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I @lic (Ehcraiu (Ehrouirlr1 i % > Published on Thursday by STRICKL1X PRINTING CO. Cneraw. S. C J. N. STRICKLIN, Editor and Manager. Successor to the Cheraw Reporter which was established July if, 1885, and entered as Second Class matter at Cheraw, S. C. Many plans have been advanced to solve the difficult financial question confronting the cotton growing States. Of these, the great majority are ol no practiqal value. Most of those who have given closest thought ami attention to the question agree on one thing, that is that each grower should hold as much coton as is possible, and as long as he possibly can, that the 1 market may not be glutted with cotton and the price depressed. The ' next point of general agreement is that the 1915 crop cut at least to one J half that of 1914, otherwise all plans are useless and however effective for the present, only postpone for a year the financial ruin of the South. But among the plans that, while possibly not entirely solving our difficulty, will vastly aid the farmer, is the "Buy a bale movement" now going on in many places. Most farmers will gladly take 10 cents a pound for their crop, and if any considerable part ol the crop could be sold at that price, the loss to the farmer would not bo disastrous this year. He could largely pay up his indebtedness. Now, who can buy one or more bales, is asked, for nearly every one is crying "hard times." First, there are thousands of persons who could spare the fifty dollars necessary to buy a bale, and hold it. if need be 12 months. As an illustration, if every owner of an automobile allowed it to remain In the garage for one or two months, the bale could be bought, and this is only one of the many illustrations to show that the necessary money could be saved to make the purchase. w uicu is 1101 a gin, oui a goou in\esiruent. Tben there are other thousands to whom some farmer owes ^ a debt. Why not speculate to the extent of the profit you have in the dQbt, and take a bale at 10 cents in payiiienf:?It will be better than having the farmer part with all of his cotton at a sacrifice price to some one else, and you have to wait another year to attempt to collect by sui.t For if you owed two men and had a little cotton, and one creddebt while the o*fter "either offeiod nothing or the market price below 10 cents, wiich would you pay first. Mr. Reader? If this plan was practiced generally throughout the South, the effect Is apparent?it would re tire a large part of the surplus cotton, especially if this coiton was just stored away for the present. Then with that part which will be held by farmers who can make arrangements to hold, the surplus would be largely taken care of and the balance of the crcp wee!J or shoutd bring a fair price. Some people in this community an* so utterly out of touch with our modern life thai they scorn as i: they were born in the stone as;1' Tho\ have no progressive idea and they do nothing for the community in which they live, rather, vegetable. Cheerfulness makes Tor long life. It is far better than medicine and it costs nothing. Cheerfulness is a sign of a healthy mind and to a great extent makes one immune from worry. Business men who would take advantage of conditions on the other side of the ocean to raise the price of food and other articles on this side are wanting in patriotism, humanity and common decency. They should be made to feel the strong arm of the law. If there is no present law adequate to deal with it, then make one that will. It is always the poor and weak that suffer from such ingenious cruelty. The value of money to the individual is conditioned upon the place it holds in one's life. If by making money our life grows better and is of groat use to our fellows then > we arc gainers by the experience, '"it if Mon- ; ey is not an ?>ml in itself hut is of value only for what it ran ?lo. Mexico has been thrown into the background by recent events elsewhere, but she is still on the map and it will be just as well not to lose sight of her. For that matter there is not much danger as it may be taken for granted that Mexico will of her own accord make herself heard and seen. Standing forth with special promlence these days is the fact that throughout the hundred years of peace between this country and Great Britain the boundary (between tht l'nited Stales and Canada has been almost entirely free of forts, ships and guns While it would be too much to say that peaee would certainly have been broken more than on?