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8 COTTON EXCHANGES TO REOPEN NOV. II New York and Liverpool t< Open Simultaneously. IMPORTANT CONFERENCE Outlet fur Tie?l l'p Cotton Marketi Worked Out at Conference of K\|?'rts, Washington, Oct. 31.?An oullc for the tied-up cotton markets > this country was worked out today when at a corference of fedem! re serve and private bankers, topeihei with Sir George Parish and Basil 1! Blackett, representing the Britisl: treasury, it was agreed simultan eously to open, November lfi, tin New York and Liverpool cotton exchanges. Sir George spoke authoritatively he said, for his government as to the Liverpool exchange. The next important step to be taken by the bankers will be to agree next week upon a system of exchange of nine months' certificates that may be used by American merchants in lieu of luring over $40."),000,000 or more of gold to Kngland to strike the balance of trade. "he day decided upon for opening th^ New York an i Liverpool cotton exchanges is that already* fixed bv 3eoretary of the Treasury McAdoo fo opening the feival reserve system In connection with the reopening of the New York cotton exchange it was learned also that a group of New York bankers has agreed to underwrite a loan of about $10,000,000 to carry cotton brokers through the storm that will break on theni when trading is resumed, and save them from disaster. Hundreds of brokers on both the Liverpool and New York exchanges had many contracts known to the profession as "spread and straddle" contracts, on their hands when the exchanges were closed. These contracts had been entered into at prevailing prices, which were much higher than anything that could he obtained now. Many brokers would be ruined if they were called on to make good without aid from banks. The likelihood of disaster to many brokers was one of the principal obstacles to be overcome in arranging for the reopening of the exchanges, and it was not provided for until the New York bankers stepped forward. The $10,000,000 will be loaned to the brokers and repaid by assessments against the commissions that they make after business is resumed on the exchange. A similar plan for the assistance of the brokers on the Liverpool exchange is being worked out. Sir Cieorga Parish informed conferees. Treasury department officials are optimistic that the new plan will work out \yith entire success and that it will re-establish tlie cotton industry. When the New York exchange is opened, not only will the federal reserve banks anil the now federal reserve system be in full operation, but the $135,000,000 cotton pool will be largely distributed and conditions generally will be as favorable as extensive preparations can make them for a resumption of eotton trading. The effect on the disposal of tin* South's great cotton crop is expected to be marked The Knglish mills will probably buy in large quantities at the favorable prices and a vast amount of money will go into the speculative market. The theory is that cotton at 6 cents, which will he established as the rock bottom price by the operation of the big cotton pool, will appeal to the public as a good buy for surplus money and that a tremendous quantity will be disposed of in this way. W. G. P. Harding, member of the federal reserve board and the expert in general charge of cotton relief, made this statement after the conference today: "Satisfactory progress is being made on subscriptions to the cotton loan fund. The committee are actively at work in the various clearing house cities to which the matter has been referred. "St. laiuis reports that the full it mount auoiTeci to that city, $7,500,000, has been raised, and the subscribers are ready for the underwriting contract." Notice of Discharge. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will, as committee of the estftte-^f Terah liruee, deceased, on the lOtn^day of Not. 1014, make his final return return as such committee and Vpply to the probate court of Lancaster county for letters dismlssory. X few M brucf:. Committee Estate fit Terah Jrure, Deceased. Oct. 20. 1914, f TO lltTY COTTON. 