Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BFTHEAS TliiP FULL OF THK1LL. South Carolinian Tells of Part of Peace Pilgrimage. Andrew J. Bethea, lieutenant governor, who returned recently irom his peace trip 10 Europe as uie guest of Henry Fora, gave out the ioiiowing interview: ' H'rnm the dav I left New York till my return my trip was a continuous round ot trying out tnrnling experiences. It seems almost like a miracle that 1 am left to tell me story. 4 "I found the bitter coid in the Scandinavian countries too much tor me and in Sweden 1 neany succumbed to its rigor. It was here in Stockholm that I was seriously sick for several days, causing me to miss an early boat on my return trip home. A terrible storm at sea still further delayed my arrival. "The trip over was without partic4 ular incident, except for the two days * ' -? V 1 1 ? 4. T?' ; .1. nt r\ I 1 &H<1 nignis in me iiaruur at xvn&wau > when we were prisoners of a British man-of-war. It is not an easy leel. ing to have torpedo boats lurking around and pointing their guns at you, but that is the penalty all have to pay who pass that way these days. England has literally swept the seas and fixed the boundary line beyond which no ship dare cross till she gives the word. The danger zone in which many mines are afloat also gives you a ticklish feeling and is not good for x the nerves if you cannot sleep. v "We landed in Christiana, Norway, and found an interesting people and country. It was -the height of the winter season and everything was white with snow. Thousands were giving their time to skiing, the great national sport, which consists of sliding and jumping over hills and > mountains of snow.. Sweden likewise was in the grip of winter, but at Stockholm there was a warm Weill^ comeito/a beautiful and thrifty . modern city. Wages and goods are high. This is true in all the border neutral countries. Times are good in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland, but of course there are many interests that suffer from the war. As in America so in these countries, there is some division of sentiment on the question of the war. But it seems to me that in Norway, Denmark and Holland sympathy was with the allies, while in Sweden it was with Germany. Sweden has an ; old grudge against Russia and the other neutral countries are afraid of the growing military power in Germany?of the dominant heel, they say. Looked Him All Over. "In Copenhagen I left the Ford party to hurry home. To do this, it was necessary for me to have my passport vised for belligerent countries. Only as a special courtesy from German and English consuls was I able to accomplish this, for our country, except in rare cases, grants no passports to belligerent countries and orders have been issued against it. But I had good luck and this gave me a chance to see Germany and England at first hand in a state of \^ar. It also gave me the uniq,ue experience in getting in and out of Germany at . the present time. They take nothing for granted. It matters not what credentials or passports, or letters you bear, nor who you are. You w must submit to the test before you (pass. And you can bet that when the Germans do a thing it is done thoroughly. They talk little and asK but few questions, but wrhen they are . done with you, you know that you have been examined. In my case eveTy article was taken from my bag\ gage and examined with the utmost ?-- ?j ? j care, QOOKS anu payers etiiu. pi^iuico were taken in charge and peroxide of hydrogen and other medicines I had were emptied upon a heap of coal in l the belief that they were either invisible ink or explosives. The baggage itself was observed with great scrutiny. At this juncture two officers escorted me to a private dressing room and I was told to uncover. I took off my overcoat, then my coat and when thus disrobed I 6tood up * before the officer and asked, 'How far?' 'Keep going,' he said. I continued and later repeated my question. 'To the skin,' he replied. When ^ 'stripped to the skin' the bottoms of my feet, my back and my head were all ?mv nlothes. mv shoes. my overshoes, my watch, my purse? nothing escaped. I came away im^ pressed with German efficiency and yet it was all done with courtesy and order and system and dispatch. I also visited many places and saw a good bit of German life as I mingled with the people,* and yet from the time I entered German territory, until I left it, my whereabouts were always known. You may not like their method of warfare, and you may op.pose their hard military system, but one thing is certain, you cannot visit Germany as I did and come away without feeling that they are a wonderfully skillful and efficient people f ?without feeling too that some of this efficiency would be a good thing for America. "From Germany I passed on through Holland by way of The Hague and crossed the North sea to England. The North sea is literally I a network of submarines and mines and no ship dare to cross in the 3 night