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. ; s> * ' ( SU M- ?lu> lambrrg ffirralb fe ? ?????? i One Dollar and a Half a Year. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29,1917. Established 1891. A ? COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. News Items Gathered All Around the County and Elsewhere. Colston Clippings. Colston, November 27.?Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McMillan and family and Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Yarn spent Sunday night with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Beard and family. Misses Evelyn and Bessie Kirkland were the Saturday night guests of Mrs. Alex. Jennings. Miss Natalie Kearse spent Saturday night and Sunday with Misses Cora and Dora McMillan. Mr. Duncan Beard, of Savannah, was called to the bedside of his father, Mr. George Beard, who is very ill. The many friends of Mr. Beard hope soon to see him restored to his usual heath. Misses Pearle Hutson, Evelyn Kirkland and Bessie Kirkland were the Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and If^c Thnc ninvfrm y Messrs. Gerald and Wesley Kearse spent Sunday with Mr. Vernon McMillan. * , We are sorry to know that Mr. i Reuben Kearse. of Camp Sevier, is ery ill., ^ Messrs. Albert McMillan, Henry Kearse and Talbert Padgett, of Bamberg, spent Sunday in this section. Miss Laura McMillan and Mr. Per4 ry Lee McMillan spent Sunday with Miss Alberta Kearse. Mr. and Mrs. Probe Sease, of Ehr-! hardt, visited at Mr. C. C. Fender's j "Sunday. The Sunday visitors of Mr. and v* Mrs. Alex. Jennings were: Miss Hattie Kirkland, and Messrs. Will McMillan, Claude Kirkland. Clinton Vree and Frank Kirkland, Jr. Schofield Sketches. Schofield, November 25.?It seems i that a touch of winter has appeared, judging from the overcoats that we have seen for the past few days. The thermometer registered about 25 degrees Sunday morning. Miss Verna French, of Columbia, t>pen the week-end her with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. French. Mrs. Ogreta Beard, of the Colston section, is visiting relatives here. Mr. F. M. Elliott is improving and will be able to resume hs duties in the next few days. Miss Mable Sowers is spending some time with relatives at Buffalo, j N. Y. Mr. G. C. Beard, who has been emJj*. floyed by Lightsey Brothers, of Mit. ** leys, has accepted a position here, gj DRAEBLR. Branchville Brevities. Branchville, November 24.?Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Edwins, of Bamberg, visited relatives here during the past week. N Miss Ruth Byrd has returned home after a pleasant visit to relatives in Augusta, Ga. Mrs. Murray Carr, of Columbia, is spending some time with relatives here. The Rev. A. J. Allen, of Hartsville, spent a few days with friends here this week. Mrs. W. A. Izlar, of Augusta, Ga., was on a visit to relatives here last week. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Rhoad and son visited relatives in Orangeburg last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Black and children and Miss Rebecca Evans, of Holly Hill, spent the week-end with and Mrs. J. M. Byrd. f Pood Administrators Can't Get Sugar. ^ Members of the Food Administrai tion at Washington, D. C., now have an added personal reason for urging conservation of sugar. A recent canvass of retail stores of the city showed that of 22 stores 15 had no sugar. Three had only a small supply of cube sugar in packages. Every store had less than 100 pounds and none had prospects of an immediate supply. Of three wholesalers and one jobber, two had no sugar. One had a three-day .supply. No relief is promised for at least ?-? ?ori An xr-ill hn &>1A wccfts, auu >i aaniu^iuu r? iu on a short sugar ration until after Christmas at least. In the Middle West and on the Panfic Coast, where reserve stocks are heavier, dealers generally are responding to the cry for help by placing the same limit on sales in use in the hard-hit Eastern districts?2 pounds to a customer, providing other purchases are made. h THREE FLORENCE LADIES HURT. Struck by Machine Driven by Ranker, Who Is Taken in Custody. ? Florence, Nov. 22.?A most distressing accident occurred at the recently widened corner of Evans and Dargan streets, (Lake's corner), this afternoon in which three promnent ladies of the city were more or less badly injured. .Mrs. Redding K. Lewis, -Mrs. .MiKe M. Brow nand Mrs. George Jones were crossing the street at the above point when they were suddenly run into by an automobile driven by Mr. Sam McCall, a well known cotton buyer and banker of this city. Mrs. Lewis was knocked down, the car passing over her body. She was badly bruised and was pulled from beneath the car. Mrs. Brown was knocked down and badly shocked and bruised. Pedestrians and others near rushed to their assistance and helped them to a nearby physician for first aid