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YORKYILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED SKMI-WKEKLT. l l. x. grists sons. publisher!.} s ^amilg jit u'sjjaper: jt'or lite promotion of the political, .social, sjjrieultiiral and commercial jntcresis of the $tayl{. { t"" ia',."" ? p* " vj cmc' " ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY .15, 1915. NO.5 1 - - - - ? ?- ??? j a ITni n nv I nr 41 rvnlllirrpI of aoDarel and other things have been| GENERAL NEW8 NOTE8. "THE HOUR Sermon Preached Sunday, in Phila< Following Is the text of the formal ' prepared sermon delivered by Mr. Sunday in Philadelphia, last Sunday i afternoon, and again at night, and was heard by 48,000 persons at the two services. There were many deviations from the written sermon, de- i livered in his picturesque and char- I acteristically forceful language. There were more than 1,100 persons who i "lit the saw dust trail," when Mr. i Sunday extended invitations to converts to give him their hands as a l pledge to Christian living: ' "The hour is come. It is very evident to me that Jesus knew that the Father would understand what he < meant when he said, 'The hour is i come.' He did not say I have met i with a difficulty down here In my < mediatorial work, something he had ' . no thought about, or expected would 1 I ever occur, but, the hour is come for i r which all hours in the history of the i k world center. That hour meant more ^ for you and me and all generations of the world than all the hours in the history' of the world. Jesus did not < mean a period of 60 minutes. It was 1 many days after he had uttered tnese words before the incident to which he referred to in my text took place? his crucifixion. The Lord knew of our great struggle with the powers of darkness and God had given his promise that the seed of the woman should crush the head of the serpent, and the world had been looking forward for mtiny thousands of years to that very hour. "Imagine what would have been the feeling of the people of Jerusalem if Jesus had failed, as it had been prophesied he would, to arise after three days. I think they would have draped their pulpits in mourning and nailed a black cross over the door of hope if the three days came and went away and Jesus was still in the tomb. But at the end of the third day, as he said he would, he arose from the \ grave and walked forth from the grave a supreme conqueror from the dark domain of death, and he lives forever with the saints and reigns, and I am not worshiping a dead Jew in the tomb of Joseph of Aramathea, but a living, reigning Christ, who sits at the right hand of God, from whence he will come to judge the living and the dead. The hour is come. "A man who sins places limitations upon himself. He places intellectual limitations upon himself, physical limitations upon himself, and if he lives in sin he is a fool, and a man who champion's the cause of the devil does not deserve the name of a man and forfeits all rights in my opinion to respect and decency, and I don't care a continental who he is. "The cross of Christ was the connecting link between the Old and the New Testament. "I don't intend to confine my remarks to the historical facts, beneficial as it would be. but I would like to draw a few lessons. First, the hour is come to realize that the church is not the end. The church is the means to the end, and if you think when you come into the church that that | is the end, God have mercy on you and the church if you are in it. You are not in the church to keep a little space 17 inches square warm, but that k church is in the community and you ft are in that church to make this com^ munity a better community and overthrow the sin thai is in it. And if you do not. the ohurch is a flat failure. I?TU ? kAtt? U AAMAA. C l lie uuui is tunic, tunic iui auinc- ?thing else. It has come for plainness of speech on the part of the preacher. If you have anything to antagonize, out with it; specify sins and sinners. You can always count on a decent public to right a wrong, and any public that won't right a wrong, is a good one to get out of. Preaching Made Plain. "Charles Finney went to Europe to preach, and in London a famous freethinker went to hear him. The freethinker's wife noticed a great change in him; he was more kind, more affectionate, more affable, less abusive, and she said: 'I know what is the matter with you: you have been to hear that man from America preach.' And he said. 'Wife, that is an insult; that man Finney don't preach, he just makes plain what the other fellows preach.' I wish to God you could say the same for me when I leave here, for if preaching could save you, you would have been in heaven long ago. You need something else, and by the grace of God, I am going to give it to you. Now, the foremost preacher of his day was Paul. What he preached was not so much idealism as practicality; not so much theology-, homo- .> letics, exegesis or didactics, but a manner of life. I tell you there was 1 no small fuss about his way of preach- 4 ing. When Paul was on the Job the devil was awake. There is a kind of preaching that will never arouse the l devil. ( " 'He that believeth not is condemn- i ed already.' He that has not bellev- * ed in Jesus Christ, the only begotten ] Son of God, is condemned where he t sits. <. "Too much of the preaching of to- l day is too nice, too pretty, too dainty, i it does not kill. Too many sermons > are Just given for literary excellence i of the production. They get a new adjective or noun or pronoun?you ] cannot be saved by grammar. A lit- 1 tie bit of grammar is all right, but \ don't be a big fool and sit around and t criticise because the preacher gets a ] word wrong. If you do that, your ' head is filled with buck oysters and ( sawdust, if that is all you can see in it. i "They've been crying peace, peace! i There is no peace. Some people won't I come to hear me because they are s afraid to hear the truth. They want t deodorized, disinfected sermons. They j are afraid to be stuck over the edge ] of the pit and get a smell of the brim- < stone. You can't get rid of sin as long as you treat it as a cream puff 5 instead of a rattlesnake. You can't ? brush sin away with a feather duster. 