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REGULAR ARMY OF 143,000.
Rill Provides for Federalized Nation- q
al Guard.
Washington, Feb. 2 6.?The house
military committee agreed today up- t
on the general terms of a bill it ex- t
pects to get berore tne nouse m tea t
yk t
days providing for a regular army
; with an authorized peace strength of ^
143,000 men; a federalized National
Guard which would reach a fixed min- q
imum strength of 424,000 in five
years; adequate reserve systems for
both of these forces, and organizac
tion of civilian training camps, with
% wide discretion reposed in the war
department as to the terms of enlist- n
ment, training and government.
Members of both the house and n
*** senate military committees frankly v
admitted today that they had doubts u
r
whether a requisite force could be en- ?
listed in the National Guard, even unt
der the proposed federal pay and .
regulation provision, and a growing s
v tendency to provide for a federal 11
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army reserve in addition to tfte regu-1
lar army and federalized National ?
Guard was manifest in both committees.
Members said they favored a a
practical test of the possibility of
forming a federal volunteer army in 0
peace times on lines somewhat simi- a
lar to the continental army plan. The *
apparent intention to abandon the continental
project wholly was one f
of the.causes leading up to the resig- a
* nation of Secretary Garrison.
Training Camps.
The senate committee has agreed
tentatively to a plan under which ?
training camps would be authorized s
in every congressional district where *
sufficient men volunteered for train- *
ing under an obligation for war ser- 11
vice. The maximum force to be thus e
i n
raised in any district would be a bat- E
italion, or substantially the same num- 1]
e. ^ ber as proposed for the first year of *
fc the Garrison continental army plan. *
I L The camps wrould be under command t
of full complements of regular army P
officers.
I ^ This tentative plan is in addition
the regular army and the federaliz- j
I Kd National Guard proposals, and is
intended to reach men who would not
be benefited in either of <these services
e
Representative Kahn, who has adL.
vocated an extension of the business
r men's camps to all classes of citizens p
who would not enlist in the regulars D
or the National Guard, said today j
that with 30,000 men already enroll- D
ed for extensive military training this ^
summer, without Government aid, he y
had received assurances that fully
that ttha h
100,000 would be available next year q
under his plan. t
As a Compromise. ^
.The house committee arrived at its
regular army figures today as a com- ^
promise after suggestions of a peace
strength of 220,000, 180,000 and ^
150,000 had been voted down by nar- a
rowing margin. A non-partisan
vote finally fixed upon 137,000, or
2,000 more than recommended by the
war department, with a provision de- C
signed to allow a percentage of overenlistment
in order to maintain that
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strength at all times. With this pro$
vision the total strength authorized t
would be 143,000. To provide of- c
ficers to carry out work of instruction p
^ at schools, among militia regiments c
and for other special duties, 1,000 t
additional men in the commissioned c
t personnel was agreed upon, as p
against an increase of 786, as pro- t
posed by the war department. n
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The increases over the department o
figures would be in field and coast ar- z
tillery, the former being doubled c
' over its present strength. A total of a
twelve regiments or 108 batteries is fi
contemplated. The coast artillery ij
would be increased to a point where c
regulars to man all mine and torpe- a
v do defences and one-half the guns in c
fixed fortifications would be available i<
with an additional complement to 4
man the proposed mobile guns to be t
ad^ed.
As to National Guard. c
The bill also provides that a Xa- e
/tional Guard officer from each organization
be detailed to attend the 3
regular army service schools, receiv- c
ing the pay of his rank in the tegu- B
lar army while on such duty. It con- t.
