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P WILL NOT RECALL ARMY. UNTIL VILLA IS CAUGHT SAY . LANSING AND BAKEK. Categorically Deny Persistent Reports That Troops Might B? Withdrawn From Mexican Soil. * Washington, April 6.?Categorical denial by Secretary Lansing late today was the official answer to persistent reports that the American . troops might be withdrawn from Mexico shortly regardless of developments in the hunt for Villa. Both ? ^ Mr. Lansing and Secretary of War Baker indicated there was no inten^ tion of changing the original orders given Gen. Funston. I News from the border that a trainL load of supplies, shipped by private mt firms, had left Jaurez today for Casas ^ Grandes and Pearson, where they will be available to Gen. Pershing, | caused satisfaction here. Even withI out further action by or concessions I - from Carranza, such use of the railf ways, some officials think, may meet the needs of the United States. ^ Secretary Baker indicated today that izf the present status of the Mexican campaign thd motor truck lines from Columbus are to be the principal artery for supplies. Railway Question. State department dispatches from Special Agent John L. Rodgers, at Queretaro, told of continuance of negotiations with Carranza on the railway question. It was officially stated that Rogers's messages were somewhat vague and indefinite regarding sjA the exact status of the negotiations. Interest in the political questions * affecting the Mexican situation was renewed by receipt at the State department of correspondence between Herst Von Der Goltz, alleged Ger| man spy and aid of Capt. Von Pa^^B pen, the former German military atI W tache. It was understood some of the correspondence, submitted by the ^B British government, dealt with activI I ities of Von Der Goltz in Mexico. ^B Official attention al^o was given to - * T7* ~ 1TkJor, rtne reported revoiuuou ui pcha ?sia* in Southern Mexico. Information4 of the department of justice locating rDiaz in Mexico has been laid before the State department. The latter also had confirmed rumors that Diaz ^ is getting both men and supplies from '-!?! Guatemala. The only dispatch received today from Gen. Funston was regarding distribution of the recent army recruits among the border patrol. Unconfirmed Reports. The war department was also without confirmation of border reports that the troops in Mexico were undergoing great hardships from lack of j clothing, shoes and horses. Army offleers explained that the soldiers were V* - supplied with only necessary clothing for the march and that probably their shoes had worn out quickly. Extra shoes allotted every soldier i have been forwarded from Columbus, and .also extra clothing, especially overcoats for the mountain campaign. i -Reports from the border that, YJ : through loss' of horses, many cavalK rymen were without mounts had not ' ? reached the department. It was authoritatively stated that, while the * loss of horses was undoubtedly considerable, as expected, it was not believed it had reached such propor>. tions as to cause dismounting of any large number of troopers. V - Delivery of the first of eight new v - aeroplanes recently ordered for Mexican service is expected next week. Lieut. Henry W. Harms, of the aviation service, has been ordered to the ? Curtis plant, at Buffalo, and the ? Bturtevant factory, at Boston, to in5 *5?$s'pect factory construction. The Mexican embassy here announced tonight that for the first time in many weeks the exchange ratio on its paper money was less than 20 to 1. Last month the ratio was 40 to 1. It was also stated that Gen. Carranza planned organization of a monetary commission, with complete authority to regulate government currency. TOOK EVERYTHING BUT ROOM. ' Now Hotel Modifies Its "Stop, Have You Left Anything," Sign. a The management of a local hotel is considering the removal of the r eign in each room which serves to remind the guests that they are to s leave nothing in the room when they are leaving. The sign contains only the one phrase: "Stop! Have you left anything?" It proved so forceful to a guest * * ' * i * y. _ f. leaving tne otner mgnt, nowever, that he left nothing in the room that he could carry away without the aid I of moving van. Lieut., towels, table I covers and even the Gideon Bible ^ were missing next morning, and Ray Boyd, clerk, says the new sign will | read: "Stop! Will you please leave something."