University of South Carolina Libraries
EWS FROM THE Ble BUSY iE Corduroy Velvet. Pretty fur Dresses, Combination Tunics ami Trimmings. Thirty lil il?es wide. Colors, (?reeii. Hlack, Navy, Drown, White, etc., yard 50c. and Underwear Specials. Ladies' Ribbed Fleece Vests and Pants, 20, 25 and 10c. Misses' Ribbed Fleece Vests, 15, 2it and 2 5c. .Men's Heavy Fleece and Ribbed Vests. 10. if. and 50c. Hoys' Union Suits, 25 and 50c. Stylisn Millinery. Indies' trimmed and untrimmed Hlack Velvet Hats in newest shapes. Children's Headwoar, Infants' Caps, etc. Prices that, will please. Rain Coat Specials. Ladies' Rubber Front ('oats, $2.00. Ladies' Hine Poplin Front Coats, $4.00. Men's Tan Canton Cloth Coats. $4.00. Men's Tan Canton Cloth Coats, $4.00 to $1 0.00. Ladies* Sweater Coats 2 50 Wool Sweater Coats for La dies. Girls and Children specially priced for this sale. All colors, in plain and fancy -weaves. Boys* Wool Sweaters Roys' All-Wool Heavy Cray Cord Sweater Coats, best dollar values, re duced to 75c. Cotton BlanKets. 100 pairs ol' Cray and Tan Cotton Blankets. Smallest size ls 00 by 7 0 inches. Priced in keeping with cot ton prices- $1.00, $1.25, $1.40, $1.50 and $1.75 each. Radical Reductions in AU Departments, j IF YOU WANT WHAT YOU WANT WHEN YOU WANT IT, COME TO SEE US. We arc prepared as never before to take care of your Winter Needs for all members of thc family. Moreover, we arc making these very Liberal Price Reductions now instead of in February, as is our custom. j?> Wc are sacrificing our profits on this Bright, Clean, New Stock, and those who have not already bought can now make a saving that will count, THESE PRICES GO INTO EFFECT AT ONCE, AND THIS BIG SALE WILL LAST THROUGH DECEMBER 24. New Cotton Goods Prices. 36-inch Cambric Percales, 16c. values. 10c. 40-inch K'.,e. Sen Island Sheeting, yard.8)60. 16c, Heavy Blue Denims.12??C 10c. Cheviot Shirtings, Riverside.ftc. 10c. Dress Cheviot, short lengths, half price, yard.5c. 2.5c. Cotton Corduroy.I2??c. Standard Calicoes, yard .5c. Lonsdale Cambric, yard . 12'oc. Heavy Cantons, nt 10 and.12!2c. 71.jC Outing, yard. 5c. Pound Prints (6 pounds) value $1, at."ftc. Apron Ginghams, 7, 6 and. 5c. Ladles' Coat Suits Reduced. Some to Hall Regular Price. Present stock comprises about twenty of this season's Suits in Long or Short Coal Styles, ami about fifteen last season's Suits. $5.00 Suits, good doth, Black and Cray and Brown mixtures. $2.08 $6.50 Suits, Striped Suiting .$3.?8. $10.00 Suits, All-Wool Serge, etc. $0.50. $10.00 Suits, Ail-Wool Serge, new. $7.85. $12.50 Suits, All-Wool Serge $12.50 Suits, All-Wool Serge, new. $15.00 Suits, Crepes and Heavy Serge, etc. $18.00 Suits (only one) Crepe. $7.75. $0.50. $10.50? $12.50. 25 Per Cent. Off all Men's Suits. We carry the biggest stock of Medium and High-Grade Clothing for men and boys in the city. They ure all marked in plain ligures. You can easily figure the price. Regular price is $5.00 to $15.00. Twenty-live percent, off-makes them $3.75 to $1 1.25. Boys* Suits Reduced to 20 Per Cent. Upwards of 200 Boys1 Suits iii stock, in sizes up t<> 20 years ; com prising highest grades in Norfolk and Double-Breast styles. Regular prices $1.50 to $10.00. Twenty pei cent, off, makes them $1.20 to $8.00. Most any price you wish to pay between $1.20 and $8.00. Shoes for Less Money. Men's $2.50 Box Calf or Hun Metal, for.$2.00. Men's $2.00 Satin C-ilf Shoes.$1.50. Men's $2.00 Heavy Shoes.'.$1.50. Men's $2.50 Heavy Kangaroo Shoes.$2.00. Men's $lOO Patent Button or Hun Metal, small sizes, only.$3.00. Men's Keith iS: Pratt Kine Shoes, all leathers.$4.00. Ladies' All-Leather Kine Shoes.$1.50. Ladies'Solid Vici Shoes, $1.50 values. $1.25. Ladies' Box Calf Shoes, $1.75 and. $1.50. Ladies' Hun Metal Button. $2.7.5 down to. $2.00. Ladies' Tan Button Shoes .$2.00. Ladies' Cloth Top Button Shoes, $2.00 and.$2.50. Boys' Shoes. $1.25 to.$2.50. Children's Shoes. 40c. to.$2.00. Ladles' and Misses' Coats Reduced. Children's $.200Coats.$1.50. Children's $2.50Coats. 1.08. Children's $4.0) Coats. 3.00. Misses' $8.00 Coats. 13 to 17 years. 1.98. Misses' $5.00 Coats. 3.98. Misses' $7 50 Coats. 5.00. Ladies' $8.50 cn $4.00 Black Coats . 2.98. Ladies, $5.00 Coats. 3.98. Ladies' $7.50 Coats. 5.00. Ladies' $10.00Coats. 7.50. Ladies'$12.50 Coats . 9.00. Ladies' $15.tK) Coats.$10.00. The Bee Hi ve, J. E. HARPER, Mgr. SENECA, S. C. SELLS FOR CASH-SELLS 'EM POR LESS. 5 0c. very bon, yard Ribbon Bargains. 25c. value Fancy Persian, Moire and Satin. 100 bolts, all colors. Pest 2 5c. values, at, yard 15c. wide Roman Stripe Rib 40c. 3V6-inch All-Silk Taffeta, yard 10 Cent?. SilK Bargains. 