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I PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in Tliis City and at V. Other Points. Hi ?F. F. Carroll, Esq., spent TuesH day in Columbia. * j?Miss Sallie D. Free has gone to k Greenville to spend a few days. | ?Miss Annie Hartzog spent last week with friends at Williston. ?Mrs. Estelle Gaillard, of George/ town, is visiting Mrs. F. F. Carroll. ?Mr. A. F. Morris, of Olar, was in the city Monday.?Barnwell People. d k v ?Dr. V. W. Brabham, of Orangei . burg, visited relatives here this week. ' '?Mr. C. F. Rizer, of Olar, was in Barnwell salesday.?Barnwell People :.0f ?Mrs. Willie Walters, of Charles in 1VI vc 1? Pwu9 AO vioitiug uci rnuiaci, xui o. u. '* A. Smoak. ?Mrs. John H. Cope, of Spartanburg, spent several days in the city I . last week. ? ?kMre. J. K. Still, of Blackville, gi* spent the week-end with her son, Mr. R. B. Still. 1 & ?-Mrs. D. W. Shealey and Mrs. . 0. A. Simmons spent yesterday in | Charleston. | ?Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Brickie and little son spent Sunday in Branchville with relatives. ?Mr. Ira Cope, of Orangeburg, is spending a few days in the city with Mr. Glenn Cope. p ?Misses Ruth Byrd and Addy6 \ Hays are spending some time at TarDon Springs. Fla. \ v ?Mrs. James A. Wyman and Mrs. f 1 Norman Walker are spending\ few weeks in JJfew York. ?Mrs. R. M. Bruce and children are visiting relatives in and near Branchville this week. ?Dr. H. F. HooVer has gone to H \ New York, where he will take a ^special course in ihedicine. 1 ?Dr. O. D. Faust has returned to city from Macon, Ga., where he spent the Christmas holidays. ?Miss Estelle Hinshaw, of Winston-Salem, N. C. is spending a few days in the city with friends. ?Mrs. H.#>F. Hoover ai^d Master . ^ - Henry Hoover are spending some * * time with relatives at Ridgeway.. ' E. H. Henderson, Esq., of Bamberg, was her^ on professional business Monday.?Barnwell Sentinel. J ' J ?Miss Lucile Davis of OrangeU-' vi. ?_ ?.__x n.x l J a... i. . ; : iraii'St sptsm oaiuruay tuiu ouuua; m Bamberg with her sister, Miss Alma jpgE itoivik. I * ?Mr. A. B. Jordan and family, of [ ^*oa? sPent a few days in the city * * last week ^Jth Mr. and Mrs. J. W. " TAitnintfO Jennings. L ?Mrs: J. Monnie Hill* and little p-'-j- son, of Elizabeth, La., left Tuesday I morning for. Greenville, after a short I visit to relatives in and near Bamf ?Misses Julian EaSterling and Louise*Wilson, after spending the Christmas vacation in the city-, have HB returned to Blackville to . resume teaching in the graded school. F ?*Mrs. John Cooner, Miss Sallie r Free, Mrs. J./E. Newsom, Mrs. C. P. I Hooton and Misses Lucile Hunter and Ruby McMillan attended the district ^ meeting of the Baptist W. M. U., in Williston, last week. ^ ^ ?Senator J. B. Black and Representatives B. D. Carter and J. Wesley Crum, Jr., left Monday afternoon for Columbia for. the opening of the session of the general assembly, which convened Tuesday morning. TEETH COMPLETE. AT BIRTH. .Baby Son of Ohio Parents is Normal _ in All Other Ways. W- ' * A son born t<^ Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Gibler, of Sandyville, near here, had his first teeth at birth, accordir^ to f Or. Goodrich, of Sandyville, the fam'By physician. The baby Is normal in everv way. and the Dresence of teeth H| is causing no great alarm, but indicates an advanced prenatal developp ment.?Canton, Ohio, Exchange. K An Artist. *The family terror ,was entertaining f * the caller until his mother was suita| bly arrayed, according to Judge. "Sister Lou's young man is going W yto be a painter," he remarked. Pi ? "A painter?" the caller asked. ^ ^ -'Uh-huh, I guess so," he replied. It -> "Him and pa was in the library quite ? a .spell the other night, and I heard ' pa tell him he'd need more of the blues, and he said it cost too much V to draw." "So you want to marry my daughter, eh?" snorted the old man. 44Do you consider yourself financially able to do so?" . ^ "Well," replied the suitor, "after a fellotf has bought candy and flowers ? - * ? ? ? U Art 1, Ari ' I for a giri ior a V6ai", clliu lids larvcu ; her to the theatre twice a week, and j is still not broke. I guess he can afford to get married."?Philadelphia Record; j Read the Herald, $1.