Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-02
Scraps and faets.

currency law, under which nearly four
hundred million dollars was put into
circulation during the first days OF
stress of the European war, died at
midnight Wednesday, by It's OWN
limitations. 1t was intended to ex-
pire last year but had been extended
by the new Federal reserve law. Prac-
tically all the currency issued mas now
been retired and every dollar is ex-
pected to be redeemed during the next
few days. For it's operation, S5OO,-
OOO, 900 in notes have been kept on
hand in the treasury. The expansion
and contraction of currency hereafter
will be taken up in the Federal reserve
system by notes issued at the reSloiiai
banks on commercial paper.
News and Courier: Judge Ernest
Moore, in an opinion handed down in
the case of the state against Laura E.
Reed, charged with violating the act
prohibiting the traffic in seed cotton
or unpicked lint cotton by purchase
barter or exchange within the county
of Charleston between August ana
December 81, Of any year, held the act
to be unconstitutional. He based his
opinion on the fact that 1t was an at
tempt to enact a special and local law
upon a subject to which general law
can be made applicable. On her trial
before a magistrate the defendant was
found guilty of buying seed cotton In
the county of Charleston and was
sentenced to serve thirty days in the
county Jail Of Charleston or pay fine
Of S25.
The percentage condition Of cotton
on the average date OF June "a, as
compiled from the replies OF the speclai
correspondents Of the New York Jour-
nal of Commerce, was 1871 per cent
decline Of or per cent from the pre-
yious month, when the condition was
SO.4 per cent. This compares with
1856 per cent last year, sos per cent
in 1918, 91.3 per cent, in 1912, soy per
cent in 1911, and SOL per cent in 1910,
and against q ten-year average OF
SO.2 per cent. Deterioration occurred
in all states except Louisiana ana
Texas, where an increase OF 80 per
cent and 2.3 per cent took place, re-
spectively. Freedom from damage by
insects and favorable weather are ac-
cpuntable for the improvement in con-
dition in these states. Practically all
other states have suffered from TOO
much rain, but recent Improvement In
weather condition is enabling farm
ers to catch up with cultivation. The
season for the whole belt averages ten
days late. The condition in South
Carolina is placed at 1871.
THE Dominion freight liner Armeni
an, flying the British flag and carry
ing mules from Newport News, Va, to
England, was torpedoed ana SUNK sun
Monday night by the German sub
marine U-2S, off Cornwall, England,
and nearly a score of American mule
dealers aboard are reported lost, ac-
cording to messages to the state de-
partment at Washington, Wednesday.
from John S. Armstrong, Jr., consul
at Bristol. Twenty-Five men In all
were lost and ten injured. The news
created a sensation in official quar-
ters, as it was the first case OF loss
of American lives since the sinking OF
the Lusitania. The action OF the
Washington government, however, de-
pends almost entirely on whether the
Armenian was chartered by the Brit
ish government and was, In fact' a
transport Of war aboard which Amerl-
cans would sail at their own risk, or
whether she was an unarmed mer-
chantman. In the latter case, even
though carrying contraband, the ship
should have been subjected to visit
and searched and those aboard trans
ferred to a place Of safety before the
destruction Of the vessel was attempt
ed, officials hold.
Secretary of War Garrison has
asked Attorney General Gregory for
an opinion as to whether army officers
have an inalienable right to resign
their commissions in time Of peace.
The decision will be of far-reachins
consequence, not only to the govern
ment itself, but to every branch OF
the united service-the navy, marine
corps and coast-guard service, as
well as the army. The appeal OF the
department Of justice for an opinion
on this question has never been de-
termined, despite the fact that officers,
both Of the army and navy nave at
various times insisted that they have
the right to resign, grows out Of the
large number Of designations of officers
of the ordnance department of the
army during the last six months to
enter the manufacturing field as am
munition experts. Since last Decem-
ber six ordnance officers have resign
ed. Secretary Garrison, acting for
the president as commander-in-ch -chief
of the army, has accepted four OF
these designations, but has refused to
accept the other two until the question
of the right Of an officer to resign in
time Of peace has been passed upon by
the attorney general.
- Treatment of war SHOCK" one of
the newest Affections known to medi-
cal science, was brought to the atten-
ton Of the American Institute OF
Homeopathy at it's annual meeting IN
Chicago Wednesday. DR.. James Ear
son of London, a surgeon attached to
the Anglo-American hospital, the
homeopathic war base in Paris, in a
paper on the work of physicians in
the European war, wrote that war
shock had caused much temporary
insanity among the soldiers. One Of the
great problems has been the treat
ment Of the new disease" DR.. carson
wrote. 1T is an underlined but real
ailment, due to a large part to the
terrible and incessant noises Of gum
merry and the generally acute excite
ments and emotions accommodating and
expressing themselves on the nerv-
Gus system. Quiet and sleep are the
great need Of these men, but 1t is
hard to get them in condition where
they can sleep. A most remarkable
medical development is the way SOL
diers are able to stand up to their
waists in icy water for stretches of SO
hours without visible injuries result
ing. Trench foot has been much in
evidence but it is almost incredible
how splendidly the mass Of men went
through the experience"
A Washington dispatch says:
Seven eighths of the wounds in the
Galacian fighting were caused by
shells, half of which were fired from
il-calibre guns, said Surgeon Major
Lesghintseff to an interviewer return
ing to Warsaw from the front.
Bullets play no part now" he con-
tinued, "and the infantryman's rifle is
a toy. Infantry merely occupies the
trenches; the cannon have Won" Most
devastating Of all are the new Skoda
shells of the German allies, which are
II inches in diameter and weigh $500
pounds The Skoda howitZer shoots
at a high angle and its shell penetrates
20 feet into soft earth before explod-
ing two seconds after striking. These
howitzers do not resemble the Krupp
mortar of the same calibre, to which
they are said to be superior in every
way. When a Skoda shell hits 1t
means death to everything within a
radius of $50 yards and even farther
off. The pressure of it's gas ribs open
the bomb proof shelters and catches
those who escape the metal fragments
and flying debris. This gas enters
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