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; < \ * - MAKES LAST STAND GET ™ G wm T0 W0RK BEIXilANH DKKKXI) (HIKF (iTX AGAINST THK INVADERS. HOl'SE COMMITTEE TO LOOK AF TER RELIEF BILKS. 1 " WHY ITALY IS OUT •K , * ■ ^ | AMERICAN'S EXPLAINS THE CON DITIONS OF AFFAIRS. V HOPE TO BE RELIEVED Advance of Allied Left Wing Would Mean Rescue of Defenders.—Big . Battle Continues on Both Wings of Enormous Armies—French Report Has Encouraging Tone. While J the immense armies of the belligerent Powers of Europe are en gaged in a death grapple along lines hundreds of miles in extent in battle which, for the numbers engaged, fierceness and stubbornness, have no precedent in history, the little army of Belgium is making a last stand be hind the forts of Antwerp, one of the strongest fortified positions in the world. For the moment at least the strug gle around the chief port of Belgiurn attracts the most attention", for the result of the-angagement there must have a considerable effect on the big ger battle between the Anglo-French and German forces, which extend extend from the Swi^s frontier across France, almost to the North Sea. The Germans, while attenpting to cross the Scheldt, southeast of Ant werp, made their main attack from the east, and broke some days ago, with the aid of their sixteen inch guns, througli the first line of forts. Between the first and second belt of forts, according to their own accounts N they defeated the Belgian afrtiy and captured a number of guns. King Albert has cal led on all men of military age to assist in the de fence. of the city. Thousands of others, women, children and old men, have left Antwerp hurriedly. ' The towns 6f Holland already are crowd ed with refugees. The mayor of Rot terdam has sent out a warning that there is no more room there for the harrassed Belgians, and steamers for England'are crowded with refugees. Five German army corps are taking " part in the siege at Antwerp, which is defended by the Belgian army. The outer forts, like those of other for tresses which have fallen since the war began, have not been able to withstand the fire of the big Gerrhan guns, but the Belgians are still hope ful that with inner forts, a flooded area and a mobile field army, they may hold the city until assistance may come by the defeat of the Ger mans in France. Such a defeat, all realize, is an enormous task, but the official com munication issued In Paris late on Thursday gives the allies hope that the long awaited decision is about to be^reached. Not for many days has such an encouraging report from the allies' point of view been publish ed by the French general staff. . The strong German reinforcements, which appeared on the Belgian fron tier in the region of Lille, accord ing to this report, ‘'have made no progress at any point." while "at cer tain points the enemy has moved back, particularly to the north of Arras, where the fighting is develop ing under conditions favorable to us.” The cavalry Is fighting even fur ther north than this and the French communication says operations have developed- almost to the North Sea. Around Roye, where the Germans captmed important heights from the French last week, the French have regained some of the positions they were obliged to abandon. From the north of Aisne. where two forward movements by the An glo-French troops have been men tioned within the laft few days, the Germans seem to have withdrawn some of their own men, probably to strengthen their extreme right, around which the allies have been trying to work ever since the battle began, nearly four weeks ago. On the centre, between Rheims and the Meuse, the armies are resting on their arms, awaiting their turn to take the offensive. But on the heights of the Meuse, between the Fortress of Verdun and St. Mihiel. where the Germans crossed the Meuse a couple of weeks^agtr-tho. contest still goes on. -The Germans have withdrawn to the north of ’Hatton- chatel. They still, however, hold St. Mihiel and some positions north of that towh on the right bank of the river. The conjecture, therefore, that the French had driven them back across the- river soon after they made their advance, and captured besides the town itself, the forU-of^Romain and Paraches, proves correct. In the Voevre district the Germans, without success, have delivered vio lent attacks against