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QCije pamterg J^eralb Thursday, Dec. 26,1918. SHORT LOCAifi. Brief Items of Interest Throughout the Town and County. The weather for the past three weeks has been about as bad as it well could be. The fall previous, though, was so ideal that there should be no cause for complaint. The friends of Miss DorothyAdams, who is teaching school in Colleton county, will be pained to 1 U 41 In ooc A fpu' davs I6<trxi ui uci inubau. ?? ?.. ?, - . ago she was stricken with appendicitis. She was operated on last week! at the Clara EsDorn hospital, Walterboro. I There are but a few days remain-1 ing in which you can redeem your! savings stamp pledge made in June. The county is way behind, and it is earnestly hoped that the people will remember their obligation and save j the county the disgrace of having pledged money and failed to keep the pledge. The holiday trade in Bamberg this year was the heaviest in several years, according to many of the merchants. Money seemed to be plentiful, and about the only thing that held down a still larger trade was- the scarcity of goods. This was especially true as to holiday gift goods, which many of the merchants found it almost impossible to secure at all. "" * 1 ? mere is a general uisyusiuuu among the farmers to hold on to their cotton. Very little of the staple is being placed on the market now, and there i^ rather lively bidding when a good lot of cotton is to be found. On Thursday, though the market price for cotton was only around 28 cents, one gentleman disposed of a tale of good cotton for 29 1-4 cents. Most of the farmers seem to think they are entitled to at least 35 cents and are holding in the r , hope of getting it. In i Lieut, and Mrs. E. H. Henderson arrived in the city last week from Waco, Texas, where Lieut. Henderson has been located at an army training camp. Lieut. Henderson has received his discharge from the army, and will soon reopen his law office in this city. He was the first man in Bamberg county to be drafted into the army. Within a few months after he entered ?amp, he received an appointment to the officers' training school, from which he was graduated with the rank <*f second lieutenant. He was later promoted to first lieutenant. How Mr. Smith Rode. Lawyers are sometimes put to it with witnesses, as was a lawyer who woo avomlnino o ttt ifn ann r%? 4- a nao uvoo ^Aauiiuiii^ a niiucoo ao iu the way iii which a Mr. Smith rode a horse. "And hoy does Mr. Smith ride a horse?" asked the lawyer. "Generally in a saddle, sir," was the answer. "Yes?" said the lawyer. "Quite remarkable. But what gait does he ride?" "He never rides any gate at all, sir," was the answer. "But I have seen his son take every gate on the farm." "Ah," said the lawyer. "Perhaps you will tell the jury how Mr. Smith rides when he is in company with others." "Yes, sir," said the willing witness. "He keeps up with them when 1 3 T U> '4. 1 ue cau aiiu wiieu uw iau i IIB laus behind." The lawyer by this time was ruffled. "Now I want a clear answer to my next question," he said. "How does Mr. Smith ride when he is alone?" "I don't know, sir," was the reply. "I have never been with him when he was alone.' If* < m > It Certainly Looked Bad. "Father," said Nellie, "that bank in which you told me to put my money is in a bad way." "In a bad way?" returned her father. "Why my child, that's one of the strongest banks in the country. W"ho+ in tVio mnrld (rivoc vnil that idea?" "Well," said Nellie, "it returned one of my checks today for $30 marked 'No fuhds.' " Old Mystery Sieved. A commercial traveler, on leaving a certain hotel, said to the proprietor: "Pardon me, but with what material do you stuff the beds in your establishment?" "Why," said the landlord, proudly, "with the best straw to be found in the whole country!" "That," returned the traveler, "is very interesting. I now know whence the straw came that broke the camel's back."?Tit-Bits. We are prepared to recharge your automobile battery. Give us a trial. FAULKNER ELECTRIC SERVICE CO.?adv. Corp. W. P. Williams Not Wounded. In the list of casualties published in the last issue of The Herald, the name of Corporal Wilbur P. Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Williams, appeared, he being officially reported severely wounded. This was an error, as is shown in the letter below from Corporal Williams, under later date. Mrs. Williams received the following telegram from Adjutant General Harris: "Deeply regret to inform you that it is officially reported that Corporal Wilbur Pickens Williams, engineer, was severely wounded in action October IS. Further information when received." Under date of Nov. 27, Mrs. Williams received the following, letter from Corporal Williams: Mv dearest mother:?Hope this letter will find you all getting along fine. I am well and having a dandy time. You can bet your sweet life that the soldiers in France are happy now, as the war is over. We sure have been having some celebrations since the armistice was signed, but we ought to have had them, for we paid for them in advance. I sure saw some hot times before it stopped, but the good Lord was with me, and I went through all right. Now I am just waiting for my time to come to start back home and will sure be proud, for I haven't had a letter since September. Will close, with love to you and all the family." Ffr>m Priv. Perry Brown. Somewhere in France. Dear Mother:?Will write to you again, to let you all hear from me. This leaves me 0. K. at present, wishing you are the same. Well, mother, I did not get to eat my birthday dinner at home this year, which was about two weeks ago,vbut, dear mother, I think I will be home for next year's work. I got two letters from you since I came across. I was vfery sorry to hear that you all are having some sickness. You have my address and I want you to write me real often and tell all the rest to write, too. Hoping to meet you all again soon, as ever, your loving son, PRIV. PERRY R. BROWN. Co. F, 351 Inf., A. E. F., A. P. 0. 795. Rev. .Henry Grady Hardin. The following from the Charleston News and Courier will be of interest to the many friends in Bamberg county of Rev. Mr. Hardin: The Rev. Henry Grady Hardin, the new' pastor of Trinity Methodist church, who opens his ministry here tomorrow; is yet a young ,man. He entered the South Carolina conference in November, 1911, since which time, after two years service in a pastorate in York i county, where he spent his youth and commenced his ministry, he has served the two important fields of Denmark and McColl. He comes here from McColl. He has been a success in church work from the very start. He began as a lay officer in the circuit in which he first served as youthful pastor, while a boy in knee breeches. He was the last of four brothers to graduate at 'Wofford college, where he made a fine record as a scholar, and took the intercollegiate prize in oratory at the close of his college course. He is the vnnnerer brother nf Dr. E. K. Hardin, who recently died at Asheville from pneumonia following grippe. Mr. Hardin is on the threshold of what promises to be a successful career in the Methodist ministry. His father is of the Hardin family of Chester and his mother was a Clinkscales, a sister of Prof. Clinkscales, of Wofford college. Academy of Music Dec. 28. If there is anything more obvious than the stove polish on a detective's shoes it is the dancing ability of Pinky and Aloysius, the self-styled Sherlock Holmes and Watson of John Cort's "war bride" musical comedy offering "Flo-Flo," which the producer will bring to the Academy of Music, Orangeburg, on Saturday, j Dec. 28. "Flo-Flo" just finished a ! long and successful run at the Cor| Theatre, New York City. This eccentric dancing team with its trick hat and its theft of the bride's trousseau provides some of the brightest moments of .the sparkling Cort production, not overlooking, of course, the show's "perfect thirty-six" comedy chorus, its splendid cast, effective scenery, catching lyrics, snappy lines and riotous fun. Those who assist in making the com! edy a success are Jack Norton, Cordelia Haager, Joseph Elvey, Martha Lawrence, Thomas Gordon, Maude Nolan, Len Leonard, Betty Booth, Francis & Ross, Gus Vaughan and the Perfect Thirty-Six chorus, besides an i augmented orchestra under direction of Vernon Bestor.?adv. See our beautiful line of dress plaids. New and novel. Rentz & Felder.?adv. ^ hi m Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. iL From Priv. Geo. C. Beard. Private George C. Beard, A. E. F., asks The Herald to print the following open letter to his relatives and friends: "Somewhere in France, Nov. 26, '18. "Dear Mother and Friends:?Since times are looking good and the war is about cleared, I feel like writing a few lines back home again. Well, I have spent just about three months of my time in France and England together, and now I am fully ready to return to the States again, but