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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18

our cotton until a fair price was
offered. Economy is the lesson
we must learn. It is the saliva
ton of the southern farmer.
So far as the export trade at
present is concerned, Mr.. Nc
Laurin said, we have no more
quarrel with Germany than we
have with England. One has
done US as much dirt as the
other. In this connection be
gave a striking description of
the war in Europe, which was
listened to with much interest
by his hearers.
I have been a member of every
farmers organization I have
ever heard of in South Carolina
since I was 81 years old, declared
Mr.. McLaurin, and I have found
them all good. The trouble is
with the weakened fellow who
won't stick to the unions princi-
Piles, but sells his cotton for less
than it cost to make it. They
are the fellows who are respon-
sible for the low price of cotton
last year. Referring to the cot
ton elimination proposition which
was discussed great deal last
fall, the commissioner took oc-
casion to mention Mr.. John &.
Anderson of Rock Hill, father
of the Crock Hill Plan" which
was put forward and which Mr..
McLaurin endorsed. II never
met Anderson until last year
when he was down in Columb mbia,
helping US on this elimination
business. He is one Of the
strongest thinkers in the state
and a man, every inch of him."
he said.
The raising of supplies at
home and the production of cot
ton only as surplus in the
future, was the advice which
the speaker wanted to offer.
Mr.. Hill. in his little speech,
he continued, had something to
say to you aoout politics. I
have no political aspirations.
My former political experiences
were Of a kind that care not to
go through again IN my old age.
But I say this to you; | don't
know any state in the Union that
needs a more thorough political
house-cleaning than South Car.
olina. We need legislators who
are more in sympathy with the
laboring and agricultural classes
The greatest robbery in the
south is the syste matte under
grading of cotton. The cotton
buyer is not your friend. He is
paid by an exporter wants to
buy your cotton as cheap as he
can, If you don't take what he |
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18
Notice..

The books of Registration have clos.
ed and the books are now in the hands
of the clerk of court. 80 days prior to
the election. according to law. All
those who failed to apply to the Board
for renewals. can't do so now until af-
ter the election on the 14th OF Septem-
Der. All certificates issued since 1908
are valid.
E. D. HODGE,
Chairman Board.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18

dwell within it's limits. Give US
your trade-help US to build up
our town and you will increase
the value cf land in our com.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27

DIR. Samuel Stewart Mari. member
of the Association of Oldest Inhabit-
ants. died at his home. 1915 Vernon
street, yesterday afternoon at o'clock.
Dr. MARI had been ill for some months.
He was in his seventy-second year,
having been born in Washington De-
cember "a, 1S43.
Funeral services will be held tomor-
row morning at st. Pauls Roman Cath
Ollie Church. Interment will be in
Mount Olivet cemetery.
Dr. Mars father, the late ]. H. Mari.
was long one of the we'll known off,
GERS Of the Post Office Department. at
one time being first assistant postmas-
ter general, while u brother, Rev. d. j.
MARI, died last year while pastor of the
immaculate Conception Church of this
city. DIR. MARI was graduate of Con-
zaga College and of the Georgetown
Medical School. For more than forty
years he had served in the general land
Office. for many years as chief of the
railroad division, and later as law
clerk.
In 1868 DIR. Mari married Miss Nina
Talbot of Silver Spring, Md, who sur
wives him, together with the following
children: Miss Nina MARI, Mrs. Hugh
c. Mitchell, Messrs. J. H. MARI, F. o.
Mari. W. W. Mari and ]. A. MARI, all
of this city, and A. N. Mari of San
Francisco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27
RED CROSS HOSPITAL
SHELLED, SAYS VIENNA
Austrian Official Statement Charges
a Violation of Inter-
national Law.

BERLIN. September 81. by wireless
to Tuckerton, n. 1.-THE Official state.
ment issued yesterday at Vienna con-
tains the following:
The activity of the Italians yester-
day was confined to heavy Smelling OF
the Red Cross hospital at Gorilla, which
is marked conspicuously by the Red
Cross nag. Italian shells struck the
hospital five times. One shell exploded
in the operating room. Fifty-three
other shells fell in the immediate
neighborhood of the hospital.
This action was contrary to interna.
ttonal law. 1t served no military pur.
pose. as there werej no troops in tina,
immediate vicinity"
The Austrian official statement of yes.
terday. as received by way of London
did not contain the foregoing. which
apparently was stricken out by the
British censor.
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FRENCH STATEMENT.

