Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, April 22, 1915, Image 1
Volume 19 CHERAW, CHESTERFIELD COUNTl^P c.. APRIL 22. 1915 Number 25
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ALLIES SHUN PEACE UNTIL KAI
fcR HAS BEEN BEATEN
Determined to Altow Ne Pressure to J
lijirftm With Their Resolution to j
Crash Germany's Power and to l
Settle with Austria.
French and British Armies Declared
To Bo New: Efficiency Pitch. 1
Total Fighting Front Now 1
Stretches Out 1,(568 Miles. 1
Paris, April 17.?After having
sounded persons in official and influ- t
ential circles here regarding the peace *
feelers that Germany is now putting E
out, notably in the United States, I
am able authoritatively to state that s
the AHles' position, after eight months J
of warfare, is as follows: c
France and England are folly aware v
of Germany's preparedness to sign a h
peace which shall leave Europe ?
precisely as it was in last July, with b
no territorial changes and no agree- a
ment regarding the limitation of at- d
xnament h
France, England and Russia, how 11
ever, are more than aver determined
to pefbist in their resolution formed
last September to remove Germany
from her position of mlllitary doiui- ?
nance. They hold unflinchingly to ^
their plan of shattering Germauy's
striking"force. No peade pressure ex- t
erted through neutral countries, direct r
of iiwUrpofc. will be allowed to laflu- ^
euce their resolution.
Why Allies Oppose Peace.
Germany's readiness to call the great p
war a draw and revert to the status d
quo ante-bellum meets no ta^oralle t
response in France, England or Bnssiaf d
for the following reasons o
> t nmfc* I
Will reach theif h'gnest pitch ofeffick-ncy
as offensive fo*cei during next
mouth, during the very momeat the 1
weakening of the great German war '
machine Is expected to le^ome most 1
apparent 1
2. Germany's methods of frightful- 1
ness on land, on sea, anl in the nlr 1
have removed all idea* ? ? leniency (
from the minds of the Allies. I
3. Since the Soissons episode Ger- 8
many has utterly failed to make a se- c
rious offensive effort on the western ^
front while the force oi Murshal von <3
Hlndenburg's sledge hammer blows on 1
the eastern front has expended Itself
before It produced the required strnte
gical result, thus denoting a significant
feebleness in attack Quite foreign to 1
the Kaiser's army la the first months f
of the war.
4. The Allies could tolerate no p??ce 1
which would leave the Kaiser in the fl
position to say, "My armies have pre- a
served my territories inviolate. We *
fought where my staff wished and if (
the result is not to aggrandize my- 1
empire, its Inherent internal strength v
is not diminished." 1
Next month's hostilities may be ex- s
pected to lead to considerable short- I
ening of the battle front. 1
Fighting Front of 1,668 Miles.
By careful computation I find that
the warring nations are now fighting
over an area of 1,668 miles, divided as r
follows: j
Russian front, 856 miles.
French front, 544 miles.
English front, 32 miles. (
These figures do not Include the j
vague lines iu the Caucasus and in f
Egypt
Hundreds of miles of fighting front
may suddenly disappear If Austria- ;
Hungary gives up. 1 learn semi officially
that Austria would eagerly t
grasp the chance of accepting detent j
on the basis of yielding Catica to
Russia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
O ' 1...4 ln?l.4 ... . .. 1 >
IAJ Otnua, UU L ?UUIU upm IIIC
Allies providing guarantees for her
conservation of Treutiuo, Trieste, Is- t
tria and Dalmatia. I
Peace at Year's End, Says Pau.
The only step frauce fcind Great
Britlan so far have jtaken toward
peace is the disposition they are now
showing to agree in the principle of
peace with Austria worked out on the
above basis with only minor modifications.
Louis Appelt, of Manning, owner
and editor of the Times for
80 years, who was serving hb fourth
term as State senator from Clarendon
county, died yesterday afternoon at.
the Baptist hctpital, in Colwntia. |
MOTHER'S DAY
Kipling has given us a plctui
>f mother love that touches the sul
line:
t I were hanged on the highest hi!
: know whose love would follow n
till Mother o, miue, O mother o' mine
f I were drowned In the deepest sei
know whose tears would come dow
to me,
lother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
f I were damned of body and soul,
know whose tears would make ix
? whole,
(other o' mine, O mother o' mine!
There we have It?a man's belli
hat his mother will never fall his
Should we then fall to honor ou
nother?
Mother's day Is observed en th
econd Sunday of May. Miss Ann
arvis of Pblladephla Inaugurated tfc
aovement In 1007. It occurred to ht
vhile commemorating the death c
ler mother on the second Sunday (
(ay that the day, falling In a season c
due sky and blossoms, might be s<
side as an annual festival upon wnic
lue tribute of affection and remen
ranee should be rendered to a
Bothers.
