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i ' i i ' i f . ; 'VOL. 10, po. 19, SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. C., TUESDAY, ^tX!EM.BEK 8, 1914. $1.50 A YEAR. . ~J- C- I " J ' * Mm I. M. ws PATRIOTIC OFFER ' I Silver Cup for Last Survivor of Company. COMPANY E., 2D S. C. REG. Jjist of Members of First Company to Is'ave Camden in War Between Sections. The following from the last issue of The Camden Chronicle, relative to our townsman. Major J. M. Kiddle, and his kind offer of a silver cup to the last survivor of Company E, Second South Carolina ltegiment, will be of interest to i tie I ni'??ti>r survivors cf this company whom it shall reach: Muj. James M. Iliddle of Lancaster was in Camden a few hours .Monday on his return home from the South Carolina conference at Sumter. Mr. Riddle tells us that he has not missed a conference in twentyseven years and all told he had been present at thirty of these annual guherlngs. Mr. Riddle hftd in his possession a copy of the Camden Weekly Joura1 of April 30, 1861, which he prizes very highly. This old paper contains the orginal list of Co. E. 2nd S. C. Regiment?the first, company to leave Camden at the beginning of the War Between the Sections. A happy thought struck Mr. Kiddle in connection with this old paper and that is to donate a silver cup with the following inscription engraved thereon: "J. M. RIDDLE, to flvo loo# ~ vt? X i uv uuiit oui t i y uifc, muiiiuvr ui i u. 'E.' S. C. Regiment.'' Out of the eighty-seven members of the company there are still alive several of these old fellows?some in Camden and Kershaw county and others have drifted to different points. Mr. Riddle requested us to reproduce the list as it appears in the old paper with the hope that any of the oid fellows still alive will see the offer he has made. To prove that he is the last survivor the copy of the paper containing the original list will be deposited together with the silver cup in a Lancaster bank, and when it is known that they have all pased away save one the cup will be donated to the last survivor. Of the entire company Mr. Riddle was the youngest member and was affectionately known as "Little Jimmy." He Is now seventy years of age but this does not hamper his memory and he can relate instances of the great battles, giving dates, etc., as though it were only yesterday. While in Camden Mr. Riddle called at Hlackwell's jewelry establishment and purchased the cup, had the inscription engraved and it is now deposited in 9 Lancaster bank. He requests as many of the papers that care to In this section to reproduce the list of old soldiers in an effort to reach them all. The following is the original list as it appeared in the Camden paper of the above date and we know it will arouse a great deal of interest among the old fellows who are still alive, and those of the older generation who remember them; Officers: J. D. Kennedy, captain; W. Z. Leitner, first lieutenant; E. E. Sill, second lleuptenant; W. L. De Pass, third lieutenant; E. Niles first sergeant; J. J. McKaln, second sergeant; J. D. Dunlap, third sergeant; J. L. Haile, ourth sergeant; J. J. Drakeord, fifth sergeant; A Nlies, first corporal; H. G. MrKagen, second corporal; R. Hon nett, third corporal; W. C. Dutton fourth corporal: J. P. Itoswell, flftli corporal; J. A. Perry, sixth corporal Privates. J. W. Allen, W. R Allen, K. B. Arrants, J. H. Arrasts A. L. Barnes, B. M. Bear, J. JK. Beaver, J. F. Ilraslngton, J. S Brown, W. Bowen, T. F. Boykln W. M. Bullock, A. Campbell, T. M Crump, Patrick Cusiok, J T. Davis, F. J. Divine, Georg< Kvans, J. R. Ferrel. J. H. Francis K. T. Gardner, R. L. Gerald, H. B Gibson, John A. Glenn, I). Graham J. T. Graham, B. F. Harrison, J E. Hinson, Isaac Holland, E. II Jcnks, A. Johnson, W. B. Johnson GOVERNOR THE ONLY HOPE. Court Refuses to Review the Case of Leo M. Prank. Washington, Dec. 7.?The supreme cour ttoday refused to issue writ to review the case of Leo M. Frank, convicted In Atlanta in 1913 'of the murder of Mary Phagan. The court's action ends attempts to save Frank's life by Intervention. Attorneys for Frank first sought the | writ for the review in an application to Justice Lamar. He denied the application. The effort was renewed by application to Justice Holmes, who likewise denied the I writ. . Afier the court's announcement Indiiv llniicv Movninliii ins Frank, conferred by telephone with Louis Marshall, of counsel, then announced he would take no' further steps itt Washington lor the present. 