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T] fc VOL. 11, No. 41, 8KM ( AVOID WAR, SAYS PRESIDENT WILSO Speaks of Nation's Affairs Wi Gravity AT GRIDIRON CLUB President Says He Would Just as Much Ashamed to be Rash as He Would to wc <l vuntuu. Washington, Feb. 27.?Pre: dent Wilson told members a: guests at a Gridiron Club dinn last night that America oug to keep out of the European wj "at the sacrifice of everythii except this single thing up which her character and her h tory are founded, her sense humanity and justice." The address was confident since the speeches at the di ners of the Gridiron Club, co ^ posed of newspaper correspor ents, are not reported. It w made public tonight, howew with the consent of the preside and the club, because many those who heard it urged tl it should go to the country. The President spoke of the r tion's affairs with unusual gr; ity. His hearers, including s< eral hundred members of c< gress, government officials, bu ness men and corresponaen were brought, to their feet che ing when he concluded with th< words: True Valor. "I would be just as much a: amed to be rash as I would be a coward. Valor is selfspecting. Valor is circumspe Valor strikes only when it right to strike. Valor withho itself from all small impli tions and entanglements a waits for the gi^eet onnortun when the sword will flash as it carried the light of hea> upon its blade." In his address he said: "T have very little to say night, except to express 1 warm appreciation of the iiv riable courtesy of tin's club a W- of the reception you have generously accorded me. 1 fi that T am seldom tempted to * anything nowadays unless son body starts something and night nobody has started ai thing. "Your talk, Mr. Toastmast has been a great deal about 1 candidacy for the Presidency, is not a new feeling on my pa but one which 1 entertain w a trreater intensity than form jy, that a man who seeks 1 Presidency of the United Sta for anything thatit will brine him is an audacious fool. T responisiblities of the off ought to sober a man even 1 fore he approaches it. One the difficulties of the office s= dom appreciated. T dare say. that it is very difficult to thi while so many people are ta ing, and particularly while many people are talking in a w that obscures counsel and is < tirely off the point. National Affairss. "The point in national affai gentlemen, never lies along t lines of expediency. It alwa rests in the field of princif The United States was r founded upon any principle expediency, it was founded up a profound principle of hum liberty and of humanity, a whenever it basis its policy up any other foundations than the it builds upon the sands and r upon the solid rock. It seei me that the most enlighteni thing a man can do is suggest by something which the Vi< President said to-night. ] complained that he fdUnd m who, when their attention w called to the signs of spring, d not see the blue heaven, did n see the movement of free clouc did "ot think of the great spac of the quiet continent, b thought only of some immedia and pressing piece of businei It seems to me that if you i not think of the things that beyond and away from and d connected from this scene which we attempt to think hi conclude you will inevitably 1 led astray. I would a great dc a (Continued on Page Eight.) HE L f-WEEKLY. STATE TEACHERS TO MEET. Interesting Program for Gatherl| ing in Columbia March 1G-IS. Spartanburg, Feb. 20.?The lh program for the annual meiitinor of the State Teachers' Association in Columbia March 16-18 is regarded as one of the most attractive in a number of years, he The chief address of the con vent ion will be delivered on the night of the opening session. :March 16, at 8:30 o'clock, by Dr. Bruce R. Payne, President of d- Peabody College flor Teachers, nd Nashville, Tenn. The teachers er are expecting a treat in this adht dress. The annual address*" sbv *r, |Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder, the ng [president of the Association, will on I also be delivered on Thursday is- evening. The report of the specof ial committee on the reorganization of the Association will be ial delivered Thursday