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J- ?br lanthfrg i|rntU> jH * One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4,1917. Established 1891. I * - I ~ COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. % t News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. ? Colston Clippings. r. Colston*, October 3.?On Monday, October 1, the Colston rural graded school began the 1917-18 session. A good number of patrons and friends were present to hear the opening address by the Rev. D. H. Owings, of Ehrhardt. Mr. Owings's address, the subject of which was "Building for Eternity," was interesting, instructive and scholarly. We were glad to have Mrs. Faust present also. She j _ i J Vk organized a nonie uemuusuauuu ciuu with Miss Laura McMillan president and Miss Evelyn Kirkland secretary. ^ Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Beard and family motored to Augusta Tuesday of last week. Miss Bessie Kirkland was the welcome guest of Miss Mary Clayton Saturday night and Sunday. Miss Mamie McMillan, of Bamberg, spent last week-end at home. Among those who have left for school are: Miss Claire Kearse to Winthrop college; Miss Annie Flor- , ence Fender to Summerland and Miss Easter Padgefc to Bamberg graded I school. Miss Evelyn Kirkland was the pleasant guest of Miss Mamie McMillan Saturday night and Sunday. ; Mr. and Mrs. Newton Smoak and - family, Misses Elvie and Ettie Kearse were the Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Kearse. i Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clayton visited relatives near Denmark Sunday. Mr. Hammie Varn, of Columbia, . visited his parents here several days ago. ' ( Mr. Kid Ray spent Saturday night ^ at the home of Mr. R. F. Kirkland. Mr. Albert McMillan, of Bamberg, spent Sunday at home. Prof, and Mrs. E. W. Rentz, of , * Ehrhardt, visited friends and rela- . tives in this section Saturday and & Sunday. ( Crystal Springs News. Crystal Springs, Oct. 3.?The seasons of last week were most ideal for the fall and winter crops. The farmers are well advanced with their cotton harvest and are much pleased with the prices realized. Misses Bertha and Adreen Goodwin are out again after an illness of several days. Mr. Frank Goodwin motored to f Bamberg Monday morning. Miss Kate Kornegay, the efficient school teacher of Kenansville, N. C., spent last week at the home of Mr. J. B. Padgett. Mr. Edgar Sease and son, Martin, of Charleston, spent last week-end at the home of Mr. J. B. Padgett. Crystal Springs had several visitors Sunday, those out of the com " -W TT^irrl munity were: .\ir. ana mis. nmsivi Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. William Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Zeigler, all of Ehrhardt; Mr. and Mrs. John Folk, Mrs. Avis Steedly, Misses Pet and Doris Folk, of Clear Pond; Mr. Roy Williams and sister and Mr. Eddie Williams, of Colston. ? Clear Pond Callings. Clear Pond, October 2.?Mrs. P. K. Hughes has returned from a short trip to Augusta. Mr. and Mrs. William Hughes, Miss Florin? Hughes and brother, Messrs. Gene Hill and George Steedly and : Miss Meta Hughes dined at the home 'of Mr. J. R. Morris Sunday. The Clear Pond school opened on k. Monday, October 1 Hh Miss Daisy Murph as teacher. Messrs. Clarence DuBois and Dunlock, of Colleton county, are visiting Mr. Joe DuBois. i.icitorc at Mr G. W. 'me ouuuat nciivu ?. Folk's were: Mr. and Mrs. R. F. McMillan, Misses Reba Williams and Daisy McMillan and Messrs. Roy Williams and Eddie Walker. Mrs. Avis Steedly has accepted a position in Charleston during the winter months. Schofield Sketches. Schofield, October 2.?Mr. F. M. Elliott is still confined to the Baptist hospital. Columbia, and it is not expected that he will be able to return home for some time, as he is quite ill. Mr. and Mrs. F. G. P. Wiegand and children with Miss Mabel Sowers motored over to Bamberg to see the movies on Monday afternoon. Messrs. P. K. Shultz and T. L. i SCHOOL OPKXS AT COPE. Prof. Crout the Principal?Cotton Crop Short. Cope. Oct. 2.?The Cope graded school opened its doors for this session on Monday morning, October 1, The principal this session is Mr. J. 0. Crout, of Lexington, and he will have as assistants Misses Causley, Thomas and DuRant. The long, dry spell and good cotton-picking weather was broken yesterday and today, and the gins are running on slack time. The ginnery at this place, operated by Mr. J. I. Valentine, has ginned up to this time 1,170 bales. The crop, from all reports, will be exceedingly short. Cotton is bringing around 23% cents, and seed $67 per ton. Those Who Achieve Greatness. The merit by which men of action ns? to greatness are iour?iiueneci, i energy, courage and independence. | When those four are united in the sam? person, and in a quite exceptional