1 Efforts will he made w ^w* it is said here, to nrocure ?i pardon or 'commutation of sentence front the j governor of Georgia. NORTH ATLANTIC COAST GALE SWEPT _____ Northeast cr Sweeps Coast From North Carolina to Maine at tin Miles an Hour Hate. New York, Dec. 7.?Blowing 60 miles an hour, a roaring northeaster today swept the Atlantic coast front North Carolina to Maine. Chiof among the many wrecks was | an unidentified warship with four ! funnels and a fighting top which ' went ashore yesterday near Ocean 'City Md. Her desperate plight was j manifested by continual strieking of her whistle. Help could not be | given because of high seas. Lashed by the gale, the ocean battered down the sea wall at Sea bright, N. J., and placed the town in | imminent peril of destruction on the: next high tide. Its streets were I flooded, rail communication was cut ofT, breakers were rolling over the1 chief thoroughfare and undermining the foundations of the principal buildings and there appeared every threat that the damage would be great. New York bay and harbor practically were cleared of all craft by the gale. One Are boat was sunk at her pier. On the New Jersey shore of the Hudson a new high water mark was set. The big waiting room of the Lackawanna terminal was flooded and nearly all ferries discontinued their regular trips . Along the coast of New England the ga^e was especially violent. At Point Judith, It. I., a small scooner was torn from her anchorage and thrown on the breakwater. Life savers seeking to rescue the crew of a six-masted schooner which struck Tuekernuck shoal on Saturday have been unable to launch their bonts. Women llring Tlicir Knitting to fiailedies. Washington Flee 7 Cnnitol OA. clety's last activities?knitting garments for stricken Belgians?appeared today in the halls of Congress. While the galleries were filling several young women "brought their knjtting" and plied their needles vigoroasly on mufflers. New Yorli Harbor Swept by Storm. New York, Dec. 7.?The Atlantic gale today swept New York harbor I and bay with great violence. SevI eral vessels lying at dock were I pounded against the piers. The . Are boat, lying at a slip in St. George, Staten Island, was sunk in that way. . George King, Robert Kirkley, R. , R. Kirkland, J .M. I^eGrand, M. L. i Lemmond, James Mcintosh, Joel Mc. | Millan, J. W. P. McKagen, 9. B. . | Meares, J. P. Mlckle, D. J. Middle , [ton, C. R. Miles, M. W. Morrison, . George Nelsrtn. Hiram Nettles, Jesse . Nettles, William Parker, C. J. , i Pegues, R. H. Pegues. J. R. Plekett, ,J. W. Polk, T. W. Pope, R. W. . Procter, J. M. Riddle. R. F. Small, 3 John Smith. W. W. Stokes, B. R. , Strawbridge, James Stuart, John . Team, W. M. Turner, L#. M. Vaughn, ,(W. W. Watts, J, O. Warren, J. A. . j Wethersby, R .R. Wilson. J. It. Win . | uer, j. M. wiinerspoon, f. is. i,' Woods, W H. Wright. LANCASTER COUNTY Fit DESPITE INC10K ' ' ZZl Address by Prof. A. G. Smith ai of Friday, the Big THE FAIR CONTINUED Kvliihits 1*1111 and Representative?1 for Host Kvhildt and Showing "S Kducational Kvhildt Roth li The first county fair for Lancaster county ,au event which many have anticipated with the 1: est since the first announcement that it would be held, was a tremendous success, far ? xeeeding expectations. That a fair could have been held this year of all years. when such an enterprise had never before been attempted here within our recollection, is u fine tribute to the optimism and energy of Set rotary Ellison, as well as ?o the cooperation of the people of both town and country, all of whom entered whole-heartedly into the project. That a fair could have been held during such weather as we have had the past week speaks well for the spirit of ou rpeople, who were determined to see what was to be seen. Although, of course*, many could not get to the fnir because of the almost unceasing rain, many others did come and all expressed themselves as well pleased with the exhibits, as well as the other attractions. The fair opened Thursday, but as this was a day of final arrangemenst and as the weather had delayed many in bringing to town their articles for exhibition, it was not until Friday that the fair was well launched. There was a fairly good < crowd here Thursday but Friday was I the big day and a big crowd braved the weather to be on hand for the I occasion. | FARM PRODUCTS. Under the big tent on the court house square the farm products were displayed under the