the French, who doubtless were trying to get behind the German force, on the Meuse at St. Mihiel. With the Germans to the north withdrawing and the repulse of their attack west of Apremont, the Germans at St. Hihiel are considered to be in rather a dangerous position. As an offset to this favorable French statement, the German ac count,, says the French attacks on the Argonne and to the northeast of Verdun were fepulsed while np de cision has >een reached in fhe fight ing bn the German right wing. This latter statement remains true for, although the, French claim to have met with eucVess. there is, noth ing to indicate any definite result has .been obtained and there probably will be much more fighting and a further extension-Of the wings, pos- Flblv in the direfTici'n or "Till th p. be- fore eitfier side iiwcompelled to give . way. . • Pressure Is Being Brought to Rear 4 In Favor of Entire Elimination of i ' f.‘A « 1 Cotton in 1915. •; ■ ■» ' ’ • '"r ’ ' A; It is growing more and more sig nificant that the General Assembly will not bass anything much more than/an acreage reduction bill with the possibility of a warehouse bill. That an acreage reduction bill will be passed is recognized, but it is by no means certain that a warehouse bill will pass for two reasons; first, because of the lack of money, and, second, that there is opposition to the State embarking in a business enter prise, directly, or indirectly. The suggestions of postponing the time for the payment of taxes are dead. The stay law idea will not get very far. In the Senate the bill look ing to the postponement of taxes was killed and on the House side it re ceived an unfavorable report. The important work of the House just at the moment is in the hands of a committee, consisting of Mr. Lee, Darlington, chairman; Mr. Belzer Sumter: Mr. Peagues, Marlboro; Mr. Atkinson, Chester: Mr. Blackwell. Laurens: Mr. Bethea. Dillon; Mr. Mower. .Yewberry; Mr. Wyche, Spar tanburg; Mr. Welch, Richland; Mr Epps. Sumter, and Mr. Riley, Saluda. Pressure is being brought to bear upon the special committee from the house appointed to consider bills re lating to the curtailment of cotton production to report a measure pro viding for the elimination of the sta ple entirely in 1915. It is.impossible to judge with any degree of accuracy at this stage of the session wTrat headway the total elimination idea is making among the members of the hQuse at large, but there are indications that converts are being rapidly made to the plan of producing no cotton next year. The revolutionary; idea of elimi nating cotton as a c,rop in 191 a.-4s» being opposed on the ground that the general assembly has a right to reg ulate the amount Of the crop pro duced. but the the police power of the State does not give scope for the de struction of the crop in its entirety The question of the unconstitutional ity of a law prohibiting the growing of cotton would have to be threshed out in the courts. The problem w hich the select com mittee from the house,is trying to solve is recognized on all sides as of tremendous importance to the State and the South at large, involv tng as it does between $30,000,000 and $50,000,000 to South Carolina alone The committee has avowed its intention of making its report to the house as early as it can con sistently do so. in view of its desire to have the fullest and freest discus sion of the whole question of the cur tailment of cotton production. General Strike Is Feared if Ministry Attempts to Force Italian Govern ment Into War.—People Are De termined to Tend to Their Own Internal Reforms. V Germans f'ommand Austrians. \ Tbfc Austrian army. In Alalicia has been placed under-pie, control of the ^ German general staff, IS ANXIOl'S TO HELP. President Wilson Talks About * Cotton Situation. „ After an interview with President Wilson Wednesday morning the fol lowing statement was issued in be half of the six members of the South Carolina delegation in the House who were present; \ "Representatives Finlby, Johnson Lever. Aiken, Whaley and Byrnes, by appointment, called on the president this morning The call was for the purpose of discussing the conditions in the South growing out of the par alysis of the cotton market. The con ference lasted for more than an hour Every phase of the situation was talk ed over freely and fully.. . "The