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PERSONAL MENTION. * People Visiting in This City and a Other Points. ?Mr. H. L. Hinnant spent Sunda at Eutawville. * ^ t Vf V Di'nn r\t Olnr WAS il the city Monday. ?Rev. J. R. Smith, of Ehrhardl was in the city last Saturday. ?Miss Harridell Free has return ed to Coker college, Hartsville, ?Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tiner returne \ * to their home in Florence Sunday. ?Mr. Frank Riley, of Charleston ^ was in the city one day last week. > * ?Mr. C. R. Gillam, of Cheraw spent a few days in the city thi week. ?Mr. Laurie Hiers, of Bato Rouge, La., spent a few days in th city last week. ?.Misses Marion and Janie Fairej of Branchville, visited Miss Jani Griffith last week. ?Mr. George Cable, of Danville Va., spent a few days last week in th city with relatives. ?Mrs. J. C. Lewis, of North Angus ta, is spending some time in the cit with Mrs. L. P. McMillan. > ?Miss Rebecca Rice, of Winns boro, is spending some time in th city with Mrs. E. H. Dowling. ?Miss Connie Johnson, of S' George, is spending some time in th city with Mrs. B. W. Simmons. ?Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Guilds hav returned to the city from Cordsvilk V where they spent the holidays. pr~ ?Miss Alma uarier, 01 Augusu spent a few days in the city las week with Miss Dorothy Adams. ?Mr. John Dickson, of Bamberg spent Friday in the City on business Orangeburg Times and Democrat. / ?Rev. E. O. Watson has returne from Horry county, where he spec the Christmas holidays with his fan fly. ?Mr. James Griffith and sistei Miss Janie, have returned from pleasure visit to Miss Lessie Garricl ^ * at Norway.' ?Mr. Tillman Zeigler left Thur: day night for El Paso, Texas, afte spending the holidays with relative in the city. ?Mrs. Francis Folk left Sunda for Turbeville, where she will spen some time with her daughter, Mr P. K. Rhoad. ?Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Wright sper Sunday in Bamberg with Mr. an Thomas Black.?Orangeburg Time v and Democrat. ?Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Wyman an daughter, Miss Lalla Wyman, < Aiken, spent a few days in the cit la^t week with relatives. ?Miss Georgie Emma Jordan ri turned to her school near Denmar this week after spending the hoi rfava at home with her mother. ?Prof. John Riley, of Camber, spent the week-end in the city wit his sister, Mrs. Havelock Eaves.Orangeburg Times and Democrat. ?Misses Lucile and Natalie Po ter, of Williston, returned to the v home Tuesday after spending son time in the city with Mrs. L. B. Fo\ * * le:. * i ?Misses Annie Zeigler and Ze der Halford, of Blackville, returne * \ to their home Friday after spendir a few days in the city with Mrs. W. Price. ?Dr. and Mrs. F. B. McCracki left last week for Newberry, to vis relatives. Dr. McCrackin returne Sunday, Mrs. McCrackin remainir a few days. ?Miss Leona Stalvey returne Sunday night to resume her duties i teacher of Clear Pond school, aft< spending the holidays with relativi at Marion, S. C. ?Prof. S. A. Merchant, of Spa tanburg, enroute to his school Bamberg, stopped over in the ci' Sunday with friends?Orangebui Times and Democrat. Window Ledge Floral Displays. Dark? Gloomy? Smoky? Not a bit of it! exclaims the Cb cago Herald. Look yp at the window ledges < the skycrapers on the busiest stree i in the loop and see there the flou ishing miniature gardens to refu the slander against Chicago's atmo phere. ' More than a mile of window boxi has been set out by banks, merca: tile houses and other tenants of b Duiicnngs m answer 10 tne appeal t the down-town streets committee < the Association of Commerce to mal Chicago a beautiful city. Members of the committee ha^ just finished a canvass and repo 4 that more than 80 leading firms ha^ window ledge floral displays, and ii crease of 300 per cent over last year showing. In addition to those in tl loop there are scores of windo boxes in the business districts on tl south, west and north sides, whe: keen neighborhood rivalry is helpir the campaign. f FRAXCK IX THK WAR. t Politics Played a Part Until the Invasion Fused Whole Country. All over Paris one stiil sees the now pathetic picture of France rescuing Alsace, says Collier's Weekly. 1 Lieut France, mid smoke and shell, now embraces beautiful Miss Alsace, :, while gallant soldiers tear down the boundary post of the frontier. This . allegorical picture haunts every news stand with its ironic promise. For, ^ alas! that rescue, so long, so ardently hoped for. has ror the moment failed. Mulhouse has been entered l' ?and evacuated; it has been recaptured and again deserted. So, in the Place de la Concorde, the statue of s Strasbourg, this August, has been al ternately bedecked with flowers and n crape. Back, back, back our little e pin flags crept over the map?over the Vosges, scurrying into France. 