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goat GERMANS ATTACK THE FRENCH LINES Desperate Battles Are in Prog, ress in the Vicinity of Verdun THEY MAKE GAINS SOME LATE DISPATCHES Atta C ..'131 However, Were Well Sustained and Heavy Losses Inflicted. Troops belonging to sever (icrman army corps, under Crown Prince Fred en'ek William, are engaged along a 2*-mile front north of Verdun in a desperate effort to drive baok the French defending forces, probably v. ith the capture of the great fortress of Verdun in view. There had been very heavy I'ighti' g for a considerable period in this district of the French war zone, hut within the last few days the attacks o the Germans have taken on added strength. The battle lino has been extended and now reaches from Mai ancourt on the west to Etain, on the east, with Verdun in the center only a few miles southward. The Germans claim to have made important advances and to some extent these are admitted by the French War Office, which describes the hattie as one of increasing intensity. The German preparations were extensive, and the bombardment of the French positions wi tb thousands of I shells was uninterrupted. As tne French had foreseen this battle all their available guns were called into action and responded in kind to the heavy shelling of the Germans. While at some points the French wore unable to resist the onslaught of the attacking forces, along much of the front, according to the Paris communication, the attacks were well sustained and very heavy losses were inflicted on the Germans. Another British steamer, the Westburn, has put into port flying the German flag and with a German prize crew aboard. This vessel has reached Santa Cruz, Teneriffe. She has on board 206 prisoners taken from various British vessels which have been sunk by German raiders. In the British Parliament Premier A. P. Johnson, who recently sold n t Bargain ror 50 c Plants li We have pi t up a Combinati( Seeds for this section of the coi adapted to the soil of Horry C< quantity of each variety of seed plant one large garden or two within reach of every Farmer i HERE IS THE COMBINA 1-1 Oc Package Early Valenti 1-lOc Package Kentucky Wc l-10c Package Lima Pole B( 1-lQc Package Adams Early l-10c Package White Marro l-5c Package Georgia Collar* l-5c Package Large Wakcfi* 1 - 5c Package Early Drumhe* l -5c P xckage Tom Watson \ 1 -5c Package Rattlesnake Art I-5c Package Large Early Ti II-!? Ounces Early White F1 1 1-2 Ounces Early Strap Le $1.00 value, all for 50 cents Post upon receipt of 5G cents ii We get these seed from the South and package them ourse! chip is ami take advantage of 1 to get 3Jtt the Reliable Garden S | All 10c packages have 1-4 ] I oz., just twice as much as any < I Silver Skin and Red Onion S I PLANT YOUR GARDEN EARL Conway The House v, \i' v ! V 1 Asyqulth in reply to questions concerning the possibility of peace, reiterated his former pronouncement that there would be no peace until conditions previously set down were met. These included the restoration of Belgium and Serbia and the overthrow of "Prussian militarism." While President Wilson is declared to be unalterably opposed to any action by Congress with respect to warning Americans off armed merchantmen of the belligerent Nations of Europe, agitation in Congress in this direction has growned to marked proportions, and Washington advices say the Democrats of the Foreign t IT..! n i. 1-- 1 i. - .fiiicwri* v-ommutec nave voted to canvass the sentiment of the House on several pending resolutions bearing op that question. The administration leaders at Washington, it is further declared, an confident that they will be able to control the situation so that the executive branch of the Government may be free to carry on diplomatic negotiations with Germany. On the Hussian and Austrian fronts there has been considerable fighting 1 Al. . 111.' . _ 1 _ .* 1 A.1 1. . . 1 aim iac lunuius uuum ui;u at one point the Austrians succeeded in penetrating their lines. No late advices have been received from tiie Caucasus, where the Russians are continuum their pursuit of the retreating Turks COLDS NEED ATTENTION Internal throat and chest troublcsproduce inflammation, irritation, swe ling or soreness and unless checked . once, arc likely to lead to seriou. trouble. Caught in time Dr. Hell' Pinc-Tar-Honey loosens tlm phloo and destroys the germ which hav? settle<l in the throat or nose. It n soothing and healing. Pine is antisep tic; honey is soothing?hoth together ])osscss excellent medicinal qualitie.1 for fighting cold germs. Insist on Dr Hell's Pine-Tar-Honey. 25c. at Druggists.?adv. o Emperor Nicholas, who visited the Duma at its opening and delivered a brief address to the members, has left ' for the front. MUSTANG For Sp rains, Lameness, II [ Sores, Cuts, Rheumatism Penetrates and Heals Stops Pain At Once For Man and Beast 25c. 50c. $1. At All Dealers. LINIMENT o his farm near Conway to John Henry Stroud and moved to Gurlcy, S. C., j was back in Conway the first of last week on business. I the Farmer 1 t 1 i 1 V* ^ . vui wax uciL | m Package of the best garden mtry and they are particularly Dunty. There is sufficient in this Bargain Package to small ones, and the price is n the county. j TION SEED PACKAGE. ne Bush Beans ; >nder Pole Beans sans Corn wfat Peas is 3ld Cabbage id Cabbage i Vatermellon ratermellon smatoes at Dutch Turnips af Purple Top Turnips at our store or sent by Parcels i money or stamps, leading seed houses of the Ives. You and your neighbor this exceptionally fine chance ?eed you need for this Spring. )ound and all 5c packages 1-4 >ther 5 or 10c packages, etts 10c quart .Y?IT'S THE SAFEST PLAN. Dr\ig Co* of Quality TH^HOXBY HE ??wrntmrnam? ? i i ? ? I ? ! 