1914-01-02 Greenville Piedmont

GREENVILLE DAILY PIEDMONT EIGHT PAGES TODAY WEATHER: RAIN AND WARMER TONIGHT. SATURDAY PLAIN WARMER. HOME EDITION. VOLUME 84.—NO. 26 GREENVILLE, S. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 2, 1914. PRICE 5 CENTS

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J. P. MORGAN CO. PASSES UP FROM OF ITS HOLDINGS ----------o---------- RELINQUISHES DIRECTORATE IN A NUMBER VERY BIG COPORATIONS. ----------o---------- WILL GIVE UP SOME MORE NEAR FUTURE ----------o---------- Among the Companies From Which the Morgan Company Has Retired Are the New York Central and New Haven Railroads—Statement Issued to the Public J. P. Morgan Says the Action Was Taken Because of the Apparent Change In Public Sentiment. ----------o---------- (By The Associated Press.)

New York, Jan. 2—J. P. Morgan Company today announced that they had [several?] their connection with some of the country's greatest corporations with which they have long been connected. This step, it was announced, was taken voluntarily in response to an apparent [chance?] in public sentiment on account of some of the problems and criticisms relating to so called interlocking directorates.

Among the companies from which they have retired are the New York Central and New Haven railroads.

J. P. Morgan made a statement saying the necessity of attending many board meetings had been a serious burden and the company has long desired withdrawing from many directorates of companies. He said the apparent change in public sentiment seems to warrant the company's action in resigning from some directorates.

He declared it possible the Morgan company might actually be in better position to serve properties and security holders if not directors.

He expects from time to time to withdraw from other boards upon which the company doesn't feel under obligation to remain. ----------o---------- News in Washington. (By The Associated Press.)

Washington, Jan. 2—Administration officials have known for some time that there was a movement to separate the Morgan company from some of its larger directorates and to get in line with the peoples wishes and the spirit of the times, as set forth by President Wilson. The news highly gratified cabinet circles. In the president's [announce?] it wasn't known whether he knew of the prospective movement. ----------o---------- Wilson Gets News. (By The Associated Press.)

Gulf Port, Miss., Jan. 2—President Wilson had just completed a game of gold here when an associated press dispatch announcing the withdrawal of the Morgan company from many important directorates was read to him. He listened attentively and said "that's interesting." Nothing else was said. It is known the president has long been working on his message dealing with the trusts, and interlocking directorates. He expects congress to enact legislation this session. ------------------------o------------------------- COMMISSION GOVERNMENT IN LETHERBRIDGE, ATLA. ----------o---------- Special to the Daily Piedmont.

Letherbridge, Alta., Jan. 2—Leth[r]bridge begins its business year today under straight commission government, being the first city in Canada to adopt government by commissioners. The board consits of three members—one for finance and public safety, who also serves as mayor, the second member controls public works and the third, public utilities. The terms of the commissioners are four, three and two years, respectively. ------------------------o------------------------- TAMMANY GRAFTERS ARE SENTENCED BY JUDGE ----------o---------- (By The Associated Press.)

Nyack, N. Y., Jan. 2—Bart Dunn, a Tammay leader, and John Fogarty, a former state employe, were convicted of conspiracy connected with highway construction, and sentanced today, Dunn to ten months and a five hundred dollar fine, and Fogarty to ten months without a fine. The Dunbar Contracting company was also convicted and fined five hundred dollars. ------------------------o------------------------- CHICAGO UNDER RECORD. (By The Associated Press.)

Chicago, Jan. 2—The December police record show there has been [an] average of one homicide a day for December. This is the heaviest toll of murders and killings in the city history. Two of the murders [cut off]

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FEDERALS BOUND TO LOSE SHORTLY BATTLE OJINAGA ----------o---------- CONSTITUTIONALISTS, SIX THOUSAND STRONG ARE CLOSE TO CITY. ----------o---------- UNITED STATES BORDER PATROL IS ON THE JOB ----------o---------- Major McNamee, Commanding the Patrol, Has the Situation well in Hand in Preparing for the Expected Flight Across the Rio Grande— Very Apparent That the Federals Cannot Hold Out Much Longer and Avoid a Precipitate Retreat Across the Texas Border. ----------o---------- (By the Associated Press.)

Marin, Texas, Jan. 2—General Ortega's constitutionalists, six thousand strong, approached close to Ojinaga early this morning. Apparently the federals can't hold out much longer and avoid a precipitate retreat across the Texas border.

The last word from Major Mcnamee, commmanding the border patrol at Presidio, was that the federal desertions had slackened. The federals had received some back pay, he said and this had discouraged further desertions. Major McNamee has the situation in hand in preparing for the expected flight across the Rio Grande.

The danger of federals drawing the rebel fire closer to the boarder in the case of flight was considered but Ortega has promised that the fire will be directed away from this river.

Villa has sent more ammunition from Chihuahua to replish the rebel supply at Ojinaga. The federal garrison can't renew its supplies.

The federal wounded have been removed to Mission church at Presidio by the Red Cross. The federal commander has asked permission to remove the wounded to Ciudad [Porfirio?] Diaz, Mexico, opposite Eagle Pass. The request was refused by Major McNamee. ------------------------o------------------------- LAURENS DIVIDEND AMOUNT TO $28,396. ----------o---------- Past Year Has Been One of Great Prosperity in Laurens County—Encouraging Progress Has Been Made. ----------o---------- Laurens, [S. C.? faded] Jan. 2—The various banks and other dividend paying institutions of the city yesterday disbursed the usual semi-annual earnings for the six months ending December 31. The total amount aggregates the sum of $28,396, and was distributed by the following concerns:

The Enterprise bank, 4 per cent on $100,000; $4,000.

The Peoples' Loan & Exchange bank, 8 per cent on $100,000; $8,- 000.

Bank of Laurens, 4 per cent on $50,000; $2,000.

The Malmetto bank, 4 per cent on $50,000; $2,000.

The Laurens Trust company, 4 per cent on $47,400; $1,896.

The Laurens cotton mills, 3 per cent on $350,000; 10,500.

In many respects the year just closed has been one of great prosperity in the county of Laurens. The cotton crop has yielded something like three-quarters of a million dollars more than was realized for the crop of 1912; the corn and forage crops have sown a large acerage in grain and other cover crops than ever before. In the building line of improvements and, taking the county and the towns as a whole, the progress that has marked the old year is most encouraging. ------------------------o------------------------- CANADIAN STEEL TRUST PAYS QUARTERLY DIVIDENDS. ----------o---------- Montreal, Jan. 2—The regular quarterly dividend at the rate of four per cent was distributed by the Dominion Steel corporation today. J. H. Plummer, president of the company, says that orders on the corporation's books are considered almost up to the regular business, but that trouble has been experienced through delay in receiving shipment instructions from customers. While he admits that for two months business will probably be slack, Mr. Plummer believes that by spring the company will be enjoying excellent business. ------------------------o------------------------- RECEIVING DIVIDENDS. ----------o---------- Greenwood County Stockholders Get About $60,000. ----------o---------- Greenwood, Jan. 2—Local stockholders in the banks, cotton mills and other incorporated concerns of the county are receiving the annual and semi-annual dividends paid out by those enterprises. The total amount paid out in the county will [cut off]

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How Many of You Readers Actuallyn Think For Yourselves? By J. R. HAMILTON

Former Advertising [M? blotted] Wanamaker's Philadelphia (Copyrighted)

HOW MANY of you are able ABSOLUTELELY to cast off all OUTSIDE INFLUENCES and bring your own mind fully to bear on any subject at hand?

Take, for example, the question of buying an automobile—which is not so remote a possibility for the most of us as it used to be.

What influences would the most of us naturally obey in buying a car?

First of all, of course, comes the influence of our friend's car. If we like our friend we like his car And the chances are, we'll buy the same make. It's a case of "love me, love my dog."

And that's the poorest kind of thinking in the world. For my dog may be a far better or worse dog than I am. And your friend's car may be an awful aggregation of junk. Or it may be the best on the market. But remember, you are buying the car and not the friend.

Next will come the influence of "general impression." And that is almost as bad. General Public impressions are what have held the world back a thousand years. They are the rear-guard of progress, always. They are always being outstripped by the newer, better thing and they know it.

And last, comes the influence of 'popularity.' And this is another bugaboo. Popularity has no more to do with quality in a machine than hair oil has to do with a soft complexion.

Now advertisers today are rapidly learning all these things to their joy and to their sorrow. And today you will find a different kind of automobile advertising and a different type of automobile tire and automobile accessory advertising than you used to see.

And all this different kind of advertising is based upoon the assumption that you are going to think for yourself.

In other words, the "hot air" has gone out of automobile advertising. And these advertisers no long even trust to the influence of your friends nor to the popularity of their name.

They are giving us FACTS in the advertising today. They are telling us how their cars are made and giving us genuine reasons why we should buy them.

And the result is that you can no more buy the right automobile now without reading and weighing and thinking over the advertising, than you could pass an examination in quadratic equations without studying algebra.

If you are going to buy a new car, you have go to bring your CONSCIOUS ATTENTION to the study of that car's advertising and form your decision from the best judgment you can bring to bear; or you will regret it every time you take the wheel.

[headline, spans cols. 3-4] ENROSES WITHDRAWAL OF LAND CONTAINING RADIUM

[column 3] ----------o---------- Director of Federal Geological Survey Heartily Favors Suggestion Made by Secretary of Interior Lane —Mineral Resource Not Measured by its Rarity But by It's Value to Mankind. ----------o---------- (By The Associated Press.)

Washington, Jan. 2—The proposal of Secretary Lane to withdraw all lands of public domain believed to contain radium in the interest of public good is heartily approved by Dr. George Otis Smith, director of the federal geological survey.

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Dr. Smith issued a statement this morning saying that Secretary Lane's proposal is in line with congressional legislation of the last three years authorizing executive control of the nation's essential resources and the recognition that radium is to become a mineral resource whose value isn't measured by rarity but by its usefullness to mankind. Mr. Smith stated that field investigations had been made and his department is ready to recommend tracts for withdrawal when the president is given authority by conress. __________________________________ [column 3, bottom section]

MEASURE FOR PROTECTION OF MILITARY PARKS ----------o---------- (By The Associated Press.)

