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ESTABLISHED APRIL. 1891.
Thursday, April 19, 1917.1
In the conflict now upon us, there
is no place for the idler. Every one
must do his or her part. The idler
consumes food and gives the nation j
nnthinw in rofnrn
April is our war month. Nearly
?very war in which we have ever
been engaged was begun during this
month. Six wars began in April, as
follows: Revolutionary war began 1
in April, 1775; Black Hawk war began
in April. 1 S31 ; .Mexican war be- j
gan in April, 1S46; civil war began
in April, 1S61; war with Spain began
in April, 1S9S: war with Germany
began in April, 1917. The
only other important war America
has ever been engaged in was that of
1S12 with England, which began in
June of that year.
"Grow food or go hungry," is the
way one exchange puts it. And it
amounts to just about that. No matter
how attractive the price of cot
ton may be, you can't eat cotton.
Bamberg county must be self-supporting.
It should be self-supporting not
only during this crisis, but all of the
time. We believe this to be the best i
farming section in the world?right
here in Bamberg county?because
practically anything and everything
can be grown here profitably, and
there is no real reason why we should
look to the West to raise food for us.
We recall reading in some muckraking
magazine some months ago
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that it would require two or three
years to manufacture rifles and
equipment for an army of 500,000.
We shall soon see whether there is
truth in such assertions. If we were
in authority, persons publishing such
statements would be called on to
prove their assertions. But even if
the United States is not fully prepared
to enter this war, America has
never failed in any emergency, and
she will not fail now. We hope that I
it will not be necessary to put Ameri- j
can troops in this war; but if they i
are put there, the other side will
know it.
Everybody has wondered how Senator
B. R. Tillma^ regained his
health. And well may they wonder,
as the senator was expected to die in
office long ago?oy several wouia-oe
senators from South Carolina. But
the senator is not dead yet. In fact
he is far from it. In a recent issue
of Physical Culture, a health magazine,
Senator Tillman tells how he
regained his health. An exchange
briefly sums it up as fodbws:
Hot water drinking; a simple diet;
deep breathing; and careful and regular
practice of physical culture exercises.
He drinks three quarts of hot water
regularly every day, and sometimes
five or six. He drinks his water
before and after meals and the
first thing in the morning. He affirms
that drinking immediately after
meals does good and not harm.
His diet consists chiefly of vegetables:
onions, spinach and Irish potatoes
being his favorites. Fruit and
milk are also important items, and
cheese and eggs take the place of
meat.
His deep-breathing exercises are
performed systematically and often.
In taking exercise, he uses dumbbells
and an iron bed. In addition
to these exercises, he makes it a rule
to walk several miles each day.
Senator Tillman points out that
these methods can accomplish the
seemingly impossible for anyone with
a run-down body, and heartily recommends
it to all people leading an
inactive physical life?especially
other senators and public men.
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Extension in Treatment of Wounds
Hesult. of War.
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Treatment of the hordes of sick
and wounded soldiers in Europe has
brought to trial every promising novelty
of medical and surgical science,
and seems especially to have given
a considerable impetus to electrotherapy.
Various applications of the
electric current at Radcliffe infirmary,
Oxford, have been described by
Dr. W. J. Turrell. Unclean wounds
are ionized, either by applying salt
solutions acted on by the electric current
or by means of ultra-violet rays,
and the usual benefits of effective
sterilization are shown. Forms of
rheumatism yield to electric treatment.
Mild electric shocks stimulate
activity in nerves and muscles that
have lost their power, and induce
movements that break down internal
adhesions and prevent binding from
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of shell shock, however, in which the
patient is averse-to all electrict treatment.
It is concluded that, on the
whole, application of electric currents
may restore function to many
crippled limbs and make fit for service
many persons who would otherwise
be permanently unfit, may completely
arrest or greatly relieve many
cases of severe pain, and in many
less serious cases may greatly hasten
cure.
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TALKING' KKFORMS IX GKRMAXY.
I America's Kntry Into War Has Added
Impetus to the Movement.
Copenhagen. April G.?America's
; entry into the war evidently has had
! an immediate and strong effect on
the reform movement in Germany.
The conviction that the instant
modernization of the Prussian constitution
and the proclamation of a
more democratic basis of government
and diplomacy in the empire without
waiting for the end of the war, is
necessary as a military and political
measure to counteract the "tempest
of the world's public opinion," as the
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Vorwaertz puts it, is evidently gain
ing ground in all except reactionary
circles.
Austria's Example.
