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tumorous department. A Prize Bird.?An old Scotchwoman had a reputation far and near for her fine fowls, and had often been awarded prizes at the neighboring shows. During the Christmas season a gentleman staying in the neighborhood, hearing her poultry so highly praised, resolved to give her a trial, so sent an order for the finest turkey she had, and after a little delay was delighted to receive as tine a specimen as cuuiu be wished for. This delight, however, was short lived, for on trying to carve the bird he found it so tough as to resist all his efforts. Enraged, he sallied forth to find the woman who he believed had swindled him. After listening to his outburst of wrath she exclaimed: "Hoots, mon, why ye canna tell a guid fowl when ye see ane. That buggly-jock's ta'en th* first prize at the' show for th' last seven years." Hard to Classify.?In a b>othill California district there is a man who runs a small ferry across one of the rivers, charging 25 cents for one transportation of a single team and 40 cents for a double one. One afternoon in the early days of automobiling a city man drove up to the ferry In a touring car and attempted to go on the ferryboat, but was held up by the captain, who told him to wait. Finally, after the boat had crossed the river two or three times, the motorist began to get impatient. "Can't take ye over yet," answered the captain, in response to the motorist's demands. "Yer the fust one o' them things that ever crossed here, an' I don't know what ter charge ye.* "Don't know what to charge me?" "Nope. I've sized ye up for and aft, and I'm durned if I know whether to charge ye as a single rig or a double team." Mixed Characters.?This is one told on a certain pugilist who is far better acquainted with the names of fisticchronology than with those in tinschool history books. Having reached England in the course of his pugilistic travels, he was patronized by a nobleman with sporting tastes. A week-end visit to the country estate was in order. The gentleman personally conducted his guest about the mansion, and when they arrived at a certain pretentious bedroom he said, with pride: "Here, sir, is where the great. Nelson slept." The pugilist stepped over and touched the high, white-covered bed appreciately. "Gee! he remarked, "leave it to the Battler to pick a soft one!" His Theory and Practice.?During a school tea a kindly lady sat regarding one of the young guests with evident alarm. Undismayed by the lady's glances, the young hopeful demolished plate after plate of bread and butter and cake. At last the lady could stand it no longer. Goiag up to the urchin she said: "My boy, have you never read any book which would tell you what to eat, what to drink and what to avoid?" "Why, bless yer, ma'am," replied the young gentleman, with his mouth full of cake, "I don't want no book. It's very simple. I eats all I can, I drinks all I can, an' I avoids bustin'." Profit in Truth.?When illicit distilling was common in Ireland, there was an old man who went about the country repairing whisky pots. The gauger met him one day and asked him what he would take to inform him (the gauger) where he had repaired the last whisky pot. "Och," said the old man; "I'll just take half a crown." "Done!" retorted the gauger. "Here is your money, but be careful to tell me the truth." "Och, I'll tell you no lie, sir. I just mended the last whisky pot where the hole was." Lost His Reckoning.?One of the world's unfortunates was arrested in Covington for loitering, and when taken before the judge to be dealt with, was asked by that official: "My good fellow, do you live in this town?" "Nope." said the prisoner. "Where are you going?" inquired the judge. "To heaven," came the answer. "Take him below," commanded the judge. "He's crazy or he never would have come to Covington on the trip he says he is taking." Geographical*?Readers who had some difficulty in remembering where the Falkland Islands were may have been helped by the recollection of one of Ian Maclaren's stories. After a diaster to an emigrant ship many years ago, some of the survivors reached home, the minister of a Scottish cnurcn to wnicn some 01 ine emigrants had belonged, prayed thus: '"Oh, Lord, we pray thee to be with our brethren, stranded in the Falkland Islands, which as thou knowest, are situated in the south Atlantic ocean." Looked Like It.?After shaking hands at the ferry dock the other day, one colored man inquired of another: "Didn't you marry de Widow Jones de first of January?" "Dat's me?I did," was the answer: "but I've dun left her." "Why, how's that?" "Well, de fust week she called me honey: de next week she sulked around and called me old Richards: the third week she cum fer me wid a flat-iron, an' I'se kinder got a hunch she don't like me." How To Halt.?Two countrymen were amonK the recruits mustered on the drill ground, and one of them, remarkably raw, asked his companion what to do when he got the order to 'halt." "Well," was the reply, "when he says 'halt!' yez bring the fut that's on the ground to the soide of the fut thai in the air, and thin remain quite motionless!" Professional Conversation.? Highwayman?I.aw! Why, I know more law than most of your lawyers! His Side-partner?So. Well, most