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I??? I ADDS CONFUSION 10 WAR PUZZLE TURKEY'S LMkaM'I; ANOTHER FAt lOR OF i.Ui'UKTAXJE decent Developments of Mature to Cause !5iMt:ng m the Align IUVUU It is very probable that a LI of our Washington, Oct. 3D.?Turkey's attack on Russia, reports of which were i onfirmed in official dispatches to the American government and the Rusian embassy, was viewed by officials .'.nd diplomats generally here today j s likely to produce gravest complica- j :ions throughout the Balkans, north- j <>m Africa ana Asia Minor. The ac- i :;on is expected eventually to bring Greece, Italy, Roumania and Bulgaria 1 :ato the list d!! belligerents. i Ambassador Morgantcau in a brief; cablegram from Constantinople late i :oday made no mention of a declaraion of war by Turkey on Russia but . aid the British ambassador had in- ! ormed him of the bombardment of Odessa by three Turkish torpedo- i :oat destroyers and the sinking of a ; Russian gunboat. Previously the | .Unerican consul at Odessa had re- | ported that during the bombardment : ome American property was destroyed. Look for Conflagrat/on. With these dispatches and previous indications from the Levant officials feared the Ions: exDected con lagration in Turkey was at hand. They prepared to use toe American cruisers North Carolina and Tennessee to assist American missionaries, if necessary, and to set in motion meas- , ares of relief for Americans similiar ; to those began when the first nations ; of Europe were plunged into war. The far-reaching effect of Turkey's i bombardment of Russian ports was everywhere admitted. < While it was juigigested in some quarters- that the j Ottoman government might repudiate I the raid of the Turkish destroyers and the former German cruisers Goefoen and Breaslau, attributing the acts to the initiative of the German officers and crew manning teem, the belieU prevailed that Russia would not pas sively accept this view but would con- ! si-der herself in a state of war with) Turkey. The complications in Albania, where Greece has m^t troops to Epirus, supposedly incurring the displeasure of Italy, are believed to alter somewhat the alignment which would have resulted a month ago from Turkey's entrance into the war. The news from Athens that Greece entered Albania witfai the consent of the Triple Entente was a puzzling devel- i cpment for Washington officials. Italy Wzth Entente. The feeling for months had been that Italy would side with the en- i tente if Turkey declared war on Rus- \ sia, but t>hat had been based largely on the supposition that the Mussul-' mans in Egypt, rising against Britisa rule, would incite their brethren in Tripoli to attempt to cast off Italian domination. Italy, to remain neutral, must eventually reach some understanding with the Triple Entente concurning f:e partition of Albania or the activities of Greece in that country. T? nivm QniO hoe rvo i nrl in nffi/-?iol jivvuuiuuia iiuo uiuiva't^u in wuiV-iui communicatio 11 s that she will ally herseL'f with Italy in whatever course the latter takes. Bulgaria is understood to be friendly to Turkey and Austria though recent reports have spoken of the wavering attitude of the government at Sofia because of popular demonstrations in behalf? of the entente. Strong differences oC opinion developed today among the dip^matic representatives he: e as to the proba jx-tr uuuxsc u>i eveuu> m i uxivey a.iu u-e Balkan countries. In some quarters it was suggested that Turkey must rave had some assurance from Greece that the latter would remain neutral before she dared to attack Russia. People for Russia. One of the military attaches, only recently in Constantinaple. held that Bulgaria would line up against Turk-pv Whilp thp eovwnment. of the : ormer country was pro-TT<urkis.h, he said, the people were strongly Russian in their sympathies. British officials pointed out that even !f war actually broke out between Russia and Turkey, England would not ne:-es-1 sarily be involved. It was recal'ed that England did *not declare war upon Austria until'it was established ! that Austrian troops were fighting in 1 France. Persons familiar wit"1: the geographical condition? of the country s^out !he idea of a Tur^-sh invasion of L?vp* The Turk's:: army could not be transported by water to Egvpt in the face of the ull.'e-.l fleets