The demand that Germany follow
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the example of Austria-Hungary and
declare itself in favor of peace withI
out annexation is heard from moderate
Liberal as well as from Socialist
quarters. This demand no longei
represents alone the belief of many
thinking persons that annexation except
for slight frontier alterations
would be against the real interests
of Germany, but also the realization
that after the United States joined
the ranks of the enemy the time had
passed when Germany .could hope to
dictate terms of peace or even moderate
terms.
Xo Hope of Victory.
The Associated Press correspondent
heard this view in even gloomier
terms from variouo sides in Germany
at the time of the rupture of relations
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many, namely, that if the United
States decided to take an active part
in the war, Germany could no longer
hope to gain a victory, but after holding
out for a year and a ha jr two
years must inevitably submit to the
economic pressure of the blockade.
America's Strength.
The Vorwaertz speaks of the great
strength of America as a peace making
power and points out that with|
out its cooperation at the peace conference
it would be impossible to secure
the possibilities for economic
development which Germany will so
sorely need after the war. It concludes
by saying that the most urgent
need of the hour is the organization
of the national defense under the
auspices of sweeping reforms and the
clearest and most definite announcement
of the nation's intention to conduct
the war not for conquest but
only to foil the hostile designs of annexation
and to end it immediately
when the enemy denounces such designs.
Our Coal Supply.
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It is not generally known, but it
is none the less true that coal is our
most abundant natural resource, declares
George H. Cushing in the
American Review of Reviews. Our
supply will outlive even the natural
fertility of the soil. (I distinguish
here between natural fertility and
fertilized soil.) Our forests even
now are vanishing. Our iron ore is!
approaching the exhaustion point.
We have gone through the rich lenses
and are beginning on the complex
01 es in the precious metal njines.
But in coal we have, since 1 840,
worked out only one-fourth of 1 per
cent. That part of coal which is j
gone is nothing when compared with
that which remains. That is, this is
true if you assume that all our coal
reserve, regardless of where it lies,;
can be made available by some
scheme of transportation to all the
people, no matter where they live.
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me united states ueoiu^itai ?ui-i
vey has measured our reserve at I
something like 4,1 S8 billion tons in;
the United States and Alaska. This
figure, of course, conveys no impression
to anyone except of his inability
i to conceive it. To speak of even a
| thousand million of anything is to
get beyond human comprehension.
To speak of four thousand thousand
million is merely to multiply an inconceivable
numeral by 4,0<10. Perhaps
it is more nearly understandable
to say that more than 4 5 per
cent, of all the coal upon which the
world must depend forever?so far
as is known now?is piled up in the
United States and Alaska.
The Alamo.
The Alamo is a mission church at
San Antonio, in what is now Bexar
county, Texas. In 1S36 it was occupied
by about 150 of the revolutionists
in the Mexican war. Though attacked
by 4,000 Mexicans under San|
to Anna, the Texans held it from
I February 23 to March 6, when Santa
Anna took it by storm. All but seven
or the garrison perished, six of these
being murdered after their surrender,
and one man escaping to report the
affair. In this garrison were the
celebrated David Crockett and Col.
James Bowie, inventor of the Bowie
knife. The memory of this massacre
became an incitement to the Texans
in subsequent encounters, and "Remember
the Alamo!" became a war
cry in their struggle for freedom.?
Kansas City Times.
31A RTIA LSI* LEX DOR.
Open Fighting of Last Ten Days Different
From Trench Warfare.
With the British Armies in France,
Saturday, March 24.?The open fight-1
ing oi' the last ten days during the j
German retreat has presented war j
pictures fascinatingly spectacular and j
closely approximating the older i
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ideals of modern martial splendor, j
The roads, or more exactly, the rem- j
nants of roads, in some of the strick-1
en districts of France have been fair-;
ly choked with troops on the move. I
From an eminence on a recently evac- j
uated German stronghold could be;
seen today a seemingly endless col- j
unin of cavalry coming over a distant
hill, dipping down into a beautiful
valley and rising again by a
winding road to a broad, open field
where camp was pitched for the
night. At times the brown-hued
horses and brown-clad men were almost
invisible against the brown winter
landscape. At points further forward,
infantry detachments could be
seen disappearing in the distance,
skirmishing, dodging, one unit covering
another, until it seemed almost
as if the days of Indian fighting had
returned.
Striking Change.
This open movement is a striking
change from the deadly staleness, the
depression of fixed trench fighting.
On the other hand, it is wonderlul
how the men long inured to trench
life have come to love holes in the
ground. During the. rest period on
long marches many of them can be j
seen sitting in deep sneu craiers m
preference to the paved roadside.
