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r . ' t in mind that all subi /yjw- \ scriptions to The Her.j aid must now be paid ^ in advance. This is the 0SBBf ^ ?> the law, and we will fegggl ?Ijp i&unbrrg Ihcralb ijgp^ $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. 0., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1918. Established in 1891. SPURNED GERMAN OFFER. Venizelo9 Boldly Answered Huns' Attempt to Bribe. X London, Nov. 15.?Eliphtherios Venizelos, prime minister of Greece, speaking in London yesterday referred to a conversation he had *at the beginning of the war with the German minister in Athens. -The German minister had come to him * because he was aware of the declaration M. Venizelos made that of BuiI garia attacked Serbia, Greece would go to the assistance of her ally. "The minister showed me the great dangers Greece would run if she carried out her plan, because she would have opposed to her not only Bulgaria but Germany," said M. Venizelos. "I replied that I was exceedingly sorry to hear that, but it was our duty to go to the assistance of our ally and we should carry out the duty. "The German minister then asked me if in going to Serbia's assistance I was looking forward to any benefits that might accrue to Greece. I plied 'No.' He then said: " 'But if Greece will remain neutral we are in a position to give her verv ereat and substantial benefits.' "I a^ked what were t^ie benefits , Germany would offer us. I put that Question/knowing what the answer would be, but I wished it to come from him. He replied: i " 'Germany will give you Monastir H and as much more of Serbia as you want/ R . "I said to the minister: Hi "You will allow me to translate ^ \ your offer into my own words. What , you do is this?you ask me to dishonor my signature, to dishonor my country and to violate its obligations towards Serbia, and as remuneration you offer me a part of the corpse of that which I am expected to kill. My country is too little to commit so great an infamy." i?I ? Cyclone in Oklahoma. Prague, Okla., Nov. 15.?Mrs. Mary Simpson was killed and twelve persons were injured in a cyclone which swept through Prague at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. Property damage was estimated at $60,000. Two,of those injured are Mrs. E. E. JUK6S ana Mrs. IVOOl. wa.ru. iuc others were children. A number of farm houses were destroyed by an earlier storm which struck west of the town at 4 o'clock. So far no loss of life has been reported from rural districts. Flew 120 Miles an Hour. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 15.? Lieuts. Magowan and Offutt arrived here today from Taylor Field, Montgomery, Ala., in two government airplanes, making the 120 miles in one hour, which is believed to be a record for flight in this country. Seven other airplanes reached here today from Payne Field, West Point, Miss., to take part in an aerial circus here Saturday, at the State fair. , ^ . Reasonable. * ; . A Boston street car has the front sign reading "Dorchester," and the side sign, "Ashmont and Milton." "Does this car go to Dorchester?" "Yes, lady; get right on." . "Are you sure it does?" "Yes, lady; get right on." "But it says 'Ashmont and Milton* on the sides." "We ain't going sideways lady. Get right on." An Infrequent Smoker. Several ladies sat in a clubroom discussing the virtues of their husbands, over their knitting. "Mr. Jones," said one of them, referring to her life partner, "never drinks and never swears; indeed, he has no bad habits." "Does he never smoke?" someone asked. "Yes, he likes a good cigar just after he has eaten a good meal. But on the average I suppose he doesn't smoke more than once a month." Some of her club mates smiled, but she didn't seem to understand the reason. i>I ^ Don't forget that victory must be paid for, and that our war expenses do not cease when actual fighting ceases. Keep your war savings pledge and buy more W. S. S. Remember our "Everready" battery service when your flash light needs a new bulb or battery. Faulkner-Electric Service Co.?adv. Automobile batteries recharged by Delco-Light at Brickie's Garage, adv. w MONUMENT TO AMERICANS. Franc? Will Invit? Wilson to Lay Corner-Stone. Paris, Nov. 15.?President Wilson will be invited to lay the cornerstone of the proposed monument at the mouth of the Gironde river commemorative of the help given to France by the United States in the war. A national fund for the purpose has been -started and now amounts to 300,000 francs. < hi > Two Years for Demobilization. Demobilization of the American forces in France will require a period of two years after peace is declared according to a statement made here tonight by General T. Coleman du Pont, who has just returned from a two months' visit to the western front. Declaring his views were the reflection of official opinion among the Allied forces, he asked that Americans accustom themselves to the idea of a long demobilization as they had to that of a long war. "One of the generals asked me," he said, "to tell the people at home that our boys have a year's work ahead of them in removing the barbed wire the Huns have strung across France." '/'Asserting the civil war had "turned thousands of men back into civil life weakened and purposeless," General du Pont said that seven warwork agencies should be supported , generously in their approaching campaign. He de6lared that statesmanlike plans are being laid for the trying period following peace." "Every hut in France," he saifl "will become a university class room on the, day peace is signed. The boys will be given every advantage under leading educators and business men from the United States." Going Some. A white man took a negro servant to an unoccupied house on, the plantation and, finding the gas cut off, told him tf wait until he went badfe to the house for a light. When he returned the negro was gone, and for two days no trace of him could be found. On the third day Washington returned, his clothes all torn to pieces. He was mud from head to heel. "Why Washington," asked the employer, "where in the world have you been since I left you at the old house there?" "Well, yo' see, Marse John, when yo' went away for dat light, Ah sat down in der cheer, comfo'ble like, an' Ah fill my pipe, an' took a drink out ob de bottle. An' jest dat minit de do' open s-tri-1-1, like de hinges was greased, an' in walk, a cat?a big cat, sah all uv six feet?an' huh ovoc tunc as hip- as sanners. an' dev W VW -NT-O ? J . shined like brass; an' she hop huhself upon de table an' wrop huh tail across huh bres an' sez 'Good e-v-ei-n'; dey ain't nobody heah but yo' an' me.' "An' I sez: ' 'cuse me, ef yo' wait a minit dey won't be nobody heah but yo'.' An' I went through dat windo\v an' lit on ma feet an' riz runnin' an' Ah kept on a runnin'. "An' Ah run on through de timbah. Den a rabbit run out an' run down de path ahead ob me; an' Ah kick dat rabbit out ob de way, an' Ah say: 'Git out ob de way fo' a man wrhat kin run.' Yes, sah, dat's what I did. "An' Ah kep on a runnin' an' way obah on de fur cornah ob de plantation Ah stop an' lean up agin' dat big oak tree to res. An' Ah look aroun' and fust thing you know dere come a little man about two feet high an he tuk off his haid an' put it undah his ahm an' sez: 'Dat was a fine run what yo'-all made, ole man.' "An' Ah sez, Good Lawd, jes watch me now.' An' Marse John, Ise jes gittin' bacK." Realizing the Insult. Manual, a negro with a record previously clean, was arraigned before the bucolic justice of peace for assault and battery. "Why did you beat that negro up, Manual?" questioned the squire. "He called me sumpin' judge." "What did he call you?" "He called me a rhinoceros, sah, a rhinoceros!" "A rhinoceros! When did this occur?" " 'Bout three years ago, jedge." "Three years ago! Then how did it happen that you waited so long to resent it, Manual?" "Lawd, jedge, I ain't never seen ( no rhinoceros till dis mawnin'." SHE KEPT THEM ON THE JOB" * ** T ? * A Visit to the City of Blois. * The Herald management re- * j * grets to inform its readers that * I stopped over several hours in the * on account of the entire force * city of Blois. My principal object * being ill with influenza, it was * j in stopping was to visit the castle of * impossible to publish The Her- * j Blois, one of the most interesting * aid last week. Naturally a great * j and historical in all France. It was j * many inquiries hav^ been receiv- ^ , the home of numerous kings and I * ed because of the failure of the * j queens of France from the time of * paper to appear as usual, and * j Louis XII to the French revolution^ i * we offer this word of explana- * while many counts and dukes lived ] * tion. We are now permitted to *i there." The castle was erected on1 * again be at the office, though * i the site of an old Roman camp. It * we are still unable to carry on * is considered one of the finest pieces * our nortnal business. We trust * of architecture in France. It was * V? n f tSW m rtTfl # I Kllllt I T? fitffl T\5 PtC n9Pt flt 9 7 L) V Id. ft lllg It caaj 1U1 a It" uiuiu i uum. iu tiiv yui vu, vuvu r?. v _ _ * days, we shall be able to give * ! different period in the history of the * our readers the usual standard *j country. The first part was built'in * paper; though we must ask their * [ the 13th century. It would be im* indulgence this week. The Her- * j possible for me to describe to you the * aid management wishes to also * | wonderful and magnificent carvings * take this opportunity to express *! in wood and stone throughout the * their thanks for the many at- * j castle. I do not see how it was pos* tentions and kindness bestowed *. sible for human hands to chisel out * on them during their illness by * j of stone such splendor and^elegance. * many friends. * It is hard for one to believe that it * *?