*e :f the border had been strongly fortified, and numerous war ships had ; plowed the Great Lakes, ii is ebarj they would have been a great provoea- j tjon. What a contrast to Kurope. which has found that immense tb ets j and armies have not prevented wl it is probably the greatest war in ill hi--' tory. I "UK gCIIOOLHOY AND THIS SCHOOL "The whining school hoy with his atchel. And shining morning face, croeping like snail Unwillingly to school.' Evidently things have changed since hakespare penned those words for in these days the hoy or girl unwJling to go to school is the excepfon and not the rule, as it seems to have been in the days of the "ImmoMtu William." Now most ctiildrmi are eager for school, especially ait^r the iong summer vacation. Probably this changed altitude on the part f the hoy toward school is not due so much to a greater eagerness to learn as it is to better methods of teaching and a different way of securing order. In the old days they sought to flog learning into a child's mind, and the cane or "birch" was freely used for the smallest offense. It was Spartan treatment and those who survived it usually excelled in knowledge, such as it whs. but it was not by any means the best method for ihe average child. served it usually excelled in knowledge, such as it was, but it was ot by any means the best method for I to average child. We have .learned 'bv experience. ^ oral instead of physical force is now invoked to secure discipline and stimuate thought, and the more enlighe tied system of teaching, combined with a wider range of studies, results In better scholarship and a higher ( average of knowledge. The percentage of great scholars may, possibly. not be so groat as under the old j style, but what the age demands is not so much a few Porsons and Crichtons as it does a higher standing all round, and that our public schools, notwithstanding some imperfections, manage to secure. Lord Kitchener's decision not to allow intoxicating l'quors to b-? nerved out to the Pritish troops at the front is striking sign of the it me. At one time it was thought that a soldier could not fight well unless he was well primed with whiskey, and a total abstainer was looked upon as a milksop. Very different is it now when military chiefs, like la go employers of labor, demand that their men be sober. They realize that for best health of mind and body, for clearness of mind, best skill in workmat ship, and power of endurance one must be free from liquor. With them it is not sentiment but hardheaded common sense. How far reaching tins view has become may be realized ! when it is learned that the Russian government has followed the example of Lord Kitchener and prohibits the erving of vodka to its troops. Words are not to be measured by but it is one of the greatest words lfl our language. Whether a man does r does not loom big In the vision of his fellows. No man can truthfully ay that e never needs the assistance f others. That fact ought to humble te pride of those who think they are the whole thing. This community is going right on whatever may be transpiring in other parts of the world. Don't let your time be so taken up reading scar*heads of battles fought or unfought or in setting all the problems of the nr. as to neglect your duties to your home town. Help it along by word and deed. The cleaning up of a lawn, a boost for the town and any one of a dozen or more things are ot more real value than sitting on a dry goods box talking 'eaT.oi'ly about m what you don't know. AD3ACF rFPM AN AnVAMPI Ui 1 U JL ULk^lHl! rtL/ T rtMUL BRITISH AND FRENCH ARMIE8 FIGHT AGAINST ADVANCE OP | GERMANS. Wilhelm der Grosse Sunk by British High Flyer Off African Coast.? Gen. Joffre Praises. London.?The conflict of millions at last is in progress. Even the sinking of the German steamer Kaiser Wllhelm der Grosse pales besides news of the titanic battle and the realization that the Allies are fighting to block the road to Paris, with the Germans hardly farther eway than New York is from Philadelphia. Meanwhile t-he Russian host Is drawing nearer to Berlin. Not even during the first great struggle between Europe and Asia on the far Manclvurisn Plains was the enormous battle fought in such impenetrable silence as far as concerns the outer wortii Only th? vastiest generalities are given to i he people of Great Britain atirl France by their respective Gov-j ernments. Probal iy the Gjprman people know as little as outsiders of what their armies are accomplish in p. i Among the infointation the public