7, J Again Paris demanded: "What the e devil is wrong now?" Only one paper was bold enough to explain. It i was the 15th army corps that was e rotten this time. And nex; day, Lord! how the fishwives and vegetable women in the great market of Paris, les Halles, were screaming from one to another: "Ah. those cowardly Marseillaise! The Marseillaise never were Frenchmen, and neve er will be! Shot in the back!" Furious were the military censors that morning, for never before had e t^e name of a regiment or division been mentioned. 'The indiscreet pae per was sharply rebuked and the i, corps from Provence was w hitewashed?praised for their bravery the day . .afterward, for holding their own af ;t ter having been "surprised." Surprised, yes, that was it, surr prised so much that they turned tail " and ran for ten miles, as all Paris knows today. Why weren't the first of these panic-stricken troops shot down in their tracks by their own officers before they had stampeded an army? Only the captains and majors know and they will never tell r* What is the answer? Politics, French a politics?the only thing France has l' to fear in this war. The military clique?every man helping his friend 5- and every one helping himself. Roy!r alist against Republican, clerica :s against Socialist. Above all, favoritism?a strongly intrenched bureauv cracy which, until almost too late d not even France's desperate neec s. could overthrow. Messimy, the pacific, the blunder it er, was retired with the rest of th< d cabinet. Retired? He was fairly ?s kicked out; for, of all that ministry he was the tmly one who was noi d thanked for his services. Milleranc became minister of war and Joffn :v general in chief. Michel, the blun derer, who has been demoted rron general in chief to military gover k nor of Paris, and from that stil . lower, handed over the city to Gal leni. Oh. there was a great scurry ing to and fro of generals in Pari* that week! You saw their splendit -h uniforms in taxicabs here, there anc ? everywhere. Pau came up from th< south, Joffre came down from thi r_ north; the English came, and Gen jr French entered Paris, cheered lik* ie a victor. v_ After that there was a popular ac ceptance of Joffre's Fabian policy and Paris was satisfied. We knev now, he was trying to gain time. Fo !(* us the stone-wall defencte, while Rus lg sia drove the steam roller at the at tack. A change now came into thi tenor of the official communication in also. No more figures of speech, n< it talk about the "Barzares," no mor: ;d Gallic "haut-le-coeur" and flamboy ig ant chauvin-jingoism. The genera staff confined itself to a statement o the geographical positions of the en emy. Now we couia at last sue*. u ;r our pin flags on the map with som< ss accuracy, though the situations wen doubtless a week or so behind thi r_ time. n Bombast and braggadocio still wer t the official communiques of the wa rg office. There came a day soon, however, when the best they could sa: was that there was not a Germai soldier on French soil. Then, pres to! the Uhlans were over the border and refugees from Brittainy wer flying southward. German cavalr; was carrying terror all over the coun trvside, at Lisle, at Cambral, at Dou t ai, and south, still further and fur r_ ther 6outh. The flying squadron te were dispersed or destroyed by tin territorials, but there were alway more Uhlans, more and more, til ^ before we could believe it, mon Dieu es Q_ it was the bulk and mass of the Ger . man army that had swept over th< )v border. It was invasion! Then Pa ' ris awoke and rubbed its eyes. Now Paris is used to revolutions C 0 Ta 1?~ oil clianot nni 1 I Ildb lid U LI 10 111 VS.L an gnufvw sizes and colors?republican, royal "0 . r ist, army farces and communist 11 dead earnest, but never a revolutioi -"6 . . before such as the patriotic uprisinj which fused all France into one com s pact, determined mass, cast politic into the rubbish heap,?how long wil it stav there??and created a nev ie non-partisan ministrv upon the basi: re ? . of efficiency alone. . New Box Paper at Herald Book Store GOVEKXOIt ADDS 55 TO LIST. Blease (irants Pardons, Paroles and Commutations. Columbia, Dec. 30.?Fifty-five more convicts in the penitentiary and scattered on chain gangs throughout the State were recipients of clemency from the hands of the governor late this afternoon, bringing the total number of cases in which the governor has exercised the pardoning and paroling power up to 1,54 4 since he has been in office. The list tonight was made up of 29 manslayers, four for violation of the dispensary law, two for breach of trust, four for larceny, three for assault and battery and riot, three for assault and battery, four for highway robbery, three for criminal assault, one for carbreaking, two for resisting an officer.