KI? "TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, ANO IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THB HAY: THOU OANST NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN." By STECK, SHELOR & SCHRODER. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, .WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1010. Field _Ki_ . Velvet Beans, Red Ripper Peas Marlboro Prolific Mammoth Yellow CW.&J.E Walhal i IT PAYS TO Bl i _m ?= PLANNING SUPREME EFFORT. Age foi* Activo% Servie? Hits Reen Raised to Forty-five Years. Copenhagen, April 1.-Germany, according to information reaching here from Berlin, now is gathering to the colors every available man for a supreme military effort to bring the war to a victorious conclusion in this year's campaign-a goal which Field Marshal von Hindenburg and bis advisers consider by no means impossible of attainment. .Without; .altering formally the law of> military* service, the German au^ year and'are retaining with the colors and In many instances for fighting duty with active units in'the front line, landsturm men who have passed this age. The pol ic j of the German war de partment, as stated in the Reichstag this week, hy a military representa tive, is to withdraw those men over .15 from the front line after they have done six months of duty lhere, but military exigencies compel the holding of these over-age men for service in thc so-called Etape, or re gion 'behind the actual fighting front. For some time the German author ities, in a grand combing-out of men earlier pronounced unfit for service, have been mustering men on the very verge of the age limit, but up to the presen*, they have announced that the necessity has not yet arisen for legis lation raising the age limit to 65 as has been done in Austria-Hungary. Teachers' Meeting nt Clemson. The regular monthly meeting of the Oconee County Teachers' Associa tion will be held at Clemson College next Saturday, April 7. An interest ing program bas been arranged, and it is hoped that we will have a full attendance. The program commences at 9 o'clock with an inspection of the campus and farm in automobiles, and an inspection of the shops and labora tories. The addresses will be deliv ered in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium nt 11.30 o'clock, and dinner will be served in the mess hall at 1 o'clock. S. M. Martin, President. For National Guard Brigade. Columbia, Aprii 2.- lt was rumor ed to-day that there is a movemen' on foot for the formai iou of a third regiment of the South Carolina Na tional Guard, giving this State a bri gade, Long Cr??ek Academy. There will be an oratorical and declamation contest held at Long Creon Academy on Friday evening, April 13th, The following schools will send one orator and one de claimer: North Greenville Academy, Six-Mile Academy, Long Creek Acad emy. The public is cordially Invited. L. H. Raines. OUR IV We Are to i GOODS EXCHAN< REFUNDED IF SATISFACTORY. Blumenthal's I WKSTMINS'I Per Bu. . . . . $2,00 $, . . . 3.00 5 Oom, . 2.50 rSojaBeans, 3.00 . Bauknight, la, S. Co UY FOR CASH. LADY ATTACKER KY SHE-WOLF. You tig Woman of Georgetown Had Gone to Her Mot JUT'S Rescue. Georgetown, April 2.-Suffering intensely from lacerations from the vicious attack of a she wolf, Miss Lee Willetts, a popualr young Georgetown woman, is in the hands of physicians to-day. Miss "Willetts lives with her mother on High Mar ket street, extended, and yesterday afternoon Mi's. Willetta went out to food the wolf, which was kept in a pen in.the'b'nok yardi.The'animhl made a lttnge at Mrs. Willetts, : aiid ness of the wolf since the death of ifs mate about two weeks ago, 'went to her mother's rescue. The wolf fastened its fangs first in the young woman's thigh, and ns she fought her off with her bare hands the animai caught her arm and lingers, literally chewing one of the digits off. She grabbed the blood-thirsty wolf with her left hand and the vicious jinimal again sank her fangs deep into her a rm. The cries of the women brought 15111s Ilaralson, who lives next door to the Willetts home, and be caught the wolf by the throat, running the risk of being bitten himself. Tight ening bis grasp he finally threw the animal into the pen and then turned bis attention to the badly injured young woman. A physician was sum moned and the wounds dressed. While her injuries are painful, it is not thought they will be fatal, but she will he some time in recovering from the terrible assault. ll i g Tannery Destroyed by Fire. Asheville, N. C., April 2.