?Minneapolis Journal. The upper Canadian Bible society is seeine to it that sverv Canadian soldier carries a Bible with him to the front. k > .. j HOW FRENCH ARE AFFECTED. Though Prices of Food and Fuel are High, There is No Complaint. Several times since the outbreak of the war the News and Courier has had the privilege of publishing letters received in Charleston from an American woman well known in this country, but for a number of years a resident of France, where she lives with relatives by marriage. Another such letter, dated February 25, and written from Dijon, has recently been received. Parts of it will be read with very general interest because of the light which they shed upon conditions in France. She writes: "I have two letters to thank you for, one dated the 16th of December and the other the loth of January. They both reached me safely and gave me much pleasure. I am glad the gloves did not go astray and am sorry I did not remember your number. French numbers are smaller than English and American ones, but I will try another year to send you a pair of 6. I usually send 6 1-4 when I am not sure, as it is a safe size, but on account of the war they were short of that number, so I took six and a half for several friends. * In Dijon the supply of everything is nV.nal' ? ? J /MT/\n i *> Dn i<ie i 4- VlQO VlO_ SUU1 1 auu C v CU iu x ano n uao uv come very hard to get what one wants, so much of industrial France is occupied by the Boches, and all the men from 19 to 48 are under the colors, so little is being made, and one can only get just what is left over. All the necessities of life have gone up so much that they are out of/the reach of the poor, who get on as best they may without a word of complaint?it is all done for France, so they suffer in silence. Fortunately bread is still four cents a pd. (it is regulated by law)?but coal varies in the different cities from $24 to $36 a ton; wood is $50 a cord, eggs are seven cents a piece, chickens 50 cents a pd., soup meat 35 cents a pd., and good broiling beef 80 cents per .pound. When you add to this that sugar, milk and cheese have doubled and ham is a dollar a pound, you can see that the poor have little to rejoice with?bread, wines, radishes, some vegetables, principally potatoes, chocolates, milk for the babies only, and the fruits that are perishable and cannot be sent away, make up their diet. I think they suffer more from cold than anything else?oil is hard to get and very high, as are coal and wood; they use a great deal of coke, sold to them from the gas houses, and gas, which is now the cheapest heat to be had in France. Leather is so expensive that many have taken to sabots and galockes, which have wooden soles and leather tops. The sound of these shoes is now heard in the streets, and yet with all this the people stand in line to buy the government's bofcds. They are certainly a saving, self-sacrificing, abstemious, hard-working, uncomplaining nation. Ready to suffer, to work and to die for France. The more you know them the more you admire them. If France needs more money her people will give it to her, and what is more, I feel they will pay the interest of their debt. "I do not know what has become of the book of short stories I promised to send you just before the war came. The mobolization and all that has'come to us since has put it quite out of my head; however, I will go to the book store here and see if I can get a copy, otherwise I shall have? to ask you to wait until we return to Orleans, where it must be. I know I read it in Paris, but as we had not been a week in Orleans when Austria sent her ultimatum to Serbia, I do not know if it were unpacked, as we had expected to move from Orleans to Moulin when the war came; my cousin commands J:he 36th regiment of artillery, which belongs to Moulin, and the 6th army corps. We stayed on in Orleans as he was not in Moulin, and we had lived so long in Jeanne d'Arc City that we were fond of it. My cousin stopped belonging to the 6th army corps when we went to Paris for him to follow the centre des hautes etudes in December, 1913. What will become of us after the war we do not know. We have taken an appartment here which was onlv Dartiallv furnished, so mv cou sin has gone to Orleans to send a carload of things which will make us quite comfortable. We shall be1 here until H goes to the front and R finishes his school year. "We had had such a long, damp, cold, grey winter that early in February I ran down to Nice and spent two weeks with friends who have a delightful villa near that resort, situated in such a lovely garden of flowers, with both an olive and < orange grove attached to the property, so that one feels quite in the country, although fifteen minutes' drive takes orfe into Nice and its flowrer market, Casino, etc. The house is built on a ridge and from the windows of my room I could see the snow-capped mountains behind