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EE^ ' 1 WATCH THTour Label B and Keep W Paid Up. JL Jfc VOL. 11, NO. L>4, SKM1 SHRIEKING SHELLS FOR CHRISTMAS EVE m_M - ** ? - ? uieu (iuwii, nine snois aim tlie occasional rattle of machine guns was all that broke the stillness of death that settled over the city. The eathedal, where midnight mass was said last year under the thunder ol cannon fttood out uguiiiBt the twlight . in ragged ruins like n spectacle with crumbling walls of demolished building all around giving the aspect oi a gigantic cemetery with decaying headstones. The rattle of machine guns struck up again and a few rifle shots rang through the clear air. Toward 8 o'clock the soft strains of an organ were heard from an invisible source. Going through heups of stone and glass to a chapel entrance, one could see a candle ligh' dickering through the darkness a short distance away. Staff officers, waiting for dinner, led the correspondent of the Associated Press to an adjoining room, which resembled the crater of a miniature ex tinct volcano. "If it continues much longer, you are likely to have your dining room also opened to the weather," said the correspondent to the officers. "That is quite possible," replied the captain, "but the destination of a sdjell is something over which we have not found any control yet." Santa Claus and the Christmas spirit, notwithstanding the war, were in evidence everywhere along the Artols battle front where the corre^ spondent passed Christmas eve. They were in the trenches and sheltered with the simple soldiers; in the temporary barracks where the traditional Christmas eve theater was replaced by an improvised concert and vaudeville that almost rivalled the - best Paris could do in time of peace; In the quarters where the officers celebrated with no less simplicity and dignity. In the first little church still defying shell Are that one finds behind the battle front midnight mass was celebrated. From the road running almost parallel to the trenches rock ets shooting up Into ;he air from both lines recalled the Frtnrih nt July fireworks In America. An officer explained (hat this was partly due to habit. * "The fuses are set off every night,'' the officer explained, "even when the moon shines brightly*Wtonight, and " besides the Germans may, as last year, have an idea that we are going at them before morning." The fuses Multiplied at the approach of midnight and on the stroke of 12 the Una aa far as the horlxon was lllumniated a? by a long line of brilliant etara. Flashes of different colors could be seen far away to the Pf . north, although no reports werei heard. "They are firing away ep nhere around Soucbes," a lieutenant said. Several miles up the ditch with' 12 111 inches of chalky mud at Its bottom, Just far enough from the German line t n nepmlt Pronnrtll !?"?- 1 B -vi wu^un" oinvjiB, WI* diers entertained each other with simple fo!k-so:}g? of their home re' Ciona and oxarained parcels from home and talked of victory. One sol rouowinaj tsomoarament People of Arras Held Usual Festivities. SPIRIT IN THE TRENCHES. Soldier* Observed the Holiday Season in Various Ways With Souks and Plays in Evidence. * Arras, on the French Front, Dec. 26.?Hundreds of big shells tore the / air over Arras all Friday afternoon. The echoes of these were the last compliments of the season and they had no sooner died away than the life of Arras began to show Itself through re-opened sellar doors and windows in preparattion for usual Christmas eve festivities. The people of the Artois region rise above their affictions due to the war and the spirit of Arras survives among the heaps of ruins. "It would be really a shame if we hadn't gotten used to it during all these months," said a woman selling postal cards and stationery by a candle light on the first floor of a building three parts open to the sky. "What we've got to do," the woman continued, "Is to hold out for final victory and lasting peace." After the usal systematic shelling 4E L WEEKLY. NINETY-MILE GALE STRIKES NEW YO Seven Deaths Heporteil as To One of Most Weird Storm Ever Experienced. New York, Dec. 26.?One ol most weird storms the East has In many years?rain, hall and accompanied by thunder and 1 ning and gale which reached a i mum velocity of ninety miles an descended from the northwest today as the aftermath of a CI mas fog. It indirectly caused < deaths in this vicinity, carried telegraph wires, damaged ship crippled railroad truffle, and cj j considerable property damage. The phenomenon of thunde lightning in the midst of a dr snow awakened New Yorkers a I height of the storm about 7 o* I this morning. A gale from the i I accompanied by rain had been ing during the night, but the toi I ature