Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, October 13, 1914, Image 1

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> 1 _ x^jrEP^ssnii-'iygEgri^^ l. x orist's sons, Pnbiiihen. [ % jfinniln Deirspajier: jjor (lis promotion of (he JJoIilical, JSocial, Sgrieulfural and (Tommerrial Interests of the people. J T E R" *yu\'r??' y'J*.K*N?T"* ?' established 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C./rCESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1914. NO. 82. WORK OF * The Part They I Secrets o: "Where are your spies?" was the startling question put by the Crown V Prince of Germany to the British am- I bassador in Berlin at a dinner party given by the latter a few weeks before the war began. The prince had missed the naval and military attaches, and such was his facetious style of asking f after them. "What really, is a spy?" asked an English newspaper man of a functionary possessing special inside knowledge of the diplomatic world. Indispensable Work. "Oh," said he, with a very wide smile, "peoples of all sexes; and ranks are utilized in this indispensable work. The Empress Frederick once went to Paris to spy out the land for her son, the Kaiser, to discover wneiner ne wouju be a welcome visitor to Paris. But her reception was such that she had to re\ tire hastily, because the Parisian authorities could not guarantee her safety for another twenty-four hours." The famous Von Moltke himself acted as a spy just before the war of 1870. A French officer, having recognized him, shadowed him all along the frontier, which the great strategist explorVed with minute care. A famous diplomat once asserted that ambassadors themselves are simply distinguished spies. Then there are the military and naval attaches, whose mission is to obtain secret information about foreign armies and navies. Sometimes one of these makes some terrible blunder. There is a scandal; he is quietly removed. No government will admit employing spies. Call a man a spy and he is shunned as a scoundrel. But the intelligence officer is treated as a gentleman. A keen officer often spends his holidays in a foreign country and uses his eyes -?sometimes his camera?to trood Dur )x>se. He knows where to communicate any special information, should he luckily escape arrest. If captured, he must take his punishment pluckily, without revealing his identity, if possible. Nor must he expect his govern^ ment to shield him, or even recognize him. Securing secret information is usually a question of money?spies are notoriously greedy. One woman asked for $10,000 to carry a general's letter through the enemy's lines in her chignon. The Germans once secured some ? valuable information from attendants in hosiptals and ambulances. While tenderly nursing the wounded officers, the chatty spies adroitly elicted details about their regiments, etc, promptly ^ transmitting the information to the headquarters staff. The British government does not spend much on securing confidential information. Lord Salisbury, when prime minister once complained that sentinels to warn the nation could not be provided, owing to the want of secret service money. * He was promptly reminded that a big, unexpected balance had just been repaid to the treasury by the foreign office. The fact is, British ministers have ^ never taken kindly to secret service intrigues and agents. It is doubtful whether England spends $5 per annum to every $5,000 disbursed by certain continental states, which have splendidly organized secret service bureaus and thousands of spies throughout the different countries. Germany, especially. spends colossal sums to secure the latest information on naval, military, ^ diplomatic and other affairs. The general staff has had, since 1860, the finest intelligence department ever possessed by any nation, not even excepting France under the great Napoleon, who always made strenuous eff forts to secure information about his friends and his enemies. Controlled From Berlin. The German department has a big staff in Berlin under the control of two high officials?one belonging to the foreign office and the other to the military department. Divided into several sections, it deals in minute style with the military and naval affairs of every ^ nation, especially France and England. Their agents are everywhere. Their work is checked, analyzed, and classified with wonderful patience and completeness. Brussels is a big centre for this department, many agents heIP ing recruited there. But, after all, the most precious secret service agents are the women. Statesmen who must know what is going on everywhere spend vast sums on such agents. The Russian, French and German governments often subsidize beautiful creatures, who entertain lavishly and < SEARCHING FOR S ?? ^^HI^KnSKBH^I fl? | pt^ig^ ^ ^E- -: % EiiL^JS? Since the discovery of German spi tables, the Belgian soldiers run their b( dies on wagons passing along the road THE SPIES. *lay in Revealing f Powers. receive the most influential people of the foreign capital while they work. ! From their visitors they contrive to secure secret information that would J escape the official ambassador. French, Russian and Italian women are regarded as the finest diplomatic agents. They are so tactful, resourceful and fascinating, endowed with the dramatic qualities of the born actress. Fair Diplomats. On the other hand, several disastrous developments have been directly traced to the indiscretions of chattering women, who have revealed secrets wormed from careless ministers, generals, and high officials under the glamorous spell of their beauty. Obviously, the women selected for these delicate diplomatic missions must possess exceptional personal beauty and accomplishments. They must be cosmopolitans, brilliant linguists, quite at home in the highest society, and leading the lives of wealthy, fashionable butterflies. Russia swarms with spies?political and