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ARMIES Of BOTH GREATLY EXHAUSTED UTTEir WEARINESS OF BOTH SIDES BRINGS LULL IN FIERCE FIGHTING, MEN TRTT0 REST Many Gallant Deeds, and Almost Superhuman Bravery Marks Great Struggle Between the Large Opposing Armies. Oveipowering fatigue and privations resulting from, five days of unrelenting struggle brought about Saturday night a temporary lull in the combat of the powerful armies that are face to face along the rivers Oise. Ai'snn and YVoevro. The roar of eanr.on, machine guns and rifles died down early in tho night; (iiiu inu j.'i i v\ m ii'ivs poscci probably altogether of 1,000,001) or more men wdhin touch cn an uneven hue and ready to spring to a fatal grip, scarcely could be conceived, so intense was the stillness broken only by an occasional vagrant report. The soldiers of the allies and the Germans alike were snatching a little rest huddled up in the strong entrenchments. In some places the trenches were half filled with water as equinoctial storms continued. The French and British, like the Germans, had entrenched and settled clown for the stern fight which threatened to be even longer and more sanguinary than the battle of the -Marne. Progress is being made at some points by the allies, but very slowly, and the developments of the 24 hours were not important except that it < onfirmed that the Germans have received rinforccmcnts from Lorraine. There were a few isolated encounters Saturday, but both sides appeare 1 to have abandoned* the rash movements across the open which marked .the early stages of the war. Obviously the deadly machine guns taught a lesson. One of the incidents when the fierce lighting was awful in its sacririce, Wits widely recounted. < 'A British infantry regiment, upon receiving nn order to advance and take a Gorman position, knelt for a moment in prayer. Then the men, knowing- that their charge was to he terrible in cost, sprang to their feet and .vith fixed bayonets clambered out of the shelter of the trench. In short and rapid rushes they advanced in wide open order, alternately lying down and then making another dash of 113 yards. From the German position came the thick hail of the machine guns. The attacking soldiers hurrahed and sang a;> t) ey pressed forward. Many fed with cries oi' de feriBimali. ii on their lips. Finally those who remained of the tregimcnt reached and took the German position aider a desperate hand 10 hand encounter. This was was only one among many acts of courage and ucsciplhi e on the part of the French, British ami Germans alike at various points along the line. Man 1'igMs Policeman. Barricading himself in his homo when two patrolmen came to his house to arrest him for beating his wife, Frank Latina, an Italian, last Saturday fatally shot one policeman and seriously wounded another. A hundred policemen with riot guns were sent to Latina's home and more than a half hour were held at bay be cause "Latina used nis wife and child .as a shield. He stood behind them and defied the officers. Suddenly he had a change of heart and threw the revolver into the crowd after which he surrendered. ? Steamer Sank. With a loss of life of at least 74 persons, the steamer Francis H. Leggett foundered last Friday in the Ineavy seas oft' the Columbia river and but two of those aboard are known to have been saved. They are Alex Farrel, brought to Astoria, Oregon, port on the Beaver at noon last Saturday. Marketing Cotton. The announcement that the business men and farmers are organizing in an effort to finance the Southern cotton crop through the European crisis, is one of the most important events that has shown up on the industrial horizon for many