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r ~*- s~- " - _r^v%: . <- . .v v- .. . f i in mind that all sub^ scriptions to The Hermust now be paid \ If/y-Jr advance. This is the 0B&f ^ W ^ r^f^ptthe law, and we will /jgggl ?hr liambrrg lijrraU) gaps V $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. 0., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1918. Established in 1891. LOAN GOES OVER THE TOP NOT KNOWN HOW FAR THE GOAL WAS EXCEEDED. fB% Sum Came in on Last Day.?-Over Six Billions Subscribed.?Take Days to Count Them. Washington, Oct. 19.?Over-subscription of the fourth liberty loan f seemed assured tonight when the three weeks campaign closed. While official reports were lacking, it appeared that again the American peo pie have given to their government not only what was asked, but more than was asked, in order that the war against Germany and her allies ^ may be carried to a successful conclusion. How far the total will run above the six billion dollar goal officials to+ night would not attempt to estimate. It all depends, they said, on whether big financial interests at the last moment filed the big lump sum subscriptions expected of them and whether % the number of smaller subscriptions by individuals is found to meet ex* pectations. State Over Quota. HP . All the South Carolina counties and towns heard from at the close of the canvass for the fourth liberty loan reported subscriptions in excess of Al 3? ^ ^ * J ^ ^ WT flAAtns meir tlliuillivuis, dUU U UU?v occuia that, the State, as in former liberty ,r 1 loan campaigns, will again oversubscribe the amount allotted by the treasury department. During the last few days before the eahipaign closed fear was expressed that on account of the epidemic of Spanish influenza, precluding the holding of public meetings and otherwise interfering with the campaign, that the State might fall short of its allotment, but the fear appears to have been groundless and the people have again shown their readiness to support the national government in its war4on German Autocracy: Boll Weevil Reaches Ehrhardt. . ~ , j Clemson College, October 21.?The cotton bill weevil continues his migration in this State. Recent investigations show that the weevil has added more South Carolina territory to the infested area. The weevil line now runs as follows: Ellenton to Ehrhardt to Ulmara tn Walterboro to the mouth of OIUIC IU UUU J WWW.Q-*. ~ - in the fields. The infestation looks like a second year infestation, it is so heavy." Bamberg Shows Up Well. Charleston, October 21.?The sales of war savings stamps in South Carolina have reached the seven million dollar mark. The report of sales for - the week ending October 12 shows that the people of the Palmetto State have purchased W. S. S. valued at I $7 ;024,854. During the past few weeks the sales have shown an enor mous increase, but in comparison with the State's quota, the sales so far have been plainly disappointing. The South Carolina War Savings committee reiterates its appeal that the people bear in mind their W. S. S. pledges, and buy all the war savings stamps they can. The leading counties are the following, with their percapita sales up to October 12: Beaufort, $8.36; Charleston, $7.99; Horry, $7.41; Florence, $7.38; York, $6.76; Spartanburg, $6.35; Anderson, $6.32; Greenville, $6.21; Marion, $5.43; Orangeburg, $4.58. For the week ending October 12, Orangeburg county led with per capita sales of 38 cents, followed by Chesterfield with 35 cents; Anderson 30 cents, and Bamberg, 25 cents. r- s COMMUTTD TO LIFE SENTENCE. Governor Manning Makes Statement Regarding Orangeburg Case. Columbia, Oct. 17.?Governor Manning today commuted the death sentence of Norman Bolivar, a young white man of Orangeburg, to life imprisonment. Bolivar was convicted in June of this year of attempted criminal assault upon a nine-yearold white girl near Orangeburg and was sentenced to be electrocuted. In connection with tne commutation Governor Manning made the following statement: "The jury which tried the case having all signed the petition for commutation of sentence, the practical effect of this is a recommendation to mercy. Solicitor Mann, who prosecuted the case, concurred in the request of the jury and Judge Memminger, the trial judge, recommended that the death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment. These requests and recommendations were laid before the pardon board, together with the statement of Dr. J. W. Babcock, who testified that, after careful examination and observation of Bolivar, the prisoner is, in his opinion, mentally deficient, which opinion was concurred in by Capt. Lin. C. Shecut, M. D., United States army, and