Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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g= 1 = Ready for 1 Horses digest their feed 1es6 the other farm animals. In order to ins digestion of all the food eaten, and 1 horses readier for next day's work, evening feed a teaspooniul of? Bee Dee ^ It will lessen your feed b! It will increase your 'prol ,L r , ^ A GASOLINE EN f 0^k' tun wllea W< y - mw.>8. i 4&L..UW c.0,r0 fMm?A . fTb ouranccanjI tiffin A \ v>t \\JcA' '' absolutely no ja A"* ^.,v-. . ^ hc.los evorvonr.. ^ ?/ , ~~''?*js' ro not tiiko i TfZ..>-a/?rbi?^..-w^ -ih \ 1,'M-is jmiIt) oil i to w H , SOUTHERN SAW ^ Write for Catnlogue E. Tell us what y LA "(JRIPPE s E ^ ^ . k __ _ _ ^ vrianaaaiMriwM. rr%y ANO BAD C.Of r^<? ..? ..,. CHRISTMAS EVE FOUND VERY LITTLE CHANGE Masses of Troops Thrown Against Russians in Desperate Charges. CHRISTMAS IN TRENCHES The Battered Warriors Prepared to Spend Christmas as Best they Might. Christmas Rvc? 1914, foe nil little change in the "European war in the Western theatre of the conflict, where General .JofTve s'til' appeared to he cautiously feeling l*or an opening in the strongly entrenched German linos across l'Vnno^ and Polgium. The dispatches publish'd in this country on Christmas day stat d as follows in regard to tb-- situation: In the east a .supremo German effort continues to bo mnd before Warsaw, whore the German center and the Rus sians, seeking to cheek it, sway hark and forth along the banks cf the livers barring the way to the Polish-capital. The Russians claim successes in the latest encounters but du'-ing the last ten days the Germans have advanced appreciably and it is said they now arc bringing up 42 cord.imctrc guns preparatory to siege cr.craGons. In Gnlicie the Austro-Gf ?-man forces sec nuo harm made no further progress and in the north the Russians are reported to have pushed the invaders forth r hack hi to "riant Prussi; . German tacrics in the march toward Warsaw military observers in London point out, ar beginning to have some of the chr acteristir.s of the rush toward Calais and Dunkirk which the allies stemmed thou a.ids being sacrificed and others being hurled forward to fill the gaps with the same prodigality that was shown by the Cicrmv.ns in Flanders. Military experts lure are unable to .agree on the number of the AustroGerinan troops in the east, estimates varying from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000, but it is pointed out the Russians unless exaggerating their resources, should be able easily to top this figure now that her concentration e>f the fore cs is ncaring* completion. Pe'trograd. has never conceded that the occupation of Lodz by the Germans had any strategic importance, but the German view has now found expression from Field Marshal Von Hindcnberg, who remarked to the representative of the Associated Press on the eastern front that he considered it "the turning* point of the campaign" All the armies arc planing* to spend Christmas as best they may. Boxes and greetings from home are being distributed in the trenches, at the hospitals and in the camps, hundreds of thousands of postcards to the soldiers and saliors from King George and Queen Mary being one feature of the KrlHflli crifta Austrian attempts to crush Servia are to be renewed j? the form of a "final blow" according to Buda Pest dispatches. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove'# Tasteless chill Tonic is equUly valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUI N IN E and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives oat Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. Steamers Are Sunk. The Dutch steamer Leersum from Amsterdam, and the British steamer Gallier, from London, struck mines in the North Sea Sunday. The Leersum foundered and two members of her crew were drowned. The Gallier succeeded in reaching port, I ro-morrow T | roughly than I ure thorough 1 am using BceDee to make your stock mepicine with g a#tH frt #hoir my horses regularly and B auu 10 tneir find it a saving proposition H on feed. It also makes B them healthy, thriving and FA OCK I Ira Johns on, | Tr'T'MT? F-D*Nw* S MdlMUl O'Neill. Nebr, g tllS. I???? 1 25c. 50c and $1. per can. B ttiS. At your dealer's. R II MM 11 III IIIIIMI MimM GINE that c*n bo Absolutely Depended Upon mted ?the only attention needed if oiling?starling -et us prove to you why the P.AWLEIGH has befor Big Surplus Power, Simplicity, Reliability, En'crlcct Balance. 