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I Accepts Berlin | That 2ha United States Answers Germ Takes Strong Ground in late? Will Not Quarr r k Washington, May $.?U note cabled k by Secretary Lansing to Ambassador w Gerard today for delivery to the Ber[ lin foreign office informs the German j government that the United States ac"* 'MftAloToUnn n f {ft! * c&pt-S uermanj s uc^iamuwu %/ ?. | / abandonment'' of its former subma^ rine policy and now relies upoa a scrupulous execution of the altered policy to remove the principal danger of an interruption of the good relations existing between the two countries. With this acceptance is coupled for* mal notice to Germany that the l:nited States can not for a moment entertain, much less discuss, a suggestion that respect by German naval authorities for the rights of citizens of the United States on the high seas I sliould ia the slightest degree be; made contingent upon the conduct of any other government affecting the rights of centrals and noncombatants.1 This is in reply to the concluding ! K statement in the last German note to ! j the effect that while submarine com-j manders had been ordered to sink no peaceful freight or passenger carry- i ing ships without warning or without j safety for passengers and crew, the German government would reserve to j itself complete liberty of decision un- 1 ? TTriitPri States was successful! I wut [. in its efforts to. break the British > blockade. Question of Performance. | Secretary Lansing issued a state-; Lr * ment tonight saying that the greater " part of Germany's answer to the demand of the United States was demoted to matters which, the American government could not discuss with * the Berlin government, but he considered Germany had "yielded to our representations," and that "we can have co reason to quarrel with her'' so long as the alterede policy is lived I up to. Following is the text of the note j cabled today by Secretary Lansing to j Ambassador Gerard at Berlin with, in- j & structions to deliver it to the German j minister of foreign affairs. ' 'The note of the imperial" German j government under date of May 4, j 1916, has received careful considera-1 | tion by the government of the United | i States. It is especially noted, as in- j I dicating the purpose of the imperial | " government as to the future, that it < 4is prepared to do its utmost to con-1 fine the operation of ttie war for the rest of its duration to the fighting * .forces of the belligerents' and that it is determined to impose upon all its If commanders at sea the limitations of I the recognized rules of interntional law upon which the government of the United States lias insisted. j J "Throughout the months which I W liaive elapsed since the imperial govf ernment announced on February 4, 1915, its submarine policy, now happily abandoned, the gover.: ment of I the United States has been constantly | guided acd restrained by motives of friendship in its patier* efforts to bring to an amicable'settlement the critical questions arising from that \ policy. Accepting the imperial government's declaration of its abandonment of the policy which has so seriously menaced the good relations "between the two countries, the govIernment of the United States will relv upon a scrupulous execution henceforth of the now altered policy of the imperial government such as will remove the principal danger to an /interruption of the good relations existing between the United States and Germany. "The government of the United States feels it necessary to state that it takes it for granted that the imperial German government does not intend to imply that the maintenance of its newly announced policy is in any way contingent upon the course or result of diplomatic negotiations Wu-ooti ti-?Q trAvprnment of the United [WV/ U T? V K* 11 ^ v ? v/ ? - - - ? ? w ? _ States and any other belligerent government, notwithstanding the fact that certain passages in the imperial government's note of the 4th inst. might appear to be susceptible of that construction. In order, however, to avoid a.-y possible misunderstanding. the government of United States notifies the imperial government that it can not for a moment entertain, much less discuss a suggestion that respect by German naval authorities for the rights of citizens of the United States upon the high seas should in any way or in the slightest degree be made contingent , v _ J upon me conuuvt ui au> uwci ''' - - . . 7 's Word nge Will Come r . iany Briefly?American Note i Rejection of This Postuel If Pledge Is Kept. i ernment affecting the rights of neu-; trals and no^i-combatants. Responsi- j bility in such matters is single, not j joint; absolute, not relative." i Mr. Lansing's statement made public after the note was on its way to Berlin foll|ws: ; Sot Germane to Su?. jec;, ! o,rontor nnrf nf the German - ? ?