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Kl I? cito? DUN l . t ItrUiin is ? smpadgl ??'<? I? ii Million \, u \|.mit. i s Planned. A nation wide Chrhtmus nn-m^r nhii? drive hn been plann. d by th | .1 Cross War Council. Tho hull I niK ?P ot the K' 1 l*'ro*s mcmboi.-hlp ?o li.tto.voft in tho United Hates M the goal of Um campaign. This m*H' the addition of approximately in,ine). Oet name* to tho pTSSMl in water roll. Tho drive Is to Start December 17th. and continue to Christinas Eve. General features of the membership I campaign were ^worked out and ap? proved* at a conference at tho Nat*' iorml Headquarters of the ited Cros; in Washington lust week, in which i t ? ?entatives or e.ich of the Red Crone Divisions of tho continent i' Cnlted States participated. A national Christmas membership drive committee has 'been appointed b\ lh?> war council t ? ha\o genera.' charge of planning and later con? ducting the whole campaign. Theo? il- re N V id. ft." nhmf of the Ainf r teaii Telegraph and Telephone Com? pany, has accepted tho chairman? ship, and Or If. X. MacCracken. n res! dent or Vussur College, will be executive secretary. Other members ?f the eommitto? are: Ills Eminence, James Cardinal (i bbons; Hit hop William Lawrence. Boston; Or. Henry van Dyke, former -Minister to the Netherlsnds. Prince? ton. \. J ; John W. Hritton. San Francisco; Benjamin Gratz, St. Louis; f. Pan Johnson, Chicago; Hervcy Undley. Seattle; John Mitchell. New York City. "Make it a lied Cross Christmas** is to be the recruiting slogan. 1 Every? one takln* out a membership in the Hod Cross during the drive period will be known as a "Christmas member." Tho effort practically will be limited to securing annuil members, paying annual dues of one dollar; or two dol? lars In tho case of subscribing or ssagasine members. During lied Cross week in June, the $100,000.000 mark set by the War Council was oversubscribed and gave assurance of a national interest in the Hod Cross work which should make the Christmas membership drive fully as successful. Division Christmas membership drive committees are to be selected by the Division managers of the lied Cross, these committees to work under the general direction of the national committee. Each of the 3.000 or so Itcd Crone Chapters also will appoin* a commttte to cooperate under the guidance of the respective Division committees. The Division committee ?lOW Wrtf communicate w ith the chair mon of all the Chapters not later than November 13th to map out th< campaign on local lines. Clergymen are to be requested to preach Red Cross Christmas sermons en December 23rd. A plan Is being .odd. ? ? i to have tirty thousand en? rollment booths open all through th . impulgn. to be located at railroad stations, public others, banks, depart? ment stores, theaters and the like. II Is expected also that public utilities companies l( id depntment stores. I sending out their bills on December 1st; will Insert slips to remind patrons who do not belong to the Red Cro?.s tha? th. it- m-Muboiyhlp Is needed. As this Is h.ntry's tlrst Chrlst ? i m th.I ' I w ir. it is reit that th.? people -will be thinking of service rather than festivities, and that mind generally will be turned to the battle? fields of Europe, and especially to out own soldiers and Mil tors. It Is be? lts fed, therefore, that the countr will be in a frame of mind at Christ? mas time to give expression to all Its anxjety and Iiope. by showing and re? newing ee i ? . ?i of Its support of the Nbd Cross. State lluptl-d ( "mention. .Hook Hill. Nov. 19 ? The next an? nual meeting of tho State Captin convention will be h. id with the First I'sptist Church of Roofs' Hill Deoem ber 3-fi. Arrangements are being made for taking care of the conven? tion .and the committee desires that ?-GJ d? ? send In their names to IL C, Hurts, chairman. Get Heady. A Gorman revolution overnight m;\< ff.roe the Ibd,. i out of power, but It Is not likely; the Italians may turn upon Teutons am) with ono blow ilrive them back into Austria, but it |h not probable; the Germans may leave r.elgiutu without further |osi Ol life, hot it Im not expeeted; the crown prlneo may decldt* that there is no I'laee hh k?ff as the other Hide of the ItHln?, t. il no ono bolieve* he will; w\r nmv com?? to an end wNkll n fe\t \- -.Oxm. Out it In not ISSjfMSaa The son a .Ii- \s ,i -. to look at It is that the ??iiies will win by their superlm forces. TJie bv'St wuv to have a shot t vor Is to prepare for a long one. Aihevlllc Times , | V't fcj Fa- ad Monr. In view of what loaves now cost it H very fortunate that man does not In? b> I.I alone. .News and Cou? rier. UOCIIFSTEH si UVIVOHS LAND. Mlsflggg BSSJM Itai inriKMlocd Stouiii ti llctuhes Irish l'ort. London? Nov. ?.'