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' .. w WHL ' * VOICMK I V. SUMBEB Si NEWBERRY, & C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1918. TWICE A WEEK, 31.50 A YEAB MANY RUMOI OF GERMi t f Stories Emanating From D Tell of Capitulation of r.f Kaiser Uxwawi.v/u v to Drive Huns Unconfirmed rumors are in the air that Germany has capitulated and that Emperor William has abdicated. The rumors emanated from Dutch and Swiss sources, but as yet the German frovernment has not officially inform ^d either the Washington or London governments of its intention to concede in their entirety the conditions lor a cessation of hostilities as laid down by President Wilson. Meanwhile hostilities are proceeding without cessation and as in days past the forces of the allies everywhere are defeating the enemy. In Belgium Flanders, the British, Belgian and French troops untfer King Albert are sweeping forward for further * 1,1 n# dWV k material gams m ti|tj ui. I Ing the invaders from Belgian soil, on r the front in France, the British, French and Americans are hanj after the Germans and are making progess. although slowly, notwithstanding the . strenuous defense which is being of- i fered. * ^ a A iVvovtt ^ f Isq nn_ 1 iHOtn in oeroia ana ^luama vuc , tente troops are ridding the invaded* districts of the AustroJHungarian and German contingents in Albania being I well to the north of D^razzo on the Adriatic Sea and in Serbia, a consid- j eraible distance beyond Nish with the | enemy falling "back toward the frontier of Austria-^Hungary. kin the Palestine theater the iBritisIi cavalry lias driven far to the north j and northwest of Damascus, having i Teached Troipoli, near the Mediterranean cosat, 45 miles north of Beirut, and iHoms 25 miles north of Damascus. By this maneuver there seemingly is created for the Ottoman forces : nit; uieiiate yi a.smu vuu^ui, uv tvvcsn Genera! Allenby's armies and crushed as was the case in the early days of the offensive in the region north of Jerusalem. The meneuver also may forecast a new drive by the * . British from the Bagdad region to form a junction with General Allenbv at Aleppo and thus take the Holy Land in its entirety from the Turks i The great wedge of the allies in Flanders is being gradually extended eastward all along the front of attack. Thorout. at the head of the rcilv/av leading to Bruges and numer- I ?311 -> omi + Vi Vioru <ViAon IJUS VllUJK^S to tile ouulu ua< v WVM 1 taken, -while Courtrai, the junction j point of the railway to Ghent, is almost entirely surrounded. Large num fcers of prisoners and many additional gun3 have been caotured ibv the Belgian, Frneh and -British troops who are carrying out the operation. To the south of this region the Brit ish continue successfully their maneuver which has its main objective the capture of Douai and Lille and the blotting out of the bio; salient which is barring the way to Valenciennes and the German defense line in that vicinity. Here the Germans are continuing to withdraw, closely followed 'by the British who are within two and half miles and three and three-quarter miles of Lille, respectively, southwest and west of the city. In th Champagne region where the ^ ? M 5 French and Americans are unviug , tbeir way northward further goo-1 j sains have been made notwithstand- j Ing the fuiaus efforts of the Germans j tc hold thir line. Rethel, the important junction point! for the railways running to iMeziere-? and other points insida the enemv held territory, is all but captured br the French. Eastward the American? j also have again pressed slightly for-1 ward. r [ONE 8POON, PLEASE. Make one spoon of sugar Do the work of two. Keep the program going g jj Until the war is through. jj j r <S IN AIR \N COLLAPSE utch and Swiss Sources Government andAb?Allies Continue 1 TJ? 1 1 oacK in rieia. PRUNE COMES INTO ITS OWN i j Has Won Official Recognition as Con- , , fection Worthy of Being Served to Fighting Men. In the .piping times of peace the!. prune was the butt of cheap wits and I the bane of the boarder. Now when : the acid test of utility and -palatabil- i1 ity is applied the despised prune steps 1 Into the preferred class?at least on ; < the American army bill of fare. It ! < ^fts won its way solely on its own ? merit The counts in its favor are ^ food value, tonic value and value as a : confection. It nourishes, stimulates, 1 and delights. ;*< - OFTYir ! J.Iie surgeuu geuviai ui mc utu^ . airaself testifies to the loyal and helpful support of