m1SA;K H??C Kl> WAH
- Tfe** Who Would CrMte
%ulM%'ar Sniduwiit.
jgtoty* x,,i' * i**i Hiiii't*
. .St'Jia??*r JoUTT
>iijs city. h-u been doiuy"
V jmjirrr t<? a#*!*' in presenting
1*4# of Mnrlliom County tho
of ft*"! piodurtioji jitid (ro?|.
?iMH'f "H PHnIiicIh rt,n' WHOuwfcP.
j ^ivriilliiK in every way |x>?.
, wirii Hit' >rovi'f?iiii*?u( in itH Dlaa
Kcaliidug flu* effective*
(id<4 work, mUiic of his ikthoii
jjdj ??!?> Iihm',lllft?iv<I from him
1ft en |M>iiiic<ii have
t(tS| to him propriety of his
v iiN ?ll?i|M?>ifi??n known to? tho
jt law- VIir News A Courier
p,|M?iiclc?' l?*rtmil.*? today that Sou
UchHiirin inn I wiilfcn ..Mr. J), s,
tru letter In accordance with this
p?{|<ui of fririnl?. rtM|UOHt('i] a copy
IrtiMliarioii. 11 is as follows:
rjpeinu?ffsvilJi\ * <\. ,Aug. 7. 11117.
(I II. Cokrr. llartsvlMo, S. O.
?r Air. <'??k? ? : I notice {hat oppo
. Is Miar fi'im-nhil a?ainnt our
,l?liit: it- full Mart 'In this world
j reran I this ax the most mo
llUs <inrt? the birth of
Sli.v
^ J i, His to mo that the
V 1M,|.?l?r j/ovel'lliueilt is going
I.,i,l upon wtinf*,tii?* 1'ultiMl States
Lal.lo i?"l" wirliln tlie next year.
<(l,uiiil*imii"" ait Washington did
- i.s IN?\v?'r out of war, but
v forced il upon us by tho use
'?n,l ifliiiiiinii methods. v
|n) i.hi old i" viluuteer for actual
?>y in the liflil. hut I am perfectly,
yj t0 ,|.i anything in my power
,1 in iIris miiso. I am writing
rjis chilinuaii of the Couut'll of
jvfeiise. because you might hex-'
? io cull npi>ii mo because of the
that our political ottillations haw
different- In tho light of the
df events wlii.h are transpiring
Uy factional polities teem very
il'l to me.
t mit'lit as well understand that
<tuko i> tli(i domination of the
'either l',v mi autoeraey under-'
n rulers or u democracy under
iirij States leadership. Who doubts
It if KiijiIiiihI and France were con
re,! tliat we would not 'have to
it (lermany as soo/i as she could
lillxe the resources of the oonquer
l<sipies. is ii not more sensible
fik'lit when we are ready and not
?ii Germany is ready? The sue*
of (Jerniany means the negation.
every ?overnniental principle in
pilch we believe.
lienuany means to keep Belgium,
tfawl ami Northern France, making
st military empire of middle Eu
Slie will control \he llalakns
the l>anlanelle< and take toll of
, traffic with Asia. She will reor
jnize ami dominate Itussia and in
pr ?\vn ?,tod iim,' send vast armies
iattack the rnited States and force
indemnity so yreat that we will
t have homes in which we live.
I believe that we will be called up
j to make jrreat. sacrifices; all of the
?lions will <iifl'er; but the fires of
|ar will hum away the dross and out
lit will can),' a finer and higher civ
Uution. < lermany lias outraged the
nwieiiee nf the world by her brutal
V t?? women and children in all of the
fnipiered countries to say nothing of
r bound to down before a world
amis.
If y,nj ran ii-i* me iu any way my
}prvi<vs are at your command.
Yours very truly,
Siniedi .1 iio. I,. Mcljaurin.
Indicts The Kaiser.
Meridian. Miss.. Auk 11.?Upon the
?wnrn testimony of Representative W.
IV. VenraMi- .if ihe Fifth Congres
iitmal Pistri'i. who was * regularly
uinnimitMl t.. a|?|?'ar before the body,
he biudcrdalf County grand jury to
lay returned an indictment against
HiD|K'ror William of Germany, eharg
1ns r??lt|i,T\. won. murder, plotting,
priiirry and i-.<ii>pinry. "all against the
far* ami ditrniiy <>f the SfSite of Mis-'
Hssippi." 'rii,. iiocument was one of
Hit- <tn>iiL'c<t ever composed 'here,
fcpmy Slicnir Kennedy informed the
?Wirt lie would ::o after the kaiser if
[?rovidcil with the proiier papers.
