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"TO THINE OWN SELF BB TRUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY: THOU CANST NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN." By STECK, SH FLOR & SCHRODER. LOTS OF YOUNG Horses and Mules Good Draft Bred Horses with good, flat bone and plenty sub stance; can turn up the subsoil. Come quick and take a look. We own these Horses and Mules, so we can sell them quick. -:- -:- -: C. W. & J. E. BAUKN1GHT, Walhalla, S. C. PERSEVERANCE is grit applied to the pursuit * of purpose. ORDER is the systematic and intelligent direc tion of purpose toward accomplishment. II 7 ILL is thc ability to set adversity by the * * ears and to master circumstance. NTHUSIASM is the heart-engredient which makes the hardest work seem easy. p E CT ITU DE is thc basic virtue without which I M^v achievement has a sinister meaning. AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL POSSESSING THE COMPOSITE OF THESE VIRTUES KNOWS THE VALUE OF A Savings Account -IN Westminster Bank, Westminster, S. C. ll PRISONERS EXECUTED. Bodies of Most Victims Aro Still Un buried at Juurey.. El Paso, Texas, Nov. 17.-Eleven f* men aro known to have been execut ed in Juarez since Francisco Pancho Villa and his rebels captured the city Saturday morning. Rebel otlicers ad mit the execution of that number. Americans who have frequented the city since its capture claim that 2'3 have been excepted. ty Bodies of wout of tho victims are still unburied. More than 20 corpses, some of them of men executed and some of them bodies of victims of the battle, lay all night in tin; rain in the Juarez cemetery because graves had not been completed for them. The body of Col. Enrique Portillo, executed Saturday, was brought to ? El Paso for interment to-day. It was divested of ?ts trousers and shoes by a rebel who was; short of clothing while it lay in the patio of the mili tary barracks in Juarez. All rebels are badly in need ol' clothing, and the distribution ol' captured Federal uni forms made by Villa did not go * around, so there luis been a scramble for tho clot liing of the men executed. (Jen. Francisco Castro, who com manded the Federal garrison when the rebels attacked, has not been fou nd. For Children there is Nothing Retter. A cough medicine for children W must help their coughs and colds without bad effects on their little Stoma? Im ??ud bowels. Foley's Honey and Tar exactly fills this need. No opiates, no sour Btomach, no consti pation follows its use. Stuffy colds, wheezy breathing, coughs and croup are all quickly helped. Bell's drug store. adv. I,lille Girl Burned ? . Death. Atlantic City, N. J.. Nov. 15. Lena Hewitt, 7 yoars old, died to-day from injuries received yesterday, when she was tho "captivo" in a game of "Indian." Norris, her 5 year-old brother, touched a match to her dress and she was fatally burned beforo the llames could bo smoth ered. SLICK DUCK GETS $11,000. Represented Himself as Traveling Auditor on Hand to (Tieck Up. Tampa. Fla.. Nov. 16.-Represent ing himself to be an auditor for the Southern Bx press Company, an un known man walked into the St. Pe tersburg office of that company Sat urday morning, took charge of the books and papers, worked several hours over them and disappeared in the early afternoon. A short time later the agent discovered that money orders and travelers' cheeks to the amount of $11,000 were missing. Announcement of the theft was made here to-day by Superintendent C. C. Wolfe, of Jacksonville, who was summoned as soon as the theft was discovered. Ile was accompanied by several special agents of tho com pany. The checks and money orders car ried off by tho unknown man are ne gotiable almost anywhere and ex press officials are making every effort to locate him before he can cash them. During a busy hour Saturday morning tho unknown man approach ed the agent and presented what pur ported to be credentials as auditor for the company. Ho introduced himself as A. C. Simpson, of Chatta nooga. Ile seemed familiar with the practices of . ie traveling auditors, and was soon Immersed in the work of checking up the booka. When he went to lunch he locked a roll top desk in which bc had, apparently, placed the money order" and checks. When he failed to return the agent became suspicious and broke open the desk. Ile found nothing but the st'.ibs for checks and money orders. .Marriages at. Salem. Salem, Nov. 17.