University of South Carolina Libraries
What ChrlxtniUN .V.?auN. What docs Christinas mcun to U8? It is a past event in history and to it wo look back and rejoice, but what does it mean to us? Well, think of it this way. A friend said to me last week when we were talking about It: "Did you ever think,'' he said, "what would happen If there worn no Christ mas?if Christmas could bo blotted out of the calendar and we go on through the dull level of the years without the hope and the help which ft brings to heal the wounds of social and family life and to glv?? us heart for our work." Now, did you evee think of that? If there had been no Christmas there would have been no New Testament and no message ahout God loving the world and giving Him self for the life of the world and no groat Christmas hymn of the love that never faileth.and no ringing shout of Easter morning and the open grave and no music from the Messiah, and no pictures of the Madonna and the cross, and no "In Memorlam," with its ringing bells, and no "Hymn of the Nativity" from Milton, and no Christ mas Day and Kastor Eve," by Drown ing, and no white nurses going through the long corridors whispering to them selves: "Oh, how could I serve in the wards if the hopo of the world were a lie? How could I bear with tho rights and the loathsome smells of disease. Dut that ho said, Ye do it to me, when ye do It to these." As far au I soe, tho coming of Christ meant throe things for us?Truo con ception of God, true conception of mun, truo conception of lifo, Christmas rovoals to us tho tnto life. This is lifo eternal that they may know thee-and Jesus Christ when thou has sont. He camo to give lifo and fo g Ivb It more abundantly. Ho is with us. His name Is Immanuel and the sonse of tho divine presence ought over to be our inspiration. In tho life of Alexander McLarcu wo road o.t 'one time he was presented to King Edward the Seventh and ho says; "I felt that his majesty honored me with his indivlded attention for a half a minute or not so long." Think of that. Half a minute's attention. Liston! The dwelling place of God is with man. Thero Ho has taken up his abode and there Ho abides. We ncod more than half a minute's attontion. Not a briof glance I beg, a passing word But as thou dwellest with thy disci ples, Lord, Familiar, condescending, gracious, free, Come hot to sojourn hut abide with I me.. Would that moan anything to you if you could accept that gospel today? That would' mean strength to tho weak. He would be your great heart that would over be y?ur guido and what men need today Is a great heart at their side. That would mean sym pathy to the sorrowing. Ho who in his sorrow went a little further be yond, the reach of human help, would oooooooooooooooo o _ o r-A ATS a an* a > PITER st Oc o oooooooooooooooc ATLANTA, Dec. 22.?For once in his career Governor John M. Slaton races inoro mail than he hopes to an swer. His desk is piled high with let ters and telegrams bearing on tho celebrated case of Leo M. Frank,, and every mall 'brings a hundred more. Even his home is burdened by appeals through the mall, and many letters are being addressed to Mrs. Slaton, in the hope that she will ubo her Influence with her husband to have him commun te Frank's sentence of pardon him. Many of the letters In aist that the law be allowed to take its course. ! ^ The Governor will not attempt to answer most of these letters, for he has ! not the time. Indeed, he would not i reply to most of them anyway, for he believes he has no right to de vote so much of the State's funds to postage In such a ease. The Frank case, , furthermore, Is hardly likely to reach Governor Slaton, for ho goes but of office next June, and it Is considered probable that Frank's lawyers will succeed at least in delaying thp execution past that time. In this, case tho applica tion for clemency would come before. Governor Nat F. Harris who succeeds to offico when the next legislature meets. The action of . Judge W. T. Newman of the Atlanta federal court has rath ' er puzzled local lawyers, and up to yesterday afternoon nobody knew just what his flna\ action would be. After hearing, long arguments^ however, h? declined to grant the writ or habeas corpus asked for, and furthermore de clined to certify Fronk'a appeal to the United States Supremo Court He said he had no- objection to allowing the: appeal, but he could not issue a certificate to the effect that he folk there was probable cause for appeal, nnd^esjjuch^ A cer?ncate ia required by reuo?n? ?rw, his decision nah ine effect of denying Ffrfenk^s lawyere any recourse, through the. Atlanta court, to the