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\ VOL. 9, N0^27, SKMl-W presiden\ holds 1 tHBSMIIfj Observes His Rule nf Nino Hours* Sleep. WILL TALK TO JOHN LIN I). | Probable That < enco Will bo Held in CotlaKc Whore Wil?m is Staying. I'ass Christian, Mis-!.. Doc. 31. President Wilson did not sacrifice his program of nine-hour sleep to the custom observed by thousands throughout the country of watching the old year pass, lie went to bed early, as usual, and hoped to get a good night's rest before his confer^ enee tomorrow with John Llnd, who * will report in full his observations during his months in Mexico. The President declined today to say whether he would go aboard the revenue cutter Winona or the scout cruiser Chester on which Mr. Lind sailed from Vera Cruz, but indications were that the conference would take place at the cottage where the President is spending his vaction. The entire affair is cloaked in deep mystery, every effort being made to keep secret all phases of Mr. Lind's arrival or departure. HIS USUAL GAME. After the President had played his usual game of gcdf, he met Representative Harrison on the links, and the latter hurried to the commander of the Winona which was lying off the pier. Immediately the little vessel turned her prow to sea, and tonight was cruising about Ship island, about eight miles due south of here. Mr. Harrison said he was unable to talk about the Incident. At the President's cottage it was stated that Mr. Wilson had not yet dieoded what he would do tomorrow and that he would await word of the sighting of the Chester before making up his mind. It is apparent here that the President desires to have Mr. Lind avoid publicity in connection with his visit here, and there Is good cause for the belief that the original plan was not ^ to divnlge Mr. Lind's destination when he left Vera Cruz. It was in this connection that arrangements were first made to have the President board the Winona, it having been stated that the President might use the Winona "for a yatching trip." PURPOSE KKPT SECRET. The purpose of concealing Mr. Lind's visit has not been disclosed, but with the publicity that now has been given his movement it is believed the original plans have been abandoned. This afternoon the President walked to town on a shopping expedition. He bought a tooth brush and lamp shade, while a group of villagers waited outside the stores to see him. The President looked robust and healthy as he swung along the street at a brisk walk. The citizens of Pass Christian gave a banquet tonight in honor of the President and the attaches of his party, but Mr. Wilson did not attend. He sent his regrets through Dr. Cary Grayson, tT. S! N., his naval aide, who represented him at the dinner. MANY BANKS DESIRE TO EMBRACE SYSTEM Nearly Fight Hundred to Snter New Currency Organ!/.ation?FortyFive States Itepresentde. Washington, Dec. 31.?Six hundred and ninety-five national banks; 4! state banks and 23 trust companies covering over 45 states and having an aggregate capital exclusive of surplus of approximately $300,000,000, have informed the federal authorities of their intention to enter the new currency system. This was announced by the treasury department tonight, a week after the currency reform law was enacted. The department's statement said: "Six hundred and ninety-five applications have been received from na tional hanks with an aggregate capital of about $250,000,000, so that up to this time national banks representing approximately one-fourth of the total national hanking capital of the country already have signified their Intention to enter the system. "Forty-nine state hanks and 23 trust companies also have notified the department of their Intention to become members. Of the 695 national banks applying, 53 are in the NewEngland states, 112 In the Eastern states, 191 In the Southern states. 