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I Anderson Dry I Mor Oni* ctni*0 le iv/vtl UWA V AW tomers grea Corsets, Lad A Homes 3,000 yards 7c w special while it lasts, Dresses I Big line Dresses, : and Children. The have shown. Ladies' Dresses, 85 Misses' Dresses, 75 Children's Dresses, (Save your cash regis? ceipts for premiums. Assortments larger ever. PAimNC SAilAlK 11X11 is ill U U^vuvi/ CONTINUE WORK CHAIiLESTOX TIGEKS" 0> THE RUN. War (ioe on Against Illegal Sale of Whiskey and Operation of Gambling Places. TheState. '* Charleston, April 1.?With two raiding squads, aided by the detective force, operating again today, and slot machines valued at $7,600 reduced to punk in t e stable yard of the poMee \ station, besides many gallons of booze * stored in the station ) ou.se ready to be turned over to the county dispensary, the opinion is generally prevalent that Charleston will be "dry as a bone" before th^ week is up. While a crowd v./ ich had rapidly gatl'ierej looked en v.ith awe. a strong arm squad o:" "blue coats'' swung axes .right and left in the stable yard of the police station this morning:, reducing 38 slot machines to spliners. Busfaels of trade checks, nickels and aMortorc raftlpcl ATI tllf* PHnoTPto nlVG ; ?ent as the machines fell apart under Itee well directed blows of the axes, au4 were gathered up by the handful; tbe monkey to be counted in the office flbie cihief of. police and turned over lo tfte county treasurer. la the lobbv of the station bottles, \ kegs, barrels and cases of liquor anJ feeer were neatly stacled, giving the place the appearance of a dispensary headquarters or a distiller's stor-i room. The booze will be receipted for by the county dispen ser. The results vof tfce wholesale raiding yesterday an] ?coday included a'most every class ostrong drink from the finest wines down to the cheapest beer and rum. Not only are the tigers demoralized, but it is stated on. r.uthoiity that the 'crap joints" and r uiette tables. 3s "well as poker games and other gambling, have been closed down since the report spread t: at the police were o*(t lor me strictest eniorccment 01 law that many in Charleston have ever known. The raiding squads found many doors padlocked in their rounds of yesterday and today, for the news of their coming had spread like wildfire. There were many, however, take a by surprise. The squads are operating in two patrol wagons, and their movements have been kept an quiet as possible. All hotel bars are known to be PKgwg*?3EHE!M?JmwuB&msGTar&Mmaiatsik ; Goods Company? y vii A&fl e and Bet narlfPfl with tK ** *?** ter values than ies', Misses and < FEW SI spun V> i -f- rv TTrnnaonnn 20 c 11 1 1/ C HVllltO^UIlj j r and el yard - 5c for All 2I8 for Misses, Ladies . while prettiest line we 183 c to $1.98 c to 81.48 35c to $1.48 294 than NDE Main Street closed, and complaints from the trav- I elling public are already heard <K. j Chief of Policc Cantwell was reticent j in speaking of the wholesale raiding | t' is morning and said that he did :o1J care to state specifically what his orders from the mayor were. But evidently the orders call for a strict onrcrcement of the liquor and gambling laws. The $7 600 wor'j: of slot machines j which were destroyed at the station j >oi;se this m rning were sold to ?i j j local junk dealer after the axe, treat-1 ment, for $1, and it wasn't much of a j fc?.rgain, either "Did you expect tr.