higher tribunal. Frank's attorneys;. ho wo ver. . left yesterday afternron fer Washington ir* take th? cas? direct before Justice Lardar, ah they, did when the State 'supremo court tamed them down. * rtwy?rs, however, express no hope that th?y >$?.apt the case beforo the supremo tribunal without Judge Nsw : manV certification.. ve's Letter put hin hand In yours. That would mean compunionship in your loneli ness, lie who was with the wild beasts alone in tlio wilderness will know your heart and will not fail. You will bo able to say with John Wesley on his dying bed- "The best of all Is God In with us." Would that mean anything to you? I know It would. That would be the fulnlmcnt of the promise for you. Ills name shall be culled Immanuel. God with us. Thou didst leave thy throne And thy kingly crown When thou earnest on earth for mo O come to my heart Lord Jesus There is room in my heart for Thoc. If there Is any season of the year that makes mc downright glad and ab solutely contented just to be alive it Is the Christmas season. You can't boat it. Everybody has a different air about them; the grouches disappear as by magic. It is a time when every body Is worth knowing; when even the biggest bores of other occasions arc . welcomed as good fellows well met. !)o you know why all this is so? It is localise we all, regardless of age or station or crops or anything else, aro ' renewing our youth again. We are once more children, care free, glad to .bo nllvc, contented wlth every moment ' ns It passes. j What I would like to seo more than anything else would bo a Christmas I spirit that would last all the year around, not Just one day, but 36fi days 1?rainy, sunshiny, barren, golden, all kinds of days, the wholo year around. I wish I could como Into every farm home In Anderson County with just 'this message: Good cheer and good fellowship not on Christmas alone, but on 0'4ery one of tho 3G5 dayB of tho ' or.tire year. Let's give our presents on Christmas; n present to every one wo know and love (mother, father, ; John, Mary, tho home folks, the hired , man, the neighbors, tho peoplo who we've had pleasant dealings with throughout the year) so far as lies within our means, no matter what the present may be. But let's not stop at that; let's band together to con tinue the giving throughout tho entire year. Not costly things?as men measure gifts in the scale of dollais and cents, an so many bushels of corn or peas for a new dross for mother . or daughter?but smiles and. pleasant ! thoughts and well wishes and all that 1 sort; of thing. It won't cost us a cent, it will do 'us ? lot of good and It will mako It ' such a good, worth-while world. Will I you Join mo In the plan? Here's you hands on It. all my farmer friends for ' whom I am hoping tho past year has been one of unalloyed enjoyment and , tho 'coming year one of greater prom . Ise than any that has preceded It, and hero'n the start, for my part: As merry and happy and blessed a Christ inas to you as any man, woman or child ever had In all the world. That is the gift and tho wish which go out of my heart, full of thankfulness and contentment, to you- all. every one of you, on every farm In Anderson Coun ty. UNCLE DAVE. wheh caused the death of two englne men, will bo the report mado by mom bora of the state railroad commJ.i 1 *.r-... ...,,..,..,? ysstsrday at the scene of the wreck and will formulate their official findings today or tomorrow. This much is deemed certain by those who accompanied the commissioners to the lnvoslgation and saw the evi dence laid before them. Tho charges that tho ties wore rot ten and the rail worn was found en tirely untrue upon personal Inspec tion, the ties having been laid within the last year and the rails being in good condition. Soveral officials of the road were present, and gave the state officials every courtesy and as sistance in, tho investigation. Thoy beliovo that some broken part of tho engine, which could not have been foreseen was responsible for < the wreck, which was one of the very few on the Western, and Atlantic sys tem in years. The road still keeps its I record'of never having ktled but ono passenger. I Hartwoll. Ga., is stirred by . the death of Miss Ethel Hembry, the beautiful young daughter- of Sam Hembry, a prominent citizen, who was killed by a bullet through her heart. Telegrams from Hartwell say two prominent young men. Pearson . Bailey and Mer ritt McClaln, havo been iplacod under arrest and are being held without ball, though' the same dispatches say the killing was re ported to have been accidental. ] Old Baptists of Georgia have learn od with deep regret