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< ===^= PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Mr. L. B. Fowler spent Tuesday in Augusta. ?Dr. J. L. Copeland, of Ehrhardt, was in town Tuesday morning. ?Mrs. D. G. Felder and little ^ daughter have returned to Asheville. ?Mrs. N. Z. Felder is visiting her son, Capt. D. G. Felder, in Asheville. \ ?Mr. W. E. Brow-n, of the Ehri hardt section, was in the city Monday. * ?Mrs. H. W. Beard is spending this week with relatives and friends in Augusta. ?Mr. N. B. Rhoad, of Hunter's Chapel, was among the visitors in town Monday. * ?Mr. Charlie D. Free, who has spent the ia9t few years in Uncle Sam's navy, has returned home. ?Mrs. W. A. Waters and little daughter, Elizabeth, of Charleston, are visiting their mother, Mrs. E. A. Smoak. y ?Mr. and Mrs. J. Rubin and children, of Norway, visited Mr. and Mrs. Sam Zimmerman in the city Sunday. ?Mr. Richburg M. Rowell, after completing his service in army, has received his discharge and is now at home. ?Mr. Dollie Felder, a former resident of Bamberg, now residing at Loris, was in the city a few days this week. ?Miss Gertrude Smoak, who hjs been holding a position as bookkeeper in Ehrhardt, has returned home for the summer months. _S~~ I ?Mrs. J. A. Byrd, Mrs. George Smith and Miss Addys Hays spent several days in Columbia last week as the guests of Miss Lalla Byrd. ' ^ ?Colonel and Mrs. J. R. Owens returned from Charleston a few days ago. The colonel, whose health has been very bad for several months, states that he is now feeling better, and his friends hope that he will soon return to his usual vigorous health. ^ < ? ? .k The Village Merchant. ? "After 20 years in business at the old stand, Ripley. Rant is being sold out by the sheriff today to the highest bidder," said the landlord of the Petunia tavern. "You see, Rip's jo* theory of thet art of running a groeery store was to outyell all comers. His other idee was that the customer was always wrong. If he hadn't got what the customer wanted the durn customer ort to want what Rip had, and if he didn't like it he could git out. "Customers disturbed him a good deal anyhow by insisting on being waited on when he wanted to argue with some of his cronies about the burning issues of the day. He knew . / . . . almost everymmg aooui everyimng, knew it in tones of thunder, and knew most of it wrong. "Frinstance, he knew how General " Pershing ort to proceed in whipping the Germans and when he did exactly the opposite and yet whipped 'em to a quivering custard old Rip was ^ almost as mucbxflisgusted with the r general as if he had been defeated. / He preferred convincing a man } against his will to selling him a big bill of goods, and if the customer was ^ convinced quick enough he could get anything in the store on credit. So the sheriff is closing him out today, and Rip doesn't seem to know how it happened." A Long Wait. ?'v ' ^ Physician (looking into his anteroom where a number of patients are waiting)?Who has been Waiting the longest? , Tailor (who has called to present a bill)?I have, doctor. I delivered ^ A A1A41|AM 4 A A.. 4 V MA A A. AA AA A I.A 7 mo wui.ucs tu )uu mice >cais agu. i Pearson's Weekly. ^ >?? ? Last Place He Thought Of. -T The Tombstone Man (after several abortive suggestions)?How would simply "Gone Homb" do? _ waiting)?who has been waiting the ? would be all right. It was always the last place he ever thought of going.?Tit-Bits. m tmt -% * Logical Wish. 9 Off the outskirts of Philadelphia is an admirable stock farm. One day last summer some poor children were permitted to go over this farm, > and when their inspection was done, to each of them was given a glass of - milk. The milk was excellent. "Well, boys, how do you like it?" the farmer said, when they had drained theirglasses. "Fine," said one little fellow. Then after a pause, he added, "I wish our milkman kept a cow."?Journal of the American Medical Association. When you have nothing else to say?let the other fellow boast awhile. : PALESTINE AS IT IS. Land Chosen of God to Teach Human Race. Of peculiar timeliness, because of widespread American interest in the future of Palestine, is a communication to the National Geographic society from Viscount James Bryce, former British ambassador to the United States. The historic Holy Land, released from deadly Moslem domination, may take its piace among me prosperous and even populous" civilized states of today, he states, if administered by "a government which should give honest administration, repress brigandage, diffuse education, irrigate the now desolate, because sunscorched, valley of the lower Jordan by water drawn from the upper course of the river." A part of Viscount Brvce's communication follows: "Palestine is a tiny little country. Though the traveler's handbooks prepare him to find it small, it surprises him by being smaller than he expected. Taking it as the region between the Mediterranean on the west and the Jordan and Dead Sea on the east, from the spurs of Lebanon and Hermon on --x ? At. * <3 AAl/vwi A+ TD V? aVIO rne norui lO lilts uestsi t at uccisucua on the south, it is only 110 miles long and from 50 to 60 broad?that is to say, it is smaller than New* Jersey. "Of this region large parts did n^t really belong to ancient Israel. Their hold on the southern and northern districts was slight, while in the southwest a wide and rich plain along the Mediterranean was occupied by the warlike Philistines, who were sometimes more than a match for the Hebrew armies. Israel had, in fact, little more