-e haul today to bo as large as it was yesterday?" Chief Cantwoll was asked. He replied V at he could i^ot say, that it might ' be larger, and that there was to be no "let up" in the enforcement of the . law. It is stated fl at about a score of! tigers were raided yesterday. Tae; raiding squads are not taking them as i they come, but are jumping from one j part of the city to another, the idea ' 1 being- to prevent warning being so-:: ahead of tlicm. There tas been no re- ! j stance offered, and the coming of the j i squad was said to havj been imex-; , I peeted. I May Oust German Potash. Columbia Record. A great deal of consternation was j: I ~ J n K 11 f t- rnfl I ' in. luis cuuiiiij auuui, j years ago wi.:en it was announced tha: ,1 the German government had decided j{ to limit the amount of potash or kainit. |1 The cotton farmers of this country j1 were, at ti at time, absolutely depend- ! ^ ent upon the kali salts of Germany, j1 The United States government sent (] out a regiment of geologists to find j potash deposits in this counttry. Th.ve i < was a "find'' in Virginia, but evident- ;: , ly it has not amounted. The German j * ! government was persuaded to raise its i j arbitrary embargo. ; i I lit* siq;|;iv in vjci is i-it.v- ? j haustible, but ti e German govern-j j ment was far-seeing and realized tliat j < j to let its potash be shipped without!r j restrictions would mean to cheapen j ] the commodity, xne united states , < government '-'.as never been paternal- j j istic enough to protect its cotton farm-j? ers in the same manner. j < But now ccmes the announcement;1 that Yankee ingenuity has circumvent- j 1 ed tre necessity of depending upon j < ^ ^ r o r~* A T7^/-7 o ? ? n ! "UrCl UJ.au v. i-nuiiiai a. i^uiouru n-a^ in- ? vented a met)' od for making synthetic dyes to replace the artificial aniline:: of Germany, and the New York Times j I 'l' t && A 1 V V ter Barga e market's best ever in Dry U Children's Dresi a T n Tennis 1 v/>r?A? /vf r I */-vvs v* i n ui lcuma uaiuiuo, wmi trildren, 50c value 40c pair. Walk CK pair of Walk Over Oxford they last $1.?8 pair. Ladies' pairs of Ladies' $2 Slippers, Children's pairs Children's $ 1.25 and of last Friday told of sales in that city of 10,000 tons of "American potash," a- i a price about equivalent to wfbat is paid for the German natural product j during normal periods. Tne "American potash" was furnished by a concern on the Pacific coast which is manufacturing it from the seaweed known as kelp, wi':ich contains a large percentage of potash salts. T:e kelp is secured by dredging it from the bottom of the sea along the coast and it is said to be there in inexhaustible quantities. TTSftir tnno nf L-oln will nrrwinPo fiva i litj tVUO Ut W WVhMVV -* V I tons of fertilizing material, of whicii' one tone is potash. Fertilizer manufacturers have been hoarding their supply of German potash, which ordinarily fras been bringing about $45 j per ton, but might i:.ave gone to $100 but for this discovery. Tight Times and Full Skirts. New York llimes. Man so easily adjusts himself to immediate conditions and there is so much sheer perversity in events that fluctuations are always unexpected unci untimely. That is true of fluctuations in all manner of things, especially \vi eat, shares, railroad earnings and the quantity of material re-| nr.irpri fn mako a fashionable skirt, l It is possible at times to say that a [ maximum or minimum has been ! touched, and so to determine the di-! reetion in which the next change will! Dccur, but the time itself is then un- , ' pr? a in for t' ptp is also an inprtia i in things. It was long ago apparent) :hat the skirt has found its irreJuei- j ale proportions. Any change at all j ivould fcave to be toward greater full-' less. Indeed, when walking in it up and! i lown steps became hazardous and j sometimes fatal, one might have been j :easonabiv certain that the diminish-' ng tendency had gone already too far,; :hat the reaction would be violent,' md that the beginning of change was ' imminent. But even so probable an ! vent as that was strangely retarded. | rhe skirt, instead of growing wider, ap-: reared with a slit, and manufacturers j 3f fabrics continued to complain oi' ruin. Now. suddenly, unexpectedly, i uid at an awkward time the change. ^omes. The world being all upset by i >var, and everybody, on that account, I 'eeling poor and frugal, fashion de-! - roes mat a skitl sny.11 i>e wuie a.sa,m. j t Fixing tiie Responsibility. \" ?,* York Evening Post. It may seem a vain thing to attempt j nar/vs Twain tins in Eac merchandise an< oods, Shoes, Clol ses, Muslin Und< n/icivrrinF ATAJUi ^ JL AN/ti Oxfords ;e and black, sizes for men, wc i rer Shoes Is, tan and black, $4 and $5 va Slippers special 50c pair. ? Slippers L Slippers, while they last 50c \ir\i7Dn 1>L VV ?