-Special: .Mar ried, by Rev. C. R. Abercrombie, at the home of the bride's father, W. D. Rogers, on Sunday, nt 1 o'clock. Miss Mannie Rogers and Charlie Kelley. Both of Salem. Also, by the same minister, at the tioine of the bride's mother, Mrs. M. BJ. Holcombe, on Sunday evening, at 7..10, in tho presence of several friends, Miss Nettie Holcombe and Uunney Crow. Doth of Salem. VILLA'S REBELS TAKE JUAREZ. Federal Force ls Surprised During Karly Morning Hours. El Paso, Texas, Nov. 16.-For the sixth time in tho last three years Cuidad Juarez changed governments, when 2,500 rebeln, led by Gen. Pan cho Villa, attacked and captured the town between 2.30 and 6 o'clock this morning. Taken by surprise, the Federal garrison of about 400 men put up a weak resistance. So unprepared for the battle were the Federal defend ers that Villa's troops actually reach ed the centre of the town before a i shot was fired. Although ail accurate count has not j been completed it is estimated that 1 40 persons were killed in tho light ing. The rebels lost 5 men. the Fed eral dead is estimated at 30, and 4 or fi non-combatants were killed. Among them was Charles Seggerson, an Bl Paso automobile driver, who was on the main street in Juarez in his automobile. '"No looting" was tho order given by Villa to his men after the town had surrendered, and not a single case of theft has been reported. Guards were placed at down-town stores, with orders to shoot the first man who attempted to loot. Gen. Castro Missing. The rebels captured 125 Federal prisoners, 95,000 rounds of ammuni tion, two field pieces and two ma chine guns-in addition to an import ant border port of entry and a mili tary strategic point. Gen. Francisco Castro, command er of Juarez garrison, is among tho missing. Il is the general opinion that he escaped. No trace of him or his body has been found. His scab bard, sword and epaulets were found in his residence, and Gen. Villa has them for souvenirs. IT. S. Troops Guard, United States troops took station near the international boundary and held the Americans away from the danger zone as much as possible while the battle lasted. Order was quickly restored In Jua rez after the capitulation and this af ternoon at 2 o'clock street car ser vice between Fl Paso and Juarez was resumed and Americans began to flock to the Mexican city. Little dam age was done in Juarez, as the rebels had no cannon. MYSTERY SHIP IS IDENTIFIED. Wreck iii Lake Huron is Pound to He the G. S. Price. Port Huron, Mich., Nov. 15.-One of the strangest mysteries in connec , Hon with the destruction of vessels and men on the Great Lakes by last Sunday's storm was solved this fore noon when William Raker, a diver, identified the overturned vessel In Lake Huron, 1'1 miles southwest of this port, as the Charles S. Price, of Cleveland. The Price, a steamer 504 feet long, has been lying in the lake ever since the storm with only a few feet of the bottom of her bow above water. She is said to have car ried a crew of 28. All of them must have been lost. lt is still thought that the wreck ing of the Price and the Regina must have been in the same locality. The diver, however, found no evidence of any submerged vessel beside the Price. The opinion that the two steamers went down near each other is borne out by the fact that the body of one of the Price's men when found was wrapped in a Regina life belt. Ship owners and anxious relatives of the sailors of tho eight boats which went down in Lake Huron dur ing the storm, to-day began another search for the frozen bodies which are being tossed up almost hourly on the Canadian ??hore. The establishment ol' the identity of the "mystery ship" makes it cer tain that the boats claimed by the big blow on Lake Huron wero the John A. McGean, Charles S. Price, James s. Carruthers, Regina. Wex ford, Argus, Hydrus and Isaac M. Scott, involving a death loss of ap proximately l!)f>. Resides this start ling total the storm took the Ivcifleld. William Nottingham, Henry R. Smith, Plymouth and Lightship No. 82 and in the neighborhood of (il lives on Lake Superior. Lake Michi gan and Lake Erie. "Sunset" Strike is Ended. Houston, Texas, Nov. 17.