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i * * m *" - ^ . - . .-vf| ' > * lamberg i^ralii ?| vOne Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1,1917. ^ Established 1891* COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Colston Clippings. Colston, October 30.?A good many of the Colston people attended the State fair last week. , Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Beard and family were the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Clayton. Miss Cora McMillan is spending ? 1 -3 iiL -.-.J aoveiai ua>s wiiii musses auu Alberta Kearse. Miss Mamie McMillan, of Bamberg, spent last week-end at'home. Miss Sadie Boyd spent last weekend with Mrs. T. H. Whitlock at Edgefield. Misses Evelyn Kirkland, Mary Clayton and Messrs. Gerald Kearse and Frank Kirkland, Jr., visited Mrs. Anna Kirkland, of Ulmers, Saturday \ night and Sunday.' ^fiss Bessie Kirkland spent Saturday night with Miss Mamie McMillan. Mr. Sammie Clayton was the guest of Mr. Grady McMillan Saturday might. _ Mr. Talbert Padgett, of Bamberg, was at home Sunday. Miss Minnie Kirkland spent Sunday night with Miss Mamie McMillan. % Schofield Sketches. Schofield, October 30.?Mr. D. L. Shiplett spent Sunday last in Columbia. Mr. James L. Owen visited Bamberg yesterday. Messrs./G. C. Sanders and F. B. Drawdy motored over to Donora on last Sunday. Mr. L. E. Drawdy visited relatives > here last Sunday. Mrs. J. M. Odom, of Govan, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. S. D. Lain, last Sunday. DRAEBLR. Buford Bridge Budget. Buford Bridge, October 31.?The farmers are having excellent weather for gathering thei rcrops. They are making good progress with their gathering and they seem to be dej lighted over the high price of cotton. Mrs. H. C. Kirkland has been confined to her bed for several days with tonsilitis. . Misses Leita Everette, of Columbia, and Myrtle Everette, of Columbia college, are visiting their sisters, Mesdames Victbr and Roscoe Kearse. Misses Ruby Kinard and Louise Copeland, of Ehrhardt, spent last -uroolr-onH with thoir aunt Mrs T-T n C. Kirkland. Mr. S. W. Copeland and family, of Ehrhardt, spent last Sunday with Mr. H. C. Kirkland and family. Dr. Frank Kirkland and son, Robert Alfred, of Allendale, were in the community last Sunday. Mr. Wallace Kirkland attended the Georgia-Carolina fair in Augusta last week. Several from this community attended the State fair last week. Mr. Roscoe Kearse has purchased a handsome new seven-passenger car. It is to be hoped that John Gilbert has found his lost dog, although it would be difficult to find one that would answer his description. Little Mary was found one day teaching her dolls to say this: "I have a little finger, I have a little toe, And when I get a little bigger, I'll have a little beau." BOAGUS. Billy Sunday in Atlanta. Billy Sunday, the world famous evangelist, will conduct a series of meetings beginning next Sunday, NoK vember 4th, in a great tabernacle bein or or?xr?t?ri fr?r thp nnnnsinn in At lata. He will be there several weeks, ~ and we have already heard of several Bamberg people who are going to make the trip to Atlanta to hear him. This will be Billy's first public appearance in this section of the country, and doubtless quite a few of our people will hear him before he leaves. Thf boys in the military branches of the government seryice are not only offering their lives upon the alter of their country, but they sub scribed generously to the second Liberty loan. The men in the army subscribed $75,000,u00. while those in the navy purchased $6,000,000 worth of bonds. That's a fine example of true loyalty and patriotism. Bullets and Si.wi. fragments are located in the human body by me&ns of a wireless detector. * FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Mr. Wilson Gives Full Endorsement as Issue in Every State. Washington, Oct. 25.?President Wilson today gave full endorsement to woman suffrage as an immediate issue in every State. Addressing a delegation of one hundred leaders of the New York State Woman Suffrage party, who called at the White House to obtain an expression in support of the campaign, in that State, the President, in emphatic terms, declared that woman suffrage is one of the fundamental questions of democracy, whose proper settlemnt is demanded by the issues of the war. He praised the on/1 TrioiAn nf A mar? syii IL, lapatii,! auu vjoivsu. \j i. M. can women in the war. "I believe," he said, "that just because we are quickened by the questions of this war, we ought to be quickened to give this question of woman suffrage our immediate consideration." Speaking as "one of the spokesmen of a great party" the t resident pledged his hearty support, and added: "I want to speak for myself and say that it seems to me thfet this is the time