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Scraps and ^acts. j ? N? \v Yor k. October -4: A tie-j cidedly cheerful feeling prevailed on ine cotton exchange today regard.ng tae possibility of an early reopening. Lait of this was due to a report that both tile syndicate and torporaiion plans had been oversubscribed and that ar. announcement was only awaiting a few unimporcant details yet to be completed. It is e pe-ted the conference committee will soon take up with Liverpool che question of opening the two exchanges simultaneously. New England mills are said to be considering large orders for heavy drills but are unable to cover their sales with pur< hoses of cotton and are awaiting the opening of the exchanges in order to hedge their transactions. In the last few days limited purchases of cotton < lose to 7 cents delivered, have been made by these mills. ? Thu fntfnn situation arising from the European war is being rapidly cleared up. in the opinion of President Wilson. He told callers at the White House yesterday that the end of the war alone would restore normal conditions in the cotton industry, but that rapid progress was being made in the efforts to assist the cotton growers of the south. The president t-ased his optimism concerning the cotton situation on the plans for furnishing money to the cotton planters and on the opening of the foreign markets. He said there is every reason why all ports should be open to cotton and predicted that they would be. .vlr. Wilson declared that southern business men with whom he has talked, had not been deeply apprehensive over the cotton situation. He added that he had been confident all along that the question would work itself with the assistance of the administrative officers of the govern mom. ? An investigation undertaken by the Wall Street Journal into the hold-1 ings of American stocks in Europe discloses some interesting data. Returns to date have been received from 114 corporations, whose European holdings as of June 30, 1914, total $461,792,586 of a total outstanding stock of 5,046.604,083, an equivalent of 9.15 per cent. Foreign holdings of United States steel were $122 404,500 common, and $27,514,200 preferred. Of Pennsylvania $74,490,442 is held abroad and of Southern railway, $62,852,400. Other corporations whose stocks are held largely abroad are Kansas City Southern, American Smelters, New York Central, St. Paul, and American Telephone. Canadian Pacific is not included in this list since a majority of this stock is held abroad. Foreign holdings of bonds of our railroads are placed by this authority at about $3,400,000,000, or about one-third of all such bonds outstanding. ? The British admiralty has made public a statement setting forth that since the beginning of the war, German cruisers have sunk thirty-nine British ships, and British cruisers have sunk or captured 133 German ships. The British have over 4,000 ships engaged in commerce in various parts of the world, while German ships are gener"l'** in ar ntmrrnl any uii|^i touitcu in iiviiiv vi *ivm?. v.. ports. It Is estimated that there are now on the high seas eight or nine German cruisers, including the Emsden and the Karlsrhue, and that more than seventy British. French, Russian pnd Japanese ships are scouring the seas for them. The statement goes on to say that German commerce is virtually dead, while British commerce goes on with but little interruption, the Germans having sunk or captured less than one per cent of the ships. It stated also that if British ships would pay more attention to the advices sent out by the admirality, none of them would fall victims to the German ships. ? Senators from the cotton states on Saturday, asked Acting Secretary of State Lansing to obtain assurances from the belligerent nations of Europe that shipments of cotton from the L'nited States either to neutral or belligerent countries would not be detained or seized. Although cotton is neith er absolutely nor conditional contraband, there have been instances, it was said, in which cargoes destined for Holland have been detained. Cotton shippers have found it difficult to obtain insurance for their shipments. Informal negotiations looking to prevention of such occurrences and specific assurances on which marine insurance companies can safely issue policies, it is believed, now will be sought from the belligerent powers. There is an embargo on shipments of cotton from Holland, but so far as stale department officials know there is no restriction on its importation into any European country. Inasmuch as the mills in England and France are closed, a failmarket is understood to exist in Germany and it is to expedite and safeguard cotton trade to Germany that the efforts of the Washington government will be directed. ? Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, has announced that Germany would respect the Monroe Doctrine, whatever the outcome of the European war. A note to that effect has been presented to the state department by the ambassador. Th^ text of the communication was withheld by department officials, but Acting Secretary Lansing made this announcement: "The German ambassador on September 3, last, in a note to the department of state, stated he was instructed by his government to deny most emphatically rumors to the effect that Germany intends, in case she comes out victorious in the present war, to seek expansion in South America." Discussion of the ambassador's note was arouseu uy a puuiisueu siaieinem ui Doctor Dernburg, former colonial secretary of Germany, culling attention to the fact that his government had noticed the United States of the untruth of reports as to its intentions in South America. Doctor Dernburg and German officials here attributed these rumors to Germany's enemies in the present war. believing they were designed to intluence public opinion in the United States against Germany. ? After being in continuous session since the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, a period of nearly nineteen months, the Sixty-third congress adjourned its second session last Saturday, when prolonged efforts to procure cotton relief legislation finally collapsed. Leaders in this movement agreed to adjourn only on condition that pending cotton measures would have right of way when congress re-assembles December 7. Not more than fifty members of the house and less than a quorum of the senate were present when the gavels fell on adjournment without date. The end was accomplished through passage of a concurrent resolution ending the session at 4 p. m? but clocks were turned ahead in both chambers, actual adjournment in the house occurring at 3.22 and in the senate at 3.27. As the altered hands of the house clock drew near 4 and the senate was winding up legislative bus iness, Speaker Clark arose at his desk and facing the scattered attendance on the floor said: 'This is the longest and most laborious session that congress ever has known. I congratulate you most heartily on being able to adjourn at last. I wish to thank every member of the house?Democrat, Republican, Progressive and Independent?for uniform courtesy shown to the speaker. Now. in the language of 'Tiny Tim," 'God bless us everyone.' " The senate's adjournment probably was the most undemonstrative in its history. Democratic leaders and a few Republicans were sitting behind closed doors confirming nominations