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Ilolyoko, Mass., wrote to Dr. Cal l well, "Syrup Pepsin certainly is fir.c. 1 gave it to my baby, Evelyn, and al GERMANS THINK OF AFTER WAR BURDEN (Continued From Page 2.) pert of the Victoria Insurance Company, one of the largest concerns of its kind in Germany. I)r. Schmidt not only has to deal intimately with the company's thousands of employees, but with its scores of thousands of policy holders, and is in a position to know the probable effect of taxation on the masses. He declares that it probably has passed through the minds of countless if not all employers that increases may be necessary, but feels that the average employer is not usually altruistic and that there fore raises must be forced by those who need them. This in spite of the fact that the German employer and man of means in general has shown himself throughout the war to be self sacrificing and thoughtful of those! dependent on him. Dr. Schmidt disputes energetically ( the claim of labor leaders that the returning soldiers after the war are going to depress wages, and upholds the contention of Herr Bergmann and oth ers that Germany needs and will need for some time to come all the workers she can get merely to re-supply herself. Dr. Schmidt adds that the size of a man's income really has less to dr? with his exnendituros than hue hisi own individuality. "What comes in and how you come out bear little relation to each other," is the way he puts it. Expanding 011 this idea, he declares that whether increases in salaries come or not, Germany will be able to meet any new taxation by means of retrenchments, simply be-' cause Germany is saving by nature. He anticipates both new imperial taxes and indirect assessments? The former he prefers, because they cos: less to collect, but he believes both j wili be necessary, and hopes on the whole for an increase in pay to meet them. The best representative of the outand-out believers that Germany is t?. see a general and all-around rise in salaries is the director of one of Germany's largest banks, who looks at the matter from the standpoint of the salaried employee rather than that of the wage-earning workingman. He is confident that the heavy taxa: tion following the war will necessitate a general advance in both salaries and wages, and that this in turn will cause a slowing up in the creation of new capital for investment. [The war, however, he says, has reveal [ed Germany's economic strength in a 'new light which makes a new scale of measurements necessary, and that that which earleir seemed an impossible task now seems much easier. Deep Retrenchment. Retrenchment is the watchword of the great majority of laymen of those who are puzzling in advance over the after-the-war taxation problem. They hope for booming business conditions, possible indemnities and other favorable turns, but they believe that in economy rather than by increases of wages that hit employer even while they help employees is Germany going to be enabled speedily to pay it* .debts. | The genaral lay view is voiced by Count Kospoth, a member of the House of Lords of the Prussian Diet who declares that even a doubling oi present taxes will raise only ar amount equal to a drop of water ir the ocean, ahd that the bulk of th< debts must be liquidated by stric economy. KALT, OOHWAY, 8. 0. ?SBB55? ?? iedy sing Mothers . ' / t. w fc I /li r ' ; I |\ } :i | 1 * * EVELYN BAUSOLOW. took it myself. It is the or.lv rncdi1 cine I have been abie to take without iaCfec'inu: Baby in the rurs'ng. I hav" used it foall four children and it is fine; they like it and ask for it." A trial bottle of Dr. C-ridwell's Syrup Pros in can be obtained, lveo of charge, by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 4 hi Washington St., Monliccllo, Illinois. The extent of the probable debt of tiormanv nfK r 1 'no w,?v i-- ;U .. favorite topic of discussion in the l newspapers of the empire. The Prank furtcr Nachrichten seems to take mid die ground with its estimate that the total debt?merely from the war?, will be somewhere between 40 and 50 billions of marks, with consequent in terest charges annually of from 2,000 to 2,500 millions of marks. In peace times the empire has toj raise something like 2,100 millions in j a year?1,700 of which are for the | army and navy and 200 for interest on debts. This sum, added to the interests on the. war loans, past and prospective, raises Germany's future tax budget to about six billion marks (or one and a half billion dollars) a year. The Nachrichten predicts that this sum will be raised wherever it can be raised. It predicts taxes on