vears. There have been numerous plans sprung out of this great problem whereby the farmer could chase the bear to his den, but the bear always escaped, and the farmer was usually caught, and many would-be financiers have talked as voluminously on the subject as a book farmer discussing the boll weevil. Hut the present plan cuts out the middleman. The man with the cotton and the man with the money are now talking face to face, and it is a great hour for Dixieland. | i PEACE EFFORTS ! j AT STANDSTILL WILL NOT PUT UMTEI) STATES IN POSITION OF DISREGARDING NEUTRALITY OBLIGATIONS. Washington, Sept. 19.?Efforts to bring about peace in Europe virtually are at a standstill, according to White House and state department officials, i Acting Secretary Robert Lansing to1 day said the message received from I Ambassador Gerard, giving his conversation with the imperial chancel- 1 lor as to peace proposals, had not i j been forwarded to American embasi series, nor had the subject been dis; cussed with foreign ambassadors 1 ! il is < a , nere. wane tne message trom Mr. Gerard recording the chancellor's re* marks suggested that the United States should ask for peace terms of : the allies, because, it was alleged, I they had begun the war, the American ; government does not construe that i suggestion as an obligation. lVesin j dent Wilson it is known, is endeavor- ( ing scrupulously to avoid thrusting the olTices of the United States upon | any of the belligerents at an oppor- ; tune time. The president is biding his timev hoping that as the war progresses one of the belligerents will take Home <&rfi inite steps which will enable the Uciitj ed States to help make peace. 1 Dispatches from Great Britain in, dicate some resentment over the talk : of peace emanating from the United States. Ambassador Hcrrick at Paris has arranged it, became known today, to transfer the American ambassy to ! Former Representative William CD Sharp of Ohio, the newly appointed ambassador, October 1. The state department had Left it to the me'\-. voiced to arrange the date. Uncle Sam Tears Up a RuiJtNtad. i Foi-t Smith, Ark., Sept 21.is reI ported that the tracks of the Arkansas. I Southern Railway Company are 10 be i l taken up and sold for scr;ap iron. The | Federal Court ordered '<he Receivers. j I to discontinue running trains on the, road last June, as there was no way of taking care of the Oeneic resulting (from its operation. This solution of1 the rail way deficit problem is a new | j one and authoritatively demonstrates j Uncle Sam's method of dealing with) business problems as relates to rait-1 j roads. (JOOD REASON WHY PRICES ARE' LOW. i 'The Ecginos of Census Department Shows Ureal Falling Off in Ex ports. The effect of the European war on the American cotton inductry was 1 disclosed last week in the Census Bu- j reau's August cotton consumption voport, showing that during August on-1 ly 21,210 bales were exported while j j during August lasc year 2V< .172 bales' went abroad. I .Agree to Take Cotton. j Announcement was made at Memphis last week that the two largo man ufacturing firms in Chicago and Do-' troit have joined the "buy-a-bulo" j movement by agrc. -'jig to take 10,400 i bales off the market. Reached Lowest Point. August imports iast week reached the lowest point reched in any month since November 1911, and August exthe lowest point reached in any month j Otitic \ ' A 1 M nuivc . VliyiliSl iy 1^1 Ordered to Retire. A Central News dispatch from Rome quotes a telegram from Basel J j Switzerland, to the Messagero stating that the Germans were reported to! have received orders to retire as far J as the right bank of the Rhine, com- j pletely evacuating France, Belgium and Luxemberg. ' v , Join Huy-a-Bale Movement. A big wholesale clothing firm of Chicago was urged by Hope-Davis Co. of Columbia, to join the buy-a-bale movement, in a letter forwarded last Wednesday, when reply was made to suggestions from that firm in a letter recently received. Don't Cross Line. Aeroplanists in the northern part of the United States were warned last Thursday to be careful not to cross over the border into Canada during nM- _ _ um war. inis explanation was issued by the state department: "The department has been advised by the American consul general at Montreal that an aeroplane was recently fired upon by Canadian guards while flying near the long Sault canal. This was done, the consul general stated, in compliance with a general order of the Dominion government regarding the use of a:r craft in Canada. j I No. H .338. ] khi atrr ; of the condition of i the foirwiy N ition al Ba* k, ?^~*nwa? , S- H'.V \m thef State of Sol th "Carolina, t *t tfle cltose vJ * business Seipfcmber, ^ 2thu r$S9J . ? .. . _ Kesoi urotmu. t Loar^ ; uw* itliscouq :$ ,524i??r Ov^n "raf'Uirf secur< ci ami' aas^cui nk,' 2^ .255x52' U. S Iknnte; to s< ;c unf'*a*t*u? 1 lat . v tyOVOOM Bom . etciTwjfeh'er th ?v .sgstil-.s : i3;OOG*iR>t; Bnn c .rig Hoasc, l .'urrsdtuwe imdP fi xtuawtv. 4 1 8,85f?l(3>2 Du^t i r**uv Nntio.' lal' ifoattk( nt >t 1? vse^iti avffenU ) '2i>;8?tjbl4 Du>i. frttm i^iprq veil; fttafrre^ fgematviri eon c\u*8 e&ifcx* 5,15*4197 Ch cks andl othf r ciw& itemtf 1 ,T$2l34 N<-tos of trtiher NartuA<taI' j Bairfck r>;?C5J50! ! : l<Va?.*'?.i<p2t< pap orj-.^swiweyy nic& and uiuitcs Vi'T-ld j Specie < j Lcgu'l bewiier *not?g ; 4,50.t fllftOo.OO Redemption T u itil with IJJ. Si TrnsiKOLTy ii5i>0.00 j Tota Cm442.40 I Liabilities*. 3 CapiTal stoc k pa tl in ihJ.OOO.OO; | Undivided 'droit vs, less exprtjtjj * ? and ' lave*. paid 6,207.72 :1 National l* uik aotes ocUstood^ ? mg 75,000.00 h Due to ot'ier "N'atjoaal. tVauks 1.038.S3 1 r Ytae to S .ate and private banks and be nk ;rs 420.00 Dae to, t ru '-toni pv\ a i ?>- and j j savin -s ixviks 16,445.51 Dividends "unpaid 8.0<V!! ; Individual deposits snb^oet to cheek 133,5415 if Time cer cTjf.aOes offdkpmat payable within 30 dhy.s- 83,444 j!4 i Cashier^ checks oat standi ! in- 1,2371^3 Notes ;*jind bills 'cedisevfrarttcd 45,6* ft.OO Hill . payable, iinclntliinc obliI vattons veprelating money j uorteoweeJ: 47,4?*M)0 | Total 510*442.491 j S'f\TE *OF SOUTH CAROLINA, f County of Horry* \ I, Wh A. Freeman, cashiei - of the 1 \ above, named bank, do solemn* swear f that the above statement is t f*? to the. j best of. Tjiy knowledge and folief. 1 . \Y. A. Freeman ^Cashier., i : Subscribed and sworn to*before n.r this 16th day of Sept. 19\*f. ii J. McC. Wartin, I CPvvort XT T - ? g | Hal L. Buck, ,j I ' Fobt. F?. .Scarborough , / [ 1 D. V. Richardson. ?' g- <i I Directors. / / E1 No. 10,337. * | j REPORT ' f of the condition of ehe Proxies National Dank at Co'i# ay, in ehe State * or S . Rh Carolina, at tMe clone of bus- ; iiie&5 September 12, 1914. ..... .... ( Resources ' I oans and discounts (VI,729.08 ^ Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 5.46 U. S. bonds t>> secure circulation 20,000.00 ^ Racking TTyusf, furniture and \ 5j| , fixtures 8,500.00 B4: Due fronj National banks, (not K J reserve agents) 18,5S8.44 Jj i Due fiv?m approved reserve j| agents in central cities 9,190.2f ,n Checks "and other cash items 5,289./ > I w j Ncvtes of other national banks 4,400.00 i? Factional paper, currency nick- /B j els and cents 80.01 S j Specie 4,872.75 C Legal tender notes 2,215.00 ',7087,75 y Redemption fund with U. S. &J Treasurer 1,090.00 B Total 130,820.78 ? ! Liabilities S Capital stock paid in 25,000.00 jf3 j Undivided profits, less exprn- H sos and taxes paid 1,828.05 sj National bank notes outstand- H I inp; 20.000.00 gj InGTidual deposits subject to t* check 57,402.