and tne hot deserts, peopled by hostile Arabs,! would make it almost impossible to inarch an am1y overland i COXGRESSMAX AIKEX MAKES A SPEECH "Washington, Oct. 30.?While the bill : for the relief o'. financial conditions in the south was before the house on j Wednesday, Representative Wyatt j Aiken made a speech setting :orth , his views. He declared that congress i . j could do something to relieve con- : I ditions in the south, and he opposed ! the adjournment until that .something I i was done. He did not make a lengthy ( | speech, but he had something to say as he alwavs does when he gets up * . ' ! | to make a speech, and his remarks | attracted general attention. He said> J\l; Aiken. Mr. Speaker, I am one : of those who "believe the governmentj can do something for the relief of the | people of tfce South, who are facing : disaster because of the great drop in the price of cotton, their principal crop, and I will oppose the adjournment of congress until something is done along this line. rrvi- \ _ _ r- x i o* ir. ^ i. ^ < 1'iie peopie 01 me oouid are uui asking alms, they art not asking a gift of any kind; they are simply asking that the. government perform its right- j ful (Junctions. They are asking that ; the government do something for a great pare of the people and not for j any special interest. One-third o^ 1 the people of the United States are j directly interested in the cotton crop. \ Tihe price of cotton has been cut in ' half by the war in Europe, and unless something is done for the people o'2 the South tr.ey are going to have the value of their labor this year cut in half. They can not afford to bear this j, loss, and it is not right that they' j should have to bear it. In the past the government has been ; lavish, with the public funds. We have 1 built the Panama canal, at enormous expense, to 'Denent tne wnoie corn- : try, and during the last session df con- ! gress we appropriated $30,000,000 to 'build a rail road, in Alaska to develop t'ialt far-off territory. The Panama Canal will 'be of no special direct benefit to the people of the interior ; of the country, and the railroad in Alaska will not benefit one person in 100,000 '".the Lmted S-'.-iUs proper. I doubt seriously k -we hai consiitu- | tional authority for the appropriations for the Penama Ca/;. o: for | the railroad in Alaska, yet there was ; no great objection to t'hese approi nations. And til we had authority for these appropriations we certainly have authority for emergency legislation now for the whole people of the South. Then we have spent many millions for the irrigation of the arid lands ol! the West, and every year we spend; millions on river and harbor improvements. The money spent cn these' projects can benefit at best only a comparatively small part of the pec- j pie. We seem able to find constitutional authority for t'hese appropria- i tions, and there is, as a matter of fact, no great objection to them on the part o: the people. The people of this country, and especially the people of the South, are broad-minded, and they indorse the proposition that it is good policy for the government to try to develop the country in every reasonable and proper way. This attitude on their part makes it all the harder : for tJiem to understand why the gov! ernment can not do something .or ; them now in the hour of their great! est distress. The people of the South | will be disappointed if something i? not done, and I believe the people cf the other sections of the country , will indorse all reasonable and proper legislation along this line. Sectional lines have long been obliterated, and an appeal from one part oL1 our peo- j pie in distress touches the hearts of i , all our people. There may be 'honest differences of 1 f i (opinions as to what is the best thing : to do, and I think that perhaps the i . people of the South may have suffered ; in the opinion of the rest of the couni try because of some measures that | ! have been advocated. Some propos:- ! tions have been made that have im- i pressed me as being utterly impracti-' cable. But we can not excuse our: seV.es by simply opposing w':at we , i consider unwise. If we are to be true ' to ourselves and to the people whe sent us here, i' we are to be worthy of the positions we hold, we must work out a plan that will give the relief that it needed. I will