lawyers have got you skinned as a highwayman. Something to Go On With.?Gent (interestedly!?And what are you going to give your young brother for the new year? Little boy?I dunno. I give 'im the measit s last year.?London < Ipinion. Disqualified.?"If they persist in teaching the boys in the schools military tactics, I don't believe our Willie would go in for it." "Do you mean he's too chicken hearted." "No; he's too pigeon toed." TOLD BY LOCAL EXCHANGES. (Continued from Page One.) and W. J. Hendrix, representing the local carrier civil service board. There were twenty-two applicants. The papers have been forwarded to Washington Before going to press we learned of an accident yesterday, at the saw mill of Air. J. W. Cunningham on his Dell Hilton place in Flat Creek township. It seems that while the mill was in operation the boiler exploded, injuring Mr. Albert Cunningham and Mr. Brit McCoy. Two I mules were slightly scalded. The in-j juries of Messrs. Cunningham and McCoy, while painful, are not serious. The beautiful hymn, "Linger With Me," composed by Dr. J. H. Thayer, of the First Baptist church, has been set to music by Rev. N. K. Smith, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Bufort. Dr. Thayer is not personally acquainted with Rev. Mr. Smith, who is an accomplished musician, and was much gratified to receive from him the tune to which the words are set, which he says, is very sweet. The hymn will be sung for the first time at the morning service Sunday morning in the First Baptist church The oldest resident of the town and county, who remember her so well, will hear with regret of the death of Mrs. Lydia Harris Craig, which sad even occurred in Atlanta, Wednesday morning. Mrs. Craig was the widow of the late Rev. J. N. Craig, D. D., who was the beloved pastor of the Presbyterian church at this place during the civil war, and for several years thereafter. Fort Mill Times, Feb. 18: Report reached Fort Mill Saturday that Mrs. Wylie Osborne, whose home is several miles north of this city, had been stricken with what was believed to be a genuine case of smallpox. It was stated that Mrs. Osborne had recently visited relatives in Virginia and it was believed that she contracted the disease while there A bird dog, believed to have been affected with rabies, ran amuck on the streets for a short while Monday, causing considerable excitement. The canine was followed and killed at a point near Grattan.... Cards reading as follows, were received in Fort Mill early this week: "Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ray Frederick announce the marriage of their daughter, Vera Amelia, to Mr. Ferris Edwin Branson, on Monday, February the fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, Crestmont, North Carolina." Mr. Branson is a son of Mr. Chas. H. Branson, who for a number of years was superintendent of the Fort Mill Mfg. company's plant in this city....A friend of the Times I in Gold Hill, has sent the paper the | following account of a very pleasant event that took place in that section (Saturday: "Kindred and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. P. Epps assembled at the colonial home, with full baskets on the 13th, inst, (the 14th being Sunday) to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Epps. They were married on the 14th day of February, 1865, while Mr. Epps was at home from Lee's army. Tradition says the home in which they live is 112 years old and is well preserved. The house was built by Mrs. Epps' grandfather, the Hon. William Pettus. The old people received some nice presents. The ladies present prepared a fine spread, the table groaning under the heavy load of good things to satisfy the inner man. Late in the afternoon the crowd broke, returning to their homes, wishing the old people many years yet to live and that their last years may be their best years." It is reported on the streets of Fort Mill that the big brick plant of the Charlotte Brick company at Grattan, two miles south of this city, will begin full-time operations with the arrival of a shipment of several cars of coal which were expected early this week. It is also stated that the company has orders in hand for the output of its plant for several months ahead. Rock Hill Record, Feb. 18: Mrs. John Tally, who for several months past, has been at Saranac Lake, N. Y., has returned home very much improved in health. She was met in Washington, D. C., by Mr. Tally, and they spent the week there sight-seeing Contractor Dobbins started work Tuesday morning, on the erection of a residence for Sidney L. Adams on Oakland avenue Fred Boyd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Boyd of Lesslie, who is attending a business college, was operated on at the Fennel Infirmary Monday, for appendicitis and his many friends will be glad to know that he is getting along nicely Allen C. Izard has awarded the contract to W. G. Adams of Rock Hill and Camden, to erect a brick V..I1AI VVftln siurc uuuuiiiK un tuc cui iici ui mcuu and Hampton streets. Ground was broken Tuesday The condition of James Carbery, who was shot at Beaufort on January 1st, continues quite critical. He has been removed from the Savannah hospital to his parents' home at Beaufort. PEANUTS Planter of Experience Tells How to Grow the Nuts. The