Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, December 24, 1918, Image 2

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?crupo and i*act$. \V":-v n Ifeeernher "2: .Scat t rlr:ir returns rt-cetved up to noon to ?l;i\ at rational h<a<l<iunrt?'rs shown an in oilmen* of 13.'r>0.0'>0 fx rsons i: the <"h'? 'mas roll call of the Ami ri an f; ?I ''ions. This represented nports from !'? j>er c< nt of the chapter in 12 divisions with no report.- fion any chnptcts in one division. Whei the cariiftaiim ends at tnidnurht to morrow nisrht Red Cross officials he li'-ve that the total enrollment wil jual the 22 of last y.ir. Th roll call has hi-en handicapped hv in Muenza. an'l trad weather in man ( arts of the country a ret the linal iJa tomorrow will he devoted t?. roiiri'iln 11> all persons who ate not wearin the 1 !i | ! ijed I'los- hxtton. The cell tral llvisi<>n. Ml'hi -it: Illinois. I<?wi Wisconsin and N*? l-iaska. was still i the |ea<i to<lav v.ttti appioxiinat< ly 4 OOO.fiUfi niollments. The Atlantic ili vision. New York. N'<-? .lers?> an Connecticut I'tairi'l second plac with elose to 'too memh'-rs. - Armif hep,re tin.* house hank in-' onmiiiittet in support of <"'ia,inia Chelan's hill to atm-ml th? federal re serve art, 'lovi rtior If;ar<Iitiir of th Federal reserve hoai'l. tinted irnmedi at>- legislation .'iiithori/lii^ iti< iea.se < ie?l" ral ha'nk's surplus to i'm) p? r of their pah! hi rapiial stoek. al tliouch profit U not a nil shoul'l hot h tin- primary ??l j?-? t of tin* fetler. hank's operation, (inventor Hardin saiii. tie hank's activities have hoe o n-mutieraiive that several hanks, i ?h?- pro|>oseil legislation is autlioi i/.e. Wouhi line Ju'i per i'i nt. sui|ilus .Ian iiiirt 1. ami that all would have lha surplus I * \ next .Inlv I "The hoar \ iews wiih some enm-eni lie lark' amount ol outsiamlili" fedi ral lesnv notes." the witness saiil. "Imt th hunks haM Im hi ohlii'e.l to siippoitth government in it- tinaiema ami ? now hope we ran retim e tin outstand intf notes." Federal restive hank' earnings. Cnvernoi Harding salt), ran not he i|e*tm t| as anv ronsiilerahl asset Iowaril |ut> imr off the nation a I fieht. now aholll V-O."0O.0OIi,imm Sneh earnings, he t|ee|aretl. woultl h a mere bagatelle." While a sailor, whose natiie is un known, was wall.in- alon: t.v \o |.'l Irii-n street. New York, last Thurs lav night, a small pe 1 e of "lass fe mi his lit ail. I.ookim.' up, Im- sat smoke issuing Iroin the wimlows t tin* lift It slttrv. His lirst impulse \v:i to riiiK in a fit alaiin: l*nt just as li started for tin- liox. he heard tli servants of wotm-n. Clian^ini; mm ath?iit the alarm lwln? tie- thimr ?rf th areatist ainl most pressing impor' anee. lie t iir> <I hack. rushed up llv Ileitis of ste|is to the >! lie ol til danger ami fount! a do/en uirN in state of fl iuhtelieil |iallie so to \\ i|i|?-r I that the> did not know wliirli wa to turn. Without unnecessary loss i time, he laualit one of the an Is ! the liaml anil |ierstiaded the others t join hamls. all strum: out m a lin< Then lie shouted Come on'" and lithe w hole Inineh down the steps. 01 to the side walk and to safety. The lie disappeared so i-oni|dete|y that n one was e\en aide to learn his natm t tiie of the nirls named llelen Ma row icz. turm d in the lire alarm, ami short I.V alter tile tireim || reached the spo t'linf IVnlx in charge fell down Miuht of tiltis n steps, and fractured lea. The tire loss to tin- hiiildimr wa IIO.UIIO. ? field Marslial Sir Douglas Haij eiHiiin.inder-in-ehiet of tin Itritis armies in I'ratio ami Heluiiim. at tended I ?y tJeneral I'lutiiir. Hawlin son. Kirdw'ood. Itynsr and llorne, wh were his mainstays in aiding to defer the (iemuins. reached l.omlon la> Thursday and was accorded a nulahl welcome. The train l>rini;ing the lh I marshal to l.omlou was accom puttie * IV.,..,. i,t. ntuuit L'n alrnlane Lw also hovered over tho pv>i cession which | Kissel through tli ?lcn?<l> crowded t horoiighfaivs trot " station to liuckiugham pa lac King thn'vo welcomed tin* ft " w y and found hi;,I ion th i#y the Duke i and tt v king; th prime ...... scare. ,r. inrv lm wa: members of the arnh and air ooun cils. representatives ? '/' the ndmirnlt and tnan\ otlu r distinguished person: Tin- grenadier guards, with their reg iuu'iital colors and hands, were draw up at tin- station to ai t as an cseoi i to the Held marsh.:!, and amid Ion cheering as the hand played "See th ('oit<|tlerihg I left! t'nines," the crow e<liierries eseorti d Sir Ifouglas to toxnl carriage in waiting to take th tile tield marshal to tile palace. IP sources oi the national hanks i tile country on Xovemher 1. the dot of tlie last call aggregated #llf SSI. 101.0'to. Comptroller of the Cur rcticy Williams aunoiiin e.l last Sun day. Tliis net only was a net high record, hut was all increase i HaiT.TSIlt.lHii) over the total shown h tlie call last August 31. The re sources exceed the eolilhllied aggie gate resouiees ot tin- national hank of issue of Kngland. the Itominion ? Canada, France. Italy, tie Nclhcr lands, Norway. Sweden. IVniuarl Japan and Cermany, as shown h their latest availalde reports. Mr. Wil hams said. The national hanks' re sources were only Jl.iiOii.uiiit.tiini h s than the coiohincil r> sources of a states and other I sinks ate! trust com panics in the country, as shown h their reports of June. 1!U7. h stated, and added that in tlie las live years the growth of the resource of the national institutions li.nl Ih-c greater than tlie increase m tlie pre coiling 25 years. During the presen year. the comptroller's r? |mrt s:ii? only on.' national bank in tli?* ntir country bail failed. a small institutio in California. This was declared t br the best nvoi'il since 1^7". ? More than sixteen billion dollar of cash appropriations and contrac authorizations voted by congress fo war purposes will be un< xpendei Kepresentative Shelley of Keiituckey chairman of the house appropriatio committee, announced Friday. Tot:i appropriations and authorizations vol ed durimr the war amount to abou $57.iitM>.i?nt>.OOU. including $10.o0o.uoo una of authorization for war tini loans to foreign governments. Tit loans actually made, now total abou js.oaa.ooa.ooa of cash appropriation and approximately $x.iino,?ti0.iiot) o cunt met authorizations will be cover ed back into the treasury." said I top resentative Shelley. "Most of III money will come from the war do imrtmcnt. the largest saving. u eon rue. being Irom ordinance, becaus the greatest amount of money was ap preprinted for that." ? Former Km prior William has bee con lined to his bed since Sunday o last week with a severe chill. His in disposition has brought about a re nowal of his old ear trouble, necessi tating the calling in of a specialist. : professor from I'treeht. to assist th local doctoi. The constant worry e the last Ave weeks and his virtual int prisonment in Fount 1 lent nick's cas tie have changed William llohenzol lern's ap|H?aram*e considerably. in stead of the usual ruddy complex tot his face has become ashen, his hai and mustache gray and his feature deeply lined. Since he has lam abc< with illness his face has remained nil shaven, ami the eight days' growth o lieard seems to havendded ten years P hi? age. The foinirr emtvror's fa vorito adjutant. t/apt. >icur*i vim use mann. is also ill, and the former em :.K press has bwume her husband's al m most solo attendant. ^ ?Following is the ofticial pro \ irranime in connection with the visi M of the president of the I'nited State k JT JihplfctTeT The pn stilental part Kill arrive at Dover at I2J0 p. m ^^^^^' hursday and will l?e received by th< of t'onnaught. representing th Jolin W. Davis. American am Lon1 "ro("n?' British am to Washington, and Lon 'or^ 'n WilBlng tc the kinu especially attached to th. l^durlng his visit. Com Charles Cust. equerry t. m0 t the president a -j"- he especially attache* rty will arrive at Char ' c'Hn?n 'n l??don at 2.30 r 'IiI ' 5-"--St>? received by the klm g??B|^with the sovereigns ( ^u]A^ini palace. Th* 35' Siv.'