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\ PERSONAL MENTION. People Visiting in This City and at Other Points. ?Miss Cora Connor is spending the holdiays at her home in Branchville. ?Mr. James T. Bureh, of Flor" ence, spent a few days in the city last week. ?Miss Mallie Patrick, of Eastman, Ga., is spending the holidays in the city. ?Mr. P. B. Murphy left Saturday for Asheville, X. C., where he goes for his health. ? ?Miss May Bowman is spending the Christmas vacation with relatives in Orangeburg. ?Miss Thelma Bailey and ^Mr. 11 Mallalieux Bailey, of Greenwood, are r visiting relatives in the city. ?Mrs. Cauthen, of Ninetx-six, is spending some time in the city with her daughter, Mrs. A. H. Kirsch. ?Rev. and Mrs. Edward K. Garrison are spending the Christmas holidays with relatives in Anderson. ?Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Smith, of Columbia, are spending Christmas J in the city with Mrs. J. F. Kilgus. f ?Col. and Mrs. J. R. Owens are spending the holidays in Charleston with their son, Mr. J. R. Owens, Jr. ?Messrs. Juior Berry and Thomas Wright, of Branchville, visited relatives and friends in the city Sunday. ?Mr. McGe^ Bamberg is spendv ing the holidays at home frbm the University of the South, Sewanee, t UX1U . z.y: ?Misses Lalla Byrd and Ottawa Easterling, of Columbia, are spending the holidays at their hom^g in . the city. ?Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Patterson left Sunday for Aberdeen, N. C., to spend the Christmas holidays with relatives.* ?Mrs. Charles F. Black and Mr. j / John McLeod, of Quitman, Ga., are visiting the family of Dr. and Mrs. ^ J. B. Black. 1 ?Mr. M. W. Brabham, army Y. M. C. A. secretary stationed in Atlanta, is spending the holidays in the city with relatives. < / ?Mr. Harry Thomas, of Florence, has been spending some days with his brother, Mr. LaVerne Thomas. / He returned last week. ?Misses Gene Price and Margaret Jennings are spending the holiday vacation at their homes in the city from Columbia college. ?Misses Mary Ann Bronson, Virginia Folk and Thelma Bruce are at home for the Christmas holidays ! from Lander college, Greenwood. ?Mr. W. E. Stokes and family, j who for the past year or so have y' > been living in Edgefield, have returned to Bamberg to reside. ?Miss Josephine Adams returned ' home Sunday from Walterboro, where she has been at the bedside of her sister, Miss Dorothy Adams, for the ' . V past. ween.. v. ^ ?Messrs. Edwin Fields and Garris ?Messrs. Edwin Field, Roy Free and Garris Zeigler are at home for the Christmas holidays from the Citadel, y Charleston. . ?Mr. J. J. Smoak and Mr. H. W. Adams spent last Sunday in Walterboro, where they went to see Miss Dorothy Adams who is quite ill in the Walterboro hospital. ?Mr. Harry White, U. S. N., spent a day and night in the city last week with his father, Rev. Geo. P. White. Mr. White enlisted in the regular navy two years ago, and has two more years to serve. r?Misses Eunice Hunter, Ethel Strom, Pauline Cook, Lerlene Herndon, Rebecca Dickinson, Mary Lee Grimes and Claire Kearse are at home from Winthrop college, Rock Hill, for the holidays. ?The out-of-town teachers in the graded school have gone to their respective homes for the holidays, as follows: Miss Claire Steele, Georgetown; Miss Mildred Beatv, George-! *rkU7T> \ficc?c Andprson. Williamston.' I vwnuj ??? ?- ? ?, ? Miss Sara Craig, Chester; Miss Ella May Martin, Westminster; Miss Mary Hart Griffin, Williamston. As We Speak. "I left my money at home," said the lady on the train to the conducl tor. "You will have to trust me. I am one of the directors' wives." "I am sorry, madam," replied the conductor. "I can't do that, even if you were the director's only wife." Musical Mystery. "What is that tune you are playing on the piano?" ^ "That isn't a tune. That is a sonata." "What's the difference?" "Well, with a sonta it's hard for the average listener to detect mistakes. ' With a tune you've got to know pretty well what you are about."