^ There are still 149 State convicts in the penitentiary, on State farms and chain gangs. The three white men convicted of having attempted to storm the jail in i Spartanburg when Sheriff J. W. White held at bay a mob which tried to lynch a negro, were all pardoned. ' The three were convicted in Spartanburg last November and sentenced to ! three years on the chain gang by Judge Moore. They are Horace Finch. Robert Wilson and W. R. Belcher. ; Included in the list was one Greek. Augustus Corosus. of Abbeville, who was serving a ten-months' sentence for larceny. He was paroled during s good behavior. John Massirigale. of Pickens coun tv, who was serving a term for man slaughter, was paroled on condition that he leave the State by January 5 and never return. ' j Turns Out :54 More Convicts. '! Columbia. Jan. 2;?Seventy more ' Convicts in the penitentiary and scatl;;tered on chain gangs throughout the! '! State were receipients of clemency I ' from the \Jiands of the governor to-.' ' day. The pardon and parole papers 11 were sent to the office of the secretary '| of State this afternoon and the eoni victs were turned loose tonight. This ' brings the total number of cases in "j which the governor has exercised ' (clemency up to 1,614. Of the num"iber this afternoon 16 were full par" dons, IS paroles and 36 commuta': tions of sentences, i Among those turned loose is included Howard and Xoland, celebrat* ed yeggmen, who were serving terms * j of ten years each in the penitentiary r!on the charge of housebreaking and > I larceny, having been sent up from t i Spartanburg county in 1907. Before 11 being tried in the State courts they iserved a term in the Atlanta federal " prison for blowing a postoffice safe 1J at Enoree, in Spartanburg countj*. ": They were paroled on the condition, 11 that they be turned over to the "j United States authorities, who are " | said to want them for charges of 5j blowing postoffice safes. * Another noted case in the list is *! that of George W. Tidwell, who was 3! convicted of manslaughter last spring 3i in Greenville, having slain R. Emmet j Walker, and'sentenced to twelve 3 < years in the State penitentiary. He I got his sentence reduced to "seven "(years. The appeal in this case was ?j argued before the State supreme r! court a few days ago. ri The May boys, from Union, sent up "jfor life on a conviction of murder, "! received reduction in sentence, Clyde 5 j May getting his sentence cut down s j to two years and John May to ten 3 years. 3 186 Prisoners Remain. f Columbia, Jan. 3.?There are exactly 125 prisoners left in the State 1 penitentiary as a result of the use by the governor of the pardoning and paroling power. Eleven of the batch e turned loose yesterday were in the penitentiary and these were released this morning, leaving 125 prisoners in the penitentiary yard. In addition there are 26 penitentiary prisonv. ers on the State farm, known as the ' DeSassaure farm. 31 on the other State farm, known as the Reed farm, , and four penitentiary convicts on g chain gangs, making a total of 186 y penitentiary prisoners left. There are 153 negro boys in the reformatory in Lexington county, and, of course, there are prisoners on chain gangs in every county. Since assumg ing office in 1911 the governor has s exercised clemency in 1,615 cases. rmmoaiatolr UpnrrfKtMl. J I The two yeggmen, Noland and _ Howard, who were paroled from a e ten-year sentence, having been sent up from Spartanburg in 1907, were immediately rearrested. Thomas Xo. land, alias "Chicago Xoland," alias j "Detroit Xebbs." was arrested as he . received his parole papers on a State 1 warrant for a crime alleged to have j been committed at Fort Mill, in York , county. He was placed in the Richland county jail to await transportas tion Yorkvjlle. j The other yegg, Charles Howard, v alias "Texas Dutch," was taken in s charge by United States Deputy Marshal William Cooper and carried be.fore United States Commissioner R. . Beverley Sloan. He is wanted for y - - - - - - V> ./ ' . . I'llAISK FOItCES IX MESSAGE. Kaiser Urges Forces to "New l)ee<] and Victories." Berlin, Jan. 1.?Emperor Willian in a new year's message to the arm and navy, asks them to face the ne year unflinchingly and to look fo: ward to new deeds and new victorh for the beloved fatherland. The me sage reads: "After five long months of hea\ and hot fighting we enter the ne year. "Brilliant victories have been gaii ed and great successes achieved t the