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K V Abbeville Press and Banner " $i.5o "\BBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1915. established A YEAR. ? _ _ _ . ^ DIRECT LOAN BY \ BANK ON COM RESERVE BOARD PERMITS NE\ ORLEANS BRANCH TO TRY OUT NEW PLAN. Washington, December 25.?Sp< v cial: One of several importar plans that are being considered b the Federal reserve board, which i seeking to perfect the new bankin and currency system of the Unite States, with a view to retaining fo this country after peace is declare in Europe, the dominant position now holds in world finance, is abou +n ho tested at. the New Orlear branch bank. The reserve board has granted th New Orleans branch bank the priv lege of purchasing domestic accepi ances based on agricultural producl stored in the open market. If th ' experiment is successful the reserv board may recommend to Congres the i.mendment of the National Ban Act so that any national bank ma deal in these acceptances. It should be understood that th acceptance form of banking is wher the paper is directly guaranteed b the bank itself instead of by the pui chaser of the goods. This form o banking is not so well known in th United States as that done on a con mercial note basis, where the ban finances a transaction between other Sentiment in favor of the accepi ^ ance form of banking is increasin . j-apidly, however. JJ 11/ 1 C 4. If.v naicuuuoc kvua ?uw j . New Orleans has been selected fo the test of the domestic acceptance innovation because that city is th centre of the most efficient cotto warehousing system in the country The effect of open market purchase by the branch bank in New Orlear is expected to have a prompt an positive effect upon the cotton trad throughout the South, and that a business will eventually be benefiitte if the experiment succeeds. It wa thought that cotton furnished th best opportunity for a demonstratio of the stabilizing influence of a sc entific and up-to-date system of f nance. The New Orleans bank will mak a rate of perhaps 4 per cent on th domestic acceptances which it har dies. This rate will be slightl higher than the discount rate on th same acceptances which would b handled by ordinary member oanKi because in the case of the New Oi leans branch that bank will have th entire responsibility of the loan. A other, cotton territory will be intei ested in the result at the Louisian port. Fight on Burleson. Signs multiply that there will be fierce outbreak of pent-up Congres sional fire against Postmaster Genei al Burleson, after the holidays. Th immediate cause is the reorganizs tion of rural routes in the variou States by the substitution of aulc mobile vehicles for the familiar hors and cart affair. It is claimed by the departmer that one autmobile route can handl the work of several horse and wago routes and save the Governmer money without hurting the service i any way. In some States hundred of rural carriers have been droppe in the process of this consolidation. - Congressmen, on me uui? nan-, declare that in many instances th consolidation of ordinary routes ir to auto routes has resulted in seriou deterioration of the service. Mo? of the Congressmen who are on th warpath against the department o this account admit that there ar cases where economy is possible b combining routes according to th departmental theory, but they cor tend that a man or a board of me sitting at Washington with a map i not competent to allow for the Iocs peculiarities of routes and ofte ? / makes bad blunders. It is the idea of the average Cor gressman that he knows his distric better than the postoffice departmer knows it, and he does not liko to b left out of consultation when *'ecor omies" of this sort are planned, i..?! ten for the roar.?News and Courie; C. A. MILFORD & CO. FAILS. The drug business conducted i the name of C. A. Milford & Con pany, an incorporated company, h? filed a petition in voluntary banl ruptcy, and the business will t wound up in the bankrupt court wac fileH FriHflV nip'} XUC p^UWiVU ?*?-? 0at the close of business, and the o: der adjudging the company a ban) rupt was made by Judge Johnsoi in Greenville, on Saturday. The company has not prospere for three or four years on accour of bad collections and a falling o in the business due to sever) causes. The stockholders ha\ _^made every effort to save the bus ^jness by becoming personally liabl for its debts, but they have not bee able to stem the tide, and with tl failure of the company they fir themselves heavily involved. The company owes debts to tl amount of about $18,000 and hs nominal assets of about $25,000. D C. A. Milford has been at the hea of the Company since its organiz; tion. The other stockholders ar Messrs. Geo. Penney, J. R. Devli and Dr. J. R. Power. CHINESE READY I FOR REVOLUTION V CABLEGRAM TELLS OF ORGANIZATION PARTY. ?AGAINST YUAN SHI KAI. i- San Francisco, Dec. 26.?An organit ized revolutionary party to be known y as "the punitive expedition against is Yuan Shi Kai" has been organized g in China for the purpose of upholdd ing the republic, according to a ca>r blegram received here today from d Tong King Chong, president of the i it Chinese