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(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
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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.
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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
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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
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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."
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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!
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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
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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
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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.
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