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| CLEARAN [klau .. | W$t Pamtierg Her# ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891. Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. ? : . V? .// | Entered as second-class matter April i 18$1, under Act of March 3, 1879. ~ > S2.00 PER YEAR. Volume 27^^^ No. 4$T | Thursday, Dec. 12,1918. Cane Grinding at Old Mose Rud kirns. m, ?.y . "Beefsteak when Ise hungry, < Sou cat when Ise dry; Love when Ise heartbroken; And heaven when I die." ||V Come 'long, you Hezekiah; git dat ^ J&ridel on ole Jane's haid and huker to dat cane mill, fo' we is now gwin- I SK-i ter grine cane?eberyt'ing is in red-; |?r r' iness;< de ole 'oman done got daii syrup kittle clean out?scrub it wid! er brick til it shine like dem new Buferlo nickels. De fust pot er las, es will be jest as clean as any ob de res'. De ole man will be out j sune as he kin git dis rumatls out ob de laigs, en yore mammy will be long ter do de skimmin' while Ise j gwinter kepe dat fire hot in de ole i ? - - * . I cooler?all de lasses us makes is re-; nound for de briteness it habs, en - , dis is de way we does it: When dem skimmins is all done took off, you let de fire git low so de hot juce biles down?den wipe de kittle wid er rag, den make her hot ergin til she biles up, den cool down j r and wipe, keep erdown dis way til | it is dun. . Us neber does hab er j ?>eck in de syrup?dat is er big pile j er cane speck dat us will be here ! ; fo' about two wekes, but it is not; , gwinter worry you for it is er good j swete time in life. I here de parson say last Sunday ! in his nite preachin' dat de Scripture j1 says dat de fust shall be de las' en < de las' shall be the fust, so yo' see ] grindin' dis cane is 'cordin' ter Scrip- 1 ture, for plantin' cane is de fust t'ing on de farm en it is de las' t'ing ' to harves'. Dat juice is shorely cole ' en good terday; de w'ite peple frum 1 town comes out and drinks and say, | "Well, we must go now," but I says ; "don' hurry. Come, nab anuther!1 drink," and dey drinks more en 1 talks to de ole 'oman 'bout de good 1 time and says ergin, "We got to go," ! and I keeps on insistin' dat dey ] drinks more and dey kepe er gwine 1 an' drinkin' til when dey does leve,!1 N \ I hab ter laff en tell de old 'oman, dat gwine was nuttin but er hint fer juice. j * Nite comes er long, de boys is got ole Rover (de possum dawg) en gone * huntin'. I here him dun treed out in de ole grabe yard fele at the sim- * mon tree?de doys nose betterin cut ] dat tree fur ole Mose dun tell 'em all ' j 1 Hunters, spare dat tree, ; 1 v Tuch not a singel bow; 11 Fer if you does, Uncle Mose Will curtainly rase a row. i ( | i So de climes up en shakes him down, i here dey cums wid er big fat pos-' r sum. "Good, boys," Ise got 'taters { k in dem ashes dun cooked, get de: | possum, put him on de coles til de | fur is krispe, den butcher him en us ; ^^^^^ill hab er barbary cure?what a 0 and glorious time you mus' flj^^^f^MTncle Mose? Sah, dere dis t'ing yit; see dem CE SALE PI From no store at bl visit our s on them t left and o your size, f|pV ment of fi dersell tit; y n 1,A DIES' 420, special th V] 1 lot Coat )\ special BERV f skimmins in dat barrel? Well, you jist wate; Ise gwinter fix up er drink. Git me sum simmons, roast 'taters and sum er dem leetle storks er cane and one er ole missus' easter cakes?dis all puts in dem skimmins altogether and if de weder is warm in -er few days hit is delishus drink. Dis we calls soucat; what dem other pe^le makes is sow-cat. Yours truly, UNCLE MOSE. ^ HI 1' NO NEWS OF THE CYCLOPS. Henry Feeder on Vessel.?Mystery Has Not Been Cleared. Henry Felder, of Bamberg was a member of the crew of the Cyclops, which, apparently, was swallowed up by the sea. The loss of the Cyclops has been I one of the sea mysteries of re- i cent years. With the coming , of jseace, it was hoped there might be some tidngs from the lost vessel. So far none have ; been received. < ! Washington.?Grouped with the 1 great flotilla of missing ships that! have put to sea and never reached j port is the U. S. S. Cyclops, whose i name has been stricken from the j United States naval registry. "There has been no more baffling , mystery in the annals of the navy," | said, Secretary Daniels today in his j annual report, referring to the disap- j pearance of the vessel. Probably not until the sea gives up Its secret will the fate of the Cyclops be knowu. For months the single word "missing" was written opposite her name. During that time all the i resources of the United States and the allied governments were drawn upon to find the vessel or learn her fate. They availed nothing. Unlike most of the vessels that the sea has swallowed and left no trace, I j the Cyclops was a modern steamship j Df 19,000 tons, equipped with wire-| less and every device known to safe- j ?uard a ship and those on board. She j