m foe Muxiday, Healer of Buzzard Roost Greenwood, Oct. 28.?Possessed of power from God to cure divers maladies, he firmly believes, Joe Munday, healer of Buzzard Roost, is watching the world beat a path to his door over a narrow, spring-breaking road, up Buzzard Roost Hill and around the bend to the ancient home of the Munday's. Many believe in the power of Joe Munday to cure disease, and as his fame increases, the distance leng thens over which come the lame, the sick and the halt. One day last week, a North Carolinian, suffering from cancer, wended his wearisome way up Buzzard Roost Hill and sought the power of the healer. Every day, from far and near, sufferers with all sorts of diseases, beseech Joe Munday to look at them; for that's all be does, just looks at them, and lo, the disease is healed, so he claims, and so many who have visited him claim. Munday is about 60 years of age, ana an ms lire, ne uas nveu uccti Buzzard Roost. He is a hunter, such as Nimrod was, and Buzzard Roost is not far from the swamps of Long Cane, where fat grey squirrels scurry up the tall willow-oaks and one's gun may speak often. Where Buzzard Roost Is. Buzzard Roost 5s little more than , a hill, buf a hill steeper than most hills are, between Hodges and Abbeville. There is a graveyard there, and one or two old grey houses nearby but aside from that, only open fields and patches of woods surround Buzzard Roost. A topsoil road is being constructed through the illnamed community and soon the home of the so-called healer will be accessible to those who seek his power. In the years before the 18th amendment, when men journeyed to Abbeville for the "wee drop" that they brought back within and without, the steep hill between Hodges and Abbeville proved the Waterloo of many of the soggy tipplers, and there they perched in flocks, so the legend runs, and thereby came the name. Buzzard Roost. Hard to Find Healer at Home. To find Joe Munday at home, one must go early jand wait late. Frequently he shoulders his gun and goes early into th& solitude of the forest, only returning at nightfall. If one wishes to see him, one must wait. , Such was the fate a newspaper man and his companion who visited the Munday home a few days ago, to get a picture of the healer and hear from his lips, the source of his power. But Munday had gone into the Long Cane swamp, and the distant echo of his gun told of turn Dling squirrels tnat were nmng nis Hunting bag. Seeing the healer, was out of the question, but his sister-inlaw, Mrs, A. H. Munday, told of his power. Mrs. Munday sat in the back hall of the old Munday home and told how Joe had learned the power to heal by looking at a sufferer from his wifea, who died several years ago, and left him the gift of healing as a legacy. The Munday home is grey and weatherbeaten. It is a rambling old house, a story 2nd a half, with wide wind-swept hallway through the middle. A chimney at each end furnishes means of heat "in winter. A fev^ sleepy jhounds dozed in the backyard oblivious of the strange story Mr. Munday was relating. "Joe worked on this child last night," she declared, indicating her small daughter on her lap. "She is about well now, but she had a bad case of thrash before Joe looked at her. Here, honey, open your mouth . and let the man see how you're cured up," and the child obediently opened a mouth that was rapidly clearing of the "thrash" eruption. "Yes, Joe works some marvelous cure's," Mrs. Munday continued. "People come here from 'most everywhere and wait on him. He gets letters by the hatful and I just told him today we would have to get somebody to read them and answer them, as some are written so bad we can't make 'em out." "Joe don't charge anything unless V a \* /\ mit*a r? m att i 2215 UUIUO. 2>U tUlC, 11U 1HU11CJ , lO way he works it. And he will wait to see whether you're goin' to be cured before he collects. No, he never takes jany money unless the patient is perfectly cured and satisfied. He cures pellagra for $5, and it's worth it if you've ever had it. 'Course, he -waits to see whether the cure works before he'll touch the money. If he didn't the power would leave him. And then if he told anybody how he got his power, it would leave him, too. He believes it came from God, but he won't tell anybody how. "Joe says that he can tell when yirture goes out of him when he is making a cure, because his mouth gets sore. Stays sore pretty near all the time, I reckon. 