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* ' * g tTiir Ifantbrrg Ifmtlb te (tee Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8,1917. Established 1891. COUNTRV NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IX VARIOUS SECTION'S. News Items Gathered All Around the i County and Elsewhere. Colston Clippings. Colston, November *> ?Miss Annie Lou Hutson spent last week-end at her home in Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Probe Sease. .Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Fender and little daughter Lucile and Miss Pretto Fender, of Ehrhardt, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Fender. The Saturday night and Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Kearse "were: Misses Lena Kearse and Deb, bie Robinson, of Olar, and Messrs. Mamie McMillan and Cleo Kearse, of Bamberg. Messrs. George Fender. Hammie Folk and Talbert Padgett, of Bamberg, spent last week-end at their respective homes in this section. Mrs. Ogreta Beard is spending some time in Bamberg. Mr. John Cook, of Williston. was a visitor in this section Sunday. Mr. Jones McMillan, formerly on the police force in Augusta, has returned home and has charge of one of the chain gangs of this county. J * TT 77" c*r\>11 ctuu. ivirjs. n. i\. iun Sunday and Sunday night with Mrs. Clayton's father, Mr. Smoak, of the Spring Branch section. We regret to state that Mr. Srnoak is very ill. But'ord Bridge Budget. Buford Bridge, November 6.?Miss Sarah Neeley is now enjoying the, pleasure of a seven-passenger car. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Kirkland spent last Monday in Ehrhardt. The cane mills are working now,! and, oh, the visitors tnat visit them. Mr. J. H. Kirkland and family went to Bamberg last Monday. Miss Ruth Shuler spent last weekend in Ehrhardt very pleasantly with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Copeland. BOAGUS. > (ieese Saved British Forces. This is the story of how the Geese of Kale-Zir gave the warning and saved a British detachment. When the Bulgars left their native fastnesses and came down into the a1 ? ?-o n ho If A/l Kvr Plains. Xlieir iiUV ailCC v> as uancu u.i a certain famous river and a historic lake. A British company was holding the Upper Lake, for it 'was di vided into two parts connected by the river. The company was charged with responsibility for the upper K lake and five miles of the connecting stream as far as Kale-Zir. They hadj absolute command of the lake, thanks to the motorboats, and a crossing there was inconceivable, but the river flowed through a maze of reeds and swamps and forest most parts of which appeared absolutely impenetrable from the British side. A feeling of comparative safety prevaded the British camp. Then one evening the orderly of! ficer set out from the camp on his bicycle to visit two outposts up the river nearly two miles from the camp, ft was nearly dark. As he neared the sentry, he heard the movement of wings, and distinguished flock after i flock of ducks flying from their night rest among the reeds. "'Looks odd." he remarked to the sentry. Then to a sergeant. "I'll take one man. sergeant, and we'll cycle down the path and have a look." The path ran a quarter of a mile aiong the marsh and then died an ab-upt death in a stifling fence of "ppds The officer and his orderly dismounted and listened. They could discern over in the sv.amp a Ion? Mne of men in single *i!e. ^ Back at the picket post the orderly sen: a n an to warn the camp, while he remained behind to keen the enemy raiders under observation. The raiders were two hundred j strong, under command of a Germani officer. They kept to the path until just before it came into a clearing. Then they halted anu prepared to attack. They got into a loose sort of open order and came on quickly. At that moment the British officer fired four shots, immediately a light over the British camp appeared. The glare was dazzling. There was a moment's silence and then a roar of fire. It was a complete surprise. The raiders were bunched close, and must have had fifty casualties in the first fusiTtiuv iir\ ntto'Miit to IttUt;. x uv; *ui?v4v vbvw.tx'v ~ sist, but flung everything away and made for the maize fields. An exchange speaks of "most of ine beef at the average man's table." That's a mistake. It ain't there. 