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Scraps ami Jracts.
? Edouard Helsey of the Paris Le
Journal, reported to be now serving
with the colors, writes under date 01
August 29: "It would be difficult to
esumaie the number of Germans killed
last week. Whole regiments were
annihilated at some points. They
came out of the woods, section by
section. One section, one shell?and
everything was wiped out. At two or
three places which 1 am forbidden to
name, corpses tilled the Meuse until
the river overflowed. This is no figure
of speech. The river bed literally
\\?us choked by the mass of dead Germans.
The effect of our artillery surpasses
even our dreams. The Germans
use out of date shrapnel which
the Turks used In the Balkans. Its
damages are so slight that one of our
artillery regiments fought for a week
losing only eight killed and fourteen
wounded."
? A Russian correspondent of the
London Standard, says that the Jews
will in the future be admitted as of
fleers ot tne uussian army uiu
The importance of the announcement
to the Jews in the Russian empire was
made on official authority and was well
received in all quarters. Up to the
present no Jew ever has been allowed
to be a military or navy officer. The
decree to admit them to the highest
ranks of both services is officially
stated to be due to the gallantry with
which the Jews serving as co.nmon
soldiers have displayed in the battles
already fought. The imperial decree
has enabled the Russian commanderin-chief
to confer officers' commissions
upon several Jews, who gained
exceptional distinction in the fighting
preceding the capture of Lemberg.
The correspondent says he has authority
that the commission of the
Jews in the army and navy will be followed
by the removal of civil law restrictions.
and that Jews will now be
admitted to the full right of Russian
citizenship. Those Russian newspapers
who were formerly advocates of
relentless anti-Semitism, not only refrain
from raising any objection to
this innovation, but express approval
in the warmest terms. The same feeling
prevails in those circles of Russian
society in which formerly it al
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mention the name of a Jew. The war
has swept away this remnant of prejudice
and has inaugurated a new era
for the Jew in Russia.
? Britain's confidence that the main
trade routes of the north Atlantic
have been swept clear of German war
craft was demonstrated early last Saturday,
when the state department
formally was notified by the British
ambassador that his government had
decided to disarm British merchant
craft plying between England apd the
United States. The notification is construed
to mean that Britain no longer
fears the activities of German naval
reserve steamers and has successfully
bottled up German and Austrian
cruisers while her own cruiser fleet is
free to guard ocean lines. The arrival
of the British steamer Adriatic
in New York recently with four guns
frowning from her deck, led the German
ambassador to question the
United States as to the status of the
British ship. The British government
took the position that so long
as the vessel was engaged in commercial
pursuits direct between two ports
and was not cruising around on the
ocean, it had a right to carry arms
for protective purposes solely, me
"solely" brought to the United States
the necessity of passing upon every
ship that might come from a belligerent
country to decide the size and
number of guns the ship might carry
without being considered an armed
vessel. Without yielding its position
as to the right of its ships to carry
arms, the British government notified
the secretary of state that it would
remove all guns from commercial
ships in order to relieve the United
States of the problem presented.
? After an aJl day conference with
clearing house delegates from many
large cities, says a Washington dispatch.
the Federal reserve board announced
last Friday it would proceed
immediately with the organization of
the twelve reserve banks provided for
by the new currency system. It generally
is accepted the system can be
put in operation about October 1. The
actual opening may be delayed, but it
was said the twelve banks would be
ready to do business within the next
Annnrilin? to mpmbel'S Of
the board there was little hostility
shown at the conference to early opening
of the new system, and government
officials hope all opposition by bankers
will be overcome before the time
of opening arrives. The conference
was confined closely to the question of
opening and to a discussion of foreign
and domestic exchange situation. Delegates
furnished such information as
they possessed, but left the board
without much concrete knowledge as
to the exact situation throughout the
country'- A committee was named to
consider foreign and domestic exchange
and formulate a plan by which
American obligations to Europe can
be adjusted without taking gold out
of the country. There was some incidental
discussion of the general financial
situation and of the recent
steps taken by the treasury department
to issue additional banking currency.
In consequence of the meeting.
there will be no effort on the part
of the reserve board to name the class
"C" directors for the reserve banks for
some time. Every other step which
much precede the opening of the
banks will be laid out before the directors
are announced. Following is
the conference exchange committee:
J. B. Forgan, Chicago, chairman; B. F.
Strong, New York; L. L. Rue. Philadelphia:
Sol Wexler, New Orleans; T.
B. Beale, Boston.
? German and Austrian consular
officers, says a Washington dispatch,
have been ordered by British authorities
to leave Egypt immediately. Roumania
has announced officially that
if she abandons her position of neutrality,
it will be to follow the course
taken by Italy. Great Britain has informed
the United States that she
would look with favor on the send
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care for Christians in case there was
a Mohammedan uprising against
them. The developments in the
highly critical situation brought about
by the feeling of the Triple Entente
that Turkey is certain to join the
conflict on the side of Germany and
Austria have been conveyed in official
dispatches to the United States government.
Great Britain's expulsion
of German and Austrian consular
officers was taken to mean that she
had determined to put an end to
pro-German propaganda which she
believes these consular officials have
been circulating. The affairs of
Egypt, a semi-sovereign state, under
the suzeranity of the sultan, have been
virtually administered by Great Britain
ever since the bombardment of
Alexanderia and the suppression of
the Arabic insurrection 32 years ago.
The natives never have lost their
aversion, however, for the intruders
and Britain believes that Germany
has been busy for a decade fermenting
anti-English feeling. Word of
the sultan's friendliness of late to
Germany and Austria is believed by
British officials to have be?n spread
to Egypt, an appeal being made not
only to the nationalist sentiment of
the natives but their religious feelings.
France in her communications
with the American government, has
openly charged that German propaganda
is busily astir, inciting Mohammedan
uprisings, not only in
Egypt, but in India and Turkey. The
intimation from Great Britain that
she would be pleased to see American
warships in Turkish ports is in
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United States two weeks ago. Both
nations have stated that they feared
a general Momammedan uprising
against Christians. They feared to
send warships lest the move be misrepresented.
