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W. S. S. PURCHASERS. (Continued from page 2, column 2.) - j Jessie Gray 5.00 Carrie McMillan .. .... 5.00 Lessie Edwards 10.00 Tillman Bailey 5.00 ( ^ H. B. Beard 15.00 ( Bryant 5.00 ( F. D. Kearse 15.00 ; David Grimes - 20.00 . Julius Bailey 25.00 1 Elijah Milledge 10.00 , Jessie Gray 25.00 ] Daniel Halyard 10.00 Rosa Bell Halyard 5.00 ] Norman Grimes 5.00 } Lessie Hiers 5.00 ( * John Moore 25.00 | Arthur Rice 5.00 t Tom McCaskill , 15.00 j VathaTi "Rpid 10.00 ] L. B. McCormick 10.00 Henry Williams 10.00 Henry Blime .... .... 5.00 - George Kinard.... .i 20.00 Edgar Beard 10.00 Mon Brabham 5.00 Ben Rice 10.00 Daniel Jeter 10.00 | Bellinger Copeland 10.00 I Nerlin Wright 25.00 Maggie Hamilton 25.00 Arthur Irons .... 15.00 Lisbon Irons 30.00 Scott Milliton .... 10.00 Mary Tomer ...J 5.00 Lessie Tomer 5.00 Janie Tomer 5.00 Lawrence Williams 5.00 Isaiah Carter 10.00 Capernium Colored Church. Below is list of subscriptions as morio hv members of Capernium col- c ored churche, and a few who had al-1 ^ ready made their subscriptions else-L where. . U G. W. Thompson $ 100.00 c Ebbie Thompson . .... 100.00 c Lewis Johnson 25.00 t Martha Johnson 25.00 j B. J. Odam 100.00 Mary Odam 100.00 j Ned Ford 100.0011 Mary Lee Ford ..: 25.00 a 33. C. Chisolm 50.00 ^ Mamie Chisolm 25.00 i Jane Simmons 50.001 j Elijah Odam 25.00 U Rosa Bell Odam 25.00 h t . Ada Thompson 50.00 t Elijah Washington 125.00 L Carrie B. Washington 125.00 h Daniel Washington 25.00 ^ Norris Bennett -- 50.00 f Mancy Watson .... a 25.00 r Martha Hightower 25.00 r Laura Hightower 25.0011 Ida Bennett 50.00 c Delia Banks .... 25.00 K Rosa Hollman 10.00 c Luvinia Washington 50.00 t Lessie Banks _ .... 10.00 Anna Rice ?.' 25.00 v John Ervin Watson 10.00 c Cape Washington 5.00 L Louise Milhouse 100.00 L Nancy Dowling 100.00 L Bamberg Cotton Mills. r Bamberg Cotton Mills ......$1,000.00 a Fossie May Carter .... 5.00 r May Varn .. .... 5.00 U Minnie Barroneau 35.00 L James A. Varn 10.00 Bettie May Roberts 70.00 j M. G. Dunn 100.00 L G. W." Wilson 5.00 J Joe Beverly .... 5.00 f v Herbert Padgett 5.00 j Willie Sanders y.... 5.00 t Jno. Wilson 5.00 ( j. A. Sanders Y 10.00 l W. T. Eubanks .' 5.00 ( W. L. Dunn 280.00 j Maud Padgett 15.00 ( J. W. Carter 5.00 ] Hattie Fogle 5.00 ( Clyde Varn 5.00 a Gladys Padgett 5.00 ' Hester Utsey 5.00 2 L. C. Eubanks 10.00 j, Hattie Wilson .... 5.00 j L&la Morris 5.00 j Kate Wilson ..i 5.00 , Laura Carter 5.00 Hilton Alexander 10.00 ] KEARSE. 1 J. C. Breland $ 500.00 ] Mrs. Alvina Johns 500.00 ( J. S. Breland 100.00 j W. H. Ritter 500.00 2 G. E. Ritter (for children) 100.00 B. V. Kearse 500.00 G. B. Kearse 500.00 H. A. Kearse 500.00 Faber Kearse 100.00 P. M. Kearse 100.00 * ' T ^ SO Oft . ?F. V. IVCCH JC .... .... - - . - - j Edward Kearse 50.00 j Jack Kearse 50.00 Miss Hilda Kearse 25.00 A. W. Brabham 25.00 Norman Ritter 15.00 Ruth Ritter * 15.00 , John Wallace Ritter . 15.00 J Lewis M. Ayer 100.00 Geo. R. Aver 5.00 ( W. L. Ayer 5.00 J. F. Breland, Jr 5.00 J. C. Hiers 5.00 Geo. Kinard 5.00 . I. W. Dyches 5.00 < S. E. Platts 5.00 , Monnie Barnes 5.00 , Kearse?Colored. Luscius Moore 10.00 ! Dokes Porter 15.00 . Geo. Glover 15.00 John Grimes 10.00 ' Geo. Folk 25.00 1 I AMERICA BEGINS. Letter From the French Front By an I American Soldier. France, June 28.?" In a 3ueer little room at the top of a cot- < tage, there's a rickety table and a ] :hair. The ceiling is very low, and ; you have to bend your head. There's 1 i view of fields and woods from the i window. It's country untouched by svar, although there is plenty to re- . nind you of it. I "There's a British battalion back ] *? ??! or Thou trf\ 11 n flMl'll tri- 1 .iCl c ICOVIU^. A iiVJ QV norrow, and are busy cleaning