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- E PIS NOffciaPaperofPickesCounty --AEtered AMr 2a,s iSO a I-elens, s.c. as econ class mall Ire au act of CongrsoSUBSCRTION PRICE, 1 YEAR PICKENS, S. C., AUGUST 27, 1914 NUMBER16 eWw SUMMTe EUROPE FOR ONE WEEK RI August 16 - While the German rees are pushIng forward through valley of the Meuse and. stil more operations are in progress the Alsace-Lorraine frontier the French and German atins contact, Japan has sent an ulti - to dermany dqmnding- the vai of German warships from Orlent and the evacuation at Kiau a German protectorate in ' ulimatum -gives Germany August 23 to comply with the . Owing to cable interrup however, Japan has not been deliver the ultimatilm to Ger and It Is announced from that the United States undertake this task. Toklo the, Japanese ultimatum created a deep Impression and ese primier and foreign min have counseled the Japanese to a calm attitude. dispatehes report an offensive t by the French from Lou * to Sarroburg but this is con a. merely an outpost affair. United States cruisers Tennes North Carolina bearing gold uin 3Drope, have ar .1- be Belian -seat of *as transferred ' from to Antwp; which indicates th Ger/nana are #langerotisly ad the fal of the city may be soon. report from Berlin sta tes that. W.lam and three of his: hay, gone to the .front which occasioned 'reat outbuftts of pa in the Gernfan capital. e Germans have Inflicted great the French in the fighting near and Dinant. seat of the, Belgian govern bas been moved from Brussels twerp. reply has yet been received by to her ultimatum to'Germany, sudden entry of the Island. the Enrppean war situ a factor which may increase e of the conflict. The imeri ernment: will observe a polic'y erence aafto conditions jn the Far'ist. folloing statement was issued -British -official press bureau: ction Japan takes against Ger will not extend beyond the as except isofar as may be to protect Japan shipping 18.-The French officially that the ,Garmans had aban ebourg. The Liege forts are to be Intact and a Brussels d the Germa~n movements e Belgian center seemed ked. . each troops are in contact ermans, but there is no im 'ement -to report," said -annonnosnent of the bassy at London. expeditionary force nm than' 100,000 landed at Belgian ports --ands was form a junction with Its -message to the rge said: ur watchword and I be nobly done." .commander-In-chief, , personally reported s In Upper Aisace and troops had occupied in LorraIne, 32 miles frontier. ench minister of fi er, who has return at In Belgium, said had been destroyed one wrecked by drop t. the Japanese pre Is Japan's Intention China the root of despatch from Ber Japanese ambassa from Berlin Is ap police are guarding e Japanese club Is ese students In Ger ye left." The Vos d, commenting on to Germany: "One t war cannot fright-, Japan's action Is Rome to the Star Madgeburg, Get . Grman sold~ier: s-confined In the ling seven and some of them Italy." y expert from Brussels today.! eal of agitation hought the Ger ere had been A good many rom Tirlempnt -was brought rrbeck, only a Brussels. The is possession, d interesting were broken ding his o discharge oil t.II - nBrief OF THE LWAR AD AT A GLANCE August 20-According to the I bits of news allowed to come in rc Berlin, something like normal con tions prevailed In the German ca tal. The price of food is declinii troop movements have been compl ed and a resumption of work -6n r ways was begun. Confirmation was received on t report that Emperor William order resistaice to any effort thatJap may make to seize Kiao-Chow. Along with the announcement the fall-of Brussels, the official sta ment says: "Our troops have met w br.Mant successes In Alsace, especi ly between Meulhausen and Altkir< The Germans retreating on the Rhi left in our hands many prisoners a: twenty-four guns, six of which we captured by our Infantry after a sha struggle. In Lorraine the day was le fortunate for us. Our advance troo found themselves faced by exceptd ally strong positions. They were forc by counter attack to fall back in body, which Is solidly established the Soille and along the canal frc the Marne to the Rhine. The German cavalry occupied BrI sels. Announcement wag mat Strong columns foNlowed up movement. The Belgian -army retired on Ai werp without having been engaged I the Germana. An