the { hills covered with olive and orange trees on one side and the sapphire hlue sea, with the lighthouse, from ; V i COTTON PILED UP AT HAVRE. French Port Has Resemblance to New Orleans. Havre has always been the most cosmopolitan port in France, but never before the war would you get three British half-pence and a Belgian sou in eight cents' worth of small change. That triviality is symbolical of the Havre of today?only half French, three-eights British and an eighth Belgian. It is the influx of the British that has doubled the traffic of the port during the past nineteen months and congested the docks until scores of ships are at times seen lying for days in the offing, waiting for a spot to become vacant at the quays. The quays themselves are piled with bales of cotton, giving to the port a resemblance of New Orleans. The cotton sheds, covering twenty acres of ground and fitted with twenty electric cranes, have become insufficient and the bales are rolled upon the quays everywhere that a ship from New Orleans happens to find a berth. The traffic of the port of Havre, which amounted to "5,400,000 tons in 1913, was less than half that of Rotterdam and only a little more than a third of that of Antwerp and Hamburg. The reasons for it were largely lack of docking facilites and the limited railroad communications with Paris and the centre of France. Even before the warships were sometimes held up in the roads waiting their turn to dock, and a new basin called the "Tidal Basin," was planned and partly finished with the view to relieving congestion. The congestion of traffic now is not only a hindrance to commerce, but a danger to navigation, which greater vigilance on the part of the French navy against which is considered sufficiently serious at, German submarines may obviate, but the present time to justify consideration of the temporary use of the uncompleted Tidal basin as a refuge lor vessels waiting their turn to dock. The town itself is far more animated than in time of peace, and is unavoidably getting rich from the vast expenditures of the British commissary department and the individual trade of officers and soldiers. English shop signs are seen everywhere alongside the French, for "Tommy Atkins" is slow in learning the language. One of the most conspicuous things one sees in the Rue de Paris, the principal street in the town, is "British Bar," in big, brave British red on the window of a saloon. A little further on a sign points the way to the British club, while there are tea rooms everywhere, and restaurants that conspicuously advertise "Ham and Eggs," "The right shop for British," "Come in and demand for all the things which you want," "Football boots," are among some of the appeals to the soldiers. ?Havre correspondence Associated Press. $590 on Lion's Head. Five hundred and seventy dollars is the reward offered by Trinity county stockmen for the head of an old mountain lion that has been killing cattle and hogs for the past two weeks/covering the distance from the Long Ridge county to the vicinity of L/ewiston, sixty mites or more, r orty steers have been slaughtered, to say nothing of hogs and a colt or two. The lion is a big one, according to the reports of a few who have caught a glimpse of it. It is believed, too, that it is an old fellow. Two trained hunters and twelve dogs are in pursuit. The dogs treed the lion on Buckeye Mountain, but it escaped before the hunters could get a shot at it. More than $2,000 worth of stock has been killed by the lion in two weeks. So Trinity stockmen clubbed together and made up a purse of $570 as a reward for its head. The State fish and game commission al ways pays $20 bounty for a mountain lion. So the hunter who slays this particular lion will receive a reward of almost $600. The lion does not devour the flesh of th? animals slain, being content to tap the jugular vein and drink the life blood.?Lewiston, Cal., correspondence of the New York Sun. the other, and at my feet the roses and lilies ran a race to see which away many yards below lay the picturesque city with its palms and vilcould bloom the freest, and further las and gardens. The weather was delicious, warm and bright during the day, but cold enough in the morning and evenings to enjoy a wood fire. Mrs. S had-a pair of reformed horses, driven by a reformed coach-1 man, which carried us everywhere,. but I regretted every moment i was out of the garden. T so often enjoyed ?oing to the market with you in Charleston that I am enclosing a postal card to show you the flower market at Nice."