* * * * * * * y* *, * is the work of human hands. Every < ? mantlepiece, every door frame, every Tennyson and the Glass Bill. ! column, every step in the stairs, and ! every banister is magnificently carvIn a western town the attorney for j ed from stone ani there are no two a gas company was making a popular i Patterns alike. In the library or address. [ work room of Catherine de Medici "Think of the good the gas com- (the mother of Henry III), the walls pany has done," he cried. "If I ar? entirely covered by 248 richly were permitted a pun I would say, in carved and gilde3 wood panels, no the words of a poet, 'Honor the Light two of which are alike. Her private Brigade'." chapel is also a wonder of workmanWhereupon a shrill voice from the ship. In the walls of her library rear: "Oh, what a charge they are four secret cabinets where the made!" queen kept her poisons and state ^ tm* ? secrets. You cannot tell where the Busy AH Right. cabinets are located when you first look at the wall. By touching a cerAn officer on board a warship was tain spot on the wall, underneath drilling his men. "I want every man which is a spring, the doors fly open to* lie on his back, put his legs in an(* reveal the cabinet. Her bed the air and move them as if he were room also is marvelbus in workman riding a bicycle," he explained. "Now ship. Througnout ner apartments commence." and those of the king the ceilings After a short effort one man stop- are wonderful with elegant carving ped. "Why have you stopped, Mur- an^ gilding. The walls were hung phy?" asked the officer. wittl beautiful and priceless tapes"If ye plaze, sir," was the answer, tries, and in certain rooms the walls 'Oi'm coasting." were covered with Italian cordovan. ^ i m ( ^ ?Letter from Lieut. Mell Glenn in Back Again. Greenwood Jurna.l. Isaac wished to consult a physician Couldn't; Afford It. and asked a friend to recommend one A father noticed that his rather "And what does he charge?" ask- obstreperous young son had the ed Isaac, making a note of the ?oc- Qualitv of thriftiness, and resolved tor's name. to appeal to it. "Five dollars for the first visit, "Sonny," said he, 1 m going to ? eive vou a nickel evry day you're a tnree aonars ior succeeuing cans, i was the reply. ! good boy, on condition that every Half an hour later Isaac entered y?ur are naghty you are to give the physician's office and gave this me a nickel- Is it a go?" greeting: "Good morning, doctor, "I'd like to do it, dad,' answered I'm back again." the kid. "But I can't afford it. I've ? ? ? only got $1.26 in my bank." It costs considerable money to send * our army to France, and it will cost The Allied forces must remain unjust as much to bring them home, der arms until peace terms have been Your savings aje still needed by enforced and good order effected in Uncle Sam?needed badly. Make Europe. Large sums of money will good your W. S. S. pledge and buy all be needed by Uncle Sam. Lend him the W. S. S. you can. your savings?buy W. S. S. KRUPPS MUST ANSWER. i ! Big Gun Shop Had Much to I)o With Instigating War. I The directing head of the Krupp works in Germany will have to answer before a high court of justice for their responsibility in the matter of this war, according to an Entente diplomatic dispatch received in Washington which seems to indorse the proposal by the British attorney general for an international tribunal i to try individuals guilty of crimes | against humanity committed by ene j my nationals. The dispatch reproduces charges against General Keim, the first president of the German military league | and former president of the German Naval league, who made himself notorious by conducting a violent PanGerman campaign. He is charged with receiving regular subsidies from th ; Krupp firm. Deputy Edward B ;rstein has brought before the reichstag proof that General Keim has received since 1901 a fixed^ allowance "from one of the importand war material arms." | Bernstein, who is declared by the ! dispatch to have authentic documents to substantiate has charges, alleges that one of these papers is a private report, dated 19t'l, stating that General Keim organized the press bureau under Caprivi, that he had many acquaintances among the press and that owing to his antecedents there was none qualified better than he to modify the feelings of the people toward the Krupp firm and winning sympathy for it. Bernstein proved that ever since 1901 the Krupp books have contained an account of which the principal treasurer had only an incomplete knowledge, as he remitted the amount regularly, not to General Keim himself, but to one of the firm's managers. The dispatch declares that the offenses of the Krupp firm against the German people are worse than those of General Keim, and that "the director of the enterprise will be made to answer some day to a high court of justice for their systematic preparation made with the assistance of military commanders, for the universal carnage which has brought about the defeat of Germany." The Mannheim Social Democrat paper, Volksfreund discussing Bernstein's charges, recalls also that Emperor William himself made frequent visits to Krupps, Germany's principal manufacturer of war materials, insinuating that the kaiser shares the resposibility for the misdeeds of the great war plant. "Old Uncle Moses," of Ehrhardt, Writes of the Times. Yas, sir; I is ben watin fer ar I long time ter ixpres mi vues uv der I i - ?t. _ ?i. j:. U..m ? times on ae suojech. uv uis uui wai we is jest conclude to der end. Who, me? I'se ben al thrue er war en I'se nebber fite nobody yit but I'se had de ocashun ter run seval times from de ole' owman en de rolin pen. Fust uv al I wil tel uv mi erpinun uv de solyers an whar da hab ter fite at?yer