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VOLUME LIU, XUMBER 90. ' NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, DECEJEBER 10, 1915. TWICE A WEEK, HA0 A YEAR. Austria Must I Sinking i FRIENDLY TERMS BUT FIRM STAND CALLS FOR SPEEDY ASSURANCES AGAINST REPETITION OP ATm * r>T~ * vn nun tot rriA V 1A1/A AJll lUjl .iiv.txivi' FOR AMERICAN LIVES. State of Affairs Has Been Furthe* Complicated by Reports of Activities of Submarines Against Oil Ships in Mediterranean Recently, Capital Believes. Washington. Dec. 8.?The United States has sent to Austria-Hungary a note asking for a disavowal of the submarine attack upon the Italian liner Ancona, assurances that such an ' J - ? " N I act will not De repeated, some ucgicc of punishment for the commander of the submarine, and reparation for American lives lost. The communication started by cable _ yesterday from the state department to Ambassador Frederick C. Penfield at Vienna, who was instru|ted to hand it to the A'ustro-Hungarian minister of foreign affairs, Baron Burian. Word of delivery of the note had not been received by the department tonight. Friendly but firm terms, it is said, characterized the documtnt, which is understood to make a point of prompt assurances for the future safety of American lives. Austria-Hungary has never informed the United States, whether the commanders of its submarines had been given instructions similar to those which the German government gave to its commanders after the Lusitania tragedy. Asks for Explanation. Ti fhat the note re XI 1?> UUUCl oiuuu k-uv ferred particularly to the charge that shells from the "submarine killed or wounded some passengers on the An<;ona after she had halted, and asked for an explanation of that point. In dispatching tne note Secretary Lansing acted with the approval of President Wilsou and after consulting I with him. It is stated authoritatively that the document, which is described ' Vv mC /> P -O T-k as being comparative v unci UVL UV/ , cidedly vigorous in tone, was so drafted as to attempt a settlement of the controversy at once, without bringing on a series of communications such as followed the sinking of the Lusir tania. High officials are said to be of the opinion that the situation is one which calls for grave consideration, the state of affairs having become more com- 1 plicated since the note was dispatched c ~ t ~ nvt/irt A morico n Dy reporu> ui ana^Rs Upvru a | oil-carrying vessels in the Mediterranean, presumably by Austrian submarines. Surprise to Washington. News that the note had been s-ent came as a complete surprise to official Washington generally, the reports which emanated from the state department early in the week being that no nositive and corroborated evidence (as to what actually had occurred when the Ancona wer.t down had been received. It was said that the reports received were fragmentary, conflicting or contradictory, and that until a reply to the inquiries submitted to Austria-Hungary was received it was probable that no communication would be sent to Vienna. Tonight it was suggested in some quarters that information of a most conclusive na ture had come to Secretary i^ansing, probably late Monday night, and that it had been decided then that the protest should go forward immediately. Whether Ambassador Penfield had transmitted the reply to the Vienna foreign office to the list of queries1 submitted by the United States could not be ascertained.. Wj, Some Reply Received. The belief prevails, however, that the state department had received an swer of some sort to queries. In the ^ inquiry Austria-Hungary was asked fcpmong other things whether a warn-' ^^ping shot had been fired before thel V ~ ship was shelled, whether time was j I given the passengers to get to a place I of safety and whether any shots were fied at the ship after she had come to disavow of the Ancona ~ ^ 4-: 11 UAf/NWA 4*Vv/-\ *f rvr*rvo<^rv ci stauusuu ciiiu ucivic c"c. <.