* . ji'- ^B[\hv troops, wht K^,kVri'.Xj^ r , ' ? v1 ^hat in Rents fror." air forces J/.TU'V . : ^kie president privately ^^tneet the HHHHr Brltijf cabinet ministers. In the eve# & the king will give a banquet at sdekingham palace. On Saturday morning the president will proceed to . Tie city to receive an address of Guild . hail. On that evening a dinner will -I be given by the government at Lan,, > aster house, at which the British i iininters will be present. After the ilrner the president will leave London s :'ur Carlisle, his mother's birthplace, where he will spend Sunday. From Carlisle, the presidential party will pjoeeed to Manchester, where the president will be the guest of the II h<rd mayor. Arrangements have been , made for the president to re< < tve on Monday the freedom of the N ?ity of Manchester. It Ls expected s that the president will leave for France Tuesday. : flic ^Jorkvillc (fnquircr " Filtered at the Postofflce at York as Mall Matter of the Second Class. n " TUESDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1918. it What doe.- <'h fist mas mean to you? .. There is no danger in being lost in th<- i piW'ls along ilit- straight and nar'' row way. 's The ?-v lit ' " nirii<inorat< i| l>y tonior tow's anniv. rsary was Kroater than the armistice. t. Arrangements are being perfected - for tii"* transfer of the war departI meat's surplus nitrate to the agrieultuII in I "iepartmeiit an<i tiie agricultural iv department is going to distribute it ?f among tiie fanners of the south at S cost, e '' The general assembly convenes the . secoml Tuesday in January, and short ly afterwanl it is hopeal that the state ' will have a governor who can lie look" tl up to as a governor of all tiie poov pie. instead of as a governor of only I" a part of the people. y n t The price of cotton has been advanc"I ing within the past few alays; but as '' to whether the grip of the hoars has ,, been laioseneal is "loubtful. It is not r. improbable that the bears are trying to make themselva*s more easy by in.* "till ing sales at thirty cents. Although no man is able to foresee what ii all matins, it is only a foul who s, thinks that alt the misery, ruin and h death that has resulted front the great war has gone for nothing. Of course ,, we must still suffer agonies of hesita.? tiou a ml ilinilit: luit tlu- truth will tiud thighest pedestal which this war 'l has prepared. <1 ? s When America went into the war , the Allies were willing for anything as 11 the price of their salvation. Now ccrtain important men of the Allies arc !* talking as though they would have ,i things different from what the United e States hud in mind. Hut America went U ',,1 I'tTHofiltMy <8? i'.flU KWV jUfli'-'O to ~ all people, and that America proposes s. to have. I Tin- food administration has formald Iv announced the cancellation of all " Hour nulling schedules, and that means that Hour will hegin to lluctuate again. i? The indications for higher prices of Hour, we would sac. are now retnark I aidy good. The millers and specula' tors, held in cheek during the war. are going to have an op|K>rtunity to make * their strike. x a I With reference to the proposition to - sink the Cerman warships in the sea. we think this: If the ships are to con* tiniic in use for the purpose of naval . warfare, etc., they may as well be sunk?. Hut rather than sink them, it would he N hotter to scrap them and use the inaterial they contain for reconstruction s work. There is no use in wasting all " that material. y 1 1 0 t'ndcr tiie individual control of the 1 old hanking system cotton would not * have fared even as well as it is now . faring. In the first place the country t would have suffered financial collapse ' long before the end of the war. and i' n cotton would have heen more cotno pleP lx at the mercy of the Little Hlg Itiisiness than it has been. Hut the s present banking system Is better and safer because it is more directly uu lcr laddie > ontrol. 'j A recent dispatch says that Hin. dcnluirg is advocating tlic establish' merit of another "line" live or six miles behind the neutral zone. But of course it is hardly to l?e understood that this i has any significance so far as the s. Americans are concerned, because the Americans have already shown by . practical demonstration that they could e smash any line that Hindenburg could j. form even when he had plenty of the 0 l>est possible material. Senator Simmons of North Caroling. 'J is moving for appropriate military roc. ognltion of the members of the draft - boards who administered the law ~ under which the national army was created. The law contemplated that if the draft boards should be composed * entirely of civilians; but the senator ~ thinks a way should be found to rec. ognizc the most excellent service that i- these men have performed by giving them gold medals and brevet commis1 sions. I^?>rd North el iflfe, the well-known I) . English newspaper man. ami one of - the most influential men in Kngland. " has expressed himself strongly in favor of President Wilson's stand for an . open peace conference. He says that t the time has passed when a few indis vidunl statesmen or politicians, may be s permitted to adjust the affairs of nap tions in accordance with their own pee culiar whims. This peace conference * business is a world affair, he declares, j and the world should be fully cognizant of what is going on. President ? Wilson is right on the whole business ' and Lord Northcliffe is right. t ~?