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ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. The Press and Banner Co. Published Every Tuesday and Friday Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail Blatter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $1.5( Six months .71 mi AT? J aree muuuia <v. Payable invariably in advance. Tuesday, May 28, 1918. AT LONG CANE (COL.) Some of the lawyers around Ab Devuie nave maue sutu icpm.ai.iviu for themselves as negro preacher: that we decided, as times were slack we would put out a feeler for ai ? appointment to preach a little our selves, and try our hand at th< same business. Bishop J. S. Morst having learned of our good intentions assigned us to Long Cam Methodist Church (colored) for lasi Sabbath. Having procured the assistance of Dr. C. H. McMurray anc t Col. Thomas P. Thomson as ruling elders, and young John Lyon McMurray as mascot, we arrived or the scene of action about z :i?> f. m We found $ev. Vance, the "pastor of the church, in charge, and we were soon notified that the meeting was ready to be turned over to us. A verse or two of a good oldtime-religion hymn was sung while the congregation "gathered" in the churph, and when the time was ripe, our elder Col. Thomson, gave us a flattering introduction, after which we harangued the people for a half hour or so on the Red Cross subject, and until the perspiration turned tif'sweat, after which we arrived at the time to take up the collection. Having called on an brethren and sisters who would give five dollars to stand up, and having given them notice to come forward and give in their names as well as the cash, we turned to assist elder McMurray in making out the necessary papers and in giving out the badges of honor. We didn't want to start on the two-fifties and the one dollar crowd until we fin ished with the big fish. But we made a mistake right here. Because no sooner had we turned our back i"* than the little fishes went out around the net and the next thing we knew they were drinking water at the well. We couldn't blame them muc'i however. The pastor said a word in their behalf to the general effect that he had had a rally already that day and that all male members had given one doilar"; and all femaleS^ad given seventy five cents. Besides from the ease which they got out it appeared to us that they had seen collections taken up before. Notwithstanding when we had finished we had one hundred and thirty-seven dollars, which amount is more than has been given by some people to the good cause. r> The meeting having been duly dismissed by the Reverend pastor, we went down to Col. Thomson's and not being disposed to hurt his feelings, especially after living al home for sometime on war diet, we readily accepted his invitation tc take dinner with him. We did not do so any more readly, however than elder McMurray and mascol John Lyon. It appeared to us thai they, too, had been living at home and eating at the same place. Aftei a fine dinner which was greatly en joyed, as well as the "charminj hospitality," as the women say, o: our gracious host during the eatinj of it, we went out on the porcl to settle down to real enjoyment We had hardly, however, got com fortably seated when one of thos vulgar gas buggies came tooting u; the road, and we soon spied Co! Dick Sondley at the wheel, wit Col. Pat Roche and Col. Will Ma Q? gill as accompanists. They ha heard that we were to hold fort! they said, and "turned out" to th meeting, and were sorry to find tha they were too late. Having been invited in, and not caring to discuss worldly affairs onaccount of the day, they merely passed the time of the day on the growing cotton, the goat business and fishing, and settled down to serious matters. Col. Roche having t the floor naturally directed the J conversation towards the good old [ times before the war when people kept salt and soap and other household necessities in gourds etc. He rambled around awhile among the old grave yards and here and there > I he stopped to drop a flower on the ; grave of some hero cf times past, )J whose memory has all out faded exIcept with those who linger a little j while after their generation has passed. He told us also of an incident which he learned of from his old friend Col. Hiram Tusten. It seems that over in Georgia or somewhere else a family had a pet goat. It - was about the gin house' at ginning ; time and after the ginning was over the goat was nowhere to be | found. The little children cried for 'jdays for the goat but it failed to 1 return. Nothing was ever heard of -1 it until the next spring when the , cotton seed house was opened to , get out the planting seed and thert j . stood the goat