obtained today was the report an- : notineed by Premier Asquith in tho! House of Commons that the army ' was engaged against u superior force and fought splendidly. Winston Spencer Churchill. First , Lord of the Admiralty, announced tlip j sinking of the Kaiser Wilhelm dor Grosse .in the House of Commons today. Me raid: "The Admiralty has just received intelligence that the German armc1 merchant cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm d' Grosse, yf 14.000 tons, and armed wit 10 4-inch guns has been sunk by tli H. M. S. High Flyer, off the west coas. of Africa. Wills Is the vessel which has beer int? rforing with traffle between thi; country and the cape and is one of the very few German armed auxiliary cruisers which s?. < .-eded lu getting to sea The survivors \v?landed before th? vessel sank. Tlie llit'b Flyef had otie killed and one wrundei? " Subscribe For The Chronicle. \ SlIOltT REVIEW OF WHAT TIIE 1 t WOHLO IS DOING c WAR OF NATIONS t The greatest war in the history of the world is in progress. t On .tune 2!?th Prituip, a ( Servian student fired shots that n killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand, ( heir to the throne of Austria-IIun- 1 gary, and his wife, while riding in 1 a carriage through thn streets of Sarajevo. Almost at the same time Xedlejo Gabrinovitch, a Servian printer threw a bomb at the carriage. After his arrest Prinzip is reported to have said he was suppiled with ammunition by a Servian from a Servian arsenal. Austria-Hungary demanded an abject apology from Servia. Scrvia disclaimed any connection with the plot or crime, but to keep peace agreed to all the demands of Austria with the exception of the degree of participation of Austria in an official investigation of the assassination and even on this point left the way open to a full acceptance. But Austra declared Servia was not honest and that if she accepted all the demands she would have to pay the cost of the mobilization of the Austrian army which had already been ordered. Diplomatic relations were served at once. Germany backed up Austria;t at this Russia began the mobilization of all her forces as the ally of Servia; then Germany sent Russia an ultimatum that she must cease mobilization in 12 hours or she would moblize and at the same time she asked France what its attitude would be in case of a German-Russian war. giving France 18 hours to answer. The result was a state of war between Germany and Austria on one side and Russia, France and Servia on the other. England made a strong plea to Germany and Russia for a peaceful solution before they actually declared war, but without avail. Ahnost immediately Germany asked Belgium for permission to march through its territory, in violation of a treat/ of neutrality. Belgium r if*i n l- pel mission and appealed <o ""agland ifor 'assistance. After an exchange of notes, England declared war on Germany. These are the facts on the face? behind lies hate, revenge, jealousy, and greed of long standing. Germany and France have been enemies since the Franco-Prussian war cf 1870. Servia, which is oniy about one half the size of Indiana, has been deeply stirred against Austria since 1008 when in violation of a treaty she annexed, against their will, Herzegovnia and Bosni, Slav districts and former Turkish provinces. Russia I could not come to their assistance then as she was weak from the Japanese war nor could Servia on account of other troubles. In addition, Serhates Austra because in the settletbeJLnrkish._juir^Ausjja,?^^ . ^J^WmetuaT In driving Servia back|, Tom the Adriatic. Each nation has attempted to show that it is justified in the war but at present the world seems to put tin blame on Germany on the ground that if Austra had been restrained by Germany, as she could have been, that the ffair between Austria and Servia could have been settled without any bloodshed. The assassination is ooked upon as a mere pretext for starting a conflict between the nations with the idea of strengthening Germany and Austria-Hung.vy through the ultimate establishment of a governmently controlled railroad to the Mediterranean and the acquisition of additional territory in Africa where the German possesions are very scattered. It is also claimed that Russia stirred up Servia so as to provoke Austria and German * to war. Also that England practicality Horced a war with Germany when England Insisted, at the price of m?? neutr_Ity, that tl.c Germai na\al force: in tne conflict with RnssU and F.attc must fciot opporate against tin1 French