?Boston Transcript. V > j| Duty Brings Vision | i j* Tolstoi tells a lovely little I story of two pilgrims who set ^ i 'l out for Jerusalem. Yelesei *3* | stopped to help a starving fam- J S ily. He bought food, fetched ? i X water, split wood, started the X j g great oven fire, nursed and fed g S the sick, redeemed the mortgage A g on the home, and bought back y <r the cow, horse, and scythe with 5 which the living was earned. jj His money was all gone, and he v X could not hope to overtake his a $ companion on the road, so he & 5 returned home and devoted him- ? ! ? self again to daily duty. Yefim y | ? would not pause to help anyone. He reached Jerusalem, visited 'X the sacred places, obtained earth SJ from Calvary, water from the ? Jordan, and blessed amulets of every kind, but because of the & throng he could not reach the X' Holy Sepulchre. Yet, under the J J lamps themselves where the X] blessed fire burns before all, he j? c saw a vision of Yelesei, wearing jr ?X a halo of shining glory about r? J* his head. For Yefim had 5' -x brought his body to the Holy X? IJ Land, but Christ himself had ? come to the soul of Yelesei. And X* I he learned that in this world God bids everyone do his duty X^ill death?in love and good deeds. 5; HOLY CITY'S CHRISTMAS TIME .Distressing Scenes 'Witnessed in Church of the f.ativity?Guards on Duty Day and Night. . Although much has been written upon the subject of Christmas in Bethlehem, writes Harold J. Shepstone in the Wide World, and we have had iglowing accounts of its gorgeous processions and ceremonies, none appears to have been bold enough to tell the world of the distressing scene which i may be witnessed in the one spot on i earth where man would expect peace to reign at that glad season of the year. Christmas is a long business at Bethlehem. First come the Latin cere! monies, which take place on December 25, followed 13 days later by the Greek ; services, while 13 days later comes the Armenian Christmas feast The services are held in the Church of the Nativity, one of the most remarkable edifices in the world. The holy of holies of the church is the grotto or manger. It is a small underground chamber, said to be the actual site of the stable where the Savior was born. Just in front of the altar is a silver star, let -Into the marble floor, said to mark the exact spot of the nativity. In the various ceremonies xthe bitterest rivalry exists between the vari!ous sects, and even during the ordinary ;eervices Turkish soldiers have to be ,on guard day dhd night in the church to prevent strife. On special occasions, ;such as Christmas time, an extra force rof soldiers is necessary if order is to be maintained. It is during Christmas festivities that the church is cleaned. To prevent quarrels among the rival j priests the authorities many years ago j set down definite rules as to what porI tions of the walls, pillars, floors, etc., ithis or that body may clean or sweep. 'Despite these elaborate precautions, however, trouble often arises. During ;the Christmas festivities of 1913 a ; deplorable scene was witnessed in the : sacred building. Two sects disputed the rights to clean a certain portion 'of the church. They went to the govpernor of Bethlehem and he. decided a certain sect possessed the right to do the work. When they started to sweep, however, the rival priests flew at them and soldiers had to hold one sect back while the other did the sweeping. CHRISTMAS IN OTHER LANDS Children of Russia, Spain and Italy Devote Day to Worship In Their Churches. The children of Russia, Itifly and fcpain spend Christmas day in worship at their churches and receive their presents on January 6. On this same day French children have a great celebration and cut the "king's cake," which is a round cake, usually, with a china image baked in it. Whoever cuts the slice that contains the image is king or queen for the day, and the rest of the children must do everything the king or queen does. In Norway and Sweden they have Christmas services In their churches at four o'clock in the morning and the kind-hearted children scatter wheat for the hungry birds. Germany was the first country to use Christmas trees, and from England we get our idea of hanging the stockings by the chimneys, burning the yule log find hanging up the branches of mistle- j toe. . i In Holland on Christmas eve the ? children fill their stockings with hay . and oats for the white horse that they believe Santa Clans rides. In the morning they find the hay and oats ' gone and instead are presents for good children and a rod or chunk of