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TWO TEUTONS PREPARING TO ATTACK SALONIK! Central Powers May Have Already Started Drive Against Greek Port NOT MUCH ACTIVITY imnM fiTuco i irwcro ur<jiy u i riLH .4 Artillery in Action on Various; Fronts, With Deadlock Still Unbroken. l The long looked for offensive of the' Teutonic aiiies against Salonika mayi new bo on or may be at hand. Aj dispatch from Saloniki reports tliatl an artillery duel has been in progress for t.vo days near Doiran. Sucli a! bombardment might well be the prelude to an advance movement by, the Teutons and their allies. According to the message reporting! the opening of the bombardment, the j British heavy guns were dominating i those cf the central powers. Alon c the many fighting lines few operations of importance arc recorded. On the Franco-Belgian front the French artillery continued active, the: 1 nmliMvlmont oanorinllv in-I tens? in the Champagne and the Argonnc. Berlin reports sporadic aclivity by infantry, in one instance! being south of Da Passec canal where j the British are declared to have been' repulsed, while south cf the Somme,; where the Germans recently made gains, the French were beaten off in i a hand grenade attack. In the Vos-| ges, the German guns have been bom-', baruing French positions. Few reports of important activity come from Russia or Galicia, a German airship attack on Dvinsk being the only incident in this theatre men ' 1 tioned in the German communication. Along the Austro-Italian lines the . i # deadlock shows no signs of beinj ^ broken. German reports declare the Italians are worn out and discourageed and have recognized the impossi- < bility of breaking the Austrian lines, j ' No indications of lagging Italian ac-| 1 tivity, however, are reflected in the 1 official report. Frcm Mesopota mia the Turks report repulsing the British, when Gen.'1 Aylmcr's relief force attempted a'< nearer approach to Kut-el-Amara, ( where another British force is be i leaguered. It is announced in Vienna that: ( peace negotiations with the Monte- ' negrin cabinet ministers remaining ' in their country have not been be-: gun by the Austrians. In Albania the Bulgarians arc re! ported to be having a herd time of ' ' | it and tc have been obliged to fall back toward the Driu river near the! 1 eastern frontier. The occupation of 1 strategic points by the forces of Es-1 sad Ik rhn and by Servian troops who. ( have re-formed at Durazzo is beilev- 1 cd in Athens to make a new Buiga-i rian expedition toward the coast dif- 1 ficv.lt. The advance of the Austrians down j the Albanian coast continues, thei latest advices apparently indicating j that they were some 20 miles north-1" east of Durazzo. The arrival of $2,-j 000 Montenegrin troops at Durrazoj $ is announced. j ] now to cur couns 11 Avoid exposure and drafts. Eat , right. Take Dr. King's New Discov-; j cry. It is prepared from Pine Tar, j healing balsoris and mild laxatives.' | !>r. Kind's New Discovery expels and kills the cold germs, soothes the irri- 1 tated throat and allays inflammation.' I It heals the mucous mcbrano. Search j as you will, you cannot find a hotter cough and cold remedy. Jts use over In years is a guarantee of satisfac-! tion.?adv. 0 NKW TYPE OF VESSEL j Appam** Captor Said to lie Special Ship. New York.? Daniel Bacon, agent of the Elder-Dempster company, British owners of the Appam, says that vos-i fcel was captured by "a new type of light draft, heavily armed swift Cer-i man cruiser built on the lines of a, merchantman and easily disguised. | "She was not an old warship, but: a brand new vessel," said Mr. Bacon.1 "I can not give her name, though 11 have been officially told it. The cruiser j v/hich captured the Appam was es-| corted by several vessels, at least one, of which was a collier that also acted! as a scout ship." o Eight Zeppelins are now in the Goi^ man service. 1 STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH CAROLINA PEOPLE Dr. E. W. DuRant of Georgetown has been appointed by Governor Manning as chairman of the State Fisheries Board, to succeed VV. L. Harrigan, resigned. Three white men are in Lake City jail under the indictment of retailing whiskey in violation of the Prohibition law. It is understood they have all made application for bail. The arrest was made by Sheriff ilurch. According' to information furnished him, Sheriff Biirch suspected the men of operating a still. Although a "mash" bar roll and one or two funnel-; ar said to have been found the. sti:! it.'