see po ole Master John don git er wud ober er wire dat his gran 'son is dun dyed uv er slapnel shot en he neber hab nu surance on him 'tall, den cums er callin fer mi boy, de ole 'oman fret mity hepe erboute it, but when I'se tole her uv de way I kin do, she is dun laf out. If yer* wants dat boy to hab er safe plase al yer hab ter do is inshure on his life?Jerry is dun gone en he is inshured ter de hiest, ten thusen ($10,000.00) dollurs. Yas, but Mose, how is dat gwinter sabe him frum dem minit balls? Minit balls? fust uv al he aint gwinter see no minit balls, ain't you got cense? de U. S. Govenmeint JSam ain't gwinter put no $10,000.00 nigger in de frunt trinch nur no whars Use whar dace is eny danger uv gittin I kilt. Yas, de war is ober en al uv is shoutin en mi boy will sone be ter his ole mammy's side ter tel his speriense uv de war an I speck it is dun kill de ole man wid joy fer u no mi hart is dun run ober wid gradertude cinse de war is gone an us all is stil servivin. When my life's sun is low, When the dewey shadows creep; Say to me before I go, Now I lay me down to sleep. Dat is er little part uv er song dat Miss Nancy teached me to say long time ergo, en gist before I'se lebin dis wurle I wants de hole pece resited ter me. Who? Jerry, Jerry, is dat you? Lawd be here wid our blessins, ain't I dun say he ain't gwine ter no harm. ' 1 Uncle Mose is now grinding cane ^ SAD DEATH AT COPE. Mrs. J. C. Gray Passes Away?Was Buried Sunday Afternoon. Cope, Nov. 11.?Cope and the surrounding community was deeply saddened on Saturday when Mrs. J. C. Gray, nee Emma V. Cope, passed away at a quarter to twelve o'clock. During her life she could not do enough for others. A kinder-heartorl a-nrnan nevar livoH si n H sho ic pti ing to be sorely missed. She was a faithful church member, never missing Sunday-school or a church service, unless sick or otherwise providentially hindered. Mrs. Gray was twice married; first to Mr. Donald Barton, and by this union is left a sweet, lovable girl of sixteen, Rita, who was her mother's idol. She later married Mr. J. C. Gray, of this place, and by this union Rozzie, another sweet and bright little girl of eight years is left to feel the need of a mother's love. The funeral took place Sunday afternoon at two o'clock at Old Union v cemetery, and there were present a large concourse of relatives and , friends as a last token of love and respect. The burial service was read by her pastor, Rev. G. W. Dukes, and the grave was covered with beautiful floral emblems.?Orangeburg Times and Democrat. " * Gin House Boiler Bursts. Columbia, Nov. 15.?One white man and three negroes were instantly killed, one white man possibly fatally injured and one white man 3 11 ? i ~ aria inree negroes uiuugui tu Columbia hospitals less seriously hurt as a result of the explosion of a ginneryboiler ^t Eastover, twenty-five miles from Columbia, this morning. Preston Champ, seventeen, was the white lad killed, while the recovery of P. H. Heape, manager of the gin, is regarded as doubtful. "Old Hickory" Praised by Haig. .vV, With the British Army in Belgium, Sunday, Nov. 24.?The American second corps which served with the British fourth army during the clos ing 'days of the war has been rewarded for its work by a glowing letter of praise from Field Marshal Haig, the British commander-inchief. ^ The field marshal's message to the command of the corps says: "Now that you are leaving the British zone I wish again to thank you and all the officers, non-commissioned officers and men on behalf of myself and all ranks of the British armies in France and Flanders for the very gallant and efficient service you have r endered during vn?r nnerations with the British fourth army. "On the twenty-ninth of September you participated with distinc- * tion in a great and critical attack which shattered the enemy's resist- / ance on the Hindenburg line and which opened the roads to final victory. "The deeds of the twenty-seventh >~ and thirtieth American divisions which took Bellecourt and Nauroy and gallantly sustained the desperate struggle for Bony will rank with the highest achievements of the war. "The names of Brahcourt, Premont, Busigny, Vaux-Andigny, St. Souplet and Wassignv will testify to the dash and energy of your attack. I am proud to have had you in my command." The 30th division mentioned by Field Marshal Haig, composed chiefly of troops from Tennessee, North and South Carolina and the District of Columbia. It is known as the "Old Hickory" division. The 27th and 30th divisions probably were the first American divisions to fight in Belgium, having crossed the border with the fourth British army. The 27th division is composed of New York troops., Foresight. Just before the beginning of the service in a southern church the dusky divine summoned one of the * ^ . vestrymen, to wnom ne saiu. "To-day, reckon you'd better take up the collection before I preaches my sermon." "Excuse me, pahson," said the vestryman, "but why yo' change de regular order?" "Becuz," said the preacher significantly, "I am gwine to preach on. 'Savin' to Win de wah." and when it is over he will tell of the happy times in and around Ehrhardt. 11 f . . ' V * 3 ? - . 'I