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ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION OF EMBROIDERIES! aB BBBB BBSBHBeB BB BB BBBBJ BBBBBBI^B BB BBBBBBBBB1B ?H BBBNBI BBBHBIBiiHB^BBHHBHI^BI HMT WE ANNOUNCE TO START NEXT TUESDAY FEB. 10th-RUNS 3 DAYS The Next Big Event?It's the Schwartz Embroidery Sale HERE is more than 20,000 yards of Embroideries and Insertings. The Manufacturers' Sample Strips direct to you through us, to be sold to you at the same kind of prices that has made these sales famous throughout the entire State. You are invited to participate. Display and Inspection Day is Monday. Nothing sold before Tuesday 8.30 A. M. 8,500 Yds. Embroideries and Insertings Sample Strips and Mill Ends. Worth up to U5c yard. All go at - - - 10c 6,200 Yds. Embroidery and Insertings Sample Strips worth up to 35c yd. All go at. 12c The Embroidery Sale of the Year 1914 3,400 Yds. Embroidery and Insertings Finest of quality. All sample strips and ends. Worth up to 40c yd.?At 15c 2,100 Yds. Embroideries and Bands Sample Strips worth up to 50c yd All go at. 19c 1 OA Fine Shadow and Net Laces. 4 to 8 inches i a 1 <?v i C5. wide. Worth up to 25c. All go at - - - 1UC. Qf\ D__ Fine Shadow Laces. 4 to 8 inches wide. Worth lej, OU FCS. uoto35cvard. All tfo at - IOC, sumter,s^c. Schwartz Bros, sumter, s.c. BU 0? MIS BUSED. WILAON'M ACTION PITS REBELS AM? FKDEKAL8 ON sAMU footing. Pre*Jo>nt l>cclarc? that Conditions Be? low Border Demand thin Action and Opposing Force* wit' bm Allowed to Fight to FAnaeh Thooglq That Con etltaUonattst* Will Conquer. Washington. Feb. n.?President Wilson by an executive order dated today and made public at the White House tonight, removed all reatric ttone against the expoitatlon of muni? tions of war into Mexico from the Vntted States, placing the contending Mexican elements OH a busts of equal? ity with respect to the purchase of arma snd supplies in this country. The executive order emphasised that it waa the desire of the United States te be in the same position of neutral? ity towards the contending factions In Mexico aa were the other powers. The text of the proclamation fol? lows: , "Whereas, by a proclamation of the president, iaeued on March 14, 1912. under a Joint reoolution of congress approved by the president on the same day. It waa declared that there exteted In Mexico conditions of do meetlc violence which were promoted by the use of arms or munitions of war procured from the United States, and "Whereas, by the Joint resolution above mentioned, it thereupon be came unlawful to export arms or munitions of war to Mexico except under such limitations und exceptions as the president should prescribe: Now, therefore, 1, oodiow Wil? son, president of the l'rited Stute? of America, hereby dec lure, and proclaim that, aa the conditions on which the proclamation or March 14 was based have essentially changed ami. us it is desirable to place the United Sta*oa. with reference to the exportation of arma or munltlona of war to Mexico in the same position ha other powera, the aaltl proclamation Is hei? i s n - voiced. ' Accompanying the order, the White Mouse issued th?? following statement of explanation The executive order bv which th? exportation of .rinn and ammunition to Meth o in forbidden >v in ,? ib | i ' ure frOfg llir o i ??pti-il ihiIu'i'm ol neutrality-n ?eMfcgfgH departure from thos* practice* under I Well considered |oint resolution of n?n | reap- -determined upon in <n?'in? stances whic h hit \, now ? .1 to exist It was intended to ?1 ottfSSje Incipient revolts agutnnl ihe regularly ennstituerl authorities ..t MjOStl ". "Since that ordei wns issued the elrcumstan^es of the Mise have un? dergone a radical chaggaj Their now Is no constitutional government in .Vlexico. and Ihe ilMlegjtl of thi? or? der hlndars ?od delays Hie \??? . thing the government oi tbe I'nite.i States i* now Insist Ins upon, nan I That gjaggge *hsll be 1?-f t 11 ee it. igt Me her rrWt ufi'.in? lad a- *.i .? possib e put them upon a constitu? tional footing by her own force and counsel. The order is therefore re? scinded." American embassies and legations abroad last Saturday were instructed to inform foreign governments of the above decision. Similarly, Secre? tary Bryan late yesterday informed the members of the diplomatic corps here. Thin wan in line with the pol? icy announced at the beginning Of the present administration here of1 keeping of the developments in lite Mexican policy of this government. The administration viewpoint on the action taken today, an gathered from those familiur with the presi? dent's attitude, may be summed up as follows: "No one outside Mexico can accom? modate her affairs. The withdrawal of all moral or material support from without is the indispensable tirst step to a solution from within. From many sources which it deems trustworthy the government of the Hrlted States has received Information which con? vinces It that there is more hopefu! prospects of peace, of security of prop? erty and of an early payment of for? eign obligations if Mexico is left to the forces now reckoning with one an? other there, than there would be If anything like a mere change of per? sonnel were effected at Mexico City. "There are no Influences in Mexico that can be counted on to do anything more than to perpetuate and strength? en the seltlsh oligarchial and military interests which, it is clear, the rest of the country can be mude to en? dure only by constant warfare and a pitiless harrowing of the North. The president in so fully convinced of this, that after months of the most careful consideration of the situation at close range, he no longer feels justified in maintaining an irregular position II regards the contending parties in the matter of neutrality. "The intent is, therefore, to re? move the Inhibition on exportation of arms and ammunition to Mexico from the Unlttd States. Settlement by civil war carried to Its hitter conclusion is a terrible thing, but it must come now whether BM wish it or not unless K0IM outside power is to undertake to sweep Mexico with it* armed forces from end to end, whirh would be the mere b< ginning of a still more difficult prob? lem. *? it\ removing the inhibition on the exportation <?r .urns and ammunition into Meilen the government of the i 'nttod Htaten ptltl ?t 1r and intends ?