??. -The missia; boot from the American steamer Rocheotci. which was torpedoed and -unk by a Qorman submarine on No vember Ind, has just landed at an Irlall hon. with Ivo men, the survl \?>is from tin original boal'i crew of twelve, tin- admiralty announces. i Burmese That Voeir Boy Wees one or l!?** Walking Wounded. (B) Bruee Barton, Editor of Every Wenk?) I ? 1 ? rdajf l met ,i man who ha I |USt landed from the western front; and he told me the hi ai trending story of the walking wounded. Tin- wounded wbo h >\ teal an arm or an eye. Off a part of the face, hut afi still able to struggle hack from the front line trenches alone. <:.. with no- for a moment to France: I want you to See what he I want you to know' the truth. It is the dav before the big push. For weeks the army has known Die , I hi hour and moment when the ? .i H ? * OttM lift and the m n leap ? ait "over the top." The enemy hai known it. too; h'.s preparations are a< great and as care? ful as ours. i >n the day before, the engineers plant a line of painted white posts a fOU yardi apart, leading from the rear straight to the borders of No Man's hand. Simple painted posts: what are they for? They are to guide the walking wounded. Eyes blurred with blood and Suffering that might lose the road ggg fOlkrW the trail of those painted posts: bodies too weak from shell ?hOOk or gas to stand alone can find there I momentary support. The trail of the painted posts |S the Irall <>t' the walking wounded; the trad of Wood and misery and pain. Just before dawn the men tile Into the forward trenches. Singing? Not ? bit. Talking? Hardly a word. Only ?he silent, heavy tramp of men who have written their last letters home M n with faces carved out of stone. They pass out of camp; they pass the base hospitals: they pass the can? teen. And just before they reach th front trench?at the very front, under the lire of the big guns themselves? h man pauses'for just a second at u dug-out. It is the front line trench of the Y. M. C. A. From it a hand reac hes out: in the hand i n ? ee <>i chocolate for each man to be eaten in case he falls wounded in No Man's Land* A hearty Hood Luck and Qod PI001 You. It is with this, the voice of the Y. M. C. A. sccretaiN, ringing in their ears that men go "over the top." An hou?* passes: two hours. And slowly, painfully, dragging, they come hack. Tlie men who have lost tin 1 in. and the men who have lost an ind the men who carry in their shoulders or their abdomens or then legs the enemy's bullets and shells. Weeding, staggering men, follow? ing the trail of the painted posts. And" they stop at the Y. |f, C. A. dngOUl first. It bes nearest the guns Nearer than the doctor or hospital. There every man gets a cup of hot tOS if he wants it; there two erder? lies stand with hypodermics in than hatyls. ? 'DO rOg want it?" they demand of each man who passes through. And either he thrusts out his arm to reeeivo the soothing potion, or he nods his |lOSd and passes on. On along the way of painted posts to the hospitals and to rest. Sometimes the dug-out is shelled and a Y. M. C A."secretary loses his life: two went out together on one day recently. II i: part Of the game": they ask for no symapthy; they ask not even for pay: many of them are working for nothing at all. au the] ask is for money to "earn on." To be able to stand Just behind the front with chocolate for the men who are going "over the top." Ta be ible to Stand there with hot tea and morphine for the men who are stag? gering back along the way of paint* ed Dents Thirty-five million dollars?It is a tot of money. But you would not say o it yotl st<">d beside the Way o< painted posts. You would got say so if yog saw the prooeaston of the wnlklng wound? ed. It would not bo mueh If one of the walking wounded were jAgur brother or your nnwnin or your son. Ha in.'iv !