war prof-, its and on every form of increase of fortunes, direct and indirect. Thej yearly burden will be as great, says, the paper, as the combined incomes of all Germans who receive more than 5.000 dollars, and the principal equal to the combined fortunes of all Gerd man millionaires. Indemnity Hopes. The possible effect of war indemnities is a favorite topic of speculation with many newspapers. The Berliner Tageblatt insists that it were "mistaken and politically dubious" to try at the present time to estimate what taxes are going to me, or attempt to work out the problem until the indemnity matter is definitely settled. It cautions, to be sure, against the building up of any hope that the indemnities will be very great, and at-j tacks certain unnamed newspapers. which of late have amused themselves by working out mathematical and financial problems by counting on all sorts of huge indemnities, by indulg-, ing, as the Tageblatt says, in "weird i games with figures." The Tageblatt is content mercy to estimate that the taxes undoubtedly i will be "heavy, very heavy," and that monnnnlip? in nil nmlinKilitv nfill V-?r? ... v .. w .? Vfcy . v? a 1 J/1 4 i t J *V ill Ut . necessary. It expresses absolute confidence in the ability of Dr. Helfferieh, secretary of state for the treasury, to determine wisely what the best method of taxation shall be and how much will be necessary, without impairing the economic life of the people. | "If passable roads are chosen," the i Tageblatt concludes, "the German empire will be able to raise the necessary taxes without, to use the now popular expression, having to starve itself in the effort. Our people wilt not be lacking in the needed spirit of Galley 10 self-sacrifice and willingness to do without things. The duty of the press is to awaken this spirit and keep it awake." I In varying ways, members of the Reichstag, regardless of party affia! tions, indicate expectations that the tax problem, and therefore the wage problem, is going to depend on the size of the indemnity which Germany may receive. Each man interviewed gave expresion to the confident belief that the empire will receive something from its present opponents when the final accounts are cast up. l| One representative of the center party, not personally accounted raidir 1 ?l l 1- - i * * ? cai, piaccd nis estimate ot tne proo' able indemnity on an even basis with ? the indebtedness incurred by Ger many during the war?over six bil i! lions of dollars to date?and wouh * not gTant that a state of affairs couk 5 arrive which would so impoverisl t every nation involved that no on< could pay such a staggering sum. t w - i? ?????? WHAT IS THE CONFERENCE OF COTTON STATES BANKERS? Bankers and other busy men dropped their work and travelled from all parts of the South and attended three meetings within four months at different cities to organize and further the work of the Conference of Cotton States Bankers Association, organized at Galveston, Texas, August 14, 1915. A smaller group ,as a committee, finished the important organization j details at a meeting at Birmingham, I A 1 ? 1_ _1 I A . _ a a r\ a r- A il I /via., ncui /vugust zi>, iyio. mini meeting, the largest of them all, was held at New Orleans December 6, and 7. and the Conference, now a permanent institution, will hold annual meetings hereafter. Very briefly stated, the purpose of the Conference is to deal with problems peculiar to the States whore cotton, the South's most important commodity, is grown. Droadly speaking, j all of these problems e ect the development and prosperity of the Cotto?. States and everyone in them. Unsolved problems of years' standing regarding loans on cotton, warehousing, marketing, etc., as related to other lines of business are being vigorously dealt with. The diversified I crop movement ef 1915 which saved the South untold milions of dollars was largely fostered by the Confer ence. The present officers are: Chairman?Joseph Hirseh, President of the Corpus Christi National Hank, of Corpus Chrisli, Texas. Secretary?Moorhead Wright, Prcs ident of (he Union Trust Company, Little Iiock, Ark. Treasurer?Oscar Newton, President Jackson State National Bank, Jackson, Miss. The Vice Presidents arc the Presidents of the State Banking organizations of the Southern States. o WAR UPON PAIN! Pain is a visitor to every home and usually it comes quite unexpectedly. Hut you are prepared for every emmergency if you keep a small bottle of Sloan's Liniment handy. It is the greatest pain killer ever discovered. Simply laid on the skin?no rubbing required?it drives the pain away. It is really wonderful. Mervin H. Soister, Berkcly, Cal., writes: "Last Saturday, after tramping around the Panama Exposition with wet feet, I came home with my neck so stiff I coudn't turn. I applied Sloan's Liniment freely and i ~ rn- ? r*t;11v, WM* 1 u my aui pi ii>ct IR'AI morning the stiffness had almost disappeared, four hours after the second application I was as good as new." March 1915. A^Jijniggists, 25c. ?adv. NOTICE OF BIDS J. E. PRINCE STOCK 9 The undersigned assignee of J. E. Prince is open for bids on the stock J. E. Prince, now located in the J. F. Prince store house at Loris, S. C., to be made in writing and addressed to the undersigned at Conway. S. C., between this date and the first day of March A. I). 