direction of C. L. McManus,.farm demonstrn- \ tor for Lancaster county. Here was J a splendid assortment of corn, cot-! ton, hay, grain of all kinds, peanuts, pumpkins, cabbages, potatoes, beans, peas, turnips, etc., and here the farmers met and exchanged ideas and were greeted by the townspeople and under the big tent also the King's Daughters served hot coffee and sandwiches to the visitors, i AGRICULTURAL ADDRESSES. Then, too, in the big tent the ! talks on agriculture were made to a i representative gathering of farmers, j Among the many helpful incidents of the county fair were tha addresses delivered by Prof .A. G. Smith of the United States department of agricalture, and Col. E. J. Watson, | state commissioner of agriculture. Prof. Smith stressed the impor| tance of the farmers raising hogs, mules and catties. The most profitable is hogs, next mules and then cattle. Swine could be raised with very little expense and then a farmer who ran four or five plows, by keeping one good brood mare in a few years could have mules enough to run his farm and would not be dependent on Western mules, for which he would have to pay $300 a head. Col. Watson delivered one of the most practical addresses ever made in the county. He congratulated the people of the county on pulling off a county fair when everything wan so blue. Said he; "Thls'ls the happiest crowd I have seen In 28 counties. Folks in every othef county I have bees in had- great long faces. I was in Oaffaey the at hen dy a. and the crowd looked so sgd end forlorn I naked who' was iWad." He said it was an inspiration 'to see the long line of school children marching through the ntud. It did hLra good to go through the court l house and witness what the farmers I of the county had been doing. In speaking of the war on the other side of the world, he said: "When the Emperor of Germany swung his 1 sledge hummer against the othpr powers of Europe he not only struik them,' but he hit old King Gotten in the head and in doing so str U}%\ every man, woman and child in the South." The Southern farmer, H said, had been supplying, from yqpr 1 to v"-r an artificial stimulant, in tfie T * . ....-j >> t , ' i. i ' .... I GREAT te m OF Ti WEATHER id Hon. E. J. Watson Features Day of the Fair. rtONDAY AND TUESDAY. UniiWh mm** ?.1 '* imvMlii * Up rhool Day"?Southern Railway itercsting nnd Instructive. s*1 upe of fertilizer, costing million, of dollars. "Thirty-one million dolof *',rl'lt7or a year to ton?" ho soil-sick man." Cotton had hoen forced up to 14 cents by artificial means. The people should thank Cod that the \v; r had come, hoceno it had put the people to thinking as they had never done before. Don't look for the cotton market to be good again for several years. The man who tells you that cotton will he spun in Europe is a fool." Nobody wants the cotton. If you plant only one half of a cotton crop next year it will cost you 11 cents to raise it and you will not get over 7 Vi cents for it. Our people have been living too extravagantly. They have paid out $1.1,000,000 for hog meat, $5,000,000 for hay, $20,000,- , 000 for flour and meal, all of which | they could produce themselves. We have been living on tin cans. Go,1 into our country stores and you will find the shelves filled with canned blackberries, peaches and even po-; tatoeS, which have be^n shipped in I at fifteen times the price at which they could he raised at home. Fourteen million dollars thrown i away for these things. You can't raise cotton any longer. The law says you cannot raise more than a third of your entire crop. Sow wheat, oats and rye. The world will he starving for something to eat by another year. You will want something to eat yourself. Twenty i million men are now in arms and they must he fed. Breads tuffs are going up and will continue to go up. The South is the only country that can put in a grain crop now and harvest it in from two to theree months before nny other country. There will be no demand for cotton in the next three years. By the first of June next year you will get the ready cash for the hreadstuffs and by raising them will have no fertilizer i bill to meet. Colonel Watson said he had seen I as fine corn on exhibition in the court house as he had seen in any county. The farmer could have two i different money crops next year,! grain and corn. It is now (lie . golden opportunity for the farmer if he would but seize it. He advis- . ed the farmers to build up r\ new agri | cultural