the once belittled fruit ; t He has added his recommendation to the approving report of the subsist- " ence divisioij. Thi* report tells us that 1 out of the 1917 cropv20,000,000 pounds ! of prunes have been consumed by our o fighting men. Based on size fifty-five, < which is the trade designation of the average prune, the total number consumed would be 1,100,000,000. Placed ! ^ Nide by side it is quite possible that this total of Drunes wouldn't reach .' from the American trenches to Berlin, j but each prune, no doubt, is doing its s best to help the Yankee fighters cover . j the distance. j. There would be a sort of poetical, justice In the circumstance if the cheerful idiot and the other boarders ; whose table wit lingered longest about 1 she patient prune could meet it over t there in Flanders and in Picardy and 1 find it honored and extolled as the i food of fighting men. j; WAGE WAR ON GRASSHOPPERS j 0 S California Authorities Devising Ways and Means to Protect Agriculture t] ai Lands From Pest i i County horticultural, commissioners ( throughout California have been asked j i to forward information on the grass- ' hopper pest reported prevalent in a number of districts, particularly in nn?fhai<n Poli-Tni-nlll tf? CrPOPPP "FT. t ilUHUCI 11 \^U1AV^?AA?A| wv 0 ^ Hecke, state horticultural commis- * sioner. * ( Fragmentary reports received at ] Hecke's office have indicated that ; large swarms of grasshoppers have infested agricultural districts in Sut-;' to?, Modoc Lassen, Butte and other ? counties and have caused considerable t damage to crops. \ i ( One of the best methods of exterm- j ination, an official said, is the spread- t ing of poisoned bran mash, which the . hoppers devour quickly. Burning of the grass also is sax effective means, but -the fire mer.ace at this season ,* necessitates the exercise of greatest caution. 1 Harrowing, by which means the eggs of the hoppers are brought to the } surface to be eater, by ants or other 1 insocts and Hooding the ground also are advocated to prevent hatching. The enforcement of laws for the 1 curbing of pe&ts is nested in the coun- * ty horticultural commissioners, but in s cases where the menace to crops is , extensive the state commission co-op- 1 erates in a concerted campaign of ex-', termination, as was done this spring when tfie state-wide rodent drive was conducted. ,1 Cyclist in Spectacular Feat An army motorcyclist at one of the ( training camps recently averted the death of a young lieutenant by a most extraordinary feat of heroism, says n Voirn 7(no ' rUpUiltr iuaguoiuv( at high speed across rough ground, he?5 drove his machine into a runaway 1 parachute that was dragging the offi- j \ cer to his death. The latter had made ? a practice parachute jump of 2,000. ( feet from an observation balloon. A high wind had carried him a consider- i( able distance, and In landing he be-1 came hopelessly entangled in the cord- j1 age. The parachute was caught by a ; s strong air current and blown at terrific j < speed acress the field, ptilling its help-; less prisoner with it. At the same in- j stant the cyclist, .passing along a near- , by motor road, saw the officer's plight.. He swerved his machine into the field on/j tftn sneed sauarely into i the middle of the bellied parachute.!1 The ropes fouled the machine and the , weight of the latter anchored the dere- j Lot against further movement. t'HS HEKAL.D ANL' NEWS. ON* ; YT Uf ONLY *2.50. iiTOCRACY MUST GO DECLARES PRESIDEM. Vricisfiee Can Not Be Thought o? While Germans Continue Atrocities on Land and Sea.?If Move is to be Made Terms of Cessation Will be Dictated by Soldiers. Washington, Oct. 14.?President Wilson has answered Germany's peace proposal with a decsion which not Daly fulfills the expectations of supporters of his diplomacy hut also dispels the fears of those who predicted would substitute victories at arms ivith feats at diplomacy. No peace with kaiserism, autocracy must go, no armistice can ever be bought of while Germany continues ;ier atrocities en land and sea, one ?an not be considered unless it is tally dictated by the allied commanders in the field in such terms as absolutely provide safeguards and guarmtees that Germany's part will not ae a scrap of paper. This in a few words is the Presilent's answer. If it does not bring a capitulation ivhich may be more than an uncondional surrender, allied diplomats and American officials believe it may causa i revolution in Germany. Beyond question it speaks for the >?