social?who ferret out political suspects and the plots of anarchists and other dangerous characters. The czar is surrounded by so many secret enemies that a perfect spy system is to him, a matter of life and death. As for France, it is probably the most spyridden country in Europe. In Paris alone there are quite 500,000 dossiers? or collections of notes and documents ?about the private lives of prominent men and women, French and foreign. No sooner has a new minister entered office than he sends for his dossier, curious to see what has been reported about him to his predecessor. When Felix Faure became president of the republic, his dossier accused him of crimes that would have justified penal servitude. Of course it was promptly burned. In Disguise. French spies insinuate themselves everywhere, and in wonderful disguises?in clubs, restaurants, theatres, dancing halls, and even in high society circles. They serve as maids, valets, doorkeepers, private secretaries, chauffeurs. Very often an ostensible journalist is really a spy. Going everywhere, knowing everybody, hearing all the gossip he can without exciting suspicion. he renders valuable service. There is the Reptile's Fund for useful journalists, from which they draw anything from $50 to $500 per month. There is a legend of a French minister whose admiration for the fair sex often got the better of his judgment. He fell a victim to the charms of a young and beautiful countess, whose house was the centre of a smart cosmopolitan set?political, diplomatic and social. This whimsical creature evinced a strong yearning to see certain state documents which she knew he controlled and dared him to satisfy her caprice. The minister, assuming that such a frivolous, feather-brained, society butterfly would never understand intricate military plans, gratified her curiosity. Subsequent developments led the government to the suspicion that a hostile foreign power knew far too much of their military affairs, and certain mobilization plans were accordingly modified.?Philadelphia Ledger. WAR newspaper man i aiKS on tne wicKeaness of It All. Time was when it was considered honorable to go to war?to offer oneself as a target and spend his days trying to murder other men, says the Fountain Inn Tribune. But, despite all contrary signs, the germ idea of a broader civilization is spreading, and many, many people of today recognize war as the thing it is ?a crime?a crime of such stupendous size that there exists no court of justice of sufficient jurisdiction to punish it. If it is crime to murder one man, it is crime to slay a thousand. If it is crime to slay in private life, it is crime to slay as a profession. And, a fact much nearer home, it is crime to hang or electrocute a murderer. Of course all of us are potential murderers. We have tempers, tempers make quarrels, and quarrels make murderers. That is so simple a fact that all of us can grasp It. But what can explain the action of thousands who go forth to battle for no better reason than that some two-legged man in high place orders them to go? I can think of but one explanation. iPIES IN BELGIUM es in sacks supposed to contain vege- < lyonets through all packages and bunis. It is because the men who fight are devoid of thinking brains and of manhood. We whoop a lot about the glorious courage of men who face shot and steel without flinching, but the chances are these men don't know what they are fighting for. Where is anything glorious about such a situation? Two Tom cats with tails fastened over a clothes line displays as much "sublime heroism" and a lot more sense than these human cattle who allow some men of assumed authority to rush them into carnage. When a man or a nation fights for home or honor I can understand and sympathize, but when it happens, as in the present case, that the men who do the fighting know very little about the principles they are fighting for. I long to see the rank and file turn and rend their own officers, then slay their rulers, and clear the way for democracy, for independence and for individuality. If that be Socialism, make the most of it. UP TO THE SOUTH Cotton States Can Help Themselves if They Will, Says Tillman. Senator Tillman has written the following letter to J. T. Collins of Chester, on the cotton situation: "My Dear Sir: Yours of October 5, reeived. I realize your condition perfectly and sympathize with the farmers who owe you, toa I do not know what to suggest or how to help our fellow citizens who are in this predicament. Sad to say there are very many of them in distress. I am hoping that the legislature will enact a law promptly providing for a sensible warehouse scheme and that the state will get behind its own citizens with its credit by voting a constitutional amendment to Increase the public debt for this purpose. Possessing the power of taxation as it does, there is absolutely no reason why it should not do this. Until South Carolina and other southern states show their willingness to back their own people, it is idle to expect the national government to do it. I believe the state supreme court would declare a proper warehouse law constitutional, provided the people at the next election vote to increase the puolic debt for that purpose. The legislature can act immediately and as the election comes of in November, everything could be satisfactorily adjusted in this way. South Carolina can thus save its own citizens, whether other southern states do or not. I doubt very seriously, however, whether any law looking to the decrease of acreage or forbiddint the planting of any cotton at all will stand the test of constitutionality. It is worth trying, however. "I myself expect to sow all the oats I can get in the ground and will fertilize them well with cotton seed meal and acid phosphate, two home products. The land may wait for potash until the Germans are licked. Luckily most of the land in this state has enough