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One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917. Established 1891. ..
COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Colston Clippings.
Colston, Sept. 18.?It seems as if
the sudden change of the weather has
caused several to be on the sick list
this week.
Mr. Gordon Kearse. of Embree,
spent Sunday at home.
Messrs. Willie Dickinson, Walter
Curry, and Will Brabham, of Bamberg,
dined at the home of Mr. and
\ Mrs. J. C. McMillan Sunday.
Misses Minnie Kirkland, Laura McMillan
and Mr. Claude Kirkland visited
relatives at Ulmer Sunday.
Mr. John G. Clayton, of Walterboro,
spent Saturday % and Sunday
^ night at home.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jennings, Jr.,
and family were the welcome guests
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Pr
Kearse Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs Lonnie Birt and
daughter, of Williston, were visitors
in this section Sunday and Monday.
Misses Bessie Kirkland, Laura McMillan
and Mr. Gerald Kearse spent
Saturday night with Misses Minnie
and Evelyn Kirkland.
Messrs. Sammie Clayton- and B. D.
Bishop spent Saturday night in Walterboro.
Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Bishop and
family dined with Mr. and Mrs. Thos.
Clayton Sunday.
The saw mill owned by Messrs.
Jackson and Curry was completely
destroyed by fire on Tuesday night of
last week.
Preaching services will be held at
Colston Branch church next Sautr-!
day evening at four o'clock and Sunday
morning at eleven o'clock. The
public is invited.
Schofield Sketches.
/ Schcfield, Sept. 19.?Some winter
like weather we have been having for
the past week; it makes a fellow feel
like looking up his heavy duds.
Miss Verna French left yesterday
for Columbia, where she has accepted
a position as music teacher in the
music department of Columbia college.
Mr. J. L. Owen dined at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. French last
Sunday.
Mrs. S. D. Lain and children spent
several days in Savannah last week
with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Angus Morns, 01
Olar, spent Sunday last with Mr. and
Mrs. G. C. Sanders.
Mr. F. M. Elliott has been confined
to his bed for several days with an
attack of appendicitis. We hope to
see him up again soon.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Peeples spent
Sunday with relatives at Olar.
Mr. F. B. Drawdy has accepted a
position at OwensbonvKy. He left
several days ago to take up his duties.
DRAEBLR.
Branchville Brevities. j
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Branchville, Sept 15.?Edward
Rushton is spending some time with
relatives at Smoaks.
Mrs. P. M. Wimberly and children
are visiting relatives in Spartanburg.
J. O. Harris, of Chattanooga, has
returned to his home after spending
some time with relatives here.
S. S. Curry, of Winnsboro, is here
visiting his daughter, Mrs. T. O.
Smoak.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. P&verill, of Alexandria,
Va., are spending some time
with Mrs. P. C. Dukes here.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dukes, of Atlanta,
are visiting relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. 'Hutto and chil-j
dren, of Charleston, are spending
some time with relatives here.
s Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Izlar, of Au-1
gusta, Ga., are on a visit to relatives'
here.
Miss Mary Jennings, of Cope, is
spending some time with Mrs. L. D.
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Mrs. Sidney Poag, of Charlotte, X.
C., is visiting Mrs. J. B. Henderson
here.
Cotton Being Held in Orangeburg.
Orangeburg, Sept. 1 6.?Orangeburg
county farmers are beginning
to hold their cotton to a large extent,
feeling that the staple should bring
a much better price in order to be
in accord with the price of cotton
goods. Much cotton can be be seen
stacked under sheds and a good part
of the new crop is being hauled back
to the farm from the gin.
Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pens
at The Herald Book Store.
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STEAMER FOUGHT SUB. 4 HOURS.
Thrilling Story Told by Members of
the Ships' Crew.
The Standard Oil tank steamer
Campana, whose captain and five of
her navy gunners were taken prisoners
by a German submarine on Aug.
6, surrendered to the U-boat, but
only because she had not another
shot to fire.
The Campana's ammunation, after
firing 180 shots, became exhausted.
This was the story told by J. H.
Bruce, third mate of the Campana,
who, with 40 other members of the
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campana, s Lit;w auu C15111 guuucis,
arrived on a Frensh Steamship. The
battle began at 5 a. m. and was waged
for four hours at a range of between
7,300 and 7,500 yards.
The U-boat fired 400 shots,'only
two of which hit the mark. The Campana
nevertheless was outranged by
the two guns and one 4-inch, the
other 2-inch, with which the submarine
was armed. The U-boat also
was fully as speedy as the American
vessel.
