Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-02-09

cents TO six cents a loaf at once over
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennes-
see and Florida, embraced in the or
g~anization. He says bread Is now
selling for six cents in Wilmington,
Charlotte, Greensboro, Greenville and
Asheyille, and hat price will become
effective in all small towns through
out the section. The advance in the
price Of flour is said to be responsible
for the increase in the price Of bread
From the local bakery, 5000 loaves are
sold daily, and according to Mr.. Cell
fuss, the raw flour contained in this
output costs s62.50 more a day than II
cost before war was declared.
Charlotte Observer: Financial
America reminds the cotton trade
that the department Of agriculture Is
expected soon to issue regulations
regarding what will be considered as
.'mixed-packed" cotton. The Lever
bill prohibits the delivery Of mixed
packed" water packed" false pack
ed" "gin cut" or "~repacked" bales OF
cotton on future contracts. That is,
such deliveries would make the con-
tract subject to the prohibitive tax OF
2 cents a pound. If the term mixed
packed were to be taken in its full
est sense, II Is claimed fully 30 per
cent of the crop would be undeIlver-
able on tax exempt contracts. Inere
ia reason to believe, however, that the
departments regulations will not SO
broadly interpret the term. The pup
lication Of the regulations will De
awaited with interest.
This town, located in three states,
West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky,
is furnishing plenty of trouble to Pro-
hibition Commissioner Blue, says d
Kenova, W. Va, dispatch OF FRIDAY. Al
first the Kenovites bought their booze
in the Kentucky part OF town ano
brought into West Virginia. When the
Commissioners stopped this a cable was
stretched and the booze was brougnt
across the line in baskets, and this TOO
was stopped. The latest move to I
wit the Yost law has been h placing
of a pint bottle of liquor in a pumpkin,
which the Kentucky farmers aul
here, charging 81 a pumpkin. one
farmer is said to have sold 1000 pump
kins here in a single day. Mr.. Blue
however, has a plot Matched Tor TO-
morrow night. 1t Is a a nVasSe
has been in the city securing orders TOT
pints at 81 each. A constable Is 10
station himself on Raccoon creek
about a half mile east, Saturday even
ing and be ready to catch any man
WIN SolSiiCS
rolled down the Kentucky side.
The British passenger ship Lusl-
tania, which left New York on jan
nary 81. and arrived at Liverpool last
Saturday, flew the American flag all
the way. Shortly after the Lusitania
left New York she was warned by the
White Star liner Baltic, that two SUD-
marines had been sighted by that YES
sci, and the American flag went up In
short order. On arriving on Queens
town., the Lusitania instead of waiting
for a pilot boat, steamed right into
port and shortly afterward sailed 1uil
speed for Liverpool. and kept the
American flag flying until sne was
safe in dock. The captain OF the LII
sitania said that he carried a large
number of neutral passengers along
with neutral freight n because OF
this he claimed that he was entirely
within his rights in flying the Ameri-
a flag. Although heretofore there
has never been any question or the
right Of any vessel that saw mt to DC
so to carry the American flag, II Is
thought that the incident In question
will bring the whole matter up 1or
diplomatic discussion.
Notwithstanding modern medica
science, so per cent Of the deaths II
the present wal are due to disease a.
against twenty due to gunfire. These
are the figures compiled by DR.. +. \
Sandwith writing in the current is
u of THE Hospital" published III
London. This same proportion CD
tanned during the Russo-Turkish wal
Of 1S77-7S. During the American ciVi
war. there were three deaths 10 ais,
ease to every n from wounds: ina,
is to say mortality due to disease Of
&c 2-3 per cent. During the French eX'
petition in Madagascar in 1895. ac-
cording to the writer, only twenty
nine deaths occurred in action as
against seven thousand who dled p9
disease. In the United States army
during the wal with Spain. fourteen
died of disease to every one killed II
action. although the war lasted a nt'
tie more than six weeks. In the boei
war the losses from disease were enor-
nous Notwithstanding the improve
ments in military hygiene then IN force
The Japanese however, during TINS
war with Russia. were able by eXer'
cising the most scrupulous care to re
verse the ratio. In the case or tnen
troops only one man died or disease
to every four who died of wounds.
AN admirable suggestion for con
serving the food supply has been mace
by a prominent capitalist in this city
10 milling interests in Minneapolis
namely, tina white corn Cor even mix.
ed or yellow) shall be used as a blenc
with wheat in the manufacture OF
-four. says a Chicago dispatch. II Is
thought that about 20 per cent or tns
corn four would be right. or course
such a product would be branded s.
that the consumer would know VIVA
..-x ThA WON MAKING rms
suggestion has no interest in TIT
market. 1t is his opinion that tho
amount Of wheat in the hands o1
northwestern farmers is not more thar
10 per rent of the yield n that Can
adian sources have been depleted u
about the same extent. Flour Is INK
ly to go so high as seriously to impair
the of many un'
less some such measure is adopted ne
believes. Corn is now about hall Tn
rrice OF wheat. The suggestion
commends itself to the millers. On,
objection Is that leading producers OF
Hour have brands that are widal'
known and are a part Of the good VIII
Of the MES but this is a time
when extraordinary measures nave U
be taken. This country has made
grent progress in Investigation %
foods. Many a person is eating corr
bread now who would not touch II I
decade ago. 1t is safe to say that mar
has rot yet discovered half of the pro
ducts of the earth which are good L
cat. One Of the latest wonders is al
falfa. which II properly handled. l:
food drink and medicine fer the hu'
mar being.
The Associated Press dispatches
of his morning summarizes the wa
news as follows: In one of h va
riUus bGttlefields in Europe has any
appreciate progress been made. Tho
official statements give no informa-
ton beyond references to what are
now considered minor incidents In
the great war. Comparative quiet
reigns in France and Flanders, while
the hundreds of thousands CONSTITUTE
lag the fighting forces in Russian Po-
land. the Carpathians and East Prus-
STA seem to be still deadlocked in q
series of desperate engagements tina,
has lasted for weeks past and has re.
suited IN great losses. The British
parliament has taken up the matter
If army estimates and has been ask
ed by the Fritish government to give
1, a blank check for army purposes
1t is expected that parliament will
vote a nomiHal sum under each of the
~ p~nupS nf cx~penditureS and if il