2 7-inch Wash Silks .19c. 36-inch Messaline, black and colors .85c. 36-inch Taffetas, black and colors, the yard .85c. 36-inch Fancy Brocaded Silks, at, yard .39c. Wool Goods ?Sale. 36-inch All-Wool Serge, all colors, at, yard .45c. 7 5c. value All-Wool French Serge, at, yard .50c. $1.00 value, All-Wool 4 4 and 50 inch Serge.7 5c. Wool Plaids and Strlj>es .... 50c. Fancy Cotton Suitings, 19c. val ues .1 2 Vfc c. 28-inch Heavy Suitings.25c. 35c. Heavy Twill Flannels... 25c. Cood quality Jeans .25c. Christmas HandKerchiefs. One hundred dozen Handkerchiefs, in Plain and Embroidered Cotton, Plain and Embroidered Linen, La dies' and Men's Initial Handker chiefs. Some in Chritmas packages; some by the dozen. CmiKually Pretty Assortment. Pretty Dolls, and at same old prices. If any dif ference, they are bigger and prettier for the price. Kew pies, China Limbs, .Jointed Dolls, Dressed Dolls, Sleeping Dolls, etc. 5c. to $1.35. The European NX Honman lu to Aid .Illira ? Geneva, Dec 7. Tho Journal de Geneve publishes a dispatch from lincha rest saying flou mania lias defi nitely decided to enter the war on HIP side of the allies. This decision, according to the dispatch, is in ac cordance with the wish of the entire country, including King Ferdinand and all the Roumanian statesmen, ex cept the minister of finance, M. Marg hlleman. The question of when Roumnnia will make ber entry into the conflict is still being discussed, 'however, one side desirng lo avoid a wintei cam paign; but the military authorities express the fear that Servia may be defeated before spring. The attitude of Bulgaria remains doubtful. Greece, Servia and Rou manie have proffered certain conces sions, which, however, Sofia seems not to consider a sufficient induce ment. Germans Claim Successes, Rerlin, Dec. 7.-The German offi cial statement this afternoon says: "in Northern Roland we have gain ed important successes In prolonged fighting around Lodz by defeating strong Russian ?orces stationed to the northwest and southwest of this city. Lodz is in our possession. Russian losses are very large. Rus sia's attempt to come to the assist ance of their threatened armies in the north from Northern Poland was foiled by the activity of Austro-Hun garian and German troops in the dis trict sou (Invest of Plotrkow. Russians Admit Ibid Situation. London, Dee. 7. A comparison of Deiiin and Petrograd renorts leads to the conclusion that the Germans again occupy Lodz, from whence they were driven on their first retreat from Warsaw. Rerlin announces positively that tho Germans have taken Lodz. Petrograd admits the situation there la desperate. Wonderful Recuperative Rowers. This success of tho Germans, large ly because of what preceded it. ls considered by military experts a really remarkable achievement. Less than a fortnight ago the army to which this victory has fallen was sur rounded by Russians, and cul its way out only at the last moment, losing great numbers ol' tuen and many guns. Yet it was able, within a few days, to reorganise, take the offen sive and defeat, the Russian* defend lug Lodz. J ar Day by Day, Til is was mad? possible by tho net work of strategic railways on the German side of thc frontier, over which reinforcements can be sent where they are most needed. The Russians, on the other hand, vigor ously attacked on both wings, were unable to send fresh men to stiffen their center to meei the German wedge, and were compelled to fall hack." Servians Chook .Austrians. Ivondon. Dec. ".- King Peter of Servia, who bas been ill for many months, has assumed command of the Servian army, and, according to a Nish report, has checked the ad vance of the Austrians, inflicting heavy losses on them. The Austrian reply to this is that "the occupation of Mel^rade necessitates the regroup ing ol" our troops." The political news of the day was the authoritative announcement from Sofia that it was not considered pos sible anything would intervent to make it necessary for Bulgaria to change her policy ot' strict neutrality until next spring. Allies Again Take Offensive. Taking advantage of the pro-ooeu ?ation of the Germans in ?lie east, he allied French, Belgian and Brit sh forces have begun an offensive no veinent in the west. They are low virtually in possession ol' the eft hank ol' the Yser Canal, and in Northern France, particularly in the leighborhood of La Pass?e, where he Germans hold a very strong posi lon, the allies are beginning with a lenvy cannonade to feel their way asi ward. ? The same process is being followed long the whole front. The official tatement speaks of "the superiority f our offensive" and the .'marked dvantage" of the French artillery ver that of the Germans. Th? advance, slight as it is in the orthwest, has ended for the