -rather t'..an au originator an i he was not the .; real organiser .. of Ulster resistance during the .home rule campaign. Dalziel is a severe critic, but one of tho napers points out Mat in blaming:, the government for its mistakes he 'always .displays * The Hplid?y Sea What present can 1 Why not a daily r The Dai ari endless source of ii Think of your ac per ?ik^-Xh? Inteliig have such a daily visit The Daily am postpaid, to a ? ? 0r- .3. months, I If ti?s intei*e?t? y< inform them that the? compliments. srs a wonderful 01 tance to gift seekei fullest stocks from lg Men's Men's an >5, Overcoat: d Over- Men's Sh , qualities ; -7 . , Shirts, M the right Eclipse a %2 to $5. to $3.50. 25c to 50c Gloves. .. .25c pair Handkerchief 3c to $1.50 Silk Handkei .10c to ?s?c Hose. . .. . .$1.50 Holeproof Si 0 to $5.00 S3];. Sacks. . 0 to $15.00 Cuff Buttons > to $15.00 Shirt Studs. . > $2.50 suit Stick Pins. . > to $10.00 Shirts . . . . 25c to $1 Collars....! )pen Tonihgt Until Midnight. The Store with a ( Bersford has the nome of being a red*, his wisdom after the event. Lord hot partisan i t whatever cause he ex pou s CH, rather than a cool, analytical statesman. . Some other discontents in the house ] of .commons, mainly liberals, are men- j Honed in Connection wit'ai tho move ment as well as the ex-tr em G t: later ite r, and tho conscriptionlste. In the upper house. Lord Milner, Lord Wil loughby do Broke and ,Lord Middleton are said) to be connected with .lt.. So far as it has a definite platform,7 the new party may bo said to advo cate conscription, protection,- anti homerulo and the deposition of Mr. Asquith as premier. British Aviators Must Give Battle. "The Britsh army manual , for air men makes very Interesting reading," says Merle Crowell in the January American Msigazlne. "Perhaps tn these'two selected paragraphs.?les n clue' \6 - tho 1 cause of British ' aerla'; auccess: "lt must be borne in mind that tho side whose aircraft show . tho greater determination to fight on every opportunity "will rapidly gain | a moral ascondsncy which wM large ly con tr ibu tu to obtaining command of tho air. . :. ... - v : rtEvery effort will ba made to at tain {.--.i per iori ty in t'.io air as early as possible, aud It should never bo for'gotto n that even ono aeroplane may succeed In obtaining .informa tion of tho utmost val?e. ' Heneo af ter a .series ot victories in tho air. any of the opposing aircraft that leaye the ground must bo relentlessly j ?pursued and destroyed, until com plete command, of the air is'obtained, while after defeat all aircraft capable I of fixing should continuo to rocon-1 noltre at all costs.' son is here. The per make my friend? eminder of your f riendshi] tod SeittWee?y ? iiormation and entertainr :quaintances who would 1 eneer. Whata delight it or, brimful of what is goir ? Semt-W<okly inte??ige? ny address in the' United ! / 75c^Sei3M-Weekly' o?s ?u and you Subscribe for . yr are to receive The Int pperi >portumty; re unimpaired omake cs, which oes in $3.50 to a nh a t nd B-O o.10c] to 50c -chiefs_.J. $1.00 . ._?Oe?o $1.00 >cks.$0.50 box YoungjMen's $?0 ? $20. Sinei ?or $6.50. a n s, 50c .25c tb $3.50 . . .50c te $1 pair . .. . .25? ti $1 pair i.2? to 50c ... .. .25c{> $1.50 _.50c t> $3.50 5c each, $1,50 box Hostllofio American Meat. 'Br i;? ba ne, /.-IR trulla, Dec. 23.-Leg islation hostift to American meat in terests in Queensland is said to ho part bf the Inmediate program ot tfae labor party thjtt has come into power. A bill ls nov! before the Queenslanu parliament riving 'the government power to tvrfij-opriate packing, plants in the state end extinguish tho own er's rights without compensation. There has anson some suspicion ot German interests concerned in some of. the American meat companies operating In Queensland. Tue as sistant minister for justice declared that Chicago /-packers were not .only supplying Germany -with meat '. bu> hod "actually! threatened to starve Greet ?Britain . if the meat wan not permitted to.go to Germany. Fut?jc Hangings, Quincy badja public hanging . last Friday, and wu trust it will be tho last During ii ho laBt legislature an effort was nu le by the different sheriffs' of Fie: Ids, headed by bur C^?? Sheriff Gregor? to have an appropria tion made for ;he purchase ot an elec tric chair with.'thb view of having all condemned .criminals transported . to .some central ; oint ami electrocuted privately. A bill was introduced, but like many good bills, it failed to pass. If every member o? the state l?gisla ture vjrere forcea, once, to witness a public hanging, we hot the bill would mst: In O' Iuirf;-_aimSv Timm;. If tho colonel wants war, eau think of nothing but weir, can write of noth ing but wat. h? should go .to Europe and jump into the middle of it. Sure ly there is enough ot it over thero to suit his superfc-aated fancy.-North Georgia Citizen::. p??xing ^question p and generosity nteffigeacer tient?., o' lg ??\,;f . ipprecia te ; a ; newsp? would be to them to ig on in the; world! , year $1.90. your friendsy we witt & :lHgencer"wi ?h~~y?ur