the trouble I find in that is the other man isn't ready, and, of course, I am going to wait until he gets ready for men to return, at the same time I shouldn't worry, for I am in a good place having a pretty fairly good time; plenty of good eats and lots of K. P. duty, moving pictures every night and lots of nice looking French girls, but all I can do is to look at them and tell the other boys how good they look. You see I haven't learned to handle their language very well yet and that is not the worst of it, I don't think I ever will. "I have been in the army just seven months and so far I only find two disagreeable things in army life. One is a single little whistle. I had rather hear anything else most than that infernal thing blow for it means fall in or attention or something of the kind; the other is getting up in the mornings. Don't make any difference how cold it is you must come out; in case you don't get up at once why there will be some guard around getting your name, then you are good to get on K. P. that day or probably something worse. If I just didn't have to get up these cold mornings I expect I would stay in the armv for a few years, but after it turns cold the quickest way out is too slow for me. "But, after all that, the army life is great; every youn? man should try the army life out for at least twelve or twenty-four months. "You talk about the slackers?they think themselves lucky to stay out of service but there's lots of them that are going to be out of luck, and badly out of luck, just as soon as the boys get back, and the q,uicker the better. Here's hoping each and every one will have a nice Christmas and a happy new year, I will have mine with the Frenchies, I suppose. I will close with good luck to all. Sincerely. "PRT. GEO. C. BEARD." Cotton (jjiraiings. The official report of the cotton ginnigs prior to Decern oer i nas just been made public. It shows that in the State there were 1,241,384 bales ginned to that date, compared with 1,055,676 to the same date last year. Figures for Bhmberg and other nearby counties follow: 1918 1917 Bamberg 29,837 24,531 Aiken 45,278 37,200 Barnwell 57,983 53,152 Colleton 19,237 17,326 Hampton 20,969 20,101 Orangeburg .. ..89,644 74,722 Schools Closed Friday. The graded school closed Friday for the Christmas holidays. On account of the fact that the school was closed several weeks when the influenza * quarantine was on, only one week of holiday vacation will be given this year, and school will be resumed on Monday, December 30. On Friday many of the' classes had Christmas trees in the various class rooms, much to the enjoyment of the pupils and teachers. Carlisle school closed Friday also for the, holidays, and the students and teachers are now enjoying one i week's vacation for the Christmas festivities. Bamberg Casualties. The following casualties in the expeditionary forces, of soldiers from this vicinity, have appeared in the printed lists within the past few days: Private Julius Paul, Bamberg, wounded slightly. Private Herman Robbins, Denmark, wounded slightly. Private Jerry Myers, Branchville, wounded slightly. Private Lucius S. Bellinger, Bamberg, wounded slightly. Private William Tyler, Bamberg, wounded severely. ' m ki m Line of children's, misses' and ladies coats just arrived. Rentz & Felder.?adv. ^ < > ? We must keep our army equipped and ready to enforce peace terms. Continue to lend Uncle Sam your money?buy W. S. S. constantly. Big line of overalls. Away below market. Rentz & Felder.?adv. ^ < ? m Bicycle lamps, spot lights and flash lights. FAULKNER ELECTRIC SERVICE CO.?adv. CopyrigVK THE bosom of Sergeant Lyndham was filled to the brim wit!* /Ucmnicif n n/4 V r\ m uioguoi auu iuauiiug. w u.\ , this disgust and loathing entirely without reason. Months of wallowing like a pig in the mud of trenches does not sweeten the soul, and when ' :t is combined with endless duties in rhe cold fall rains of a shell-swept region that is akin to the borders </ inferno, the nerves become ragged. Hence had come about the curdling of the milk of human kindness which had previously existed within him. I Nor had a few little midnight smprise parties over the top in which the bayonet had been the principal piece do resistance tended to decrease these sensations. Even being bowled 20 feet by the concussion of a shell had not cheered him. But it had remain ed for a whiff of poison gas and a squirt of liquid fire to set and solidify his mind to its present condition. Alive, 