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WINNSBORO, S. C. 0. E. CROWSON, Editor TERMS IN ADVANCE One Year.........................$1.50 six Months...................... .75 Four Months.................... .50 Advertising rates on application. Obituaries and Cards of Thanks: One cent a word. Communications:-We are always glad to publish news letters or those ertaining to matters of public inter .st, when accompanied by the names and addresses of the authors. Articles which are defamatory will not be noticed. We assume no responsibility leor the opinion of correspondents. Entered at the postoffice in Winns boro as second class matter. Friday, Angust 14 1914 The Blease and anti-BleasE people may stir up factional feeling to the boiling point in many counties in the State but the people of Fairfield, are so constituted that they will vote as they please and let the other men do the same and in a man ner that leaves no sting but when the election is over. This is as it should be for there is no reason for this factional bitter ness. The present cotton crop will not be depressed and forced on the market if the present National administration cau de vise means to prevent it and the means will be found. This is the advantage in having a Demo cratic administration in power whose sympathies are 4th the Southern people and thelSouth ern farmer instead of with the money trusts and those whc would force down the price of farm products for their selfish interests. We are proud of the 'a n mnedgso far held i I county, hey have attended, p ect ord and the cand 'ate given respectful attention, all of that Fairfield ahead of many in r point of manne genee. Not only the case at these Ients but at the te Senatora ~e State and if ~~~~nbts this statement are .invited to come and cast their lot with us and they will soon find that what we have said to be true and what could be to more our credit in this day of bitter factional politics. WITH TH E COUNTY CANDIDATES Four Appointments Covered This Week. The candidates for county and legislative offices are winding up the first week of the campaign at Ridgeway today, when they will take a rest until next Tues day. The four appointments l'?easterville, Monticello, Green Irier and Ridgeway, have been 'well attended and the speakers were given courteous attentioni. Tlie candidates are conducting th4ecampaign on a high plane and the best of feeling prevails am'ng and with all of them. Mr. R. A.Meares, a candidate for the Legislature has not been with the party on account of his attendance as a delegate to Washington to see what could be done to secure legislation looking to the relief of the cot ton crop. Mr. R. T. Gladden, a candidate for county Con1mis sioner, has also been absent. With these two exceptions all of the other candidates have been I'present and appeared before the people setting forth their respec tive claimns for the suffrage of the people of the county. The weather and Ithe hash has been fine--the latter such as can only be fou in Fairfield County. At Feast lIe and Greenbrier the had prepared a er and ser ared for all that~ ed ~or our ore id oending Armies Meet cT ieli al ies Are Expec -o I t --More Fightin,,,_ in Belgium. Liege by a division of Belghy j(;avalry with infant artillery.: The German and wounded are said tn numbered three-fifth, 01 5,000 men engaged, whil,c% 1 of the Belgians are r- 1 "relatively light." The French foreign' mimV t] denies a German report of capture by Germans of a Fr h e infantry regiment at P fY l Meurth-et-Moselle. Swiss reports assert th cC- German battle befor, hausen to have been s that the neighboring hospitar ae commodations ,proved absolutelyls inadequate. It was officially announce( p yesterday that a state of .w had existed between Great :: ain and Austria-Hungary sir a midnight. in Earl Kitchener, British see t tary for war, has warned British press against ths P a tion of news, other than offici , t !relating to naval and militt It movements. Infringement f q the order will mean suspensio Italy is reported to have mobi N ized 250,000 troops on the_S and Austrian frontiers as a cautionary measure. All palE over the Alps are strongly h At the same time the Italian for-. eign office has summoned hone for a conference on the war situ-A! ation its am bassadors at P a ,, St. Petersburg, London and B . lin. The government of Holland Y officially given the French g ernment renewed assurances Ineutrality and its intention2l make this neutrality respect e, Sixty thousand Dutch troops are on the line of the frontier andl large ares of land have beefi flooded. A number of wounded soldiero 1 have arrived at Southampton from Belgium, and although theiri nationality has not been made"a known it is supposed they are 1 British.] The Astrian troops have enter-< ed Russian Polland, where Ger-< mans