Started Campaign
Miss Jarrls then began a eampaig
f personal appeal to men prominent 1
ubllc life, clergymen, philanthropist
uslness and professional men, askln
hem to further the movement Sb
leaded her case so eloquently that 1
910 the day was celebrated not onl
n PtfUadephJa but In many otlfc
ities. On May 10, 1913, a resolatio
assed the United States house of r<
iresen tatlves and the seaate commei
ling Mother's day for observance b
he two houses of congress, the pres
lent and his cabinet and other , head
f government apartments.
In the same year the legislature r
Nebraska made mother's day a stal
ag day in honeor of patriots . c
Nebraska's true homes and mother
n May 1913, the legislature of Penns:
vania made Mother's day the stal
loliday The day is planed to t
>bserved by some distinct mark c
c'indndss, visit, letter, gift or tribut
howlng the remembrance of the motl
t and father to whom affections i
lue. Mother's day is equally a father
lay and is designed to deepen an
>erpetuate family ties.
Is international
An international association ha
>een formed to promote and prote<
he observance of the day in all coun
ies and to carry forward the worl
'resident Wilson and our ex-presidenl
tre honorary national officers of t!
issociation. The white carnatio
las been selected as the emblem of tli
lay because, as (explained by Mis
farvis, "it seems the least perishabl
i*as not costly and could be worn b
en and women alike. Then too, il
weet wholesome fragrance and whil
rarity maue it stauu out as au apyr<
iriate symbol.
THE FARMER'S INNING
The foreigners have begun to aat 01
orn. During the seven months en<
ng January, 1914, we sent aboard 4
^07,615 bushels of corn, value $3,63(3
?97, and for a similar period endic
ranuary, 1915,15, 773.629 bushels, vali
si at $12,308,174. The foreigner lik<
>ur corn pietty nearly four times t
veil as he used to.
We have the largest pile of corn i
he world, but much of it is going 1
ravel abroad this season. And we ai
joing to ourselves eat more of it thi
days at home than ever before.
It is the good old American farmer
:urn at bat and he Is some fenc
mster when he gets an inning.
The Chesterfield High School wi
lose Friday April 23. Gov. Mannii
to deliver the address at the con
nencement exercises that night. Th
vill be the Governor's first trip to th
oun-ty since his inauguration and h
oming is looked forward to wit
;reat delight by his many admirers 1
the /county.?CMesterfield Advertise!
That was the kick of an automobil
vhlch laid up Mr. E. J. Cooper, tl
K>pular local agent of the Sea boa r<
vith a broken arm. Tell you aboi
ooling with those automobiles.
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CARD FROM LOCAL REGISTRAR
Cheraw 3. C? April 21,
e Dedr Mr. Editor:
> Will yon please ?al
attention to the new Vital staistto
l" law which requires that all undertake
^ or persons acting as such shall ^ei
(j with the local registrar of his ooi&
a munity a death certificate and therety
n obtain a burial permit before the bodj
is disposed of.
Also all physicians^ mldwiyw(^j|
parents of the child must file a certifl
ie -aro of birth with the local rogMJSgj
within 10 days of birth of e*ditv}&M
To date I have received'
uary 1st 1916.
3 14 birth certificates, 10
e I fear that all births alffr
a reported and urge that
ie white and colored, use theti^BBJ
;r in making this new law lom?S9iK
f reporting any violaSd^^
)f be prosecuted as the law provides. x<
)f It is needless to' mentioq
nortnnop nf 'ir(MwSSdH^Hi
jj Kvery one cooperate
3, April 10, Ixj^^^ancy, w&tiei/
a I i ???? m,<?? ...
B1IW xrvui uiuhui, vuuia, n<np
)f great blessing to the meeting^jmati
p- messages being fall of insplratiBii and
i- interesting each time they spdke, All
e who heard them felt that they we?
>e enjoying a rare privJllge, And we
>f fee shure that lasting impression*
:e were made.
i- Sue S. Wilson.
Is
* Mr. Louis Gainey PaAes.
Mr. Louis Gainey, a well knowv
citizen of this place, died Monday at
his home on Huger street Mr,
lg Gainey had been in ill health for sev,t
eral months. The funeral service*
j were held Tuesday in St Bavld'i
church, of which he was a member
kg and the body was laid to rest in St
David's cementery.
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s Deposit yo
The Bank
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' STRONGER THAN ALL OTHER
: 4 Qs)compou
. / U m savin
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to
re 1
it JEFF D. BEACHAM
COMMITS S? KIDI
's CieenV!