-Ts 1 By giving up her claims of "temporal power." the Roman Catholic church j will be tremendously strengthened , throughout the world. The temporal " power of the church has been a source ' of uneasiness not only in Italy: but in all other countries where Romanism t flourishes, and that means almost uni versally. Because of Rome's temporal j claims it was necessary to select a ma Jorlty of tha cardinal# from Italy in order to maintain all possible moral and political pressure to match the v government. This detracted from the quality of representative democracy v necessary to satisfy the demands of a representatives of the church in other e lands who felt that they were not getting an equal show. But now the Jeal- k ousy of the local political government t will be softened and the zeal of the ii balance of the Catholic world will be t stimulated. This, of course, dependent upon the renunciation of all present p claims of temporal power. b f The itock Hill Herald has been in ii hard luck on account of influenza. Ed- r itor Fain was sick. Linotype Operator li Chambers was sick and others were sick. During a time when the adver- t using pressure was greater than at any a oth? r period of the year, the Herald b was barely able to get out at all. Fri- v day's issue came out a day late, somehow. and Saturday's issue was missed b entirely. It was stated that the paper would reap|iear as soon its the force a or enough of the force, got well enough r to print it- Xone but newspaper men. v probably, are able to realize what it means to miss an issu>-. The publishers of the Herald would have g'adly been willing to |?ay any price for help; c but no help was to be had. They work- r ed unnl they simply fell to the floor, c so to speak, and even then they did s not stop. They were stopped. That is the way of it. We feel for our good j. friends of the Herald with a depth cf feeling, anil we sinceri l.v hope that all a of these good workers will soon be re- ( stored to the health and strength that r will enable them to resume a work i that has become of recognized importance and value to the daily life of jj Itoi-k Hill anil the country surround- u ing. 0 Xew York city, which has the best c health organization of any city in the t country, had no quarantine against the c inllucnza epidemic, and the city's death 1 rate on account of the disease was the t lowest of any city in the United States, t Dr. Royal S. t.'opeland, the city health commissioner, says he does not believe c in quarantine for a disease like this, c The teachers in the schools are rcquir- c ed to examine the children. If they r show signs of running at the nose or \ their eyes are red they are sent to an si expert whose business it is to make a * I .? ?wl n on/M</li W\ * f\ iurincr cxaimiiaiiun, uuu avwiui?s ... symptoms as they appear to the ex- s pert the children are sent home or < back to their classes. When a child is \ sent home the case is watched up by a ? physician of the health department, in ? case the family does not happen to be one that Is able to employ a, private c physician. Dr. Copeland cays that cs \ a rule sick i>eople do not so to church, t the moving picture shows or the thea- * tres, and for that reason he has not a seen proper to close them except the f picture shows in rare cases. The bet- a tor class picture shows are instructed to run an occasional slide warning t against sneezing and coughing, and a r sneezing or coughing individual who c does not know enough to go out is put i out. t ? s r.e of the great obstacles standing in the way of the highest development r of the American merchant marine and \ American export trade in American a . bottoms,-.are rec$1 Ni t \ There is nothing \?N r laws. On the contrary Sffy are emi- i nently wise and proper. They provide t good wages for sailors, compel fair and decent treatment and ensure that sail- a ors may have an opportunity to be men ( instead of slaves as they have been in t most navies of the world. But under a condition of world-wide competition, t where the principal consideration is r cheapness, any other nation will now t be able to carry ocean freights cheaper r than the merchant marine of the Unit- t ed States. That would mean, of t course, that our merchant marine I would have to give way to the cheaper work of the slave ships. But of course s this is not desirable. It is not desira- r ble to continue the enslavement of our v sailors, and it Is not desirable to hold i: back the development of our merchant P marine. What we can do is to require the ships of all nations to come up to c our own standards of decency as a i< condition precedent to trade with the e United States, and if we want to we s can require these nations to continue v up to this same standard in their trad- 1; ing with other countries, if they are to trade also with the United States. The I whole subject is deserving of the best r wisdom and attention of congress, and r of the country. This country wants to r develop its merchant marine and it a wants to see to it that the personnel of 1 the merchant marine is looked after in a manner becoming the dignity and self-respect of this country. ^ Congressman Lever has introduced a bill looking to Federal co-operation t in the conservation of the health of r rural communities, very much along r the lines of his now well-known exten- s sion plan for the promotion of agricul- t tural development. He has been , prompted to take the subject up large- c ly because of information developed as t the result of a nation-wide sanitary v survey recently completed by the Unit- e ed States public health service. Among t other things this survey discloses that the sanitary conditions of the rural v districts are far inferior to those of the ii urban centres. For one thing, to the I surprise of most people, the recent l draft examinations showed a larger t percentage of rejections on account of a physical disabilities in the rural dis- j tricts than in the towns. The survey c showed that the water of the rural dis- t tricts, especially ine unnMiii ??in, u was not properly guarded from con- n tamination, and It showed also that c less attention was paid to sanitary con- o dltions around homes. To these and other kindred conditions are attributed 1 many cases of preventable disease and v preventable death?preventable in the li light of more intelligent care on the ? part of the people. It is claimed by v the health service also that the urban s population suffers more from contagi- v ous diseases of various kinds originat- r ing, or being perpetuated in the country, than the country suffers from like ^ diseaso coming from the towns. Mr. R Lever is persuaded that the extension v of organized health work in the coun- * try will be to the very great advantage of the entire nation and to that end tl he seeks to secure co-operation of Fed- tl eral with state authorities His bill pro- ? vides for the appropriation by congress t| of $250,000 for the first year to be dis- a trlbuted among the states on a basis '< of equal appropriations, and the first ^ year's appropriation to be added to at d the rate of $250,000 a year until the it Federal appropriation amounts to 11,- * 000.000 annually. Administration ex- ^ penses are to be provided In addition, u Merry Christmas. ] This Is the last Issue of The Yorkille Enquirer for the year 1918. The editorial and mechanical staffs, j hich are largely one and the same, re absolutely In need of a well earnd rest. We say well earned rest, because we ^ mow, no matter what others may hink of the service we have been glv- E rig. we are best qualified to Judge of ^ he strenuousness of it. But we don't want to give the lm- Q .reasion that we think that we alone lave been doing more than our share, j Sverybody who has half way been dons his duty