\ji i which sank her was launched. The Aaistro-Hungarian embassy here had not been advised tonight that the inquiry had been answered and it was said that the Italian ambassador, who has transmitted much information upon the sinking of the Ancona. had j not furnished the United States with anything additional. j The Ancona was sunk in the Medi- ' terranean sea on November 9, while | bound from Naples for New York, j The only testimony of a native Ameri- ; can survivor of the liner before the department is a deposition by Dr. Ce-: cile Greil of New York. In her depo- i sition Dr. Greil asserts specifically that; the liner was torpedoed while the men, j women and children in the cabin and srppras'A were scrambling: to get into ! the small boats. The department had j been inclined not to accept this single i statement a.s positive proof unless cor- j roboration was received from some j source. Of Much Importance. Much weight was given, however, |, to what Dr. Griel had to say. Her j testimony was considered of so much J (importance that she was* 'taken toj whprp she told her storv to ! Ambassador Page. A report of the conversation reached the state department recently. After the inquiry of the United States had been before the Vienna foreign office several days Ambassador Penfield reported that more time was desiied in which to frame a reply. Last week Secretary Lansing instructed the ambassador to urge a prompt reply. Thp American note, it is understood, sets forth that the United States can | not believe that the commanders of Austrian submarines have committed icts of lawlessness except under a misapprehension of orders issued biy the naval authorities. It is declared that under methods of warfare such as these employed in the sinking of the Ancona it is practically impossible, mder such circumstances," to remain within the rules of fairness, justice ? and humanity. The principles of humanity and justice which were championed in notes to Germany are understood also to be brought strongly to the attention of the Austro-Hungarian government in this communication. Warning before submarine attacks is insisted upon. 1 While every opportunity is said to be left an amicable reply, the belief 1 prevails in usually well informed offi - i ciai circles inai me cumniumuauuu ia more vigorous than any dispatched to ' Germany while the controversy with ' that country over the conduct of submarine warfare was in progress. Xo ' intimation could be obtained tonight is to whether the United States had 1 determined whether any "inisinforma- [ cion" appeared in the statements of the ' occurrence which have been issued by ] the Austrian admiralty. The Austrian conten:ion was that a warning shot was fired, that the ship tried to escape ' and that she finally came to a stop after being hit several times, that 50 minutes was given in which the pas- ( sengers might take to the boats. At the end of that period, it was claimed, another vessel approached and the submarine submerged and torpedoed the Ancona, which sank at the end of an- ] other period of 45 minutes. It was deniprJ than aniv lifehoatc were firpd at. ; but it was said that some of the loss of life was caused by the failure of ; the commander of the Ancona to act promptly. The Italian statement on the subject alleged that no warning was given before the submarine started shelling the ship, which immediately came to a stop, and that shells were exploded on the decks of thte vessel and in the lifeboats, killing and wounding many passengers. Just now many American 'lives were lost on the Ancona never has been definitely established. It is known that several naturalized citizens were lost. Reports on this point, however, have been so conflicting that the state department never has been able to compile an accurate list The text of the American note, it was said tonight, will be given out for publication in morning papers of Friday. \ EMERGENCY TAXES , TO BE CONTINUED i Leaders Prepare to Act Before Conpress Takes Its Holiday ' Kecess. Washington, Dec. 8.?After a conference with Secretary McAdoo, Chair man Kitchin of the house ways and means committee announced that the Democrats would put in congress before the holiday recess a bill to continue the emergency war revenue law which would expire by limitation December 31. This is estimated to raise more than $80,000,000 annually. Mr. Kitchin said repeal of the free sugar clause of the Underwood tariff law mi^ht hp rnnsider^d at the same time. although it has been understood ihat the administration's general revenue measures might not be taken up until after the holidays. The emergency tax law probably will be extended for a year. The legislation was suggested by Secretary McAdoc as one of the things Congress should do to provide for present and txpected financial burdens. There is no necessity for immediate action to keep the duty on raw sugar, as under the Underwood law sugar J A A"U _ C <nn-v? uoes not go uh uie ncc not uuui summer. Cotton Goin?r l"p. Our staid, conservative contempodary, the Charlotte Observer, is feeling very much encouraged over the cotton situation and has visions of fifteen cents for spots. In its sisue 01 last Sunday it gives its views as follows: The