22 7 In the Middle states, 69 In the Western states and 43 in the Pacific states. "Of the national banks 69 have n capital of $1,600,000 or more. 142 have a capital of from $250,000 to $1,000,000; 270 have a capital of from $100,000 to $250,000 and 214 have a capital of less than $100,000. "Two trust compnnoes applying hav?"a capital of $5,000,j)00 or more and four trust companies have a capltal of from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000, Hill, secretary of the Iowa AylNN Rankers' Association, tele>ned the department tonight that \w'( organization committee could rely the hearty co_operatlon of thf ** -ks of Iowa. EEKLY. L. SMITH REiOICES Xz IN CURRENCY LAWi ? .value" of i productioi Senator is Well Pleased With ceeded thl was the li the Scheme. (of the ml. In the yet WILL AID THE SOUTH. Aeeordl United Sti year amoi This section, Especially. Will liene- , reuse of lit l-'coin i'lissiifjc uf the total was Measure. record, ai , v creased 1 loreiue special to C'oluinhia ... . State, I ice. :il '-Senator 10. I). Smith ,x <<> I stontieil iLir I'Mitrnnci^ fnr :i fi>w iim . J5.U0u.uu before going t/> Washington, lie is olution th especially proud of the work that lie .)(|t Qf 19 lias acctnuplished, but it Is not the t?ril|vi, 1. pride that vaunteth itself, but that, which rejojices in what lias been ac- 1 $1,000,00 jinplished for his fellowmen in the | Califori cause in which he was enlisted. States of I Senator Smith says that the peo- tion of g< pie of this country hardly realize just $20,105,4 what that currency bill means to the Nevada lc South particularly. He says that the South will begin to realize the benefit , from it at once, because the changed ; [conditions in regard to money will [ make it seek Investment, and that in the future the currency of the country will be based strictly on the real i wealth of the land, and it is backed by the land itself. There can not hereafter be any in, flntion of the values of the country, nor any contraction thereof, for the money which is the measure of the value is based 011 and runs with the VVOnlth r*f llio nnimtre ' e?>l f k" .. wi vuv, vvuuii j unrii, lie nai p?. In the new currency bill the very essentials of true banking are carried out. Money Is based on the wealth of tli epeople, not on the debts of the government, nor the amount of gold thai some individual may happen to HM| .1.. \ . imr .1 uy nf i it.ii 1' ,, v,-' money becomes really and truly rrodium of exchange rather than a commodity controlled bv a set of men for their >w n benefit. ^ For the farmer the benefits may be summed up by saying that o' the first time in the history of this country the farmer and his business are recognized in the banking law. The i farmer and his friends were criticized | for trying to get advs>ntagc under the new law ahead of every one else, but I ftja those who urged such argument were I Ignorant of their real facts. Senator Smith sal dthat the was lined up in \ the fight for proper aid for the de_ | j^H velopment of roads through govern- ; ment aid and the viewpoint that he and his friends had was htat with the increase of the business of the parcel post the government must need heavier vehicles and the roads would be more an item than now. As the government paid for the upkeep of the railroads in part, by the hire of HHI their cars, so the government could and should contribute a share for the maintenance of the roads used for the same purpose, the people doing j The their share, and the money of the fu ' L,ancaste ture and resolved to keep on in post- j j... . office department coming back to j > - them in support of the roads. i Has O 1 * U I *1 * I- * * i oruBiui o1111vu ??iii liiui in iiatfMiiiK w nt'ii an hp would like to say that the country educatio now recognizes in the Democratic ! nr?nr? party that the bitter school of the past 50 years has made a lot of post- to Miss graduates in question of legislation He servt Just, fair and equitable, and that to who resi the astonishment of the Republicans foOPI1 ap] the Democratic party has been of one mind, one purpose, united, solid. ' Senator Smith goes back to Wash- 'n the II ington full of hope and confidence in is vice the future. | operates and Dar RAGSDALE STANDS business OPERATION WELL w tration < . from tlu Physician States Representative is progress Expected to Experience an Early Recovery. , . ,, HIST( Florence, January 1.?Special: The thousands of friends throughout ME the country, and especially throughout South Carolina, of the Hon. J. Willard Ragsdale, member of Con- Joint S gress from this, the otn Congressio- . . nal district, will no doubt be deeply ? 