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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. QT JP The Best Dressed Women in America WEAR SHOES Women who consider economy in buying know that Quean Quality shoes are the cheapest in the long run. Shoes that fit best wear best. Queen Quality shoes fit and give comfort from the first day's wearing. They give more satis factory service because of their fitting qualities. O. W. & J. E. Bauknight, It Pays to Buy for Cash. J6 You Are Now Planning for Next Year. Hiing your money you have len alter paying your bills to this strong bank and deposit il until spring, when you ? hec k ii out as it suits you. and in the meantime you will not lose it. We welcome all accounts, both large and small, and we ha.e hundreds of depositors who have less than one hun dred dollars on deposit with us. If i* is live, ten twenty or fifty dollars, deposit it with us and we will appreciate your business. This bank is strong and safe in every respect. We will do our best to please you. Your neighbor banks with us. Why not you ? Westminster Bank, Westminster, S. C. UNDIVIDED PROFITS 935,000.00, CAPITAL $100,000.00. Gompers Still at Head. San Francisco, Nov. 20.-Samuel Gompers, Of Washington, was re elected president of the American Federation of Labor at tho conclud ing session of the convention here to night. All the officers Of the federa tion were re-elected almost unani mously. Besides President Gompers. there were ei| ' f vice presidents elect ! ed, with Join Lennon. Blooming ton, UL, treasurer; Frank Morrison, j Chicago, secretary. A resolution by S. B. Marks, of (lie Georgia Federation of Labor, provid ed that the convention meet each year in November In Washington was voted down 1 THE OLD RELIABLE ROYAL BAKING POWDER Abso?uteiy Puro Mo ALUM-No PHOSPHATE nuis ! HOM DICH FIGHTING "I" liv; Let Her Go ! Xever I Hil Wrong In My lille !" Salt Lake City, Nov. 111.-Joseph H?lst rom was put io death by a fir ing squad in Hie Stute prison here a: 7.42 a. m. to-day. His death was in stantaneous. Although self-possesed when he faced his executioners, Hillstrom had a sensational nervous collapse just previously. He tied the door of his cell with strips torn from his blan kets and fought the guards fiercely with the handle of a broom he had snatched from an attendant in the corridor. Hillstrom retired calmly last night. He remained apparently in sleep un til early this morning. About I o'clock he arose and began to shake thc '?di door, shrieking ?is if in night mare. The outside guards turned in a general alarm and ?ill the prison officers rushed In, The prison physician tried with slight success to quiet the man. When the guards arrived to take him away, Hillstrom attacked them savagely with the broom handle, which he bad broken in two, leaving a sharp point on one piece. Deputy Warden Ure received a slight wound in the arm from Hillstrom's weapon. Hillstrom fought silently until She riff Corless, for whom he had pre viously manifested high regard, ar rived and appealed to him. "Joe, this is all nonsense," said Corless. "What do you mean? You promised to die like a man." Hillstrom hestiated a moment and then yielded. "Well,, I'm through," he said. "Hut you can't blaine a man for fighting for his life." The blanket strips he had tied to the door were then cut, he was blind folded and led to the place of execu tion, supported by two guards. Ile talked incessantly In the few min utes that elapsed between the time ol' his arrival and the firing of the death volley. He asked whet.ier any of his friends were in 'he tiring squad and kept saying he was in nocent and would die like a man. His voice was (dear, but low. He was quickly adjusted to the death (hair and the attendants drew aside. Hillstrom yelled: "Fire; let bergo!" a moment before the rides cracked. After lie was seated the officers ask ed him If ho bad anything to say. He sa id . "Gentlemen. I die with a clear conscience. I never did anything wrong in my life. I die fighting, not like n coward. Well, I'm going. Good-bye." When the officer started to give the command to lire, Hillstrom yelled, "Fire!". The squad fired and the bullets pierced his heart. He was dead in one minute and ten seconds after the volley was fired. One Killed, One Injured. Williston. S. C., Nov. 20.- John Holen was killed and Hinton Purvis perhaps mortally wounded in a shoot ing affray in a Willislon store to night at S o'clock. Holen was the father-in-law of Purvis, the latter having married his daughter several years ago. 