present t least, in the opinion of many, the ?orman monaco of the coast ports, t Is believed that so long as the Ger ? ans are compelled to kee]) up the trength of their army in the east hoy will be unable to assume the ff ens! ve in the wost. There is a re ort, however, that the Connans ave kept the pick of their western rmy in the Aisne valley, whonce, at ii opportune moment, they can hurl against the French lines and make nother effort to Mot through to ails. Germana Make (Jains in Poland. London, Dec. s. -While the allied annies in the west grope forward cautiously, grappling with the Ger mans here and there tor slight ad vantages, the great struggle in Po land continues, with the (lennans, for the time being, apparently scor ing the most points. Russia has not yet fully conced< i the occupation of Lodz, but lu view >f the repeated German claims and the Russian admission of the refor mation of her battle line there, it ,vould .seem that the German center las achieved this goal, upsetting ,vhat, for a time, was hailed as a lecisive Russian victory. The capture of Lodz, if, indeed, iccomplished, will threaten the Rus ilan line of communication with A'arsaw; that is to say, the great irterlal railway which runs diago lally across Poland from Czentocho va to the Polish capital. Third Invasion by Germans. Fighting in Poland has been dif erent from that which bas taken ?lace anywhere else In the war area, n the west the allies have always >een able to hold their ground after in advance, but the present recap ure of Lodz marks the third inva ion of Poland since the war l>egan. The first German invasion of Po und was made from the south by iust ro-1 Mingar?an forces in August, 'he Rus-sians checked this movement ii September. Later the Austrians Olicent rated around Cracow and lade a second advance, in concert 'Ith a German forward movement rom Breslau, Posen and Thorn. lt was this advance which almost .ached the walls of Warsaw, but the ussians repulsed it in time, not only riving the (lennans to their own orders, but throwing the Cossack dtance patrols into Silesia. This >al was acclaimed by the Russians t the time as the forerunner to a larch on Berlin, but the Germans, Ith reinforcements, beat back the ? vadera and swept on to their pres nt position, notwithstanding the u t that at one time they were sur m tided and threatened with a dls rdrous defeat. Gormans Active in West. The (n inian armies haw an.swer 1 the challenge of the allies, who ?cen tl y assumed the offensive, by ndertnking a sharp counter-attack, i Belgltui alon? the Ysor Canal and i the region of the Ypres the Ger aus have become more active. To ry's official French statement says thal these attacks were answered with success. Announcements from the Paris and Berlin war offices are in sharp conflict as to tiie outcome of the struggle. Tiie French communica tion states tiie allies have gained further ground in the Argonne. That was denied flatly at Berlin, where it was said there have been no French attacks for some time past. To thc contrary, it is said that the (lennans continue to gain ground there very slowly. lt is also asserted that a French attack near Nancy was repulsed, and that the Germans have made an d vance north of Arras. Three German Cruisers Sunk. London, Dec. it.-It was announc ed officially here to-day that the Ger man cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneise nau and Leipzig had been sunk off the Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic. The following announce ment was issued by the official in formation bureau : "At 7..10 a. m. on December 8 the Scharnhorst) Gneisenau, N?rnberg, Leipzig and Dresden were sighted near the Falkland Islands by a Brit ish squadron under Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Sturdee. "An action followed, in the course of which the Scharhorst, flying the flag of Admiral Count von Spec, the Gneisenau and the Leipzig were sunk. The Dresden and N?rnberg made off during the action and are being pursued. Two colliers also were captured. "The vice admiral reports that the British casualties are very few in number. "Some survivors have been res cued from the Gneisenau and the Leipzig." The official statement shows that, is has been reported, the German squadron made its way from the Pa cific to the Atlantic. The Falkland Islands Ile off the Hp of South \merica, directly east of the Straits )f Magellan. The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau ivere the largest vessels of the Ger man fleet. They were sister ships >f 11,000 tons displacement, 450 'ec on the water line, and were rated at a mean speed of 22% knots. Sa ch carried a complement of 755 nen and was armed with eight 8.2 nch guns, six 0-inch guns, twenty 24-pounders. four machine guns and our torpedo tubes. The Leipzig had a -displacement of 1,260 tons and enrried 2S6 men. She vas 341 feet long on the water line, i had a beam of \3V? feet and was rated at 23 knots. Her largest guns, of which she carried ten, were 4.1-inch. She had also ten one pounders, four machine guns and two torpedo tubes. German Force? Trapped. Paris, Dee. S.