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FIRST CARGO IN YEARS j! FINEST (>I{.\I>K XATl'KAL CAIM.'O j* EVKIi KNTKIiIX(i I. S. j ^ British Bark Had Remarkable Trip. ' Left I'estadores Before The War 2 Broke. c w The British bark Harold. Captain . 1 Jenkins, lies at the docks of the ? Planters' Fertilizer company with the;1 first cargo of Peruvian guano to come j * to this port in three years. In the IJ single hold of the staunch sailing |c J ship are 3,000 tons of the very finest i stock Peruvian guano, that has ever j been brought into this country com- s ing front hitherto unworked deposits r located on the Pescadores Islands, * just seven miles off the coast of ? Peru. r The consignment of the Harold is 1 to the Nitrate Agencies companies for 1 which extensive business the Charleston Agencies company is local agent, and it will be stored at the Planters' r works for the present. Captain Jen- * kins came to the city yesterday af- ' ternoon to confer with local agents, 1 and discharge through his three 1 hatches will commence at once. The e bark is about two-thirds full. Her 1 net registry is 1,299 tons, and her 1 gross registry 1,376 tons. t ? - i Tlirilling Trip. | The Harold left the Pescadores Is- ^ lands for Charleston on June 30, al( month before the outbreak of war c in Europe little dreaming that she was to be fired upon by a man-ofwar of her own nationality?the Mon- ( mouth, sunk recently in battle off Caronel, it was that brought her to ?that she was to weave a tortuous ( < course through waylaying German , cruisers, that she would be compell- t ed to seek port before making her ^ destination, for the sake of prevent- j ing starvation of her crew, and that , she was to lose the German mem- , bers of her crew at that port?the i ? Barbadoes. I The islands at which the Harold j took on her valuable cargo, which is t arousing such interest among ferti- j lizer men of the section, constitute 1 one of several groups just off the Pe- ^ ruvian coast, which are famous as j depositories of Peruvian or seafowl ^ guano, a term which is a corruption of Spanish huano," meaning dung. c The better known of these groups ? ^ * - 1 ^ Vf Ki are tne j_<odo5, vjuauaye auu .uawui. , The Pescadores are under lease by the Peruvian government to the Pe- ( ruvian Corporation, a venture inaugurated and directed by a number of English capitalists, who have as a charter object the development of j the natural resources of Peru. Recently the Peruvian Corporation has { become known to the world through 5 its connection with the controversy, which brought to light the alleged Putumayo rubber atrocities. A Rich Guano Find. c The Pescadores group consists of 1 three small barren islands of volcan- i ic origin. They swarm with sea \ birds of many species, and there is i no other life upon them. The region c is unvisited by storms and rain6, and 1 the waters around simply teem with t fish. During the mating season, i when no one is allowed to molest the t hirds bv visitine the islands, the sur- s face of the ground from shore to ( shore is literally covered with birds, i chief among them numerically being s the pelican, cormorant, and alba- c tross. Three years ago, following a c marked falling off of deposits, the 1 Peruvian government secured the services of Professor Hafper, of the ? Liverpool museum, for the purpose ( of investigation. Professor Harper s discovered that Peruvian fishermen c . were dynamiting fish in waters adjacent to the islands, and thus destroying the food supply which pro- r duced bird6 and deposits. 'This calls I to mind the famous Darwinian clo- j verfield-mouse-cat illustration. c Hills of Fertilizer. t Hills of sea fowl guano several s f hundred feet in height were discover-1" ?d on these island*, hills that have I1 been centuries in the forming. The s poorer grades of this the finest natu- r ral fertilizer known is on the sur- s face of these hills. Sprinkled ( throughout the deposits are dead fish, feathers, seaweed and the car- j casses of young birds. Evaporation in the extremely dry climate of the region is very rapid, , and after its occurence no further treatment of the guano is necessary. The sole remaining performance is t the sacking and loading of the pro- t 1 duct. Guano Hard to Get At. t Shipping Peruvian guano is an ar- ( duous task. So tremendous is tne f surf off the rocky Pescadores that the v vessel about to receive the guano in- i to her holds lies a mile or more off j shore, and the stuff is