>tente allies as well as the United States. The dispatch of the president's rer?Iy was followed by the issue of this !ormal statement at the White House 3y Secretary Tumulty: "The government will continue to jend over 250,000 men with their sup_ ?lies every month and there will be ?n relaxation of anv kind." Quite outside of the formal phrases 3f a diplomatic document* that was President Wilson's word to the world Vt he had no thought of stopping the ighting at this stage. The senate chamber rang with the ipplause of senators as the president's answer was read a few minutes ifter it had 'been announced at he State department. Senator Lodee, the president's chief critic in his course A ', - -1 * - ftitomant DYnrp?S. T.Tii touay. isucu a otai^iuvui ^^~? n<r his gratification at the president'? Jcision. Opinion at the capitol and hrcirsrhout official Washington was nanimously in approval. The official note which will convey ;be president's answer to the German rovernment and more important, the 1 ? j^ll ?f A^O"7 .Terman peopje, was ueuveicu lwuc<,.t jv Secretray Lansing to the charge >f the Swiss legation who has t>een n+ing as the intermediary. It was ?:ven out publicly by iMr. Lansing at ^e State department at 6 o'clock this 'fternoon, in full. It follows: "Sir: In reply to the communica-"on of the German government dated he 12th instant, which you handed me c'iv, I nive tne nonor iu roiuesi. o transmit the following answer: text of the president's answer follows: 'The unqualified acceptance by the jre^ent German government and "by a larre majority of the. reichstag cf the ermp ipifl down by the president of he United !?tates of America In his iddress to thte congress of the United f>tafes on the 18th of January, 191*. md in his subsequent aanresses ':pr t^e president in making a frank *nd direct statement of his decision ^vith regard to the communications of he German government of the 8th and 12th of October, 1918. "It must be clearly understood that he process of evacuation and the con litious of an armistice are matters rhVh must "be left to the judgment and idvice-cf the military advisers of the government, of the United States and :he allies' governnents and the presrient feels it his duty to say that no arrangement can he accepted by the rovernment of the United States which :!oes not provide absolutely satisiacorv safeguard and euarantees of the maintenance of the present military supremacy of the armies of the .Tnited ?t?+?s and the allies in the field. "He feels confident that ho can safetv assume that tlrs "will also te th-* I '^rnent and d^iaion of the .allies' governments. "The nr-^M ' "??!<? that it-is also hie- sr - * ? h.-j* nei:her the gov E.irV^-1 f*!4 ( >* '~*r. C! + j-.toc nor, ^ie >." ' - - vr with 5V-.;.v -.? ft- ^ United * *" '?!? 'Teiit, r ' n o -cng - 1 ec of Ger . i MR SHEALY ADVANCES. Becomes Assistant Superintendent of Education, The State. W. A. Shealy, superintendent of the Olympia Mill school has been appointed assistant State superntendent of education to succeed J. A. Stoddard, who recently resigned to accept the pi oiessorsnip oi stscuuucuj cuui-auuu at the University of i?outh Carolina. For seven years Mr. Shealy has done :ou. l'uCiiv^ work in the Olympia mill s'hc?l. A better building and well snipped ?lny.-rcund, an interested class in domestic* science and an enlarged attention to health and sanitation and every form of community co) operation?these are some of the activities ne has energetiaally supported Mr. Shealy is a native of Newberry county, a graduate of "Newberry col1 o f go/%Via>? nf 10-n or onH qll p ClliU Q> ICftV/llcl u1 AVilQ v4.aJ.va ?-< v. w cesFful service in country schools, in high schools and in mill schools. .T. E. Swearingen, State superintendent, is much gratified at Mr. Shealy's acceptance of this new position, following iMr. Stoddard's resignation. The board of trustees of Olympia promoted Miss Frances iPruitt to the principalship cf the Olympia school. Mr. Alvin W Wright has returned from Anderson a!!ter a vist to his wife who has been seriously ill at her rormer home 'here. Mvs. V/right, we are glad to say, is much better. many continue the illegal and inhumane practices which they still per sist in. "At the very time that the German <rovernment approaches the government of the United States with proposals of peace its submarines are engaged in sinking passenger ship.