<? put Itsell m tili? tame position hi other nation* whose subjects all along have been ??< liberty ? deal us 1 tbev p tee nod with Mexico The fov< ernment ol the Ignited metes deems it essential to the settlement ol her present illfncaltlei timt Mexico should be treated h** uny other eonntr) would be ahtrti erat tore1 HH oivll e ir, ? 'The elreumetaneei that Mexico is. for the Hme being, unable to meet her financial obligations creates, no novel or exceptional International rights, end she will be the sooner nble to meet her obligations end reeume her full int +i ii 1t Ionsi responsibilities ?' she i* left to determine her own affairs, first by domestic force and then by domes? tic counsel." Shipment of arms and ammunition from the United States Into Mexico has been one of the principal fulcrums for American influence in Mexico and I has been the storm centre of aglta [ tion ever since armed revolution be I gan in Mexico in November, 1910. j It was charged by the Diaz govern i ment, then in power, that the revo? lution waged by Madero was sustain? ed by lirearm* shipped from the Unit? ed States. President Taft ordered troops to the Mexican border to enforce neu? trality, but notwithstanding this the Madero revolution quickly was suc? cessful. The border partol of sev? eral thousand tfOO! since has been maintained chiefly to prevent smug glin: of arms. The United States in the spring of 1912 was confronted with another revolutionary outbreak, this time by Orozco against the Madero govern? ment, which had been formally recog? nized. Again the United States took the position of assisting the regularly constituted government, but Presi? dent Taft asked for specific legisla? tion empowering him to make the embargo against arms more effective. Accordingly, a joint resolution was passed on March 4, 1912, by congress, providing: "That whenever the president shall find that in any American country conditions of domestic violence exist which are promoted by the use of arms or munitions of war procured from the United States. and shall make proclamation thereof, it shall be unlawful to export, except under such limitations and exception as the president shall prescribe, any arms or munitions Of war from any place In tho United States to such country until otherwise ordered by the presi? dent or by congr? js." It was under this resolution of "exceptions" that the Washington government! when President Wilson was Inaugurated, was permitting arms to go to the Huerta government, but keeping them from the rebels. From then until August the same policy was pursued. The president in an ad? dress tu congress announced his oe I termination to deny arms to all fee Itions. this being equivalent to an aa* sertlon thai a constitutional govern? ment no longer rxleted In Mexico. ' The actual operation of tins em? bargo, instead ol effecting, neutrality. I imposed a condition of affairs against which constitutionalists vigorously protested. They agreed that tin Huerta government ? nuld obtain sup? plies from Europe, whereau the eon* StltUtlonullstS w ere cut off from t hoii { I external base oi* supplies the Amer? ican boundary. They contuined light lug, in the opinion of government oftlt |gIs here, against heavy odds, ob? taining their ammunition bv Ihe slow process of conquest. The struggle ol tbe constitutionalists to itceup) sen ports so thai Ihej might k> i urms by se:?. ended In failure, foi the tiuortn regime had all 11gunboats In the I Mexican nav> snd such places a*j I Tampico and Tuxpam proved invul | nerable to land attack. This argument had been urged on the Washington administration, not I only by the constitutionalist sympa | thizers, who managed to ?et their j views before members of the United States senate and before the Ameri? can government in the parleys with William Hnyard Hale, but had been laid before Pr?sident Wilson by lead? ers in congress. Expressions Of warm approval today Came from both ends of the eapitol when news of the president's decis? ion to lift the embargo spread. To members of the senate foreign rela? tions committee it was no surprise, for they had an indication of it in their recent conference with the president. "Such an announcement does not surprise me," said Senator Lodge i Re? publican.) "I would rather not com ment on it, but I shall try to sustain the president in his foreign policy." Senator Uoot, another Republican leader, commended the move, as did Democrats generally. Members of all; political parties said that, regardless of the merits of the embargo itself, its operation hitherto had been a dis? tinct disadvantage to the constitution? alists. Members of the foreign rela? tions committee who now approve the lifting of the embargo did not think that way last August. There are some who think that if the embargo had been raised sooner, the revolution in Mexico might have ended before now. Many members of congress are con? fident the president's action today means the termination of the revolu? tion In a short time. Senators did not venture predictions as to what kind of government would succeed, but they pointed out that the constitutionalists had a senlhlance of organised and reg? Ulated power, even though they hail not established civil government in the territory under their control. They do not feel that the time has come for the United States to recognize the constitutionalist forces as belligerent! In the diplomatic sense and persons close to the administration were care? ful ?.?