when word came that the house had passed the adjournment resolution. Majority Leader Kern at once moved to open the doors. When this was ordered the doorkeeper set the clock ahead and Senator Swanson of Virginia, presiding in the absence of the vice president and President Pro Tempore Clarke, announced that the senate was adjourned. The few remaining senators hurried from the chamber. In announcing abandonment of their filibuster for cotton legislation, after a conference with other southern senators and representatives. Senator Smith of Georgia, and Representative Henry of Texas, said it was apparent no quorum could be procured and further obstructive tactics might injure chances of ultimate success. Representative Henry predicted congress wotild be convened in ex traordinary session by the middle of November when tin- tight would be resumed. Senator Smith introduced a bill for a 8250,000,000 government bond ? issue to buy cotton and declared: "We , have done all we could for the suffering people of the south. We have had our day in court for this session and I 1 would have no excuse for further filibustering at this time. I shall feel I have done my duty by simply voting against the adjournment resolution." ' The house adopted a resolution authorizing the appointment of a committee to investigate cotton conditions in the south and report possible measures for Federal aid by December 15. On the committee were Representatives Mann, Austin, Henry, Dever, Hefiin, Bell of Georgia and Langley. <5he \lorhrillr (Enquirer. Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVIIXE. S. C.j TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1914 It is stated that since the British government has made known its attitude toward the status of cotton and : declared its policy of non-interference with shipments of the staple, the Germans have placed orders in America for several hundred thousand dollars worth to be shipped at once. The adjournment of the extra session of the legislature following the adjournment of congress last Saturday will probably help things. Next Tuesday's election of course, will hurt nothing in so far as the south is concerned, although there is no telling what it might do in the way of changing rhe romulexion of congress. The matter of dividing; the South ! Carolina Conference is to be one of the principal questions to be settled at the annual conference to be held at Sum- 1 ter, beginning November 25. Quite 1 a number of plans of division have been agreed upon, most of them fol- ' lowing natural or reasonably permanent artificial boundaries from the ! North Carolina line to a point at or ' near Savannah, Ga. It is reasonably certain that there ' will be more wheat and oats, especially oats, sown in York county than has ' ever before been known. Already thou- ( sands of acres of oats have been sown, t and there is much more sowing to be ' done. Of course there are those who , look forward to plenty of cotton next .< year as usual; but most people seem to realize that there is no reasonable probability of a fair price for cotton, even though only half a crop be raised, I and there will be a heavy reduction, 1 regardless of any restrictive laws that Ka no ccoH ma > uc puwww.. Except for the fact that the same catastrophe which destroyed the demand for American cotton, trebled the demand for western beef and wheat, and northern steel, ammunition and the , like, thus continuing the balance of I trade in favor of the United States, we I have an idea that congress would have been glad to do something to valorize the cotton crop. It is very well understood that the destruction of the trade 1 balance that has been in favor of America for so many years, would depreciate American values generally, 1 and rather than have the value of their property depreciated, the representatives in congress from the north and east would be willing to stand for almost any kind of a financial experiment. Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign minister, has assured the United States that England will not interfere with American cotton shipments as "contraband" of war. The assurance is supposed to have come in anticipation of a request from southern senators to the state department that belligerents be requested not to interfere with cotton shipments. It is supposed that the British assurance means that cotton may be shipped direct to Germany, even, and if so the matter is of very great importance, as with the French and English mills shut down, Germany is now about the only manufacturing country in which there is any considerable demand for cotton. But the news that England is going to allow cotton to go to Germany is almost too good to believe until there is further confirmation. ? "I am tired of war news and I woul rather read something else," said a good friend of The Enquirer to the edi| tor. a few days since. "And I agree " -?i.l "I Willi )UU, oaiu uir ruivwi. * > ??.? rather read anything I know of than war news; but I do not see how I cun h? lp you. The trouble is not with the newspaper. It is with the war. And after all it is with the war rather than with the war news that our grievance rests. If there was no war, there would be no war news, and so long as there is a war, war news must have the right of way. "Cut it out,' you say? How? There would be nothing else to talk about. The war is affecting you materially, financially, intellectually, and even morally and spiritually. ! Why, the very preachers in the pulpits are unable to refrain from drawing il- . lustrations and preparing lessons from ihe war. And this is natural and proper. They cannot afford to refrain from that which is dominating the concern of the people, and they cannot stop the war. We cannot. We can only go on giving you news and information about it as best we can, and you can only go on reading everything you see. Tired of it? Why certainly you are; but i don't you see that you can't help yourThi? t'.iinir <in rieht now the most momentous and widespread event in the history of the world. You can no more stop it or influence it than a eather can check the progress of a cyclone; but still you have your part to play with reference to yourself and other people the same as if there was no war. and you have got to keep up with what is going on in order that you may the better know how to manage that part with which you are responsible?your own affairs." The Proposed Bond Issue. .'s to whether the general assembly is going to submit to the people the question of issuing $25.0110 000 of boi ds to be used in trying to help the critical financial situation that has been brought about in the failure of the Huropean market for the cot on crop we do not know; but in view of the shortness of the time the people 1 will have to make up their minds in the event the question is submitted, , we will make a few remarks that may ar may not be of value to some of our readers. In the first place, it will have to be admitted that such a proposition Involves so many possibilities and contingencies, that it is impossible to cover them all in a single editorial, or in a whole newspaper for that matter. There are chances of benefit and hanqes of lois, for that matter. There are those, who say that the bonds, if issued, will sell for 50 cents on the dollar, and while we do not believe anything of the kind, it is (juite certain that whatever