basis on live stock and' things to eat. Live at home and quit the miserable credit system. If we . don't seize the golden opportunity 1 we will see ruin in 1915. You can control the situation if you but will to do it. He advised the farmer to get up a flour mill, as it would not do as well to sell the wheat in the crude form. "I am proud of this, your first county fair," said Colonel ; Watson. "It will lead to a bigger i fair." He congratulated the Cham-' ber of Commerce on the live secretary they had in Mr. Luther Ellison. He had been observing the good > work he has been doing in the town i and county. The interests of the town ana county were interdependent. Let there be no antagonism between the two. Get in behind Kllikon and he will lead you right. Colonel Watson's parting injunction to the farmers was, "Let old ^totton glone." We regret that we cannot reproduce In full Colonel i dVatson's entire address, which was M full of good suggestions to. the fanners. flOUTHBHN RAILWAY EXHIBIT. The old court house was completely transformed by the decorative quaiity of the various exhibits. Within it. at the right of the door and occupying ? considerable space was the very instructive exhibit of the Southern Railway, covering three phases of I activity, domestic science, dairying and horticulture. This exhibit \vn? in chargd v>f Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Wood of Charlotte, Mr. Wood is an ill. 1 is[trial and linnlfration agent of the southern. I?r. Walter Sorrell, assis(Contlned on Page Klght.) t. r,,,V t. - - ; . w> ? THK NEW FEDERAL WAR TAX. Partial List of Articles on Which the Tax is Levie<l. The First National Bank furnishes us with the following list of the legal documents and articles upon which a special war tax has been levied, by the federal government to meet the falling off in customs receipts: 1.?Stocks and Bonds?(a) Original issues, 5c per $100 of face value. (b> Transfers, 2c per $100! of face value (c) Exempt .1. Federal. state and munlcinal 2. Co-operative building and loun association stocks or bonds. 2. Mu'ual ditch or irrigating companies s;i"'ks or bonds. 2.?-Protnissor\ Notes -tat Tax 2c per $100: (lil Affects renewal also. 2. Protest of bills, notes, cheeks, etc. (a) Tax 25c per protest. 4.? Heal Estate Transfers. (at Tax 50c per $5oo. (l?t Only on equity above mortgage and lien*. 5. Insurance Policies, (a) K.v empt, life, health, accident, nutmils, tire or wormcn's compensation. 11? t All other kinds, including undertakings, Tax V?c per $1.00 per premium, (ct No tax on policies of reinsurance. 6.?Indemnity Bonds.? (a) Tax. 5Or each. 7.?Express or Freight?<a) Tax on bills of lading, man-fasts or le- j ceipts. (b) Tax lc per document. 8.?Telegraph and Telephone Messages. (a) Only on messages where charges exceeds 15 cents j tb) Tax lc per message. 9.?Power of Attorney?-(a) To; vote in corporations 10c. ib) To' sell or lease real estate, to transfer ntnpUa nr hntt (la *r\ onllnof #? i * '!"?? '" 25 c. 10.?Perfumery and Cosmetics ? (a) Includes perfumery, cosmetics. | vaselines, hair dressings, dentifrices and similar articles. (b) Tax Vac on each 5c retail value or fraction; %c on each 25c retail value or fraction. 11.?Chewing Gum.?Tax 4c per $1 Oft retail value or fraction. SPECIA1 i TOBACCO TAX. 1.?Dealers in leaf tobacco. $6.00 to $24.00. 2.?Other dealers. $4.80 per stand, only where annual sales exceed $200. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 1. No taxable paper shall be recorded unless properly stamped. 2. Stamps to he cancelled with , initials and dates. 3. Stamps may be procured from i collectors of internal revenue, from designated deposi -ies of the United States, from postmaster. TOILET ARTICLES AND CHEWING GUM. (a) Stamps shall be affixed so as to be broken on use of article. (b) Manufacturers to affix stamps after Dec. 1st. But where articles are already in dealrs' hands the dealers shall affix stamps on sales at retail after Dec. 1st. This will affect all retail dealers. This tax is in effect from Dec. 1st 1914, to Dec. 1st, 1915. WON BY CITADEL CADET Scholarship at Annapolis (iocs to J. A. Mootl. Jr. Washington, Dec. T.