CITY BARBER
SHOP
N v
Adopts this method of thanking
the pul?li?- for the patronage they
have received since opening up
business ;n Camden. "J?
Their patronage has steadily in
creased and every effort will be
put forth to f
Please Our
V, - ??
Customers
We are ^'ratilled with the patro
n??e bestowed upon tis, and re
spectfully solicit the patronage of
those who have not as yet become
regular customers. We are here
to stay and we want your busi
ness. \\\> employ only white bar
bers. _ . ??
W. J. Hopkins,
Proprietor
One Door Above B?ruch-N?ttl#*
TEUTON CONSPIRACIES UPSET
BY NEWSPAPER REPORTERS
*4* ? V
[Revelation of How One Paper
Got "Inside" Information of
What Wall Going on Among
German and Austrian Diplo
mats?Paper Mud "Bug" on
Wiirclen Telegraphy
Almost froi^ the beginning of the)
IOui'??|K'jiii war, a newspai?er ??f Prlvl
deuce, It. I- the Journal, was rouble- j
nous fur Its revelations of German ami:
Austrian conspiracies In this country. ,
Some of Vhe "inside stutr" panted by]
the Journal was so positive in detail (
and Intimate knowledge that it seeuiort
Incredible, for to the average man the
tales pul Unhoil by the paper appeared I
Impossible to have been known by any;
one outsble th<? inmost circles of the;
German and Austrian embassies and
eapectally to a p.?p?i s? pronouncedly j
pro-APy as the Journal. Now, how j
ever, the way In whieh the Informa- j
don was seeured has been made public,
and a narrative rivalling any "secret
service" novel In sensationalism is the;
revelation it makes. I
The detectives work done by the j
Journal was related by the paper's,
editor, John H. Hathom, in the form of
an address at the eonventiln of the.
Canadian Press Association recently j
held at Toronto. The report of Mr. j
Rnthom's address which follows, was
taken from the Toronto Star by the I
Editor and Publisher of New York.
The Journal Happened upon ? its j
course of exposure through having had
for ten years before the war what oth
er papers described as a "bug on wlie
less-telegraphy. The paper had main-j
tallied two powerful wireless plants j
at Point Judith and at ltlock island.!
When , war broke out they had docid-j
ed to "listen-tn" on the messages cross-j
lug the Atlantic. For live months,
they kept record of these messages,
and then they set out to tind the code:*
ami make revelations. <>f the ma
terial they secured they used only a
fractional part.
One of hi" women stenographers
was sent ami secureu an apisdniiuent
in the Austrian Consulate in New
York. Others of his workers were:
constantly engaged in shadowing Cap
tain Boy-Ed, Captain von Papon, form-j
er Austrian Ambassador Dnmba, the (
German Ambassador Berustorff and.j
other Herman and Austrian officials.
The two wireless plants unceaslnglj
listened in, two shifts of operators at
work day and night, on Sayville and
Nantucket, the two wireless stations
which were being used mostly by thC(
Germans to keep in touch with Berlin,,
from where they received instructions
for every detail of their plotting pol
icy. ? I
For the United States Government ,
the Brooklyn Navy Yard had had in-;
struct ions to keep a close watch on
the Sayville and Nantucket station,,
but nothing suspicious was ever re- ,
ported until Mr. Hathom took some of
the messages which no had received!
from his operators to the State I)e-!
partment. It was then learned that,
the navy pard operators had been in
the pay of the German agents in Amer-1
iea. a lid had been told not to hear too
much.
The codes used by the Germans were (
of the most Ingenious nature. Many
of them pretended to be stock quota-1
tions, and some were even done up as,
funeral directions. In some cases, |
however, t-he codes erfiowed evidence,
of the green blubbeu, referred to by,
the'speakers, as on one occasion when
Mr. Hathom was able to go to Pres-|
ident Wilson and show him copies ofj
eight, separate messages sent by the
wireless plant within nihe days all
relating that "little Emily" had died of
such and such an illness, in a certain
part of a room, had been buried Sn a
certain cemetery beside such and such
a previously deceased relative In
every one of these messages the Hlness
the part of the room, the name of the
relative, the cemetary and so on va
ried, and a clear code was detected in
each of the messages.
The first revelation which Mr. Katn
om told illustrated the German capa
eitv for blundering. It was the tale
of Werner ttorne-the man who *as
responsible for the attempt to blow np
the Vancehoro Bridge. Horne^ had
?Wn detected us a Oermnn ?p* by one
of tlic Journal rcpor eran New ^ o*.