following communication which was addressed to the editor of the Southern Cultivator by J. D. Shuler of Bowman. S. C., will very likely prove of interest to York county farmers and others as well: I noticed in your last issue of the Cultivator an inquiry from a reader in Alabama, asking something about the cultivation of peanuts. I will give you my experience. I have been planting them for the past twenty years and have tried planting them many different ways, but the most profitable way is as follows: I use them for a rotating crop. I have a plot of land fenced in three different patches. I plant corn early on seven foot rows and as soon as I can plant a row of pinders in each row of crop. I use the old Spread pinders as I find these more profitable than the others. When 1 lay by the corn I plant a row of early peas in each alley .making two rows of peas to one of corn and peanuts. I never hoe them or use anything on them except lime ana what I put to the corn. The peanuts have to become adapted to the soil. Planted every year on the same land they are better. As soon as the corn is dry I gather the best of it if too much for the stock I have. If desired the hay can be cut by running the mower between the corn, and gathering the hay clear of stalks. When the stock has finished eating out the fields, say first of November, I put a disk on the field, cutting the stalks and all other litter up fine, then turn the land deep and put in grain. When grain is off I sow pea hay; as soon as the "hay is off 1 turn the land and harrow In rye and rape for winter and spring pasture. About the last of April I put in cotton and peanuts. one row of each the same as corn and peanuts. Prom these I gather what I want for seed and sale and leave some to run my hogs through the winter. This, you see, gives me one year in corn and peanuts: the next in grain, peavine hay and rye, the next in cotton and peanuts. This rotation gives the land a change of crop once in three years, making a fine land improver. I believe this plan, tried for six years, on any land will prove successful. 1 send this hit of my own experience and am sure that if Mr. K. V. F? ??f Alabama, will try this plan he can make them on any land. it" Wind shields to he worn on the shoulders of occupants of automobiles that lack such devices have been pat I ented. HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE Items of Interest from All Sections of South Carolina. B. L. McDowell has resigned as magistrate of Greenwood. W. H. Flennikin of Winnsboro, a student at West Point military academy, is critically ill. A. H. Lyon has succeeded N. C. Remsen as editor and publisher of the Woodruff Herald. The Red Cross seal commission sold $1,309.92 worth of Red Cross seals in South Carolina last year. S. L. Grant was on Friday elected a policeman of the city of Chester, to succeed J. J. Williams, resigned. The house of representatives on Friday night, by a vote of 75 to 24, refused to repeal the state income tax law. Two people were bitten by a mad dog In Bennettsville last week, but their wounds are not believed to be dangerous. Haskell Trammell, a Greenville county farmer, died last week as the result of drinking a bottle of carbolic acid with suicidal intent. Presiding elders of the two Methodist conferences, are in Columbia today for a conference with Bishop Collins Denny of Richmond, Va. The latest strike of employes of the Equinox mill of Anderson, has been satisfactorily adjudicated and the employes have returned to work. Miss Mae Huestis, for six years teacher of modern languages in the College for Women, Columbia, died in Indianapolis, Ind., last Tuesday. Henry Miner, a white man, was arrested in Greenwood last week, charged with stealing an automobile during the racing meet in that city recently. The store of the Wedgefield Mer cantile company, at weageneia, was robbed last week, more than $100 in currency and a large quantity of goods being stolen. Henry G. Tillman of Greenwood, a son of Senator B. R. Tillman, will very likely oppose Congressman Aiken in the Third congressional district in 1916. More than 700 citizens have registered to vote in the municipal election to be held in Greenwood in April. Four candidates are announced for mayoralty office. The Boyd-Carlisle bill, prohibiting tipping in South Carolina, has been passed by both houses of the general assembly. The law prohibits the giving of money to employes of any public place. The house of representatives on Thursday night refused to agree to a legislative investigation of the Confederate infirmary in Columbia, which was proposed by Mr. Martin of Kershaw, in a concurrent resolution. The senate on Friday killed a resolution offered by Senator Goodwin for an appropriation of $10,000 to pay the railroad fare of South Carolina veterans attending the Confederate reunion in Richmond. Sheriff Rector of Greenville, has announced that Greenville county will very likely be without deputy sheriffs and attaches after March 1, owing to the failure of the legislative delegation to provide sufficient funds to provide for the same. A. B. Flowers, a prominent farmer of Florence county, was severely stabbed by John Turner, a drunken negro farm hand last week. The cutting occurred when the farmer remonstrated with the negro on account of his conduct. J. L. McElroy, the young white man who shot his sweetheart at the Beaumont mill in Spartanburg last week, and then attempted suicide by shooting himself In the head, will recover from his wounds, a successful operation having been performed Thursday. C. C. Greer, M. D. Morrow and W. B. Jones have been appointed members of the newly created board of charities and corrections for Greenville county. W. H. Cruikshanks was named as supervising auditor for Greenville county, an office which was also created by the recent legislature. W. H. Gay of Greenville, has brought suit against the Greenville Traction company for $25,000 damages as the result of the death of his 6-year-old daughter, who was run over by one of the defendant company's cars in Greenville on December 2.'