PARIS, September 81, $3.50 pm:
In the Artois district we have main
tanned our positions.
To the east of Souchez our advance,
previously reported as having reach
ed the destroyed telegraph line to
the north of Thelus. has not as a
matter of fact passed the orchards OF
La Folie and the highway from Ar
ras to Lille. This advance, how
ever, has been at all points main
tanned.
Along the front to the south of the
River Somme there has been fighting
entity of Andrechy. Our artillery
has vigorously counter-attacked the
batteries of the enemy which were
cannonading our positions at Quen-
nevieres.
In the Champagne district the fighting
has been going on with tenacity
along all the front. We have occu-
pied at several places. notably at
Trou Bricot, to the north of the Wac
ques farm. several positions in the
rear of our new lines where certain
detachments of the enemy had been
able to maintain themselves.
The previous statement that we had
captured 200 German officers Is err
roneous, we have taken prisoner 300
German officers in the Champagne
district.
Between the Mouse and the Moselle
and in the Lorraine district there ha S
been severe artillery lighting on both
Sides
A violent storm in the vosges has for
the moment suspended all operations
in this district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27
To Visit Fort Washington.

The commanding oficer at Fort
Washington has prepared a special pro-
gram for the entertainment of the vet
Grams and others who will visit the fort
tomorrow. under the auspices Of the
Sons Of Veterans. When the steamer
st. Johns lands visitors will be met al
the wharf by the ohicers at the post
They will be taken into mine Chambers
and other parts of the fort that are or
dinarily guarded with the utmost care,
a privilege not often accorded visitors
to the fort. The old fort will also De
visited, 80 that the veterans can Gen.
trast old and new methods o. defense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27
Austria Calls Out More Men.

ZURICH, Switzerland. September 20.
via London, September :7.-The Aus
trian eighteen-ye ar-old landstrum class
has been ordered to Join the army Oc-
tober Is, according to dispatch from
Vienna. Other classes. including the
ages Of nineteen, twenty. twenty-four.
and from thirty -eight to forty-five, will
be summoned TO the colors the middle
Of November. The oldest classes, from
forty-three to nifty years. Will be called
out at the end of November.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27
ANSWER ROLL CALL Of
L|NC0LN'S BDDYCUARD
Eight Survivors Meet Here Where
They CHARTERED Horses Dur.
ing the Civil War.

Eight surviving members of Lincoln's
bodyguard answered roll call this
morning on the site where the guard
quartered their horses during the civil
war. 18th and D streets northwest:
DIR. George c. Ashman, dean of the
faculty of the Western Reserve Medi-
cal College. at Cleveland, Ohio, pre-
sided at the exercises. which were wit
messed by many veterans and others.
Following the roll call the members
discussed incidents in connection with
the time they spent there during the
war.
During the exercises word was re-
ceived that Nathaniel NJ Page OF
Springfield, Mo-. one OF the members or
paralysis on the street while on his
way to the exercises. The meeting
came to an end and DR.. Ashman. with
several members, fastened to Emer-
gency Hospital. DR.. Ashman investi-
gated Mr.. Pages condition and re-
ported that he will be able to leave the
hospital in q few days. 1t is expected
he will return Immediately to his home.
Judge Robert w, Mcbride of the SUI
preme court of Indiana and recently
elected president of the bar association
Of that state, is secretary OF the guard.
He has quarters at the Raleigh Hotel
and was busily engaged today in en-
deayorinx to locate other members who
failed to answer the roll call. Judge
Mcbride said he had received word that
Hiram Cook, the bugler of the guard
was in the city with his old buEle and
is endeayoring to locate him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27
CAPITAL TRANSFORMED
Since THE DAYS Of '65
Civil War Veterans See Vast
Changes Since Time of
Grand Review.
Practically All Of City's Most Beau
tiful Structures Erected in
Past Fifty Years.

