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IdFE OF AMMUNITION DKtVER. | j Mellichaiup Brunson at Front Writes; About Constant Dangers. i The News and Courier is glad to J again be able to print some interest-! ing extracts from letters written by JVIeUichamp Brunson, former South Carolina newspaper men, now with the French army, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Brunson, of Orangeburg. Mr. Brunson recites some thrilling experiences, but judging from the tone of his letters, these "dose calls" are matters of every day occurrence and pass almost unnoticed by him and his coworkers in convey * ? ? " ?1? tn flin Kitr oniric at 1 Ug ttmuiumuuu c<j> mc v.v the battle front. Portions of Mr. Brunson's letter follows: To Limit of Endurance. "Somewhere in France," Sept. 28, 1917. Dear I will write only a few lines tonight, as I've just gotten in off convoy and am tired to death. out practically all of last night and made only one trip today. The rush is still on and we are working ouy cars for all we can get out of them, and out of the ' men. It is just a matter of how much we can do without dropping. Whenever you read of any activity along the F'rench front you can know we were in it. The quiet times come once in a wjbiile and then everybody growls for work. Tiie work comes ana everyone the growls for rest. We had quite an exciting trip last night. Left camp about 4 in the afternoon and after being loaded started up. We were stopped for three frours at a bridge that was being shelled and were allowed to cross five minutes apart before the bombardment ceased. All got across O. K., but we found something far more exciting on the other side. We were ordered to unload closer than ever . before and were told not to light matches or anything of that kind and tb proceed as noiselessly as possible. ? line of guns behind us kept up such a roar that we couldn't even hear our own motors or see for smoke and mist. The machine guns kept up a steady sputter and as the road was new to us w? had a hard time. Before being unloaded a gas shell burst an(* we had to get on our masks. It was impossible to drive with the masks on, so we had to sit thus for thirty minutes until it was over. I tell you it was nerve racking sitting there, but nothing more serious happened and we got home safely this morning. Made a short trip today, but nothing unusual took place. We have had no "-"J in m ArA CitlU J til auu mc uuat 10 iuuic terrific than ever. Maybe we will get rain soon, as I understand that in winter it falls every day. As I am writing by candle light I must stop, as it is burning low. We have received stringent orders to keep lights under cover now with the moon bright, as a barrack near us was destroyed the other night by a" Boche airman. i October 1, 1917. I intended writing you yesterday but was held up on the road five or hours and did not get in until late last night, almost starved and tired to death. I consider myself to be lucky to be writing this letter, as I had one of the closest shaves ever. We left camp early yesterday with twelve cars, and after loading at X? started up. We got to our destination O. K., but while there the Boche started bombarding the place and kept it up steady for two fe'ours. Shrapnel was falling like tail and shell fragments as big as apples were coming at every burst. We had no cover, except cars, and at every crack dodged behind them. W-haa six of our cars were unloaded wa were ordered to start home, my car being in the lead. There was considerable activity in the air and shells were breaking all along a ridge above us. Boche airmen seemed to t>e regulating the artillery fire and I should say they were doing pretty welL Tbree French machines went up and saw one German fall. He landed in a field about a half a mile rom my car. We were hitting up as fact as rossible to get to the river tirid^e. The Toad ran through a cnunltions park and as we entered I caw Frenchmen scattering in every direction, rtatT cars passing at a high creed and one or two horsemen riding til e mad. As I got into the center txf the park a shell came over about twenty-five yaras aneaa ana oursi m & pile of shells. I hesitated for a . minute, put on speed and the six of us went through like the wind. It was close, hut we got through before another shell came. Lact night the Boche made quite an air raid in this vicinity and we were l ert awake for several hours t>y bombs dropping and anti-aircraft gnns. Could also hear the machine! trims, so suppose some Frenchmen! were up also. I'm resting up today and will close and read a little. October 3, 1917. As the censorship rules have been grnl ed very strict recently, I won't lie able to write anything of ouri NEGROES WELL BEHAVED. None of Colored Soldiers Has 15een Arrested. Camp Jackson, Nov. 3.?One of the best indications that Columbia will not have any serious trouble with the negro soldiers at Camp Jackson is that, although there have been upwards of 3,000 negroes at the camp for the past several weeks, not a single one has been arrested by the military police. One negro soldier was arrested by the civilian police on a charge of being drunk, and this is the only arrest of a negro soldier here to date. Col. Edwin Bell, commander of military police, said this morning that the conduct of the negro soldiers had been most exemplary. "The donning of the uniform of the army has not given them the 'big head' as some persons expected it would," said Col. Bell. "On the contrary, I believe that it has instilled a desire in them to make themselves worthy of the uniforms they wear and of the responsibility it has placed upon them." The military police office in Columbia has issued over 10,000 passes to Camp Jackson. Some of the passes are for several