'dead, or as yet unborn, Sergeant Lyndham was of the fixed opinion that he did not like the Boches. And the last 24 hours had been particularly obnoxious from the fact that they had been entirely sleepless. The horizon was still lurid with cannon flashes and the uproar remained fiendish despite the fact that it was hours after midnight, but he was accustomed to such things, and knew that once asleep, they would not trcuhlp htm Also fnr aTI hp knpw h<= might dream of something pleasant. He was free now for a few hours within his blankets, and was in the act oi removing his boots when his captain thrust his head within and motioned for him to come forth. Knowing that something both new and disagreeable confronted him, he arose and stepped out as commanded. For a quarter of a mile they silently wound their way along a muddy road until the dim lights ot a partially shbll-ruined house appeared before them. Into this they entered, and the sergeant, casting his eyes about, saw the colonel of his regiment sitting at a table. Saluting he 3tood at atten tion. , "Sergeant Lyndham," said the coloivrt thoughtfully. "A few months age, when you accompanied one of our air- i men over the line and destroyed a; plant of the enemy, you did a very; brave and skillful thing. For that! act you were made a sergeant. Tonight we must have another duty per formed, and I have selected you because of my confidence in *your cour-1 age and ability. It is very likely that j-ou will not return, yet war demands its sacrifices. Without knowing more i of this new duty do you volunteer tc j try and accomplish it?" It was plain i i-nough now that there would be no; rest or sleep for him again this night, j md the sergeant's disgust and loath-; ing mounts accordingly. Yet he managed to swallow them. "Yes, sir," he grunted. The colonel nodded. "You are a brave and willing sdldier,! sergeant. Were it not for the fact that! the regiment contains so many men j ' * 1 T -"1 J K/\/IAVYt A I 11KB you J. wuuiu aotL.cniiico venule i filled with fear and sadness. Nowj for the reason I sent for you. You i will remember the trenches which run through Thier's woods, do you not?" "Slightly, colonel. I helped cap* turc them from the Boches at the point of the bayonet." "And in turn were driven from j them by the same amiable gentlemen." Lyndham made a wry face. "Yes, colfenel. But they surprised us most unfairly. It was all very disgusting and made me loathe them." "I have no doubt But now listen. We have reason to believe that they have evacuated the position, while it has become important that we regain It. You will follow my reasoning. If the enemy has deserted the ditch we wish to know it while if he has not it is equally important that we should know, since we must be advised before hand what \ve may expect when we make our advance?whether resistance or unopposed occupancy. Therefore, we are compelled to send someone as a scout to ascertain the conditions.* "And because of the darkness and treetops "the airmen are useless?" "Exactly. Therefore, you will crawl m>on vour stomach to the wood, going alone the better to escape observation. By working your way flat upon the trrcund and instantly becoming still should, their lights fall upon you, you ay be mistaken by them for what you are likely to become?one of the dead men of which you will pass many, If ? >u are lucky. Should you return with this information, well and good; if not, we will be compelled to adopt other means to secure our information. You had best plan to arrive there by the first light of day that yon may be abje to observe conditions. If yon find the trenches empty, you will have to run for it coming back. "We will be watching and if we see yon returning, even though you may not succeed in reaching our lines, we will understand that "Back with you!" echoed Ruth. "Really I?I can't go. There is so much to do here, ind?" "Bosh!" laughed Dane. "Of course you will go back with me. Fact is you'll have to." He waved his hand as Ruth started to speak. "No excuses now. for I won't listen to 'em. You see." Stanwood went on, "Sis and her friend were supposed to help get things ready for the party tonight, but she telephoned just as I was leaving the house that the train on which her friend was to arrive is very late. She may not get back until nine o'clock, and the party begins at eight. I told Sis I could never get things ready in time, for the decorating isn't half done. Then she happened to think of you, and I said