^0 per year, i V. S. NAVAL RESERVATION GUANTAXAMO BAY, CUB A (Continued from page 4, column 3.) tantry and cavalry. At Toro it was always the same. The entire country for miles around was completely overrun by the "patriots"?many oi whom spoused the cause to escape work and to pillage?but Toro flew the red and yellow of Spain until the stars and stripes appeared in the offing "hay diez y siete anos"?seventeen years ago, as the old Guadia Civile said. The Coming of the Boys in Blue. Yes, Toro knew no fear until early in June, 1898, the lookout reported a great squadron off the entrance to the bay. It was Capt. McCalla's force of American seamen and marines sent to cooperate with the Cuban army to compel the surrender of Fort Toro. The fort was doomed. It's brave defenders in gray knewr it. Her guns were smoothbores and would carry at best only two miles, while the gunners aboard the gray huljs, headed by the afterwards famous Texas, could pour in a devastating hail of shells at six .miles. But a soldier's life is nothing. It is honor, not life, to which he clings. And so they blew up the fort; The old walls twenty feet thick that had Kravod thfi Cuban attacks for nearly two undred years, crumbled overnight, the spiked guns were dumped unceremoniously in the moat, the cisterns and cuartels were demolished; but the Hag was left flying?nailed to the mast?and the little, company charging a band of Cuban guerillas cut its way to the high hill overlooking the entrance to the bay. Here they were destined to _ make their last stand. The Battle of Guantanamo. Against intrenchfnents, protected by hills, naval ordnance was of little avail, and to dislodge the defenders became a question of cold steel versus cold steel. Literally dug in on the top of the hill?afterwards named McCalla hill in honor of the American commander?the Spaniards awaited their foe. On June 14, 1898, the foe arrived. American .marines under command of Lieut. Col%. R. W. Huntingdon?the first American troops to land in Cuba?beached their boats on the glistening playa and, under the blistering rays of a tropical sun and a hail of Mauser bullets, commenced their famous climb up* the sides of the 100-foot hill. A surgeon fell, a sergeant-major, then a coxswain, a pri V816, DUl CYCr tin w ax u pi coocu until, with a wild yell, they swept over the crest and the hill was theirs. On the slope and the beaofc behind them nearly one half of their comrades lay dead and wounded, while the mass of Spanish dead jammed in the main defensive works on the hill, attested to the tenacity with which the enemy held their position.-* Backward the Spaniards were pushed, but, profiting by the shelter of every knoll and valley, they halted long enough to take toll from their pursuers, who were finally ^forced to abandon the chase and return to* the captured hill without prisoners. Thus fought the Spanish army when face to face with a civilized foe. The l)eath of Busbee and McColgan, Today bullets and shells of all calibre may be picked from the ground wnere oyaiuaruts <tuu mauucs ?w a,j cu back and forward in their mad rushes to conquer. A few days ago, 1 paused before the monument of Busbee and McColgan?have you evei heard of them??and looked at the shell that had never exploded, which is on top of the little shaft. I wonder if this shell had done its duty would the tragedy have been enacted Busbee and McColgan were twc youngsters about twenty-three belonging to a company of marines. They had been with the detachment in the attack on McCalla hill and had taken part in the pursuit of the retreating Spaniards. - They were thoughtless, inadept boys?that's all. So, when they were posted on outpost duty in what is now known as Thoroughfare Gap, they chose the easiest spot to watch. It was in the middle of the bejl of an ancient stream, and, on all sides, hills covered with'dense underbrush rose high above them. "But there were fewer mosquitoes there, and the sand flie? didn't bite nearly as bad, and, anyway, there weren't any of those 'Spigs' left after the battle yesterday." The visiting patrol having left, they built a camp fire?of course it was strictly against orders, "but no one would ever be the wiser"?and speread out theii supper, mixed their coffee. That must have been their last act for next morning the patrol found their bodies riddled by more than sixty bullets lying across the untouched meal."The fire was out, the coffee cold, but McColgan's hand still gripped the bag of sugar. Thp stnrv was simnle. A company of Spanish infantry had fired into what was supposed to be a bivoudc and, the Texas having commenced the bombardment of the gap, had retreated eastward leaving behind the bodies of the two unfortunate young men Today a plain white shaft surmounted by an unexploded shell records \ : , simply "Here Privates Wm. Dumfee < l and James McColgan, U. S. MC., were ' killed on outpost duty, June, 1898." i Passing through Thoroughfare i > Gap and crossing the Divide beyond. i ii. - ? i - a _ i + ~f me ira.ii stops aui upnj* iu nuui ui ^ a ruined ranch house. Here we are j told the Spaniards paused in their j J retreat and a single 8-inch shell from the Texas crashing through the roof demolished the house and killed , i > twenty-two men outright. This is; tradition for which the natives vouch I - but the facts will never be known definitely as not one of the garrison of Ft. Toro succeeded in rejoining the main Spanish army. Those who escaped death on McCalla hill and the , pursuit that followed fell one by 'one i in the underbrush victims of Cuban . guerillas or what was even worse? . devouring thirst. The Xaval Station. Having succeeded in liberating the j * j ?1, ~ ~ rM-kQTl