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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
some INCOME TAX RULES
FORM TO BE USED AND REGULA
TONS TO BE FOLLOWED
ARE SENT OUT. "
Every Citizen Who Has Income o.
$4,000 OF More Liable for
the Tax.

Washington.-The form to- be used
and regulations to be followed by in
dividuals in making returns Of In
come subject to the new federal in
come tax were sent out by the. treas
ury department. Every citizen of the
United States, whether residing at
home or abroad, every person re-
siding in the United States and ev-
ery nonresident alien who has in
come from United States investments
Of $4,000 or more, must make return.
For the past year, 1913, specific ex-
emptions will be $4,000 or $3,333.33 in
the case of a married person, and In
future years $4,000 and $4,000. Where
the tax has been withheld in part Of
the income on the source, or where
part Of the income comes as dividends
upon stock Of q corporation, taxable
under the corporation tax section Of
the law, the regulations set forth that
such income shall be deducted from
the individuals total net income when
computing the amount Of which he is
taxable.
The law imposes a tax Of 1 per cent.
and provides that individuals who have
an income between $4,000 and $4,000
shall pay an additional tax Of 1 per
cent. on such amount; on all between
$780, 900 and $4,000, 2 per cent; $3.50 0
to $4,000 8 per cent; $4,000 to
s250,00O, 4 per cent; $250,000 to $780,
900, 5 per cent. and all " $500, 900,
6 per cent.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
FOREIGN POWERS
AGREE ON MEXICO
UNITED STATES MUST ASSUME
CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS
IN MEXICO.
MUST PROTECT INTERESTS
Free Hand for the United States SO
Long as Lives and Property for
Foreigners Are Guarded.

Washington.-Frequent conferences
between ambassadors and ministers
here are tending to unite them on a
line of conduct regarding Mexico,
which, while conforming to the plans
Of the United States, involves an IN
.derstanding as to obligations the
American government will be expect
ed to assume as the result Of non-in-
reference by foreign powers.
This common understanding has not
taken the form Of direct pressure, but
the state department is kept informed
through the medium of individual rep
resentatives Of the expectations OF the
European powers. Generally these re-
late to the protection Of financial in
terests which citizens and subjects of
the powers have in Mexico. No inten-
ton to bring in the political side of
the question is indicated. q ..... ..
More than one diplomatic represent
alive here has Informed the depart
ment that his own government was
interested in preventing financial loss
to it's citizens, and beyond that did
not care what the United States did in
Mexico so long as it was informed In
time to take precautions for the pro-
lection Of the lives of its citizens.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
MUCH SW|NDL|NG BY MAIL
$129,O0O,000 TAKEN FROM THE
PUBLIC BY MAIL
.. FRAUDS.
Many Schemes to Defraud the Public
Are Operated Through the
.... Mails.

Washington.-Loss of SIPS, 000, O0O
in two years by the unsuspecting pub
lie through swindling operation car.
ried on by use Of the United States
mails has stirred the postal authori,
ties to a drastic campaign against
fraudulent schemers. Wholesale use
of governments right to deny the
mailing privilege to persons or firms
whose operations may be tainted with
get rich quick" and other false
promises Is the weapon to be EN-.
ployed.
An effort to stop this %swindling by
reliance upon criminal courts has
proved ineffective, according to W. H.
Lamar, assistant attorney general for
the p~ostoffce department, whose an
nual report was made public on the
first.
Criminal proceedings are necessa.
rily Slow says the report, land by
means Of appeals and other methods
the execution of sentence are deferred
for long periods, during which the
concerns and individuals engaged in
such fraudulent business continue to
reap a harvest through their fraudu-
lent enterprise. In some instances,
the penalty being merely a fine, there
was nothing to prevent the parties
from continuing their schemes ex-
cept fear Of subsequent fines. These
they could easily afford to pay in
view of the large revenue derived
from the business"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
Governor Defines State Guard.