than the hill country, which lay between the Jordan on the east and the maritime plain on?the west. King David, in the days of his power looked down from the hill cities of Benjamin, just north of Jerusalem, upon Philistine enemies only 25 miles off, on the one side, and looked across the Jordan to Moabite enemies about as far off, on the other. "Nearly all the events in the history of Israel that are recorded in the Old Testament happened within a territory no bigger than the State of Connecticut whose area is 4,800 square miles; and into hardly any other country has there been crowded from the days of Abraham till our own so much history?that is to say, so many events that have been recorded and deserve to be recorded in the annals of mankind. "Nor is it only tnat Palestine is really a small country. The traveler constantly feels as he moves about that it is a small country. From the heights a few miles nprth of Jerusalem he sees, looking northward, a far-off summit carrying snow for 8 months in the year. It is Hermon, whose fountains feed the rivers of Damascus. ? "But Hermon is outside the territory of Israel altogether, standing in the land of the Syrians; so, too, it is of Lebanon. We are apt to think of that mountain pass as within the country, because it also is frequently mentioned in the Psalms and the Prophets; but the two ranges of Lebanon also rise beyond the frontiers of Israel, lying between the Syrians of Damascus and the Phoenicians of the west. Perhaps it is because the maps from which children used to learn Bible geography were on a large scale that most of us have failed to realize how narrow were the limits within which took place an those great doings that fill the books of Samuel and Kings. Just in the same way the classical scholar who visits Greece is surprised to find that so small a territory sufficed for so many striking incidents and for the careers of so many famous men." ^ i?> ? Genealogy of the Germans. The claim is made that the various European nations have resulted from a mixture of the original primitive inhabitants with the Teutons who overran them during the later migrations; but that in Germany, on the other hand, Teutons were merely mixed with Teutons, and thus the race here remained pure. In fact, however, skeletons and other remains show conclusively that there was a race of primitive inhabitants in Germany as well, going back as far as the diluvial period. At the time of the Cimric invasion and later, T A 1 ~~~ .? - e . 'U ~ wiien iiit; sutJciLu ui mc icuiuuiv/ axugrations burst upon them, this population partly migrated, or at least withdrew into the mountainous re! gions, partly perished and partly mingled with the newcomers. A primitive population dwelt, here as well as in the other European countries at a time when the rhinoceros and the elephant still roamed through Europe. Even as late as the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the French were the more likely to be called Germans.?Dr. G. F. Nicolai, in "The Biology of the War." ^i i>> ? All size loose leaf memorandums at Herald Book Store. OPERATIONS OF U-BOATS. No Bases in America, Says German Commander. "Germany never had a submarine base in America," said Captain Bartenbach, commander of submarine bases in Flanders during the war to , an American correspondent in Berlin a few days ago. "Xor did German submarines, operating off the American coast, have a mother ship or receive any aid or supplies from i shore." ! Captain Bartenbach became identified with the submarine service in i Germany 13 years ago, when it was ! in its experimental stages. He com manded the first German submarine, the U-l. He is still in the submarine service and has his office in the Admiralty building in Berlin. I asked him the first question regarding the base of submarines in America, because I had often heard it argued that German U boats could not have operated off our coast unless supported by a nearby base or mother ships. Capt Bartenbach said the submarines that harried the American coast were outfitted and sailed from Kiel and received no supplies on the voyage. One submarine which visited Ameiica was absent five months. It was commanded by Captain Kopenhamei, and reached America in August of 191S. It did not succeed in getting I back to Kiel until January" of this ! year. Captain Vonnoskit, who was off the American coast last July and August, was away from Kiel for three months, while another of our unwelcome visitors was Captain Rose. Captain Bartenbach said the Laconia was sunk by Captain Berger I and the Lusitar.ia by Capt Schweiger, ! both of whom had died when then j submarines were destroyed during j the war. ! Captain Bartenbach said the greati est enemy of the submarine was not j the depth bomb, but the anchored : mino Tlio ova r>+ fiffurOC a T& imnn?IQl j ill AU^? X Ui vw VMW* ble to give, but the captain said about three U-boats were sunk by anchored mines to every one sunk by I a depth bomb. One of the most important duties ! of submarines, said the captain, was planting anchored mines. It was an anchored mine, planted by a German j U-boat, he said, that sank the British ship on which General Kitchener I was a passenger. The mine had not i been placed especially to sink -Kitchi ener's ship, but because the Geri mans made it a practice promptly to I place mines along every new route to I which traffic would be diverted. | I asked Bartenbach how long the | British tied up his operations by attacks on Ostend and Zeebrugge. "During the entire time of the ! war," he said, "the