up equipment and making their prepara;ions. One had expected, somehow, o find a certain amount of war weariless among men who had been out a ong time, but don't seem to know the neaning of it. They're as lively as tickets, and our chaps seem to get >n excellently with them. They're leginning to pick up bits of cockney French, and phrases from the Indian irmy. "It's getting late and the guns can ie heard quite plainly. Just a con;inuous rumbling in the distance, like ;he voice of Fifth avenue coming ;hrough the closed windows of my >ffice "Slept like a top. We all turned >ut to give the British battalion a end-off, and to tell them we'd be with hem soon. They set off at a good >ace, singing one of those songs they >inch from us. I think our boys vould have liked to follow after them here and then. Something in the vav they went off, young and old dike, made you see what a great adrenture it all is. After they'd gone Te got a kind of feeling that our drill>aradesfor the day were a bit flat. But >f course we know that all that sort >f dull routine has helped to turn out hese Tommies, so we're sticking at t . . : . "I got a lift in a lorry today after >arade, and went into the nearest own. There were crowds of troops Lbout, and some of our own boys c vho'd been ^up to the line. They'd e >een put among a French regiment, a ust till they began to get wise to t heir job. I went back to the village t n the evening with two others from he battalion. We walked; and all f he time we could hear the guns go- \ ng. They never seem to stop at all. * Vhen we got back to the mess we \ ound everyone very excited at the \ tews just received that we'd got our i narching orders. We move off in f hree days' time. It's queer to feel >ne is actually going to be part of I mat all the papers have been full t if for so long; a real, integral part r if the war at last ..... c "Of course everything is in a fever- i '.eat of preparation, and we're won lering where we're bound for. May- t >e we'll strike some place where all he fighting's going on now. We're I i good way from the line, so we'll j uost likely go into billets again for i i night on the way up. We're all i nighty anxious to get a peep at ^ hings. Naturally we don't see much . vay back in this village "Most of the villagers seem to have riends and relations serving. They jive us scraps of news from their leters now and then. They're real fine oik, the women of this village, and >retty well as strong as men, through he hard work they do in the fields. )n Sundays they chunk off their old uuddy working clothes and blossom >ui in all kinds of finery, with their lair neatly arranged, and real shoes >n their feet. "Vou can see them gong off to mass at the funny old church, carrying their prayer-books ind looking altogether different folks. There's a great stir when one of the nen from the village comes back on eave . They make no end of fuss over aim, and he just sits quiet, enjoying t all, now and then telling them a farn of two .... "I'll try and find time to write a ine or two before we push off, but it will be a pretty busy time now. [t's only at night, when the work's >ver, that you start wondering what it will be like up there, where all the loise is going on " * ? ? Helen Knew All Right. "Helen," said the teacher, "can rou tell'me what a 'myth' is?" "Yeth, ma'am," lisped Helen; "it :th a woman that hath not got any iuthband." Determined To Go. "Doctor," asked the invalid, "don't rou think a change to a warmer climate would do me good?" "Heavens, man!" replied the doctor, "that's just what I am trying to save you from."?Life. Read The Herald; $1.50 a year. Charley Brown .... 