--The Southern Pacific. (Atlantic system) trainmen and engineinen's strike in Texas and Louisiana was ended to day when the railroads yielded to the demande* of the men ,to meet a fede rated committee of tho four unions in the controversy. The men were ordered to resumo work Immediately, and within ?10 minutes after the an nouncement the idlo wheels in the local yards began turning. The strike began November 13, at 7 p. m., lasted three days and a half, during which time not a freight wheel was moved on 2,400 miles of track and not one act of violence was reported. . Company officials helped to man enough engines to keep about a dozen passenger trains in motion. Hloodahed at tho End. Victoria, Texas. Nov. 17.-The first bloodshed in connection with tho Southern Pacific strike occurred here late to-day, after the settlement of the strike had been announced, when George Gillig. a union engineer, was stabbed to death by a strikebreaker. WASHINGTON MERELY WAITS. If Crisis ls Forced It will Be hy (Jen. Huerta. Washington, Nov. 17.-That tho United States, in its policy toward the provisional government in Mexi co, is content to await the outcome of the steady pressure being exerted to bring about the downfall of the Huerta regime, was apparent to-day in ofTlcial circles here. Exciting ru mors from Mexico City wholly failed to mille the calm confidence of Presi dent Wilson or Secretary of State Bryan. "The mills of the nods grind slow ly" was tile declaration ol* ono high official of the government in discuss ing the developments. The Presi dent was not at all aroused hy re ports that Mr. O'Shaughnessy, the American ehargo d'affaires, was about to quit Mexico City, and it was stated that no orders had been given either to Mr. O'Shaughnessy or .lohn Lind, at Vera Cruz, to leave Mexico. Rumors that tito American embassy would be closed within IS hours were characterized in official sources as "fakes." End of Huerta Experted. The President told callers during the day that while there had been some change in the Mexican relations as "o persons, there had boen no es 61 a vial change in the circumstances tu Ilitch he had referred the other di /) as seeming favorable to a solu tion of the difficulties. The Presi dent, it is said, ls confident that the financial boycott of the Huerta re gime by the United States and the great foreign powers will be a power ful factor In bringing about the end of Huerta. In discussing the persistent ru mors that Charge O'Shaughnessy was about to take his departure, leaving the American embassy's records in the care of one of the ministers rep resenting tlie foreign po weis, Secre tary Bryan stated flatly that neither the charge nor Mr. Lind had any con ditional instructions, and intimated that both were acting under precise instructions from Washington in every step in the negotiations. J. L. HUNTER I/OS ES RY FIRE. Residence Humed Last Wednesday Afternoon-Westminster News. Westminster, Nov. 18.-Special: J. L. Hunter, who resides in the up per end of town, had the misfortune to lose his dwelling and house fur nishings last Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock by fire. Mr. Hunter and little son were at home, but the fire had gotten such good headway be fore he was aware of it that he was unable to do anything toward ex tinguishing the flames. Mr.- Hunter had just recently completed his house, and had occupied it but a short willie. Tho property was in sured for $250 in tho Oconee Mutual. J, Ervin Moore, of Greenville, spent several days here last week among his many friends. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Leathers re turned last Thursday from a two weeks' visit to Nashville. T. S. Miller moved from his place In Eastmlnster last Friday into the cottage of Y. E. Pitts. H. M. Hester, of Greenville, spent a short while here last Friday on business. A. M. Norris left last week for Norfolk, Va., where he will he en gaged in the shuttle block industry during the winter months. J. D. Witherspoon, of Cross Hill, spent several days In and around Westminster in the interest of his insurance company last week. Mrs. W. O. Bobo, of Washington. Ga., is visiting her brothers, C. J. and D. A. Mulkey. This is Mrs. Bo bo's first visit to this county in about 3") years. J. Hugh Bibb, of Atlanta, visited friends here last week. The infant of Mr. and Mrs. doe Karr died at their homo In East min ster Sunday. Its body was interred at tho old Baptist cemetery Monday afternoon. Mrs. Lee Miller is very sick. Her many friends hope for her speedy re covery. Wayman Holland, of Seneca, was here on business this week. .Mrs. Stevens Head of U. I). C. New Orleans, Nov. 15.