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NOW GOES TO THE VOTE! KKFEHKXI>l'M HILL PASSED HI THE SENATE. Special Election Septemlier 14.?l"ji per Clianil>er I{ejects Substitute. Columbia. Feb. 11.?Tlie prohibi tion referendum bill passed the sen ate this morning on third readin; without opposition and was ordere< returned to the house of representa tives for concurrence in niino amendments adopted yesterday. Th upper chamber rejected without de bate a substitute proposed by Sena tor Appelt which would have broad ened the referendum so as to includ the question of high license. Th referendum will probably be ratifiei by tomorrow and sent to Governo Manning for signature. The question of prohibition is no\ up to the people to settle for them selves in the special election on Sep tember 14 next, for there is no doub but that Governor Manning will sigi the referendum bill, for regardles of wliat lie nngni minic on rue ques tion of prohibition it is known tha he believes in letting the people hav the final vote in matters of publi policy, and those who are close b him have no doubt but that he wil promptly approve the referendum bil as soon as it is presented to him. Conditions in Grece. The area of Greece previous to th? late war with Turkey, was 25,0^1 < square miles, and its population wa 2.670,000. As a result of the war the territory was increased 19,69< square miles, and 2.130.000 peoDl were added. Closely following th< war on Turkey. Grece became involv ed. by alliance with other Baikal kingdoms, in a war on Bulgaria That Greece came through these war as well as she did indicated the fi nancial and economical soundness o the country. Recuperation since th< second Balkan war has been rapid. Bank rates, say an American con sular report, varied during 191." from 6 to G 1-2 per cent., but mone; at no time became excessivel; "tight." For a great portion of th< year some lines of trade, particular^ those with the Levant, were paralyz ed. But trade, on the whole, wa: only deflected, not destroyed, for tin United States largely increased it: v purchases during this troublou: period. Compensation for food sup plies, beasts of burden, vehicles, nia rine equipment, steamships etc., re quisitioned by the government wa: provided faithfully, and this fulfill ment of natural obligation did mucl to strengthen public confidence. The politico-territorial change: will have much influence on th< newer Greece. Instead of having on ]y Turkey as a neighbor. Greece ha: now, on the frontiers. Servia, Albanh and Bulgaria. The trade of Servi? doubtless will find an outlet througl Salonica. now a Greek port. Inv , provements in the meantime, in olc Greece are progressing. Plan: are being prepared for i new water works system ir Athens. The project will go hand ir hand with certain sanitarv and arl changes contemplated in the ancieni 6eat of culture. Efforts are being . made to develop the agriculture ol the country. As it is very mountainous, Greece has not been much o1 an exporter of food products. Citron fruits, however, flourish, as dc grapes and olives. Cattle raising is being developed in the Thessaliar plains.?Indianapolis News. t Taken Alive. An Engishman, who recently visited this country for the purpose ol hunting big game in the west and in British Columbia, re'lated a storj of a fellow Britisher who was lior shooting in Uganda. This sportsman had excellent luck Nearly every day he would pose before a freshly killed lion or othei beast and his photographer wouic snap him for the magazines. One afternoon the picture man who was taking a nap in the hut was awakened by a loud noise. Ht arose and looked out. Sprinting to ward home from the woods, hat gont and coat tail flying, came his chief At a considerable distance behind luckily for the hunter, stalked a huge lion. "Quick! Quick! Open the'door Dick!" exclaimed the hunter. "I'n bringing one home alive!" GOVERNOR TO BE SPEAKER. Will Deliver Commencement Address to Aiken Institute. A;]-or> Poh i:i_?Governor Man ning has accepted an invitation to de liver an address at the commence ment exercises of the Aiken Insti tute. about May 20. The exercise: are planned to be in the open am Governor Manning will receive ; hearty welcome from the people o Aiken and county. The Rev. \V. \V Daniel. D. D.. of Columbia, has als< accepted an invitation to preach tin commencement sermon this year. BOY OF lO GETS TWO YEA I IS. 1 Goes to Lexington Keforinatory for Is k Killing Companion. Sumter. Fel>. 