official exaplanation of the B gian field army's backward moveme towards Antewrp was given In the f lowing cablegram from London Washington made public by the- Br ish'embassy: "The Belgian field arm based on Antwerp, has fallen back that direction to cover its commu cation with that fortress. In anticil tion tliat this might become necessa the seat of government already h; been transferred to Antwerp. AsiBrt sels Is an undefended city and no 101 er the seat of government, the fa tht the Germans may have occupi it is not of great importance. Moi over the present position of the B gian field army -is a menace to t right flank of any further Germ advance westward." The death of Pope Pius will he mal the occasion for another effort. bring about peace. It was stated th when the conclave meets in Rome elect a new Pope it will send an a peal to the warring nations for pea ind wil ask the United States to a in bringing about tranquility. August 21-"German cavalry forc passed through Brussels today goi westward, They were followed lat by an army corps. "A war tax of $40,000,000 was le led on the city of Brussels by t German general. Arrangements were completed I the dispach twice daily of trains fra Switzerlaldacr~oss France to the coa under diplomatic auspices. It is 4 pected the service wnl1 commence a few days and quickly repatria 20,000 Americans and 8,000 Engli who are in that country. A French official note said: French dirigible3 last night threw number of projectiles upon two G< man ca'viary ca~mps In Belgium, cat ing great excitement. Despite the fl of the enemy, the air craft return safely to the French lines." The Matin said the French had ca tured thus far 91 German flelji gu four flags and 19 automobiles. 144 tenant Colonel Roussett, a retired n itary critic of excellent reputatis said the great battle has begun aloi a front of nearly 250' miles, 2,500,0 men tang part. Great Britain decided to make loan to Belgium of $50,000,000. T money will be raised by treasury bil for whichi tenders were called toda: August 22.-A great battle betwe the Germans and the allied forces h begun, according to official announl ment. The battle line extends frc Namur to Charleroi, which lies aba 20 miles to the west. A despatch to the Reuter Telegr'a Company from Ghent said it Is ruma ed that the Germans are marching1 wars France by the way of Ou14e9 de, a town 14 miles southwest A Centi-al News dispatch frc Amsterdam said a large detchment German cavalry suffered virtuallya nihilation in the suburbs of Main< Belgium, Friday afternoon. They wE met sddenly by a squad of Belgia in motor cars armed with machi: gs. Most of the Germans were ki ed. A handful surrendered and WE made prisoners. The official information bureaua nounced that an artillery attack up amun by the Germans was now progress. A Central News dispatch from C tend, Belgium, said that 150 Belgia reservists from the United Stat rached Ostend. An English and a German caval brigade had a sharp fight on the b tiefield at Waterloo. AugUSt 23-The emperor of Jap declare- war on Germany. This a ion was taken at the expiration of t time limit of Japan's ultimatum Germany demanding the surrender Kao-CIow. The Japan governme has ordered the beginning of ape3 tions on land and sea., saand ijeopl e to Subsec -BANKERS ORGANIZl PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL FUN FOR MOVING SOUTH CARO LINA CROPS. ALL OFFICERS ARE ELECTE w Nearly $10,000,000 Represented A Meeting in Columbia.-Applica pi. tions go to Secretary McAdoo. Columbia.-The National Currene . Association of South Carolina wa permanently organized a few day he ago. About 50 national banks, pra ed tica~ly every national bank in tb an state, were represented at the mee ing at the Jefferson -hotel, and 39 o the banks qualified as inembers < . the association. Their applicatiot thi will be forwarded to Secretary M al-' Adoo at once for approval. The ca] h ital and surplus represented by th ne 39 banks amount to something in e: ad cess of $8,000,000, and this will mea that about $2,400,000 additional cu: rp rency can be issued in this state. a For technical reasoris all of th banks. could not qualify on that day . but practically all are expected t ed qualify. If aH qualify the total cap a tal and surpilus represented wi DU amount to something like $9,000,0O m and an additional currency