Wv
Following general orders, signed by
the governor as commander-in-chfef
we've issued a few days ago from the
office of the adjutant general:
General orders, No. "a: On and
after January 1, 1914, the organiza,
ton of the National Guard of South
Carolina will be as follows:
General officers; One brigadier
general.
"Adjutant generals department:
One brigadier general, one major.
Inspector generals department,
One major. ~ ..
"Quartermaster corps: Two majors,
three captains.
Judge advocate generals depart.
ment: One major. -,
Ordnance department.: One major.
Medical department: Three ma
iors, IL captains, or first ~liuetenants
(assigned to duty with the three reg
lments Of infantry; one major, two
captains or first l%ieutenants (on- duty
with field hospttal); three detach-
ments of sanitary troops ga enlisted
men, each assigned to each infan-
try regiment); one field hospital (21
enlisted men).
Infantry: Three complete regi-
ments Of IL companies each. First
and Second regiments have bands).
"The personal staff of the briga-
der general commanding brigade will
consists of two l%ieutenants.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
TO MAKE FIGHT ON PELLAGRA
Secretary MeAdoo Asks for a Pellasra
Hospital for the South. ~


Washington. - Secretary McAdoo
asked congress to appropriate $4,000
for a pelalgra hospital at some South
ern point. -
Secretary McAdoo in his letter to the
speaker pointed out that pellagra has
imposed great financial burdens on
communities in which it prevails and
that while Investigations of pellagra
have been Systematically carried on
at the marine hospital at Savannah for
several years, and important bacteri-
ologic and ep~idemiologic studies are
being carried IN from that station,
that institution has no facilities for
the conduct Of metabolic and ~physico-
chemical studies. The latter studies
are necessary at this time, according
to the public health service, because
of the suspicion Of the association Of
the disease with diet and metabolism.
Secretary McAdoo added:
"A number of food products are un-
der suspicion, thus duplicating several
important industries, and it becomes
important from both sanitary and eco-
nomic %standpoints to determine once
and for all what bearing, if any, foods
have on the continuance Of the dis
ease. These studies necessarily will
be of a highly technical nature, requir-
ing special facilities to guard against
the possibility of error creeping in
during the experiment.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
Want Motor Cycles Registered.

State registration and license fees
for motor vehicles in South Carolina
and the construction and maintaining
a system Of state highways under the
Department of Agriculture, Commerce
and Industries are provided for in a
bill which will be introduced in the
General Assembly when it meets in
January. At present South Carolina,
with one other state, has no state reg
istration of automobiles. The objec>
of the proposed bill is to provide for
the building and maintenance of a
system of highways.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
UNCLE SANS ARMY
NOW @UNPREPARED
UNITED STATES SHY OF FIELD
GUNS AND ALSO OF
AMMUNITION.
ARE NOT READY FOR WAR
General Wood Paints DolefuI Picture
of Army to Congressional
Committees.

MISUNDERSTANDING that his
judgment was not Influenced by the
Mexican situation, Major General
Wood, chief Of staff Of the army, has
advised committees Of congress that
they should appropriate S3,000,OO for
field guns and ammunition for the
regular army, and 100000 for the
militia.
"If you sent our troops into war as
they are now, without guns or ammu-
milton, it would be absolute slaugh-
ter" the general told the house mill
tary committee. eff called into the
field suddenly, we should have to go
with a small allowance of ammunition,
and we should have neither guns nor
ammunition enough for our field artil-
lery forces"
General Wood, in a written state
ment, said:
1--WE neither have guns nor ammuni-
ton sufficient to give any general COM
manding an army in the field any as
surance of success if attacked by an
army Of equal size which is supplied
with its proper quota Of field artil-
lery.
cit is my belief that no modern war
between first class powers will last
for one year, and unless private manu-
facturers are encouraged to manufac-
ture ammunition for our guns, after
war is declared, they will not be in a
condition to do so until after the war
is finished. PSI
"The wal department believes after
extended study that, in cases Of war
with a first class power. an army of
$780, 900 men will be needed to give
this country any chance Of success
against invasion, and that this force
will be needed at once"
The general suggested that the
United States regular mobile army
should be organized into three infan-
try and two cavalry divisions with
an aggregate war strength of about
$4,000, requiring 81 batteries, or ZIG
guns. 49,.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
INCOME OF AGRICULTURAL BU-
REAU EXCEEDS EPENsE DUR
ING PAST YEAR.
FINE INSPECTION SERVICE
Feedstuffs and Oil Fees Have Yielded
Funds Sufficient to Cover All Ex-
penses-The Bureau Has Bright
Prospects For 1914.

