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FER. s. c., SATURDAY, JULY 81, 1915.
PEACE FOR MEXICO.
TRUCE DECLARED AND CONFER
ENCE OF GENERALS CALLED.
villa and Carranza Factions Making
Effort to End Warfare and Estab-
lisb Stable GOvcrnmcnt-Carran
VIII BE Forced to Agree.

El Paso, July 2S-Peace is be-
lleVed to be in sight in war-racked
Mexico. A TOrreon dispatch today
states that a conference between the
leading generals of the Villa and Car
rama armies will be held there with
in q week. In the meantime a truce
has been declared. According to an an
nouncement made by Villas foreign
erals who are coming to the confer
ence include Obregon, Hill, Trevinp,
Gonzales. CarranZa's attitude is nbt
yet KNOWN but 1t is understood that
If he tries to balk the peace plans his
generals will desert him.
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FARMERS UNION OFFICERS.
j. Frank Williams, Vice President;
IL. Il. Morrison, Presidcnt-E. w.
Dabbs, Declined Reelection.

Columbia, July 29.-The State
Farmers Union today elected H. r.
Morrison, of McClellanville, president;
j. Frank Williams. Of Sumter, vice.
president; j. Whitner Reid. Columbia.
seeretary-treasurers WIN. GraIkala 4.
of Orangeburg, executive committee
man. for three years to succeed r.
M. Cooper, who declined reelection.
John L. McLaurin, of Columbia,
visiting fraternal delegate to the
State Federation of Labor; e. w.
Dabbs. the retiring president, declin-
cd reelection. The selection Of the
meeting place for 1916 was left with
the executive committee.
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FIRE AT CLINTON.
Bailey Brothers Suffer Loss of Fifty
Thousand Dollars.

Clinton, July 2S.-The large mer-
camille establishment of Pailev Bros.
one of the Oldest and strongest busi-
ness concerns Of the town, was com
rletely destroyed tonight by fire. The
alarm was given shortly after 9
O'Clock and the fire department re-
sponded promptly. but fought the
ilameS to no avail.
The entire two story building and
all its contents were DESTROYED. no
goods being saved. No cause can be
given for the fire.
Tho total loss aggregated $4,000
ana was well insured although not
being enough to cover the loss.
The firm is composed Of II. H. Bal
ley and &. G.. Bailey.
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RATES ON EXPORT COTTON.
commerce Commission Hands Down
Decision Oh Freight Rates TO Mo-
bile.

Washington, July 2S.-Readjust-
ment OF the rates on export cotton
from several States in the South to
Mobile so that they will be upon a
basis that is not discriminatory in ia
wore of Savannah against Mobile. and
many changes in the practices of the
railroads serving Mobile in relation
to rules on export cotton, are con-
tanned in an order of the interstate
commerce commission on the COM
plant of the Mobile Chamber OF Com
merce against the carriers serving
that city.
The commission handed down q de-
cision in the case last November and
suggested that the railroads meet it's
terms by April /, 1915. Failure of
carriers to carry out this suggestion
is responsible for the order which will
be issued in few days. 1t is said
to direct the roads to comply with the
terms Of the decision.
All the carriers serving Alabama.
tennessee. Georgia, Mississippi and
the Carolinas were interested in the
complaint. The reasonab!eness of the
cotton export rates were attacked.
The decisior does not hold them
unreasonable but condemns many of
the practices of the carriers in maxi
ing the rates.
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RUSSIANS REGAIN GROUND.
Germans Driven Back I'm Poland
Terrible Battle Raging.

Germans Driven Back I'm Poland
.r.t Terrible Battle Raging.
Petrograd. July 2s.-The Russians
are now on the offensive along the en-
tire. ,ire IN Poland. The Germans
have been compelled to retire five to
twelve miles at various points and
hope is growing hourly that Warsaw
viii be saved. The German casual
ties are estimated at thirty-hve thous-
and In the past four days. The con-
nict on the Narew front RACES with
out cessation night and day. Experts
assert that Germany has all available
men on the firing line and will be un-
able to bring up reserves. Five thous-
and guns are in action. both sides are
using the heaviest artillery.
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SINKS MANY YES
Sells.
About $50 Hostile Ships and Six Neu-
tral Craft Sent to the Bottom.