potash in it already to make one or two crops, for it is a mineral, which does not leach out. All the soils above the falls in our rivers have a natural supply. "I believe the reduction of acreage will settle itself without legislation, simply because nobody is able or willing to advance money or supplies to grow cotton at 7 cents per pound. It is like lifting one's self over a fence by his boot straps. "This European war has certainly hit the south a hard blow. We have before seen cotton very low. but everything else was low then too. Now everything we have to eat, especially meat and flour, is very high and the cost of growing cotton is probably double what it was in 1890. "I see no reason why the national government does not hasten getting the national reserve banks in condition to begin operations. We have heard for a long while that the machinery would begin to move on October 1. The national government could recognize warehouse receipts as good collateral and I believe it will do, provided the state first takes sensible action in regard to this matter. "I do not think Uncle Sam will, or ought to be expected to come to our help until we have exhausted all of our own resources and have done those things which are necessary. There never was a time when the old adage, 'God helps those who help themselves,' was more applicable and had more truth. If the people of the state demand a sensible and practicable law, the legislature will enact it. and the governor will sign it too. "Our home banks, if they would nnlv cease beinir trreedv hoe's and do their duty towards the people, could get us all out of the wilderness. It is preposterous and criminal for those banks to draw money from the United States government at 3 per cent interest 'to assist the farmers in marketing their cotton crop' and then give it to merchants and manufacturers, and then if some few farmers are fortunate enough to be able to put up the proper collateral, charge them 6 per cent and 8 per cent. Secretary i McAdoo has the machinery already started in motion to print all the < paper money necessary and will issue it to the banks on proper col- i lateral. Congress has already dis- ] charged its duty far better than our state legislature. In fact, the president and the secretary of the treasury i dure not do more than they have already proposed to do. < "There are certain things the na- ' tional government can do and ought to do. but as usual there are dema- 1 gogues among our public men who ' are making wild proposals. Such men 1 are public enemies and ought to be ' 'sat on.' "Let the state legislature do its duty ' and the national government may be ' depended on to perform its. We can ' stem the tide if we all work together. 1 but many wild and impracticable { schemes ought to be abandoned 1 promptly and not talked about longer. ( Action is what is needed and not so ? many words." m t ? Dr. George W. Dick of Sumter, : prominently mentioned as a candidate j for the speakership of the next house , of representatives, has declared he will not be a candidate, as Sumter has the 1 governorship, and that is enough honor > for one county. This announcement of < Dr. Dick leaves the field with Jas. A. '. Hoyt, of Richland, as the only announced candidate for speaker. ' FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS As Traced In Early Files ol The Vorhville Enquirer NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDAY Bringing Up Records of the Past and Giving the Younger Readers of Today a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge of the Things that Most Concerned Generations that Have Gone Before. The first Installment of the notes appearing under mis neauing was published In our issue of November 14. 1913. The notes are being prepared by the editor as time and opportunity permit. Their purpose is to bring Into review the events of the past for the pleasure and satisfaction of the older people and for the entertainment and Instruction of the present generation. EIGHTY-FIFTH INSTALLMENT (Thursday Morning, August 22, 1861). Editorial Correspondence. Camp Pettus, Fairfax County, Va., Sunday evening, August 12, 1861. Dear Enquirer:?The comments of the English press on Lincoln's message have reached us, and they meet very fully our highest anticipations. 1 The London Star, which without circumlocution or hesitancy strikes at the 1 heart of the matter, says that the de- ' mand for 400,000 men and J400.000.000, to crush the rebellion, is unmistakable evidence of southern power and unani- ' mity. If the rebellion embraced "only J a few discontented men," the exorbitant demand for men and money would be perfectly absurd and ridiculous. This glaring exposure of southern power and that other glaring exposure?the victory of Stone Bridge, place our cause abroad as well as here, securely and certainly upon the cause of final achievement. Foreign nations can hesitate to recognize our independence now ?and the north can prosecute this wicked war longer?only from prudential considerations or from desperate malice and not from averting the manifest degree of a gracious Providence and relentless destiny. These are the views entertained by our soldiery as well as people everywhere, as far as we can learn; and nothing can exceed their sublime devotion to the cause, or their joyous and undoubting hopes of success in the end. Whatever hardships they may be called upon to endure, they are bearing therefore, and will bear, most cheerfully, in view of the resplendent reward which lies in their country's future. We have been about a month and a half with the corps of our army; we have met numbers of volunteers from almost every state in the Confederacy; and we have yet to see the first one whose words and actions, and very countenance did not indicate that he would spurn the least idea of submitting with the utmost indignation. This is true, we are proud to say, all over the south. Our