'.. Columbia.
The state department of agriculture
has been placed on a self-sustaining
basis. Commissioner Watson recently
turned over $12,30250 to the general
state fund. This amount was col
lected under the feedstuffs and the oil
inspection acts.
In speaking of the matter, Commits
sioner Watson said that it had been
his ambition to- get the department
of agriculture, with all Of its manifold
duties, on a thoroughly self-sustaining
basis. He said that it was the greatest
personal qualification to him to be
able to say that notwithstanding the
fact that he has had to equip at a
very considerable expense laboratories
for the examination of feeds foods,
drugs, oils and seeds, a great deal OF
this expense having to be borne this
year, the department had come out at
the end of the year in such shape as
to be able to pay back to the state
all of the money appropriated for the
department and still carry a safe mar
gin Of surplus for unimpeded opera
tons in those divisions dependent en-
tirely upon special funds.
4, With the necessity for expenditures
for laboratory equipment out of the
way, the coming years record, he
said, ought to be equally as good. Mr..
Watson considers. the idea Of COM
pactness and coordination of work on
various lines under divisions in one
department the greatest economy the
state could practice. He said that he
believed that during the coming year
the department could easily take on
a public highway division and prof
vide skilled engineering and a sys-
tenn of maintenance of earth roads on
main highways and go to the end of
the year with that work also with
out cost to the state by direct appro-
pr1ation.
Mr.. Watson said that the surplus
which enabled him to take the action
that he has, covering all expenses for
the year 1913, has not accrued during
the year 1913, but has come over a
period of the last two or three years
during the process of organization of
the new divisions marking the expanT
sion of the departments. With the
operating equipment now all bought,
however, he feels sur that the show
ing at the end of the year 1914 can be
equally as gratifying.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
CEASES ON BORDER
Dead Bodies Of Soldiers Lying In
Trenches.

Maria, Texas.-Fighting between
the northern division of the Mexican
federal army, defending Ojinaga, Mex
leo, opposite here, and General Orte-
gas 5000 rebels ceased as suddenly
as it began a week ago. Without any
federal activities to provoke his move,
General 'Ortega withdrew his army
seven miles to the west, along the
Rio Grande, supposedly to await the
arrival Of r~einforcements from Chi
huahua.
Although both armies, after six days
Of fighting, had been resting, General
Ortega suddenly divided his army into
three formations and started to move
along the border away from Ojinaga.
General Ortega's departure was re-
garded by the federal garrison as in
dicating that, both armies will delay
further fighting until both of them
have been strengthened.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
Lancaster is Prospecting.

Lancaster is growing every day.
Numbers Of people not only from diff
ferent sections of the county and state,
but from North Carolina and Georgia
and other states as well are now find
ing homes in this place. A great
number Of mill employes-men, wom-
en- and children-from other sections
have recently located here, and in or
der to accommodate this increase in
Lancaster's population about rs well
built and substantial five and six
room cottages in and near the mill
village have just been completed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
New South Carolina Enterprises.

Ruby Drug Company of Ruby, with
a capital of $4,000. Officers are: R.
M. Newsom, president; J. S, McGreg-
or, vice president; R. R. McCreight,
secretary and treasurer.
c.. W. 1Requarth Company of Ian
caster has been commissioned, with
a capital of $4,000. Petitioners are:
G. w. Requarth and VIM. M. Wilson.
Clifton Land Company of Eloree
has been chartered. with a capital of
$4,000. The officers are: J. C. Par
k,'r, president; G. W. Shumaker, vice
president; E. F. Trick, secretary and
treasurer.
Horny County Trust Company Of
Conway, has been commissioned with
a capital Of $4,000. The petitioners
are: Wv. Russ, w. B. Jones, w. P.
Hardwicke and A. M. Sutherland.
Model Garage Company Of Union
has been commissioned, with a CAPT
tai of $4,000. Petitioners are: JIG.
Going, o. E. Going, D. b. Montgom-
cry and Leo Jenkins.
The White Bank of Chester has
been chartered with a capital Of
100000. Officers are: T. H. White,
president.
M. M. Byrd Company Of Mullins,
has been chartered, with a capital Of
$4,000. Officers are: c. T. Byrd, pres
ident; H. L. Byrd, vice president; M.
NJ. Byrd, secretary and treasurer.
Bailey Distributing Company of Co.
lumbia has been chartered, with a
capital of $4,000. Officers are: C. T..
Bailey, president and treasurer; l.. K.
Bailey, secretary.
Santee Hunting club of Sumter
county has bon commissioned with
a capital Of $1,000. Petitioners are
R. M. Barwick, j. H. Mcleod and
S. c. Mcleod.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
ManciHa Did Not