Issue c about $2,700,000 will become qvail able. R. G. Rhett, of Charleston, wa elected president of the association J. P. Matthews, of Columbia, vic It president; John T. Melton, of Colun by bia, secretary; and W. A. Clark, c Columbia, treasurer. The executiv el- committee elected' consists of R. C t ~Rhett od Charleston, J. P. Matthew . of Columbia, John T. Melton of Co tumbla, W. A. Clark of Columbia, C t M. Berry of Columbia, J. W. Norwoo of Greenville, C. D. Jones of Lancaw ter. A majority of the officers an committeemen were elected from Co a- umbia by express desire of all of th bankers, inasmuch as this will insur Immediate action upon any busines that comes before the organization. A number of state banks are readl It Is -said, to join the association a soon as the bill repealing the 10 pe -e- cent tax on circulation issued by th state banks is passed. The bill wa e introduced in congress and its pa: sage is expected shortly. J FOR CLEMSON MEN ONLY. at' Ex-Students Will Return in Larg to Numbers For "Home-Coming." Clemson College.-Everything Is t ce readiness for the great- "home con id ing" of ex-Clemson students on Aug ust 27 to 31. President Riggs state es that he is expecting between 1,000 an 12 1,200. An attractive .program ha r been arranged andI no detail lookin to the corort and pleasure of the vil Itors will be overlooked. *- The expected .number of old-sti he dents will tax to the utmost the ci .pacity of the dormitories, dining ha or and Memorial hall, In which 'all th m public exercises .w!ll be held. FC st that reason, as well as the fact ths x- the "home coming", Is a "family~ in fair" none but ex-students are i ,e vited or will be permitted to registe sor be entertained during the "horn coming." This rule will be strict1 'A observed. a Other visitors are welcome to tb ar- college campus at -any other timne. 1s This announcement Is made in at re vance so that none. but. ex-student ed will make their plans to visit the co lege during the "home coming is, Issues Bulletin for University. u- Columbia.-T4he University of Sout 11- Carolina has issued as a quarterly bu n letin "Notes on Labor Organization 18 in South CarolIna, 1742-1861," b 00 Yates Snowden, professor of history a the university. The bulletin contain a many interesting facts about trad he associations In Sohith Carolina durn 1, the pre-revolutionary -and ante-bellu! r periods. Prof. Snowden says in hi en prefatory note that he hopes that hi hS sketch may "whet the curiosity c e some careful investigator for an e3 m baustive study of the files of the Gs ut zettes in the Charleston Library Sc cety and an examination of state pa ph pers and documents In the office c -the South Carolina Historical Con to- mission." of Hurt in Auto Wreck. Columbia.-Mrs. H. C. Randolph an m Mrs. Paul Matthews were painfully ir of jured recently In an automobile acc n dent at Gregg and Gervais streets is. The engine on the automobile wen re 'dead" and was struck by a work ca n of the Columbia street railway conr se pany which was proceeding down th .11- bill. Mrs. Randolph, who was at th re wheel, jumped and was knocked ut egnscious. Mrs. Matthews was unabl m to leave the car, which was carrie n over 200 feet, acecording to Mr. Mai In thews before stoppIng. ) Attend Annual Meeting. Columbia.-J. E. McDavid, manage es of the Columbla office of the Souti can Life and Trust Company a rv Greensboro, leaes for Asheville to al ~j. tend the annual meeting of the Hur dred Thousand Club of that comipan: at Pinegrove Inn. This is Mr. McDa tvid's fifth consecutive winning a emembership in the club. This yea tche is also in the more rarefied atmos otphere of membership in the Two Hut Idred Thousand Club., Since the con -apany opened offices here it has Ia vested $70,000 in Columbia. read the Pi ribe for the,] " BEGIN TREATING PELLAGRA . Public Health Service Open F A1 Hospital and Begin to S'Ay Scourge at Spartnburg. D Spartanburg.