?News and Courier. * / NOTICE, DEMOCRATS! Pursuant to the rules of the Democratic party of South Carolina, the president of each Democratic club in Bamberg county is requested to call a meeting of his club, designating the hour thereof, to be holden on Sat urday, April 22, 1916, for the purpose of reorganizing and electing officers for the ensuing term; and also to elect a county executive committeeman and delegate to the county convention which is hereby called to meet in the court house at Bamberg, S. C., on Monday, May 1st, 1916, at noon. "The convention shall be composed of delegates elected from the clubs in the county, one delegate tor every 25 members, and one delegate for a majority fraction thereof, based upon the number of votes polled in the first primary of the preceding year." Under this rule the several clubs will be entitled to delegates as follows: Bamberg, 13; Clear Pond, 1; Colston, 2; Denmark, 8; Edisto, 3; Elirhardt, 8; Govan, 2; Hightower's, 2; Hunter's Chapel, 2; Kearse, 3; Lees, 1; Midway, 1; Olar, 6. The outgoing county executive committee will meet at the court house Monday, May 1st, 1916, at 11 o'clock a. m. H. C. FOLK. County Chairman. March 28, 1916. 4-20. Best material and workmanship, light running, requires little power; simple, easy to handle. Are made in several sizes and are good, substantial money-making machines down to the smallest size. Write for catolog showing Engines, Boilers and all Saw Mill supplies. CRD IRON WORKS & SUPPLY CO. I Augusta, Ga. I Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure my case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding: or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. The first application gives Ease and Rest 50c. J. F. Carter B. I). Carter CARTER & CARTER Attorneys-at-Law GENERAL PRACTICE BAMBERG. S. C. ' LIFE, FIRE, LIVESTOCK HEALTH and ACCIDENT INSURANCE Agent for Superior Monument Co Can Save you Money on Tombstones. W.MAX WALKER EHRHARDT, 8. C. l J. A. Klein Mrs. J. A. Klein Teachers of Piano and Organ Studio Over Herndon's Store Duos and Quartets for Two Pianos and the Proper Training of Beginners a Specialty E. H. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. General Practice. Loans Negotiated. Cores Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Cure. The worst cases, no matter of how font 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. 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See the dealer who sells tl International Harvester Co (incorporated] The Mogul 8-16 kerosene t SMOAK & BAMBBRO, / / \ It is free?it tells h local and long distanc vice in your home at v t . Send for it today. Wr phone Manager, or FARMERS' LINE D1 SOUTHERN BELL TELI AND TELEGRAPH CO] BOX 108, COLUMBIA, SO Southern PREMIER CARRIER OF PASSENGER TRAIN ' EFFECTIVE JAMJAR All Trains Run ! No. Arrive Bamberg From No. 24 Augusta and intermedi- 24 E ate stations 5:05 a. m. 25 Charleston, Branchville and intermediate sta- 25 1 tions 6:25 a. m. 18 Augusta and intermedi- 18 E ate stations 8:43 a. m. 35 Charleston and inter- q- a mediate stations ....10:57 a.m. 60 22 Augusta and intermedi- 22 E ate stations 6:37 p.m. 7 Charleston, Branchville, and intermediate sta- 17 A tions : 8:17 p. m. Trains Nos. 17 and 24?Through sleepin and Atlanta. N. B.?Schedules published as informatii For information, tickets, H. W. McMIL^ THE SOUTHERN SERVES I YOUR M IThe.y should be the best ob- en^ tainable. Yet the price Giv should be as low, as consist- sole PARLOR M 'Phone 97 'II fills Announcement | me Tractor rice of the Mogul 8-16 >. Chicago. All sales en up to April ist will 75 cash f. o. b. Chicago, e on the coming change. t famous tractor that has aerates on cheap, common e to be the highest grade Lving over gasoline. That ;ary because cost of raw minor importance, lg profit on thousands of h more for you than your ow ? be ready for spring le Mogul 8-16. impany of America | rector U told by ;Ssfj : MOYE 1 . SOUTH CAROLINA ' fj A ' f-.iM Postal Brings This Book ow you can have J e telephone ser- | | ery small cost J|| ite nearest Bell Tele- !j APARTMENT DPHONE ,3 MPANY UTH CAROLINA. Railway 1 THE SOUTH. S SCHEDULES f 1 Y 23, 1916. Daily. Leave Bamberg For . - i "/ Jranchville, Charleston and intermediate stations 5:05 a. m. Augusta and interme- . ' || diate stations t>:zo a. ra. Iranchville, Charleston and intermediate sta tions 8:43 a. m. .ugusta and intermedi- , > ate stations 10:57 a. m. Iranchville, Charleston and intermediate stations * 6:37 p.m. , ; ugusta and intermediate stations 8:17 p. m. ' ' \*>j lg car service between Bamberg on only. Not guaranteed. , etc., call on ~ ':*Wi \N, Agent 5 THE SOUTH. EATS I I - illi wiui iirM-itiwa set %ivc? e us a trial. Nothing 1 above 15c per pound. . IARKET I ' ''^8 $ - > ' ' t 3 ' ' v. v.t