In an effort to dlaglllM htmaelf. Home
allowed bis beard to grow for three
dava. put on a,, old adit which he pur
ohaaed for three dollara-(even th a
detail waa reported) and P^^'
SC Late
jrrcautions he to*^done
ru"UhU?tanTn,Mt10?r,.
"||V li.iins in ihc fii'itcd States. As is
well known now, he was caught, j
When asked later by Mr, Itathom why
lie had been ish iwuilli to tfilVe)
tirst class in such stubby dress, Horne
replied timt he was a German officer
and a gentlemen, and always traveled
lit lite he*t Kt.Vltt,
A not Iter German scheme In which
11u> Journal re|k?rters outwitted the
Teutons occurred noon after In New
York also. a fraudulent pauaport
bureau, ojie rated by German ottidalsi
was d |>teove rod doing a hind office bus
iness In tin oth.v building on Broadway,
The Journal-"faking ,i < a public a'*
eoiintant on the one side and a manu
facturers' agvut on the other?sand
wiched the passport forgers between
them. Every word that passed In this
office was recorded hy means of Mie
instruments used for that purpose,
and reported to tin Providence* Jour
nal. When sufficient evldena* was
mi the red the I'nited States Secret Ser
vice was not 1 tied, and the three formers
were taken away. As soon as they
had heen removed three of the Jour-1
nal's employees were allowed to take
charm' of the office to receive the (
irons, it was not Jong after that von J
Tapen and M:e German military at-,
tache at Toklo came in with a list of j
mums of men for whom he desired
passports. The name at the top of
the lbt was that of Werner Horife, I
"A friend of mine," said Mr, Uathoiu, j
"thinking himself very friendly, hut in,
a tiling which I objected to went to!
Paris and while there bought a lot of;
war relies, Among theiii was one of
the tirst iron crosses that had been J
Kiven hy the German regiment, who!
died on the fle'ld and whose cross had
heen taken from him and taken to
Taris. It. was sold to my friend, with
statements as to whom it had belong
ed and iny friend sent it to^ me. I
sent it to Bernstorff with a letter, say
ing Mult that mark of honorable ills-1
tMiction of a man who had done his
duty for his country belongs to his
family; I gave the name of the man j
and the'name of the family and beg-,
ged liiin to take care of the cross so
that it could be sent back after the
war or ni *<>?!?/ time to the man's peo
ple. 1
'The Ambassador tore the note to
pieces, Mi row the note in the. face of
the man 1 sent, and threw the cross on
the floor, siiylng that after having
been defiled by the hands of American
dogs that cross was or no use to any-i
body in (ierniany. I knew my man
was telling t^ie truth, because the man
I bad In there reported the incident to
me exactly the way 'he did; Incident
ally I might say that individual to
whom 1 refer wa> in the German em
bassy seventeen months as one of the
Ambassador's secretaries, and the Am
bassador bad no knowledge that he
was not what he pretended to be un
til the Frederick VIII, left New York
for Halifax. He .said to my man:
"You had better get aboard or you will
lose your boat," and be rootled: "I
am safer on Mils side." Mr. Bernstorff
had no idea of that man's identity or
who he was serving until he left New
York. And he wrote a letter from
Halifax to a friend in New York
which he attempted to get sent back,
but which was intercepted, < tellilng
some of his friends what he thought
of this individual.
"The famous Huerta case, the at
tempt of the German Government to
embroil us with Mexico, an attempt
that the recent Gimmes man letter
proved beyond any doubt to be true,
was already proved by us a long time
before. Early in the war my man in
the Embassy?I say my man; lyou
must pardon me for that; I mean our
man because I am *iot the Providence
Journal?was ordered by Captain Boy
Ed to go to New York and get a
suite of six (pilot rooms in a hotel
whore Boy-Ed and his }>eople could
moot Huerta Naturally enough, my
man, being loyal, could no nothing
else than select the rooms we selected
for him, so.he went to Mie Manhattan
olltel and get a suite of rooms which
we^ rigged up with the apparatus I
! si>oke of; and to make assurance dou
bly siire, I sot another man to act as
| chauffer on the auto tfiat brought
Huerta. They had their conference,
and at t'lie conclusion of that confer
'enee every word that was ^uttered?
dtiered through an interpreter, be
cause Boy-Ed did not speak Spanish
?was sent down to the Department of
State the next morning. They had the
entire facts before them and knew
everything, and for several mouths
later, when Boy-Ed ' and Bernstorff
jwere frothing at the mouth and utter
ling denials, the State Department had
jtho very words that vfrere uttered.