<, 1914. The house of representatives on Friday killed the Carlisle bill to permit Luther K. Brice of Spartanburg, to practice law without complying with all the requirements of the act regulating admission to the bar. Brice is not 21 years old and therefore not admissible to practice law. The Greenville county legislative delegation has reduced the salary of KhoHfi Rprtnr of Greenville from $2. ror. Peter the Great loathed the sight of water. He could scarcely be persuaded to cross a bridge, and if compelled to do so would sit in his carriage with ; closed windows, bathed in perspira- ] tion. Fear of the River Mosera, which i flowed through his palace garden prevented him ever seeing its beauty. Julius Caesar, to whom the shouts of thousands of the enemy was but sweet music, was mortally afraid of the sound of thunder and always wanted to hide underground whenever a thunder i storm hovered over his army.?London t Tit-Bits. 400 to $1,800 per year. The county will pay the sheriff's deputy $1,200 per year and will also provide for a bookkeeper for the sheriff's office at a salary of $360 per year. Effort will be made In the near future to raise funds for the erection of | a tablet to the memory of Robert Y. Hayne, the brilliant statesman and contemporary of John C. Calhoun, the tablet or monument to be placed in the new union depot now being built at Spartanburg. Three men were arrested at Tylersville, in Laurens county, last week, charged with stealing cotton from a field and selling to a merchant. A warrant has been issued for George Clardy, the merchant who bought the cotton, charging him with buying loose cotton after dark. B. F. Peeples, S. A. Wise and V. S. Owens, members of the Barnwell county dispensary board, have been ordered to appear before Governor Manning on February 25, to show cause why they should not be removed from office. The three officers are charged with "misconduct, neglect of duty and incapacity in office." The ways and means committee of the house on Thursday presented Representative George W. Dick of Sumter, with a glass punch bowl, in token of their esteem. Representative Dick, who is the present chairman of the ways and means committee of the house of representatives, will resign his seat shortly to become postmaster of Sumter. Greenwood Journal: It was learned in Greenwood today from a reliable source that incorrect statements were given the papers yesterday in regard to the killing of Mr. W. E. Thurmond near Modoc Tuesday morning. According to this authority Thurmond and Bush, the man charged with the killing, had had no row of long standing, but it is stated, Thurmond had written a friendly letter about the almistreatment of Mrs. Bush, Mr. Thurmond's sister, by her husband. It is reported further that Bush met Thurmond in the road, drew his revolver and fired withing giving Thurmond warning. Thurmond fell from the wagon, it is further alleged, and he was shot four times. It is said that he had both hands on the lines when he was fired upon and was not armed. These facts are said to have been brought out at an investigation into the death of Thurmond. Dum-Dum Bullets. The origin of the name and the cause which led to the invention of dum-dum bullets from a story which scims to be little known, but which is of peculiar interest in view of th" fact that the Germans are accusing the allies of using them in contravention of the articles of warfare laid down by the Hague convention, which prohibits the use of soft-nosed or expansive bullets. To quote the actual words of the rule relating to dumdum bullets, "The powers agree to abstain from the use of bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or la pierced with Incisions." It was the British troops in India that first brought into use the dumdum bullets. In the petty wars on the northwest frontier of India, the English soldiers were often exposed to ( night attacks in camp by fanatic swordsmen known as Ghazis, or fighting dervishe, and It was found that i the rush of men of this sort at close quarters was not to be stopped by , the needlelike prick of the modern rifle bullet, and that it was absolutely nece. sary to make the bullet more effective in these special circumstances. This was done by removing from the nose of a bullet a small portion of the nickel mantle that covers it. The effect of this was to make the lead 1 spread out from the diameter of a 1 lead pencil to that of the old-fashioned musket ball, and had a sufficiently stopping effect. The British troops, j it is said, never used the bullets any- i TirViora Ovoont I n the ol **f?11 TYIQtHTIPPQ T*P- 1 lated. | The name dum-dum was derived | from the town of Dum-Dum, four and a half miles from Calcutta, where the , bullets were first manufactured. BREAKS DOWN NERVES j Many English Soldiers on Verge of Insanity. The number of English soldiers and J officers who have suffered nervous ^ breakdown more or less approaching ^ insanity as a result of the strain of war, says a London dispatch, has shown such increase that some of the 1 leading medical journals are pleading for special consideration and treat- I ment for this class. 