Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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K i"—»iM irw wuMi t~ rn~t hthi-. mm I GERMANY SfNT NOTE . - - • . * i EB TO OFFSET REPLY OF ENTENTE TO NEUTRALS GERMANY BORROWS IN U. S. ?•«-j »''■ American Hankers Lend Fift/ Million £ ' * ' -• '■ Dollars for Pnrchaao of Wool. miS OF ALUED WRONG Rajrs She Was Sincere in Offer Hut It Was Turned n In under That a War of Majr He (’arried on by I Germany has obtained a cecret ! loan of fifty million dollars from 1 New York banks, it has been learned. | to mobilize a hugo supply of South American wool in New York for ship ment of ths Central empires the mo ment the war ends. ~ r * I This loan arrangement, whlcli has been carefully guarded, explains set- 1 eral peculiar operations of the Brit ish government in the Argentine within the last two weeks. British banks in South America were Jlrst forbidden to handle gold shipments from New York. iThen British in- from insuring such gold shipments surance companies were prohibited and finally British boats were for bidden to carry the gold. • • 1 The object of the British govern ment was to stop the payment for segdy of the Entente to the Oer- the German wool, forty million dol- Thursday handed near Crml government* a note concermlng peace proposals, the Overseas •era agency announces. It Is first stated, says the news announcement, that the Ger- .government has received the boujht Argen-' lars worth of which has been on the sheeps* backs in the Argen tine. , • Despite the steps taken by the British government, the wool Is bo- reply of the Entente to the note of ing brought to New York, some of it December 1 2 containing a proposi-1 actually coming in British veesels. gotialloos. The note then continues:’! was by “Our ad yeraaries declined ~ this chaste an arrangement with -of—-Booth— Aaertct proposition, giving as the reason that shipped the wool for theirVow^p ac- It la a proposition without sincerity count on the guarantee that they and without importance. The form w ould be paid 'by. the German gov- fn which they clothe their communi- ernment. Their drafts' were then cation excludes an answer to them presented on New York and paid by but the imperial government consid- the hanWw partiripating jp ^O^ 11 •r* it inr'portarit to point duOoHie; The borrowing operation was in governments of neutral powers its the nature of an “acceptance credit, ppinicn regarding the situation. 1 The security is the weol which is be- ••Tbe Central powers hav&no rea- ( ing stored in New York warehouses. mtm to enter into any (liHruaelon re- As the wool arrives the drafts are Mndtag the origin of the world war. j paid. History will judge upon whom the tesuenMe guilt of the war shall fall, history's verdict will as little pass •tsr the encircling policy of Eng- lead. the revengeful policy of France and the endeavor of Russia to gain Constantinople as over the Instiga tion of the Serbian assassination of Onrajevo and the complete moblliza- tloa of Russia, which meant war against Germany. ••Germany and her allies, who had go take up arms for defense of their and their existence, consider their aim of the war, as oh- MANNING’S MESSAGE ENGINEER KILLED GOVERNOR GIVES FULL PRO GRAM FOR LEGISLATION Seaboard's •'Flamingo .• Wrecked Sunday Morning. For Sale 10 acres, 4 acres cleared, . 4 room house, $1.60t. N. Tobias, Largo. Fla. ■ 11 1,11 ■■ 1 We wish to buy cow price In first letter. peas. State W. L. Hall WULSORY EDUCATION Chief Executive ’ . Keoonuneadatioa to Strengthen r-'=aavr »——»; — -p—7~r-• Liquor Law, Provide Better Schooling, the AuetmOa* Balk*, The/‘Flamingo ^ Special" of the Seaboard Air Line waa derailed at Schofield, a flag station slxty-flvs miles south of Columbia Sunday morning at seven o'clock, when it dashed Into an open awitch. Engi neer Henry Petit suffered broken limbs and internal injuries and .died. The "Flamingo Special," No. 7, . southbound tourist train of the Sea-1 B board Air Line, was running on Schedule time fourteen miles south of Denmark Zanday morning at seven o'clock, and tirhen nearing the siding t Schofield, a flag stop, tbe engfneer tbs Tomas System and Pleads for Economy—About Law