- Fire of unknown origin practically wiped out the plant of the United States Lea ther Company's tannery at Old Fort Sunday afternoon and caused damage estimated at between $750,000 and $1,000,000. The loss is covered by insurance. The fire started early in the afternoon in the main building of the plant and several nearby dwellings caught fire and were de stroyed. Embers were carried on a high wind, and it was several hours before the Hames were under control. A quantity of finished leather, hides, acid, wood and tanbark, was saved, and it is thought that the plant will be rebuilt. Incendiarism is suspect ed by officials of the tannery and an investigation will probably be held. Three Killed in Auto Smash. Alexander City, Ala., Apr?! 1. Three people were killed and our badly injured in an automobile acci dent here this afternoon. The dead are: Charley Wlllbanks, .Maggie Par ish, Helen Williams. Four others were seriously Injured. .Miss Ruth Cnrllsle and Miss Annie Lambeth were the only occupants of the car who escaped injury. The car, in which niuo young people were pleas ure riding, went headlong into a ditch about two miles north of Alex ander City, when tho driver. Jack Molen, lost control. IOTTO: Satisfy You. OED OR MONEY PURCHASE UN j/A ^?A Bargain Store, PER, S. C. AZTEC, FIRST ARMED VESSEL. ?- . Sunk by German Submarine Near Js luiul OI? Brent, Frunce. New York, April 2.-The American steamship Aztec, owned by the Ori ental Steamship Company, the drat armed ship to sail from an American,, port, was sunk yestorday by a Ger man su?marine, according to advices; received here to-night by the cortVv ' par.y from the United States consul at Brest, France. The caljie message gave no infor mation as to the fate of the crew/ There were 37 men aboard the vessel;* 16 of them native born Americans. The Aztec sailed from New York March 18 for Havre. She was com manded by Capt. Walter O'Brien. The Oriental Navigation Company, o'wner of the Aztec, also owns the Orleans, one of the first American vessels to run successfully Ger many's submarine blockade; The Az-.. tee carried a full cargo of foodstuffs and general supplies valued at more than $500,000. The Aztec was armed with two 5 Inch guns, one, forward and one aft. The crew of naval gunners on board was in conminad of a warrant officer. The Aztec, formerly owned by the Pacific 'Mail Steamship Company, was a ship of 3,727 tons gross and 2,346 tons net. She was built in Newcastle, England, In 1894. She was 350 feet long with a beam of 43 feet. Nm ni HM' of Men Missing. Paris, April 2.-Tho American steamer Aztec has been sunk by a. submarine near an island 'off Brest. Some of the crew were rescued and are being brought into Bre'st. A num ber of the men are missing and little hope is held that they c?h .be sav?id, as the steamer was torpedoed at night while a heavy sea wa$ running. "Wm. G. Shari), the American am bassador, was informed' .thia after noon by the French government, of the torpedoing of the Aztec and Ini m ed lat ely cabled the State bepart ment at Washington. ; H Representatives .of 'the American government ?will proceed to Brest , to take the depositions of survivors of tlie disaster, j ; . 2&<8tUl Aro Missing, j Washington? April 3.-A dispatch vlvors''-from the Aztec were landed ! yesterday afternoon at Brest, and 28 I persons still were missing and their rescue was doubtful Wecause of the heavy sea and storm. ACTION RY CONGRESS SOON. Senator HaFollette Again Interposes Objections, Postponing Action. Washington, April 3.-Cons'dera tlon of the war resolution in the Sen ate was forced over until to-morrow by objections of Senate rs LaFollctte, and in the House it was delayed by lack of organization of the foreign affairs committee. It ls expected to come up for action In both. Houses to-morrow. Meanwhile President Wilson and the cabinet discussed all phases of preparations for tho entrance of the United States into tho war, and ad ministration leaders in Congress be gan laying plans for raising money, most of it, as the President suggest ed, by a system of taxation on the present generation. The universal military service bill was formally launched in the Senate. Soon after the Senate adjourned, as tho climax of a stormy scene which arose over LaFollette's objec tions, the House also adjourned. It will meet to-morrow at noon, while the Senate will meet at 10 a. m. Senators of the Democratic steer ing committee decided late to hold continuous sessions beginning to morrow morning at 1 0 o'clock to put the war resolution through. Action by the Senate within at least two or three days was predict ed to-day even by Senators opposing lt. Some of the "willful men' named by President Wilson declared emphatically there would be no fili buster or protracted debate Amendments from Republican Sen ators especially to prevent a formal alliance with the entente or a Fede ral loan to them are expected. That there would be no need for resort to the new cloture rule to pass the reso lution was stated even by some of those opposed to war. The Pension Mincy ls Here. Clerk of Court .lohn F. Craig has received a check from the State Treasurer for $8,322. This is Oconeo's distributive share of the State pension fund. There are 243 pensioners in the county, divided into the following classes: Class- No pensioners. A. 2 B... 6 O-l. 19 C-2 . 