'Holen was killed by shots 'rom a revolver, wdiile Purvis is suf fering from a serious wound in the chest inflicted by a shotgun. Pur vis' chance of recovery is believed to be slight. Holen was perhaps 4.? years of agc while Purvis is about :<0 years of age. Details of the tragedy are not to be had, witnesses being unwilling to discuss it pending a coroner's inquest. Proves Double Tragedy. Williston, Nov. 2 1.-.Hinton Pur vis who last night shot and killed john Holen, his father-in-law, died to-day ?it 1 o'clock from a gunshot wound in the idlest. Holen was struck several Cines with bullets from a pistol, while Pur vis received the full charge from a shotgun in the breast. Farly to-day Sheriff Morris and Coroner Woodward empanelled a jury for an inquest over the remains of Holen. As Purvis was dying, the only testimony Introduced was that Colen came to his death from pistol shot wounds inflicted by Purvis. The same jury was empanelled In Hie afternoon to view the body of Purvis. An inquest is to be held hiter. .Klempt Assassinate Archbold. Tarrytown, N. Y., Nov. 2 1. A plot to kill John D. Archbold, president of tlie Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, was frustrated by the finding af a dynamite bomb in the wheel rut nf a roadway on his estate, in the ?pinion of Chief Howies, of the police. The bomb consisted of four sticks if dynamite with wires and percus jion caps. It is believed the plan was to biow up Mr. Archbold in his lu to mobile as he was driving over what is known as the south roadway "rom hie home. The dynamite, wire ind caps were wrapped In dark yel ow paper. Howies said it was ar ranged so the slightest impact would explode th?, dynamite. The police aro looking for a man 'een Friday near the pince the bomb vas for nd. The Archbold estate is bree miles from Pocantico Hills, lome of John D. Rockefeller. CONVICTED OF RICI.INC NEGRO. Colleton Jury Deals Justice Void of Kure Prejudice. Wnlterboro, Nov. 19.-A Colleton county jury, alter only 20 minutes' deliberation, last night found a white man guilty ot' the murder ot' a ne gro, something that has not occurred here since before the war. Quillie Os teen, a young white man of the upper part of the county, was con victed, with recommendation to mercy, for the shooting of Kniest Copeland, colored, under circum stances, as portrayed by the State's witnesses, of great brutality. Many comments have been made on the verdict and lew cases the parallel of this are remembered to have hap pened in South Carolina. The testimony ol' the State was to the effect that Os teen, accompanied by two men, Carter and Sullivan, went one Sunday afternoon in search ol' whiskey, and at Caldwell station /ame in contact with the negro. Ern est Copeland. Osteen. as alleged by State's witnesses, asked Copeland for some whiskey, whereupon the negro with an oath stated that he had no whiskey nor money with which lo ouy any. , The State maintained that the ne gro broke and ran and that Osteen shot him in the back of the head. The defense offered the plea of self defense, taking the position that the negro drew his gun first, a pistol be ing found with one cartridge in it near the body ol' the negro. The de fense stated that Osteen was not drunk and sought to show that he had no evil intent towards the negro, only shooting in self-defense after the negro had drawn his pistol. The charge of .lodge Mendel L. Smith was one of the most compre hensive and eloquent expressions ever heard from the bench here. He explained the entire law of the case in a most thorough and intelligible manner. He closed his argument with special reference to the oaths the jurors had taken and begged Of them to find the truth and write it as their verdict regardless of conse quences. VAUGHN SANITY TRIAL NEXT. ( ase of Interest to Odd Fellows to Ile Heard in January. T U. Vaughn, who was sentenced to be electrocuted for criminal as saul el leged to have been committed while he was superintendent of the Odd Fellows' Orphan Home, near Greenville, will be tried for his san ity before a Greenville county jury in January. The sanity trial of Vaughn was set for Nov. Itt, but the Court of General Sessions for Greenville counly adjourned that day without laking up the Vaughn case and he will face a jury next January. Vaughn is confined in tho State penitentiary, where he has been con stantly ever since his conviction In 1913. He fought his ?ase through the State courts and up through the United Stales Supreme Court, but all confirmed the sentence of electrocu tion. When he was taken back to Greenville some weeks ago to be re sentenced to death the judge, on the sim wing made, ordered that the ques tion of Vaughn's sanity should be re ferred to a jury and no further steps in his case will he taken until a jury returns a verdict as to whether he is sane or insane Vaughn has been apparently in sane for some months, and it is said that he sits in the State penitentiary without saying a word to any ono. nnd with a vacant look on his face. He is said to be nearly a physical wreck, and many strong men Incline to the belief that he has become in sane since his conviction. Others think he is simply feigning insanity In the hope of escaping1 the electric chair and being sent to the State hos pital for the insane. That Vaughn is sane was held by a noted alienist of Maryland, who examined him while in Columbia las* spring. .Ku 'dans Regaining Lost (?round. Conlon. Nov. 21.