eating cotton seed. ^ i m x? J-J? | j' v^oi. i listen uiun t ten, it seems, 11 where the goat got water all this . J time, ' which puzzled 'Col. Roche I somewhat, but Col. Sondley solved P this by telling that the same thing . happened with Wilson Caldwell in I t! Newberry County, only there were j five goats instead of one, and by . explaining that cattle can live with[ out water and that they fatten bet.1 ter without it, advancing the statement that Col. Aug. W. Smith, when . he lived in Abbeville, "was accustom-) ,'ed to stall-feed cattle for months! | without ever giving them a drop of J i water. During the course of his remarks, . however, Col. Roche happened to mention a snake. While spoaking of snakes he told us 'of the bad 'habits his friend Sondley formerly! ihad of coming up town every Sat' urday evening, walking around bisj old friends Gene McMillan and Mike Cassidy and slipping his hand1 in their pockets and getting out a' few of the parched goobers which! they were always eating. Knowing5 that the Colonel was somewhat j afraid of snakes old man McMillan one day put a pet king snake in his pocket on top of the goober bag and walked around where Col. Sondley was sitting all the time cracking the brittle shells and rattling hunrJ ger into Colonel Sondley's make-up j 'with every crack. Finally, the ^ Colonel took a circuit around the. old gentleman and quietly slipped: his hand into the pocket and hit the j snake, whereupon as Rev. John I.J Reynolds, colored, said in his-suit! 'against the railroad, "the panorama| lit up." The snake subject having gotten' , a firm hoid on all hearers Col. Sondley advanced to th& front of the: rostrum and ftiadfc a few remarks j on snakes he had seen. One of the longest to be remembered by him was the one he saw down in the , Haskell woods when he and Col. L. C. Haskell went down there to "locate a corner". Both wore boots : for fear of snake^, and they were making diligent search for the cor-1 ner, when Col. Sondley all at oncej ' stepped on something soft which j i he took for the corner. Looking' i around, however, he saw that it wasj ; no corner at an DUt a Dig moccasin , then in the act of striking at his i boot leg, which it did immediately. ; Raising an Indian warwhoop the , Colonel "lit a rag" for the open ; ground. When he had gone a litt tie way he looked around to see if , the snake was following when to r his consternation, perturbation and - utter demoralization he found that ; the moccasin, when' it struck at him, f had hung a tooth in the tough * leather of the boot leg, and that he i was taking it along with him. No sooner had he seen this than he - hollowed for all rabbits to clear the e track for a man who could do some p real running. When he stopped I. from exhaustion, he found that he h had pulled the snake's tooth, and he was free except that after pulld ing off the boot, and taking off his i, socks, and rolling up his breeches e leg he was unable, even with the it assistance of friend Haskell, to tell whether the snake tooth had gone into his leg or not, leaving nothing for him to do except to wait and see -whether he would die or not. Following this account of his experience in the Haskell woods, the company talked over pother snake history, including habits of the hoop snake and others. Col. Roche informed the company of the time when the hoop snake made a roll at a man standing by a tree in McMillan's pasture, and of the man jumping aside causing the snake to drive its tail into the tree, and of the tree dying before suridown, and of other snake happenings immediately following the Revolution. But Q'olonel Sondley had not finished. He had a snake story to tell .that happened to him and Will ^iall when he was trimming th? fig bush, at which time as he told it a big snake rolled itself around his ankle several times and then looked up at him and winked its eye. . He also told of a cousin of his who caught all kinds of bad snakes and made pets of them,N and other snake stories. In fact John Lyon McMurray said that it seemed tc V.fV.of r'nlnnol SrmHTev liaH "sPPTl linn i>nov w? w*4v* ..