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V" \ Clothes of Distinction Ederheimer-Stein Suits for the Young Fellows T HIS store cannot do you a greater personal service or benefit itself more than by helping you to secure the best clothes of leading makers at prices you can afford to pay. CL There’s no reason why it can't do this; there’s every reason why it should; unques tionably it does when it offers you this stylish, reliable make. Ask to See the Longworth** A style far in advance of the common procession—Distinctive — St ylish—Perfectly Tailored— Better Fitting—Shape Retaining. All Sizes 30 to 38. Prices $15 to $3^ Carroll & Byers LieiTCH’S HOT SHOT FOR JAPAR Russian General Warns America of Her Peril in the Pacific. SEES NO WAY TO AVOID IT. NOTICE! We are prepared to store your Cotton and to issue warehouse receipts for the same. A. N. WOOD & D. W. HICKS. Sept 24-Oct 1-8-15. SAT! HR. BOGGY/BUYER!! i You can get a nice Buggy that is GUARANTEED and a set of Harness, also GUARANTEED from us for $67,50. - : # : : Two-horse Wagon, with brake and body for $47.50. : : Yours for biz, SMITH HARDWARE CO.* Peoples B. & L. ‘ Loans money on town and county real estate. Al lows interest on advance payments. Loans can be repaid or reduced at any time. Second series now open. We want 500 more shares taken by Oct. 15th. Sub|cribe now and file your application for loan. R M .WILKINS, Prest. R. S. LIPSCOMB, Treat. J. F. GARRETT,V.-Prest. H. K. OSBORNE, Atty. Office M. and P. Bank, Gaffney, S./C. Declares Our Commercial and Military Supremacy Is Seriously Tkreataned. War With Japan, He Believes, Would Be Most Awful Experience America Could Undergo. Wbeu General Nicbolaa Llnerttcb, commander in chief of the Russian military and naval forces during the war with Japan, was recently asked by the Petersburg correspondent of the New York American to express his opinion on far eastern politics In gen eral and on the mutual relations of the United States and Japan In particular he said: Having spent a great part of my life In the far east, I do not hesitate to comply; all the more so because I con sider that what I have to say Is in the interests of all white men. America made two grievous mis takes In her far eastern policy, and both these mistakes have had the ef fect of weakening her position In the Pacific. First. America favored Japan during the late war; secondly, she en gineered the Portsmouth peace. The United States could lose nothing from the Increase of Russia’s authority in east Asia. America went there for trade only, and Russia was not a trade rival. The continuation of the war would have seriously weakened Japan commercially and politically and for a generation delivered America from a powerful rival In the Pacific. But Mr. Roosevelt first helped Japan to victory and then helped her to reap the fruits of a victory, as if American patriotism consisted in making Japan one of the greatest powers on earth. I consider that this powerful new Japan now threatens America’s exist ence as a Pacific power. She will de stroy American trade. Her subjects, if allowed to settle freely In American possessions, will undermine the eco nomic prosperity of the white Amer icans. During my long residence In east Asia I had opportunities for study ing the effect of Japanese immigration. The Japanese regarded Russian terri tory as a sponge to be squeezed. They took low wages, spent not a kopeck; many even brought with them boxes of rice for their own consumption. America can suffer even more from Asiatic settlers, as the standard of liv ing is high. Of course America can exclude Jap anese from the Pacific coast, but from that must arise a political danger. I am convinced that any action agalnet Japanese Interests in America, wheth er on the part of the federal govern ment or of the local authorities or cit- iaens, would be a prelude to a war In which America could gain nothing and would probably lose much. The Phil ippines she would inevitably lose. AH Japanese statesmen desire their acqui sition, and the Japanese denial of this, based on the pretense that the climate Is too hot for colonists, is untrue. However, it is a mistake to assume that Japan would necessarily concen trate on the Philippines In the event of war. More likely she would uot shrink from the risk of attacking the American fleet wherever it might be found and of directly menacing the Pacific coast. The United States is uot at present In a position to resist such an attack. A war with Japan would be the most awful experience America could un dergo. Americans rely too much on their fleet. 1 admit that Afherlca has new and first rate battleships, good sailors and just as patriotic a spirit as Japan, but these do not insure victory. Victory depends upon the skillful and experienced handling of fleets. Num bers and weight have much less impor tance on sea than on land. The Jap anese could probably cope with any fleet In the world. They are masters in the use of the torpedo. They un derstand the tactics of coast and port fighting, and there are reasons for be lieving that they will handle the sub marines of the future better than oth er nations. I refuse to believe that the superior American fleet would set tle the war In one big battle. On land, whether In the Philippines or at home, the United States conld effect nothing. Americans do not un derstand that men, patriotism and money do not constitute a military ac tion. Americans have bad no experi ence In real warfare. They are not, as a nation, organized for war and do not seem to understand what war is. I have seen a good deal of the United ftates army and even conMhanded Americans among others during the re lief march to Peking during the Boxer outbreak. As men 1 found American soldiers well educated, intelligent and well conducted above all Europeans, and their bravery and patriotism had no limits. But their voluntary free and easy discipline was not soldierly In the European sense, and such a sys tem would Inevitably break down in dealing with a ruthlessly dragooned and disciplined people like the Japa nese. I remember once giving an order that certain bodies of troops, among them Americans, must break camp at 5 In the morning and resume their march. To my amazement an officer came to me at night and pleaded that the Americans were tired. It wonld be better, be suggested, to start at 8t “the men would be in better eptstts.