1 Go ask the drunkard who has been < . IS COME." by Rev. "Billy" ielphia, Sunday. made sober whether he likes 'Bill.' Go ask the girl who was dragged from the quagmire of shame and restored to her mother's arms whether she likes 'Bill.' Go ask the happy housewife svho gets the pay envelope every Saturday night instead of it going to the filthy saloonkeeper, whether she's for 'Bill.' Some people say, 'Oh, he's sensational.' Nothing would be more sensational than if some of you were to suddenly become decent. I would rather be a guldepost than a tombstone. Truth Will Convince. "I repeat that anbody who is decent, or wants to be decent, will admire you when you preach the truth, although you riddle them when you do it. The hour is come, my friend. The hour is come to believe in a revival. Some people do not believe In revivals, neither does the devil, so you ire like your daddy. "I am in favor of everything the devil is against, and I am against evsrything the devil is in favor of, the dance, the booze, the brewery, my friends, that have cards in their domes. I am against everything that the devil is in favor of, and I favor jverything the devil is against, no matter what it is. If you know which jide the devil is on, put me down on the other side any time. If you have lot got religion enough to believe in evivals, get down on your knees and ?ray until you get it, or get out of the :hurch. "Did you ever hear the story of the Scotch shepherd that drove his sheep nto the fold and counted them over, me, two, three?95, 96, 97. and then tame into the cabin and spoke to the tollie dog lying in the corner with her mppies and he said to her, 'Cls, there ire three of them gone; you better go >ut and find them.' She jumped to ler feet and rushed to the door. The itorm beat in her face and she turned jack to her puppies, and he said: 'Go >n, I counted them and there are three nissing; get them.' She jumped hrough the doorway and was gone. Vfter a while he heard her at the loor. There she stood with two of he sheep. He went back into the fold md counted a second time, thinking hat he had made a mistake, 94, 95, >6, 97, 98, 99. Lost Sheep Is Found. "He came back to the cabin and vent over to the corner where she was ying with her little ones, and he said: I was right the first time. There were hree. You found two; there is one 'et out on the mountain. Go and get t. Hurry up.' She Jumped to her eet and rushed to the door, and she vinced and turned back again to her ittle ones. He said: 'Cls, you won't et that sheep die, will you? Go and ind it.' She looked at her master ind she couldn't say no, and she jounced through the open door in the eeth of the storm and was gone. One, wo, three, four hours went by and at ast he heard her scratching on the rabin door. He threw it open and here she stood, torn by thorns, batered by the storm, torn by the ragted rocks, but she had found the iheep that was lost and brought it jack. "Tenderly the shepherd took the theep in his arms and carried it to tne 'old. He counted the third time, one, wo, three, four?95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100. He locked the door and came n. She attempted to reach her little rnes in the nest, and had fallen exhausted. He spoke words of encourigement to her. He patted her wet ind drenched coat. She made a su>reme effort to reach her little ones ind fell dead. She was a dumb brute ir.d would do that for her master! 3h. God. she had no thought of thee! She had no thought only that she was villing to serve her master; she only hought about obeying his commands. Vhen Jesus extends his hands and lifts lis thorn-crowned head and says: They are lost to the church of God. Jo and bring them in.' we wince and lowl and murmur and are not wiling to do something to bring them to Tesus Christ. The hour is come. "It would be a great thing if we rould sing the doxologyy full metre. Sow about it? Let's have it. "The hour is come to offer yourselv s to God. The hour is come. He that lelieveth not is condemned. It may )e the man who bears your name. It nay be the one who sits across from he table when you eat. The hour is :ome. Oh, God, help them, we pray, ind guide them aright. The hour is ome. How many of you men and vomen are willing to come down here ind accept Christ. The hour is come. "Say, Jesus, I think there are thousands going to help God, help them ve pray and guide. Sing the 'Niney and Nine." How many of you men ind women will come down here?" Belgian Farms for England.?Engand is to reap benefits from the agri ultural skill of the Belgian farmers vho are exiles in Great Britain. As i token of their appreciation of the British hospitality, says a London let:er, the queen of the Belgians has suggested that the agriculturists from ler country instruct English farmers n the ystem of intensive cultivation, vhioh has made. Belgium famous the .vorld over. a onnnnittoo htciriprl hv Sir Richard Pgaet, has been appointed and arrangements are being made to delegate Belgian experts who will direct heir fellow countrymen in preparing English land for intensive cultivation. The British and Belgians alike are ?ager to have all Belgians return to :heir homes as soon as possible, but meantime there is a desire to make :he Belgians as little burden as possible on the British, and the agricultural colony plan has been hit upon is a desirable means of employing Pelgians where they will not be in lirect competition with Englishmen. As many as five crops of vegetables tie grown in a single year by the Bel;ians on tracts under glass. Only ough frames, with ordinary winl?.w irliiGii ire roonirpf] for this work The Belgian farmers are able to make these themselves, and in many places in England they are already employed preparing the frames. The Belgian knowledge of soil culture is the secret of the great success the farmers of the little kingdom have achieved. A tiny tract of land is sufficient to support a Belgian family in comfort, and the refugees are willing to impart