time. The mine sweepers followed our ship for miles and miles and saw the big guns shoot and explode mine after mine. I passed c within sight of Ostend, now held by d the Germans, and could hear the con- d tinuous roar of the cannon from the a trenches near Flushing. t England Awake to War. # r "In England I visited the house of f lords and the house of commons and I heard Lloyd George and Sir Edward c Carson speak on the compulsion en- ( listment measure. Great Britain is a beginning to realize that it is at war r and both the powers that be and the a people seem now resolved to fight to t a finish. I saw thousands of soldiers v in Germany and England who had q been or were getting ready to go to the front and the general opinion is s that both sides are planning for a \ mighty drive?a supreme effort in the. g spring. 1; "Everywhere I went I was shown f the greatest consideration and kind- n ness. The people in the old coun- s tries have great respect for form and c custom. I met many officials and \ people of prominence and influence. ^ It was also my privilege to meet and 1 be entertained at luncheon or din- a her by all th? American ministers and ambassadors in the countries I I visited. Among there were Albert i G. Schemederman, at Christiana, Ira s Nelson Morris, at Stockholm, Maurice s Francis Eagen, at Copenhagen, Hen- i ry Van Dyke, at The Hague, and Am- t bassador Page, at London. At Co- I penhagen I was entertained by Sir C Henry Lawder, the British minister to Denmark, and at The Hague Dr. c Van Dyke invited me to meet Brand c Whitlock, who was just returning C from America to Brussels. t "As I have already said, my trip \ home was a terrible nightmare. We 1 encountered a furious storm at sea ? which blew from 90 to 100 miles an c hour and which continued unabated r for 36 hours. The life boats were t swept away, small leaks were sprung. 1 much crockery and furniture broken, s the ship badly torn and several pas- p sengers and crew slightly hurt. One <3 of the crew was thrown overboard, p but recovered himself by means of a life rope to which he was fastened, c \Tv rnhin mate and I felt certain that i the ship would go down and there I were many others who shared in this c opinion. It is no wonder that I am a glad to be back in good olcl South j Carolina in favored circumstances j and among friends. t Not a Wasted Effort. \ "But you ask, 'What of the Ford ^ peace expedition? Did it do any t good?' Measured by motive and pur- E pose, my answer is emphatically ^ 'Yes.' No one can measure influence, t No one has a right to say -that a g movement such as this is of no avail. ] If you believe as I do that every good ( word spoken and every good act done ^ is taken into account and blesses i somebody somewhere at some time, then I think that a movement for t world peace, however futile it may c seem, must be credited with being i - worth while. Of Henry Ford as a 'j big-hearted, unselfish man, too much t cannot be said in praise. He has set t the world, especially rich men, a j great example. H? is willing to v J a on Via f rvl rl m O r OpeilU 1115 Liu luiiC) as 11^7 i,uiu c for peace and he has demonstrated c to the world his interest in a great 5 cause. Then, too, the public must ] remember that his peace efforts are c not finished and no one can tell what s may yet be accomplished. I heard c him say that if he could only scratch the surface in the movement, if he ( could only end the war a day sooner ( he would be willing to make any s sacrifice of money and means at his t command. < "At any rate the Ford expedition ^ has caused the nations of the earth ( to think and talk for little while of \ peace. That in itself is worth while ? for it carries with it the wonderful j power of suggestion. In this time of madness when a world is ablaze with 1 war?it is a good thing to think of 1 peace, talk of peace, and work for t I peace. The world would be a much s better place in which to live if we j had more men of the type of Henry 1 Ford. And there would be an end ] to war." 1 Tillie Was Cool. * Nat Nichols, a man about town, has the spotlight again. In the chorus of a big musical show the other night he saw a girl he used to t know well. ^ "If it isn't Tillie!" he said. After c the performance he asked his friend I to accompany him to the stage door ? and see him renew his acquaintance s with Tillie. They waited half an t hour near the door, and finally out stepped the girl. Nat got busy. s "Hello, there Tillie!" he said. Tillie gave a look; then as she s brushed bv. she remarked to another girl: s "There's an unusual number of I strangers in town this summer."