of the death , in Wilkos county of the Rev. John 8. ca'loway, one of the oldest and beat known ministers of that denomina tion In the SoUth. Mr.' Galloway, who was 77 r^sra old, prepared for his own funeral a year ago by ordering ami nstallln? his tombstone on the family lot at PenIIold, hi Green county, where be I was laid to reat today; He told his (friends ho did not want them worried by details, so had ordered and placed the tombstone, with his namo carved at the head, but left tho inscription to bo written by his family, j Mr.?Galloway had the distinction Jof serving fifty ^yesra at one church, the wwuraua I>r?y??oi, in. u reo no county. Ho probably had performed' i more wedding ceremonies, than any other minister, in Georgia. Only last Thursday he officiated at the wed ding of bis son, John 8. Galloway. Jr., at Penfleld. He died Sunday-night of a sudden attack after having preach ed a vigorous sermon Sunday. . J; C. Gilmer of Charlotte, N! C, is at home for Christtoas. We suppose those batteries thai have been sent to Naco. belong to the j Federal, >.loftgno.-^Phlladelphld in Probable Course of German Ships That Bombarded British Towns. ThiB map shows tho location of tho towns and cities on the east coast of England which wore hombarded by Gorman cruisers, and the probable courso of tho cruisers to the attack across the North Sea. Scarborough, Hartlepoot, West Hartlepool,' aid Whitby were among those into which shells were tbrown bp the German cruisers. It was bclievod by the naval ex perts that the cruisers left the vicinity of the Kiel canal or Heligoland and made their way up the coast of Den mark to a point on the coast of Nor way northwest from Christiania and that then they shot southwest across the North Sea to Scarborough. The | report that they made their way di rectly from Kiel tc Scarborough which would, of course, bare taken less time than the trip north, is discredited bo cause this port of the sea is believed not only to be patrolled by British gunboats but to be covered with mines. * - Electric Cit (Prom Thursday's Daily.) Giving of Bogus Checks Charged. A colored citizen by tbo name of Lawrence Walker was arrested yer terday by Deputy James Williams on charges of issuing bogus checks rii locked, in the county Jail, wheie he will remain until given hearing in the court of Magistrate Broadwcli'. The giving of bogus chocks has gotten to bo quite a common offense, says the magistrate, as he now has several hundred stored away in a big bill fold which he keeps for the purpose. He has bogus checks In his possession ranging in slue all the way from $100 down to $1. "i am going to get a good start some of those days," said Magis trate Broadwcli yesterday, " and have a general cleaning up of this mat ter." o Authorised to Buy 28/WG Bales Cotton.. Mr. Robert Ligon, general manager of the Gluck and Equinox cotton mills, has been authorized by Wellington and Sears, of >Boston,'selling agents and principal stockholders -on these two mills, to purchase 28.000 bales of cotton at tho present prices. Of this amount 20,000 will be purchased for tho Equinox.mills and the balanc? for the Gluck mills. This number of bales will constitute a two year's supply. Mr. Ligon states that the storage ac comodations of the mills are limited but he has gained the permission of the insurance companes to store 1,000 bales in tho basement of the* Gluck mills. Other ' storage arrangements will be made to tako care of the larg er purchases. i o School Children Freed Yesterday. Yesterday at noon ovor 3,000. child ren . were dismissed from the city schools for the Christmas holidays. Glad to bo .free from the labors of the class room for such a long period, the youngsters gave vent to their feelings in shouts and yells that were audible for blocks about each school. house and along the streets through which they passed en route homo The schools will resume work Monday, January 4. 1915. Teachers in the city schools who live away from here left yesterday afternoon for their respect ive homes. ' Baak Directors Met Ycsiordnj. The regular monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Citizens National Bank Was held yesterday .at noon. Only matters of a routine na ture vrbi-fi before tho board. Between now and the last of January annual moetings of stockholders and direc tors of banks and cotton mills and other corporations will be In order. ' e>" ? Ko Beehrter** Court Yesterday. In the absence of cases on the po lice docket, there was no session of the recorder's . court yesterday. And lunging from th? appearance of th? docket at ? late hour yesterday af ternoon, there wilt be nothing for Re corder Russell to give his attention to today. Up until a late hour in the afternoon not a single arrest had been mad? by, th? city, police. If the record la kept up though today, this will prove one of the most orderly Cbirsc ! inases Anderson has ever known. i>r^|hAak_ ?