right off that you would be just the one to help us out. You're not going to disappoint us, are you?" very anxiously. "We-U, perhaps I can go for a little while," said Ruth. "I'd dearly love to trim that Christmas tree." "Of course, I won'; stay to the party," she thought as she scurried upstairs after a wrap, "so I won't see Dane's sweetheart, for of course she is the one Helen is to meet at the train. And I really ought to help Dane and his sister out, for they have been such good customers." Dane ushered Ruth Into the big double parlors of his new home, where the Christmas tree had been placed. "Do you suppose," he asked, pointing to a great pile of evergreen at one end of the room, "we will be able to hang all these wreaths and then decorate the tree before eight o'clock?" The evergreen girl gave a merry lit- j tie laugh. "I am sure we can If we work fast," ; she answered. "I am used to this work, you know, and with your help! it won't take long." "How long have you been the ever-, green girl?" Dane asked, as he and Ruth were trimming a chandelier. "This is my third season," ^Ruth re-1 plied. "I found that there was a big demand for wreaths and laurel trim-, ming during the Christmas holidays,' so three years ago I opened an ever green shop. I love to do tnis Kina 01 work, and although the season is a short one, my little shop pays well." f The evergreen girl might have added that, more than this, the rush of work just at Christmas time helped her to forget the dull ache in her heart which was always so hard to bear during the holidays. She said nothing of this, ( though, but asked, instead: "Tell me, Dane, how ydu have spent Christmas while you have been away, i Have you been where there was much ] merry-making?" ,' "For the past three years," said Stanwood, "I've celebrated Christmas by working from dawn till dark. This . is the first enjoyable Christmas eve I ? 'have known since I left Brierly." r "It has been a very pleasant eve-1\ iiing for me, too," said Ruth, "and I . have enjoyed it ever so much. Now ( well trim the Christmas tree, and then you can take me home and get back in time for the party." |. At half-past seven Dane surveyed the big double parlors with satisfaction.1. With the help of the evergreen girl he j had finished the decorations and every-1; thing was in readiness for the guests. "The rooms look just as they did; four years ago at Dolly Blair's Christmas tree?even the mistletoe bough," 11 said Dane. "Don't ? ju remember how. that one hung right over our heads, as -this one does now?" Tho ovfrprppn firl was silent. "Had you forgotten, Ruth?" he per- , isisted. "No," softly, "I had not forgotten." "You never thought I had forgotten, did you, dear?" -"But you never wrote, Datie." "Because for a long time I was miles from a railroad or post office and could ! not send any mail. But I've thought j of that night, though, and all these I years I've been planning to have a Christmas party as much like that one as I could, only this one tonight will be for you." " ''But isn't the friend who is coming with Helen your fiancee?" faltered Ruth. "Not exactly," laughed Dane. "That friend is Harry North, Helen's fiance. The girl I expect to marry is here, now, and, by Jove! I've caught her ? again standing under the mistletoe bongh." *?*!< When Christmas Sings It is a song, It is a smile. It is that long Dreamt "Afterwhile}" That season sweet When in us rise Our hearts to meet The splendid skies With love and faith Of better things? When Christmas sings, When Christmas sings! ?Baltimore Sum. The Greatest Quality. The Christmas message tells us of God's fatherhood. It is no cold heart that waits as when we turn to gratitude and prayer. God has always '""n't no Vl ex lAVOC IK ?ti!l FjVefV tlTl? |UICU uo ? ng iv ? w uw w??. ? ? Christmas thought and gift is an expression of that divine love which has made our own love possible. Every claim upon our mercy and our generosity is a call to become like Christ All the enduring qualities of the human spirit were present at the man- ] ger: "But the greatest of these Is love." One Advantage. ; " What does it profi t a man to have a million dollars If nobody wishes bim a ! happy New Year?" 1 "Of course, he's rather to be pitied, put. hu is certainly in a position to conlurae more champagne on N*w Year's ive that the i ran who has no money ind whose frbmds are as poor as him?elf.n . ./ J % WHERE WOUNDED MEN YIELD TO DAY DREAMS r ' Restored to Health and Vigor in Red Cross