coast in the north Sea nor attack Russia ifrom the Italtic and that and must not march througn Rclgium.in order to get at her enemy. The armies *eie ir.ob'M/ied with reat speed amid exciting scenes of ( patriotism and the heart-rending cjbs of women and ? ?: '. )!. Rnt in Et gland and Germany at least there is a decide-! rrck.'e against i all. J A thousand women and girls in { Austria have volunteered as nurses. ( A Far Reaching War. Practically all the countries of I Hurope nave nioouizeu 10 ue ri-auv * for emergencies. The Montenegrian I army has joined with the Servians, c Portugal with England, Canada will f send troops, tho Japanese army and v navy are ready to mobilize for the 1 aid of England. Italy refused to 1 acknowledge an obligation to join Germany and Austria under the c terms of the Triple Alliance because <1 the terms of the Alliance specified I only defensive wars, where as Italy 2 claims this is an offensive war, but Germany has demanded that Italy C live ui> to the treaty and may do- r dare war on Italy. If this is done r Italy, in all probability, will declare a war on Austria on account of alt strong Anti?Austrian feeling. Gel'- t many is said to have an understand- a ing with Turkey, Turkey has ino-jl bili/.cd her troops. The length of tlie war may depend on finances as much as any-jl tiling else as the cost will run into I millions of dollars a day. Gcrmatiyj? recently imposed a special tax for,I a year of 5% on Heal Estate?prac- I tioally confiscating the revenues ii which gives some idea of the bur- o den the people bear. v The immediate financial effect of c the war was to break down the International credit systems, cause a l run on the flank of England and v close the Stock Exchanges in all , countries, including the I'nitedStates. w Lines of credit are being restored and s: i a high rate (if discount which prevail.i| for scleral days in England is now d ivdiK-i'd t<> nearly normal. |u The "tins Scouts" have vohui- t>i r 4 cored for service. Already thc:^l aptured spies in Belgium, are guard^PJ ng British bridges and will assist it I Ci larvesting the crops in many count! ^ ies- _ In After years of expectant prepara"^ ion the war came like a stroke?^} tr luickly that the English people dil ot realize the significance of dalll ;vents until the papers flashed thj tews of England's break with Gen jc nany. ! gi All war news is censored and fllj ers through slowly but it is knowr hat from five to twenty millions 0/ lie best men in Europe will try t/ ^ till each other in an awful conflict ^ that may alter the whole map oi . A Republics and change the ownership >f colonial possesions. Much of the lghting is and will be over grouni^ made historical by Napoleon just || Q( lundred years ago. 1 . As It A fleets the United States * g( President Wilson has had the unite^ g) support of Congress and his Cabin/j in making effective his proclamation if absolute neutrality which, of course includes the Phillippines. (Th[ Panama Canal which will doubtless 1| i ^ nuch used by the contestants \ ilways a neutral zone.) Our neutri: ity extends to a strict censorship oi :ablc and wireless messages. ^ On August r?th the President 0j- g) ered his good offices as a mediatdr ilong lines prescribed by the Hagu? Convention, rfis action has been enlorsed by Italy and seconded ly China, Argentina, Brazil and Chiii. ^ The United States relived the flna*. a :ial conditions of its citizens at hone {( ly offering the banks emergency cur Jmcy which was in very little demaifl tnd relieved its citizens abroai, | hrongh its representatives and latw 'a )y sending the Tennessee and Norm ln Carolina with $2,750,000.00 of Govemnent gold and over $5,000,000.00 df g irivate funds to make reimbursement c ind furnish additional assistancjt. e These vessels were followed by Gof- q >rnment transport ships to bring honie n it as reasonable a passage rate lossible all who are stranded abroad p jecause of the cancelling of sailirfc lates of vessels due to a fear bf apture on the high seas. ; Foregign built vessels bought by citizens of the United |Stat}es an|d egistered in this country under & ' special concession of Congress, are , low flying the Stars and Stripes and , vill enable the United States to del- < ;er what promises to be a big demand or our agricultural and manufactured iroducts. This demand will coue rom South America, whose heavy iik J lort from Europe will be shut qff o a great extent, as well as from the lations at war which will be una?e . to produce their full quota of sJt- , Price of food stuff in this c^^L ;ry have advanced abnormally a^B the present has a vigorous invjfll P igation under way for the purpefe jf suppressing such advances wh?