While the cruiser North
Carolina has been sent <>n a mission
of relief it generally is understood
she will rendezvous in eastern Mediterranean
water for salutary effect
of her presence. There even is talk
of sending the Tennessee with her to
be ready for an emergency in Egypt.
Great Britain is apprehensive, it is
understood, about the possible insurrection
against her rule in Kgypt.
Khedive Abbas, the native ruler, is
said to be in sympathy with Germany
and Austria. He is closely related
by blood to the reigning house of
Turkey. Egypt's population of 11,
000,000 is nine-tenths Moslem. England
has only 5,000 troops in Egypt
but has trained 30,000 Soudanese soldiers.
Much will depend on the attitude
of the native troops. Sixteen
years ago they declined to join their
co-religionists and stood by Lord
Kitchener in re-conquering Soudan.
Whether Turkey will join the eontlict
may depend finally on the attitude
of the Balkan states and Italy.
The announcement by Roumania of
her intention to follow Italy was regarded
as meaning that both countries
would side with Great Britain,
France and Russia. Roumania's position
is somewhat of a surprise for
it was believed she might be swayed
by her secret alliance with Austria, i
Her opposition to the porte. however,
has determined her policy. Turkey
has felt certain that Bulgaria would
fight with her. but the announcement
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effect a change. With Greece, Servia,
Montenegro, Italy and Koumania joined
solidly against the Ottoman empire,
Bulgaria's Slavic sympathies
may cause her to withhold from the
conflict entirely.
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YORKVILLE. S. C.s
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1914
Let's buy a bale at 10 cents.
Buy a bale at ten cents and put It
under shelter?in your home if you
can do no better.
Now that all have voted, let us stand
by the will of the majority and do
what we can for South Carolina.
The south can easily hold its cotton
crop if everybody will help, and there
is not the slightest reason why anybody
should be hurt.
We do not know whether Manning
or Richards has been elected governor,
but we feel reasonably certain that the
country is still safe.
Buy from me smaii imiuei wh-j
cannot hold and pay him ten cents.
The big fellow can take care of himself.
Besides that, he does not want
to sell his cotton at ten cents, anyway.
William Sulzer, the Democratic governor
of New York, who was recently
driven out of office by impeachment
proceedings, is to be the Progressive
candidate for governor, with the full
endorsement of Col. Roosevelt.
The Texas legislature is arranging
to establish a state warehouse system.
The plan now under consideration
proposes that the warehouses be privately
owned; but that they be under
tv>Q uimoi-viuinn nf the state banking
department.
With the south's cotton crop bought
by her own people and distributed
among them at 10 cents a pound with
an understanding that no sales will be
made at less than that figure, the situation
will be saved. There is no better
way to give the south the fullest
benefit of the European war, and there
is no chance to lose.
Great Britain, France and Russia
have signed an agreement under which
each is pledged not to make peace
without the consent of the other two,
and under which each is pledged not
to name conditions of peace except by
the consent of all three. They are trying
to make it clear that they are in
the war to the bitter end.
The operations of the Germans
against Antwerp are second in importance
and interest only to the operations
against Paris. Antwerp is strong
ly fortified, the most strongly rortinea
city in Belgium, in fact, and the taking
of the city promises to call for the expenditure
of very considerable effort
on the part of the Germans.
We do not see where there is any
good to come of the passage of a stay
law by the legislature. It will bring
nothing but demoralization without
advantage to either debtor or creditor.
What is needed is some arrangement
whereby the cotton producer can borrow
to advantage on what he has and
hold on to his cotton against the time
when fair prices will prevail again.
Roger S. Lewis of the Associated
Press, Harry Hanson of the Chicago
Globe, Jrvin S. Cobb of the Saturday
Evening Post and Philadelphia Ledger,
and James O'Donnell Bennett and
John T. McCutcheon, of the Chicago
Tribune, have sent out a wireless message
from Berlin to the effect that they
spent two weeks following the German
army two hundred miles and that there
was absolutely no truth in the published
stories of German atrocities in Belgium
and Prance.
The cotton seed oil market Ik paralyzed
like unto the yarn market.
There is virtually no demand for cotton
seed oil at the present time and
the oil mills are finding it difficult to
find buyers. It is hardly probable,
however, that this condition of affairs
can continue. Cotton seed oil ranks as
an indispensable food stuff, and the
people are bound to have it if they can
get the money with which to buy it.
Also there is bound to be demand for
both meal and hulls, commodities
which cannot be dispensed with.
Men make a tremendous hullabaloo
about politics, and get folks all fooled
up to thinking that if the election does
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thing is ruined; but after all it does
not amount to much, of course there
is a right way and a wrong way. there
are good men end bad men, and all
that: l>ut the |>e<?|>)e themselves in
behalf of whom all these big lights are
ostensibly made, are better than any
set of politicians, and g< nerally pretty
well able to look out for their own
safety.
(lermany has lifted the embargo on
dye stuffs. This announcement means
a good deal to American cotton manufacturing.
Cermany has a virtual
monopoly of dye production; most of
the dyes now used in the world being
manufactured by one large concern
which has factories that cover many
acres. Hut most of the secrets of the
manufacture of analyne dies are common
property, and Americans had hegun
to look into the matter of establishing
factories. The Germans realized
what the ultimate results of a
move like this would be, and arranged
to have stocks shipped out. It is pretty
safe to say that so long as Holland
and Italy remain neutral, German dyes
may be had in abundance.
Twenty-seven officers and employes
of the National Loan and Exchange
Bank of Columbia, says the Columbia
Record, have each agreed to buy a bale
of cotton at 10 cents a pound. Their
idea is to start a "buy-a-bale" movement,
with the purpose of upholding
the price and helping the farmers. This
idea is a good one. Cotton is easily
I worth 10 cents a pound and more. It
i will prove an investment at that and
perhaps a good speculation. If the people
of the country, all who can will
join this buy-a-bale movement, the
result will be something worth while.