evening by in- Mr. R. S. Rogers, chairman- of m- Dillon county. id- The first session Friday will as be given over to a discussion of er. the next steps in Educational >nt Progress from various view of points. Among those who will lat take part in this discussion will ibe R. T. Hallum, Pickens; T. C. n\- Easterling, Marion; Miss Elizaiv beth Dickson, Miss Madeline iv- Spigener. Lueco Gunter, VV. H >n- Hand and Dr. D. M. Douglas si- president of the Presbyterian ts, College. er-1 Frida> afternoon a receptior ise.will be tendered the visitinjj teachers at the University ol South Carolina gymnasium, sh- Friday evening an address wil to be delivered by Rev. Arthur W re-iDunn. of the United States Bu set. jreau of Education. Superintend is ent Swearingen and Dr. D. M Ids j Ramsey will also deliver address, ca- es. tnd Saturday will be given over t< itv reports of committees. if Attractive programs have al fen so been arranged for by all ol the departments. [ .. to- Averts Trouble For Coast lane JJJj Wilmington. N. C., Feb. 25.md An amicable settlement of th< so differences between the Atlantic im> Coast Line railroad and its trai? conductors because of the adop ne^()_ tion by the road of the Whiti ny- audit system has been reached it was announced yesterday b\ er? Judge Chambers of the federa board of mediation and concilia tion, who was sent here to in ith vestigate the trouble, or-1 Under the terms of the agree the ment Judge Chambers said, tin tes railroad company agreed to ab to olish the White audit system oi 'he i March 15, but reserved the righi ice to inaugurate at any time aftei be- that date a system of train audit of ing upon any plan it may elect ;el. provided the auditors are env | nl/MfAO f *-V?/x XV rx ? 1 iM ui tue company and art nk in no way connected with an out Ik - shlo individual or corporation so The conductors agreed to with ay'draw the declaration that the> jn-lwould not submit to any audit iing system that had not beer mutually agreed upon and ac rs, icented by their adjustment com he ,mittee. iys' ?le.; L ynching in Georgia Town. rot i of i Cartersville, Ga., Feb. 25.? ,OT5 Jesse McCorkle. a negro, aged an about thirty, was taken from jail ml here this morning and hanged tc on a tree in fron1 of city hall. The )fW> body was riddled with bullets, iot There were forty or fifty in the Yi^j crowd. McCorkle was captured ogisoon after an alleged attack on e(] Mrs. A. T. Heath. She shot him ;e_ in the wrist. ke! en Mrs. Mary A. Clingan Dead. lid Mrs. Mary A. Clingan, wife of 1Qt John D. Clingan, 553 Church St., 'died at 11:45 last night of paralysis of the nerves, aged 54 ut years. She had been confined to j her bed two vphi^ woo > member of St. Mary's Catholic rjo church. Surviving her are her jje husband, daughter. Mamie, and js. one son, Harry, both at home. jn Funeral Saturday at 0 o-clock. rui .Services at St. Mary's Catholic ho church by Father Hurlbut. In>a] terment in Rose Hill.?Haprers? town, (Md.) Daily Mail, Feb. 24th. 4.NCA LANCASTER, S. C VERDUN BATTLE'S FURY f SHOWS NO JENS LETUP French Have With?!? ??>?* \ ?i (late, March 1, will he adhered r ! tO. .1 I There has been considerable 1, i activity alonj? the Russian front |a i around Riga, Friedricihstadt and e Iloukst. In the Causasus region r jdespite the heavy snow, which ji ;at places is breast deep, the Rus.jfi sians are continuing vigorously je their pursuit of the Turks. ;c Chaplin Gets $10,000 A Week With Mutual. I New York, Feb. 25.?Charlie F IChaplin hereafter will be ex-.ii jclusively shown on Mutual films, jf jSuch an announcement was made ,d itoday. The contracts, it is as-!s Istrted, provide a bonus of $100,- t 000 for Chaplin, $10,000 a week i; salary and a percentage of the it business. The money to bind theju contract is to be paid today. t ......... I' vanceci Posts in Woevre Region. ASSAILING FIERCELY. Joffre's Troops Deal Blow After ' Blow on Germans Who Hold Ground With Difficulty. * The great battle ranging around Verdun in which a half-J million men are engaged is still ^ being fought at some points with ^ the same fury as characterized L it several days ago. Champneuville, to the west, and fortified works of Bardau- j