dropped during the early i I ing hours, changing the rain tt i and then to snow. The local we bureau reported a total precipll of 5.2 inches, of which 2.8 was The wind shifted to the nort' and increased in violence, rea its ninety-mile intensity at 9 o'< and soon after carrying off the i clouds. The gale continued, hov hurling signs and copings to streets and demolished several ly built structures. The storn its center in Massachusetts, weather bureau reported, and telegraph companies said theii vice in New England had been crippled, although communii had not been entirely lost wit I principal cities. No Changes in Crock Cabin* London, Dec. 27.?It has vir been decided that the Skoul cabinet will remain in power f( , present, Premier Skouloudis li , deferred to King Constantine's i to make no change at least I the chamber reassembles on uary 24. This information was ' to The Times correspondent at ens by the premier, who also that should events render it able the chamber would be con 1 before that date. dler read a little note from whlc hsaid: "This, year it is I who play f: This year 1 broke open my sr bank and atn sending presen papa at the front." The soldier explain who the writer was hi thick, corase beard failed to li touching smile with which h cepted the reversal of Chrl k rnlnu "They're singing over there,' a soldier. "They've got an orel and they're shouting to heat al it doesn't sound very gay." Meanwhile impromptu conce the trenches went on in tones were light, gay and confident, same phrase was heard In al toasts given here. It was " through victory." A little farther from the tre in a bombarded barn covered 1 improvised roof, the midnight 1 was preceded by a concert in 1 the soldiers who Joked trie mi on the stage in peace times, rev the order of things and with greatest zest caricatured the ci behind the zone occupied by armies. All along the roads in this r two lines passed in different < tions. Some with pick, shovel rifle \vere going to take their in :he trenches! while others going back to the old village cl to swell the congregation. Oil including genernls, colonels, cat and lieutenants, with a sprinkli civilians and many women we attendance. As in the quarters of the sol near the trenches, everything ii attitude of the service broughi the Mine note: "Peace through victory." A < lain with the red ribbon of the L< of Honor on his surplice, who lost several brothers and has more In the army, all of whom bean commended In orderg of th< end be hfmeelf twice cited for h conduct, preached on "peace thr victory." A stretcher bearer with a mil | medal ar.d a grenadier with a | cross on hlg breast sang a Chris anthem, to the accompaniment o modest old organ played by a si soldier with such a master hand the strains were quite as asplrlr the best music. i . 'i*.: ' '*> * * i .ANCA LANCASTER, S. C. TL r- PAN-AMERICANISM the se^n "Expression of the Idea of In snow ternationalism," He Tells naxi- Pan-American Congress. hour early vice PRESIDENT SPEAKS. urist seven down ^'en of !^c'ence From the Americas pinR (lather in Washington For lused % ,2-1>a* Conference. Washington. Dec. 27.?Pan-Amerr and | icanism, characterized by Secretary iving | Lansing in his address of welcome t the as the "expression of the idea of inclock ternationalism," was the central south thought in the speeches today at the blow- opening of the second Pan-American :uper- Scientific Congress, nom- Men and women from all the re) hail publics of the two Americas attendather ed the session in Continental Mem:ation orial Hall of the Daughters of the snow. American Revolution. There were invest more than a thousand of them, inching eluding official delegates, guests of clock, the Carnegie endowment and many storm nthprs nrnminoiit in anlonno nn.l i peace would not permit of exploitation, and that which touched the nations nches to the south to their injury touched by an a'8? ,he United States. vatch . vhlch SUBMARINE TAKES LIVES OK Hit. litnry French Steamer Ville de la Ciotat ersed Torpedoed in Mediterranean. the Paris, Dec. 2 7.?The French steamv i 1 ia.? ep yjjjg (je la ciotat, with passengers t ll t? on hoard was torpedoed without i warning and sunk in the Mediter-; egloti ranean by a submarine on December! Urec- 24, the ministry of marine announced j ' an<l today. Eighty of the passengers and j turn crew of the Ville de la Ciotat ln.it ! were their lives. The remainder of the] lurch persons on board were saved, leers, The statement follows: tains "The steamer Ville de la Ciotat ng of wag torpedoed and sunk on the 24th re in |n the Mediterranean by an enemy submarine without warning. A madiers jority of the passengers and crew n the were picked up by an English steamt out cd. Details have not been received." chap- The