The Enquirer will be glad to have a
list of York county people who are
willing to buy a bale of cotton at ten
cents and hold to it until at least that
price is reached. The Enquirer will
take one 500 pound bale at 10 cents.
Mr. J. M. Stroup of Yorkville, will take
one or more bales and there are many
others who will do likewise; but to
make the movement most effective and
most beneficial, there should be organized
effort. There should be a long list
of volunteers and there should be fixed
a time for purchase and delivery. The
Enquirer will take pleasure in compiling
a list of all who desire to report.
Up to this time the Zeppelin airships
have not counted for much in war as
was so commonly believed. Of course
there is no doubt of the fact that one
of these ships can carry a tremendous
quantity of high explosive and there is
no doubt either as to the practicability
of such a ship hovering over the city
and dropping explosives that will kill
women and children. It must be remembered.
however, that aeroplanes
can also traverse the air with quick
firing guns and make no little trouble
for the airships. It is possible for an
airship to drop explosives on London,
but the undertaking is also more or
less risky.
While it is possible that we have
forgotten the activities of some previous
fights, we are inclined to think
that both Messrs. Manning and Richards
have been putting forth more
strenuous efforts during the past two
weeks than have been put forth by any
other two gubernatorial candidates
within our recollection. Both Messrs.
Manning and Richards have been devoting
their personal efforts to the
Piedmont, and both have published
many columns of advertising in the
newspapers, although in this kind of
work Mr. Manning has outstripped his
competitor to a very considerable extent.
So far as The Enquirer has information
there have been no complaints
of aggravated unfairness on
the nart of either candidate.
It does not appear that Great Britain
is as much concerned about the number
of ships the United States may
purchase from Germany and the
amount of money that might be paid
for them as she is about what the
United States might do with those
ships after she gets possession of
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is .amazing proposition to Great
Britain even while the ships are in
Germany and under the operation of
German commercial agencies, to say
nuttlng'-whatcver of what might happen
after these ships should come in
possession and under the operation of
the United States. The probability is
that except for Germany's ships?
those engaged in the carrying trade?
Great Britain would not have been
mixed up in this war.
It is said that food prices in Russia
are growing lower instead of higher by
reason of the fact that the export of
grain has been stopped. Food prices In
America are growing higher by reason
of the inordinate greed of our American
people to take advantage of the
necessities of the warring people. But
why should we do this? We cannot
get big prollts abroad for food except
at the expense of people at home.
There is certainly no humanity in the
sale of food to the warring powers, because
it only enables them to war and
kill each other that much longer. It
would be very well for America to put
an embargo on food; but she is going
to do nothing of the kind, not while
there is so much promise of big profits.
The fact that scarcity of food means
almost as much to this country as war
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art- after big money.
A1 Jennings, the ex-train robber,
who ran for governor of Oklahoma,
was third in the race. The highest candidate
received 37,000 votes and Jennings
received 22,000. Jennings and
his friends claim that he received
easily 30,000; but that the election was
stolen from him. Other Democratic
candidates are making charges of
thefts in the country. Jennings served
a term in the Federal prison in Columbus.
Ohio, for train robbing, and
was pardoned by the late President
McKinley. He made a strenuous campaign
in Oklahoma against political
corruption, and at first he was taken
as a joke; but later thousands of the
most substantial citizens of the state
enlisted themselves under his banner
and he became a formidable candidate.
His main promise was to put the political
thieves and scalawags behind
the bars, and he declares that he will
now continue his battle in the civil
courts.
Stories have been published to tlje
effect that British transports are hurrying
large numbers of Russian
troops from Archangel, on the White
sea. ami landing them an ih<- northern
coast of France. The route is UP
through the Arctic circle, north of
Norway and Sweeden, and ta the coast
of Scotland. It is said that same are
landed in Scotland and carried
through England by rail, while others
are being landed directly from the
ships at French ports. One story has
it that up |o a week ago more than
150.000 troop* hod been so transported.
As to whether there i,s really any
truth in these stories i* po( certain;
but of the practicability of the u>'rangemcnt
there js very little doubt,
for itussiu has the men and to spare;
England has the ships and at this season
the Arctic route from Archangel
is open. The German navy is not in
position to prevent.
What we need above all things in the
cotton situation Is that the producers
of cotton receive a fulr price for their
product. The cotton producer has gope
down after the real commodity. Me has
invested his money, pledged his credit,
run the risk of tlood and drouth, and
promised a fair divide with everybody
I else in the event of success. If his cot
ton Is taken away from him at less
than a fair valuation, he will be unable
to discharge his many obligations, and
the people who get his stuff at less
than value, will by holding a little
while get all the value that was coming
to him and leave him crippled. The
cotton producer needs to be taken care
of first, and it will be to the most benefit
to all others to see that this is
done. The thing can be done; but to
do it it will be necessary to hold back
the impetuous greed that would swoop
down at once on the man who is carrying
the heaviest part of the burden
for his fellows. Every man who lias
just claims on the farmer has a right
to have them paid; but all people
should understand that the best way
to get those claims paid is to be patient
and fight for time.
The Buy-a-Bale Plan.
The "buy-a-bale plan" of relieving
the cotton situation, which originated
in Georgia, holds out about as much
hope for the financial salvation of the
south as any one of the many plans
that have been suggested, notwithstanding
the fact that if it is dependent
for its success solely on the arousing
of a wholesome sentiment that
will compel volunteer action on the
part of the people.
In brief the situation is this. The
people of the south, including those
engaged in all trades and professions,
have the results of a year's activities
locked up in a 15,000,000 bale cotton
crop, the bulk of which they expected
to sell in Europe. Europe has
suddenly been thrown into a terribly
destructive war that has paralyzed all
her financial and industrial resources,
and made it impossible for her to meet
the requirements that were expected
as a matter of course.
As certainly as anything of tomorrow
can be, the cotton crop which today
stands at half price or less, must
come to it soon and that very soon.
Any other Idea is aosuru. cotton is
as much a necessity almost as bread.