1 Chewing (.uiii King to Purchase ^ #1.000.000 Worth of Cotton. J Chicago. Oct. 31.?The William Wrlgley, Jr., Company, chewing 1gum manufacturers, announced to * ; day that It had evolved a plan to us*, a portion of its capital end credit in helping a little to relieve the financial situation of the eotton s'growers and invited other manufnc-i turers to follow the same idea. The details are given in a letter t mailed by President Wrlgley to rel tail dealers in the cotton states as , follows: "We will take from you middling cotton at 10 cents per pound, not only for the amount of your present i indebtedness to us. but also to cover any purchases you may make from us up to December 31. 1014. The only stipulations are that the cotton, for which you charge us 10 cents a i pound and warehouse for our account, must be taken from a needy ( ! retailer, who in turn is taking it 'from a needy farmer, and that when our purchases of cotton in this manned have reached the sum of $1,000.000 we are at liberty to discontinue the arrangement if we think it is necessary to do so. You, of course. understand that our only possible object in buying an article at three cents a pound or so higher j than the market is to help our good friends in the South just at this! time.*' ASKS TEACHERS, NOT LAWS. ' Education Can't l?e liOnlslate<l Into People, SayN Swearingen. Spartanburg Special to Charleston News and Courier, Oct. 31.?What j' Is needed to combat illiteracy in South Carolina Is not new laws, but 11 more teachers and n more earnest |1 spirit of co-operation among the people, said J. E. Swearingen, state 1 superintendent of education, who 1 passed through Spartanburg today on a tour of inspection of the schools of the county. Mr. Swearingen. in an interview |] said the seriousness of the educa- i tional situation was not to be minimized, but that it was folly to thin!< I that all that was needed to stamp I out ignorance was some new laws. < More teachers were required, he i said, and to illustrate his point, drew < attention to the fact that in one < school of this county there was only one teacher for 100 pupils. ' Above all else, however, Mr. I Swearingen put co-operation among ' the people. If they would get t<.- < getlier and do what lay in their own power to remedy conditions, instead ' of depending on their law timbers to solve the problem, the situation 1 \yould soon he improved, is the ' opinion of the state superintendent of education, and the ratio of illiteracy in Spartanburg county, which ' he said was now about 25 tier cent. < soon would bo reduced. lied Cross Appeal. I To the People of South Carolina: , In asking your paper to present to you this appeal in the name of (. humanity from the American Red Cross I shall be brief and not overlax your patience. There is suffering and distress premailing in Europe today, the magnitude and depths of which never entered the mind of man. The victims now from conservative investigation have renched the appalling number of one million fatherless children, and one hundred thousand widows. Think of it in the fear of I God. These an independent citizenship having had all the comfortR and conveniences of life living in happy homes and in charity with all the world, A war for which no o*i? can give a reasonable cause came upon them like a thunderbolt from a clear sky involving two-thirds of the nations of the earth. Those prosperous people living in the section of the war zone that has become the theatre of the most bloody, merciless wnr that has ever blackened the story of civilization, 1 have met the reverses and barbarities that reach Satanic cruelty. Their crops have been destroyed, their homes ruined and burned? their ail gone ?tlietr all gone?this Is no overdrawn picture, it is almost i beyond our imagination. Shelterless, clotlisless, provlsionless. In dismay, hopeless, not knowing w here ; to turn, with no eye to pity, and no' arm to save. My friends and fellow citizens, think of the situation and take it in | u yon can. we plead and pray that your hearts may be touched and j your pocket books opened, i Don't treat this petition with in- i difference. It comes to each and every one of you as a message from above. "He that hath this world s ! goods and seoth his brother in need; and shutteth up his bowels of com- i passion from him how dwelieth the love of Cod in him." Send your contributions to the undersigned, they wili be most welcome and promptly acknowledged and handled. In all modesty and esteem, I beg leave to remain. Your friend and servant. A 0. KAUFMAN. ; Acting President South Carolina i State Hoard American Red Cross. | Charleston. S. C., Oct. 26. 