Washington, Jan. 2—The war department has sent to the house proposed legislation for better protection of national military parks. The measure defines as misdemeanors the wilful destruction, defacement injury or removal of any monument, statue, marker, guidepost, fence, tree arbor or plant within a park's limits. Many other regulations governing trespass are also contained in the bill submitted. The measure imposes a maximum penalty of five hundred dollars fine or a year's imprisonment or both. ------------------------o------------------------- WAR IN VENEZUELA IS ABOUT OVER NOW ----------o---------- Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 2—President Gomez returned today after an absence of five months. He brought an army of seven thousand men with which he had encamped near the border since August when Cipriano Castro made an unsuccessful revolutionary attempt. It is thought that a [cut off]

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ENDORSE JUDGE SEASE FOR THE SUPREME COURT ----------o---------- Spartanburg, Jan. 2—The endorsement of Judge T. S. Sease for associate justice, the recommendation of the supervisor for a one-half [mill?] interest in the tax levy, the resolution of the county medical society asking for a county health officer and appropriations for a Red Cross nurse and for the treatment of pellagrins, the presentation of a proposed bill for the establishment of a reform school for girls, the recommendation of the purchase of the Magnolia street school property for county purposes, the request of the county superintendent of education for appropriation for girls' tomato club and for rural schools, were some of the things that transpired at the meeting of the Spartanburg county delegation yesterday morning. ----------o---------- WOULD STUDY BOLL WEEVIL (By The Associated Press.)

Washington, Jan. 2—A more comprehensive investigation of the life, history and habits of the cotton boll weevil parasites is proposed by Secretary Houston, of the department of agriculture. He would have [cut off]

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MEXICAN DEPUTIES RELEASED FROM THE PENITENTIARY ----------o---------- Investigating Judge Finds That There Was No Basis for the Accusation of the Rebellion—Two Ministers are Released. ----------o---------- (By The Associated Press.)

Mexico City, Jan. 2—Twenty-six Mexican deputies, imprisoned by Huerta last October, were released from the penitentiary today. This doesn't include former Minister of Justice Reyes and former Minister of Public Instuction [Estanel?]. The investigatin judge found that there wasn't basis for the accusation of rebellion. ------------------------o------------------------- WOMAN IS HEAD OF NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT ----------o---------- (By The Associated Press.)

New York, Jan. 2—Among the appointees of the new mayor, John P. Mitchel yesterday was Miss Katherine Bement Davis as commissioner of corrections.

Miss Davis is he first woman head of a municipal department. Miss Davis has announced that she will not tolerate inhumanity in the treatment of prisoners. She would help a proper inquirty into the conduct of the city's prisons. ------------------------o------------------------- CONDEMNED MAN HEARS WORK ON DEATH HOUSE ----------o---------- (By The Associated Press.)

Windsor, Vermont, Jan. 2—From his prison cell Arthur Bosworth today heard workmen erecting the death house for the electric chair. Bosworth was sentened to be hanged today for the murder of Mae Labelle, aged 19, in 1911. There[cut off]

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SUPREME COURT BEGIN NEW YEAR WORK ON MONDAY ----------o---------- MASS OF WORK PROMISES MAKE A RECORD FOR THE NEXT TWELVE MONTHS ----------o---------- CASE TITANIC OWNERS WILL BE HEARD SOON ----------o---------- British Owners Wish to Have Their Liability Reduced From a Million Dollars to About Ninety Thousand Dollars—Contempt Cases Against Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison to Come Up—Case of Thurston U. Vaughn Will Probably be Heard Soon. ----------o---------- (By The Associated Press.)

Washington, Jan. 2—The United States supreme court will begin the new year Monday with a mass of work that promises to make a record for the next twelve months.

One of the most interesting cases set for hearing soon involves the liability of the owners of the steam ship Titanic which struck an iceberg and sank April 14.

British owners seek to have liability for a million dollars worth of claims against it for loss of life and property limited to the value of salvage, freight and passenger fares received on trip, about ninety thousand dollars.

The millionaires' honor roll will be heard when the court calls to case involving thelegality of tax on foreign built yachts of Americans.

The combined cases against Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor will again be considered. Other cases to be heard are the Indian bribery, Alabama school and Henry contempt cases. The latter [grows?] out of the money trust hearing. ----------o---------- South Carolinians will be interested in the case of T. U. Vaughn case will be heard at an early date. ----------o---------- [UASE?] FORESTRY LAWS FOR SOUTH CAROLINA ----------o---------- Secretary of Appalachian Forestry Reserve to Address Meeting at Columbia on January 9. ----------o---------- Washington, Jan. 2—John H. Finney, secretary and treasurer of the Appalachian Forestry Reserve Association and chairman of the foresttry Congress, said today that he would be on hand at Columbia January 9, to address a meeting, which has been called for that date at the Commercial Club by J. E. Wannamaker of St. Matthews, chairman of the Congress's South Carolina State committee on forestry.

The purpose of the meeting is to urge upon the Legislature the necessityof a forestry law for the State of South Carolina. A bill will be discussed which has been worked out here in Washington in conference with officials of the Federal forestry service.

The Southern Commercial Congress is engaged in similar activity in behalf of forest protection laws in every Southern State. We hope very much to make definite headway this time in South Carolina. ------------------------o------------------------- SKELETON OF A HUGE MASTODON IS FOUND ----------o---------- (By The Associated Press.)

Blue Ridge, [Springs?], Louisiana Jan. 2—Excitement here caused by the unearthing of what is declared to be the skeleton of a huge mastodon. It was discovered near here yesterday by S. D. [Taliaferro?] if Salem, Va., superintendent of a stone crushing plant.

The skeleton will be offered to the Smithsonian Institute. The skeleton measured thirty feet in length with a jaw four feet wide, ribs [six?] inches wide, teeth five inches wide tusks five feet long. The find was made in Limestone county twenty feet below the surface. When clearing away earth workmen were able to trace the entire outline of huge bulk. Large wagons were required to bring in the bones. ------------------------o------------------------- NEW ATTACHE AT THE GERMAN EMBASSY NOW ----------o---------- Special to The Daily Piedmont.

Washington, Jan. 2—Capt. von Papen of the General Staff of the German army, recently appinted to serve in a military capacity at the German Embassy here, has arrived to take up his duties. The general opinion is that eventually he will [cut off]

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CONSUMPTION O CIGARETTES H COUNTRY GRO ----------o---------- REPORT INTERNAL REV COMMISSION SHOWS MARKED INCREASE ----------o---------- CONSUMPTION WHISKEY ALSO ON THE INCR ----------o---------- Sad Facts Are Gained From port of the Commissioner of nal Revenue—Fifteen Billion rettes a Year Being Smoked United States While Con of Whiskey Has Doubled United States in the Past Years. ----------o---------- Washington, Jan. 2—Wha believe it if told that manuf cigarettes are being consumed United States at the rate of fifteen billion a year, to say ing of the number that are by hand by the expert young sters who prefer that kind get the "manufac"?

Well, the commisioner revenue, who [??] the tion of the taxes on cigarette other forms of tobacco, on [ha?] comes, etc., in his report made public shows that for year ended June 30, last, there [14,284,905,471?] law abiding ele manfactured and sold in the States. How many dodged t ternal revenue tax, and how were made by Hand by the er cannot be ascertained.

The increase is going on the present fiscal year. Figu the four months ending Octo shows an incrrease in revenue [108,195.51?], or approximately crease in consumption of 88[?] cigarettes over the consum period of the last fiscal year, consumption of cigarettes reach an estimated total of seventeen billions. The from this source alone should $21,000,000, or more during cal year of 1913.

In the next fifteen years ing to the records of the revenue bureau, the consumpt whiskey in the United States doubled. In 1899 there were 842,278[?]9 gallons of distilled in the bonded warehouses; close of the fiscal year 1913 warehouses held 276,784,040 g This was an increase of 18,800[?] gallons over what held in warehouses at the close preceding fiscal year.

Withdrawals to Be Small

Of whiskey more than four old and eligible for [in?] in warehouse just [unreadable] tons. This [??] that the drawals from bonded whiskey ing the present year will be

The prediction at ferment ners during the fiscal year just ed shows and increase of 3. barrels over the preceding yea

The production of whiskey other distilled spirits was also ly increased. There was mae axed 7,193[?] gallons in ex the quantity produced during

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TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND EXECUTIONS IN C ----------o---------- Most of These Were Robber Many Were Political Offen China's Record For the Past ----------o---------- (By The Associated Press.)

Peking, China, Jan. 2—It lately estimated that twent thousand executions were ex last year in the province of huen alone.

Most of these were robbers were political offenders. Official that actual figures would exc estimate.

Chinese customs collections ports were nearly thirty dollars. Most posts shared rence over 1912. Revenues to be sufficient to mett all including the Buxor indemnity ------------------------o------------------------- NEW YORK COTTON IS COMPARATIVELY ----------o---------- (By The Associated Press.)

New York, Jan. 2—The market was comparatively quiet ing today's early trading. poning steady at an [?] ices to an advance of [?] company with steady [?] months sold about 6 to 7 point lower under [??] liquid There were few January notice colated. Large spot interests tinued to buy January against of later months.

There was enough conve[?] early decline to cause that before the end of the [??]

There was nothing in early to throw [??] light on ginning reports. Upon [cut off]

TWO GREENVILLE DAILY PIEDMONT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1914.

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NEW LICENSE LAW IN ANDERSON IS CAUSE CHANGES ----------o---------- CERTAIN LINES BUSINESS DICONTINUED FIRST OF NEW YEAR ----------o---------- MANY LUNCH STANDS OF CITY OUT OF BUSINESS ----------o---------- Licenses For Lunch Stands, Carnivals, Peddlers, Medicine Dealers, Etc., is Prohibitive—Every Carnival That Comes to the City in the Future Will Have to Pay a License of $500—Country People are Allowed to Sell Farm Produce in City. ----------o---------- Special to The Daily Piedmont

Anderson, Jan. 2—Many lunch stands in the city are not doing business today. The cause is the new license bill which prohibits them doing business, except under a very high license. A license of [$500?] a year has been imposed on lunch stands, and there are very few willing to pay this license and continue his business. Two or three, however, are paying the license by the day and are going to continue to do so until the council meets.

Not only lunch stands, but many other forms of business died with the old year. Among these were the peddlers of medicine and and all sorts of merchandise except country produce. The country people are allowed to sell farm produce in the city, but peddlers and [??] of all kinds are not allowed to impose their stock upon the people. If the housewife will notify the city authorities when interrupted by a peddler, it will be appreciated, and cases will be brought.

Carnivals are not excluded from the city, but will come here under a license of $500. Carnivals do not encourage the business that are unprofitable to the community, as viewed by the council, and because of this position the license fee to be increased; in fact, made prohibitory.

Ridding the city of those businesses which have been regarded as undesirable has been brought about by means of increase in the amounts of license fees formerly charged that make them prohibitory, but, of course, if there came along the representative of one of these who believes he can make good, even in spite of the increase, he can pay over the amount as provided and take a shot at it.

Council's action in making the changes as referred to has met with general approval on the part of the people of the city. The business affected had come to be nuisances in a manner, at least, and the change now made, calling a halt, is generally appreciated. --------------------o-------------------- WIFE GOES IN HAT BOX AND GET SUM OF $75 ----------o---------- New York, Jan. 2—A hat box is not a safe place to put money, in the opinion of Ralph Thompson, former coxswain of the Yale cew. He put $75 in his silk hat box to keep it away from his wife, Maud E. Thompson, former wife of "Kid" McCoy, he alleges, but the next morning the money was gone.