-After six months of preparation and many delays the Public Health Service of the Federal Government have opened a lield hos pital for the treatment of pellagra, a disease practically unknown in this country 20 years ago, now the princi pal scourge of this state, causing more deaths than any other malady. The hospital, eqvipped with an emer gency appropriation of $47,000, grant ed by Congress ifter W. G. McAdoo, Secretary of' the Treasury, had writ ten a special message on the subject, y aid after Surgeon General Rupert s Blue of the Public Health Service a had personally come to Spartanburg and investigated the situation, will e have accommodations for 25 patients. t- Dr. R. H Herring, passed assistant f surgeon, Public Health Service, will f be in charge, and will have a corps a of'six scientists and physicians as as sistants. The hospital is only tem porary, as theie Is -pending in ron e gress a bill appropriating $300,000 for - a mor'e pretentious institution here a for the study -and treatment of pel lagra. The Robert .k Thompson Pellagra e Commission, composed of physicians of the medical .corps of the United D States Army and Navy and New [- York Post-Graduate School of Medi 1 cine, with nearly a score. of patholo 0 gists and other scientists, who during f the last three years have made the I- most thorough investigation ever at tempted of any disease in so brief a s period of time, are preparing to wind up their .work here and turn the re e sults of their labor over to the-Public L- Health ,Service. f The principal members of the com o mission which is,- now supported . wholly by CoL Robert M. Thomson of a New York, sare: Joseph F. Siler, M. D., captain, medical corps, United . States Army; Phillip E. Garrison,- M. I D., passed assistant surgeon, United - 'States Navy, and Ward J. MacNeal, I M. D., assistant director, department - of laboratories, New York Post-Grad 9 uate Hospital. e The commission in thre ; years has s studied the cases of 800 pellagrins in Spartanburg county, of whom 28 per cent have died. According to Doctor 3 Suler, there are now probably 75,000 r pellagrins in the South. - e The work of the commission has s attracted the attention of the entire I- medical world and brought a number of eminent physicians to Spartanburg. among them Dr. Louis W. Sambon of the .London School of Tropical Medi cine, and Dr. Simon Flexner of the e Rockefeller Institute, New York City. Farmers' Institute. Yorkville.-A farmers' institute was . held here recently In the graded school building. The meeting was called to order at 11 o'clock by the s county demonstration agent, Jno. R. . Blair, and interesting and instructive . addresses were made by Prof. Harper of Clemson College, Paul H. Calvin. . live stock'demonstrator of the United .- States department of agriculture, and i Mr. McKeowni, the special demonstra e tion agent of Rock Hill. r Prof. Harper spoke principally on i fertilizers. He advised the' farmers . to reduce their cotton and corn acre .age- and grow more nitrogen produc r ing. crops. He censured the farmers e for- buying' potash and said the way ,to obtain it was by deep plowing. e Lake- City Tobacco Market Good. Lake -City-The four warehouses I- of Lake City sold one day recently s 490,315 pounds of farmers' tobacco for - .$65,212.16. This Is decidedly the larg est sale for a single day that any market in .this state has had. The day before Mr. Fulgbum'for the Impe rial Tobacco Company began buying 1again after having been off the mar a et for two weeks and the news of his teturn and the consequent Increase In t price were responsible for the big s sales. First Bale at Fairfax. 2 Fairfax-A bale of new cotton was ginned here afew days ago for J. W. s Williams. The bale weighed 530 f pounds, and was consigned to Pope -& Fleming, of Augusta; da., to be held by them until the cotton market be *comes normal. The growing cotton in this section has been injured some fwithin the last ten days by the heavy rainfall but the gield is going to be fully up to the ten-year average, Company K Camps. SDarlington.-The Darlington Guards designated as Company K, Second Infantry, N. G. S. C., a few days ago -left here for Big Springs for a week's t encampmnent. As soon as it was r known that there would be no regular -encampment this year the local com a pany decided that they would have a an encampment of their own and se lected Big Springs as the place. They were given a splendid camp site prith a pipe line direct from the magnifi cent spring from which this new re sort gets its name. Negro Is Killed. r Union.