1 "Some cases," says the Lancet, "are certainly hopeless, but there are oth- ( ers?and happily these are in prepon- ' derating numbers, where there are 1 good grounds for believing that they may again become useful citizens." The effects of warfare on the nerv- i ous system are more marked in the j case of officers than in the case of en- ; listed men, the latter in many cases of ] "trench insanity" recovering "tone" after a continuous sleep of from twenty- ] four to forty-eight hours. Officers I similarly afflicted are generally sent to j special hospitals for a rest of a week or ten days, but If they fail to show , satisfactory progress after that time j they are invalided home on the ground that it is improbable that they could again be employed in active service. "The powerful effect which modern warfare has on the mind is shown," 1 writes a surgeon attached to a British 1 ambulance, "by the dream3 and nightmares which disturb soldiers' sleep In j dangerous positions. Nervous subjects react in a most striking way to the ] shock of explosions in their immediate 1 vicinity. Some develop a tendency to ( sleep-walking and are found wandering about the premises with faces ex- i pressing the utmost terror and anxi- i ety. In the soldiers' dreams, the dread of losing contact with his fellows seems to be felt with extreme fre- , quency, and the horror of isolation constitutes the commonest nightmare of men in the fighting line. "They dream that they are wandering through endless trenches as complicated as an artificial maze, or are picking their way through lonesome forests. The slightest noise during sleep calls up visions of exploding shells or the tramp of armed men throwing them into a frenzy of shouting terror, to the indignation of their resting fellows. "Another common night terror is the dream of a sudden call to arms and the Inability to find some indispensable article cf attire or armament, a conception productive of intense mental agony. Live-shells naturally occupy a large share of the soldiers' attention in dreams, and an exasperating nightmare is the supposed discovery in one's bed of a shell ready and willing to burst, associated with the usual nightmare incapacity to execute the necessary movements to get rid of it. Several men have had dreams centering around the inability to withdraw the bayonet from an enemy's body when urgently required for self-defense. "Yet these nightmare-ridden men are as brave as the rest in face of actual danger." Fears of Famous Men.?A peculiar sense of fear is associated with many different creatures and things. Lord Roberts, for instance, is afraid of cats. He will not have a cat in the room where he is sitting. On one occasion, when asked out to dinner, his host doubted the existence of this fear, and concealed a cat in the ottoman in the dining room. Dinner was announced and served, but the chief guest seemed ill at ease, and at last declined to go on eating, as there was a cat in the room. A pretended search was made but disclosed no traces of the animal. The famous soldier persisted in his declaration. Finally the host realized that he was causing "Bobs" great discomfort, let the cat "out of the bag" and the ottoman at the same time, and apologized for the annoyance caused. Another famous man who was supersensative to the presence of cats was Henry III of FYance. This monarch disliked them so intensely that he was known to faint at the sight of one. Two other great generals, Marshal Saxe, the French soldier, and the Duke of Schomberer. also held them in hor- 1 GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of Interest Gathered From All Around the World. The largest tin plant in the world is to be built at McKeeport, Pa. It is to employ 30,000 men. The London Times has succeeded in raising 35,000,000 as a fund for sick and wounded British soldiers. The Kirschbaum company of Philadelphia, is working on a contract for 100,000 uniforms for the British army. John Talap. white, a wife murder er, will be the first victim of the electric chair in Pennsylvania, at Rockview tomorrow morning. Frank Fuller, governor of Utah during the civil war, is dead at the age of 88 years. He was a friend of President Lincoln. A policeman was so badly injured In a department store bargain rush at Trenton, N. J., Thursday, that he had to be sent home for repairs. Government officials destroyed 4,000 bottles of a proprietary medicine in Philadelphia, Friday, because of unjustified claims on the battle tables. Miss Cecelia S-e-z-e-p-a-n-ke-w-ic-z of Philadelphia, is petitioning the common pleas court of that city to change her name to Abel. Frances Chandler, charged with