for the States of this Union to take this action." LONDQN TELEPHONE GIRLS. Bombs Did Not Drive One of Them From Their Duty. Scenes of bravery among the girls of a London telophone exchange dur4 -1 A O rck viviHlv rl O liig II1Q 1CV/C111 an iaiu v ? \*v scribed by J. W. Kennedy, ^.ho was present. He says: "Bombs were actually dropping in the immediate vicinity, while the presence over and on both sides of the building was reported and while the smoke from exploded bombs was distinctly seen from the windows, and through- it all the supervisor nearest to me hovered over her section like a strong spirit seeking to help those under her charge. I can paint no picture of stoical insensibility. Some .nervous cries there were as the bombs dropped, white faces were the rule, but in many of these lines of determination were the strongest. Silent tears were dropped but only for a mojnent. No one near me left her post', and calls ! were passing and cords connected with the music of death in our ears. "So near and insistent was the horrible thud of the bombs that most of us thought that some part of the building had been struck. It seemed to us that the rattle of guns continued longer than during the Zeppelin raids. Some day it may add some value to our lives to know that there were times when, for duty's sake, we faced the chance of death. It must add infinitely more to the lives of women whose finer nervous and physical organization makes them feel more acutely."?London Tele graph and Telephone News. THEN AND NOW. Granfather Lived a More "Real" Life. Had But One Chance. I walk on bricks, and my harbinger of spring issusually a cold in the head; my New England forebear heard the-whistling wings of northbound wild fowl, the whisper of unsealed streams, acta saw the greening grass and foliage, says the author of "The Point of View," in the October Scribner. To me summer is a matter of wilted collars and a few hurried weeks at the seashore; to him it meant the sober work of the year, bending the back with nature in the efficient aid of her great task, lightened by the camavaderi of having time. I know autumn by her chill; he knew her by her ruddy warmth of fruition in red apple, golden apple, and wigwam shocks of corn. Winter w gives m? slush and snow; for him the northeaster and blizzard lent an added grace to the homely sittingroom and the quiet family circle. And about him, from cradle to grave, the shuttle of real social intercourse wove its homespun thread. That old life was so neighborly. Xot all neighbors were good neighbors; there were bitter and petty hatreds and backbitings but in the long run of a life time a man stood forth to his community pretty much as he was. The twin acid tests of affliction and good fortune were applied to him in broad day; ii he flinched or rioted it was known My worldly goods are a secret banP balance, not patent acres, and I car lose an evil reputation by moving t( the next block. I think my grand father's was the more manly part; he had but the one life and the one chance; he lived the life and did noi mar it. SAVING SWEET POTATOES. York rounty Farmer Wraps Them in Newspapers. Yorkville, Oct. 24.?Isaac Boyd, superintendent of the county home of York county, is a farmer of no mean ability, and he is doing his bit to win the war for America. Besides being one of the most successful truck farmers in York county, Mr. Boyd has made a discovery in the way of saving sweet potatoes through the winter that is as effective as it is simple, and which requires no expensive special buildings or a special cellar to save the tubers, which heretofore have caused lots of worry to farmers who would keep the sweet potato for consumption through the winter months. , Mr. Boyd when, in town showed a sample of sweet potatos that were dug a year ago, and that had been saved in perfect condition by his method that is in use at the county home. Instead of putting the potatoes away in "hacks" or pits, or in dry cellars as do many potato growers, Mr. Boyd when he digs his crop simply has his children and other help to wrap each individuartuber in a piece of newspaper, torn to convenient size, and then packs the potatoes away in barrels or boxes, or piles them on floors wherever it may be convenient to do so. The potatoes so packed away keep in perfect condition for months, and the specimen he was showing today was still in good condition and fit for food. At first thought this metnoa migiu seem to be a rather tedious one, but it is hardly any more trouble than is the process of putting the potatoes in "hacks" and running the risk of losing the whole crop. Mr. Boyd's method has been tried by-him thoroughly and it works to perfection. Another wrinkle in regard to sweet potatoes that Mr. Boyd works in getting sweet potatoes for next year's crop