In the present state of civilization it
is as much a necessity as bread. No
one will think of questioning this
proposition. In the nature of things,
the present paralysis of the cotton
market cannot continue a groat while,
and as soon as the change begins to
set in cotton will be in greater demand
than any other commercial
commodity. Then prices will begin
to go up.
If the cotton crop of the south is
sold out of the south at present prices,
or under present conditions, the result
will be the loss of a whole year's
labor or more and distress to thousands
of our people. That distress
will not be conf.ned to those who are
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it will extend to all classes, and will
bring about hardships that will be
very little short of those incurred in
actual war.
The south has been prosperous for
some years past and has accumulated
tremendous wealth. It has enough
means to actually hold and take care
of an entire cotton crop.
The buy-a-bale plan contemplates
the idea of every man who is able, to
buy a bale of cotton at 10 cents a
pound and hold it, to do so. The 10 cent
limit is suggested because it is reasonable,
because it will give the producer
of the cotton a chance to pay
his debts and make arrangements for
the future, because it will leave a safe
margin of profit to the purchaser who.
is willing to lend a helping hand not
only to the producer but to himself
and all his fellow men.
It will not be necessary under this
arrangement to buy the entire cotton
crop of the south; but only the distressed
cotton?that which would
otherwise be forced on the market,
and which would fix the price of the
balance. There are thousands and
thousands of farmers who are able
to pay their debts and hold their cot
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upon to defend the price to the last
ditch.
There is nothing impracticable
ahout this idea. The only question is
whether the people will undertake
to carry it out. And a beauty about
it, the success of the plan does not
necessarily depend upon concerted
movement. The mure who go into it,
the better of course, and the greater
the benefit to all. But even if only a
few go into it. they are sure to do
some good and win for themselves,
for prices will certainly advance.
However, the main thing is to see that
such cotton as must be sold brings a
reasonable price, not less than 10
rents a pound, for economically as
well as otherwise there is more to be
gained by helping the producer than
there is by a heavy profit to the buyer
at the producer's expense.
Progress of the War.
When the European war first broke
out more than a month ago, there was
a very general, but by no means
unanimous belief that it would come to
an end in a very few weeks: but at
the present time practically all the
world considers the end much further
off now than it appearen 10 ue men.
The main reason for expecting an
early termination of the war was that
all Europe was already an armed
camp, practically ready to begin fightnsr.
and that such a large per centagr
of the whole force of both sides would
participate in the first battle that
there would be but little material or
energy for further operations.
Rut it is beginning to appear that
notwithstanding the tremendous scale
of preliminary preparations and notwithstanding
the fearful loss of life in
the opening battles, this war is going
to follow very much the same cottmeof
previous wars, and it is likely to
drag on for months and months if not
for years, though of course the universal
hope is that the terrible suspense
may be shottened.
The,. Germans have been the main
;i?Xressors from the beginning and
their plan of campaign, at least tip to
'hi present time, is perfectly plain.
Their great lighting machine, consisting
of millions of men. was collected
from all parts of the empire, and concentrated
into four or five main columns.
moving to different parts of the
French and Russian borders in seemingly
endless streams. For instance,
correspondents tell us how a column,
eight abreast marched through Brussels
at the rate of four miles an hour
for three or four days, and while the
descriptions of other columns have not
been given in any such detail, it is
reasonable to assume that a description
of the column that went through
Brussels would he a description of any
one of the other columns.
The story of the manner in which
tin' Belgians held the Hermans hack fit
Liege and temporarily shattered the
advancing columps at other points in
Belgian territory, is more or less familiar.
and these stories give a yepy
good idea of ho\y tilings are going. It
appears that whenever the advancing
columns haye met with opposition.
they haye been formed into lines of
battle which would continue to advance.
In most cases the Germans
have greatly out numbered the people
against whom they were advancing,
and in every case where they have
come in contact with opposition they
have suffered terribly two, three, four
or five times, as much as their opponents:
but notwithstanding heavy
losses in killed and wounded, gaps
would be filled up with fresh men and
they would go on until the enemy was
overpowered. This has happened in
Belgium, and it has happened in the
north of France; but the indications
now are that this over-whelming, resistless,
onward movement has been
checked, and that the situation is beginning
to take on a different phase.
The further the Germans get away
from home and the more they spread
out; the weaker their different columns
become, and the nearer the situation
narrows down to something like
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forces. As to what the actual
truth is, is not known; but it is claimed,
and the claim looks reasonable that
up to the present time the losses of
the Germans have been about three or
four to one in proportion to the losses
of the Allies, and this fact, if fact it be.
Is explained on the theory that the
German army is more in the nature of
a great machine than a force of individual
men. That it is the policy of
commanders to overcome by superior
force rather than by superior strategy
and that the idea of trying to take care
of the men is not taken into consideration.
Among other things for instance,
it is explained that the German advance
is made in solid formation for
the simple reason that the Germans
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discipline to such an extent
that they cannot be relied upon to
take care of themselves after they have
lost elbow touch under the open formation
used by the French and especially
by the English.
It is claimed in England that during
the heavy fighting of August 24, 25 and
26, some sixty or seventy thousand
British troops held back four or five
times as many Germans, and where
the British lost some 6,000 killed, the
Germans who were in front of them
lost 18,000 or 20,000. This is said to
have been in spite of the fact that the
English were badly equipped in artillery
and machine guns, while the Germans
were lacking in nothing down
even to the chin strap of a helmet. As
the result of this fighting, the English
were beaten back steadily but slowly;
but at no time was there anything in
the nature of a disorderly rout and
the only prisoners taken by the Germans
were a few hundred men who
had become detached from their battle
lines and who were caught while trying
to get back into the respective positions
to which they belonged.
As matters now stand all the allied
armies to the north and north-east of
PnH? have heen falllne back on the
defenses that surround that city, and
the Germans are engaged in an enveloping
movement that has for its object
such advantage as may be had in the
series of battles that are expected to
take place within the next few days.