11 pained to learn that he is seriously ill at the Florence Infinmary, where he was taken this afternoon for an ( ?'tini operation for gall stones. At shortly News an after 7 o'clock this evening this cor- bia was respondent called up the Infirmary ??tendin and learned from the attending nhy sictan that Mr. Kagedale Htood the meeting operation well and his early recovery Associatl is confidently expected. The physl- ton on clan made the following statement: h ht "Mr. Hagsdale was brought to the i Florence Infirmary this afternoon *on earil suffering from gall stones. It was 150 here found that an operatoin was neces- the ball sary which was immediatly perform- ODenjnK ed. He stood the operation exceedingly well, and while he is seriously by Mayo sick, yet there is no doubt about his Columbii early recovery." with the Mr. Ragsdale came home from Associat VVasrington about ten days ago, suf- Northwe ferlng with what was pronounced by Many ' a Washington physician as acute indi- tend th< gestlon. Since reaching home he has ferred a been confined to his bed. Yesterday historica ; his condition became somewhat alar- amlned I i mlng. After a consultation it was ered by deemed best for him to be carried to retary o the Florence Infirmary and he was ers wenl i removed there today and was operat- Universi ed upon late this afternoon Numer- spent th t ious Inquiries have been coming In able rec< ' today from various parts of the State The a i and country as to Mr. Hagsdal'e con. Gibbes I dition. pleasing I A.NCASTEK, S. C., FKIDA ,1) VALUE IS LESS , Sl'EI < Shows Decrease Under General That of 111 14. | F( gton, Jan. 1.?The "gold New ^ l!tl3 was $4 55,000,000. The 8alte J?' u of the previous year ex- '^'leu'v s total by $11,000,000. This York's \ rst estimate of the director today a it, George E. Roberts, made journey ir inii so.. .. i>k to Director Roberts, the ,nl>. . . clays, ?>r utes gold production tor tlio n? nnted to ?88,301,023. a de- , vv< $5,Ono,0O0. The Transvaal ^ ill del $5,Ooo.000 below its 1M2 <:l.v?". i < . s i , i nor Sulz lid Australia showed i deproduction of $l.t>0u,itun. ,j. rod not ion r* 11 off about ,,-j, Vot 0 :is the result of the rev- "t'orpor ere. Canada exceed out- ^'rs- (l 12 by about $2,700,000 and ^ "I west ha idia showed an increase of the rivet 0. ! The it uia was first among the tonight; the Union tn the produc- boro Jar ild with a total valued at Catskill 4 7. Colorado came second. J.t tary id in silver production. . Ja lary jjSH ^ t\W m w ji ilpw1 y* yi"t^'" %v mmmammm MAYOR .?. M. liCH new mayor, Judson Millen Hood, w r, near the Charlotte public road 111 1859. He Is the second son of the It iseltine Amelia Valines. His early yi ?out ten years of age his father remov n was received at the Franklin Acad< f teachers, Thomas Stamps. He was Mary Poag of York county, by whon >d one term as sheriff of the county, [piled to accept the United States m; pointed by President Cleveland in d has been a man of great energy an Ivr stock business almost during his president of the Gregory-Hood LI sales stables at Lancaster, Ilishopvi lington. The firm does something li each year. Mr. Hood is the purclia: t, nrn>llA( M. II 1 ?m ?' . v (11,11 .Til. IIUIMI Will 1,'IVH J| V >f the offices of the city. He i- a (1 1 word go. He will lie backed up b ive type. 3RICAL BODY ISLA ET8 IN COLUMBIA csiiuii With Mississipi Hi*- |)r. '/\\ il Association?Welcomed <?r?