is this: Along in the middle of the summer he clips cuttings from his vines and sticks these in the ground, and these clippings will at once start growing, and will produce tubers of sufficient size to use for bedding to furnish "slips" for next year's potato crop. Mr. Boyd contributes these two ideas as a contribution in food conservation. Killed By Window Sash. Newberry, Oct. 24.?A very peculiar accident, which cost the life of a young negro, Coleman McMorries, occurred Monday night near Whitmire. The boy in some manner got his head fastened under a window sash, and when found by his family life was extinct. It is supposed that McMorries attempted to enter his home through a window, the doors being locked at the time, and in order to reach the window he stood upon a box. Upon raising the window the box slipped from under him and the sash fell upon his neck, and he was unable to extricate himself before being smothered to ! death. His body was-found some time l^ter. S. C. Does Her Part. The old Palmetto State did herself proud in the matter of subscriptions* to the second Liberty loan, ' and everyone should feel mighty good . over it. This state's allotment* by the government authorities was $15,000,000 and for a time the chances of obtaining that amount in bonds ; for South Carolina appeared to be j very gloomy. But the campaign ' closed Saturday night in a blaze of glory and as South Carolinians have made history in the past they again rallied to the nation's cause, and the . state's total subscriptions mounted to practically $19,000,000, thus exceed| ing our allotment by $4,000,000 1 The old city of Charleston is far in 1 front with over $5,000,000 worth of bonds purchased and and the boys ^ from the "Bottry" are to be congratulated. The minimum which the entire country was to subscribe in order to make the loan a success was ' three billion dollars, while the government hoped for a maximum of five billion if possible. It is announced from official headquarters in | Washington that the maximum of five billion had been exceeded by several hundred million. The loan ' was offered to the public on Octo^ ber 1st. Thus the answer is hurled * back to the Kaiser "More than a L billion a week for the' boys in the 1 trenches." Probably many people will be sur; prised to know that already 2S offii cers and men of the American navy t have been killed in the war with Germany, but it is a fact. PERSHING VIEWS BATTLE. General Visits German Second Line Trenches on the Aisne. ' American Training Camp in France, Oct. 24.?Gen. Pershing accompanied one of the French generals yesterday as far as the second German line in the French attack on the Aisne front. Gen. Pershing was with Gen. D' Esperey at first observing the attack from a favorable post some distance in the rear of the French front line. Then Gen. Pershing suggested going into the French trenches. This they did, but Gen. Pershing was not satisfied and went on through the shell fire into the first line of the captured German trenches and then into the second line. Gen. Pershing's imperturabable attitude during this time is. the talk of the French army. The American general ^afterwards went with Gen. Frenchet D' Espereyj to Gen. Pershing's headquarters and was present when Franchet D' E$perey gave the commander-in-chief ^ detailed report of the successful attack. PORK CURING METHODS. Meat May Be Preserved Dry or in Brine. Hog killing time is coming. It is especially important this year that each family cure an abundant supply of meat. P. F. Trowbridge of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture offers two methods of curing pork, as follows: Dry Cure?Do not cut up the pork till the carass is well chilled. Make mixture of 40 pounds of clean, fine salt; ten pounds of sugar, four pounds of white or' black pepper and one-half pound of red pepper. This will make enough cure for about 1,000 founds of pork. It-saltpeter (is desired, use two pounds in the above mixture. It will^give a red color to the lean meat, but has a tendency to harden the meat too much. Chili saltpeter may be used instead of the regular saltpeter by taking about 20 per cent. less. Bub each f^lece of meat thoroughly with the cure. Take special care to work the cure around the ends of the bones of hams and shoulders. Pack skinside down on a table or in a box, in a cool, airy place. Do not place in direct sunlight nor in a damp, musty cellar. After four or five days overhaul the meat, rub thoroughly with the cure and repack. Repeat this in about a week. Hams and shoulders should remain' in the cure from one and one-half to two days per pound freight of piece; the ^ A ^" ? - ? MM Orm AAi f Knf ie lanei uuie ib aaici mcai mai xo to be kept during the summer. Bacon should be in the cure a shorter time. Ten days will