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The Press and Banner VBBEVILLE, S.C. Published Every Wednesday by W. W. Bradley, W. R. Bradley, President Vice-President Wednesday Oct. 7, 1914 l?EACE, WHEN? The payers, especially American, arc doing considerable guessing to when peace will be declared in the Kuropoan war. The guesses are di vergent, but none put the date with in eight or ten months. As the situation looks to us the pa pers are guessing about right. There will not beany serious talk of peace until Germany has been driven in on all sides to her own territory. It is likely then that the United States will secure the ear of the German Kmperor for a truce to hear pro posals from the allies. This ?vill likely take place within the next thirty days or six weeks. If the allies will be satisfied with demanding Alsace-Loraine and full indemnity, and otherwise leave Ger many intact, peace will be declared. Hut the allies are going to demand much more than this. Russia is go ing to demand that part of Poland that has been held by Germany and some other sections of Germany; and large slices of Austrian territory 1 will also be demanded. This alone 1 would make Germany tight to the last ditch, but there will be still an- 1 other demand more repugnant to i Germany than any of these; and that is it is going to be demanded of her : that she reduce her standing army to something like li)(),UU<) men. This Germany will never consent to until the allies are in the German capital, and all of Germany's resources are exhausted. ' The whole world will approve of 1 this latter demand, if England, France and Russia will agree to re- 1 duce their armies accordingly. And it is just possible that they will. It 1 stands to reason that a standing 1 army of 100,000 men would be as ef- 1 fective against a standing army of ' another nation of the same number, 1 as five million men would be against ! five million. Surely this war has demonstrated me iutiuty 01 multiplying men :111a munitions of \rar. Science has been * exhausted in perfecting the German ; army, and every available man of 1 that great empire has been trained to ^ war with the precision of a machine; and yet (Jei many is pressed to hold her own against other nations scarce ly less prepared. Whether or not this European war is the Armageddon of the Bible is immaterial, though the facts point that way. There will be a decrease in militaryism, on the part of the world's greatest powers that will amount to beating the sword into a plowshare. LESS COTTON AND SOME CASH THE SOLUTION. The State Legislature meets to-day to rnnsider two nrnnnsitinns nnp 4 r J the reduction of next year's cotton crop, and the other some means of & financing the present cotton crop. * It will be a mistake for the legisla- 1 ture to limit the number of bales of * cotton to the horse and it will be a still greater mistake to cut down the acreage below ten acres planted to ' cotton to the horse. The South 1 should meet the world's present de- 1 mauds for cotton and no more, and s if production is decreased much be low the demand, the South will lose * her hold on the control of the staple. * While cutting the acreage will add 1 something to the strength of the 1 present market, something more f than acreage reduction of next year's J crop is necessary. The people need r money and if there ever was a time * when the State should lend its credit 1 to its citizens that time is right now. > This State should issue twenty mil- c lion dollars of State bonds and lend a the proceeds to the farmers through the State banks at six per cent, al lowing the banks one per cent for handling the money. This State can easily dispose of a twenty million dollar bond issue, and if they bear < five per cent, it is possible for them i to be sold at a premium. The State j will assume practically no ri-k for every loan will be secured by cotton certificates, and if a separate act is passed reducing acreage. the effect on 1 the price of cut ton would be inimc- 1 diate. The separate act for cutting 1 down acreage is suggested for th?? reason that there may he some douht about the constitutionality of such an i act, but there can he no doubt about i the constitutionality of an act to is sue State bond- tor any or no reason. Really of the two acts the one to raise funds seems to be most impor tant. If the farmer sells his cotton at less than ten cents per pound lie will cut hi> acreage of his own ac-j cord. It doesn't take a man long to quit planting a crop that costs him more than it yields and that is just! the case in this part of the country when a man sells cotton for less than ten cents per pound. As to cutting down the acreage, it is undoubtedly . a good step to take, even if Southj Carolina alone does it. If all the other