during the past year, and S nost people can qualify along that Ine. has had his hands full. q We have no complaint. We feel better for what we have been trying to do. nd we have no doubt that others who s tave been working as hard feel likerise. G But from the nature of the case this usiness needs a rest and must have it y The next issue of The Enquirer will ppear January 3, 1919, and In the ncuntime we bespeak, peace. Joy, good ^ rill?a Merry Christmas for all. ? . C Battle for Supremacy. The greatest question of the peace y onference as we see it, is whether or lot Great Britain will renounce her c laim to the right of supremacy of the eas. Let us not get the question mixed up F n th<? slightest. At the outset of this war Great Brit- L in complained to the world against Sermany's militarism and Germany etorted with complaint against Great R iritain's navallsm. In principle, to say the least of it, F 10th complaints were fully warranted, nd one Was as well warranted as the ither. Germany easily had the power to P rush any other nation or any other wo or three nations, barring the Unit- y d States, of course, and Great Britain iad the power to crush any other naion or the whole world, again barring r he United States, on the sea. Xo. the United States did not have >ither army or navy so far as that is oncerned; but she had men of brains, haracter, courage, power and all the r esources to do whatever Almighty God tl vunts her to do. That is not meant as n i boast; but as a plain statement of 'i in established fact. 81 Germany's militarism has been de- J itro.ved, and whether the United States J leserves the full credit for it or not, it vould certainly have never been done xcept with the help of the United ? States. tl Now, in England, there are hundreds d >f thousands of good, sensible men a vho clearly understand that the coun- n ry must change its ambitions and dc- tl ires as to naval supremacy; but there n ire other hundreds of thousands of in- tl luentinl men who are unwilling to do ti inything of the kind. As to what attitude England is going ti o take at the peace conference re- tl nains to be seen; but if she shall hold n >ut for the retention of power of force, n nstead of power of right, she Is going (| o make a mistake that will eventually p leal her doom. X v" *K" I'nlW Slntea Hnca not Want . a v/, mc ^ ?? ? ? ,, inval supremacy any more than she r( ranted military supremacy; but just 7 ls she was putting herself in a posl- a ion to show that she could whip imvhole world even on the soil or I.'i ope, she is capable of putting herself ^ n a position to sweep all the navies of ho world from the seas. ^ This is big talk; but it is not us big|, is the United States, Inspired wi*'. s< tod's spirit of eternal right ami Jusice b We hope that the great men who are S o tigure in the peace conference will c ise to a height from which they will *J le able to see that President Wilson is fj lot inspired by a selfish desire for na- h ional supremacy; but only for the su- ^ iremacy of right and Justice over 0 irute force. ti If England fails to realize the true H ituation and act upon it, it will not ? aean any immediate resumption of the y car, or anything like that; but it will a nean a long, long postponement of ll renuine peace. r. There will follow an economic war, s ompetitlon in the up-buiiding of arm- ? cs and navies, and eventually the Unit<1 states will reach the point where lie will be able to compel by force that rhich she is now proposing to estabIsh by agreement. ^ America does not want to dominate .f Cngland or any other country. It ls lot going to do it; but America ls ^ iroud to submit to the laws of Alnighty God and she holds all she has (j s humble means in the hands of God o make all others submit. w COTTON SHOWS STRENGTH. e w iteadiness of Holders Forces Bidding from Buyers. s' A steady rise was recorded in cot UIl liint V? IV rv, ivtvvov f? ?vv? ..??? nade on the first session and highest d rices on the last, says an expert ^ ummary from new Orleans. From he lowest to the highest there was a ise of 185 to 235 points, while the net harge for the week was again in 160 o 217 points. The buying movement a irhich caused this was based almost ntirely on the strength of the situa- n ion in the spot market. L The gist of spot accounts of the u reek was that the demand was incres rig while holders were as firm as ever. Y jocally, spot prices were raised by f< 38 points which carried middling up u o 3.013 to the close. January- closed b t 2.830 in the contract market, while a uly closed at 2,551. This discount on o ontracts and the further discount of t< he far months, as compared with the a lear. was a feature that attracted luch comment from the bulls, who a' laimed that it was leading to buying f an investment character. ^ The largest export for the week, c 61,219. against 139,731 bales this r< reek last year, the outlook for still a arger shipments and the first faint j igns of the easier ocean freight rates w rcre features that increased bullish tl entiment. Weather conditions were s rlth values as the continued heavy ^ ains were reported to be seriously f< nterrerrlng Wlin tne garnering or rhat is left of the crops in the fields. a learish features, such as the large ^ inning return and the small mill h akings were entirely Ignored, and r( fere not a factor in the trading of the ~ reek. ? The spot situation promises to con- _ inue to dominate the market, ai- ? hough many brokers are beginning i point out that the technical position a] f the market is not what it was and hat., after such prolonged advance, ny further rises are likely to be fol>wed by reactions due to realizing kl ales on the longside. Only Christ- tc ins and New Year's day have been P eclared holidays In the American ti larkets, but there is an effort under tc ay in this market to close the ei ay following Christmas. Necessarily ti >mething of a holiday feeling will be ai rtt and it may affect the trade. ta LOCAL A^1?\AJERS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS imei Bros.?Invite you to see their mules during the leisure time of the holidays. , M. Stroup?Extends the season's greetings. I. B. Clinton?Has two horse farm close to town, for rent, lave Cameron?Wants a buyer for twin cylinder Indian motorcycle, tuinn Wallace?Has pure bred registered Berkshire brood sow for sale, ieo. W. Williams, W. M.?Gives notice of Masonic installation and third degree work. Friday night, 2 7th . C. Faris?Will appreciate return of S10 bill lost at Clover. 1ms Drug Company, Sharon?Thanks you for your patronage and extends the season's greetings, lover Drug Store?Suggests the pleas ures you can get out of a kodak. It has cameras and films, tar Theatre?Programme for today, tomorrow and on Thursday. War on Italian front. Thursday. (. W. Whitesides & Co.?Suggest that you lay business aside for a moment and think of other things. IcConnell Dry Goods Co.?Is ready for the 11th hour shopper. The holiday greetings. 