attention and later they were conveyed to their respective homes. ^ Mr. McCall was taken in charge by an officer and an investigation will be held tomorrow morning. The accident caused no little excitement and considerable feeling. Each of the ladies is resting easy tonight. "WHAT WE NEED IS MEN." How a Soldier Who Is "Over-There" Sees Things. Here in an extract from an American officer's letter this month to a friend in the Middle West: "Just got a letter from home, and it surely did surprise me. Kate says that our town and country don't really know yet that we're in a war. The families whose sons are drawn in the draft do, but their feeling is chiefly one of resentment because it happens to be their boys who have to go. And all the rest still look at the war as a big military job for the army, something wholly apart from themselves and anything they can do. "Well, that's the way our people [have always regarded an army?Jiist ! a big machine apart. But if they were over here they'd get a different slant. It would hit them straight between the eyes that the army in wartime is the nation, and that it takes a whole nation to win. They'd soon learn this is their fight. "What are the I. W. W.'s doing I and the pacifists? They're the best friends the Boches have got. "You can tell the folks we know | that they musn't sit down and fold their arms and imagine they've done their part because they've bought a few liberty bonds and subscribed to I the Red Cross. Liberty bonds must be taken care of and the Red Cross is a fine thing for an army?when we get one! Y. M. C. A. workers, ambulance drivers and tours by Billy Sunday are all right when the time comes but they can't beat or frighten the Boches. What we need over here, and need quick, is men! Fighting men with guns?then more fighting men?and more ready to take their places when they've been put out of business?not men by tens of thousands, but by hundreds of thousands ?miilions. "We need along with them great ship loads of shells and guns?big 'uns?railroad supplies, sowbelly, flour, beans, coffee, tobacco. After a while, when the tension lets up a little and we can see daylight, perhaps a few luxuries won't do any harm?such as smooth underwear manicurist, candy, perfumed soap, relief workers, preserves, hair oil, goose livers, custard pies and so on. But just now our most urgent requirement is men?six feet tall wearing No. 10 shoes?who're able to ; wield a pick, tote a gun, handle an ! axe or a bull, eat a pound of fried | steak, sleep a while and get up and do it all over again." Penults for Persons Subject to l>raft. No passport is required b<r the J State Department to go to Canada, | but persons subject to draft who dej sire to cro'ss the line are often dej laved while their cases are being inj vestigated. When any registered person desires a passport or to go to Canada he may apply to his local board for a permit. If he is not likely to-be j called within the period of the proI nncAri ahsfnpp or if tilt* board is ; otherwise assured that his absence will not result in evasion of or interference with the execution of the draft law, he may obtain the permit by giving his address while absent | and by agreeing to keep himself informed of any call upon him and to return immediately upon call. IN THE PALMETTO STATE SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading.?Paragraphs About Men and Happenings. Governor Manning has appointed (Jr. (J. Sullivan, 01 Anaerson, a director of the State penitentiary, vice W. H. Glenn, of Anderson, resigned. A South Carolina soldier, Leon Ray, from Fairfax, died Sunday at Camp Wheeler, near Macon, Ga., with pneumonia. He was a member of Battery C. one hundred and eighteenth field artillery. Calling attention to the insistence of the federal government on more thorough cooperation from the sheriffs and magistrates of the State in the suppression of the illicit distillation of intoxicants, Governor Mannng, in a letter addressed to the sheriffs of South Carolina asks that such assistance be given. At the December meeting of the State board of,health it is expected that a campaign will be planned for the eradication of malariai from certain portions of South Carolina, where the prevalence of this disease has hindered development of agricultural and industrial enterprise and ' f -1 *11. AM seriously lnieriereu wiui muui uuuditions. John L. Hartness, a young white man, aged 19 years, lost his life at Wateree last Tuesday, the result of scalding. The derrick he jvas operating for the Hardaway manufacturing company overturned under a loadof rock, and the boiler from which j the derrick was operated also was | overturned. The young man was j caught in the escaping steam. | A young man giving his name as I W. W. Allman, a German, is under 'arrest at Greenville on suspicion of being a German spy. He gives his age as only 17 and claims to have come from Brooklyn. Numerous blank checks of various banks over % the East were found on his person. Pending investigation a charge of forgery has been made against him. JUMPED INTO SEA. / Americans Risked Lives to Rescue Huns on Submarine. Base of the American Flotilla in British Waters, Nov. 26.?It is now permissible to give the details of the capture by Americans of the entire crew of a U-boat that was sunk by depth charges. The explosives had disabled the U-boat and ^>rced it down, bumping along the bottom of the sea and striking terror to the hearts of the crew. Then the com1 i i- li-1.4 1. ?