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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 19,1917. Established 1891 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Colston Clippings. ^ Colston. April 17.?The farmers are busily engaged in preparing the land to plant and are planting their crops. .Misses Ethel Logan and Mamie McMillan spent Saturday night with Misses Alberta and Natalie Kearse. Mr. Clyde Padgett, of Orangeburg, spent Sunday at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Padgett. Messrs. Reuben Kearse and Marion ^McMillan spent Saturday night with 2V1 r. Vernon McMillan. * Miss Xettie Clayton spent Saturday night with Miss Mary Clayton. Miss Bessie Kirkland spent Saturday night with her aunt, Mrs. W. G. Kirkland. Misses Alberta Kearse and Mamie McMillan spent Friday night with Mrs. G. A. McMillan. Mrs. George Rentz spent several days last week with her daughter, Mrs. J. M. Clayton. Miss Sadie Boyd spent last weekend in Olar. Mr. Will McMillan spent Saturday night with Messrs. Claude and Frank Kirkland. * ' Mr. and Mrs. Purdy Aver, of Olar, spent Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Clayton. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. McMillan spent Sunday with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Kearse. / Miss Corine Henderson spent Sunday with Misses Laura and Thyra Goodwin. Little .Miss Katmeen raugen spent Monday night with little .Miss Helen McMillan. I Miss Easter Padgett spent Friday night with Miss Aileen Beard. Buford Bridge Budget. I S Buford Bridge, April 17.?Miss! Sarah Neeley, of Columbia college, spent Easter at home. Mrs. S. W. Copeland, of Ehrhardt, spent last Thursday with her sister, Mrs. H. C.'Kirkland. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Kirkland spent last Sunday in Olar with Dr. Edward Kirkland and family. Miss Rebecca Graham, of Bamberg, spent the week-end with Miss Elizabeth Kirkland. A great crowd from here attended field day in Bamberg last Friday. A few from here attended services - ' T'' ? ? !?*.? CnnHav morn in sr <LL UlUiei xaoi kjuuviu; ?. ^ -?-?w. * BOAGUS. HUMAN ELEMENT IN ACCIDENTS. Man at Machine Usually Responsible [ for His Injury. Close observers are not astounded be the statement made at a I'safety" meeting that 10 per cent, only of industrial accidents are due to machine failures, the remaining 90 per cent, being wholly chargeable to "manfailure." Students, however, will not be satisfied with the simple statement, but will want to know something more, especially as to conditions that contribute to this appallingly large percentage charged directly to man's share in the fault. It will not do to say that in each instance wanton carelessness is blameable. Psychologists are no longer content '* ~ 1 I...* orn ornilior witn tnat exyiauauuu, uul air &ui?b deeper into the causation of accidents, seeking to determine just why the normal mental processes at times break and the interrupted coordination between brain and body ends in disaster.. In the matter of interpreting railway signals, for example, it has been set up that registered impressions vary as to individuals, and that likewise individuals react in different ways to the impression given. Emergencies invariably arise in the operations of modern industry similar tn those in the transportation ser vice, and, while the safety device may work with mechanical accuracy, the human factor cannot be depended upon.?Omaha Bee. How a Newberry Cow Feasted. Mr. G. B. Summer found a rather poor cow in his barn a few mornings ago. She had got in at night and helped herself. She ate a bushel of corn on the cob, cob and all; a bale of peanut hay and nine bundles of fodder. When they went to turn her out of the lot the gateposts at the gate where she got in at night had to be pulled further apart so that she could pass through, her sides stuck out so far.?Newberry Observer. XUGROKS PLKDCiK LOYALTY. Committee, Headed by*Richard Carroll, Calls on (*ov. Manning. Columbia. April G.?A committee of twelve negroes called on Governor Manning this afternoon and presented resolutions adopted at a mass meeting of colored people in Columbia the other night, expressing their layalty to President Wilson and the United States, and to the State government. They offered their services in any capacity in which they might be used and assured the governor that the negroes of South Carolina are ready to> do their part as soldiers in the army of the United States. The ... -1- ?K.. +U ~ committee, wnicu was uameu u> LUC mass meeting to present the resolutions to the governor, was composed of leaders in the several fields of endeavor and represents the sentiment of the colored population. What Negroes May !)o. Governor .Manning assured the I committee of his appreciation of their ! resolutions and of their willingness i to serve the country. He told them that under the present plan it was not the intention of the government to increase the number of National ! Guard units. He stressed the fact j that they could serve the country in the present time in other capacities than soldiers, and called to their attention the need to raise all the food i crops possible. He urged them to use their influence with the colored people to stay on the farms and work or take hold of any situations which are offered them. The necessity for ! economic preparedness is great, the ? ? ? 