was well officered and had a crew of | 213. There were also 57 passengers, i S'ot one has been heard from since I the Cyclops steamed out of Barba- j ioes early in March. It was March 4'when she put into j :he British West Indies for coal. She j was due, in her home port the latter! part of March. "Since her departure from that' port, mere nas peen not a trace 01 me vessel and long continued search of, ;he entire region proved utterly fu- j :ile, not a vestige of wreckage having j. been discovered," said Secretary Dan- j els in his report. "No reasonable explanation of her : strange disappearance can be given. ' it is known that one of her two en-! ?ines was damaged and that she was j broceeding at reduced speed, but if i ;he other engine had become disabled, it would not have had any ef?ect on her ability to communicate by radio. ? "Many theories have been advanced but none that seem to account satsfactorily for the ship's complete . vanishment. After months of search ind waiting the Cyclops was finally ;iven up as lost and her name stricken from the registry." The government has fixed the ^)rice f war savings stamps. They increase n value one cent every month. 1 Read. The Herald, only $ 2.00 yeir. : X V. RICES at KL r until Xmas we offer eve ig reductions. If you hat tore. We have about fif hat we think will move 1:1 ffer them at very low pri as we know the price wi ine Coats, and new ones ? y stores on Coats. DEPARTMENT. 1 lot Coat Su beautiful fur its, former price, $15, special .. erge. Special this _ $10.95 1 lot $18.50 <i-1-1-ilBBI-?lllBI. special to close Suits, former price, "~ is sale $15.95 $50.00 Dress( Fox Furs at Suits, worth $50.00, the new Taupe 3 $3^9.75 low. Hie Store o BVRNESVISITS WAR SCENE . \ 30th DIVISION WAS ATTACKED FROM FUNNEL IN REAR. People of France and Great Britain Have Great Faith in President Wilson. T?onroeontafivo Tflmes "R1 Rvrnps I of Aiken, who has just completed an J extended trip through the European war zone, in company with Repre-1 sentatives Richard S. Whaley, of! Charleston, and Carter Glass, ofVir-j ginia, is back on the job at Washington. Congressman Byrnes talks most in- i terestingly and vividly if his experiences and impressions on the notable tour. When asked to say something for publication Mr. Byrnes dictated the following: "As a member of the appropriations committee, I, of course, Velcomed the opportunity to visit the service of supplies in France and there see how the millions we appropriated have been spent. When the history of the war is written I think the outstanding feature of America's participation will be its magnificent success in establishing and maintaining a line of communication across the seas. "Only by a personal visit to one of the supply depots in France can one have any conception of the magnitude of the undertaking; of the'concrete docks with all modern equip- * ment at the ports; of the,railway constructed and of the complete railroad yard at Gievres surpassing any railroad yard in the States; of the re- 1 frigerating, warehousing and salvage plants?all linked in the chain which 1 made it possible for America ade- < quately to supply its fighting forces 1 that in all of our travel along the 1 American front did not hear _ one 1 American soldier complain either of ] the quality or quantity of food or of c the adequacy of his equipment. i / Fine Work of Gen. Hagood, 1 "South Carolinians in particular ' have reason to" be proud of the success of this department, because the achievement is due in great measure to the^executive ability of Gen. Johnson Hagood, of South Carolina, who, as chief of staff, developed the organization responsible for its efficiency. "After inspecting the service of supplies we visited all of the fronts, j In the closing days of the war when i the Germans were retreating along j the British and French fronts the | uninformed may have wondered why the Americans did not make corresponding advances, but the military experts of France and Great Britain frequently told us that the Germans, in order to conduct their retreat, had to hold the line in front of the Americans; that it was the hinge upon j which the whole German line would j swing backward just as a gate; would swing upon a Hinge; that the I Germans knew that if the Americans i I could break through there, nothing j ^ could prevent the capture of the ( whole German army. Consequently i in front of the Americans the Ger- I mans massed their best divisions, the i Argonne forest lending itself readily r to their purpose. When the story r of the fighting of the Americans is s told, it will be a chronicle of sacri- f See, of skill and of courage unparal- f AUBER'S," ;ry Coat Suit and every re delayed buying it will p ty dresses left in stock an lem. We have just thir ces. Just come in and s< 11 suit you. We still havi irriving daily. We guar I its, former price, $35, Big line Hai trimmed garments, derwear suitabl " ^24-75 so Madeira Ha: ' kins, Table Cov value Satin Dresses, them out .. ..