-Mrs. Daisy McLaurln Stevens, of Mississippi, was unanimously elected president gene ral of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at tho convention here to-day, as tho only other candidate. Mrs. Nathan I). Ella, of Virginia, had withdrawn from tho race. Mrs. Cor nelia Branch Stone, of Texas, was unanimously elected honorary presi dent general. Tho strikebreaker and four compan ions wore arrested. The killing occurred when the strikers, who were returning to work, went to the railroad station to meet a train manned by strikebreakers coming from Houston. A crowd which collected began to cheer when the old men replaced the new crew. According to eye-witnesses, this ap narently angered the strikebreakers, one of whom plunged a knife into Gillig's breast. The man charged wit li tito stabbing gave his name as E. O. Quinn, of Houston. Ii A ST DAYS OF COMMON PLEAS. Power Company Against Traxler and Taylor Took Mont of Week. Only a few cases besides the one of tho Southern Power Company, plaintiffs, against D. 13. Traxler and J. T. Taylor, defendants, were heard in the Court of Common Pleas last week, this one case occupying the entire time of the Court until Thurs day afternoon, when a verdict vas returned for the defendants in the sum of $7."0. This was in the na ture of compensation for a right of way for the power company's trans mission line. The owners of the property originally asked $10,000 for tlio righi of way, and an arbitration was entered into, the arbitrators llx Ing the sum of $.'5,:i00 as compensa tion for the land traversed by the company's lineB. i'he company ap pealed from this assessment of dam ages, ?ind the trial just concluded last week is the outcome of the appeal of the power company. The next case taken up after this was that of Jos. W. Shelor, plaintiff, against Mrs. H. L. Maley, as adminis tratrix of the estate or J. .1. Haley, doceased, defendant. This was an ac tion for recovery. Verdict: We lind for the plaintiff $ i">0 as principal and $1 24.52 as inteerst. Cudahy Packing Co., plaintiffs, vs. J. S. Williams. (Appeal from Mag istrate's Court). Magistrate's order granting non-suit reversed and ense remanded for new trial. The United States ol' America vs. Frederick Riemann. (Naturaliza tion proceedings). Ordered that J. F. Craig, C. C. P. & G. S., for Oconee county, do forthwith Issue to Freder ick Riemann a certificate of naturali zation as provided by the Department of Commerce and Labor of the Uni ted States of America. C. C. Thrasher, plaintiff, vs. Henry Duke, defendant. Suit for recovery for trespass. Verdict: We find for the defendant. .Ins. R. Woolridge, sales agent, plaintiff, vs. Livingston & Co., de fendants. (Appeal from Magistrate's Court). Magistrate's finding was for the defendants. Exceptions of plaintiff sustained, Magistrate's judgment set aside and new trial gran ted. With this case the session for No vember, 19 Kl, closed. There were, however, many entries of orders by the Court, made in cases for fore closure of mortgages, Judgments granted, and other matters of a simi lar nature. An Error Corrected. In the lirst week's report of pro ceedings of Court The Courier's ac count contained an error, due entire ly to oversight on the part of the re porter. This was in tho case of The State vs. J. Lawrence Rholetter, charged with obtaining signatures to deeds by false pretense. The grand jury returned "no bill" in this case, and by error on our part this case was Included among those receiving "true bill" action. Mr. Rholetter was discharged from Court with a clean record. BLEASE DENIES THE REPORT. Governor Uses Short and Ugly Word in Discussing Rumor. Columbia. Nov. 18. - Governor Rlease denounced as a "Ho" a story from Washington to the effect that he had withdrawn from the Senato rial race and would seek a third term as Governor. The story origi nated In Washington, and represent ed as corning from a high source the information that Mr. Rlease would seek another term in his present of fice because of the insurgency of the administration forces at tho Rlease conference and their reported refusal to back him for the Senate. Governor Please applied the short and ugly word to the story and said there was nothing in it. The story created great interest in political cir cles, but wa.? promptly put to sleet) by the vigorous denial of the Gover nor. Take Po ide., in Washington. Washington, Nov. 15.