-The Russians are regaining ground lost along the Styr river last week. C/.artorysk, a little village unknown before the war and which became famous for bitter fighting around it, again is in posses sion of the Russians. The German attack, which met with initial success, was doomed to final failure, as tho country around is a great mai/kh, and in the opinion of Petrograd the offensive was taken for political not military, purposes, with the object of impressing the Rouman ians. Coroner's Jury Justs Ile* Physician. Chicago, Nov. li'. Six physicians composing a coroner's jury to-day held that Dr. H. .1 llalsolden, who permitted an infant John Bollinger, to die when an operation might have saved him to a life of unhappiness a?? a defective, was morally and ethi cally justified in refusing to perform tho operation. An implied disavowal if n course wherein a physician might determine if it was or waa not lesirahle for a patient to live was contained in the concluding para rraph ot tho verdict. ''We believe hat the physician's highest duty is io relieve suffering and to save or prolong life." CHOP 2,800,444 HA I.FS SHOUT To Dato-Indicates Full Your's Shortage Over 3,000,000. Washington. Nov. 22.-The firth colton ginning report of the season, compiled from reports of census bu reau correspondents and agents throughout the cotton belt, issued at 10 a. m. to-day, announced that 8, 777,796 baies of cotton, counting round as half bales, of the growth of 1915 had been ginned prior to No vember 14. That compares with 11, 668,240 bales, or 73.4 per cent of the entire crop ginned prior to November 14 last year; 10,4.44,529 bales, or 74.7 per cent, in 1913, and 10,299, 646 bales, or 7 0.4 per cent, In 1912. The average quantity of cotton gin ned prior to November 14 in the last ten years was 9,257,817 bales, or 7:5 per cent ol' the crop. Included in the ginnigs were 82, 582 round bales, compared with 31, 904 last year. 74,167 in 1 ii 1 :> and 02.7OS in 1012. (?innings prior to November 14, by States, with comparisons for the past three years and the percentage of the entire crop ginned in those Suites prior to that date in the same years, follows : Vein'. Hales. Fer Cl. Alabama : 10 1". . 855,368 - 1914 . 1.270,450 7:5.4 1913 . 1,181,232 70. (! 1012 . 061,313 7 2.4 Arkansas: 10 1". . .".7:5,687 1914 . 728,85:5 73.0 1913 . 00(5,388 f.8.4 1 !? 1 2 . 54 7,044 7 1.0 Florida: 10 If. . 4 0,40 4 - 1014 . 05,90:5 72.7 1913 . 52,217 70.8 1912 . 4 2,203 7 1.8 Oeorgia: 10ir. . 1,640,803 - 1914 . 2,062/875 75.8 1013 . 1.82:5,780 77 . 7 1012 . 1.3:51,709 7:cr. Louisiana: CUT. . 299,675 1914 . 341,251 75.5 1913 . 270,27 1 63.2 1912 . 300,482 80.2 M isslssippi : dir. . 708,437 CHI . 838,3451 68.8 I ill.5 . 734,988 58.7 1 lt I 2 . 64 1,554 0 1 . North Carolina: cur. . r,2:i.sr,i Ci 1 I . ."..".tl, 175 57 . 1913. 493,360 r.s. il CM 2 . 627,251 69.2 Oklahoma : CU.", . 331,245 CHI . 870,672 7<>. .'. 1913 . 666,736 7 '? . I 1912 . 7 2.",,OOf. 72 . 1 South Carolina : dir, . il 2 2,1 s r, Ci 1 1 .1,09 1,320 69 . i) Cl 12 . 995,398 Vn.2 ci 12 . ss::,r,;5.", 72.2 Tennessee: dir. . 204,439 1914 . 2:5s, ir. i c. t. 1 Cl i:{ . 2:5:?.002 62.7 Cl 12 . 158,161 59.1 Texas: CUT. .2,614,521 19 14 .3,511,762 80.0 1913 .3,813,443 87.8 1912 . 4,020,929 80.0 All Other States: 1915 . 57,126 1914 . 82,179 49.7 1913 . 60,044 54.9 1912 . 