Mrs. Thompson is suing for separation. Thompson, said she probably took the $75, as no other person had access to the box. Justice Cavegan awarded Mrs. Thompson $25 a week. She asked for $100. --------------------o-------------------- AUTO SALON OPENS. Special to the Daily Piedmont.

New York, Jan. 2—The 1914 automobile salon as the annual exhibition of foreign-built cars in New York is called, was opened here today in the ball room of the Hotel Astor.

For years this exhibition has opened immediately after the new year and never fails to attract a distinguished audience. A number of famous racing cars are featured at this year's show. The decorations have been arranged on the most [? blurry] in the history of these exhibitions. --------------------o-------------------- 10 CEN[T] "CASCARETS" STRAIGTEN YOU UP ----------o---------- No Sick Headache, Billious Stomach, Coated Tongue or Constipated Bowels by Morning. ----------o---------- Get a 10-cent box now.

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A Cascaret to-night straightens you out by morning. They work while you sleep. a 10-cent box from any drug store means a clear head, sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver and bowel action for months. Children love Cascarets because they

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[image of pack of Piedmont cigarettes] _________________________________ [headline, spans cols. 2-3] FOUNTAIN INN NEWS Fountain Inn Tribune _________________________________ Miss Helen Blackman of Honea Path is the guest of Mrs. R. W. Davis for a few days.

Rev. Ford Todd Cox has been called to the pulpit of the second Baptist church at Rock Hill, for full time. He and Mrs. Cox with the children, spent Christmas with home folks in Fountain Inn.

Mrs. J. D. Pitts visited her daughter, Mrs. C. C. Featherstone, at Greenwood, last week.

Russel Armstrong, who is in railroad work at Birmingham, was at home for the holidays.

Sam Kelfets was at home from Atlanta last week.

Darrell Nelson, wife and children, spent Christmas with relatives in town.

Despite the [? faded] shipments of "licker" that arrived in Fountain Inn the day before Christmas, the season passed without a single arrest or the "drunk and disorderly" charge.

Fred E. Medlock, of Clemson, spent the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Medlock.

David Hopkings, of Clemson, spent the holidays at home.

M[r. and Mrs.] T. J. Sanders and children, of [torn] visited Mr. Sanders' pa[rents? torn] Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Nelson, during Christmas week.

S. K, Francis and Mr. John Thompson were married November 22. Rev. Mr. Wharton performed the ceremony.

Mrs. Riley Griffith died Saturday, December 27th, and was buried Sunday, the funeral service being conducted by Rev. Dr. J. D. Pitts. Besides a husband, Mrs. Griffith left six small children, the youngest a newborn girl, which as been adopted by Mrs. John Kellett, a sister of Mr. Griffith.

Miss Minnie Pearson and Tom Pollard were married Sunday, December 28th, by J. A. Marlan.

Mr. and Mrs. Babb, of Laurens, were guests of Mrs. Babb's sister, Mrs. M. J. [Parson?], Sunday.

J. M. Griffith and family of Greenwood, and Charley Griffith, and daughters of Piedmont, were in town Sunday to attend the funeral service of Mrs. Riley Griffith.

Col. D .D. Gaillard, member of the Panama commission and division engineer in charge of the [Calebra?], and who died some days ago of overwork, was a childhood classmate of Mrs. D. M. Garrett, of Fountain Inn.

B. L. Thackston and family, of Simpsonville, have taken up their residence in Fountain Inn, and are now occupying the Jim Gault house.

F. F. Edwards went to Greenville last Thursday, and brought Mrs. Edwards home from the hospital Friday.

B. B. Edwards, wife and son are spending the Christmas season with relatives at Shelby, N. C.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Knight and son returned Monday to their home in Salisbury, N. C., after spending Christmas with relatives in Fountain Inn.

D. M. Garrett and J. P. Kellett were in Greenville Monday.

Mr. Dupree, of Clifton, was the guest of his brother, Dr. Dupree, Saturday and Sunday.

Dr. Jas. A. Fulmar spent Christmas with relatives at Greer, while Mrs. Fulmar and the baby visited relatives at Harmony.

Miss Gertrude Boland, of Little Mountain, spent the week-end with her sister, Mrs. D. E. Farr.

Sam Drummond and Miss Annie Mae Owens, of the Greenpond neighborthood, were married Sunday, December 14th by Rev. M. T. Wharton.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Maroney entertained a number of the younger set at tea Monday evening, and again Tuesday evening.

Mrs. H. T. Rich is very ill with pneumonia.

Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Kellett and daughters gave a Christmas dinner to a number of their friends.

T. [D.?] Wood is enjoying his birthday vacation by visiting Baltimore, Richmond, Washington and New York.

Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gilstrap served dinner to a number of their friends Saturday.

Little Fred [Marlar?] suffered from pneumonia during Christmas week, but is now recovering. E. C. Mar[cut off]

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week with a severe cold that has threatened to develop into pneumonia.

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Richardson and children visited Mr. Richardson's mother, Mrs. M. S. Richardson, near Simpsonville, Tuesday.

Sam Gaalt and Miss Snow of the Bethel camp ground neighborhood, were married Sunday, December 21st.

Gus Hughes and Miss Nevia Garrett were married Sunday, December 28th, by Rev. Dr. J. D. Pitts.

The W. O. W. elected new officers Monday night, December 22, as follos: Broadus Farrow, Consul Commander; H. M. Garret, advisor lieutenant; W. S. Thackston, banker; E. Lee [Marlar?], clerk; B. L. Thackson, escort; J. D. Willis, watchman; J. S. Nelson, sentry; J. H. Jones, Jr., J. F. McKelvey, and L. M. Nash, managers; Drs. T. B. Duckett and J. A. Thomason, camp physicians.

Misses Marcelle and Ronnie Babb are spending a week with friends at Pelzer.

J. C. [Peleo?], who is located in Philadelphia, spent the holidays in Fountain Inn.

W. H. Harrison has moved into T. R. Martin's conttage on Weeson street.

J. T. [? faded] spent the first of the week with friends at Landrum.

Cotton on the Fountain Inn market is bringing [?faded] cents; [? faded] $27 the ton. Local ginnings this year are 2,630 against 2,250 of the same date last year. --------------------o-------------------- DEPARTMENT INTERIOR WILL DO BETTER WORK ----------o---------- So Says Secretary Lane in His New Year Greeting to the Officials and Employes of the Department. ----------o---------- (By The Associated Press.)

Washington, Jan. 2—Assurances that the department of interior will serve the public better during the coming year than in the past were contained in the New Year greeting today by hundreds of officials and employes of the department from Secretary Lane. Cards of greeting bearing the official seal of the department addressed to "My associates in the interior department" extend hearty appreciation for their loyal, generous service, since he has been the head of the department. ___________________________________ [advertisement for Ely's Cream Balm, spans cols. 3-4]

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End such misery now! get the small bottle of "Ely's Cream Balm" at any drug store. This sweet, fragrent balm dissolves by heat of

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the nostrils; penatrates and heals the inflamed, swollen membranes which line the nose, head and throat; clears the air passages; stops nasty discharges and a feeling of cleansing, soothing relief comes immediately.

Don't lay awake to-night struggling for breath, with head stuffed; nostrils closed, hawking and blowing. Catarrh or a cold, with its running nose, foul mucous dropping into the throat, and raw dryness is distressing but truly needless.

Put your faith—just once—in "Ely's Cream Balm," and your cold or catarrh will surely disappear.— Adv. ____________________________________________ [advertisement for Sullivan-Markley Hardware, spans bottom of cols. 3-4] Don't forget the Broom Sale Tomorrow is the last day. Hours 9 a. m. to 12 n. and 2 p.m. to 5 p. m. 75c, Broom 30c Sullivan-Markley Hardware Company, "Greater Greenville's Greatest Hardware Store."

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COLONEL HUMPHREYS WILL NOT SUE GALLOWAY SYSTEM ----------o---------- Editor Daily Piedmont:

I have been reading a good deal about first one and then another prosecuting railroads about freight rates or charges, etc., and I consulted Junias Martin, he's our magistrate about suing the Galloway system for alimony as the judge says that's all I can get.

It's this way my friend Alf Mo, the best rabbit ketcher from Hogskin sent me a rabbit. He shipped it over the Galloway system and I had to pay 10 cents freight, which is the cost of a rabbit, beside this rabbit had [one?] leg broke in transit, Junius says if I sue the road they'll git a writ of mandamus and I told Junius that ther wasn't but one man on that road big enough ter try that

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with me, and Alf Mo, an he don't cuss, but Junius says man dam us ain't cussin, and I just decided to let it go. I just been in a law suit over at Homer, Ga., and had a concoction or mixture or combination of preacher and lawyer in one fiscal cartoon on the case, and that's the worst cross what there is, he'll rob you with that check uv or lawyer and [? ripped] forgive hisself with the mockery ever law. So I'll just take Junius advice an let em this time. But if they had or said ter dam me an Alf Mo, after takin the whole rabit, dog gon our sorry [melts?] if we hadn't tangled somebody's whiskers. D. M. Humphreys, Donalds, S. C., Jan. 2, 1913.

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NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION OF COL. D. M. HUMPHREYS --------------------o-------------------- I have made a few new years resolutions and am agoin' ter hold to um.

First Im settin straddle of the toung of ther water wagin. So if I fall it wont be so fur.

Second, I'm not going ter ship no more rabbits over the Due West railroad, after they take the rabbit fer freight.

Third, When I go ter meetin' I'm goin ter giver er whole nickle or

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something bigger.

Fourth, I'm not going ter meddle with other folkses business sich as cuttin store wood, drawin' water, workin' in their gardin' an [??] ther cow.

Fifth, and last, I'm not goin' ter jaw my wife, for I'm not very strong.

D. M. Humphreys, Donalds, S. C. Jan. 2, 1914. ________________________________ [column 5, continued]

LIVE NEWS FROM HUSTLING TOWN OF HONEA PATH ----------o---------- Honea Path, Jan. 2—Mr. U. L. Cox who has been agent for the Southern Express company at this place for the past nine years, has tendered his resignation to take effect January 15th, next. His successor has not yet been named. Mr. Cox has given the work close attention since he was appointed agent, his friends have regret that he has decided to give up the agency.

At the stated council of Comanche Tribe No. 39 Improved Order of Red Men last Friday evening the following officers were installed: Prop[het?], D. L. Davis; Sachem, W. B. Nelson; Senior Sagamore, Frank Bowie; Sagamore, Clyde Lollia Chief of Records, W. E. Gilbert; Keeper of Wampum, R. B. Jones; Guard of the Forest, J. A. Land. The tribe has shown a steady growth and has more than 130 member on good standing.

