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PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Miss Minnie Lee Ayer has gone to Columbia for a short visit. , ?Miss Lucille Folk is visiting re!^ atives in Orangeburg this week. f ?Mr. A. F. Henderson, cashier of the Ehrhardt Banking Co., was in the city new year's day. J ?Miss Ray Jones, of Walterboro, is spending a short while here on a visit to Miss Alma Black. ?Mr. Thos. Hand, of Madison, N. C., is spending some tijaje in the city ^ with his uncle, Mr. S. A. Hand. JF ?Messrs. W. D. Bennett and W. r r Max Walker, of Ehrhardt, were in P Bamberg for a short while Monday. ?Mr. Arthur B. Jordan, editor or ; the Dillon Herald and a former Bamberg resident, was in the city for the past week-end. ?Dr. J. J. Cleckley has returned from a trip to Baltimore on professional business. ?Miss Mallie Patrick, of Eastman, Ga., is spending some time in the eity with her sister, Mrs.' B. W. Simi mons. I ?Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Simmons and children and Miss Mallie Patrick visited relatives near Lodge last < week. 6 T7* T-T HonHorsnn has rp iUlO* JU* AA, - ^ turned to her home here after spending the Christmas holidays with relatives in Aiken. ?Dr. and *Mrs. F. B. McCrackin have returned to the city from Newberry, where they visited relatives during the holidays. ?Col. and Mrs. J. R. Owens have returned from Charleston, where they 1 visited* relatives and friends during 1 the Christmas season. * ?Miss Elizabeth White, of Augusta, Ga., spent several days in the I city last week on a visit to her broth^ er, Rev. Geo. P.; White. ?Mr. John F. Brickie, who was raised here, but now lives in Augusta, paid a visit to relatives in Baml * berg the past week-end. * * ?The Rev. L. E. Wiggins, well known in Bamberg, and who is now a Columbia pastor, recently spent several days here on a visit. J -^-Mr. John Smoak, formerly of / Bamberg, but noyr holding a position . in Charleston, spent a few days here last week visiting relatives. . Mr W T. Minna nt mntnrpd tn 1 Ridgeway Saturday, where Mrs. Hinnant was visiting his relatives, and they returned home Sunday night. ?Mr. Harry Vara, an old Bam' berg boy who has been in the navy for the past six or seven years, was in the city for a short while last Saturday. ?Mr. Frank Johnson, who formerly lived in Bamberg, but for some time has been employed in the navy yard at Charleston, recently spent several davs on a visit here. ?Prof, and Mrs. Swaine A. Mert chant, of Spartanburg, where the former is teaching in the Wofford Fitting school, visited in Bamberg du* ring a portion of the holidays. ?Mr. Hartwell Dixon, son of Mr. John H. Dixon, and who will be -remembered in Bamberg from a baby, is on a visit here after having been in Greenville for the past few years. * ?Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Ayer and baby returned Sunday night from Augusta, where the baby has been extremely ill in a hospital for some time. The little one is now much ' improved. ?Mr. Claude Smoak, who volunl '* teered several months ago for aml bulance service in the army, and has been stationed at Camp Sevier for quite a while, is at home for a few days on a leave of absence. ?Mr. W. M. Brabham was flffrried to Johns Hopkins hospital; Baltimore, last week for treatment. The trou<ble is serious, but a complete diagnosis has not been made and it is not known whether an operation will be i necessary. \ I v 109 German Ships Now in Use. Sailing under American names in the service of the United States are ?. e 109-German ships damaged by their crews prior to their seizure by the government when was was declared. They add more than 500,000 gross tonnage to the transport ^and cargo fleets in war service for the United States. . j There is evidence that a German central authority gave orders for damage to these ships, so that none could be operated in less than 18 months, and documentary proof that , the enemy believed much of the damage to be irreparable. In less than ^ eight months all the ships were in < service. The former German linets, sailing under distinctly American names, are now fitted as troop and cargo ships Each is convertible to a completely equipped hospital ship for returnvoyage service. v v - LAST SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. This Soldier Has Fought With Villa, in China, (?uba and Philippines. The last of the soldiers of fortune has just come up to get his commission in the British army, says Gilbert Seldes, writing from London. The friend of Royal Macklin, Richard Harding Davis's immortal hero, himself a filibusterer, a gun runner, a lieutenant general in one army, a captain in another, adventurer, fighting man, hero of Romance, Harry Allan Dixon is on the way to become a secnd lieutenant in the Canadian forces. With him the last of the race leaves the ranks. When he retires from the army the soldiers of fortune will be no more. it is hard to believe this true, but there can be no doubt of the matter. In a third-class compartment of a London-to-Glasgow train a man in khaki, bronzed of face, with small blue eyes-and a notable scar,from the top of his nose to where the hair begins to grow, said something to his companion about Arras. Another in khaki spoke of something in German East, which is in Africa. And, as