amount they should sell for under par. will have to be made up by taxation, for regardless of the selling price, the settling price will be par. There are those who argue that the bonds cannot be sold for the reason that the money is not available; but we are not impressed with that argu ment for the reason that most of the people who use it are people who with the next breath will tell you that there is no limit to the amount of money available; but the trouble is in having something to get it with. Ordinarily there is no better security than bonds. That the bonds will furnish unllm- i ited invitation to speculation, there is no question, but we are inclined to think that eventually at least that speculation will tend as much to hold the bonds at par as below par. We do not believe that the idea of buying cotton at more than the market price in attempt at validation is sound; but we do believe that if the bond idea is good at all, the loan of the bonds on cotton at any price below its real value will do the producer more good, and the cause more good, than to lend the bonds at more than the vlaue of the security. We are unable to see In the proposition what Is called class legislation, for the reason that we do not know any class in South Carolina that is likely to derive more benefit from such a loan than any other class, unless it be the class that has money to lend and which may later on be able to buy the bonds at long margin of profit. We believe that every cotton producer who borrows these bonds for i he purpose of paying debts, will be able to exchange the bonds for his debts at least at par, and we do not feel that anybody who is free from debt is going to try to exchange his cotton for bonds at all. We do not care to be understood us advocating this proposed bond issue, nor do we care to be understood as apposing it. Our convictions are not strong enough to give us assurance either way. The only thing we feel reasonably certain about is that if the bond issue is voted and it does the state good, ive will share in that good, and if it Joes the state harm, we will have to i r nnr tirnrinrtlon of the burden. M) whatever the voters do in the premises, their action will have our approval. THE PROPOSED BOND ISSUE Mr. John G. Anderson Thinks It Necessary and Proper. Mr. John G. Anderson of Rock Hill, thinks not only that the proposed bond issue, now under consideration at the extra session of the legislature Is necessary and proper; but that if it j goes through the bonds can be marketed at par. In a letter to the Columbia State, he gives his views as ( follows: k is said the state bonds, the issuance of which you are at present con sideling, can not be sold for anything like par. This is correct only in so far as the iiuestion of selling them means the marketing of the issue in the ordinary way?that is, through brokers in New i'ork or elsewhere, for cash. They can, however, be absorbed by our people; and, if they are issued, they will undoubtedly be absorbed by .hem at par. There is not a merchant in South Carolina who will not gladly accept ihem in payment of debts due him by the farmer at 100 cents on the dollar. There is due my company by high class, well rated firms in this state approximately $50,000. These merchants are perfectly good. They have plenty of property behind their debts, but they can not pay us at this time because they can not collect from the farmer. If the farmer can get bonds for his cotton he can pay the merchant with them and the merchant an pay us. My company will gladly accept these bonds at par for every dollar that is due it. I am satisfied that every other manufacturer. every fertilizer company a.id every merchant will be glad to do ihe same thing. It is nonsense to say that they will not do it. The merchant can use the bonds in the bank to pay what he owes, and tl.t lank in its turn can uee them wiih the regional reserve bank and with their New York correspondents without the slightest trouble. If this bond bill is properly safeguarded I can't see where the state will run the slightest risk in exchanging bonds for cotton, basis middling at from 8 to 9 cents per pound, as that is what it means. The cotton an be held until the price advances, and the price will certainly advance .vithin a year or two. Even if it does , not advance anu ine cotton nus hi ue ?old :it a loss, it will not hurt the individual taxpayer appreciably. On the other hand the good to everybody at a time when help is badly needed will more than offset a small loss, even if it is sustained, two years lien >. If the general assembly will pass .li s bill, and the cotton acreage reduction bill, other states will follow, ami we will have fairly good times. If nothing is done, hard times and bankrupt'y will surely follow. I congratulate the senate on having the courage of Its convictions. I believe the house of representatives is going to concur, and the people can be depended upon to vote for the measure. It is the only thing that can save the situation; and as I see it. the state is running practically no risk and while the bonds cannot be sold through the ordinary channels at par. yet they can and will be absorbed by the people as outlined above, and tinresults will be the same. J. (J. Anderson, President Hock Hill Huggy Co., Hock Hill. The McLaurin Warehouse Bill.?After debating the McLaurin warehousebill for several hours on Friday, the J house, by a vote of 42 to 41, refused to order it to a third reading. After this (hum wnn .-i motion to kill the! bill by putting on the parliamentary ' clincher. This the house refused to do. until the bond issue matter had been disposed of. The vote on the question of passing the warehouse bill to a third reading was as follows: Aye (for the senate bill). Nay (to kill the bill). Ayes?Addy. Atkinson. Baskin. Bel- ' ser, Bethea. Blackwell, Burgess. Daniel, Dantzler. Kpps. Kvans, Friday, Fripp, (Jray, Haile, Hardin, Harper, James, Kellehan, Lee, Liles, Lumpkin, Lybrand, McCravey, McDonald. Malpass, ( i Martin, Miller. Mixson, Moseley, Pate,L. M. Rogers. Sapp, Shirley, Sturkie, j Summers, Todd, Warner, White, Whitehead. Zeigler?41. Nays?Smith, Speaker; Bolt, Rowers, i Clement Creech, Cross, Goodwin,! i Greer. Hall. Haynsworth, Hlott, Hoi-1 ley, Hunter. Hutson. Johnston. Kelly. | ] Kibler, Kirk, Long. McMaster. McMIl- | Ian, Means, Miley, Moore, Mower, Mur-; j ray. Nelson. Nicholson, Pyatt, Riddle,! Robinson, Walter M. Scott, W. W. I , Scott, Senseney, Sherwood, Stanley,! Strickland, Thompson, Yander Horst," Welch. C. T. Wyche?42. 1 ; Pairs Barnwell and Jones; < >dom 1 imd M. J. Ashley; Smiley and Brice; Irby and Boyd. < LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS City Market?Will pay 25 cents a dozen for all fresh eggs offered. Bank of Hickory Grove?Publishes its statement of condition at the close of business October 21st. Has assets of Sxl.855.23. Mrs. E. W. Pressly, Pres.?Invites the public to a floral fair at Clover opera house under auspices of Clover Betterment association, Thursday. it. J. Erown. Yorkville 1 ? Wants information about a watch fob and a signet ring, stolen last Sunday. Will pay for recovery. T M stroim?