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_"TO THINE OWN 8?LF BE TRUE, A Xl) IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY: THOU CANST NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN." By STECK, SHELOR & SCHRODER._WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, SE1?T. 10, 1014. New Serie? No. 8?0.-Volume LXV.-No. :?7. SAMPL VTe have just recei Sample Lot of Fine Sh to $3.00. Sizes 14 We will sell these ? WHOLES/ Come in and I C. W. J. E. WALHAI "IT PAYS TO B The Politici; Busy saving the Farmer. As is cus Hanks ar? being made the goats Time, when money is needed ti We are getting to he the "sho\ Look into all the propositions \ how long after application befoi feature of having to give a show branees; who you might have tc notes ar? liable to be called reg notes; the possible changing of that, you might be dealing with with venir conditions. Wo kn< down and reason they will lind 1 thc} ?an be treated by anybody Westmin WESTMIN WHERE OOONEK COUNTY STA NOS On Question of Pr?l?l?tion-Itesulf* Show Almost 7 to !? Below we give the figures complete ter the election last week on the ques tion of prohibition or local option. The majority in Oeonee county for prohibition is almost 7 to 1. This is in marked contrast with "our big *ister" county of Charleston, where tho results showed about 10 to 1 against prohibition. The Oeonee vote by precincts is given below: Precinct Prohi. L. Op. Clemson College . 2 27 Damascus. 2 2 Double Springs . 2 18 Earle's Mill . - 13 Fair Play. - 30 Friendship. 1 2d High Palls No. I . ;! 5 High Falls No. 2 . 1 20 Holly Springs . I Pi Little Diver. il 12 Long Creek . ;; 16 I Madison . 1 2 j Newry. D'. 1:5 ! Oak way . 7 103 Picket Post . 5 17; Providence.?- 1 7 Richland. 1 26 ! Salem . 12 43 Seneca .?. 24 143 South I'nion . 5 33 Tabor . 1 24 Tamassee. <> 11 Tokeena . 2 43 Tu ga loo Academy . - 13 Westminster . 1 isl West Union . 17 72 Walhalla . ?IS 1 SO Totals.162 1108 E >H1PTS ved and put on sale one iris worth from $1.00 J, 15, 15 1-2. Shirts at SLLE COST. ook them over BAUKNIGHT, -iL?, 5. C>. UY FOR CASH." ans Are All Now tomary every Fall the Southern by the politicians. In the Spring ie country-saverB are very quiet; v me" kind in Oconee, however, ?ery carefully, friends. Consider :e you have money in hand; the ing that cotton is clear of Ineum I go on a note with; the fact that a rd less are different from other security from time to time, and i strangers who arc not familiar )W that when our customers sit hat we treat there, as liberally as anywhere. ster Bank, STER, S. C. GIIUAS LIVKI> LIFE OF SHAME. ijOfk Positions Throng!) Had Conduct. Arrested Near Greenville. Greenville, Sept. 18.-A case tluit was pitiful in the extreme came np for trial before Magistrate Hallinger yesterday when four girls were tried before him upon a charge of vagran cy and were fined $10 or given a sen tence of 20 days in jail. The girls were arrested in Xickeltown by Chief Reuben Gosnell, of the rural police, and by Jailor W. H. Neely, this week. The girls had been staying out in Hie woods near Xickeltown, was the complaint made hy Chief Gosnell, who declared that they were living a lite of the utmost shame. The testi mony could not be printed, and yet there was more pity for the girls than censure. One ot them, with tears rolling down her face, declared that she would have to leave the city to get a lob, as she could not get work in any of the local mills. All of them are cotton mill operatives and have lost their positions through bad conduct. Taken with them was a boy, .las. Arthur Rhodes, who was lined $20 or 30 days on the chain gang. Tho girls were Lucy Farmer, Lila Hay. Nettie Carpenter and Willie .May Heat tie. Heat ordain Haptist .Minutes. Tbe minutes of the Reavordam Haptist Asociation are. now ready for distribution, and all churches which have asked for them will receive their minutes this week. If any ex- ' tra co|des are wanted they will bel supplied at the office of The Keowee Courier or by the (derk at 10 cents per copy. L. H. Mitchell, Clerk. . Walhalla, Route No. 1. COTTON GINNKl) TO S?PT. 1 in South Carolina - Comparisons ?lade With Same ?alto 101 i. ?1 Washington, D. C., Sept. 17.-Spe cial: Sam L. Rogers. Director of the Census, Department Of Commerce, announces the preliminary report ofj cotton ginned by counties lu South Carolina, for the crops of 1915 and1! 1914. The report was made publia for the State on September 8. (Quan tities are in running l?ales, counting round as half hales. Linters are not included. ) County-- l!tir>. ll? lt. Abbeville. * 41 Aiken . 348 S99 Anderson. 1 3 4 Hamberg. 148 1,165* Harnwell. 