usual when two or three in khaki are gathered together, cigarettes were passed and names mentioned. Presently one of the men, the one with the scar, offered to show a picture he had found on the battlefield. As" he took out his wallet another piece of paper fell out. It was an honorable discharge from the army of the United States. "How's that?" I enquired. "My first scrap," said the man. "I suppose I'm the only man here who ever taught the art of ww. I got my schooling in a military academy in Virginia, and graduated just too late to get into the campaign in Cuba. But I entered the American army, for although I was born in the Midlands of England I lived most of my life in the States, and got out to the Philippines." I read the discharge papers of Harj ry Allan Dixon, a private, with the fine words written about his character and ability. Then I looked about the scar. Was it from a bolo? Encounter With a Dutchman. | "Funny, Dutchman gave me that. [Not a German, you understand, but a Dutchman, a renegade of some sort who was fighting with the natives. We had a hand-to-hand one, and he I landed at the same time I did. I never found out what happened to him. Say, did you know Lee Christmas or Johnny Poe or Billy Buck?" Then the story of the soldier of fortune began. Dick;y Davis ought to have sat beside him and made notes, because Harry Dixon was Davis's friend, although they had never met. In Mexico he had come across a chap who was always called Capt. Macklin, fighting with ,Francisco Villa when that eminent robber was being highly praised as a Robin Hood and great emancipator rolled into one. Out of his magic wallet Dixon drew a slip of paper, a telegraphic order signed *??#? nnm. nf Ponpllft Vlllfl Prvm - ILL LLLC7 uaui(* l/i - ? mander-in-chief of the liberating armies, and addressed to Royal Macklin. Who was Macklin? No one ever bothered to find out his real name*, because he was the hero of Davis's Soldiers of Fortune, and had gone by the name of Royal Macklin ever since the book was written. In between the affair in the Philippines and the brush in Mexico which preceded Dixon's enlistment in the Canadian army, came a series of adventures which would fill many books ?and some day Dixon may write them, if he gets time and the world quiets down enough, so that he isn't being continually dragged from one corner of the earth to anotheV, to join in the next scrap. When he left the American army Dixon taught military tactics for a time, but he was too interested in the thing to content himself with theory. He drifted southward, in the good days, that was, when a bit of good running was a hazardous and joyous occupation. In New Orleans he fell in with Lee Christmas, the daredevil of the Caribbean, and took part in the wild adventure which sent a ferry boat laden jwith guns careering through the Mexican gulf, and into the lands under the southern cross. Almost without willing it, he followed the southern trail; From Place to Place. He landed in Honduras and was on the side of the government; he went farther, fighting as became his trade, now on one side, now on another, but always putting up a good scrap. In Honduras he was made a captain; even in the Argentine, where no rebel1 1 i j AUJ lions were surrms, ne iiau someunug to do with the regular army and got a commission. And then, suddenly he found himself in China. Out in California once he had met Homer Lea, and had watched the experiment Lea made with Chinese soldiers. At the university the Chinese students had previously taken no part in military training. Lea raised a battalion among them, and the next year it was recognized. Immediately it won s VAi. X ' ^ first fb^all around fitness. The experiment had impressed the Chinese and Lea's friends began to import his ideas into China. Dixon went with them. He was in China when the republic was first set up, and he has a "diploma as big as a shirt'" to prove it. He also has a letter signed by Sun Yat Sen, expressing the highest praise of Dixon's work and asking him to acecpt the commission of lieutenant-general in command of the "school of equation." But Dixon is He went, instead, to .Mexico, fig'.ta foot-soldier, so he did not go', ing on what seemed to be the side of law and order. And when the great war broke out he joined up at once. At the same time Johnny Poe and j Billy Buck went in, one into the CaInadian ranks, the other into the For:eign Legion. j Poe, the Princeton football player, I "the great Poe," fell on the Somme ! in July 1916. Billy Buck, who established the Republic of Lower CaliIfnmia wnc killprJ at Verdun. Dixon II VI ?? VWW ..... (alone remains. Stumbles on History. Adventures fall on him, and good luck. He was prowling around Arras one day when a dossier caught his eye. He picked it up and carried it to his billet. When he looked inside jhe saw that it contained records of .transactions dating as far back as the |1700's. Some of the manuscripts, in jfine state, are beautifully written, isome are hand-printed. Through them tDixon has traced the history of I France from the ancient regime through the -olution (at which time all the Ljcuments refer to Citlizen X, instead of giving the title) | through the time of Napoleon and to the present day. Autographs and souvenirs of astounding value fell into his hands. He