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templates aumunzing uiw prw:ucui
to draft the guard into the federal 0
service at any time he deems best, c
without waiting specific authority of
congress, and would remove all re- ^
^ strictions on use of the force out- r
side the country. I
^ Several members of the house v
K committee are in sympathy with the ^
W senate committee's proposal for the ^
F regular army, which contemplates as f
tentatively agreed upon a complete
reorganization and a peace strength
of 175,000 men. In the same way,
it is said, members of the senate I
committee are willing to accept the ii
i judgment of the house body on the
I scheme to federalize the National
P Guard.' 3
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The house committee will hear
^ army officers Monday in connection ^
-oHth ti-tA cnhpnipi for srovernment co- b
operation in establishing plants for i
the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen s
k at available water power sites. The i:
I total product of these plants would t
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AX APPRECIATION.
lie Golden Age of Poetry in America.
"There is no more hopeful sign of
he advancement of a new age of aristic
appreciation in this country
han the recent genuine renaissance
i native ana vigorous poetry, oiaz[ig
new trails for itself in realism,
antasy, form and method, says the
.'entury.
"The best of this work is based upn
the craftsman's knowledge of his
raft and his clear-sighted study of
he poetic 'old masters,' though the
lodern poet shows his individuality
a two distinct ways. He is either a
lerciless and challenging realist or
reaves new and gorgeous patterns
:pon the loom of fancy, rejecting old
ioetic phrase, the age-long-pigeonoled
'fit expression' for a given
heme shaping out of the flexible,
lang-accreted language of the day a
ew poetic diction full of pith and
brimmed with nimbler meanings up.'
'hus, mixed metaphorically, some
3ea may be given of his enthusiastic
nd hearty modern method.
"Already in America the new vigor
>f its poets has produced four books
* lnocf cnnnoccful in ovnorimpnt in
, L I CAO 1/ QUVV/^OOlUl 111 A A. *** W ** v y .
ense in individuality, and a nucleus
or further enterprising poetry of the
uture. These are: 'Sword Blades
.nd Poppy Seed,' by Amy Lowell;
North of Boston,' by Robert Frost;
The Congo,' by Vachel Linsay, and
The Spoon River Anthology,' by Ed;ar
Lee Masters. The writer believes
incerely that work as daring and disinctive
as this is more a product of
he modern spirit in America?far
nore?than a mere imitation of modrn
English or European forms and
ciethods, though something be owng
to the latter. There is an inoxication
about the way our conemporary
poets fling themselves ino
a dauntless quest for self-exiression.
LIGON TAKES CHARGE.
becomes Postmaster at Orangeburg
on March 1.
Dr. A. C. Ligon, the newly appointd
postmaster for Orangeburg, will
ike charge of the postoffice on March
It has been 17 years since the
ostoffice has had a Democrat as postl~)r
TJsrnn will succeed Allie
). Webster, who has served as postmaster
17 years. The record made
>y the retiring postmaster is an eniable
one, but Dr. Ligon is young
nd energetic, and is determined to
:eep the local postoffice to the fronts
"he new postmaster is familiar with
he postoffice work and states that it
s his intention to enlarge the. postiffice
in every way possible for the
lenefit of its patrons and to the upiuilding
of Orangeburg. There will
>e no changes made in the force of
ssistants now employed.
GRAVES OF COXFEDERATES.
commissioner Reports on Progress of
Work Under His Department.'
Washington, Feb. 25.?Progress in
he work of marking the graves of
Confederate soldiers who died while
Prisoners of war was reported to
ongress today by Samuel E. Lewis,
he government commissioner in
harge of the plan. Mr. Lewis rented
that the work remaining to
>e done is the replacing of approxi
[lately 596 old headstones by new
>nes, marking the graves of 372 citiens
from the Confederate States,
ompletion of the existing registers
,nd preparation of a comprehensive
inal report to congress and the pubic
generally of the magnitude and
haracter of the work and the extent
nd manner in which it has been acomplished.
The report says there
3 an unexpended balance of $40,56,
which is sufficient to continue
he work the coming year.