brought out to her in lighters carrying square- r rigged sails. At times during rough j weather even this method cannot be ^ followed. During the recent loading of the Harold a cessation of seven days was enforced because of surf conditions. Labor of loading is carried on by Peruvian Indians, who bag the guano on the island and emp- a ty it into the hold of the vessel, after I f doughing out in their lighters. The Harold cleared from Pesct lores on dune 150. Before beatin tround the Horn slie was apprise )f the outbreak of war in Europe i i very abrupt manner. During ih light, a shell screamed across he tnd dropped a ship's length aheac >he was hailed and boarded, her P? >ers examined by a British ofticei tnd her captain advised to keep hi ights out, as the German cruise \arlsruhe was known to he cruisin ust on the other side of the Strait >f .Magellan. Warned by Monmouth. The man-of-war which had thu ;topped the Harold was the Mor nouth, the loss of which has prat ically been admitted by the Britis idmiralty as a result of the recen laval action off Caronel, which tei ninated so disastrously for Britis trms. From the time of meeting th ilonmouth until her arrival here, fc nore than 100 days, the Harold nav cated without lights. After* rounc ng the Horn in weather so frigi hat ice had to be chopped from th igging with hatchets, the bark dodg !d all funnels that hove into vie' ind steered far out of her course an he usual lanes of South Atlanti ravel. Taking a course laid n^rtl lortheast, the Harold held it for a nost a month, before turning in t( vard the shore of the United State! doming througn the Mona Passag< ;he made Barbadoes, where she wa :ompelled to drop anchor for th sake of taking on provisions of whic ;he had run short. Two of Crew Seized. At Barbadoes, she was boarded b he British authorities, and the stev ird and second mate, who happene .0 be German reservists, were take .Tom tne snip, to ut? imuiucu c 3arbadoes until the end of the wa sVhile at Barbadoes, native divei vere employed who went down an scraped the hull of the Harold, whic lad accumulated a fine coating c narine animal culae and vegetabl natter. Peruvian waters are notoi ous throughout the world for th apidity with which a stay in thei vill foul the hull of a vessel, so th Harold was in sad need of a serai ng. Leaving the Barbadoes, the pa: sage to Charleston was uneventfu 'Between Barbadoes and Charlestoi ve encountered nothing but calms, said the cheerful, bronzed captain < he Harold. A second British bark, the Per :les, under charter to the same coi :ern, is at present Douna ior ^na; eston from the Pescadores, with :argo of Peruvian guano, similar i jrade to that which the Harold 1 low discharging at the Ashley rive ilant. Splendid Navigating. The navigation of a bark throug such a trip as that taken by the nev y entered sailor from the Pescadores s regarded as a masterful piece c vork. The knowledge and trainin equisite for the successful terminu if such an undertaking has Ion ieen recognized as the most desin lie of trainings, and British youn nen of the best families have fc ime immemorial been apprenticed t serve on barks. Invariably the ere' if some dozen and a half, whic vould complete the complement c such a ship as the Harold, will ii ilude two or three young apprentice irawn from the best families of Enj and. And evidently it is a privilege t ;erve such an apprenticeship unde Captain Jenkins. Just what th iturdy Britisher will load on his wa >ut is not yet known. First Here in Three Years. While it is true that Peruvian gua 10 is continually on hand locally, tn Jarold brings the first cargo of tha iroduct directly imported into thi :ountry through the port of Charles on for the past three years. Fo ;ome time now Peruvian guano ha ome to ports of the United State n extremely limited consignment/ ind the stock that has heretofor eached Charleston was all trans shipped.?Charleston Post. HIXKSE AXI) JAPANESE MILL* >emand for California Cotton Cro at 8 C^nts. San Francisco, Nov. 19.?Japanes ind Chinese manufacturers are bu\ ng cotton here as never before, an hey seem willing to purchase al hey can find vessel space for. Thei Hills are reported running to capaci y. The price is eight cents a pounc Vwmftrio if iin/?ArotAA/l A hn Kiri/iin JCi mail % 10 14 11 OIUUU \.