Enforce ment. Gov. Manning, in bis annual mee- sage to the generalassembly of South Carolina Tuesday at noon recommended a program of progres- sire legislation and reviewed the con dition'' of the State government. tion to enter at once Into peace ne-j The way this has been carried P\>t I.Thare^were-^everaT- questions that The truckB of the m 1)V an arrAmr*»mpnt with mer- tuning car J it is said, observed tke white light at the switch, which meant safety and "straight ahead." The train, accordingly, kept ahead but, it seems that' the switch light should have been red, for the switch, it is said, was open, and the train dashed Into the open switch derailing the engine and baggage car and pil ing the Pullman on the cars ahead. According to meager reports, the engine is said to have left the .track on one side end the express and mail Feed and Seed Company, Greenville, ‘ N. C. r* ’ ■ r - , ,, — Budded Pecans, prices reasonable, good peach trees, i and t cents. Write for catalogue. Hartwell Nur series, Hartwell, Ga. ^ : Wanted; Cow Peas all varieties. We ere in tbs market at all times. Tbs H. G. Lelding Co., 144 East Bay, Charleston, 8. C. Farms for Sals Cheap—In Moore County. Fine tobacco, cotton, fruit- and general farm lands. Write ms your wants. A. G. Martin, Car thage, N. C.. ; _ i Mexican Big Boll Five-Lock Cotton Beed. Carefully selected, early, ginned on private gin, purs and un mixed. $2 per bu. . L. C. Allen, Hoachton, Ga. Strawberry PUnte—-Send $2.60 for 1,000 Klondyke, Lady Thompson or Corneille cabbage planjts at $1.6 • per thousand. John Lightfoot, East Chattanooga, Tenn. » > . For attractive town residence, vacant town property, farm lands or stock in good' paying corporation, where climate ia faultless, address owner, B. F. Moors, Raeford, N. C. For Sale—At a bargain, one 60,000 capacity brick mill In first clans working order, located at railroad . siding. For prices and terms, writs Box 311, Latta, B. C. ' Shippers, give us trial shipment hides, furs, all kinds. Top market prices. Prompt returns. Square deal guaranteed all. Game traps at wholesale. Writs H. B. Waddell and Co., Sumter, 8. C. % For Sale—Watts shellers for «kask ing, shelling, cleaning, sacking corn at one operation. Also Bauer, kerosene engines. . E. Baker, Agent, Atlanta, Ga./ P. O. Bon 1280. / Fall Cabbage Plante—-All leading va rieties. By express 500 for 60c; 1,000, $1; 6,000 s 80c. Satlsfac- [ Owner offers for sale or exchange f«r tion guaranteed. 3y mail postpaid farm new two-story house on large wer© 8aid to tiav© been the gDYAraQr J^ touch upon., brokea, but the thiy coactiw aiiirH^ which Will be with later in Pullmans remained on the track. The special messages The governor only train was composed of engine, bag- dt'scUBsed those questions thit de-; 8llB,, k a . nd ex r*™ c&T - dlner ’ ^ , da ^ . M ^ coaches and Pullmans, an all-steel mand "early and earnest attention. | train. . Th© governorj in his message, dis-, 25c per 100. D. F. Jamison, Sum merville, 8. C. = ' mT—» The wreck Is said to have been FuaFailee4 Hro5^ proof Plants, any variety, from pedigreed seed sown in open at Young’s Island. $1.50 per M de livered. Attractive proposition for dealers. Enterprise Brokerage Com- *pany, Sumter, S. C. cussed education, primary election l cauBe( i by giving thp white light at Wanted—Peanuts! Peanuts! Any laws, registration, law enforce nent, j the switch when it should have been the National Guard, prohibition,, a r h(j light. The track was badly “On the other hand, the hostile always went further away the realisation of their plans which, according to the declarations ©f their responsible statesmen, were, among others, directed toward the conquest of Alsace-Lorraine and sev eral Prussian provinces, the humilia tion and diminution of the Austro- Hungarian monarchy, the partition mi Turkey and the mutilation of Bul garia. * im the face of such war alms, the 4«nnand for restitution, • reparation and guarantees in the mouth of our adversaries produces a surprising ef fort, "Our adversaries call the proposal of the four allied (Teutonic) powers a war manoeuvre. Germany and hei allies must protest in the most ener getic fakhion against such a charac terisation of their motives which were frankly explained. They were tgersuaded that a peace -which was jttat and acceptable to all the bellig erents was possible, that it could be brought about by an immediate ©poketn exchange of view’s and that, iherrtoro, the responsibility for fur- • ther bloodshed could not be taken .