25.00 Tim Hunter 25.00 James Orr 25.00 Jim Mikell 25.00 Rufus Breland 25.00 Adieus Breland 25.00 Rodin Hines 25.00 Tog Breland 25.00 Teague Breland 25.00 GUARDED BY CANNON. Russian Capital Surrounded by Large Number of Guns. Berlin is defended by a labyrinth Df monster guns of diameter ranging from 22 to 42 inches, hidden in pits 35 to 55 feet deep and 125 to 150 feet apart, and in three circles surrounding the city. These defenses were outlined by John Erickson, native of Sweden, em)loyed by the Rice Lake Lumber company of Minnesota. Erickson worked :or five years on the outer defenses of Berlin and before that time worked for the Motala Gun Works in Sweden, :urning out heavy ordnance for Germany, which was prepared at that :ime to make good its dream of world lomination. Some of the guns forming the defence of Berlin are 200 feet long. All ;he guns are hidden in pits. Founda;ions are set in seven feet of granite junk in the bottom of the pits. Of the hree circles of these pits surrounding he city, one is seven miles from the jity's outskirts, the next circle is ileven miles from the city and the argest ring circles the city fifteen niles distant. A screen roof now protects these pins both from the elements and rom sight. A layer of two feet of lirt covers the top. Gardens, grass, :rops and even trees are planted over he instruments of death to prevent heir being detected. Electric moors are so arranged that1 these cov-j ;rings may be thrown off like sheets! >f paper at a moment's notice. Electricity controls the huge guns, j rhe heart of the city is connected vith every gun pit by electric rail- j vays running through the subways | or carrying ammunition and reinorcements. j A chart with a map and a dial toi ndicate just where each shell is to all hangs on the wall of every gun-j )it. The guns throw shells twenty-; ive or thirty miles. The destination; >f each shell is determined by thej ilevation at which .each gun is fired, i ind elevations are obtained through he use of electric motors to movei he guns. I Prior to his employment on the deences of Berlin Erickson says he worked for years for the Motala gun vorks in Sweden. These works, as rell as every gun works of Sweden, worked for day and night for years >rior to the war supplying munitions or Germany. Just before the war was declared Srickson says the Motala gun works urned out 4,000,000 automatic ifles for Germany. This was the :ulmination of a huge order embracng every sort of gun and cannon, vhich for years kept 8,500 men in his gun works busy. Plans for the defense of Berlin,! Srickson said, were laid twenty rears ago. Militarists of Germany, le said, had planned the fall of Nanur and Liege years before the war vas declar4d, and they also planned j M mUUR PSMV FISK lH: Ri? pric witl jsjk. icy aut BAMBERG BAMBE i their own capital must have defences | stronger than those of the Belgian | cities. i Numerous smaller German cities | are similarly protected, he said. ^ )>l ^ A Preventative That Worked. | "Why on earth do you keep borrowing Tootler's trombone?" asked Mr. Miggs' neighbor. "You can't ! play it." | "No," responded Mr. Miggs, "forI tunately for you I cannot. And while I've got it he can't play it either. Get me?" Whence Come Our Letters. i | The alphabet we use is a queer : thing, when we come to think of it. 1 In effect it is made up of conventional | signs. Turn this page upside dov.?n, and you cannot read it. It might almost as well be printed in Russian char ; acters or Arabic. | Few subjects have enlisted on the Ipart of language students more specu! lative thought than the origin of the ' alphabet. It is today a ^matter much i in dispute. j There are those who aver that on ; pebbles almost as ancient as the early | cave dwellers of southern Europe I have been found inscribed characters j representing the origin