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[BUI I? :'-ii 1 01 B " 8 y v II ; TELEPHONI L PAY Gn^EX SOLDIERS. Americans Fighting Men Get More Than Europe's. Capturing American "Sammies" is a decidedly more lucrative occupation for the Prussian soldiers than fighting for the fatherland, says Thomas F. Logan, in Leslie's. When the Kaiser offered a bonus of $75 to the first man of his forces in France who captured an American soldier he fixed a sum that represents more than three years' pay of a private in the German army. The pay given American soldiers, compared with the pay of the British Tommy, the French poilu, the Italian, Alpini, the German boche and the other fighting men of Europe, seems handsome wages. The American second-class private will receive $33 a month. The French soldier receives exactly $31.50 less, ? or $1.50 a month. The Russian private gets thirty-two cents a month; the Austria-Hungarian troops are given two and a half cents a day. Great Britain allows her fighting men $7.60 a month for service in France, Mesopotamia and other foreign territories. Italy ranks second in generosity allowing a monthly minimum of $5.83. Spain compensates her soldiers with a monthly wage of $4.42; Germany has a wage scale beginning at $1.65; Japan's soldiers at home receives $8.00 a year, and Turkey grants her men $11 a year. Growing in Mind. It is said that Coleridge once exclaimed to Charles Lamb. "I could write plays just as well as Shakespeare, if I had a mind." "Yes," Tjimh. "that is just what you lack." It is a blessing, however, that even though we may not be able to do the work of a great genius, we may count upon growth in strength and breadth of mind. You can do with your mind today what you could not do five years ago. If you will give your mind an opportunity to grow by hard, honest, faithful severe work, you will be able to do much more five years from now than you are able to do today. If your mind become poisoned with low ideals, with poor literature, with wrong conceptions of life, you inay^s well expect it to grow, as to expect a plant to grow in your garden when you have allowed every sort of plant enemy to burrow about the roots and feed on the stalks and leaves. Watermans Ideal Fountain Pens at Herald Book Store. t GGU HHHHnHBHBBHn have on hand one < f the State, and I a )und any kind of 1 lakes. I handle 01 uantities, I am ena ou want, it will pa.1 Whether you want BHHHnnHHHm iiiiiiniii? niMmii umiiBw i m laini / - * *n- ., E 49 anX XHBSZMIhbS XHMZZZHISI 50,000,000 TONS SftORT. I * | War Industries, Public Utilities and Domestic Consumers First. Washington, Nov. 14.-^?The 1917 coal shortage is put at 50,000,000 tons in estimates completed today by the fuel administration. Although production of bituminous and anthratogether has jumped 50,000,000 tons, consumption, it is declared, has increased at least 100,000,000 tons. Immediate measures to meet the situation planned by Fuel Administrator Garfield include curtailment of shipments to non-essential industries, private orders designed to increase the car supply and a campaign for coal conservation in manufacturing (establishments and households. Using More Coal. Previous statements from the fuel administration had indicated the belief that the increased production might meet the enlarged demands. Munition plants, however, are said] to be using fully 50 per cent morej coal than they hsed a year ago. "The fuel administrator is determined," said Dr. Garfield today, "that war industries, public utilities and domestic consumers shall be supplied. To this end the fuel administration expects the cooperation of every coal user in the country. The fuel administration will use all of its authority to prevent the waste of fuel and the unnecessary use of coal. Domestic users will be urged to conserve their supplies. War Needs First. "Wherever the unnecessary use of coal in industry threatens to embarrass war industry, the fuel administration will see that the war needs are filled. All activities which are unnecessary to the maintenance of the military or economic efficiency | will have to give way by curtailment ! to the necessities of war and this ? li-U ^ j U /Mti nnrlnc must De accompjusinsu \>i<,huul curtailment of the domestic supply." Dr. Garfield illustrated the increased demand for coal by pointing to the requirements of the Bethlehem Steel Company, which is consuming this year 3,000,000 tons more than it took in 1916. The demands of the government, including the requirements of the fighting forces of the army and navy, jumped this year from 2,000,000 to 8,000,000 tons. Solution of the car shortage, officials believe, will do as much towards increasing the supply to meet the demand as will curtailment of industry. II? ES! of the largest stock m selling them at juggy you may w ily the best vehich bled to sell them cl V you to see my sto t to buy or not, M I"~IE~10( AMERICAN AIRPLANES. By 1919, the World Will Open Its Eyes. With all our genius for invention, declares Waldemar Kaempffert, in The American Review of Reviews, with ajl the knowledge of skilled automobile manufacturers to draw upon, with the best expert information of Europe at our disposal, it is not