German army almost everywhei on the territory of the enemy, whi repeated attempts of our opponen to swarm on German territory hai fallen. "My ships have covered themselv< with glory on every sea and ti crews have proved not only that >h( know how to fight victoriously, bi to die like heroes when overwhelme by superior forces. "Behind the army and the navy tl entire nation stands in unexamph harmony, prepared to sacrifice i heart's blood for the sacred donu;st hearth which we are defer dir against outrageous invasion. Mu? has come to pass in the old year, bi the enemies are still firmly kept lo1 Always fresh hordes are rolling i against our army and the a^my i our faithful allies, but their numbe do not frighten us. Although tl times may be serious and t'n? ta: before us a heavy one we lo' k fo ward into the future with tht drme confidence. i "Next to God's wise guid ace, trust to the matchless bravery of tl army and navy, and know myself be as one with the entire German n tion. Therefore let us face the j year unflinchingly, looking forwa j to new deeds and new victories f i our beloved fatherland. (Signed) WILHELM." | WAIi WILL END DIKING I-T," I I French President So Predicts to Fc eign Diplomats, New Year's CrPars Paris, Jan. 1.?Prediction th 1915 would see the end of the w was made by President Poincare an address today to foreign dipl mats, who went to the Palace o;! t Elysee to present new year's co gratulations. "I do not doubt that next year this traditional reception, we shj celebrate establishment of a bene cent peace," said the president. The British ambassador, Sir Fra cis Bertie, as aean or rne uipiumai corps, presented the congratulatio of his colleagues and himself. In ! address Sir Francis remarked th the diplomats present compris "representatives of the nations figl ' ing at the side of France and oth nations whereon neutrality impos special duties in this grave crisis." American Ambassador Sharp w among those present. He was acco; panied by three former miriste who are aiding him in the arduo tasks of-the embassy during the w ?John W. Garrett, H. Percn Dodge and John G. Coolidge. Fo of the American embassy, Robe.-t 1 Bliss, Arthur U. Frazier, Arthur C and Louis A. Sussdorf, Jr., and Mij Spencer Cosby, the military attacl and Lieut. Com. Wm. F. Brickar, t naval attache, also attended. President Poincare exchanged N< Year's greetings by telegraph wi Gen. Joffre, the kings of Great B tain and Belgium and Servia and e peror of Russia. . The Alaskans. According to the government si tistics, the natives of Alaska a about 26,000 in number and they a spread over more than 350,000 of t 590,000 square miles of the territo says the Christian Herald. Thi small settlements extend along 1 000 miles of coast and on both sic of the Yukon River and its tributi ies, for a distance of more 'than 500 miles. One of the supervisi districts contains a full 100,0 square miles, the others average mc than 65,000 square miles each, the natives of Alaska, approxima ly 11,000 belong to six tribes of 1 dians in Southeastern and Southe Alaska, and in the valley of the "X kon. About 11,000 are Eskimos the western and northwestern coas along the Bering Sea, the Beri Straits and the Arctic Ocean. Son thing more than 3,000 are Aleuts a mixed races through the Aleuti Islands. robbing a postoffice at Prosperity May 5, 1902. He was committed the city jail in default of bond $5,000, and will be given a prelin nary before Commissioner Sloan the morning. Charles O'Day, with a list of alu es, another one of the yeggmen w I ~ K., fV,q onvorrnr thft fi] w <x& pai uicu uj 1,11^ ev> v ? of the week, will be given a prelin nary before United States Comm sioner Sloan tomorrow. He is he in jail in default of a $3,000 bor to answer to the charge of crackii a postoffice safe at Gordonsvil Va. .1 1 I ! Mr l 1V1I Store wr \\ Keeper s a 1C W. J I Do you practice what or I you preach, or do you ? advise your customers to order that which you I ' do not handle from the mail order houses? 1 rd ^ or . Ilf you do not, why | don't you buy your day ;1 *?ii ? | books, ledgers, journals, "n cash books, etc., at home . f ? and do as you think I others should do? , I in fi- , - nZ We have almost any | * kind of blank book you , 1 ed ajjafc-a !!; may want, and we will sell them just as cheap / J as you can order them 1 11 from the mail order - | ur houses. ivor N h' I ' 1 * If you are going to 1 J need a blank book of f anv kind this fall we ask that you give us a '5| T* i chance to furnish it. If J; we haven't what you ; 1 t want we will get it for i les 1 . - ? 1 \ ' i you mighty quick. | on t?e- I ' I The 1 ; Herald 1 Book Store J in BAMBERG, S. C. J ho -st M ? I 1 j 2 I 4 >e' 1 1 ( >,M