The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 03, 1918, Page 5, Image 5
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
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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.
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* ?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.
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109 German Ships Now in Use.
Sailing under American names in
the service of the United States are
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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."?
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tons of coal under water. It was
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TEACHKliS' EXAMINATION.
At a meeting oi' the State Board
of Education held last week it was
decided to hold an examination for
teachers' certificates in the various
counties of the State on Saturday,
.January 19, 1 91 8. Teachers holding
second and third grade certificates,
and all others desiring to stand this
examination, are rea,uested to be at
the court house in Bamberg, S. C.,
on this day promptly at 9 o'clock,
a. m. \V. D. ROWELL,
County Supt. of Education.
Jan. 2, 1918.
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