likely that we shall see as many as 5,000 American airplanes on the battlefield by the spring of 1918. We can do little more than lay the foundation for a not too distant future. No army officer with any regard for his reputation will claim that we can win the war in the air in | another year. But by 1919, the j world will open its eyes. Then we shall be manufacturing 4,000 air, planes a month, and we shall have j 30,000 of them ready for the camp| aign of that year. How many of us realize what it means to build not only 23,000 airplanes, but just one pair of wings on which a brave man may soar among the clouds, just one trustworthy engine, just one exquisitely-fashioned propeller? Here is a machine which has some of the attributes of a butterfly, which is driven through the atmosphere at such speed that each gust is like the blow of a powerful sledge hammer, and which, unlike a motor car, almost always runs at full power, so that it is severely strained. Safety depends on the most meticulous choice of material and on correct designing. A flying machine must be as airily light for its size as thistledown and yet as strong for each square foot of its surface as a girder; and it must travel sometimes at a speed twice that of the fastest express train. Twenty-three thousand times must a 1 " ? ? an trinaorin <r hp miracie in inci/ii<iui^ai cugiu?uiug ?<? performed within a year. Cross Currents. "How longg after you were mar| ried before your wife spoke crossly to you?" "She yelled at me the minute I stepped on the train." "My goodness! What for?" "Wei you see. I tore off about four wards of it."?Judge. A Natural Question. "You gave me a Christmas cigar, Mr. Flubdub," said the man who occasionally came around in quest of j odd jobs. "So I did. Are you just [getting out, old chap?" J5U ;s of Buggies ever e the right prices. 1 rish, open or top, js to be had, and heap. No matter \ >ck, I will guarantee come in to see i \ O i DA BAM] TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15th day of October, 1917, until the 15th day of March, 1918, inclusive. From the first day of January, 1918, until the 31st day of January, 1918, a penalty of one per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of February, 1918, a w_. - M n * o r? riorl penally ui ?* per cent. *vui uc auuou to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of March, 1918, until the 15th day of March, 1918, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. THE LEVY. [For State purposes mills rFor county purposes 7 Vz mills Constitutional school tax....3 mills Total 1 19 mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. J Hopewell, No. 1 - 3 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills j Fish Pond, No. 5 2 mills Hutto, No. 6 2 mills Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills Olar, No. 8 9 mills Salem, No. 9 4 mills St. John's, No. 10 2 mills Govan, No. 11 S mills Binnaker's, No. 12 3 mills Lemon Swamp, No. 13 4 mills Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills Oakland, No. 15 8 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 8 mills Colston, No. 18 4 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills Oak Grove, No. 20 4 mills Denmark, No. 21 6% mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 13 mills Lees, No. 23 A mills TT J XT_ o J o 411 a | neywa.ru, inu. t*t * win* All persons between th9,ages of twenty-one and sixty years of age, except Confederate veterans and sailors, who are exempt at 50 years of age, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar. Capitation dog tax 50 cents. All persons who were 21 years of age on or before the 1st day of January, 1917, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar, and all who have not made returns to the Auditor are requested to do so on or before the 1st of January, 1918. I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the 15th day of October, 1917, until the 1st day of March, 1918. G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer Bamberg County. No. 666 ! Thia it a prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS 6. FEVER. Five or six doses will break any ease, and if taken then as a ton?c the Fever will not i return. It acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c The Quinine That Does Not Affect the Heed Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor ringing in head. Remember the full name and look for the signature of E. W. GROVE* 30c* ESZ3CIZ3EZIZ3CZISIC r> rir e nil uuiLj; ill exhibited in this part Jj In the stocK may he of several standard j as I buy in large _ i ill vhat kind of Buggy \ ! ifl j to save you money. ij via us when in town.. : ???? MBERG 8ERG, SOUTH CAROLINAJ ENLIST! INABOTTLE If S In the growing ' ffij army, which is '-i |?f| Iff 1111' en'oying dai,y 1 ^1| 'll a ^ott'e ' a ^traw'" ^py 'i| |J J Pleasing to the palate : ,|jj 1*^^ REFRESHING jj ^^r^Wrfffr'Wr-f-rrrrfi^ With no 'bad after ;).^|| *1 . effect. Cnern-Cola I A combination of delicious \ wSS^rQ^ fruit flavors' with a *ul1 Pr?P?r ' tion ?* the refresllin? an(* ex~ hilarating Cola Nut as the base, ^ a11 blende^so exactly that there' 1 I -^i n I r? ?,i? r*. - lis IUhero-Uoia Doming ^o. | ^ BAMBERG, S. C. J|lj - - -