092 2,734. Hean fort . * 70 Berkeley. - 4jj Calhoun. 226 658 Charleston . 9 Cherokee. - Chester. 37 71 : Chesterfield. 330 3 34' j Clarendon. 70 1,543' Colleton . 31 190 Darlington . * 74 Dillon . 69 457 ] Dorchester. 53 100) Edgefleld . 196 7 3 Fairfield . 10 7 Florence. . 119 Georgetown. - - Greenville. - * Greenwood. * 66 Hampton. 306 77 5 Morry . - - Jasper . * Kershaw. 49 136 Lancaster. Laurens. 7 5 4 Lee . 35 39 2 Lexington. 131 291 Marion. * 6 0 Marlboro. 231 731 Newberry . li? 103 Oconee . - * ! Orangeburg. 1.090 1,449 Bickens. - Richland. 7.". 607 Saluda. 56 66 Spartanburg. ' 21 Sumter . 29 1.111 Union . Williamsburg. * 2 S York. . 57 Totals. 4,305 14,633 * Not shown separately to a /old disclosure of individual operations. + * 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. OCONEE DAY AT CLEMSON. 4. 4? 4* *!* *?* *I* *!* ~AC *I* *I# -J- *>i* Friday, September 24th, will be Oconee county farmers' day at Clem son College and the experiment sta tion. Prof. Conradl will give a short practical talk on farm insects at 10 a. m., and Prof. Barre will discuss plant diseases at 1 1 a. m. Either will be worth any farmers' time and may save him many dollars. Up at the experiment station there is some valuable work going on showing the effects of different ferti lizers and au ear io row corn breed ing plot. Anderson and Piekens county far mers will be there on the same date and this will probably he the last far mers' day In 19 1"?. so let Oconee be well represented. Czar's Spy-Trapper Executed. London. Sept. 17.-A prominent Russian who is here in connection with war contracts for his govern ment revealed to-day the astounding fact that the man at the hoad of the Russian special investigation service, intrusted with the work of discover ing German spies in Russia, was himself a German spy. This man had boen known to the Ru-dan court for years, and only proof of the most indisputable nature led to his ex posure. Then prompt action was taken. Ile was tried by court martial and con victed of having betrayed the weak I finta of the Russian war prepara tions to the very Germans he was < peeled to arrest. His execution fol lowed immediately. The story, according to the inform ant, created a great scandal, and fur ther revelations are expected, Jooossee School to Open. Editor Keowee Courier: Please announce that the .locassee school will he opened on Monday, the 27th, with Miss Annie Gason as teacher. A JA M KS AHCIIlUALD RKTl'KNK. Wovcrmnent to Seek Explanation from Dumbo's Messenger. ft New York. Sept. 20.-James E. j Archibald, the American correspond ent wim carried a message from Dr. Konstantine T. Dumba, Austro-llun 5Li.ui umbassattor at Washington. Hfcressed to the Austrian loreign jjidnister. which led to a request from ?ne United States for the ambassa dor's call, issued a statement here to-day denying that he had connived t?0 break the neutrality laws of the Kilted States or was an ottlcial dis J?tch bearer. I On his return here to-day aboard Ae steamship Rotterdam Archibald inclined to discuss the affair until he bad consulted his lawyer and bad ac quainted himself, as he explained, ?Ith what had been said in this country." h "XSv. Dumba's letter," said Archi fifcld's statement, "was given to me mOSI openly at the steamer's gang plank just before sailing. Hundreds 'Unpersons were about and there was ;?t the slightest suggestion of se ,0X?cy. Of its contents 1 had abso lutely no knowledge I supposed, of 'gRtHjse, that it simply -eferred to my ^tork. 1 feel that the very open man Jrar In which the letter was given me j(MlOW8 that Dr. Dumba had no inten ttpn of using me or my passport as a Shield for the transmission of any Improper letters. \"l did not consciously break either the spirit or the letter of my passport OX bf any law, but merely did what ?yeiy traveler crossing the ocean dee?, by carrying notes or small pk? a ge s as an accommodation to frithds, just as I did when i return ed from Germany last year, when I r.iakied several letters and ofrrctfrt dispatches to our State Department for Ambassador Gerard and packages for Mrs. Gerard and others. I did it simply as a matter of friendship, pre cisely as I carried the letters in this case." Archibald Must Explain. Washington, Sept. 20.-Whatever the government's action toward .las. P. J. Archibald it will not be Laken for several days, and not until Archi bald has had opportunity to make explanations to officials here. The only action the department will take on Dr. Dumba's letter, pub lished yesterday, will be to formally j acknowledge receipt. News Notes from Fairview. Fairview, Sept. 20.