2 ,1 ? J ? i h AXA f l-\ n t Q I guvemur bcliu, etna it is liac mat | negroes can be of great assistance. The governor referred to the re| cent migration of the negroes to the I North and said that he believed a I great deal of this was obtained through misrepresenting the conditions there and the fanciful stories of j wages. He said the South was the i place for the negro and the governor ! urged the committee to use their influence in stopping this migration. The chief executive assured the committee that he believed in giving the negroes fair treatment and assured | them that this was his purpose and intention. He told of his appreciation of their patriotic action. Some Would 15e Notaries. The committee asked the governor to make appointments of negroes as notaries public and said they suffered much inconvenience in not being allowed commissions as notaries. The governor told them he would consider this matter and will have something to say on it further. He had, he said, revoked the commissions of negroes as notaries because in some j instances they were abusing their commissions ai^d were imposing on | their own race. The committee said they hoped he would investigate each applicant thoroughly and name only such as were worthy of commissions, but that it would be a great help to i\n^inAc?p TVin cnvortinr mem in uusiucoo. a promised to give careful consideration to the matter. The Rev. Richard Carroll came along with the committee. He was the chairman of the mass meeting. Married Men Can't Serve. Chicago, April 11.?National Guardsmen who have families dependent on them must leave the service regardless of any desire to remain* on duty, according to an order issued by Major Gen. Thomas H. Barry, commanding the central department, U. S. A., today. This order does not apply to officers. Sad End for Egg Thief. Aiken, April 11.?A family living | in the suburbs ot AiKen naa ueen J missing eggs for some time and finali ly left a prepared egg in the nest as i a trap. The next morning on visiting the hen yard an opossum was found dead from eating the egg and seven little live 'possums were found j on the body. As is well known the I opossum carries its young about with her. Xew Moving Picture Screen. j A new kind of screen for showing j moving pictures is translucent, and 1 is used between the spectators and ' the lantern. A ribbed surface, not distinguishable at a little distance, increases the brightness of the picmrp* which makes it practicable to exhibit them by daylight or in illuminated rooms. Another advantage is great security, as the risk of lire or panic is much less with the lantern behind the screen in front than with it exposed in the back of the room. ' Women taxi drivers are the latest in England. A SUB1HAINE NEAR NEW VORK; | ATT KM I'T MADK TO SINK 1*. S. S. SMITH. (iernian Submarine Fired Tor|?e(l(? at Destroyer Oft' Xew York.?First Attack on American Shores. Boston, April 17.?The war was brought to the shores of this country today, when the United States destroyer Smith reported by radio that an enemy submarine had tried unsuccessfully to torpedo her 100 miles south of Xew York at 3:30 this morning. Additional reports were received from the destroyer tonight and were forwarded to Washington. Nothing of an official nature re-1 garding the additional reports was | made public here. A suggestion in I shipping circles that the lookout of the Smith had perhaps mistaken a large fish for a torpedo in the uncertain light of the early morning met with the reply that the Smith's officers "stood by their original statei ment." The navy department's version of ! the original statement was: ! "Reported from Fire Island lightship to the naval stations at Boston and New York at 3:30 a. m., on the 17th, an enemy submarine was sighted by the l\ S. S. Smith, running apparently submerged. Submarine fired a torpedo at the U. S. S. Smith, which missed her by thirty yards. The wake j | of the torpedo was plainly seen crossj ing the bow. Submarine disappear; ed." j Whether the swift destroyer dashj ed for the spot where the U-boat was | thought to be lurking was not made j known by officers who had seen the j Smith's report of the incident, j Neither coiild it be learned here : whether there was a chance for