$13.75 / Big line of js now $39.75 year's prices. very low prices. See Pox sets. Prices very Beautiful ne prices reasonab! f Quality," I 7 r leled in all of the four years of the j war. Men of the Thirtieth Fight Like; Tigers. "French and British officers unite in their praise of the American soldier. Theiir only criticism is of his i overzearlousness, and they agree that! in 1914 their own afmies suffered | from the same trouble. Almost every officer who commented upon the impetuous desire of the Americans to advance referred to the Thirtieth division at Bellacourt. This division, composed of troops from .South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee i has participated in most of the se-1 vere fighting during recent months: and has won the plaudits of the Al- i lied armies. But at Bellacourt, ac-1 cording to English officers, their over- j zeal caused severe losses. Fighting i with the Australians, the Americans ij gained their objective, and instead of waiting for the Australians to come up, the Americans: continued beyond the objective, pursuing the fleeing Germans. In their haste they failed to 4pioP UP' carefully and passed heyond a tunnel in which the Germans were hiding. After the Americans had passed the Germans came out; with machine guns opened up on them from the rear. Cut off, the Americans fought like tigers, until i, the Australians, who were to follow, reached them. "An Austrlian officer who participated in this engagement told me that hte never saw men fight as did those American boys; and as he re- i gretfully spoke of the casualties, his ( eyes filled with tears. He said that the boys of the Thirtieth cut their wflv nnt and that few nf the Germans : who emerged from that .tunnel lived . to tell the story. "As late as the 20th of October it , w-as practically impossible to find an . officer in any of the Allied armies ] who believed that the Germans . would in the near future surrender, j When, after conversations with Col. . House in Paris, we had reached the 3 :onclusion that the end was approaching, it was difficult to find an officer tvho entertained the same view, rheir statement was that there was i lothing in the military situation to ; 1 justify the hope; that Germany's re-i s :reat was being skilfully conducted;;( ;hat her army was apparently well j i supplied with munitions; that while n ;he individual soldier's power of re-1 g sistance had been lessened, the same 1 was true of the other armies whicrf t iad been fighting for # four years. 11 American officers called our attention c a +! ? a fo of 4 V? o 4 f V? a nnrni o r? nrvconnrc i c ,u LUC iiiai inu uci inaii pi IOUUCIO | c ;aken by our troops were physically j strong, and stated that, so far as j equipment was concerned, many of [ >ur own boys ha<t discarded their! Dlankets for German blankets taken j !rom the battlefield. Sudden Collapse. "It was only in the intelligence ofIce that we found officers who ex- i )ected the end, and their hope was | )ased on the fear expressed by many! German prisoners that the German : )eople would not stand. There can i )e no doubt that the sudden collapse i vas due to the weakening of the Jerman people and not of the Ger-1 nan army, and today in France and i England thoughtful men agree that 11 n October President Wilson, by his ; a lotes to the German government, did j s nore than any army to cause the I udden collapse. Within the twenty- n bur hours after the issuance of his d amous note to the German govern- fi The Store oi ! Dress in the iay you to now d have a price ty Coat Suits ^ v y/l ;e if we have e a big assort- ^j||| antee to un- Mil If M ad Embroidered Unndwork, Scarfs, Nap- /9Kill] Knit Goods, at last w Georgette Waists; 1 / Jamberg ment asking, 'For whom do you speak?' that note was being printed in German and millions of copies were carried over the German lines by our aviators. Afterwards many copies weie found on German prison/VMM HP V* A r* /\ I Art /J + rt TV* A??_ CI 9* AllCCtJ IIULCO UCOllUJCU IUC liiu L " ale of the German people and lessened the resistance of the German army in the closing days of the war. "The day the armistice was- signed we were "visiting the grand fleet, and while on :he deck" of the flagship of the fleet the captain of the Colossus received a wireless announcing the event. Within sight of that vessel more than 100 other war craft, including everything from superdreadnaughts to submarines, were gather-1 ed; a flee"; greater perhaps than will ever again will be assembled at one point ?a fleet at once the symbol of the power of the Allies and the instrument of their salvation. 