mont, to the east of Fort Douau- t mont, have been captured by the Germans. Berlin also claims to ( have captured the Cote de Talou, j to the west of Douaumont, but T according the French official |( istatement, the artillery fire coming from both sides has ren_ dered this position untenable for | either French or Germans. The French are hurling attack I after attack upon the Douau- ^ , mont positions held by 1he Germans, who are declared to be ^maintaining themselves there j . with difficulty, but in the Woe- , ,"vre region, to the east of Ver i dun, the French advance posts/ have been withdrawn. ! i Larjre reinforcements are be-', : ing brought up probably by ' F both forces, and it is reported ' that the British lines are being ' I extended in Belgium and France .tin order that French troops may - be released for the Verdun bat tie. ,| Tn the Vosges mountains the - Germans also started a heavy offensive southeast of Celles. > but it was completely checked by the French. On the other - extreme end of the line around F Ypres a British attack was re 1 pulsed by the Germans. Between Soissons and Rheiifis a vigorous bombardment has been carried out against the ! Gorman positions. Marine dis asters are again a feature of the news. Several steamers have' , blown up by the mines and it is ; believed that the recent great storm along the coast of England and the North Sea has set!( . many powerful mines adrift, r The Peninsular & Oriental. 1 steamer Maloja, the mail steamer Mecklenburg, the steamc ( Empress of Fort William, and the steamer Birgit have been 1 sunk, three of them by mines - The French steamer Trignac has ^ been lost in the North Sea. two -explosions splitting the vessel t i apart. The Maloja went down i t off Dover and more than 40 per- t r sons lost their lives. The loss on j - the Trignac is estimated at 26. < . In addition, it is confirmed that t - the British steamer Fastnet has , 1 been sunk in the Mediterranean ] - by a submarine. < I Germany has instructed the > - German Ambassador at Wash- i r ington to inform the American ( - Government that the assurances i > regarding the future conduct of \ - submarine warfare will apply i only to merchantmen of a peace, j ful character. From Berlin no \ (authoritative statement can be f obtained regarding the date on which Germany's announced in- 1 -)tention to sink armed merchant-; I men without warning will beII come operative, although it is reported by German newspapers c ! I that the previouslv nnnnnnrwl f STER N !. MlflU'AU Y 29, 1<)1(> I RENCHMEN FORCE !NEW I ormer Congn THE TEUTONS BACK ; Montgomery, 'oris Says German Attacks Information fi Have Been Repulsed at Se-; - Ala. tonight sa oral Important Points. gressman Kiel Hobson will be 5ATTLE RAGES TO NORTH congress from district, opposii teport Claims Germans Could head, son of Ui Not Retain Footing at Fort ator J. H. Bar Douaumont. announced cand _ . ? , son was defeate Paris, l<eb. 28.?Attacks by States senate ii he Germans to the north of Underwood. Ierdun, where the battle for the ortress still is raging fiercely. C. C. VVYCHE vere driven back by the French , ? ire and counter attacks, accord- Spartanburg I. ng to the official communica- Eieutenan ion issued by the war office to- ? light. Hand to hand encounters Spartanburg, >ccurred to the west of Fori ial to The New Douaumont, and the Germans C. C. Wyche, kvere driven from a small re- bas announced loubt, which they had taken. I/.eutenant Gov German attacks on Fresnes, Carolina. Mr. \ n the Woevre, the communica- been a support* don adds, completely failed. The ernor Blease. :ext reads: In the Argonne our heavy bat- Mexican-Germa Series and field guns shelled the roads of access to the enemy, ? particularly in the region of the New York, 1 Choppy wood. This morning atijco Staliforth, i Hill 285 we exploded a mine, the .banker, was or ;rater of which we occupied. mitted to the In the region to the north of United States 1 Verdun artillery activity on both Dayton for re sides is still violently spirited, questions bef except in the sector to the west jrrand jury in\ of the Meuse, where an abate- efForts of Gern ment of the enemy bombardment