'The power to cure disease has fceen in Joe for years, and it's grow PEOPLE WITHOUT A BOSS Little Island in Atlantic Has No Civil or Military Head. i Half-way between Africa and South America, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, live a people without a ooss, writes Rhoda Lee Dodge in the Mentor Magazine. Their country is the Isand of Tristan da Cunha, ' named after himself by the Portu- < guese explorer that discovered it 1 four hundred years ago. A volcanic 1 peak, eight thousand feet high, tops the island; at its base are tall cliffs that rise like gray tombstones over ! the graveyard of ships. Diving down to the Antarctic, storms sweep ships ! impotently before them on to the 1 rocks of Tristan da Cunha and the ' adjacent Nightingale and Inacces- 1 sible islands. .Most of the islanders were unwilling visitors; they had no 1 choice, but reached the forbidding 5 shores in torn and dripping clothes, 1 or no clothes at all?sailors saved ' from shipwreck. ' A century ago, England sent, troops 1 there to watch for ships that might ( try to rescue Napoleon, who was confined on St. Helena, a thousand miles ! away. When the troops were recalled ; William Glass, a soldier, and his wife ] asked to stay. As years passed and the toll of wrecked ships grew, Glass, \ his family, and the castaways be- 1 came a British colony. Wives were ^ imported and an annual mail service * supplied. The mail service was dis- 1 continued, however, when it was dis- 1 covered that scarcely a dozen pieces ha been delivered in a year. A tele- ^ scope and a set of flags are now the * sole means of communication. At the 1 cry of "Sail ho!" boats put to sea * and cross the dangerous waters to barter vegetables, mutton, and wild- ( / 5 Ao f o lr i o f o*? fl oim oaa/?o t*o rv r\ ^ p% a n VwO,l/ OX\ 111 1^/1 ilUUi J OCUUO) 1 U L puiouu, needles, cloth, and candles; and to hear the news and perhaps get mail. Rat poison is an important import, for the island swarms with rodents from stranded vessels. Wrecks are common. Actually, noSe of the colonists need stay. The British have repeatedly offered to move them to a friendlier country. Some left, but returned later, bringing families with them to share the easy going life. "So the population fluctates. At present there' are about one hundred men, women,-, and children living there. They represent several nationalities; but Eng- * lish is the language spoken. Most of the wivesare dark-skinned. 1 The only woman contributed to the colony by the sea was an East Indian t stewardess from Calcutta. Houses in the village of Edinburgh s at the foot of the mountain, are 1 strongly built to resist storms, and . are furnished with cabin doors, ward- * room tables, copper pots, and other * salvage. The ^fugees have no civil or military head, no council or court Ojf law. Each man is his own boss. For sixty years, Peter Green, a Dutch sailor, f acted unofficially as judge, but when 8 he died in 1902 no one succeeded , \ i him. Crimes and disputes are rare, c On the whole* island there are probably not twenty-five dollars in cur- j reiiey. v>rops aua guous are equally , shared, and when the population is f increased by wreck, the cost of main- '< taining the newcomers is cheerfully 'c divided among all the settlers. Queen Alexandra has a pair of ^ opera glasses, made in Vienna, valued at $25,000. They are of platinum* 1 set with diamonds, rubies and sap- j phires. ] ing on him. He cured Alice Williams of pellagra. Alice is a nigger that lives over there. And here the other ] day, Mrs. Mollie Nickles sent for Joe ^ to come to her place quick to^ cure j mule that had got cut. When Joe got < there the mule was pretty near dead, ] but Joe looked him in the eye and the J blood stopped, and they went back to j plowing. Joe can always stop bleed- ] ing. Hje can cure eczema and any kind ] of skin disease. I know he can cure } pellagra because he cured my daugh- j ter. Her arms were all red and sore, ] but after Joe looked at her scaled off 1 and she is well,'' Mrs. Munday as- j serted. j The healer of Buzzard Roost says ( the power to heal can be transmit- < ted from a female to a male mem- | ber of his family, but not to one of the same sex. For instance, a 1 mother can transmit the power to a BEGGAR IS RICH. Legless .Man Travels Around In a Sedan. Frederick Hammitt, 4G, leglass beggar extraordinary, in jail in New Yorw bewailed the misfortune that had befallen him. Hammitt, arrested for selling pencils in the police crusade against beggars, denies the stories told of his re-| putea weana. ne misiea mat iic was i merchant and not a beggar. "They say I am rich because I have an automobile," the prisoner almost sobbed in telling his life's story. 