^ not justified. Similar actio! , las been taken by the Mayor otJlb ( fork City. Wheat "bumper" crop on accounto^K ' demand that will come from abroad. England already guarantees B^e shipments and payments for grain sargoes. 't Mexico The curtain Is rising on what dffers to be an era of better under- ( standing among the people of Mejcice. General Victoriano Huerta resigned ; the presidency which was then con- | 'erred on Francisco Carbajal, former aiinister of foreign relations, by tile Mexican Senate and Deputies. Huerla left the country and Carbajal at once 1 prepared to turn the government over o General Carranza, head of the Constitutionalists. The Federal army evacutated Mexico City and at present jnly minor details seen to require Rial disposition before an actual ransfer of government takes place. branch of the Constitutionalist irmy, now waiting for new uniforms to replace its rags, has marched peace : ibly into the Capital amid flags and >ver flower strewn streets. Already five Protestant denomina:ions are planning an alliance for parrying on effective missionary vork. as soon as order is restored. The plan includes the establishm at , )f two hundred elementary and high ( chool with staffs of teachers. , At Washington. The members appointed on the federal Reserve Board which will .'ontrol the new banking systen are 1 Charles S. Hamlin, governor, F, A | )elano, vice-governor, W. P. G. ( Warding, Paul M. Warburg and 1 Idolph C. Miller. The system which, jrielly. establishes a country-wide bain of banker's banks to rediscount 1 ominercial paper held by banks-- ( ind which has been the subject of j nuch consideration by Congress?will >e put into operation at once. Secretary McAdoo is depositinf iver $30,000,000.00 in the banks tha r lesire it for crop-moving. The banks 1 >ut up approved security and pay * !% for the money. " Under a ruling of the Post )ffioe Departement, the length of ural routes in sections with good oads will be extended to f>0 miles r\ ind the pay increased from $1,200.00 o $1,800.00 a year so as to enable he carriers to buy and maintain ^ Liitomobilcs. The department ex ccts the rule to result in economy, c The Senate approved peace trea^i ies with Norway, the Netherlands 'ortugal, Switzerland, Denmark, t talv, Salvador,Guatemala, Honduras,' t Nicaragua, Bolivia, Persia, Costa f tica. Venezuela!, Uruguay,Argentina, irazil and Cliili. The treaties prov- f tie for an international commission c f five that shall have a year to in-> ? estigate and make a finding in alii f auses before war is declared. . f The Pannama canal is open foi^ 1 raffic, although the formal opening, e .-ill not take place until next March, t Hereafter enlisted men in the navy a ,ho desert in times of peace will '' imply be dismissed and those who arc to honorably withdraw nr?y s o so. The navy now attracts sue'i 1 high class of men who love the Jj. LTvicc that it no longer needs to be ' j 4 >thered with loafers or dissatisfied #( |cruits. * Tho decision of the Interstate ommerce commission denies the '>r/t eight increase asked by the Eastern J lilroads but grants it on many1! J asses to the roads in the Central affic division. * The Commission suggests an in ease in passenger rates. It give? >'c 1 water craft the right to the same w tint through rail-water rates as , iven to any one line of boats. j The Common flood. fiotOOO engineers and* firemen on ly >ads west of Chicago asked for be langed service rules and increase 'n i pay and, would have struck on ugust 7th but for the acceptance of cx rbitration by the railroads at the rgent request of President Wilson, he president appealed to their patri- jj, tism on the grounds of the damage ci strike would do at this crop-moving y< jason when oceati travel is at a stand hi till. 148.000 miles of road and an tl nnual increase of $33,000,000.00 in Sl ages are involved. An arsenic spring that rivals in . uality the famous springs of Hour- ..