measure, the raise him high above the crowd. The other men defer to his opinion, trust his predictions, repeat his phrases, rely on his firmness, take him as their chief. If he succeeds in what he undertakes, each success confirms his authority and surrounds him with a halo of prestige. He becomes a power. Of the four qualities enumerated, that which most impresses others is independence. because it is so rare. The man who, perceiving difficulties and dangers, will face them alone, in reliance on his own judgment and force, is the natural and inevitable leader. If he is large of soi^l, true of his principles and to his friends, he will win affection and an even fuller measure of confidence. But the impression of that indefinable thing we :all greatness depends after all chiefly on the impression that he makes of the power of initiative, of an unshakeable resolution. The mass of mankind want some one to follow, some one in whose hands they can Feel themselves safe, as crew and passengers do when they see th^ir :aptain cool and dauntless in the wildest storm. Game Warden Matter in Courts. Quite a stir up is being caused over the office of chief game warden of South Carolina, which pays a substantial salary. At present the office is held by Wade Hampton Gibbes, a former mayor of Columbia. Mr. Gibbes was opposed for this office by Dr. E. C. L. Adams, another Columbian and candidate for lieutenant governor in the primary of 1916, and his opponents contend that his appointment was illegal. Consequently, proceedings to test the validity of Mr. Gibbes's appointment were instituted some time ago in the supreme court in the name of the State by Attorney General Peeples. Now the supreme court has issued a mandate denying its right to decide the question and at the same time placing it within the jurisdiction of the circuit court. Accordingly the case has been placed on the docket of the T AAnntTT OA11 V\\* tllD Of ? JL.tJAl.Ug (.(JU WUUl< luuiy w.' biiv u.v torney general, but Mr. Gibbes's attorneys have again raised the question of jurisdiction, claiming that it can only be determined by the Richland county court, the home of the defendant. In the meantime, Mr. Gibbes is still serving in the capacity of chief game warden, and it is possible may finish the period of his appointment before the matter can be threshed out in the courts. French motored over to Donora on Sunday last. Mrs. Peeples and little son, of Estill, visited the former's son here Sunday last. Mr. G. W. Sowers, of Embree, visited relatives here on Sunday and * V,ir. flR A TT1RT.R :UUUUd> U l LIUO ? C&n. Buford Bridge Budget. Buford Bridge, October 2.?Again Old Sol has come out and it is to be hoped that he will stay with us a while. Mr. Henry Kearse. of Bamberg, spent last Sunday at his home here. Mrs. J. B. Kearse spent last Wednesday in Bamberg. Miss Ada Kearse has gone to Columbia to begin her work as a nurse. Mjss Willie Gardner, of Aiken, is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. H. Xeeley. Miss Leita Everette, a recent graduate nurse, of Fayetteville. X. C. now located in Columbia, spent a few days last week with her sisters, Mesdames Victor and Roscoq Kearse. Mr. and Mrs. Seward Breland and Mrs. R. M. Kearse spent last weekend in Columbia. . BOAGUS. ELEVEN KILLED 82 INJURED. Report of Casualties in Air Raid on London Saturday Night. London Sept. 30.?Eleven persons were killed and eighty-two injured in last night's air raid, it is announced officially. The material damage was not great. The following official report of the raid was given out today: "Latest reports show that a determined and simultaneous attack was made upon London by three groups of raiders. Each of these groups, which approached from different directions, was broken up by anti-aircraft guns and only two or three machines pene trated the defenses. Bombs were dropped in the northeastern and southeastern districts. A fourth group of enemy machines which attempted to approach London later was driven off, none of the raiders penetrating the outer defenses of the capital. "Bombs were also dropped at various places in Kent and Essex. KIXGDOX GOULD, PRIVATE. "Hopes to Make Good Soldier," He Tells Sergeant. Private Kingdon Gould, of K Company, 311th infantry, national army, is going to find more happiness under the flag than he expected, according to a well defined report that reached the camp today. He was pulling weeds and policing up?that means cleaning up?the part of the United States of America that lies immediately in front of his barracks1 when the news came that his mother, Mrs. George J. Gould, was coming over to see him tomorrow with the newly acquired wife of the millionaire recruit. That, said the gossip of the camp, meant that there had been a reconciliation in the Gould