Observer is inclined to the notion that King Cotton has taken out a ticket for a through trip to Station Xo. 15, which would mean where cotton is selling at 15 cents; but, of course, he will be subject to side-tracking delays. This opinion is strengthened by mcimproved outlook for export trade. European supplies have fallen quite low and an early replenishing will be required. A cotton authority, a mem ber of the exchange tel':s Financial America that he does not look for an active market for the next 60 days, or until after the government ginning re port on Wednesday and the estimate of the production on Friday of next week are out of the way. In the meantime, he adds, a so-called day-to-day market can be expected, with prices ' influenced by factors as they arise. Tbis member stated he was of th? opinion that 9 670,000 bales, the lowest reported figures of the National Gin- ; ners' association, were about right. He?s pointed out that such a total would show approximately 893,000 bales turn[-d out during the last two weeks, as i against 1,404,000 bales in the same period last year and would indicate a : "ron nf something around 11.000.000. What is the most important cotton factor, just now, according to this interest. however, is the good spot demand in the South and the excellent inquiry : for spots in Liverpool and Manchester. ; He stated that the spot sales in Liver- pool from day to day show large amounts changing hands. But what is important is the opinion expressed by this authority that exports will be in- ; creased shortly. He believes that supplies in Europe must be running fair- j Itt Irtw ocnoHnllv u*lipn it is rpmftm bered that only a small proportion of 'his year's crop has been sent over, and therefore the stocks will have to be replenished. It is altogether likely, however, thar a large part of the cot- . ton to be sent out has already been purchased in this country and is probably stored in the South. Nevertheless, a sudden export movement of a large amount of the staple would have i sympathetic effect on prices here. Box Party. There will be a box party at tne residence of Colin L. Graham December 24, 1915, beginning at 6 o'clock, for the benefit of the Methodist parsonage at Pomaria. We invite all the girls of the neighborhood to come and bring a box and help a good cause. There will be a cake walk and music. Santa Claus, Auctioneer. !C. L. Graham, Clerk. Box Supper. The Ladies Aid society of Trinity church will have a box supper at Mrs. Lucy Longshore's Friday night. December 10, 1915. Everybody come. 4 v_ SIMPLICITY KEYNOTE i OF WILSON WEDDING * j PRESIDENT AND MRS. GAl'LT TO BE 31ABKIED DECEMBER 18. I Only Members of Immediate Families Will Be Present?Plans for Honey. Moon Trip Kept a Secret. -? I Washington, Dec. 4.?Extreme sim- i plicity will be observed at the wedding! of President Wilson and Mrs. Norman Gait, which the white house announced i will be solemnized December 18, two weeks from today, at the home of Mrs. j Gait here. The arrangements virtual-' ly have been completed. iThe president will have nc best man at the wedding and !Mrs. Gait will not formally select a maid of honor, although one of her : sisters, probably Miss Bertha Boiling of this city, will escort her during the, ceremony. , i The announcement at the white. hnusp that anlfv members of the two families and the president's immediate household would attend the wedding I and that no formal invitations would j be issued surprised official /Washing- J ton. It had eben expected that at least! a few of the president's friends would j be invited. The Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, rector of St. Margaret's Protestant Episcopal church here, which '.Mrs. Gait ! has attended in recent months, has j tentatively been selected as the offi- i cial clergyman, although it is possible ( that the Rev. Slyvester Beach of the i president's church in Pdinceton may .1 act. The president and Mrs. Gait spent practically the entire day together today discussing final arrangements for* the wedding. They played golf to-! gether this morning and went for an i automcbile ride this afternoon. At Mrs. Gait's Home. The wedding ceremony will be performed in the drawing room of Mrs. i Gait's home, where a temporary altar j will be erected. The ceremony will; be in the evening. There will be no large reception afterwards, but official Washington will have an oppor- ( tunity to extend personal congratulations at the Pan-American reception, the first of the formal social affairs of the white house season, January 7. Plans for the honeymoon trip are be- j ing kept secret, but it is known the I couple plan to leave Washington shortly after the ceremony. The Mayflower, the president's yacht, is being ; kept here and it has been reported that 1 at least a part of the trip may be made j on *water. !: In spite of intimations that the pres-; ident and Mrs. Gait did not expect!1 many wedding presents, a number of officials and close friends are plan- >( ning to send them gifts. 