“I'.ifiir readiness was affirmed ’VSUbMit reservation to make known vtheir peace conditions when negotia tions were entered into, which re futes every doubt as to their sin cerity. t “Our Adversaries, wko had It In tkelr hands to examine the proposi ti©© as to' its contents, neither at- - tempted an examination - nor made center proposals. Instead, they de clared that peace was impossible so 4e©g as the re-establishment of vio lated rights and liberties, the recog nition of the principle of nationali ties and the free existence of small state© were not guaranteed. “The sincerity which our adver saries deny to the proposal of the four allied powers (Teutonic) not be conceded by nds K the RUSS START OFFENSIVE good ’roads, the Torrens system, rural credits, boll weevil, the Lever act, the State warehouse system, the State hospital for the Insane, salaries and urged strict economy. ™ "From a careful survey and ob servation of the entire State, 1 recom- Copeuhagen Tells of Great Effort in ? • the Rigs Sector. The Russians are preparing to launch a great new offensive In the Riga sector, according to a Copen hagen dispatch to th^ Exchange Tel egraph Company, quoting German newspaper correspondents > at- the eastern front. Russian troops are said to be equipped with great quan- Utle* Of munitions and backed by large reserves. Near Mltau and sont£ of Riga the artillery fire is reported to have con stantly Increased on both sides dur ing the last few days and to have be come extremely violent. The weath er Is frosty and clear and the soun- try covered with snow. > The correspondent of The Tage- slans attempted a surprise attack pn^ Sunday near the Riga bridgehead." Great masses of the attackers with white shirts over their unlfdrms suc ceeded during a violent snow storm in entering the German trenches op a front of a thousand meters.' The correspondent says that evidently an attempt was being made to break through the road between Mitau and Riga. The Germans, seeing' the danger, sent all available reserves battle, which reached a pitch of tre mendous fury; The two armies fought with bombs and bayonets un til sunset, when, according to *the correspondent, the Russians retreat ed to their previous positions over snow that had been reddened with blood. . — torn dp at the scene of the wreck, but a wrecking train was sent out to make repairs and the track was cleared early Sunday night and trains were running through on schedule. The train which was ^wrecked is the brag, all-steel vestibule of the mend that the present law,-known Seaboard Air Line and runs between DID NOT MEET FOUL PLAY Officcrs\.Deaths Ascribed to Defec tive Gas Jet. tb«M> demands fore its eyes the fate of the Irish i jjpeople, the destruction of the liberty i and independence of ike Boer repub lic, the subjugation of northern Africa by England, France and Italy, j the suppression of Russian .alieua-; tions and also the violatioh of j Greece, which is without precedent is history < Governor Manning, of South Caro lina, has been informed by Governor Fielder that Sheriff Davtq and Su pervisor Foster, of Oconee County, South Carolina, who came North for an alleged negro murderer and were, found dead in their hotel in Eliza beth, did not meet with foul play.. This information conveyed to the Southern executive was based on a report from Prosecutor Stein, of Union County, in which the men’s will! death is ascribed as a defective gas the world to I jet. The letter also informs Gov- world holds be- i ernor Manning that the personal ef fects of the dead'officials were re turned to South Carolina. guarantee her independence and neu trality. * * , “Twice the imperial government declared to the Belgium government that it did not come as an enemy to the gallon a mopth act, should be amended and strengthened in several particulars," said the governor, dis^ cussing prohibition. Among the more Important recom mendations made by the governor were: A State-wide compulsory .educa tion law. A State board of examiners to se cure more competent teachers for the schools of the State. Ample; funds for agricultural courses in the schools. The Australian ballot system for the cities and towns of the State. Liberal support for the schools/ ; - The riflftt to Suspend-local officers who fail to enforce the law.