never concede that we can not do this. i Like many other thinking men, in | , congress and out of it, I have my own ideas as to what should be done, but my pride oT opinion does not carry . | me so far as to oppose everything | else if I can not get just what I want, i I believe there is sufficient ability and statesmanship in this congress to solve the problem that is before us, and I will support any plan that! meets the approval of the mapority. I have been an advocate of a rural 1 credits system and have introduced a bill along this line. I believe that the problem of the South of today would be solved if we had a system by which farmers could borrow money direct from the government on their farm lands, on long time, and at low rates of interest. If we had that law today, f e farmer who has cotton could borrow money?not on his cotton but on his land?and he could store his cotton and grow other crops until cotton again became profitable, j The mechanic in the city or town I who finds himself thrown out of em- ! p'oyment because o the business de- j pression could under such a law buy a little farm and make a living foi* himsek' and his family while he was : paying for his home. Farm land, ! managed and tilled by an ambitious j man, would be as good security for ! a government loan as a government; bond itself. I t'-ink we might pass such a law as this and get it in operation within a short time, and that it would be fhe; salvation of the South, and t~ere wiM probably come times when it wouldi be the salvation oi the farmers of other sections of the country. But if it be impossible to work out i a rural credits bill now and put it in operation, then do something else. Give us emergency .legislation of some j kind, for there can be no denying the I fact that the people of tJ':e South today need help as badly as any people ever needed it. And I am not yet ready to believe that congress win adjourn without giving it. I can not conclude these remarks, ! Mr. speaker, without giving expression to a thought that weighs very heavilv nnnn me. and that is that the. 1 farmers oi.' the South are themselves very largely to blame for the plight they are in today. Of course they had nothing to do with bringing on the war in Europe and th.us cutting off the market for their cotton, but they have been to blame for attempting to grow nothing but cotton. By doing this they have put themselves at the mercy of people and' conditions over which j they could have no control. T'he/ji climate of the South- is ideal; its soil is the most fertile in the world. The people of the South can grow success- i fully any crop that is grown anywhere in the United Slates. The people oiJ the South, can make all their foodstuffs at home. And* if they had been doing this, and making cotton as a surplus, they would not now be facing disaster and coming here in desperation and asking for help. But while thev may have comtribited to . . their present condition, they are none! t'he less in sore straits, and they deserve whatever help we can give them. And I believe the help we are asked 10 give now win oe simpiy emergency hep. I believe the people of thej South will learn a much-needed, lesson from this experience. They will growon their farms the things needed on t'beir farms?grains and meats?and that in the futifcure cotou will be a' surpliis crop, a money crop, pure and! simple, and not a food crop. That istl'ie trouble now; many farmers de-' pend on the sale of their cotton for acutal food for themselves and their families and the horses and mules that pull their plows. If they can not realize money on their cotton they can noit eat. This is an ugly truth, but it is the truth nevertheless. So we are1 asked '.tor emergency legislation, and the emergency is very real and pressing. And for this reason I am prepared to support almost any legislation that meets with the approval of my colloo .'*n oc o*n H T ocm nn wi-llin or fnr? +V10 iv.u5"^Oj uu u x am uii ?? L\j i tuv | congress to adjourn until something is j :j uone. (Applause.) 