family, and that service in the army had been instru- ( mental in bringing about a complete understanding where there had been some straining of the family ties. Private Gould would not talk about the matter i He had been dubbed "Gouldie" by his comrades in arms, and has a bunk between a carpenter and an electrician. He put up a game front today when he faced the mustering officers. "What is your occupation?" asked an officer. "Mining engineer, sir, and I hope to be a good soldier." Later when he was asked about his first experience in the camp he was enthusiastic. "I have been on many hunting ex-J peditions," he said, "and I can assure you that these clean barracks, and the snappy atmosphere of military life appeal to me very much. Now that the time has come for me to give my services to Uncle Sam I feel very happy. I'll make my comrades work hard to beat me into the non-com ranks."?New York Sun. French Aviation Plans. To meet the German effort to put 3,500 aeroplanes in the field by the spring of next year, the French authorities are taking measures to maintain their air supremacy. Figures are not, of course, available, but the general lines of the programme being arranged by M. Andre Tardieu, the French high commissioner in the . United States, indicate the material assistance which will be added by America to the effort of France herself. The programme stipulates for the 1 sending of a first contingent of Amer- ; ican pilots who have already been . selected to finish their training in ] one of the French aviation schools. . At the request of the United States ; a contingent of French instructors i have, on, the other hand, already < gone to America to teach the French methods of air fighting. I For construction purposes the . United States will send large con- , signments of raw, roughed-out and ] manufactured material, and cooperation is to be established on a big , scale between the American and , French factories. American motors , and aeroplanes are also to be sent i for use on the fjront. Not for Bathing. < .Man (gazing at the fashions in the . windows)?Are- those bathing suits, my dear? Woman?Dear no, do you think any one would go bathing clothed like that! They're evening gowns. Emily Stevens in "The Slackers" at the Thielen Theatre on October 30. This is one of the best pictures of the season. Don't fail to see it.? adv. CAMPAIGN FOR FOOD SAVING. Movement to Knlist Bamberg County's Cooperation to be Launched. The national campaign for food saving during the war is on in earnest. and Bamberg county is expected to do its share. Mr. Joe Sparks, of Columbia, executive secretary of the United States Food Administration for South Carolina, has appointed -ur. n.. tr. iseinnger as puuiicuv campaign manager for Bamberg county in the food saving movement, iind an active and vigorous campaign will be begun shortly to enlist as many Bamberg county people in this undertaking as possible. Mr. Bellinger will have a number of assistants in the field and hopes to have the hearty cooperation of all the housewives and citizens in this movement bearing so directly on the outcome of the war. According to government statistics there are 4,139 families in Bamberg county. That includes both races, and every man, woman and child, both white and black, is asked and urged to help win the war by eliminating all waste and conserving the food supply. During the week of October 21st to 28th a gigantic food saving campaign will be launched by the National Food Administration when every American will be asked to pledge himself to the food saving idea, and every loyal Bamberg citizen will be expected to do so. There will be no fees and no dues; it will not cost vou one cent. It is simply an appeal to patriotism and loyalty. It will require a mere promise to help, and will be a fair test of one's patriotism at home. Not less than 2,000 pledges are expected from Bamberg county, and many more are hoped for. The government authorities are using their best efforts to have the people grasp the importance of saving food. One slice of bread saved a day means just that much more food for the boys who are being sent to battle lor America's cause. Seven years ago a famous European student of history prophesied that the next great war would not be won by fighting, but by famine. Today ^e are fighting that war, and famine in indeed threatened to be its arbiter. True it is, to enter into this movement will require some sacrifices on the part of our people, but it may and probably will be that those sacrifices, will win the war, and without them the result of the conflict may require far greater sacrifices of us all at a later date. This is the battle that America asks of her people here at home. A1+ n'hon r\nr L6t US 100K IU Liic iuiuic <i uvu vui harbors will