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SPURNED GERMAN OFFER.
Venizelo9 Boldly Answered Huns'
Attempt to Bribe.
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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."
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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.
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Reasonable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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"
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* 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.
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! Big Gun Shop Had Much to I)o With
Instigating War.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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