(iffers 5 lbs. Arbuekle's coffee for $1, and 6 lbs. best barrel coffee for $1, cash. Thomson Co.?Says it offers lowest prices and best qualities on ladies' suits coats, dress goods, silks, and men's clothing, furnishings, shoes. First National Bank, Yorkville?Emphasizes the advantages that come to the man who has an account with it, and asks for your business. A. M. McGlll, No. 1. Yorkville?Tells about the specials that are offered for Saturday, the closing day of his big fall sale. Standard Oil Co.?On page four, gives gives reasons why you can use Perfection blue flame oil stoves to advantage. Yorkville Motor Car Co.?Is always on the job of trying to serve you in every way that you need service. Michelin tires are better. Carroll Eros.?S-uggest that you see them for woven fence wire for all kinds of pasture. See them for seed oats. J. J. Keller & Co.?Are ready to serve you with building supplies?lumber and lumber products, hardware, etc., and also do your work. Fall term of the court of general sessions for York county will convene in Yorkville, on Monday, Nov. 23. Special Judge C. M. Eflrd of Lexington will preside. The Enquirer's annual club contest will commence next Monday, November 2, and all new subscribers returned between that date and January 1, will receive the paper from the date the subscription is entered until January 1, 1916, for the price of a year's subscription, $1.75. In preparing the notice of the election for state and county officers, the secretary of state by oversight, left out one of the proposed constitutional amendments?the one described in No. 243, of t.;e Acts and Joint Resolutions of 1913, intended to "Empower the Cities of Sumter and Darlington and fnumu r\f RoU/tn n nrl Wnlhnlln In assess abutting property for permanent improvements." This oversight has been caught up with and the joint resolution will be found to have been incorporated in the advertisement. We do not know of another South Carolina newspaper that gives as complete and comprehensive a budget of the news of the world, the state and the county during the week as does The Yorkville Enquirer. The reader of The Enquirer is able to keep pretty well informed about very nearly everything that is going on. There is no single daily paper in the state that contains anything like all the items within a week that are dealt with by The Enquirer, and there is no paper in any of the counties that even tries to cover so much ground. The reason of all this is simply because there is more hard work, editorial and mechanical on i ne r,nquirer man on any oiner paper of its class in the entire country, and it gives the reader so much more for the price of subscription. It would be an easy matter to publish at much less cost a newspaper giving perhaps twice as much matter as The Enquirer; but the publishers of this paper have always believed and still believe that quality counts for more than quantity. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The Winnie Davis Chapter U. D. C. Is devoting its energies to preparations for the annual state convention which is to be held in Yorkville, on December 1-4, and as one of the attractions has secured the acceptance of Dr. Howard Lee Jones, president of Coker College, to deliver the historical address of the occasion. Dr. Jones is one of the foremost authorities of the south on the subject of southern history, and more particularly as the record bears upon the organization of the Southern Confederacy and the great Civil war. Along with it also he is a lecturer of unusual magnitism and splendid oratorical power. While the Winnie Davis chapter is fully confident of its ability to entertain all visitors, it will be their policy to grant the applications of Yorkville people who are not members of the chapter and who may desire to entertain such relatives and friends as happen to be among the delegates. Mrs. S. C. Ashe is chairman of the committee on hospitality, and will take such requests in hand. ABOUT PEOPLE Miss Rosa Steele of Yorkville, is visiting relatives in Mayesville, S. C. Mrs. L. B. White of Yorkville, made a business trip to Rock Hill, last Saturday. Mrs. J. E. Johnson of Yorkville, UOVaMl 1.1 I V I' this week. Mrs. W. W. Ratchford of Waxhaw, N. C., is visiting relatives and friends at Bullock's Creek. Mrs. Laura Allison of Hickory Grove visited relatives in Rock Hill, this week. Mr. Frank Putnam of Yorkville, visited friends in Camden, Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Paul G. McCorkle of Yorkville, spent several days last week with friends in Lancaster. Mr. Harris Boyd of Yorkville, is able to be out again after a severe illness with typhoid fever. Miss Claire Crosby of Spartanburg, visited her mother Mrs. M. B. Crosby, in Yorkville, this week. Miss Margaret Daniel of Washington, D. C., is the guest of Mrs. W. B. Moore, in Yorkville. Miss Fannie Strauss of Staunton, Va., visited Mr. and Mrs. O. H. O'Leary in Yorkville. this week. Mr. and Mrs. James Houston of Yorkville, are visiting Dr. and Mrs. C. F. Williams, in Columbia. Chester Reporter: Mrs. J. C. Blair of Sharon, is visiting the family of Mr. W. Y. White, on Saluda street. Mrs. John C. Dickson and son, Henry, of Yorkville, No. 1, are visiting relatives and friends in Columbia. Miss Mary Brian of Yorkville, left yesterday for Silver, Sumter county, where she will teach school this fall. Rev. E. E. Gillespie of Yorkville left yesterday for McBee, S. C., where he I will conduct a series of services this week. .Mrs. Mattie Carroll of Winnsboro, passed through Yorkville, Sunday, on her way to AlcConnellsville, to visit relatives. Miss Addie Matthews who is con- ( nected with Steadly's Hospital. Spartanburg. spent last week at her home , i n Clover. i Mr. \V. T. Slaughter, Dr. Taylor and Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Moorehead of Hickory Grove, are spending the week in ' Columbia. Mrs. W. C. Latimer of Yorkville, left Friday night, to visit her daughter, Mrs. Christopher Atkinson in Columbia. Mr. Luther Davidson, formerly of \'orkville. but for several years past a iti/.en of Rock Hill, has taken a po- , etion with Final's department store 11 that city. Palmetto Chapter 1*. D. C? of Anlerson, last Friday, named Miss Eu- < bunk Taylor and Mrs. William Muldrow as delegates to the state conven- < tion In Yorkville, Dec. 1-4, with Miss Kathleen Morryce and Mrs. Edward Marshall as alternates. Miss Maggie Moore returned to Yorkville, Saturday, after spending several weeks in Washington, Baltimore and other cities. Mrs. Ada Thomasson and daughter, Miss Harriet, returned to Yorkville, yesterday morning, after several days' visit to relatives in Charlotte. Mr. R. J. Scoggins, superintendent of the county chaingang now working ir Bethel township, spent Saturday and Sunday with his family in Hickory Grove. Messrs. W. B. Moore of Yorkville, R. R. Allison of Tirzah and J. B. Scott, of Yorkville No. 3, served as jurors in United States district court at Greenville, last week. Mr. J. M. Schorb of Rocky Mount, N. C., and his mother, Mrs. G. T. senoro oi I'ort uawn, s. u., are spending several days with friends in Yorkviile. Mr. and Mrs. Gray Moore returned to their home at Rocky Mount, N. C? today after spending several days with relatives and friends in Yorkville and vicinity. Mr. Geo. H. O'Leary of Yorkville, was painfully hurt last Friday evening when he fell from a ladder leading to the loft of his barn. He Is confined to his bed but is doing as well as could be expected. Miss Margaret DuPre and Master John DuPre of Yorkville, left Saturday, to visit relatives in Spartanburg. Mrs. DuPre and Miss Anna will join them in a