50,7 89 63.0 The next ginning report will be issued December 8th, and will include the number of bales ginned up to November :50th. Auction Sale ! Next SATURDAY November 27, I will sell at Auction, in the Town of Walhalla, a Car Load of Missouri and Illinois Farm Horses and Mules. Sale to begin promptly at 10,30 o'clock. Rain or Shine. Don't fail to attend this Sale whether you need a horse or mule or not. These horses and mules will positively be sold to thc highest bidder, and I will guarantee every one of them to be ex actly as represented. Don't forget the date-Sat urday, Nov. 27, Walhalla. G. J. DOUGLASS Of Greenville, S. C. ULTIMATUM SENT TO GREECE. Entente Allies Feel timi Serbia's Plight Demanda Karly Action. London. Nov. 2 1. The entente al lie.. nave demanded thai Qreece either join with them and fulfill hot treaty obligations to Serbia or de mobilize, and to impress Kin:: Con stantine that they mean what they say the allies have declared a com mercial blockade of the Hellenic em pire, according to Athens dispatohes. Thf Greek cabinet met to consider the situation and a few hours should show Greece's attitude. The Greek government again has affirmed its friendliness to the allies, hut has not taken the steps required to prevent Greece from being counted among the friends ol the central powers. The (uitente allies will not permit any delay: the position of the Serb ian armies make any prolongation of the present uncertainty impossible. The Serbs' Last Stand. London, Nov. 21.-Th\ -ard-press ed Serbians are making what may he their last stand before Momistir and also on the plains o? Kossovo. The Bulgarians, it is true, are be ing held up by unfavorable weather conditions, hut they must he almost at the gates of the Macedonian capi tal, and the Austro-Germana and Bulgarians are slowly hut surely pressing hack the northern army. The Germans announce to-day the capture of Novipazar, and are, there fore, on thc direct road to Mitrovitza, which has heon the Serbian capital since Nish fell into the hands of tho Bulgarians, Other armies are pressing in from the north, the northwest, the north east and tho east, and even he Mon tenegrins, who held their positions long, are heing forced back. Of the Kreuch and British troops in the south no news has been re ceived. Apparently they only aro holding their positions, and no longer can hope to ho of assistance to the Serbians except by keeping a large number of Bulgarians engaged. Ger man reports say tho'Kreuch and Brit ish w'll try to save the Serbians hy soding troops through Montenegro and Albania, hut with poor roads it wili take a long time for them to reach the battlefields, NEC HO KILLS TWO WHITE MENT. Mis. Johnson Ordered Negro front House-Renamed With Gun. Rennottsville, Nov. 2 1. West Coon a negro to-day shot am! killed two white men. Hen Parker and Hen lohnson. The double homicide was at McLeod'8 mill, in the upper uart of Marlboro county, near Kollock. The shooting occurred this morning about 7 o'clock and Coon was cap tured 12 hours ia'er. Ile is now itt J?.il at Rennettsvlll? .lohnson was about .>". years of age. Ile is survived hy his wife und four children. Parkin- was about 32 years of age and is survived hy hie wile and one child. A n inquest was held over hot h bodies to-day, the verdict heing that they came to their death from gun shot wounds at the hands of West Coon. The negro is originally from Cnyee, In Lexington county. The negro is said to have gone to Johnson's house, about 100 yards from his own house, last night, when a difficulty arose .Mrs. Johnson or dered the negro away, when he ls said to have drawn a revolver and threat ened her with the weapon. Ben Pnr ker took the revolver from the negro and lt was In turn taken from Par ker by Johnson, who used lt to beat the negro over the head The negro is said to have left, to return later with a gun, which ho snapped at Johnson several times without suc ceeding in firing it. He ls said then to have gone to the home of Lovett Davis, from whom he secured ano ther gun. This morning about 7 o'clock Par ker and Johnson were walking near Johnson's home when the negro is said to have killed them with shots: from the single-barreled shotgun se cured from Davis The sholls wore loaded willi H. li. shot. The negro escaped for the mo ment, hut was arrested to-night at. 7 o'clock by Sheriff li. J. Patterson, who found him hiding in the loft of his father-in-law's barn on the plan tation of O. M. Pegues. With Lovett Davis, Coon was brought to Bennetts ville and placed in jail. Asheville Mun Killed UH Thief. Birmingham, Nov. 22. ?- After watching two men enter a store in West End, and, lt is said, rob a cash registor and make an effort to open tho safe, four city detectives early to-day fought a pistol hattie with the robbers, wounding and capturing both. One, who gave his name as C. L. Henderson, of Ashe\llle, N. C., will probably die. Thc other, named Phillips, will recover. The detectives had been tipped to watch for robbers. Coastwise Schooner's Crew IteHoued. Delaware City, Del., Nov. 19. The crew of tho schooner P. A. Al len, which sailed yesterday from Philadelphia for Calais, Maine, were landed here to-day by a tug which rescued thom when the schooner went ashore In the Delaware river. Tho Allen, her captain said, ls full oC water! _j