'einstein Bargain House?Expresses appreciation for your patronage and wishes you the best of the season, arroll Bros.?Have a word personal with their customers and friends at the closing of the yearir. E. Ferguson?Is busy, but not too busy to thank you for your business and extend best wishes, ity Pharmacy, Clover?Wishes you and yours as much of the good things of life as you wish for yourself. Irst National Bank, York?Urges you to start your children on the road to saving their pennies, etc. oan and Savings Bank?Wishes you a merry Christmas and thanks its patrons for their business, tar Drug Store?Appreciates your patronage and extends the season's best wishes. 'erguson & Youngblood?Add their voices to the universal song of good will toward men. 1. D. Dorsett?Will pay 50 cents dozen for your eggs. L. S. Riddle. Supervisor?Publishes a statement of disbursements of Bethel road and bridge funds, ork Drug Store?Says you have Its thanks for your patronage, and wishes you and yours the best of everything. arroll Supply Co.?Thanks its customers for their business and also extends the season's greetings. Thl* is tiic 103d issue of The Enquier for the year 1918. just one less tian the total number due. For good )ensure, however, both issues of the rst week in January will be sent to all ubscribers whose subscriptions expire anuary 1, and after that all 1st of nnuury subscriptions that have not een renewed will be discontinued. Tom It." Glenn says that the state archouse at Tirzah is full to overowing; that he has turned away hunreds of bales because he has not been bio to take care of them: that he has ot taken out a bale for three months; liat he does not know whether any loney is being borrowed or not; but hat the holders of "certificates have no rouble borrowing money at 6 per cent. There are In the surrounding counry many farmers whose credit is of he best, and who could and would do tore business with the banks to the lutual advantage of the banks and hemselves, if these people and the anks only knew each other better, lie bank people and the country peole need to be brought in still closer stations. Think of this farmer! htnk of this banker! Remember, wc re not criticising either of you; but U the same what wc say is true. The itinerary of the Thirtieth (Old iickory) division, composed of Xorth arolina. South Carolina and Tennes;o troops, from the time the division ;?t this country until it participated in Bvcre fighting around St. Quentin and amhrni is told in a letter received y G. J. Starnes from son. \V. It. tames, a member of Co- D, 115th Mahine Gun battalion, of Charlotte, says lie Observer. At present the Thirtieth ivision is reported to be following the ermans into Germany. Mr. Starnes, owever, at the time he wrote the let;r. was at a training camp at L<i Valonne, France. The Thirtieth division mbarked at Philadelphia, Pa., the let r said. The first stop was made at [alifax. Nova Scotia. From there the ivision went to Liverpool; from Livrpool to London; thence to Calais, 'ranee. The troops trained a month t St. Omar, France, and were in tnc -onches about Ypres in Belgium. for ne month. They then were transfered and ordered into the (Jghting about t. tiuentin and Cambrai. The record f the "Old Hickory" division in the gluing about these places is well nown. LOCAL CASUALTY LIST. The following names of soldiers rom York county and the territory nmediately surrounding, have apeared in the casualty lists published ithin the past few days: John I. Fayssoux, Gastonia, X. C., ied of disease. James Gilbert Hagley, Richburg, ounded severely. Shepard Murphy, Rock Hill, woundd slightly. Thomas R. Spencer, Gastonia, X- C? ounded slightly. Albert Harris, Chester, wounded lightly. Clyde H. Kimbrell, Fort Mill, severe: wounded. Private lien Ross. King's Mountain, ied of disease. Jodie L. Liles, Gaffncy, wounded to egree undetermined. WITHIN THE TOWN ? The returning soldiers made quite showing in the churches last Sunday. ? The Cannon, Xecly and Tnivora tills are taking a week's vacation. The ockmore shuts down today at noon ntil Friday morning. ? John Dentas, proprietor of the orkville Candy Kitchen, has been sick tr two weeks with grip; but has been p for the past few days- John has een having quite a rough time of it. nd things have been falling heavily n Mrs. Demas, who has been having > look after her husband, the store nd a bunch of little Demases. Outide Greek friends, and some local riends have been giving such assist nee as they could. ? J. L. Huey and J. G. Johnson, local itter carriers, are veritable Santa lauses these days us they make their yunds laden with packages of all sizes nd descriptions. The necessity of ringing their packages to their shoulers by means of cords and straps, ith the packages bulging out from tieir bodies adds very much to the anta Claus effect. If they would only ut on the traditional long white eards the resemblance would be per?ct ? Eggs have been selling at 60 cents dozen right along on the local maret until yesterday, when the demand ec&me somewhat slackened and the >gular buyers were offering only fifty ?nts. The common opinion of the uyers seemed to be that whether the rice dropped or not the demand ould hardly be so strong for the next >w weeks at least. Nobody, however, ppears to think that eggs will fall luch below 50 cents soon. ? There is no difference between the tnd of people who are living in the twn and country. Many of the town eople are from the country and the es of blood and marriage between the iwn people and country are as num ous and as strong as they are bereen the town people. All these facts * self-evident But nevertheless the isk of improving the marketing facil ities of the towns rests more largely o upon the people who live in the towns ^ and right there is the secret of great- t< er prosperity for both town and coun- F try. The people of the country* need to d be brought into closer relation to the markets and the bank people need to e make still further efforts to prove that g their facilities and accommodations j are as much for the country people as E for the town people. d ? The postofflce has been one of the busiest places in the town during the V past week. The fact of the matter is h that the postofflce has been a remarkably busy place for more than a year, r ever since the beginning of the war. vi There are few local concerns that s have been dolnp more business with V less help than this same postofflce. \ But during the past few days me f post office has been especially busy t' There have been crowds of people b there sending and receiving parcels post packages and at tunes it has ^ been necessary for a isitron to await ( his turn for ten minutes or more. All , the mails were opened Sunday and j( every effort will be made to give the patrons of the office the fullest nccommodation today and tomorow. 