-, 3 4Vv/-> oViiirvr. olrmo hilt 'd. i S'del clll U uui iuc ouij/s u'uuv/, ? ?v The*very beats in which their passengers and crews seek to make their way to safety, and in their present enforred withdrawal from F'anders and France the German armies are pursuing a course of wanton destruction which has always been regarded as in direct violation of the rules and practices of civilized warfare. Cities and villages, if not destroyed, are being stripped of all they contain, rot only, but often of tneir very innauuants. "The nations associated against Germany can not be expected to agree to a^cessation of war while acts of I nil u inanity, spoilation and desolation are being continued which they justly o>k rpoii with horror and with burning hearts. ?. "It is necessary, also m oraer mat there may be no possibility of misunderstanding that the president should very solemnly call the attention of the government of Germany 'o the language and plain intent of one of the terms of peace which the Oerman povernmerit has now accept ed.. It is contained in the address of the president delivered at Mount Vernon on the Fourth of July, last. "It is as follows: "The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly and of its single cnoice, aistMrb thQ paace cf the world, or if it can not be presently destroyed, at least its reduction to virtual impotency." "The power which has hitherto controlled the German nation is of the Fort here described. It is within the choice of the German nation to alter it. The president's words just quoted naturally constitute a condition precedent o peace, if peace is to com? by the action of the German people themselves. The president feels bound to say that the whole process of peace will, in his judgment, depend upon the definiteness and the satisfactor character of the guarantees which can 'be given in this fundament al matter. It is indispensible that the j governments associated against Germany should know "beyond a peradverfnre with whom they are dealing "The president will make a sepa rate reply to the royal and imperial government of Austria-Hungary. ! "Accept, sir. the renewed assurances of my hisrh consideration." J,k T.^neinp' " ISKIltfUl HUUCIl Frederick Odelin Charge d'-Affairss, ad interim, in charge of German interests in the United States. \ GREAT EVEN! SHADOWS I RULE OF KAISER Persistent Statements Mac Has Ab< Washington Oct. 16.?Tonight's news of Germany is everywhere regarded her as the shadow of great events "being cast before them. There is in Washington no official ?,-a !-viot the imicor has abdicated: or ? W Ui u LllUb kiiv iiv??WVA _ that he has been overthrown; or that : Germany is ready to accept all of President Wilson's terms. Officials ! and diplomatists, cautious and conservative by nature and practice regard with incredulity the intimations that one or all of these things has happened. Of course, they all hope they have; they all know that one or all of them are inevitable. The official opinion in the capital tonight is that coming of these things is timed only by the unknown degree to which the German military power has been broken. There may be more information on that point in the chan. I cellories of England, France and Italy than there is in Washington. When President Wilson's reply to the German peace proffer went forth ?~ npbHlntoil here tvionaay ni^ai n was v that if it did not bring a complete and unconditional surrender of the military autocracy the German people themselves would force one. President Wilson's words were a plain invitation to the German people to take such a step and intimated that there would be'no peace with kaiseri3m. The coming hours will show how the le-aven has v;orked. The- intimations in today's dispatches from London, Paris and Holland suggest the progress of the ferment Most significant of all is regarded the report from , Holland by way of London that Germany will immed'ately reply to President Wilson accepting all his terms and asking only guarantees for the interests of Germany and the German people. When the reply does not come President Wilson's cnlv course will be to forward it to the belligerents. The guarantees fcr the interests of Germany and the German people do not intervene as an obstacle :f guarantees are thought of in sincere terms. If they are put forth as another vehicle for a qufbble, an opportunity for diplomatic evasion and trickery, or a negotiated peace they will mee only one reply. I PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS PROSPEROUS PROSPERITY Prosperity, Oct. 17 ?"W'n. Virgil, the infant son of -Mr. and Mrs. iV. E. Konr, d?ed Monday nijj-ht after several weeks illness. The burial took place at the ; Prosperity cemetery, being conducted j by Rev. C. J. Shealy. Miss Lucy Lake attended the funeral of her aunt, Mrs. JVliller, at Peak Tuesday. Miss Rosa Mae Mitchell is home; from her school on account of the in- j fluenza. Miss Ruby Wheeler of Enoree is . with her parents for a few weeks. Miss Annie Fellers of Lancaster is ' visiting her father, G. C. Fellers. McFall Wise, U. S. N.f Savannah, j has been home on a short furlough. 