shop lifting, pleaded guilty in Chicago, Thursday, and then shot herself is she uttered the words, "I never had a chance." Bandits entered a Seaboard Air Line railway train near Alexanderla, Va., rhursday, locked the express messenger up, threw the safe off the train ind escaped with it. President Wilson recently broke anither presidential precedent by calling at the home of Speaker Clark to discuss the ship purchase bill pending before congress. A dispatch from Mexico City is to the eneci tnai z.apaia soiaiers nau seized Henry B. Rhoads of WilkesBarre, Pa., and carried him off, supposedly to hold him for a ransom. A surgeon at a Philadelphia hospital, last week, removed a tumor, several inches in diameter, from the brain of i man 29 years old. There Is a chance Tor his recovery, the surgeon states. Records of the department of commerce, Washington, show that 129 ships have been transferred to the American flag under the new registration laws. A new natural gas well at Washington, Pa., is estimated to be delivering 20,000,000 cubic feet of gas per day. The gas is beyond control despite all efforts to stop the flow. Ten thousand Pennsylvania railroad men attended the Billy Sunday meeting in a body in Philadelphia, last Wednesday night. More than 15,000 people were unable to get into the tabernacle. British merchant vessels plying between Ireland and British ports, are flying the Irish flag on the theory that any outrage on this flag will arouse strong feeling among the Irish in the United States. A treasury department statement is to the effect that there is now outstanding only $38,096,358 of emergency currency, or a little less than 10 per cent of the amount issued since the outbreak of the European war. One hundred and fifty prominent business, professional and society men sold papers on the streets of that city last week and gave the proceeds to charity. They gave no change to their customers. Four of the five officers of the defunct Chickasaw Bank and Trust company of Memphis, Tenn., were on Friday sentenced to serve five years in the Atlanta prison. The fifth man wna irivpn nnA vpar. Misuse of the mails was the charge. The largest sum ever paid in a single check was paid to the Pennsylvania Railroad company last week by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York bankers, in settlement for 4 1-2 per cent bonds of the company. The check was for $49,098,000. A witness before the congressional sub-committee, Investigating charges against Federal Judge Dayton, at Wheeling, W. Va., testified that the Judge told several companies with which he was connected, how to dodge the Federal laws and yet get around the anti-trust laws. Ten thousand members of the National Association of Master Bakers, are sending out letters all over the country asking the people to write to their congressmen at Washington, urging an embargo on wheat shipments in order to reduce the price of flour in the United States. Frank Madalena abandoned a prosperous business in Steubenville, O., and on Thursday surrendered to the police of New York to answer an indictment for murder returned five years ago. Madalena said his conscience troubled him as the Lenten season came on and he could stand it no longer. Harry Chandler, land owner, and son-in-law of General Harrison Gray Otis, owner of the Los Angeles Times, has been indicted by a Federal grand Jury at Los Angeles, together with six others, charged with recruiting soldiers in the United States to serve in a revolution to be started in Lower California. Although President Hibben of Princeton university, refused to invite Rev. Billy Sunday to Princeton to preach to the student body, the faculty of the Princeton Theological seminary have invited the evangelist and the university students will hear Mr. Sunday on March 8th. The two institutions are separate and distinct. Frank James, brother of Jesse James and a member of the notorious James fa A**a' crn r>cr r\t hanHito irhn tprrnf ized a dozen western states In the seventies, died on his farm near Excelsior Springs, Mo., Thursday, following a stroke of appoplexy. He was 74 years old, and had been living the life of a quiet farmer since his pardon thirty years ago. Wm. H. Fanning, a Baltimore printer, has been arrested by postal detectives on the charge of counterfeiting postal money orders. Fanning turned out fine work and has been traveling all over the country cashing the "orders." The amount of money lost by the government is said to be large. The accused man claims that he had no helpers. A woman's tip lead to his arrest. THE BELGIAN ARMY Remnant of Once Strong Force Now Numbers Only 60,000. Sixty thousand worn soldiers strung along the Yser, where they checked the rush of the German invaders toward Pas de Calais, are all that are m ^ - lllillll /;/ ) L V\ Lasting. left of the Belgian army of two hundred and thirty thousand men under arms when Germany Invaded Belgium, but one of King Albert's staff officers who has been with the army since the siege of Liege, asserts that the small Belgian force today is a far more efficient machine than that which met the first German attack. He said to the Associated Press correspondent: "When we reached the Yser, we were a beaten and demoralized army, almost to the point of absolute disorganization. Fighting