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AIRMAN LEAPS TO FREEDOM. Lieut. O'Brien, American, Makes j Thrilling Escape. Patrick O'Brien, of Momence, 111., the first American member of the British flying corps to escape from Germany, has arrived in London. O'Brien eluded his captors by jumping from the window of a speeding train. He then became a fugitive for seventy-two days and, as his goal was within sight, narrowly escaped electrocution from the charged wires along the Holland frontier. Recently O'Brien was dined by a group of admiring fliers, who had believed he had been killed when he was reported missing on August 17, last. O'Brien, who is 27 years old. was flying in the American aviation at rweg-rv when he went D4uauiv/u (*v , to Victoria, B. C., and obtained a commission in the Canadian army. Going to France the next year he distinquished himself by his great darv ing over the German lines. Greatly Outnumbered. In an encounter on August 17, there were twenty German machines to six British, O'Brien's machine alone engaging four enemy craft and accounted for one before O'Brien was shot through the upper lip. He fell I with his damaged airplane eight thousand feet. O'Brien says he cannot explain why he was not killed. When he regained consciousness he was in a German hospital. Later the lieutenant spent three weeks at a prison camp at Courtral before he was started for the interior of Germany. There were three other prisoners under a strong iguard in his compartment when O'Brien, as a ruse, had the window opened by complaining of the smoke. Took Desperate Chance. The train was now sixty miles insidet Germany and traveling at thir- , ty miles an hour, but O'Brien decided to take a desperate chance. He jumped from the train, skinning the whole side of his face, reopening the wound in his lip and losing consciousness. It was about 4 o'clock in the morning, and the darkness shielded him. When he recovered he was lying in a field. Then for seventy-two days he was a fugitive, traveling only at night. He trudged through fields i and swamps, rivers, and canals in Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium ? before he reached the Dutch frontier. < At the time of his flight he had a piece of sausage, on which he subsisted for several days, after whicn his sole sustenance consisted of turnips and other vegetables. N Belgians Aided Him. O'Brien did not know German, but he used a little French on a kindly Belgian who sheltered him for several days. The Belgian gave him old clothes to cover his uniform, and directed him to the nearest route to the frontier. - O'Brien swam the river Meuse near Namur and the next day was challenged by German sentries, who decided he was a peasant. But his narrowest espape was reserved for his last day as a fugitive; when he could see Dutch territory. To circumvent the charged wires, O'Brien built a bridge in a nearby wood and threw it across the wires. But it broke under his weight anu O'Brien received a shock which he says he can still feel. He recovered and dug with bare hands a tunnel nnder the wire and, although it was slow progress, after several hours he had a hole big enough to crawl through. He concealed himself in a hay barn until the next morning, when . he hurried to the nearest British consul, who arranged for nis trans' portation to London. Merry Christmas. Following the department of agriculture's advice about keeping a flock of hens in the back yard, Jimson bought a dozen birds and installed them in a coop on his suburban lot. Unfortunately the birds were in the midst of their molt when he got them, and cold weather came without their ever laying an egg. Still he did not despair, though Mrs. Jimson joked about and jibed at his unproductive flock. On Christmas morning he went as usual to the poultry yard, and there, to his surprise, he found four beautiful white eggs in a nest. Triumphantly gathering them up he started to the house; at last he would turn the tables on friend wife. But as he reached the door and looked at them more closely he stopped; for on each of the eggs was neatly penciled : "Merry Christmas, from the hens." ?New York World. On the Midway. "We had to let our glass eater go." "What was the matter?" "Somebody got him to sign the pledge, and he got so stuck up he wouldn't eat anything but mineral water bottles."