The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 26, 1918, Page 5, Image 5
\ 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,
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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.
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?Mr. Harry Thomas, of Florence,
has been spending some days with
his brother, Mr. LaVerne Thomas.
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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
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past. ween..
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^ ?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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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helping to compile
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See us today at
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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 /
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TRESPASS NOTICE.
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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.
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Capita] and Surplus I
$100,000.00 I
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