"The number of deaths and burials
>f prisoners of war held by the Unitd
States authorities, the report adds,
3 authentically reported to have been
0,716, of which number the graves
f 3,515 are reported as lying at
nilitary stations and localities withn
the area of the seceded States,
''here are reported to be 9,300 prismers
of war lying in the national
emeteries. The original records,
ncl.uding registers and plats of
urial in cemeteries, have been in
nost cases lost or are inaccessible.
)ata has been obtained by personal
isits of the commission to AlexanTT??,wl/Mn
nrv/1 Vonrnnrt Vowc I
Li'ia, namy luu aiiu .icimjuh ^
fa.; Charleston, Morris Island, Beauort
and Hilton Head, S. C., and Saannah
and Fort Pulaski, Ga."
The florin obtained its name from
Florence, where it was first struck
ti the 13th century.
The new bridge across the Tiber
t Rome, having a span of 328 feet,
5 the longest re-inforced concrete
rch in the world.
>e available for powder manufacture
n war time. A provision will be inerted
in the general bill after hearng
providing for government aid in
he project as a war measure.
DOUAUMONTTAKEN.
On? of Fortifications of Verdun Now j
in Teuton Hands, Says Berlin.
I
Berlin, Feb. 26., via London.?It!
is officially announced that Fort Douaumont,
one of the fortifications of:
Verdun, was taken by storm vesteri
day afternoon and is now firmly held ,
u\ tuc uci inana.
The German war office also an- j
nounced the capture of the hills
southwest of the village of Louvemont
and the fortified positions to the
east thereof. The statement follows:
"Western front: On the night of
February 25 an advance by a British
detachment east of Armetiers was repulsed.
"In the Champagne the French
made an attack south of the St. Marie-a-Py
position which we captured
on February 12. They succeeded in
penetrating our first line trenches
over a width of about 250 yards.
"East of the Meuse considerable
advances were made on the battle
front in the presence of the king-emperor.
Our brave troops gained possession
of the hills southwest of the
village of Louvemont and the group
of fortified positions situated to the
east thereof. In the fierce rush forward
Brandenburg regiments pushed
on as far as the village and armored
fort of Douamont, which they carried
by storm.
"In the plain of the Woevre the
enemy's resistance broke down along
the entire front as far as the neighborhood
of Marphoville (Marche
viner) to tne soutn 01 me national
high road from Paris.
"The capture of the village of
Champneuville, reported yesterday,
was based on an erroneous report.
"Eastern theatre: Apart from successful
engagements, participated in
by our vanguards, there is nothing to
report.
"Balkan theatre: The situation is
unchanged."
Resistance Broken.
The German statement indicates a
development of the attack along a
wide front to the south and east of
the region north of Verdun, along
which pressure has hitherto been exerted.
The road from Paris to Metz
referred to runs through Verdun,
passing slightly to the southeast.
It is along the front that the Germans
are now attacking, as distinct
from the section to the north of Verdun.
Verdun is thus being assailed
simultaneously from the northeast,
east and southeast. Apparently the
Germans are developing an attack
similar to that employed frequently*
% ? ? ,
with marked success, against the Russian
fortified positions in the campaign
of last summer. Their tactics
were to bend back the Russian lines
on both sides of the selected point of
attack and compel evacuation of the
fortress itself.
BELGIAN ART.
An Appreciation of a Noted Belgian
Sculptor.
, In a corner of the atelier of Godefroid
Devreese, at Brussels, is a group
of figures that, in certain aspects, is
perhaps the most significant of the
Belgian scluptor's work, writes Brand
Whitlock in Scribner's. The statement
is, to be sure, hesitant, and
hedged about by many saving qualifications,
since it is by no means the
most important work that has come
from the artist's hands, nor does it
represent him in the plentitude of
his powers. But, the question of its
j intrinsic interest and artistic value,
wholly apart, it is significant as showing
the point from which the scluptor
I set out on his long and honorable
career. For it is youth, it is joy, it
is?Flanders. The mass is formed
by a huge tun surmounted by a
Flemish piper, and at his feet, round
and round, circle the peasants to
whom he is piping the "Bocrendans."