for weeks without adequate support from our allies, and with most of our men believing that we had been left to our fate, the chances of ever again making a fighting force of our army seemed remote. That we did so was due I to the hlerhest and lowest factors in our civilization, the inspiration and activity of our king and the fighting spirit of our peasantry. "The king's aristocratic regiment of guards is a thing of the past. They have been disbanded and their places taken by two regiments made up of Plemlsh peasants and commanded by active young officers in Belgium. "When the critical situation along the Yser was relized the local peasantry seemed to remember the glory of their past when their people were the terror of the invading Spaniard, and it needed only the actual leadership of the king to weld them into the fighting force you see here today. The king is commander of this army and during those nine terrible days in the trenches while the Germans hurled their hosts at us, and we waited in vain for the expected support, the king was not only in inspiration to his officers and men as he fought beside them, but he proved himself a capable military leader. Today the army is an efficient fighting force, too small of course, for we are unable to give our men leave from the trenches such as the French and English now enjoy, and this has caused some natural complaint, but in spite of this, as you can see for yourself, the spirits of the soldiers could not be better. These men are all veterans now and most of them are young in years. The officers are picked for their work without regard to their former rank and many of the highest officers of the army have been relegated to posts where they are doing useful work, but where they cannot repeat any of the blunders which marked the first part of the war. "We have no apologies to make for our artillery. This service was the really professional branch of the army into which officers went for pure love of their profession, and from Liege to the Yser they have proven themselves worthy of the cause for which they are fighting. Some idea of the value placed on our artillery is indicated by the fact that a Belgian captain of artillery was placed in command of two hundred French guns and directed their fire continuously for 36 hours in one of the fiercest artillery duels of the campaign. "Only second to our artillery are the regular cyclist corps and the voluntary motor corps. The cyclists were well trained and the Uhlans will long have cause to remember their marksmanship. The automblle drivers volunteered from what might have been called the butterfly class of society youths, but they have proven as tough as the battered cars which they drive. They have endured incredible hardships and many of them occupy unmarked graves, the sole reward for some desperate scouting venture. "The less said about our infantry existing at the beginning of the war, the better, but the work of the men out there in the trenches have paid in full for any past shortcomings in this branch of the service. We only have a few square miles of our country left and practically all of this is subject to artillery fire, but the same spirit which made the low countries famous as battle grounds in the middle ages seems to have revived a tenacity in our army which will continue to hold west Flanders until the advance on Brussels begins." li'So that fish can be boiled thoroughly without losing their form is the purpose of a new wire basket. Professional ?ards. Dr. ffm. KENNEDY ? DENTAL SURGEON ? Oflice On Second Floor of the .Wylle1 Building?Opposite Postofflce. Telephone?Office, 99; Residence 166. JAMES B. SHIRLEY DENTAL SURGEON First National Bank Building YORKVILLE, S. C. 8^" Offlco Hours: 8.30 A. M., to 5.30 P. M. 3 f ly Geo. W. S. Hart Jos. E. Hart HART & HART ATTORNEYS AT LAW Yorkville S. C. Witherspoon Big., Second Floor, Front. 'Phone (Office) No. 58. D. E. Finley J. A. Marion FINLEY & MARION ATTORNEYS AT LAW Opposite Court House Yorkville, S. C. Dr. B. G. BLACK SURCEON DENTIST. Office second floor of the New Mc Neel Building. .Absent from office on Monday of each week until further notice. Hill ill n 1 Shine Brings the Smile of Satisfaction! In the "Easy-Opening" Box. F. DALLEY CO., Ltd., BUFFALO, N. Y., Half Your Living Without Money Cost A right or wrong start In 1915 will make or break most fanners in the Cotton States. We are all facing a crisis on cotton. Cotton credit Is upset The supply merchant cannot adranee supplies on 1916 cotton. You must do your best to produce on your own acres the food and grain supplies that hare made up most of your store debt In the past A rrr\r\r1 <\4a/ia a# mamJ <1 a fiuuu gctrueu gxuuuu, rightly planted, rightly tended and kept planted the year round, can be made to pay half your living. It will save you more money than you made on the best five acres of cotton you ever grew! But It must be a real garden, and not the mere one-planting patch In the spring and fan. Hastings' 1915 Seed Book tells all about the right kind of a money-saving garden and the vegetables to put in It. It tells about the field crops as well and shows you the clear road to real farm prosperity, comfort and Independence. IT'S FREE. Send for It today to H. Q. HA8TINQ8 A CO., Atlanta, Ga.?Advt SEWING MACHINE REPAIRING YOUR Old Machine, that runs so heavily that you dread to use it, can be cleaned up, readjusted and put in such condition that you will be delighted with it, and would as soon have it as a New Machine. The cost is not very great (or this work and you will be pleased at the expenditure. Better get your machine in shape now for the spring sewing. You'll find me at The Enquirer office. LEWIS M. GRIST. 