1 he smoothest :unning engine built, ir, no Vibration. The Rawicigh saves time, expense, N' av.^r acts tired, c'wj vc rrr.Jv. coon ouvs tor itself. our word for it. ( ?> t <h#? plant where thin i>bit and pee a 1 h p operating the entire plant ewis's mill and n*?> a larger entrine. & MACHINERY WORKS, Atlanta Gu. o'i need an engine for. rrrrr^r TONIC Texas Girl Helps Father Who Cannot Sell Cotton. Annie Davis, who was last year the [champion girl of Texas and came to I Washington with the oilier champions j has this year come to the aid of her i father who raised a cotton crop and couldn't sell it. She had saved up her ! money to take a course at an indusj trial s> hool, but the cotton crisis came j along and her money was given to help the family. This young woman" "from the funds which she earned last year has purchased her father a team | off horses and a wagon, j The Texas girls have shown an uni ufital interest in poultry in addition 1 to their canning and garden work. I This i.-. only the first year of the poultry work, but already 250 young womm have accomplish*-! actual remits, and in not a single case did the girls fail to make a profit. The result has been thai in many cases the whole flocfl iff poultry on u farm !>:>? I?r?m i : turned ever to the daughter. The marketable value <S infertile eggs has been emphasized, f< r in the past great qua!'tities of eggs were sent to the market when they were beyond the . point crt using. One girl < i< a red hist year $180 from her tu T.cys and >'00S from her chick| ens. In addition, being an all-round farmer, she has made a profit from her y;ardtui and canning- work. This young woman's sueeess has evidently made an irnptcs; ion on her father, for during; the past .war he has re luced ' his cotton acreage one-half and has j put in vegetable products* These are not for home use alone, for he has instated a small home earner and the wholo family aire going to help in canning the stulV foi market. Deafness Cannot lie Cured by local applications, as they cannot 'v.jich the diseased portions of the ear There is only one way to cure deaf- I ness, and that if? by constitutional ! remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling; sovincl or imperfect hearing;, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is th 4 result, and unless the inflamation car be tab en out and this tube restored t > its normal condition, hearing | will bo destroyed forever; nine cases out of toil are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. , We will give One Hundred Dolalrs | for any case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists 75c.?adv. | TURKS THRE VJV. s AMERICAN SEAMEN. . Tennessee Reported to Have Threatened Bombardment. Washington, Dec. 20.?Secretary Daniels today called on Captain Oman commander of the armored cruiser North Carolina, to report whether threats of violence had been made by Turks ot Tripoli against American | sanors. Atnens dispatches published today said an American warship had threatened a bombardment as a result The North Carolina and the Tennessee both are at Beirut today, the Tennessee having gone to that port from Jaffa after depositing gold. Beirut is forty miles south o fTripoii where the disorders were said to have occurred. One report was that Turkish authorities sought to prevent the depart ure of American, British and French consuls and that the attacks on ithc American crew of a commercial ship and the threatened bombardment of Tripoli by tho American man-of-war followed. RUB-MY-TISM Will cure your Rheumatism Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts and Burns, Old Sores, Stings of Insects Etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used internally and externally. Price 25c. LEVER WAREHOUSE RILL; ITS AIMS AND OEJESTS! The Author of the Bill Gives Brief Statement About It... I WILL ASSIST THE FARMERS The Value of This Scheme Which is Intended to Make Storage Easy. Congressman Lever, who has succeeded in having the house pass his cotton warehouse bill, gives a brief outline of what the bill will accomplish and what it will mean to the people as follows: "What does this bill undertake to do? What measure of good does it seek to accomplish? What is its pur pose? It