9or the first time in months the Jackies were granted shore leave, and as they climbed over thp sides into small j boats and the flags of the nations flew from the Allied war vessels, the fleet presented a sight ever to be reremembered. "The average sailor and soldier is in the language of the English 'fed up' on war. As long as the fight was on he would not have thought of i quitting and coming home, but with : the first nign of peace he expressed i his desire for 'home, sweet home.' And certainly one cannot blame the ! boys who have been in the line. 1 Those who have been located at camps and who have been engaged in ] work not in the advanced . sectors j 1 have been able to secure some com- j i forts; but; the boys who have been j in the line, who have lived in shell 11 holes, or at best in the holes in the j ground called dugouts, subjected at ' all times to nerve-racking shell fire, ] have led a life words cannot describe | < and the mind cannot conceive. They < i lave been through their hell on earth, < and whfen. tljey come out, there is ] aothing too good for them. < In Verdun During Bombardment. j "A clear idea of what shell fire . neans we secured at Verdun. Because j :he city had not been bombarded for ( 5ix weeks the French lieutenant coniucting us thought it safe for us to ] risit it, and we failed even to take j ivith. us the gas mask and helmet generally provided. All morning we iad heard the roaring of the guns in ;he distance, but had become accus- * ;omed to this, and without thought )f danger were walking along looking it some of the destroyed buildings, -vhen suddenly there came a whirr1 'ollowed instantly by a-crash as a! >hell fell about 200 yards from us; ipon a building already half 4e"' noiished. The crash and noise or: 'ailing brick resembled an earth-! luake more than anything else. The j French lieutenant yelled to us to get dose to the wall and run for our lutomobile. The first injunction was iseless, as I was already close to the vail; and for an instant I doubted he wisdom of stopping to bother j vith an automobile, but finally con-' iluded we might move faster in the nachine. It took us but a few min-; ites to get out of Verdun, much to 1 he delight of the French officer, who ; Lptparentlv suffered under the reposibility of returning us in'safety. ^ater we learned that the bombard-it( nent continued for an hour and that |.u uring the day there was very severe j n ghting on the line in front of Ver-|S tlC I HHHHHni mmmmmmammmm^ ^ dun. "We visited Lille just four days after its evacuation by the Germans. It is the second largest city of France and had been occupied ever since ' ; 1914. It is the only city in all the war zone where there is no evidence of destruction. The city was gaily utjcuiateu, a nag nymg irom practically every home. I inquired how the flags had been kept all during ? i the period of occupation, and was in- \ J formed that a few days before the /"H Germans evacuated the city, and when they knew they would, leave, the Germans had made the flags and sold them to the people of Lille..This accounted for the presence of the flags of all the Allied nations in such great number so soon aften the evacuation. ^ V 'v " * < A Splendid .Reception Awaits President Wilson. "Today in France and Great Brit- ' \ ain the people fairly worship the President of the United States. There \ . \ ' - is 'a great distinction between the politicians and the people of these countries. Some of the politicians see opportunities for the acquisition of territory, but the people have-not lost sight of the promise that this war has been fought in order to make impossible a recurrence of such a catastrophe. Into practically very home death has come and the belief of the people is that the war has been fought in vain unless it shall serve to prevent war in future. And this also may be said of the man . \ who has been through the hell of fighting in' the line. He has <een tnat there is no glory m modern warfare, and now that his work is done le looks to the statesmen of the world to arrive at a settlement that will make another world war impossible, rhp thoughtful man in England and Prance knows that 'this cannot be lone by any settlement based on the dea of maintaining a balance of pow>r, for this will mean increased arma ? meet and continued militarism in Drder to insure that balance of pow>r; and he hopes for a settlement jased on a League of Nations with y f lutliority to decide international dis>utes and a force sufficient to valilate its decrees. "With unanimity they look to President Wilsoji to bring to the * leace conference the influence to nake possible such a settlement as hey desire, and with implicit faith hey trust him. If he shall go to the )eace conference, there awaits him n France a welcome such as has lever been given to an individual n the history of the world." i It may take more than two yeafrs o demobilize our fighting forces, and ntil that time the government will eed our money. Keep your W. S. . pledge and buy more W. S. S. i