coal for the bad ones. The young men of 1 the town arise at two o'clock in the ; morning and sing Christmas hymns, ? carrying a star on a high pole that j Is lighted by a candle inside of the , star. The singing of Christmas carols ,1s the way we follow the story in 1 the Bible, when the shepherds heard 5 :the angels sing when Christ was born: 1 Teace on earth; good will to m^n." VALUE IS ONLY SENTIMENTAL Mistletoe One of Most Greatly Admired of Evergreen Plants But Is Practically Worthless. Perhaps none of our evergreen plants is more loved and admired than the mistletoe, with its modest yellowish-green leaves "find its clusters of small white berries. For centuries it has been considered an important feature of the Christmas decoration. Yet, in' regard to the real value of the plant, the mistletoe is practically worthless. . It is a small shrub comprising more than four hundred known species, mostly tropical and parasitic. In the eastern and southern parts of the united states me common imsueiue grows on various species of deciduous trees. In Europe, it seems to prefer the apple-tree to any other host. It sends its roots through the bark of the tree and draws sustenance from the sap. However, it is only a partial parasite, for it has green leaves which enable it to so some work in making food for itself. In some species of mistletoe the flowers are showy, while those of other species are more modest The pistils and stamens do not grow within the same flower, or even on the same plant but the pistillate flowers grow on one plant and the stamlnate on another. The berries contain flat seeds, surrounded by a very sticky substance, from which birdlime may be made. This birdlime is spread upon places frequented by birds, to impede their movements and render them easily captured. In a similar way it may be used to snare ground-squirrels and other small animals. This is tfce only practical use that has ever been made of the mistletoe. v The plant grows very slowly, and "not until it is four years old does it bear its first white, translucent berries. However, it drains the vital juices necessary to the growth of the tree, and when many bunches find lodgment upon the same tree, they ultimately cause its decline and death." ?Shining Light The Circle of Divine Lovei Christmas reverses creation. One gave us man in the image of Cod,! while the other gave us God in the j image of man. The two complete the i circle of divine love. That the gods \ should come down in the likeness of man was long recognized as a universal possibility. And yet Christmas stands alone. It has no coun- ; terpart in all the recorded manifes-1 tations of deity. The story is natural when one recalls of whom it was j written. That a man like Jesus should | have entered the world by a special j door Is not strange. He was different from all others. The wine press of his life no one could tread but himself. That night belongs to no calendar, j The very stars wore their brightest . faces, when from before the depths j of space God drew aside his curtains of richest blue. Jesus did not come j alone. . j " ''! Home Celebrations. "I believe in Christmas Day home, celebrations; their friendliness, their j mystery, their joyous excitement; and j In the feeling of security and peace! a child has in the midst of them, i writes a well-known authority. And I believe that the memory of child has, of them fifty years later should still be strong and sweet." Christmas Carols. Then arose a joyous clamor, from the wild fowl on the mere, and a voice ! within cried, "Listen! Christmas ca? *-ols even here I"?Charles Kingsley. AMERICAN TEAM WORK WINS ARGONNE BATTLE. (Continued from page 1, column 4.) took place over German territory. Reunion in Prison Cages. And then the tanks. Tanks supported royally the amazing brigade which made the most spectacular progress on the first day. That brigade, set squarely at the center of the American line, cracked the hard % nut of St. Georges and Landres-etSt. peorges during the first two hours, pushed on for nine kilometers, captured more than their share of! batteries and machine guns, and j took prisoner more?considerably j more?than 1,000 Germans, drawn from eight divisions. Behind them as they moved for- j ward that first day their road was all choked