From a city Of mere mud puddles and
few houses in the days Of '65, the vet
Grams Of the civil war attending this
encampment will see the marvellous
transformation in the National Capital
in the half century intervening be-
tween the time of the grand review by
President johnson and the current
period. While the veterans in return
ing from the battlehelds subsequent to
the war marched over Pennsylvania
avenue as a rough and unimproved
highway. when they march in the
parade tomorrow they will find it
smooth and paved with the modern
asphalt, with cement sidewalks and
lined on two sides with handsome
buildings, grown up in the last half
century to house the machinery of
commerce.
The government itself has taken on
new life since the war, and has dressed
itself in handsome marble and granite
attire.
There is the completed Capitol. which
the veterans saw in the COS as blocks
OF marble piled about what is now the
Capitol grounds. and scores of work
men cutting the stones and rushing to
fine edifice which the veterans see to-
day. To the east has grown up the
handsome Congressional Library, un-
surpa ssed i'll beauty by any building in
the world. 1t stands on the site of
what was Duff GREEN'S row." part of
the houses OF which were used as mill
tary prisons when the old Capitol
prison overlooked.
Prison Still Standing.
The Capitol prison itself, now stand
ing on the southeast corner of what Is
LIST and A streets northeast, remem-
bered for its barred windows, the
screeching doors and tramping SEN
tries of the war days. the veterans will
see as a much improved building. di-
vided into three big dwellings.
On either side Of the Capitol grounds
there will be found the handsome mar
BILE buildings constructed to provide Of
fees for the congressman, where they
can transact business in the interest OF
their constituents and the government
To the west of the Capitol there is the
Ceace. or Naval. monument, erected to
the memory of those of the naval
branch who served during the civil
war. and just little to the south the
memorial to Cen Grant is nearing com
pletion.
Recent structures that have gone VI
are the Union station. the handsome
city post office, the big granite building
housing the Post ONCE Department, the
Treasury. Department of Agriculture
and State, War and Navy building.
White House About Same.
Though many changes have beer
made in the White House of the Lin.
coin days, it nevertheless maintain,
the general appearance familiar to tn.
soldiers who passed it in the grand re
view before johnson.
There Is. too. the pension ONCE. tn,
largest brick structure in the world
surrounded just above the first stor!
with bas-relief of the troops of thu
various arms which participated in tn,
war. The completed Soldiers Home Il
something that has been added sine,
the war days and will prove OF grea
interest to the veterans.
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Those Who Answered Roll Call.

Those who answered the roll call this
morning were DR.. Ashman. Judge Nc
Bride, Paul Metzger, J. d. Raikes.
George f. Laubender. g. g. Banks. JET
ferson Koontz and ]. C. Rhodes.
When the Governor Of Ohio called for
volunteers to enlist for special duty
coins bodyguard. OF the original
guard but few are remaining and are
widely scattered.
The members Of the guard are to visit
were with President Lincoln during the
war. In the evening banquet is to be
held at the Raleigh. when DR.. Ashman,
the only surviving commissioned officer
of the guard, Is to preside as toast
master.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27
WAR OFFICIALLY REPORTED

our assaiIants considerably nearer tt
their aim
On the coast also British warships
have attempted to interfere by theiI
fire, especially on Zeebrugge. but
without result
fered heavy losses and had no sue.
Southwest of Lille the enemy succeeded
in repulsing one Of our divisions near
Loos from its advance line Of defense
to its second line. Naturally we had
considerable losses. including mate
rial of all kinds Enclosed between the
two positions. A counter attack Is
progressing favorably.
We voluntarily evacuated the ruins Of
the village of Souchez. Other at
tacks on this front were easily re-
pulsed at several points with the
heaviest of losses for the enemy.
The seth regiment of landwehr e.
pecially distinguished itself. This is
the same regiment which sustained
the principal attack north Of Neu.
vile in May,
In the struggles between Rheims and
the Argonne. north Of Perthes,. one
German division was obliged to
bombardment for seventy hours and
retire to its second position, situated
from two to three kilometres 1.24 to
1.s6 miles) behind the first. However
all attempts to break through failed
The battle was especially stubborn
north of Mourmelon lie Grande and
close to the western Argonne. Here
our brave troops made the enemy
suffer the heaviest losses. The north
German and Hessian landwehr fought
excellently.
In the air battles our aviators achieved
successes. One of our war planes
shot down an aeroplane west OF
Cambria. South of Metz. Lieut.
Boelke, while on trial fight. shot
down Voisin aeroplane. Flight
Sergt- Boehm went up to repulse an
attack on Freiburg by squadron OF
three French war planes. He shot
down two of them; only the third
escaped
Eastern war theater: Army group OF
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg-
East of Vileika fresh Russian at
tacks were repulsed. West of vi
leschneff We broke through the
enemy's positions at several points
The battle continues.
Northwest of Sabresin our attack re-
sina river. Further south near Djel-
jatitschi and Liubtscha we have
reached the Niemen. Nine hundred
prisoners and two machine guns
were captured.
Army group of Prince Leopold Of Ba-
varia-Five hundred prisoners were
captured
Army group of Field Marshal Won
Mackensen-The situation is I'M
unchanged.
In the southeastern war theater there
is nothing to report along the Ger
man front.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27
White House About Same.
100000 CARTRIDGES
HELD ON TEXAS BORDER