'v HERE AND THERE. Apple blooms and ripe apples from the same tree and the same as to blue a gage plums, plucked yesterday morning by H. A. Klliott of So. 3 Yopkvllle, and exhibited at The Enquirer office, bear testimony as to the unusual mild- *" nes.s of the present winter season, as complied with lost year when, at 0 alsmt this same period there were sto- { ries of iieople burning their furniture ' to keep from freezing. Of course there were people at work 1 yesterday; there are always people ut V work. But most people seemed to be s on the go. It was the beginning of Christinas week, and it is the time when people feci they must move S around. Those who had not already y been to the stores were out to see what they could get, and most of them found something, notwithstanding the .1 fact that the stores had been pretty well picked over. It will be the same again today, with the people knocked 1 off from work, and still enjoying 1' Christinas. Money appears to be more ii plentiful than it lias ever been, and u most people appear to be able to buy what they want. There are some, of course, who are not so fortunately sit- o uated- It is always the case; but gen- b erally it seems to be a cheerful Christ- r; mas. s The nrice of cotton is stiffening up a h little ami while there are some people v who may be tempted, there are others, a many others, who are contemplating '1 the situation with entire indi(Terence, u Here and There talked with a farmer a from Bethel yesterday. He said he <" had sold some cotton and has a good a deal on hand. He has not quite paid ^ all he owes; but he is easy and is not worried. He expressed the opinion that some of the holders might begin " to let loose when cotton reached thir- ' ty cents: but he docs not know of any " in his neighborhood who are so inclined. "If they do begin selling " around thirty cents," he said, "tho ef- " feet will be to give the bears some V temporary relief, maybe; but as for '' me. 1 feel sure that all we have to do to get good deal more than thirty cents J is just hold-" J It has been rejiortcd that Dr. Philip n Hunter, who cabled not long ago that he was in London, would probably be s home pretty soon. Inquiry of John It. V Hart, Esq., Dr. Hunter's brother-in- ^ law, develops that there is no author- j' ity for this report. There is no recent information from Dr. Hunter since the cablegram, except some photo- j graphs, some taken while he was a t( prisoner in Germany and others taken since his arrival in England. He looks all right in all the pictures; but relatives and intimate friends seem to imagine that possibly he was a little thinner while a prisoner than ho is now. There should have been a letter S along with the photographs; but it has not come yet. Dr. Hunter was attached to the British instead of tho . American army, it will be remembered, and the home folks have an idea u that now while he is over there, he t; will prefer to work for a while at least -uw-lhe British lyigpitiUs. "The most wonderful thing I noted during my experience In the army medical sendee," said Dr. J. i\ Craw- ? ford formerly of York county, now of L Nashville, Tennessee, the other day, y "was the 'army spirit,' as it existed even in the hospitals." Tho doctor had been spending a few days visiting A his sister, Mrs. Abel, at Lowryville, and his step-mother. Mrs. E. A. Craw- . ford, in Yorkville. "The 'nriny spirit." [ as it might be called for want of a better name," ho went on, "was no- f< ticeable among the new recruits be- o fore they had been in camp a week. c< You could see manifestations of it in something like this from young fel- il lows dreadfully sick in the hospital: fi "Doctor, when the orderly gets to e where they don't need him, please ask a him to bring me a drink of water.' u It was a rare thing to find a boy who tl seemed to think that his sufferings were of any importance compared tl with the sufferings of others." f< ? a ABOUT PEOPLE Mr. L. \V. Jenkins of Spartanburg, is spending the holidays in Yorkvillo. tl O. It. Gillum, recently of the aviation 11 corps, has returned to Yorkville. s Mrs. I*. It. lirntton is sirk at the !' honte of Mre. Adiekes in Yorkville. " Miss Lula Moore Logan of Abbeville, is spending the holidays at her home in Yorkville. w Cadets Hudolpl. Logan and J. W. a Quinn of Clemson college, are spend- 11 ing the holidays in Yorkville. c Miss Martha Marshall, who Is teach- c Ing at Inman, is spending the hollduys at her home in Yorkville. M Miss Louise Barron, who is teaching ? at Andrews, X. C., is spending the holidays in Yorkville. D. L. Rambo, Jr., from Erskine col- 0 lege, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Rambo, in Yorkville. Private States Finley of the Marine e corps, is visiting his mother, Mrs. D. E. Finley, in Yorkville. w Lieut. Henning Adickos of the Ma- 0 rines. is visiting his mother, Mrs. W. Adiekes, in Yorkville. James B. Kennedy of the I'resby- J terian college. Clinton, is spending the holidays with Yorkville relatives. Mr. Cecil Simmons of Goldsboro, X. ti C.. is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Simmons, in Yorkville. fi Miss Kittie Blair of Winthrop college. is spending a part of the holidays f< with her sister, Mrs. A. M. Grist, in ? Yorkville- n Sergeant McCain Nichols from At- * ' lanta Dental college, is spending the holidays with his mother, Mrs. M. E. ? Nichols, in Yorkville. " Lieutenant Carl H. Hart, for some n time past connected win me &i>ruv<foresting section of the aviation ser- 8( vice, is at his home in Yorkville. Mr. and Mrs. John A N'eely, Mr. ti and Mrs. John Alexander N'eely and s infant son, and Mr. Martin Necly, of Anderson, are visiting Mrs. H. A D. si N'eely in Yorkville. p. Miss Marie Pogrom. who is teaching at Seneca and Miss Frances Pefrram. who is teaching at Andrews, S. C? are spending the holidays at their home in Yorkville. P Cadets John Lewis. William Marshal, n William McCorkle, J. G. Wardlaw, Jr.. 0 and Withers Adicks. from the Citadel, r are spending the holidays at their ^ homes in Yorkville. c Mrs. J. K. Alston has been quite a sick at her home in Yorkville for sev- e eral days post; hut information yester- a day afternoon was that she was im- v proving. s; Mr. J. W. Love of Yorkville No- 2, S has received information that his son. a Otis Love, who is with the American n expeditionary forces in France, is safe P and well. a Mr. D. E. Boney, who has been undergoing treatment in the Rose Valley " hospital, at Media. Pa., since last summer, returned to his home In Yorkville }.' last Thursday, very much improved in health. " Mr. James P. Blair, of the Blairs- ^ ville neighborhood, who has been in T failing health for many months, has been in a dying condition for several ei days and information yesterday after- C( noon, was that he could hardly live g through last night ^ Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Sherer of Sharon, ti have issued invitations to the marriage H f f their daughter. Miss El!a Maude to ir. Samuel M. Barnette. the ceremony a take place at the residence of Rev. i \ \Y. Gregg. in Rock HlU, on Thursay, December 26. at 4.15 p. m. Misses Louise and Pauline Oates. teulah Ferguson, Annie Pegrum. Mararet Finlev, Frances Allein. Sarah ones. Margaret Marshall, Margaret tratton. Kitty. Helen and Sall'.e Sanifer, Sue Meek Allison. Margaret artwright. Julia Williams, all from finthrop college, are spending the lOlidavs at their homes In Yorkville Private T. B- Lattimore. son of Mr. Jan P. Lattimore