* ? ..... more snakes" than all the othex gentlemen gathered together fox the evening. Finally the conversation having switched from snakes to c.ooters} wc were forced to leave as we were alrady out late enough for elder McMurray to be called upon to give an account of himself. We left Col. Sondley on the floor discussing the habits of cooters on his goat farm below town, and it seemed to us from the way he was laying it down that he had just begun to talk. COUSIN PERCY WRITES COUSIN DAVIS Dear Cousin?,1 have received your letter pertaining to your wide expanse of business. I hope it will not prove a great Desert of Sahara in the wind up. I have heard the old people around Abbeville say that Mr. Jacob Miller in his day issued a wise saying to the effect that almost any man could run a sail-boat about the shore, but when a man puts to sea, it were well if he were a mariner. Now, do not get panicy^when I tell you that a dreamed I saw you in the middle of the big blue ocean sailing round and round and shotting at the top of your voice for a sight of old Blue Hill. There is another matter about which I think you had better seek legal advice. You know there is a law in this country known as the Sherman law. Under it a man who combines too many branches of a business creates a monopoly and may be indicted for running a Trust. You have heard I suppose, before the war, of the trust-buster. Well, do not be surprised when I tell you that the combination of the Edison talking machine and bf yoUr' own gives the firm of Kerr & Edison a majority holding of all the talking machines in the country, and you may be indicted at any minute, unless you are willing, at least, to quit talking (and snoring too) in your sleep. Please give this matter your prayerful consideration. Now if you were as quiet all the time as you are at home when Mrs. Kerr is present, you might get through, but it seems to me after hearing your line of talk down town and after listening to the Edison that something may be doing in the trust-busting line pretty soon. I did not hear what you said about coming up this summer. On that subject I am as deaf as you were the time I passed my plate back for another helping ~>of the white meat of the turkey .and you filled me up with rice and gravy. Brother Austin would like to do something for you, but he says the hotel man where he was boarding when you were up here and where * ' "" * - ? ^ +/\n 116 Still is, says trim %vuu unnxu tw much to the waiters when you were here, and that you worried the cook too much about wanting to carry in stove-wood so you could see what they were going to have for dinner Then again he says that hotel registers cost money now on accounl of the high-price of paper and ii you do come up and bring youi family, and want to register th< whole family every day, you mus( bring your own register, as he ii not going to waste any more pape: Frieda He Edison Re=C Theme and Variations. (Pre Hempel at the Metropolit of the Regiment." j A ve Maria?Cavalleria Rut from the Intermezzo by ] gato by Mary Zentay. j Aloha Oe. (Queen Liliuo Criterion Quartet. I My Old Kentucky Home. (1 | Criterion Quartet. 1 Emmet's Lullaby. {J. K. t I Criterion Quartet. j Long, Long Ago. {Bayly). STOVES AHoRAr BHBHBiPHHRnnB ! on you. As for your boy, Sun, I kn your boarders stand a fine chai ; of getting their money's worth w I your boy and his father at the I i ble. As for inquiring anythi I about him the only inquiry I re | i : ember to have made about him v j when I asked you last summer wh | you and he thought you would i an/1 r?/\+ ryaffinor q jjav> rv kjvuuii) ?<iiu uvu gvw?t<g * satisfactory reply to that questi< I feel sure that there must be so] mistake about any further inqu j on my part. :: *' ; The furniture dealers up h< j are getting a little uneasy ab< j themselves. I suppose you h* i seen that the government is ab< I uMtVi nil nnnrofita j IU Uiopciiow ???!#* M.. ??x I servants. The gamblers must I and so must the bar-tenders, 1 J idlers and all men engaged in bv I ness which is not worth much ! the country ar.d not much of tl: As we were coming from the W nesday night's prayermeeting neighbor, brother Jones, said t he would not be surprised at a time to see all clap-trap busin like automobile sellers, lawyers, f I niture dealers, fortune tellers i j book-agents closed up and put i some kind of profitable employmc Now I think if I were you would get a farm started and that you are in the furniture bi ness as a sideline and that ; are a horny handed son of toil. . will not be pleasant work this si ! mer digging ditches in France v ,! a gun shooting around you ev ,1 fifteen or sixteen seconds, and j word to the wise should be suf J ent. At any rate it would b ;!good idea to put the furniture b i ness in your wife's name, and . j be a clerk. tj I see that uncle Jim has been : | in Tennessee speaking for g r! roads again. I saw a fellow ? other day who attended the m t ing and he said he did not uni 5 stand why uncle Jim paid his r out to Tennessee for the pur] FRIEDA H JOINS EC Sj^lj^PKlJufill 'I in! Ili' oratori mpel's reations Creat ?c/i). As sung by Miss ^ an in ''The Daughter ' playe Hicana. An adaption ly on tiascagni. Violin obli- could to pr kalani). Assisted by work ?oster). Asssisted by , compj with ' 'mmet). Assisted by li?n r > ^ rV . f . 