After the Campana hoisted the international
signal of surrender her
last shell gone the submarine nevertheless
continued to fire, Bruce said,
and all hands took to the boats.
Took Captain and Gunners.
The U-boat commander first approached
the boat commanded by
Bruce, which had aboard the Campana's
13 naval gunners, and ordered
it alongside. He went to the life boat
occupied by Captain Albert Oliver, of
the Campana and took him prisoner.
Having room enough only for six
additional men aboard his craft, the
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gunners prisoners, Bruce'said. These
included the chief gunner and two
petty officers. One of the gunners,
whose name was Miller, was included
because he could speak German.
The submarine was the U-2. Bruce
did not learn the commander's name.
The German told him, he said, that
he had first fired a torpedo at the
Campana, but had missed,' the projectile
appearently passing under the
steamship. The Campana was sent
to the bottom by bombs after her
crew had been allowed to return and
get their personal effects. Directions
were given to Bruce by the submarine
commander how to reach the nearest
port. He told him at the same time
that he had heard wireless messages
exchanged by two French war vessels
in the vicinity and warned him not
to allow himself to be picked up by
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merxj.
"I am going to sink them," he said.
U-Boat May Have Been Sunk.
, Bruce and his men, nevertheless,
took the chances, encountering a
French warship after floating about
in small boats until 6 o'clock that
night. The warship took them aboard
and landed them in France. Bruce
said he was told by an officer of the
war vessel that he had heard a wireless
message from another French
cruiser, saying that it had sunk a
German submarine in the vicinity of
the place where the Campana had
been 'sunk. Bruce said it was only
a matter of conjecture as to whether
this was the submarine that
attacked his vessel, but, if true he
feared it meant that Captain Oliver
and his gunners had perished.
"When Capta-in Oliver and the
other prisoners went below on the
submarine," said Bruce, "they bid
good-bye and the U-boat caJprain
assured me they would be treated as
prisoners of war and landed in a few
days at a German base, where the
captain said they would be given
every opportunity to send word home
to their families. I was allowed to
take a personal message from Captain
Oliver to be delivered to his
wife.
"The bluejackets with us were a
game lot. When the last shell had
gone they would have * tackled the
Germans with their revolvers had th^
word passed to them. It would have
been useless sacrifice of life, however,
as the Germans had us at their
mercy.
To Take All Gunners.
"The captain said his instructions
oil impriran runners and
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captains of armed ships prisoners.
He said, however, he was sorry the
United States was in the war, because
he hated to fight Americans, as he
had always found them'friendly and
good sports. Americans, he said will
always fight to a finish. He had no i
use for the French or the English,
though, especially the English.
"The captain said he had been out
a long time and had sunk a number
of ships, but did not name them.
He told of meeting a fishing vessel
which he thought was English becauseit
was in the war zone, fie fired
on her where upon the ship hoisted
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CLEIHSOM STUDENT SHOT
WOUNDED IN NECK AND DIDES
TWO DAYS LATER.
Miles Carter Victim of a Mysterious
Tragedy Saturday Night
Near Branchville.
Walterboro, Sept. 18.?One of the
most regretable tragedies ever occurring
in this county, took place
Saturday night in upper Colleton,
when Miles Carter, a highly respected
young man met his death. It is especially
sad because the ^oung man was
to have gone Monday to Clemson College
where he was a junior?a young
man in whom his parents had centered
their pride and hope, and had
sacrificed to give him an opportunity
to secure an education.
The story of the shooting briefly is
as follows: Saturday night six young
men of the Little Swamp section of
the county started to go to Branchville,
and were nearing Pine Grove
school house when they passed a buggy
beside the road. They claim that
some one in the buggy shot as they
passed and A. M. Padgett, one of the
occupants of the car who had a pistol,
said he would answer the shot, and
pulled out his pistol and fired. Miles
Carter was in the rear seat, and a
companion noticed that Mr. Carter
started as the shot was fired, and
when asked if he were hit said "Yes."
"Where are you shot?" "I don't
know," was his reply, and these were
the last words he ever spoke. The
car was stopped and an investigation
was had and it was found that young
Carter was badly injured. He was
rushed to his home a few miles distant,
and a physician summoned, but
nothing could be done and he died
without having regained consciousness
Monday morning. The shooting
occurred between 10 and 11 o'clock
Saturday night.