\J KJK, 1/lvtUiU rom 16 to 20 cents a pound, wit 'irtuallv no orders being filled an ler own stock near the vanishin >oint. Cotton acreage in California onl ecently has been developed, and i s generally believed it will be re luced next year. A Veritable Villain. First She?I wouldn't trust hiir Second Ditto?Nor would I, He' is treacherous as a fountain pen.? >liladelphia Public Ledger. THE FATK OF Tl'ltKKY. j t | C si' Will Probably Be Definitely Settled j P d by Present War. I t n | t e! Has the hour of doom for the; s ,r Turkish empire in Europe, perhaps: j j even in Asia, struck at last? Can it t t. survive the shock of this last war t r into which the Young Turk party, (] js instigated by Germany, has hurried p r it? "We have on our hands." said | n g the first Czar Nicholas, when he visit- j; s ed the English court after the Anglo- 0 Russian entente of 1SS4. "a very j, sick man." But the sick man has t s been, like Charles II, a long time d dying. All the resources of inter- p >_ national medicine have been employ- e h ed to prolong his life. One power or t lt another has felt obliged to keep the i e Turk at Constatinople. Last of all. | g h the German emperor has convinced i h him that Codlin's the friend, not t e Short. So he strikes blindly at his ( ,r old enemy, Russia, and her new al- f lies, regardless of the possibly fatal i l_ consequences. r d For a century and a half, indeed. s e ever since the treaty of Kuchuk- v r_ Kainjairi was was signed between < K Russian and Turkey in 1774, the v d doom of the empire of Suleiman the c .Magnificent, has been freely predict- t !_ ed. Probably the prediction might l_ have been more quickly fulfilled but j fny tJia nnmhop nf claimants tn thp T )_ iVi wac V* A 3 spoil. Europe was no longer threatSi ened by the Turk as it was in the lS fateful years following the victories e of Mahomet II, but his fighting powh er made him still formidable. Nor were European jealousies altogether responsible for the tenacity with ,y which he clung to the remnant of his conquests. Racial and religious con(j ditions in the Balkans have had no n small share in the perpetuation of Turkish rule. The history of Bulgar, r Serb, Greek and Albanian is com.& plicated and obscure, but the d present situation cannot be well unh derstood without 6ome knowledge of it. When the Turk first arrived in e the Balkan peninsula he found it dir_ vided by strong antagonisms among e four races and three churches. Long n before that the Slavs had been overie whelmed by the Bulgars. The con). quered absorbed the conqueror, just as the Saxon absorbed the Norman; 3. but while England became one na1 tion, there has never been, perhaps 3 there never can be, unity among the people of the Balkans. The Germans )f do not now hate the English worse than the Albanians hate the Serbs, _ i_ or the Serbs the Bulgars. One after j. another has tried to establish a settied rule, but it has always been a eventually overthrown. Hatreds thai n have survived the menace of the is Turk may well be called ineradicair bleThere is nothing surprising, therefore. in the fact that Bulgaria might h have joined with Turkey for the destruction of Servia, or Greece with 3> Servia for the destruction of Bulgaria. Nor, although Russia is reckong ed as a Slav power, is it difficult to l6 understand w*hy the Balkan countries g might as lief see the sultan as the czar at Constantinople. They are g still essentially Byzantine, and their ir position cannot be understood unless 0 this fact is kept in mind. If union w among them were possible, that h would be the best solution of the eastern question. It should not be j. forgotten that Bulgaria, Servia and !S Greece have all made remarkable A/V +IASN fwAofir Af Pnrlin onH r. suite tlie ncai; v/i uuu L that Albania might have done equal- a 0 ly as well under equally favorable s ,r circumstances. But even such a great t e man as Stambulov could not work a ? .. miracle in the face of a common dan- c ger. There was every reason for jharmonious action after the first g L_ Balkan war. Nevertheless the sec- p % ond war followed. If is fair to as- a , sume, therefore, that the Balkan na- g s tions will not prove an insuperable F ._ obstacle to Russian ambitions if the r ,r Turk is defeated in this latest strug- j s gle and Constantinople is a prize of F s war to the victor. q 5 At no previous stage of the inter- q g mittent conflict has Russia been ap- j; s_ parently so near to the accomplish- p ment of her long desire. The posses- s sion of Constantinople and the com- n j. mand of the sole outlet to the Black F Sea, are, of course, perfectly legitip mate objects of Russian ambition. ^ Since tne