undertakes and will result in, the establishment of a uniform system of warehouses and warehousing for the storage of agricultural products. Whatever of storage facilities we have is of a hodgepodge character, entirely lacking in thai uniformity so desirable for the greatest simplicity and efficiency and economy. "It will result in the adoption throughout the country of a uniform warehouse receipt for agricultural products of the same kind. This is of the greatest importance. To illustrate: Assume that 1 am a farmer living in Lexington county, S. C., operating a private warehouse, properly insured and fully bonded, in which I have stored J00 hales of cotton, < >rrectly and expertly graded. Upon this cotton I issue my private warehouse receipt. 11 i> possible that 1 would bp able without difficulty to negotiate a loan upon such receipt with my own local banks, where my integrity is known and my credit < tablislied. But suppose 1 should find myself in the ?otv of T" ir-.-niip-lvo-i homo city of the gentlemah from AD bam a. Olr. Underwood), with fh'r. receipt in my pocket nn<l a desire to i;orro\v upo!i it. Does anyone imagine that the Birmingham banks wenid take the risk of the integrity of this receipt unless lie had full confidence in my own personal integrity? The rombinat'o might get me the loan; hut suppose this receipt had ho. n indorsed' to a third party, an absolute stranger to the V,ank< r; I think no ear. will doubt the diOiculty wb:ck he would ha.ve in getting its face value. To him the value of this receipt as collateral or for loans would he worth, no more than the paper upon which it was written. But if all varehouse receipts for cotton from Texas to South Carolina were uniform in character and meant in Texas what they moan in South Carolina., the value of such a receipt woui 1 of necessity he greatly enhanced; in fact, such a receipt would become easily negotiable and transferable in the ordinary course of trade. "Tt will g've an integrity and a certainty of value t * warehouse receipts for agricultural products, which thev do not now nosRp:-.r, Tlio moini. ing of this clearly brought out in a statement at the cotton conference calico by Secretary McAdoo last August of H. R. Eldridge of the National City Rank of New York, in which he says: "'In the near future the bankers of the wheat-producing sections will probably have surplus funds to invest and tlie Eastern and Northeastern States, as well as those of the Middle West and the West will be reasonably easy in the matter of money and will bo attracted toward good paper, well secured and of assured payment when due. Under the old order of things, paper secured by cotton and many other commodities was rarely presented on the market in suqh form as to command the respect of investors, .and it can not ho so presented this season unless conditions are changed in certain respects. One essential to this end is a uniform warehouse receipt of undoubted integrity. As things now are such warehouse receipts are few. Whore it is deemed necessary to improve the standing of warehouse receipts, warehouses making application to the proper author! ities should be governmental!v I licensed under regulations to be csI tablished, and each warehouse so licensed should be supplied with a government inspector, who should is sue a uniform receipt for each bale of cotton, or other form of package representing a commodity stored, certifying thereon the mark, the weight, and the grade. This system would create a form of security good beyond preadventure and one that would command the respect of all bankers and investors everywhere.' "Let me illustrate this by taking up again my private warehouse receipt for cotton stored in my own warehouse in Lexington, Such a receipt will have full integrity among I those who know me and know that | I have such a warehouse as I claim I to have and that I have in it such an amount of cotton of such grade and weight as 1 claim to have in it ami as represented in the warehouse receipt upon which I am seeking to borrow money. Such a receipt is good locally; it would not be good in Houston. Texas; and a banker in Texas who would loan the face value of such a receipt would bo treading* indeed upon dangerous ground as a banker. If, however, this receipt should show upon its face that the warehouse issuing it was either supervised