persons, so that it is estimated that at least 25,000 persons I have qualified to visit the reservation in the past few months. The passes are issued in various form and for various durations. Some are for one trip, others for a month and some permanent. Before securing: a Dass to Camp Jackson a person is obliged to call at Col. Bell's office, ninth floor, Union Bank building, so that the officer in charge of issuing passes can give him the once over. How Roosevelt Lost His Eye. Col. Dan. 7- Moore, 310th field artillery regiment, 79th division, stationed at Camp Meade, is the man who dimmed former President Roosevelt's left eye in a boxing bout in the White House in 1905, it was disclosed today. Col. Roosevelt acknowledged Sunday that his left eye had been rendered useless by a "husky young artillery captain." He declined to give his name. Col. Moore acknowledged he was "it," when the question was put squarely up to him today. "I. did not know Col. Roosevelt's eye had been put out until I read his statement Monday," said Col. Moore, 1 "But I have felt ever since he told of losing the sight of one eye that I should be smoked out. Be sure your sins will find you out." "Of course I am sorry I struck the blow, and that the colonel told about it. Although I never knew until I read his statement that his eye had been blinded, I instantly knew it was I to whom he referred, because there was no other answering the description he gave who could have done it. . "In 1905 I was military aide at the White House. Another was Granville Fortesque, later a war correspondent in Europe and now a major of the national army, stationed at Camp Lee. Still another was Phil Sheridan, son of the hero of Winchester, who is immortalized in verse. "But the boxers at that time in the White House were the President, Kermit Roosevelt and myself. For opponents in other sports the President went further afield, but when he when he wished to don :he gloves he chose Kermit, or me. Fortesque may have opposed him occasionally, but I doubt it, and I don't think Phil Sheridan ever boxed with the President at all. That puts it squarely up to me. "Tell about the exact blow which blinded one of the President's eyes? It would be as easy to tell about the shell that killed any particular sol aier in me war. "When you put on the gloves with President Roosevelt it was a case of fight all the way. No man in the ring with him had any chance to keep track of particular blows. A good fast referee might have known, but nobody else. "The colonel wanted plenty of action and he usually got it. He had no use for a quitter, or one who gave ground. Nobody but a man who was willing to fight-all the time and all the way had -any chance with him. That is my only excuse for the fact that I seriously injured him. There was no chance to be careful of the the blows. He himself wouldn't have stood for it. "T choll u-rito thfl rrvlrmel a letter expressing my regret at the serious results of the blow. I cannot do more, and I certainly won't do less." Col. Moore looked today, after the lapse of a dozen years, as though he could give a very good account of himself in the ring with most boxers. Read The Herald $1.50 the year. I operations, etc., but only of my j health and needs. I never have received any papers from home and don't think I will, as second-class mail is very uncertain and hardly ever gets over. I've been resting for the last couple of days and am in shape for fine work. Am getting on fine and feeling good. I Dollar Duty Uncle Sam says ECONOfllZE. To do this you must make every dollar do IT'S FULL DUTY. We have a system in selling high grade Groceries that guarantees a full 100 cents value on every dollar you spend with us. Come see us NOW. We are trimming old man High Prices to a fare-you-well. Fact Is, we have about routed him. W.P.Herndon .r?i Ramkarff Q C. | 'f 1IUIIC jUI uniuwig) wa | GET THE HABIT GO TO REID'S FOR YOUR WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY. ? A New Line for the I Holidays. : IReid's Jewelry Store BAMBERG, S. C. FOR SALE. One two-story dwelling at Ehrhardt. Well located. Two stores situated on Broadway street, Ehrhardt, .cheap. Four brick stores in the heart of Denmark. Terms to suit the purchasers. One six-room residence in Bamberg, with outbuildings and 1 1-2 acres of land, for $1,000; $400 cash, balance to suit the purchaser. Three brick stores on Main street, Bamberg. Prices and terms right. One farm of 138 acres, $20 per acre. Six miles from Bamberg. Timber on place will sell for almost purchase price. Land rents for six bales of cotton per year. One nice residence lot of one acre of land, $500. Several lots on Elmore Heights, $100 each. Sixteen acres on Main street, near Mr. E. C. Bruce's, $200 per acre. Well suited for peanut factory, or oil mill. 400 acres of land four miles from Bamberg for $11 per acre. Nice dwelling and all necessary outbuildings. Nice farm in McCormick county onntnininsr 1.480 acres. Nice two story dwelling and fourteen or fifteen tenant houses. 20 horse farm open, 3,000,000 feet of timber on'place. Will sell the whole plantation for $21,000, payments on easy terms. If purchaser is familiar with saw milling, timber can be made to more than pay for the place. REASONABLE TERMS CAN BE HAD ON ALL THE ABOVE PROPERTY. H. M. GRAHAM, Real Estate, BAMBERG. S. C. ma, RUB OUT PAIN with good oil liniment. That's the surest way to stop them. [The best rubbing liniment is v y i 1 El 1 HB B" M T ' Good for the A ilmcnts of ' Horses. Mules, Cattle, Etc. Good for t;our own A chcs, Paini, Rheumatism, Sprains, Cuts, Burns, Etc. 25c. 50c. $J. At all Dealers. R. P. BELLINGER ATTOKNKY AT LAW MONEY TO LOAN. Office Over Bamberg Banking Co. 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