Ajir'l i7.?M*. Jeff 1
eB^icham.
a well knowu painter of th<
city, committed suicide Thursday al
ternocn about 4 o'clock by shoctinj
N himself through the heart with a sin
ig gle barreled shotgun. The deed ?ai
n- committed on the back porch of hi)
is home on Cambridge street while h<
is was alone. When relatives arrivec
is they found him lying on the flool
h with the gun in one hand aud a smal
In stick with which he Bind evidentlj
r. pressed the trigger in the other. j
le 111 health is believed to have beei
le the ccuuse of Mr. Beacbam's takini
1. his own life. Just before he fired th<
it fatal shot lie sent a note te> Mrs. J
T. Medlock, a relative, telling her t
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I TORS OLD INVENTION; 3
IN NEW) S PALACE
e Hobble Skirt Was Vouge in
f Time, Declares a Savant.
flephla, Aprif, 17.?The Palace
has three elevators,
e year 8 A. D., an income tax
tablished In Rome on all inn
excess of $4,000.
Gobble skirt was one of Dame
i's decrees in the day of Moses,
ir and many other interesting
Ding to show that life among
lents was not so different from
to-day were brought out by
^Camden M. Cobern, explorer
ckaeologist, who has just refrom
a trip to Palestine.
Bsor Cobern has begun a seleetures
upon his archaeologi?veries.
He pointed out that
T8 had three systems of shorteportlng
in the krst century
in AtrAiwr TAn>iaVi oonrf Q
*** J wen iou vvuib a
&jHmnd reporter or clerk sat on each
<?$. 6t the judge. Many of thea
J-sflpian arhftocrats took "stenographT*fllBlftth
them upon their travels.
'1 j^Bpa-of the other advantages enJ
-by the ancients according to
fpjBptfor Cobern follow:
Paul's time there were sevBPab0r
nnlon8 111 Rome; hence a
between capital and labor
| uSfc have been waged even then.
|^HP$fee were several great monopo
the first century, the greatest
|??| being the ofl business, although
f^Hwtian of Bockfelle rappears on
MHnBiqrfus examined by the American
The trust" had not cornered
which was unknown at that
but dealt in olive olL There
^^KjigjNto monopolies in eggs, perfunes
Ions for
^ lisone year.'- Even Nero was no "slouch
wfcea it came to "burning money." On
f j o|ie occasion he spent $178,000 far roses
oil lug banquet tables, ^be roses were
1 b -oalht from Egypt
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J BCjROES ASSAULT
CAPT, MTRACEX
i; .1 aotal Attack Made At Night By
fc Three Men Upon Captain Mc.
5* Crpben
i Dillon, April 19.-?John McCracken
i < apt&ln of the county chaingang, was
, issaulted and painfully injured by
. i bree negroes late Saturday night He
1 ran on his way hoxnq, and was passS
?
ur money in
of Cheraw
p. s. c.
m MMOTM
IJWiKS IN COUNTY COMBINED
_ Ml
."kin*
mm
tf^ed quarterly
*?s department.
'' uofify his wife, who is listing in
! Jacksonville, Fla., and his brother in
I Spartanburg. He also left notes to
] Mrs. Beacham and his son, Frank, telli
ing the former that he had pellagra
j and he believed his death would benei
lit his fiunily.
ITo his son Frank he wrote:
"Try and take care of your mother.
I am nothing but a wreck. I can't
? write more and I can't"
I To his wife Mr. Beacham wrote:
b "I have i>ellngra. I am almost
\ blind. I done this deed for benefit
r of-the family. I wouldn't have any[
thing in the world. I cqn't rememl
l?er anything only just a little whiles
j so don't think anything. You stay.
i Just my disease. Am literally burning
. ,up and choking to death. Can't last
> any time, and I do hate to do this,
*
THE OLD HOME TOWN
Do you reir.eoioir tho 'ary fellows
who used to sit around In the topic
ment and barter shops In the
old home towu and predict the fa lime
of every body who tried to poke his
nose above the common herd?
Up in the village of Salem they used
to crack lots of jokes at the expense
of a lank and ungainly young fellow
who clerked in the villas^ grocery, poled
flat boats on the river and split
rails for a living. They called him Abe
in those days. He became the president
of the United States and thousands
from far places on the earth have
visited his tomb at Snrincfleld to do
him honor.
They used to make fun of Bill McAdoo
hack in the old home town. Of
course you've heard of Bill. He dug
a tunnel under the Hudson river and
is secretary of the treasury now.
But there are a lot of old tads back
in the old home town who sort of hope
that Bill will fall over something yet
and land in the consome.
Years ago there were a bunch of
smart guys in a city not far away who
used to laugh openly at a kid named
Bryan who had an idea that he was an
orator and could make a good speech.
And Orville Wright was a regular
joke in his old home town.
Possibly it is the old home town itself
that is the Joke.
Campaign for Good Roads
Hon. E. J. Watson, of Columbia,
H. p. yarner, of Lexington, N. C., M.
Li*- ,2^' ^ opcofl,
coqjlytor a speaking touro^B^ounfy,
from April 28th to Hay 1st
The meetings are scheduled as
follows.