petitions were signed by many of the leading citizens of Orangeburg. The pardon board recommended commutation of J?rtrtnf Anna fn Ufa i m n ri ontl. ~ the Edisto river. This means that the weevil is now found in Beaufort, Hampton, Colleton, Jasper, Bamberg and Barnwell counties?"and still a goin\" Jasper and Hampton counties have - -gotten an idea of the weevil damage this fall. County Agent Z. D. Robertson, of Hampton county, reports in a letter of October 11 that the weevil damage in his county is serious in the extreme, and that all forms and squares have been punctured; that adult weevils can be ?found by the handful. County Agent * Rumff, of Jasper county, writes as follows: "I am finding fields with 100 per cent, in^ feetation now in different parts of the county. The adult weevils can be found by the hundreds. It is posfn flnJ atrayv a+Q p-p of thP WAAVil tilt? Ut^aiil LVt U1V ment." 1 News Notes From Cope. Cope, Oct. 20.?The Cope graded school opened its .doors on Monday, Oct. 7th, for the season of 1918-1919, with a fairly good attendance, and the young folks had just about made up their minds to get to work at their books when the order calling for a quarantine came and the school was immediately closed. The "flu" is getting to be quite prevalent in and around Cope, and several families, both white and colored, have from one to a half dozen t*- _ 9 _ ^ or more crises, it lsjtne opinion oi a great many that a good rain would help matters considerably, for it -is so dry and dusty they believe the germs are distributed along with the clouds of dust that are constantly flying. Mr. R. C. Carter, the agent at this place, was sick the past week with influenza, and on account of the scarcity of operators the depot was without an agent for several days, which inconvenienced a great many. Mr. J. E. Felder, to assist Mr. Carter all he could, would meet the trains and deliver all perishable goods as fast as they arrived until the company sent Mr. Cummings to take charge until Mr. Carter is able to resume his duties. / As * there are no church or Sundayschool services^ be held everything is extremely quiet, and very few people are stirring about, which is the proper thing just at this time. The fleecy staple is still being gathered in large quantities and the gins have been overcrowded; many wagon loads of cotton remaining at the gins each night to be ready for an early start the next morning. On account of the crowded condition of the oil mills, seed is being carried back home, there being no place to store the same, and as the traffic in cottonseed is at a standstill that much ready cash is tied up and the cash business materially cut down. / Governor Manning Receives Medal. Columbia, Oct. 18.?Governor Richard I. Manning today received the Liberty Service medal of the National Institute of Social Sciences awarded to him according to the announcement accompanying the medal in recognition of "an alert and inspiring patriotism." The letter also says that the State organizations ot South Carolina for war work have become models for the country. AUSTRIANS ARE ANSWERED PRESIDENT REJECTS PLEA OF DUAL MONARCHY. Complete Liberty for Czechoslovaks and other Subject Nationalities. a Washington, Oct. 19.?On the eve, apparently of the coming of the peace note from Germany, President Wilson has rejected the plea of AustriaHungary for an armistice and peace negotiations and in doing so has made clearer the conditions which the central powers must meet to end the war. In a note written yesterday and made public soon after it was well nn the wav to Vienna, today the president in effect says there can be no v talk of peace with the AustroHungarian government except upon the basis of complete liberty for Czecho-Slovaks and other subject nationalities as free members of the family of nations. He refuses to entertain the Austro-Hungarian suggestion for the reason without discussing the military questions dealt with in the reply to Germany. The text of the note handed to the Swedish minister follows: "Sir: I have the honor to acknowl-. edge the receipt of your note of the seventh instant in which you transmit a communication of the imperial and royal government of AustriaHungary to the president. I am now instructed by the president to request you to be good enough through your government, to convey to the imperial and royal government the fAllAnrinc ronlv' 1VJ.1V/ ?? 