A coroner's jury was summoned
and Coroner Dopson held the inquestAfter
examining a number of witnesses
the jury returned a verdict
that the deceased came to his death
from gun shot wounds at the hands
of parties unknown. The ball entered
just below the Adam's apple and
ranged, backward and downward,
striking the spinal cord. There are
two theories as to the shooting, one
that the party who shot from the
buggy hit the young man, the other
that Mr. Padgett when turning to
shoot miscalculated and that he was
the one who shot the young man.
The bullet cut from the deceased wasj
of 38-caiibre, which is the same as|
Mr. Padgett's pistol.* No arrests have
been made. The names of the occupants
of the buggy have not been
learned.
FISHIXESS IX MILK.
Professor Hammer Isolates Organism
That Causes It.
The organism producing fishiness
in milk products has been very elusive.
Though the peculiar flavor, noted
sometimes in milk and more often
in butter, has been much studied, it
has long been regarded as not due directly
to bacteria and failure of fishy
butter to affect good butter in contact
with it has confirmed this view. The
real cause has been vaguely assumed
to be some acid change, unusual
working of the butter, or the use of
salt containing magnesium in considerable
amount. A can of fishy
evaporated milk having fallen into
his hands, B. W. Hammer, of the
Iowa agricultural experiment station
has made a new investigation and has
succeeded in isolating an organism
that is capable of inoculating milk,
cream or evaporated milk with the
fishy odor. This organism has been
named bacterium icthyosmium. Besides
developing the fishiness it caused
coagulation and a rapid digestion
in milk; but so far it has not produced
fishiness when inoculated into
butter, either directly or into pasteurized
or sterilized cream before
churning.
Read The HeraTd, $1.50 per year.
the Spanish flag. His shots crippled
her, however, and she went down.
The U-boat captain, however rescued
the crew and put them on another
i Spanish ship the next day. One of
the Spaniards was wounded and the
I captain said he treated him with the
submarine"*surgical supplies."
The names of the gunners taken i
prisoners were: James Delanv, chief|
gunners mate: William Miller, seaman:
Fred Jacobs, seaman: Ray
Roop, boatswain's mate, second class,
and Charles Kline, gunner's mate.
New supply of Waterman's Fountain
Fens at Herald Book Store.
TO ENLARGE CAMP JACKSON.
Building Work Will Continue for
Several Months.
Columbia, Sept. 17.?Orders to enlarge
Camp Jackson were received at
the office of the constructing quartermaster
this afternoon when adyices
came from Washington to add a room
to many of the barracks and to erect
a number of additional buildings for
officers. It was expected that construction
work would gradually decline
after October 1, but the new
orders mean that building will go
forward at approximately the same
rate for several months.
All plans are completed for the reception
of over 10,000 additional men
of the national army at Camp Jackson
from September 19 to September
22, increments being received from
the two Carolinas and Florida on
these days. Fifty mustering officers
are ready for duty and assignments
of the men to regiments have already
been made.
President Fairfax Harrison and a
number of other Southern Railway
officials visited the camp today. Mr.
Harrison announced that this is the
largest cantonment he has seen.
GENERAL'S GREAT GRANDSON.
U. S. Gra^t, 4th, Private in Artillery
at Camp Wadsworth.
Spartanburg, September 17.?U. S.
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Grant, 4th, great-grandson and name
saKe or the famous general ana iormer
President of the United States, is
serving as a private at Camp Wadsworth.
He is in the artillery. Young
Grant graduated from Harvard in
1915 and entered a Wall Street office
in New York. When the war broke
out he enlisted in the Seventh regiment
of infantry, but later decided
that he would like the artillerv better
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and got a transfer. His tent mates
did not know for days aftep he joined
them that he was a great-grandson
of the famous Grant, for he never
speaks of his ancestry. He is a wholesome,
hard-working boy and does not
see anything strange in the fact that
he is a private. He says the army
does not appeal to him as a profession
and that he expects to go back
into business after the war is over.
His father is a college professor in
California. Several of his cousins
hold commissions in the army, one
being a major of engineers, but U. S.
Grant, 4th, seems content to do his
bit as a private, and his commanding
officers say he is doing it well.
? ACCUSED BY UNCLE, SAM.
Five Charged With Conspiracy and
Fraud at Columbia.
Columbia, Sept. 17.?Charged '
with alleged conspiracy, forgery and
defrauding the United States Government,
S. M. Shannon, G. L. Shannon,
Tom Drawdy, J. B. Davis, and M. M.