* by the .Mayor. bia Special to Charleston Kans d C'ourlre, Dec. 31.?Colum- est mis host today for the delegates evangel g the twenty-ninth annual 000,00( of the American Historical declare Ion, which opened in Charles- Cairo, I Monday. A special train Student the delegates from Charles- opened ly this morning, there being The s. The sessions were held In dresses room of the Jefferson Hotel, the Fie with an address of welcome more, v r Wade Hampton Glhbes of present a. A Joint session was held ties in Mississippi Valley Histrocila "The Ion, Chairman J. A. James, stern University, presiding. Kmern' of the delegatse did not at_ Islam i s morning session, but pre- Zwemei visit to the office of the state "The 1 commission, where they exthe valuable ecollection gath- ror'' ,'u Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., the sec- problen f the commission, while oth- to perc t down to the library of the many c ty of South Carolina and mere te e time digging into the valu- senting trds of that institution. lives a] ddress of welcome by Mayor spirltun this morning was especially all Mos and was in happy vein. , pose, d itlr %*5 Y, JAX17AKY 2, 1914. 'It.XtilSTS BEGIN IIIKK. jpiQJ 1 Jones anil Followers Start on *ot Journey to Albany. Inj fork, Jan. 1.?"General" Rotes, the suffragist leader, vetniarches to Washington and marshalled her forces at New lorthernmost boundary early Has I tee nd started on another foot to the state capital, lans to make the 17 5-mile tho roll /le 1 ? ?mu. 111 seven _ a tthe rate of 25 miles a day. ? rIKl!<hi lions mareh a year ago occui weeks. On lier arrival she iver a message to Governor Oevelopni is she iliil to former Gover- Comiti or, askin iiis ipport f? r \v.oruRe. l'? ' lYrape army. which iaelu'les Wash it erans as "Colonel" Ida Craft; months o il" Martha Klatsehken and \iner dive Sehultz, the "ofllelal economic will journey this time tip the mor,, ta nk of the Hudson, crossing vt>ar otr today at Dohbs ferry. This was rnty plans to stop at Nyack ward gla Highlands January 2; Marl- of the p: tnary 5; Kingston January 4; governme January 5; New Baltimore a Dem 6, arriving at Albany at noon tional aff 7. ! 1 2 montl dent and his back (J rover CI House. The fir since 187 ? two radi ' mental b v\V^ lrome tnx United Si system, d j the War - ^ which ha? organized \tem in w dominant *<i and a orpatiizat i fectivo, t) honsive t V | A pare % $ - 0 into succi ^ I its rates certain li J' ^ilP : Imt wllic provide a tems rem cent gent jFBBBIKsBHBKBflgfaS and the in i I'll that tlie ago new year governm< [)I>. j tlves of t ! son s app as born four miles north of , ny on i the Cralgsville section, on | What ite William It. Hood and his Hons of DUth was spent on the farm, j ed to this place. Mr. Hood's brought i ?my, then conducted by that ' solution married in February, 1885, and Teh i he has had fond children. \vUsoiPs succeeding John P. Hunter, 1 rninistral arshalsliip, to which he had with "bi| his second administration, rninistral <1 perseverenee and has been in busim 1 evidence! entire business career. He The si Ive Stock f'nninnnv whlfli arnl Hp, Columbia, Timmonsville, tance. ike a li'<0f million dollars of r<V|% sink member of flip corpora- resell tli ise and progressive adminis- er. It f pep thinker and progressive Sherman 11 . .. for the y six aldprniPit of the same truts" < case it 1 a "come latiou of M'S POWER *'?" n.i WORLD PROBLEM hi, within t the intPi fmcr of Cairo Talks of flu- In for at truest ion Itcforc Kvan- year wpi retarv H gelical Campaign. peace w ?<'f :t>" "The ureal- J" "J slonary problem next to the signed li ization of China with its 4<?0,- ragua. 1 is that of the Moslem world," Three d I)r. Samuel M. Zwemer of ",e at'M were ma Kgypt, tonight, addressing the witlu : Volunteer convention which ted Stat? here today. called si subject of the evening ad- Amer,ca ? , . claimed delivered by Dr. Zwemer and * - niinfK i v. Charles Watson of Baulti- hemisph kas "The Appeal Presented by founded Day Tendencies and Actlvl- !1<S no.w' .. u ... .. he point the Mohamm?rfan World." concessh secular press and colonial of Centr nents are fully conscious that Relati s a world power," said Dr. <lJn *?Vl nize Hui r> of notes Balkan war has laid bare be- lomatic < 3 Musselmen the great secular aln's pre is of his faith. He has begun America elve, for the first time after anama enturles that Islam is not a rmlnologlcal expression repre- , ! .. diverse communities with c'Pa part, but a living force of <ours'' ' il and social cohesion binding FC ilems iu au nlty of hope, pur- Plans uty and endeavor. trade all 1 * ' $1.50 IJ (EAR HAS SEEN [CHESTER 1P0RIANT CHANGES III I n Momentous Period to Scout Cruise United States. dent Wi lilti DECLARATIONS. IDS ()!UE( irnl* 11 :i\ AlVf'CtCil Tilt* Mtlcli Specula y in \U Itclut inn*. Ilntli <>! lii* ?rci;*ii jiiv! Domestic. 