( Dule, France, has been discovered ear San Bernardino, California. m This and That. The International Harvester Co. n: as been declared a monopoly In re- rs tralnt of trade and ordered to dis- hi Dive?but in the finding the court' tates that the company has not opressed its competitors; it is illegal v S( nly because of the gigantic com- .. Ination restraining competition p] mong the concerns that combined to c] jrm the corporation. John P. Holland, inventor of the | ub-marine is dead. Thirty-eight persons were killed nd forty wounded in a railroad wreck ear Joplin, Mo. The North American Suffrage Asociation is asking the women of the ountry to contribute jewelry trir.kts for a ixelting pot to raise $">o,00.00 to aid state campaigns. Tlic lint at Washington will coin new loney for the organization from the roceeds of the melting pot. WAR, ACCORDING TO? The Enlisted Man?"A chance tc ireak the deadly routine of the pa ade-ground with some real excitenent. In isolated cases to provide ipportunities for military or political idvanceraent." The Business Man?"A period of economical depression, often followed jy large failures and the consequent oss of the public's investments." The Volunteer?"A stern patriotic a tuty to be entered upon without in- a juiry as to its justice or injustice." ^ v The Philosopher?"An unintelligent c hid gross instrument for the settleRent of the world's unavoidable quar- ? els." _ a The Historian?"A logical, if some- g what regrettable, method of arranging :hn world's boundary lines." r.atwat*MTir^ 11 jf humanuy; tending toward the gen aral betterment of the social cosmos." _ F The Pessimist?"The natural strifr J1 if humanity, tending toward the gen }l iral destruction of the universe." ? li The Mother?"A long vigil In an 0 smpty room and a memory of child v rolces, forever stilled." u s The Wife?"A husband gone, a bom? destroyed, and a woman's heart v broken." _ i The Seer?"The last great barrier Ji between civilization and the mlllen- ^ alum."?Life. '' . _ ii FOREST NOTES c Minnesota lias a forested area of v 28,000,000 acres, the largest of any t itate east of the Itucky mountains. f There are approximately 4,000,000 t icres of timber land in New Hamp- j ihire, of which about half is in farm- a ?rs' wood lots. c a Forest fires in the United States 0 lave caused an average loss of 70 p liuman lives and the destruction of j, >25,000,000 worth of timber. fc Juniper from the Indian reserva- P lions of New Mexico and Arizona may c prove an excellent source of material "or lead pencils. Manufacturers are p searching the world for pencil woods. Canada has established a forest c product laboratory in connection with YIcGill university at Montreal, on the ;ines of the United States institution . if the same sort at the University of Wisconsin. c a The total amount of land purchased ^ n the eastern states for federal for- a ;sts is nearly 800,000 acres. So far Tl he principal work on these areas has nvolved their protection against for- p >st fires. n Of 606 forest fires last year on the D1 ' ' * * - - * -1 XT ... I8.tionn.i rorejfis 01 Aruuuti, co and Oklahoma more than one-half vere caused by lightning. Campers j iet about one-tenth and railroads onewentleth. w CONKIiniKI) TESTIMONY. ci Flic hind Cheraw headers Cannot t]? Doubt. Doan's Kidney Pills have stood tin- (' est. ,n The test of lime?the hardest testi & >f all. iu Thousands gratefully testify. To quick relief?to lasting results. Cheraw readers can no longer doubt ^ he evidence. fli old and well confirmed. th Cheraw reader ssould profit by hese ixperiences. J. X. Clan'on. carpenter. Dean st., J'1 Darlington, S. ('., says: "I suffered pi lontinually from backache and sharp, pj .hooting pains through my loins. It vas almost impossible for me to stoop >r lift and I was confined to my bed t(> or weeks at a time. Nothing did me he he least good until 1 commenced tak- : jti ng Doan's Kidney Pills. Three box's rid me of the attack, restoring me o better health. Doan's Kidney Pills re by far the best kidney medicine I lave ever used. I willingly con.firm t< ny former endorsement of them." T Price f?Oc, at kill dealer!. Don't g imply ask for a kidney remedy?get Joan's Kidney Pills?the same that _ lr. Clanton had. Foster-Mil burn Co., rops., Buffalo, X. Y. 8 Advertisement No. 2 I d A POSTPONED ROMANCE By JEAN SHEAR. ! "What made you ask mo to marry >u?' inquired the bride, as one asks ( hat the weather is likely to be. "Why," the bride's husband paused. guess it was because you were oking around and picked me out." "No," replied the bride, meditative, "it could not have been Just tliat, 1 . ?cause Miss Mary McGee's been pick- ' g out husbands for 20 years, and ' le'd Just quit that unprofitable oc- ; lpation and had begun to be happy, ' ( hen she found him!" "Who's this Miss Mary McGee?" 