-Two South Carolinians were grooms,at weddings hero to-day. G. H. Mahon, Jr., of Greenville, and Miss Elizabeth P. Wicker, of Richmond, Vn., were one of the couples united, the other being Lawrence O. Bruce, of Townville, and Miss Violet M. Smith, of Frederick, Maryland. SHOP EARLY! Only 35 Days Now Till Christmas. Do your shopping now and avoid thc rush at thc last. Remember that your neglect of little things now will cause worry, over work and fatigue to weary sales people later in the sea son. Be thoughtful-Shop Early! OCONEE COTTON MARKET. Senc?*ft and Newry are Paying . Per Hundred for Seed. Quotations below were secured over phone at 10..'10 o'clock this morning: Westminster: (Tty J. f>. Breazeale.) Cotton, 13?4 to 13%. Seed, pel ton, $26. Walhalla: (By C. W. Pitchford.) Cotton, 13V4 to 13%. Seed, pel ton, $25. West Union: (By strother & Ph In ney.) Cotton. 13%. Seed, per ton, $25. Seneca : ( By Barron-Byrd Co.) > Cotton. 1 :< V?i - Seed, per ton, $26.50, Newry : (By Courlena. Mfg. Co.) Cotton, 13%. beed, per ton, $26.50. Anderson-November 18: Colton, 13%. Seed, $20 to $28 per ton. ************ * Oconee Crop to November 1st. . * _ * * Walhalla, Nov. 15.-Editor * * Keoweo Courier: Cotton ginned * * in Oconee county: * * Nov. 1st, 1913 .10.1101 * * Nov. 1st 1912 . f>.718 * * Yours truly * * Boone it. Moss. * Special Agent. * ************ Comparisons in Crop. To October 18, 1!>13, there were 7,344 hales ginned in Oconee, and to the same date in 1912 there had been :t,074 bales ginned, showing 4,274 bales tor 1 01 B in excesB of 1912. Tho ligures show to November 1st an excess of 5,718 hales for 1913 over the 1912 crop. Between October 18 and November 1st, 1913, there were 3,557 bales ginned in Oconee, while between tho same dates last year there were gin ned only 2,6 44, or 1*13 hales more in 1913 than in 1912 from October 1 8tb to November 1st. While th a 1913 ginnings for Ocor nee maiutrin a good lead ovor 1912 up to the first of November, still the falling off in per cent increase is suf ficient to warrant the belief that the early heavy lead over last year is due more to favorable weather for picking tho staple than to Increase in size of crop. It. is, however, gene rally conceded that Oconeo's crop is unusually good and will largely sur pass that of 1912, hut not to the ex tent early ginning figures tended to indicate. Y KOOMA X MA K KS HIS KSOAPK. John Fisher Leaves State Peniten tiary-Howard Offered. (Tho State, 17th.) John Fisher, serving a term of 15 years for safe blowing from Lancas ter county, having been convicted iu 1900, made a daring escape ri om the State penitentiary some time Satur day night. That the prisoner had escaped was discovered yesterday af ternoon when the count wa* made just before locking the main prison building for the night. The escaped prisoner bored out the iron grating of the window to his cell on the sec ond story of tile main prison build ing, dropped 15 feet to the ground, crept cautiously behind a guard who was walking around the building at the time, ran swiftly across the prison yard to the hosiery mill build ing, broke open a window, climbed out on tho roof, secured a long rope and lowered himself to the hanks of the Columbia canal and made Iiis es cape. Reward for Arrest. "It was one of the most daring escapes ever made by a prisoner from the State penitentiary. Ile was the first prisoner to over escape from tho new prison building," said Capt. D. J. Griffith, superintendent of tho pen itentiary. The prison officials have offered a reward of $100 for his ar rest. John Fisher and Charles O'Day, who were sent to the State peniten tiary in August, 1906, and held on a charge of safe-cracking, were sen tenced to 15 years cadi by the late Judge O. W. Buchanan, In Lancaster county, August ll. I90f,. Fisher, who made his escape yesterday, was 46 years old at the time he was put in prison, and O'Day was 39. Fisher was born in Florida. The details of the cape, were not known hy th*1 offi cials of the penitentiary outside of the fact t lia t t'uev had committed the crime in Lancaster county. Description Given. John Fisher is described as being five feet, two and seven-eighths in ches in height, with black hair, brown eyes and a dark complexion, ile had a scar on the outside of his left thigh, large scars on the outside of the right leg and scars oh both forearm and wrist. At the timo of his oscape he had on prison clothes. Thanksgiving at Tor.eena. There will" be union Thanksgiving services at Cross Roads Baptist church, Tokcena, at ll o'clock on Thanksgiving Day, November 27th. Services will TJO conducted by Rev. James Mason. Public Invited. Deacons.