nient trouble b is reported. itry and Mexico The Germans during the day strikes in mu attempted several partial attacks Staliforth w which were driven back by our ated. it is said fire and counter-attacks. To the Rintelen, the : west of Fort Douaumont parti- the German pr cularly. our troops have engaged United States, in hand to hand encounters with rphe federal the adversary, who was reject- been anxious t ed from a small redoubt, where what relations he had succeeded in installing staliforth and himself. the banker ha< In the Woevre two attacks COuld not be whiusi rresnes completely 0 the ground failed. citizen of this c Tn Lorraine our artillery has is the head of a lisplayed marked activity in the h.ink with hea< ectors of Reillon, Domevre and ra| Mexico. IBadonville. ' The Belgian official commum- Doc. Frcelv ;ation says: ' A bombardment rather weak. )n both sides, took place along , Anderson, ft he Belgian front. -HP i?e April <th. Gen RE AT AREA UNDER WATER member of tin condemned ma Hundreds Said to Be Living on day that notio< Improvised Flats. the supreme i ? , __ ?served on the ! Natchez, Miss., Feb. 26?h ur- tice aut0matici ther reports received here to-ecution. light from the Black River sec Gen. Bonhan ion of Louisiana told of increas- the recent g ng seriousness in the condition changed the ti if the flood victims in that dis- sions of the su ;rict. From a point just below der the old rul< lonesville to the junction of the,of this court \ Black and Red rivers, a distance i Under the new if forty-five miles, the country in April, vas said to be covered with wa-i The court st? ter from four to fifteen feet transcribing tl leep. In this section, according,the Freely cas< o the reports, 1,500 persons, he furnishes cc ,vith a large number of farm an. soner a transc mals, were living on improvised mony the appe afts, in flooded houses and on i court will be i ligh spots in the land, with little ood for refugees or live stock. HOME DEM deilner Held for L>. j Miss t reisrhtor Widows Murder. New r,tlhs New York, Feb. 25.?An inlictmcnt charging murder in the Meetings of irst degree, growing out of the '?y. Ri<*h Mill, ( obbery and murder of Mrs. t'och Canning fulia Ileilner, a wealthy Brook- ,ast week. Af yn widow, was returne'1 today structions in t igainst Joseph E. Hanel, arrest- P'?t. preparatio id recently in Baltimore. Hanel planting of nade a full confession, accord- ,nK officers we ng to the district attorney's of- Pleasant Val ice, in which he declared he kill-1 Mary Bailes d Mrs. Heilner by striking her Loma Norman?ver the head with a bottle and nie BeH? McMa hen strangling her with a rope.1 Hill: Reeves?Vice : Mrs. A. H. Twichell Injured. iHinson ?Secre Black mon. Spartanburg, Feb. 26?Mrs. A. Oaklnirst: V I, Twichell was perhaps fatally'Belle Heglernjured and her colored chauf- Annie Hinson? eur seriouslv immwl hou,> ,v,a ay when her limousine was Antioch: Pr truck by a Southern Railway Barton?Vice I rain at the Union street cross-1 McNanus?Seei ng. Mrs. Twichell's condition: Heglar. o-night is unchanged. She is These are ev nconscious and has been since ithere is promis< he accident. work from thei . - /r"""** Irws Ifl- W W $1.50 A YEAR. TRAGIC DEATH OF ?ssman ( nooses ? 0. P. HEATH Ala., reb. 27.? om Tuscaloosa. n<>.ul of ri|>m of () j> Hea(h & ys former Con- ( o shoots Himself. imond Pearson a candidate for WAS IN HAD HEALTH the new Tenth! ug W. I?. Hank Financial Reverses. Added (o lited States Sen. Physical Ailments, Assigned ikhead. the only as Caftse. Had Spectaidate. Mr. Hob- cular Career. for the United n 1914 by Oscar The tidings of the deatft of Mr. O. .P lleath, of Charlotte, a r.?vmn aTf who was a native of this county A CANDIDA IE an(j a former resident of the T^er Out For town, were received with sorrow iin Lancaster, for Mr. Heath had ja number of relatives as well jis many warm personal friends I<eb. 24.