99* W. O. W. Receipt Booke?At The Enquirer Office. ( Beautiful PRES1 SAVE THE OO OUR FAMOUS Luziann < WRE P. 0. BOX No. 4; FOR CATALOGUE DESC] WHICH CAN BE HAD FC LUZIANNECoffee 1 Rebuilt Ty\ STANDARD TYPEWI the uniform price of $100.00 ] sometimes they can be bough had it a week it is "second h; price you paid if you wantec enced Typewriter salesman c about the little devices that machine has?point out its c< bon, back spacer, tabulating c that his machine is the only c ?that is exactly what he is reasons why you pay $100 f< asked to pay this price in ord keting the machine?and of c imnfa orirl nnrf r\( flio KncitlPC niiatv auu |;ai c ui mv uuvjiuvo Aside' from the pride you rr model" typewriter with all tl any more REAL TYPEWF have had you bought a REB Machine will not write any any easier or anv plainer thai to doughnuts that it won't This being TRUE do you tl New machine at $100.00, wh built Typewriter of exactly 1 saving of from $35.00 to $50. are flush with the coin of th generous to the Typewriter Builders and pay them the $1 is perfectly all right and furt ness. But if you are buying let us urge you to investigal before you buy. Tell us whi to make you a price and the Look these prices over?The saving you will make in buyi PRICES ARE VERY LOW Remington No. 6, Blind W Remington No. 10, Visible Smith Premier No. 2, Blind Smith Premier No. 10, Visi Oliver No. 2, Visible Write Oliver No. 5, Visible Writei Royal Standards No. 5, Vis Monarch No. 2, Visible Wi Underwood No. 4, Visible 1 Underwood No. 5, Visible ' L. C. Smith No. 2, Visible L. C. Smith No. 5, Visible A TYPEWRITER IN YOU Will prove its value in learn to use it and the knowl years?your wife can use it f age?A Smith Premier No. 2, advantages to the beginner, use of a "shift key" for Capita is a single keyboard, blind wi visible writer?all of these m reach (see prices above) anc The price of Rebuilt Machine Builders' Number?the highei the price?Express Charges, 1 THINK THE MATTER O1 See if you do not think a T worth the price?and then see L. M. GRIST'S Yorkvil HIIIIB I Quick, Brilliant, HAMILTON, CAN. PLEASE PAT UP ALL subscribers to THE ENQUI- , RER on my Club list are requested to settle their subscriptions at 0 once, either with me, or at The Enquirer Office. A. W. McFARLAND. W Send The Enquirer your order* for high grade Commercial Stationery, Booklets, Law Cases, etc. SUBSCRIBERS ^ ON my Club are respectfully requested to pay up on or before March 13 th. J. STANHOPE LOVE, Clubmaker. REAL ESTATE LOOK! Now Isn't This a Nloe Selection? The J. K. Hope Place: 70 acres. near Tlrzah, on Rock Hill and Clay Hill and Yorkvllle and Fort Mill roads. 5-room dwelling; large barn; 2 tenant housed and other buildings; 2 wells? one at house and other at barn. Ad- A Joins T. M. Oates, F. E. Smith and Mrs. Glenn. This is something nice. See ME QUICK. Tlie E. T. Carson Place: 186 acres; 8-room dwelling; 3-room tenant house; large barn; crib, etc. Plenty of wood. Adjoins W. R. Carroll and others. Now is your time to see me. Two Tracts?One 63 acres and the other 60 acres?about 6 miles from Yorkvllle on McConnellsville-Chester road. First tract has 4-room dwelling; barn, crib and cotton house. Other tract ijaa one tenant house. Each tract watered by spring and branch. Plenty of timber. Good, strong land, and the price is right. Better see me. Town Property: My offerings here are very attractive. Can suit you either in a dwelling or a beautiful lot in a Imnjt onv nart of Town on which to erect one. Let me show you. Geo. W. Williams REAL ESTATE BROKER. f * NTS for YOU | , UPONS OUT OP - ?4 e Coffee rE TO ft, Greenville, S. C. RIBING THE NICE THINGS |R LUZIANNE COUPONS. Is Good All the Time pewritersLITERS practically all sell at Each?That's the "list price"? it for less?and when you have md" and you could not get the 1 to sell. Of course the experion rnmp o Inn or a nil t^ll vnil all his machine has that no other Dnveniences?its two color riblevice, etc., and make you think ?ne to buy. That's his business i paid to do?that's one of the )r a new Typewriter?You are ler to help pay the cost of marourse that is all perfectly legits. But where do you come in? lay have in the "very newest le "newest kinks," you haven't UTER value than you would UILT MACHINE. The New harder, any faster, any better, n a REBUILT, and it's dollars look any better to your eye. link it good business to buy a J en you can buy a Factory Re- w :he same make and model at a oo or more? Of course, if you le realm, and want to be real Salesman and the Typewriter A 00 anyway, why of course that ^ hermore it is none of our busi- * a Typewriter for business use, :e the FACTORY REBUILT at you want?We will be glad n you can decide for yourself, y will give you an idea of the ing a REBUILT MACHINE: rriter $19 to $21 Writer $42 to $55 1 Writer $18 to $20 ikl? 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