also have been engaged,j and Russian forces have captur< ed the Austrian town of Sokal inj< Galicia by assault. The American ' amba will take over the Austrian bassy in London, the Au ambassodor having Going to Santo Domingo. I Washington, Aug. 11. -A full ii regiment of American marines, in addition to the gunboats -Cas tine .and Marrietta, will lend 1 weight to President Wilson'sC peace plan which a special coin- 1 mission now en route to Santo C Domingo City -is to lay before the Dominican Republic's war- I. ring -factions. C Secretary Daniels today order ed the transport Hancock with I the Fifth Marine Regiment from I Guantanamo, Cuba, to Santo Domingo City where she should I arrive late tomorrow. The gun- r boats already are there. No orders for landing the I marines have been given. Their a presence in the harbor, however, I is expected to be a w.arning to ~ the Dominicans that the Unitede States is determined that revo- Cl lutioniary disturbances on the r island must end. .War News Meager. War news from Europe if strictly censored by English authorities and The Associated Press has suggested the desira-a bility of this fact being placed before the readers of the papers which are members of theb association. The reports are meager and unsatisfactory in t every sense. New York, Aug. 12.--Thea restriction of its cable service o since the out break of the European war was described in C detail tonight by the Western C Union Telegraph Company. All d telegraph connections with Ger many, Austria and Hungary ~t are broken and cables leading to other countries are subject tot rigid censorship. 'heatre [GHT a S c SChance" ramatic Feature ,d 3ig Reels. TiHE SAMRE. LuoMPPIm~ Where Germans and All to Clash Soon is Reported That a great battle is impend ing between the Germans and the British, French and Belgian allies, is the news that comes out of London. For days thesE opposing nations have been bringing up their forces, which now stretch in two long lines in northern Belgium and along thE French frontier. That the advance guards arE in contact is evidenced by theire ports of serious engagements ai various points, perhaps the most important at Haelen. The first dispatch direct from Berlin uncensored by authoritis of the nations at war with Ger many was received by the Asso ciated Press through the medium of the Goldschmidt Wireless com pany's station at Tuckerton, N. J. The message contained th( important information that dur ing the fighting at Muelhauser considerably over 1,000 French officers and soldiers were taker by the Germans, who also cap tured four cannon, while ir another fight with the French or the border of Lorraine, further to the north, the Germans alsc took 1,000 prisoners. The dis patch adds that German soil has been cleared of French troops. Developments in the war zone which appears chiefly confined tc Belgian territory, are madE vague owing to the strict censorship over news relating tc movements. Positions occupied by the main French, Belgian and British forces are not permitted to bE disclosed, even approximately, so that their plan of campaign can not be assumed. As to the German forces, in dications from various sources point to the concentration of the main body with its'right wing in Belgium and its left winz in the duchy of Luxemburg. The Ger man staff is said to have gather ed 26 army corps along the east ern frontier facing Belgium and rance. Many of these troops robably are stationed in the 'reat fortresses in Alsace-Lor 'ne and along the Rhine. One atch asserts the defense of any's Russian frontier has left to armies made up of rves. Although all of these trained soldiers it would ai natural to leave as a nlu -for their orga.nization a derable force from the The' dispcsitions and strength of the French invaders in Alsace, where they are said to hold a long line within the German border, are being kept rigidly secret. On the sea, the reported safe arrival in the Dardanelles of the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau has led to rumors of their probable dismantling until the end of the war. In the north Atlantic, although Rear-Admiral Cradock has de clared it "clear of German cusras far south as Trini dad,''the French liner Rocham beau, which was to leave yester day with French reservists, was held in New York by orders from France. In the North sea, which the British government says may be stewn with mines, the squadrons of British battleships are still cruising, but their position is not publicly known. Neither is the location of thie Main German fleet. Reports from Dover at the eastern entrance to the English channel say heavy cannonading, lasting an hour, was heard this morning coming from the direc tion of the North sea. "The Austro-Hungarian fleet, owing to the declaration of war by Great Britain, together with