1<> NATIONS FIGHTING (iKIOIANY. T!ire**-fourtlis of the World's Population Arrayed Against Teutons. .More than three-fourths of the world's population lives in the 19 countries at war with Germany or her allies, according to compilations I from government sources. The persons living within the central countries are outnumbered | more than seven times by anti-Germanic populations, and the proportion is swelled even higher if consideration is taken of the population of the ten countries which have broken relations with the central powers. Germany's enemies now in elude nearly an tne wnite ana yeiiow races, and the physical resources of J about half the world's are mobiI -lized against the forces of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. For these reasons observers here I are watching intently the play of ini fiuence within the few remaining neuj trals, including Spain, Netherlands, I Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzer! land and in America, Argentina, VenI ezuela, Paraguay, Colombia, Ecuador. ! Salvador and Mexico. Similarly, unusual interest is felt ! here in the future course of the na| tions which have broken relations j with Germany or her allies. These j are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, j Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua. Peru. | Uruguay and San Domingo. It is pointed out here that of the ! world's total population of 1,691,j 000,000 about 1,342.000,000 live uni der flags of the central powers' open [ enemies in the war. About 4 0,000,I AAA f Ua nnnnf rioc TvVmaIi ha VP I \J\j\J iiiuauxi unc vvuim n broken relations, and 132,000,000! are neutral, while the population oi'i Germany and her allies is about ! | 177,000,000. Of the worlds total area of 57,000-1 000 square miles, 27.000,000 are under anti-German domination, while | the Germanic allies control only 5,000,000. State department records show ! the following nations at war with I Germany or her allies: United States, ! Great Britain, France, Russia. Servia, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Portugal Roumania, Greece, Montenegro, San Marino, China, Cuba, Panama, Siam, Liberia and Brazil. The alignment of these nations is, shown by the formal declarations of war made since Austria precipitated the world strife on July 28, 1914, by declaring war on Servia. These declarations are as follows: Austria against Belgium. Montenegro, Russia and Servia: Bulgaria against Servia; China against Austria) and Germany; France against Aus-j tria. Bulgaria and Germany; Ger-j many again>^ France. Portugal and Russia; Great Britain against Bulgaria, Austria. Germany and Turkey; Greece against Germany; Italy against Austria. Bulgaria and Germany; Japan against Germany; Liberia against Germany; Montenegro against Austria; Panama; against Germany; Roumania against1 Austria; Servia against Turkey;! Turkey against ali the entente na-; tions, November 23, 1914, and laterj against Roumania; United States j against Germany; Brazil against Germany. Dance Their Way to A. B. Degree. Clark College is to give gymnasium credit for dancing. It's a fact. The 0 weary student can bring fair Annabel! i I to the college gymnasium, spend the; evening learning the latest wrinkles; in the dancnng game and count the! evening as offsetting one gymnasium | period. When the college made funda-i mental militarv training a part of the i I gy nasi urn requireftient of every stu-j dent and increased the number ofj periods l or juniors and seniors, there j was mild disapproval expressed by j | some of the students. Not so now, because the requirement in physical' education may be met at the election | of the student by regular gymnasium i work, boxing, fencing, or for onej I period a week, by attending dancing! | class. The first dancing class is Oc-i taber 2">. Throw Him Out. Woman?"1 can't give you a cold bite." Tramp?"Why not warm it up?" I \\ oman?"mere ain i any wuou i sawed." Tramp?"So? Well, give it to me cold."?The Menace. His Crime. C'ai tain?"What's he charged with. Casey?" Oj'licer?"I don't know the regular name fer it. captain: but I caught him a-flirtin in the park." Captain?"Ah, that's impersonatin' I an officer."?Judge. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS! KINDS IX SOUTH CAROLINA. \ State News Boiled Down for Qnick* Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. The Pickens county Red Cross chapter has been organized with a membership of 2S0. Sheriff Rector and his deputies of Greenville county destroyed five illicit distilleries during October. Up to date the Greenville Red Cross chapter has completed 35,000 articles for the Red Cross to send to the army. A North Charleston lumber company is building large numbers of portable houses for the use of the aviation corps of the American army in France. Lawyer Made to Kiss "Old Glory." Wellsboro, Pa.. Nov. 2.?Assertions that Germany was justified in her invasion of Belgium caused a crowd of several hundred men gathered to honor drafted men today to attack and drag William Kehler, a local lawyer, across the street and force him to kiss an American flag. The lawyer then took refuge in his office while the crowd marched to tne station wueie eighty-one Tioga county men left for camp. The remarks were made by .Mr. Kebler on the court house steps while the drafted men were receiving comfort kits from the Wellsboro Red Cross chapter. Kehler was roughly handled before breaking away. SPENDING MOXE\ IN FRANCE. Things the. I'nited States Has to Do There. \ Doubtless the