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Vol. 13 No. 11 / " PAGELAND, S. C.? NOVEMBER 22t 1922. Si.00 per year OUR BORDER LETTER -? i Bj 8. M. Funderburk. For the information of many of his felatives, and scores of people who knew bim in his boyhood and young manhood days, I Will now undertake by Ilia nnnaant tn aitro a cVinrt hit. I A* 19 WUO?UI| IV (tTV M ? tory ol one Nathan Beaver, who 'is now jiving in. the middle por tion of Texas, at a towo by the name of Jonesboro, in Coryell county, near where he first set- ' tied after coming to Texas, but i has lived in several different sec- 1 tions of the slate. 1 Mr. Beaver is now neanng his < 82nd birthday and is remarkably 1 stout and robust, and no one i would judge him to be over 60 > years of age. - He enlisted in the war, and as a volunteer served i until he was wounded at the bat* tie of Manassas in Virginia, when 1 he was relieved from service till ' he was ablg to go back into ser- 1 vice again. He told me that he ' could have remained out the bal- < ance of the war, but his love for the cause for which so many ' not only fought but lost their 1 lives and this for a cause they j then thought was a righteous ' cause, but as he said to me that 1 nothing has up to this time con* 1 vinced him that he was not fivht* : ing for a just cause, but still be- 1 lieves that the fight for the Con* laifammf titn. akv nnhta an/1 omt 1 ivuvtavj vrao v/ui niruia, auu ?uj one now. living, who knew Nathan Beaver knows he was a brave soldier. He says he nor his immediate family had anything in the way of property or slaves to go into the conflict for, except they would have been don scripted "later on. Says he the cloae received his honorable ' discharge at Greensboro, N. C. 1 eatrs Vio fntinrVii a nrirvrl laerKt I I o?jo uv ivuf;ui a k\aai xi|(ui but lost. During the war he was ' in some of the bard fought battles and says it was miraculous how he escaped beiug killed. He "now enjoys talking or the years he spent in the service of his < country, and telling the harrow- I ing tales of his experiences and. 1 oft the hardships during the strug- < gle. To show.. how much he 1 loyed the cause, it did not matter J what subject he would be talk- i ins: aDoui, ne wouia arm into 1 the sad experiences of what he i went tnrough with in war days, i The writer has never met a man I who seems more interested in I that memorable struggle than < Mr. Beaver. In the year of 1863 < he obtained a furlough, came f home and married Miss Palmiria 1 Funderburk a daughter of Hen- < ry and Barbara Funderburk, and left the next morning and went back to his command. After the I close of the conflict, returning to < his home and wife, he remained "there long enough to make his third crop, and then by wagon train, moved to west Mississippi, and lived near his brother-in-law, Sylvester Shute for two years, then by the same mode of travel, which was at that time by private transportation, such as ox and horte wagon, he moved on into Texas near where he now lives. There were bprn to him eight children, of wnom there are now living two sons and one daughter. These * children all live in west Texas and are doing well. On December 9th 1879 he lost his wife. Since posing his I first wife, he hp* married four 1 - times, n&aking five wives all told. I By the second union were born I six children and of that number I three are living, two srirls and 1 Ion{ ton. By the next marriage t waa born two children, a ton and * daughter. At I haye alteady aid. all thete children live in I Peanat. father of ISO Children. 1 Charlotte Observer' It sounds almost like a fairy tale, this story of the lowly peanut, but it has- been left to a < Southern chemist, a negro chem- ' ist at that, to delve into its possi- i bilities and produce fust such an i exhibit of the by-products of what we Southerners have for i years regarded as circus fruit. i At the Four-County Fair re- i cently held at Suffork, Va'., this j wizard of his race showed where i it is possible to produce from the peanut such articles as shoe j Klarlrtnar SuiOPt nirklpR foilpt i soaps, fertilizer, vinegar, break- i fast food, fuel, face cream and i some 140 other varieties of usef ul articles. ^ Prof. G. W. Carver is chemist j at the Tuskeege Normal and In- < dust rial Institute, and his display < of the peanut by-products was the largest ever shown anywhere, i and needless to say, attracted i wide attention and a variety of i comment. For 30 years Professor Carver i lias been engaged in the develop- i ment of useful by-products from i soy beans, velvet beans, old-fash*. ? ioned cowpeas, tomatoes and i sweet potatoes, and had on dis- i play, 6u soy bean by-products and 116 developed from the sweet < rvrtta tr, This old negro chemist is experimenting all th$ time. He declares the peanut, for culinary i purposes, produced by its rich milk is practically unlimited for making tancy cheese, nut sage, chocolate fillers, cream bon bons and many fancy salads. Butter can be made from the peanut < milk. % ry* The hfettery ofilhisold nfiam i 1st reaAnSSn^nci^in l^ear ly struggles for an education. n 1_ i,:. ne luuuc iuc ucai ui 111a u^pui(unities and woa deserved success. % ' . i One Best Patb i There are many paths, but only one best one. In that way God leads us. If we fail going in the 1 right way, it is because .of something in ourselves Just so far as 1 we are willing to obey God*s law, ?o far as we put aside selfishness,* 10 far as we have cherished the right character and right motives, to far as we sincerely seek to dp right, we shall be led intb the oaths and the places which are best for us. If we fail, it is because we are led astrav by our own Wrong desires and motives, is the vessel is deflected from ler course by currents of the >cenn.?Belfast Witness. ' Better an ass that carries us, han a horse that throws us.?4. j. Holland. * ?. west Texas. His last wife was 1 iiMrlrttir Mr* Inlinriio Hauio on TVIUVVVf IMIOi | V&1UUIV IV (I T B Of MU estimable lady, who Is educated, t ind could read for Mr. Beaver, t Svho says be enjoys it more than , my one could*.