> point out that today's develop? ments Should not be construed as In? volving the United States as a partisan In the Mexican situation. Inquiries SS to whether the with? drawal 6f ('barge O'Shaughneesy or any change In the border patrol was under consideration led to the declar? ation of high Officials of the admin? istration that no further steps were contemplated now. The eapitol huz/.ed with gossip SB to the probable effect in Mexico of the lifting of ihe embargo. Many offl clals conversant with Mexican affairs did no! believe any Immediate change In the situation would result. In high official circles no excitement was displayed, (he usual serenity prevail? ing at the White House and the execu? 11 \ ? ? depai Intents, chairman Bacon of the sonnte for-1 idgtt relations committee, who is ill a ids apartments, made no comment on! the raising of the embargo, but his colleagues sold he was In hearty nc-j cord with It. The disposition oi itnttnunltlon des? i tlned for the constitutionalists, but seized by American government offi? cials, was one ol the points brought up in discussion of the president's proc? lamation. It WM expected that a rul? ing tomorrow would be issued by treasury and department of justice of? ficials. It is understoDd that upwards of j 4,000.000 rounds of ammunition have been held up by the government at various points along the border. It is not considered likely that ammuni? tion confiscated in connection with violations of neutrality statutes will be given up. but shipments of arms sent to the border pending the re? moval of the embargo on arms, and consigned through commercial chan? nels are expected to be released. Robert V, Peequeira, confidential agent in Washington of the const.tu tionaiists. issued the following state? ment: "The action of the president in re? voking the executive proclamation of March 14, 1912, imposing an embargo on the exportation of arms and muni? tions of war to Mexico, gives us deep satisfaction. Of course, we long have entertained the opinion that the sit? uation justified a change in policy, because the .situation in 1912 when (Jen. Orozco, deserting the service and secretly supported by the c'ientificos. initiated the rebellious movement against the constituted government, was vastly different from the exist? ing state of affairs, and because the so-called revolutionists of today, rep? resenting a great national movemeit, are struggling for the restoration of constitutional government instead of trying to destroy it. "We feel that the administration has exhibited a certain confidence In the purity of our motives, and we will [strive to merit that confidence. The materials Of war that we now will ne enabled to purchase In the American market will permit us to commence doubly aggressive operations. The most humane method of ending a WAT is to end it quickly. Huerta h^s had conscripts and arms at his dls-1 postal While we have had volunteers1 and but few arms. Now that we w 11 j be on a mot e equal footing the endj I will not be far distant." , PILE CHARGE AGAINST BERRY. Steamboat Inspector to Allege Neg ligoncc and Miscoitduvt by Nun tucket Captain. Norfolk, \'a.. Feb. 4.?Capt. Robert B. Tapley, steamboat inspector for this district, announced tonight that he will tomorrow prefer charges against Capt. Osn yn Herry of the Merchants' and Miners' steamer Nan tucket, which rammed and sank the < ?bi Dominion steamer Monroe lasi Fridas morning, causing the loss of 4 1 lives. Capt. Taples said he would charge negligence and misconduct on the part of Cap! Berry In operating the Nanluckel ti?- said the charges would bs sent to Washington for transfer to the Philadelphia inspectors before whom tin- ease w ill !>?? 11 i >l i HUERT? STIRRED IIP. CONFERS WITH O'SHACGHNESST AND CALLS CAB1NE7T MEET 1NG. Pledged to Secrecy Concerning: Con? ference?-American Charge Haa no News to Give Ontr?Sends Ijong Dispatch to Washington?Wild Rw mors Denied by Mexican Covrn ment. . Mexico City, Feb. 4.?Charge de Affairs O'Shaughnessy nnd Secretary Parker of the .American embassy con? ferred with Gen. Huerta, Foreign Min? ister Ifohono and Public Works Min? ister Losano today. The conference lasted two hours. All participants agreed to observe absolute secrecy respecting the oor 1 ference and nothing was gi\en out The embassy sent i-everal long dis? patches to Washington i .iimediately after the conference. Gen. Huerta has called a cabinet ! meeting for late this afternoon. Wild rumors have been circulated, among them that Gen. Huerta is to resign and O'Shaughnessy will bt given his passports. Both reports were immediately denied by govern? ment officials. ? FLEEING TO VERA CR?Z. Although Gen. Huerta has promis? ed full protection to Americans from retaliation on account of the United States lifting the embargo on shipment of arms to Mexico, great uneasiness prevails. Trains to the coast are tilled with men and women from the capital, who tear that (ien. 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