whole people are as determined as the world ever saw people to "never look back,"?never, never?until our Confederacy stands out as distinctly upon the mass of nations as the Pleiades upon the mass of Heaven. While this deathless determination will assist us against our enemies and with foreign powers, very materially, it may possibly lead us frequently to misconstrue signs of returning peace. The peace resolutions of Connecticut, and perhaps other states, and Mr. Cox's resolutions in the northern congress, produced with many, the hope of a speedy solution of our difficulties. Yei iney oniy amouniea 10 a iruce, ana a national convention to treat to terms of reconciliation on the monstrous basis of preserving the Union. The insolent north, which boasted that the south could not be kicked out of the Union, and threatened to bring a crusade of 18,000,000 freemen against her if she went out. still hug the delusive phantom of hope?the abortive kenneling of jaundiced reason?that the government of our fathers, pure, equal and first in its benign intent, will rise stronger and purer from all this fiery ruin. Every sign of peace that comes from the north is colored with this infatuation. Europe sees that the Union is hopelessly dissolved. The south feels it to the marrowbones. Yet the north fights on. Why? Can it be for aught less than the blind hope that the rent "Stars and Stripes" will be cemented in blood; and will wave after the cloud of war shall have disappeared, as s proudly in the southern sky, as ever ? 3 neiore.' Just the other day a benighted portion of western New York, sent into congress a petition for an armistice and a national convention. Other peti- f tions of the same class have been heard r before that body. This is simply add- ^ ing "insult to injury." These propositions are based upon the assumption t that the south is capable of backing ^ down?that if she cannot be whipped, t she can be wheedled and fooled into ^ the I'nion again even after the war is ( virtually over?and we think at least ^ one more great battle will place it r there?even then we fear a long period . of disgusting cajolery will ensue. It is j sickening to contemplate to what an ignoble prostitution of all manhood, our enemies have reached. No means are ( too degrading to be used, if they promise success; and when the war pro- ( gramme shall have vindicated its utter futility, even to their own eyes. ( will they not resort to other means far ^ more contemptible? Gov. Pickens has fully exposed the ^ iliabolical character of the war, which e the LJncolnites have desired to arouse ?one of rnnine rane iilnmler nnrl pv ? __ , - v termination.?Before them is an Eden; ^ with them a polluted pestilence, behind them a charred and desolate ruin. We lave seen with our own eves, the church . It of Oentreville besmeared over with ( jbscene pictures ??f Jeff Davis, subtcribed with equally obscene lan- ( ttuage; and the walls and gables, from floor to comb, covered with the names p if volunteers in charcoal. Fall's church s said to be in the same condition. The church of Hampton was so befouled, ^ ind then burnt. Now, what must we ^ think of the soldiers who manifest and ^ the officers who permit such graceless, md Impious conduct? In other ways ( he same wretched prostitution is diown. A secession lady of Baltimore (r a* ho was in Washington when the b ;rand rout took place, saw a wayworn l' toldier leaning against a post; went to ^ lim and had occasion to give him her tl tandkerchief as "a memento from a southern lady;" when he accepted it, replying, "It is the only kindness I have experienced since I left home." The 30,000 handcuffs captured at Stone Bridge is a fact of the same complexion. The very fact that the war was waged at all, shows its character to be brutal from necessity. You at home, no doubt, frequently ask of yourselves and one another, why we do not march upon these Godforsaken hordes, since the victory of Stone Bridge? We cannot answer nor would we if we could?because we feel more deeply every day that in war silere est sapere?silence is sagacity? The Richmond Dispatch of the 10th, has a long and labored article, bolstered up by Scripture, upon "carrying the war into Africa." It advised an attack not upon Washington, but Philadelphia and New York; and desired our army to carry desolation to the northern people. Such publications can only aggravate and prolong the conflict, while advising the north of her weak points and whispering to her to fortify them. Look at it in this light. If our army were moving upon Philadelphia, and a Yankee spy were in our camp, this is precisely the development he 1J T* <o Una WUUIU II1<XI\C IU II1C IJUI 111. AW to VA uw wuw Dispatch's opinion is no evidence of what is being done, or what will be done; but as a leading journal of our capital, it's remarks are weighty enough to put an enemy on their guard. We repeat: we have nothing at all to say upon the even probable movements of our corps, nor even the surmised intentions of our generals, Beauregard and Johnson. We believe that they, with Davis at the head of all, Lee, MaClruder, McCulloch, and a thousand other brave and able officers seconded by our army and the favor of Heaven, can do the work wisely and well, without the aid of paper generals, who are not advised of plans and movements, and who are therefore, liable to put their foot?or both feet?in their mouth every time they open them. Let us all rather "bear patience," and instead of r?