Mr. [blotted] and Miss Ella Ashley were happily married on the afternoon of December 23rd at the home of the bride's grandfather, Hon. J. W. Ashley, three miles north of this place. The ceremony was performed by Rev. M. McGee in the presence of a large number of relatives and friends of the happy couple. Both the bride and groom are well known here and have many warm friends throughout the section who wish for them a long and prosperous life. They left immediately after the ceremony for a two week's trip to points in Southwest Georgia and Florida.

Mrs. Menard Moore and children spent the holidays with relatives at Cheraw.

Mrs. J. S. Martin, of Columbia, is the guest of relatives in Honea Path this week.

Prof. and Mrs. Wayne Donald of Honea Path last week.

Miss Florence Donald of Greenville is here for a few days as a guest of Mrs. Curtis Harper.

Miss Elizabeth Simmons of Charleston visited the family for Mr. T. L. Clinkacales last week.

Miss Annie Belle Strickland of Charlotte spent the holidays in Honea Path with her mother, Mrs. Alfie Strickland.

Mrs. Edwards S. Reaves and chil-

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dren Howard and Marie, who have been on a visit to Monroe, N. C., and Fort Mill are expected home today.

Prof. Coates, superintendent of the Fort Mill graded school, was a visitor in the home of his wife's mother, Mrs. Madden, during theholidays.

Mr. C. E. Harper left Monday for Atlanta to purchase another car load of mules and horses. He expects them to reach here this afternoon.

Rev. Edward S. Reaves left for Columbia Tuesday morning to attend an important meeting of the Board of Education of the Baptist State Convention of which he is a member. __________________________________ [advertiement for Foley Kidney Pills]

SNEFFELS, COL. A. J. Walsh was badly done up with rheumatism and sent for Foley Kidney Pills which was the only thing that would cure him. Geo. Potter of Pontiac, Mo., was down on his back with kidney and bladder trouble and Foley Kidney Pills made him well and able to work. It is a splendid medicine and always helps. Just try it. Doster Bros. & Brace.—Adv. — ________________________________ [advertisement for Smith & Bristow, spans cols. 6-7]

LOOK! ! On Saturday Morning, July 3rd, we will Begin Our Semi-Annual Clearance Sale of MEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING. Note the prices below and see if you can afford to Miss This Sale:

MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS.
Regular Price $15.00 Reduced to	$11.50
Regular Price $16.50 Reduced to	$13.00
Regular Price $18.00 Reduced to	$14.00
Regular Price $20.00 Reduced to	$16.00
Regular Price $22.50 Reduced to	$18.00
Regular Price $25.00 Reduced to	$20.00
Regular Price $27.50 Reduced to	$22.50
Regular Price $30.00 Reduced to	$24.00
Regular Price $35.00 Reduced to	$27.50
Regular Price $40.00 Reduced to	$32.00
Regular Price $45.00 Reduced to	$35.00
BOYS' NORFOLK SUITS.
$ 6.00 Suits now	$ 4.75
$ 6.50 Suits now	$ 5.00
$ 7.50 Suits now	$ 5.75
$ 8.50 Suits now	$ 6.75
$ 9.00 Suits now	$ 7.00
$10.00 Suits now	$ 7.75
$12.00 Suits now	$ 9.50
$15.00 Suits now	$11.50

EXTRA SPECIAL! 125 Boys' Knickerbocker Suits, not Norfolks, at HALF PRICE Men's Extra Trousers reduced in proportion. Above prices are for SPOT CASH ONLY, and all alterations to be paid for by purchaser. SMITH & BRISTOW

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[advertisement for J. O. Jones Co.]

65 SWEATERS, in maroon, navy, white and tan suitable for men or women, at-- HALF PRICE. These were from $3.00 to $7.50. J. O. JONES CO. _____________________________________ [advertisement for W. R. Hale, Jeweler's]

At Your Jeweler's: VANITY BOXES, HAIR ORNAMENTS, BROOCHES, MESH BAGS, and those other little items that give the finish[ing] Touch. There is a distinction with a difference as to the style of our wares, but not as to the price. * * *

W. R. HALE, JEWELER, "Hale Quality Stands the Test of Time _______________________________________ [advertisement for E. A. Williams]

RESOLVE

That this New Year you will trade with E. A. Williams where you get the best Staple and Fine Groceries at lowest prices.

E. A. WILLIAMS, Phones 701-702 GROCER 118 E. Coffee St

GREENVILLE DAILY PIEDMONT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1914. THREE

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Society

Mrs. Looper, Honoree.

One of the prettiest parties of the Christmas season was given by Mrs. John Bass Eskey at her home on Frank street, Wednesday afternoon, between the hours of 3:30 and 5:30 in honor of Mrs. Lemuel Looper, of Walhalla, who was formerly Miss Lydia Townes, of this city.

The interior of the house was beautifully decorated in a color scheme of white and green. Ferns, potted plants, and an artistic decoration of white crepe paper converted the dining room into a veritable Christmas scene, and after an hour spent pleasantly chatting and sewing an ice course in green and white was served to the following guests: [? blurry] Frank Major, Frank Gillespie, Herbert Smith, J. N. Nix, J. Clarke Brawley, John Ligon, J. O. Raines, Hubert Cope, [Pramiez?] Fishburn, A. G. Bullock, H. R. Tindal, H. A. Costner, J. K. Carter, H. B. Griffin, W. T. Rison, R. W. Cowart, and Miss Nell Baam. ----------o---------- Helping Hands to Meet.

The Helping Hands Missionary Society of Hampton Avenue Methodist church will meet Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. Miss Willie May McCain will be the leader of this meeting. ----------o---------- Cake Sale.

The Ladies [Working?] Society of the Second Presbyterian chuch will hold their usual cake sale tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at A. A. Pearson's store on McBee avenue. A number of delicious cakes will be on sale. Any one wishing a special cake of any kind is asked to phone Mrs. J. C. McCall. ----------o---------- F. C. B. Club.

The F. C. B. Club was delightfully entertained Saturday afternoon by Miss Jesse McCall at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McCall.

As the guests arrived they were asked into the dining room where they were presented with a score card and a box of Christmas candy off the Christmas tree. Different games were engaged in and at the conclusion of a very jolly time a delicious salad course with chocolate and salted almonds was served.

Those present were: Misses Mary McAlister, Margaret Ellis, Willie May Nix, Isadore Poe, Nancy Rand, Louise Earle, Elizabeth Gilreath, Eleanor Mitchell, Elizabeth Ragadale, Frances Coble and Hattie Careton. ----------o---------- Miss Wilmer Prentiss [Honoree?]

Miss Nancy Rand was hostess at a lovely party Wednesday afternoon when she entertained about twentyfive of the school girl get at [heartsdice?].

The house was exceptionally bright with its Christmas wreaths and poinsettia blossoms and in the dining room the table was elaborate with its Christmas tree in a bank of snow as a centerpiece and with Christmas favors and miniature Santa Clauses carrying out this holiday suggestion in all details. A delicious sweet course with fruit cake was served. As a sourvenir of the afternoon and to the winner of high score two dainty hat pins were presented to Miss Emma Rose. Among those invited were Eleanor Mitchell, Katherine O'Neil, Elizabeth Allen, Elizabeth Stover, Mary McAlister, Margaret Ellis, Willie May Nix, Elizabeth Ragsdale, Lottie Plowden, Lavinia Hunter, Isadore Poe, Emma Rose, Janet Lewis Earle, Nalda Green, Elizabeth Griffin, Maria Donkle, Jennie McCall and Elizabeth Bryan. ----------o---------- Mrs. Buchanan's Reception.

The most beautiful reception of this week was given by Mrs. George Buchanan on Wednesday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Marshall Beattie, Mrs. Claude Smith, and Mrs. Wilton Earle.

Mrs. Buchanan is always such a charming hostess and on this occasion she was exceedingly gracious and fascinating.

Only the married members of society was invited to the reception, which was one of the largest of the holiday festivities.

Little Mary Beattie Poe received the callers cards and Mrs. C. S. Webb, Mrs. [Jenie?] Smith and Mrs. J. H. Earle greeted the guests on entering the hall which was bright with holly, Christmas bells and quantities of greenery.

The parlor in a color design of red and gold was particularly effective and artistic, gold and brass candelabra held red tapers under gold filagree shades and the mantle and book cases were banked in green starred with red poinsettias, brass vases and jardinieres held quantities of red carnations. The guests of honor, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Earle and Mrs. Beattie stood with Mrs. Buchanan in here and others in the receiving line were Mrs. Sumner Williams, Mrs. Dave Henning, Mrs. Tom Bell, Mrs. James Morgan, Mrs. John W. Arrington, Jr., Mrs. Ben Woodside, Mrs. TomMarchant, Mrs. Luther Marchant, Mrs. N. H. Heafin, Mrs. Nelson Poe, Jr., and Mrs. William Cooper. From the parlor into the living room the guests were [invited?] by Mrs. W. G. Shirring and Mrs. John Lamdrim. This room was in white and red, quantities of red and white carnations were used as ca[faded] deco[cut off]

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and silver compotes containing red and white mints. Mrs. John Marshall and Mrs. James Lewis poured tea. Others assisting in these were Mrs. J. F. Richardson, Mrs. O. M. Wing, Mrs. J. W. Harrison and Mrs. D. M. Ramsay.

Mrs. Perry Earle and Mrs. Samuel [De?eux] asked the guests into the punch room where Mrs. Eugene Bats, Mr. J. B. Mayo and Mrs. H. L. McCaskill presided. There were [tow?] punch bowls imbedded in quantities of green and Christmas berries, and at these Mrs. Joe Sirrine, Mrs. James Birmie, Mrs. B. L. Whitmore, Mrs. H. N. [Tamshill?] and Mrs. William Hill presided. This room was in green wreaths and poinsettias. Mrs. W. J. Thackson, Mrs. David Ebaugh and Mrs. A. A. Bristow were in the rear hall.

Hundreds of guests called during the hours from 4 to [blurry]. ----------o---------- Miss Gullick Hostess.

Miss Fay Gullick was hostess at a most enjoyable "watch night" dance at her home on the Buncombe Road Wednesday night. There were about twenty-five present and the hours sped by as if "on flying feet," and the old year was truly speeding by while the young people greeted in the happy new year. During the evening delicious fruits were served.