All the information that is coming
from the east indicates that the Russians
are making as much headway in
the overrunning of Austria as the Germans
are in overrunning France and as
a matter of fact the Austrian and German
army between the Russians and
Vienna is nothing like as formidable
as is the French and English armies
that are between the Germans and
Paris. The indications are that the
Russians have made considerable
headway in East Prussia with Berlin
as their objective; but because of the
large forces of German troops and the
strong fortifications intervening, it is
generally Deuevea mat ine nussmna i
will not be able to get to Berlin for
nearly two months yet, If at all.
The hope of the Allies is that they
will be able to hold Paris and other
positions in France until the Russians
make sufficient headway in East Prussia
to call the large German forces
back home, and they feel that If they
can do that, the things that will take
place during the retreat will go a long
way toward bringing about the beginning
of the end.
PLEASANT AFFAIR NEAR FILBERT
Correipondene* The TorkrtlU Enquirer
Filbert, Sept. 8.?One of the most enjoyed
and largely attended entertainments
held in this community this
summer was that given by Miss Annie
Ferguson last Thursday night at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Ferguson on Filbert R. F. D. 1,
in honor of her guests, Misses Alma
Doubley of Savannah, Ga., Myrtle McClain
of Aiken and Ella Price of Lexington.
Nearly all of the young people
of this section including Clover, Bethel
and Bethany were present and each
one spent a pleasant evening, the happy
party not breaking up until far in
the night. Among those present were:
Misses Agnes Youngblood, Johnsie
Stacey, May Castles, Esther Ford,
Mary Jackson, Hattle Thomasson, Effie
Thomas, Elvie Jackson, Eunice
Youngblood, Fanny Price, Margaret
Nell, Mary Beamguard, Lela Stevenson,
Helen Thomason, Lola Parrott,
Edna Ferguson, Dean Neil, Lila Jackson,
Pearl Knox; Messrs. Herbert
Jackson, Iliff Castles, Andrew Jackson
M. S. Barnett, E. V. Templeton, A.
B. Goforth, John Youngblood, William
Brown, Leo McCarter, Clyde Ford, W.
A. Matthews, Carl Knox, Gus Matthews,
Clyde Castles, Frank Jackson,
Ben Beamguard, James McCarter,
Walker Gordon. Freidheim McCarter,
Robert Jones, Hugh Jackson, Lee Gettys,
Edmond Ford, Burton Youngblood,
C. Jackson, Tom Wood, Star Parrott,
Robert Lawrence, John Knox, Joe i
Thomasson, O. H. Ferris, R. A. Bigger,
White Ferguson, Howard McMackin,
Henry Youngblood, Andrew Sturgis,
Sam Matthews, B. G. Lilley, Sam
Brown, P. E. Brown, W. 0. Sparrow,
Brown Ferguson.
? A story went out from New York a
few days ago to the effect that 80,000
Russian troops had been landed In
France after having been brought
through the Baltic and North seas to
the northern coast of Scotland, thence
through Scotland and England by rail,
and across the British channel. According
to th- Russians
made on British transports.
VWrtte it is possible that such a thing
has been done, still it is not altogether
certain. It is stated also that Japan i
stands ready to send troops to Europe
if she has not already done so, and it
is reported that if Turkey goes into the
war she will do what she can to stir up
trouble in Egypt, Persia and India.
RESULTS OF THE SEC
Vote for State and Coi
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PRECINCTS. CI- ^
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Bethel <f4| 3211 591 36,
Bethany 23! 79' 20| 81 j
Blairsville 40i 63, 42) 61,j
Pullork'M Creek. -i| -it?|i zzi -j.-i j
Clover llf. 182 llfij 181;!
Coates's Tavern. 801 34 80| 36ij
Klienezer 42 14 39l 17|i
Filbert 26 83i 22j 87|
Forest Hill 36 18|i 27 271
Fort Mill 142 156.) 1 18 178|!
Hickory Grove. . 106 85 | 102 8Sij
McConnellsville. . 72 12(1 71 13i
Newport I 20 2ft|j 18 22(1
New Zion 25 68j 22 71 i
Opden i 18 34,| 13 29;
Hock Hill No. 1.. 268 287 ' 279 273 1
Hock Hill No. 2 263 217 1 269' 210
Sharon 62 45 1 64| 4 3n
Smyrna 19| 43 1 26 36
Tirzali , 29 4 7 31 45 I
Yorkville No. 1 . 130| 92 ! 143! 80!!
Vork\ ille No. 2. . 126 112! 128j 109[
Totals ! 1727|1769| l"7"l 1 jf748|j
LOCAL APTAIR8.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
J. C. Wilborn?Offers a desirable property
at Tirzah for sale and wants
you to see him If you want to buy
real estate.
Kandy Kitchen?Has a good selection
of cigars, as well as cigarettes and
smoking tobacco. It will feed you in
its restaurant.
Yorkville Motor Car Co.?Suggests
that you have your automobile tires
and tubes vulcanized. It makes
them almost as good as new.
Thomson Co.?Is showing an advance
shipment of new style ludies' coat
suits; white felt hats, and new fall
ginghams.
Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Invites special
attention to its big line of suits for
boys. A free knife with each of
the first 257 suits sold.
Cloud Cash Store?Is daily receiving
and displaying new goods of all
sorts for the fall and winter trade,
and invites you to see them.
"* f i IVIIonn Will fiflV re
lUlilS r JWI CllCVi *T Iinvw t. ... g J
ward for return of a gold brooch,
lost Friday.
J. R. Kelly?Offers prompt and efficient
livery service by automobile.
Phone him at City Market.
Miss Mary Harshaw, Teacher?Invites
the public to a picnic at Forest Hill
school next Friday.
J. C. Wilborn. Pres.?Calls a meeting
of cotton growers and < thers interested,
to be held in the court house
on Thursday morning.
MeConnell Dry Goods Co.?Says that
Douglass shoes win all battles. A
large line of ladies' coats are now
on display.
York Lunch Room?Is now open to
serve its customers with lunches
and meals. Prompt service at moderate
prices.