** I agreed. But I came to the conclusion that In these Americans I was eem- niiindhig something very different from wbut I \ as trained to under stand from the word "army." These are merely a few reasm - win I think that America’s position In the Pacific I« seriously threatened. Ami > see no way to avoid the dang-”. !, Japan, taking advai.'.ag - f onio of fense against her immigrant- or > >n:.• other pretense, should make undue dr mauds upon America. America will be forced to accede or to enlbarU on a war which will almost certainly provt disastrous. The yellow peril Is in tld-; mmso r-ti I’.tlt It will bee, bio realty in bio re.“lty in the future, when r merely Japan, but China, aru * I a: ■' regenerated, shall he bamled togetho- for tit<> expulsion of the while r.. > from Asia. The mo t then that wl; nen ••an hope for is that Asia does ju retaliate jn kind. The time 1« •pie',, ; this peril passed by when, alter th-' relief of Poking in 1. 1 er-r : aln upon the ezar’s government • nnehnh* agreements for the form - partition of the Chinese empire. UNCLE JOE OPTIMISTIC. Plenty of Chance*! to Get Money. S” - the Speaker. Speaker Cannon, addressing ft O"o people at Tuscola. 11!.. the other d pv. Tavi* an hni iress he ler-v on i U O).: i’: . i t-ays a » ’hie ago special dis! >atch to * New Y' >rk Her aid. H !* SI ood Oil fit r'cpr of til! * court lions! *. w hen* in r • early si: XtiC! n tr* had in: »de his star’ i ’»■ the youngi ‘St disirUt at torney t »» I )oilgI:.s cor nty. In i til rt !:» ■ sail: ■‘Sonic of the croak*'. :s s; :y that rl.h are gr, IIW lit g riche r at i*l the ; >l>: poorer. This wi mild be 1 ad if true. o course t hon * art * some i rich taon in ft United St.at Kockefe Her. llarri:: i .* il Morgan and the rest have a lot oi money—but how many millionaires are there In this country? IIov man;' could you name? Not a thou and Suppose, though, we -;t.; there are CO, td<» iniiiiomiires. Even then that leave , the rest of the wealth owned by the rest of the eighty odd million Inhabit ants. Never has any population of equal size accumulated one-third as much. Why, you young i»eople here today have a lot more chance for your white alley than I had when I was a boy.” BATH POOLS IN SCHOOLS. Washington Official Would Have Swimming In the Curriculum. Swimming as a part of the curricu lum of the public schools in Washing ton is recommended by Henry B. Da vis, inspector of plumbing of the dis trlct, in his annual report, says the Washington Herald. Mr. Davis sag gests the providing of pool baths In the public schools, which might serve as free bathhouses when not In use by the public authorities. “If swimming had been mads com pulsory in our sc bools some years ago,” says the report, “tbs community would probably havs been spared the series of distressing fatal accidents In the river during the past few years.” Mr. Davis urges the establishment la Washington of public baths to be open the entire year. Thebe, he says, are a “civic necessity,” as is shown by the fact that practically every large city In Germany, England, Switzer land and Austria has one or more baths, some sufficiently large to ac commodate 1,200 persons at one time. Bull That Runs a Treadmill. Thomas Hill, a LawrencevlUe (N. J.) farmer, has returned to the use of oxen on his farm, says a Trenton (N. J.) special dispatch to the New York 'limes. He soys he finds them cheaper and better than horses or mules. He has trained a bull to ran a treadmill, which pumps water, churns butter and does all of that kind of work. The bull, Hill says, beats a windmill or gasoline engine “all to pieces.” Other farmers are watching the experiment, and “horseless farms” may soon be popular. Jones J. Darby Insnrance Office Star Theatre Bonding Just Received Car each of heart pine Shingles, Ceiling and Flooring. Call on us when in need- of building mate rial. ; : : : / The Builders Supply Co. Sept-24-3m FOR ALL GOUr.TY NEWS, IM PORTANT HAPPEN I NOE IN THB •TATE AND EVENTS OP INTEREST IN FOREION LAND* TAKS AND RIAO THE FALL AND WINTER ■PI I ■■■■ 14* B Thursday, October 10th, llth and 12th From 9.00 A. M. to 10.00 P. M. We will show the latest styles in Millinery, also an up-to-date line of Ladies’ and Child ren’s Wraps. . . . ... Miss Annie Whitney Smith will have charge of I this department and will be glad to have all the ladies call and let her show you what we have. HOLT. Honest Jewelry I can say without fear of successful contradiction that I have the largest, finest and most oomplste line ot Jewelry ever shown in Cherokee county, or this immediate section of the comntry—a line equal to any carried in cities the size of Char lotte. My goods are as fine as can be made, and that money can buy, in America; and my prices are as low as consistent with high quality. : :::::: High-Grade Work. Bring your repairing to an expert—one who has made the business a life-study, aud learned it from years of practieal experience. I guarantee my work in every instance. Come in and let me convince you of the truth of my assertions. : : Thos. H. Westrope. teEFA handsome line of self-filling Fountain Pens just in. 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