war witn japan uiey aic ^ of more consequence than ever. On v e a dozen or more occasions since the 0 - death of Mustafa III, in 1773, these i d objects might have been attained had v [1 Russia been unhampered by other n r powers. But for one reason or an- p i- other international jealousies inter- e I. vened to prevent this. Now Great ^ g Britain, now France, now Austria, 0 h separately or in combination, with- S( d held the Russian hand. At the con- p g gress of Vienna in 181"? it was pro- w posed that tlie powers snouia join m q v guaranteeing the integrity of the Ot- n t toman empire: but the sultan object! ed to this humiliation, and Russia maintained her assertion of a right t] to isolated action. This was the be- $ ginning of the eastern question in a modern sense, t- The one real hope for Turkey, at s this time and for many years after, a - lay in internal reform. The revolt of the Greeks in 1821 emphasized a \ liis fact. Popular sympathy for the ' reek cause in England found exiression in Canning's recognition of lie rebels as belligerents. This in urn aroused the suspicions of Rusia as to English designs in the >avant. and led to an offer of mediaion by Russia and Austria, which he porte rejected. Egypt was then rawn into the war, and Ibrahim 'asha overran the .Morea. Once uore Russia threatened intervention n behalf of the oppressed Christians; nee more Canning acted to keep the ssue in the hands of the powers. Alhough Austria and Prussia withrew from the conference. Great Britain, France and Russia recogniz d the treaty of London, in 1S27, he autonomy of Greece under thesuzrainty of Turkey; but this pro;ramme was interrupted by the naval iattle of Xavarino, at which the comlined squadrons under Sir Edward ^odrington destroyed the Turkish leet. It is said that King William V, a sailor himself, scribbled on the nargin of the cautious instructions ent to the British admiral, the lords. "Go it, Ned!" At all events, Sir Edward did "go it," and the fat >aa in Liitr ui c uiiv.c IIIUI u. The consequence was that Turkey iroke off all relations with the pow;rs and engaged in a "holy war." deanwhile, Canning had died, and England reverted to the old policy of ireserving the integrity of the Ottonan empire, so that Russia was left o fight alone. She won the victory; >ut even so she could not break up he empire completely. By the treaty if Adrianople the Danubian prin:ipalities became practically inde>endent States, and thus Turkish uzerainity was left to plague Europe town to the time of the Balkan war. t seemed to be the only alternative >etween preserving Turkey or deitroying her. But it was in a sense he fons et origo malis-in the modern (astern question. On one condition only could Tur;ey be left a sovereign power in Euope. She mu6t enter upon definite lolicy of reform. Russia, indeed, lad every reason for blocking this irogramme; if Turkey proved her ight to exist, the Russian flag would lot soon fly over Constantinople, rhis was precisely what the other lowers, Great Britain and France in larticular did not desire. The efforts if the British ambassador at Conitantinople, Lord Stratford de Reddlffe, "the great Elchi," to rejuve+ V? infi r*m omniro fnr Q tlinp laiu IUU 1U411 U1 t 4" y i ? V *V* ur -. ?- V ieemed to promise success. That renarkable man acquired an influence >ver the Turkish government which he cordial cooperation of the powers night have made supreme. There vas no inherent impracticability in eform in Turkey. But the conflictng ambitions of Nicholas I and Na>oleon III, prevented such a cooperaion; and after the Crimean war, hough spasmodic efforts at reform vere made, the eastern question beame the football of international ?olitics again. Russia wanted Constantinople, and the other powers vere determined that she should nol tave it; that was all. The war of 1877 did not settle the natter; Turkey was no match for tussia, but when the latter again hreatened Constantinople a British leet was sent to the Bosphorus. The reaty of Berlin, when Disraeli, as he aid. won "peace with honor," left hings much as they were, except hat the principle of Turkish suzerlintv instead of sovereignty was omewhat further extended. Since hen the fate of Turkey has been langing in the balance. The rise if the Young Turks in 1908 was tailed as an evidence of Turkish re:eneration; but Young Turk has roved to be only Old Turk writ large, .nd the Balkan war was one of the irst results of the aggressive chamdonship of Moslemism. A