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tESje ^amterg ^eralfc j ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Thursday, May 17, 1917. j A good thing for Bamberg would be a canning factory. We notice that steps have been taken to have a cannery located at Spartanburg. If the people had a place to have all their surplus vegetables canned, it would be a great help if a food famine should come. Enough is wasted every year to feed the population for a good while if it were preserved for future use. \5n-ar ia u mip-htv ?nfid time to clear m- o - the country of vagrants. The loafer should never have a place in this country at any time, but especially now he should be put to work? either for himself or the State or county. With the impending food erisis, every able-bodied person should be required to earn his bread. If everybody should go to work this would indeed be a great country?in times of peace or war. There is no law in this land which prescribes the death penalty for a man who invades the sanctity of the if onntkoi" hut rtiihliV r?nf ininn UUUiC7 VJL auviiuut t UUV which is greater even than law, prescribes little if any punishment to one who inflicts the death penalty for such invasion. Last week, on the same day, Charles E. Vawter was acquitted of the murder of Stockton Heth, Jr., in Virginia: and in Georgia, Mrs. Mattie Adams was acquitted of the murder of Capt. Spratling. Whether direct or indirect, the "unwritten law" was followed by the juries. The conscription law as agreed upon by the conference of the senate and house prescribes the age limits for service in the army at 21 to 30 years, inclusive; that is, all persons over 21 and under 31 are liable for service. The term "selective conscription ' means that the conscrip tion authorities win nave large powers of exemption; and it is not at all probable that any man whose presence at home is essential will be called into the service at this time. But all men between these ages will be enrolled, whether liable to service or not, as we understand the matter. The conscription measure has not yet been enacted into law, and the provisions of the bill may be changed before it is presented to the president for his signature. The conscription machinery has all been fxed, however, and the measure will be put into effect immediately upon being signed by the president. The seriousness of the situation ! arising out of war with Germany has not yet fully dawned on our people. We have always accustomed our- S selves to feeling that America could I easily defeat any nation on earth. This belief is founded largely upon the fact that we have never been defeated. But this optimistic view is not fully shared by military experts and other men who are in position to know the relative strength of the nations. Of course, America will win this war, or rather will help the allies to win it, but those who think it a before-breakfast job will probably be keenly disappointed. Hudson Maxim, one of the world's great scientists and inventors, has this to say: With the u-boats Germany is rapidly getting a strangle-hold on England. The empire of the sea is fast passing from oversea to undersea?from Britain to Germany. If England is starved into submission, we are lost. With Britain out of the way, Germany will smash us like a puff ball with one swipe of the mailed fist. The consensus of opinion among military men seems to be that to win this war many sacrifices must be made. The pinch of hunger will ue felt, thousands perhaps must die. But win it we must. If the allies lose, America will be at the mercy of the greatest despotism the world has probably ever known. Why Didn't 1He? Jimmie giggled when the teacher read the story of the man who swam across the Tiber three times before breakfast. "You do not doubt that a trained swimmer couia ao iuai, uo you. "No, sir," answered Jimmie. "but I wonder why he did not make it four and get back to the side where his clothes were."?Awgwan. Two Viewpoints. A young English girl who had no love for the Stars and Stripes attended a fair at which the American flag was much in evidence. "What a silly thing the American ' flag is." she said. "It reminds me of j nothing so much as a lot of red and j white checker-berry candy." "Yes," answered a bystander, "the : kind which has made everybody sick who ever tried to lick it."?Hoi- j land's. ; The largest settlement in Green- j land has a population under 800. I We have o are offer I fords t you ar IFLI Florshein Ralston ! Bates $6 Bates $5 Bates $4 Bates $4 IBelive what w C. R. I 'TM FROM MISSOURI." I kansaw, J am." Deliberately, the : Genesis of Famons Phrase Given By a lazy, expressionle Congressman I)yer. half-drunk man am tention again to tl I Representative L. C. Dyer, of Mis- miners moved up i souri, iu Congressional Record: saw's" latest victim. Every person in Missouri and, for "Say you!" roan that matter, all over the United jsa^ * m from Arkar States, is familiar with the "I'm from | "Yes," drawled t Missouri" phrase, but few know its j hoard you the first derivation. In the early seventies,' "Arkansaw" went there lived in one of the wild Nevada j ^on * know it