their knowledge of soil treatment to their British hosts, who are in no sense competitors in the continental markets dominated by Belgian gardeners. BRYAN FACES ARREST Alleged to Have Broken the Game Laws of Virginia. William Jennings Bryan read in a newspaper this afternoon that the game warden of Fairfax county, Virginia, had announced that he intended to ask for the arrest of Mr. Bryan and his extradition to Virginia for trial on a charge of having violated a county ordinance forbidding nonresidents to hunt game within the county lines, says a Washington letter of Sunday. Mr. Bryan admitted that he had gone rabbit hunting in Fairfax county on Christmas day, but insisted that he had not seen a rabbit or even the track of one. Secretary Bryan indicated that he knew the game warden couldn't prove that Mr. Bryan had shot any rabbits. The Bryan smile expanded, and the Bryan laugh would have shaken the If * Vioro Ha/1 hoon onv no thP premier of the cabinet read the newspaper article aloud with parenthetical remarks of his own. "William Jennings Bryan, secretary of state," read Mr. Bryan, "is to be haled before the court of Fairfax county, Virginia, for violation of the county game laws, if H. C. Cockrell, game warden of the county, carries out his expressed purpose. Mr. Cockrell today said he intended to ask that a warrant be issued for Secretary Bryan's arrest and that he would prosecute the secretary of state the same as if the great commoner was an 'ordinarv wood chopper.' (Now what has wood chopping to do with it?) "The offense charged against Secretary Bryan is alleged to have been committed Christmas day, when the secretary went to Fairfax county to spend the day with John S. Barbour, a member of the Fairfax county bar. The two in hunting garb and armed with shotguns, it is asserted, spent part of the day tramping over the hills and deals in the vicinity of Mr. Barbour's country place, but not even so much as a single rabbit rewarded their efforta'' ("That's right, and not even a rabbit track.") "The fact that the two hunters returned with empty game bags, however" ("quite correct") "is not to save Secretary Bryan from prosecution," declares Game Warden Cockrell. Virginia's game laws are peculiar in many respects, one of these peculiarities being that authority is given to the board of supervisors of the counties to establish such regulations as they may see fit in regard to hunting. Another feature of the state game laws is that hunting of any kind of game is not permitted when the ground is so covered with snow as to make it possible to track game. "The hills and dales of Fairfax county were covered with several inches of snow Christmas day." ("Now that's spreading it pretty thick; there wasn't enough snow to show a rabbit track.") "Furthermore, the board of supervisors of Fairfax county, at a meeting held November 24 last, adopted a regulation declaring it to be unlawful for any person not a resident of Fairfax county to hunt at all within the county's boundaries. "So the secretary of state is alleged to have violated two portions of the state's game laws. The fact that the violation was unwitting, it is declared, does not render Secretary Bryan immune from arrest and punishment." ("Let me see; doesn't the secretary of state have jurisdiction in extradition matters? I'd have to extradite myself like that fellow in the 'Mikado' opera.") "Mr. Cockrell, discussing the alleged violation of the law, said for publication: "Can we officers of the law halt into court humble woodchoppers." ("That woodchopper again") "for violations of the law, see them pay their hard-earned money into the coffers of the commonwealth of Virginia and then, with any degree of satisfaction, stanu iaiy by and wink at violations of the same law when the violators are men occupying exalted positions in their community or in the affairs of the nation? Personally speaking, I cannot, and if witnesses can be found to testify to the fact of the reported violation of the law by Secretary Bryan and his host 1 shall at once ask for a warrant for their arrest." ("Rut we didn't even see a rabbit or a rabbit track.") "There is entirely too much of a spirit of antagonism already among the masses in regard to privileges granted to the classes to allow this matter to go unnoticed." ("Umum!") 1 have the highest personal regard for the "'"'gentlemen, but if they are guilty of the violation of the law with which they stand charged in the public prints. I desire to do my duty." ("You may say that the secretary of state has no statement to make.") ? There are now over 10,000 old Boy Scouts serving the army at the front and making splendid soldiers, says Gen. Ben. Baden-Powell, chief of the organization. The general, according to a recent London dispatch, has just returned from York, where he made a satisfactory arrangement with the education authorities in regard to the scouts serving as messengers and office boys in the military headquarters there. Ry this arrangement. the boys give one week to the army and an alternate week to their schools. A significant announcement is the opening of the Scouts Defense Force to boys of 15 which would give them a year of training, it is said, in case the age of enlistment in the nrmv is lowered to 15 years. trr The coal produced by Pennsylvania last year exceeded by more than twenty per cent, the entire output of the United States fourteen years before, and was nearly one-fifth of the world's production. FUUTSTEPS UEI HE hA I HtKS As Traced Id Early Files of The Yorkville Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Reco.ds of the Past and Giving the Younger Readera of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Moat Concerned Generatiens that Have Gone Before. The first installment of the notes appearing under this heading was published in our issue of November 14. 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and Instruction of the present generation. 