There is warmth below the surface
and a protection from the wind which
"Tommy" has learned to appreciate.
Following the German wake it is!
difficult to understand why the re-'
tiring army gives up without a fight
some of the enormously strong positions
that now are in British or j
French hands.
Almost Miraculous.
The changes that have occurred j
within a few days in the territory recently
occupied by the Germans are
almost miraculous. Ruined villages
which two days ago seemed isolated
within the zone of deadly desolation
liad military traffic policemen on duty
on their main streets today. Advanced
hospitals have been established
and divisional and brigade headquarters
taken up, while in the corners
of the shattered village blacksmith
shops were ringing with the
sound of hammer upon anvil and j
soup kitchens were sending out their ,
savory odors. Everywhere were visible
the* activities of a great army
moving forward.
.Major generals and brigade generals
who a few days ago were occupying
comfortable houses behind the
old fixed positions are directing operations
today from huts and dugouts
and thoroughly enjoying the
change. .Motoring over pontoon
bridges hastily thrown across streams
to replace the peimanent structures
blown up by the Germans was one of
the many novelties offered by the
present situation. Another has been
to see Indian troops, khaki-clad and
with immense khaki turbans on their
heads, moving forward as patrols.
SOURCES OF EFFORT.
Europe Xor America Can Ever Re
tlie Same Again.
Americans are most interested in I
the situation after the war. Every- j
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one agrees that neitner mrupe nut
America can be the same again, observes
Elmer Roberts, in the January
Scribner. Any political, social or economic.
changes in Europe must alTecti
us, and Europe, feeling our youthful. I
untouched vitality, will wish to draw
upon it. Europe, rather run down at
the heel, will need our accumulated
strength, energy and ideas.
I will venture to speak upon two
or three broad aspects of our relation
to Europe after the war. The!
righting European countries are not
likely to be as nearly ruined economically
as Americans seem to think.
Any financier or economist before the
war would have said?and those who
had occasion to discuss the subject
did say?that no modern State could j
support a national war for even a
year; that the industrial dislocations!
and disorders would be unendurable!
( for longer than six or nine months; i
| that national organizations would fall
j to pieces. It was demonstrated as imj
possible that any country could take
I three or tour minions ui men nvm
productive life and keep them fighting
for more than a few months.
The war has shown the solidity of
the modern State, its power to resist
J shock, its mobile adaptation to
abrupt changes. Elements of peaceful
production and exchange, such as
railways, factories, technical skill and
organizing genius, are quickly coordinated
into instruments of destruction.
Effort in the social organism
is diverted from constructive purposes
to destructive ones. The sources
of effort, as we now see, can remain
active in war for an indefinitely long
period, with only slowly diminishing
power.
Making Cheese.
The development of cheese making
in the mountain section of
North Carolina marks the greatest
industrial stride of the year 1910
in this State. This industry had
its beginning in 1914 and there are
now nine cheese factories in successful
operation, according to a bulletin
issued by the extension service bureau
of the State. We are told in
this bulletin that before this development
was undertaken the entire
State of North Carolina was
producing only about 30,000 pounds
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01 cueese, mis ueuig <x puiciv uumestic
product, made in private
homes. The extension service evidently
sees an even greater expansion
of cheese making in the mountain
section and is planning to give
encouragement in that direction. The
animal industry department of the
Agricultural and Mechanical college
has organized a course of special
instruction in cheese making, the
object of which is to assist those who
wish to prepare themselves for positions
in cheese factories. The work
will consist principally of instruction
in cheese making and cheese
factory management. Twelve factories
have been built in the last
eighteen months and more are now
under construction, so a good opportunity
is open for young men in
these cheese factory sections. The
course this season will open on Jan
uary 16 and close on March 3. It
is iptended to give instruction to
any one wishing to study >the making
of cheese and cheese factory
management, and is limited to students
16 years of age and older. It
is expected that the course will be
valuable to those who are thinking
of building a cheese factory whether
they are to have active charge of it
or not.
Some of the details of the development
of this industry may prove
interesting to the Observer's readers.
The bulletin states that the little
factory at Grassy Creek made
12,365 pounds of cheese from July
13, 1915, to January 14, 1916. The
Cove Creek factory made almost 15,000
pounds up to the same date.
When it is realized that these little
factories cost from $400 to $800, a
good idea is obtained relative to the
amount of business which can be
built up around a small equipment
of this kind. The farmers in these
cheese communities are also build j8aj3s
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BOASTERS SHOULD BEWARE.
I Self-Exaltation lietrays a Lack of
Self-Confidence,
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| It is an old, familiar saying that
he who excuses himself accuses himself.