.elf was not located. A steamer trunk en route from Jacksonville to Charleston sprung a Ionic and State constables lost no time in getting wise to the fact that the trunk contained booze. Mortality statistics for the city of Charleston show a ratio of 20.90 deaths per 1,000 population for 191b which is an increase over 1914 of 1.42 per 1,090 of population. Deaths among whi.cs f< r 1915 show a ratio of 15.15 per 1,000 of population contrasted with 15.92 per 1.000 for 1914. Colored deaths for 1915 show a ratio of 34.90 per 1,000 of population contrasted with 34.00 per 1,000 for 1914. J. Ward McLendon of Timmonsville lias been appointed Florence county dernonstmHrm ? front in tlm r.lnnn nf .J. O. Finklca, who resigned some rime ago. The secretary of state has issued a charter to the City Building and Loan Association of Georgetown with a capital of $75,000. In accordance with a resolution re ncntly introduced in the U. S. Senate by Senator E. D. Smith, regarding the fertilizer situation in tile United States, Secretary Houston has sent in a report in which he made the startling statement that since December 1918, the wholesale price of potash has advanced from $89 to $480 per ton. The Pepsi-Cola Bottling works of Charleston has been commissioned | with a capital of $5,000. The peti- j tioners are: Cora J. Oglcsby and OcLavus Cohen. Gov. Manning has accepted an in- j /itation to attend the annual banquet j M* the Washington Light Infantry i.i Charleston on February 22. Anderson, city and county, sent 150 j >r more delegates to the laymen con- i mention. Much enthusiasm was ciisDiayed in the upper section ef the jtate. John J. McMahan, member of the Richland delegation, has introduced a y.\I in the house to provide for the. wot ion md operation of a new union j jassenger station at Columbia 'by the j *>tnto of South Carolina and to re- j inire the use rf the sam< and con-.- : sensation therefor by all pas sen go; j rains to ar.d from said city, ami 10 ihclish grmle crossings in said city." FRIEND, ARE YOU DISCOURAGED? - 1 Docs everything look sort of dark and *!oomy to you? Do you have the "blues?" j Does it taf:e supreme effort for you to gc ibout your daily work and keep yoursell lialf-way cheerful? This feeling of discouragement, despon-' :lency and gloom is the result of a sIuSf,T?h Liver. Just plain Liver trouble rrakes a big pile of unhappiness?makes life look hardly wortli living, sometimes. | Get your Liver in perfect working order, by taking Dr. Thaclicr's Liver & Iliood Gyr;ip, and you'll soon feel like a different person. 'I he sun will shine brighter. People you meet v. ill scera more agreeable. You'll get keen ENJOYMENT out of life. You'll tackle your work and your food with relish. You'll feel TWENTY Y EARS V O U N G E R. You'll find yourself possessed of the courage and hopefulness of youth. DR. TIIACHER'S 1 suoi* Q9iri Rlanrl Swpnn n?i vxj* una I up act3 as a tonic and strcngthener to the Liver. It encourage^and helps that important organ to do its work easily and more successfully. THEN the stomach and bowels, and every organ of the body is also able to do its work right, for "King Liver rules them all" and when your Liver is right YOU are WELL. llopc, happiness, courage, success? these are yours when your Liver is active and strong. If you haven't got a bottle of Dr. Thacher s Liver & Blood Syrup at hand now, go or send for it AT ONCE, and give your Liver the help it is calling for. THEN you'll see the sun break through the clouds and you'll be hopeful, happy, WELL. All dealers sell 50c and $1.00 bottles. THACHER MEDICINBOOMPANY, i... . rhatrannrato. T<?nnAMM>!. THE HORRY HI j: WHAT OTHER PAF Well Why ? A candidate can have his card Inserted from now until election day at the same price as if he started it only a month before election, so why postpone it??Times <& Democrat. ~ # Retaliation. j They that take the sword shall j perish by the bomb shrapnel, gas i mine, tcrpodo.?The State. Dry Weather. , A long* dry spell is predicted for S.i C.?Marion Star. Hard to Understand. One of the tilings that are hai\i to understand is that there should ho or ganized oppos'tion to a national puu, of preparedness wisely intended to , safeguard the Nation and every man woman and child in the Republic. ? I M". ^ ~ i ?ae alar. Very Tempting. It is a little bit too wet, or otherwise Charlotte people could not resist the temptation to turn out and do a little bit cf gardening.?Charlotte Observer. Unprintable. The definition we heard or.c man apply to the Columbia political situation the other day wont do to go in print.? Lexington Dispatch. Excepted. To 'oe sure they excepted the can ntd goods put up by the clubs in the, South. Consideration for their appe-i tiles was greater than their love, for j the children who toil in the canning lactories.?Charlotte Observe Cheap Lime. Of some considerable interest isj the bill in the General Assembly providing that convicts shall work err-; tain lime quarries of the State and the lime be sold, to farmers as cheaply as possible. There is plenty of| agricultural lime in this State if we could only get it.?York News. What a Show. We print to-day the remarks of Andrew J. Bethea before tne General; ; Assembly in discussing the Ford j Peace Party.?Times & Democrat. Will Do Their Best. The police who are taking a census, of Raleigh should he given to under stand what is expected of them.? Durham Herald, i The Reason Why. A fellow tells a girl she is all the j world to him, and then she may have an idea that she would rather be all the world to some other fellow she knows.?The Morning Star. Had if Disobeyed. Most laws are bad laws only because they are disobeyed. If they were enforced it might be different. ? Georgeto.vn Times. Don't Cough I'p. The Kaiser is said to cough continuously now, but you'll observe that | they haven't made him cough lip.? | Exchange. I Z2 L'i tz <*** W ^ ^ ^ IS DUE THE PEOPLE OF I | THE GENEROUS PATRQ j CORDED US QURHG 191 ! DER OUR THANKS. J DURING 1916 YOU W ; INESS AT THE SAME OL PARFnTIMU CUED TO C i niiLU i imii LVLIl IV V DUSENBIi Toddvill< ERALD, CONWAY, S. C. 