'ij ,m NEWS OF EXCELSIOR Very Few Attend State Fair?Xeed to Use Spl/t Log Brag?School Opens?Sow/ng Grain. Excelsior, Oct. 29.?The weaither much' Cooler with kilning frost Wednesday morning. Very few of our people attended t.e fair in Columbia *his week. Cotton too cheap to encourage fair going. iMt. Pilgrim school opened Monday morning. .Fxocisior school will also | open very soon. Prof. Aumerle Singley who is teach- j ing near Union has been on a visit home. iNow is a good time to use the log I drag on the public roads. In the death of Mr. J. P. Kinard, of Bachman chapel section, the commun- ! ity has lost a good citizen and the home a kind father. Peace to bis I ashes. iTihe legislature would have done a i ... good thing if it had reduced the cot- ; ton acreage :cr next, year to six acres j to tne horse if it i.ad rion-i nothing " I -Cjrc. Mrs. H. J. Ki.iard and Mrs. J. W Hart man spent Wednesday in Newberry shopping. Mr. G. B. Dominick, of Greenwood, ( has been visiting relatives in this i section. (Mrs. R'boda Watts has returned "home -:'rom a visit to relatives at Chappells and Newberry. Our people are busy sowing grain and a large acreage will be sown in this section. The time has come when the people feel that something more than cqtton is needed. A large amount < 1 CH. I B T^T?/^V^ f T*T Ir i\uivi i r SMC^El OTART'the Perfe ^ the breakfast ho the whole room is w The food tastes better ? < for the whole family. The Perfection is an ever extra heat is needed ? se kerosene ? easy to handle use. It is smokeless and At hardware and furniture stoi j STANDAI Washington, D. C. ( Norfolk, Va. Richmond, Va. of peavine bay has alsc been gath- ties, ered. the A. Mr. J. D. Stone bas teen busy us- Pros-p ing tne paint brush on the new school ^ building at St. Lukes. Imn Little Miss Warneda A&dy, of Sa- ^ev" a luda county, is visiting Mrs. J. D. 0C^00^ Stone. where Mrs. J. H. Ki'bler has been Gn a ti ree weeks visit to her daughter, Mrs. J. I). Stone. Unitec i . . ture LVIrs. Ben Wheeler, oi. Coium.-Dia, is up . W sper.c;:;.^ a wnue wua ^er parcius, Mr. and Mrs. A. M C mats. A ?rcat Jemand l\>r teed wheat in D&a tbib section. Sometime .heap cotcon reques does good after all. 'Sow wheat and 1 warde raise other eatables too. Farme Sigma Items Educationally. Southern Sfchool News. -phe Superintendent Swearingen has to ab< nrade arrangements tk> throw the | the fil Newberry high school open to pupils j A w.irom the entire county, free of tui- j ^ pr tion charges. The money which would 1 formal have come from the tuition fees will be made up of Aunds at the disposal of the superintendent for high school j Qurgs ^ ^ Thewoi Anderson college opened its doors ( *r<Lcur j Porter's for its third .session on September 17. i Pain an For so young an institution t'uc en rollment is splendid, more than one hundred students having enrolled. this session. Dr. James P. Kinard is ! The entering upon his first year as head ' an(j cc of tiii-s institution. , tober : Last year the Little Mountain sehool j xtoi won a Drize 'lor having every child in jai of school age in the district in atten- : those dance. This year the teachers, pupils ' 1915, ( and trustees '-ope to duplicate that1 those record. j1st to The Mollohon Mill school of New- ' adding berry -has been supplied with single .1915, t and double desks, through Mr. George ] W. Summer. in mo: IU M. Wise, of Prosperity, will teach school the Daisy May school, near Ellen ton, when ] as principal. of Ms One of the new assistants in the tant, 1 Graniteville graded school it Miss school Julia Johnston. Thoi fAiiss Rosine Singley has accepted of Dei a rural school near Owings. to coir Wiiiteszdes->abers. for th< York News,' 22nd. ber 25 Miss Minnie W]-itesides and Rev busy t Charles H. Xabers were married at in s the home of the bride's father, Mr. j 2 cenl Jeff. D. Whitesides, near Hickory cannot Grove. Tuesday afternoon at 4 If ir o'clock, Rev. G. B. Pressly officiating, to reg: Owing to a recent bereavement in the ; must 1 family the marriage was a quiet af- i Ey i air, only a few intimate friends be- 1913, \ ing present J special The bride was becomingly gown- ; which ed in a dress oC white crepe meteor, Tne trimmed with real lace and pearls. Tho. moir? rvf hr>nnr U18S Miss Lois State Whites ides and the best man Mr. j Ordina Charles Stewart, of Newberry. j Court The bride is an accomplished Road i young lady who 'has made a host of Ordina friends by ber many lovable quali- Roads IE BREAKFAST ROON iF^CTlON ,E&||pm HEATERS ction Heater going five minutes ur; by the time the family gets arm and cozy. everybody feels better. It's a bully morning -ready comfort. It