11*0 * "The president deems it his duty to say to the Austro-Hungarian government that he can not entertain the present suggestion of that government because of certain events of utmost importance which, occurring since the delivery of his address of the 8th of January last, have necessarily altered the attitude and responsibility of the government of the United States. Among- the 14 terms of peace which the president formulated at that time occurred the following: " 'The people of Austro-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assumed, must be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous developments. " 'Since that sentence was written and uttered to the congress of United States the government of the United States has recognized a state of belligerency that exists between the Czecho-Slovaks and the German and Austro-Hungarian empires and that the Czecho-Slovak national council is a de facto belligerent government clothed with proper authority to direct the military and political affairs of the Czecho-Slovaks. " has nlsn rAnnphizeri in the fullest manner the justice of the nationalistic aspirations of the JugoSlovaks for freedom. " 'The president is, therefore, no longer at liberty to accept the mere 'autonomy' of these peoples as a basis of peace, but is obliged to insist that they, and not he, shall be the judges of what action on the part of the Austro-Hungarian government will satisfy the aspirations and their conception of their rights and destiny as members of the family of nations.' "Accept, sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. (Signed) "ROBERT LANSING." German Casualties in France. Twenty bucketfuls of identification tags were taken from the German dead who fell in the first week's fighting on the German drive which | opened on March 21, 1918, according [to the press reports from Holland. These identification disks are about the size of an American quarter, and it is estimated that there must have been 370,000 in this one shipment. The German casualties of the first | three weeks of the drive were estimate at 500,000. By the end of the first week in September the total German casualties in 1918, as estimated frnm the most, reliable reDorts ob tainable, had grown to more than a million, killed, wounded, and prisoners. Why Waste Time? "Why do you consider women to be superior to men in intelligence?" "A bald-headed man buys his restorer by the bottle, doesn't he?" "Er?yes." "Well, a woman doesn't waste time on a hair-restorer; she buys hair." ?London Passing Show. A LETTER TO HIS PA. American Humorist Has Fun at Expense of Grown Prince. (The following was taken from a newspaper in France and sent to Nevada relatives by a Nevada doughboy, who is now fighting in France:) "On the Run. Somewhere in France," "Everywhere in France," | "All the Time." "Dear Papa: ? "I am writing you on der run, as der brave and glorious soldiers under | my command have not seen the j Rhine for so long dat dey have startlod har>k Hat vav and of course I am going mit dem. Oh, papa, dere has been some offei dings happened here in France. First, I started in my big offensive which was to crush de fool Americans but dey know so little about military tactics dat dey vill not be crushed just like I vant dem. I sent my men in der fight in big vaves and ven dey got to de Americans dey all said "boo" as loud as j dey could holler. Veil, according to vot you have always told me, de Americans have turned and run like blazes, but vat do you tink? Dem fool Americans don't know anything 'about war and instead of running de odder vay, dey came right towards us. Some of dem vas singing about "ve vont come back till it's over, ov er there," or some odder foolish song and some of dem vas laffing like fools. Dey are so ignorant. But dey are offel reckless mit dere gims, and ven dey come toward us it vas dat my men took a notion dey vanted to go back to der dear old Rhine. Ve don't like de dirty little Marne river, anyhow. ^And, Oh, pap, dem Ameriicans use offel language. Dey know little of kultur, and say such offel things right before us. And they blasphemy too. Vat you tink dey said right in front of my face? One big husky, fronj. a place dey call Missouri, he said?oh, pap, I hate to tell you vat an offel ting he said, "To Jiell mit the kaiser!" Did you ever hear anything so offel? I didn't tink Anybody vould say such an offel ting. It made me so mad I vouldn't stand and hear such an offel ting, so I turn ed around and run mit de odder boys. Vas I right? Vat? And, oh, papa, you know dem breastplates vot you sent us?can you sent some to put on our backs. You know ve is going de odder vay now and breastplates are no good for the cowardly Americans are shooting us right in der back. Some of our boys took off der breastplates and put dem behind, for de fool Am! erieans are Dlaying 'De Star Span gled Banner' mit machine guns on dem plates. Can't you help us? "You remember in your speech you said