_ manaer, in oraer 10 ngmen nor, i emptied tlie tanks. To the great relief of the crew, the U-boat responded and arose to the surface with such a rush that some of the Germans were thrown about and injured. The U-boat appeared On the surface within several feet of an American destroyer. The submarine's hatch flew open and the Germans scrambled out of the conning tower, coatless and shoeless, ready to swim for it. They lined up along the narrow deck with hands in the air. shouting: "Kamerad." Jumped Into Sea. The U-boat remained stationery and the destroyed moved close up and heaved a line, which the Germans made fast. This was 110 sooner done than it became apparent that the crewhad succeeded in opening the seacock, for the submarine began to set tie at first slowly, then more rapidly. As she did so the Germans leaped into the water and swam toward the destroyer. Some of the American sailors jumped into the sea to rescue the injured. The last German was lifted aboard the destroyer, the hawser attached to the U-boat parted under the strain and the U-boat disappeared. Made Comfortable. All the Germans were given steaming hot coffee and dry clothing and were otherwise made comfortable for the run to the base. But one of their number, a machinist, had suffered greatly from shock and exposure, and died on the way. He was buried with full niilitnn- honors from the deck Of I the destroyer, the American commander officiating at what was the first funeral so far held in this war on an American destroyer. When the destroyer reached her base the prisoners were almost wholly clad in American naval outfits. They appeared especially fond of the American shoes, which were the first they had ever worn. SEIZES 10,000 TONS SUGAR. Federal Administrator's Action Re* lieves Shortage in New England. New York, Nov. 21.?The sugar shortage situation in NdV York and I New England was relieved somewhat today by the seizure by George M. Rolph, federal sugar administrator, of 10,000 tons bought for the former Russian Imperial Government and by Mr RnlnhVs riprlaration that twentv five carloads of beet sugar are also on the way from the West to Boston and New England points. The sugar seized today was attached yesterday by the .Marine Transportation Service Corporation in connection with a suit against former Emperor Nicholas, of Russia. seeking to obtain $2,SOO,000 for alleged breach of contract. The proceeds from the sale of the sugar will be amenable to the writ of attachment. This sugar, which has been held in storage here since its purchase for the Russian Government before the downfall of the Romanoff dynasty, is to be placed upon the market immediately and then distributed to the retailers through the American refiners' committee. Tne snipment to tioston irom me West contains 25,000 each of 100 pounds weight. In addition 5,000 tons of Western beet sugar will be received in New York from California within twenty days and will be distributed in Atlantic coast States according to Mr. Rolph. 2,800 Germans Held in U. S. Two classes of German prisoners . are now detained in this country. One is .comprised of sailors taken into custody when the United States entered the war; the other consists of "alien enemies," civilians who have been arrested and are now bej ing held under governmental regula- , tions for various reasons. The principal detention camp is at Fort McPhepson, Ga., where approximately 850 war prisoners are held; at Fort Oglethrope, Ga., there are 165 alien enemies*; at Fort Douglas,. Utah, there are 517 prisoners of war and 80 interned Germans. Small detachments are now temporarily quartered at army posts throughout the country, but their number is relatively small. Altogether there are 2,364 actual prisoners of war in the custody of the War Department and about 400 ini terned aliens held at the request of the Department of Justice. It is estimated that Germany is j now holding 150 sailors taken from American ships by commerce raid; ers and other German vessels. I American Engineers Install Railway. The corps of engineers of- the American array since April has not | only been supplying the Engineer i equipment for than 1,000,000 men, i but the members of the railway sec i tion have undertaken to