representatives left thorough ly impressed with the belief that •President Wilson is in deep and thor ougli sympathy with, the South and that he intends to use all the power he has under the'law. It is not be lieved, however, by the representa tives that the president Wo'uld favor or that congress would pass any of the emergency bills that have hoc proposed to meet Uie abnormal con ditions. x "One suggestion 'much diseusse the lasC two or three Ways has been that the president, might, issue on hundred.,millions of Panani&^bon sell them, and deposit the money i the distressed sections.' There, is n evidence that the president ha changed his view that this is not good time to offer bonds, as,he ex pressed in his last address, to con gress." Representatives' Finley and John son, joint authors of House Bill 19 004, rece.ntly introduced by Mr. Fin ley for the relief of the cotton grow ers, said that they were not wedded to any particular measure, but con -sidered the situation so grave that they were willing to vote, for any feasible plan to give relief to the South. Messrs. Finley, Johnson, Whaley and Aiken declared themselves op posed to adjournment, because they think congress should stay in session to- give whatever federal aid it can to the farmers in their distress. President Wilson said to Repre se'ntative Lever that he was keenly disappointed over the defeat of the effort to call up the Lever warehouse bill last Monday in the House, and hoped that some way could yet be found to get the measure up for con sideration. To Start Newspaper. Several prominent .supporters the Govefnor has associated them selves w ith him for the .purpose of TUrtrfMrliig a wew opapev Gm rapi In! city. ' . / • . NATION WITHIN ITSELF MUST HELP THEMSELVES AIRCRAFT DESTROY A1R8HIP ATTACKS CREATE PANIC IN BESIEGED CITY. Ex-Mayor George B. McClellan, of New York, in the October number of the Atlantic Monthly discusses jthe situation of Italy in the present Euro pean conflict. He says in part: The. Italian declaration of neBTraK ity in the present war, coming as it did niost unexpectedly, was received w ith varying emotions in the chancel leries of Europe, While the exact terms of the Triple Alliance h^ve never been publicly an nouncedr the German-Austrian pro test was predicated on the assump tion that under them any two of the allies w ere required to defend the third in the event of an attack upon the latter. Although Germany had declared war against Ffance, it was held that certain alleged acts of ag gression committed by France consti tuted an attack upon Germany with in the meaning of the treaty of al liance. To this protest, the Italian foreign minister, the Marchese di San Giu- liano, replied that the acts complain ed of had unquestionably been offset by similar acts on the part of Ger many, and that, petty incidents aside, the vital fact remained that Germany had declared war against France, which in the judgment of the Italian government absolved Italy.from tak ing any part In the war as a member of the Triplice. Signor Giolitti, the former Italian prime minister, went even further than this, and was quot ed by the Italian newspapers as say ing that in his judgment Italy would have been perfectly justified as* a member of the Triple Alliance in re maining neutral, even had Germany or Austria been actually and openly attacked. Proletaria Now Kules. I'ntil recently modern Italy, like all self-governing countries during the last half of the nineteenth cen tury, had been ruled by a middle class aristocracy, a bourgeois ruling caste, composed of merchants and shopkeepers, lawyers, physicians and other professional men,- who by means of a limited franchise werg able to exclude the vast majority of the people from any share in govern ment. But the proletariat, so long dormant, at last awakened to self consciousness and to a realization of its power, and the last Giolittf minis try was forced to grant universal manhood suffrage. The first election under the changed conditions was held last year and inaugurated a new era in Italian history. Despite the growing prosperity of Italy the burdens of- taxation have been constantly growing. The cost of the Triple Alliance has progressed greatly during the last ten years. The increased cost of living, due to many causes other than increased taxation, coupled with a dispropor