- ? # answer is devoted to matters which J this government can not discuss with j the German government. The only j question of rights which can be dis| cussed with that go1, ernment is 1 that arising cut of its action or out i of our own, and i.i no event those S questions which are the subject of | diplomatic exchanges between the | United States and any other country. : j " I he essence of the answer is that j Germany yields to our representations with regard to the rights of merchant * ? A rvW ' snips ana non-comi)aianis 011 ue in?u , seas ai d engages to observe the rec-; ognized rules of international law ! governing navul warfare in using her' | submarines against merchant ships.So long as she lives up to this altered policy we can have no reason to quar! rel with htfr on that score, though the ! losses resulting from the violation of American rights by German subma1 rine commanders operating under the ! former policy will have to be setI tied. | "While our differences with Great j | Britain can not form a subject of dis j cussion with Germany it should be j stated that in our dealings with, the I British government we are acting as |-we were unquestionably bound to act in view of the explicit treaty engagements with tha? ga. ernmerit. We have ' treaty obligations as to the manner in which matters in dispute between the two governments are to be handled. 'Germany Kefustd Tliem. "We offered to submit mutually similar obligations with Germany* but tlie offer was declined. When, however, the object in dispute is a continued menace to American lives it is doubtful whether such obligations ap-! ply unless such menace is removed during the pendency of the proceedings." Tne treaty witn tne tjnucn government referred to is the convention negotiated by Former 'Secretary Bryan under which the two nations ! agree that any dispute arising shall { i be submitted to an investigating com- j j mission for one year before entering; 1 into hostilities. An offer to enter into ! ! such a treaty for Germany brought a ; request for information but formal j t negotiations never were instituted. The hope that the note might e:d: the discussion regarding the conduct I of submarine warfare tonight was en-; tertained by some officials and by per! sons in close touch with the German i embassy. Should this prove true, no! i more ships carrying American citizens being sunk in violation of the principles of international law, the way would be cleared for renewal of | negotiations of settlement of the Lus' itania, Arabict Sussex and other cases growing out of illegal submarine at; tacks. In other official quarters, j however, there apparently was uncer; tainty regarding the result which the i note might have. A new crisis, it was | pointed out, would arise should Ger| many make a rejoined to the comj munication and insist that its new | ! nolicv is contingent UDOn the United' I States making certain demands upon j Great Brtain. ! MAM IX NEWBERRY TRY SIMPLE MIXTURE Many Newberry people are surpris' ed at the QULCK action of simple: buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as mixed in Adler-i-ka. This simple j remedy acts on BOTH upper and low- j er bowel, removing such surprising foul matter that ONE SpOONFTJL re| lieves almost ANY CASE constipa. tiz-N-n cnnr- cTnmanTi r>r 5 A fe?w | VllSXA, UVUl -- 0v*w. - j doses often relieve or prevent appendicitis. A short treatment helps chronic stomach trouble. The INSTANT, easy actio;. of lA dler-i-ka is astonishing. Gilder & Weeks Co.. I i druggists. I i It seems that the aspirants for the ; senate and house from Newberry arA j waiting for something. "Hub" says' he can make two and Dr. Folk one! but what about the senate? There I are lots of rumors but no announce-. ments. ; _ i " j THE HERALD AND NEWS ONE | YEAR FOR ONLY S1.50. A MAGIC Offl LIQUID Sulphuric Acid Plays a Big Part In flur Daily I ife ITS LOSS WOULD BE TRAGIC. We Could Hardly Live Without the Help of This Wonderful Agent of Science That Makes Possible Many of Our Arts and Industries. When you get up in the morning and turn on the water for your bath you use a nickel (Mated faucet which remiirail unllihllt'lc !W<iil in niti 11 llfo f. I ture. Your tub. if it be enameled, has met sulphuric acid before it became what it is. and if it is an old fashioned one of tin. plated on sheet copper, it ueeded even more sulphuricacid before it took its place in civilization as a bathtub. The water in which you bathe has probably been treated with sulphate of copper to clear it of algae. The towel with which you dry yourself has met sulphuric acid before you bought it. and the soapmaker possibly found it necessary to use some in the prepara- j tion of your soap. The bristles of your hairbrush have been treated with it. The back of i your hairbrush as well as your comb, if both be of celluloid, could not be produced without it. Your razor before it reached its present high estate has very likely been pickled in sulphuric acid after it was annealed. As you put on your underwear, says a writer in Commerce and Finance, you may recall that the bleacher and the dyer used sulphuric acid on the thread before it was knit or woven or upon the fabric afterward. As you button up your outer garments you may be reminded also that sulphuric acid was needed in scouring the wool, in making the dye and in the process of dyeing the cloth. The button maker needed some be fore your buttons were complete, xne tanner needed some in making tlie 1 leather for your shoes, and it is also used to produce shoe poiish. The cushion upon which you may rest your pious knees in your devotions