be filled with ships signaling the return to us of our gallant heroes from the front, and when they set foot upon American soil and tell us that they have won the battles of right against might, let it hot be said that Bamberg county citizens could not face them with a feeling of duty well done and reply that we have kept the faith, and fought the food saving battles of Democracy at home. Let it not be said that Bamberg county citizens were weighed in the balance and found wanting. Let it not be said that they were appealed to in time of national need and found lacking. The experience of our allies has proved the food saving movement to be an imperative necessity if the war is to be won.?Contributed. Germany's Doom of Fear. Germany, clearly enough, is living today under the doom of fear. Her temper, her expedients, her gestures, all of them proclaim the state that has lost its moral balance. There Kq nrt trrmind fnr that attitude. 3111/UiU VXJ UU Kone of us wants the destruction of Germany. The peace for which we are working should promise that which will make her the partner in the prospects of our common civilization if she is willing to accept the conditions upon which that life is lived. To realize that, she must be in a mood to reason calmly. Let us ensure her what common prudence demands and she can awaken from evil dream. But she will then see that the economic background of peace must be based upon territorial rearrangement. If domination nas failed, cooperation must follow. If' she cannot defeat the world she must iccept the world. In that mood it is possible to make effective settlement of our problems.?New Republic. Petitions and telegrams from all parts cf the North and middle West are pouring into Washington calling for the expulsion of United States Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Republican, of Wisconsin, for alleged treas/ onable utterances against the government concerning the war. IN THE PALMETTO STATE / . . SOME OCCURRENCES OP VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Up to Thursday the total enrollment at Clemson college so far this year was 748. J. M. Dozier, for the past five years NO CIGARS, NO STEINMETZ. Man Considered Himself "Fired" | When Told He Couldn't Smoke. Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the I world's greatest authority on elecI tricity, smokes constantly. Some people believe he smokes in his sleep. He prefers a long, thin, mild brand of cigar made specially for him. How long he has been smoking no one knows. He himself admits that he learned to smoke scientifically and methodically, consuming first a couple of cigar puffs, then a dozen, then a quarter of a cigar, then a half, next threojinartprs and finally a whole one. When he, as an unknown engineer, came to the General Electric company at Schenectady to work his future was not suspected. All that was/ known of him was that he could solve the most difficult mathematical problems, \that he had fled Germany on account of his socialistic beliefs and that he had promised that he could reorganize the calculating department of the company. One day an order was posted over the shops and offices that no smoking would be tolerated in the plant. Steinmetz came down to work and lit his cigar as usual. "You can't smoke here," said an official. "Very good," said Steinmetz and walked out. For three days he did not come back. On the fourth day they sent for him, since they had become stalled on a difficult problem and were unable to continue the work in hand. A man in authority went up to the Steinmetz home. "When are you coming back to the plant?" he asked. "Never, I suppose," said Steinmetz. "Whv not?" / "No smoke, no Steinmetz." "Well, come back today, anyway; you can smoke now." Steinmetz walked into the plant puffing on a long cigar. In a few minutes he had solved the puzzling problem. The Soldiery Spirit. The development of a soldiery spirit should be the end of all training. It is the possion of this quality that enables ten men to beat a hundred, and fifty to rule a thousand. .The story of the British^ conquest of India, and that of^Scott's campaign in Mexico are examples of how moral force may triumph over overwhelming numbers. A soldiery spirit enables a man to be cheerful in privation, to put faith in his superiors, to practice necessary self-confidence and self restraint to act with initiative amidst unforeseen danger, and so obey all orders with courage and disregard of self. It was the soldiery spirit that permeated Jackson's infantry at Chan?" onirit holH thlP ceuui sv JUxe, mat. CH'MI Ypres salient in 1914 when he were one to ten. Lord Kavanaugh's household cavalry brigade stood alone and unbroken against vast hordes of Germans on Mennin ridge, because'every trooper of the household cavalry