Ville de la Ciotat waa return-1 pgion (nc from the far Kaat and dn? ha<* to'arrive at MaMTeUhft* today, four v.ie rfnrvivors were taken to Malta, ha*e arriving there yesterday morning. ! ? day eroie Seven State* Oo Dry Saturday, ough Washington, Dec. 27.?The people of South Carolina, Coloradb, Iowa, Itary Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Arwar kansas today bought liquor at high tmas speed, preparing for the dryness f the which sets In on January 1, when mple each of the above states become dry. that With Virginia, which becomes dry ig as the first day of next November, there will be nineteen dry states. , r-- " ?..V. UL.C. | .'ever, Holds of investigation. To-morrow Ihc. they will begin the serious work of part- the Congress in sub-sectional meet- j 1 had ings, to continue for twelve days, j the Fifteen oilier societies meeting hero the during the same period will hold r ser- frequent joint sessions with sections badly of 4lie Scientific Congress, nation Vice President Marshall welconih the ed the vistors after John Barrett, director general of the Pan-American Union, had introduced Eduardo at. Suar"7 Mujlca, ambassador of Chile,! tually Gie president of the Congress. Secre-1 loudis j tory Lansing spoke in the name of ir the i the Government which had invited aving the scientists to meet here, and Amdesire I hassador Suarez in response emjefore phasized the better understanding Jan- created between the two Governgiven nients of Latin-America and the Ath- United States. said WILSON'S SUBSTITUTE. ? advis- Mr. Marshall took tlie place of voked President Wilson, away on his wedding trip. "And I shall not apologize for the President's absence," he said after bis pynlnnotinn "Iti !?., ...... nome I ~ ""** |J" ' sence of love science is silent. I am ' quite sure I address no man who ither. j jJas |oved, who does love or who nings hopes to love who does not wish for ts \? the President years of unclouded didn t iiapp|n088i" After welcoming the guests in the name of the nation the ilde a yjre President said a word about' e ac" preparedness to defend the rights of stmas the AmerlcaB< "I am one of those men who besaid ijeve in preparation for war," he lestra said. "Not that I want war, because 1, but the dream and prayer of my life is that we shall keep out of war, but I rts in know myself 1 am not willing to have i that some ruffian Interfere with what I The believe to be my rights." He added 1 the that the i Hon nt PQn.lmo?lA.nl.?. STER KSDAY, DKCKMBKU 19 MRS. BOSSEVAIN QUITS ' THE FORD PEACE PARTY' Methods of the Expedition ( Are Repugnant to Her I i Prinpinluu t ISSUES LONG STATEMENT. I Instead of AH Members Formulating Plans, Work Has Been Confined to a Few Selected Persons. Stoekholms, via London. Dee. 26. Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain of New York, who withdrew from the Ford peace expedition Saturday, presented at a public meeting of the delegates today a long statement of her reasons for doing so and for be-1 lieving the project was doomed to' failure. "The undemocratic method em ployed by the managers of the ex- | pedition Is repugnant to my principles," she said. "Instead of all the members formulating plans, the work has been confined to a few speciall> ) selected persons. When the party! embarked on the Oscar II, 1 took it | for granted that the rather vague' opinion of the body of delegates | ] would be hammered into effective | shape by group action and construe-j tlve thinking throughout the voyage.; "An organization was not form* d j j until three days before the end of the! ! voyage. +To that fact I trace all mis-: j understandings, dissensions, mistakes in policy, inetllolency and inability to get the Idea" of a mediation peace I congress in comprehensive shape before the public. i "The organization, when finally j formed was abortive. The Scaiulina-1 ! vian public which expected clear i | thinking and a definite program were i skeptical about the serious-minded-1 ness of the delegates. At the meetings the discussions have been purely private, with the result of ill-feeling, suspicions and condemnation. For the reasons stated I am unable to continue with the party." Since the departure of the expedition from New York three weeks ago no meetings have been held at which peace plans were discussed. Discussions have taken place about I tlie dinner tables and between meals I the delegates went sightseeing. Mr. I Ford's len\ing the party on account | of sickness last week is regarded as .1 serious handicap. The Rev. Charles F. Aked of San Francisco, Judge Ren Lindsey of weiiver, and otners believe the expedition should proceed to The Hague to carry out the original plan as far as possible. This will result in the formation of a