>m at this day to fix the responsibility j for the European war, but Sir Edward : Grey did well, in I is address in Lon- i don a short time ago, to fasten atten- i tion upon one point. To prevent the | outbreak of war last August, he af-J firmed, there could have been "a Eu- [ ropean conference when and. where i Germany desired." Ti:is statement can be amply verified from t.:e official dispatches at the time. Indeed, the Ger- , i mans do not deny it. TLey simply , pass over it. It is not even mentioned < C - - 1 ~ + 1 orh*. ILT exiliupit:, ill Lilt; I'Lruuuvcisiai a.i 11- | ( cle recently published by Dr. Karl j ( Helfferich, the German minister of finance. This is skillful and plausible, , but begins with the Russian mobilization, passing over entirely the fact j ( that, if Germany had agreed to Eng- j land's proposals, steps could easily, have been taken to prevent further ^ mobilization in any of ti e countries 1 involved. The German government, 1 to be sure, declared that Sir Edward j * ' 1 Grey's plan was not feasible, but has | 1 never explained why. If the thing j 5 had to be done o.er again, we doubt! ( n'/MiU A {C TY1 i e C c fiOVdlipr. ! t II vjtci mail j \wuiu uxcxxxioo ov/ vu? m-uva 1;y r :e suggestion of (England that a 1 conference., of the powers be held, j 'when and where Germany desired." . i ? it DESTROYER WORST FOE i i THAT SUBMARINE II IS | t t . Berlin, April 1.?Count Reventlow, f in the Tages Zeitung, describes a "s;ib- ? marine num uy onusa uesiroveii. i i "Ti e light-footed torpedo boats | cither cruise at definite distances from 3 each other or they lie still, preserving' tv.e same distances. Each of them,' however, exercises all the time an ex- j j tremely careful control of fat sec-, ticn of the sea appointed for it. Tne | moment that the periscope of a submarine or perhaps the conning tower.' appears i-.bove the Surface, it is gred y at, or else a torpedo boat which ' ap- E pens to be favorably placed for the j ; manoeuvre leaps at top speed toward s the point where the submarine has p appeared, its cbjcc-t being to ram t; o j submarine before the adversary i as e seen it or has time to dive deep enough n to enable the vessel to glide over it. j, "Even if the attempt to ram is a a failure, the enemy's "destroyers only ; increase their watci fulness, on tiive ' e ground that the submarine must soon- a er or later come somewhere to the sur- j t face to get its bearings. That is particularly the case in waters whera t; ere is a great deal of merchant ship- ^ ping. , b "Owing to the narrow range of vis- ' Ti ] Anderson Dry ( :h Depart d we are offerii i~I #> 4-a M/%41 Liiiiig} i Ja11 ui srwear, Laces, 1 -IED HE1 Gin >men 2 bales checkec value, this sale, ? Another big si ,?p, ' new Spring patt yard Blouses c Some great val and Rompers. 5 stripes. New s pair. special each Cot *RY, S. C. ion of the submarine through its periscope, compared to ti'.ve range of its Dvn 'visibility from the bridge of a destroyer, it is quite possible 'ior a destroyer to receive it and reach the spot traveling at full speed before ti e submarine in turn can sight the destroyer and dive for safety. "It follows necessarily that submarines should sfoow themselves as li:tie is possible on the surface of the water. Recently, it has been repeatedly stated tJ:at German submarines have summoned British or French steamers .0 stop and ordered the crew to lease ECe vessel by signal or megaphone, rhat is exceedingly humane, but it is exceedingly dangerous and may he Ivor on a 1 - r vn oiuv/iuai. "Destroyers so far off, or in such a ight as to be invisible from a submarine, may be lurking or may note e