was possessed of a soldiery spirit. This spirit has characterized all Canada's new world troops since the beginning. Out of the mud and mire of Flanders, out of the winter's cold and rain, out of the shell swept trenches, corpses are thickly strewn, out of all this woe and hardship, comes the voice of? the Tommy, singing, "Are we downharted? No!" That is the triumph of the soldiery spirit, which is the desideratum of all of Aemrica's new armies.?Leslies. Motor Ambulance for Border. Motor car ambulances of an apparently durable type have been con structedfor the Red Cross corps and put in service at the Mexican border. So accustomed have most persons become to pictures of the elaborate fighting equipment used by the warring forces abroad that it is possible many have lost sight of the fact that our own troops are not in all instances similarly outfitted. It therefore may be news to some that the new machines replace mule-drawn ambulances that were used until the Xational Guard was mobolized some - . months ago. Each of the cars is supplied* with four stretchers, two of which rest on the side seats beneath the others which are suspended when in use. At the right of thei driver's seat a medicine cabinet is provided, while lockers, in which various supplies can be carried, are fitted lengthwise beneath each of two long seats.?Popular Mechanics. The powers that be, love, money, ambition and a good dinner. i sheriff of Marion county, di|d of apoplexy Thursday. The Greenwood Home Guards have been organized with Captain S. A. Porter in command. The Horry county Guernsey Cattle club has been organized with R. O. Hanson as president. Work on permanent road wayHn Cherokee county has been begun at the North Carolina line. An election is to be held in Greenwood county November 6 for the pur pose of nominating a senator to succeed J. K. Durst, appointed clerk of court. Cecil Bradford, an employe of the Sumter Machine company, was killed last Wednesday when an emory wheel burst and a fragment of it-struck him / on the head. ' -O Several soft drink stand proprietors of Greenville were convicted in police court last week of selling a cider containing more than the legal jamount of alcohol. # Fire Wednesday night in Blacksburg destroyed the beef market of y L. T. Whisonant and did considerable damage to the places of the Carolina Drug company and R. K. Smythe, jeweler. The postoffice was also dam- * aged. , :\i A 20,000 acre tract of land in the northern portion of Greenville county . is to be taken over by the wagr department for the artillery range. The artillery rahge will be used by artillery men from Greenville, Spartanburg, Charlotte, Columbia and Atlanta. Due to war conditions both the University of South Carolina at Columbia and Wofford college at Spartanburg have added the military feature to their course this year. Mil- ? itary drills and discipline will be provided for the boys by regular commandants appointed by the government from army officers. +*++ : 'J The Bluffer. \ Gen Goethals said in Washington the other day: "The new German chancellor's demand for a peace victory is bluff, pure bluff. It reminds me of a Panama canal digger?only the digger's bluff was more amusing. ."This- digger, who called himself the Mississippi Whale, claimed to be the champion long distance swimmer of the canal zone. His claim was disputed by the Georgia Submarine, and finally a match was arranged between the two men. "The Submarine turned up at the , appointed, time and^place in the usal swimming trunks and goggles, but the Whale turned up with a large oil stove strapped to his back, while in water-proof packets around his neck there was arranged bread and bacon, sugar, and coffee, flour, lard and other edibles. "The Mississippi Whale with his equipment of provisions looked in astonished at the empty-handed Georgia Submarine. " 'Whar's your vittles?' he demanded. " 'Vittles? What I want vittles fo?' " 'Say,' said the Whale, don't you ask me for nothin' on the way ovah. Mah fust stop is San Francisco, an mah second stOQ's Japan.' " Of Course They Would. Election time was drawing near and an enthusiastic politician was c addressing his constituents in a frenzied speech. Not a few of his assertions, reduced to cold thought, , were dramatically opposed to one another, but each proposed was received with applause. A judge turn ed to his companion and said: "This * reminds me of the Irish leader who was cheering his men on to battle. *Min,' said he, 'ye are on the verge of battle, an' I want to ask ye before ye start, will vez fight or will yez run?' " 'We will,' came a chorus of eager replies. " 'Which will yez do?' says he. " 'We will not,' says they. " 'Aha, thank ye, me min,' says he. 'I thought ye would.' "?New York Herald. , Ji . -iM >.'<>-. - <-*