permanent committee of persons from neutral countries to sit at The Hague to adopt ways and means. Each of the seven members of the peace expedition whom Mr. Pord left in executive charge after his departure expressed confidence today that the project would mark an important move toward European peace. All agreed, however, that the plan had seemingly insuperable obstacles. Members of the committee believe that while peace is hardly possible before spring, yet the presence of the expedition traveling through neutral countries will convince the belligerents of the axdent desire of all neutrals for peace. The Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones,, chairman of the executive committee, said: i "There has been more talk of ] peace sijice our arrival here than , over before, and the more peace talk j ( there is the greater Is the desire for; ( peace. We know we are undertaking a seemingly impossible task, yet we | believe in the possibility of our voice j being heard." i "Never was the time move oppor- , tune for peace lovers to unite for hu- ] manlty," said the Rev. Dr. Aked. . "We have pacificists of America, Norway and Sweden with us already and we will have others from Denmark arid Holland as soon as we reach ; Chose countf'ea and Switzerland and Spain will fend delegates to Join us ] at fa* Hague." , Similar views were expressed by . Mrs. Joseph Fels, Judge Lindsey. 1 Benjamin W. Huedsch, Frederick i Holt. Mrs. William B. Lloyd and i others. t It was said that Mr. Ford and Wil- f llam J. Brvan would both ar?n*.or r "PF4 * * " 1 the peace meeting to be held at The < Hague. Mrs. Fels said: t . "When we begin our sessions at ( The Hague 10 days hence, the world j will see more behind the peace ? o 4 I I ? I iT IH 1 -qi'nEiW" Nev 15. jONG WINTER NIGHTS I nTTT^TPT? PPATiTXTn tthtp I I VX JL XJXl> xvuril/XllU X liMCl J "ariiieis Can I'tili/.e Season for Planning Tlieir Work and Storing V|> Knowledge. Clemson College, Dee. 26.?During , he bad weather of winter, when it s almost impossible to work out of loors, and when there is little work o be done in the fields in eomparion with other seasons, farmers have in opportunity to give some of their J ime to two things that many of them leglect almost entirely. One of ^ hese thing." is to plan carefully for he next season, the other is to absorb knowledge from the printed natter that is now to be had in such ibundance. j ( Most business men would shortly!'' je bankrupt it they planned their af-H 'airs as little as the average farmer p loes. It is reasonable to believe that * ...1?i ' --- - 1 ' iwi^uauvtcuiicss a mi pruuence win Do | is profitable in farming as in mer- " handising or banking. Certain it is 1 that the farmer will lose nothing bgiving some of his spare time this i winter to looking ahead. t For example, if he has not been 1 I 1 carrying out a crop rotation, now is 1 a good time for him to decide upon j ! one that is well suited to his condi- ' tions and to work out the details of it. He should be looking into the fertilizer situation to see what his purchases should he and where lie can make them, lie should be pre paring to save all the trash on bis place, as well as the wood ashes, for humus and for potash, lie should be! interesting himself in the question of home-mixing fertilizers. There ar>*! numerous other things that might profitably occupy the average South] t'arolina farmer's attention at this time. ' 1 There is almost no subject on agriculture on which he cannot get free literature either from Clemsnn Pol lege or from the United States department of agriculture at Washing- j ton. For example, bulletins that may ! be secured from Clemson College on | some of the subjects mentioned | above are as follows: Farmer's Reading Course Bulletin i No. 17, Buying and Using Fertilizers. I Circular No. 10, Home-Mixing of Fertilizers. Experiment Station Bulletin No. 182. Potash. For the first two, address the Extension Division; for the other, write to the Experiment Station. TROOPS RFPI I.SE >IOIJ. Several Bundled Meu Try to Force Prison to Lynch Two Negroes. Muskogee, Okla., Dec. 26.?Although twice repulsed by state troops, a mob of several hundred men remained in the vicinity of the county jail here late tonight, apparently preparing to make further attempts t.o giain entrance to the prison anil lynch two negroes, William Green and Mathls Foreman, who, it is, i charged, shot and killed Samuel Neal, ! a policeman, early today. Officers who arrested the negroes 1 aboard a train near Muskogee de clare they admitted killing the odlcer \ when he attempted to arrest them as suspects in connection with a recent burglary. Ili'yuii Defers European Trip Because of Ford's Keturn. New York, Dec. 27.? Reports that j William