104TH INSTALLMENT. (Thursday Morning, Dec. 5, 1861). Fire. A fire occurred in this place on Sunday morning, last, on the premises of Mr. A. Cody, consuming his kitchen and contents. The loss sustained will not exceed $300.?Mr. Cody is uncertain as to the cause of the Are. ? ? ? Editorial Correspondence. Centerville, Fairfax, Va. Monday morning Nov. 25, 1861. Dear Enquirer: Last night we had the second snow storm of this season; and this morning for the second time " '. ~ .-I .V,? nt t)UU rtU ninUUIIiaillB, uuu mr pvano V? the Blue Ridge rising beyond, are covered with snow. The sight is beautiful to the eye but reminds us that the season of hostilities is past. As we shiver around our camp-fircs?"one side scorchod, the other freezing"? with wind and smoke both venting their fury upon us, we would welcome the humblest log hut more than heartily.?Some of our forces about Manassas, and in the neighborhood of Norfolk on the coast, are already snugly ensconced in their shelters from the wintry blast. The "5th" have been on picket duty without tents; and with fires only for the reserves, since Friday. The weather has been severe?rain, wind and snow combining to make it disagreeable; and you may well imagine that the boys have suffered no little. They will be relieved today by Col. Winder's regiment. We suggest to the Soldiers' Aid and Relief societies of York, Union and Spartanburg?and indeed those of the whole state?the propriety of employCANADIANS RESTI & ^ ifs?*: s tlgx.y SUojMf :*&:?Sjfc ? A company of Canadian fighters r after a long, hard march. They knot* better than most of the troops engaget ing every loom they possibly can, and instructing them all to weave the same kind of cloth, at least in point of color and material: so that the volunteers of the state may all be uniformed alike next spring. A blueish-grav, or gray-mixed, half wool and half cotton, would make an appropriate and beautiful summer uniform. However, we leave this entirely to the taste of the ladies. After our present term of service expires, a regiment will at once be raised in York, Union and Spartanburg, for the war; and we hope at least that the ladies of these three districts will confer with each other?decide upon the cloth?set the looms agoing?and have their regiment uniformed, uniformly. There Is a grand review of the troops, artillery and infantry, at this place today. While we write the various regiments of seven brigades are falling into their places, awaiting the generals to be reviewed.?These grand i trv o unuaii) wvvui juai uriuic ? fight; and some take this as a sign that the Hessians are about to come along:; but we see nothing of the kind indicated. Everything was reported perfectly quiet on our picket lines yesterday. The Yankee congress meets next Monday; and it is just a month till Christmas today. We opine that both will come and pass without a general battle. Yours for a trifle, Our Corporal. (To be continued.) The "Public Be Pleased."?Writes the passenger traffic manager of the Pennsylvania railroad to all its patrons: The Pennsylvania railroad is endeavoring to render a satisfactory service. It wants to please you and it wants your support. Further, it wants its patrons to know what it is doing and why it is doing it. Here is a vast difference from that old principle attributed to the late Commodore Vandebilt in his conduct of the New York Central, and even a step in advance over the new policy of the railroads in taking the public measurably into their confidence. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo in his former capacity as president of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad company, coined the phrase, "The public be pleased," and enunciated it, not only in posters, but in the conduct of his road, with the result that when it became necessary to raise certain rates the public saw the jUBiice ui nit; uuvuiiic atiu atvjuicowu without a murmur. Had the railroads of the country generally adopted such a policy as | this several years ago, it Is reasonable to suppose that they would not have been obliged to face so much drastic action by so many hostile legislatures, i Not all have learned their lesson yet, but this evidence on the part of the Pennsylvania of a willingness to trust I something to Justice and the good will of the passengers as a body will not be lost upon the traffic managers of the country at large.?Philadelphia Ledger. TO FINANCE COTTON Union National Bank of Columbia, ' Makes Liberal Offer. The following correspondence be- i tween Dr. Wade Stackhouse, president 1 of the South Carolina division of the | Southern Cotton association, is of in- ( terest and importance, and explains it- > self fully: 1 Columbia, S. C.. Jan. 12, 1915. 1 Mr. Jos. Norwood, President, Union ] National Bank, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: The Southern Cotton asclation has undertaken to secure the 1 capital stock of the Co-operative Cot- ( ton pnmmnv. which Is being organized I! by the farmers of the south principally to finance cotton warehouse receipts and to sell direct, from the farmers to the mills, cotton and cotton seed. As pmsldent of the South Carolina div#on of the Cotton association, I have agreed to use my best efforts to secure at least one million dollars stock In South Carolina. Believing our farmers feel too poor to subscribe to stock in any company, even though the aim and purpose of the company is to provide co-operative self-help, unless they can get loans on the balance of the cotton they hold, I wish to know if you cannot handle at least $500,000 of cotton warehouse receipts for us. We will offer to give you receipts for cotton stored in warehouses acceptable to your bank?in state warehouses where possible, or provided by the state warehouse commissioner. We wish a loan on the cotton at six cents per pound, basis middling, at a rate of not exceeding eight per cent, and the notes to run for six months. We feel assured that as soon as we secure the necessary capital stock to organize the company, that we can renew these loans for another six months, at perhaps a lower rate of interest. In seeking to arrange these loans with you, it is our purpose to confine the loans to persons subscribing to the capital stock of the Co-operative Cotton company. We wish