1 "She's just Miss Mary McGee!" .ue j ride laughed. "1 don't know how I j in explain more, if that doesn't tell ; du! She's the woman down the i lock who lives with the children and ' ley all call her Miss Mary McGee. j ' o every one else does! She's been i < ith the chidlren until she's just like j 1 ae? but she didn't begin until she'd 1 iven up the hope of getting married, j au know." "How interesting," commented the lan. "Yes, but she's had a genuine rolance! You see it got out, natu- I 1 illy," said the bride, taking a deep , reath to mark the beginning of the j ory. "through the children that Miss j ' fcGec wasn't invited to Jane Renton's edding, because she was needed by j 1 :>nie one or other to take care of. le children. And no one thought lic'd think anything of it! Rut the hildren talked it over before her, "Mr. Manning Was Interesting." nd her feelings tyere hurt. She imgined that she had become nothing ut a nursemaid In the eyes of the /orld, and gave up her play with the hildren! "So she shut herself up In the house nd wouldn't have anything to do with nyone! "Miss McGee's tall and angular, and ort of eccentric looking, but she's ot an awfully sweet nature, arid every oe was sorry that her feelings _yvere .nrit _ ' v ne console hefy- f "Then one day old -Lawyer Manning >assed the house and, hearing music, J ,e went up. She was so surprised at is visit that she let him in, and what lo you suppose she was doing? She iad saved a lot of newspaper articles i n how to dance the tango, and she 1 /as learning it from them, playing ntil sho had a tune in mind and then J inging for the dancing!'* "And so Manning is the happy indiidual?" anticipated the husband. "Now, you just wait till I finish!" ] inished the bride. "Mr. Manning was uterested in the tango and Miss Mary j IcGce promised to teach him all about j t. So lie went almost every afterloon. " *1, ? Intnt/vM auu liii'ii me iniiuaitri, ? iju cin/ j me eaya was fond of Miss Mary Mc-: 2ee years ago, called. Of course, his | isit occurred when Mr. Manning was i lure, an J it sort of woke him up. I J ;uess he'd been thinking Miss Mary IcC.ce wcu!d always be there, and j hero was no hurry about asking her. I tnyway, he began to call frequently, j nd Miss Mary McGee always let tliem oine in, and they remained hours nd hours, each trying to outstay the ther, and thus get the opportunity to ropose, I guess! Hut they always ad to go away together, for neithr would give in! "And actually Miss Mary McGee got o pretty with the activity and ex- j itemcnt?" "Rut which one got her?" interruptd the man. "Why, that's the romance of it!" riumphed the bride. "They'd been alh'ng for about a month, steadily, allost every afternoon, and then one ay the minister brought along his , rother, who was visiting him. be- J ause he couldn't leave his vicitor t home, and he wouldn't let Mr. Ianning get the advantage of a call lone! "And the minister's brother had the ill IU II1V11U U?.T UUl. AI1U lit" ptv osed right away, and now they're larried!"?Chicago I>ai 1 y News. ON'T HI HT YOni MVFR WITH i CALOMEL When your liver becomes torpid and i tiggish. you can take calomel and j hip it into action, but the calomel ill leave your body weaker and siek than ever. Calomel is a very pow-[ fill drug, a form of mercury, and j v'd never be usd because therere is a ?rfect remedy to take the place of' ilomel. that lias all of calomel's good edical effects with one of its dan-1 | roiis and uncertain follow-ups. Its : | ime is Hudson's Liver Tone. J. T. Ladd Sells Hudson's Liver Tone ' ith the guarantee that if you don't id that it treats you much better an calomel they will give you your oncy back with a smile. Hudson's | ver Tone is a true tonic for liver, irely vegetable, and with such a easant taste that it is no trouble get children to take it. It is atifoiuly impossible for it to do anyone any irm. !dddn shr , , , His Inference. f Robert had been dutifully listening j ) the conversation of his parents. hey were discussing a certain Mrs. ? mith who was tagged In their talk g s a grass widow. "I say, pa," said g obert after some reflection, "is a rase widow a woman whose husband led of hay fever?" 4LLIES VICTORIOUS AT PRECY-SUR OISE \ m JERMAN RIGHT GIVES GROUND BEFORE FORCES OF THE ALLIES. RUSSIA DRIVES AUSTRIANS 1 Center of Skirmish East of Paris Rsmains Unchanged?Fighting of German Left Proceed With 1 No Advantage. I Apart from the announcement t' t the German forces have fa!ic:; I;I before offensive taclics of the allies ? bn the line from Nanteu!l-Le |. iiin to Verdun, the most inter" Tt'c. report contained iiv a dispatch ib _ The London Evening News f-o* Boulogne in which the French r: r.