of Hickory Grove, .ho has been in a British hospital for nme time, arrived home Fridav. t'hen asked as he was passing through ,'orkville if he was glad to get home or rhristmas. he replied: "I was not hinking of Christmas. I have only een thinking of home!" Mr. J. J. Gaulden has heard from ; is sons. William C., Carl and F. Earlt ..lumen. won inc lurirn r ill throe of the boys have seen quite u >t of severe fighting and all have esape<l injury. All three of the boys re in the same brigade of the Hst <li- ! lsion. one in the military police. on? i the engineer ami one in the infnnry. The younnest. Karle. was on th? 1 ring lines on November 11. when the 1 rmistice was signed. LOCAL LACONICS J 'illiert \V. O. W. The \\". O- \V. camp at Filbert <o!d> n last Friday night elected officers as , allows: J. It. Nell. C. <*.: H Drown. I i. L.: J. \\\ Smith, banker: \V. Mason 'lark, clerk. W. A. Carroll, escort: \V. ^ V". Wallace, watchman: .1 M. Mitchell i entry; l>rs. M. J. Walker and J i>. Id>o\\ell. physicians. Mr. Lesslie ( mith. who has hi en clerk for a dozen ears, claimed the right to step asi'b i ar ;t successor, it the Countj Home. The county home is pretty well sup- I lied with provisions this year- Suerintendent lioyd has been proceed, ig on u basis of raising his own food ml plenty of it. He constructed a po- j ito house last summer, virtually withut cost to the county, and put I'M1 i ushcls of potatoes in it?potatoes I aised on the farm. They are keeping 1 plcndidly. Only two of fourteen largi ogs have been slaughtered so far, the i ."eather not having heeti suitable foi general slaughter up to this time. 1 'here is enough corn in the cribs to do 1 ntil next crop, and there are turnips 1 ml other vegetables on hand. Tin ounty home crowd now numbers bout forty ami all are in good shape ; lade lli> Own Cofliu. Mr. I). F. Morrow, whose death was i lentioncd in the last issue of The Kit- j uirer. was buried in a eoflin of his < wn making and on a spot at the olo lorrow homestead, near Chester, of is own selecting. Mr. Morrow was a machinist by trade and a workman of nusual ability. He conceived the idea ; vo years ago that he wanted to male i is own coftin, and he worked at it i rum time to time as opportunity of- , cred tind the inclination suggested i 'he eoflin was made of idaek walnut, tied inside with white plush and outide with blaek. People who saw it j ny that it was a most workmanlike ; i?b. When death came the job had i cen completed: all but attaching tin , undies, which hud been duly provhl- i d. The place of burial had been i idicated with an upright galvanized | ron pipe, so fashioned at the top as a hold a tablet of marble for an in- i L-ription. i PRESIDENT VISITS HOSPITAL. 1 hook Hands With 1,200 Wounded 1 Soldiers. I'resident Wilson on Sunday vir.ited \ lie Ited Cross hospital at .Validly, 1 here he shook hands indiv'dually and 1 llkcdwith 1..00 badly wounded Ainer- | ans for the most part survivors of the ; bateau-Thierry aotioiu liu tsplnt i lore than four hours \isi*.ini; iveiy ' ard, and stopped tit every iihf.de. atcr he visited the French los.>it,i1 hi de Grace. ( Speaking of his experiences at the i tnerican hospital, the president said; 1 "I went through the American bus- ' ital at Neulliy with the greatest it - , . rest and the greatest satisfaction. 1 | jund the men admirably taken can 1? and almost without exception in ex client spirits. "Only a few of them looked really ( I, and 1 think that their mothers ami 1 lends would have been entirely pleas- ' d by their surroundings and by th< lert look in their eyes and the keen : iteresi they took in everything about 1 ncm. "1 am sure that they will go back to ' lieir loved ones at home with % n< \\ 1 deling of Joy. alike in their recovery 1 nd in the tine service they have been ble to render, four liour> All too short. I Going to the American hospital with , le expectation of remaining an hour, | tie president found four hours all too j hort, as he felt that lie could not | . ave without speaking with every man | n?i lie expressed regret only of his in- , bility to clasp the hand of every | nierlcan soldier in FranceThe president looked tired and worn rhen the ordeal was linished, for not- i rithstanding the che rfulncss of the , ten and the care which the; were re- , eiving, there were many affecting uses in the wards. , When he came to one very badly . rounded the president sat on the edge , f the cot for a moment and asked , here he was from and if h> had been < rounded. He admired his war crosses < nil decorations. Noticing that many j f his wounds were in the legs, the t resident asked: i "Why have we here no nun woundd in the upper part of the body?" j "Men who are wounded above the ; ..!?? i. not hero: thev have gone . n." answered the soldier .simply. ; One Merry Moment. . Owe of the men the president came i 3 stood proudly erect with medals on ( is blouse and one arm outstretched 1 an appliance for restoring its ii.wlilness. He looked suggestively like a j raffle policeman on duty. "I'm glad to see you look so cheer- , ul," said the president. "You have seen me many times bcore. Mr. President." responded the cddier. "I used to be a traffic policclan at the Grand Central station. >on't you think 1 look natural?" The president laughed softly. It robably was the only merry moment ; e had in the hospital. Another strapping fellow gave his ' ante as Private Wilson. 1 "I am proud to know 1 have a namenke like you." said the president. "It is a very honorable name. I only ried to do it proud." responded the oldler. One soldier had lost both legs by a hell- "I am thankful they didn't get n arm," he said cheerfully. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS , ? Columbia, December 22: In his reort on the almshouses of the state, to e submitted to the general assembly, 'rank E. Broyles, assistant secretary f the state board of charities and corectlons, recites a series of conditions ound among the paupers of certain otmties, some of which are revolting nd unprintable. Mr- Broyles readvoates the establishment of district lmshouses, by county grouping, to cbiate the conditions he found in his inpections. A number of counties could et together and build a large hospital. < t which could be stationed a trained urse and a resident physician, or a hysiclan who could maxe aany visits, t the expense entailed In the operaion of the present Individual almsouses, contended Mr. Broylea. He . ild that for each county to operate ; s almshouse, using the proper class! cation of inmates and giving them eeded care and attention, would entil a per capita expense which would lake it prohibitive. In some cases, here has been a gradual Improve- . lent In almshouse conditions, howver, said Mr. Broyles, the six ranking junties of the state being Greenville, partanburg, York. Richland, Lancasir and Laurens. The five lowest coune9 In total score are Saluda, Fairfield, 1 amp ton, Barnwell and Georgetown. CLOVER CULLINGS. Corre?pon<J?nc? of Th? Yorkvilie Enquirsr Clover. December 21.?The Clover school. after appropriate Christmas exercises in several