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AMERICAN'S EXPLAINS THE CON
DITIONS OF AFFAIRS.
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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. •;
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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.
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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