- Liberal support for the Nations Guard. A sane, but strict, law regulating the'Importation of whiskey. A State highway department to en able South Carolina to share in the tedqral appropriation, is among the matters submitted for consideration The governor also called attention to other highway legislation. A Bhort^term rural credits law. x: A continuation of the cattle tick eradication campaign. &1 Acts to strei gthen the State warehouse system. . « Creation of a State institution foi the care of the feeble-minded. . CarefuLinvestigation of the work of the State tuberculosis sanitarium at State Park. - Liberal appropriations for the support of the Confederate veterans Fire' Insurance legislation "which will adjust our difficulties, protect our interests and be fair to all par ties--soncerned, along lines tn be recommended by the special commis sion appointed to study the subject ■Increase in salaries for State offi cials to meet the high cost of living ■That taxes must- be held down to a minimum which is consfctent with efficiency. Enforcement or repeal of the State Income tax law. After pointing ont that the prohi bition law should be amended In sev eral particulars, the governor point ed out the necessity for the appoint ment of constables to aid the* local officers In enforcing the terms of the act. "We need a law that can be ef fectively and rigidly enforced." said the governor. ' * Gov. Manning discussed conditions at -the State hospital for the insane. New York and Florida, catering largely to tourist travel. The train was said to have been crowded Sun day morning, hut the steel Pullmans stood the test and remained standing on the tracks. ^ quantity, old or new. Send x, pre sent alive samples so that we can pnalyze them and offer you all they are prorth for making oil and “Prima." Peanut Meal. Sea Inland Cotton Oil Company, Charleston, S. ^ Correct weight, prompt returns and market value for Hides, Furs and Beeswax. All kinds of Metals, Scrap Rubber, Iron, Burlap Bags, Rags, etc. Try us with a ship ment. Write for price list. Capi tol Junk Co., 331-333 Peters St., Atlanta, Ga. lot on car line with all cenveni- ences. Easy terms, 6 per cent, ia- terast -- U* Z. NaberSr Columbia, 8. C. For bale—-Coulliette variety upland long staple cotton seed; pure, Ifc inch staple. Price $2 per bushel. Also select Toole cotton seed, $1.50 per bushel* R. Q. Richardesn Jr. f Summerton. S. C. ; Good Farm for Sale -Cheap—-4 0 0 acres, 70 cleared. One-fonith cash. Balance to suit, purchaser or will trade for mules or other property can use as part payment. . W. 1>. McCranie, Milan, Ga. TILLMAN EXPLAINS VOTE Tells Why He Opposed District of Columbia Prohibition liilL * • . _ . , > Some expression of surprise was beard in Washington when Senator Pecan Trees Easily grown.,. Im proved varieties suited to the Car - linos. Well cared for trees begin bearing in three to five years after transplanting. You should grow these delicious nuts for yourself. Write for prices *nd Info motion. J. B. Wight. Cairo. Ga. Registered Essex Pigs, gilts, sows In Tillman ,voted against the Sheppard C farrow and sqrrice hoars cheap. bill for prohibition in the District of Columbia when it came up for the final vote in the Senate after the de feat of the Underwood amendment, providing for a referendum to ascer tain the wishes of the District citi zenship. When asked by The Nejws and Courier’s correspondent for an ex planation of his vote, Senator Till man said:. "I sucked Democracy with my mother’s milk, and I think the people have a right to decide for themselves as to the regulation of their personal habits. I voted for the Underwood referendum amend ment and should have voted for the bill if that amendment hod been adopted. . . "I‘ did more for temperance in South TTffrolina than any. one-else when I established the dispensary, offd It would be going yet if the thieves had' not been allowed to get in. When I voted against the Shep pard bill, oecause it contained no provision for a'referendum, I agreed Finest Seed Wheat, Prolific variety. First grade out of three grades made on Cook Cleaner ©ad Grader, $2.16. Home. Grown Sound Rye, cleaned on same.,$L66. J. Coul ter. Connelly’s Springs, N. C. Attention, Farmers!