So is it with the man who
would exalt himself by boasting. He,
too. accuses himself.
To boast is to feel the need of
boasting. The strong, energetic,
really successful man is too busy
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io plume himself on past ones. Besides.
he is not worrying about the
opinion others hold of him.
I Fie knows that he is doing well
an;! that he can continue to do well.
That is enough for him. He is quite
I content to let his work speak for itself.
The boaster, on the contrary, by
the very fact of his boasting betrays
a curious lack of self-confidence. His
| boasting amounts to a confession
that he is surprised at himself for
ever having done anything worth
boasting about. The discerning recognize
this and appraise the boaster
accordingly.
Also they know that even those
whom his boasting might delude
would be repelled by the egotism
which the boasting indicates all too
plainly. This means that he would
find it hard to get along with others,
and would be that much the more
handicapped for any genuine achievement.
If, then, you notice in yourself
any tendencies to boastfulness con
sider their signincance. Aiwavs iemember
that the more you boast the
less likely you are to accomplish
things that are really worth while.?
Irish World.
No Chance.
.Misstress?Sarah. I saw the bakerman
kiss you today. I really shall
have to take the bread in myself in
the future.
Sarah?Twouldn't be no use,
ma'am. He wouldn't kiss you, 'cos
he promised he'd never kiss anybody
else but me!?Pearson's Weekly.
worst tnrng m me -mhhP$
world. He has HIS %BS8y
n\oi\ev safe in
the Barvk. \
The black hand is certainly over the poor devil who is
jn DEBT. * ^
I DON'T get into debt. There are lots of little things
you can go without NOM that they can enjoy later if
you'll just put a little money in the Bank. That little
money will grow just as the acorn does into a GREAT
OAK. Yau will be encouraged to work harder and EARN
more when you have money in the bank.
Put YOUR money in OUR bank
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Horses and Mules I
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BUGGIES, WAGONS, HARNESS I ]
! We have a splendid line of Buggies, 9
> Wagons, Harness, Lap Robes, Whips, 9
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Buggies and Harness, and we can J
suit you. We handle only the best
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are always right. Come to see us; M
you are always welcome. 9
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SCHOOL ELEOTJOX NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that upon igg j Bp
the written petition of more than |fg| j *
one-third of the resident ejectors, s?| I ^ 9
and a like proportion of the resident ^ I VJvy 1 KS jfl
free holders of Lemon Swamp School JS I flj
District, No. 13, of Bamberg county, ||p VWff B 3
S. C., at the age of 21 years, an elec- ggj K j 3 A I 1 H
tion will be held at the Lemon Swamp Kg BISf fB IJ9 39
school house Qn Tuesday, May 1, BS HV J^B l\ Q
1917, for the purpose of levying a V B f"B II Bj
special tax of 4 mills on all real and ?&! V V X JL Am H
I?ersonal property in Lemon Swamp Ha 9H
School District, No. 13. Only such ? BE
electors as return real or personal i|j |H
property for taxation, are residents BB wJ
of Lemon Swamp School District, No. nij B
13, and exhibit their tax receipts and bS j
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general elections, shall be allowed to j BR gut y0ur B
Electors favoring the levy of 4 SB Watches and Jewmills
special tax will cast a ballot elry with Reid. ^B )
j containing the word "YES" printed B He will put them B
or written thereon, and electors op- H| in good shape and
posed to the levying of the 4 nulls S5J
special tax will cast a ballot contain- B wi" you B /
ing the word "NO" printed or writ- B right. AH work SB
ten thereon. B guaranteed. H
The polls will be opened at 7 a. m., HR B
and closed at 4 p. m. H SB
S. E. Zorn, M. W. Tant and G. W. H B
Croft are appointed managers to con- !B| B
duct said election, B B
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County Board of Education. 9 Rdd S J6WClrV StOFC I
Bamberg, S. C.. April 9, 1 917. gg Bamberg, S. C. 9
NOTICE OF TOWN ELECTION. gg B
Notice is hereby given that nn 1 ITi
Tuesday. May 1st. 1917, an election j
| will be held in the Town of Bamberg j
I for mayor, six aldermen, and a com- j ANNOUNCEMENTS.
missioner of public works. All elec- j
tors for said election will have to j
register again, and books of regis-j *or Mayor,
tration will remain open, in the office | Mr. C. W. Rentz is hereby anof
E. H. Henderson, supervisor of j nounced as a candidate for mayor of
registration, until April 23rd, 3 917. j Bamberg in the approaching town
4-5. CITY OF BAMBERG, j election. CITIZENS.
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