Amsterdam, July 2S (via London).
-German submarines, according to a
telegram received here today fror,
herlln' had sunk in the water zone up
to July 25, 229 English vessels. 30
other hostile ships and six neutral
craft. The latter, the message saws
were sent to the bottom by mistake.
Twenty-seven additional neutral
vessels, the dispatch adds, were ex-
amined and sunk because they car
ried contraband.
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THE STRUGGLE FOR WARSAW.
Battle on Narcw Will Decide Fatc OF
City I'm FOrty-Eight Hours.

~ ~ wv ~Ga6ht AhOuTSs
Petrograd, July 29.-The battle
that Is raging south of Narew is ex-
pected to decide the fate of Warsaw
within forty-eight hours. The Cor
mans. who have. been reinforced by
three corps. have redoubled their at
tack while their artillery shells the
Russian reserve stations. The efforts
OF Gen. Won Hindenberg to reach the
railway. which is the key to Warsaw,
has thus far completely failed. The
lighting along the upper Bug river is
developing to the advantage Of the
Russians, who have captured three
important positions they lost Satur-
day. In the Baltic provinces the
German advance continues slowly.
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MAY IGNORE NOTE.
German Press Working Up Anti
American Feeling,

Berlin, July 29.-The German press
Is practically unanimous in advocat-
ing that the government ignore the
American note. The Vossiche lei
tung. which usually speaks with au-
thority. declares that the note will not
be answered for some time, If at all.
The papers declare that America has
been eliminated as a possible media
tor between the warning nations.
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GERMAN PRESS BETTER.
Government Issues Warning to Use
Mildcr Tone.

Berlin. July 2s.-The increasing
bitterness OF the press against the
United States led the government TO
warn papers today that they must
use a milder tone in discussing the
note. ItJpay be the middle of Aug
ust before Germany replies. Foreign
Minister Won Jagow has referred the
Orduna inquiry to the admiralty.
The foreign Office refused to discuss
the Leelanaw affair.
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Proper feeding of colts should al
ways he accompanied by plenty of
outdoor exercise for the young ami
NAL. In no way can n colt be ruined
SO easily and surely as by liberal feed
ing ith lack of exercise. Close con-
ilnement and the raising of good
colts do not go together.
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CARRANZA BLOCKS PEACE.
Will Not Send Delegates to TOrren
Conference.

Washington. July 29-Mexican peaee
plans received another setback today
when Gen. Carranza wired the Inter-
national News that he will not send
delegates to the Torren peace confer"
ence. Secretary Lansing announced
that he was in receipt of a message
from the Brazilian minister, dated
Sunday, which states that famine
again reigns in the city Of Mexico
1t suggests that Carranza be asked
to open the Vera Cruz Railway for
shipment of food.
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Brition Note Withheld.

Washington. July 27.-The State
department at the request OF British
Foreign Minister Grey will not make
public the British note on neutral
shipping. The British cabinet is pre-
pairing another note which will be
forwarded I'm about n week.
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London. July alderman sub
marines sunk or burned ten vessels
today. including the Norwegian
schooner Harbo and the Danish
steamer Nogill.
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UPA0LDS BLOCKADE RIGHT,
SUPPLEMENTARY
NOTE TO DEFEND SYSTEM.
Will Not Allow Vessels to Ship Sup
plies Into or Away From Hostile
COuntrics--IIOlds That Cargo Value
Is Due to Continuous Voyage.

London, July 2S.-The new British
note to the United States in the
course of preparation will be an am
plification Of the original contra band
note which arrived in Washington
Monday. 1t will take up the questions
which have arisen since the first note
was drafted
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British Casualty List.

London. July 27.-British military
casualties up to July 18th totalled
s2i.sss. IL has been announced. The
naval casualties are 9.1O6. including
killed. wounded and missing.
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GUARD AMERICAN EMBASSY.
Special Police Force to Prevent Hos
tile Demonstrations.

Amsterdam. July 2s.-A special
force OF police are guarding the
American embassy at Berlin in fear
OF hostile demonstration against Am
bassador Girard. according to reports
received here.
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Turks Gain I'm Armenia.
PLENTY OF GOLD.
Bank OF France Holds S826, ,OOO, 900
In Reserve Fund.