States want to raise six cents cotton, they may keep it up. Per haps they, too, will learn their les son later. The South Carolina legislature in list give the farmer means with which to finance the presentcrop at living prices. It is folly to look to the nation for it is not in any sense a national question, beyond such favor as the Secretary of the Treasury can show the South. Then look at it in a sensible light. Does any one doubt that the Stale can raise twenty mil lion dollars, by means of a bond is sue? Then granting that she can, does any one doubt that twenty mil lion dollars with the ordinary bank ing resources of the State would be sufficient to handle the entire cotton crop of the State? Then if the sur plus cotton of South Carolina can be financed, even for three years, if nec essary, without materially hamper ing business, does anybody doubt that in that time cotton production will fall to a level that will not only let the State out on its loan, but give the farmer a profit? If these are reasonable statements, then why frit ter away time counting on national funds? Why should not the State come to the rescue of her own peo ple? Twenty million dollars looks like a large amount, but when the State is secured by twenty million dollars of cotton certificates, which would be the case before the money could be turned loose, the risk is insignificant. And who would object to the bond issue, the purpose of which is not only to save the price of the present cotton crop, but to save the price of every foot of land, every house and lot, every dollar <*f property, of what ever kind in the State. Truly this is a State issue and the State should meet it in no half handed or uncer tain way. THE CRUELTIES OF WAR. Sherman said: "War is hell." And there are many persons living in this Southland to-day who know that he was a competent witness. I ii tlu? iiKirniiur of Titnp ti'il>f?? tlmf found good feeding in the wilds of virgin creation were loath to give up their territory. If other wandering :ribes encroached upon their reserva tions war ensued. This was w;ir liand to hand in which the antago nists brained each other with clubs uid stones. Some times one tribe would entirely wipe out another. To-day the causes of war are very much the same, and it is doubtful if the antagonists are less cruel. The itrocities accredited to participants in the Balkan war harked back to the savage instinct; and'the possi bility of slaughter under primal methods were much less than under modern methods. Then men fought in small bands only on the solid jarth. Now men fight on land, on sea, in the air, under the ground and mider the sea; and every devilish ;ontrivance that the ingenuity of man could devise is in use for the de struction of his fellow man. What f the primal man did murder a few hVumen and children, does not mod ern warfare leave millions of widows tnd orphans, whose lot is worse than leath ? The battle field with hundreds of housandsof men lying cold in death, shocking as it may seem, is but a tri ie as compared with the fearful con sequences that must be borne by the amilies of the deceased. Those who lie in the excitement of battle, lushed by patriotism, lie down to sleep in peace. The families of the slain live to degenerate uhvsicallv ind mentally fur lack of means on ?vhich to live. They live to mourn he death of the hundreds of thou sands sacrificed to cruel war. The question arises: Are men aken collectively, really better than hey were in the savage state? The ruelty of the modern army is more efined but it is of greater magni ude. Destruction is multiplied in list the proportion that modern net hods for human slaughter are el ective over the savage club. The irmy is more brutal than the indi vidual, and the number of brutal legenerates, even as individuals, eems to be multiplying. THE VIMilMAN." The story of "THE VIRGINIAN" a Iramatized version of Owen NVister's remarkable novel which will seen liere tonight at the Opera House, is u tale of love, hate, sacrifice and ro mance. The Virginian is a young cow ju\ ui exceptional gins ana wnu prim itive passions, and modern civilized conventions which are continually .it war within him until he meets and tails in love with a pretty Vermont school teacher of superior education and refinement than his own. He has never before been thrown in contact with such women and his rescue of her from a prelious predicament, which is their first meeting, has awak ened in him a strain of native fine ness that has hitherto had no chance of development. She is attracted by his virility and at the same time re pelled by his roughness. Quite against her intentions she is won by him, but not until he has shown himself to lie her master in some surprising ways, which with some displays of amazing