- Spec-J^ere. ne was an uncie of Mrs. s and Courier: |Charles d. Jones and Mrs. John of the local bar (Crawford of this place. For a his candidacy tor number of years Mr. Heath was ernor of South one Qf Lancaster's leading busi. /yche has always ness men being a member of the ;r of former Gov-jfirm of Heath. Springs & Co., and later of the Heath-Jones Co. Tie was a progressive citizen, ac. n tively identified with every inBanker Arrested terest that made for the upbuild ing of Lancaster. From the "eh. 25.?Feder Charlotte Observer of to-day we i MexicanGerman take the following sketch of Mr. dered today com- Heath: custody of the "Mr. O. P. Heath, one of Ch<\rnarshal by Judgejlotte's oldest, best known and in fusing to answer his day one of the Smith's most ore the federal prominent cotton merchants, resigating alleged committed suicide yesterday nan agents to fo- morning at 11 o'clock in his ofetween this coun- fice at No. 21 1-2 South College >, and to instigate street by shooting himself thru nition factories, the head with a 32-ealiher Colt _i - i ' ' as cioseiy associ- oiue-steel revolver. Death was , with Franz von instantaneous. Ill health with reputed head of the added tribulations brought opaganda in the on by financial reverses, are as signed to account for the act. authorities have Two notes, sealed and addressed 0 find out just to his wife, were found by those existed between who reached the scene first, von Rintelen, but Their contents w>re not divulged * insisted that he but it js stated that they relate forced to answer to intimate nersonal matters that he is no* a such as might be anticipated onntry. Ftaliforth under the circumstances. The 1 German-Mexican 1 ody x\*: 1! be carried to Monroe rlquarters at Par- on the 10:10 o'clock Seaboard train I his morning and the fun eral will take place at the CVilIs Not To Die. tr.-d Methodist Church immedi atcly on arrival. Rev. Dr. J. C. >1, >.-> I)oo Free- Rowe, of Salisbury assisted by electrocuted of of Hickory M L Ronham ()ve nn(^ Pev- J- E. Abemathy, i counsel for th ?,f Monroe. win havo charge of n, announced to. 1 1(> . . , ? of an appeal to m,. ,s 1 Innned. ourt has been lhme nus no doubt but thai solicitor. This no- 'V' ^?cide was caret ully planntlly stays the ex- Mr/ IIe?th came to his oft'ce early and opened his mail as n said today that He-inquired about the eneral assembly [".arket and appeared to be in me for the ses- hl.s. customary state of health, prenie court, tin ""'itch however has not been i the next session f'","1 for several years. Shortly vonld be in May. !'!' " " c|ock he asked his ride it will lie held I,!!" Heorge and Ins book-keeper. Iheodore Harris, a nephew, to , . map oui on small errands and mographer is now |ha't was ,he ,.(st seen of him ie testimony m a,ive Mr Georf,e Heath hur_ i. Just as soon as rjC(^ ou^ anf| just as he was in unsel foj the pn- ,u.^ ()J- afarHng Up the stairs, 'i ' ()i 0 tosti- |ea(jjjnpr t() the office on his real of the supieme tllrn heard a pistol sho4 from neceeded. above. He hurried up and found his father sitting in his office ONSTRATION. chair, in front of his desk, with . his feet resting in a chair oppoi Organized I our sjtCi evidencing careful prepara i Last Week. tion, his right hand still clutch. ing a revolver and his head lean- % the Pleasant Val. ing over on liis chest, with the )akluirst and An- blood streaming from a hole in ? Clubs were held the skull, just above and behind ter receiving in- his right ear. Mr. Heath turned he selection of a instantly and rushed out for a n of hot lied, and physician but before Dr. J. A. seen, tne follow- Austin could arrive, he was dead, re elected: Doctor Austin stated that Mr. ley: President: Heath's body was still quite ? Vice-President;-warm but that his heart had ?Secretary; An- stopped beating when he arrivinus. ed. He expressed the belief that President; Ruth death had been almost instantaPresident; Sarah neous. Drs. C. S. McLaughlin tary; Jewel Hand C. M. Strong were also on hand in a few minutes but nothresident; Minnie ing could be done. Lying on the Vice President; desk where Mr. Heath had just -Secretary; Thel-jfinished writing them were two notes, addressed to his wife, in esident: Ataxic which ho voiced his *ast appeal 'resident; Ruby md told why he had been im etary; Wilma polled to the act which ended it all. cellent clubs and In the meantime officer* had ^ of a tfood year** ?? ?> n. (Continued on Pagre Four.) """*