Paris. July % (OniciaD-It Is an
nOunccd that the gold reserve i'm the
fank of France amounts To eight
hundred and twenty-six million dol
lars
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Austrians Raid Anconia Coast.

Rome. July 27.-Austrian warships
and aeroplanes raided the coast about
Anconia. Ohicials claim that the
damage was small.
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British AaIrSbip ExpIodcs

London, July as were killed and
nfteen injured when British air
ship exploded In shed I'm the Worm
wood suburbs.
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GERMANS lose GROUND.
Russians Reported to Have Gained About
IL Miles Along Front in Poland and
Hope to Save Warsaw.

Terrific Fighting Progress With Both Sides Using Gigantic
Guns-Evacuaton of Gorilla Has Commenced by Aus.
uans. Who He re Lost Heavily in Hard Fighting
Suffer Loss of Three More Steamers and Swedes One by
German Submarines-Polce Force Surrounds the United
States Embassy in Berlin to Prevent Demonstrations
Against It.
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Three Danish Steamers Sunk

London. July 2S.-Thrce Danish
steamers were sunk by German sub
marines today.
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TRIUMITIAL ENTRY DELAYED.
German Emperor Waiting for Cap
turc OF Warsaw.

Berlin, July 29.--Empress Augusta
and Crown Princess Victoria, who
went to the front to enter Warsaw
with the German army are spending
interval of waiting i'm the ruined viii
lagos. They met Won Hindenberg,
and when the Empress congratulated
him the warrior replied that I'VE
have done too little, but will do
more"
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Hand to Hand Fighting.

Paris, July 20 (OmciaD-In the
sector around. Saucheze there were
some conflicts with grenades and pet
ards. In the Argonnes there is fight
ing with bombs and torpedoes. In
region of Bagatelle we blew up nu-
merous German posts. In the Vosges,
at Iingekopf, we found two hundred
dead and a great quantity of muni-
tions and equipment i'm the captured
trenches. The Germans left four
hundred dead i'm the trenches at Bar
renkOpf
Turks Gain I'm Armenia.
Petrograd. July 29.-It is admitted
that the Russians have been compell-
ed To abandon their offensive i'm Ar
renia. owing to the Turks having
been heavily reinforced.
Asks Pay for Lccianaw.
Washington. July 29.-Thc State
department is preparing note asking
Germany to pay indemnity for the
I.cclanaw.
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months the imports from that country
to the United States aggregated $S6.-
600, 600 and it is noted also that the
import of dyestuffs from Germany
was greater than the previous year.
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French Consulate Guarded

Washington. July 29.-The survey
snip Tagle landed guard for the
French consulate at Cape-Haytien.
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Boys 10. Called To- Arms.

Petrograd. July 2S.-AI nineteen
year old boys have been called to the
colors
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VICTORY FOR ITALIANS.
Austrians Suffer Enormous Loss nj
Gorilla.

Rome. July 2S,-The evacuation
OF Gorilla by the Austrians is under
way according To dispatches received
today. The evacuation OF Podgora is
said TO be a matter of only few
hours. The Austrian losses at both
places have been enormous.
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Swedish Steamer Burned.

Copenhagen. July 2S.-The Swedish
steamer Madonna has been burned in
the North Sea by a German subma-
Hne.
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TWO SHIPS SUMMARIZED.
Iwenty-Six Sailors Pcrishcd When
Mangara Was Sunk.

London, July 29.-Twenty-siX
sailors are believed to have perished
when the British steamer Mangara
was Summarized. Five were saved.
The Norwegian steamer Nordlyset
was summarized today.
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Trawler Summarized, Crew Drowned

London, July 29.-The Trawler
Dover was Summarized today. The
entire crew of nine were lost.
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splinter Of wood In his pocket, the
wrinkles deepening and his eyes fixed.