1914. TIIK LANCASTER NEWS CRACOW, WHER K * ri i i is time always will bo a precious mom- > :>ry. * (Signal! "AliBKRT." The American commission for re- t ief in Belgium, nn official body rec- t jgnized by the various governments, ( BRITISH WOUNDED AR ^ y|^^. 4 - Wg3 ' "tjk ' ^ -*^ ^ ^ *' ^jj III ii .? Two wounded s>uldi?iH of a tiighlfei treatment photographed on (heir rrl Citadel of Cracow, on u cliff overloi stand against 1he Hussian artnics. Cra AMERICA MUST ED !: BELGIANS DURING WINTER I I King Albert Adds Voice to Ap- 1 peal for Help for People. , 1 } FIVE MILLION A MONTH, j Thin Sum Will be S|>ent Kacli Thirty 1 Days for Necessaries for the Population. i < London, Oct. 31.?King Albert, af Belgium. has naked the American I, people to help feed his starving peo- ( | pie during the coming winter. His ( message written under lire In the', battle before Dunkirk, and transmit-,, ted to the American commission here | for relief in Belgium, follows: !, "1 am informed that American of- ? flcials and citizens In Belgium and i England are working to save my '< people from the horrors of the ' famine which now threatens them. , f It is a great comfort to me in this i hour of sorrow and misfortune to t feel that a great-heated, disinterest- ! i ed people is directing its efforts to f relieving the distress of the un- 1 attending civilian population of my I ountry. "Despite all that can be done, the i suffering in the coming winter will 1 he terrible, but the burden we must f hear will be lightened if my people i ran he spared the pangs of hunger i with its frightful consequences of I lisease and violence. i "I confidently hope that the ap- < peal of the American commission f will meet with a generous response. ' The whole-hearted friendship of < America shown my people at this ' 1, NOV KM BKU 1914. E AUSTRIANS ARE CO! v"';V *%jS lip*' " -'v | - .<>< <*K " ' oking 'lie Vistula. which the Austrian cow wai> the capital of ancient Polam Is the only channel through which rood can be introduced into Belgium. By its association with a committee In Belgium it has an efficient agency for food distribution. 11. C. Hoover, idialrmun of the commission, today issued an appeal to American newspapers in which he said: "We have received reports from members of this commission who sere sent Into Belgium. Their reports show that there are still some 7,000,000 pepplc in Belgium. In many centers the people are receiv-* ng an ullowuuce of a little more han tiiree ounces of flour per capita Ir.ily. "Our nvnorlu onlonlni^ *>? ? ^ V, .? |> V- vo \ U?* U IUIC I I lit I IU ivoid ftotual starvation Belgium mist have every month a minimum )f 60,000 tons of wheat, 16,000 tons if corn, 6,000 tons of peas or beans md a limited amount of baron or ard. All this will cost $4,000,000 if $6,000,000 monthly. There is no noney in Belgium. The whole credit nachinery has censed. Eighty per ent of the people are unemployed. "A plan may be devised whereby mch Belgians as possess property nay give obligations to pay when he war ends, hut even if we could ealize on these obligations we must dill have at least $2,600,000 montliy in food or money with which to my it. "During the past week we have eceived and expended in emergency ood $600,000 and yet this is only our days' supply. The problem is mmediate. The Belgians are helpng themselves, but they can do ittle. The British and French are mder such strain that they also can lo little. Besides these nations, together with the Dutch, have a milion refugees on their hands. Ameri :.ns must feed Belgium this winter. There never was such a call on Vmerican charity and there never vas a famine emergency so great. "Will you, therefore, in the Inerests of humanity, open a subscrip mil Ulllon* your readers, oar-mark - I d 'For the sole purpose of purohnsRIVE AT FOLKESTONE jttr-%. fj^ ^ * *v y ad itogitnenl ?*nt bark to KtiKl&ud foi vh! nf Flnkpatone MCENTRATING ? armies are trying 'o reach for a lust il and Ib very strongly fortified. ing and transporting food.' Every dollar so raised will be used to purchase food in the United States.