Kung Tong (Chinese Repubit lie association). It was from Tong is King Chor.g's headquarters at Shanghai, China, that first news came of ie the reported revolt in Yunnan and i- other Chirese provinces, t- According to the cablegram, the ;s organization has announced that in e the event its efforts are successful e all contracts made by Yuan Shi Kai ;s will be disregarded. Revolutionary k leaders have declared that one of y the objects of the organization "is to punish Yuan Shi Kai, the traitor." e Regarding the reported Yunnan e revolt, the cablegram said that foly lowing Yunnan the provinces of > Kwei Chau, Kiagnse and Hupeh ref volted and that the government ore dered troops dispatched from Szi i- Chuen, province to put down the k uprising. These troops, it was said, s disobeyed the command and aligned t- themselves with the revolutionaries, g Many citizens followed the soldiers in joining the revolt, the cable stated Hupeh was not mentioned in prer vious cable dispatches and today's ss advices said nothing about the proe vince of Kwangtung, which was den clared in a previous announcement j. to be in revolt, ss f TO SUFFER DEATH PENALTY. d 0 ]j Negro Convicted of Assault Senj tenced in Pickens. LS e Pickens, Dec. 27.?Special: At n a special term of Court held here toi day Pete Hamilton, colored, was ' J 1 ? anwiminol QCCQlllf AH Q I- 1UUI1U ^Ullt,y VI Li iiliiiiai wocuui v v?* m prominent lady of the county and e was sentenced by Judge T. J. Maule din to be electrocuted on February i- 4, 1916. I H. C. FRICK TO THE RESCUE e J1 PITTSBURG YOUTH MAY WELL a REJOICE. N Pittsburg, Dec. 24.?Joy prevailed a in the hearts of Pittsburg school 5- children tonight a$ a result of the > announcement late today by H. C. e Frick, millionaire coal magnate, that i- he will pay in full -as a Christmas ls gift, all the accounts of the 41,000 A Arvftfi'fArc in fko PlHcKllwll ' | U1IIU1CU UCpvoil/Ul O A ma WIW A mvwwv?i?0.. ie Bank for Savings, which was closed here last Wednesday by order of the 't State department of banking. The e deposits amount to $167,136.68, and n payment will be made in cash just as soon as the necessary arrangen ments can be completed, which prob's ably will be about January 3. d In order to induce children to save a school savings fund was started many years ago. Through an agreee ment with the city board of education bank collectors visited the 12 IS schools in the city weekly. Penny by penny the deposits of the children - ? J ?in ii? c mcreasea umu mey amuuut^u w ? nearly $170,000. Then a few days e before Christmas announcement that y the bank had been closed and gloom l? fell over the city. i- When Mr. Frick, who is in New n York, was informed that thousands is of children were depositors, he at *1 once communicated with H. E. Mcn Eldowny, president of another local bank, and announced that he would i- take care of the funds in such a way :t that the children would not lose it their deposits, e l" BRYAN HOLDS BACK FOR FORD'S ARRIVAL New York, Dec 27.?Reports that William Jennings Bryan had conn templated joining Henry Ford in Europe were confirmed today; but bels cause Mr. Ford himself is returning s_ to this country Mr. Bryan will not " go to Europe. It was learned here that he had .1 booked passage for himself and Mrs. Bryan on the steamer Rotterdam ~ sailing tomorrow. But today he tele" graphed that because of Mr. Ford's ' return, he (Bryan) had indefinitely postponed his trip. it ff Copenhagen, Dec. 27.?Gov. L. al B. Hanna, of North Dakota, a memre .ber of the Ford peace party, arrived i- here today suffering from influenza, [e He has a high fever. in The governor was admitted to St. le Joseph's hospital, Copenhagen. The id American legation is caring for him. The American minister, Dr. Maurice ie Egan, Mrs. Egan, and many others is have visited the governor or sent r. flowers. id a- Never do anything disagreeable to- j e, day that you can just as well put off | n, until tomorrow. By that time you may not have occasion to do it. ENGLAND HALTS AT MS ROADS CABINET COMES TO PARTING OF WAYS?MUST DECIDE COURSE. London, Dec. 26.?At a cabinet council meeting today it is expected there will be a decision as to whether the results of the Derby scheme of rpfrnifrino* insti-fv r>nntiniiorl ciHhocinn to the voluntary system or whether J some form of conscription will become necessary. This council "was to hi.ve been held Friday, but David Lloyd-George, minister of munitions, was engaged in an important munitions mission in the Clyde district. The Times suggests this morning that the conscriptions are in a majority of the cabinet and that should force be decided some anti-conscription minsters will resign. They, however, will not do so until all hope of securing unity in the cabinet is abandoned. Their nlan. The Times says, is to give the single men another chance for a fortnight and that if this plan still failed to bring the men to the scratch these ministers will reluctantly abandon their opposition to conscription. Another solution and one that the ministers are said to have discussed is a general election on the question. The Times' military correspondent who evidently is skeptical of the Derby scheme, is