give a very nice, mild cure to a six or eight pourid piece. Brine Cure?Make a brine by boiling seven, pounds of clean salt and two pounds of white or brown sugar with two gallons of water. If saltpeter is desired, add one-fourth pound. This gives about enough to cover 100 pounds of pork when well packed, sprinkle a little, clean fine salt in the bottom of the barrel, rub each pfece of meat lightly with salt, sprjnkle a light layer of salt on each layer of meat. Put a board on and weight it down with a ro?k. Allow to stand over night. Tip barrel on side and allow the liquor to run out. Cover the meat with the cold brine and allow it to stand in a cool place for four or five days. Overhaul, repack and cover with the same brine. Repeat in about a week. Give the meat the same length of time for curing as with the dry cure. \x When the curing is complete, wash off the excess cure and hang the meat in the smoke house. Meat kept in the cure too long should be soaked in warm water to remove the excess of the cure. Smoke with hickory, oak, apple or any non-resinous wood. Avoid all wood of the pine family. With a continuous smudge, the the smoking can be completed In 24 hours. With intermittent smoking, a longer time is necessary, as cold meat takes the smoke slowly. Wrap the meat to keep it away from the skippers. If rats or mice get at the meat, they open a way for the skippers. In damp .weather cured meats will mold. This is not injurious, except that it is advisable to use ' up shoulders, as the mold grows in the cracks and calls for excessive trimming.?Wallace's Farmer. Another Loan to Britain. Washington, Oct. 24.?An addi tional loan of $30,000,000 to Great " Britain was today granted by the i government. This makes the total loaned the Allies $2,806,400,000. THE BAMBERG COUNTY JAIL. Report of the State Board of Chanties and Corrections. The following is the report of the State Board of Charities and Corrections on the Bamberg county jail, the inspection having been made on July 10, 1917: "Average daily population, 4.4 prisoners. "Plant, Management and Equipment.?The seriousness of the fire hazard at this jail has been pointed out in previous reports, but attention is again directed to it. The jail needs repairs in several particulars, pointed out below under recommendations to the supervisor and county commissioners. These officials ought to cooperate with the management of this jail by doing their part toward keeping it in a good state of repair and as adequately equipped as deficiencies in the plant will admit. The jail is county property and as such should not be neglected by the supervisor and his board o? commissioners. "Three meals a day are served to the prisoners in this jail, though the dieting fee is only 30 cents a day. Bamberg' county would do well to abolish the sheriff's fee for dieting prisoners, as has been done in several counties, and substitute for the fee the system of purchasing food supplies for the prisoners in jail in the same manner food is bought for the convicts on the chain gang. The jailer ought to be paid an adequate salary for managing the jail and the i county ought tp pay a cook for preparing the prisoners' meals. "A new prisoners' record book has been bought for the jail. Improvement of the record keeping of the prisoners is expected. "Recommendations to the Sheriff <j on .Management.?1. As to 'records of prisoners:' Keep at the sheriff's office in a suitable book a record of each prisoner committed te the Bamberg-jail, which will show his name, race, sex, the date of his commitment, the reason for his commitment (that is, whether awaiting trial, serving sentence, witness, or insane,) the date of discharge, ana the reason for discharge; that is, whether discharged adsolutely as being cleared in court, on bond, to chain gang, etc. "Recommendations to Supervisor and County Commissioners dn Equip rnent, etc.?1. As to 'jail's equipment and repair:*' Have the walls of the jailer's quarters, calcimined. Have the walls and ceilings of the prisoners' quarters scraped and painted white. Have the roof of the jail porch repaired. Have the post on the jail porch which is giving away repaired. "2. As to 'medical service:* Pay the jail physician for and require him to make a physical examination of each prisoner within 24 hours of his commitment to jail, to vaccinate prisoners against smallpox when indicated, to visit the jail regularly once a week and inspect the prisoners' quarters and their food; to treat sick prisoiers as at present." Score Card Report. I. Jail plant; permanent features: Scores. Posible. Actual. 1. Location .. 15 15 2. Separation of prisoners' quarters from jailer's residence 10 0 , 3. -Prisoners' quarters: (1) Fire hazard .... 