*' \COUNTYNEWS\ ELGIN. Special to The News. Elgin. Nov. 2.?Little Miss Isabel Ferguson of Lancaster, who has been spending a while with her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. llalley, returned home Sunday. Miss Eva Mae Duren attended the state fair last week. Mr. Robert Johnson of Lancaster spent Sunday with his father. Mr. C P. Johnson. Mr. Dewey Olountst of Rock Hill ! i spent Sunday in ElgTn with 'rlends. ! Miss Onibel Duren of Lancaster spent Saturday and Sunday at her1 father's, Mr. T. R. Duren. 1 Mrs. J. H. Bailey and children j spent several days last week with her mother. Mrs. Porter, of Lancaster. Misses Irene Stewman, Jessie and Rosalia Ferguson of Lancaster spent Sunday with Miss Kva Mae Duren. Mrs. Minnie Shiliingiaw of Leslie j is visiting her brother, Mr. J. G. Stogner, in tills vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Railey of Springdell visited the former's father. Mr. Jack Railey, fjaturday and Sunday. Mr. Stanlev Truesdale of Charlotte spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Mattie Truesdale. HKATH SPRING. Special to The News. Heath Spring. Nov. 2.?The Rev. ; T. W. DeVane gave an interesting and instructive address on the his- ' tory and principles of Masonry before Barron Lodge, No. 261, Fridaynight. The Buttrick Literary Society will hold its regular monthly meting at the school building Friday night. November 6th. An interesting program will he carried out. Miss Ruby Rutledge, a Winthrop student, spent Saturday and Sunday it the home of her father. Dr. J. A. j Rutledge. Mi?s Fstelle Bell has returned home and occupies her position -it the | nstoftice, after u visit of several weeks to her sister, Mrs. O. C. Croxton. of Columbia. Mr. and Mi*. R. O. Small of Rich I Hill visited Mr. and Mrs. D. W. i Hendrlx Sunday. Miss Mattie Mae Mobley has gone to Kershaw county to accept a position as teacher. Mr. H. A. Aldrich is at home from a business trip to the northwestern part of the state. The Pleasant Hill school district 1 has recently completed an elegant and commodious school building and has engaged Miss Maggie Tompkins 1 of this place to teach during the current session. Miss Florence Bell went to Columbia Sunday to visit friends. Mrs. Lula Vaughn has accepted a position In the office of the Knter- . prise Mercantle Company. Try Tills For Your Cough. Thousands of people keep coughing because unable to get the right , remedy. Coughs are caused by in- j fiammation of throat and bronchial I I tubes. What you need is to soothe t this inftammMlon. Take Dr. King's! New Discovery, it penetrates the | delicate mucous lining, rnlses the i phlegm nnd quickly relieves the congested membranes. Get n r>i?c bottle from your druggist. "I)r. King's New Discovery quickly and completely stopped my cough," writes J It. Watts, Floydale, Texas. Money back if not mitisfled, but it nearly I always helps. I Heath Springs defeated ftock Hill I in a game of basketball this after|noon. the score being 15 to 11. ! It Really Does Relieve Rheumatism. | Kverybody who is afflicted with , rheumatism in any form should by all means keep a bottle of Sloan's Lininment on hand. The minute you feel pain or soreness in n joint or muscle, bathe It with Sloan's Liniment. Do not rub it. Sloan's pen- j etrates almost immediately right to the seat of pain, relieving tin- hot. tender, swollen feeling and making the part easy and comfortable. Get a bottle of Sloan's Liniment for 25 cents of any druggist and have It in the house?against colds, sore and swollen joints, rheumatism, neural 1 tela, arlatira and like ailmenta. Your money bark if not satlafleri, hut it does give almont inatant relief. r FLAT CRKKK S. S. CONVENTION. rroxram for Saturday, November 14. at Kerahaw lin|>ti*t Church. The Flat Creek Township Interdenominational Sunday School Convention will convene with the KerI O..A 1 4T. j oiiaw i|#11r*i i iiuii ii oaiuiwuy, noveinber 14. at 10 o'clock a. m. Devotional services by Rev. T. A. Dabney. Organization by enrolling delegates from each school of the township. Rlectlon of officers viz: a president, a vice president, a secretary and treasurer. Verbal report on