to know if your bank will act as trustee for our proposed company until the million dollars capital stock can be secured. In taking subscriptions we will limit the time for securing the necessary capital stock to May 1st, 1915. By that date, if we cannot organize the company, we will return to subscribers their warehouse receipts and subscription contracts, less their rata share of expenses, which cannot exceed eight per cent. If vrm otrrao tn ant no trnatoo fnr the company, we will forward to you all stock subscriptions, together with warehouse certificates for cotton subN6 AFTER A MARCH eating in a field and cooling their feet r the art of keeping in good condition 1 in the war. scribed. Yours very truly, (Signed) Wade Stackhouse, President South Carolina Division, Southern Cotton Association. Columbia, S. C., "Jan. 12, 1915. Dr. Wade Stackhouse, President S. C. Division Southern Cotton Congress, Dillon. S. C. j Dear Sir: Replying to yours of the 12th, inst.. I beg leave to say that the Union National bank will take pleasj ure in acting as trustee for the proposed company in so far as its charter will permit, which, I believe, would I cover all your company would require. We would also be glad to handle a liberal line of loans to which you refer, and havp no doubt we can arrange the amount you suggest. You would 11.. no fonrl that a vprv net luruiiy uiiucioiauu ?. ?*?. ? ? ? ? , large portion of this would have to be handled by the writer through other connections, as such an amount would be too large for a bank of this sizo to undertake to handle alone, and for this reason there may be some minor details not covered in your letter which would have to be adjusted to the satisfaction of our connections, but substantially, your letter covers all that we should require Thanking you and your association for taking the matter up with us, and assuring you of our best services. we remain. Yours very truly, (Signed) Jos. Norwood, President. In speaking of this correspondence, on Wednesday, Senator John L. McLaurin, state warehouse commissioner, said: "It will be noted that the receipts are to be for cotton stored in warehouses acceptable to the bank?'in state warehouses where possible, or approved by the state warehouse commissioner.' This is a complete vindication, to my mind, of the wisdom of the state warehouse system, where the receipts guarantee the title weight and grade of each individual bale. The receipts could not be m ctoto u?urnhniiQP? nn ftp count of the fact that the Southern a Cotton association is to organize the i company in all of the cotton states. I and there are no state warehouse sys- a tenis. except in South Carolina, Louis- a iana and Texas. f "In addition to the funds that are s provided for loans, we are continuing 1 our negotiations with the Reserve r hanks, and by the first of February I we feel we will he able to make some k announcement in regard to the dis- o counts of six months paper, which t will result in the rates of interest be- t ing lowered. a "With present financial conditions, v it has been extremely difficult to get ti access to money in any considerable 1 amount. We are gratified to state a that South Carolina is the only one of r the cotton states that has been able a to accomplish what we have done In a providing- this loan fund, and the p part which the state warehouse sys- F tern, under the act of the legislature, o has taken, will easily appeal to all tl thoughtful minds." tl IULU HI LUIAL LAbnAWULO News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Dealing Mainly With Local Affaire ot Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chester. Rock Hill Record, January 14: John C. Pharr died Friday night at the home of his father, Samuel Pharr, at Highland Park, aged 39 years. He was unmarried. Death was caused by pneumonia. Interment was in Laurelwood yesterday after funeral services at the home.....A telephone message received here this morning from Beaufort, stated that James Carberry is in a most critical condition. He is still in a Savannah hospital, having been operated on. Complications have arisen and his people are greatly worried over the change for the worse A change of special importance in the drug business will take place on or about Feb. 1, when Dr. W. R. Sims will take charge of the Standard Drug and Manufacturing company, and Mr. Jas. H. Huey, now with the Sims Drug company, will become a stockholder and take charge of the store on Railroad avenue. Dr. Cecil Cowan, who has been connected with the Standard, will dispose of his holdings and will possibly leave the city, as he has some offers under consideration now. Dr. M. H. Sandifer, while he will not retire from the business entirely for the present, will not devote the time to It that he has in the past Jim Scott, a well-known negro of this place, who went through the civil war as a servant, and who always attended the Confederate reunions, died last night. Jim was always well liked by tne wnite people W. R. Timmons, secretary Df the Chamber of Commerce, is in receipt of a letter from a party who wants two carloads of No. 1 pea vine hay. Farmers who have this commodity baled and ready for shipment, should notify Mr. Timmons by phone cr letter, or in person and he will tell them the price offered Yesterday iftemoon at the First Presbyterian church, Dr. Reavis of Columbia, who has been holding a meeting all week, preparatory to communion, gave a very interesting lecture on his trip to Africa some years ago. The church was crowded with men, women and children and all enjoyed the lecture. Chester Reporter, January 11: A letter received here this morning from a member of Mr. Joe R. Terry's family it Baltimore, stated that there is no change in Mr. Terry's condition. We understand that the physicians hold out no hope at all of permanent improvement Miss Cornelia Howze died Saturday evening at the home of her brother, Mr. Lucius Howze, at Bascomville, after an illness of several months, though her condition was not considered critical until immedlitely before her death. Funeral services were held this morning at Cedar Shoals church