><? pni' nf them befors the w. ? r in overt lM may he over there even now, ntand with hlsa, asim im Y. M. C. A. Let the hand that the v m. c. \ reaches out be your hand, i.et tin- ehoeolne that it gives be vour choeolute. as he goes past the dUg-oUl "ovel the top.v And be there with your cup of hot tea and your morphine when he comes hiu'k again. Past the dug-out. \s?th the walking wounded. \ Along the way of paintud posts. RAI I AVA V CU'.HK STKIKI Atlantic ConsI Line Willing to Bo? employ some. Wilmington, N. c. Nov. is.?Presl denl J. K. Kenly ol the Atlantic Co*?! leine today tfhnounced that at the re I of the government the railroad bad agreed to abandon for the dura? tion Of the war its policy of dis-pons kn| with the eervlcea of clerks Who have joined a union and tho railroad is willing to confer with a clerka' committee as to what olerki shall b i reomployed, the road agreeing to take back any man whose position is ?iot now satisfactorily filled. Xo state Meat from the striking clerks as to their attitude towards the proposal (ould be obtained today. n Germany Won. (Bj Caperi Whitney of The Vigil? antes.) Do you reallie what would hap? pen to us In America If Germany de? feated Great Britain and France? You think of us as separated from her by :','?"<> miles of water, but oceans in these days of electricity and air-ships and submarines, are barriers no more effective than mountain brooks. Von recall the German u-boat which suddenly appeared last sum? mer at our very door to sink several cargo and passenger steamer off our New England coast? Within six months after a victory of Germany in Europe, German war? ships and German troop ships would be on their way to our ports to levy the greal tribute upon this rich coun? try which Is Part and parcel of the i lei man war plan. That's what the triumph of th? Kaiser would mean to America and to you?billions of dollars of tribute of which you would have to pay your share through oppressive taxation. It is on the Pan-'lermanie programme. Officers, merchants, educators said as much to me in Germany, Bel? gium, Poland, during my year behind the German lines on relief work. And you have probably read the corro? borative evidence of tneir purpose in the Kaiser's threat to Ambassador Gerard. "America had netter look out after this war!" In Brazil, Chili, Venenzuela, prom? inent German merchants whom I met in the course of my travels, frankly contlded to me the intention of Ger? many "one day" to make an "over? seas Germany" of South America. And an elephant catcher from Hamburg told no; years ago in the jungles of LOWOr Siam that "the day was com? ing" when Germans would not need to ask "permits of England or France or Siam" for a free hunting hand in Siam or Malay. As a German ofticer at their Great Headquarters In north? ern Frame said to me once at the close of a discussion as to where the war was Reading the principle bel llgerants?Great Britain, France, Germany?"world power or complete defeat; Germany wants no half way result." A German victt ry would at once PUt In jeopardy oil the priciples fot which we ?wer fought?freedom on land In 177?:. liber,y at sea in 1ST-', the right of frontier lines in 1841, the re-aMli ination of th< freedom of the white man through giying freedom to the negro In llfl; and the rights ot little nations in ISi'S. A fortnight ago, a German victo-y seemed the wildest Improbability. Sinea then the situation has (hanged. The German aruiu.- are OOUring into northern Italy. Italy may not no able to stop them. Germany may force her to make poa< I. With Rus? sia end Italy both out of the war, Ger? many and Austria would be able to send practically all their force against the allies on the Western front. The chances are that England. France and Belgium alone could not hold them. The United States must hap to their side, the American peo? ple must leap tO their side. Not American soldiers only, not American ships only, not American guns only, but American men, women and chil? dren from Maine to Te*as, from Texas to Oregon, must in one way or another consider themselves lighters :it the side of America's allies on the battle front. If they cannot hold a gun, they must support those who do. They must save food and save money. Thc> must talk war. They must think war. If they don't. Germany will win. And then ? Their Dreams, In the city the toller has just been advanced in salary. -Now.-- tie ohuokled, -'i can i^in savins to i>u> a f irm." in the eountry the agricul? turist looked at the Check for his sea - son's wheat. "Another crop Or tWO like this," he mused, 'and 1 can tUOVC into the city."?Gulfnoy U-dger. Keep Your Month Shut. we have some deep rooted convlc Hons on what this country ought or OUght not to do. But they are ours and we are going to keep them. You cun do the same.?Gaffney Ledger, tun; LAST nm.nr. Two Houses Destroyed and Two Had ly Damaged on eel Dartlotlc St. Two dwelling houses were burned end two others on West Bartlette stiert were badly damaged lost nigh I about six o'clock. The Rre originated in the lioii?