The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 13, 1916, Page 7, Image 7
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That Troops Might B? Withdrawn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.
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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troops might be withdrawn from Mexico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.
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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.
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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 ;
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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.
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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.
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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. Sl.00
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System
Take the Old Standard GROVE'S
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what rnn ar#? talriticr. as thn* formula is
printed on every label, showing it is
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form.
The Quinine drives out malaria, the
Iron builds up the system. 50 cents
I PORTABLE AND STATIONARY
[MINES
AND BOILERS
Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills, Injectors,
Pumps and Fittings, Wood
Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys,
Belting, Gasoline Engines
LARQESTOCK LOMBARD
Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works
Supply Store.
AUGUSTA, GA.
PHIfiHESTER S PILLS
DIAMOND BRAxirmjT
Ladles! Ask your Urucglat, for A\
fc <\ V^- JM Chl-ebes-tersDiam.')ii<rilrand/^^^
I'lils in Red and Gold ni?tallic\Vf /
Ta. ?boxes, sealed wkIi blue Ribbon. \/
W Tako no other. Buy of your ?
I / ~~ fif OrueslKt. Ask fnrt'il !.<'!!ES-TER 8
I W Jf DIAMOND KKAM> 1'ILLS, for 85
VV fp years known as Best. Safest, Always Reliable
2??_ SOLD BY n?t;0n?^Ts: FVF?YWHERE
FRANCIS F. CARROLL
Attorney-at-Law
Office Over Bamberg Banking Co.
GENERAL PRACTICE.
BAMBERG, S. C.
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
TDOM If Q??tonn thp T.ivpr DrirM
OUU AAXV/Al AV uww * W J v.. *
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 50 certs.
Mogul 8-16 Price
The Real Keros<
ON and after April 1st the p
will be $725 cash f. o. 1
made and bona fide orders tak
be filled at the present price of $6
We want to post you ahead of tim
Mogul 8-16, as you know, is the
cut fuel costs squarely in half ? o]
kerosene or coal oil ? doesn't hav
either. It pays for itself in the ss
is why the rise in price ? necess
materials has risen so high ? is of
Mogul 8-16 is saving and makii
farms of all sizes. It will do mucl
horses can. Get in your order n
work. See the dealer who sells tl
International Harvester Co
(incorporated]
The Mogul 8-16 kerosene t
SMOAK &
BAMBBRO,
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It is free?it tells h
local and long distanc
vice in your home at v
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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
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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
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Railway
1 THE SOUTH.
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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.
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lg car service between Bamberg
on only. Not guaranteed.
, etc., call on
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5 THE SOUTH.
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