\rl n t r\ ooo Connor intn n mill.Qtnno than the man who pecks it, let us bethink ourselves what we can do for our glorious cause. We have had a few deaths in the regiment recently?among them Mr. Willard of the Spartan Rifles, and J. J. Hemphill of the Catawba Light Infantry. Sweet be the last sleep of the arave defender of his country! The remains of Mr. Hemphill repose in the remetery at Charlottesville. By the way, our sick and wounded soldiers as well as those of the enemy ander our charge, we are proud to say receive the best of treatment and attention. All of our sick who have returned from Charlottesville unite withjut exception, in saying that they were :ared for as they would be at home. But there is a heavy drain upon the tiospitaliiy of some Virginia towns? we all know how exhaustive, for instance, is a course of typhoid fever ipon a family; and how necessary even s the kindly sympathy and succor of neighbors. It is the case somewhat nere. Especially do we observe the teed of hosiptal nurses and Bible and :ract readers in our hospitals; and we see no earthly reason why the ladies if the whole south, thousands of whom ire eager to make any sacrifice of ease ind luxury for the good of the soldiers ind to show their ardent patriotism, should not share with the ladies of Virginia the golden opportunity to Iraw out their latent heroism and ; Christian philanthropy. Untold good night result from a well-advised association for this purpose in each state. sVoman, the more sensitive and inensely feeling sex. is acknowledged he greater sufferer in these times t< i ry men's souls. And one of the chief easons is because she is made a wit- , less, afar off, of the fiery ordeal ' hrough which her kith and kin are jassing?a chained martyr to ruthless suspense and fruitless anxiety. The nore immediately and actively she eslouses the cause, within her proper j sphere, the more fortitude, patience, lope and ardor rally to the support of ler sensitive nature. Only once in the listory of a nation does such a time as his occur:?A time not only to test he metal of which a people is com)osed, and to draw out all their energies and virtues; but a time also, to ay broad and dry the foundations of heir social, religious, political and lit rary prosperity. "National recollecions are the foundation of national haracter;" and we are enacting a hisory which, from its influence in the ichool room and studio and sanctum, it the domestic hearth and in the so ial circle, is hereafter to teach the roung idea of millions how to shoot ? o mould their minds to lofty deeds and o shape our destiny as a people.?We annot,?we cannot begin to think too nuch, feel too much, or do too much, or the thrilling cause of the south. If he heroes of Rynnymede battled so iravely for "Magna Charta;" if our athers and mothers struggled together hrough seven dark and bitter years or the legacy of liberty bequeathed to is; we should gather up all the thews nd sinews of our national strength, in earing this proud monument to free institutions and enlightened Christianty. We do not leave the inference to be Irawn that the women of the south re not doing their part in a manner ieyond all praise. They have given up heir natural protectors as cheerfully s the heart can give up its treasures, ly the watchless inspiration of their entiments they have even urged them nward to do or die for their country, 'hey have contributed, too, in almost very conceivable manner,, to the maerial advancement of our cause. No! te speak for their relief, and not for heir censure. You will receive this through the indness of Rev. Dr. Stoney, who aves our camp for Yorkville tomorow morning, after a stay of a week or r?r? do i'c si 11 ** i n ir ii-ltiob hn. bo o irroo t I o ndeared himself to our regiment by ^ is affability and zealous Christian deortment, he has conducted our prayer leetings for us, in the absence of the H ha plain, and preached a few sermons 'i 3 us. Our hearts feel drawn out to him ? r ery tenderly. He has our many wishes g >r his safe return home to the circle o f his friends and the bosom of his hurch and family. ^ The hospital of our regiment has \ itely received a large supply of black- a err.v wine and cordial?some as old as a iree years?from the noble ladies of n partanburg and Yorkville. The thanks y f the regiment are eminently due a lent. Our Corporal. c (To be Continued). C AS TOLD BY OUR EXCHANGES News Happenings In Neighboring Communities. CONDENSED FDR QUICK READING. Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs of Cherokee, Cleveland, Gaston, Lancaster and Chester. Chester Reporter, Oct. 8: The following announcement is of particular interest in Chester, the groom-elect being one of this city's most popular young men, while the bride-elect was for a number of years a popular and successful teacher in the local graded schools: "Mr. and Mrs. John Furman Bradham request the pleasure of your wimmnv at thp marriatre of their daughter, Mary Adams, to Baron DeKalb Refo, Jr., on Tuesday afternoon, October 20, at 5.30 o'clock, at home, Manning, S. C Mr. Frank Hough, who was brought home yesterday morning from Columbia, is thought to have typhoid fever The Woman's synodical of the Presbyterian church of the synod of South Carolina, met in a most interesting session on October 6-7, in Purity church, this city. The meetings were presided over by the president, Mrs. S. Li. Libby, of Charleston, splendidly assisted by Mrs. A. D. P. Gilmour, of Chester, first vice president, and Mrs. B. R. Thornbury, of Charleston, second vice president Of much interest to the many Chester friends of Dr. Lesser Groeschel and family is the following announcement: Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Bowers Nugent announce the marriage of their daughter, Susan Marie, to Doctor Lesser Bernhardt Groeschel, on Wednesday the thirteenth of September, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, New York. At home after the fifteenth of November. Forty-seven Ft. Washington avenue, New York At the meeting of the county board, Monday oftamnAn TV* CI A Wonnips Vflfl elected county physician, and James Woods, colored, was elected ferryman at Wood's ferry on Broad river. * * t Gaffney Ledger, Oct. 9: The revival services being conducted at the Cherokee Avenue Baptist church by Dr. C. A. Ridley of Atlanta, continue to draw large crowds at