-John F. Faucett shot and - Instantly killed Wilt Eubanks, a ne t gro, here recently. The shooting oc curred about 8 o'clock near the corner Sof Pinckney and Academy streets, a short distance from the home of the negro. Faucett is a city mail carrier. ! He was exonerated by- a coroner's r jury last year after he had shot and -killed a negro girl on his farm about Stwo miles north of Union. The shoot lIg then was accidental. Euanks was shot five times. Faucet surrendered to the authorities. ~epon's Papei JAPAN DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY MIKADO ISSUES PROCLAMATION CALLING SUBJECTS TO STAND BY COLORS. APPEAL TO ARMS IS LAST GO Note From Japan Was Ignored by Berlin and Klao-Chow Has Been Prepared to Stand Siege. Tokio.-The Emperor of Japan has declared war on Germany. This act ion was taken at the expiration of the time limit 'of Japan's ultimatum to Germany demanding the surrender of Kiao-Chow. The Japan Government has ordered the beginning of opera tions on land and sea. - The Imperial rescript declaring war on Germany was issued in the evening. It officially Inaugurates hostilities,in the Far East as a result of Germany's failure to reply to the Japaneses ulti matum. The proclamation of the Emperor sent a thrill through the country. Japan's entrance upon the fulfillment o' her obligations to her ally, Gyeat Britain, responds to lthe popular Will from one end of the land to the other. Cheering crowds assembled before public buildings and at night there were lantern processions through the streets.' The popular manifestations, however, do not approach the enthu siasm which preceded the wah with Russia. Count Von Rex, the German Am bassador, has been handed his- pass ports. . He probably will leave for America. George W. Guthrie, the American Ambassador. will represent Germany. The Diet has been con voked, in special session for Septem ber 3. The Austrian cruiseraiserin Eliza beth, which latterly was at Tsing Tau, the seaport of Kiao-Chow, is reported to have sailed. She perhaps will go to a neutral port and disarm. It is believed this action will keep Austria out of the war in the Orient, although unforeseen circumstances may force Japan to change this policy. No action has been taken relative to Austria and the Foreign -Offce has explained that Japan will remain friendly until Aus tria adopts an attitude which, it re gards as offensive. ,It is -eported here that Germany has b'en trying to transfer the Ger man Railroad in Shan Tung, China, to America. Tokio believes, however, that the United States pursuing- the policy of neutrality outlined by Presi dent Wilson, will not accept. Presi dent Wilson's announcement of neu trality has greatly pleased the Japan ese. THE BIG BATTLE HAS BEGUN. Allied Armies Battle With Germans ,Along Twenty-Mile Line. London.-After nearly three weeks of mobilizing the battle .of giants has begup. Roughly speaking the Germans are trying to work around the allies' flank In Belgium, while the French are at tempting to apply the same process to the Gerrqans in Alsace. Almost all the encounters that have gone before have been mere recon nasances. The defeat of a regiment here and there has been proclaimed as' a great victory but in this grapple of hundreds of thousands most of these affairs have had no significance. Official announcements from both ides have been extremely candid so far. From the standpoit of the allies the important feature in Saturday's developments Is the great battle which began in the morning on the Namur-Charlerol line. This Is being1 fought on the position chosen by the allies. A German official statement says that troops under command of the Crown Prince of Bavaria, fighting be tween Metz and Vosges, took 10,000 prisoners and 50 guns. It adds that the French troops opposing the Ger mans comprised eight army corps. An official British statement ex plains calmly that nothing resembling a great battle has been fought as yet and warns the people against opti mism. Mobilize in italy. Paris.-Vla London.--The newspa per Eclair says It has learned that August 27 Is fixed as the date upon which general Italian mobilization Is orered, Money to Bolgium. Lodon.