few days and from there they will go to Texas, where they will make their future home. The King's Mountain chapter D. A. R., has elected the following delegates to the state convention, which meets in Rock Hill, November 17-19: Misses Maggie Gist and Rose Lindsay, Mesdames R. M. Bratton and O. E. Wilkins. The chapter has elected Mesdames W. H. Fowler, R. C. Allien. Geo. H. O'Leary, Geo. G. Eaves and Miss Fannie Wardlaw as alternates. Mr. and Mrs. William Carroll Cobb have sent out invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Miss Lila Perrin, to Mr. J. Eugene Elliott, the ceremony to take place In Smith Methodist church, Ware Shoals, S. C., tomorrow evening. Mr. Elliott is a son of Mr. J. Cope Elliott now of Lancaster, but formerly of Yorkville, and has many friends and acquaintances in this place. Rev. F. Ray Riddle, pastor of Allison Creek. Beersheba and Beth-Shiloh churches, left this morning for Mayesville, S. C.. where he will be married tomorrow to Miss Fannie Chandler of that place. The bride's brother. Rev. William Chandler, will perform the ceremony. Prof. B. C. and Miss Margaret Riddle, brother and sister of the prospective bridegroom. will leave this afternoon for Mayesville. to attend the ceremony. Edgefield Advertiser: On Tuesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. J. L. Mims, the monthly meeting of the U. D. C. was held, Mrs. J. H. Nicholson presiding. A large number of the membership were in attendance. Business was attended to among other things the election of delegates to the state convention at Yorkville, and the general convention in Savannah, the latter taking place early in November. For the Savannah convention, Mrs. J. S. Byrd and Miss Sallie Parker were chosen, and Miss Mamie Lake was selected as historian of the chapter, to attend the Yorkville meeting. LOCAL LACONIC8 Testing Cotton Picker. A number of gentlemen Interested In Mr. J. Brown Neil's cotton picking machine went to Filbert this morning to witness a trial of the invention. The machine is undergoing a rigid examination, and is being tested in various cotton fields around Filbert. Has Taken An Appeal. J. W. Varnadore, charged with issuing worthless checks, who was brought to Yorkville from Greenville, was convicted before Magistrate Crawford of Bethesda, last week, and sentenced to serve thirty days on the public works. Varnadore took an appeal and is now in the county jail awaiting developments. Former York Teacher Married. Mr. Barron DeKalb Refo, Jr., of Chester, was married in Manning, S. C.. last Tuesday, to Miss Mary Adams Bradham, of that place, Rev. G. P. Watson performing the ceremony. Mr. Refo has many friends in the eastern section of York county, he having formerly been principal of the school at Catawba Junction. Received Call to Belton. Rev. S. P. Hair, pastor of Fort Mill and Flint Hill Baptist churches, has been extended a call to the Baptist church at Belton, S. C. Rev. Mr. Hair * a? _ c it.. ?* vi 111 nas oeen pasior ui me run win churches for the past five years, and b considered one of the strongest and most forceful preachers In the county. Mr. Hair has the call under consideration. To Serve as Registrars. The nine magistrates in York county have received letters from the state board of health asking them to act as registrars for their respective jurisdictions under the provisions of the vital statistics act, passed by the last regular session of the general assembly and recently signed by Governor Blease. The act will probably be put into effect not only in York county but throughout the state in a short while. Clover Pastor Marries. Hev. A. A. McLean, pastor of Clover Presbyterian church, was married last Thursday, at the home of the bride, to Miss Hallie Hall, of Lonewolf. Oklahoma. Thp wedding was a <iuiet affair, no cards being issued. Since commencing work as pastor of the Clover church, Rev. McLean has made many friends and acquaintances in this county, the best wishes of all of whom go out to him upon the occasion of his marriage. To Play at the Fair. i The Hickory Grove cornet band, 1 ' ' * nn/t/l li .1 I it Vl V/?fb _ Hiui icni midlife, passcu niidufeii * v?* rv ville last evening eti route to the state fair at Columbia, where they have an engagement during the week. The Hickory Grove band which was trained under direction of l'rof. R. J. Herndon of Yorkville and Mr. Mason Wllkerson of Hickory Grove, is considered one of the finest musical organizations 1 in the state, and its services are near- j ly always in demand. Rapidly Nearing Completion. i Bethany's handsome new church I will be completed shortly. The work of putting in window panes and other furnishings will be begun in a few days. The building committee has not yet let the contract for the seats. A 1 member of that committee who was in Yorkville, yesterday, said the contract would probably be let in a week or ten days, and that within a month the congregation would very likely be worshiping in the new edifice. 1 "Public Health Day." York county public schools have been asked to co-operate with other schools throughout the state in observing Wednesday, Nov. 18, as "Pub- : lie Health Day." It is planned to give i instruction on that day with regard to sanitation, the conservation of public health and the prevention and cure of i diseases. The state board of health working in co-operation with the wo- ; men's clubs of the state, have sent out , instructions as to the proper methods l to be used to all the public schools. i Professor Carberry to Leave County. Prof. Jas. L. Carberry, who for ; some time past has held the position , >f government agent in charge of the mill village improvement work, has tender* d his resignation and will leave the county about December 1. for 1 Peuufoit. where he has accepted a ' position ns f irm demonstrator. Prof. ' fathcriy is well known in York conn- 1 iy, prat tienlly every section of which ' lie has visited. His successor in the j mill improvement work has not been i named. < York Corn Club Boys' Exhibits. , County Agent John R. Blair of the i Kami Demonstration work spent part < of last week in Columbia, arranging ' | the York county exhibit at the state : fair which is in progress this week.! i The York County Corn Club hoys have t done well this year and have a line ex- t hibit of their products at the fair. One ] of the interesting exhibits at the show this year is a booth in which is shown an eai of corn from the crop of each of the 1,700 boys in the state who are members of the Boys' Corn Clubs. Practically all of the York members have submitted ears of corn from their respective crops, and they will no doubt show up well. A number of the Corn Club boys from York are attending the fair. Popular Winthrop Girl Marries. Miss Marjorie Barr, a member of the senior clas^ of Winthrop college, editor of the Winthrop College Journal, and one of the most popular girls who ever attended the college, was married in Columbia on Sunday, 17th, to Mr. William L. Osteen of Greenville, a former student at Davidson, but who for several months past has been in a business school. By the Pnnl/l nftnaiimmnfoH n vvnrlf hp hart begun when the bride and groom were students in the graded school in Greenville. Mr. Osteen attended a function at the college last Firday week, and it was then that he and his bride decided to wait no longer. Miss Barr secured permission to spend the week-end in Columbia. Before leaving the college, she left a note for her room-mate saying she had gone to get married. Miss Barr being universally popular, the word rapidly spread, although few of her many friends believed the report until notice of the marriage appeared in the daily papers. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. H. Thacker, an uncle of the groom. Last week Mrs. Ostend wired to Winthrop to send her trunk to Orlando. Fla., where the young couple are spending some time. The romantic marriage of the popular Winthrop student is without precedent in the history of the college. THE WAR IN EUROPE News Paragraphs Telling of Happenings at the Front. A Bombay cable of October 23, says that the German cruiser Emsden, whitu has destroyed so many merchant vessels has been "accounted for." It is not stated whether the cruiser has been captured or sunk or only located, and there is nothing in the dispatch either fr? irivp linnitivf- nssiirnnrp that anything has happened to the Emsden. A cable trom Teneriffe, Canary islands, dated October 23, reports that the Karlsruhe, the other German cruiser that has given so much trouble, has sunk twelve British merchantmen engaged in the South American trade. The names of these steamers are: Strathroy, Maple Branch, Highland Hope, Indrani, Rio lguassu, Earn, Niceto de Larrinaga, Cervantes, Cornish City, Pruth, Condor and Lynrowan, and the Dutch steamer Maria. The Maria, when sunk, was bound from Belfast from Portland, Ore., with wheat. The Crefleld was accompanied into port by the German steamers Patagonia, Rio Negro and Asuncion. The Karlsruhe is the vessel that appeared off New York harbor at the beginning of the war, and scared the British shipping that was ready to go out. Afterward she had a sensational running light with the British cruisers Suffolk and Bristol, and got away but inflicted some damage before she got away. Tot British cruisers had come upon the Karlsruhe unexpectedly while she was coaling from the Kronprlnz Wilhelm. The Komprinz made an easy escape because of her superior speed. Altogether the Karlruhe is said to have sunk nineteen British merchantmen. It is reported that Gen. von Folkenhayn. the Prussian minister of war is to succeed Gen. von Moltke as chief of the German staff. Mme. Thebes, a noted French "prophetess," is quoted as follows: "I said, and I say again, that France will issue from this trial more powerful than ever before. We are still, up to March 20, 1915, under the double terrible influence of Mars and Saturn. Consequently the war will be a long and bitter contest, bloody to the very end, but final victory, crushing and thunderous, is to crown our efforts, lor destiny is favorable to us." The czarina of Russia and her daughters, are working as Sisters of Mercy among the Russian wounded. In response to an appeal from Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia, two "tobacco days" were observed in Russia, last week. About 250,000 pounds of tobacco were contributed for the men at the front. A Petrograd dispatch says when German troops enter a town in Russ Poland, an officer asks to be directed to the house of a non-Polish resident whose name he gives. In this house is invariably found a telephone and cellar stocked with provisions, benzint etc. Czar Nicholas of Russia, has issued orders calling out students of universities and high schools ordinarily exempt from military service. The order is said to have caused great enthusiasm among the populace. French boys approaching 18, who urs.iiM Ko s>ull?>r1 tr* tho nnlnra in lQlfi have been ordered to report for preliminary training to provide an additional 300,000 men. Turkey has again sent assurances of her neutrality to Great Britain, hrnne< and Russia. She continues her military activities, however, and is collecting transport animals, which it is said are destined for the European frontier. It is said that the presence of strong Russian bodies on the Turkish frontier has prevented Turkej from joining with Germany. To add to the trials of the troops engaged in the desperate struggle in West Flanders the past week, a short spell of tine weather has given place to another downpour of rain which will convert the lowlands of Flanders into great lakes. Major General Pochsammer of the British army was killed October 4. while leading his troops in the forest of Argonne. According to a Berlin report of Sunday, on Oct. 21, the number of Allies held in German camps was 5,401 officers and 201,468 men, including six French, thirteen Russian and three | Belgian generals. The dispatch says | more prisoners are on the way from the front. General Sir Charles Douglass, chief ! of staff of the British army and first military member of the army, died . i.ondon. Sunday. The Germans at Labasse are making , desperate efforts to shake themselves , loose from the close grip or ine Ames, ( who menace their line of communications with Armentieres. Both armies ] have received reinforcements, but the Allied lines Sunday withstood formidable shocks and delivered severe , counter attacks, says a dispatch of ] yesterday. The Japanese embassy at Rome has ' announced that 68 Japanese detained. J in Germany have been released through the intervention of the American ambassador at Berlin. The king of Saxony has bestowed upon Emperor William the Ritter Cross and the Grand Cross of the Military Order of St. Heinrich. Emperor ' William has bestowed on the king the Order of the Iron Cross. 1 It is said that on account of their long services in the trenches, many of the Belgian soldiers have rheuma- I tism. King Albert of Belgium, in spite of i the fact that his troops have suffered I reverses of late, continues to be the idol of the Belgian people. Although there is a marked difference between the Flemish and other Belgians, and i the Flanders people do not speak ' French, all now seem to be acting as < one. i Reports from Austria say the coal : situation in that country is becoming I alarming. Reserve stocks of coal have been used up and dealers are scarcely j able to meet the daily demands of j their customers. , A correspondent says the French . government is "considering" a return ( to Paris. 1 ? London has produced the meanest ;rowd of swindlers on record, since the : English troops got into the lighting line in France. Every day. says a recent letter, the London papers are fill ?d with appeals from the wives, mothers and sisters of missing officers, seeking information as to their fate. HunIreds of officers are not accounted for ivho are not known to be dead. Swlnllers have taken advantage of the wouen distracted by failure to get news if their relatives and are constantly ireying on them. The mother of a i'oung officer who has not heard from lim since the battle of Mons was recently approached by a swindler who j epresented himself as a valet and said i he had seen the missing officer in Brussels and expected to return there the next day. The swindler was short of cash through the failure to get a remittance and asked for money, which he would promptly return upon his arrival at Brussels. The money was supplied and letters to the missing son were entrusted to the sympathetic courier who never was heard of again. These men have even represented thai they saw wounded officers in certain hospitals near the fighting zone and have delivered fictitious requests for funds to supply delicacies to the