45 14 (2) Ventilation 70 62 (3) Facilities for i ? ti 1 A A C 1 ciass^iiuauuii xw v?? (4) ? Sanitary facilities 100 34 (5) Cell facilities type 60 55 Total sc're under sec. 1 400 247 II. Sheriff's management; methods and results: 1. Jailer's general duties 50 33 2. Records of prisoners 30 16 3. Prisoners' quarters: Conditions.. 70 68 4. Classification of prisoners 80 80 5. Personal hygiene of prisoners 80 78 6. Prisoners' food and feeding 65 ? 63 7. Discipline and occupation of prisoners 25 25 Tot'l sc're under sec. II 400 363 III. County commissioners and the jail: 1. Jail's equipment and repair 110 69 A j; 1 z. .weuiuai service for prisoners 80 13 3. Financial management 10 0 Total score under sec. Ill 200 82 Complete score on this jail 1000 692 An automatic electrically operated machine dispatches elevators and enables skyscrapers to give more uniform elevator service. IN TUB PALMETTO STATE A ^ SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. \ " \ The South Carolina negro State fafr is being conducted this week in Columbia. The University of South Carolina has eight of its professors in the government service. The 1917 meeting the State conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be held at Camden on November 13. / Governor Manning has paroled, during good behavior, John Mouzon, convicted in Darlington in 1912, of manslaughter, and sentenced to serve eight years. A school for 1(H) horseshoers has been opene? at he remount station at Camp Sevier. The course will require three months to complete. Other schools are to be established shortly. B. B. Gossett, a cotton manufacturer of Anderson, has been appointed federal fuel administrator for, South Carolina by Dr. H. A. Garfield, national administrator. Mr. Gossett \ has accepted the appointment. , Greenville suffered a gasoline fain- < .#i ine during last Saturday and Sunday. From one to three thousand cars were stranded for. lack of gas during Saturday and Sunday. The last 500 gal- - Ions of gasoline was sold at 40 cents > a gallon. -1 - . a -,uM At the various training camps throughout the country athletics and exercise are urged upon the men. All the camps in this section have organized splendid football team|sy and the government furnishes them > with excellent paid coaches. The teams are made up of former great * . i university and college stars. Willie Parks and Robert Norton, two young white men^ have been > charged with manslaughter as the result of the death of David Cf. Briggs in Columbia on Thursday night of fair week. Briggs was run over by an automobile, which it is alleged was being driven by either Parks or Norton. Parks is out on a $1,500 bond and Norton has been released under a $500 bond. Governor Manning has ordered an election to be held on December 11th * . for the purpose of determining whether or not the people of the territory involved desire a new county to be formed from certain portions of Florence and Williamsburg counties. If the new county ts formed Lake City will probably be the county seat, and John Rutledge is the name proposed for the county, . which will include 436 sauare miles. Pershing's Men in Battle. _ Three cheers for Pershing's men. They are in action, and may the hearts and prayers of every American be with them in their godgiven task of teaching the Hun something. The first American gun of the war barked across "No man's land" at six o'clock one morning of the past week. It was firfed by a red haired American artilleryman amid the cheers of his fellow comrades and ' officers. Our boys are now actually in the trenches on the front line fight- ^ ing forces. So the enemy might as well sit up and take notice, for their c old uncle will be on the job from now on. -* Exposed to Literature. "Why cannot literature be taught?" asks a professor of English. "Why can you not teach a person how to fall in love, or have the measles? Expose him and if he be susceptible, the trick is done, and you may wisely nail in the narsnn nr the doctofl * J VM-4* AAA V?.w ? ? ? - as the case may be. But no amount of lecturing will improve or hasten the matter. I have analyzed with loving care the dark beauty of Shelley's maiden spirit! and found no man among about forty, willing even to acknowledge the introduction later, I have paraded the 'sturdy English virtues of Tom Jones before damsels whose economic dependence, and need to be supported in literature, was all too evident, and they have turned up their noses at him as not in our set. And then suddenly I have discovered the oddest matings ?the two mile runner eloping with Jane Austen, to whom he had never ? been formally presented, and a formar nrflpontraco flf mQthpmfltipq with UiCi J^A *? V?v??w. w.-w, - ? neck bottle shoulders, dizzilly delighted by the rough wooing of George Borrow, whom she had met by chance I in the stacks."?New Republic. < -;.Ji '.'V. d ; !.'