—Pure Select Cleveland Big Boll, Pure, Select Dongola Big Boll Cotton Seed for sale. Order now while you can get Select Seed. One dollar and fifty cents bushel f. o. b. Wash- ington, Ga. Reference: Tho Wash ington Exchange . Bank, TheHa- —Uonal Bank of Wilkes. K. A. Wil- heit. N Washington. Ge. /* Three Bales Per Acre—Record of Manley’s Cotton under boll weevil -conditions. Early, prolific, resists drouths, winds and diseases. 40 bolls to pound, over 12 per cent, lint, staple* I 1-8 Inch. Doubled yield 6f other varieties in drouth and weevil sections in 1916. No # boll weevils. Write for facts and fuUy-wiih the statement made Sun-1 proofs- from your own str.te and day by Monsignor William T. RUs-j special delivered price on seed. E. sell, the new bishop of -Charleston, that "there is no principle of Ameri can government more elementary, more' essential 1 than that there should be no legislation pertaining to the Individual without a hearing or representation." ~ S. Manley, Carnesvllle, Ga. NEGROES SAVED BY DYNAMITE Fifty Trapped ia Baraiag JaO Were Rescued Through Hole ia Wall. . Mule Foot Hogs—26 head’ young hoe re from registered and prize winplng stock, $16 each. 6$-head young pigs, three months old, at $16 each, bred gilts and sows from $6.6 to $76. ' 3,000 bushels selected ‘ seed peanuts, at five cents the pound, lit even, weight 4 bushel hags, the N. C. flat vine, ene crop variety. 1,000 bushels Florida Speckle Velvet Beau seed, new erep, sound and solid, at $2.26 the bu., in even weight two bush eh hags- Rrysor Farms. Lowell. Fla. FOR SALE-MISCELLANEOUS Two negro, prisoners were suffo-* rated and one was burned to death when fire destroyed e section of the Jail in Frankfort, Ky.' Because of . the ancient design of prison equip- For Sale or ExchAng©—Fine Per- and urged lhat a liberal appropna- ment every .cell/had^Jto be unlocked cberon mare colts for grade cow tion be made Ip continue the pro-1 gcpara tely. Before this was done ca ives. J P. " 1 men were tropped by ' the boro, N. C*. flames. A ho’e was dynamited in .. ■ ■,'—!—‘ ; Belgium and asked it to spare the Against the pretended violations: country the terrors of war. grain Qf improvement. He asked that the legislature visit the institution in a body and see .for themselves what has been accomplished during the last two years. Wimberly, Battls- ©f the laws of nations by the four allie* (Teutonic) theae powers are not entitled to complain, whl h from the beginning of the war trampled ©n justice and tore to pieces the trea ties upon which it is built. “Germany offered to guar*,it ft* the integrity and independence of the kingdom to the full extent and oompenRftte for all damages which might he caused by the passage of the German troops. It is known WAIT FOR ALLIED WORDS the wall and the men were rescued For Sale Chea^—Easy terms. 'Farm from the rogr. even though the jail mules, Implements, peed and feed, entrance was closed .by flames. 1 ; O. R. Lowry, Douglas, Ga. 200-Acre Farm for Sale—About half -cleared and in good state ef culti vation. One mile of good school, church and railroad station. Geod, solid land* makes good crops-eyery year, ih as fine farming sectien as is in county. Will sell at a bar gain. Write or come te Rex, Rob erson County, N. . J: Jr Beard. Florida—A poultry farm in Florida will/make you more , money with less work. You will live longer and better. Delightful climate. Rich soil. Hospitable neighbors. Good roads, schools and churehoe. Write for our illustrated folders Free. M. C. Mohr, 8t. Peters burg, Fla., Dept. C. • Timber for Sale—24,000 acres reund original leng leaf yellow pine tim ber land untouched by an axe in a . solid square body over six miles square in Florida. .In six milee of railroad. Will cut 5,006 feet lum ber and €0 boxes per acre. Pries $12% per acre. W.