each service. Dr. Ridley's preaching has made a profound impression upon the people of the city by teaching Biblical truths in a convincing manner. The revival will continue throughout next Sunday Sheriff W. W. Thomas has gone to Raleigh to ask Locke Craig, governor nof of North Carolina, for requisition papers for a man named Hill who is wanted in this county for shooting a negro preacher while he was conducting a baptizing near Grover a few weeks ago. Hill was arrested by of Iicers ell 1YII1& a JiUUinaui, jLucouctjr, and is now being held in the Cleveland county jail at Shelby County Supervisor E. Felix Lipscomb has been in Bristol, Tenn., the past three days attending the Southern Appalachian Good Roads association convention. The meeting was attended by delegates from all of the southern states. Many interesting addresses were heard by the delegates, who considered the time well spent Because of decreased business brought about by the European war, the Southern Railway company has been granted permission by the state railroad commission to discontinue the second section of trains Nos. 37 and 38, running on the main line by Gaffney. A number of other trains on other lines will also be discontinued. When business conditions again become normal, the service is to be automatically restored Two crops of peaches on the same tree in one year is rather unusual in this part of the county, but that it is quite possible was shown by some peach trees at the home of Mrs. E. T. E. Young, on route seven. Several trees bore fruit at the usual time in the latter part of May this year, and it was only a few weeks after this crop was gathered until the trees blossomed forth again and fruited. The second crop of June fruit ripened last week. The peaches are rather small but they are of pretty color and excellent taste. , Miss Josie Pearl Davis and Mr. , Gary Stroup, both of route six, were married Wednesday afternoon at the home of Rev. J. A. Bledsoe, who performed the ceremony Miss Maggie Verlin Moore and Mr. Walter L. Lowe, , uoin 01 ijusionia, i>. v^., were nimucu Saturday evening by Probate Judge W. D. Kirby in his office at the court , house Miss Ivy Catherine Dixon and Mr. Robert W. Clark, both of Grover, N. C., route one, were married by Rev. C. A. Mullinax, Tuesday. * ( Gastonia Gazette, Oct. 9: Mrs. A. ' Moore, formerly of Inman, S. C., has moved his family into the Patrick resi- : dence on South York street, which was J recently vacated by Mr. V. F. Stephens, who has moved his family to Baltimore. , Mr. Stephens is still in the city, but , expects fo join his family about the ' middle of the month. Mr. Moore is 1 superintendent of the Spencer Lumber ; company, of this city In connection with the annual floral fair to be held by the Woman's Betterment as- ' sociation on October 30 and 31, the , visiting nurse committee of the or- ; ganization has decided to hold a bak- j ing contest with attractive prizes ; for the best biscuits baked by any pu- . pil of a mill school or by any member , if a familv whieh is renresented in anv ' jf the schools A large audience . gathered at the court house last night, I , to hear Mr. Blon H. Butler of South- . ?rn Pines, who came to address the j Chamber of Commerce and the business , nen and farmers generally of the * :ounty. Mr. Butler came at the in- ' citation of the Chamber of Commerce. . [-lis subject was "Filling a Bob-Tail t [ 'lush." The speaker was introduced . jy Mr. A. G. Mangum of the local bar. . Mr. Mangum said that until recently le had never heard of Mr. Butler. His irst knowledge of the speaker was rained recently in reading an article i written by Mr. Butler in one of the t state papers which so favorably im- c jressed him that he concluded at once s hat Butler was an excellent specimen r if the kind of men North Carolina a leeds, A wedding which came as _ i distinct surprise to the many friends >f the contracting parties was that of Mr. Ramsey H. Parker and Miss Myrle Jenkins, which was solemnized at he home of the bride's parents, Mr. ind Mrs John S. Jenkins, on West \irline avenue at 9.30 o'clock, Tueslay night. The ceremony was prolounced by Rev. J. C. Dietz, pastor >f the Luthern church, and was witlessed only by relatives of the conracting parties The annual rnoetng of the Colonial Fox club was held it King's Mountain, Thursday night of ast week. Officers for the ensuing ear were chosen as follows: Presilent, W. N. Davis: first vice president, 5. N. Boyce; second vice president, J. C. Falls; secretary and treasurer, H. r. Fulton; directors, the officers and . H. Patterson, J. J. Logan, R. C. .Vhitesides, J. W. Bradley, J. R. Caron and Leslie Crawford. The open eason for hunting foxes begins Xo' mber 1st, and closes February 1st. ?his club has a hunting reserve of beween 30,000 and 40,000 acres. It is ielieved. by those who are familiar vith "signs" for foxes, that this is gong to be a good year for foxes or rathr n irnilit vear for fov hunters Lancaster News, Oct. 9: Mrs. RoseIne Robinson, wife of Mr. \V. R. Bobnson, died last Wednesday at the iome for her daughter, Mrs. W. H. llackmon. Mrs. Robinson was in her 5th year. She was a devout member f the Buptist church and was loved iy all who knew her. Besides her lusband, she leaves the following chilren: E. O. and S. W. Robinson, Mrs. V. H. Blackmon, Mrs. J. E. Langley, nd Mrs. C. H. Everall of this place; lso two sisters, Mrs. L. P. S. Hamnond, Mrs. J. J. Reeves. Her remains .'ere interred at Antioch on Thursday t 11 o'clock, after funeral services onducted by her pastor, Rev. B. F. 