transport j and install and put in operation j overseas a complete railway equipj ment. j The cost of materials ordered to date is approximately $70,000,000, , including some hundreds of locomoi tives, more than 100,000 tons of j steel rails, more than 3,000 complete turnouts, 500,000 ties,' 12,000 freight cars, 600 fill and ballast cars, 600 \ miles of telephone wire and apparatus. and vast quantities of construction and repair equipment. A duty imposed upon the engineers has been the purchase of the necessary Engineer equipment for more than 1,000,000 men. Within 15 days after the Engineer Corps, following the declaration of war, advertised for equipment, awards had been made covering the requirements for this vast force?a total of 8,700,000 articles, including among other items 5 miles of pontoon bridge. The Engineers have also undertaken tl;e work organizing and equip-j ing troops for special services, sucli J ag* lumber supply, road construction, sanitary construction, camouflage service, gas and flame service, mining ! work, and mapping. King Alfonso's Reply. Onre when King Alfonso, of Spain, sat among the students at the law j ' school in .Madrid the Republican i ; deputy, Axrate, lectured on the su- j | perior advantages of the republican j form of government. When he was j done the young King went up to him, I smiling and shook hands. "Accept) ' my congratulations, professor," he j j said, "but?every man to his trade, j I you know."?Chicago Herald. 1 " I WatermanB Ideal Fountain Pens at Herald Book Store. WIN BV MAN POWER DECLARATION BY CHOWDER IN STATEMENT OF DRAFT. Question of Labor Supply.?Predicts Selective Draft Will Become Permanent System. Washington, Nov. 22.?Man-power exerted on the field of France will bring victor}' in this war, Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder declared in a statement of the aims, accomplish meni ana iuiure tu uie scicimc draft system addressed to members of the local boards and made public here tonight. After renewing present conditions and necessities, Gen. Crowder predicted that the selective system would become a permanent part of Aemrica's governmental system for war. liaise Fighting Force. Every precaution possible has been taken with the new draft regulations, Gen. Crowder said, to conserve economic interests, but the paramount duty of the country is to raise an effective fighting force. "We are committed to this war," the general continued, "and we ought to fight it in the most effective fashion possible to us. The necessity of raising an army is paramount. The decrease in the labor supply must be adjusted in some other way than by shutting off recruitment. That it can be adjusted there is no question. Labor Supply. "The problem is not to maintain the labor supply of agriculture and every industry intact. It is to make withdrawal of men in the most scientific manner possible. I think we have done that and what is ofl-i ie, tho hack fr?r u nipp i t U V lo UUUAU 4VA vw AA?vw balance between our two necessities. "There are those who say that we must win this war in the economic field, with the inference that the raising of an army a side issue. "I say to you that with any greater inroads into the field of recruitment of our army we shall be sending inferior meti to the field. That if thjs nation is not competent to make the slight adjustment necessary to compensate for this scientific selection, then it is' not competent to enter this war. "Certainly no man can urge in this date of trial and sacrifice that this nation should deliberately neglect to make itself effective in the plea that our greatest contribution to the cause of humanity is in attaining an economic supremacy. To do so would be to relegate the United States to the role of sutler for the fighting nations. "We shall of course increase our production. We shall become more and more effective as a nation and we shall supply our new armies and do all that can be expected of us to supply the armies of our allies. "But we shall not under the guise, confine our participation in this conflict to the baking of bread and the sharpening of swords of other men. "This war will be won by mintary 011 the devoted field of France. Doubtless it will be won by the side which is able to place behind its army the prevailing ounce of provision. "But the blow that shatters the. German line and extinguishes autocracy from the face of the earth will be the blow of a man's right arm and not the insidious stroke of a shrewd trader." Gen. Crowder pays high tribute to the zeal and patriotism of more than .10,000 men who compose the machinery of the selective system. With only ten weeks for the task, the first national army increment of 687,000 men was drawn, he says, by a nation "moving breathlessly, supported by the Governors of the States and by the members of the selection boards with a patriotism, devotion