that of Germany, is said to be in the Adriatic, where it was recently occupied in hlockading the Montenegrin coast. The British squadron in the Mediterranean is strong and has the support there of almost the entire French fleet. Belgian reports assert that a strong force of German cavalry, supported by infantry and artil lery, after severe fighting around Haelen, was thrown back toward Star 'I TO-N] "The Blaci A Powerful D: In Three ] ADMISSION T the Salley I Swan. I don't think widowers like 1 yself should be too harshly -iticised for wanting to marry rain. It just shows apreciation womankind. I explained this our preacher. He was very uch touched over my sad count iance under the weeping willow ee on the day of my wife's fun al and occompanied me to home ie next day and sought to com iserate me in the following Lanner: He said, he did: "My rother, I know that this is a reat grief that has overtaken )u, and though you are com-! elled to mourn the loss of the ae who has been your compan in and partner in life, I would )nsole you with the assuranceI .at there is another who sym athizes with you and seeks to rnbrace you in the arms of un ailing love." To which I ex [aimed gazing with hope into is face, "Parson tell me the ame quick." To my utter dis .pointment, he said it was God, vhen I was. hoping it was the oung widow of Crooked Creek. Pursuant to an invitation I ap eared before a mass meeting of e citizens of Winnsboro to dis-, uss the subject of sanitation nd how best to rid the town of ialaria by the extermation of he mosquito. They asked me if could make the extermation nd I told them that I could, but hat I would have to know just ow many there were. Mr. done said that he had made tnis .n item of study on the waterI vorks question and by actual Qunt had found the number 0 be exactly fifty trillion (50 00,000,000,000). This was dis uted both by Mr. Henry Catch ngs an'd Mr. Henry Phips. Mr. 'hips said he had counted all hose and more too, Mr. Catch ngs shook his finger menacingly Lt Mr. Lone and asked if he had ounted all those lying around Lnd hatching in tin cans. Mr. )hips wanted to know if any ody like himself had counted he eggs in old water melon rines >n Sunday. Mr. Lone admitted hat he had not, but maybe the nedical students from Charles ;on could throw some light on ;he question. About this time dl&. Dutch McMaster knocked a nan down. He was a great big fnan too. Some say his name was Ed Dun, and there was nuch confusion until Mr. J. 0. 3oag restored order by knocking lown a half dozen people, more >r less. The discussion was re uiued and a committee was ap iointed consisting of Mr. Jolly lay as Chairman to make the Axact computation. Young Gay a portes, young Brave Walker,1 r. Mackmakehim, Mr. Catch ks and Wild Woolly Diekerson b~ipointid to make the klulation. After sending out for all the arithmetics in town utd- using up all the supply of ead pencils in the County, the liairman reported that they dild not agree tha,t everybody ;alked at the same time and no >ne of the committee would lis :en to the other. This brought mn more talk. One man talked ;o 'iolently that.his false teeth ell our close to Mr. W. W. Ket :hin, who stomped them angrily, aying: "Shut up you Chatter ~og" and there was quiet for a ewrmoments in heaven. My plan was this: Along the ianks of the Salley Swan is the nost desirable place outside the ~Ionmnouth Cave, Ky., for the rodaction of bats (both bull nd leather wing) Now by ex erirgent it has been founu that ne bat catches and snaps and hews up just 55,555,555 mos uitoes every night, that and no ro'and no less. I could have urnistied a thousand, McNally: ~tubbs two thousand, Swingle 'ree Cabeen a thousand, Toney lopjays a thousand, Sam Heel crew i thousand, Jim Patch ritchesa thousand, Sam Buxom romi 'ssum Trot a thousand,; nd Bill Slipperellum from H ull ~ull a whole wagon load full; o the brim and the Boro would; ave soon have been a musquito ass an unmalarial town, but~ hose people down there soon orget the purpose of my visit nd when they commence to talk ncient history and the mistakes f Moses and Bob .Ingersol, Ij earing danger to the rear part f mny anatomy just bestride my ld mule Beck, gets a safe con uct from the Mayor Alexander ~obinson I thinks thats what bey saysjis his name and I puts oth syurrows and didn't stop 11l I landsd at the Salley Swan iranch. gld Beck took a drink nd I took something out my ocket (hind pocket) not a pis istol, and as Mr. Gilbert use to. ay wet ray whistle and was >n peacefully slumbering with ut a musqaito to disturb my: epose, my cows chewing their uds without bother of a tick nid my war horse roosters, out and ready to announce the >ming of day when I propose to ake a pass at the young widow' f Crooked Creek. Y. Hamp Lucas. P. S. Sallie has heard a good eal how young Dr. Edgar Doug-! ts is