rooms, closed on Friday afternoon. December 20. for one week for the holidays. ' The Junior Christian Endeavor soclety enjoyed a party at the home of Miss Jennie Currence on Friday nightAfter several Karnes were played, candy and fruit were served. Miss Annie Lee Adams of the Fort Mill Krnded school faculty. Is spending the holidays here with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Adams. Miss Kuth Agnew, who teaches the tlrst grade here, left for her home in Due West. Saturday, to spend the holidays. Miss Jessie Alexander, who teaches the Laney school In the Point section, spent Friday night here with her lunts. Misses Mattie and Sallio Camphell. en route to her home at Matthews. N". C.. to snend the holidays. Miss Mattie Campbell left Saturday fornins for Mathews. X. C\, to sp? nil several .lays with relatives. Mrs. I. J. Campbell left Friday night for Camp tree n leaf, Cla-. to spend Christmas with her husband, Or. I. J Campbell, who is in training there. Miss Claudia Smith, who is a student it a college in Hendersonville. X. O., is spending the liolidays With her jsirrnts. Mr. and Mrs. J. Meek Smith. Miss Mary Reamguord spent Frida* in Castonia. Mr. Me HI wee St roup of Camp Jack'on is spending :u? eight-day furloucji here with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. V\". It. St roup. Miss Mildred and Master Quinn Carrot t visited the family of Miss Susie Caldwell in Yorkville this weekMr. and Mrs. ticorgc MeCall of R. F. I?. Xo. 1. spent the week-end in Caslonia with Mrs. John Johnson. Information has been received here that Dr. James W. Campbell, for a rear or more in the army, stationed at 'amp Sevier, expects to be discharged from the army and at home attain liefore the llrst of the year. MERE-MENTION I'pon tin- removal of milling restrictiotis b> the government last Friday. ihe price of wheat bran jumped from Si'T.TJ a ton to $4ii a ton. A million ^ tons of shipping have been released from the army supply service for diversion to the American export trade. 1-1 .... ,.,,lll..i. *-r """i"!"; memberships hail been taken in the American lied Cross. Up to Frilay last more than 300,000 soldiers had been discharged and dcmobilizutioit was then going on at the rate ot' I aO.oini a week. Four negroes. two men and two women, were hanged to i railroad bridge near Shubuta. Miss., last week for alleged complicity in the murder of Dr. <\ L. Johnson near there ibe week previous. More than 2.'> per cent of the population of the state >t' New York has been enrolled in the lied Cross. Mrs. Matt \V. liansom. widow of the late Senator liansom of North I'arollna, died at her home at Hickory, N. i'.. last Saturday, aged NX rears. Jim Wilcox, who has served tifteen years of a life sentence in the North farolinu penitentiary on uo1 conviction of the murder of Nelly 'l| 'ropsey, his sewetheart. has been '* pardoned by Coventor Bickett. The number of French soldiers killed in the war is now officially estimated it 1.400,00b . Of 14.000 houses in the city of ftheims, all but 2.000 were destroyed by the Cermans. The total number of bouses destroyed by Cermans in France during the war is estimated at 250,000. Cotton ginned prior to December 13, was 10,252,402 running hales, according to the census statement issued last Friday. It Is probable that a large part of the British Meet, In command of Sir David Bcatt.v, will soon visit American waters The total number of Herman casualties up to October 25. according to the Cologne Gazette, was 6.o66.7C!?. ind of these more than 2,000,000 arc to be accounted as dead- Walter llines Page, former ambassador to fireat Britain, died at his home at Plnehurst. N. C., last Sunday, after a long period of declining heulth l'h<* Chicago Machinery club Indicated its choice of Chas. M. Schwab for pros- ? ident.'artt Bmnrcrenh cwtntsw t~tvw nights ago. Christmas of Souvenirs.?Here is a guarded secret concerning the presile nt of the T'nited States for publication in the United States, but not in France. The story has been passed by the army censor and concerns the welcome that is being arranged for the president :u ' nnsiniaa unir. The army is arranging for President in<1 Mrs. Wilson a Christmas tree as a <ur prise and also the most gorgeous .-olleetinn of Herman souvenirs yet fathered by the American army of occupation. The souvenirs include officers' gold ind steel helmets, anti-tank gun shells, words, iron crosses and the like. Passes good throughout the Third irmyaren for President and Mrs.Wilton have been issued by the provost marshal. ? Now that censorship rules have lieen much relaxed, extraordinary dories of close shaves and unexpected lappenings are being publishes!. Hard to beat is one related by the Llveristol Evening Express. It tells how a torpedo from a u-boat passes under in intended victim?which at the psychological moment was lifted he. fond its roach by a big wave?and tdminlstered the quietus to another nemy submarine on the other side >f the steamer. Here Is the paper's iccount of It: The British steamer 1?" Algorics, commanded by Capt. Fredcrick Taylor was off Bard soy Island inil had a cargo of timber from ltosdare to Oarston. There was a heavy <ea on and the ship was pitched about. The first to see the first submarine ivns I he gunner who also spotted the track of a tor|>edo which. If something like a miracle had not happened, ivoubl have struck them amidships. Nothing could have been done in time to turn the ship clear of danger, but i heavy sea lifted high on Its crest the steamer which was only drawing i few feet of water and then those ivho had just l>een expecting to be torpedoed themselves, saw a second i-boat which was working in conjunction with the one on the other Ode of the steamer, struck by the torl>cdo. They heard of a deafening explosion and saw a mountain of spray thrown up inio ine air. ? A truck belonging to W. E. Gonzales. minister to Cuba. was seized in 'olumbia by the police last Friday, on tccount of its liquid content. There were three quarts of rum. one quart of brandy and one pint of pin. The liquor was detected through the breaking of ?ne of the bottles. AT THE CHURCHES CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD. Rev. T. T. Walsh, Rector. Services tomorrow, Christmas day, at 10 SC a. m. Sutdi.v school next Sunda, at 10 a'clock a. m. FIRST BAPTIST. Rev. B. H. Waugh. Pastor. Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 a . m. Preaching service at 11. So evening service. ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. J. L. Oates, Pastor. Sabbath Services?Sabbath school at 10 a. m. Morning service at 11. Evening service at 7 o'clock. CHARLOTTE STREET BAPTIST Rev. B. H. Waugh, Pastor. Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 o'clock a. m. Evening sendees at 1:30 o'clock. TRINITY METHODIST. Rev. J. E. Mahaffey, Pastor. Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Morning service at 11 o'clock. FIR8T PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. E. E. Gillespie. Pastor. Sunday Services?8unday school at v 10 a. m. Morning service at 11 o'clock. ~ *. Evening service at 7 o'clock.