for the house of commons to insist in the coming debate that the government shall reveal the total deficit in the army, that is, to reveal the differences between the estimates and the strengths. He infers that the battilions are not being kept up to their proper strength. "If parliament is determined and ruthless, "He says it will compel the government to count only the men fit to serve in the field. We have 4-V? r* xirVioro ?ro /?on oUaW u1c obagc nncic *rw \~uia uuun ourselves to be fobbed off by resonant platitudes advocating secrecy. This claim has been the mainstay of failure and we want no more of it." The correspo:: ??nt concludes that the allies, counting only the men actually at the frop\ have about 6,000000 to the enemv s 5,000.u00 but that this superiority has Leen almost reduced to equality by the strategy of the past y jar and by the onocial conditions of t^o Italian tl.raiie which enabled dorn-..' : M0,?? ?<> to 000 Austrians to h">".1 up the Ita'ians "It is impossiole to win the war without greatly superior numbers. ' V?rx />an/>ln/^nc! f9 orirl ctill 1 pcc: nnc^iKlo to vrin it soon. Tho H'foro proxisions for such numbers ?s ths. primary duty of the allies." COTTON MILLS IN CHINA. Two modern cotton mills will soon ho osfnhlishpH in Tien Tsin. China. I orders for nine hundred thousand dollars of machinery having been placed with a Boston firm. The milla will have a capacity of twentyfive thousand spindles. GENERAL N Governor Manning has appointed C. M. McCurry as auditor of Florence County to succeed H. L. Darr, deceased. The Ford Peace party has lost one of its members from death, Lloyd M. Bingham having died of pneu-' monia in Christiana. Major General Goethals, Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, has been a visitor in South Carolina this Christmas, being in Edgefield with relatives. J. Stokes Sally of Orangeburg, has been appointed by Governor Manning as solicitor of the first Circuit, to succeed P. T. Hildebrand, who died recently. Garment manufacturers in convention at Chicago, on the 23rd of December, made the announcement that women's skirts will be five inches shorter next summer than they are now. This will mean twelve inches from the ground. The Board of Aldermen of New York city have decreed that after the first of January, horse flesh can be sold for meat in the city, and old horses instead of being sold for their bones can be fattened and sold for meat. The celebration of England's se cond Christmas of the war is bein.j devoted mainly to the soldiers. More than 1,500,000 packages have been sent to soldiers on the Continent. Six special trains and four Channel boats have been employed for the last week to carry the army mails. The German prisoners in England are preparing for elaborate Christmas celebrations. At Donnington Hall, the place of confinement of a majority of the officers, so many packages are being received from Germany that the village postoffice has been compelled to enlarge its staff. HENRY FORD RETURNING HOME FORCED TO ABANDON HIS PEACE TRIP?OTHERS TO CONTINUE. Christiana, Norway, Dec. 24 (via London.)?The Norwegian liner Bergensfjord with Henry Ford on board, sailed for New York this morning. Mr. Ford stated before leaving Bergen that the peace expedition would continue under the auspices of the Women's International Peace association. The Rev. Samuel S Marquis, dean of St. Paul's cathedral, Detroit, sailed from Bergen with Mr. Ford. Before leaving Christiana for Bergen, Mr. Ford wrote out the following statement for the press: 'I am satisfied with what has been accomplished in Christiana. Peace has keen given publicity. Newspapers have power to end the war, for it is through publicity that the gospel of peace is spread. "Norway is like every other country. The people are all right." In announcing at Bergen the circumstances under which the expedition would be continued, Mr. Ford said a committee had been appointed to act as leaders. It consists of Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver, the Rev. Dr. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, of Chicago, John Barry, of San Francisco, Lieut. Gov. Andrew J. Bethea, of South Carolina, and Louis P. Lochner, of Chicago, Mr. Ford's secretary. Christiana newspapers say that in view of Mr. Ford's departure no prominent Norwegians will join the expedition. FORD PEACE PARTY SEEM TO BE AT SEA Stockholm, via Loo?m i, December 9fi Thp mpmhws <rf the Knril neaee expedition have held various meetings in an endeavor to arouse a peace sentiment in Sweden. These meetings were not accorded an official character. The SweJi.sh Pcacc and Arbitration League decided that it was unable officially to recognize the expedition because the expedition came without official recognition in America. Those who have been in charge of the expedition since Mr. Foru's departure for the United State?, say that they still are without a definite programme of procedure. The members of the peace mission will leave Stockholm next Wednesday night and arrive at Copenhagen Thursday. Information has been received that it will be impossible to go to The Hague through Germany. Hence, this will necessitate the chartering