has met sulphuric acid in one way or another more than once before it reached its present dignity. Al. breakfast your cup and saucer may have come into being without the aid of sulphuric acid, but only provided they are plain white without decorative fiilt. To produce the constituents of aqua regia. which dissolved the gold, sulphuric acid is used. The silver of which your spoon, knife and fork are made may come from a sulphuric acid works which has first burned the ore. while if they are silver plated they were plated in a sulphuric acid bath. Tho fnrmor \rhn rafsprt fhp whpnf nf which your rolls are made probably used acid phosphate on his land to encourage the wheat to grow. Acid phosphate is phosphate r?ck and sulphuric acid. " The paper maker needed some sulphonated aniline blue to tint your morning paper even if he used no sulphite pulp, and it would be a rare ink that is innocent of the touch of sulphuric acid at some point in its history. If you eat buckwheat cakes with j sirup the sirup needed it. and as for j your artificial light, if you get up early! enough to need it. yon would be driven j i 1. ^_ 11? re uitcw IU vanuius IJL 11 ?ei f nut, iui iuia product. Ir is needed in the refining i of kerosene and gasoline, and as for! your electric light, brought to you by currents of electricity through copper wires, wbere would the electric,industry be without copper? And where would the copper industry be without the electrolytic process of refining, which requires enormous quantities of! sulphuric acid? It would be para-1 lyzed. We have heard of the embarrassment of industry by the lack of German dye?, but this is a mere bagatelle compared with the genera! oreafcup that would follow a dearth of sulphuric acid. We can neither go to war and have smokeless powder, nor can we live in p-caee without it Wher-i ever you go in civilization you cannot! get out of its path. You may never see It, you may not know its qualities and its very remarkable chemical personality, and you had better not touch it, but almost invariably it has been around before you. All of this will explain but a fraction of the all pervasive usefulness of sulphuric acid in the arts of what we call civilization. And its use is con. . . stantly growing along witn tne development of chemical industry and the science of agriculture. Origin of "Gentleman." It is quite commonly held that the word gentleman is made from the two words "gentle" and "man," but this is not the case. Originally the word was spelled "gentileman" and signified literally a Christian convert Lady comes from the old Anglo-Saxon and signifies "to serve a loaf." It was applied to the mistress of the house as the one who served the bread. ?Irish World. W -a rrl I nr. If Bacon?Thi* paper says according to a French investigator tlie chance of mistake in identification by means of finder prints is about one in 17,000.OOO.OUO. Egbert?Well. I'll bet my vvife's the person who would make that one.?Yonkers Statesman. Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Tenacious' ofl GOOD jl NOTICE OF ELECTION IX UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 32. (Whereas, o.':e-third of the resident electors and a like proportion of the resident freeholders of the age of twenty-one years, in Union school district No. 32, of the county of Newberry, State of South Carolina, have fil ^ ^ h?\o nrl eu a pennon wmi tuc tuumji uvaiu i of education of Xewberry county, | State of South Carolina, petitioning I that an election be held in said school district on the question of levying a special tax of two (2) mills to De col[ lected on all the taxable property within the said school district. Now, therefore, we the undersigned, I composing the county board of educaj tion for Newberry county, State of i South Carolina, do hereby order the board of trustees of the Union school district No:, 32, to hold an election on the said questin of levying a special tax of two (2) mills to be collected on the property located in said school district, which said election shall be held at the Union school house, in said school district, No. 32, on Saturday, May 20, 1916, at which said election the polls shall be opened at 7 a. m. and closed at 4 p. m. The members of the board of trustees of said school district shall act as managers of said election. Only such electors as reside in said school district and return' real or personal property for taxation, and who exhibit their tax receipts and registration certificates as required in gener-J al elections, shall be allowed to vote. Electors favoring the levy of such tax shall cast a ballot containing the word "Yes" written or printed thereon, and each elector opposed to such levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "No"' written or printed thereon. Given under our hands and seal; ! this the 3rd day of May , 1916. Chas. P. Barre, J. S. Wheeler,' 0. B. Cannon. : I County Board of Education for Xew' berry Com.tv, S. C. I i i i j The grain c rop i this county is alj most a complete failure. Xow is the i time to plant the land in corn as soon j j as the rains come. It is plenty of j time in which to make a good corn icrop. fires slack "Barefo IIKEaPuptoaR Earth, when ; -i throw an the ] But,?instead of m< \ ' Earth,?for Traction,?t \ your bare foot clings to s \ This new and won ^ \ Rubber," is as stretchy a \ Light-weight as Rubbe \ but stronger, tougher, loi \ 'pure Rubber could ever I , \ That Lightness, Str< I \ due, in part, to the abse 4 \ white substances wrhich, 8 1 gritty texture designed tc j| J Traction, when Clutch 01 iu pruviue 110 ihhahi llllli Friction (which means 11 1 Tread-Wear, and lessened ive between fabric layers I ?That's the Mission foot Rubber.'' I How well it does i I Resilience, Comfort-in-ri< |l may be realized only by 1 Bill I '"TIAREFOOT RU r\ rich Safety-Ti I I J JlJ Cycle Tires, ||8 I Goodrich Truck Tires, mm I Overshoes, Soles and He* jjjjjjB I Goodrich. J H I Get a sample of it, at MM I or today. MB I Stretch it thousands IlUll I you can't. mm I With all this, ?obser WIJ J in America?made of th Wj I Rubber, ?cost you no mc 7 J dinary Tires made by otJu / No "larger-sized" Ti / Type for Type), are mad / Tires. / Why, then, should i ^ than the Goodrich "Fai until he has at least U "Barefoot" Rubber Goo< RICH? ? BAKEFC3H Gains For Ger In 1 Entire System of Trenches tured?Big White Star Li Condition as Result 'The White Star line steamer Cymric, bound from New York for Liverpool, is reported to be in a sinking condition somewhere at sea. Her owners in Liverpool say that from the reports received they believed the vessel was torpedoed. The Cymric carried 'no passengers. An entire system of trenches on the ? ^ TJTill OA A -n V> iioruiern siopc ul ma uvi nui i of Verdun has been captured by the' Germans, according to Berlin, and the French in the fighting suffered extraordinarily heavy casualties. In addition 40 officers and 1,280 soldiers were taken prisoner. Paris reports that to the east of the hill the Germans were driven from a communication trench which they previously had penetrated and that to the west of the hill a German assault against French positions at hiu zm was put down. A heaivy bombardment is in progress against the Avoncourt woocls and the entire region of Hill 304, while to the east of Verdun and in the Woevre artillery activity continues vigorous. Around the Thiaumont farm, north of Verdun, a French attack broke down and 300 men were taken prisoners. The Germans on the Russian front IVintlirop College. SCHOLARSHIP and ENTRANCE EXAMINATION The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop College and for the admission of new students will bo held at the county court house on Friday. July 7. at 9 a. m. Applicants must not be less ' ? A?.. -noi-? Whpri Ulan Si.MetMl >caio \J L "{? >-. ? scholarships are vacant after July 7 they will be awarded to those making the highest, average at this examina-j ot" Rubber oot,99 do they hang on to the you throw in the Clutch, or Brakes. srely grinding against said hey CLING to it, much as ilippery surfaces. iderfuL Goodrich ''Barefoot tmuau tua pu:c xvuuuci uanuy r in its native amber color, * iger-wearing (in Tires) than )e. etch, and CLING-quality is mce of the heavy and inert in other Tires, provide the ) give effective but grinding Brakes do their work.^ aum Traction with minimum mmimum neat, minimum I Strain on the rubber adhes> )? of the new Goodrich "Barehis work,?how much more ding, and Mileage, it gives,? test. BBER" can be had in Good ead Tires,?Goodrich Motor Goodrich Bicycle Tires,? ? Goodrich Rubber Boots, ils and in no other make but ;the nearest Goodrich Branch of times, but tear its fibres ve that the best Fabric Tires is TENACIOUS "Barefoot" >re (and usually less), than or ir responsible manufacturers, ires (taken Size for Size and e than Goodrich Black-Tread any Business Man pay more r-List" Price, for any Tire, isted one pair of these new irich Tires ? ^ THE B. F. GOODRICH CO. _ Akron, Ohio. 01! Tires J > / mans /erdun Assault on Hill 304 Reported Capner Said to Be in Sinking^ of Torpedo Attack. launched an offensive to the south of Illukst, but met with no success. Mine fighting and bombardments continue at various points along this line. In Galicia, to the northwest of Tarnopol, the Russians captured a mine crater. . In the fighting in Asia Minor the Russians have compelled the lurks to withdraw from their entire first line trenches in the region of Erzfrgan. Attacks by the Austriana against the Italians in the Marmolada, Falzarego and other sectors were re- a pulsed. The bombardment in the Ademello region continues. Here the Italians have destroyed an Austrian defense work on Col Topete. The Turkish cruiser Breslau is reported by Petrograd to have bombarded Eupatoria, in the Crimea. -The town is described as an unfortified station. The entente allied line in France has been strengthened by the arrival of Australia and New Zealand troops, who ha-ve take over a ortion of the front. Four more leaders in the Irish revolt have been executed. tion,, provided they meet the conditions frm-emiTier the award. iAt>nli cants for scholarships should write to President Johnson before the examination for scholarship examination blanks. Scholarships are worth SI00 and free tuition. The next session will open September 20, 1916. For further information and catalogue, address Pres. D. P. Johnson. Rock Hill, S. C. mm* J Only On? 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