up with prisoners, some pushing en route to dicker with a passing j soldier for bread. An iron cross is j worth its weight in iron rations? just about. Jocular prisoners they | were, for the most part," and really festive were their reunions in the j first prison pens. At the sight of a: new batch filing toward the cage, some ambling back unsolicited, there would be a roar of greetings. "Looks like your whole regiment,! loesn't it?" "To n-nV<l- it'c wVinlo ftivicinn " ' But one of the prisoners captured j IV that brigade did not report at the i ^en for two days. He was a surgeon, i i brilliant surgeon, who, when cap-; i ;ured, volunteered his expert services; it the very front, working in a Ger-1 man ambulance, drawn by German j lorses, and saving by his skill a good j many Yankee arms and legs. i Of the guns captured some ha<? j 1 been left as sacrifice pieces instructed | to harry and delav the American pur- i ! suit. Four such guns were firing j from llie crest of a wooded hill? j firing point blank at our oncoming j line, when suddenly, around the edge of the hill, advancing rakishlyj over the bad ground, an American j tank appeared. Behind it, dodging this way and; that as the tank flirted its tail, and ! using the little juggernaut as a pre-: ambulating fortress, came eight Yan-j kees, firing their rifles from their j hips and enjoying beyond words a combat that lasted no more than three minutes. At the end of that j three minutes the four guns grew | n-.n+Q on/ ! nf tlio littlo nat/>h r?fi Ill U UHU UUt VI ViiV lilbiV uvvu Vi J woods that had concealed them came j a German captain and 75 men, their hands uplifted in surrender. But bv no means all of the guns captured were sacrifice pieces, i Whole batteries were found hooded j and mute, abandoned in the haste | and confusion of flight that was not I made any easier by the fearful; slaughter which our artillery wrought \ among the enemy horses. Dead horses carpeted the battlefield. Indeed, the considerable amount of material taken and the fact that! within the first three days no less I than 17 enemy divisions, some of j them rushed into the breach from j Sedan and Metz, were identified opposite the Americans, furnished evidence enough that his withdrawal was not quite aocording to plan. Obviously, he had foreseen stronger thrusts than he could parry, and he had laid his plans accordingly but obviously he was not prepared for so rapid a retreat or one on so large a scale. That retreat abruptly freed a cluster of French villages?"little, old, lost towns"?that had lived for four bleak years beyond the sounds of the great war. They seemed like model ~ i * A VM /V?t* AA Mn T^T V\ .N P /\ M cities to ilie auici iuaiia, wwj jlvi many trying weeks had seen nothing but such ruins as Cheppy and Varennes, such pitiable ruins as lie on and near the slopes of lofty Montfaucon. No homes could ever rise out of the crumbled wreckage of towns like/ Esnes and Malancourt and Be:thincourt. Nothing is left there save the soil and its black memories. Bits of old walls serve only to feed the road mender's stone crusher, which whirs from dawn to dusk in Mon.tfaucon woods. But towns like Fosse and Authe | (12 Banked I ISixtv Di II The first money earned was 1r6m h He got sixty dollar helping to compile the money in Bufifl I. Did you bank l: earned? Are you now? See us today at ^hsses Banking of all 1 meS I Academy SATUR II Flo-Flo and Special F its all ye New Yoi show, or personal and Autruche and Belleville-sur-Bar ! are little scarred by war, and in many of them the swift advance of tlie Americans relieved a captive civil population, jubilant old men and women and curious children. Then; were enacted the same moving scenes of rejoicing which will linger ever in the memory of those soldiers who reduced the St, Mihiel salient, but in St. Mihiel. always tantalizingly within sight and sound of the allied line, j hope had always burned bright. Tn snph tnwns ac thnsp in rhp A r dennes deliverance came with dra-! i matic suddenness. The Germans were driven in disorderly and ignomi-; nous flight from towns which, 48 hours before the coming of the rol-; licking Yankees, had been 10 miles1 inside "Germany." There is no room in a military summary of intelligence to chronicle all! the little blend of