- of J. Franklin from n kerosene heater and spread so rapid? ly that before the lire department ar? rive,! and g<?t into action the Frank? lin house and the one next to it, oe cupied by Annie Shaw, were beyond sah age. Two Other houses OCCUpiOd by Wesley champion and Elias Jones were seriously damaged. The furni? ture and household goods of the families were also seriously damaged, although most of the furniture was removed from the houses. The moth of .J. Franklin's wife, a very old wo? man and a helpless invalid was in bed In the room In which the lire started and sh?> had a narrow escape from death, as her daughter had shortly before put her to bed for the night and was in the bade yard tak? ing In Clothes from the line when the alarm was given. With the help of neighbors she was rescued. The total loss on the four houses is estimated at about live thousand dol? lars. Franklin's house cost $2,000 several years ago and it was insured for only $000.00. The insurance on the other houses is not known. J. Franklin asked that his thanks he expended to all who rendered as? sistance in saving some of his- furni tuure and to all others who have of? fered aid in his time of trouble. The Lee County Fair?liishop\ illc. November :28 to December 1. There Is abundant promise that the second Lee County Fair, which will be held at Blshopville November 2s I to December 1st. will surpass the suc C< ss made last year. All of the I exhibit buildings have been enlarged land several new ones erected. Which will supply ample room for all ex | blbits. Entries in the several departments I are fast filling and indicate one of j the largest and most varied lines of exhibits ever presented at a County Fair in the South. The premiums are liberal ami many attractive spe? cial prizes are offered In every de? partment. The management have centered on no one day as a feature day, but have arranged the programs so as to have every day equal in the way of attrac? tiveness. The Lee County Fair Horse Show. Whlh is handled on the same plane as the borne shows of the East and West, is the only one of its class pre? sented at a County Fair In the South. The classes comprise all stylos of horsemanship and the best of show horses from the east and west have been entered in the different con? tests. The Horse Show starts on the opening day and continues through the last day. The show ring is the largest in the South. Running an 1 trotting races are two of the features of the Fair and horses from all sec? tions of the country will be on the card each day, and contested on the fastest one-half mile track in the South. The agricultural displays will be large and special provisions have been made to house one of the largest agricultural displays ever presented at a County Pair. The household, needle and fancy work and school exhibits promise well. In the cattle department the finest grades of cattle will be exhibited, many of the entries have taken first prisei at the big cattle shows of the North and South. Much interest in the raising of swine throughout the South during the past two years, prompted the management to offer most liberal premiums in this depart? ment and the result so far indicates, a display of swine that will be of the highest class. Poultry: What promises to be the biggest poultry show of the season Is indicated by the number of entries in this department the premiums offer? ed are the largest yet ?ffered In the State of South Carolina, and poultry from all sections of the country will be exhibited. The several community exhibits and individual farm displays will be a feature of the fair. In selecting the amusement features for the amusement plaza, the man? agement engaged Smith Greater Shows. Which is the most refined and attractive of all the amusement com? binations now before the public. The Lee County Fair is- a Fair that promises no one better day than the other i>ui every day ;i feature day. Ample parking room tots been pro? vided within the grounds for auto? mobiles and vehicles. \n Approaching Marriage. Invitations have been issued by Mr and Mrs A. C. Phelps tO the marriage Of their daughter, Luc le, to Mr. Kobert Charles Williams on Wed? nesday, December 5th. at r.80 In the evening. The Message of tllc Wai. < By ( harlen .). Rosebault of The There is going to he u new America. That is Urn outstanding mess-age of the war even at this early day. it n one Ot the great things growing out our trial. The boye