1 IK ton. /\.?Tw< Ivo Washington f 1 ! 1 wrought change* in T-and aboard, lean government political, cruiser Chesti and financial probably tin* (lulf of > r-renehliiK than any oth< r drop anchor a the last (piartcr century. Island, on the apparent today in a back- Mr. Lind, 1 lice over memorable events sonal represe ist year in all branches of pects to break ntal acyvity. at Pass f'firic ocratlc Administration in na- before him a airs came to power in this ican situation is with a Democratic Presi- i To make tl a Democratic Congress at to Ship Island for the first time since 1 ter will have leveland occupied the White , 23 knots an 1 nours. st constitutional amendment j There has 0 were perfected, providing ' as to the exa cal changes in the funda_ i journey, lie asis of government?an in- to make a ver and the direct election of dent and in so ates senators. I suggested thi A NEW FINANCE. "crumbling;" < itional bank ami currency nearly finishc levised to float the debt of 1 Detween the Sections and oourso t operated ever since, was re- conies. 1 into a federal reserve sys- SOME hich the central plan, the in this con idea of Europe, was rejejet- expressed her vast system of financial re- tion's opposit ion perfected. rials in Mexic ocratic tariff law became ef- to all of lluer lie first since the Wilson bill jn the creatio ind one of the most compre- government ii ariff measures ever enacted, pubic men nm el Post system was brought ta hut not re !>ssful operation and some of throw or deatl later were reduced while a loading par niitations were extended. the Fntted St terstate commerce commis- ti.? ? in a physical valuation of night were ai ?a project which will cost from Ojjnaga and take years to complete reinanant of < h is expected ultimately to rrn army was basis of rate making. Mean- xhe Amerlcai great Eastern railway sys- Texas. is com !>wed application for a 5 per js Relieved till >ral increase in freight rates |ju, officer in commission directed reduc- back into M< express rates. soldiers trvini E CANAL FINISHED. across the lint :eps in building the Panama TO re taken with the probability Reports to< greatest engineering feat of r(,bel movemc will be in operation in the \Uevo Leredi to occupy tlia al control of the Pihilippine pOSS|ble mom ?nt was delivered to the na- ojinaga. esta lie islands by President Wil- constitutlo ointment of a native major whole nortliei e Philippine commission. fbo armort promised a new era in rela- ^as been plat the government with great Soun,i to utill ons in the entforcement of snialler gun rman anti-trust law, was coast ot about hv the "bloodless" dis. of the American Telephone graph Company's relations IwoWeiui Western Union. President gp0(.jai to Th open declaration that the ad- Snr lion desired to co-operate ? , S business" in a peaceful ad- o'clock lion of the law was received Jt 5 ?^ ip'reme "out laid down sev- D. llorton. 1 isions of deep rooted impor- '"P the otliei It decided th.it owners of 'he ^:,i ts and patents may not eon- evening, the price at which retail dealers ti"d with tlu eir products to the consum- 'or- Misv Uul sustained the validity of the 'he hride o i law as a criminal measure Landlngham. first time in the "turpentine women are i iise. In the "cotton corner" A. Hower*. \ laid down tlie principle that Heath Sprmi r" in any commodity is a vio- enterprising the anti-trust laws. In the caster count; e cases it decided that states their railroad commissions itrol over the rates of lines lather heir borders, irrespective of C.affnev Sp rstate commerce commission, and Couriei eign relations affairs of the county holds re hardly less eventful. Sec- age. regardle ryan's plans for international established ere accepted in principle by death of Abe Fin nations and treaties respected f!: United States actually were $?. years of iy the Netherlands ami Niea- an actual fat of forty-thr important announcements of thought to t linistration's foreign policy de by President Wilson when mprc|ai aR(.