the j Smith's quick firers to come into ac! tion. It was learned, however, that another destroyer passed near the po- J sition mentioned in the Smith's re-1 - i ..i. + or onvtliiricr nn-1 J pori WltiiUUl Sl&lldilfe uii; usual. ARREST OF PLOTTERS ORDERED. Sixty German Citizens Designated as Engaged in Intrigue. Washington, April 6.?The arrest of sixty alleged ringleaders in German plots, conspiracies and machinations in the United States was ordered today by Attorney General Gregory immediately after President Wilson had signed the war resolution. Every man whose arrest was ordered is a German citizen, is known by the department of justice, it was authoritatively stated, to have participated actively in German intrigues in this country and is regarded as a dangerous person to be at large. Bail will be refused in each case, I ;t wac cniri nnd the entire group will be locked up unless there is a change in present laws, for the duration of tlie war. Other Arrests Soon. Indications are that a number of other arrests will be ordered within the next few days. The men are placed in three groups: Those who have been convicted of I violation of American neutrality in furthering German plots of various) sorts and are at liberty under bond awaiting tiie action of higher courts. Those who have been indicted by federal grand juries for similar offenses and are at liberty under bond waiting trial, and persons neither indicted nor convicted, but whose ac tivities have been under long surveillance by the secret service or the department's bureau of investigation. First Time in Century. For the first time in more than a century, arrests of alien enemies under the attorney general's order will be made without reference to the! courts or obtaining warrants. The ) president is empowered to adopt this course in time of war under an act of j congress passed in 179S and not inj voked since the war with Great Bri-j tain in 1S12. The department has under strict j surveillance thousands of German j reservists resident in the United States who are suspected of having been connected with plots already j brought to light with plots abandon-! ed before perfection or who have been active in German propaganda. . The Way of It. "What do you think of my daughter's execution 011 the piano. Prof. Gamut?" i "Well, she certainly does murder time."?Baltimore American. KILL FLIES; SAVE LIVES. Suggestions for Prevention and for Killing House Flies. The following very instructive bulletin, issued by the Merchants' association, of New York, was sent to The Herald by the association. There are so many practical suggestions in the bulletin that we herewith reproduce it in full: Kill Flies and Save Lives. Kill at once every fly you can find and burn his body. Observers say that there are many reason to believe there will be more flies this season than for a number of years. The killing of just one fly NOW means there will be billions and trillions less next summer. Clean up your' own premises; see and insist that your neighbors do likewise. Especially clean " out-of-the-wayplaces." and every nook and cranny. Flies will not go where there is nothing to eat, and their principal diet is too filthy to mention. Tie That Binds Unhealthy to Healthy. The fly has no equal as a germ "carrier;" as many as five hundred million germs have been found in i and on the body of a single fly. It is definitely known that the fly is the "carrier" of the germs of typhoid fever; it is widely believed that it is also the "carrier" of other diseases. including possibly infantile paralysis. The very presence of a fly is a signal and notification that a housekeeper is uncleanly and inefficient. Do not wait until the insects begin ! to pester; anticipate the annoyance. | April. .May and June are the best j months to conduct an anti-fly cam- j paign. The farming and suburban districts provide ideal breeding places, and the new born flies do not remain at their birth place but migrate, using railroads and other means of transportation, to town and cities. Kill flies and save lives! Recipes for Killing Flies. The United States government makes the following suggestion for the destruction of house flies: Formaldehyde and sodium salicylate are the two best fly poisons. Both are superior to arsenic. They have their advantages for household use. They are not a poison to children; they are convenient to handle, their dilutions are simple and they attract the flies. Preparation of Solutions. A formaldehyde solution of approximately the correct strength may be made by adding 3 teaspoonfuls of the concentrated formaldehyde solution, commercially known as formalin, to a pint of water. Similarly, the proper concentration of sodium sali cylate may be obtained by dissolving | 3 teaspoonfuls of the pure chemical (a powder) to a pint of