-Ten thousand Ger mans are reported in a dispatch from Fumes to have been trapped by the allies when they made an infantry attack in the vicinity of Arras to day and to have been surrounded without any chance of eseai>e. '.lussia Loses on Black Sen. Constantinople, Dec. 9.-lt is offi cially announced that two small Russian warships were sunk in the Pluck Sea on Monday by Turkish cruisers. Servians Again (Jain Victory. Paris, Dec. 9.-Twenty thousand Austrian troops have been cut off and captured by Servians ir north west Servia, it is reported .<: the Journal's correspondent in the South ern theater of war. Ills dispatch from Nish says: "When the Serbs, in a supreme of fensive, pierced the Austrian center, 20,000 Austrians were separated from the main body and wandered aimlessly through the hilly country in small groups until captured. "The enemy's isolated right wing is retreating before the Servian left which debouched from Tchatchak and now probably occupies Ougits and Valjevo. "An Irremedial Austrian defeal forced the Austrians to abandon theil drive toward central Servia, but the) shifted their p-essure to the nortl around Belgrade in order to diver the attention of the Serbs. Two Ans trian divisions which are attempting to light their way along the Danulx eastward to the Mo ra v H Valley an confronted by an equal Serb force ii Hie Kosmal mountains, where ? fierce conflict is now raging." Gentians Mine Allies' Trench. Paris, Dec. 9.-In their continue* Dffensive against the Germans mun prous trenches have been capturei by the allies, says an official state ment issued here this afternoon. 1 ::laims success for the all! ?s alon the great battle front at practican .' cry point but one, where the (lei mans mined and blew up a Frene !rencb. The statement follows: "From the sea to tho Dys durin the day of the St li there were arti! cry duels. In the region of th Msne thero were artillery duels." Boer Deader Drowned. Capetown, South Africa.'Dee. 9. Confirmation of a report that Cen. Beyers, the Boer leader, has been killed is given in a dispatch received from Johannesburg to-day. Beyers was wounded in a light with a local ^ commando and was drowned while trying to escape over the Vaal river, when bis force was routed. Aids Gerainns; (Jets Benth. Durham, England, Dec. 9.-Nicho las Ahlers, former consul general for Germany at Eunderland and a nat uralized British citizen, was found A , guilty of high treason to-day and sentenced to death. His offense consisted of aiding Cern?an citizens back to their own country to fight against the -allies. The indictment, trial and sentence ot , Ahlers occupied less than two days. . Escaped Warship Sunk. London, Dec. 10.-The official bureau announced this afternoon that the German cruiser N?rnberg, one of the warships which escaped from t,A the English In the engagement of W December 8, has been sunk. The text of the official bureau statement ..vus: "A further te ?.gram has been re ceived from Vice Admiral Sir Fred erick D. Sturdee reporting that the N?rnberg was also sunk on Decem ber 8, and that the search fer the ill? Dresden is still proceeding. "The action lasted for five hours, with Intervals. The Scharnhorst sank after three hours and the Cneisenau two hours later. The enemy's light cruisers scattered and were chased by our cruisers and ? light cruisers. "No loss of any British vessel is reported." Tho sinking of the N?rnberg leaves only the cruiser Dresden to be accounted for of the five warships in the German squadron. M Dresden Cornered. Buenos Aires, Dec. 10.-The Ger man cruiser Dresden, the only war ship of Admiral Count von Side's squadron lo escape after the battle ^ with the British squadron under command of Admiral Slr Frederick Sturdee, has been cornored In the Straits of Magellan, according to ad vices obtained through well-informed circles to-day. The naval division commanded by Admiral Sturdee is understood to in clude nine warships, notably the H British battle cruisers Lion and In defatigable. Cures Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Curs. The wornt coses, no mutter o? how lon* Mundina, ure cured by the wonderful, old reliable Br. Porter'l Antiseptic I' 'filing Oil, It relieve* | .nd Resift nt th* ?ainu lime, zsc, 50c, st.oo