80 C-3 . 17 C-4 . ..119 Pensioners in the different classes will receive the following amounts: Class A.$96 . 00 Class B. 72 . 00 Class C?1 . 48.00 Class C-2 .... . 30 . 00 Class C-3 . 4 8.00 Class C-4. 30.00 liden.t Wilson J ? Before Natior ington, April 2.-President o-nlght asked Congress to de stute of war existing between fted States and Germany. HM the news of the submarining of tmiteamer Aztec-the first Amer tc^i^llpied Bhii) to sail in the war was being told from mouth to in the Capitol, the President, ihg before House and Sonate it'l?esslon, asked Congress to Jze and deal with Germany's ? on America President said war with Gor ould involve practical co-op f.AVith the governments now at ?th Germany, including liberal credits. He urged the rais D 00,000 men by universal mil ?ttvlce. resident made it clear that as being taken against the a government and the other ?lied with Germany. tSunrded by Cavalry, president reached the Capitol ??40 o'clock,.- As his big motor around before the east front troops of cavalry on guard, Uttering under the arc lights, he plaza clear while the hun iheered. ras taken immediately to the is room a?d then' into the ?BOuse chamber, as the Sena tor s^tered just before the Presl dontftsThe six members of the Su ourt, who had taken seats lu |-: the Speaker's stand, stood and&fficed about. They remained fltflnflffik* until the last Senator had if-Presl tim'wa tors wm m ente? ? irs Greet Wilson's Words. Colily a few seconds' delay the it, plunged into his address. K he hesitated. Then he spoke ?.faster than usual. His voice, jj-,.* was clear, and grew as he proceeded. Attention ?jnarka wae undivided. As Kraent proceeded, the cham {j,lhe quiet. Members seldom h'?heir seats. Not until the |n*t?.'declared "we will not Jthe. path of submission" did vp}8Aidin Those, wo*i ..?Scarcely had the.sound died away when the President declared that the Congress should declare that a state of war existed. A second demonstra tion began. The greatest outbursts came when the President declared for an army of 500,000 men and univer sal service. Chief Justice White joined heartily In the hand-clapping, ?which lasted nearly a minute. The U-Ilont Situation. After going over the various phases of the situation that, have forced the United States to the brink of war, the Pr?sident plunged into the submarine question. This portion of his address we give in full. He spoke as follows: The Submarine. "lt ls common prudence in such circumstances-grim necessity in deed-to endeavor to destroy them before they have shown their own in tention. They must be dealt with upon sight, if dealt with at all. The German government denies the right of neutrals to use arms at all within the area of the sea which lt has pro scribed, even 1n the defense of rights which no modern publicist has ever before questioned their right to de fend. The intimation is conveyed that the armed guards which we have placed on our merchant ships will be treated as beyond the pale of law and subject to be dealt with as pirates would be. Armed neutrality is Inef fectual enough at best; In such clr cusmtances and in the face of such pretentious, it is worse than ineffec tual; it is likely only to produce what lt was meant to prevent; lt is practically certain to draw us into the war without either the rights or .the effectiveness of belligerents. There ls one choice we cannot make, ?wo are Incapable of making: We will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our nal ion and our people to be ignored or violated. The wrongs against which wo now array ourselves are no eoinmon wrongs; they cut to the very roots of human life. "With a profound sense of the sol emn and even traglcnl character of the stop I am taking, and of the grave responsibilities which it in volves, but in unhesitating obedi ence to what. I deem my constitu tional duty, I advise that the Con gress declare the recent course of tho imperial German go von1 mont to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that lt formally ac cept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it, and that lt take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the government of the Ger man I3m*pire to terms and end tho war. Utmost Aid for Allies. "What this will involve is clear. It will involve tho utmost practicable co-operation in counsel and action with the governments now at war with Germany, and, as incident to that, tho