1<?.?Alma Washing1. ton. a 10-year-old boy, was yester- ci; day found guilty of manslaughter ti< and sentenced to two years in the reformatory at Lexington. Washing- wl ton stabbed Preston Stewart. 13 in '"j years of age, last January, on the way 111 ; home front school, when the two be- gr ^jcame engaged in a difficulty over a wl pencil. th Several murder cases are set for in r this week. John Tucker, who shot ye Ron " r>no nf rho best bloodhounds te belonging to the State penitentiary, pc on last Thanksgiving day, pleaded st; guilty to charges and was given of e eighteen months on the gang. Tuck- kr 0 ^ er was arrested for stealing a hog, pe but managed to slip the handcuffs ar and got away with the constable's pr shot gun. With this he shot the ce bloodhound, when it trailed him in- is to Wateree Swamp. He was later caught in Columbia and brought th back to Sumter for trial. la ? th s Beer-Sheba. y, t A part of the Turkish armv that 1( er e is to invade Egypt is mobilizing at c Beer-Sheba, and a contemporary fr 'uUa* M-rtf tlio t>nar\ a r\ f t h o> fi ret ^ SclVJi 111(11 \>A9 VUG owgiic VI viiv a* ? w v ^ 1 peace treaty on record, and Abraham ^ 1 gave Abimelech, forefather of the * cr Philistines, seven lambs to bind the bargain." T6 The story of this peace pact is told in the twenty-first chapter of Genesis. The ownership of the BeerBheba well of water was distinctly ^ vested in Abraham, and Abraham j swore to Abimelech the oath of fair Qi dealing with him and his son's sons. 0 And when the covenant was made \\* /Abraham planted a grove about the ~ we?. Ai But Beer-Sheba has other history than that first covenant of peace, for it was into the desert surround^ ing it that Abraham sent Hagar with the little Ishmael and that one scant jar of water. It was there that Hagar, when the water was exhausted. , laid the perishing child under a . bush and sat apart from him, the W ' mother-heart of her wrung with a agony of his pain. Be Then was wrought the miracle of God's voice cleaving the hot atpios- Bj phere of the Beer-Sheba desert,- bidding the mother not despair; and Be , (the story ran on to completion. ; In the years that followed Beer3 Sheba played a part in the history nf tho Tcraoiitps When the divisions of land was made among the tribes, , or families, Beer-Sheba, the "second 5 lot, came forth to Simeon," and was Y? 1 his and his children's inheritance. Through all the centuries it con- ^ , tinned to be a place of some impor; tance, even to the time of the Cru[ sades. Today it is only a few piles , of scattered ruins beside seven wells. ^ These wells may explain why the Turkish host is said to be gathering there, for they must have water, and water is not plentiful in that south Palestine country. The word means "the well of the oath" and the oath was a peace pledge. The whole thing is in violent contrast to the martial scenes t that are said to be taking place . around the wells today as the Turks L ae , make ready for the "holy war" in; F to Egypt.?.Memphis Commercial Ap- \ [ , an pea' . .?h Wanted to Make Sure. In a certain Arkansas logging ) J\J ] , camp the company maintains a phy L sician who attends the residents of P0 rei camp, and also the families of such 1 an omnlnvae 3<5 live hack in the hills. One day he was summoned to the ,tn home of a newly hired native, with <16' l the assurance that he was "wanted [ powerful bad." rstj r With all haste he started, windi ing up one rough hollow after an- ' other where the road was a mere ? , . tradition, and came at last to a de- sai - crepit loghouse. As he opened the gate a hungry looking woman came 1 to the door and called: "Be yo' the company doctor?" . . "Yes, 1 m the doctor. Who is . , Th . sick? an ; "Don't rockon thars nobodv sick, , . ., Th - doctor. IIS i "Well, why in the world did you , Ka . send for me if no one is sick?" S6( "Hit's this way, doctor; we-uns ^ ; is on the pung order a right smart, ' an' mought need yo', most any time. , My ole man said yo'- sure would ^ l come whenever we sent for yo'; but . hs he's sech a no 'count liar that I dassen't trust his savso, so I wanted to see fo' myself. An' yere yo' be!" ?Everybody s Magazine, s it FIKKS DUIUXti JANUARY. ha " Losses by Flames Amounted to $17-1ha 729 for Month. br ac Columbia, Feb. 10.?The 203 lives go s reported to the State department of on 1 insurance by the insurance companies ^it i during the month of Januarv caused in f a loss of $174,729.59. In January of \v . 