mining towns an individual of such eats em like you et rare fighting ability that the whole ^ore breakfast. I'm country knew of his prowess and re- ^r?m Arkansaw, 1 a spected it. He was king of the com- two-handed man in munity and was a reign of terror. For answer the : Quick on the trigger, he had a row bis coat and threw h of notches on his gun handle, but his specialty was at rough and tumble. ! "Well, by gosh," h He was a native of Arkansas and was j Missouri; you got tc nrond of the fact. He boasted of j show you. the superiority of his native State. I Arkansaw hand So, as the name pleased him, he was bjstander and rushe called "Arkansaw." He was built with a smash on the like a puma and his punch was like kirn. Then the lan the kick of a mule. "Arkansaw" en- ceeded to give the l joyed the role of champion and hand- thrashing. W hen tl ed out his wares in large and severe y?uth was a he doses: in fact there were few men carried him in triur in the vicinity who had not been lick- town. Thereafter, i ed by the bully. And once was gen- a statement of do erally enough for a man. After that some one was likely he spoke in a meek and subdued tone was from Missouri of voice in the Arkansas man's pres- shown, en co ' , + .. . DECLARATION One day there came into the saloon a stranger. A lanky, solemn-faced , , . . , , . . , Tliirty-seven Made boy he was. in patched and faded blue overalls, and a great, floppy Fight Without brimmed hat. He was a prospector from the hills, and not a particularly 1914 successful one?from his looks. "Ar- July 2S?Austria kansaw" caught sight of the youth. August 1?Genua who leaned against a post mourn-I August ?uermai fully watching the roulette and sac; | August l>?Gcrmai a prospect. He swaggered over to I August 4?Great the stranger and tapped him on the many, shoulder. j August f? ?Austi "You hid," said he, "you want to Russia, be mighty blamed careful how you're j August 8?Mouter actin' around here. I'm from Ar- August 9?Austria 11 Iff 9 icketi on Men s ver 300 pairs of Men's 0 ing at a bargain. Good al hat will give satisfaction. to buy your shoes for this * - * id next at the prices w< selling them for. i JRSHEIM, RALSTON AND a $8.00 Oxfords at j>6.00 Oxfords at... .00 Oxfords at .00 Oxfords at .50 Oxfords at .00 Oxfords at e tell you. These oxfords would day what we are offering them to , Brabham' Bamberg, S. C. August 11?France on Austria. MBBE young fellow cast August 11?Montenegro on Ger- I ss glance at the many. I j 3 turned his at- August 12?Great Britain on Aus- I le wheel. The tria. D r to see "Arkan- August 23?Japan on Germany. fl ^ August 25?Austria on Japan. I id the man. "F i August 29?Austria on Belgium. || isaw!" November 2?Russia on Turkey. a lie stranger. "I November 5?Great Britain on , 0 *33* time." Turkey. | jg ^jl into a rage. November 5?France on Turkey, j S3 io lnih WpII. 1 15)115. I I .2 ery morning be- j May 22?Italy on Austria. j jj| ,^*1$ an old she-wolf j May 22?Italy on Turkey. : 9 mi, and the best I June :i?San Marino on Austria, j a the country." October 14?Serbia on Bulgaria, j |jj youth jerked off October 15?Great Britain on Bui- I lis old hat on the garia. Vjv October 16?France on Bulgaria. e said. "I'm from October 19?Italy on Bulgaria. i > show me or I'll October 19?Russia on Bulgaria, j ; v led his gun to a March S?Germany on Portugal. id. He was met March 10?Portugal on Germany. jaw that stunned March 15?Austria on Portugal, j ''*** i ky stranger pro- August 27?Roumania on Austria, f ?ad man a sound August 28?Austria on Roumania. le combat ended August 2S?Bulgaria on Rouro. The miners mania. nph through the August 28?Turkey on Roumania. I f a person made August 28?Germany on Rou- I ubtful veracity mania. I j to assert that he August 28?Italy on Germany. -a and had to be 1917. 1 April 6?United States on Ger- I COL ~ many. j I St0 S OF WAR. Anrii 7?fiihn. on Germany. I I r>D ^ To some declarations of war the | I -p So Far. Some nations declared did not reply with j 1 Declaration. a declaration of war, considering one i w ? declaration between them sufficient. | |j Example: Germany declared war i p on Serbia. against France, but France has not j a ny on Russia. I made any declaration against Ger- i j| tiy on France. j many. y ay on Belgium. Britain on Ger-t The first tin refining plant in the ' ' | United States, established in Xew 9 "i a-Hungary on .fersey in May, 1916, to handle Bo-, H I livian ores, has reached an output ! 9 legro on Austria. I of ten tons a day of metal of remark- j 9 t on Montenegro, j able purity, electrolysis being used, i txfords that we 8 11 leather Ox- I It will pay I summer I e are I * H H m BATES I IE 8 B vf y SI . . , ^ i'sj s oons I : *>^| ( -? , 1'"V m f\ ?-5 i 7/XVlil 1 If f Poverty in OLD AGE slowly but surely approaches ;ry man who spesds all he earns and drifts into merci> DEBT. While you have EARNING POWER open a bank acint. Your bank book will be a guiding light which will er you away from a life failure. You only need to FN a bank account; piling up money will then be easy. r it. v Put YOUR money in OUR bank \kio r?nv 4. ne>r rc>nt interest on savinas accounts. 3c Peoples Bank [ BAMBERG, S. C. J j