reader, when he picks up his newspaper and sees that the war department is asking for hundreds of millions of dollars, wonders what it is all about. He can understand the cost of raising and equipping armies, the cost of transporting them and the cost of giving them rifles,big gunsand ammunition. But he is not apt to think how much more necessary, especially when an army is fighting on foreign soil 3,000 miles away from America. Here is what some of these appropriations mean: In sending our ar-l mies to France, we are trying to put' inst as little burden upon the French people as possible. This means that every pound of food, every gun, every shell, every cartridge, will, if possible be sent "over there" from our American supply depots. Somewhere in France at the port of entry designated for the American army, this country will have to build big piers to accommodate our ships. It will have to erect tremendous warehouses in which the goods unloaded from the ships|\vill be stored. From this port up to the part of the trenches American troops are ultimately to occupy, the United States engineer regiments will build a network of railways to carry supplies and men back and forth. We can't afford to cripple the efficiency of the French armies by using Freneii railroads. These must be left clear for French needs. It will be the same thing with automobile roads. We will build our own. At various points we will have supply depots near the firing line. We will | have big base hospitals. There will be vast machine shops in which to repair railroad engines, artillery of all kinds, automobile trucks of every description, armored cars, hospital ambulances, airplane motors. An army of men will be working behind the lines, and they will have to be housed. They will be the men who handle the supplies and who will work in those immense repair shops. Ameri an industrial cities, created solely for the duration of the war. will spring up at various points in France. And the bigger part we play in finally smashing the Germans. the! i -.^rov thp \nieriean railwavs. roads, shops and warehouses. These things are as vital to the war as the men in khaki themselves. Without all the preparations behind the lines, the army could not exist tor three weeks. The Lit building programme has J already been started. Regiments of American army engineers are busy behind the lines at present. Once all is secure and in ship-shape order in the rear, on^e food and supplies and the other necessaries can be sent forward in a steady stream, the men in olive drab will be ready to step into the trenches and take up the battle for democracy.?Worcester Post. GREENVILLK BOY IS PRISONER. I Wrote Recently He Was Eager To Get Into First "Scrap." I Greenville, Nov. 5.?Daniel B. Gallagher, among the first twelve American prisoners taken by the Germans, was extensively known here, where | he lived for a few months before enlisting here on January 2">. 1917. His sister, Miss Annie Gallagher, who holds a position with the local telephone company, was the only relative here, the rest of the family being in Blocton, Ala. Young Gallagher came to Greenville the latter part of last year, and though he had been here only a few months when he enlisted in the army and was sent to a training camp at Columbus, Ohio, had made a number of friends in the city. Heard From Him Sunday. The last letter from her brother was received by Miss Gallagher only last Sunday, and said that the writer was feeling well and enjoying life, but eager to get into the first scrap with the Germans, adding that all the Americans in France were eager to get into action. Miss Gallagher was visibly affected by news of her brother's capture, saying that although she realized that her brother was safer than on the firing line, she knew he would have preferred to remain in action. Young Gallagher is now eighteen years of age. He impressed the local recruiting officers as being a fine specimen of physical and moral manhood, stating when enlisted that he did not care to stay at home while the country was at war and asking to be enlisted in that branch likely to see foreign service first. He has a brother in training at Camp Wheeler, Ma-1 _ I con, Ga. Germans Giving Brazil Trouble. | Buenos Aires, Nov. 2.?A German uprising is in progress in Southern Brazil, completely paralyzing railway traffic, according to private reportsreceived in railway circles here. The I strikes inaugurated in this district! are said to be spreading to other parts of Brazil. It is reported that only ' the strictest military measures are| making the movement of trains possi-j ble. The dispatches continue to report \ "the severest military measures against Germans" in Southern Brazil,! where there are large German colo-i nies. Details as to these measures j and general conditions are withheld I bv the censorship. j Just What He Wanted. j \ I I The old gentleman in his heart did1 I * +1-1^ vnitntr frpntlpniflll as' li U L UUJCL U L \J mc VUUQ O vy? a son-in-law, but he liked to raise | objections and then reach an agree-i ment as though conferring a favor.! When the young man called he was ready for him. "So," he interrupted, fiercely, al-j most before the suitor could commence, "you want me to let you'mar-1 ry my daughter, do you?" The young man very coldly responded : "I didn't say so, did I?" "But," the old gentleman gasped.' "you were going to say so." I "Who told you I was?" inquired the applicant, seeing his advantage. "But you want me to let you marry her, don't you?" "No." "No!" exclaimed the old gentle-! man, almost falling off the chair. "That's what I said." "Then what the mischief do you! want?" | "I want you to give your consent."! replied the youth pleasantly. "I am j going to marry her, anyhow, hut we; thought your consent wouldn't he a: had thing as a start." It took the old gentleman a minute to realize the situation. When he did ! i he put out his hand. "Shake hands, my boy." said lie., "I've been looking lor a son-in-law j with some pluck about him. and I'm. sure vou'll do first-class." I ? On the Inside. Father?"Yes. hut 1 am not alto-j gether certain in intrusting her to j vrmt* <r " i ,v"" , Young Man?"Well perhaps you! haven't had the same advantages for j observing things that T have."?j Smart Set. English citizens object seriously j to the enactment of a compulsory j military service act in the Hongkong j colony, but were unable to defeat thej measure. The objectors based their j opposit ion chiefly on the failure of j the act to limit compulsory service to the duration of the war. Read the Herald.. $1.50 per year, j DESTROYER ENEMY OF Sll! 1 ") EFFECTIVENESS OF DESTROYER PROVEN BY DIARIES TAKEN. Less Merchantmen Lost; More Sut: marines Sent I>o\vn Also Show Worth of Destroyer. Base of the American Flotilla i British Waters, Oct. 16.?Diaries tab en from captured U-boat commander furnish documentary evidence tha i the destroyer is the most effective o i present weapons against the subma j rine. Avoided destroyer is the oit ! repeated entry. In fact, these log Bhow conclusively that the submarine 1 are having a hard- time of it. The result of the destroyer activi j ties during the last four weeks ha been not only a decrease in casualtie ; in merchant ships, but also a stil j more satisfactory increase in tli ' number of submarines sunk. Covoying Perfected. The convoying of merchantmen ha J now reached a stage of considerabl i perfection after many month's wor in training, both the officers of me: chant ships, and the personnel of tli patrol flotilla. The offensive side o convoying may be best shown by a: illustration. When a submarine trie to torpedo a convoyed ship?as sub ! marines are now compelled to d | owing to tne mirequency 01 uncon ! voyed shipping?there is always | destroyer on the scene, and th ; chances of her "getting" that par iticular submarine are corresponding ; ly increased. The wake of a torpedo is generall |seen by the destroyer's lookouts, am | it gives a good line on the directio: where the submarine is lying, the de stroyer immediately steers course ful speed in the line shown by the tor ; pedo out of the torpedo wake am drops repeated depth charges alon, . this course. Cites Tluee Cases. j In a considerable proportion o cases this proves effective. Th Associated Press correspondent wa told of three cases during the las fortnight in which submarines wer ! thus destroyed. In many instance no doubt submarines are destroyei without any visible indication abov water of their loss. Still others ar badly crippled, as in the case of th damaged German U-boat which wa recently interned in Spain. | Another submarine which will nev er return to Germany was sunk un der peculiar circumstances a shor (time ago. This U-boat torpedoed ship bound from the United States It is extremely unwise and unsaf to fire a torpedo at such close range but the U-boats must take their tar gets as they get them these days - * . * * Tiie torpedoed snip was ioaaea win ja cargo of heavy war material am the explosion was so forcible that i blew a .large piece of the heavy ma terial through the deck of the sul marine as the latter was submerging The hull of the submarine was crush ed like an egg shell and she san] ; with all on board. A Necessary Evil. ! Prosperity is too good for som j folks. They can't stand it. It turn their lives inside out and crack their brains in twain. For instance: A man in the North imported 30 darkies from the South for streee work. The negroes were paid at th rate of $3 a day, and after pay-da; on Saturday none of them showe< up until Wednesday of the foliowin; week. The contractor mentioned his ex perience to a Southern white man who promised to "fix" it for him. The following Friday, so it is re lated. along came a negro "dressei to kill." checked suit, red tie, cam and white spats. Walking up to the contractor hi made known his business. "I'se wants to keep yo nigger stickin' round so that they will 011 hand early Monday morning," In said. ..