Eggs continue scarce and Yorkville
J- ?? *? ? ..>IlU?np frv r*ntf olmnat QHV
utrttiers arc wining, iu y^j aunwov ??/
price to get them.
Yesterday was Labor day. The
banks of Yorkville observed the day
and since the day is a national holiday
no mall went out on the rural routes.
WITHIN THE TOWN
? The Yorkville rire department was
called out on account of an alarm yesterday
morning. The fire proved to
be only a burning chicken house near
the Neely mill.
? The school at the Ancona mill begun
its fall session yesterday morning,
with Mrs. John Lee as teacher.
The session will continue for a nine
months' term.
? An pvnnr.trinn nrlncinallv for ne
groes, went over the C. & N.-W, from
Chester to Hickory and return yesterday.
Something like forty Yorkvllle
negroes made the trip.
THE SECOND PRIMARY
Because of a general lack of interest,
the vote In the second primary today
was light, there having been cast only
3,493 votes against 4,129 votes in the
election of two weeks ago.
Acording to the figures as telephoned
in from the various precincts, Mr.
Richards carries the county over Mr.
Manning by a small majority, and Mr.
Kelly has a small lead over Mr. Bethea,
while Mr. Shealy leads Mr. Fortner.
Messrs. Cherry and Bradford are 1
nominated for the house and there is
to be another race between Messrs.
Johnson and Lesslie.
Mr. Strait is nominated for coroner.
Messrs. J. C. Klrkpatrick and J. E.
Latham are nominated for county
commissioners.
The race between Messrs. J. S. Plexico
and J. F. Watson for road supervisor
in Bullock's Creek was very close
ana aunougn me ngures ooiainaDie
showed Mr. Plexico in the lead, full returns
could not be obtained.
Mr. Burton Massey was nominated
for road supervisor in Catawba township
over Mr. W. H. Spencer.
TRAINS NOS. 7 and 8.
Trains Nos. 7 and 8, which the C. &
N.-W. railroad have been running from |
Gastonia to Chester during the past
fourteen months, passing Yorkville going
south in the morning and north in
the afternoon, are to be discontinued !
after next Sunday.
These are the trains that were put I
on during the latter part of June of
last year under a virtual order of the
railroad commission which was moved i
by Yorkville people, and people along '
the line of the road who brought to j
bear all the influence they could exer- i
cise in the matter.
"We dislike very much to take this 1
train off," said General Manager Nichols
of the C. & N.-W. yesterday; "but
we simply cannot help ourselves. The j
train has lost us money every month
since it has been on, and it is losing us
money now at a faster rate even than
a year ago, and we simply cannot
stand it any longer."
Mr. Nichols said that he caused to
be made a careful calculation of the
receipts from the train and the expenses
of running it during the whole
time of its operation, and he finds that
it has not come within fifty per cent of
paying expenses. In making this cal-;
culation, he said he had not charged
against the train any part of the fixed
barges of the road, or anything else
except its own expenses, the crew, the
repairs, fuel and the like, and on the
other hand he had given it credit for
every cent it had made, not even de- ;
ducting the business that would have 1
been done hv trains 9 and 10 (
"It is hard times with the railroad,"
Mr. Nichols went on, "Taking the
whole line over, we are going into the
hole every year, and it is necessary for
us to cut expenses to the quick to
make both ends meet. This train is
one of the heavy burdens we are carrying.
and we are simply compelled to
get rid of it,"
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ABOUT PEOP'. 2
Mrs. W. H Hasans of Clover, spent
last week in Gastonla, N. C.
J. B. Pegram of Yorkville, Is
visiting relatives in Statesville. N. C.
Miss Zula Stevenson of Yorkville
No. 5, is visiting friends in Atlanta,
Ga.
Mrs. M. R. Pegram of Gastonia, is
the g-uest of Mrs. R. R. McCorkle. near
Yorkville.
Mrs. Lawrence Alexander of St.
OND PRIMARY IN Y01
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92 99 91 132 90 104 62 88 I
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182 298 276' 366 173 309 126' 162 1
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Augustine, Fla., is visiting relatives in
Yorkville.
Miss Mabel McKnight of Rock Hill,
is visiting relatives and friends in
Yorkville.
Miss Frances Rurgess of Crawfordville.
Ga., is the guest of Miss Mary
Starr in Yorkville.
Mr. S. C. Woods of the Thomson
company, returned to Yorkville, Friday,
from the northern markets.
Miss Mabel Ashe of Yorkville, left
last week for Rockton, S. C., where she
will teach school this session.
Mrs. W. I. Barber has returned to
her home in Chester after visiting
Yorkvlile relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Eaves and daughter.
Mary Helen, left Saturday to visit i
relatives in Tennessee.
Miss Annie May Harsliaw of Mcconnellsvllle,
is visiting her sister, Miss
Mary Harshaw, at Forest Hill. 1
Miss Maud Eberhardt, who has been '
spending several weeks with relatives
in Chester, has returned to Yorkville.
Mr. W. H. Carroll returned to his ,
home in Yorkville. Sunday, from Baltimore,
and is very much improved in
health.
Mr. William Betts of Yorkville, left j
this morning for Due West where he j
will resume his studies in Erskine college.
Mr. George Hart left Sunday for ,
Greenville after visiting his parents, ,
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. S. Hart in York- (
ville. j
Mesdames Ida McConnell and David i
Gaston of Blacksburg, are the guests i
of Mr. R. G. Ratchford on Yorkville
No. 3.
Mrs. Frank Davis of Clover R. F. D. j
No. 4, is undergoing Lreatment in the 1
Presbyterian hospital in Charlotte,
N. C.
Mrs. W. W. Miller and children returned
home Saturday morning from a
visit to relatives in Yorkville?Rock
Hill Record.
Miss Ruth Crosby has returned to
1 1-. V.<.?lr?rl1lA oflor a 1.1 alt tr?
her sister. Miss Claire Crosby, in Spartanburg,
E. C.
Misses Mamie Johnson and Julia 1
Smith of Yorkville, left this week to <
spend some time in the mountains of
North Carolina.