'The formal announcement of the j wedding plans was written out by the president himself this morning. Im-! mediately afterward he left the white, house to visit Mrs. Gait. Both have ; agreed that all the details shall be as 1 simple as possible. Gnests for Wedding:. Joseph R. Wilson of Baltimore, the president's brother; Mrs. Anne Howe, his sister, and !Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, the president's daughter, will be guests : at the white house when they come to attend the wedding. Miss Margaret Wilson and Mrs. W. G. McAdoo, the other two daughters of the president, aurauj ucic. The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Gait j who will be present are Rolfe E. Boll-;; ing of Panama, Mrs. M. H. Maury, An- ' '' niston, Ala, and Mrs. Alexander H. i Gait, Jobn Randolph Boiling, Miss Ber tha Boiling, Richard W. Boiling and Julian B. Boiling, all of Washington. Dr. IW. Boiling of Louisville, Ky., another brother of Mrs. Gait, will be unable to attend the wedding because / of the serious illness of his wife. The duty of obtaining a marriage license will fall to I. H. Hoover, chief usher at the white house, who per- j formed similar services for the wed-j' dings of fMrs. McAdoo and Mrs. Sayre. j Mrs. Thomas Hill Adams. The State. Leesville, Dec. 7.?Mrs. 'Thomas Hill j Adams of Leesville died Monday night, j after an invalidism of several years. Mrs. Adams is survived by her husband and five children, all of whom were with her during her last days, j except George IW'. Adams of Port Ar- j linir, Texas. s> * $> THE IDLER <S> <t> You know, I have been reading the Sate pretty reguladly since it was established. Many times I have not agreed with it on public questions, but I always gave it credit for honesty of purpose, and it is a prtty good newspaper. Sometimes I have thought that it was not always fair to the fellow who did not agree with it, but this is not what I started out to say or to write about. It is only in the last few weeks that I have read rather regularly the paragraphs under the head of ''The State's Survey," I want to tell you. that fellow who gets them up is one of the best I ever read after. It is a hard matter to write a column of paragraphs every day, and say something worth whole, or something that would entertain for the moment even, but that fellow, whoever he is, is on the job every day, and sometimes he is real good. I picked up a paper jus; the other dajy which I especially enjoyed. One of his first ones is: "There was never yet a paragrapher who could endure the stomach-ache patiently." Well, if tliat was a personal remark it had little to do with the remainder of that paper, and then he writes about things just like he was married. Listen to these two: "There are 9,876,543 - games of chance in the world. And the biggest of them all is marriage." "A Cincinnati woman says that thou-1 sands have died from kissing. 0, death, where is thy sting!" And I agree most heartily in this one: "We can atand almost any kind of man. But the follow who gives you a hand like a limp fish to shake isn't one of 'em." Then here is another which is very suggestive of the truth that there has boen a lot of lying going on about (he number of people who have been killed and wounded in the great war across the ditch: "If the massacre figures are correct, we judge that at the beginning of the war .Armenia had a population of 800,000,000." According to the reports there have bten more people killed and wounded in this war than there are people on the entire face of the known world. Then I agree, to a large extent, with the one which follows this one a littl3 j further down the column: "One of the greatest troubles witii this poor old world is the circumstance the the Fool Killer appears to stay so' seldom on his job." Then Mr. Ford gets a little advertisement in this same column: "Mr. Ford says he will give up his entire fortune if it will end the war. Tnat isn't all you'll give up, Henry, if the water gets a little agitated."' Talking about (Mr. Ford and peace, it is said, I have heard, that Mr. Ford paid $49 000 for the reservations on his peace ship and immediately sold the