-18 jg Tine certificates of deposit pay- jg I able after 30 days or long- ? er 6,949.24 S | Cashier's checks outstanding 8G.00 C Hills payable, including obiiga- ti tions representing money 3 borrowed 20,000.00 Total 180,820.78 I STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Horry, I, 1). A. Spivey, Cashier of the | U K/\\rn ?nm/v/l I. ^ -L 1 - wwwtv; iiamt'u uaniv, (to soiemiy swear I I that the above statement is true to | the best of my knowledge and belief. D. A. Spivey, Cashier. R Sworn and subscribed to before me % < i this 1 Gth day of September, 1914. (R A. K. Goldfinch, Correct Attest: N. P. I G. B. Jenkins, I J. A. McDermott, * I J. C, Spivey, I Directors. Publisher Arrested. ^r For Publishing an article criticising the minister of militia and the arrangements at Valcartier encampment for dispatch of volunteers to Europe, Knox Magee, editor of the Winnipeg I Saturday Post was arrested last Saturday by orders of the militia department and locked up in Fort Osborne barracks. CHAS. It. SCARBOROUGH, Conway, S. C. I Complete Waterworks. Steam. ter and Hot Air Heating Plants I INSTALLED ANYWHERE I Only Plumbing and Heating goods and I material of highest quality tlsed. I Full line of Tub, Toilet, Lavatory I Sink and other Bathroom Accessories and repairs on hand at all times. I Plumbing and Heating ; PUT WATER AND HEAT , ' IN YOUR HotlSE.l^ # o w / I f ?111-- I . . - - *r, , Klj lilt HORRlf CO ill Compnnjr will! ope jS f I Brick TdBflascco War r?flT | yj&r I.,. ceivin g awd storing xS 11 Appr ov? d cotton wa I I will be issued. 1 Price per bale inclu S? j I fifty cents per moot \ i four months. ^ ' | GEORGE: 1 }-l . 1 Ware liSBraaBMSaKaCT Sgggggfr ?? wm WI LJj HE CR( Friday Night. Octobe AT THJ 2nd Annual Horn Queen will be Selected hy With each general admission sold a con vote in the Carnival Queen Contest. The c< name of the young lady. These coupons to main Fair ttuilding. Contest will close noor announced. At 9 p. m. she will he crowned young ladies standing next hichest will ' onatinn the Queen and her Court will he ent ficers of the Fair Association. .It costs notl Carnivals have a Queen, so we must have, is the prettiest and most popular girl in I crowned Friday amid great splendor and w until wee sma hours. .The six young ladies votes will he declared her Maids of honoi ? County over 18 and under 90 is eligible. M I'nderstand this means any young la ly in Hoys enter your sweethearts and work 1 entered before Oct. 8. will be given a bonus to be filed with C. K. SCARBOROUGH, Sec, ENTER YOUR GIRL ' V?' vv . ? 4 , % ' I Xk* . i y ?> " s-'UM m.ia..^j ll.jwjl -uupim [..lit-'-1 .lii?u* I' A 11* ehoMse- for re- |? ' cotton. 1: 5^ | ^ rehouse receipts ||j idling insurance? I ' !jjr;' h or $1.25 far j W I L MARSH, I ^ liouse Manaa'?r. ? ' ' ' D ' I IIS ^ I ii MM^ W?m?3ii?UBTMgywim HI M??MW ffl ,)WNKI) I tr 16th at 9 p m ^ < i E I County Fair ' I r Visitors to the Fair ? ? |*j ipon will be issued good for one I Mipon will have a blank for the I i be deposited in a box in the I i Friday Oct. 10, and the winner I i i^ueen of the Carnival. The six I . Vlaids of Honor. After the Cor- I ertained at a Banquet by the of- 2 ling to enter the contst. All big fi .It goes without saying that she I I lorry County. .She will he II ith her court will make merry I I receiving the next six highest I I Any young lady in Horry I I arried ladies cannot compete. I'4*T I town or county can he entered. 2 H lard and long. All young ladies I of 100 votes. Contestants names I I retary, Conw ay, S. C. fi NOW I