San Antonio; Texas Gen. To-.
Mancilla, who left the Fe Ederais Arm "a
Ojinaga, Mexico, and cr yossed to Pras ].
dio, Texas, did not desc 1T his comnss,
but is seriously Ill al ID came to H.
United States TO isee1 medical attsn'
ton. This was the report which ~
jor McNamee, in coJJhlmand Of the boz.
der patrol which Hook Aancila insas,
custody under tHek Neutrality laws
made to General Tasker H. Bliss,
department headquarters here. Get
eral Bliss has refused General MAJ
elias request to be allowed to corr
with his son to San Antonio for ire.
ment unless heJresigns from the Me-
lean Army.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
Unknown Steamer Goes Down.

New York.-A wireless message re-
ceived here by the agents of the
Cor,pania Trans-Atlantica, said that
the steam Manuel Calvo of that line
was on her way into port towing a
disabled tank steamer, when at a
point fifteen miles east of Sandy
Eook the tank steamer sank. The
Manuel Calvo lost one lifeboat, the
dispatch said. There "a no men
ton Of any loss of life nor was the
name of the tank steamer given
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
Traaic Reelfoot Lake to Tennessee.

Nashville, Tenn.-Reelfoot lake, the
famous fishing and game resort near
the western border of the state, be-
came tho property Of the state of
Tennessee when the condemnation
suit brought by the state against the
West Tennessee Land company for
the part of the lake represented by
grants before the earthquake Of 1911,
which caused the lake, was settled in
open court at Union City. The con-
sideration vas $1,000, $3.50 for the
part in Obion county and 10000 for
that in Lake county. The old grants
represented over a fourth Of the lake.
The acquisition of the lake by the
state is expected to put an end to dis
orders over fishing rights or. threat
ened disorders in the lake region,
which in 1908 was the scene Of an
uprising by fishermen when Capt.
Quentin Rankin, a prominent lawyer,
was lynched and Col. r. q. Taylor
had a thrilling escape.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
Fined For Violating Game Law.

August Belmont of New York, one
of the best known men in financial
and sporting circles in this country
and Europe has paid a fine Of $500 to
the State of South Carolina for viola
ton of the game laws and has taken
out licenses for himself and friends
to hunt on his own preserve in
Hampton county, in accordance with
the laws of the state.
Chief Game Warden A. A. Richard
son gave out a statement in response
to request, with regard to the case
which ended a few days ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
rs LABORERS MEET DEATH
Flatboat on Which They Were Being
Transported Was Wrecked.

Flatboat on Which they were se'n9
Transported Was Wrecked.
Winnipeg, Manitoba.-Dashed to
death on the rocks in the Fraser riv.
er, British Columbia, or swept to their
doom by the swift current, was the
fate of rs laborers employed by the
Grand Trunk Pacific railroad, accord
ing to Angelo Pugliese, n of rs who
managed to escape when the fatboat
in which they were being transport.
ed across the river was wrecked on
a rock. ~. !
Pugliese reached Winnipeg and
says the 25 who escaped were all
injured. The tragedy occurred in Brit
ish Columbia, west Of Fort George.
Pugliese says a change in location
Of the work necessitated crossing the
Fraser river. The 100 laborers put
away from shore in a frail craft, which
became unmanageable. 1t was dashed
to pieces on a rock in the middle Of
the torrent.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
NEGRO Is Lynched in Louisiana.

Shreveport, La.-Dave Lee, a ne
gro, was taken from the Marion coun-
ty jail at Jefferson, Texas, by
a body Of masked men and hanged
to a bridge nearby. The mob COM
PEELED the taller to give up his keys,
quickly secured the prisoner, execut-
ed him and quietly dispersed. Lee
was charged with shooting and wound
ing Constable Matt Taylor, while re-
sisting arrest. 1t is said there were
but fifteen men in the lynching par
ty. No arrests have been made.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
Lost Money and Killed Himself.