of a steamer from Denmark and proceeding to The Hague by sea. The peace sessions will end about January 7, when most of the members of the party will return to the United States. EWS ITEMS | Municipal Christmas trees are being held all over the United States, many of the cities spending large sums of money on this form of entertainment. On the Alamo phua in Texas, a historic place indeed, a giant mountain cedar has been planted as a permanent tree for the city. Forty thousand children were depositors in the Pittsburg Bank for Savings which closed its doors a few days before Christmas. When this news reached H. C. Frick, the millionaire coal magnate, he at once ?nnnnnri>ii t.Vint hp wnnlH nav in -full the accounts as a Christmas gift to the children who had been saving their money. The amount will be something over one hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars;. The bureau of vital statistics has issued their compilation of figures giving the births and deaths in South Carolina sin. o Jan. 1st, to Oct. 31st. The birth list is larger in every county save Richland, which is attributed to the number of deaths in the State Hospital. In Abbeville County there were three hundred and eighty nine deaths and seven hundred and twAnt.v-five hirt.hs. Hnrrv ponntv heads the list with over a thousand births. There is an epidemic of grip and colds going through the north, which is taking a heavy toll in deaths. Camden, N. J., reports a death an hour on the 23rd of December, giving sixty deaths in as many hours. In Philadelphia ten thousand people are suffering from grip. The hospitals are crowded and there has been thirty six deaths. The health authorities of M waukee and Chicago have issued warnings against kissing, fifty thousand people being ill with | grip and eighty five thousand children are absent from school on account of sickness. Milwaukee is having the worst epidemic in the history of the city. STITCH IN IE WILL SAVE NINE WILSON TO URGE NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM?SPEED UP CONGRESS. Hot Springs, Va., Dec. 26.?Congress will be urged by President Wilson to concentrate its attention upon the administration's national defense programme immediately after the holidays. It was learned here tonight that while the president has no desire to see the preparedness plans rushed through without full consideration and debate, he is most anxious to have the army and navy bills disposed of as promptly as possible. He not only believes it is essential to put the war and navy departments in a position to begin work on their new programmes without delay, but wants the congressional calendars cleared for general legislation later in the winter. Snow fell here all night last night, covering the ground to a depth of more than a foot. This did not keep the president and his bride from having their daily automobile ride, however. Tonight there was a meeting in the hotel held under the auspices of the Marquis and Marchioness of Aberdeen and addressed by Mrs. Barton French, recently returned from her Red Cross work in France. The president and Mrs. Wilson declined invitations to attend. The president will celebrate his 59th birthday Tuesday. He will be surprised at dinner with a great birthday cake, bearing 59 candles, which the hotel management today ordered the chef to prepare. Officers of the volunteer fire department here having heard of the president s election as an honorary member of the Pass Christian, Miss., department two years ago, have invited him to attend a celebration at the fire house and add another honorary member ship to his list. President Wilson won his place in the Pass Christian organization by aiding it in putting out a fire. FOUR OF ALLIES SHIPS DESTROYED KAISER ILL, GERMANS ARE WORRIED. London, Dec. 27.?Lloyds an-1 nounced this afternoon that one French steamer, two British steamers and a Belgian vessel have been lost. It is presumed they were sunk by submarines. The list of lost ships given out by Lloyds follows: The French steamer Ville de La Ciotat, 6,390 tons, with a loss of eighty lives. The British steamer Yeddo. The crew was saved. The British steamer Cottingham. Seven members of the crew saved. The Belgian steamer Minister Beernaert. Seven members of the crew saved. The death list included one woman first-class passenger, two children, and the stewardess, Consul Keblin ger stated. The ship was torpeaoea at 10:15 o'clock in the morning and sank in fifteen minutes. The nationality of the submarine is un[ known. There were no Americans aboard, he cabled. Geneva, Dec. 27.?Dispatches from Munich state that the Kaiser's health is causing great anxiety in military circles. The throat affection to which all Hohenzollerns are subject has developed from the exposure and fatigue due to the war. An operation lis now necessary. Two throat specialists have arrived at Berlin. The Crown Prince is expected soon. The Kaiser is keeping to his room. THE COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE On account of the exceedingly bad weather the Community Tree, which was to have been held Christmas night on the public square, had to be postponed until Monday night. The tree was decorated by a committee of ladies Monday afternoon and the lights were turned on at half past six o'clcok. The square was filled with grown folks and children and the tree presented a beautiful appearance. The choirs of the different churches of the city were stationed on the Court House porti-?