This was one of the most enjoyable of the many holiday dances. ----------o---------- Personals

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pollard had for their guests the first of the week Mrs. Pollard's brother, Mr. Worthy S. Chapman and his bride. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman were married a few days after Christmas. Mrs. Chapman was Miss Nettie Roland before her marriage. They are residents of Laurens county. Mrs. Pollard attended the marriage and returned to Greenville last Sunday accompanied by her guests. ----------o---------- Mrs. Herbert Cops and her beautifull little daughter Margaret, will spend the next ten days In Travel[lers Rest] [cut off]

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Mr. and Mrs. Preston William True, of Columbia, are the guests of Mrs. John Bass Eskew, on Frank street. ----------o---------- Miss Ella Koester, of Charleston, who has been visiting her brother, Geo. R. Koester, in Sans Souci Villa, returned home today. ----------o---------- Mrs. T. L. Losse, of Columbia, who spent the Christmas season with ther sister, Mrs. Geo. R. Koester, in Sans Souci Villa, left for her home today. ----------o---------- Miss Lillie Shumate has returned to Rock Hill where she is the very much beloved matron in one of the three large dormitories at Winthrop College. --------------------o-------------------- CHARGE DISMISSED ----------o---------- Spartanburg Recruiting Officer Not Flying Flag at Present. ----------o---------- Spartanburg, Jan. 2—The charge of violating a city ordinance [preferred?] against Sergt. H. W. Mason, who has charge of the local recruiting station of the United States Army was dismissed in police court today. The charge grew out of his refusal to take down an American flag hanging out of his office window and over the sidewalk, contrary to a municipal statute, which forbids any but electrical signs to be suspended over the sidewalk.

In accordance with instructions received from his superior officer to whom he telegraphed for advice, Sergeant Mason did not fly the flag today. The Army authorities will try to adjust the matter with the municipal government. ________________________________ [advertisement for Foley's Honey & Tar Compound]

COLDS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY

Intelligent people realize that common colds should be treated promptly. If there is sneezing and chillness with hoarseness, tickling throat and coughing, begin promptly the use of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. It is effective, pleasant to take, checks a cold, and stops the cough which causes loss of sleep and lowers the [cut off]

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[text box] MRS. J. ROBERT WATSON, Society Editor Telephone No. 1967

[text box] SOCIAL CALENDAR FRIDAY. Rotary Book Club meets with Mrs. Robert Milford at 11 o'clock. Mrs. William Molley Cruikshank, hostess at bridge, hour 3:00, honoree, Miss Raymer

DAILY PIEDMONT PATTERN

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9502. A Simple House or Work Dress. Ladies House or Work Dress in Princess Style, With or Without Pocket

Pink and white checked dimity was chosen for this charming model. Gray and white striped seer sucker or brown and white gingham in check or plaid effects likewise plain gingham, percales or chambreys would be effective. Percale or lawn may also be used. The model without the pockets would create a pleasing home afternoon gown. The spacious pockets will be found a great convenience. The pattern is cut in 6 sizes: 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust measures. It requires 4 3-4 yards of 44 inch material for the 36 inch size.

A pattern on this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10c, in

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silver or stamps by the Daily Piedmont.

Take Notice.

Patterns ordered through The Daily Piedmont are mailed from Brooklyn, N. Y. and arrive in from seven to nine days after the order is mailed to the office. Publisher Piedmont

[order form] Pattern No. 9502 Size ................................ ....................................... ....................................... ....................................... ENCLOSE 10 CENTS. _____________________________ [columns 4-5, 1st Article]

NEW YORK FASHION LETTER By MAUD HALL

Special to The Daily Piedmont

New York, Jan. 2—The new year always ushers in a flood of novelties for the well dressed woman. First in the advance guard of the new things comes the silks, muslins, etc., which are to be developed into spring and summer costumes a few months hence. Closely upon these follow the new design in frocks and waists, which are not to be so very different from the modes that have reigned for the past few months. If all that is whispered is true.

It is certain that there are not to be very decided changes. Women, of fashion are exceedingly fond of the narrow skirts and draped effects an as long as they are pleased the makers of fashion will not rush into violent changes. Then too, although frocks are simpler in outline in many instances and requires less material, the fabrics are more elegant so that it costs as much to dress as ever. This is pleasing of course, to the manufacturers who have complained bitterly of the effect the new styles have had upon their business.

Thus far the checked taffetas, like the checked woolens, are being demanded in colors, rather than in the black and white. Green and white is a delightful spring combination, but it is not more popular than yeallow and black, or green and blue, or again, pearl and green. The checked goods are invariably combined with plain material; in costumes, one forms the skirt and the other the tunic and blouse.

Though one naturally thinks of velvet as a winter material, it is expected to be worn quite as extensively this spring as during the win-

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ter; the plain and fancy velvets share the interest. for spring velvet will be combined very often with tulle or net.

Another novelty of the present season is the smart little waiscoat, cut like a man's evening vest, of pale tan suede. These waistcoats are fastened with jewelled buttons and they are immensely chic when worn in conjunction with long mousquetaire gloves of exactly the same shade of tan.

Tulle blouse in the various tan shades are also very much worn with tailored suite of navy serge. The revival of pale tan, shades is probably the result of the present rage for fitch or putois. This fur has completely captivated the Parisienne's fancy and in its natural color it is used as a trimming of all sorts and conditions of garments. Dyed putois is not really fashionable this winter. The furriers insist that they [ran tint?] it is the "true sable color," but this statement must be taken with more than a grain of salt. An expert can always detect dyed pitch at the first glance, and really this fur is charming in its natural state.

For velvet and silk beaver [toques?] the the two new shades are grape black and dahlia black. These two lovely tints are not really black at all, but they are so dark and rich looking that they seem black in a strong light. Another new color is Etruscan green. This is a very peculiar shade. It is dull green which looks as though it has been dipped in alloy water. It is dull but at the same time metallic and the Parisian milliners are using it freely in minor velvet and brocade for the crowns of for bordered toques.

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EUROPEAN NEWS AND VIEWS

Special to The Daily Piedmont

London, Jan. 2—A voluntary committee of prominent Londoners has been investigating conditions in the city for the purpose of improving the living system of people in the poorer districts, and it is reported that as a result of this inquiry a big campagin will soon be started for the purpose of raising a fund to relieve some of the suffering now existing in the slums. There is an unusual number of unemployed this season, and as this is the time of year when work is easiest to find, grave fears are felt for many of the sufferers while business takes a further falling off in a few months hence. Several prominent society women are working in conjunction with the men investigators, and in many instances have given [special?] relief to the worst cases discovered. ----------o---------- The English friends of Queen Victoria are much alarmed over the report that King Alfonso has developed tuberculosis. It will be remembered that Alfonso's father died of the same disease at the age of 28. The present king was born a few months afterward and it is believed that he inherited tuberculosis from his father.

The root of afliction, it is said, lies at the top of the nose and a grave operation is considered absolutely necessary, although King Alfonso never looked better than he does at present. ----------o---------- There is a scheme on foot to utilize for profit of the community the things that London pays contractors to take away. It is proposed to remove all waste to land which is at present unproductive. In 1910 the amount of waste collected and disposed of by the various Borough counsels of London amounted to over 950,635 tons. At the present day it is probably not far short of a million tons. Vast sums of public money are spent to get rid of it. The amount is estimated at some $700,000 a year. ----------o---------- In Berlin the new law for the insurance of domestic servants has

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has been brought to a head by some rather amusing events in the suburb of Wienersdorf, where elections for representatives on the district insurance board recently took place. Prof. [Liedig?], a former councillor of state, who was proposed by the [p?] toral committee, was not elected. On the other hand, his housemaid was elected. This absurd anti-climax has been too much for Berlin householders and they want the law repealed. ----------o---------- The minds of the entire theatrical and operatic world of Germany are centered on the productions of "Parsifal" this month. More than forty opera houses owned by the state of municipalities in Germany, with ten in Austria, not to mention Madrid, London and other cities, have begun rebuilding for the production next week, as the copyright on the faous opera has expired. The performance at the Deutsche Opera at Charlottenburg tonight will be the first performance in Germany outside of Bayreuth. The house is already sold out for the first four performances. ----------o---------- In Paris, futurist musicians, jealous of the laurels won by the futurist [artilerist?], have formed an orchestra with which they intend to give a futurist concert in the theatre des Cahmps Elysees soon. Their orchestra is composed as follows:

Six buzzers, six whistlers, two mashers, four bursters, one screecher, one thunderer, two gurglers, ten snotters. The program for the first concert will include two suites reproducing the sounds of crashes between automobiles and aeroplanes. --------------------o-------------------- RAISE FOR 3,800 MEN.

Special to The Daily Piedmont.

Camden, N. J., Jan. 2—When the motormen and conductors of New Jersey, 3,800 in number, went to work today, it was under a new scale of wages, giving them an increase in pay. The maximum scale is raised from 25 cents an hour to 30 cents. The minimum will be 38 cents for beginners. ______________________________ [column 6]

CUT IN BARBER QUARREL.

Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 2—During an alercation concerning the lease of a barber shop in Wilmington, N. C., in which the men are partners, R. H. Miles shot in the breast and severely wounded H. M. Holbrook. It is reported from Washington that Holbrook [? blurry] with a razor and then Miles shot. ______________________________ [advertisement for Piedmont Shoe Co., spans col. 6 & 7]

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PIEDMONT SHOE C[O.] Greenville's Big Shoe Store ON THE CORNER "Where the Big Shoe Hangs Out." _________________________________ [advertisement for P. F. Cox, spans col. 6-7] FOR THE YEAR 191[5]

Your Grocery Account is solicited. The q[uali-] ty of my goods is as good as the best. Pr[ice] guaranteed to meet all competition. Let have your orders.

Phone 557, P. F. COX, Phone One 5-Room House to Rent. _________________________________ [advertisement for Sullivan Markley Hardware, spans col. 6-7] SAVE MONEY by getting a 75c Broom tomor[row] for 30c

SULLIVAN-MARKLEY HARDWARE CO., "Greater Greenville's Greatest Hardware Stor[e] ___________________________________ [advertisement for West End Supply Co.

[image of man in horse driven coal wagon] THE BEST COAL NO CLINKERS

We handle only the best coal. It burns freely, you are not troubled with clinkers, and its heat giving qualities cannot be excelled. When in need of coal, bear us in mind. Our prices are right; or coal is right; and our service is right, and you will fin that our business methods are right.

West End Supply Company Phone [? blurry] ___________________________________ [advertisement for W. G. Stubbs Shoe Co., spans col. 6-7]

THE BIG SHOE SAL[E] IS NOW ON FULL BLAST.

Come here Saturday and get more than your money will buy elsewhere.

Give us the chance to prove it.

All Winter Shoes at Manufacturers' Cost.

W. G. STUBBS SHOE CO. 205 S. Main St. Greenville, S. [C.] ___________________________________ [column 7]

[advertisement for Duster Bros. & Bruce]

Do you begin to cough just when you hope to sleep? have a tickling throat that awake? Just take Foley's Tur Compound. It will ch cough and stop the tickling at once. Does not upset the is best for children and gr sons. Duster Bros. & Bruce ___________________________________ [advertisement for Savoy]

WITH THE NEW YEAR

we put new lines cut new prices of Candies; also we new kinds that have been made Greenville. We to show them.

