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Legal advertisements, $1.00 per inch Brat insertion, 50 cents per inch each subsequent insertion. R*tM en lone term advertisement* ytry reasonable^ For rates apply at office. la remitting checks or money orders aake payable to 'a THE COUNTY RECORD. In men whom men condemn as ill. I find so much goodness still; In men whom MEN pronounce divipe, I find so much of sin and blot? I hesitate to draw thedine Between the two?where God has not." THURSDAY. MAR 25.1915. Those Gory Threats. When the "Unspeakable Turk" issued his pronunciamento some time ago, threatening if the allied French and English fleet kept up the bombardment to put in front of s the Dardanelles forts the two thous and English and French non-combatants?men, women and,children? who happened to .be in Constantinople when the war broke out, the civ ilized world was not greatly surprised. The length of cruelty and barbarity to which a despotic Sultan will go to glut his vengeance is limited only by fear of future trouble for himself, such a little diversion as ridding himself of a superfluous wife by sew. ing her up in a sack and dropping her into the waters of the Bosporus being rare sport for the Oriental monarch. ' So much for t|ie Turk. He is in/ corrigible. But when we see so-called civilized nations, like Germany and Russia,vyiiig with each other in threats of bloody reprisal, it puts us x to thinking. It makes us ponder whether, as many students of the subject maintain,the whole fabric of our civilization is not built upon a foundation of sand, to be blown down by storms of hatred or washed away by waves of blood-lust. 'Tissaid: "Scratch through the skin of a Russian and you will find a Tartar". This expression, no doubt,applied many years ago when Russia slumbered in benighted ignorance, having, perhaps, made but little progress since the reign of that man of iron, Peter the Great. But we had hoped that, what with contact with modern civilization and the guiding hand of Servius Witte, lately deceased, and other statesmen of modern times, to say nothing of S S the severe lesson taught by the war with Japan, Russia had emerged from the dark night of barbarism into at least partial enlightenment; i but it seems that the old blood- ( thirsty spirit of lawlessness still; holds swaj\ j1 And Germany. Of this highly!. enlightened nation it is hard to be-! i lieve that the threat was made that!! i j she would destroy and plunder: | three villages for every one ravaged {' by the Russians. And yet that is the j announcement we get as official 1 news. To begin with,it seems fool- 1 ish and futile to make such a threat, when the Russians promptly countered by threatening to burn and \ pillage ever}- German village and put to death all the inhabitants thereof. What would be the outcome of such savage warfare? The innocent civilians would suffer far greater horrors than the soldiers in the trenches; for the latter have a chance to escape' death and torture, but the former none. How long could such manner of warfare continue? Not long, perhaps, but the briefest period of such a reign of terror is too horrible to contemplate. Let us hope that both those great nations realize that their threats were uttered in the beat of passion, and that after due" reflection, thcv are hearti ly ashamed of having so Wittier! themselves in the sight of God and their fellow-men. After all, Emperors and Czar* are just ordinary mortals, as Kipling says, "under their skins''. i STATE and GENERAL I jj TOPICS j TfR 7^ TWx 7W \ . The Mullins Lumber.company suf fered about $40,000 loss by fire las week. XXX Governor Manning will addres the Columbia Y M 0 A at its annua dinner Mondav. XXX The present tourist season at Cam den is the best in many years. Ther< have been guests from as far off a Austria and Great Britain. XXX The Georgetown Chamber of Com merce entertained the Northeri stockholders of the Atlantic Coas Lumber corporatif) at a "smoker' Friday night. XXX The residence of E C Haynswortl at Sumter was burned Friday, en tailing a loss of $10,000. Many val uable books and paintings that can not be replaced were destroyed. XXX The railroad men of Florence numbering 2,000, purpose opening i co-operative store. The capital stocl of the enterprise will be $20,000, o which $10,000 is already subscribed XXX Governor Manning has appoints C C Featherstone,Esq,of Greenwoo< special Judge for the court of com mon pleas to be held at Chester nex week, in place of Judge T JU Spain who is ill. XXX Governor Manning has accepted ai invitation to deliver the commence ment address at Wofford College June 7. Assistant District Attorne; B W Crouch of Saluda will delivei the alumni address. XXX Former Superior Judge L S Roai of Atlanta, who tried and sentenced Leo M Frank for the murder of Ma ry Phagan,died in a hospital in Nev York city Tuesday, where he hac been a patient since February 26. Ii was reported death was due tc cancer, but this the hospital