tionately small Increase in wages -spread a spirit of great discontent throughout proletarian Italy, which found its first opportunity of effective expression at the first election hald under universal suffrage. It was fortunate for Italy that w hen her two allies, Germany and Austria, went to war without con suiting her and with an unexpected ness that lias no parallel in history she had at the head of her-depart ment of foreign affairs one of her few statesmen. The Marchese di San Giuliauo is a Sicilian, on the north ern slope of-Etna. He was trained by'Francesco Crispi and has had wide experience in the chamber of depu ties, in diplomacy, in the'department or foreign affairs and in the senate where lie now sits. Race Keeling Dominate*. But most potent ot all the reason for the unpopularity of the Triple • Alliance is the racial fact, which from the beginning of all Utn.e has made it impossible for the Latin and the Teuton either to understand or hkeeacli other. Added to this is the more recent lint 'more in tense "hatred of the Italians for the Austrians Every Italian believes that the Tren tino and Trieste might to belong to dtaly Economically the risk of war was greater than any possible gain. For the first time in the .history of mod errtkltaly she finds herself on a really sound industrial basis. . Strong as were the sentimental and economic objections to following the fortunes of the Triple Alliance the political objections were even more insuperable. It might even have "been possible to reconcile the bourgoisie to the nec essary economic loss involved in an unpopular war; but it is extremely doubtful if Signore Salandra could have obtained the support of the pro letariat in a war waged against an other Latin nation. { An Italy Within litaly.- The general strike of last June, re vealing as it did the marvellous or gapization and discipline of the Ital ian proletariat, demonstrated beyond peradventure the existence pf Italy within Italy, of which until then the rulers had been absolutely ignorant. The Italian proletariat hgve other fish ^o fry th.ah foreign conquests. They are< | engaged in Jhe effort to ovcnhmw thp niiiiHng jft«u Rl Sift Horses for French Army. Eight hundred- and forty horses were loaded Thursday it ■Or- feans for the future use of the French army. - Y .* ■ *■. emTuent nt borne, peacefully if pos sibEfi forcibly if aetv.ssgrjf. • . XJiere can be no question that Rig note Ealandra realized that a decla ration of war againgt Russia France wouH have been the, signal for a general strike in Italy which STATES MUST (XIOPERATE TO AID / COTTON CONDITION. Clje--—*. , 1 Bankhead Sa|s Everybody Realize* That Hope of Government Action Is Gone. 1 The frank admission that the sal vation of the Southern cotton grow ers would have to be worked out by the States rather than by the national government and that if the planters were to wait for the passage of a bill for the government to buy cot ton at 10 cents or to lend amounts on cotton direct, the relief would not come in time for next year's crop was made on the floor of the Senate Thursday afternoon by Senator Bank- head of Alabama. Senator Bankhead suggested that each individually, and without wait ing for all the others to join, should provide for a loan to buy one-half the crop of cotton of each individual planter. This loan would ne issued in tne form of scrip ranging down as low as $10, but no interest would be paid on the denominations lower than $100. This could be used in paying for the cotton and would per mit the planter to discharge his debts to the merchants who could pass them along to the banks in settlement of their obligations. The banks could exchange the small denominations for $1,000 bonds bearing interest at four per cent. Then warehouses would be established by the States and the counties should be authorized to pro vide warehouses for. the storage of the half of the crop bought by the State. To avoid a tremendous crop next year, making it impossible then for the State to sell the half of this years crop it would be holding, he proposed a tax of 50 cents a bale on all cotton produced next year and of 25 cents an acre on ill land planted in cotton for next year's crop. In addition there would be a tax of $1 on each bale bought by the State. “Every senator and congressman in Washington,” said Mr Bankhead, “who