19Id. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids, but a fair bid on good terms of payment either all cash, or partly in cash with good security will be considered and likely closed as soon as made. The said stock inventories at first cost, with the store fixtures the sum of 31,818.08, the fixtures being put down at what they are considered worth second hand, and the stock at first cost from the wholesale houses. This inventory is on file in the office of H. H. Woodward at Conway, S. C., and can be looked over by any person or firm who may be interested in purchasing this stock. Address all bids or other enquiries to H. H. Woodward, attorney at law, assignee of J. E. Prince, Conway, S. C.?Adv. 4ti. o Notice of Discharge. j Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Administrator of the estate of Sarah C. Oliver, Dec'd., will apply to the Judge of Probate of Horry County, at hi3 office, at Conway, S. C., at ll o'clock in the forenoon, on the 11th day of March A. D., 1916, for a final discharge as such administrator. T. T. Klliott, Admr., of Sarah C. Oliver, Dec'd. I J. S. VAUGHT, td. Probate Judge Horry County. \ "It is foolish to try to delude ourselves into thinking," he said, "that our opponents are anywhere near fi nancial exhaustion, any more than we arc near it ourselves. At least two i of them are potentially rich, and can -1 and will pay our demands when the " end comes. Until we can tell just how J favorable our position at the end is going to be it is idle to speculate ; about what our own economic situation after the war will be." * PROCEEDINGS OF THE I COURT OF SESSIONS I (Continued from page one.) H and battery of a high and aggravated H nature and was sentenced to $150.0<^ I or six months. H Henry Anderson was tried on a H charge of assault with intent to kill. H He was found guilty of simple as- H sault. H ? o ' HUSBAND & WIFE BOTH, I SAVED FROM SUFFERING I If you wish to buy goods for the I myself and husband received form Dr. H Kilmer's Swamp-Root. About cloven fl years ago I had a severe attack of La Grippe and was confined to my bed 9 about eight weeks under the doctorJn 5 care. He pronounced my ease kiJp 9 ney trouble and rheumatism and not H receiving the results from the doctor's 9 treatment I should have received, 1 9 decided to try Swamp-Root. After 9 taking several bottles of Swamp-Root 9 I was able to get up and attend to my H work. About a year later my hus- I band was affected with a severe at- 9 tack of kidney trouble and doctored 9 for some time with the doctors and 9 received no benefit. Knowing of th^ 9 good 1 had received, lie decided to try 9 Swamp-Root. 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Regular fifty-cent and fl one-dollar size bottles for sale at all fl drug stores.?adv fl There is more Catarrh in this sec^ I tion of the country than all other dis- fl eases put together, and until the last fl few years was supposed to be incur- fl able. For a great many years doctors fl pronounced it a local disease and pre- fl scribed local remedies, and by con- fl stantly failing to cure with local treat fl ment, pronounced it incurably fl Scici:c? has yrr/cn Catarrh to be a I constitutional disease, and therefor^ fl requires constitutional treatment fl Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by fl F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, Is fl the only Constitutional cure on the fl market. It is taken internally. It acts fl directly on the blood and mucous sur- fl faces of the system. They offer one fl hundred dollars for any case it fails fl to cure. Send for circulars and tea- fl timonials. fl Address; F. J. CHENEY & CO., fl Toledo, O. i I Sold by Druggists, 75c. I Take Hall's Family Pill* for con- fl stipation.?adv. ? COPY SUMMONS FOR RELIEF (Complaint Not Served.) f STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, < N County of Horry. ^ M. C. Dusenbury, Trading as Dusenbury & Co., Plaintiff Against ^ H. K. Marlow, Enterprise Grocery Company, a Corporation and I. J. ^ Hardy, Defendants. ? 4 TO THE DEFENDANTS H. k. Marlow, Enterprise Grocery Company, a Corporation and I. J. Hardy, YOU ARE HE RELY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint in this action, which has been filed in the office of the Clerk of the | Court of Common Pleas, for the said County, and to serve a copy of your . answer to the said complaint on tho^ subscriber at his office at Conway, S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof; exclusive of the day of SUC.h KPrvicn* nn*l if . | mm 11 ,? WU I it I J IU UIIS" war the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated January 28th, A. D. 1916. H. H. WOODWARD, > Plaintiff's Attorney. To Enterprise Grocery Company,? Absent Defendants: Take notice that the complaint in the foregoing stated action and the summons, of which the foregoing ia a copy were filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Commp Pleas, at Conway, S. C., on the 9th day of February A. D. 1916. W. L. BRYAN, (L. S.) C. C. C. P. H. H. WOODWARD, Plaintiff's Attorney. i