physi clans would not confirm or deny. XXX Dr George Benet, formerly of Co lumbia, is en route for Paris, when he will enter the American hospita and treat the wounded soldiers. After July 20 he will be transferred tc Servia and practice under the aus pices of the American Red Cross so ciety. He is but 26 years of age and has already made an enviable reputation. XXX Mrs M E Scott, a widow eighty years old, was attacked by a negro in her home near Lowndesville, Abbeville county, Tuesday, March 16, suffering injuries from which she died the next day. Charles Logan confessed to che crime and was taken to Columbia for safe-keeping. Logan is a young negro, recently from npr>rcpt.nwn. Mrs Scott lived alone with her young grand-daughter,aged fourteen or fifteen. The negro was attempting to get into the young girl's room and as he passed through Mrs Scott's room he knocked her in the head. The young girl escaped through a window and gave the alarm. Governor Manning has announced that he will call a special term of court next week to try Logan. British coins are made from an amalgam ^of 3& parts pure silver ,vith three parts of copper. I CONCERNING THE WAR. fj i London, March 19:?The British I * ' battleships Irresistible and Ocean | and the French battleship Bouvet' ! were blown up by floating mines while engaged with the remainder , i ^e a. _n:_J _ i i i> .. ; oi ine aiiieu neci in anai-Kin^ km.' forts in the narrows of the Dard.i, nelles Thursday. Virtually all the crews of the two British ships were saved,having been transferred to other ships under a hot fire, hut an internal explosion | ; took place on board the Bouvet af-1 i ter she had fouled the mine and , most of her crew was lost. The Bouvet sank three minutes after she hit the mine. The waters in which the ships f were lost had been swept of mines,; t ' but the British admiralty asserts \ that the Turks and the Germans set { i floating containers of explosives j adrift, and these were carried down ( by the current onto the allied ships , gathered inside the entrance of the j straits. All the ships sunk were old ones. ] The Bouvet was built nearly twenty , years ago and the Ocean and the Ir- , ' resistible in 1898. They were useful, 1 , however, for the work in which j they were engaged in the Darda; nelles. I The sunken British ships are being , ; replaced by the battleships Queen v and Implacable, vessels of a similar type. They are said to have started t some time ago in anticipation of just ( such losses as have now occurred. Two other ships, the British battle , J cruiser Inflexible and the French 1 battleship Gaulois, were hit by shells and damaged. British casualties, ac- , . cording to the British official report, j "were not heavy, considering the 3 scale of operations." The damage done to the Turkish forts by the heavy bombardment has 1 not been ascertained. It is said that t operations against them are contin' uing. The forts attacked were those on either side of Kephez bay and on Kephez point outside the narrows, 1 and those on Kalid bar and Chanak . in the narrows. The Kephez forts replied strongly ( when the battleships advanced up the Dardanelles and all the ships were hit. It is asserted that these . ?1 1 j, forts finally were silenced and a ( f bombardment of those in the nar- ( . rows was under way when the three battleships hit the mines. The blow- , ^ * .1-- i - j:j _ _i. ? J mgr up or me snips uiu uul cuu&c a i cessation of the fighting, which cont tinued until darkness intervened. It is understood the engagement was , resumed today. i Latest reports indicate that Italy 1 * has severed friendly relations and " that Germany and Austria will have 1 r one more nation to fight. Greece 1 and the Balkan States are also said to be almost ready to join in the 1 i fray, with a penchant for the Allies, ' ' Operations of the allied fleet in the Dardanelles, interest in which 1 j 9 j has been intensified byvthe powerful ( t resistance of the Turkish forts and ' ) the disaster to three of the Allies' " battleships,have been delayed by un- J favorable weather conditions, but it 1 is expected they will be developed ( ? in full force as soon as warships now I or. the way to replace those sunk * - join the fleet. j ' Sixty-four members of the crew - ' A 1? w -1- Pnnvaf nna ^ oi tne r rencn uauicsmv uvuiv^vuvi [ of the three that were sent to the 1 . bottom March 18, were saved; thus probably about six hundred men of fi that ship perished. The loss on the British ships Ocean and Irresistible ? is officially announced to have been J small. k Land fighting is continuous, par1 ticuiarly in the east. In Poland the'r Russians claim to have forced the Germans back into their own terri- * tory after the Tauroggen engagement, and they also announce the 1 capture of Memel. Elsewhere in the Carpathians and 8 Eastern Galicia the Russians report * successes.and declare a sortie by the ^ Przemysl garrison was repulsed. Vi- ^ enna's account of this sortie is to the a