Chestedfleld, April 2*Lat 11 a. m.
Brock's Mill, ^^3 p. m.
Ruby, April 28 p. m.
Mt Croghaa, 29 11 a. mr
Pageland, v 29 8 p. m.
Jefferson, 30 10 a. m.
Ousleyilale school house, April 30 at
2:30 p. ?. *
Bethel school house, April 30 at 5:30
p. m.
Cheraw, April 30 at 8:30 p. m.
Patrick, May 1, W. O. W. picnic in
morning; oration by W. P. Pollock at
10 a. m; other speakers in afternoon.
WRmmtk' ^msm
HAS ARRIV__D.
Dr. S. II. Nye, the well known Fye
?!1 .vialist and Optometrist, wishes to
inform his friends and the public* thut
he ha* arrived in town ind lias his (>pti
al ofHee at the Covington Hotel.
Phone for engagementConsultation
\. it hunt any charge
Very resjieetfu' y,
S. B. NYE.
Covington Hotel?Phone 208.
Tlnrlin AnHl 01 T1lf> TflEeSZeitUDC
today publishes a special dispatch, the
origin of which is not given, saying
that 20,000 British and French troops
have been landed near Enos, in European
Tur-ke.v, on the north side of the
fiulf of Saros.
Subscribe to The Chronicle.
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McFABLAN NEWS.
McFarlan, April 19.?*Tbe Unifced
Farm Women's Club will meet at the
school house Saturday afternoon at
3 o'clock.
M
Mr. Randolph Benton of Cary if
vlsting his sister, Mrs. W. H. Bra*
well.
Miss Mary Massey of Wadeaboro
spent Satuday and Sunday with th?
family of Mr. T. H. Britt
Mr. V. B. Braswell and family of
Bethel vlsted his brother, Mr. H. E,
Braswell, and Mr. A. J. Brooks suqday.
Miss Nora -Pegues of Bethel spent
.Saturday and Sunday with home
folks.
Mr. Isaac Davis of Chesterfield vis*
'ted Mrs. W. M. Hurst Sunday,
* *
We are sorry to note that Mr& 0,
C. Northcutt Is confined to her room
with n severe case of tonsil!tia tills
week.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Miller are visiting
their son, Mr, J. H. Miller.
On account of the school entertainment
Thursday night, there will not
be any prayer meeting services at the .
M. E. church. School closes this week.
The primary exercises will be Thurslay,
April 22nd, exercises to begin.at
8.00 p. m. Also lecture by Rev. J. E.
Wdosley. Friday at 2 p. m. there will
'>e a recitation and decla&ation contest;.
3 p. m., lecture by Supt P. J,
Kiker. Friday night at 8 o'clock the
higher grades will present a play,
"Miss Fearless and Company." A
Miss Mary Brooks hasjretumed^ii^SiiiSI^
from a* week's visit to her grandmotb- . *. _
or, Mrs. Mary Braswell, at Bethel, x
Most of the farmers In this section
are about /through {planting. Small
;rain is looking fine.
It la estimated that the proposed :
I)onds for road building in Chesterfleld
county would increase the tax levy
about 46 cehts on the hundred dollars.
Property is returned for taxation at
about one-third actual value, and the
additional tax on a hundred dollars
worth of property would be about 15
ents The man who doesn't own much
property should vote for the bonds
because he would get so much more
in return than he would pay. The
man who doeseu't ovn much property
should vote for bonds Iwcause he is
able, and because the property owner
is theman who reaps the richest harvest
from increased property values.
Money from some source for building
better roads is bound to be had.
Bonds is the only feasible plan
for raising this money in sufHcent
(juanities to do any permanent road
work. Bonds give us good roads now
?the time when we need them so
badly?and we pay for them as we
use them. Issuing bonds is borrowing
money. If the bond election
tarries, it simply means that many
thousand dollars will be brought Into
each township voting the bonds and
turned loose among the laboring class.
The commissioners are to receive only
two dollars a day for not more than
40 days a year and even this will
remain right In the township. Wagons,
teams and laborers will be used In
roadbullding and the money will go to
those who are willing to work. Employment
will be given to many, many
people who need it and at a time when
they reed it most When you vote for
road bonds you vote to borrow money*
at a low rate of interest to make a
very profitable invesmtent for yourself.
i
If you feel the need of employment
\-ntc for them.
If ycu feel the of employment for
for mules and wagons In leisure time,
,vote for It.?Pageland Journal ^
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Wilhelmina Leaves.
Londoiv April 21.?The American
steamer Wilhelmnl left Falmouth to?
day for Cardiff, where her cargo will
lie discharged. She has been detained
it Falmouth since February 11 after
puttiug in their with fodstuffs from
New York for Hamburg.
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