'Miss Johnnie Raw! of SoluniDia, ic , . the guest of her sister, Mrs. M. C 1 Morris. Mrs. G. C. Leonard has gone to Kershaw to visit her brother, Dr. L. D. Simpson. iMr. C. M. Simpson of Charlotte has j ioined Mrs Simpson for a visit to < their parents. . i Prof. J. S. Wheeler is home from Ridsre -Springs. 1 -Miss Jean Adams expects to return to Pelzer Saturday. George Wise, Curtis Pugh and Homer Wheeler of Clemson college I ?re home on a short furlough. ^Ticc iRii-hv Thorn is "visiting her | mother at Kingstree. ! J. C. Taylor has returned to Wal-, halia after a visit to Mrs. Taylor and j the. two little "boys. Miss Elizabeth (McWaters of Ooluro- j bia spent the week-end with her ' mother, Mrs. Carrie McWaters. i S CASTING IE FORE THEM 1AY HAVE ENDED le That German Emperor iicated. HELP TO SAVE OUR SOLDIERS IS FRANCE The Red Cross is carrying on a nation wide campaign to collect materials out of which to manufacture car bon to protect our men against iioioun gas. You are asked to gather peach seeds plum seeds, apricot seeds, prune seeds olive seeds, date seeds, cherry seeds, Brazil nut shells, walnut shells, (English or native), hickory nut shell?, butter nut shells. This is very important. Deliver the materials at my store in Newberry, or to some one in your nearest branch or auxiliary of the Red . Cross. Wm Johnson Chairman of Conservation Committee. B. T. C. Hunter Newberry, Oct. 14.?R. T. C. Hunter, a prominent farmer of the Prosperity section of this county, died at a Coinmhiil hnsnifal toriav iHe wftp oner ated on about a week ago, and was doing well apparently, and his wife who had been with him came home. He was taken suddenly worse and passed away quickly. Mr. Hunter was about 75 years old He was a Confederate veteran, and was a member of the'legislature In 1888. He was much interested in agrl l culture and was a good farmer. "Hi* widow, seven sons and one daughter survive him. R. T. f. Hnnter. T> IK T>V.? rtf rruijpci u^, A J,*?\ uv uyuj ** Robert Thompson Carmichael Hunter Confederate veteran, was buried in tho * Prosperity Cemetery this afterncon af 5 o'clock, the body having arrived from Columbia on the 2:30 Southern train. Mr. Hunter went to a Columbia hospital ten days ago for treatment ' /and died there October 14. He was a native of Newberry County; born March 14, 1S45. He married Rebecca J Boozer in 1866 and to them ten chll dren were born. At the age of 16 Mr. Hunter entered the Confederate army as a member of Company H, Holcombe Legion. He was wounded twice during the war. Before the war closed he was in prison at Point Lookout for five months. He has been an active nf thA st t^iIca's communltv iui vi va?V __ since the war closed. He was a mem her of the legislature in 1888-89. was also a member of the pension board in Newberry County for year? In 1865 he united with St. Luke's Lutheran church, near Prospeity, ar-' for years he was an active member of the church council. For the lay four years he had been a member o". Grace Lutheran church of Prosperity He was the president, of the Farmerr' Mutual Insurance ompany of New berry County and was one of the oldest members of -Prosperity lodge, 115 of Masons. The Masons escorte-" the body from the home of his nephew Dr G Y Hunter, to the cemetery whe^ brief service was held by the Rev. C J. Shealy, his pastor, after which tb"? Masons conducted the committal service Past Grand Master Georjre f Mower of Newberry having charge r* the service. Mr. Hunter is survived Iby his wide* the following children and 19 gran*' children: James B. Hunter of Newberry, Prof. Joseph E. Hunter Clemson college, L. Lafayette Hunte" o..mfar Thnmns rw Hiinter of New Wl OH ark, XJ., W. Thaddeus Hunter, Kobe" C. Hunter and Allen C. Hunter r' Prosperity, and "Mrs. Carrie Hnnt" * Zeigler of Jamison. S. C. The gra^ was -was covered -with floral offerings Pat Wise has returned to Charleston. T>r and Mrs. C. T. Wyche spent tb * week-end in Greenville with their sor. G. C. Wye-hp. The Herald and Ne>vs One Year fo.* Only V/ - *