condition of the ! Sunday schools. First query: The qualifications of the teachers, who teach in a successful school, also give the effect of preparation in the entire nianage; nient. Speakers: Rev. J. B. Gaston, Rev. T. A. Dabney, Rev. S. D. Holey, J. VV. Hamel, Rev. J. M. Neal. Second query: The Sunday school as a local help for Christian work| ers. Speakers: Rev. T. \V. N. J Faile, W. IT. Olyburn, Rev. Jabez Ferris, W. L. Croxton, \V. P. McManus, 1). A. Williams. Third query: In your own way, | give the greatest needs of the modern Sunday school, and how to secure the same. Speakers: Rev. P. K. Illackmon, W. C. Adams. Dr. B. J. Jones, M. C. Gardner, Dr. J. H. , Thayer. Dr. J. VV. H Dyches. You Make Friends By Recommending a Reliable Kidney Medicine. Your representative called at my door yesterday meaning to leave a nfimnln ? t VA.._ _ A I CI Y1 a?ni|ji<i ui tuur ii'iu'ti owamp-nooi and I am certainly pleased to see anybody connected with the Ann who makes a medicine which has done so mnch for me and my family. A few years ago I was suffering from a terrible pain in my back and when I was up around the bovine I had to walk wtth my body bent nearly double. If you had placed a thousand dollars above my head I could not straighten up to get It. Hearing of Drj Kilmer's SwampRoot I sent to yoa for a sample bottle and from tne effects of that small amount I /was sure it would help me so I bought one bottle and it has cured mel Shortly after Vhat my husband who wan a coal nvtoer, was suffering from kidney troubl^^nnd could not work and I sent for\ some of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root.\ He was in a terrible condition, biitl as the doctors had not given mel any relief, I had more faith in SwJmp-Root and it was well founded, for it did the work and after takinf* a few bottles he was completely cared. I dally recommend the use of Swamp-Hoot to my I friends and neighbors. Sincerely yovfrar-^ MRS. JOHN NORDQITHBT, Galeton, Henna. Sworn and subscribed tcj before me, this 14th dav of May, |912. W. D. ALLEN# J. P. l/etter to i | Dr. Kilmer & Co. ' llingliamton, N. Y. \ ^ Prove What Swamp-Root Will l>o For You. Send ten cents to !">r. Kilmer & Co., Dinghamton, N. Y., for a sample size bottle. It will convince anyone. You will also receive a booklet of valuable information, telling about the kidneys and bladder When writing be sure and mention The Lancaster (Semi-Weekly) News. Regular fifty cent and one-dollar size bottles for sale at all drug stores. CABBAGE PLANTS. Weather conditions have been ideal and I am justified in saying there are\ no better Cabbage Plants to be had\ The stands are beautiful and you wlH.be more than pleased with them, yiricties: Early Jersey Wakeflelq, Charleston Wakefield, Early ISprlng, Early Plat Dutch, Late Plat Dutch, Early Succession and Late Succession. Price 7 5 cents for 5rKki. $1.00 per 1,000; 5,000 and over 85\ cents per 1,000. n? .v.. 11 IP. ...... ...I 1111. rnA M mj limn u u veil CO | put 1UU, OUU, $1.25. Special priae on large quanilties. V. Heet, Lettuce and\Onlon plants ready for Hhlpme.it after December 1st. Write for prices h>n these. Orders are filled samrvlay received. Appreciating your raivors. ALFRED JOUAI^NET. Mount Pleasant, 8. C. 7-2?t Notice of Discharge. Notice Is hereby given that the un- > dertdgnod--ieUl. as guardian of the estnUTm Cufhfc^rt Gregory, her ward, on the 8th TSly of November, 1914, make her final reKirn as such guardian, and apply to the probate court of Lancaster county for letters dlsmissory. S. J. GREGORY. Oct. 9th, 1914. Guardian. Lancaster & Chester By. Co. schedule In Effect Nov. 9th,"1913. Eastern Time. WESTBOUND. Lv. Dniester 6:00a?3:ir?p Lv. Fort/Lawn 6:30a?3:65p Lv. BaKodmville 6:47a?4:15p Lv. UlcVfourg 6:58a?4:30p Ar. Cbelter. 7:40a?5:16p TJASTBOUNI). Lv. Chester .| 9:30a?6:45p Lv. Rlchburgl 10:20a?7:27p Lv. Haaoomvllle ....10:31a?7:38p Lv. Fort LawnV^. . .11:03a?7:55p Ar. Lancaster .71. ..11:30a?8:2rp Connections?Chester, with Southern, Seaboard and! Carolina A Northwestern Railways. V Fort Lawn, with 8eaboard Air Line Railway. Lancaster, with Southern Railway. A. P. McLURE, Supt. CcmSvAttvX 6oj6vcvx^'v* o-KvtOt. Covx\i|o\? UtaU. axvOuuxmwX utWcuSoxtfft.Tob oo^ u\h*Jaci\.Xwu.te *XaxX TIIK KIRNOATIONAL HANK