is by no means the fiction type of adventurous hero, for he is not as handsome as an illustration to a book, although his features are good, and he hasn't the dashing way with him. His face is no longer than that of a boy. But he is still adventurous. When I saw him he was going up to Glasgow. I asked him whether he had friends there. He knows not a soul. He was just going up on the chance of finding something of interest. In that he showed the aid spirit.1 But Dixon is not happy. The old friends are gone, the old times are gone, and this is a rotten war, for the | man who fought with musket and bayonet in the Philippines, who rode over the plains of South America, who learned how to fight from ambush, to fight hand-to-harid, to see his enemy and to be seen, to lay little private plots, to work "on his own." The great war has no place for these things. Occasionally on a raid the old spirit wakes in Dixon's blood; then the heavy guns begin and it is all over. Guess He's Through. "I'm through," he confessed. "At least, I guess so. This war ought to be enough for any man. It's too or; ganized, too mechanical. It isn't war at all, it's business or manufacture or something. I've been fighting ever since I was a young man, why? Because I didn't want to go into can" join Come In IT COSTS NOTHING TO WAY TO HAVE MONEY. YOU 5 CENTS, 2 CENTS' OR 1 DEPOSITS THE SAME AMOIJ 10-CENT CLUE 5-CENT CLUE 2-CENT CLUE 1-CENT CLUE OR, YOU CAN MAKE THE LJ DECREASE YOUR PAYMENTS OR YOU CAN PAY IN MORP PAr.H WFFK AND TN I 1 orwsoVOO: I COME IN LET US I WE ADD 4 PEF I People I BAMBE 'business or to make things by ma' chine.- And now the machine has j caught up to me. Understand, jl'm not grousing about the way we're treated, because that is all right. It's the damnable war, the whole I scheme of warfare on the big scale that I hate. "1 hate it a lot, and yet sometimes I don't know. I mean it's in a fel! ; low's blood and he can't get it out. II think I'll settle down when this is | over and keep a promise I made eight j years ago. But if something else {turned up, I'm not sure I'd stay out of it. But it would have to be a sort of independent war; no more of this war of nations for H. A. D. It's too big. They don't care a rap about me, ! I suppose, except the company -com V mander. I don't suppose I'll care (either. And there's no chance. Men ;do brave things all right (?Dixon's (medal ribbons are three deep across I his chest on one side and two deep (across the other?) but you don't go looking for danger Ihe way we used to. Then we never knew what was coming. Nowadays those blessed guns lift up their voices and give the whole show away. I have been listening to them for thirty days and I'm tired. I wish they'd shut up and give us a chance. But I know the chance wouldn't be any good. | "It's a rotten way to make war. A j regular Hun way. Just suits him. 1 But believe me, it doesn't suit an Eniglishman or an American, and I supiPOSe that's why it will have to stop. I ain't looking for another scrap in my time after we've finished this one off proper." I Mr. Dixon's views on the next war : will be of interest to a young woman who lives near Boston and who is (waiting to help him keep the promise he?they?made eight years ago. ;The date has not been fixed. Unnecessary Warning. \V I "This seems to be a very dangerous precipice," remarked the tourist, i "I wonder that they have not put up 1 a warning board." j "Yes," answered the guide, "it is | dangerous. They kept a warning board up for two years, but no one ! fell over, so it was taken down."? i Chicago Ledger. Read The Herald $1.50 the year. : PREVENT HOG CHOLERA. ' | The B. A. Thomas Hog Powder jhas a record of 95 per cent, cures of Hog Cholera. If you feed your hogs as directed, you need never fear hog choler^ nor any other hog disease. And the directions are very simple, just about what you are doing, plus a tew- cents worth of B. A. Thomas Hog Powder in the feed twice a week. Usually, though, cholera gets in before we know it. Then it requires close attention to each hog?each Vi/%ry w>iie+ ha i^nooH anH if Vfll] Will UiUOt Ut UV/OVU 4*. j v/ dose them as directed, you will save better than 90 per cent. If you don't the B. A. Thomas medicine costs you nothing. 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An elaborate series of experiments recently conducted by the government bureau of mines has proven that the deterioration can be almost entirely prevented by this means, though salt wjfipvna fMp| pieoanKof NorthAmericaf) in Philadelphia Penn. PS| Authorized by congress I78IJMM The modest bui housed the first the American gc official connect small beginning vast system o . country. Of that system and it is that pe resents the ban] community. It < the same oppoi institutions of larger communi H A savings depo safe, money-ear you. It means 1 Kal^H that will 1 I as you watch : d Start a banK aci A 4 Per Cent. Interest P CAPITAL AND SURPLU Bamberg E | I WE CAN SECUR] JXLJU If vou name us as v %/ %> : tee we can at all time; for your Estate. We / this. An individual e not do so for a long tn your Estate is out oi talk these matters ove: BAMBERG BAK Bambe * ~~ Your T eleph The BELL ' has a mission in lil is to serve you. ( and courtesy are h cations. 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