Mr. D. M. Benfleld of Yorkville No.
3, left last week for a visit of several
weeks to his sister, Mrs. Windsor, in
New York.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Neil and daugh- !
ter, Gladys, returned to Yorkville,
Saturday, after a stay of ten days at J
Piedmont springs.
Messrs. Boyce Lllley and Richard ,
Bigger have resumed their old places (
with the Clover Cotton Oil and Ginning
company. i
Miss Mary Coper, who has been I
visiting Mrs. H. B. Laws, in Yorkville,
returned to her home in Win- .
ston-Salem, N. C.
Mr. T. P. Moore, Jr., of Charlotte, 1
visited Messrs. Robert and Lamar '
Glenn, in Yorkville, this week on his J
way to Clemson college.
The following Yorkville boys left '
this afternoon for Clemson college: .
Karl Williams, Bamford Garrison, (
Archie Barron, Robert Glenn.
Misses Margaret Nell ami ciaru t
Alexander of Yorkville, have returned
to their homes after spending some \
time in Clover, the guests of Miss |
Frances Price. 1
Gaffney Ledger: Mrs. Meek Smith
who has been spending some time with
her sisters, Mrs. Harry Shaw and Mrs. j
Boyd Hames, left Sunday evening for (
her home in Clover.
Dr. Catherine N. Munro, physician f
at Winthrop, who has been spending s
her summer vacation in Yorkville, left j
yesterday a week ahead of the opening (
of the college, to resume her work.
Gaffney Ledger: Dr. William An- c
derson and party of Blacksburg, who a
have been visiting relatives and friends (
in Scotland during the summer 1
months, arrived home Sunday after- c
noon. ?
Miss Georgia Burke of Baltimore, *
Md., who has been with the Kirkpat- J
rick-Belk Co., for several seasons, re- 1
turned to Yorkville, Sunday, and will c
be in charge of the millinery depart- a
ment again this season. 1
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LOCAL LACONIC8 t
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Lowry Place Sold. t
Messrs. W. L. Williams and A. M. 1
Barnett of Yorkville, have bought the t
M. J. Lowry place, situated five miles e
south-east of Yorkville on Fishing t
Creek. There are 876 acres in the s
tract. The price paid is said to have a
been J11,000. a
Negro Killed In Rock Hill. J1
Policeman Cal Steele of Rock Hill, t
shot and killed Will Garner, a negro, c
near the Rock Hill Fertilizer compa- f
ny's plant in that city, about 11.30 j
yclock this morning. While no one ^
3eems to have seen the actual shoot- t
ing, according to the policeman's story, r
the negro was resisting arrest.
Negro Shot Near Rock Hill.
A negro named Steven Davis was 's
shot and killed Sunday night, on the ?
farm of Jesse Moore, about seven miles s
west of Rock Hill, by another negro ^
named Jim Berry. It seems that Ber- s
y had struck a negro girl and Davis j,
ran up and asked him what he struck r
tier for, and Berry's reply was a shot, r
from the effects of which Davis died ^
shortly afterwards. Berry has not been j,
:aptured. a
Facts About the Voters. Q
There are 4,545 voters whose names J!
ire on the county enrollment books. Of
his number 2,454 are farmers; 665 are
nill workers; and 1,426 are engaged In
ither occupations. More than half of ]<
.y years 01 UK", i.oou vuiei a ai c ucinc^u | a
years of age; 1,335 voters are between b
the ages of 21 and 29; 1,223 are be- e
tween 30 and 39 years of age; 799 between
40 and 49; 640 between 50 and r
59, and 557 are over 60 years old. Mr. n
tohn Moss of YorkviUe, is the oldest e
citizen whose name appears on the en- n
"ollment books of the county, he being
nore than 93 years of ago. p
3aby Sent to Yorkvllle. ^
Rock Hill Record: The baby left a
ast week at the home of Mr. and Mrs, ^
rtobt. 8. Poag at Carhartt's, has been
lent to the Church Home Orphanage a
it Yorkville. Mr. Poag decided to do f<
his because he did not know the 0
parentage of the cMM and did not ^
.are '.l t um risk, Mrs. poag told ,,
In Record this morning to thark the v,
adles of Rock Hill for their moat gen-1 ^
Toua donations of clothes and all nec-1
ssary articles for the little one. n
nough to fill a trunk, and she adda t)
hat she and Mr. Poag will see that -he k
:hild Is well cared for until the par- tj
nts are traced. t(
iuthriesville School Open#. cl
The school at Guthrlesville, Misses
Vnnie Miller and Mary Clark in charge _
?egan its eight months' term yesterday, ^
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with an enrollment of 33 pupils. There
was a goodly number of patrons in attendance
upon the opening exercises.
Superintendent of Education John E.
Carroll and Rev. Jno. A. McMurray, '
pastor of Bethesda church, made short
addresses. The school enrollment will
be increased later on. The building
has been repainted inside and out during
the summer and everything put in
good shape. Misses Miller and Clark
taught the school last year and are
held in high esteem by the patrons.
The trustees are Messrs. J. C. Bell, Ma- ?
son Bratton and J. W. Moore. i
Death of Mr. J. B. Hogue.
Mr. J. Bonner Hogue died suddenly
at his home in the New Zion neighborhood
at about 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The deceased was about 32 ^
years of age, and is survived by his
wife, who before her marriage was
Miss Minnie Boyd, and one little
daughter. Mr. Hogue was a member of
New Zion church. The burial was at
Beersheba this afternoon, Rev. H. B.
Hardy of Hickory Grove, conducting
the funeral services.
Mrs. S. J. McClure Dead.