4GES ^ HOME OUT l of letting them hear what he ha< ow> to say because he spoke so loud h< j might have stood on the top of hi: ice' | barn and they could have -heart him jtfst as well. He also said h< to- didn't see why Mayor Mars paic ng fare on the train as he walked al m_ the way from Abbeville to Chat tanooga going from one coach t? * I the other and introducing himsel ien j to the people. That is what make 2? j some people poor all tho time ny. spending money when there is n< an.' ?j u ' | necu jlux iv. mej We are leaving home as we mai iry this letter, and will notify yoi when we return if it is too coo ere for you to come up.' jut Your cousin, ive Percy. jut , We FREE SCHOLARSHIP. SO, tilG Two four-year scholarships n 1S1" Clemson College are reported va *? cant in Abbeville county. Examina ia^' tions will be held July 12. A schol ec*~ arship student may receive aid fror my United States government: The de hat mand for college trained men 1 ny~ greater than the supply. ess Ur" 1 CENT MILE IS FARE ind FIXED FOR SOLDIERi nto int. I Washington, May 24.?The rat say of a cent a mile for soldiers forth usi- duration of the war has been estat pou lished by the railway amdinistratio It it was announced late this aftei im- noon. The action was taken, it wa nth said, as a result of thousands o ery appeals from all sections of th a country. fici- . e a GENERAL SESSIONS COURT usi" FOR JUNE CALLED OF you All Grand Jurors and others hai out ing business in the Court of Ger ood | eral Sessions for Abbeville Count; the are notified that there will be n eet- Court held in June. Only Equit der- business will be transacted, way J. L. PERRIN, sose 5-24-2t. Fri. Clerk. i !22-!^225282E2222S!5''''t5 EMPEL )ISON 1 ' 'i : j i most richly endowed soprano in Am- : is what, the critics call Miss Hempel Metropolitan Opera. A true artist, .0 ibition to have her voice preserved in splendor outweighed all other consid- | is. She has joined the Edison group; ; rs. Henceforth she will sing for the ?t istrument which can Re-Create her M voice. . -/H* Hempel heard Re-Creations of other . i irtists; noted their superiority to any- <^ she'd ever heard before and decided istigate. She went, to the Edison lab-'1 | es; made a Re-creation; then sub-./' it to the searching trial of the toQe ^ >he herself sang in direct comparison^ he instrument. If you've ever heard' ice on talking machines you can conler joy in hearing it Re-Created with idelity and perfection that no human . aid distinguish artist from instrument. enough. There and then she resolved tenceforth the instrument for her __ 'A he New Edison -'M nhe Phonograph With a Soul" fl n now you can hear Frieda Hem- H rot a mere imitation on a talking H ine but Miss Hempel hersel|. H at our store and hear the Be- H ions listed on this page. H ison Re-Creations should not he v H a ana cannot De piayea properany other instalment. If they" VH be, the manufacturers who see^.;H ofit by Mr. Edison's research. H would be able to make tone test arisons, such as we have made H the New Edison before two milr H nusic lovers. H j mr, I FITT6K5 '/jw,wv ij 114 WOUNDED U. S. 9H H SOLDIERS GET HOME i Washington, May 24.?The ar- H| 1 rival in this country of 114 Ameri1 can wounded was announced by Sur geon General Gorgas today. Eight > were landed the week of May 10 f and 106 the week of May 17; They s Viavo hppn distributed at various points for reconstruction. -jh ] U. S. TO BUILD RH 1 PICRIC ACID PLANT H ?9 Washington, May 24.?Two picric acid plants, the first Govern- Hi ment controlled plants to be estab- HH lished in this country, are to be constructed at Little Rock, Ark., and Brunswick, Ga., the War Departi ment announced this afternoon. The HH Little Rock . plant will cost about $4,000,000. 1 The larger plant at Brunswick r will be constructed by the Butteri worth-Judson Company, of New York, at a cost of nearly $7,000,- j^H THE CANTEEN SERVICE. HB On last Thursday, the ladies of^B| e the A. R. C. Canteen" Service were e called to serve troop trains passing ?- through here. The following ladies ^Hj j?a., .r,... 4-v.ot Hoir \fr<5_ n were on uuiy iui wic*? . *- J. C. Ellis, Captain; Miss Maggie^^J ,s Brooks, Second Lieutenant; Mrs.^^H f W. E .Johnson, Mrs. F. B. Gary,^^B e Mrs. Moffatt Plaxco, Mrs. Gus Leer^^H Miss Mary Smith and Miss Louise^^J Brown, Privates. Miss Mary Hill, Miss Leila Link,HH p Miss Mary Aiken and Mrs. Will^^B Harris, Motor Service. [BH r- The soldiers were given post^^fl 1- cards,. magazines, matches, chewi/ig^^H Y, gum, and flowers, and all were^^H o! pleased with the attention. Stamp^HD ;y were sold to them, and quite a num-^^H ber of cards were written whil^^M waiting, and mailed with letters an^^H papers by the committee.