Savoy, Stavron Bro

FOUR THE GREENVILLE DAILY PIEDMONT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1914.

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GREENVILLE DAILY PIEDMONT Established 1824. ____________________________________ Every Afternoon except Sunday. At [5?]17 E. Main St., Greenville, S. C. ____________________________________ ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES ____________________________________ HAROLD C. BOOKER, Editor ____________________________________ TELEPHONES Business Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Editorial Rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607 Geo. R. Koester's private office. . . . . 863 Society Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [illegible] ____________________________________ SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By carrier in the City: One Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5.00 Six Months . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.50 Three Months. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.25 One Month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 ____________________________________ By Mail One Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [? illegible] One Mon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [? illegible] ____________________________________ Entered at the Greenville Postoffice as mail matter of second class. ____________________________________ The Greenville Daily Piedmont will publish brief and rational letters on subject of general interest when they are signed by their authors and are not of defamatory nature. ____________________________________ All checks and drafts and money orders should be made payable to The Daily Piedmont. GEO. R. KOESTER, Publisher. ____________________________________ FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1914. ____________________________________ Well how do you like living in 1914? ----------o---------- Wonder how it feels to get a dividend check. ----------o---------- Can anybody tell us what the weather man is up to? ----------o---------- John Lind is the dumbest man that talks we ever heard of. ----------o---------- The sugar [trust?] is going to dissolve, which seems perfectly natural. ----------o---------- Isn't it a pity that you can't pay your grocery bills with good wishes? ----------o---------- Speaking of optimism, President Huerta says the new year looks rosy to him. ----------o---------- Mr. Taft is, to our mind, giving a splendid illustration of how an expresident ought to behave. ----------o---------- There have been fewer hunters mistaken for rabbits this hunting season than in many years. ----------o---------- If there was anything in a name we wouldn't object to living in Fruitland, N. C., in the summer. ----------o---------- Instead of that New York jury hanging Schmidt as it should have done, Schmidt hung the jury. ----------o---------- But then you have to hand it to the men of England. The two Misses Pankhurst have never married. ----------o---------- A Chicago man was drowned in a can of paint. He should have known better than try to irritate his wife. ----------o---------- We join with The Anderson Mail in the hope that 1914 will not bring us as many freak dances as 1913 did. ----------o---------- New words are being coined at the rate of 500 a year. Which is a very good thing for the dictionary houses. ----------o---------- It is said that a lot of liquor was consumed in Mississippi last month. [Are?] snakes don't bite in December either. ----------o---------- Here's a new problem for the prohibitionists. A Charlotte, N. C. man drank a bottle of lemon extract and then killed his wife. ----------o---------- One good New Year's resolve would be to quit signing petitions for pardons except in cases that you know to be very worthy. ----------o---------- The father-in-law of a prisoner in the county jail paid him out of his trouble. Which shows the value of a father-in-law sometimes. ----------o---------- There are [illegible] hundred men in Chicago, Ill. without jobs. And to [illegible] for which we do not wish to live—Chicago, Ill. ----------o---------- This is from the Anderson [mail?]. "A Kansas farmer started a skunk farm but his animals died. And now he is broke, without a scent." ----------o---------- Four hundred and forty-two charters were granted in South Carolina last year and it wasn't such a good year for granting charters either. ----------o---------- We were afraid that befor this "review of the past year" business stopped some paper would print [for?] review of the achievements of the suffragists during 1913. ----------o---------- According to the Galveston (Texan) News some people in Texas couldn't buy eggs for their nog last Christmas while others couldn't buy nog for their eggs. Why on earth didn't they merge their holdings? ----------o---------- A British scientist declared the other day that "wearing clothes is a bad habit." The Memphis Commercial Appeal promptly rejoins "Aren't some of our girls trying to break themselves of the habit?" ----------o---------- According to the conservation department of Equitable Life Asruance Society the mortality rate is [cut off]

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BUT WILL THEY GET HIM?

Another effort is made to oust Chief of Police Beavers of Atlanta, Ga., if dispatches sent out from that city are correct. The reason this time is the same as that which prompted other efforts to remove him, he has been too firm in the enforcement of the law. The reason is the same as that which has prompted fights on chiefs of police in other towns and cities all over the county.

The enemies of strict law enforcement never sleep. You can beat them down in one place and they will arise a few weeks later in another. You can crush them down in one form and a few weeks later they will arise in another form. They are always on the alert.

Chief Beavers of Atlanta has made a national reputation by his enforcement of the laws. He has driven [out?] Atlanta's segregated district and has improved other conditions very greatly. Aided by the Men and Religion Forward Movement committee he has done much towards eliminating vice from Atlanta.

The vice crusade in Atlanta was started through the publication in the papers of that city of "bulletins" by the Men and Religion Forward Movement committee depicting conditions as they were in Atlanta. The people were aroused by these publications and demanding a general cleaning out of the city. They found Chief Beavers the man to do the job.

Those people who do not [now?] believe in a closed town and who never have believed in it have thrown every obstacle in the paths of those who have sought to improve conditions. Effort after effort has been made to remove Chief Beavers but all have met with failure.

The latest effort is being made by so-called prominent men of the city who claim that the continued agitation has hurt the city. Colonel F. J. Parson, who, according to the enemies of the vice crusade, is well known for his religious work, was the first to give voice to an opinion that the "bulletins" ought to be continued. Then Mr. Forrest Adair, a real estate dealer, rushed into the limelight with a lengthy interview endorsing Mr. Parson's stand. Other alleged prominent businessmen have taken the same stand.

But where do the preachers stand? And where do men like J. K. Orr, the shoe man who is known everywhere as a man of great principle, Wilmer L. Moore, president of the Chamber of Commerce, S. J. Eagan and others stand? They stand with the advocates of the crusade against vice of course. They declare that the crusade has done much to cleanse Atlanta and that it should be continued. The old gag that it is [harming?] the town doesn't [catch?] them.

The suggestion that the crusade against vice has hurt Atlanta appears to us to be about the most nonsensical one that could have been offered by the enemies of the crusade. How has it hurt the town? Do you think a good citizen would refuse to move to Atlanta because there is a crusade against vice going on there? It seems to us that that is the place he would want to go to. Do you think a good citizen would move from Atlanta because of the crusade against vice? It doesn't seem to us that he would. The people who profit by vice may be kept away and may be made to move away by the crusade but their going away or refusal to move there would be a blessing for the town instead of a hindrance.

Here is hope that Chief Beaver will win out in this fight as he has won out in his other fights. We are surprised that men like Adair and Parson should be in any way what every connected with a movement to restrain the fight on vice. --------------------o-------------------- THE LIGHT BILL.

The electric light company in Nashville, Tenn., has an ad in a Nashville paper that proved very interesting to us. It was headed "The Ups and Downs Of A Light Bill." A table was then presented showing the effect of the seasons on your electric bill. The ad says that from 6 a. m. to 10 p. m. may be considered the "active period" of each day. There are [480?] hours of "activity" during a 30-day month and 196 hours of "activity" during a holiday month.

The ad then gives the number of dark hours in the "restive period" of each month. The number of dark hours in the active period of between 6 a. m. and 10 p. m. in the month of January is [169?]. The number of dark hours in February is 137; the number in March 133; April 106; May 90; June 68; July 52; August 94; September 119; October [cut off]

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hours during the active period (6 a. m. to 10 p. m.) and should be lightest during the month of June which has only 60 dark hours during the active period. In June it is daylight until about 8 p. m., while in December it gets dark a little after 4 o'clock and in January a little after 5. Another reason why electric light bills are heavier in winter is that very often families sit out on the porches in the summer until bed time without a single light burning. This is, of course, impossible in the winter. --------------------o-------------------- CONSIDER THE SOUTH.

The last issue of the Southern Field, the magazine issued by the land and industrial department of the Southern railway, was an especially interesting one to us. It contained a single article on "Farm Life of Today in the Piedmont Section of South Carolina," which was really a write-up of the Greenville county. This article was illustrated by the pictures of the magnificent [? illegible] homes of Messrs. John D. Harris, W. M. Stephens, Thomas Charles, J. A. Darby and F. D. Hunter. The article gave a number of interesting facts about the growth and progress of Greenville county.

The issue also contained a splendid editorial headed "Consider The South" which follows:

"The South is the world's great cotton field.

"It is a great corn producing region.

"It has the climate, the lands and the forage crops for great live stock and dairy industries.

"It is the nation's early vegetable garden.

"It is one of the country's best orchard districts.

"It has a great variety of forest trees and over one-third of the standing timber in the country.

"It has soils adapted to all kinds of farm products.

"It has rich mineral deposits of a wide variety.

"It has incomperable climate and its healthfulness cannot be disputed.

"It has the most attractive winter, summer and all the year-round resort cities and sections on coast and in the mountains, where the climatic, scenic and other advantages and attractions are combined.

"It has a great line of deep sea coast and many splendid harbors and shipping ports.

"It is developing the most prosperous and successful manufacturing centers, making a wide line of articles for home and outside consumption.

"Its water powers, developed and undeveloped, comprise a very large portion of the available water power of the United States.

"Its cities and towns have been [modernized?] and among them are great centers of industry, commerce and education, and all are growing rapidly.

"Its railroads give it splendid transportation facilities locally and to all parts of the country. Its steamer lines go to all Atlantic coast ports and to nearly all the [? illegible] nations of Europe and South America.

" The South is the front yard of the nation when it comes to our relations with Latin America and the use of the Panama canal." --------------------o-------------------- THE REAL EVIL.

The governor of the state in giving his reasons for pardoning Joe Bates, the Spartanburg man who murdered a woman and who was sentenced to be electrocuted for his crime, states that the petition for pardon was signed by a large number of Spartanburg people and he names some of them. We are frank to say that the names that were signed to the petition entitled it to careful consideration if not a favorable answer.

We cannot feel, however, that the average man signs a petition for pardon without first giving consideration to the case or certainly without making a very careful study of it. The petition was probably brought to him by a friend and he takes the friend's word for it that the case is a worthy one.

Our people should be more careful about signing petitions for pardons. --------------------o-------------------- THE MEANEST MAN.

The meanest man in the United States has been found. He is a police court judge in New York and the distinction was thrust upon him by a man who was fined for kissing a woman on the street. The party fined wrote the judge as follows:

"Judge Ball—meanest man in the United States—fined a couple $6 for kissing. You ought to have fined the policeman $600 for arresting the couple. Where were you born, Patagonia or Japan? or maybe you grew on a tree in Mexico. You are a brute, and may you never have a [cut off]

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THE SEISMOGRAPH By GEORGE FITCH, Author of "At Good Old Siwash". Copyrighted by George Mathew Adams

THE seismograph is an ingenious instrument by which an earthquake is enabled to register like a travelling man, whenever it is on the road.