~~ l Practically every' fcVn coming into y Sparklets - Anderson yesterday brqughi in its quota oi college folk, coining hobo to spend the holidays wtth parqnts or other relatives. Perhuptr>very college in tho State, or at any rate a large majority of them, j were represented by the students arriving during the day. Representatives of institutions out of the State were also numerous. Numbers of those coming In were An derson young men and young women who are teaching schools away from home. Today will see others coming in but not so many of these will be col lcgo folk. They will bo members of Anderson families living elsewhere who are coming to spend Christmas with loved ones. -o Cuts Up Seven Innocent ?StlllH.'? ihoraas ri. Core, speolal agent of tho United States revenue department, yesterday destroyed seven copper stills at the county Jail which Sheriff Ashley and his deputies bad collected during tho past several months. The stills destroyed, yesterday were those captured from George, Ernest and Will Willlford, negroes, who are charged with operating several miles north or tho city, from George Willl ford, who is charged with operating again west of the city; from a place on the river; from down near Craft's old ferry on Mr. Manning's place; from a farm west of tho city where two men are charged with having operated, and two stills which were captured down . on Savannah River, The agent spoke highly of. the work done by Sheriff Ashley in suppressing the illicit distilling of whiskey in this county t.nd stated that Mr. Ashley should receive the usunl compensa tion of $10 for every still destroyed And $S0 for every conviction for vio lation of the law agalnpt the manu facture of whiskey. The, agent Inti mated that he might bo sent, .back here with a deputy maralfii.il tor the purpose of making cases against par ties who 4ro thought to have operated tho stills. New MaO Car Has Arriv?. The new atccl mail car ordered some time ago for the Blue .Ridge Rail road has put in its appearance and was formally put Into, commission yesterday. Tho now engine ordered for this rond has beep in commission several Weeks. A steel coach and a steel baggage and - passenger . coach are yet to eomo. superintendent John R, Anderson of the Bttto Ridge Rail road is expecting tho balance of the equipment .by the first of January. Says- Senator Gere is Coming Here. \ V , . ?; Thomas H, Gore; a special agent of the United S?tes revenue department, who. came to Anderson yosterday. op Official business, is authority, for the etitttr.sni tha? Uulura "m?rcs nena^or and Mrs. Gore of Oklahoma are going to visit Anderson county In tho near future. Mrs. Gore, is la seated, has an only uncle, a Mr^fta>?whoi* eafd to be living in this county, aud it 1* tar So purpose of visitt?g this relative at they aw'comtofTMre. The reve nue agent who was' her* yesterday stated that he dined with Senator Congrerisman' Johnson of Spartsnbnrg of bis intended visit to Aonereon; Sea* ator Gore bas been os the ?hautauqua platform in S3 states and deliver his well known t iperance address, an*M I* while 59** fng this tour that he contemplates visiting Anderson. The grandfather of the revenue agent who was here yes terday and tho grandfather of the United States Senator were brothers. Senator Gore's wife was Miss Nina Day, whom he met in West Texas. -o? Georgia Sheriff Is Coming Here. Sheriff Sfd John3. m of Hart county, Georgia; is expected ao arrive in An derson today for the purpose of tak ing back to Georgia a' white man by! the name of.Will Keys, who is wanted on charges of having eloped with his step mother-in-law. The man Key a waa arrested in this city Tuesday i night by a policeman. Keys was taken to the county jail, where he will be held until- the arrival of the Georgia sheriff. It seems that the charges against Key h are the result of a fam ily fued. Sheriff Johnson was expect ed to arrive either last night or to day, but as he had not communicated with any of the city or count* officers up until a late hour, last night, It la presumod that he did not arrive. Christmas Weather Is ? Real Pnssle. [Even the weather prophets are puz zled as to what manner of weather 'Anderson 1b going to have for Christ mas. The rain and sleet of Tuesday [broke oft about nightfall, but it re mained cloudy throughout the night. Yesterday