?Theatrical News. j SHIP PROTECTION. Maxim Tells How to Minimize Effect of Torpedo Explosion. Washington, Jan. 16.?Hudson Maxim, the inventor, today outlined to the ship investigating committee plans for ship construction whicl) he claimed would minimize the effect on merchant vessels of explosions of toredoes by instantly disintegrating through a cooling process the gasses formed by the explosion. He said; he had sought in vain to interest the emergency fleet corporation in his) proposal and that he came to the committee in the hope that the government would conduct experiments to determine its worth. His plan, | the inventor said, was to line the inciHo r>f thp hulls? of vessels with cyi inders containing water with a steel I screen behind them. When the tor-, pedo exploded the water tanks, he said, would be hurled against the screen, atomizing the water which would disperse the heat and absorb the gasses. A cargo such as apples, potatoes and similar products containing a large percentage of water would serve just as effective as the tanks, he said. Mr. Maxim declared the ship pro-j tection executive committee had made an "irrelevant and untrue" report on his plan, asserting that it will be expensive and ineffective on ships of less than 10,000 tons. He denied that the plan would be costly. Concrete ships, the inventor said, offer a greater advantage in combat- j ing the submarine menace than steel i or wooden ships, as they give great-1 er resistance and atbsorb heat better, j A concrete hull, he said, would local-j ize an explosion.' v L6ss in shipping due to subma-l rines was estimated by the inventor} at $6,000 a minute, and he said this; country could afford to expend a lit-! tie extra money in order to make its j ships "torpedo proof." He said the | nation fighting Germany either mustj stop the submarines from leaving! i the base or build torpedo proof ships; as he did not think they should at-j tempt to offset the submarine cara-| paign by building new vessels. Maine ship builders who also ap-! peared before the committee said the j output of wooden ships in that State could be increased. They urged the construction of all ships possible, declaring that even with the maximum of efficiency enough vessels could not be built to meet the demands after the war. ASSESSMENT-NOTICE. The auditor or his deputy will be at the following places on the days and dates mentioned for the purpose of receiving returns for all real estate and personal property in the county of Eamberg: Farrell's Store?Thursday, January 17, 1918, from 10 a. m. to 12 m. Lees?Friday, January 18, 1918. Denmark?Thursday and Friday, January 24, and 25, 1918. Govan?Thursday, January 31, 1918. Olar?Friday, February 1, 1918. Ehrhardt?Thursday and Friday, February 7, and 8, 1918. St. John's?Friday,' February 15, from 10 a. m. to 12 m. Kearse's from 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. Make out the list of property you own and bring it with you. Also find out the name of township and name and number of the school district in which your property is situated. By doing this you will avoid mistakes, and make it easier for yourself and the .auditor. Come yourself, for by sending someone else to make your return mistakes are liable to occur. In sending in your returns by mail, be sure and write them in ink, and swear to them before a notary public. All male persons between the ages of 21 and 60 (except confederate veterans and sailors who are exempt-at 50) are liable to a poll tax of $1.00. All able bodied persons between the ages of 21 and 55 are liable to the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars, except those living in an incorporated town. The time' for making returns is from January 1, 1918, to February 20th, 1918. After the 20th of February the 50 per cent, penalty will be added to all returns not made. Meet the auditor promptly on the days and dates mentioned above. W. D. ROWELL, Auditor Bamberg County. Haste With i ?I Enterpri g I?er Cent. Interest Paid on Savi * TEACHERS* EXAMINATION. ; At a meeting of the State Board of Education held last week it was | decided to hold an examination for j teachers' certificates in the various ! counties of the State on Saturday, 'January 19, 1918. Teachers holding I second and third grade certificates, | and all others desiring to stand this ; examination, are requested to be at ! the court house in Bamberg, S. C., * on this day promptly at 9 o'clock, ! a. m. W. D. ROWELL, County Supt. of Education. Jan. 2,1918. FOR SALE. One two-story dwelling at Ehrhardt. Well located. rn*"- A/1 Pl?AQ/lTirQV I W U SLUICa Sliuaicu uu utvaunuj 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 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 ppr 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. REASONABLE TERMS CAN BE HAD ON ALL THE ABOVE PROPERTY. H. M. GRAHAM, Real Estate, BAMBERG, S. C. Half Your Living Without Monev Cost We are all at a danger point. On the use of good common sense in our 1918 farm and garden operations depends prosperity or our "going broke." Even at present high prices no one can plant all or nearly all cotton, buy food and grain at present prices from supply merchant on credit and make money. Food and grain is higher in proportion than are present cotton prices. It's a time above all others to play safe; to produce all possible food, grain and forage supplies on your own acres; to cut down the store bill. A good piece of garden ground, rightly planted, rightly tended and kept planted the year round, can be made to pay nearly half your living. It will save you more money than you made on the best three acres of cotton you ever grew! 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