This instrument is very complicated, and is so intelligent that the slightest shudder of the earth's surface is recorded. If a powder mill has exploded or a heavy [? illegible] has fallen violently during the night the owner of the seismograph would know it in the morning by looking at the record. It is said that when exPresident Taft attempted to reduce the tariff, seismographs recorded the result all over the world.

Sometimes an earthquake will travel for thousands of miles without disturbing the lightest sleepers. But the seismograph is on the job and in the morning, after the papers have announced its findings, thousands of citizens remember that during the night the bric-a-brac on the mantel tinkled loudly and the bed swayed like a ship in a heavy sea.

The seismograph is very valuable to scientists, but it would be more valuable to humanity if it could announce the presence of an earthquake before instead of after said quake was performed. The seismograph gives a man warning after a brick house has fallen on him and when he doesn't need it. It is as dilatory as an election result. Many

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a proud statesman would still be holding the reins of government if he could have taken a hint from an election result before said election happened.

We must, as people, leap eagerly into the task of perfecting the seismograph. If it can be reduced to

[cartoon of seismograaph giving man warning after a brick house has fallen on him] The Seismograph gives a man warning after a brick house has fallen on him.

act as the press agent or an earthquake instead of its historian, a contented people will be able to leave their homes before it is too late and go fishing while the earthquake performs.

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A Kansas City father is offering his boy for sale. Must have had to get up in the cold the night before for him and then fit of anger probably agreed to sell him. Bet he wouldn't take a billion dollars for him now. --------------------o-------------------- We anxiously await the homicide record of Kentucky for the year 1913. If it shows a decrease in the number of killers, we believe the most confirmed pessimists will agree with us that the world is improving. --------------------o-------------------- Some other man might find it good policy to make the same New Year resolution as Col. D. M. Humphreys, of Donalds, who says that he has resolved not to "jaw" back at this wife because he is not very strong. --------------------o-------------------- Palmetto Press New One on South Carolina, Greenwood Index

A Greenwood county man now living North who is at home for the holidays has been telling this on South Carolinians away from home. It is: That recently in the smoking compartment of a pullman of a train somewhere East, a party of four men were whiling away the time. Presently one of the party remarked that he was from Ohio, the greatest state in the Union. Man on his right at once took it up and said that while it was a great state in size and some other things it was a pigmy with what New York, his state, was in resources, etc., etc. Third man admitted claims of both as to many things but said his native state, Virginia, was the greatest of them all and set out to prove it. Meanwhile fourth man began reading. Not joining in, the other three began to ask him where he was from and received no answer. As he had been cheerful, jovial and companionable before they began to kid him a little and insisted in knowing where he was from. Finally, he reached his hand in his pocked and pulled out a pistol and said, "I am from South Carolina, and I'll shoot the first man who laughs." ----------o---------- Protecting Property Anderson Mail.

When everybody gets confident that prosperity is here, or on its way, prosperity stands no on the [axles?] at its coming, that comes and gets busy.

From every section are pouring in assurances of excellent feeling, of renewed confidence in the situation, of all manner of elements conoperating to get the utmost good out of the new laws, of enterprise quickened and expanded. It sounds as if 1914 were going to start under the best possible auspices, with everybody climbing on the prosperity band wagon. --------------------o-------------------- Press Comment Mercy Me!

Atlanta Journal.

Before we have had time to recover from the shock of the grim prophecy that breakfast will cost a dollar a pound, comes a [illlegible] Jeremiah from Pennsylvania warning us that eggs will soon be a dollar a dozen, unless we are kinder to our hens.

Now, by the bald pate of Robin Hood's fat friar, what will happen next?

With lard among the luxuries, baacon as rare as a [beautitude?], and eggs becoming as precious as the pomegranate seed of Prosperpina, wherewith shall we be fed?

If you have a hen, coax her with all the dainties you can find, cheer her with all the soft, kindly words you can muster; and if you haven't a hen, fly forth before the day is gone, buy one at any price or adopt some straggling cackler from the highways or hedges—do anything to stave off the approaching doom of dollar-a-dozen eggs. --------------------o-------------------- An Immediate Objection.

"I wonder why we don't have Christmas carols as they did in the early english days? [cut off]

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Today in History

1805—Exportation of corn was prohibited from the Swedish and Prussian ports. [18?]—Citties of Williamsburg and Brooklyn, New York, united under one government and called Brooklyn. 1861—Gov. Ellis, of North Carolina took possession of Fort [Macue?] 1868—Gov. Flanders of Louisiaa resigned. 1875—[Garibaldi?] refused the pension granted him by the Italian parliament because of the low condition of the nation's finances. 1885—Port Arthur to be occupied by the Japanese army today. 1912—Dr. Sun Yat Sen was installed at Nanking as Provisional president of the Republic of China. --------------------o-------------------- Today His Birthday

Hon. James M. Graham, congressman from the twenty-first Illinois district, has a birthday today, but his age is a family secret; he is a lawyer by profession. He served one term in the Illinois legislature and one term as state's attorney for Sangamon county; also served as a member of the Springfield, Ill., school board. He was elected to the sixty-first, sixty-second and sixitythird congress. --------------------o-------------------- Back At the Piedmont

His Hope. Charlotte News.

We hope that Booker and Bob Gonzales will resolve to curtail their paragraphic delivery during the New Year. ----------o---------- Listen To This. Charlotte News.

If we were sufficiently gifted in the art of prevarication we should wish a happy New Year to such base persons as Cowan, Caine Booker and Gonzales. --------------------o-------------------- Punishing Them.

I saw the house wife beat the eggs, and it made me feel sad; I asked her why she beat them and she told me they were bad. —Detroit Free Press. ----------o---------- Just One Point to be Settled

"Now, me darlin' will you marry me when I come back from Ireland?"

"It's meself that's not prepared to give an answer now, but I'll have it ready when you're comin' back, [illegible]."

"Well, th Well, thats not quite so bad, but jest tell me [faded, illegible] in — will it be [faded, illegible]" Register. ___________________________ [advertisement for Wyeth's Sage & Sulphur]

COMB SAGE TEA IN HAIR TO DARKEN IT ----------o---------- Grandma Kept Her Locks Dark, Glossy, Thick With a Mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur. ----------o---------- The old-time mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur for darkening gray, streaked and faded hair is grandmother's treatment, and folks are again using it to keep their hair a good, even color, which is quite sensble, as we are living in an age when a youthful appearance is of the greatest advantage.

Nowadays, though, we don't have the troublesome task of gathering the sage and the messy mixing at home. All drug stores sell the readyto-use product called "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy" for about 50 cents a bottle. It is very popular because nobody can discover it has been applied. Simply moisten your comb or a soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, takin one small strand at a time; by morning gray hair disappears, but what delights the ladies with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur is that, besides beautifully darkening the hair after a few applications it also produces [cut off]

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ALLEGED FALSE PROSECUTION AND SUES FOR $5,000 ----------o---------- J. Toy Biggers, Who Was Arrested Sunday on a Warrant Sworn Out by Joseph Hamoui Charging Him With the Theft of a check, Has Now Instituted Criminal and Civil Action Against Hamoui's Alleging Wilful and Malicious Prosecution. ----------o---------- Alleging that he was humiliated and insulted by wilful and malicious prosecution, J. Toy Biggers has instituted civil and criminal action against Joseph Hamoui, who upon information and belief accused Biggers of the theft of a check and had him arrested in Greenville last Sunday. This action was taken by Toy Biggers through counsel, after he had demanded a preliminary hearing and Hamoui had withdrawn the warrant. Biggers, by his duly appointed guardian ad litem, J. H. Biggers, has now entered suit against Hamoui for $5,000 damages.

Attorneys Townes, Earle and Price have been retained by plaintiff. Biggers.

In complaining of defendent Hamoui, Biggers alleges that on December 29th, 1913, the defendent did institute a wilful and malicious prosecution against plaintiff, and on said day, which was Sunday, defendant went before Magistrate Stradley and made the following affidavit in order to procure a waraant for plaintiff's arrest:

"Personally comes before me the defendant and makes oath in this state and county and in the township of Greenville on the 29th's day of December, 1913, Toy Biggers did take, steal and carry away a letter containing a bank draft or bill of exchange of the value of five hundred dollars or more by registered letter, all of which is contrary to the form of the statutes made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the state, and that George [Al?] and deponent are witness for the state.

(Signed) Joseph Hamoui.

Sworn to before me this 29th day of December, 1913. Samuel Stradley, (L. S.) Magistrate"

Biggers alleges that in pursuance of said warrant, he was arrested Sunday about 12 o'clock, noon, and was first placed in the city station house, where he was locked in a cell, and subjected to humiliation of being pressed for a confession by the police authorities; that later he was taken in charge by Sheriff Hendrix [Ree?] and about 2:30 p. m. was locked in the county jail, where he was [blurry] to remain that night, being unable to get bail on Sunday. That about noon on Monday he was released on bail in the sum of $200. That thereafter he demanded a preliminary hearing, and the defendent well knowing that he did have the slightest foundation for said prosecution and knowing that he could not sustain the charges, withdrew the warrant.

Hamoui is a Syrian and resides in Statesville, N. C. Biggers is a Greenville boy, and formerly worked in the ticket office of the Southern Railway depot on West Washington street. --------------------o-------------------- LOVE SICK SOLDIERS WANT TAR HEEL WIVES ----------o---------- Write Mayor of Greensboro, N. C., to Help Them Find Helpmates — Newspaper Advertises for Them. ----------o---------- Greensboro, N. C., Jan. 2—Rehearsing a [t]ragic story of shattered dreams and of love unrequited and at the same time declaring that their object is matrimony and urging the girls old maids and widows of Greensboro to sit up and take notice, William Guthrie, Harry Dory and Luther Lewis, three soldiers of the United States army stationed at Los Cascades in the Panama Canal Zone sent a joint letter to Mayor Thomas J. Murphy of this city, which he has just received, urging him to aid them in their quest for wives.

The letter which was written by Guthrie and signed by all three of the troopers, states that by tossing up coins they hit upon Greensboro and being the city in which to secure wives, and the letter to the mayor here followed. The three men, it appears, joined the army several years ago with the idea of acquiring wealth and fame within a few years and then returning to claim the girls of their choice as wives. After spending several years in the army, the letter states, they returned home only to find their respective sweethearts married. Disconcerted at the ruthless way in which love's young dream had been shattered, they took an oath that they would return to the army and die bachelors, according to the letter.

From the letter sent to Mayor Murphy, however, it appears that the troopers have changed their minds again and have determined to forsake the bachelor life and enjoy the doubtful blessing of married life.

A local newspaper is carrying an advertisement under the caption "Wives Wanted," but so far as can be learned no one has answered it as yet. Each of the soldiers belong to different regiments, but all of them are stationed at Los Cascedas, Panama Canal Zone. About two weeks time is required to receive a letter from that place.