It depicts a living scene that has characterized
the Flemish kermesse for
centuries, and it shows, with Flemish
abandon, that life the Flemish folk
have to unstrainedly live, down
through the centuries. It is, in
many of its moods, a life of free,
whole-hearted gayety, impossible to
any other northern race; it is as
objective, it not as graceful, as that
of the Greeks, and as joyous, though
doubtless not so uninterruptedly joy
ous, as we like to think that of the
French or the Italians. It is to be
sure, a joy wholly material, fiddling
frolic, the life that Jordaens and
Steen and Teni^rs had such evident
gusto in repro ing. The "Boerendans"
of M. Devereese is of their
genre, and he is, originally himself,
of their line, in direct descent.
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"Ain't It tlie Trnili?"
The sphinx has eyes, but it cannot?
"See!" cried the children.
"Has ears, but it cannot?"
"Hear!" they responded.
"Has a mouth, but cannot?"
"Eat," said the chorus.
"Has a nose, but cannot?"
"Wipe it!" thundered the class.
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Tens of thousands of farmers as well ai
town and city folks cut down tneir stor<
bills one-half last year and saved monei
in spite of generally short crops and re
duced wages.
Absolutely millions of dollars wer<
saved and countless families lived bettei
than ever before in the face of the cottoi
crisis and general business depression.
How were these burdensome store bill
cut down? By the real money-savinf
power of good home gardens, righth
planted and kept planted and tendec
through the season.
Hastings 1916 Seed Catalogue tells hov
to cut store bills down; tells about gar
den and farm seeds of kinds and a qua!
ity that cannot be bought from your mer
chant or druggist. It's full of garden an<
farm information. It's free if yon as!
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TAX NOTICE.
The treasurer's office will be ope]
for the collection of State, count}
school and all other taxes from thi
15th day of October, 1915 until th
15th day of March, 1916 inclusive.
From the first day of Januar}
1916, until the 31st day of January
1916, a penalty of one per cent, wil
be added to all unpaid taxes. Fron
the 1st day of February, 1916, ;
penalty of 2 per cent, will be adde<
to all unpaid taxes. From the Is
day of March, 1916, until the 15tl
day of March, 1S16, a penalty of '
per cent, will be added to all unpaii
taxes.
THE LEVY.
For State purposes 7 mill
For county purposes '..4 1-2 mill
Constitutional school tax 3 mill
Total 14 1-2 mill:
SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES.
Bamberg, No. 14 9 mill
Binnakers, No. 12 3 mill
Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mill
Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mill:
Colston, No. 18 4 mill:
Denmark, No. 21 6 1-2 mill:
Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mill
Fishpond, No. 5 2 mill:
Govan, No. 11 4 mill:
Hutto, No.. 6 2 mill:
Hampton, No. 3 2 mill;
Heyward, No. 24 2 mill:
Hopewell, No. 1 3 mill:
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 4 mill:
Lees, No. 23 4 mill:
Midway, No. 2 2 mill:
Oak Grove, No. 20 2 mill:
Olar, No. 8 9 mill:
St. John's, No. 10 2 mill:
Salem, No. 9 4 mill:
Three Mile, No. 4 2 mill:
All persons between the ages o
twenty-one and sixty years of age
except Confederate soldiers and sail
ors, who are exempt at 50 years o:
age, are liable to a poll tax of on<
dollar.
Capitation dog tax 50 cents.
All persons who were 21 years o]
age on or before the 1st day of Jannary,
1915, are liable to a poll ta?
of one dollar, and all who have noi
made returns to the Auditor, are requested
to do so on or before th*
1st of January, 1916.
I will receive the commutatior
-1 A A / (J> A A A \ Pr*nr-r
roau iax ui iwu uunaio nvn
the 15th day of October. 1915, unti'
the 1st dav of March, 1916.
G. A. JENNINGS,
Treasurer Bamberg County.
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