nodding could stand before de | brave German soldiers? Oh, papa, I don't believe dese igrorant Americans ever read your speech for dey run after us like ve vas a lot of rabbits. Vot you tink of dot? Can't you send dem some of your speeches right avay? Dey don't know how terrible ve are. Can't you have my army back to Belgium vere ve von all glory? "My men can vip all de vimmen and children vot dem Belgians can bring us. But dese Americans are so rough and ignorant. Ve can't make dem understand dot ve haf de besi soldiers on earth and ven ve try to sing 'Deutschland Uber Allies,' dey laf likfi a lot of monkeys. But ve are getting de best of de Americans. Ye can out run dem. Papa, if ve are not de best fighters on earth we sure are de best runners. Nobody can keep up mit us ven ve tink of der dear old Rhine, and my army never did tink so much of der dear old river. Let me know right avay vot to do by return postoffice. "CLOWN PRINCE WILLIE." ^ i?i ? \ Fairbanks in Game. New York, Oct. 17.?Douglas Fairbanks "went over the top" here today when he completed his acrobatic tour of the city and secured the $5,000,000 fourth liberty loan quota he had set for himself. He will return to Washington tomorrow by postal airplane. Fairbanks's first appearance was on the steps of the subtreasury where bankers, brokers and less wealthy citizens answered his appeals with subscriptions totalling $2,250,000. This took just a little more than two minutes. Then he toured Fifth avenue, headed by a detail of 50 mounted policemen who aided him in collecting an avalanche of subscription cards. One stop at John Wannamaker's store netted $250,000. Considering the assiduity and streuosity with which the Colonel is sawing wood, all fear of a fuel famine next winter should be dispelled. DENY SLACKERS BALLOT WILL ASK CHANGE IN CONSTITUTION FOR SUFFRAGE. Suggests Plan to Prevent Invasion. To Punish Leaders and Make Bonds Valueless. An amendment to the State constitution is to be suggested at the next session of the general assembly,changing the qualification for suffrage to a military basis. This amendment which J. K. Henry, of Chester, solicitor of the Sixth judicial circuit, proposes to advance would require the voter to present an honorable discharge from the ? 1 tL T It army or navy or in neu mereoi i-iiuerty Bond, thrift stamps or receipt for contributions to other organizations engaged in war work. The proposition as set forth by Solicitor Henry follows: "I propose to suggest to the next meeting of our legislature, that an amendment to our State constitution be proposed to our people to recast the constitution as to the electorate of the State, something like this, as follows: Require the voter at every election hereafter, general, special, party or otherwise, to present as a qualification to vote, an honorable discharge from military or naval forces of the United States, or from the Red Cross or Young Men's Chris-' tian Association service during this war, or at least one Liberty Bond, thrift stamp, receipt for contribution to the Red Cross or Y. M. C. A., or other war fund of date during the existence of war with the Imperial German government. "This or some like amendment ought to be adopted, because no slacker should be allowed a voice in the government in this land, who in the present crisis does not come up to the help of the government against might makes right because it is might." Solicitor Henry has also written a letter to President Wilson in which he suggests that the German people be called upon to deliver to the allied armies every member of the ruling class to save invasion and its horrible consequences. A second suggestion is that all German bonds be declared null and void. The letter to President Wilson, copy of which has been sent to Robert Lansing, secretary of State, follows: "Whenever the German army is safely within it's own borders, it should be demanded of the German people, that they deliver to the armies of the United States and the entente between the lines, every man of their ruling class from the kaiser down, to save Germany from invasion, and it's terrible consequences, because they are a set of murderers in violation of international law and rules of civilized warfare under treaties with the German Imperial government, and should be dealt with as such. "And, further, the amendment should be made as a matter of diplomacy and for its effect; that every bond issued by the German Imperial government in support ofxthis war, and held by any subject of Germany, within Germany, shall be repudiated and declared null and void." Clock Goes Back Oct. 27. Washington, Oct. 17.?No further' effort will be made by congress to continue