tears and laughter, yet something of them can be read between the lines, even of the first rush tidings borne by the runners to the nearest wires, and thence telephoned to some battlefield message center. Take this one, which reached such a center in mid afternoon of the third day: "We entered Belleville at 1:35 p. m. French cavalry arrived soon af| ter. Great rejoicing by inhabitants." Marks of Hun's Stay. i ui course, an me towns oear | marks of German residence. Such i signs as "Gott Strafe England" ancl i "Frankreich, du bist betragen" made, pleasant reading from many a wall. | and non-come?casii^os, abandoned ; schnapps and all?were made delightful by murals of the English i lion with the tail, which is always I up, there pictured as almost twisted ! off.' Here and there a wheezy old piano survived the strain of occupation, though doubtless irreparably the I worse for the many heavy renditions of "Die Wacht am Rhein." All these 1 pianos . were found by transient i doughboys and a few moments of | close harmony were vouchsafed. : Once, in the middle of the night:, I stalled trafic on the roads was soothr ed by the strains echoing from a nearby roadside house invisible in | the darkness. The burden of the refrain played over and over again ; caught up and hummed up and down the line, was "There's a long, long trail a-winding.". There is, indeed, but not so long as : it seemed last spring. First Mars Orovcr Cleveland ever is uncle, Lewis F. Alien, s for six weeks' work a book. He banked Jo, N. Y. the first money you banking your money j out opening an account / kinds. eeszA; I Wal of Music, ft \ jDA^jlGHTjD I Her Perfect. lo-Flo Orchestra fres ar run at the Cort T rk. Don't fail to s le of the best of the Iy guaranteed by m< i See our beautiful line of dress plaids. New and novel. Rentz & Felder.?adv. TRESPASS NOTICE. i Notice is hereby given that all persons are forbidden to allow hogs, cows or other stock to run on our lands, or any one to hunt on same, under penalty of the law. tf J. T. & J. J. O'NEAL. TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15th day of October, 1918, until the 15th day of .March, 1919, inclusive. From the first day of January, 1919, until the 31st day of January, 1919, a penalty of one per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of February, 1919, a penalty of two per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of March, 1919, until the 15th day of March, 1919, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. THE LEVY. For State purposes 8^4 mills For county purposes 6% mills Constitutional school tax....3 mills 18 mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills Hampton, No. 3 . 2 mills Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills Fish Pond, No. 5 2 mills Hutto, No. 6 2 mills Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills /-\ 1 VT. O O milln Ulctr, .\U. O ....?7 LUliiS Salem, No. 9 4 mills St. John's, No. 10 2 mills Govan, No. 11 8 mills Binnaker's, No. 12 3 mills Lemon Swamp, No. 13 4 mills Bamberg, No. 14 11 mills Oakland, No. 15 8 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 8 mills Colston, No. 18 4 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills Oak Grove, No. 20 4 mills Denmark, No. 21 6% mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 13 mills Lees, No. 23 4 mills Hey ward, No. 24 2 mills All persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years of age, * except Confederate veterans and sailors, who are exempt at 50 years of age, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar. Capitation dog tax, 50 cents. All persons who were 21 years of age on or before the 1st day of January, 1918, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar, and all who have not made returns to the auditor are requested to do so on or before ,the 1st day of January, 1919. I will receive the commutation . road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the 15th day of October, 1918, until the 1st day of March, 1919. G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer Bamberg County. 4 per cent interest paid on I o i I savings Accounts Capita] and Surplus I $100,000.00 I I Bamberg I Banking I Co. J ^__ / rangeourg I EC. 28 I MBBttStM H 36 Chorus I ih from | heatre, I ;ee the I season, h mager. 8 *