Mrs. Janie McClure, widow of the
late W. C. McClure, died at her home,
three miles west of Yorkville, about
2 o'clock this afternoon, following an ~*'
Illness of more than a year with a
complication of diseases. Mrs. McClure
was about 50 years of age. She
was a member of Beersheba Presbyterian
church, and enjoyed the highest
esteem of a large number of friends ?
and acquaintances. The deceased is
survived by Ave children, three sons
and two daughters, Messrs. Robert,
William and Grady McClure, and
Misses Alma and Jennie McClure. The
funeral will be conducted at the home
tomorrow (Wednesday) and the interment
will be in Rose Hill cemetery,
Yorkville.
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THE BUY-A-BALE MOVEMENT.
South Can Absorb and Hold Cotton
Crop If It Will.
The "Buy a Bale of Cotton" movement
inaugurated by many leading W
business men of Atlanta, is making
considerable headway in Georgia, according
to reports in the Atlanta
Journal.
This movement is designed to relieve
those farmers who are financially
unable to hold their cotton, from
the hardships imposed by the closing
of the cotton market as a result of the i
war in Europe. It is proposed that m
each man and woman who is in posi- *
tion to do so, purchase at least one
more, if possible,) bale of cotton
direct from some farmer, preferably
a. tenant farmer, paying not less than
10 cents a pound for it, and holding
such cotton off the market until not *
less than 10 cents can be obtained.
While this movement was started in
Atlanta, the object of the promoters
Is to extend it to the entire south, the
belief being that in this way practically
the whole cotton crop can be
saved from sacrifice. With this in
dew, the Atlanta committee announces
that it is prepared to co-operate
with the authorities in other sections
af the cotton growing belt Already
in Atlanta several hundred bales have
been bought by individuals and organizations,
and the buying continues.
The proposition to buy up the entire
1914 crop of cotton is fully set *
forth in the following call, issued by
;he Atlanta committee:
Committee's Call.
The committee of five appointed
Friday to outline preliminary plans
'or the people of the south to buy the *
1914 cotton crop raised by southern
'armers and thereby tide over the crilis
caused by the European war on
resterday made the following interesting
report:
"To the general meeting called to
:onsider the complications which have
Lrisen in the marketing of cotton?
Icntlemen: The statistical bureau at
Washington shows that the cotton ^
:rop this year will be one of the largist
and bf the best quality it has yet
grown, perhaps as much as 15,000,000
tales. This cotton up to August 1
tade fair to bring 12 cents per pound,
>r $60 per bale, or an aggregate
nr?s\??y* + r\f tQftft flHft rtrtf) flnH InHlllHnC A.
he seed it would have reached the W
tupendous sum of <1,000,000,000.
"Because of the European war cuting
the demand for this valuable proluct
some 5,000,000 or 6,000,000
>ales, the market has been completey
demoralized. So much so that cot.
on cannot be sold at all. It is appar.
int that unless some plan or plans can
>e inaugurated by which this excess
lupply of cotton can be bought up H
ind taken entirely off the market for
it least twelve months, the price at
vhich the product will sell will be so
ow as to lose the south at least onehird
of the real value of this crop,
ir a loss of some three hundred and
ifty or four hundred millions of do). y
ars; and yield a return to the prolucers
far below the cost of'producion
and thus spread ruin and bankuptcy
through the land.
"We are not unmindful of the fact
hat this grave situation has been conIdered
by many committees and asociations
of planters, merchants,
ankers, and business men generally,
ind its gravity is well worthy of the
est thought and efforts of us all. We
econd gratefully the remedial leglstition
passed by the congress and the At
elief proposed by the treasury department
in making cotton warelouse
receipts legal collateral for the
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ssue in uurrcnty. ouv icaiuius
11 of these helps and more will be reuired
to meet the situation, and beeving
that Providence helps those ^
hat help themselves, we recommend:
Recommendation*.
"First, That we appeal to every
jyal and patriotic southerner, male
nd female, to aid in carrying this
urden that has fallen on our planirs
without any fault of theirs.
"Second. That In extending this
elief in such form as the largest
umber may assist, we urge upon evry
one to make purchase of one or
lore bales of cotton. "Third.
That In order that the
lanters may get a price that will at
ast pay them for the cost of producon,
the price of said cotton be fixed
t 10 cents per pound, basis good midling.
"Fourth. That in order that this ^
id may reach the class who are suf- w
?rers in this matter, these purchases
f this cotton be made not from midlo
men nr sdm^ii In f nm. hut from the
lanters only, and an far an possible
e distressed cotton of the tenant farlers.
"Fifth, it. order that this proposed
?lief may be enV"tual. It Is necessary
lat this cotton be ut-'d off the maret
for at least twelve months or un1
the cotton can be sold at or above
>n cents per pound and carrying
barges. ^
"Sixth. That we urge upon every W
ity, town and hamlet throughout the
atton growing states that public
leetings be held and complete aringements
be made to warehouse
jch purchases and the loyal and parotic
citizens be given an opportuity
to support this movement. ?
"Seventh. This philanthropic aeon
is taken to relieve distress in our
luthland. but it will be wholly inef>ctual
unless the planters reduce the
915 cotton crop to one-half of the
sual crop. Therefore we appeal to
Lrmers and planters, supply houses,
lerchants and business men of every
ass and in every section and state to
^-operate to accomplish this result.
"Klghth. That you will appoint a
ermanent committee of live of your
amber who will invite the cordial cojeration
of the Chamber of Comerce.
the Merchants' and Manufac
irers' association, the freight bureau,
le Credit Men's association, the Aden's
club, the Rotary club and any
id all other civic organizations, to
d them in the furtherance qf thin
ork.
"Ninth. That this committee be
npowered to do all things necessary
i the perfecting of all arrangements
! to securing subscriptions witl\
hich to buy this cotton and to prode
for its actual purchase, storage, ^
surance, and any and all other w
lings necessary- to execute fully the,
irpose of these resolutions.
"We trust that no person in the cotm
belt will take advantage of this
tuation by trying to buy cotton for
ss than the price stipulated (Hi
mts) from farmers; and that every ^
dividual in the south will co-opere
patriotically to save our farmers
om loso.
(Signed) "Sam D. Jones, chairman:
. H. Inman. H. Y. McCord. W. A.
irker, W. W. Orr, David Strauss."