water.' Containers for Solutions. An ordinary, thin-walled drinking glass is filled or partially filled with the solution. A saucer, or small plate, in which is placed a piece of WHITE blotting paper cut the size of the dish, is put bottom up over the'1 glass. The whole is then quickly inverted. a match placed under the edge of the glass, and the container is ready for use. As the solution dries out of the saucer the liquid seal at the edge of the glass is broken and more liquid flows into the lower receptacle. Thus the paper is always kept moist. Other Simple Preventives. Any odor pleasing to man is offensive to the fly and vice versa, and j will drive them away. Take five cents' worth of oil of lavender, mix it with the same quantity of water, put it in a common glass atomizer and spray it around the rooms where flies are. In the | dining room spray it lavishly even on | the table linen. The odor is very disagreeable to flies but refreshing to most people. Geranium, mignonette, heliotrope and white clover are offensive to flies. They especially dislike the odor of honev-suckle and hop blossoms. According to a French scientist i flies have intense hatred for the color blue. Rooms decorated in blue will help to keep out the flies. Mix together one tablespoonlul of cream, one of ground black pepper and one of brown sugar. This mixture is poisonous to flies. Put in a : saucer, darken the room except one window and in that set the saucer. To clear the house of flies, burn pyrethrum powder. This stupefies the flies, but they must be SWEPT UP and BURNED. Recipes for Stables, Barns, and Outof-J)oors. Borax is especially valuable around j farms and out of doors. One pound j IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Stat? News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Wm. Jennings Bryan made an address at Clemson college Tuesday morning and in the afternoon at the Greenville Woman's college. THe torpedo ooat aesiroyer noe will be sent to Georgetown harbor to protect that town fronr invasion at the hands of a foreign enemy. No. 4 township in Newberry county. in which the town of Whitmire is located, has voted to issue bonds in the sum of $40,000 for road construction. Ole Anderson, of Conway, a naturalized American citizen, of Norwegian birth has offered Governor .Manning himself and six sons for war service in case of need. Bob Keith, a white man, was taken ! off a train in Greenville on .Monday I by Sheriff Hendrix Rector, on re- j quest of Georgia authorities, oit a j charge of enticing labor. L. D. Jennings, of Sumter, sold 1,- j 400 bales of cotton to-Rogers, .Mc-! Cabe & Co.. of Charleston, last week, j for 20 cents a pound. A check for i about $150,000 was paid for the lot. 1/ Authorities of Wofford college,' Spartanburg, have decided to insti- j tute military drill among the stu- j dents. The drill will be compulsory | and will be inaugurated within the i next few days. The presence of a mad dog caused ! * I considerable excitement among the; school children of Estill, Hampton j county, Thursday. The dog was final-! lv killed with a spade by the princi- i pal of the school. R. L. Hause a special officer, shot j and killed a negro at Brave, Chero- j kee county, on Saturday, April 7. He j has been released on bond in the sum of $500, the testimony going to ! show that the negro was advancing upon the officer when the latter fired. Three negroes were, arrested in j Greenville one day last week, for beating a freight train. They said they had been North and were trying to get tack home in Georgia and Alabama, and that conditions were not so good up North as they had been led to believe. Policeman Gardner, of Florence, shot and killed an unknown negro in Florence, Thursday. It was during a patriotic demonstration that the killing occurred. The negro forced himself into one of the ladies, organizations in the parade and when the policeman ordered him to come out he cursed the officer and attempted to draw a pistol, whereupon he was killed. .Airs. Robert Wade, wife of an Aiken county farmer, and her child died last week from burns received ... 