on operated by the State of South Carolina and that the State of South Carolina vouched for every claim of the receipt, the Texas banker would be 11- - i i- * 1 wiMiiii uic uuuncis 01 goou ami saie banking; in relying upon the integrity of it. Now, if this last proposition is true, does it not stand to reason that if this receipt had issued from a ware house supervised by the federal government its value as collateral would be greatly enhanced. In my judgment such a receipt would pass current in the channels of trade almost as readily as a bank nolo. Mr. lOIdridge, you will see, says that a warehouse receipt to be of undoubted integrity should issued from warehouses governmentally licensed under regulations and should be uniform in character. Such a system, he says, would create a form of security good beyond preadver.ture and one that would command the respect of all bankers and investors everywhere. In this opinion, Mr. Ehhidge is supported by every student of tlie economic question involved, and this bill proposes just such a system as is suggested. "V'nder the provisions of the bill uniform warehouse receipts will be issued UDon agricultural products stored in warehouses governmentallly 1 'V< nsed, gn (led, weighed and certitiveled by govcrnmontaiiy licensed inspectors. Wo are trying in this bill to make liquid the ovida neo of the ownership of agricultural products, something1 that is not the case at prcs< it; we are trying to give more ready n \entk hiiity to such evidences of own j rship than they now possess; we are frying to bring into proper relation- j >1 i >. to link up, as it were, agricultural products and hanking and investing capita). Wo are trying to make the provs.ions of this b* 11 dovetail into the u "ovisions of Ike federal reserve act in so far as they touch agricultural pro hu ts. Tlv secretary of tho tr< asuvy has exprcsse 1 his willingness t.) issue currency on w: rehouse receipts for cott >n, tobacco and other staple and nonperishablc agriultura) products bu; the secretary of ike t. eg, would, he lacking in that wisdom vi;h which 1 credit him if he would agree to issue currency upon wurel >u o receipts indiscriminately e.n l vitlioui any ivr;uvd to the character of the supervision of tho ware- | houses from which they issue. He would of necessity, out of business caution and ley reserve the integrity of the tr msury. to nmintain it ; credit examine the cama a <.supervision el vno warenouscs issuing mc receipts >n which he is asked to issue currency or, tin .ugh the federal res rv( art , to rediscount agricultural paper secured by such collateml. '"The bill will rsult in furnishing I larger storage facilities for agricultural products and will serve as an incentive to farmers not only to store their products, thereby saving millions of dollars of weatlu loss e ach year, j but, which is more important, enable them to market their products at pe- j riods when the demand for them is; strongest and the prices high. st. With us in the South millions of dollars are lost annually because we permit our chief staple crop?cotton?to lie1 out in the weather; but wo lest more, infinitely more, because of our custom and necessity of marketing the bulk of our crop in the course of three or four months. This measure will furnish the machinery by which this enormous waste may be saved and this unbusinesslike system abolished. Not only this, but for the first time in this country machinery under) tiic terms of this bill is provided through which the farmer may know from disinterested sources both the grade of his products and its commercial value. This, in brief, is the bill and what it seeks to accomplish. It is in every line of it a farmers' bill, and to my mind it the most farreaching step forward in the building up i .. . ... ; oi a real system ot marketing, a sys, tern which looks to the benefit of the man who produces the goods to be sold, that has been taken in many a day either by State or federal enactment." Your Cold is Dangerous, Break it tTp ?Now, A Cold is readily catching. A run down system is susceptible to Germs. You owe it to yourself and to others I of your household to fight the Germs I at once. Dr. Bell's Pine-Honey-Tar is fine for Colds and Coughs. It loos. ens the Mucous, stops the Cough and soothes the Lungs. It's guaranteed. Only 25c at your druggist.?adv. Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly The Old Standard genera', tdrenfrtheninnr tonic, GROVK'S TA8TKLKSS chill TONIC, drives out Malar in.enriches i he blood.and builds up the system. A true tonic. I-or adults and children. 506 j TOILS OF THE LAW TAKE CITY OFFICIALS Terre Hauto, Incl., is Scene of General C!ean-up of Officials. EVEN TO THE CITY JUDGE Arrests Made on Federal Indict inents Charging* Conspiracy to Corrupt Elections Nearly every member of the city uumimsirauon 01 icrre i-iaute, In;:.. | is in the hands of United States authorities as a result of wholesale arrests last Saturday on indictments charging a conspiracy to corrupt the I election of November 3rd, last. Early Saturday 03 persons, including Mayor Don M. Roberts, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor in 191G; Dc nis Shea, sheriff of Vigo county; Judge Eli H. Redman, city judge; Thomas Smith and other leading Torre Ilauto politicians had been taken into custody. Unable to furnish bond of .$10,000 demanded by United States Marshal Mark Storen,Mayor Roberts was ineluded in a party of 22 prisoners who had failed to provide bond and was bo ing brought to tlu-' capital t<> ho jailed. The others had been released on bonds ranging from $2.."00 to $10,000 each. Sheriff Shea and Judge Redman were freed on bonds of 310.000 each. About the oidy important official of Torre Haute not arrested is Edward Holler, chief of police, who is now serving ascnter.ee in the Vigo county jail for coiitrir.pl of court. Frank C. Daly, United States district attorney for Indiana, who conduct??! the hive.ligation which resulted In th * grand jury indictments, said that Viol'or wanmong tboso indicted 1 u; that he prcb ably would n T bo arrest hI until k< completed his sentence. Steps U ken I y Marshal S- won in Terre ilauto indi v.io that other arrest are to he m 'o. It is said more than 12 b persons were named in the indict ments. Mayor Roberts is charged w'!h many overt a ts in th?- indictment. P * is accused o!" levying asst ssr.ien.tr again. { th; .proprietors of saloons, dance halls, gambling houses and resorts; to be used for the registration ef voters, of hiving men t .> transpov. repeaters from one p-va mot to anoth er, of conspiring to place only men his money tumid inilu :i e on certain J election boarsd, of cvdt ring the arrest |( f certain men to prevent their voting and odir. cling the making of false rogistration cards. Similar overt acts arc named against all arrested and some are charged with strong arm tactics to inti nllntc the elector! .to. It i. charged that ih > postal laws w; v violated in that the alleged conspiracy was further through the mails. Federal authorities eon tended that inasmuch us a United States senator and congressman war. voted for the Federal gov rr.ment has jurisdiction. FROM MANY LAN1?S. Thirty years ago there were less than 200 Syrians in America; now there arc over 2b0,000. There arc: hi the United States above bOO 000 Finnish people. There are three Finnish baptist ministers in this country. There are about 2b,000 Greeks in Now York City and one Gtaek missionary working among tin m. Thousands of Zulus in South Africa arc awaiting the revised Bible in lh( ir language now bein;v printed at the Bihlc liou.se, New York. The American Baptist Foreign .Mission Society lias -11 laynu n on the various lieids engaged in live diil'i rent lines of work as follows: 20 physicians, Id teachers, 4 evangelists, (> business men (including b in the mission press work and one mission treasurer), and one captain of a vessel. In Germany and Austria-Hungary the sustaining membership of many of the churches is largely in the army. Many of the breadwinners of the congregation and membership have been killed, leaving distressed widows and orphans. Others have returned wounded, mained, unfit for war and equally unfit to resume their normal occupations. The great indebtedness on church property, whose interest must bo met if the churches are to survive at all, has been a great burden at the best; now it is intolerable. In many cases the properties are threatened; the churches are in dan ger of being lost to the denomination. The older inhabitants at Wilson, N. C., agreed that two worse days have not come together than Friday and Saturday?pouring rain all day Friday and the severe blizzard Friday night and freezing hard