|i Irew the support of the 1 ni- t.ominerce w >s from th ebankers in the so- important ix-power loan, in his Latin- nl(,nt's parti' n statement in which he pro- tween capita the Intention of the I'nited (.n,ation of i o recognize in the Western (.a|)inet for ere only those governments whlfh Willis on law and order, and in m>nt lahor i(. notod Mobile spc?eoh in which creation ed out the menace of foreign oonimission ans to the peace and security wj,ich bas be al and South America. subject, ons with Mexico, the Ameri. Command! ernmont's refusal to recog- naj affairs < erta and a spirited exchange nounPpment on the subject were the dip- development svents of the year. (Ireat Brit- po,,p(j builrit itest against the exemption of roa(j; a polio n shipping from tolls in the properties o canal and Japan's protest prop0sed fe? the anti-alien land legislation poslts Gf ra trnia were the two other prin- va]uable in r itures. Both still are in the jn agricul >f diplomatic discussion. unprecedenti >R AMEBICAN TRADE. volume of ct for an extension of American age, their vn troad by the creation of com- 000,000,000. \ 'EH YEAR. nnikino Dim IDJO AMERICA >r Comes With I'resiIson's Emissary. T IS I N KNOWN. (ion as to I ton 1 (' Jill so \ i^it to t!ie l*i n(. Dec. '! 1 \Vt?l. T nil n the railed St;ites -cout r was speeding aeross lexloo tongiht, due to ibout midnight oft Ship coast of Mississippi, 'resident Wilson's perntative in Mexico, exfast with the President tian tomorrow and lay full report on the Mexle run from Vera Cruz I, as planned, the Chesto maintain a speed of hour for more than 24 been much speculation ct object of Mr. Lind's is coming, officials say, bal report to the Presime quarters it has been it. convinced that the >f the Huerta regime is d, Mr. Ltnd desires to he President as to the pursued when the end NOT SO BAD. nectior* nelief has been e that Ibe administraion to provisionel offio City does no textend ta's adherents and that n of a new provisional i Mexico some of the caiv associated with Huersponsihle for the overli of Madero, might take t with the approval of at.es. nd war departments to_ lxiously awaiting news . Mew, where the last "Jeneral Huerta's northmaking its final stand, i garrison at Presidio, parativoly small and it is explains the action of command i?. driving xico individual federal z to find safety in flight e. FORM LINE, lay told of continued nts against the town of i, indicating a purpose it place at the earliest ent and with the fall of blish an unbroken line nal authority along the rn border. ?d cruiser South Dakota red in reserve at Puget /-.< hit personnei to man boats required on the ' Mexico. in>! at lleatli Springs. ie News. ings, Jan. 1.?On the Tuesday, December 2 J, in the study of the Rap11, Miss Robbie Rowers l marriage to Mr James >r. J. \V. II. Dyches be- s ating minister, lie hour oil Wednesday 24th, in the same room same olliciating minis, alia I'av Rowers became f Mr. William P. VanThese popular young laughters or Mrs. James vlio resides just west of while the grooms aro young farmer- of I.anof Many t 'hihlrcu. rial to Charleston News r. Dec. I! 1. ?Cherokee tli erecord for parentis of color, which fact is by investigation at the Smith, a well-known and iflney negro. Abe was n ?ro : nil it io oaitl tc? Kn t that he was the father of children. This is >e a record-breaker. its of the department of ere launched. steps in the governripation in relations be1 and labor were the i new portifolio in the a secretary of labor, to im B. Wilson, a promiader, was appointed : and by Con press of a federal on industrial relations gun a study of the entire ing features in the inter:>f the nation were anof a liberal policy for the of Alaska with the pro>g of a government raily of conservation for the f the Indian tribes, and ieral control of all dedium, lately become so nedicine. tore the year was one of sd prosperity. While the pops was below the aver_ ilue totalled nearly $10,