-A dispatch to the Havas Agency from Paris says France and Great Britain have agreed to advance Belgium $100,000,000 to aid her to face the nee-ssities arising from the war. France and Great Britain each will provide half of this sum. Berlin Hears Decree. Washington. - Japan's declaration of war on Germany has reached Ber-1 lin, according to official reports re ceived in Washington. Whether the declaration was sent by cable or wire less was not indicated. Report Confirmed. Paris,-The foreign office . declar' ed that France and Great Britain had agreed to advance to Belgium to help hr mec the demands of Germany, the sum of $100,000,000. Each power will contribute- 350.000.000, I every wee 4$LO pei GERMANS CUT OFF FRIENDLYNATIONS. FRENCH AND BELGIAN ALLIES ARE SEPARATED BY ARMY OF KAISER. APPARELY BIG BATTLE Brussels Levied P0r $4 0 0d Hold French Ch ckedi and Engag9 160,000 Belgians. London.-Little has become know'.. of the operations which put the Ger- % man army bet'ween the Belgian forces mad their French allies and enabled the Germans to faccupy Brussels. It is believed the Germans brought up strong forces behind their. cavalry screens and that a severe battle must have been fought to compel the Bel glans to abandon Brussels and retire to Antwerp. Whether the French forces were engaged with the Belgians is not - known. No Information Is available. as to whether the Germans Intend to de' vote themselves to reducing Antwerp. or to an endevaor to force their wa southward into France. It seems, however, that the deter mination Is to attack the Belgian army of 150,000 men, wh6' still. are in Or around Antwerp. The Germans sl ready are advancing In the direction of Ghent. They have occupied A6et. 15 miles northwest of Brussels and Wetteren, eight miles., southoastiof O Ghent and apparently intend' to oe run. the Whole of. Northern gium to ti'e sea. Cavalry patrols have as, far -as Mechlin (Malines);- 14miles southeast of Antwerp and- It may be h'eaid be fore long that the Ger:nans have oc cupied Ghent and Brugies and poss bly even Osten& If this Is their 1e. cision, however, a clear Invasion of France through Belgium must ben. much longer delayed. The German general has imposed a war tax of $40,000,000 on the city of Brussels. GERMAN CANNONS CAPTURED. Summary of Cannon Captured b French up to Present. London.-In a disatch from Pars tb., Exchange Telegraph Company' carrespondent' eeids tie follown A summary of alleged German losses a Printed in The Paris Matin: "Twenty-four cannon taken by the Belgians from the third to the fifth of August, at Lege. "Three cannon taken by the French at Margennes, August 11. - "Six cannon taken by . the French at ()hsin, near Splncourt, August 1U. " Twelve cannon taken by' '-the French near Schfrmeck, Alsace, August 12. "Twenty-four cannon takenby the r Russians at Stallapohenen, East. Prus- .2 sla, August 17. "Twelve cannon taken at Gumbin' nen by the fussians, East Prussia August 17. "Besides these pieces of field ar' tillery, rapid-fire guns, aeroplanes and 19-motor wagons were captured" New York in' Darkness New York-For nearly half an hour New York was as dark s t night, while it was . visited; by one -of the : most severe electrical storms In Its history. One death, a -panic among 2,000 bathers In a pavillion struck by lightning and injury to seven persons caught in the path of a Broadway runaway sums. up the known casual' ties. Italy Asks Explanation. Londop.-The Rome correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Comipany says: "Italy has asked .for a freindly explanation from Austria1 regarding the landing ot a large bhipment of Austrian arms et Medna, an Albain seaport, August 15. The Servian minl Ister, who protested to Italy, charged that the Austrians were arming the Albanans against Servia." Checked German -Cavalry. London.-The Central News ba'sisf ceived a dispatch from rParis saying that French forces defleated a detach- . ment of German caviary coming fromn Leopoldshoebe and -Hueningen, in an engagement near Basel. The Germans retired in the directIon of St. Louis ~t leavIng 500 dead 'and'wounded on the - field. They lOst most' of their horses.' Sugar -Reduced.. San Francisco.-Sugar was quoted at $7 a hundred weight here, a reduc tion of-50 cents from 'the recent price. Consul Leaves Liege. London.-Victor H. Duras, American Vice Consul at Liege, Belgium, reach d London. He left Liege a~week be Iore to make areportat BrusseIto Brand Whitlock, American MEnkter~ ~ to Belgium. New Call to Arms. London.-In a dispatch from Ams terdam the Reuters Telegram Comn pany correspondent transmits an of Scial com2munlication from Vienna ayng -that a new miibilization order ~ ~als all first-class reservists. yearr