by the Rev. F. Q. Hartman Mr. F. M. Hough left this morning for Columbia to push his candidacy for sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives. Mr. Hough has received numbers of assurances of support and feels that his chances are ijood A peculiarly sad death was that of Mrs. Maggie M. Gregory, wife of Mr. B. P. Gregory, which occurred Friday evening at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mayfleld, in the Baton -Rouge neighborhood, after several months of declining health. Funeral services were held yesterday at noon at Calvary Baptist church by Rev. J. H. Yarborough, and the remains were laid to rest in Cavalry graveyard. A large concourse of sorrowing friends and relatives were present to pay their last respects to this most estimable young woman A darky by the name of Jim Sanders escaped from Deputy C. Y. Young. Friday evening near the county farm. Mr. Young was on horseback, and the ne?ro was walking at his side with his hands menaeled. Suddenly as they were passing through a dark place in the woods Sanders made a dart, and was into the woods and gone before the deputy could stop him Friends and relatives nere were grieveu 10 learn a few days ago of the death of Mrs. Fanny S. Curtis, widow of the late James E. Curtis, which occurred at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Morrison Bethea, at Williamston, N. C., on the the 6th instant, just about three weeks after the death of her husband. Mrs. Curtis, who before her marriage was Miss Fanny Smith of this county, was % devoted member of the Baptist chrrch, and was a woman who was ?reatly beloved. She leaves two daughters, Mrs. George Toung of Clinton, and Mrs. Morrison Bethea of Williamston, N. C Mr. and Mrs. Jesse H. Hardin are moving today from Columbia to occupy their farm four miles southwest of the city Mr. H. A. Brakefleld and family, who have been living on Lancaster street for some time past, have moved back to their farm near Lowryville... .The Citizens' oank of Chester is planning to enter :he national system, and Bank Examner Doughton is expected here in a few days to make the examination thai iccompanies the change. 4 * Gaffney Ledger, Jan 12: Going to Spartanburg on other business, Friday, Mr. Martin Sprouse, a farmer living in :he Thickety section of the county, 'ound that his daughter, Mrs. Mary Phillips, who had been in the pellagra lospital, had died on Thursday, De:ember 31st, and that preparations for jurying the body were completed. The shocked father sadly followed the fuleral procession to the grave without jrotestlng, since his daughter had been lead for more than a week without his tnowledge. Mrs. Mary Phillips was he wife of John Riley Phillips of this :ity. It seems that Mr. Phillips knew >f his wife's death, but he did not in'orm her relatives or make any prepirations for burying the body...Miss Willie Lee Adams of Grover, route 2, ind Mr. V. C. Whetstine of Grover, vere married at the home of the bride Sunday afternoon, the ceremony being jerformed by Mr. C. A. Mullinax, noary public Friends of Miss Ma>el Gaines will be glad to learn that she is rapidly recovering from the llliess which has confined her at the lome of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. 3. Gaines, recently. It is expected that ihe will be fully recovered within a ew days Fairview school, in the ?amps Cross Roads section of the :ounty, opened yesterday with a good nrollment of pupils. Mr. Hustler tuppe is the teacher for the term. The jew school building, constructed at a :ost of approximately $1,000, is being ised A young man, identified as r. C. Jones of High Point, N. C., by a etter found in his pocket, was fatally njured Friday afternoon when he was cnocked from the trestle over Broad iver by northbound train No. 12, vhich is due in Gaffney at 4.03 o'clock. Je was placed on the train and taken o Gastonia, N. C., where he died in a jospital about three hours after the iccident.. .The Cherokee county sinkng fund commission will today mail Tnion county a check covering the imount due upon the old county debt ssumed when Cherokee county was ormed. Spartanburg county was paid everal years ago, as was York county, i'he sinking fund commission is comtosed of D. C. Ross, chairman; P. C. 'oole, Sr., and R. P. Roberts of Chero:ee Falls Featured by the unity f spirit shown by those in attendance, he Cherokee County Interdenominaionai Sunday School convention, held t the First Baptist church, Friday, /as successful even beyond the expecations of the promoters of the event, 'he programme was carried out in full s announced, with the exception of a umber of substitutions of speakers bsentees W. J. Wilkins & Co.'s ry goods and grocery store on Fredrick street, was entered und robbed Yiday night by some unknown person r persons. Entrance was effected hrough one of the upstairs windows In he rear of the store. Several articles missed, but it is not known how muct booty the robber or robbers secured A reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the guilty party or parties The following officers, elected at th? first meeting in December, will be installed at the meeting of Cherry Camp No. 74, Woodmen of the World, tonight: Consul commander, N. S. Burgess; adviser lieutenant, Logan C Warmouth; banker, Q. D. Parris; clerk, L. T. Vinesett; escort, W. Baker; sentry, Q. O. Lemons; manager, T Davenport; and camp physicians, J. N Nesbitt and J. G. Pittman. These officers will serve the coming year. m m m Lancaster News, January 12: Mr. M C. Feaster, father of Prof. W. L. Feaster, principal of the Central graded school, died Friday morning at hU Hnma noor TTnlnn Q nrt wfla hliriprf OF Saturday at Beulah Baptist church Although he had been In poor health for several months, his death came unexpectedly. Professor Feaster, who U an only son, was summoned by telegram and went home Friday morning Besides his son, Mr. Feaster leaves his wife and many relatives and friends tc lament his death A beautiful event on Sunday, January 10, was the happy marriage of Mr. Ernest Catoe, a young merchant and farmer of Kershaw, being of the Arm of Catoe Bros., and