courage and sacrifices he convinces her of his undying love. The action is fast and filled with surprising and thrilling situations, and is replete with humorous comedy, making a brilliant as well as entertaining evening at the theater. LOOTING A m i A Story of a Quarter of a Cen tury Ago. The coming of Ringling Brothers cir ens which is to show in Anderson Thurs ?lay, October tfth, recalls an inciden that occured in this city in 188(i, ii which a circus figured to its financial detriment. The circus had the same accompany ment of fakirs, tricksters and confiden tial men. and while the performance wai going full blast, these were shearing rams or lambs, as the case might be, or the outside. One fakir had a game that was espe cially attractive. He was selling cakes of soap wrapped up in paper and wher he had a good crowd around him, some one among the onlookers would buy f cake of soap and opening it up found a five or a ten-dollar bill. One of thost who watched the game was Mr. Ebene zer Bell, from the upper section of this County; in fact, he bought a cake of soaj and got five dollars out of it, which waf proof conclusive there was plenty mort like it in the box. About the time ht bought it. a gentleman slipped up tc him representing himself as Mr J. A. Brock of Anderson. The circus had come from Anderson the day before and the man talking to Mr. Bell knew thai Mr. Brock was widely known as a busi ness man, a banker and a man every l>ody put confidence in. Of course Mr. Ebenezer Bell knew Mr. Brock by repu tation but he didn't know him person ally When the man representing him aelf as Mr. Brock came at him with a business proposition, he was prepared to listen'. The assumed Mr. Brock told Mr. Bell that he had a scheme by which he could break the trickster up. He said the fel low played the game in Anderson the day before and he had caught on to his trick. He said there was plenty of money in the soap box, over $12f)0, but the trickster was careful not to sell too many of the prize bars. He proposed to Mr. Bell that they go in together and buy all of his soap: that he would fur nish ?500. and Mr. Bell ?100, which at 50c per cake would buy the whole soap supply. ; Mr. Bell didn't have sjtfOO. but he had a good friend in town, Captain John G. Edwards, who had been selling Mr. Bell goods for thirty years and would stake him for any reasonable amount on a square business transaction. Mr. Bell went direct for his old friend. "John." says he, "I want I've got a sure thing down here on the cir cus ground that I can make a pile of money on." Captain John G. was just a bit skep IlUtli illlU piui/catcu a^aai.-ii vuv v. . but an old friend was not to be denied, even in a sporting venture. So he went to the bank and borrowed the 111 onej* for him. Mr. 'Bell hurried back to the show grounds and found his newly-made friend waiting for him, and what was more, he also had his three hundred dollars. They bought the entire lot of soap, after considerable wrangling with theosoap mau, who protested that he didn't want to sell all his soap at once. When they began to unwrap, very much to Mr. Bell's surprise they found only about $25.00 in the whole lot. Of course the assumed Mr. Brock ?was even more surprised than Mr. Bell, but he consoled Mr. Bell with the reminder that they had gone into the deal with their eyes open By this time the circus performance had about closed and Mr. Bell went back up town to his old friend, wearing a funereal countenance. Captain Ed wards was looking for him, and received the news with a kind of matter-of-course smile/ The news of Mr. Bell's luckless ven ture spread over the town, and in a lit tle while a party of young men headed by Mr. W. E. Bell, brother-in-law of Captain Edwards, determined to get Mr. Ebenezer Bell's money back, espe cially as they found that there were hundreds of others who had been bny iug soap and otherwise trading with the fakirs. The rescuing party, which had been unwittingly preparing all day for just such an undertaking, went to the big circus tent and surrounded it. In an instant they cut every rope to which the big tent was suspended and the tent cover collapsed on the circus peo ple. As they crawled out, one by one. very much as ho-;s would come out of a hay stuck, they were met by Warren Smith and other members of the party, all of whom were armed with big knives. Each circus man was asKed to empty his pockets. and as it was gently hinted in each ease that somebody's throat would lie cut if they didn't do it, the pockets were promptly emptied. lint this process didn't raise sufficient reimbursing revenue. The circus peo pie had evidently heard something of the intended raid and they sent the day's receipts down to the depot near by, and had them stored away in the safe, which was