%%*3 CATTflrn 1 "foTMlliar VlVTttTVQ 1 L'U ?UIU Oaug ou v V/J. ui 'V*"*"*' led by Miss Long, of Due West, whose magnificent voice rang out full and clear to the utmost ends of the crowd. After the singing the children were served with oranges, much to their delight. Abbeville has never had anything of the kind before and this tree is simply a sample of what can be done and improved upon each year. As a rule the man with a swelled head suffers less than tho.'.c who are compelled to associate witu him. JAPAN MAY ENTER INTO WORLD WAR RESULT OF THE SINKING OF JAPANESE LINER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. Washington, Dec. 27.?The American Consul Bristow Port Said cabled today that no warning was given the Japanese liner Yaskago Maru before she was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean last Tuesday by a submarine of unestablished nationality. The liner made no attempt to escape. The consul's dispatch was the rirst official infoi-mation in response to Secretary Lansing's call tor reports. The incident will prob- v ably be the subject of further diplomatic correspondence with the Teutonic powers. The report says the submarine was not seen until after the liner was torpedoed. Then only the periscope was visible. The ship sunk in forty nine minutes. The oiiwn\r/M?D TlTOVn OQO in iniinfir > M'Ol C3 picked up by a French cruisc-r and inaded at Port Said. One American, W. J. Leigh, was among the number. The general assumption is that the submarine must have been German or Austrian. Renewed efforts will be made to determine the nationality. Instructions to that effect will probably be sent out today by the state department. If it can gather the necessary information on which to proceed tne United States is prepared to include the incident in deplomatic representations against the sinking of non-combatant ships without warning. The outcome of Yaskaga Maru case is generally regarded by officials ana diplomats here as surrounded with wide possibilities, regarding I ^?i4h%?a aaiivoa m n wot* If. o ciyan o luiuxc vvuiow vuv ?* *w has been suggested that she might answer the challenge to her shipping [by wide participation in the war, even to the extent of taking part in the European operations. GERMAN REPORT SAYS RUSSIANS ARE DEMORALIZED Berlin, Dec. 27.? (Wireless)?Reports from Caucasus received from Constantinople state the Russian army is demoralized as a result of cold, hunger, cholera, typhoid and poor equipment, says Overseas agenCy'~ i'oies in uie nussian army wuuae home are in districts where the Germans are occupying are deserting or begging to be sent home. RAIN, SNOW, SLEET, WIND AND THUNDER New York, Dec. 27.?Northern and eastern New York and New England are slowly recovering from damage of yesterday's storm.. A succession of rain, snow, lightning, sleet and thunder, winding up with a gale, levelled wires and trees, unroofed houses, drove shipping ashore and caused widespread damage, with many deaths and accidents. Telegraphic communication in some sections is still interrupted. Trains are unable to maintain schedules because signal systems are crippled. New England suffered most Reports told of severe damage" to buildings and vessels. Snowfall was comparatively light, except in northern New York and northern New EnglonH Eight deaths are here attributed to storm. Wind once attained velocity of 90 miles an hour. INVENTIONS FOR THE MAIMED Berlin, Dec. 24.?It is beginning to be realized in Germany that the war is going to leave the belligerent nations with a great number of maimed and crippled men, and German inventors and organizers are already at work providing for the special needs of this class. The Christmas catalogue of a Berlin jewelry firm, for example, contains a distinct section for one-armed men. There are several kinds of so-called forkknives, contrived in a very ingenious and handy manner. One consists of an ordinary table knife with the cutting edge as usual on one side, but having fork prongs projecting from the extremity of the blunt side. Another is an ordinary fork with the ?- - ??????/? uri?4nnoH nnH sVmrDened. 1I1I1C1 pi vug muviivu ? ?* ?r A "meat-mincer" consists of two sharp pronged forks arranged pincer like or like chop sticks. Another offering is a little rack which enables a one-armed card-player to hold, arrange, and shuffle his cards. PARKER CREDITORS ASK FOR BANKRUPTCY Decree Sought in Greenville Court Against Former Mill President. Greenville, Dec. 27.?An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was today filed by Haynsworth & Haynsnr/\?-fVi oop?airio+ tVio fnrmpr mill nrpsi dent, Lewis W. Parker. The petitioning creditors are Hampton Cotton Mills company, Victor Manufacturing company, and Parker Cotton Mills company. It is beliveed that the liabilities of Mr. Parker will approximate $500,000, and but little is known of the amount of his assets.