Miss Stella Mungo, the handsome daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Mungo of the Charlesboro section. The ceremony that united the two hearts was performed by Notary Public W. F. Estridge in the presence of a few relatives A retail credit bureau has been established by the local merchants for the benefit of the retail trade, and the officers are now busily engaged in compiling these ratings In a card index system. The association of the merchants and professional men will be known as the Retail Merchants' association of Lancaster and under the working plan adopted much good is expected When the bureau is completed some ten or twelve thousand individual cards, containing from three to fifteen reports on each, as to the credit standing of each individual who buys on a credit basis, will be at the disposal of the retail merchants and the business men of the city who are members of this association The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Farmers' Bank and Trust company woo holH thin mnrninar and the follow ing officers were elected for thd ensuing year: W. T. Gregory, president; W. P. Robinson, vice president; W. H, Millen, cashier; R. Thomas Beaty, assistant cashier. The following board of directors were also elected: W. T Gregory, A. B. Ferguson, W. P. Robinson, W. P. Bennett, N. P. Robinson, J E. Craig, W. H. Millen and J. A. Cauthen....Mr. W. F. Nesblt of the Jacksonham section, killed a hog Friday which weighed 400 pounds The hog was one year old Married or Sunday, January 3, Mr. Hartford Faulkenberry, son of the late L. C Faulkenberry of Longsvllle, and Mis? Gladys Connell, daughter of Mr. and Mm Henry Connell of the Fork Hil! section. The ceremony was performed by Notary Public W. F. Est ridge, at his home. * Gastonia Gazette, January 12: "On< of the great lessons that the United States is going to learn from thli war," remarked Mr. J. F. Thomson manager of the Thomson Mercantile company's big store, to the Gazette man recently, "is that we can make in this country most if not all the articles which we have for all these year8 been importing from France Germany and England at a great cost to our own Industrial life. For instance," he said as he drew down front a shelf a pasteboard box containing ai imported article with "Made in Germany" stamped on the label, "here ii an embroidery cotton which the ladies use in doing practically all of theii fancy work. Heretofore we have always bought it in Germany. It is mads out of raw cotton shipped to that country from North Carolina or some othei southern state. On account of the demoralized conditions in Europe resulting from the war it is not being manufactured now and as a result the supply was practically exhausted. An American manufacturer has duplicated this article and is now putting it or the market. We bought some today It is exactly the same thing, just ae good as the imported article, and the beauty about it is that it is being manufactured in our own country. Another interesting thing about this particular article is that the manufacturer has just closed a contract with a Gastonia mill to furnish the yams from which it is made. So it is not only an American product but in large measure a Gastonia product. If this war will get the American people out of the habit of demanding imported goods and demanding American-made goods it will have taught them a lesson that will result in millions of dollars being kept at home which has heretofore gone abroad."... .The committee of the A. R. P. Synod on Young People's Work and Sabbath School work, is in session today at the First A. R. P. church. Six members of the committee are present, namely, Rev. J. W. Carson, of Newberry, S. C., chairman; Rev. W. H. Stevenson, ol Lesslle, S. C.; secretary, Rev. W. B. Lindsay, of Charlotte; Rev. W. P. Grier of Clover. S. C.; Rev. W. S. Patterson, of Lancaster, S. C.; and Rev. J. B. Hood, pastor of Pisgah church. The principal work of the session, besides the usual routine, is the planning of the programme for the summer institutes and conferences to be held at various places throughout the synod. ....At a meeting of the county board of health held at the court house yesterday afternoon, Dr. L. N. Glenn was re-elected county physician at the same salary he has been receiving, namely $500 per year. Dr. Glenn has held this position for the past four or ?aJ five years. Tne ooara is compuwu m the chairman of the board of county commissioners, Dr. G. Falls; County | Superintendent of Schools. F. P. Hall [ and Drs. R. M. Reid and J. M. Sloan. Mr. L. M. Robinson, of Gastonia, a well-known lumberman, died Sunday at Eagle Springs. Moore county, where he was engaged in getting out and shipping a large quantity of hardwood timber. Sunday afternoon a telegram received by his wife here simply stated that her husband was dead at Eagle Springs and asked what disposition should be made of the body. All sorts of rumors were afloat as to how he met his death. It was persistently reported that he was killed in some manner or other and no particulars were known until Mr. Ben Douglass, of the Ford Undertaking company, returned to Gastonia with the body on No. 39, this morning. He brought with him a verdict signed by Coroner J. V. Larklns, of Moore county. certifying that Robinson came to his death from an excessive use of alcohol. From the information Mr. Douglas secured while at Eagle Springs, Robinson was seen on the streets of that town Sunday morning shortly before 11 o'clock. He was seen to stagger into a barn, the supposition being that he did not want to meet the people who were then going to church. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon the owner of the barn, knowing that a man had gone in there in an intoxicated condition, went to investigate and found him dead. He was identified as I,. M. Robinson and his wife here was notified. ? The retail Grocers' and Butchers' association of Chicago, announces its intention to start a movement in behalf of an embargo on the shipment of flour to Europe. An expert in the wheat exchange says it is not so much a question of price as to wheat as it is a question of supply. He says it ir arrowing to be very doubtful as to whether there is going to be enough wheat to supply both continents, and the farmers of the corn growing states who are already receiving 78 cents a bushel on their farms for corn, are calculating that the price will soon be advanced to a dollar. It looks as if the embargo on wheat is going to be a matter of necessity. Item* of Interest Gathered From All Around the World. A dispatch from The Hague says that the Dutch government's war loan of $110,000,000, has been oversubscribed by $50,000,000. Emll Franqui, a prominent Belgian banker, says that it takes $6,250,000 worth of food per month to feed the destitute people of Belgium. Capt. von Muller, commander of the famous German raider Emden, Is now In prison at an English prison camp | in Wales. 1 Marshall P. Wilden, one of the best 1 known American authors and humor[ lsts, died at St. Paul, Minn., Sunday, aged 56 years. I New Jersey factories last year, turned out a total of ) 19,706,378 worth | of clay products, Including brick, pottery, tiling, etc. The official press bureau at Berlin, Is authority for the statement that [ Germany yet has 6,000,000 men avail( able for military service. The United States Steel corporation Is reported to have virtually closed a deal for the purchase of 200,000 acres i of coal lands in Greene county, Pa., valued at 234,000,000. A Pittsburgh, Pa., broker is advertising for bids to furnish 6,000,000 1 pairs of shoes, 60,000 bridles and saddles, 2,600 mules and 60,000 dozen i socks for European armies. 1 The government of Turkey is reported to have moved Its treasury ' from Constantinople to Kolna (the | ancient Iconium), in Asia Minor, 290 , miles from Constantinople. 1 "Tipperary," the song of the British soldiers, has been translated into > French and into German, and the German troops are reported to be singing ti with much enjoyment. During the hunting season in Pennsylvania, which ended January [ 1st, 30 hunters were killed and 96 . wounded. Deer to the number of 10, 000, and 260 bears were slaughtered | by the gunners. The German cruiser Kolgsberg, > which was bottled up In the Ruflji riv[ er, German East Africa, several weeks I ago, has been destroyed by British shells directed by aeroplanes, accord| ing to reports received In London. I Because of the European war and ' slack demand for diamonds, the DeBeers company of Klmberly, South Africa, will not pay a dividend at the close of the fiscal year on June SO, 1916. Up to January 9th, the cargoes of food, clothing, medical supplies, etc., contributed for the relief of the Belgians by the people of the United States, and either delivered or in transit, totaled $14,000,000 in value. At Terre Haute, Ind., Tuesday, Mayor Doon Roberts and 11S others were indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges of alleged election frauds In the last general assembly. On arraignment eighty of the accused men entered pleas of guilty. The French dreadnought Courbet is reported to have been sunk by the Austrian submarine No. 12, on De ' cember 21, off the coast of Italy, In | the Adriatic sea. The Courbet was [ built in 1913 at a cost of $12,000,000, i and carried a crew of *98 men. J A Rome dispatch says that because > of German machinations in Italy's ' North African possessions, the Italian government has been forced to give . up the conquest of the interior and i has hurriedly sent an additional forpe 1 of 10,000 men to Tripoli. > "The Bill-In-Hand," one of Boston's > famous old tavern, established in j 1795, by Jlmmle Wilson, the town > crier, located In Pie Alley, and once the favorite resort of Daniel Webster, is to be torn down to make way for a modern office building. The American production of qulck' silver for 1914, was 16,567 flasks of i 75 pounds each, with a value of $811,832, compared with 20,213 flasks, 1 valued at $813,171 in 1913. California's production last year was the smallest , since 1860. Mrs. Ida S. Rogers Is facing trial In New York on the charge of murdering her two young children by bichloride of mercury poisoning. It is alleged Mrs. Rogers poisoned the children and then attempted suicide. The children died in a few days, but she is expected to recover. The national house of representatives on Monday passed the Clark anti-miscegenation bill by a vote of 238 to 60. The bill applies to the District of Columbia. Alaska and insular possessions and provides for a fine of not less than $1,000 or imprisonment for marriages between Anglo-Saxons and negroes. The Berlin Morgen Post published a story on January 10, to the effect that a British attack on Tanga, German East Africa, was badly defeated by the Germans. The story says that the first landing of 8,000 British and Hindus was repulsed by the Germans, who numbered 200, the British losing 6,000 killed or wounded. Just as Governor Hatfield of West Virginia, was preparing to pardon Wylle Lewis, a negro under life sentence for murder, after serving 16 years, the governor received an anonymous letter telling him the negro had murdered six persons in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886, by setting a house on fire and cremating the inmates. Up to January 9, Great Britain had lost 1,174 officers killed and 2,300 wounded, and 660 reported missing. The people of Vienna are preparing to send EmperOr William 1,000,000 post cards, bearing his portrait, on January 27, the occasion of his birthday. This is to be in lieu of the usual round of dinners, theatricals, dances, eit'M limi usually laivc piawc uu tiic occasion of the kaiser's birthday. Jess Willard, the western cowboy, who has been matched to fight Jack Johnson, the negro champion heavy weight pugilist, is a veritable young giant. He is 27 years old, weighs 230 pounds and is 6 feet 6 Inches tall. Willard began his ring career in 1911, losing his first fight on a foul, und has won 15 fights by knocking out his opponents. Johnson is guaranteed J30.000 win or lose, and Willard Is to receive $15,000. The fight is to be staged at Juarez, Mexico. Johnson | has been champion since July 4, 1910.