- Special: J. A. Mood Jr, of Summerton, who is r. student at the Citrdol wins the prin uipai M'uuiai Miip i'.s i in* rcau.L oi : !! examination held by Senator 10. L). Smith at Columbia recen'ly to uesi'pnate r. principal and three alternates to fill a vacancy at Annapolis March 4 next. The first alternate is A. H. Alexander, of Spartanburg; the second, W. . Martin of Blackville, and the third. C. L. Hunter, of Trenton. K. F. M. British Steamer Sunk by Germans. Valparaiso, Chile, Dec. 7.?The British steamer Charcas. from New York, October 1, has been sunk at sea off Port Corral, Chile, by the German transport Prinz Etiel Friedrich. The crew of the Charcas has been landed at Dapudo, 4 5 miles north of Valparaiso. New Yprk, Dec. 7.?The Charcas was in the service of the New York and Pacific Steamship Company. W. R. Grace & Company, local agents of the line, said the ship carried no passengers and probably she had discharged the greater part of her cargo before meeting the Prinz Eitel Friedrich. The Charcas was built in Newcastle, England, in 1906. She was 4 50 feet long and had a beam of 52 fppl Ili?r crncu rnoriofor trio ' fittn tons. VIUiKS < HHIST>I \S.JIU t'K Pope Trying to (Jot Kuropc to Itemoniber "Prince oi Peace" Rome, Dec. 7. - Pope Benedict is urging a truce between the warring h-.tioHs during the Christmas holidays. It is said, however, his Holiness has little hope for success. LODZ, BIG RUSSIAN CP GALLS BEFORE GERMANS City of Half Million Occupied by German Garrison. FIGHT OF SEVERAL DAYS. Forty British ami French Warships Are Assemble) at Some IMuee i""or it Iilow at the Kiinny. An Associated Press dispatch of vosiordnv says: Lodz, tlie second town of Poland, and lying ?."? miles to tlio west-so thwest of Warsaw, has fallen to the German arms. It was occupied Sunday, aeeording to an official announcement from Berlin. Around this important town a desperate battle has raged for days, fountle: thousands have fallen in desperate hand-to-hand conflicts and from the shells of hundreds of guns. It was evident from the occupation of Lodz by the Germans that the heaviest kind of fighting has been on. for late advices told of a vicious attack and bombardment of Lotdz and fighting on the outskirts of the city and, previous to that, of operations 2 0 miles west of Piotrkow, which lies considerably south of Lodz and along a line from Glowno, 1G miles nortli eist of Lodz, to the Vistula River. Lodz long has been an objective point of the erman army. It has grown in recent years front an insignificant place to one of the most populous cities in the Russian Umpire. Iti 1910 its population nuntltered 415,604 and with this important place as a base tlie Germans are expected to make a strong effort to reach Warsaw. SERVIAN SUCCESS. Regarding other operations in the East, the Servian War Office reports Servian success on the whole front, with the capture of .4 00 men and four complete bateries. On the other hand. Vienna reports that Austrian troops are gaining ground south of Relgrr.de. In Flandere and the north of ; France Sunday was comparatively quiet. The French War Office had nothing to report and no marked successes on either side were recorder in that territory for the previous day. While the attitude of Uoumania is not known officially, a Swiss newspaper asserts that Roumania has redded to enter the war on the side of the Allies. The time for doing so. however, has not been determined on. Forty Uriti-.h and FrGench warships have assembled at some place, the name of which is not given in the dispatch making this announcement "to force their way through." It is probable the correspondent intended to foreshadow an effort by the Allied ships to break through the I Dardanelles but the name evidently i cm in e under the eye of the censor. GOES TO TURKEY. "The German field marshal. Karoo i von Wer Goltz, who spent many ; years in re-organizing the Turkish army, is reported on his way to Constantinople to attach himself to the entourage of the Sultan. King Nicholas of Montenegro admits that a third of his army has fallen on the battlefield, but declares the Montenegrins will continue to defend their country. That French aviators have succeed ed in dropping bombs on the German aviation hangars in Freiburg, Breisgau, Baden, is acknowledged in an official report received in Washington from the German Foreign Office. t Homeless Thousand* Seek I^HlginK House* New York, Dec. 7.?Driven from streets and parks by snow and an , ley rain, thousands of homeless men applied to the municipal lodging house an dseoros of shelters maintained by charitable organizations for food and places to sleep last night. The municipal lodging house cared for 1,669 men, end having no j more room, threw open one of the i nuinieipal piers where nearly 1,000 ' more were given shelter.