'IBeeause I have no legs, may I not tiave anything else? I spent $550 for that machine. I wouldn't sell it for $3,000, but that doesn't say I spent that much for it. "I will be rich some day though. In that sedan of mine is a perfected gear shift and other apparatus necessary :o a safe operation of an automobile 3y a person minus one leg or both. I am going to patent that contrivance, and then watch. No more selling pencils. "They say I have five bank books and a $20,000 ranch im North Dakota rhey lie. They lie. What they meant is I did have all that." Hammitt then recounted the interring story of the rise of his fortune in oil stocks, its investment in the :arm which reaped large profits and :he loss of almost all his money when :he crops failed and the stock market vent against him. He also told of the Deautiful four-room apartment that ie converted from a barn in Waltham, Mass., with a few hundred dollars renaming from the wreck of his fortune. Most of the time, Hammitt said, he Irives about the country cooking and deeping in his car, comfortably fitted , vith a kitchenette, sleeping Quarters md a wardrobe, selling his pencils. The alleged wealthy mendicant dosed his woeful table with this bit >f philosophical reflection: "They call me a beggar. They say am an example. "The Lord has certainly caused me o be legless so that you people who lave your legs realize how kind He las been to you." Something Wrong. The new'arrival had just passed the )early gates and was gazing around :uriously. Suddenly his face grew )ale. "Wha-What?" he gasped. "Surely | his isn't heaven?" ' "It certainly is," St. Peter reasmred him. "What makes you doubt t?" "Why, it can\t be," remonstrated he latest citizen. "That angel over .here in the corner used to be a New fork taxicab driver." TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open :or the collection of state, county, ichool and all other taxes from the L5th day of November, 1922, until ;he 15th day of March, 1923, in:lusive. From the first day of January, 1923, until the 31st day of January, L923, a penalty of 1 per cent, will be idded to all unpaid taxes. From the 'irst dr j of February* 1923, until the 28th day of February,1923, a penilty of 2 per cent, will be added to all mpaid taxes. From the first day of March, 1923, until the 15th of March 1923, a penalty of 7 per cent. arill hp nHripri tn nil nrmnirl Isyac son. The power ha9 been in his fam- J ily for generations, Munday claims. ' The healer is heavy set and free- < kled. He farmed until his wife died and his children all married; now he does little but hunt and heal. He ] is a Methodist and believes devoutly ] in his religion. Throughout his section of the country the strange hunter's power 1 is known and respected. Many of his neighbors corroborate the stories of : cures that sound miraculous. Few of them scoff and many of them insist that they believe Mundav is endowed with some supernatural gift, j He rarely ventues far from home, . going to Abbeville only occasionally on Saturdays. The Levy. Eor State purposes 7 1-2 mills Eor county purposes 7 mills Constitution school tax....3 mills ?"or highway purposes ....1 1-2 mills Total 19 mills Special School Levies. Bamberg, No. 14 21 1-2 mills Binnaker's No. 12 3 mills Buford's Bridge, No. 7 4 mills Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills Colston, No. 18 9 mills Denmark, No. 21 16 mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 19 mills Eish Pond, No. 5 2 mills Govan, No. 11 12 mills Hutto, No. 6 6 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Hey ward, No. 24 . 2 mills Hopewell, No 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 12 mills Lees, No. 23 8 mills Lemon Swamp, No. 13 4 mills Little Swamp, No. 17 8 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills Dak Grove, No. 20 10 mills Dlar, No. 8 16 mills Dakland, No. 15 8 mills 3t. John's, No. 10 8 mills Salem, No. 9 12 mills rhree-Mile, No. 4 8 mills West End, No. 25 10 mills All persons between the ages of 21 and 60 years, except Confederate soldiers and sailors, who are exempt at 50 vears, are liable to a poll tax of SI.00. Capitation dog tax, $1.25. All male persons who were 21 vears of a?e on or before the first [lay of January, 1921, are liable to a poll tax of SI, and all who have not made returns to the auditor are requested to do so on or before the first day of January, 1922. and thereby save penalty and costs. I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the loth day of November, 1922 to the 15th day of March, 1923. In addition to the above levies there is a three mill levy for drainage on all property in the town of Bamberg and some of the surrounding territory. G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer of Bamberg County. ? #4i PEN* n 1 l or Keaucea ? If you contemplate during the Christm; pay you to buy one it until then, for wh * < . there will be no moi THINK % / _ a d?i nn _:i A