knows anything about the sit uation and is candid enough to admit it realizes that no law can be passed at this time for the government to buy cotton or to loan money direct'to the farmers. I think it would be wicked to hold out false hopes to our people.” Although the house banking and currency committee decided that ii would not report out the Henry bill or any similar legislation at the pres ent session of congress. Southern members got together and practically united on a bill introduced by Re presentative Howard of Georgia This measure contains several fea tures of others and makes loans of $250,00,000 on cotton contingent upon the staple being placed in ware houses and being insured. Either State or national banks could participate in these deposits by complying with the regulations of the treasury department. The main difference from other bills is that be sides providing for loans It makes the warehouse, feature a necessary prerequisite for such loans. DEFENCE IS BESPEIATE The BeMglaniH Are Confident That the Germans Can Never Take Their City.—Krnpp Guns Are Winning Fight for Invaders.—Populace Re gains Courage Shaken by Bombs. PREPARING FOR RUSSIA TURKS REMOVE ALL DOtflTV HOSTILE ATTITUDE. Clone# Bosphorus to All Bhippiac^ Mines Waterways and Plants Art*. levy In Black Sea Ports. * “AH doubts of Turkey’s hostile t»> tention against Russia ended Sum* day,” says a dispatch from Constan tinople, “when following the closiag of the .Dardanelles and the departurw of the cruisers Goeben and Breslau for the Black Sea. Turkey domed aim the Bosphorus with mines, torpedoes and chains. Turkey also began plac ing new heavy artillery in the Black Sea forts off Kills, Riva and Kant- burun.” Y ' By an agreement entered into by the powers of Europe In 1841 it The fighting around Antwerp has been a battle of Krupps against men. Every day and night the fighting has contlnuedwith deadly effect against the forts, while the shrappel and prescribed thgt no foreign warship shell have made many of the trenches I might enter the straits of the Dar- untenable. In their present position, I dannellea except with the consent of the Germans, even with their second the Ottoman government, and even largest guns, are able to reach the merchant vessels were allowed to city. pass the Castle of Chanak-Kaleshi at The condition of panic among the the narrowest point of the straits only populace wns increased Thursday by I during the day. . the appearance at eleven o’clock .in This treaty was confirmed In 18&S the morning and at three In the after- by the treaty of Purls, signed after noon of German air craft which drop-1,the Crimean war, and again in 1878 ped bombs, destroying seven houses these conditions were recognized by and killink a score of people. the treaty of Berlin and extended to At the same time six Zeppelin dir-1 include the Boaphonis. igibles flow over the city, dropping But even before 1841 the ap- bombs, but it has been impossible as proaches to Constantinople were seal- yet tp ascertain the damage theyled. In 1833, when the Egyptian Geu. have done. Mehmet All Pasha was threatening After the Zeppelins’ successful at- the Turkish capital. Russia went to tack the large'avenue leading to tliojthe assistance of Sultan Mahmud II, railroad station quickly became and in consideration of this obtained black with a struggling mass of per-1 a secret treaty obliging Turkey when- sons eager to escape from the city, ever there was necessity for such it was a pdthetic sight to see the poor action to close the Dardanelles to the people, some carrying on their backs I ships of all nations, their hopelessly maimed or idiotic An English fleet under Sir John relatives. I Duckworth passed the forta of the The situation quickly changed. Hardanelles and sailed into the sea While at two o'clock even grown men I °f Marmosa. In 1807. The Strait* were weeping with terror and fight- were again entered by the British ing for places around the railway when the government sent ships to station, at aix o'clock everybody was help Turkey in her last war with again certain that the forces would Kussla. During the Russo-Japaneso be able to hold out against the Ger- war a Russian volunteer cruiser fly mans and even throw them pack ing merchant flags and carrying sol- across the river Nethe. * (Hers and guns slipped through the