splinter of wood In his pocket, the
wrinkles deepening and his eyes fixed.
Turning short, he said In q low
tone to Blondell, wait for me at Pal
ais d'Orsay;" then he bowed absently
to the girl, ducked through the plush
curtains, and hurried out an exit.
AS he sat In cab five minutes later,
on his way to a music-hall In Rue de
Clichy, Christopher Poe looked and
acted more like bored Frenchman in
search of pleasure than anything else.
Had the Jehu who drove known the
truth about his fare, he would have
been more particular in his work, and
would never have dared to juggle with
the little taximeter at his side. But
Poe, glad to be relieved of his desk
duties, and enjoying his holiday in
Paris, kept no worry-book in which to
write down such daily vexations as
crooked taximeters.
AS he sat back in the cab and drove
through the fascinating streets Of old
Paris, he was both sorry and happy
that he had stumbled onto so interest
ing crime.
The cab dropped him before popu-
lar Clichy music-hall, and he stepped
into the managers small Office in
front.
II want the names of all the leger-
demain performers on your circuit.
Only those not working now; any act
out of the ordinary, Monsieur Fleury,"
he said, having shaken hands cordially
with the friendly little Frenchman at
the desk, leaving hundred-franc note
in the mans palm.
Monsieur Hardy always pays SO
WE'LL" smiled the manager, pocketing
the note, taking down huge index.
and beginning to jot down names and
addresses rapidly. You want sword
swallowers, snake-charmers, card
fakirs; all the curious ones in Paris ??
Exactly, if they can do sleight-of-
hand as WELL" answered Poe, idly toy
ing with the splinter from the chair,
and removing several particles from it
to examine in detail with the aid of a
little pocket-magnifier. A confidence
cleaned in those strange eyes, and his
lips moved expressively.
In ten minutes time the manager
penetrated Poe's abstraction, and they
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y@ Goodnight, Misnon,
the police will call upon YOU Soon:'

concert hall on tie Clichy, and he
suggests that you do legerdemain for
me-"
"Legerdemain, ah!" The prominent
eyes of the other frightened; he threw
a slip of paper into the air, snatched
up a keen bladed knife that lay on a
box beside loaf Of bread, and cut the
dropping paper into six clean pieces,
while it was still in the air, so swiftly
that Poe's eyes were deceived. and it
seemed to be done in single stroke.
"Bravo!" he cried. "You have 9TH
er acts as we'll? The trained pigeons,
the white mice. Monsieur Fleury sug-
gested."
II have given them up. They do not
pay now. Too many people train mice.
1t is nothing!" answered the other, the
conceited grin on his face giving way
to the creep Of crafty CLEAN.
That's too bad" replied Poe. AMI
mails amuse on the stage. would like
such an act. Icould pay two hundred
francs week, for man with trick
dog, or a monkey, say?"
Two hundred francs. It is a good
DEAL" said the other shrewdly, tho grin
beginning to freeze.
Not toe much for fine act. Mon
sieur Fleury tells me you are wonder
full with animals. It is too bad you
have given them up"
"All dead. have given them up.
But may train another for you. am
clever at it. / know the nice best" A
shadow shot across his face as he said
this last. There was a creak of the
closet door, and he suddenly glared de-
family at Poe.
I'll tell you! Did you ever think of
training rat? ?" cried Christopher Poe.
as If some sudden inspiration, not fall
ing to note the sudden change in
Torche.
The defiant look in Torches face
broke down a little, and he seemed
nervous as there came a second warn
ing creak from the closet door. Poe
made no move, but held his breath,
feeling the air Of suspicion, and ready
for the slightest surprising twist in the
scene.
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ran over the list together, Poe asking
particularly concerning the act of each