"Another incident," he continued,
"that is of great interest came when
one of our most valued and keenest
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Oil. C0O& STOVE
stenographers in our own office ,a girl
that came to us seve^i years ago from
about twenty miles outside of Vry&f1
denee; was given a positlou in the of
fice <>f the Austrian Consul-General in
New York city. She had never been
in New York before, she was head
of a number of j>eople in competition
and the man choosing the stenograph
er they wanted, a capable ?irl able to
do his work and to keep her mouth
shut. Had been informed that she was
the party to choose?by other friends
of ours. One day about five or six
week? after she got there she inform
ed us that a great packing case was
being filed with propaganda docu
ments and with hills of expense in
connection with explosions in muni
tion plants and other vital valuable
things, and was to bo shipped off the
following week right straight to Eng
land in a Swedish ship and from
there to Germany.
"The only thing we could possibly
do was to identify the package. One
day when they were about to close the
package up this giri, under instruc
tions?and I may say incidentally she
is now hack at work getting her $10
a week?sat on this hox eating her
lunch. Nearly everybody else had
gone, but von Papen, rather debonair,
and fond of Indies, wandered in and
sat on the packing hox and asked if
he eouhl share her lunch with her. She
said certainly and while . they were
sharing the sandwiches ho made some
sentimental advances and she in rath-*
cr a dreamy way took out a large red
pencil and drew two hig red hearts on
this packing case. It was Captain voii
Pai>en 'himself who put the arrow thru
them. And, ladies and gentlemen,
when the ship Austrias 11 reached Fal
mouth they picked that package out
of the hold from about a hundred and
fifty others and identified it by the two
big red hearts. And yet they say there
are no brilliant people but the Ger
many.
.Another incident the loss of a i>ort
folio belonging to Dr. Helnrich Albert
an Austrian official, which contained
papers relating to Ambassador Dum
ba's efforts to incite jabor troubles in
the United States, created quite a stir
among the diplomats. Mr. Rathom
told of how a Journal reporter ?ot the
papers as tfoe result of which Dumba
was sent tiack to Austria by tbe Presi
dent. 'V p
"One of d ?
l>een shadowing Dr. 'Albert In New
York, but for months nothing seemed
wrong. ..One day he went into a leath
er-goods store, whore he ordered it
, portfolii and gave the salesman in
structions to put. his mitinls on It. The
. reporter* a's booh as Albert had gone
out, walked up to tho siilcsiuan ami
ordered another portfolio of the name
kind, hut with no initials, saying he
would rather tirst see how the other
gentleman's initials looked. When he
came hack and saw the initials he
said he didn't like them nml departed
to tfo to another shop and have the
same initials put on his portfolio. Ills
work was he^omng. less tiresome and
less fruitless than it had been. A day
or so later Albert, carrying his new
portfolio was followed from the front
of his apartments by the Journarl man.
Albert boarded ail elevated train. He
placed his hag containing palters on
the seat beside him. Suddenly he was
stirred by a tight in the front of t'he
ear. As he stood ujv to see what the
trouble was, as did nearly everybody
else in the ear, the portfolios were
changed. This happened on a Satur
day morning. Albert in a statement
later, said that he discovert*}] the trlek
the same day, but we know for a fact
ho did not discover tho difference until
Monday morning. Needless to say Mie
men who were tight ing on the street
ear. were also in the employ of the
Journal."
It was through the Journal. Mr,
Kathom said, that a j*reat quantity of
important papers wore secured from
Wolf von Jngei. These papers reveal
ed the Casement plot for-tlie Irish up
rising. When the papers were taken,
Mr.Kattiom said, in Illustrating his
point that there 1h a eertalu amount
of stupdity in all (lerinan diplomatists,
von teernntorflf made application to the
.State I>epartment to have thorn return
ed. Ho was told that any pajiers he
could identify would ho returned to
him, and then realized how ho had
committed 'himself in asking that the
papery be\ returned.
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$8,500 Hog On Georgia Farm.
Cochran, Aug. 4.?Orion Cherry
King, Jr., grand champion Duroc-Jer
sey hog of the world, arrived here by
express last night.
.1. P. and W. H. Peacock bought
Orion Junior at Xenia, Ohio, last week
for and have placed 'him on
their farm near here.
The hard training work ' for the
trenches, with its long hours of out
?i?f??r ]{fr is n ??a*U#?K1a innt n
1 I'MIl lilt t * ^ |?l I 111^ U V *. ? IIUMIV V V/ ?* ? v?
to the memhers of/the American ex
peditionary force in France. The
percentage of illness for the eutire
force is hut 2 1-2 per cent hk against
an average of 5 i??r cent, in army posts
in fhe United States. Nearly all the
sickness is made up of light cases of
mumps, measles and colds.