the day dawned nartlally clear, but later .clouds gathered and ! for a while it looked very much. as though snow would come. The day was I not altogether a comfortable one, as I one expressed it, the cold wan "sneak ing." It got hold of a fellow and set I him shivering ere he> realised,, that It I really was cold. Everyone is hopeful that the weather on Christmas day, at 1 loarit. will be clear, crisp and bracing. I In fact, proph?te havo ventured to predict that auch weather will exist, but "then there is many a slip 'twlxt |enp ahd lip." />. Lodon's proposed -ban on Turkish j cigar ottos looks like another severe blow at a great Southern industry.? Boston Transcript An Austrian army, awfully arrayed, 1 burst'' buttons beating it beyond Bel grade.?Greensboro News. Capital City News Bp#tial to The ItiM?ccnoe?. COLUMBIA. Doc. 23".?Tho State will meet the' Interest on the State debt, amounting to about flSO.OOO on Janu ary 1st, but the State officials .and clerks in the various .State offices will not get their December, salary checks before CbristmaB this year as ? bas been the custom, said. Comptroller Jones. this morning.. The Comptroller General hates to break the. custom but It Is made necessary by the lack of funds in the Stato treasury on account of tho closeness of the people In nay? iug taxes. - Only one new enterprise was .Issued today, that of the Wacon and Bxiggy Works of Spartanburg with a capital of $3,000, tho petitioners being O. L. Johnson ago, B. T. Legg. It is announced In CfcWfer that A. G. Brlce, formerly ? member of the Hoc so and who unsuocesstolur. ed Attorney General Peoples last mer, is a candidate ror the Stato ate from that county tor the caused by the death of Senator Hardln. So far Mr. Brice has hd SitfoA. The *&t* toe the election will be set by Lieutenant Governor Smith. U. S. at Threshc Prosperity European Nations Have Placed C More Than $300,000,000 \ Beginning < CB> AasocUtcd Press.) NEW YORK, Dec. 23.?European nations have placed contracts in the United States for more than $300,000, OOQ worth of supplies since the begin ning of the war, according to Charles | M. Schwab, president of the Bethle hem steel Corporation, who returned from England today on the Lusltania. Mr. Schwab declared that as a result of this buying the United States now. was at the threshold of the "greatest period of prosperity it baa seen in many years." Mr. Schwab wont to England to can cel provisional contracts he had made j with the British government for the | building of submarines. He did this, he said today, after having been ad vised by Secretary Bryan that for an American concern to supply subma rines to any of the belligerent nations would be a violation of neutrality. The contracts given up, ho said, were worth more than $15,000,000 but he was unable to secure others while abroad for the supply of various mu nitions of war. He declined to say with what nation they bad been nego tiated. "The - next big problem the United States will have to face," said Mr. Schwab, "will be developments of ALLIES' ATTACKS EASILY REPULSED Germans Have Retained All Posi tions Captured on the Riche bourg Canal. (Dy Associated Press.) BERLIN, Dec. 23.? That the attack launched yesterday by the Allies In Belgium were easily repulsed by the Germans; that the French troops are showing greater activity In the vicin ity of Camp do Chalons, and that the French forward movement in the vi cinity of Slllarle, Rheims, Soualn and Perthes, have been partly repelled, were the features of the announce ment lBsued today by the German headquarters. The text of the statement follows: "Attacks In the region of Lombaer tzyde and to the south of Bixschpote have been easily repulsed by us. At Riecbebo?rg L'Avoue the English again were driven from their position a yesterday. . "rtotw'i?hstamlin'g' desperate couo^v attacks we have retained all th? po sitions which wo captured, from tao English on the Riche bourg Canal ftftm Aire to L? Bass?c. Since December 20 760 British and colored soldiers have been captured by us and five machina guns and fonr mine throwers taken. "In' tho neighborhood of Camp Cha lons the enemy In showing greater ac tivity. ' "Attacks to tbe north of SillerIc, southeast of Rheims, at Souian and at Perthes have been partly repel led by us with heavy losses to the French. "Th? situation in East and West Prussia is unchanged. "Battles for possession of tho branches of the Bsura River (wed of Warsaw) continue. ? "The situation on the right'bank of the River Piiica remains unchanged. Will Reduce Its Rediscount Rates (By Associated Press.) . RICHMOND, Va, Dec 23.?Tho Richmond federal reserve bank, serving tha firth district, will reduce Its rediscount rates,-the change to be effective on December 2?, according to the statement of Govternor Georgo Sea/ tonight The official announce ment will be made tomorrow. Tho pr?sent rate of 5 per cent for all 30 day, paper will fro bxtended to paper tnaturing in 80 days, while the pres ent rate of 5 1-2 per cent for 60-day paper will be extended to P 0-day pa per. Six per cent will be charged for all rediscounts of more than 90 days. Governor S?ay said tonight that tho reduction In rates was effected be cause of tho lessening demand for re discounts en the part of th? member banks. Atlanta Also in Line. ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. S*.?Governor McCord.iot tho federal r?serve bank of tho sixth district, here; announced tonight that effective December 23y the rediscount rates of tho Atlanta bank wp^ldj* the- same as the new ratoB of the Richmond bank.- These provide for a reduction of one-half of one per cent on tho charges for 80 to 60 and 66 to 90 day maturities. CIcmson Missing From the "Schedule ATLANTA. GsW Dec. |2<~- l?mseh and 8ewan?n_ whir h hn?n Kr^n frtrt? ;? t^e^e?rsi? School several seasons, are S 1P15 schedule of the Im^r?a. ?nrio?nc ;WJ;V N.' Randi?i of tho faculty committee on ^a^r; October ?, 8 Alabama; November ?S, Georgiaf ! ttmmbar US, (Thanksgiving) Au Games abroad: > October 23. Louisiana State at Now ! QnMfe . . . . _ .. >ld of Greatest in Many Years ontracts in the United States for Vorth of Supplies Since the >f the War. transportation facilities to handle the tremendous increase in manufactur ing and commercial enterprises. "The period of prosperity that I predicted on my laBt rueturn fram Europe is about on us. The contracts placed with American manufacturers by Europe call for delivery within the year, and I look to see a big re vival of business in every line." Mr. Schwab on his previous trip, was a passenger on the steamship Olympic, when that ship went to the rescue of the dreadnaught Audacious. Ko declined then to confirm or deny the incident, pleading that he was honor bound not to speak of It. Asked today if the Audacious did go down, his reply was: "It certainly did." KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 23.?Fig ures announced today by the Commer cial Club show tnx?. five million dol lars worth of horses and mules have been marketed through Kansas City to the British government. One manu facturer alone has supplied to the same marke! half a million pairs of shoes for soldiers. The exports of 52 flour mills In this district have been 21,000 barrels this year compared with 75,000 barrels last year. Wins Pony Misa Nancy Banks Gets First Prize in Beiton Journal Contest. First prize in the pony contest con ducted by the Beiton Journal was won by Miss Nancy Hanks, who received 75,180 votes. She is the recipient of a dandy little pony and handsome out fit The second prize, a watch, was won by Master Donald McCuen, who. re ceived 75,085 votes. The person receiving third highest number of votes was MIbs Edna Camp, boll and the one receiving fourth highest number of votes was Miss Marlon KeeBe. They received 67,700 and 40,495 votes, respectively. The Comian January ?urautf of FoFulat1 Pub? il ?a tien Es c, "Hum dinger." Th?!. January number of The Com ian, the publication of the extension department of the Anderson Young Men's Christian Association, Is off tho press and. is a-highly'creditable issue. There aro interesting news letters from the several cotton mills about Anderson, a considerable 'amount of bows of a general, nature and somo exceptionally well written editorial matter In the January number. The paper has a large circulation and is eagerly read by both subscrib ers and those wbo are able to get hold of the publication. Merry Christmas to the Blue Ridge Ralway who has given us a new pas senger station. J. M. McCown's Grocery GOOD THINGS TO EAT Oranges.,, . ..l&c, 20 and 25c Apples, per' peck.. ,40c RalBins. 2 lbs. ;.25c Nuts per lb... ..... ... ... ..25c Bananas . .. ... .. ... .I6and20o Cranberries . ... ... ..i0c qt Prunes, 2 lbs... ... ... ... ,.25o Citron, per lb.... ... .......20c National BIbcuRCo.'a Fruit Cake at per pound... ... ... ..50c J. M. McCOWN fin Phone No. 22. - r"-':'- iata - Change In Location I arh Row located over W. A* Power's grocery st?re at 2ta i-2 S..Ma!n Street .1 jxmk my friends for their ?^atrona^e krld ask con tinuance; of same. " **tta en aii? up. PafaW^^^l? " ? Wake ? specialty-of l treatln?: .Pyorrh?a? Alveo v fftris of the gums and all ttowri and tjridfte work and A^?rk guanmteed first