from the north? ern and the southern borders, the boys from tho Atlantic and the Pa Cine ? uasts and the hoys from the in terior are all being thrown together and being made to know e;rch other by intimate contact In camp an i trench. The boy from the mines will learn that the man from Wail Btreet dors not necessarily conceal horns'' and Cloven hoofs and the college un |dergratudate from the effete Bast will get to realise the sterling qualities be j neath the rough exterior of the wes I tern cowboy. Never before has the .Melting Pot had such an opportunity to produce quick results and not within many years have all o?j?s from every section been made to realise so thoroughly that we have one coun? try, one hag and the same fundamen? tal ideas on the really great problems I Of civilization and ethics. One of these problems, which had been getting to he more and mere acute, was the antagonism between capital and labor. It is not likely that this problem will be solved in all respects, but at least the hitherto op? posing elements will get to know each other better. Capital had come to assume in the eyes of the averagV American the role of would-be d c tator; Labor, if not seeking the same role, was close to becoming a rebel. Bach in its own way preferred to re? gard only its individual interests and to have mighty little regard for these of the country. Xow wc know a good deal better. If there are profi? teers hiding behind the bushes ami assassins in the ditch, they form a mighty small minority. The man of ease is offering both his dollars and his life. The man of toil is givi ig his all and even facing .the possibil? ity that his family may want. On the common altar of country Americans of every degree are stepping forward manfully at the common call. In England, where for three ye3n men have been giving their lives anc their property, the situation is much the same. The fight between capita and labor was even more interse there than in this country. But the love of country was greater than all That fact has been brilliantly stated by Will Crooks in an article he has just written. Although he is today the right Hon. W. ('rooks, Member of the King'. Privy Council and Mentber of Parlia? ment, he is and always will remain to the people among whom he Itoes and to whom he has devoted his life? just plain Will Crooks-. Born in a one-room house in East London and started at hard toil when eleven years Old, his success has not changed his allegiance. He still lives among his own people in a little two-storied house in East London. Most of the families in his neighborhood live in one or two rooms*. The average earn? ings of his neighbors before the war was less than ten dollars a week per man. How they acted in their coun? try's hour of peril must be known of all men. Would to heaven it would Inspire in the twisted intellects^ in our congress anil senate and people's council a realization of their infamy! "We were strongly anti-war before war with Germany began," says Mr. Crooks. "We were so sjurongly for peace that we were wiling to light any man for It. * * * We stood for peace, for liberty and for friendship among nations, on one occasion, on a public visit to Germany/1 proposed the health of the Kaiser. We were not in any sense military. We laugh? ed ? at the Algies and Berties of Piccadilly. We opposed in every Wt y we could any men who sought to pro? mote war. "Today Poplar, for many yeans the centre of anti-war propaganda, is ac? tively supporting the government in its conduct of the war against Ger? many. The men who stood by me in the peace demonstrations in Hyco Park and Trafalgar Square in the days of the Boer War, have sent their sons to light for England. The yo/ung er men among them are in khaki themselves. Our lads have volunteer? ed by the thousand, and many of them have died in the trenches. Our women cheer the lads as they leave, and welcome them as they return. "1 myself, the man of peace, have undertaken big recruiting campaigns. I have visited, lived among and en? couraged the men in the trenches. i have taken the me?ape of the men making the pains- to the men using tho Kims and coming baek I have taken the measasre from the men in the trenches to those in the workshops*. ? Why did we working men of Baal London, the tuen who fought for peace in 1900, act and speak in this way in 1014? The reason is simple. In the days of tin1 Boor War we were pro Boer because we thought that the liberty of the Boer was in danger. To? day, we stand by our country