~E. Craigmiles. Thomasville. Ga. \ For Sale—Enesdyl plantation, situ ate three-quarters of a mile east of the town of W&lterboro, contains 600 acres, naturally divided into three farms of about 200 acres each. The entire plantation *s in- * closed by wire fence with separate incleeure around each field; 200 acres in cultivation with stumps re-, moved and thoroughly drained; nine tenant houses with many out buildings. Soil sandy loam with clay subsoil, highly prodbcMvo and splendidly adapted to stock raising. Excellent clay-sand road aid ruraJ mail delivery. Health of pli\co un surpassed and good water. Several beautiful sites for hemes. Labor picatiful. One desiring^ a home and farm would be charmed with this property. Will sell as a whele or in parcels. For price and terms, write me or come and see the prop erty. W. B. Gruber, Walterbere, 8 C. PERSONAL If you have a farm you wait to sol, writ# J. D. Johnson, Middlesex, N. C. Marry for suceoes and happluoss; r many thousand members both sexes wishing early marriage; hundreds wealthy; confidential descriptions free. 4 Established 10 years. The Reliable Club, Mrs. Wrubel, 73d Madlsoa* Oakland. Cal. u V Wanted—Five students between now and the 16th of December. All en tering before the 15th will get a 10 * por cent, discount en course and tools. Write for catalogue. Dur ham Barber College, Durham, N. G. “England already during the first that the royal British government in weeks of the repudiated the Ijoiwlon declaration, the contents of which fcr.l hIts own delegate* as a valid law of pa- and in the further course of Cfiw war violated in the most severe “ ’(YD also the Pa’ls declaration: 18S7 waa resolved not to oppose the u*e of the right of way through Bel- gTuTrr under liiu&d couditions. * “The Belgian government declined ihe repeated offers of the imperial government. Upon heir and- those powers which instigated her to this Gwrerameat U Pay Great AtteaMoa to Reply ©Pthe Entente. Indications increased in all diplo matic circles that the Allied reply to President Wilson’s peace note; while following in the main the reply to the Central powers, will have some $> + + #4 McNamara a ITison Rcvolter. James *B. McNamara, serving a life sentence In prison at San Quen tin, Cal., for dynamiting the Los An geles Times building in 1910, waa ordered to the dungeon for refusing to work.In the jute mill and for un satisfactory work in the laundry, whore he had been employed for three and a hfUf years For. Sals—Brabham Peas, Mixed Peas, Velvet Beans. Corn in the ear in car lots. Oils Brabham, Allendale, S. C. Bags and Burlaps—We art buysrs of r»t<t second hand bags and burlaps. Write J. S. Walker and Os., Lsnis- Tille. Ky. we that by her arbitrary meaBU^-attitude falls the responsibility for lor warfaq^.h condition of lawless ness has been created. “The war of starvation against Germany and the pressure exeieised la Ragland's interest against. nfcu the fate which befell Belgium. "The acruHAtioiiH -alrout the Ger man warfare Ln Belghnn and the mensures taken there in tl of military safety have been repeat- ttrata are nof less scandplously con- ed?y refpted by the Imn^rlal govern- ffirtlsg with the rules of the laws ot nations as with the commands (f hu manity. "Likewise, contrary to the laws ol motions, and incompatible with the tosages of civilization, are the use of CTtered troops in Europe and the.jex- teaaion of the war into Africa, which le imnertal govern- 11 ntrue, (^rmany^a^aln otf- ergetic protest against these additional features calculated to make it more clear whether a con tinuance of the negotiation is de sired. ; - p If the Allied governments are de termined to press thfi war to a mili- „ intm nnt tar Y solution, it ts expected that they I wlU leave no doubt that further ex changes at thitf tinri will not be wel comed; if not, the reply is expected * CLASSIFIED COLUMN AND ♦ | FARMERS EXCHANGE ♦ For ‘Sale—Sixteen per cent, acid and Nitrate of Soda. Charleston and Savannah: February and March de livery. Write for prices. G. B. Calvert, Abbeville, S. C. Wanted—Tenant for first class one to two