-Special: Rev. N. G. Rallenger will lill his regular appointment at this place next Sun day morning at 1 J o'clock. Miss Ida Shockley, ol' Atlanta, is visiting among friends here. Miss Shockley was a former resident of thia community, and ber numerous friends are pleased to meet ber again. Mis? Sallie Mc.Mahan 1 >ft Sunday for Griffin, Ga., where she nas accept ed a position as stenographer. Miss Jessie Taylor has returned to her home near Tucker, Ga., after spending a month with relatives here. Mrs. Lena M. Goch ran last week went to Greenville, at which place she has accepted a position. Miss Rosa Mc.Mahan and brother Paul have entered the Newry High School. Mrs. Fred Martin and children, of near Anderson, are visiting the for mer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Meares, nt "Cedar Lawn." Mr. and Mrs. R. IL Alexander and children, of Walhalla, spent last week-end with relatives in this com munity. Laying III Supply. (Charleston Post. ) Approximately half of the quarter of a million dollars' worth of liquids ordered by the Charleston county dis pensary board In the last awards that can be made on account of the results of the dry vote in the prohibition election of recent days, has been re ceived and stored in the warehouse near dispensary headquarters. About $126,000 worth of liquor and beer is on hand, lt is estimated, $90,000 worth being stored up to Saturday night, and it is still coining In at the ratfor eight and ten cars a day. lt is expected that the shipment of the stuff will he completed this week, it heing necessary to have it all here before the results of the election are declared, and the embargo on pur chasing or receiving goes into effect. Tl HUS DOST 5,000 IX BATTL.K Allied Forces Capture Hill ?0 nt Dar danelles A fter Bloody Hattie. London Sept. 19.--A description of the fighting in the Anzac region, on die Gallipoli Peninsula the last week in August and the result achieved is given by a Dardanelles correspondent. The capture of Hill No. 60 was im portant, he says, as it is the last cres! ot' the last ridge separating the Anzac zone from the plains to the north, and thus constitutes a point of union between the British forces in the An zac position and the line across the Sulva plains. The Turks clung to the bill with the utmost determination, and when thrown out of their trenches would fight their way back again. When the trenches finally were captured they were tilled with Turkish dead, lt took turee days to oust the Turks, and the ground around is still thickly strewn with their bodies and those of British soldiers. The correspondent says it is esti mated the Turks lost 5,000 men be fore they surrendered the position The correspondent expresses the opinion that the Turks will not at tack the Anzac positions again after terrible losses they sustained in pre vious attacks. They did succeed, he adds, in sweeping two British battal ions off a ridge that previously had been won by the New Zealanders, but when they gol across the crest they came under the fire of the D rit isl? machine guns. " They came down in thousands," said a staff officer of the New Zealand brigade. "They went back in hun dreds " the correspondent says. Ma chine gunners claim that f?,000 were killed. Danger to this part oi.tii? line, the correspondent thinks, could only come through physical overstrain of the troops, as they have made the psit ?OUR virtually Impregnable, and even supplies for them are now taken up through saps, which inn right down to the beaches, while the sides of the hills are covered with dugouts. The Turkish batteries still make it exciting for landing parties, but once ashore there is plenty of cover for the men. STI DD M ORK PK.\< ?K 151'MO lt S. Vague Imli< . ?ions that Somewhere in Europe Peace is Thought of. Berlin. Sept. 18.-That longland realizes she cannot force the Darda nelles and desires separate peace with Turkey is the interpretation of The Tages Zeitung of Lord Kitche ner's praise of the Turks. It con trasts the latter's remarks with the statement of Premier Asquith thal Turkey signed her death warrant when she entered the war. Peace Conference Held. New York. Sept. 18.-That Her man representatives were directly ap proved by the British foreign office the latter part of August to discuss England's peace terms was stated to the United Press by a passenger ar riving on the Ba'tlr. His source of information is excellent. The result of the conference is unkonwn. From Another Angle. Berlin. Sept. 18.-(By Carl W. Ackerman, United Bress Staff Corrs pondent).