channel for the ] passage of German submarine boats at Ostend and Zeebrugge was never closed for as much as two consecutive minutes. The British attack was a glorious thing, done ^'ilh .splendid audacity and dauntles&^Pbut it was an absolute failure from a ! military standpoint. In the first attempt at Ostend two British boats missed the channel and went ashore, their bones are rotting there now, while in the second attempt the Vindictive found the entrance to the harbor, but was sunk almost immediately. The wreck is still there." I told Captain Bartenbach that presence of an "oil slick" on the water, after a destroyer had dropped depth bombs, was hailed as concluusive evidence of the destruction of the submarine by the enemy. Tin* captain said oil and also fresh water was carried by submarines in the outer sten of the boat which was thin and would be pushed in by the force of the explosion of the depth bomb. The oil would be released and would ascend to the surface and form an "oil slick," while the U-l boat had receive no material damage. If the depth bomb made a clear hit on the submarine, or exploded very close along-side, it would of course destroy the submarine. The submarine captain could exercise his judgment when making an attack, but in case of passing a spot full of anchored mines, he must try to go through. If the submarine commander saw that the attacked ships wrere in convoy with a guard of destroyers, he would simply submerge, let them pass, and wait for a boat without an escort. After leaving his base he would not turn back because of being afraid to go through the mine field. Captain Bartenbach was positive that none of his submarine commanders ever fired on or rammed small V>/-?ofr. in Ti-ViinVi ciiruiunrc wora al. k/vaio XXI ? 1X1V11 tJUl TIT V/A. O If v Mb .tempting to escape from the wreck. "Any U-boat commander who did such a thing," said the captain, "would be courtmartialed first, for inhumanity; second for idiocy, because he would be wasting time and ammunition and putting his boat crew in jeopardy to no purpose. Some excited people in small boats after their ship had been struck would sometimes declare the submarine had . .. I A Zapata Story. The stories they tell about him are like those which are told of Villa, the bandit of the north. Here is one: Zapata demanded tribute from a rich rancher. The fellow answered with courtesies but no money. He woke' up next morning with Zapata at his front door. He found himself the next afternoon tied to a post in the middle of a bull pen, his body out of reach, but his legs low enougn to oe gored. Red cloth was tied around the victim's legs and soldiers were set to torturing the bull. The beast was turned loose in the pen and saw the red cloth on the post. Maybe you can guess what happened. The flesh was gored from the man's legs and he died as he hung on the post. Zapata had taken the rancher's wife to the edge of the pen fcnd made her sit there and watch the torture of her husband. Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. come up near them and tried to run them down when all the submarine commander was after was to find out the name of the ship he had sunk." i iM Je pi Us Oar < N|| ly It was President 1 W proposed our preset |f dimes and cents. I M porter of banks and 1 Conserve your coii I nod they'll soon mon I A bank account fa | windward. M if yon have anac m if yon haven't, stt v i A^A A^A A^4. A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A Jk A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^i. 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It weighed 10 pounds and measured 8 feet from tip to tip. "Gee, whiz! Isn't that Smithson j who just went by in his automobile? j Whpn T knew him a few vears aeo he had a junk shop." "He still has. Only he moved it to a place on a fashionable street and labeled the same stock, 'Antiques.' "?Boston Transcript. i Gave li Currency IS "homesJefferson woo Vv it system of dollars, 1e was a firm snp? w a, place them to bank H i a distinct anchor to 8 court, add to It m trt one today; D ? f N W*. aTA .iTA A^i. .i^ T^T T^T T^T Horses and Mules E. D. DAl^ CEIVED A FRESh ng M Condition; Pric \ Ate all our frien ers to come in see i :k stables. E. D. DA^ EMERLY J. M. DANNELLY & rdt, South Cf A^A A^A A^A A^A fti A A A A A *Fjk ATA ATI A A A A IT y V^Tap The Answer. Our diplomats offer us a project of a league of nations which is not the society of nations such as was prescribe! in the 14 points of President Wilson. The peoples of the entire world in their thirst for justice acclaimed these 14 points, and we accepted them. The French working class, faithful to its conception of a war on war, rises against the sabotage of peace. This expression of opinion does not come from the supporters of President Wilson in America. Xor is it the emanation of any radical group in Europe. It is the formal pronouncement issued in behalf of the conservative labor element in France when tlio inKhorv r?f ininpria 1 i<it<s thrpntpn ed to restore the old spoils principle in the peace conference. It is a sweeping answer to those American editors who, because of a mixture of neurotic sentimentalism and a hatred of the president, have been stupid enough to believe that the voice of a few jingoes, imperialists and corrupt politicians is the voice of Jhe French people.?Philadelphia Ledger. Bamberg Banking Co. 1 / *3 t Capital and Surplus $100,000.00 vV?t v '4 4 per cent interest paid on Savings Accounts j ' -'7 V J&*. 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