hundred acre farm. ‘Alse . one of 265 acres for sale. Libera! terms,-good healthy neighborhood, • .good home, water, fruit, telephone and mail. They are extoa good. ~ 8 , H. Colwell, Wallace. N C. Marry If single; honesty Is our sus- cess; members by thousands; many wealthy; particulars free; small fee; quick service; absolute ly the best. The Successful Cupid. Miss Cappel, Box 757, Oakland, Cal. ESTABLISHED 1877. FOR SAfF-^M PROWICT* to tb« dobr open for additional eorrespoMBB ment font calmnnfee. y and heF allies hard made an honest attempt to termi nate the war and open the road far an understanding among the bellig erents. The Imperial government ae- wr«* done by s breach of' existing -serts the fact that It merely depend- tragftrs and which undermines the ed upon the decisions of opr sdrer-p 6 ^, presVVve of the white race on that sarJes whether the rosd toward continent.. . r*sce should be entered unon or not. “The barbarous treatment of pris- The hestlle governments declined to ©opts. towclaDy in Africa and Rua- accent th(s road. Unon them falls ala, and the deportation of the civil t*.* full re*non*tbtl1tv for tbs eontin- poou’ation from Eastern Prussia. Al- nation of the bloodshed. "Our altfed powers, however, shall continue the struggle in nnlet confi dence and with firm trust In their Heht. until peace Is gained which. t©©t Yhas always observed the duties guarantees to their nations honor, hJOh "'eje enjoined unon her bv e*t«tenoe an<P Hhertr of development, w netflrCmy. Already before the and which to *11 the nations of the ent moment Is deemed inopportune ■r. Delflnm. under Enrlqhd'a In- Furonean continent gfves the bless- for peace efforts will be made public •ourhf ennnort in mllftarv tpr ,to e©-onereta In mutual respect t* 1 ® state department. Officials from England and France «od under enual rights together fpr **7 the text is substantially the same herself violated the sntrtt the eefotio© of tl* gMl problems of * s that contained In cabled press re- which she had to efvIllsatioB.? v , ports. ©■re-Lorraine. Galfacla. and Buko- Wlna. ere further proof if our adver- ©efkes point to the special situation mf Belgium The Imperial "govem- F©r 8ala—Gepulpe Piil^otl seed, $2 per hushel f T. ler, St. Malthews, 8. O. cotter Dantz Well bred registered Duroc-Jerssy pigs for sale . Verv best breeding. A. 8. Smoke. St. Matthews. S. C. Bpondence. The meeting of the Allied pre miers in Rome was regarded as of great importance because the En tente governments were expected to take the opportunity to discuss their whole fundamental attitude towards and particularly America’s - * ., ^ part in .securing peace. The decision Pnre-bred Tam»vorth ligs for Sale reached' Is expected to be final so Pairs, male and female, $15 at long as the military situation re mains unchanged. J Whether the Entente reply to the American note will be forwarded to the Central powers ijs An open ques tion still. The reply is expected by 'the, end ot next week.. There has been no Indication whether Spaip’s unfavorable reply to the president’s note sfiying the pf s- BES MACHINEEYCO. 3 months old Writs W. E. Hartley, Rt. 3, HartsvIBe, 8. C. Frost-proof Cabbage Plants—F preoa collect.- 600 76c; 1.000 $16.000 *4.50: 10.000 |g. w. C. A sbury. Llncelnton/N C. u, H Wannamaker'fc pedigreed Toole cot ton seed .for sale: absolutely pure, $2 per bushel A. 8. Smoke. 9t. Matthews. 8. C Frost-proof (ahbsge Plants—600. - 75c;. 1,000 tl; 5.000, $4.60:» 10.- 000.$8; evprp«*« collect W. C. As* bury, Lincplnton. N. C. * >»«»«•« sad Gasoline Engines, Ginning Machinery* Saw Mills sad Woodworking Machinery Generally, Gibbs Edges*, Gibbs Shingle Ma chine*, etc.. Corn Mills, Feed Mills.; Ortts and Menl Separators, Floor Mills and Brick Machinery. Thresh! ng Machines; Hay Presses, Belt l arers end . ^ ... . MACHINERY GENERALLY Automobile and Accessories, Tires, Oils, Etc MODERN MACHINE SHOP AND FOUNDRY. AND SMALL JOBS GF ANY DESCRIPTION. CAPACITY FOR LARGH TANK AND BOILEP. WORK "TOIT GRADE CASTINGS A SPECIALTY. CAST EVERY |n«*ca We*«# of T ik*o Phones—Machinery Department, 848> anioinoMb* l»ej*mHL;e©f 14 Machine Shop m.d • •• • t•?.•«.»*» t**»* i stfwagt pho .i. ii i© iYTi ^ ■ Jpf AhSYl f