Tlyere is an air of quiet confidence Bosphorus apd the Dardanelles aid that the Germans will never capture! ou t * n l° th® Aegean Sea. In April, the city. Numbers of the forts are! 1812, the Italian fleet bombarded the still holding out with stubbornness forts at the entrance to the straits, and the threatened bombardment is) These three last named incident* desperate maneuver to try and I < ’ OD,, !B u l e il*® only important viola- force them to capitulate In order to I Hot 18 °I i* 1 ® treaty since it was sign- save the city from damage. ®d- For some days flags with red and might have resulted in the fall of the dynasty. Manifest as were the objections to war. the advantages of neutrality were equally so. During hostilities Italy is in a position to lose less than any other neutral. It is almost in conceivable that her neutrality should be unintentionally violated, while it would be to no power’s ad vantage to violate It intentionally She is in the delightful position of being feared and courted by all, with nothing to lose and everything to gain by her neutrality. So long as the war lasts Italy must necessarily, be one of the chief sodrees of supply for both sides, as her ports are open and her shipping so much as there is of it, is free to carry freight and passengers to. and from all parts of the world. Her manufactures, her commerce and her agriculture will he greatly stimulat ed, and should hostilities last for any time will receive an impetus which- wil emture afterward. No matter who wins'slip must pro fit. for she is like a broker in an ac tive market, who makes his commis sions no matter whether prices rise or fall. Should Germany and Austria con quer, on the dismemberment of France which will follow conquest Italy will probably fall heir to Nice and Savoy, taken' from her by Napol eon III over half a century ago as the price of his friendship in her quarrel with Austria; n^t that Ger many loves Italy, but because in dis membering France it will be neces sary to take Nice and Savoy from her, and Italy is the only power to whom they can be given. ., Whereas if Germany and Austria lose, the Trentino and-Trieste, with the con trol of the Adriatic, and possibly Albania, will very naturally be the payment for Italian neutrality. It does not, howeveF, seem prob able that Italy will depart from the course she has set herself. The costs and difficulties of war and the ad vantages of neutrality are both so great that ltaly will undoubtedly pre fer to be ruled by national self-inter est rather than by any passing emo tion. British" Bomb Hits City. — Mistaking the Dutch Maastricht for Cologne the British airships Mon day dropped a bomb which destroyed several houses of the town. British jityjik faafr.litif.p'-wrfifififiri. . .. white diagonal stripes have flown from the tops of churches and other buildings, those on the Cathedral and St. Jacques’ tower being especially conspicuous. These flags indicate that the buildings serve no military end. It is stated that the Germans OKANGEBI KG IJCADH. In Number of Bales of Cotton Ginnes) Up to October ted. William J. Harris, director of the have promised to spare as much as I cenBU8> ^P* r I ,n ® n I possible the buildings not devoted to I announ( ‘®^ ^^® preliminary report of military purposes. All the lights In 00110,1 gIno®<I by counties in Booth the town are extinguished at dusk C aro ** na * or cr °P® of 18H entf and the shops close at six in the eve-1 1*13. The report was made petite ning I for the State at 10 a. m. on Friday. All eyes are trained on the city of I October 2. The amounts for the dlf- Antwerp, whose fate la regarded for® 01 countiee for the crop® of 10M important out of all proportion to the * n d 1913 are as follow®. Quantities numbers of men engaged in Its attack I ar ® * n running bales, counting round and defence. Germany must not only I baleo. Linters are not la- keep an open door Into France, it tsl°lP<l®<i- argued, but she must be prepared to I close the back door to Essen, a most important German military center, ini rase the long and stubborn fight of Gen. von Klurk, commander of the German right wing, ends In disaster. The war has presented no picture of greater desolation than that of I the hosts of refugees fleeing from the! last Belgian stronghold Throngs of| citizens of Antwerp, dumb with ter ror as the