injured. > # SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The town of Aiken it to have street letter boxes. ? Saturday was "pouring out day" at the Greenville police station, more than 76 gallons of whisky, two barrels of bottled beer and two kegs of the same fluid being dumped into one of the city sewers. ? The safe in the postofflce at Peak, S. C., was blown open early Friday morning anu *-iio.bo worcn 01 stamps and some registered mail was secured. Postofflce inspectors have secured no clue as to the robbers. ? "The Washingtonlan," a freight vessel, the first steamer to enter Charleston by way of the Panama canal, docked at the Charleston wharf, yesterday afternoon. The whole waterfront of the city was in gala attire in honor of the event. ? A Spartanburg dispatch says the Rev. A. D. Betts of Conway, will ask the South Carolina conference, when it meets in Sumter, Nov. 25, to appoint him publisher and editor of the Southern Christian Advocate to succeed Rev. S. A. Nettles who will sever his connection with the publication Jan. 1. ? James H. Fowler, magistrate of Columbia, suspended by Governor Please last April for alleged "misconduct in office," was re-instated by ihe senate in executive session, last Thursday night. Magistrate Fowler was re-nominated in the August primaries. ? Mrs. Alice Case of Spartanburg, has filed suit against the Southern railway for $60,000 damages, which she alleged she sustained in the death of her husband, G. E. Case. Case, who was a piano tuner, was killed by Southern train No. 11, several months ago. when an automobile in which he was riding was struck. ? Three ladies of Columbia, Mrs. Thelma Bowman, Mrs. L. E. Harris and Miss Miriam Smith, were on Saturday sworn in as members of the Columbia police force. Mesdames Harris and Bowman will serve only during the state fair; Miss Smith who is secretary of associated charities in Columbia, will remain a policewoman permanently and will be known as '? ifticer 35." ? South Carolina bee-keepers have just completed gathering the 1914 crop estimates of the United States department of agriculture, the yield per colony of bees was 25 pounds. In 1913, the production per hive was also 25 pounds. The last census fl cr 11 i<au r\t tho l.oo n nH hnnav Inilnutrv of this state relate to 1910. That year there were 12,528 farms in south Carolina that kept bees and the total number of colonies was 75,422. ? The house on yesterday passed to a third reading. Senator Clifton's bill providing for the use of only three boxes in the general election. It is not certain, of course, that the bill will get through, but the probability is that it will. The only benefit now. however, will be to save the election managers the trouble of lugging out nd taking back a wagon load of ballot boxes. Practically all of the expense of the many box system h s already been incurred. An amenument offered by Mr. Stevenson, doing away with the necessity of printing new tickets, was adopted. ? N. F. Walker, superintendent of the school for the deaf and the blind at Cedar Springs, has issued a circular letter to the voters of the state in regard to two amendments to be voted upon at the coming general election. It is stated that if the two proposed amendments are approved by the people of the state, the school for the deaf and the blind will no longer be classed with the penal and charitable Institutions, but with the educational department of the state. One amendment is necessary to take the school from the penal and charitable section, it is declared, while the second is necessary to place the school under the educational section. ? Judson Brooks, a 19-year-old boy of Greenville, was shot and mortally wounded early Sunday morning by Reuben Oosnell, chief of rural police of Greenville county. Young Brooks was resisting arrest and had slashed the chief with a knife. Gosnell struck Brooks with his pistol but the blow did not quiet him. A second blow on Brooks' head resulted in the alleged accidental discharge of Gosnell's pistol, the 38-calibre bullet entering Brooks' brain. Gosnell surrendered and Is now in jail. He is considered one of the best police officers in the state and numerous citizens have offered to go on his bond. ? Governor Please on yesterday sent the general assembly a message in which he said he regarded the proposed bond issue as a Joke and in which he expressed the opinion that the time is now too short for a proper presentation of the matter to the people before the general election. He advised the legislators to <|Uit playing politics and get down to work for the people. He repeated his recommendation to prevent foreclosures previous to October 15. 1915. and advised the extension of the time for the nayment of taxes, recommended that the incoming administration be given power to borrow money with which to run the government, and proposed the reduction or tne legal rate or interest to six per cent. ? Will Hughes, a white man. serving a life imprisonment sentence on Lhe Spartanburg county chalngang. yesterday afternoon killed Robert Stephens, the guard in charge of the s;ang in which he was a prisoner, with a pick, robbed Stephens of his two pistols and $40 in cash compelled a fellow prisoner at the point of a gun to break the chains that bound his legs, then exchanged clothes with another man and made his escape. The murder occurred near the Arkwright mill, on the outskirts of Spartanburg, and was committed in sight of about forty other prisoners, all of whom seemed to he panic stricken. Stephens died a few hours after he was struck. Hughes Is the son of a farmer living near Reidsville. in Spartanburg county. Officers have been vent to every section of the county, heavily armed and expect trouble if Hughes s overtaken. ? Anderson, October 22: "We are running on full time and on several nights of the week we are running until 1) o'clock in order to fill our orders. We would run night and day if we had the help needed. We haven't got the homes to accommodate that much help," declared Mr. itobt. E. Ligon. manager of the Equinox mill. "The owners in Boston state that they could sell the output of the Equinox five times over?the demand is so great for duck," continued Mr. Ligon. "Hn account of the war, the lemand for all kinds of duck is brisk. There is a mill in LaGrange, Ga.. which manufactures shoe duck. That mill is getting all the business it can j ittend to. A three years' supply has 1 been bought up. The European ountries are using all kinds of duck 1 n manufacturing tents, leggings, uni- i forms etc. Practically all of the ' nit put of the Equinox mills has been hipped to New York and Boston for \ export to England. Our orders have < ? .. - 1 \\T? ohtntiacl Ir upon i\,ngnsn nmers. *?