Hamiter, all of Columbia, have been
nrrpct.pd nn warrants sworn out here
before R. Beverley Sloan, United
States Commissioner. The men were
taken into custody by the military
police and lodged in the Richland
county jail and all have been released
on $2,000 bonds, each, except Tom
Drawdy.
It is alleged by. the government
agents that the men put in time for
more than one job simultaneously,
collecting for more work than they
had done. It is said that the men
got more than one work badge each,
collecting wages on each badge, and
that the foreman of the gang in
which they worked cooperated with
them in helping to defraud the govman
was among those arrested.
PREPARE TO STORE TUBERS.
America Has 100,000,000 bushels
More Than She Xeeds.
Washington, Sept. 16.?With a potato
crop at least 100,000,000 bushels
larger than the country needs for
its table, Carl Vrooman, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture, said tonight
the United States would be guilty of
an inexcusable blunder if it did not
provide the warehouses necessary to
I make use of this surplus in such a
way as to release products of equal
food value to the army and the
Allies.
The initiative Mr. Vrooman said.
must come largely from local associa-l
tions of business men ard farmers!
and tbe government is ready to help
wfth the advice of experts and with
plans for building new storage
houses.
Bamberg Cotton Market. *
Quotation for Wednesday, September
19, 2:00 p. m.:
Middling 20% I
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SQME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings*
Albert Williams and Jim Smith,
negro convicts, escaped from the McCormick
county chaingang last week.
Walterboro, Cottageville and rfendersonville
schools in Colleton county
will employ a teacher of agriculture
this year.
Thirty bales of cotton loaded in a
boxcar on a railway siding in Green
wood were damaged about $ob eacn
by fire last week.
M. L. Poole, a well known lumber
dealer of Woodruff was run over and
killed by a train of the Charleston &
Western Carolina railroad in Woodruff,
last week.
John Kirson, a 7-year-old boy of
Charleston, was badly burned last
week when his clothes caught fire
from a match with which he was attempting
to light a cigarette.
Upon motion of counsel for the defense
Judge H. F. Rice presiding over
the Lexington county court of general
sessions last week granted an
order transferring to Edgefield county
for trial the cases against W. Pickens
Roof, of Lexington, former owner
and operator of the Lexington Savings
Bank, merchant and cotton-mill
president, who failed in March, 1912.
HENRY S. AND H. S.
Two Families Crossed Trails From
Nassau to Palm Beach.
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The next time Henry Suydam Reynolds,
lawyer, of No. 66 Broadway, (
goes on a vacation he will first ascertain
whether H. S. Reynolds, of Toledo,
Ohio, intends leaving home. If
he does, Henry Suydam Reynolds will
find out where he is going?and then
will go somewhere else.
Yesterday at the Waldorf-Astoria,
Henry Suydam Reynolds satisfied
himself that H. S. Reynolds, of Toledo,
is a responsible citizen, and then *
he unburdened himself of a modern
tale of the Dromios, which spreads
from the Bahamas to Cuba, and then
from Florida to New York and westward
to Toledo.
It seems that Mr. and Mrs. H. S.
Reynolds started from Toledo about
the time that Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Suydam Reynolds, of New York, did,
and both went to about the same
places, including Nassau, Havana, Miami,
and Palm Beach. Mr. Henry
^Suydam Reynolds first decided that
maybe he was someone else when he
received an important letter from
some brokers he'd never heard of,
evidently answering a letter of his
regarding some shares in the American
Sugar Refining company/ Now,
it happens Mr. Henry Suydam Reynolds
owns shares to the exact number
referred to, but he'd never written
anybody about, them.
Much wroth and puzzled, he was
bewildered further at Nassau when
an automobile concern wrote to him
about overhauling his automobile?
the same make and style as the vehicle
he owns. He'd not ordered any
overhauling and he wrote quickly and
said so. Then he and Mrs. Reynolds
went to Palm Beach, and the morning
after their arrival he read with some
astonishment and a little panic that
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ne cllltl H ue nau juoi i wu'uvu
Palm Beach after a few weeks' absence.
Since he hadn't been there
before in a year, he made inquiries
and asked also for his mail. The <
clerk said his mail had been sent to
him at the Waldorf-Astoria, as requested.