ran over the list together, Poe asking
particularly concerning the act of each
performer.
This man Torche?" he exclaimed,
his finger suddenly stopping at the
lame. He has bullying eyes, a promi-
nent forehead, and can dress like a
gentleman on the stage?"
Exactly" cried the French mana
ger. You know him?"
Not yet" smiled Christopher Poe,
the satiricaI wrinkles from his lips
deepening for the moment.
"You have seen him then, surely?"
81 believe so. His act is clever, you
say?"
He is very wizard at both Of his
specialties I told you Of" replied the
manager. HE is not well liked. He
is too cunning"
Poe waited for no further particu-
lars, but thanked the manager, stepped
through the door, purchased bag OF
luscious red cherries from a street
vender, got into the waiting cab, and
gave the driver Torches address.
During the two-rlile drive to an OBJ
scure street off Rue Saint jacques, in
the Latin Quarter, Christopher Poe
leaned back in the cab, consuming the
cherries, and holding teiegraphic con-
verse with himself. 1t was not solilo-
guy; consisting only in parts or
phrases jerked out as he twisted lis
mobile lips with a nervous hand, the
hand of man of taste, with only a
band Of fine yellow gold on the fourth
finger.
"Cahochon cut" he muttered. Curl
-whistle-trouser - sight poor -
-cherries-whistle Woman! Al
ways woman to steal jewels for! Good!
Very good!"
The cab finally stopped at the out
of-the-way address, and Poe, telling the
.cabby to wait, jumped down, and se-
lected the handle from cord under
the painted numeral w on the door
step. He jerked it down quickly, and
heard the faint Jingle Of bell far
above. But no footsteps came in an
swer to his summons. no shout of
"Entrez!" welcomed him, SO he showed
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the door open, and CROPPED his way up
rickety flights of stairs to the fourth
floor, avoiding the debris in the dark
like cat, and going instinctiveIy to a
door, through crevice In which dim
light shone.
He knocked on the panel. No an
swer. He raped again. The light
through the crevice was suddenly blot
ted out.
From Monsieur Fleury, about an
engagement! Gone to bed, Torche?"
he called In deep bass, the French
slurred in accordance with cheap the
atrical usage.
There was a noise inside. A match
scratched. The door swung open, and
thin, Ratchet face with a prominent
forehead and bullying eyes, helping to
support the fiabby bridge of bent
nose, peered out. Seeing that the WIS.,
itor was gentleman, with an express
sion not unlike a concert-hall man,
Torche invited him in. with bow, and
a greeting in his native tongue.
Monsieur will be SO good as to par
don the appearances. / was going to
bed when you knocked. 1t is about an
engagement you Gomez" He stood
dressed only In the ordinary wide-bulg-
ing trousers of the Frenchman, and a
stiff white shirt, with narrow white
tie.
Christopher Poe had stepped in, and
quickly taken an inventory OF the
room. Disorder was everywhere EVIL
dent, as though things had been hasti-
| ly concealed. A high silk hat and the
tail of an evening coat poked from un-
der pillow In the corner Beneath a
closet door he saw the edge of a. wom-
ans skirt protruding slightly.
Il am not intruding, Torche? You
are quite alone?" asked Poe, quickly
scanning the mans face.
"Quite alone" answered Torche,
with evident relief. glancing toward
the closet door.
Poe took proffered chair, and went
to the point at once.
II am an Englishman, as you per-
ceive from my looks rather than my
| accent, for have spent my life among
the concert people here. Monsieur
Fleury was so good as to suggest that
you can do clever work. am opening
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important Consideration.

Every woman ought to learn to
swim
Perhaps replied Miss Cayenne.
And yet it would spoil so many ro-
mances if all girl had to do when
she thought she was drowning was to
rescue herself
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We're you bull or a bear in Wall
street,
Il wasn't either. ] was the man
who has to run for tree when the
menagerie breaks loose"
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the woman watching him with greedy,
>catlike eyes.
Suddenly his hand encountered a
long-stemmed, deep-bowled clay pipe,
filed with fresh tobacco. A hiss of
pent-up breath greeted his movement,
and he turned with a keen look at the
woman. Her face had become as stone,
and not single feature betrayed her.
Christopher Poe smiled. dropped the
pipe into a Loose outside pocket with
satisfaction in his manner, busted his
clothes, raised his hat to the woman,
who had suddenly slumped into Sob
bling bundle, and remarked:
"Gcod night, Mignon; the police will
call upon you scon.'
Poe felt his way down the long,
dark stairway. The whole house had
been raised by Torches plunge, and
Poe found three excited members of
the gendarmerie administering first aid.
They stopped long enough to seize him
as stranger. at the advice of the reg
ular dodgers in the house; but Poe only
smiled, turned back Torches left trou-
sers leg, showed the astonished police
the big trick rat, still warm. but dead,
in cleverly cOntrived pocket, its
home, where it had remained until the
end.
After q few significant sentences
whispered to the policeman in COM
mand. Poe was allowed to depart and