huge German shells hurtle I over their heads with the roar of an I ‘express train, are fleeing toward Eng land and Holland in such numbers I that the hospitality of those Countries | is likely to be taxed to the utmost. The flight of these refugees has I been accelerated by the appearance! over the city of Zeppelin airships, | dropping destruction and death. The only ray of hope from the al-1 lies’ standpoint is found in the news that the almost exhausted garrison) of Antwerp has been reinforced by fresh troops and more guns I p to the present time only one I great German siege guii has been [ brought into play and that piece of) artilley is fired only at infrequent in tervals. Guns half the size of the) destroyers of Liege and Namur art- being used in the work of battering 1 the rings of forts which surround] Antwerp. 1 Both sides confirm the report that) the Germans have Succeeded in cross ing the river Nethe, but the trenches) Along the river Scheldt are still hold ing odt against their determined at-) tacks. The German offensive movement is) now approaching the inner rit$g of forts and Berlin reports in the open field four heavy batteries, 52 field) guns and as. many machine guns. County. 1914 IMS Abbeville. . . . 5,870 2,639 Alkefi. . . . .14,923 10,716- Anderson. . . . 8,014 4,408 Bamberg. . . . 9,566 7,509 Barnwell. . . .20,421 11,785 Beaufort. . . . 1,677 8»» Berkeley. . . 3,462 1,853: Calhoun. . . ; 8,683 5,956- Charleston. . . 2,111 1,019 Cherokee. . . . 1,269 577 Chester. . . . . 5,656 3.5ft» Chesterfield. . . 6,131 4,577 Clarendon. . .15,630 9,324 Colleton. . . . . 5,478 3,957 Darlington. . . 7,504 4,394 Dillon . 8,502 6,294 Dorchester. . . 4,856 3,726: Edgefield. . 7,941 4.87T Fairfield. . . . 2,981 2,456 Florence. . . . 8,102 7,310 Georgetown. . 640 402 Greenville. . . , 4,644 1,173 Greenwood. . . 6,031 3,027 Hampton. . . . 3,154 5.841 Horry 67 4 620 Jasper. . . . . 2,306 1»234 Kershaw. . . . 5,588 3,872 Lancaster. .. . . 1,000 1,479. l^urens. . . . . 6,366 3,097 Lee. .• . . . . .10,691 7,942 /.exington . . . 5,804 4,494 Marion ... . 2,680 3,796 Marlboro. . . . 13,487 7,349 Newberry. . . : 5,096 3.71 0 Oconee.... . 1,515 583 Orangeburg. . 24,169 r8.576 Pickens. . . . 1.812 196 Richland. . . . 6,483 4,594 Saluda. • . . 2,516 Spartanburg . . 8.644 2,504 Sumter. . . . .15,361 9,226 Union . 1,667 ' 707 Williamsburg . i 7,712 4,234 York.'-. , . . . 5,654 2,373 Total .... .303,794 193,318 GEKMAN8 PLEASED. * \ Success of CYuisers Against Britisb Trade is Burprising. Press matter derived from official the Caplhe ...•ilooit.' The Germans in-froht of the French army make use of captive balloons armed with seaWhlights to detect troop movements of the allies at nighl. -s- ' ■ *tt' 9 . 60 60 . : , , . 27 ‘" carlsfuhe and the Leipzig are , o . i.jj. I men, $•11.8.*. Lexing-J narnej5 ^ Qennan vessels w'b' WfinvmsViqrg. $ r <, 4 5f: ■$~4 7,01 4 I. - Million for Woman Mrs. Frank Leslie le.ft dollars to be used for the fort] of woman suffrage. 33 DISPENSARY SALES. How Different Counties Spend Vari-| ous Amounts for Booze. Dispensaries in fourteen counties of the State sold $302,014'.52 worth of whiskey during September, accord-j Ge ™ a ““ 'Purees'Yay^: "Surprise ing to a stateinent Issued Wednesday ge nera n y is expressed at the amusing by ao H M? bley ' Sta . t . e dl8 P ensary activity of the German cruisers sta- e^P en8e I tioned abroad. Though it was gen- amounted to $1 (,440.39. Sales b> era ii y expected that the vessels would the Richland dispensaries amounted fall ea8y victlmB to Brltlih warslllp8 t0 e. 6 ii‘*.7 ' ' 6 ' .v, * , . within a fortnight after the declnra- Follow ing are the sales by c0011 "I tion t>f war, Gernians now are aston* teVcs'Vft e, n ished to learn from reports in the $8,88 ^0 , Bamberg, $9,..-3,l •>. Cal-1 and French press of the dam- * h<yin. $..,, Barnwell. $ -1,..60.88 : age they are doing to, the merchant Dorchester. $6.8.0.8.,; Florence *51,- marlne of the enemy \ 84 0,; Georgetown, $12,464.70; |- .. The Goeben, Breslau, Emden, lie who9e__ — have ca^use Ui«4iv«Ueet sat- - *rio«ftrm. j icf ac tion In Germany. In addition, the cruisers Beharnburst ami Gnetee- • nau, stationed in the Pacific, are re ported to hare been busy in the vicin ity of Tahiti. Society Islands, where rance| they succeeded in destroying the' French gunboat Zeielee." — -a. fca m it lion