in a circus car. Some one informed the refund party, and they at once went to the depot. As they started to enter the door of the coach, a circus woman drew a pis tol and threatened to kill the first to en ter. While some of the party were parleying with her at the door. Warren Smith broke in a window near the rear and slipped through. Going up quietly behind the woman, he embraced her, and held her almost with affectionate pressure until the rest of the party came in. The safe was opened, and something like eleven hundred dollars were se curen. Then announcement was made that every man who had been tricked out of a dollar that day should have it I \ \ back. Lewis D. Edwards, who lives below Abbeville, then a boy of about twelve years old, stepped up and said ' ! they had gotten him for ten dollars. Mr. W. E. Bell was paymaster. He peeled off a ten-dollar bill and handed Lewis. The next man to apply was , Richard Romans, a colored blacksmith. He said he had bought $20 worth of - soap and had gotten nothing back. The - treasurer peeled off two ten dollar bills t and handed him. 1 And so, all the way up town 1 the refunding party paid out money on demand, and had barely enough left ; to recoup Mr. Ebenezer Bell, in whose - behalf the refunding party was organ s ized. It is said there were numerous j applications even after the fund was i exhausted. Mr. Bell wanted to know if they had - money enough left to reimburse his newly-made friend, the man who had so cunningly impersonated Mr. Brock. Mr. Ebenezer Bell lived in the County to be quite an old man, and it is doubt ful if he ever found it in his heart to < condemn the somewhat irregular pro cess of collecting his three hundred dol lars. KIPLING'S WAR POEM. i o British Poet Undertakes to Bestir Hit* r People. FOR ALL WE HAVE AND ARE. For all we have and are? For all our children's fate? ] Stand up and meet the war; The Hun is at the gate. < Our world has passed away r In wantonness o'erthrown; There's nothing left today ( But steel and fire and stone. Though all we knew depart The old commandments stand; i V> | in couuge nuep j>uui ucai i, , In strength lift up your hand. Once more we heard the word That sickened earth of old; Xo law except the sword Unsheathed and uncontrolled. ? Once more it knits mankind Once more the nations go To meet the break and bind 1 A crazed and driven foe. Comfort, content, delight The ages' slow-bought gain; a They shrivel in a night, I Only ourselves to remain. t N r To face the naked days " In silent fortitude e Through perils and dismays, r Renewed, and renewed. Though all we knew depart, The old commandments stand; In patience keep your heart, In strength life up your hand. No easy hope or lies Shall bring us to our goal But iron sacrifice Of body, will and soul. There's but one task for all. For each one life to give, Who stands if freedom fall. Who dies If England live? WILL NE'ER GIVE FP THE RHINE. By W. P. Beard. Kipling from his Sussex farm Calls Britain's sons to war, Replete with wanton war's alarm "For all we have and are" That England might, her subtle shift Conceal in this: her way To turn the tide of German thrift But truth, to her must say. Yes. "For all you have and are"? To hold It intestate Cease this useless coward's war: No "Hun is at your gate." Why stand with atheistic France? And Moscow's slavish host 'Gainst Teuton leading in advance, Of civilization's post. Why bring niggers from Algiers And Sikhs from India's plain To butcher white men like yourselves So England rules the main? Why aid in Russia's savage plan Of conquest and of pillage Tho it tax the utmost power of man I Deprives tne lanu 01 uiiag^. Unprovoked this war was made On Teuton and on Hun Now thru rugged hills and sunny glade The rivers redly run That Russia might her power expand And command the Dardenelles And sieze the war, weakened land In Balkan's hills and dells. And France retake warlike Lorraine With Alsace's sunny slopes, Tho blood and terror now must reign To realize her hopes. And all because of German trade? Seeking th? market^ out? Is why this cruel war is made A competitor to rout. So you must face the naked truth You add not to your fame But stand to loose, your all forsooth If Russia wins the game. The Russian Bear now ready stands At India's northern door. And soon on India's coral strands You'll hear the battle roar. If German brain and German brawn Slavic surges fail to stem Then cruel Cossack with saber drawn Will trample Britain's diadem. Just remember Napoleon's prophecy It's taught in every school, That "All Europe would Republic be, Or under Cossack rule." Kipling asks with grave naivette "Who ttands if freedom fall?" We answer that, without regret The Teuton stands for all: So, "for all you have and are" Cease spilling kindred blood