Convalescent Homes. The surgeon has extracted the in> partially distributed bits of shrapnel from your works. The wounds hay* healed. The wheels go 'round again, and the clock ticks. But it doesn't keep correct time. This business of calling "Timer* 08 the Boche means so many broken clocks nowadays that the master-menders can't keep them on their tables after they're mended. So the question when they shall sit around while they're b*> ing regulated looms large. Trie Ked Cross answers that quo* tion with its convalescent homes. Ik has six of these In operation. A suitable place is found?sometimes donated?and management and equip* \ ment are provided by the Red Croat while the. Army has furnished diacfc pllne and a never-failing supply ot eon* valescents. These homes mean that men wh# are scarcely hospital subjects, yet wht can by no means go back to their do* ties, have a place that does what "home" does for the French or Bn^ lish soldier, what "home" does for any one, In fact, when the doctor gets through. You know. He says: "You're all right now. It's only a matter of nor* lng and food." But you know he's only looking at the works he's tinkered, and that the soul within you is grousing as it never did when the body was down and out It wants something, and it doesat know what it is. But if it doesn't get it pretty quick the works are going ta get gummed again. You know your mother* could find out what that dOfgone thing is right awaV and hand it i to you on a plate. But General Pershing won't lit you go to her. * * And the War Department won't let her. come to yon y. I Then you're taken to a Red Croat convalescent home?and there Is thir very thing yon wanted! But 70s could. . describe it even then to save your life. j It is a bit of coddling, and pretty I surroundings, and women's faces, and ? light laughter and time to play and all 1 that sort of thing. It is forgetting the crash of war and remembering that ? there are pleasant, soft voices. Iff 1 even such things as gaily-flowered sofa pillows to jam into a corner and make t, a nice lolling place while you read J and smoke and talk. Ifs slippers in* 1 stead of trench boots, or day-dreams in place of the nightmare of killing. /' \ NO SEALS SOLO THIS YEAR, ' j The customary sale of Red fro* 1 Christmas seals will not be held this \ year. It seemed best to both th* American Red Cross and the National Tuberculosis Association to unite in \ ? B.J PtuJofmaa Pnll Poll te U1C IWU \JL KJOO VlUMUnan mvu reduce the number of appeals to the . public for contributiififtS. There will jg be no lessening of activities by the w National Tuberculous Association J through this arrangement, as the Bed w Cross War Council has appropriated $2,500,000 for anti-tuberculosis work vJ in 1919 in lieu of the money that ordl- w narily would be raised by a Christmas 1 Seal Campaign. However, every per- ^ son joining the Red Cross during thjf j| Bed Cross Christmas Boll Call will hi 9 awarded ten seals to be used as here tofore. . J i < ? r>t ? * Read The Herald, $2.00 per year., jfl| Big line of underwear; away be* low market. Rentz & Felder.?adv. I All sizes of electric lamps, include W ing automobile lamps, at Faulkner V Electric Service Co.?adv. ^ Big line of overalls. Away be- j low market. Rentz & Felder.?adv. 9 ~ SPECIAL "NOTICES. 1 For Sale?Cedar shingles. H. C. 9 FOLK CO., Bamberg, S. C. tfn 9 Just Received?Self-rising and 9 plain flour in wood. H. C. FOLK f9 CO., Bamberg, S. C. tfn 9| For Sale-??Lard and syrup cans, 50 9 pounds. H. C. FOLK C., Bamberg, 9 s. c. tfn. 9 Wanted?To buy a few shares of 9 Enterprise Bank stock. Address 9 BOX N, Bamberg, S. C. 12-3In I For Sale?Three houses and lots 9 on Liberty Street. Prices and terms |9 will be made right. J. T. O'NEAL, ^9 Real Estate Agent. tfn ^9 Screens?Now is the time to plactf^9 your orders for screens if you need ^9 any for next summer. L. B. FOW-^9 LER, Bamberg, S. C. tfn ^9 For Sale?One house and lot on ^9 Carlisle street, east, frontage 109^9 feet by 488 feet deep. Terms, easy.^9 J. T. O'NEAL, Real Estate Agent, Bamberg, S. C. tfn^H For Sale?500 bu. Toole's"~WHt^^B Resistant cotton seed. $2.50 pe^^9 bushel f. o. b. Bamberg or De^^H mark. Two bales per acre. otton on Allen Simmons place Bamberg. M. T. WILLIS, Denm^^^^9 For Sale?-I will offer'for my residence near town on Mon^^^^H December 30th, all farming ments, mules, cows, hogs; which are some thoroughbred DaroJ^B Jersef hogs, and several sows rw-iflt pigs. J. G. BRAMLETT, Bamboos, ^ % i