second esult has been the appearance of tussia in the role of protector of he Slavic kingdoms?not against ,'urkey only, but against Austria and Jermany, who have been playing in ater years the part once played by England and France. For Austria eeks extension southward and Germany has in mind the dominination he Orient. Plainly, therefore, the fate of Tur ey and of Constantinople is likely o be settled for good by the present - ar. Should the allies win, the goal f Russian ambition would be atained. Should they lose, Turkey . ould become little more than a German province. It requires no gift of rophecy to foresee in this latter vent endless struggles in the Balans and fresh wars along the coasts f thA \tpditprranaan and the Red ea. In the these circumstances it is lainly for the advantage of the orld that Russia should rule in onstantinople. Neither England or France has now any good reason 5 object. The eastern question has een marvelously transformed since lie days of the Crimean war.?Philaelphia Ledger. Realistic Scenery. "That tree was so natural that the udience thundered its applause." "I suppose the tree responded with bough." f ? U K AKK STAHS when it conies to bicycle i pairs. We have yet to see whee! so mangled that we con not make it serviceable aga No matter what attention yo bicycle needs it will receive borp If vniirc ic nnt all rie> in every way better le' us ma it so at once. J. B. B Bicycles, Guns and Automol | fs"5S! How To Give Quinine To Child! FEBRILINEis the trade-mark name given i improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, p ant to take and does not disturb the stoc Children take it and never know it is Qui: Also especially adapted to adults who ca take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate cause nervousness nor ringing in the bead, it the next time you need Quinine for any pose. 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LY I rnce YouWanA /YouWanl To Buy \ J To Pay SSoldbq C.CELLZEY DENMARK, S. C. ?- TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the : 15th day of October, 1914 until the k-ant| 15th day of March, 1915 inclusive. re-i From the first day of January, lUUt. 1915, until the 31st day of January, lam- 1915? a penailty of one per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxee. From v the 1st day of February, 1915, a act penalty of 2 per cent, will be added vere to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st ;e. 1 day of March, 1915, until the 15th d at day of March, 1915, a penalty of 7 now Per cent. be added to all unpaid *~eJ taxes. itea THE LEVY. re- For State purposes 6 mills 3 In For county purposes 4 mills For bridges 1 mill For roads 1-2 mill Constitutional school tax 3 mills i son 'illa Total 14 1-2 mills still SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. and Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills can Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills* Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills on; Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills 0111 Colston, No. 18 4 mills -get Denmark, No. 21 6 1-2 mills :hat Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills )Urn Fishpond. No. 5 i mills Govan, No. 11 4 mills Hutto, No. 6 2 mills ? Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Hey ward. No. 24 2 mills HoDewell. No. 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 4 mills Lees, No. 23 4 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills Oak Grove, No. 20 2 mills Olar, No. 8 9 mills St. John's, No. 10 2 mills t?d Salem, No. 9 4 mills Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills . All persons between the ages of ,nlc twenty-one and sixty years of age, vexcept Confederate soldiers and sailless ors, who are exempt at 50 years of s a age, are liable to a poll tax of one the dollar. .NE Capitation dog tax 50 cents, ives All persons who were 21 years of and age on or before the 1st day of Janrts. uary, 1914 are liable to a poll tax ? of one dollar, and all who have not 'V made returns to the Auditor, are reS quested to do so on or before the 1st of January, 1915. I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the 15th day of October, 1914, until the 1st day of March, 1915. G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer Bamberg County. ? RILEY & COPELAND 8' Successors to W. P. Riley. Fire, Life D Accident *? INSURANCE . Office in J. D. Copeland's Store BAMBERG, S. C. aln ^*?1 I Subscribe to The Herald, $1.50 year.