1. An Vioic lmmo wsc rip OcttUlU?a?, n lieu lucu iiuuiv stroyed by fire. Several other children and two ladies who were visiting in the home at the time were seriously burned. The fire originated when Mrs. Wade, in attempting to kindle a fire in a stove with kerosene, poured some of the oil into the blaze already in the stove. The can ex- j ploded, covering Mrs. Wade and those j about her with burning oil. Several j hundred dollars in currency, which was in a bureau, was destroyed, as was the house and its contents. A Blue Grass Tragedy Averted. Last night, at the Elk's club, as ; Nick Stadelman entered the front j door, Ed Duncan walked out of the reading room. It was inevitable that they should see each other. With bated, so to speak, breaths, other Elks watched the outcome. It was the first time they'd met since the tense situation developed j by the kaiser's ruthless submarine i policy. O. what would happen! "H'ya, Nick," said Ed. "Lo, Ed," said Nick.?Hopkinsville j Kentuckian. In Biblical times the strongest rope was made of strips of camel hide, as . still used by some tribes o^ Arabs. \ ? j of borax to twelve bushels of manure 1 i will be found desirable as a poison j without injuring its manurial quali- j ties or farm stock. Scatter the borax ! over the manure and sprinkle with 1 water. Lye. chloride of lime, or copperas (sulphate of iron) dissolved in water,' crude carbolic acid, or any kind of j disinfectant may be used in vaults. CONTINUE FIERCE ONSLAUGHT. t French, in Mighty Drive, Take Gerinan Trenches and Many Prisoners. Paris, April 17.?Continuing their terrific attack against the German positions between Soissons and Rheims and east of the latter place, today the French carried German first-line positions over many miles of front, captured powerfully organized heights, occupied the important village of Aubevie. and on this part of the front, about two miles in extent. took more than 2,7,00 prisoners. According to the official statement rrom tne war omce, strong uerman counter-attacks were repulsed. The number of German prisoners taken by the French .Monday is now placed at 1 1,000. The text of the statement reads: "We enlarged our action today east of Rheims and attacked the German lines between Prunay and the road between St. Hilaire and St. Souplet. Notwithstanding violent gusts of rain and snow, our troops proved themselves irresistible. They carried on a front of fifteen kilometers (nine and a third miles), despite the resistance of the enemy, all the first German position south of Moronvillers. Brilliant Work. "Pushing beyond this position, our troops brilliantly carried on a front of eleven kilometers a line of heights solidly organized from Mont Carnillet as far east as Vaudesincourt. "Further to the east a spirited action enabled us to capture the village of Auberive and a powerfully fortified salient formed by the German line around that village on a c lril/\m A! Arc? 11UHI UL llll CC uuumtiti o. "Counter-attacks by the enemy in the direction of -Mont Carnillet were broken down by our fire. The number of prisoners taken by us on this part of the front exceeded 2,500. "Between Soissons and Rheims, during the course of the day, we resumed our destructive fires against the German organizations and reduced isolated sections where enemy groups still persisted. Counter Attacks Repulsed. "About 3:30 o'clock this afternoon a strong enemy counter attack in the region of Hurtebise farm (west of Craonne) was repulsed. Another violent attempt in the sector of Cournv nrrMinipri hv the Russian troops likewise failed. "According to latest reports, our troops in the battle of April 16 between Soissons and Rheims, overthrew very important German forces. In expectation of our attack the enemy had brought in nineteen divisions. According to the declaration of prisoners, they had received the formal order to hold, cost what it might, the first position, which had been reinforced as to depth. German Losses Heavy. "The losses suffered by the Germans were considerable, not only in the course of the battle, but on the preceding days. On the eve of the attack an enemy division, while engaged in going to the relief of the sector of a neighboring division, lost under the violence of our artillery - * ? fire tii6 greater pan ui. ils cuc*.h?cness. The number of unwounded prisoners taken by us yesterday be tween Soissons and Rheims has reached a total of 11,000. "Belgian communication: 'There were reciprocal bombardments during the day.' "Eastern theatre, April 16.?Violent cannonading occurred along the front, especially in the direction of Mayadag, in the valley of the Vardar, hill 134S, north of Monastir and Torrevena Stena." Leaves Augusta Big Sum. Augusta, Ga., April 13.?The will of J. B. White, retired Augusta millionaire merchant, whose death on March 31, at Genoa, Italy, was reported April 11, shows that, among the public bequests, is the gift to Augusta "for the public good" of $400,000 in cash, to be paid in five yearly instalments; also the gift for a public park of the Dye farm, of 240 ""os valuable land on the outskirts avi vc, ? ? of the city, worth $50,000. The estate is valued at about $4,000,000. The State will receive from it about $150,000 inheritance tax. Mrs. "Gus&ieV Loss. At the conclusion of President Wilson's address to congress last night. 4 Capitol police were requested to search the house galleries and corridors for a gold-initialed cigarette case, lost by .Mrs. Augustus P. Gardner, of Massachusetts.?From Washington Herald, April 3.