Athens, Ala.-Henry Warten, the
wealthiest and III of the most prom
inent men of this county, committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the left temple. The shooting occur
red at his home, death being instanta-
neous He was a heavy dealer in cot
ton futures, having made a fortune in
a corner on the staple in New Orleans
last August. Recently he has been,
losing heavily, and his son in New
Orleans had just told him over the
long distance telephone that he had
been closed out in his futures there.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
MiIlionaires 10 Build Club.

Brunswick, Ga.-The purchase by
Edwin Gould and associates Of Lath-
am Hammock, and the filing of a petit
ton for charter in the Glynn superior
court for the incorporation Of the
Latham Hammock Club" probably
means that Glynn county is soon to
have another club composed of mil
lionaires, similar in many ways to the
famous Jekyl Island Club, which has
been known for many pears as the
richest organization Of the kind in the
country, being composed Of one hun
dred millionaireS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
Two Primaries Ordered in Alabama.

Montgomery, Ala~-Majority rule
was upheld as a Democratic principle
by the state executive committee,
which met in Montgomery. Two pri-
maries will be held, the first April
6 and the second May II, to select a
United States senator, governor and
other state officers. Resolutions pro-
viding the exclusion of all non-Demo-
Gratis from participation in the prima-
ries were adopted without opposition.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
Ask Lesa Money Than Before.

Annual report of the Historical
Commission of South Carolina was is
sued from the press recently and will
be sent to the general assembly early
in the session. Members of the com.
mission signing the report are: r. M.
McCown, w. H. WiIdle, Jos. A. Nc
Cullough, Henry A. M. Smith, Yates
Snow den and R. M. Kennedy.
Estimates of expense for the coming
year are as follows: Salary Of the
secretary $1,000, s~tenographer and
typewriter s720, printing historical
records $1,000, contigent, fund 5000,
work on Confederate records $780,,
or a total Of s5,270.
1t is stated in the report that A.
s. Salley. Jr., was reelected secretary
and Yates Snowden Of the University
Of South Carolina, vice chairman. q
"At the last session Of your honor
able body" says the commission, "the
following appropriations were made
for this commission: Secretary ST.
60O;; contingent fund, $3.50; printing,
$1,000; work on Confederate records,
$4,000; total $3.50. The $1,000 APP
%propriated for salary of the secretary
was applied to the payment Of his sal.
airy as fixed by law. For a statement
Of disbursement of the $3.50 contin-
gent fund we refer your honorable
oody to the statement included in the
report of-the secretary accompanying
this report. T.,erein is also set out
the disposition Of the $4,000 for work
on Confederate records.
I'VE are glad to congratulate your
honorable body on the progress your
appropriations have permitted us to
make in procuring and printing the
records Of the states soldiers during
the War Between the States, We have
had completed the photostatic copies
of more than two-thirds Of the rolls
in the war department at Washington.
The appropriations we ask for the
coming year, will finally complete
these copies. We have also published
the irsI volume of the Confederate
records. containing the names and ser.
vice Of the members Of the three. first
infantry regiments, and hope to FOL.
low with further ones as rapidly as
possible. The other publications for
the year will appear from the secre.
tary's report
THE performance of this great
work of recognition on the part Of the
to her heroic sons is now well under
way.
Owing to the great increase of the
work developed upon the secretary,
we would earnestly request Of your
honorable body a small increase in his
salary and would also urge that he
be allowed a stenographer and type
writer to assist. The continual ap-
peals from all parts Of the state for
information as to the history of, for
bears, especially during the war of
18611S65, and for historical informa-
ton, render 1t almost impossible for
him to perform all of the work with.
out assistance"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-01-14
Plot of Rebels Fooled.

Guayaquil, Ecuador.-A plot to at
tack the barracks at Guayaquil was
discovered by the government in time
to prevent a serious situation. Revolu-
tionists under Col. Vale Franco were
surprised while making preparations.
The leader was killed and others were
dispersed. Troops patrolled the city
throughout the night. Several gov
eminent officials involved in the rebel
campaign in Esmeraldas have been
brought here for courtmartial.