1914 202 fires were reported, with 3 a loss of $1S6.5S5.76. All of the _ nr e fires reported did not occur during be January. an WILL HISTORY KKPKAT? (ireat Wheat Crop Forerann* Unusual Prosperity in l\ S. In its January bulletin on coin al and financial conditions, the anal City bank, of New York, s "In three historic years a f heat crop in the United States cident with an unusual foreigr and,'has furnished the inipetu; eat prosperity, to-wit. in 1 hen it tided the country easily e task of resuming specie payni 1891, when it produced the t ar of 1892. and in 190S, whei r years of almostcontinuousgol >rts it reversed the movement arted the most remarkable p< expansion the country has lown. The same situation nov :ars again. Our exports of w e on an unparallelled scale at ices, and the movement is < rtain to continue until our sui exhausted. "Money is becoming very eas e centres, and the situation i: xing in the country, as show] e steady retirement of Aid reeland currency, and the re in of the discount rates of the al reserve banks. Reports fron ain States where the farmers a most commanding position, s at bank deposits have only h ;gan to rise, indicating that op has moved slowly. The i imulus from the prosperity of gion therefore is yet to be felt. The Cornbread Country. en of the cornbread 'countryWaken and dream again, ' the vales of the old Virginia So bright in the dreams of m aken and walk with fancy Back to the house 'neath the t id the hollyhocks in the garde And the golden drone of the I: Oh, for the cornbread coun The jasmine land I see. Down there in the dream Jackson Down there with the fri of Lee. ay to the cornbread country Way on the wings of light? >ar us back, oh memory. In a golden whirl of flight? ick to the Shenandoah, Back to the hills of blue, ick to the pone and rabbit, Back to the julep, too: Ah, for the cornbread counl The yellow water meal, There in the old Virginia Where the dreams aroun steal. sa, for the cornbread country My soul, my soul is wild? le old Virginia cornbread* We crunched on the lips of chi water mill in the hollow. With its slow burrs singing sw > the roll of the Rappahannock That winds at the mountain's f Away to the cornbread coui To the old Virginia lanes wn + u HIua cbv nvor tlio ?V 1L11 tllC UJUV. OUJ V ? V4 V..V ley, ' And the river's soft refrai ?Baltimore Su Foresee Sky Battle. A battle in the clouds between rial fleets of the Germans and lies may take place at any i ^ the Germans will be beater e opinion of Glenn H. Curtis immandsport, X. Y., manufact aeroplanes and himself an avij r. Curtiss has been watching rts from the war zone in Eui yarding the aviation operati d has had many private report ese operations. "It is generally understood air roplane experts that the Gern & preparing to make an aerop 1 3 A /?lifU OAOOf o r> /I Id Ull Lite CUttOl U&AVA e English, reinforced, perhaps e French, will rise to meet the id Mr. Curtiss. "I can see i e result of such a fight?the de the Germans. I believe this the case, because the English a ines are more efficient in e1 spect than those of the Germ iey are faster, better construe d can rise to greater heig ius far in the war the Gern ve suffered far more in the ttles than have the allies. Bi jms certain that there will t cisive battle in the air be ig. "This war has demonstrated ilitv of the aeroplane in war, s proved that it is superior to rigible of Zeppelin. The Zepp doubtedly would have been a g jnace to England and France not been for the aeroplane. "One strikine feature of the .s been that the aeroplane c s been found to be the se anch of the service. This is e; counted, as I view it, for the od reason that aeroplanes v t for business are not danger is only when aviators are joj g that they become dangerou ashington Post. Jones Bros, have just received st shipment of mules and horse received in this State. Extra imals and for sale cheap.?adv TILLMAN" AXSWEILS CHAHHKS. ?r of Defends His He cord as Cliairnian of ? Senate Naval Committee. nier- Washington. Feb. 11.?Senator Xa- Tillman defended in the senate to;ays: day his record as chairman of the ;reat naval committee in reply to criticisms , co- bv former Secretary of the Navy i de- .Meyer in a magazine article. The 5 for senator viewed the charges that he 879, was responsible for vast waste of over money "in expenditures for navy lent; yards in the South and declared loom these charges were without foundai af- tion, and "slandered him grossly." dex- Senator Tillman denied that he and ever had combined with other sena;riod tors on the committee to secure ever large appropriations for navy yards, ,* ap- and made a detailed defence of the heat usefulness of the navy yard at Charhigh leston, S. C. luite plus Not the Kesult of a Deal. Washington, Feb, 11,?Senator ;y in Tillman today made a statement in 5 re. the senate in which he paid his ren by spects at length to former Secretary rich- of the Navy .Meyers in connection .due- with a recent magazine article writfed. ten by Meyer. 