'arson The Civic League took important action at its regular meeting held at the library, Wednesday afternoon. The women, feeling the need of more attention towards beautifying the town, decided on a plan to enhance the appearance of our streets by more trees and urging the property owners to put in grass plots along the edge of the sidewalks as soon as the paving has been done. Each member of the league is to pay for at least one elm tree and is to urge all her friends to help in the good work. She Is furthermonre to put in grass along the edge of the pavement bordering on her home. We believe the good example of these women will be followed by our people generally On last Wednesday afternoon at 5.30 /-*/-> Lr tho unnflAiiu nnlnnio 1 hnmp nf Mr. and Mrs. R. E. A. Huey, eight miles north of Lancaster, was the scene of a beautiful marriage when their eldest daughter, Louise, became the bride of Mr. Henry Eugene Wilson of Cheraw, S. C. t t t Fort Mill Times, Oct. 8: The Yorkville Enquirer estimates that 25 per cent of the farmers of York county are able to hold their cotton without any financial aid. In Fort Mill township, we venture the estimate that even a greater per cent of the farmers are holding the staple Announcement is made through a Spencer, N. C., newspaper, of the engagement of Miss Alice Armstrong and Mr. Wm. H. Womble, the marriage to take place on Thursday, October 22. Miss Armstrong is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sutton of Fort Mill township. For several terms, Miss Armstrong has taught the Sutton school, and is well known in this city and vicinity While there is not in Fort Mill or the township, to our knowledge, an instrument for accurately recording the rainfall, the amount of water which fell in this vicinity during Saturday find Sunday is believed bv manv to have been in excess of four inches. As a result of the downpour the creeks and branches were greatly swollen for several days, but we have heard of no bridges being washed away or other damage resulting from the high waters. * * Chester News, Oct. 9: The South Carolina railroad commission has asked the C. & N.-W. Rwy., to operate motor passenger cars to replace trains Nos. 7 and 8, which the railway removed a few weeks ago. The road would be glad to put on these cars, it is learned, if the commission would show them where they could proiitably get the* money to make the purchase. Such | cars cost about $15,000 and in these! dull times that much money is about' us scarce as hen's teeth A new mercantile business of importance in Chester will throw wide open its por-1 tals tomorrow. It will be known as the New York Bargain House. It will be' located on Gadsden street, below Mc-1 Cullough's Grocery. The proprietor1 will be Mr. J. T. Collins, who already runs a large department store further up the street. Mr. C. Edgar Darby will be manager of the business In response to a list of thirteen questions, from the State Superintendent of Education, J. E. Swearingen, County Superintendent of Education W. D. Knox and Prof. D. L. Rambo, principal of the Chester Public schools, after about ten days' hardwork, prepared the following accurate answers: 1. Number of enrolled voters from 21 to 29 years of ? ?o p P n o VumKoM r\f fVinoo vrktora I d{JC UUU. it, 11UU1UC1 Ui tiivov f vhv*w making their mark on the rolls? 121.* 3. Number of enrolled voters from 30 to 39 years of age? 621. 4. Number of these voters making their mark on the rolls? 94. 5. Number of enrolled voters from 40 to 49 years of age? 340. 6. Number of these voters making their mark on the rolls? 46. 7. Number of enrolled voters from 50 to 59 years of age? 369. 8. Number of these voters making their mark on the rolls? 69. 9. Number of enrolled voters 60 years of age or upwards? 313. 10. Number of these voters making their mark on the rolls? 68. 11. Total number of enrolled voters in the county? 2,309. 12. Total number of these voters making their mark in the county? 398. 13. Per centage of white illiteracy among Democratic voters as shown by the 1914 rolls? 174 The Manetta Mills Store of Lando, was robbed Saturday night of a pair of shoes and thirteen dollars in cash. The thief effected an entrance by prizing a strip off the door that gripped the glass. When this was accomplished he pulled the glass out and hurled it upon the sidewalk, breaking It. Strange to say no one heard the noise At a meeting of the executive committee of the Chester Poultry association, Friday evening, it was decided to have the fourth annual show December 9, 10 and 11, at the Pavilion on Walnut street. Shelby Highlander, Oct. 10: Miss L.ui>in<Sn Hnrrill died Thursday afternoon of last week at her home near Double Springs, No. 7, township. She was 78 years of age and was a daughter of the late Streeter Harrill. She was a faithful member of the Double Springs Baptist church. Interment was in the family graveyard, she being the last of her family Mr. T. C. Gardner was painfully injured at Buffalo, this week. He was backing his team of mules when the smokestack fell, causing the Learn to run away, throwing him out ind injuring him very painfully. It Look 14 stitches to sew up his wound on the head. He is getting along very well it present Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bowman are having their home on W. Warren street, purchased from Mr. W. R. Hartness, overhauled and re-painted ind expect soon to occupy it In the recent bond issue for good roads n No. 8, the vote was as as follows? L5l for, 82 against, at Polkville; 2a for, 18 against, at Delight; majority 65 for he bonds Misses Janie Ewers, Sallie Lou Packard, Mary Damron, all )f Shelby and Mary B. Crowell of Lin'olnton, left Shelby, Wednesday, for 'Passifern," now located at Hendertonville... .Sheriff D. D. Wilkins states hat so far this year the tax collections lave been unusually slow. You cannot afford to miss spendng some of these beautiful autumn lays out in the woods. Take the chillren and go nutting, or hunting perimmons, or gathering hate flowers. The nemory of one such day will brighten ill the dull weeks of winter. GIVING SOUTHERN - ^ Left to right in the photograph are the Georgia senator; Miss Genevieve ( house; Congressman Joseph Johnson of daughter of the postmaster general, a taken on the steps of the capltol