right to some movie picture man for $.">0,000 to be allowed to accompany the ship and take pictures for the movies. Now, if Mr. Ford should give up his estire fortune?which I hear is something like $.">1,000,000 in cash in banks, not to speak of his other holdings?I imagine he would sell out at profit. He must be a pretty good business man as well as good advertising agent. There is one thing about this trip of Mr. Ford?while, so far as i am concerned, I think it is all wrong find will not have the right tendency So far as loyalty to government is concerned and all that?yet there is one thing about it and that is it* wilJ cause more peace talk than we have had in a long time, and you may say what you please, ycu cam keep talking a ihing and writing it and after a while you will have the people believing it and then doing it, because before you can get people to do yoj must make them believe. I am old time in my views of life and of government. and I don't know iust how to adjust myself to some of the new theories and practices, but I just drift along with the stream, I reckon, and do the best I can. OThe world is just i how passing through a great transi-' tion period and it will take some time for matters to adjust themselves, but | it will all come out just right, because somewhere there is an all wise hand that is directing the destiny of nations just as it is the destiny of individuals, ?> ? <$> COTTON MARKET ^ $> <+ <#'$><$><$><?><&Q><&<$><$><?><$><&<&$<$>? <$> dewberry, <3> <$ Cotton 12c \,ouon seea, per du o<%c ^ j <S> O <? Prosperity. ^ <? Cotton 12 ^4 c ^ <$> Cotton seed, per bu 64%c <> <$> v , <? $> Pomaria. ^ ^ Cotton : 12c & ^ Cotton seed, per bu 63%c ^ <3> <$> Little Mountain. ^ Cotton 12c <?> Cotton seed, per bu 64%c ? ? ' SiWerstreet ^ <?> Cotton 12c ? Cotton seed, per bu 64%c ? *> S> Cttappells. ^ Cotton 12c ^ Cotton seed, per ton ^ <$> ? ?> Kinards. Cotton llf^c ^ & Cotton seed, per bu 65c ^ *> <3> Wbftinlre. ^ <?- Cotton 12c ^ <$> Prvttnn nor Kn ' finA ^ o I ? Central i3T. E. Chnrch, South.? (Rev. F. E. Dibble, Pa?tor.) Services for Sunday, December 12, will be as follows: Morning service, 11 a. m., subject, "The Dignity of a Citizen of the Kingdom." Sunday school, 3:30 p. m. Epworth league, 6:45 p. m. Evening service, 7:30 p, m.; subject, "The Eternal Conflict." All rnrdiallv invited to attend these services, and to make themselvesat heme in Central church. Chalmers-Squierib Miss Sara Chalmers and Mr. W. W. Squiers were mamed early Tuesday orning, much tr the surprise of fctr many friends, Rev. 'Carson performing the ceremony. Mr. Squiers is from Mathews, N. C., and is to be coongratulited on winning so lovable a bride. They left on the 2.30 train for New \ork. i Among those who composed the excutive committee of the state intercollegiate oratorical contest which was held at Clemson college last week was K. R. Kreps of Newberry college. 'The 1916 contest will be held at Greenwood. and it is an omnisciest as well as all powerful and all wise hand. Here is another paragrai.her from that State paragrapher of the same issue which had the remark about the stomach-ache, but it is so good that I miifit mint ft it: "A dog can't talk to tell you when he wants anything. But he can certainly cram a lot of eloquence in Old Colonel Tail." Yes, that's true, and did you ever look into the eyes of a faithful old dog and see the intelligence that beamed through them. I had a faithful old clog once, and I can see now how lie could express his pleasure at my return, when I had happened to be away, through those beg speaking I eyes of his. And that tail, it would I express a whole lot more than some -e ?1 T V>o-i-o TiearH And OI UlUtetJ i na r uv,v. v.. | then the beautjy about the talk of the i old tail and the intelligence and elo! quent speech that came from the eyes, ! you knew it was true and sincere. A good dog?man can have no better or truer friend. * The gift season will soon be here, and then it should be especially the pleasure of every one in so far as h? is able, to give something to the poor? that should be his concern all the time ?but while those in more favored circumstances are enjoying the festive J?? tv... n?vf fm'crat tVi O occasion CUCJ' SUVU1U Ul/t 1VI gvi, poor. I hope that the occasion will not be celebrated by a lot of foolish shooting of big cannon crackers and all that sort of thing. There is no one who enjoys more than I do the seeing of the boys and girls have a good time, but I do like to see a little reason in it. Let's have a good time like "White . folks" an?~ejvtlemen. wr $ THE IDLER. L iBUSnB