effect that strong Russian forces were encountered in an easterly di- v rection and that the Russians were * forced to retire after an engage- 1 ment. In France the Germans have 1 gained over the^ British in the re- d i jpSEE ? ? \bur chance hc< as soon as you belie you have a chanc One willing and c geous human plenl mixed with energy stirred with ambit t thatisthe reel flnfej **~T i filLs \/U rion of St Eloi, and report also that p :hcy have repulsed French attacks n Champagne, the Argonne forest ind in the Vosges. The French war office, on the oth-, ?r hand,describes briefly the capture :>f a German position in the Argonne after a two days' struggle. According to the secretary of the j [mperial German treasury the sub-' scriptions to the second war loan are much greater than those to the first.! The two war loans amount to: 83,000,000,000. Both British and German naval arms are active in seizing neutral j steamers. The Germans have seized j two Scandinavian vessels in the Bal-1 tic and also a Dutch steamer in the j North sea. The British have detain-1 ed a large number of steamers, and in addition have captured a Spanish ship proceeding for a German port with iron ore. No definite news has been received regarding developments in the Italian situation with respect to the war, but all Italian reserve officers born between 1882 and 1887 have been recalled under the colors for a limited period. Persia has called upon Russia to evacuate the province of Azerbaijan, Northwest Persia, according to an item given out by a news agency in Berlin. Foreign trade in France suffered J a decrease of $126,100,000 a month during the first two months of this year, as compared v. ith the same period in 1914, according to statistics! prepared in Paris. The decrease was; equally divided between imports and i pxDorts. Petrograd officially announces the! surrender of the Galician fortress of J Przemysl besieged by the Russians j for several months. Simultaneous offensives against: the German, Austrian and Turkish! armies from the Baltic to the Black; Sea have been undertaken by the j Russians and in some sections defi- j nite progress is reported. In the; extreme north the Germans are re- j treating from Memel, East Prussia and the Russians are believed to have begun another drive at Tilsit. In Poland there is activity all along the front, but apparently the general battle,which Petrograd expects, las not begun. The Russian army in the Caucasus mnounces a victory over the Turks n the fighting along the Black Sea loast, Turkish Armenia. After several months of inactivity, lostilities have been resumed be;ween Austria and her small neigh-! jors, Serbia and Montenegro. Aj >ttinje dispatch says the Austrians! nade an artillery attack lasting several days against Montenegrin potitions all along the front,' but that jfforts to follow this with infantry tdvances were defeated. An artilery battle between Austrians and I Serbians also is reported. On the western front no large novements are under way. The attack on the Dardanelles also las been stopped temporarily owing o bad weather. Field Marshal Sir John French is luoted todav by a Paris newspaper: is predicting that the war will not >e of long duration. He says spring j promises well for the Allies and that ie believes the Germans are feeling i lack of ammunition. Italy is preparing rapidly for whatever may result from the negoiations with Austria, now in an im- >ortant stage. A rojal decree soon 3 to b$ signed .establishing rules lesigned to suppress spies. Women f tez&LeS.. ; , \ / . iMliifeinigfitli sve //hIm for a.s e. moStt rourar ahanly '' and The ion was bi EE NEE BAI MNUM Kfcfc. ?. U. are to be put. to -"ork in the place of mtn in case cf mobilization. An official Russian communication describes the batt'e which preceded the fall cf Przemysl. It is said that the Austrians left the fortress in a final effort to break through the Russian lines at any cost but were defeated quickly. Berlin newspapers do not believe the Russian victory will be of great influence on the campaign as a whole, although the loss of the city is described as a painful blow. Unfavorable weather still prevailed at the Dardanelles yesterday and no further attacks on the Turkish fortifications were attempted. The allied warships did not leave their anchorages. The size of the garrison at Przemysl and the number of men who surrendered to the Russians greatly exceed all estimates. According to Petrograd dispatches the garrison originally consisted of 170,000 men, of whom 40,000 were killed. Nearly 120,000 surrendered when the fortress caDitulated. Wanted?Several good beef cattle at once. Call on or write to H A Miller, Prop, People's] Market, Kingstree, S C. 3-25-2t More men are being killed every day in Europe than were killed in the greatest battles of the war between the States. This gives American soldiers some comprehension of the size of the European conflict. 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