ti-k tVlO ! . uuDans iiiiu, NviLii an c>c uycu n/ b?w great possibilities of the bay as a western Gibraltar on which to base a fleet guarding the southern coast and the Panama canal, the American government soon opened negotiations for its acquisition. This was readily arranged by the Cuban congress, and thus it happens that a portion of Cuba is today as much American soil as is Bamberg county. The station snuggles at the base of a high range of hills, which, ending in precipitous cliffs at the edge of the sea, makes it immune from gunfire of any hostile fleet that might be sent to reduce it. Great modern redoubts behind whicfli crouch monster guns and mortars stand on each side of the entrance ready to enfilade an enemy^s vessels, while line after line of submarine mines, easily and quickly placed, preclude the possibility of a vessel forcing a passage. The station is entirely modern. Great machine and wood-working shopsvimmense storehouses and power plants are fitted to prepare the fleet for fighting. No detail has h^pn npclected. and each winter dur I ? ' ? ing the Atlantic fleet's visit of three months in these waters, the station is placed on a war footing. In this way everything is kept in readiness for the supreme test of war, which there is no'sur?r way of preventing^ than being fully prepared. Enormous steel tanks holding millions of gallons of fuel oil supply fuel to the docks where torpedo boats and destroyers come and go during all hours of the day and night, ko more fuss and grime and dust coaling ship. Now it is only a question of opening a valve and, with a little fuming, the modern destroyer is oiled and ready to dart out after its junsuspectingjoe. Submarines, that modern terror of j ttye seas, may fill quickly with gaso- 2 line and charge their wonderful bat- j teries at a moment's notice, ready to | submerge for its dreaded work be- i neath the waves. Space for hangars j and repair sheds is ready to take care j i of aeroplanes and dirigibles which, j high in the air like giant hawks, j watch the coast and issue warning of j the approach of a hostile force. j , Then to keep in touch with the ! ; master minds in Washington, who di- 1 i rect all operations in time of war, j a modern radio station has been pro- j vided. From the aiftennae stretched j . between two great steel towers, three j [ hundred feet high, at the touch of ] [ a key magic waves emanate carrying I ; reports to Washington and receiving j ; back the orders of the day. On clear j . nights when static is good{ messages J may be received and, sent to Panama, j far distant Honolulu and to vessels j i thousands of miles at sea. j In addition to the radio, there is j r a branch of the Central and South j AmonVfln nahle nn the station, and.- ) > through -the courtesy of the manager, . the officers are daily supplied-with the cable dispatches. At the breakr fast table, they read the latest news from the battle fronts in Europe, topics of interest from al4-parts of f ! th? world, including the latest lynchings in Georgia and the election riots in Charleston, before the morning train reaches Bamberg with the same news. So, after all, the outpost on j > which Uncle Sam puts so much re liance is not so distant, and there can > be no reason why many of the read ers of The Herald should not visit its 1 interesting points and the school chil1 dren be fully prepared for their next 1 examination on questions concerning the United States' most recently ac' quired territory. i . Found Dead in Woods. Anderson, Jan. 8.?The body of : Felix Martin was found by a negro this afternoon in a body of woods on , his farm near Pendleton, S. C. Mr. j ; Martin, who is about 45 years old, j , left his home early yesterday morn- j . ing to visit a neighbor. He paid the j visit and failed to return to his home, j Members of his family and people of j that section searched the woods and S f fields for him practically, all day. The j ; coroner went to the scene and decid- j ed an inquest was unnecessary, the j doctor stating that death resulted j ; from apoplexy or, some other natural disease Mr. Martin was a well- 1 known and highly respected farmer j ; of his own community. j . ' > .."V > 4^A A^4 A^A A^A A^A A^ A^A A^A A^A A^A A y T^T T^T f^f V^f f^T f^T y^? T^? f^T ^r^Tf^f ^f ?^1 f "The Bat r * I &L. ? A 1 1 . .1 j\ stupendous proaucuon u ? condition of our country, this condition may lead, ai f consequences. t ?i YOU SEE THE FOE INVADING AM f NESS TO THE DESTRUCTION OF > X PITIFUL INADEQUACY OF ITS FC V* THE HAVOC WROUGHT BY THE E RINES, ITS AIRSHIPS, BY ITS SH > * YOU SEE THE BEAUTIFUL CITY C OF THIS RELENTLESS FOREIGN 1 THAT FOLLOWS. I THEN YOU ARE SHOWN HOW SI ^ ED?THE ONE WAY. YOU ARE X THE PEACE FOR \YHICH AMEBIC V* PEACE WITH HONOR. I "THE BATTLE CRY OF PEACE" u X fore attempted in motion pictures. . I RRIIANfR THF | FRIDAY AND SAT! A ALL SEATS RESERVED, $1.00 ? == ^ Friday Night Jan. 21st at 8:30. 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