For Mongol Cossack and the Czar 1 A barbarous, savage brood. Yes, "There's but one task for all" For each a goal to gain Let barbaric Russia stand or fall That freedom might remain When hist'ry tells the gruesome story Of this ruthless wanton war i Stripped of glittering martial glory ? You'll stand for what you are. c Just a sordid merciniary nation Whose envious eye is cast [Jpon a rival's exploitation For profit you would blast. To clear her ships from the sea You join the savage host That commercial gain accrue to thee Tho honor's all but l*8t. 3ut, think you not, great Albion Tho Gaul and Russ may help That you can whip the German lion Nor a whimper from his whelp The Germans love their fatherland And long have stood in line Apposing Russia's Cossack hand They'll ne'er give up the Rhine. Trespass Notice. We positively forbid any hunting, flsh nc or trespassing on our lands, day or linrht hi? trhitp nr hlnnk. Friends Dlease io not ask any favors in this way. J. S. Stark, H. 6. Smith, J. A. Wilson, Bob Bowie, S. L. Wilson, D. H. Hill, Oct. 5, 1914. ' Agt. Cabell Estate. "STOP THIEF" FRIDAY XTfiHT Tlie Most Laupliable Play of tlio Sea son.?Bert Lelprh as Crofeli. "Stop Thiof" a new farce, one of the eason's successful offerings, is said to >e one of the most laughable plays heatre goers have seen in a bluo ooon or so. To use a trite phrase. Stop Thief" Is as full of laughs as an gg Is of meat. The fun begins at the | ise of the curtain and Is continued at j i fast and furious pace until the fall >n Act III. The story of "Stop Thief" Is clever md far out of the beaten path of play wrights. William Carr is a good na ured but very absent minded fellow, me of those daughters Is to marry rames Cluney. Through the aid of a tew maid a sneak thief gains en rance to the Carr house. Valuable >ieces of jewelry and wedding pres ents begin to disappear. Certain inci lents transpire which lead Carr and "luney each to think himself a klepto naniac, though neither suspects the ?ther. The young man telephones for i detective to watch him. By accident ?luney runs into the sneak thief, who tawns himself off as the detective, md thus apparently makes it easy or himself and maid to ; "clean up" tnd make a safe getaway. Of course !n he end it comes out that, instead of he responsibility for the missing val jables lying with the two self-accused inconscious thieves, there are real hieves in the house and they are 'aught, but the author has taken care hat there is a happy ending, which lothing less than a triple wedding. Don't forget the "MILLION DOL . M.mmnnvip Onnm Hnns.i L/Alt Jl 1 ki 1 HiU I ai tile W|/v... .. - very Thursday night. Read the story n The Press and Banner. 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Hours: 1)a.m. to 7 p. in. Sun days, {) to 2. 4'nll or Write. Dr. Fegister, Specialist.. ."?<?? 1'iiXatioiia! Hank Itlri;;.. Cor. llain ami 4>?>i'vaiN . ( OLnilllA. *. KINGLING CIRCUS IS ANNOUNCED World's Greatest Shows and Spectacle "Solomon and tlie Queen of Slielm" Now on Vfay Official information confirms the an nouncement that on October the 8th, Singling Hrolhers' circus will give .wo performances in Anderson. Many new features have been ad ied this year, the most notable of .\hich is the spectacle "Solomon and he Queen of Sheba." This colossal production is presented with a cast of 1.250 people, a ballet of 300 dancins 'iris, 735 horses, 32 camels and a rainload of sccnery, costumes and properties on the biggest stage in the vorld. Following the spectacle, a circus .rograrr. of unusual brilliancy will boi irosented. Including an array of for-1 ;ign nnd American acts new to the) :ircns world. The menagerie contains The Exj the should out of ti A farme not try s? r nf f n without offertili: The fert should first bill ] A n/invwA AllUCl'W filiate $ Andersc 1.003 wild animals, 41 elephants, five giraffes and a "baby zoo." The circus is transported on 89 double length cars. Special arrangements have been made by the railroads to accommodate the crowds that will visit the circus trom this city and the surrounding country. Prehistoric Skeletons. Three skeletons apparently of pre historic folk, on? of whom must har? stood about ten feet high were ua* earthed by laborera digging foutifc tions for cottages at Dyeart county, Louth, Ireland. The skull of the skeleton was entire, and measured eighteen inches from the crown to the chin, and the leg bones and teeth were abnormally large. The skeleton! were in seperate graves. "Engllch" Walnut From France. The so-called English walnut 1b aV most exclusively the product of France, whence this fcountry import* from fifteen to twenty-flve million pounds annually. tenses of Crop be v lie crop. ;r would to make n crop the use zer. ilizer bill be the paid. 11 Phos : Oil Co. >n, S. C.