That was the final straw. Mr. Reynolds
wired the Waldorf-Astoria asking
whether Mr. H. S. Reynolds was
there, and received a reply that he
wasn't. .He had just left the hotel
for Toledo, the reply staged. That i
about ruined Mr. Henry Suydam Reynolds's
peace of mind. He came
straight on to New York and found ,
out that while he was perturbed, he
had nothing on Mr. H. S. Reynolds, <
of Toledo, who had missed a lot of
mail, and who probably is as busy
trying to find out how to- untangle
matters as the New York Mr. Rey- <
nolds is.?New York Herald.
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It was currently reported a few i
days ago that all men who had been i
examined and discharged because J
of physical deficiency we^e to be s
exanrned again, and that the regula- t
tions would not be so strict. When J
asked about it, the chairman of the s
Local Board said the board had re- <
ceived no such orders. t
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FAILURES WHO SUCCEEDED.
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James A. Gartfeld; the "Failure Who 1
Became President."
An Ohio man, not yet thirty, but
having undergone more hard work
and hard knocks than came to many
people in a lifetime announced to his
widowed mother that he was a failure.
As a matter of fact, he was nothing
of the sort; and in the bottom of his
heart he doubtless knew that no one
with his energy and brains could ever
fail. But he had met with one dis
couragement after another until, for
the moment, he had lost heart and
hope.
Most people who knew his story
would have agreed with him at that
period of despair that he was a total
failure.
He was James Abram Garfield. He
began life as a chore boy in an Ohia
village. He ended his career in 1881
with two hundred days as President
of the United States?until an assassin's
bullet struck him down in his
prime. y
Garfield's father died soon after
James's birth, leaving a widow and
four little children and almost nothing
for them to live on.
At ap age when the average youngster
is in primary school Garfield was
working like a slave to help in his s
family's support. He cut brush for
fences, tended cattle, toiled in the
harvest fields, grubbed stumps, chop-,
ped wood and drove teams.
There was a log schoolhouse within
walking distance of his home, but
the overburdened boy found scant
time to attend it. Yet at intervals in
his work and after a hard day in the
5eids he forced himself to study when
he was so tired he could hardly keep
awake.
Next he found a job as mule-driver
for an Ohio canal-boat that lugged
;oal *rom the mines to Cleveland. The
surroundings were enough to brutalize
the average lad and to turn him
into a day laborer of the dullest sort.
But Garfield fought his way toward
an education, later working his way
through Chester Academy, thence to
Hirams college and to Williams.
It was a bitter, uphill struggle all
the time. For he had not. only himjelf
and others to look out for, and he i
was in debt. At last he decided to
apply as school teacher in an effort to
better himself No school hoard
would give him a chance. He tramped
from one village to another wher
ever ne neara mere was a va^utj.
But he could get no employment. ,
One evening he came home worn
out and desperate. He told his mother
he was a failure and that there
was no hope for him to get on in the
world. '
In his morbid downheartedneSs he
also registered a strange vow, a vow
he kept to the last day of his life. He
swore he would never again go looking
for work of any kind. As if Fate
heard his cry of surrender, Garfield's
luck changed from that hour. The
very next day came the off^r of a
school to teach?a far better offer
than he had ever dared to hope for. It
was the first in Garfield's triumphant
climb of the success-ladder.
After that every thing seemed to j
come his way. He continued to work
?and to work hard, for the rest of
his life. Bub henceforth Opportunity
sought him. He did not seek Opportunity.
Through his labors as clergymen,
lawyer, college president, uongressman
and army officer it was always
Circumstance which brought the position
within his reach. He was merely
ready when the chance name.
The same old rule held %< 1 in his
nomination to the President. This
:ame to him, says one biographer, "to
the surprise of himself and of the Nation."
The man who had once lookec^ on
himself as a Failure was chosen by a
big majority to the highest office in
his country's gift.
WATSON MUST SHOW CAUSE
Why Mails Should Not Bar Latest
Publication.
Augusta, Ga., Sept 17.?Thomas E.
Watson, of Thompson, has been oriered
by the Postoffice Department to
ippear in Washington September 24
:o show cause why his new publica
:ion, the Thompson Guard, should
lot be excluded from the mails.
Several weeks ago The Jeffersonian,
i weekly, published by the Jeffersonan
Publishing Co., of which Watson
s president end editor, was excluded
son Guard was acquired by Watson,
seditious articles and criticisms of
;he selective service law. After The
effersonian was excluded the Thompson
Guard was acuired by Watson,
md appeared as ja weekly with ar;icles
signed by him.
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