-A mighty blow in the Balkans may end the war in Europe before spring by blasting a road through Serbia to Bulgaria. The Austro-Qermans may settle thc Balkan question and bring early j peace. Both here and Vienna are suddenly struck with the idea and it meets with popular approval. It is believed that the Balkan sit uation is most favorable to the Teu tonic allies. Pound Guilty of Murder. Asheville. N. C., Sept. lit. Merritt Miller and (fargett Wiggins. who have been on trial at Robblnsville. Graham county, since September 10 on a charge of slaying Philip Phil lips from ambush, were found guilty to-day of murder in the first degree and sentenced to die in the electric chair November 6th. Phillips, a farmer of Graham coun ty, was shot August 2U. Phillips'? wife, son and daughter were killed recently. Ed. WIHiamfe, Phillipa's son-in-law. is charged with this crime. 5 MKXIOANH KU,U l) IN CLASH. Skirmish Slops When Mexicans Prom? ise A ??ology ?nd Punishment. Brownsville, Texas. Sept.- 17. Carranza soldiers at Matamoras and Ammiran soldiers engaged in a pitched hattie nc rons the Kio tirando to-day. The conflict was opened when the Mexicans fired upon Amer ican soil, apparently trying to kill a peace officer, patrolling the American hank of the river. Their shots killed his horse, hut he escaped and sum moned United States cavalry lo the scene. The Mexicans broke for covet* when the Americans dashed to tho river, but half au hour later they again appeared and fired several vol leys ai the Americans. After 500 bullets had fallen on tho American side tho troops returned the tire. At 1.40 o'clock this afternoon tito Mexicans soldiers were still (Iring from the brush near Matamoras. Tho American soldiers had then taken up positions in their trenches on tho river bank and were replying vigor ously. News of the hattie caused intenso excitement here. Troops were rush ed to the international bridge to guard against any effort by tho Mat amoras garrison to "rush" it. Ml residents of tho city turned out lo watch the hattie. lt was reported that five Mexicans were killed and one seriously wound ed in the tight. The dead and wounded were thrown into a wagon and carried to Matamoras. After the battle bad been going on for some time a Carranzista offi cer was seen riding toward the river from the direction of Matamoras. He wildly waved u white handkerchief at the Americans across the river, who stopped firing. The Mexicans did the same. Then the officer walked to the river bank and yelled an apology to the Americans, saying that the Mexican soldiers who par ticipated in tl\e shooting would bo punished. Hui ntl ail Mea-One Life '.?ost. Halifax. N. S.. Sept. 20. The Greek steamer Albina! was destroyed by tire at sea with the loss of one lil?', according to a message received by the marine department to-day. The Btcamer Tuscan ia recused 408 passengers and crew, and the steamer Roumanian Prince 61 others, The message from the Tuscania was dated at 7 a. m. to-day, and was the lirst official word from the liner since the wireless report last night that the At binai was afire and tho I Tuscania had rescued the passengers. I The origin of tho fire was not stated I in t he message. . N The At binni sated from New York last Thursday for Greece. She car ried (il fi cst. 47 second cabin and 2 I -i steerage passengers. Tho cargo con Bisted of considerable quantities of flour, coffee, cotton, rice a 'ubri cating oil. The Athinni was tl,712 tons gross. She was Pto feet long and fi2 feet beam. The vessel was built in long land In 1908, and was owned by tho National Steam Navigation Company, of (?reece. . . v.. . COTTON MINIMUM I2)? UKNT& Georgin Fanners Decide on I "rice for Which They Will Hold. (To-day's Atlanta Constitution.) The minimum price at which cot ton should be hold is 12% cents. This was the result of the delibera tions of the special meeting of dele gates from tho Farmers' Union of Georgia who met at the State Capi tol yesterday, One hundred and five counties were represented, and about 200 far mers were pei sent. The session last ed all day. The meeting was called for the purpose Of discussing the gradual marketing and financing of the pres ent cotton ?Top until a fair price cou ld be realized, and that price was fixed at 12 cents. ('has. S. Barrett, president of tho National Partners' I nion, and J. .1. Brown, president or tho Georgia di vision, presided, and J. K. Overman acted aa secretary. At the morning session addresses were made by Senator John L, Mc Lauiin, State Warehouse Commis sioner of South Carolina; Congress men W. S. Howard and W. C. Adam son, Chas. S. Barrett and J. J. Brown. Paris dentists have found that sour milk will cure certain diseases of tho month and ginns heretofore difficult to overcome.