the existing daylight sav-! ing law and the hands of the clocks ill be turned back an hour at 2 a. j m., October 27, as originally plann-| ed. This decision was reached today at a conference between congressional leaders and Chairman Baruch, of the war industries board, who had recommended that the law remain in force for the period of the war. All sizes of electric lamps, including automobile lamps, at Faulkner Electric Service Co.?adv. SUGAR MIKT BE pM Ateaspoonfidaew | L "Vou. say, Yet a. . heaping) teaspoaifid. I: saved, each, meal for !jt|HHKg |i 120 days far each, of the innivirtnfln tjcrfiss * I NEWS FROM EHRHARDT. "Flu" is Raging.?Town Goes Over in Bond Sales.?Other News. Ehrhardt, Oct. 22.?Last Sunday evening we had a nice shower of rain. It was the first we have had for many weeks, and was a most welcome visitor. The dust was almost unbearable, but suppose the weather was favorable for the cotton pickers. Labor being so scrace, the farmers needed something to help them out in gathering their crops. Mr. E. D. Dannelly says that num ber 13 is very unlucky. Recently he bought some nice Hereford calves from Mr. S. E. Boynton, of Greenpond, S. C., and last Tuesday received a shipment of thirteen head. In unloading them they all got away, and scattered over the surrounding country. After searching for them the entire week, he got all back, with the exception of one. Mr. Dannelly is raising cattle on quite an extensive basis. This shipment gives him over twenty head of the Herefords, besides a big drove of other breeds. The boll weevil, though they come in great numbers, ought not to worry Bert. Mr. I. D. Copeland happened to a rorv no in fnl Vnif nnf cor inn c nn/? i pu.iAXi.wi, VUW ~WV WWV. dent Saturday afternoon. It seejns that he attempted to climb on one of his wagons loaded with two bales of cotton, while passing down Main street. His foot slipped and he fell, the wheel running over his foot and crushing it very badly. We all hope that "Uncle Ike's" foot will be all right soon; especially before q,uail shooting time or before time to take those good old dove hunts. The Spanish influenza has gained considerable headway in our community during the past week. But we think, or at least hope, that this dreadful epidemic has reached its apex, and will now begin to abate. There are about seventy-five cases ih town and surrounding community, but none are very serious at present Good news! Ehrhardt has subscribed her full allotment in the fourth liberty loan drive. We were alloted $69,500, and this amount has been securfcQ-. We should and do ap- ' preciate the work done by some of the committee. They canvassed the . i ? iu'.I? . J C> cuuuiry iu nieir auius, auu uu oaiui* day, when the streets were crowded, \ you could see them tackling everybody who they thought could afford a $50.00 bond. For some reason the drive lacked enthusiasm from the be- *" ginning. This was probably due to the "flu" and the drop in the price of cotton, as practically everybody here are farmers. We are glad that we reached the goal, and that the country has oversubscribed. Postmaster Grant tells us that the total sales of war savings and thrift stamps at this office amounts to about $25,000. That does very well, but do you know this is only onethird of our pledges? Our allotment was $60,000, and we pledged about $70,000. Do not forget your pledges, get your stamps before the end of + -n raor Tlio cnnnar flio hoftor mc J cai iu^ uwuvi vuv www* Though we stay at home, let's help our soldiers whip the kaiser. GREAT U-BOAT BASE TAKEN. British Capture Ostend, and Belgians Take Bruges. Paris, Oct 17.?Ostend has been occupied by the British. King Albert, of Belgium, and Queen Elizabeth entered Ostend this afternoon. The Germans are abandoning the Belgian coast and are seeking refuge behind the outer defenses of Antwerp. Rear Guards Killed. With the Allied Forces in Flanders, Oct. 17.?The Germans on evacuating the channel seaport and submarine base of Ostend left behind them rear guards all of whom were killed or captured. British warships landed forces in the town and Belgian aviators alighted in the place d'armes. Ostend is one of the two most important German submarine bases on the Belgian coast. The other is Zeebrugge, about thirteen miles northeast of Ostend. The usefulness of these bases to the Germans had been seriously damaged last spring by raids carried out by British naval units under VirA Admiral Sir Roarer J. B. Keyes. Both these raids were made in April. m < ? ? It is said that when Lenine finishes his work in Russia he will come over1 here. And shortly after his landing we predict a scarcity of feather pillows in his immediate neighborhood. '