'ERS ABE SAYING His Pork. "Here's Sow!" chuckled the pork bar'! Congressman, as the public buildings bill came up for debate.:? The State. Nobody Home. Mr. Wilson has learned one thing, i\z any rate. He knows it is no use talking to Congress.?The Record* Nothing Neutral. There's no neutrality anywhere. Even the eclipse was partial.?The State Human Nature. One must admit that the Standard Oil knows its business. While some people arc not buying gasoline because it is expensive, others ait? buying it because it is no longer cheap. ? Daily Record. o FOR RHEUMATISM As soon as an attack of Rheumatism begins apply Sloan's Liniment. Don't waste time and suffer unnecessary agony. A few drops of Sloan's Liniment on the affected parts is a!! you need. The pain goes at once. A grateful suiferor writes:?"1 was) suffering for three weeks with Chron-j ic Rheumatism and Stiff Neck, although f tried many medicines, they failed, and I was under the care of a! doctor. Fortunately I heard of Sloan's) Liniment and after using it three ori four days am up ar.d well. I am em- \ ployed at the biggest department, store in S. F. where they employ from six to eight hundred hands, and they surely will hear all about Sloan's Liniment.?II. B. Smith, San Francisco, Ca!.?Jan. 1915. Ai all druggists.? adv Seventy citizens of the McCormick section appeared before the house committee on privileges and elections and urged that the bill providing for the establtfcment of Mcformick county be passed at this session of the yv. 11 e ra I asscm o! y. MAGAZINE 300 ARTICLES-300 ILLUSTRATIONS T7"EEP informed of the World's Progress ir Engineering, Mechanics and Invention. FoFather and Son and All the Family. It appeal: :o all classes?Old and Young?Men and Women, it is the* Favorite Magazine iu thousands ot home* throughout the world. Our Foreipi Corr.-Hponclonts aro constantly on tho watch for tilings now nud interesting und it is Written So You Can Understand It tho Shop Notes Oopartmont (20 Poros) contain* I'raetiot 1 Iliata for Sliop Work and ea-y ways for the li'ym in to do things around tho Home. Aiiateur Mochunica (17 1'ages) for tho Ito: * and .'iirlo who I ike to make tilings, r el Is how to make W ire '.is* and 'JVIograph Ot tills, i.iifjinos, ltoat*. 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Investigation of the explosion which wrecked the submarine E-2 in tlie New York navy yard recently killing four men and seriously injuring nine was ordered resumed. Vice President Marshall is willing ' A ^ : i o 111:1 ror " seccwi term, accord in 9 t, a letter made public. President Wilson will not make nr. .extended Southern trip to speak for; preparedness. Capture of the first line French positions over a front of 800 yards to' the west of Vimy was announced *oy| thy war office. Marjoric Sterrcti, a Brooklyn gir" j v;ho stalled a fuml to build :? baxt'.c i ship for Uncle Sain by sending . ; dime and writing a letter to a Nov , York newspaper calling upon other' cii'lci-cn to co!.*"ibute a like, hiocu:>! ' I is treasuring a letter from Col. 'P.ic?< : ! dove Roosevelt in which he inclosed ! ten dimes. 1 j Private armor plate rnur.ufaclu: , crs not'fied the Senate naval com mit ten that they would raise the j price of armor plate $200 a ton ?f Congress decided to erect or pnrchnt-. three armor plate factories for the government. Speaker Clark and Repirrcauj Reader Mann are fighting side by side in the House for adequate national defense. Germany has granted permission for relief work in Poland provided adequate funds arc raised and entcn to allies consent to the importation of food supplies. Charles Strony, aged 28, who claims to be a Belgian musician, was arrested in Canada by provincial authorities who declare he is suspected of being implicated in the dstruction of the parliament building at Ottawa. President Wilson has taken up with his cabinet the latest draft of the proposed communication which Germany hopes will bring the negotiations over the Lusitania disaster to a termination satisfactory to the United Staes. A bill providing for ten years' imprisonment for unlawfully disclosing to foreign government national defense secrets of the United States was introduced bv Senator Tillman at the suggestion of Secretary Daniels. invigorating to me Pale mid Sickly The Old .Standard irtner.it strengthening tonic. GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out Malaria.enriches the blood.and builds up the system. A true tooic. l or etluiis aud children. 