because we know thai the liberty of our peo? ple is threatened. Our family j9 |sj Vigilantes.) trouble. Our famliy is standing to? gether. ,slt is not a question of prosperity, of conquest, of trade We are fight? ing for liberty and fcr our homes. I have said many times that rather than giv in to th* barbarian who could do brutal murders such as the kaleer has sanctioned, 1 would see my own family wiped out and every mem bei of the r>ritish empire perish. * * ? " i had laughed >o netimes at the Algies and Bertiea oi Piccadilly. But when 1 found the;m Algies and Ber? ti* s. po set sing all that could yield eaee, luxury and idleness, throwing everything up to fight for their coun? try, and dying by the side of our lads of Poplar in the trenches, I loved and respected them for it. * * ? "This is not a government war; it is ? people's war. \Sre are all in it, the nian at the village pump and in the fields, the blacksmith, the carpenter and joiner, the si ipwright and the mah of leisure. * 1 * "The men are so fine. They vol? unteered in their thousands, long be? fore conscription was talked of. And they are taking what comes to them without a whimper. * ? * The exam? ple of these lads has had a wonderful effect on people left behind. 1 know men who were drunkards and loafers. Their dear ones hnve gone to war, and I have seen the men at home pull up. They have cut drinking. They come home early at nights. They set? tle down to their work. * * ? "Ihit," say sor ?e folk, "you are giving up liberty. You are Prussian? izing yourselves." "We have tern" orarily made a sac rifie of our individual freedom in or? der to secure it p< rmanently. We are paying a price, 'out we are paying it of our own free will. You cannot get anything exc pt for a price. You cannot have any spiritual gain with? out material sacrifice. ? ? ? "But if anyorci supposes that the British people, who for hundreds of years have been pioneers in the fight for liberty, are going to allow them? selves to be permanently deprived of 51 freedom because of this, he is wrong. Our people * * * are willingly sac? rificing much of the old freedom. But when the needs of the war go by, the temporary conditions will cease. "The great thing that concerns us now is the war. This is a fight to the finish, and the Kaiser has got to be finished. This war fs everybody's business, worl aen and aristocrat alike. Everybo y must help, and ev? ery class is he: ping. We are going to see this thing through. And we aro willing to saer.fice evrytning ? * ? "Liberty or Kai. erism? I, am for Lib? erty." , One's Friends in This War. (By Charles Hanson Towne of The Vigilantes.) One of the heartening things to come out of this war is the fact that one's friends- fed as we ourselves feel about it. Of all the people I have known, except some of Teutonic ori? gin, only one has been pro-German. It is a tribute lo one's gift of selec? tion, if nothing else. The one man who was pro-t erman has switched since we entered the conflict; but I cannot trust him in the old way. For the issues were the same in 1914 as in 1917; and I cannot believe that he who was blind then has been given, through a miracle, sudden sight. He is simply expedient; and I have no use for expedient people. They are the cowards o he world: the type who would we< r a mask and hope never to have their deception dis? covered. Also, I have Herman friends who are violently anti-German?which is wonderful indeed to know. And they have been the k.nd of Germans whom I have always )oved, and will con? tinue to Ioye?the Germans with vision! the Germans with justice in their souls; the Germans with right? eousness and a high flame in their hearts; Thank God there are many of them ?and many of them who are my pro Ally friends. cutti ig Prices. '"Ere, 'ave 'em at tuppence," growled the butcher. "It's too much," said the woman. '"Hve 'em at a penny, then." Still the woman hesitated. A look of disgust came over the butcher'e face. "Still too much?" he snapped. "'Ere, 'ang it! I'll turn my back while you sneak 'em."?London Punch. The yaar 191*. undoubtedly holds the record for siiipmenta of Portland cement; the next highest record was In 1913. who-. S8,689.377 barrels were shipped from the mills. In production 1913 apparently is still the record year, w.th an output of 92, 07t,ltl be reis, although there is a possibility that the final return may give 1916 the had. Gobbler*' Expectancy. Priens may coranal a revision of the actuarial tables of the life ex? pectancy of tu-key gobblers.?The State.