- ? mander, General Pau is given r: :.v- ' thority for the statement t!::t t" > allies have won a victor)' at PrecySur-Oise in which the TmnerM Guard, under the c rown prince of C??rmany. is alleged to have bene annihilated by a British force. The Britisii official bureau says that the plans of French Commanderin-Chief, General Joffre, are being carried out steadily and that the allies have succeeded In forcing back In northastern direction the' German forces opposed to them. . MAnArta Via* fVia I'rtna mi Ii iiiu V irpa.i nioi uiu I allies have advanced their left win? without energetic opposition by the Germans and that several engagements on the Ourq river have favored the French-British. The Russian army operating in Galicia is reported still to be driving back the Austrians. The casualty list as a result of the blowing up of the British cruiser Pathfinder by a mine in the North Sea comprises four men killed, 13 wound- ' ed and 242 missing. The Evening News dispatch: "A telegram has been received from General Pau announcing a victory by the allied forces under Field Marshal Sir John French, commanding the British and General D'Anunade at Precy-Sur-Oise, about 25 miles north of Paris. The allies were drawn across the northern line with the center at Precy. The English troops were on the left and the French on the right. The former had In front of them the Imperial Guard under Crown Prince Frederick William. "On both wings, it is reported, the allies were successful. "The German left was held by the French and retired to the North. "The Imperial Guard, who were ordered to surrender, were annihilated by the British. It is reported that the Crown Prince was in their midst." The British official bureau has received no confirmation of this message. German Losses 350,000 Mem m~ A Pnal r ar"n/*flnt wiring from a point not given in (he dispatch has seen a letter from a high German officer invalided home in which he states: "The war is not going quite as we expected and the resistance of the allied forces is extraordinary. We are beginning to feel nervous as to results. "The German losses are terrible, so terrible that the emperor has forbidden their disclosure. Our generals have been wantonly wasteful with our men, who have been mowed down in thousands. "While it is impossible to say what our losses are. I estimate them at beai'oon nflrt anH inn nan if thpv continue at this rate, we shall be quite unable to meet Russia with any hope of success." French Force Advantage. Paris.?In the fighting which is going on to the east and northeast of Paris, the German forces have their backs toward the Capital. French troops are harassing their march. From time to time the Germans turn and engage the French at their back. French shells fall continually in the German rear. Captured Czernowitz. Petrograd, via London.?A dispatch from Bucharest via Odessa announces ihe entry of Russian troops into Czernowitz. An earlier dispatch from iyondon reported that the Russians had entered Czernowitz unopposed. Left 3,000 Dead. London.?A Reuter dispatch from Antwerp confirms earlier dispatches of a German repulse Friday at Chappelle-Au-Iiois and says they left 3,000 dead on the field. Many Germans, the dispatch adds, returned to Brussels. Warrior is Stranded. Washington.?A Berlin wireless to the German Embassy says: "British cruiser Warrior stranded, probably as result of fight with cruiser Goeben while escaping from the Bosphorus." The dispatch contains nothing to amplify or explain. Refused the Loan. Paris.?A Havas agency dispatch from Switzerland, says the newspapers | there announce Germany has rejected Austria s renuest for a loan and the bankers have taken similar action A Bayonet Charge. I,ondon.- The Montenegrin troops, ' with a bayonet charge, repulsed a fresh Austrian attack at Rahovo, taking 1 HO prisoners and killing 300 Alts- I -nans, according to a Cettinje dis* * ro?ch to the Excha-ge Tclegranh Po. n Pleasant Mews for Hubby. Young Wife \to older and seasick husband) ?"Now, dear. Just be as comfortable as you can, and don't worry a about me. I'm not lonesome. There's c half a dozen men up on deck who's been awfully nice to me. And 6uch a t Joke! They think I'm a widow!"? _ Puck. t No Relief. 1 The cynical person was standing In ront of a part of an exhibition oZ ocal art talent labeled "Art Objects.' Well, I suppose art docs object, an4 e can't blame her, but there doesn't q eem to be any help for It," he finally P aid. o Job Printing at The Chronicle office I. 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