-ill v?ii Afi ir?" askprl till iiu? >-.111 .? vrw v?v .V . contractor. "Oh. I'se a gambler, bos*, a crap shooter, an' leave it to me?your nig gers will work reg'lar because the: won't have nuthin' else to do afte I'm through with them." And so it was. The darihes wen on hand early Monday morning anc the erap-shootin' gentleman wasn't. Itamberg Cotton Market. Quotation for Wednesday, Octobei Quotation for Wednesday. Novem ber 7, 4:30 p. m.: Middling 27 ^4 j SUMMERS TO SUCCEED WATSON. Graduate of Clemson State CommLsS sioner of Agriculture. Columbia, Oct. 31.?Governor .Manning today appointed A. C. Sum' mers State Commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries, to succeed the late E. J, Watson. Mr. Summers has been chief chemist of the department since the formation 11 of the chemistry bureau May 15, 1910. He is a graduate of Clemson ^College, class of 1908, and a native X; of Springfield, Orangeburg county. j Although only thirty-two years of L~j age, Mr. Summers has made a repu"j taticn as a chemist and his associs j ates say that he is thoroughly fasi miliar with the needs and workings of the department over which he is l~ appointed. Shortly after his gradus ation he went to Perdue University, sj Layfette, lnd., as assistant State 111 chemist, and was called from that e | institution by Col. Watson to take charge of the division of chemistry at its inception. Mr. Summers also s is associate professor of chemistry at e | the University of South Carolina. Governor Manning stated today "ithat Mr. Summers's appointment is e i temporary and the new commission1 j er only accepted the position as such. nj The appointment, explained the Chief sj Executive, is made temporary in order that a thorough study of the de u: partment might be made, incident to "[certain recommendations that the ai Governor proposes to make to the 81 General Assembly. The Governor is of the opinion that the department is overloaded and that the activities of certain of its divisions overlap. This J condition, he thinks, should be recti^ fied. 11 In making the appointment Governor .Manning today is? tied the following statement: "In view of the fact that I am goj ing to recommend to the General Asg sembly certain changes in the work of the department, and in view of the I fact that the department as now orfiganized and operated needs a head e in order to transact its routine busi* ness, I have decided to appoint Mr. . t ' V A. C. Summers as commissioner of e agriculture, commerce and industries, s with the understanding that the apJ pointment is temporary. Mr. Sume mers will conduct the department e during this emergency. e "Mr. Summers has had many s ' nvnor>(flnn/s in tlio ^onoptmont ^ CGI O CApUi ill uvjuMi WUIVMW and is familiar with its work." Shall, Will, Should, Would, t a No solecisms are more frequent > than those which consist in the come mon misuse of "shall" and "will." A person who has not been trained to make the proper distinction be' tween "shall" and "will," "should" h and "would" never can be sure of usd ing them correctly, but he will t make few mistakes if he fixes firmly - in his mind that I (or we) shall, you ' will, he (or they) will express simple > futurity and that I (or we will, you shall, he or they) shall imply volition k on the part of the speaker. Some t writers hold that "shall" tfas the original form of the future and that whenever courtesy permits "shall" is to be preferred to "will." But at ei all events the doctrine of courtesy s furnishes a rough and ready rule to s choice between the two. "Should" and "would" follow the ^ same rules as "shall" and "will," but they have, in addition, certain mean- / 11 ' ! ings peculiarly their own. "Should" 8 is sometimes used in its original * sense as "ought," as in "You should not do that;" sometimes in a condio* B tionai sense, as in "Should you ask me about that," and after "lest," as in "He fled lest he should be im' prisoned." "Would" is sometimes used to signify habitual action, as in "The squire would sometimes fall 1 I asleep in the mo?t pathetic Dart of e . the sermon. e! Germans Kill X Americans. si Washington, Nov. 4.?Advancing under protection of a heavy barrage e fire, a German raiding party before j daylight on November 3 stormed a ?j trench held by American infantry. | killing three, wounding five and cap*J turing twelve, according to dispatches ~| from Gen. Pershing received by the 7 War Department tonight. r American infantry were in occupation of a small salient for instruc tions when cut off from the main * body by heavy bombardment of German artillery. Gen. Pershing reports the capture of one prisoner. Enemy losses are not known, says the dispatch. r ? ? Quit wondering when the war will end, and decide when YOU are going I to help stop it. i