is light ? you carry it ^ wing-room or cellar, bedroom or parlor. : and inexpensive ? and costs nothing whe odorless. res everywhere. Look for the Triangle Trade-Mat *D OIL COMPA NEW JERSEY) Charlotte RAT TIMORF.. K: I( The groom is a minister of Constitutic R. P. church, and is located at erity, S. C, where he is held Total .. jh esteem oy his congregation. Except lediately aJler the "^emony, where an jid Mrs. Nabers left on tL.e 5:30 been levie k Southern :rain for Prosperity, they will make their home. Tcwnshi Township NOTICE. , Township I States Department of Agricul- And exc< ?Division oj Publications tricts, wh ashiniaton, D. C., 06t 14, 1914. been levie imuel Nan'ce, Helena, S. C. r Mr. Nance: Repaying to your No. 1, Nei >t of October 8-th, we have for- No. 5, McC d to you today 500 copies of t'he No. 9, Dea< :r's Bulletin No. 519. No. 10, Ut< Very truly .yours, *>s*0, ^xi J. A. Arnold, Sal Editor and chief. ^*?- ^0, very uselArl literature referred Xo- 26> Po1 3ve will be given out free on *^0, ^itl st Saturday in November in T. ^0- 23. Jc 1 lianas' hall. Let every farmer esent and get this useful in- No- 35> Ex tion. No. 39, Ch VT_ At _ i\t>. *1, uv 'Sam Nance, Jr. Nq 45_ Trf ild Seres, jttier Remedies Won't Cure. ^?' No d2 W1 :st cases, no matter Of how long-standing, I * * ' ed by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. ! J\0. 56, Zi< ; Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves ? d Heals at the same time. 25c, 50c, $1.00 No. oo, oil' NO. 11, He TAX NOTICE. No. 12, Joi County Treasurer's office. books for the collection of State ^?* ^ >unty tax will be open from Oc- -s'?L5tb. to December 31st, 1914. ^?* ?p w.ho rc^fpr to do so can nav ^0. 22, St. auary, 1915, with 1 per cent; No- 31> wli who prefer to pay in February, ^u? ;an do so by adding 2 per cent; who prefer paying from March ?9, March 15, 1915, can do so by A Po11 t ; 7 per cent; after March 15, levied on .he books will be closed. a?es ( 3. -Taxpayers awning property those exen re than one township or special ^ tax of district will please inform me dogs, paying or writing for the amount Persons or her tax. This is very impor a commute there being so many special: 15th of Oc districts. ! of Decemb se who wish to pay by the 31st All taxp member, 1914, and do not care have been le to the office, will please write see that y< 2 amount not later than Decern- piece o: pr , 1914. After that time I am too o answer letters promptly. ending stamps, nothing above a t stamp should be sent as I A'OTICI ; use them. Notice is loney is sent, it would be best | dersigned i ister same; if sent otherwise, it and testme De at sender's risk. deceased, ' - * ^ /\ T? c<+ eferring to your tax receipts or Uil kUC rou will know the township and probate coi 1 school district, or both, in November your property is located. forenoon, levy for 1914 is as follows: against sai Mills duly attest 6 persons in ry County 3Vz make payn House ^ md Bridge Note *4 ry County Note % and Bridges 1 -October I irz\ a \ \ - I> 1 before Is 1 '^Jij jjjfij send-off I E t vherever It burns Lai School Tax 3 f ____ \ 14% I the following localities, additional railroad tax has d: Mills ip No. 1 1& No. 8 3 No. 9 2 Jj ept the following school dis- | ere special school tax has | Mills \ vberry 6 !u llough 2 .5 >pia 1 Dsperity 6*4uda 2 I Creek t ^ naria t j le Mountain 10*4 1 ilW Strppt 4 Pauls 2 celsior ... ... ... ..2 m appells 4 minicks 2 1 nity 4 apa 4 litmire 5 Dn 4 rerstreet & irtford 2 mstone 2 Lukes 1 4 'eall 2 irview 2 ilton 4 Philips 4 eeland 2 ih River 2 yrna 4 essley 2 ax of One Dollar has been ^ all male citizens between A >f 21 and 60 years, except jam lpt by law. 50 cents each is levied on \ liable to road duly may pay ition tax of $2.00 from the tober, 1914, to the 31st day er, 1914. i layers remember all taxes i listed separately, and please V mi have a receint for each % operty so listed. ^ Jno. L. Epps, County Treasurer. 2 FOAL SETTLEMENT i hereby given that the un- g is Executors of the last will nt of RosannaJh C. Hart man, 1 will make final settlement ate of said deceased in the urt for Newberry county on 7, 1914, at 11 o'clock in the Mm All persons holding claims d Estate will present same, l|j ed, before that date and all || debted to said Estate will Jm lent Ben. S. George, JH M. G. Shealy, MM Executors. ^Bpi >, 1914. MBm