50c O % HOBBY COUNTY | 1 TRUST COMPANY I 1 fc$ L. D. Magrath m gg Manager. ?3 jsl Real Estate sa ?8 Real Estate Loans sa B3 Bonds sa sa insurance B p^sasaM^gasaKasasaig) CALOMEL DYNAll MAKES YOUJICi "Dodson's Liver Tone" Starts Your Liver Better Than Calomel and You Don't Lose a Day's Work Liven up your sluggish liver! Feel fin? and cheerful; make your work a pleasure; bo vigorous and full of ambition. Hut take no ^aHty, dangerous calomel because it makes you sick and you may lose a day's work. Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel crashes into sour bile like dynamite, breaking it up. That's when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. Listen to me! If you want to enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced just take a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver LSSOTTffiiS I | in THE LES!SL*riifS I To. Co Handled as Soon as I Appropriations Arc Out I of Way I ^ I I COMMITTEE TO PjCK I THE MOST PRESSING I | I Steering* Body May 3c Appoint I c:;l?Governor's Program I on the Bills. y ! Columbia.?With the passage of jt.no general appropi iation bill tho way will be cleared for the consideration of several important bills by the general assembly. Tho appropriation .j:{1 will wry likely <io disposed of before tho end of the present v^pek and the remainder of the session will be devoted to several far reaching measures which have received the in' (iorsement of (low .Vanning. q It is very likely ti at a steering com 4 mittec will bo appointed to handle tkp I situation in tho House and weed out the unimportant hills which have bceiviJ' introduced. Local legislation will P'V'l II 'li fn;'' inn i I K ?-> 4 K ,, .v.,... ..VII uuu 1 : i 11 IJUIU will get down to work on the big I measures. The early part of the session was I given up very largely to a discussion K of the several laws looking to a strict K (nforccment of the prohibition law. I Gov. Manning iias scverai hiils un- 5 der consideration which he hopes to I have enacted at this cession of /the I legislature. The Governor briefly I outlined the measures that he is inter I ested in. as follows: I 1. Raising the child labor age limit I from 12 to 14 years so as to conform I to the local option compulsory cduca- I tion measure. . I 2 The passage of a bill to provide I for the teaching of agriculture in^he I schools of the State, the bill having I already been favorably reported in I the House. I 13. A bill providing for inaugura- I tion of the Torrens system of land I registration. I 4. Medical inspection of school children. M 5. A bill providing for a Ji^te I board of conciliation to settle disput- I es between capital and labor. I Gov. Manning intends to put all of I his force behind these measures and I will urge upon the general assembly I ii * " mc necessity tor passage at this ses sion. Practically all of the measures I wore recommended by the Governor I in his inaugural address to the le-fcis- I lature last year. In his message CTiis I year he again urged their importance. fl "The bill providing for a State I rd of conciliation will very prob- I ably be introduced in the House to- I ".ay," said the Governor, discussing fl his i>rn ymm for legislation. The con- fl ciliation bill will bo introduced in the fl IIou3c by Mr. Boyd, of Spartanburg, fl diairman cf the judiciary committee fl and in t'..e Senate by Senator Sherard fl of Anderson. I The Governor in. his message urged fl the lage of a law to provide for a I system of rural credits. There seems fl little opportunity for the passage of a I hill of this kind at the present ses>j| Practically all of the members of the House and Senate are inteit'sted^B \i local measures. / Germany's latest proposal in the fl Uasitania case having proved, in substance, satisfactory to the United States, final settlement of the controversy is expected within a few dt^s. ES YOUR LiVER'r UNO SALIVATES Tone tonight* Vonr druggist or <1 trier sells you a 50 cent bottle of Dodsorra r 'i'? ?-1 * - jtnuf under my personal moneyback guarantee that each spoonful will clean your sluggish liver lietter than a dose of nasty calomel and that it won't make you sick. Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver medicine. You'll know it next morning Itecause you will wake up feeling line, your liver will l>e working; headache and dizziness gone; stomach wij^ bo sweet and bowels regular. Dodson's Liver Tone is entirely vegetable, therefore harmless and can not salivate. Give it to your children. Millions of people are using Dodson's Liver Tone instead of dangerous calomel now. Your druggist will tell you that the sale of Calomel is almost stopped entirely kcr& 4