LAREDO. Tex. September e.
United States customs officials here
yesterday held up half million
rounds Of cartridges and a large num-
Der OF army rides consigned to Car
rama agents on orders said to have
S0anated from Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27
BRITISH STATEMENT.

LONDON, September n Nssued by the
war ofiee under date of September
2os
There has been severe fighting today
on the ground won by US yesterday,
the enemy making determined coun-
ter attacks east and northeast Of
IIOos.
The result OF this lighting is that, ex-
cept just north of Loos. We hold all
the ground gained yesterday, includ-
ing the whole Of Loos itself
This evening We retook the auarries
northwest of Hulluch. which we re-
won and lost yesterday We have
In this fighting drawn In the enemy's
reserves, enabling the French on our
right to make further progress.
The number of prisoners collected
after yesterdays fighting amounted
to 1900. Nine guns have been taken
and a considerable number of ma.
chine guns.
Our aeroplanes today bombed and de-
rallied a train near Loffres, east of
Douai. and another, which was full
of troops, at Rohult. near st. Armand.
The Valenciennes station also was
bombarded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27
GERMAN STATEMENT.

BERLIN. September -. via London.
September -,
The battles in the continuation Of the
British and French offensive. which
had been prepared for for months.
have progressed, without bringing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27
TURKISH STATEMENT.

CONSTANTINOPLE, September "a. via
Amsterdam and London. September
n,
On the Dardanelles front. near Ana
farta, our accommodating detach-
ments on the right wing captured
rihes and ammunition. Saturday our
artillery shelled the enemy's camp.
Near Ari Burnu We exploded a mine on
the right wing. destroying enemy
mines. On the left wing our artil-
lery shelled the positions Of enemy
bomb throwers.
On the Caucasus front. in the region of
Van, the Turkish advances defeated
the enemy and forced him to retreat
eastward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27
RUSSIAN STATEMENT.

PETROGRAD, September 70. via Lon
don, September 27s
The situation was somewhat auieter
along the Dvinsk front According
to the statements of prisoners, the
Germans suffered severe losses in the
recent encounters and attacks winch
we repulsed.
After a fight yesterday for the posses
sion of the village OF Dr1s'ia'y. y"
the lake of the same name. the Ter
mans were driven from the village
In the Viliya region above Wileika des,
the village of Resterka- the GeE.
mans delivered a series of attacks
near vileika, pushing them SO 1ar
on many occasions that payonse
repuised. In the district north
west of Vileika our troops carried by
a bayonet charge the fortified village
of Ostrof and recaptured the village
of Ghirty.
On the Smorgon front and south OF that
town the lighting continues. In the
region of Lazdouny. east Of the VII
lage of Yidie. the enemy developer
violent fire with heavy artillery. our
troops evacuated the village.
With the bayonet we crushed the des-
perate resistance of the Germans
near the village of Podgurie. east of
Novo Grodek. taking prisoners four
officers and ninety-two men. An eN.
tremely hot engagement was foughs
all day yesterday near the farm OF
Marissene, also east of Novo GrodeR.
the trenches constantly changing
hands. South of this farm. as the re-
suit of repeated attacks, the enemy
was driven from his trenches near
ers here about 600 Germans and cap
tured several machine guns. two
provision columns, artillery wagons
and ammunition. Still farther to the
south the village OF podlugie also
fell into our hands after bloody
bayonet charge.
On the Strumeni river We drove ba *
across the stream the Germans. who
abandoned numerous wounded ana
large quantity of munitions and
burned the bridge near Statichef.
There were no incidents of note south
of Pinsk, on the front south OF the
Pripet or in the Galician theater;
In the actions which We recently nave
of ordinary occurrence with our
troops, and are the best proof OF
their military courage. In the Po-
lovtze district, west OF Tchortkon'
twenty of our cavalrymen charged a
party of Austrians who We're work
ing on defenses. sabering eighteen
men and an officer and taking pris-
oners one officer and forty-seven
men. Only two Of our horsemen We're
wounded, these slightly. At another
point a small Russian patrol at
tackled an Austrian post of twenty
men. 1t took nine prisoners and sa-
bered the others.
In the coastal region of the Caucasus
there was rifle firing in the direction
of Olti Turkish scouts attempted to
approach Montbaraket, but were
driven back.
Near Melazghert there were collisions
between our cavalry and Kurds.
On the remainder of the front there is
no change.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27

It pays to read toe wau. columns OF
The Star. Hundreds Of situations are
allied through them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-27
BELGIAN STATEMENT.

BELGIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS.
September 70. via Paris, September
p:
active. There have been several &C
tions with heavy guns at various
points along the front.
In the evening of September % our
troops captured a German observa-
ton post on the right bank of the
User. The garrison of the post Gift
teen men and one commissioned Off
cer) and grenade thrower were
taken. The occupation Of the post
obliged the Germans to evacuate
trenches extending 200 meters along
the User.
ITALIAN STATEMENT.
ROME, September 70. Via Paris. Sep
fember n:
Fighting continues in the Cevedal zone.
where the enemy. having received
reinforcements and artillery. at
tempted, September "a. to rush our
positions at Capanna and Cedeh. Our
troops on the upper Valtellina has
tened up. and the enemy was counter
attacked and repulsed.
In Carnia. the 23d, after an intense ar
tillery action along our whole front,
the enemy attempted two successive
attacks. but was repulsed on each
occasion.
Our artillery shelled the railroad and
station at Tarstis. causing big out
break of fire. On the Carso front the
situation is unchanged.
AUSTRIAN STATEMENT.
VIENNA, September %, via London,
September ~,
The Russians yesterday continued with
great display of forces their at
tempt to break our front near Nowo
Alexiniec. The battle. which lasted
several days. has ended in complete
defeat for the Russians. Where the
enemy succeeded temporarily in en-
tering one of our trenches he was re-
pulsed and suffered heavy losses
Yesterday afternoon and evening Rus.
sian attacks south Of Nowo Alexiniec.
repeated ten times. failed. East of
Zalosce tGalician frontier) an enemy
detachment which broke it's way
through our damaged entanglements
to our positions was made prisoner.
On the Ikwa-Styr front the activity of
the enemy has sIackened. Quiet pre-
wallis in East Galicia. The forces
fighting in Lithuania have repulsed
the enemy near kraszyn. on the east
ern bank of the upper SzcZara
There Is no news from the southeast
ern theater of the war
The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1915-03-25
WE HAVE SOLVED
THE WAR PROBLEM

We have a plan for stopping the
war. Let the belligerent nations pool
their interests and place them in tho
hands OF produce commission mer.
chants, or consign them to the auctio'
block, in the same manner that Flor.
Ida growers consign their fruit crops,
and the result will he that the returns
will be so little and not enough would
be realized 10 enable them TO raise
any more fuss or buy more war ma
terial, and naturally the war would
have Ia ceosa
The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1915-03-25
BIG EXCURSION
Over the East and West Coast Rail-
road to Miakka City Today. c.
ID. Boring is a Great
Booster.
From Thursdays Daily. !

'"' huAHuoH bdllss
Six passenger coaches loaded with
Arcadinns went this morning over the
Fast and West Coast Railroad to MI.
aka City to attend the big auction
sale Of lots being held in the new
burg today. The excursion enthusiasm
was worked up by Mr.. q. u. Boring
who has been as busy as whole hive
Of bees for several weeks, boosting the
Miakka City lot sale proposition. Mr..
BORING deserves a great deal OF praise
for the manner In which he has con
Quoted the excursion.
The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1915-03-25
MRS. W. j. WILLINGHAM
ENTERTAINS AT DINNER.
From SATURDAYS Daily

Mrs. W. ]. wnlinghnm entertained
Mt noon dinner yesterday in her
beautiful home, Florence Dale, Mt Ow.
ems a number of her friends Of Area.
dia, who motorcd to Florence Dale 10
attend this most delightful affair.
Those attending were: Mr.. and Mrs.
]. L. Livingston and visitor, Mrs.
r. Z. whidden, Mrs. r. o. Turner,
Mrs. A. ]. Dozier. Mrs. W. Z. Lett.
ner, Mrs. Edmondson and Mr. Aren't.
bald Willinghnm,