? New York World. t Keep healthy by drinking Glendale ^ Springs water, for sale by Herndon's grocery store and Mack's drug store. IOME HAS STRANGE CONTRAST!! fodern Soldiers March in Shadow of Ancient Military Glory. There are strange and suggestiv ontrasts- here in the Eternal Cit luring these war days, with the so liers of todaiy marching and campin .niong the monuments and ruins c he soldiers of the past. Today egiment of Italian infantry cam rom the Appian Way, passed th 5alatine Hill with the gaunt an avernous ruins of the palaces of th ?easars, then swung in a long circl Lround the Arch of Constantin< >assed the Coliseum and the Forui ,nd then moved on along the Tibe o the crumbling ruins of that bridg /here Horatius held back the Tar [uin army. These modern soldiers marche martly, and paid no attention to th renerable monuments of militar dory all around them. It was mere y one of many detachments movin rom the suburbs to the barrack tear the Janiculum. They wer turdy young peasant soldiers, wit lark faces and eyes. Their uniform vere bluish gray, loose and ill-fittin vith square cap and low-falling visoi They carried their guns irregularl it shoulder arms. Around these old monuments c tome soldiers may be seen marcl ng all hours of the day, and th culptures and inscriptions seem t how how the remote past is boun ip with the events of today. Aroun he Coliseum, for instance, soldier lave been marching for the last 2 >00 years. The Arch of Constantine commen rates Constaptine's great victor iver Maxentius, and the founding c Constantinople, to which Constar ine gave his name?Constantinoph rhich "was a centre of warfare neai y 2,000 years ago, as it is todai sTearby the Arch of Titus marks th apture of Jerusalem. One of th eliefs on the Titus arch shows remendous battle with the Daciam :ne soldiers wno Keep passing ioaa eldom glance at these battles of th >ast; and, singularly, the tourists se lom glance at the monuments c >ast military achievements. A favorite place of resort for th ifficers and soldiers, when off dut: s the Piazza Venezia, in the heart c tome, with a view of the nearb :olumn of Trajan. The column looh is solid today as when erected 1,80 rears ago in honor of Emperor Tn an. If the soldiers took the troub] o examine the sculptured relief vinding from top to bottom, the vould find almost a counterpart ( he battles going on today in th lalkans, as these reliefs represent th vars with the German tribes alon he Danube?battles on the vei round where the Germans, Serbs an Bulgarians have just been fightin, )ne relief represents a thirsty arn jetting relief from a providentii -ainstorm. The chief encampment of Italia roops is in the suburb west of Ron >n the broad plain of Mont Marl j _ rx 11. _ i. l J_* Hf ^ .. lameu aner in? greai soiuier mariu rhere are 4,000 to 6,000 soldiers i his encampment, and they ai ramping over the same ground thj darius and his legions marched, vas through Mont Mario, also, thi ill the great invasions of Rome o iurred, with the final capture ad jacking of the city and the fall of tl itoman empire. And these soldie] )f today are manoeuvering over tt same ground that witnessed these di jisive events of the world's histor Crossing the Tiber one sees so iiers on guard along the* upper wal )f the great castle of St. Angelo. Tf socalled castle is in fact a tomb ( he soldier-emperor, Hardrian, an jommemorates the achievements, vas used as a military barracks < >ne time, but now new barracks ha^ )een built and only a few soldiei ire left as a guard of honor for th nonument of past military glory. There is the same military movi nent going on around all these f{ nous monuments of the past. An he inscriptions show that nbout th same thing has been going on f( 2,000 years?soldiers marching, a: nies fighting along the Danube, th ithine and the Alps, and other armi< leaded toward Constantinople?hi ory repeating itself.?Rome dispatc ;o Philadelphia Ledger. Don't Walt. In a certain village in south Kei ucky there is a house the door c vhich must be raised a little to h >pened, and for this purpose latchet is generally used. One nigl i knock was heard at the door an i boy was sent to know who wa here. "Who's there?" asked the younj iter. "It's me," answered the person ou lide. The youngster knowing the voic ihouted back in such a tone that th )erson outside could hear him: "Oh, mother, it's Mr. Murphy; g< he hatchet." Needless to say, Mr. Murphy didn vait. Read the Herald, $1.50 per year. ; wmmmmammmm I Now Well I y B l_ B "Thedford's Black-Draught B g [ is the best all-round medicine B H lever used," writes J. A. B B B e B Steelman, of Pattonville, Texas. B e I "I suffered terribly with liver B d B B B troubles, and could get no relief. B H tu? ?:j t B e : i nc uueiuid MUU i uau wuu5' B sumption. I could not work at H ,r I all. Finally I tried B -1 THEDFORO'S I i BUCK- I I DRAUGHT I h B and to my surprise, 1 got better, B iS B and am to-day as well as any B g B man." Thedford's Black- B * Hi CI y Draught is a general, cathartic, H B vegetable liver medicine, that B B has been regulating irregulari- B l" B ties of the liver, stomach and B e H > H bowels, for over 70 years. Get' d H a package today. Insist on the B d B genuine?Thedford's. E-70 B BbBMM!fl38fiiBiMMMIiMBuBiBi5lB8l!