and unselfish zeal that remains an inspiration." But the system itself was lacking, he adds, "we pai;ed the first increment of our armies with a broad axe bona nea th pre was time for no great er refinement. We must pare future increments away with-^greater discrimination. The selection system must be carried to its logical conclusion and we must meet Prussian efficiency with a greater American effectiveness." The Illinois College of Agriculture, Urbana, 111., has published a pamphlet giving recipes for making various kinds of war bread, most of which require no wheat flour. The list includes several varieties of corn bread, barley bread, rye bread, oatmeal bread, etc. Read The Herald $1.50 the year. V CHARGED AS IN DAYS OF OLD. British Mounted Troops Had Many Thrilling Experiences in Battle. Canadian Army Headquarters in France, Nov. 26.?Ca. -u*. "-as splendidly represented in the C at British advance of November 20, which broke the Hindenburg line arid drove the enemy back of Cambrai. For the first time since the Germans retreat from Bapaume last spring, the Canadian cavalry went into action witn their horses. After waiting a long time opposite in'llo rrr\ r\ 9 A 4 o on ioroo fnr ct <T_ llic tillage ui .iiaouieieo iui me VJA^ nai which sent them into action, the "Hell-For-Leatlier" Fort Garry's galloped to the attack. They succeeded n crossing the Lescaut canal and penetrated the enemy's country. Brilliant Exploits. What foftowed eq.uals anything in calvary exploits in the history of the empire. A single squadron found itself all alone. Racing forward, with the enemy to the right and left of them, the Fort Garry's galloped in sections over the crest of the hill concealing the enemy's guns. Advancing down the slope they found themselves facing a battery of four light German field guns. Charging straight for the battery, sabering everything as they came, the officers and men raced to the guns. In line of troop columns as they advanced, coming on so quickly that the enemy had no ( time to man two of his guns, one other was cut off and put out of ac tion. The gunners attempted to blow up the fourth. The cavalry wiped out that battery with the sword. The majority of the enemy gunners attempted to 6y, and only a few brave men stood at attention beside their cannon. On swept the little squadron. The retreating enemy's infantry were engaged. In Enemy Territory. Dusk found the cavalry two miles inside the enemy's territory com- % \ manded by a lieutenant. A defensive position was established. With swords the horsemen fought their way through to a sunken road. There they dismounted. Messengers sent back to report their positions had their horses shot * under them, but struggled back to : -the lines. Darkness was falling. The gallant band was isolated. Stampeding their horses to divert the enemy's machine - " gun fire, what was left of the squadron prepared to return. Back on Foot. As they had galloped forward, using the sabre, they now fought their way back on foot-with the bayonet. The retirement was a succession of 4 hand-to-hand struggles. Four times the Kttle party met enemy working parties with the bayonet and dispersed them. Midnight had passed when they reached Masnieres again and fought their Ayay through the enemy infantry in the town to a wrecked bridge, where they crossed to safety. Forty-three of the men came back unwounded, and they brought back their wounded and over a dozen pris- oners. * ^ v / | Percentage of Sick at Army Champs. j ''v Returning from inspection trips to 10 army and aviation camps, Col. Watson P. Chamberlain, of the Surgeon General's office, reports that the per cent, of sick ranges from below 1 per cent, to slightly below 2 per cent. Among the conditions leading to treatment in hospital are severe colds, tonsilitis, slight injuries, and other comparatively slight ailments. About the only serious disease found at any camp was pneumonia. Each national army camp has a thousand-bed hospital, equipped in accordance with most approved modern practice. - - mtm French Town Renewed by D. A. K. / The Daughters of the American Revolution have "adopted" a French town. The members of this organization, who have already given more than $2,500,000 for war work, are raising money to build houses and buy furniture, live stock, and farm ing implements for the village of Tilloloy, on the Aisne, which has "suffered heavily during the war. j Losses Are Small. Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, estimates the losses up to June 1 of the British expeditionary forces j in deaths in action and from wounds j at 7 per cent, of the total of all men j sent to France since the beginning of j the war. He adds that the ratio of losses of this character today, because of improved tactics and swiftly mounting allied superiority in artillery, is less than 7 to every 10? men. f ' i