* nnip stuff to points In Canada which 1 s the same thing as to England. In 1 iddition to this, we have shipped t 'nmc to the navy of the United States. The host part of t.'ie whole proposi- ] ion is that the demand for our goods t s so large that the countries are i tlad to get the goods at almost any lirice asked. We would gladly run t light and day if we could. We only i vish t'nit all our machinery was in c tinning order. We are still installng machinery and I can't tell how t line it will be before all of it is run- 1 i-'T 1 impose we received two or ! hree telegrams every day about t laeing orders for our goods. We ; just naturally can't supply the denand. That is nil there is to it." i PROGRESS OF THE WAR Fearful Carnage in Fight for Possession of Channel Coast. The battle for the straits of Dover, one of the most sanguinary of the war, is continuing with unabated fury, but thus far without either side gaining decided advantage. The Germans, who at terrible cost in life, last Saturday, crossed the Yeser canal between Nieuport and ^ Dixmude, have not been able to make further progress as the allies, according to a report of German general headquarters issued yesterday morning, are obstinately defending their positions. It is the same farther ^ south, around Armentleres, Lille, Labasse and Arras. The opposing armies are delivering fierce attacks, gaining or losing a few miles or less of ground with sacrifice in life that is appalling. The whole countryside is fairly reeking with the blood of thousands of killed or wounded. In the towns and villages, with which the country is dotted and most of which have been laid in ruins by the artillery, most desperate lighting has occurred when the cavalry and infantry came into contact. Both sides speak of heavy losses they have imposed on their adversaries, but say nothing of their own dead or wound- f ed, whose places are being filled with reinforcements. The British fleet which did such execution in bombarding the German flank, seems to have withdrawn on Sunday afternoon. The Germans say this was because their artillery was beginning to reach the ships. The belief is expressed, however, that the fleet will be able to render untenable German occupation of any part of the ? Belgian or French coast. The opinion w also is expressed that the operations of the allied vessels off the Belgian coast and in the vicinity of the straits of Dover may cause the German fleet to come out and give battle. In naval circles it is considered that v the German submarines, although w they have proved deadly to ships steaming slowlv. will not be so ef fectlve against ships steaming and maneuvering at high speed and in shallow water, as the British monitors and their auxiliaries have been doing. There is some talk of the Germans bringing their big 42-centimeter guns to the coast to use againBt the allies warships, but the British sailors are yf credited with saying that their vessels can prevent these guns being put in position. They claim that even if they should be mounted they will not be so deadly against a fast moving target as against the stationary forts ^ they destroyed so easily. While this life and death struggle is going on in the west the French have become more active along the Alsatian border and are said to be making preparations and securing advanced positions in view of possible attacks by the Germans with their big Howitzers on the Belfort fortress. It now seems to be realized that no fortress has any chance of holding out when once these big German guns are brought into action against it. The German official report last night on Augustowo, Russian Poland, 9 which it declares is progressing. It reiterates that the battle near Ivangorod although favorable to the Germans, remains undecided. North of this section the Russians claim tney are sun pursuing tne uermans who attempted an advance on ^ Warsaw, and southward to have cross ed the Vistula and driven the Austrians back. In Galicia and in the Carpathians, the Russians also claim to have broken down the Austrian offensives. As the days come and go and the promised visits of the zeppelins to England do not materialize, the public seemingly is beginning to believe these monster airchaft are being held In reserve for the day that the German navy comes out and that they will be used in force to assist the warships In an endeavor to cripple the British fleet. THE PROPOSED BOND I88UE W Committee Brings Favorable Report From Washington. The committee of the house that went to Washington last week, to learn how South Carolina's proposed cotton bonds would be regarded by the regional reserve banks, made Its report last night as follows: ^ "Your committee, with the senate members, laid the two questions in doubt as to the bond issue before the proper authorities in Washington. "First. Will a farmer's note to cover an obligation contracted for agricultural purposes, secured by one of ~ the proposed bonds, be eligible for * rediscount by a member bank with the regional reserve bank and be eligible to be placed as collateral by the regional bank with the reserve agent on which to issue currency? "The Federal reserve board informally gave Its opinion that it could and referred us to Mr. Elliott, their counsel, who gave it as his opinion that It could be done, provided that the note showed that It was given for an agricultural or commercial purpose and ^ matured within 90 or 180 days, re- W spectively. "Second. In rediscounting paper with the regional reserve bank are the national banks limited to the amount of their capital? "The comptroller of the currency holds that they are not, but are limit- % ed by the sound discretion of the board of directors of the regional bank. "The comptroller also suggested that our contemplated Dona issue should be handled by a board of nonpolitical business men, who would protect the interest of the state as well as see that the loan relieved the people who needed it most and the bonds would have a better standing in all quarters if such were the case. "Optimism is the attitude of mind 9 of the administration and they feel and say that if we can hold until the market opens and then market gradually. a living price can be obtained and the credit of the south can be saved, but to do that two things are necessary: "First. Some uniform and responsible method of warehousing the cotton and issuing receipts therefor, which will guarantee the delivery of the cotton, of the amount and kind described. "Second. Carrying of the debts due against cotton until the market can be opened and every effort Is being made to open the markets of the world. "We had a very satisfactory interview with the president, who is deeply interested in our problem and sympathetic with the cotton producer and W who assured us that the administration was profoundly sensible of the importance of the question now confronting the south. "George W. Dick, "W. F. Stevenson." On motion of Mr. Stevenson, the bill, M revised in accordance with the above suggestions, was made a special order for this morning at 11 o'clock. PASSED TO THIRD READING McLaurin Warehouse Bill Receives Favorable Consideration. The McLaurin warehouse bill was msscd to a third reading by the house ast night, by a vote of 57 to 30. While Mr. Stevenson was away last Friday night the bill was brought up inexpectedly and voted down 4 2 to II. The attack was mainly political, but vhen it came to applying the "clinch?r." which would have killed the bill it this session, the good sense of the louse asserted itself and the motion to -econsider was passed by a vote of 47 0 37. Yesterday Messrs. McQueen of Marlboro, and Wilborn of Union, nade strong speeches In favor of the Jill. t Mr. McQueen showed beyond queslon the superior loan value of cotton n a state controlled warehouse as ompared with a private warehouse. id the more independent position of he farmer who uses the state warelouse. fl| Unon a vrte the bill was passed to 1 third reading, without amendment, i7 to 30. The bill has yet to pass its third reading in the house.