studying and we all is! lighty proud of the new things e is getting on to in Charleston. ILANS TO SAVE COTTON GROWERS. Southern Cotton Congress Meets in Washington. , Washington, Aug. 13. -The )roblem of saving the cotton crop )f the South in the face of closing )f the European cotton markets >y war was taken up today by a outhern Cotton congress com nittee, which met here in special ession. Delegates representing :he cotton States organized - lis .ened to members of congress who outlined legislative plans for neeting the cotton crisis, discus 3ed the situation and named a :ommittee to thresh out a plan for saving the 13,500,000 bales of :otton which will soon be har vested in the cotton States. Representative Lever of South Carolina and Senator Hoke Smith )f Georgia, who have have had .harge of the legislative end of the movement to provide federal aid to meet the situation, addres sed the congress. They, with Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, formulated the scheme which will probaby be put through. It contemplates the establishment of standard cotton grades, gov ernment licensed cotton ware houses and the issue of sufficient emergency currency, about $300, 000,000 to be loaned on cotton to enable the South to hold the surplus of the crop over until market conditions become more nearly normal. RUB-MY-TISM Will cure Rheatism; Neu ralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic Sprains, Bruises, Cute, Burns, Old Sores,. Tetter, Ring-Worm, Ec zema, etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used internally or externally. 25c Final Discharge, Notice is hereby givkn that John R. Boyd, Administrator of the estate of James W. Boyd, deceased, has this day made application unto me for a final discharge as such administrator, and that the 20th day of August, 1914, at 10 o'clock A. M., at my office, has been appointed for the hearing of said peti tion,I W. L. Holley Judge of Probate, Fairfield Co., ?. C. July 20, 1914. 7-4t License Notice. I appepl to all business men to call, at my office and pay their License taxl for 1914, or send me a check for same, and I wil] mail them their licenses. Respectfully,. .Tno. J. Neil, Clerk of Council. Aug. 11th, 1914. 12-T-2t Coal! Coal! Coal! I am now taking orders for Soft Coal for August delivery and payment; Hard Coal for September delivery and pay ment. Prices on application. J. C. Caldwell. Executor's Notice. Having qualified as executor of the estate of Mrs. Mary E. McKinstry, de ceased. all persons hol.ding claims against said estate are hereby notified to present them within the time pre scribed by law, and all persons indebt ed to said estate are requested to make payment to the undersigned. his 3th of Junie 1914. 6-3t D. H. Robertson, Exeutor. Professional Card. Dr. A. G. Quattlebaum will be out of the city until August 20th or 22nd. I2-3t Harness Oil 50c a Quart W. J. Haynes The Shoe and Harness Man see him about her throat. it's een pretty sore. She was kind er nervous like, and Dr. Edgar ses what is calledl he says a aryngoscope. He remarked ,vhen Sallie took the chair: ' Miss allie, you would be surprised to ~now ardw far we can see with ;his little instrument." - As he ,vas about to put the instrument n her throat she stayed his hand ong enoug and apoligized to him or the hole in her stocking close o her knee, knowing that con ~ealment would be unavailing. Dr. Edgar blushed and said, P. S. No. 2. I has heard since hat I wvusn't Mr. Dun that Mr. Datch McMVaster knocked down a a man from Tucadoo below Winnsboro who had a family of a wife and fifteen chillens and so heavy~ was the knock down blow that the man and his whole fam ily has died and lawyer Evans has sued Mr. McMaster for dam ages for the next of kin in the sum of seventeen cents mental anguish and in the sum of 30 cmentsacua misfortune. Na. War Prices Here! The calling of millions of European soldiers into the field will create a tre mendous increase in the demand for shoe leather. This foreign demand may raise the price of leather, and consequently the price of shoes, in this country. We urge our customers to buy shoes now, before the advance strikes us. We are still selling at our well known low prices. Below will be our August clear= ance prices on Men's, Ladies', and Children's Oxfords, s, Ladies', and Children's Oxfords Men's $5.50 and $6.00 Stetsons, Clearance Price $4.25 Men's $5.00 Bostonians, Clearance Price - - 3.79 4.50 " - - 3.41 3.50 " - - 2.89 300 " - - 2.49 Ladies' 3.50 " - 2.79 3.00 " - - 2.48 " 2.50 " - - 1.79 Children's $1.75 Bostonians, Clearance Price 1.43 . 1.50 "" 1.32 1.00 .83 tMoore&Co.,Inc. Provident People Having 'Pluck and perseverance iusually - prosper. Very oftert this prosperity has its beginning in the opening of a savings yoiii in starting. 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