^BBBBBBB^HM Cut Your Store Bill if i Down One Half j. Tens of thousands of farmers as well as e town and city folks cut down their store e bills one-half last year and saved money a in spite of generally short crops and re3. duced wages. y Absolutely millions of dollars were e saved and countless families lived better than ever before in the face of the cotton ^ crisis and general business depression. How were these burdensome store bills 0 cut down? By the real money-saving ^ power of good home gardens, rightly planted and kept planted and tended rg through the season. 0 I Hastings 1916 Seed Catalogue tells how l_ to cut store bills down; tells about gar[e den and farm seeds of kinds and a quels' ity that cannot be bought from your mer?y chant or druggist. It's full of garden and >f farm information. It's free if you ask [0 for it. Write for it now. H. G. HASTINGS Le CO., Atlanta, Ga.?(Advt) g .y TAX NOTICE. id _ The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, [y school and all other taxes from the ad 15th day of October, 1915 until the 15th day of March, 1916 inclusive. From the first day of January, ^ 1916, until the 31st day of January, ie 1916, a penalty of one per cent, will o, be added to all unpaid taxes. From s# the 1st day of February, 1916, a penalty of 2 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st re day of March, 1916, until the 15th it day of March, 1916, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid , taxes. at THE LEVY. c" For State purposes 7 mills id For county purposes 4 1-2 mills le Constitutional school tax 3 mills rs Total 14 1-2 mills ie SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. e- Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills v Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills ' Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills Is Colston, No. 18 4 mills ie Denmark, No. 21 6 1-2 mills f Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills Fishpond, No. 5 2 mills td Govan, No. 11 4 mills It Hutto, No. 6 2 mills at Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Heyward, No. 24 2 mills Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills rs Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 4 mills is Lees, No. 23 4 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills Oak Grove, No. 20 2 mills =>- - - - - ? Olar, No. 8 y mms * St. John's, No. 10 2 mills d Salem, No. 9 4 mills ie Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills All persons between the ages of )r twenty-one and sixty years of age, r- except Confederate soldiers and sailie ors, who are exempt at 50 years of age, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar. s" Capitation dog tax 50 cents, h All persons who were 21 years of age on or before the 1st day of Jannary, 1915, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar, and all who have not made returns to the Auditor,; are requested to do so on or before the " 1st of January, 1916. , )f I will receive the commutation e road tax of two aonars rrom a the loth day of October, 1915, until . the 1st day of March, 1916. 11 G. A. JENNINGS, d Treasurer Bamberg County. LS r. RILEY & COPELAND Successors to W. P. Riley. t_ Fire, Life Accident e INSURANCE Office in J. D. Copeland's Store St BAMBERG, S. O. '+ - ? n 11 UI..U f),.M u cures UIU sores, inner nemeuies nun i uuio. The worst cases, no matter of how long standing, are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves Pain and Heals at the same time. 25c, 50c, $1.00 <Lo. SIR The Hardware and Furnitur I C 1? D jctiupic u< The Biggest : sample box have receive time arrived Values up to box, we sell n< 40c per box. early. Our not stay long. Herald Be B??? I ? Don't carry large sums of money around with you. Hold- ^ ups are not unheard of. Don't hide money around the house. There are a few burglars left. Don't be extravagant; putP^ your money in this bank and add all you can spare to it. Don't fail to take this advice jfrl and you will have an easy and ?~ happy old age. ? Enterpri 5 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Saving Typewrite! Just received full ty guaranteed typ All makes machir to Augusta, Colun ton for you ribbor Bamberg. I ? Herald Be ? ^TIHIPS from any old block fly like leaves before a storm g| when yon use one of our axes or hatchets on it nIre Vinordc on/1 ln<r? f^pl all f?Tlt UAQf U VU iUW U*MU Av^w *vv* in - t www when one of our saws gets busy, ne here for tools of tempered i\ that stand constant use. )ur hardware is made for hard ir. Years in the business have ght us how to provide you with d tools of every description at sonable prices. )nce a customer, always one. Quality the Best Policy** Is the Watch- 1 ird of This Store. 4MONS e Man Bambergt S. C* %.:*m ox Paper * ___________ M iii shipment of paper we d in a long this week. I ? $1.00 per >thing above Get yours samples do > 7 ^ >ok Store I I fTS" ^<2/1fatig m?mmm ~ ? se Bank *s Deposits. Bamberg, S. C. Ribbons J stock best qualiewriter ribbons, les. Don't send nbia or Charlesis. Buy 'em in >ok Store *"*- * i \ ' ; /"