Jennings Rryan had contemplated joining Henry Ford in H i- > rope were confirmed today; hut he-;1 :nuse Mr. Ford himself is returning 1 to this country Mr. Bryan will not go to Europe. It was learned here that he had hooked passage for himself and Mrs. < Rryan on the steamer Rotterdam sail- 1 ing tomorrow. But today he tele?raphed that because of Mr. Ford's ' return he (Bryan) had indefinitelv , postponed his trip. ( _________________ i British Steamship Sunk. < London. Dec. 27.?The 4,500-ton < British steamship Yeddo, from Calcutta November 24 for Boston and 1 <ew York, has been sunk. Her crew 2 vae Raved. I novement than is generally known, a SVc confidently expect that not only I leutrala will demand peace but that he belligerents will show a dispolitlon to listen." Andrew J. Rethen, Lieutenant Oov- i ?rnor of South Carolina, will leave < he expedition tomorrow on account t >f personal business. Mrs. Boissevain jlans to start for Holland at the i ame time. -? Y ! weather" l m I Rain Tuesday; km I rain b# _ Wednesday. $1.50 A YEAR. APANESE LINER WAS ~ ' GIVEN NO WARNING ><o Intimation Was Given Boat That She Was Coins to be Fired Upon. tO EFFORT TO ESCAPE. 'resumed (iernuin or Austrian Sul>? marine Sent Vessel Down?May Determine Japan's Course. Washington, Dee. 27.? American 'onsul Bristol at Port -sanl cabled tolay that no warning was given the lapanese liner Yasaka Maru before lie was lorpeaoeu ana sunn m the Mediterranean last Tuesday by a submarine of unestablished nationality, rhe liner, lie added, made no attempt o escape. The consul's dispatch, which cams 11 response to Secretary Lansing's all for reports on the disaster, was the Hrst official information on the incident which probably will be the subject of further diplomatic correspondence with the Teutonic powers. Today's report said the submarine was not seen until after the liner bad been torpedoed and that then, only her periscope was visible. The ship sank in 4h minutes and the survivors l-?t passengers including an American. W. J.Leigh, and the 162 members 01 the crew?were picked up by a French cruiser and landed at Por Said from whore the fir t reports o. the sinking tame last week. The general assumption is that th?. submarine must have been-German or Viistrinii Hpiipm .ul uftnpio i\-;u made to determine its nationality and instructions to that effect probably will be sent out today by the state department. If the department can gather no information on which to proceed, the United States is prepared to include the incident in its diplomatic representations against the sinking of noncombatant ships without warning. The outcome of the Yasaka Maru case is generally regarded by officials and diplomatists here as surrounded with wide possibilities regarding Japan's future course in the war. It has been suggested that shs might answer the challenge to her shipping by a wide participation in the war even to the extent of taking nart in the operations in .Europe. As Germany already has given as surance that her submarine com mandcrs were under instruction no, to attack liners without warnint! there was a disposition to believe th< attacking boat was an Austrian. It that assumption proves true, it {.* feared that the situation over the sinking of the Ancona will be further complicated and the diplomatic correspondence with Austria will be broadened to take in the subject of attack without warning as it did in the last stages of the negotiations with Germany. Unofficial reports of a favorable reply by the Vienna foreign office to the last Ancona note have not served to alter the attitude of the state department in the Ancona case and there are direct indications that nothing but meeting the demands of theUnited States fully will leave diplomatic relations between the countries unimpaired. The word that the reply "will be guided by concern for the good relations" between the two countries, officials take it. means that AustriaHungary probably expects more diplomatic correspondence upon the -abject. The United States si disinclined to enter into anv such nptrn. tiations. itigger Salaries as New Year's tiift. Chicago, Dee. 27.?Salary increases aggregating $600,000 for the rear 1916 will be a New Year's gift >f the Pullman Company to certain jf its employes. me uuiiureu inoufiand cionnrs Of it will go to conductors and porters md the remainder to various agents, rhey number 9,000 out bf 27,000 employes. Workers in manufacturing *nd repairing plants are not Inincluded. General Heurta Seriously 111. El Paso, Dec. 27.?General Huerta is sediously ill and was removed today from the prison at Port Bliss to the residence of his wife. The nature of his illness is not .tated. Recently it was reported he r?.d recovered from a nervous illness.