just ? been presented with a bolt of cotton clc dresses for the cotton fashion show, he REDUCTION VS. ELIMINATION Question Presented on the Floor ot the Senate Last Week. CONSTITUTIONALITY IS IN QUESTION. Interesting Debate Between Senators Johnstone and McLaurin, Develops Information as to the Necessities of the Situation and Possible Remedies. Cnrranpntideoca Til* YorkvtlU Enquirer Columbia, October 9.?The fight over the cotton situation opened unexpectedly in the senate on Wednesday in a hot debate between Senators Johnstone ana McLaurin. Senator Clifton introduced a resolution providing for seven acres to the mule and the debate dragged along all day. until at the night session Senator Hardin rose and inquired if any senator was in favor of total elimination of the cotton crop in 1915. Senator McLaurin took the floor and said that he was, because it was the only effective means of imparting immediate value to the cotton crop. Mr. Hardin then suggested that Mr. McLaurin introduce a resolution to that effect, which he did. Senator Johnstone then said that he would like to hear a statement of the reasons for taking such a revolutionary step. Senator McLaurin said that he would prefer to wait later as he was not prepared to Jump without preparation into suen a. grave quesuuo. ot'verai senators, however, insisted upon his going ahead and Mr. McLaurin landed at once into a comprehensive discussion. He tirst rapidly outlined the financial effects of the war. The effect of a general moratarium in Europe, etc. Then he explained the Aldrich-Vreeland act and the new currency law. Calling attention to the fact, that when the latter went into operation, that it made discount of bills based on cotton, obligatory on the banks forming the various currency associations, etc. The senate and many outsiders listened with rapt attention to the clear, clean cut presentation of a subject that few understood. Then coming down to cotton, he applied the law and showed conclusively that it all depended on the market value of cotton, that if it had no market value, then it was useless as a collateral. He said that at present cotton had no established market value. That the Bank of England had informed the mills that they could not furnish gold to buy cotton; that they must draw upon their reserves. That there was a visible and an invisible supply of cotton of 6,238,000 bales; some of it wan in Bombay, Calcutta and Egypt; other cotton was warehoused in the United States, England, Germany and France. That as long as this cotton lasted, there was bound to be a limited demand for American cotton. That it seemed to him, that what was needed, was not gold, but bank credits in New York where the debts contracted for making this crop were due. That there was a large debt due by New York to England. We should have state warehouse receipts that we could exchange for American securities held in England, and discount them through the Aidrich-Vreeland act and in that way cancel out debts to New York, by a transfer of credits on the books of the New York banks. This would relieve our banks, which are straining under the load of the present crop and enable them to aid in carrying the surplus. That they are absolutely unable to do so with New York pressing for settlement. He said that according to tht figures of Hester, they were estimating this crop at 15,000,000 bales and the world supply of 6,238,000 and 7,000,000 of Egyptian and Indian cotton would make a world supply of 28,600,000 bales. The consumption for next year will be, according to best estimates, 14,800,000 bales, against one of 21,000,000 bales in times of peace. This will leave 13,500,000 bales to go over in 1916, provided not another bale is made anywhere in the world. If other countries produce even 5,000,000 bales, there will be 19,000,000 bales to supply a demand for 14,800,000. Suppose we cut to eight acres. That will mean at least 10.000.000 bales in the United States, so that one year from today we will have a bigger surplus than we now have. What hope can any man have of making a pound of cotton next year in the face of these figures? Whereas grain and food products were high and constantly increasing In value. It was a powerful speech and made a profound impression on all who heard it. Senator Johnstone expressed doubts as to the constitutionality of such a law, and denounced it as the result of panic and fear. He called upon Senator McLaurin to first show that It was constitutional and predicted that the people would rebel if such radical action was taken. Friday morning, Senator McLaurin took the floor again and said that the law was constitutional. That the Federal constitution was a grant of power from the states and that all of the reserve rights of the people were vested in the legislature, and that for an act of congress you had to point to the provision in the Federal constitution enabling congress to act; but that to prevent the legislature from acting, you must show something in either the state or Federal constitution specifically forbidding such a law. He then cited numerous decisions of the courts, defining what were the police powers of the state, calling particular attention to the warehouse case argued by McLaurin and Stevenson, before the supreme court in 1912, in which the court declared that under the general welfare clause, cotton came peculiarly within the police powers. He said the general welfare clause in the state constitution, "Was as broad as necessity, as deep as the love of Christ, and as compassionate as the mercy of God." The debate will be resumed when the senate meets on Monday night. COTTON A BOOST Wr ?, ' ^ \ m - , ,? ,Mir Miss Callle Hoke Smith, daughter of "lark, daughter of the speaker of the South Carolina; Miss Lucy Burleson, nd Speaker Clark. The picture was ifter the three young ladies had each ith, from which they made themselves Id in Washington on October 7 and &