1 the The senator characterized the forare mer secretary of the navy as sec show tonally narrow ana prejuaicea anu; jtely denied the assertion that the Cliarthe leston navy yard was established as Tiain the result of a deal between the this South Carolina senator and Senator" Hale, of Maine, then chairman of the naval committee. The senator's remarks were very much along the line of the editorial which appeared in a daily paper of yesterday on the same subject. land en! Koseate Prospects. rees, The financial situation in the Unit:n, ed States is commencing to take on >ees: a positively roseate aspect. The editry, tor of this paper will, we trust, be pardoned for expressing a little pride s of in the fact that Commerce and Finance was almost the first news paends per in the world to declare some two months ago that the time of nnwil V* rt A r\n c*c*r\r\ o r-i H ' imam. iaj pci ai uau j/aoocu uuu mut , the time for financial courage was; at hand. In saying this we are not unmindful of the fact that pride goeth be-1 fore a fall and we therefore remind j our readers that it rarely happens | that anyone is right twice in succession. cry, The recovery in confidence, credit and values has now progressed so , far that it is becoming self-evident, U US and while it has not yet expanded into anything like a boom there is little doubt that it will soon do so. In America our remarkable export trade is stimulating the speculative Id? imagination and reinforcing our credit balances in Europe in a way eet that cannot be mucn longer wnnoui a very positive effect upon the mar'eet:n ket for interest bearing securities as rtry, well as those whose dividends are I , still in the future. . val- The excess of merchandise exports over imports in December was $110,ns. 000,000. For the first half of Jann. uary the returns indicate an excess of nearly $60,000,000. This is at the rate of $4,000,000 a day or $1,500,tlie 000 a year. It is hardly possible the that any such total will be reached, time but it seems not unlikely that the t, in balance of trade in favor of the Uniti, of ed States for the year 1915 will'be a urer billion dollars. An enormous quauitor. tity of wheat sold for export is still re- unshipped or awaiting the vessels rope that are to carry it abroad. The ons, Pennsylvania railroad reports that S Of 7,37U carioaas 01 wneai a.r*r uciufe held in the yards around Pittsburg, long The other roads are in much the lans same condition. There are 427,243 lane hales of cotton on shipboard for Euthat rope but not yet cleared. This is the ? by largest total on record, sm," The indications are that out of the only present cotton crop and the next feat one, maturing about August 1, 1915, will we will ship at least 10,000,000 bales, ero- worth about $400,000,000, to Europe ^ery and Asia, in the next eleven and a ans. half months. Already the exports of ted, December and January are corntots. mencing to increase the surplus of ians our banks and make it possible for air us to buy such foreign obligations as it it are offered on attractive terms. >e a The surplus of the New Yorkfore Clearing House institutions shows an increase of $15,391,200 for the week the and is now $135,971,000 over the and legal requirement of IS per cent.? the Commerce and Finance. lelin reat BRITISH AVIATORS KILLED. had Aeroplane Making Attempt on Braswar sels Brought Down by Germans. orns Lfest Berlin, Feb. 13.?Repeated atisily tempts have been made of late by very British and French airmen to reach hen Brussels. On Thursday an English ous. aeroplane approached the Belgian rid- capital, presumably to bombard the s.? German camp there. German aeroplanes ascended and a fierce fight ensued, ending in victory for the Germans. The British machine suddenly (S to nice crashed to the ground and its occu. 2t. pants were killed. 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