neeting off submarine and steamer, ind may rapidly approach the spot, ndden perhaps behind the merchant >hip. The delay in sinking t):e merchantman may then easily prove fatal o the submarine. ''The torpedo boat is the submarine's . orst enemy. They can be used in all -vaters. There are large numbers of hem available. They are exceedingly liobile, and can rise from passivity o maximum speed at a moment's noTiiov ?arrv o-nnc rnrv IV. v.. i UV-J ?U1 i ; Jjuiifcj ?? * Hi ? V* J A A ire and capable of mortally injuring it a considerable distance any submarine showing itself *on the surfa.c?." I MIT nv VlfTTTlT.S BUT SOXE 0\ BKKIl Site! Fried rich Can Carry as >Iiich as Much ''Slide" Pick as Her Crew Can AtYord. Washington, April 1. ? Secretary Daniels announced tonight f at the laval board appointed to determine i c amount of coal, food and other applies allowed to the Prinz Eitel "riedrich had completed its ta.sk. Xo morraaiion was voucasa ea a.s iu l.ic ; xtent to which the Eitcl will be per- j flitted to provision cr as to how much j onuer sl:e will be permitted to sta> ; t Newport News. Secretary Dr.meis admitted, how- j ii- 1 l. _ ^ t'na ! v er, mat uit* navai uu<ii u inuncu uic < mount of every commodity to be j aken aboard, with one exception? j As a rule a good man can becoiiia j ad a blamed sight quicker .han a ad man can. become good.?*\V.v j "ork American. J wi/v-wi&vv nil iiillllMWHirn'tiMiTrnj 4 joods Company ifl H tig to our cus- P ions, Hosiery, I RmKrniHpn'fts. ighams | % 1 Apron Ginghams, 8c special the yard - 5c \ lipment Gi ghams, all ems, specially priced, 11 9c V i md Rompers fl ues in Boys' Blouses fl 0 doz. solid colors and M tyles. 39c values, . & P. Coats ] ton 5c spool. I M Silverstreet SchooL ; SiLverstreet, April 5.?T':-c Tenitisoa- J ian Literary socicty held its regular M election of officers Fri<iav, March 26, M | 1915. . M ! The following is the result of j election: j n rsiuem, .ur. rxt'aiv jn.d.vnu, v^h : president, Mr. Raymond Blair; recoSB j ir.g secretary, Miss Rosa Hamm; coifl | desponding secretary, Mr. ThomaM ! Fant; first reporting critic, Miss El-B i mira Long; second reporting critic,V Mr. Daniel Berry; prosecuting critic.! , JL'iss Gladys lEtilwell; chaplain, Mr. fl , Otto Nichols; executive commit!^, j Messrs. Raymond Blair, Moffett Fant fl ; and Miss Rosa Hamm, witfi Mr. Ray- V i mond Blair as chairman. , | The society has progressed well. i Some very interesting questions have ! been discussed by the pupils. The j question for debate next Friday is, I "Resolved, That the auti':or has been ] more benefit than the inventor." Affirmative, Miss Pearlv Hamm and Mr. Otto Xifhols. Negative, Miss Loom'.a 1 % am Berry and Mr. John Vernon Havird. ' This is considered a very important question. The town is enriched by a new resi j dence, that of Dr. H. B. Scnn. Ij I Miss Willie Mae Wise, of Prosperity, { visited her club girls last "V^ednes^W" miss f.v:innie .viae Qucypajru, ut cm, luda, spent ti e week-end with he<r brothers, Messrs. M. D. and Molt# i i | Sheppard. Mrs. Rosa Lester, from Prosperity, ' spent last week with relatives and j friend in Silverstreet and Saluda. T'-o R?v S p Knnn frio-IT" J j week services at Grace Lutheran church, Prosperity Thursday nigl' t. He i discussed the topic, 'The Mercy Seat.'' Mr. O. W. Long carried a crowd from j Siiverstreet down to Newberry Thurs; day in his auto. He did some very j skilful driving. I April f/.as brought fort): snow and I showers, but little sunshine. Most of jour right winter seems to be in the j spring. C':eerup! Don't despair, for behind | the darkest cloud seines the brightest sun. An Atlanta couple married an fcour after they first met. They are setting so these days that they marryalmost as quickly as Pney divorce.? Nashville Banner. Let's stop trying to apologize for any of the shortcomings of the na- A tions at war. Ti.ey all seem to have v.onrv beyond the limits of civilized ^ warfare.?Montgomery Journal.