extension to those govern ments of the most liberal financial credits, in order that our resources may so far ?a possible be added to r\gain Appears i's Representatives. theirs, lt -will involve the organisa tion and mobilization of all the mato Ha) resources ot the country to sup- , ply the materials of war and serve the Incidental needs of the nation In the most abundant and yet the ; most economical and efficient way i possible, lt will involve the Imme diate full equipment of tho navy In all respects, tout particularly in sup plying it with the best means of deal ing with thc enemy's submarines. "It will Involve tue lmmodlato ad dition to tho armed forces of the Uni ted States already provided for by law lu case of war at least 500.000 men. w?M should, in my opinion, be chosen upon the principle of univer sal liability to service, and also tho authorization of subsequent addi tional increments of equal force so soon ns they may be needed and can be handled In training, lt will In volve also, of course, the granting of adequate credits to thc government, sustained, I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation, by well-conceived taxa tion. "I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation becnuso lt seems to me that lt 'would be most unwise to base the credits which will nov.r be necessary entirely on money borrowed, lt is our duty, I most re si>ectfully urge, to protect our peo ple so far as we may against the very serious hardships and evils which ?would he likely to arise out of the in flation which "would be produced by vast loans. "In carrying out the measures by which theso things are to be accom plished we should keep constantly in mind the wisdom of interfering as little as possible in our own prepara tion and in the equipment of our own military forces ?with the duty for it will be a very practical dnty of supplying the nations already at .war with Germany with the materials which they, can obtain only, from us or by our assistance. They are tn the field and we should help them in, every way to be effctive therei "1 sh?}r ttiltef the. (liberty ot aug? 'mUj?es, measures for the accom plishment of the sevornl objects I ! have mentioned. I hope that lt will ho ! your pleasure to deal with thom as I having been framed after very care j ful thought by the branch of the gov [eminent upon which the responsibil ity of conductine; the war and safe : guarding the nation will most dl : redly fall. Neutrality Net Possible. "While we do these things-these deeply momentous things-let us be . very clear, and make very clear to J all the world what our motives and our objects are. My own thought has I not been driven from its habitual and j normal course by the unhappy events j of the last two months, and I do not j believe that the thought of the na : tlon has been altered or clouded by them. "I have exactly the same things In mind now that I had in mind when i addressed the Sonate on the 22d of January last; the same that I had in mind when I addressed the Congress on the 3d of February and on the 2fith of February. Our object now, as then, ls to vindicate the principles of peace and justice In the life of the world as against selfish and auto cratic power, and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peo ples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will hence forth insure the observance of those principles. "Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world ls Involvod, and the freedom of its peoples, and the menaeoffco that peace and freedom Hes In the exist ence of autocratic governments back ed by organized force Which is con trolled wholly by their will, not hy the will of their people. We have seen the Inst of neutrality In stieb otr cu mstancos. "We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be Insisted that the same standards of conduct and of re sponsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that aro ohsorved among the Individual citizens of civ ilized States. "Wo have no quarrel with tho Gor man people. Wo have no feeling to wards tberp but one of sympathy and friendship, lt was not upon their im pulse that their government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or appro val." 70 Villa Prisoners Hanged. Chihuahua City, Mexico, April 1. -Seventy rebel prisoners taken dur ing Villa's attempt to capture this city yesterday were publicly hanged as a warning to the Villa eloment of tho population. Reports have" been brought to headquarters by cavalry partrols that Villa's scattered main forces are con centrating at some western point. They were overtaken on their retreat yesterday hy a force under Gen. Fa villa and lost CO killed. This brings Villa's losses to about 900 killed and wounded and prisoners. Jose Cha