of some of our I alphabetical letters of today. But the theory most generally ac; cepted at the present time is that the j letters of our alphabet originated with the ancient Egyptians. They were, to begin with, "ideographs." i Take "S" for example. In form it represents a snake. The sound of the letter is the hissing of a snake. There you have it. What more could be demanded of a single letter in an alphabet? It is a whole picture. "Q" is" supposed to have been a knnt in a string?the> letter beins ! originally a piece of sinew. "G" was a bow pulled taut. "C" was the hollowed hand, from which one clrank? whence the sound of the letter. "L"' was the crooked stick used in primitive times as a plow. "N" was a pickaxe. "V" was an ox yoke. "X" was a cross roads. "T" was a tally? a primitive mode of counting. / "Y" was the right hand upheld.?Popular Science. SHERIFF'S TAX SALIk In accordance with the executions to me directed by G. A. Jennings, v treasurer of Bamberg county, I have levied upon and will sell to the highest bidder for cash, on Monday, August the 5th, 1918, during the legal ! hours of sale, the following described lots in the town of Denmark, county , of Bamberg, and State of South Carolina, said lots to be sold for taxes due and owing the said county and State by John Stephens: Lots 13 and 14 in Block No. 23; lots 15 and 16 in Block 23; lots 3, 4, and 5 in Block 57; lots 25, 24, 22, 21, 29, 19, in Block No. 52; also lots Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, in Block No. O A All lrtfc- / ?? Una nf QnntTi "Rrmnfl imTm AH 1ULO VU 11UV VI Vuuvu railroad company. S. G. RAY, Sheriff Bamberg County. July 15, 1918. E^ ?^ I E RIGHT TIRE rht in quality, in I :e and mileage, | i the right pol- | back of it. The I endable, econically-priced omobile tire. 1AUTO CO. :rg, s. c. Help the Operators Serve Y?u Better ^ K jmtmmmmmMWJ Telephone subscribers are urged to call by number and not by name. In a community of this size the operators cannot possibly remember the names of all subscribers; when you call by name you delay your service and hamper its efficiency. . All telephones are known to the operators by numbers which are on the switchboard directly in front of them. The directory is your 3? .1 I j i i j t inaex 10 me swucnDoaru ana siiuuiu uc tuusulted before making a call. Call by number and help the operator serve you better. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY ['A 9 Bin the ground or hiding it somt obscure place is sheer ex-j I the interest it might be earn-j ^yj\ ing if deposited in the Enter- W,// y. . 4\ ttJ \W| prise Bank. Open an account' S'ft ' ' y ' /[ and start your savings to earn-- p|iV . /A ing something. You work your money. Make your Enterprise Bank | 5 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. Bamberg. S. C. ' '^12 I WMMMmSb This Space Patriotically Donated By fhSaiisfcMnBt *r I safety of our homes and famines nere. i . The money paid for War-Savings Stamps I is a loan and will be repaid in full by I the United States government plus 4 1 per cent, interest, compounded quarterly. | No amount is to small to be of material I H - 'A-,: help. Every purchase?if only 25c-ex- 1 pedites our victory. | WAR-SAVINGS STAMPS ARE ON I SALE HERE. I HERALD BOOK STORE ?? ? * sr*npk o n j | * ' .-, ; ? xkXSkw.-ic&S SiS j-iSSLSBf J Chero=Cola Bottling Co. Buy Them And t* i nr* mi nr Bamberg, S. C. Help Win The War i FOB SALB XVZBYWHBtX ' t "{'.i ?????mm ;| THRIFT STAMPS ! WAR-SAVINGS STAMPS 1 - . m : It is not only a patriotic investment, but I your duty as an American citizen to aid I in the financing of our government, I which must provide protection and su- I stenance for our soldiers "Over There" B in order that they shall preserve the I - i * i B