KILLED WIFE AND SELF. ----------o---------- Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 2—Andrew [blotted], a mill worker, this morning [cut off]

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HAVE REACHED NO AGREEMENT BROWN ST. CASE ----------o---------- No agreement has yet been reached as to what steps will be taken in the condemnation proceedings instituted by the city of Greenville against the property of Mr. W. C. Gibson, on Brown street. As will be remembered, the verdict rendered by the five arbitrators was such that the several attorneys in the case could not agree as to whether a decision had been returned or not.

Unless it is agreed that a verdict is returned for either one side or the other, it seems that there can be no grounds for an appeal, would it be certain which side would take the appeal. As soon as some agreement can be reached as to what the verdict was, it is possible that an appeal may be made to the circuit court, or the case may be settled without an appeal.

The condemnation proceedings against this property have been taken in connection with the ffort to widen Brown street. Attorneys expressed an expectation to conclude the other three cases, against Mr. Theron Earle, Dr. Wright and Dr. J. B. Bruce, next week. --------------------o-------------------- CONSUMPTION CIGARETTES IN COUNTY IS GROWING ----------o---------- (Continued from First Page.)

proceeding year. The total production was 186,353,388.18 gallons.

Last year was the busiest year for the United States internal revenue tax. The total receipts of the bureau of internal revenue amounted to $344,424,453.86, an increase of $22,808,559.16 over the preceding year, and more than $18,000,000 in excess of estimated revenue.

High-water mark, up to that time, was reached in the total collections for the year 1901, when the added war tax brought the total from income tax impost up to $306,871,669. 42. The revenues fell off thirty-five million dollars the next year, and forty millions additional the following year, but since steadily advanceing until a new record was made in 1911, with a collection of $322,626, 889.73. A falling off of a million in collections was shown in 1912, followed by the phenomenal year of 1913, just closed.

Increase in General.

In almost every article of occupation taxed by the federal government under internal revenue laws there was an increase during the past year. All kinds of spirituous liquors showed an increased in revenues of $7,487, 864.77. The increase was nearly as large, $8,195,276.16 in tobaccos, of all [sorts of?] fermented liquors brought in $2,908,219.09 in excess of the record of the year previous. Oleomargarine showed a comparatively small increase of revenue, amounting to $131,280.12. Mixed flour and adulterated butter made little better showing than usual, and filled cheese and renovated butter did not do as well.

The corporation tax, bringing in $35,006,299.84, made a showing of $6,423,040.06 better than the fiscal year 1912. Penalties imposed for violations of laws were cut more than half, only $461,090.38 being collected.

The rest of collection was reduced from $17.14 per thousand dollars, or 1.71 per cent for 1912, to $15.94, or 1.50 per cent, for the fiscal year 1913.

And the increasing ratio of tax collection has not ceased. While the ration does not measure up to the increase in 1913 over the collections for the preceding year, yet already in the first four months of the present year the collections show an increase of nearly $4,000,000, or exactly $3,812,999.91. This is regarded by government experts as a positive indication of the present prosperous condition of the country.

Index of Prosperity.

Internal revenue collections, it is asserted, are the surest index of national and local financial conditions. There is no better weather vane of prosperity or depression, it is said.

Annually even monthly collections increase and decrease with the financial condition of the country. The tax is upon luxuries, and shows more instantly than any other medium the state of the popular pocketbook. --------------------o-------------------- SELLS INTEREST.

Mr. H. M. Boswell, of the firm of Batson & Boswell, has sold his entire interest in the grocery store conducted at 111-113 Coffco street and that business will hereafter be conducted under the name of Batson & Batson. Mr. Boswell has also sold his interest in the store of Batson Browthers & Boswell, at Marietta, to the other members of the firm, and it will be continued under the name of Batson Brothers. __________________________________ [advertisement for Gowans]

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At the Grand Opera House. "Officer 666" Grand opera house, January 5th.

Edison Talking pictures Grand opera house, January 7th and 8th.

"Within the Law" Grand opera house, January 12th.

The Majestic Nelle A. Kingsbury and Roscoe E. Munson, presenting their peculiar comedy creation "The Devil In Possession," and Salvatore, Clever Harpist, Friday and Saturday of this week, at the Majestic. Matinee daily.

Motion Pictures. "The Express Car Mystery," a two-reel feature production, and other mystery stories at the Bijou [Entercay?].

Four reels of absorbing and interesting pictures at the Casino Saturday.

GOOD ENTERTAINMENT ----------o---------- Attractions at the Majestic the Last Half of This Week Provide Good, Wholesome Entertainment.

Nelle A. Kingsbury and Roscoe E. Munson, presenting their peculiar comedy creation "The Devil In Possession," made a decided hit in their initial performance at the Majestic theatre yesterday. The construction of the play is unusually novel and met with great favor last evening owing to the new treatment of theme. "Miss Kingsbury, the author of the piece has given herself ample opportunity to prove her sterling worth as a commedienne of some versatle weight. Her delineation of character types in this tabloid version is filled with smart [entre?] and amusing lines of thought. Mr. Munson portrays a young man reduced to the simple life, after [blurry] having [reigned?] supreme. His wife having met him at each turn, he discovers himself on some very peculiar discussions. He capably filled his part.

Before witnessing the above episode, the audience is put in a joyful mood by Salvatore, who renders a number of beautiful selections on his harp. His auditors were so enthusiastic in their applause, that he was called to play an extra, which included a number of popular airs of the day.

Friday and Saturday the program remains unchanged, except for motion pictures, which are changed daily. ----------o---------- OFFICER 666."

That splendid melodromatic farce, "Officer 666," a play that has absorbed the attention and attracted crowded houses to the Gaiety Theatre in New York, and the Grand Opera House, Chicago, for the past year, will be presented for the first time in the city at the Grand next Monday, January 5th.

The story of "Officer 666" is all about a gentlemanly burglar who is a student of art as well. His particular hobby is old paintings. When the play opens he is found to be negotiating one of his famous coups and has chosen as his base of operations the home of Travers Gladwin, a rich New Yorker absent on a tour of the world. Returning unexpectedly, the young millionaire discovers that the picture expert has been masquerading as the owner of his home in upper Fifth Avenue, and is about to make his "getaway" with a particularly valuable lot of art objects as a part of his impediments. It is around these incidents that Augustin MacHugh has woven his play, which is said to be filled with dramatic surprises and clean fun that is particularly appealing to [cut off]

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he meets the burglar's sweetheart, a society girl who thinks he is a millionaire, and who is arrested as the crook's accomplice; and how, thrilled by the charm of her personality, the sure-enough millionaire falls in love with her at first sight and saves her from the thief, aided and abetted by the real Officer 666, and how the thief, though finally trapped is still triumphant, is left to the telling of the players, who will unfold the story.

"Officer 666" is an original play and its success is all the more gratifying because of the fact that it is purely American from start to finish. ----------o---------- EDISON TALKING PICTURES. January 7th and 8th.

The Edison Talking Pictures will be publicly viewed and heard for the first time here at the Grand, January 7th and 8th, opening with matinee.

The chief astonishment of the Edison Talking Pictures is caused by the exact coincidence between the motion of the lips and those in the pictures and the spoken word, as it issues from the phonograph mechanism. Whatever may be the final service of the Kinetophone, the salient fact that its coming emphasizes, is that at last we have a scientific synchronization of sight and sound. The pictures and reproduction of records, are absolutely perfect in union. Mr. Edison's latest invention is truly wonderful. ----------o---------- "WITHIN THE LAW" January 12th

The American Play Co., producer of "Within the Law" announces that a production of Bayard Veiller's sensational drama will be made in all civilized countries of the world. The play seems to have the 'punch' necessary to make it a world-wide success and the story lends itself to adaptation. "Within the Law" will be seen in this city on January 12th. ----------o---------- "AT THE BIJOU".

"The Express Car Mystery," is the title of a two-reel motion picture produced by the [Kalem?] company which will be shown on the screen at the Bijou theatre Saturday afternoon and night. As the title indicates, the story is a very strong dramatic production and is full of thrills and experiences. Another strong dramatic photo-play to be presented on the screen at the Bijou Saturday is "The Doctor's Secret," which is portrayed by some of the leading players of the Vitagraph company. "The Schoolman's Shooting Match," is the title of another picture to be shown at the Bijou tomorrow. The Bijou orchestra will play to the accompaniment of the pictures. ----------o---------- AT THE CASINO.

As usual, four reels of clear absorbing and interesting pictures will be shown at the Casino on Saturday. Special music will be rendered on the Bartola, the $2,000 musical instrument which was recently installed in the theatre. --------------------o-------------------- A SLIGHT FALL OF SNOW TODAY ----------o---------- Greenville and vicinity experienced the first real snow of the present winter today about 2:30 o'clock,, when an appreciable quantity of the downyflakes fell in the business section of the city and a larger quantity in some of the outlying districts.

It has been "looking like snow" to every weather prophet for several days past, and the Greenville citizen has gotten out of bed several times expecting to see the ground white. However, the snow did not fall, and there was only a very little bit of it today. However, hope springs eternal in the heart of the expectant kiddies.

At an early hour this morning, the temperature was 32 degrees, or exactly the freezing point. The tem[cut off]

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ASK LEGISLATURE TAKE ACTION ON OVERHEAD BRIDGE ----------o---------- Asking that the railroads involved be required to pay the entire cost of the erection of an overhead bridge on Buncombe street, at the [Pea-?] mills crossing, the board of county commissioners of Greenville will petition the county legislature delegation to recommend the passage of a special act to this effect, at the coming session of the general assembly. This was the statement of Commissioner G. O. [Brantloff,?] who said that the commissioners had decided to take this action at the suggestion of the county attorney, Mr. Oscar Hodges.

The commissioners express opposition to the proposition that Greenville county should pay a portion of the cost of the bridge. However, they are in favor of assisting the railroads in securing such rights-ofway as would be necessary for the construction of the bridge. --------------------o-------------------- ARRESTED FOR LARCENY

Owens Tally, who, it is alleged, stole clothing and [illegible amount] in cash from Bob Tally in Cripple Creek sometime ago, was arrested in Wiliamston yesterday and brought back to Greenville in the morning by Squire Mitchell, a deputy in the employe of Sheriff [Restar?] ________________________________ TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

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GRAND OPERA HOUSE On Duty The Funniest Farce Ever Written OFFICER 666 A Melo-dramatic Farce By Augustin Mac Hugh

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THE BIJOU Only Picture show in the city using a real Orchestra.

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MAJESTIC Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. KINGSBURY & MUNSON, Presenting their peculiar comedy creation, "The Devil in Possession," and SALVETORE, A very Cleaver Harpist, Matinee 10c and 15 c Night 10c and 20c. _________________________________ [advertisement for Casino De Lux] CASINO De Lux

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