the water on the ground, making streets icy and sidewalks dangerous. Saturday morning was featured with falling horses, an automobile accident, a tire and a big mayor's court. mmmmm I with the tears i College Has Nearly SOO Stu- I der:is This Year. DR. JOHNSON'S REPORT Extension Work is Broadening. Reputation of Institution is Increasing (The State.) Advance sheets i'rem the annual rci port of 1). H. Johnson, president of ! Winthrop College, Rock Hill, have been received in Coulumbia. The report will be sent to to general asscm blv through the st te department of education. Dr. Johnson says that the usefulness el ihe c liege has been broadened by an extension of the i work for the v. 4n .> o i iin nnKUn ?h ( large and the move me . t is bearing fruit. At the joint mcetim of the conference for Education in t .e South and the Southern Ildncati- .1 association, held last April in Loins- lie, two of the most imp'.n'tant <. nonstrations were assigned to Wi it drop college, that (i" the mo id rural school and the model rural hoirm. An evidence of the growhig reputation of Winthrop college and its increasing useful*.: is \) o ever increas ing iemand fo i grac'u *es. Of last year's graduating class, - ver 27 procured )>? sitious before t' ey received their diplomas. The Wint op diploma is being accept Ve of cxamition in Shut as ti . \ arc very strict in the ccrtifvalicn i f tract *s. Pv hh ., Jeli. a si v- that, not\eit' . uling tije sc. . * enrollment diving the pasi t en. the college ran smootl !y in cv< *y irtment and tie re v v no . :'.ee . ny where of qual'ty for quantity. "It 'ems that 1 T ) ? 1'ii-co. ly settled State, w th only a little ovr? 7O0,0: o \- ion, men, women and chi! . th e should be n > foar of \\ 1 * becoming too big to *1.. 1 . \ acceptable work, in the fac 11 the facts and the experience of either States/' says Dr. Johnson. Win.hron c ' . ' ' - ; ar has its largest en roll an. *, being S92 students attem ' institution; There wore 1,47 : 'mis for admission this y '' are now 100 officers and t a . <. 1: * college. The Moha:a:% 0 . : .01 .1. The present 11. \ an wai found the Mohammedan ' T I with a population estimate.: a. -01,000,000, of whom 1)0.'0,000 \vc > ide British .'OhOOOOOO under 'lu -'an a id Kreneh rule, and 41,500,000 under other western government, chiefly the Dutch, Of the remaining J. 1)0 9.000, about 18,000 000 w re a hvU of the Otto| man empire. A recent writer says; j "Great Britain and htr allies rule over ' v. propcr.di ran ruajcc ' the worlds Moslems 00 cut of 1201,000,: 000). The loaders i \ One great mass 'have loyally emu. used the cause of j their western rulers; hundreds of thou sands of Moslems are : ..hti yy in the ranks of the allied armies, and so far is seems likely that lie i a of these , populations will follow, actively or passively, the ha 1 that has been given. "On the win ' > they have been well treated. They ex per? t nee greater justice and hi tti : promotion than under former gov; -anient; their material prosperity i is increased; they enjoy tali religious freedom; and they stand to 1 so rather a . n to gain by a change of western rulers." S? II Cocaine to Children C mtplainis rerom d by Police Insp cu rs Kyan and Polan of the New York police force, from the parents of many school children that cocaine sellers have been plying their trade outside ivuhlip s? .nnl< nn#l flmf ! - ? - - .. W .,1 U>|\1 V Ull" drcn had come homo under the influonee cf the drug led to the arraignment of six men in Harlem police . court last week charged with selling ^ the drug. Onn t\C flir. Pi-iuA?ri<a c.c-?m l.~ - ? v .v ... V.?v * iicvimiJ n.mi lie* WilS John Itnsso, a briclc-layer, 2045 West Thirty-first street, Sea Gate. Detective Caspers said he had watched this man dispose of ten packages of cocaine to boys of from 10 to 16 years in front of the public school at 106th street near Second avenue. Record-Rreaking Stock Dullness Record-breaking dullness marked the post holiday resumption of stock market dealings last Saturday. Attendance of brokers on the New York stock exchange was light and outside inter-exchange appeared to be entirely lacking. Admiral Dewey 77Years Old Saturday Admiral George Dewey was 77 years old last Saturday. Secretary Daniels, his aides and members of the navy general board called on him at his home and found him in good spirits and health.