- It is easily seen >y one that she is very much in. 1 erested in Mr. Beaver's comfort ipd happiness. Mr. and Mrs. 1 Beaver have just been spending lomething like a week with the I vriter and tells me^ that this is i he first visij.of his long life, with my of his relatives, which was luite a compliment to us being ible to entertain htm on his first < hsu to oi8 many Kinsmen; He tays i hat he has traveled exten c lively and made many trips back o hi - old home, but the trips vet'e . o see, his mother and was i i l.. u: jui i t/msiueieu uy 111111 uy visub j rie al. a tells me of his travels s hrouc tout the country; but always \. ere on businefs. Galveston, Tex., Sept. 14, 1922. I Continued next week. t DEMOCRATIC VICTORY t v - " ' > Special Correspondence. j Washington.?The great Democratic victory of Tuesday'Nov. 7, accurately forecasted by Chairman Cordell Hull of the Dem6c ra11c National Committee, marks. the beginning of the return of the people to the Democratic party and the restoration of that party to complete power iq 1924. It is more than o pro test against Republican incompetency and failure. It is a repudiation of the major policies which the present reactionary Republican Congress and administration?the mopt reactionary in history?have advocated and foisted upon the people. It is a repudiation of tarriff-robbery, of tax-shiftmg and tax-juggling, of Newberrytsjn, Daughertyism and Laskensm, of reckless^p propnation and extravagant expenditure, of_ the alliance between the reactionary leaders of the' Republican party and special privilege and of the reenthronement of the spoils system in government departments. < In many of its features the election was a personal rebuke to President Harding himself. The Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio, who is supposed to have won his nomina lion by reason ot being an administration favorite, was defeated; Senator Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, the President's fellow-vacationist and boon companion, was emphatically and decisively squelched; Newberry, who obtained a- cettificate of character ^from^ President Hording prior to repudiated wherever there were Democratic majorities; Lodge, the, administration's spokesman in the hecate, has been humiliated to a degree which in some respects is worse than his defeat _ i i wouia nave oeen, and a recount of the votes in Massachusetts may add to his humiliation. There were minor casaulties in the presidential coterie. President Harding had definitely committed himself to the Republican policies and candidates that were on trial. He spoke for them by the lip? of his Cabinet officers. He gave every sign that he regarded 1the result .as either approval- or disapproval of the Republican administration's acts and omissions. The supreme court of the electorate bias given its decision. Mr. Harding and the Republican Congress stand condemned for the future io less than for the past. One thing lacking in Tuesday's >leotion was the failure to give be Democrats a substantial maoritv lti the House.. A small Republican majority in the House, loweyer, is equivalent to a Dem>cratic victory. The balance of powerlwill be held by progrestives and radicals who are as nuch opposed to Republican eactionism as the bemocrats. Republican redbtionism has >een checked but not destroyed, rhe work so auspiciously begun ast Tuesday will be completed n 1924. Description, of a Train of Cars ; ; He lived in a romote region in kOAilon/i kit# AtiAA An g% IflVMA A/t ^vvunuui uui uu a IIUIC :ompanied his fatbsr to a village tear which a branch line ran. rhe moraine after his arrival he iaw a train go by. For a moment ie stared at it witj) astonishment and then, ritnnincr into thp houeo taid: "Fayther, fayther, coom oot! rhere's a smiddy [a blacksmith's bopl ran off wi' a row o' houses, in* it s awa' doon by the back o' he toon." \ i-i? < , MORAL ISSUES "V* A Great Fad ^ ! * A man may not accept Christiaoity as the basis of his life, but jkhere is one thins he can not de-1 ay-?that the religion of the cross Itffhe only one that exhibits a passiop for 8avine the lost. Othaf religions may have their fierce propaganda for gaining converts Aid making ccxnqu ests. but Christianity stands alone in its mission ty the sin fill, the sorrowful, the despairing. Christ alone manifests tenderness and love for the ifoeary and heavy laden. He alone says of the sinner, "when ha was a great way off his fathef saw him and had compassion - i i_n ?_ u i_ i hbu rau auu icti uu uu ucck auu kissed him.*'?Michigan Presbytia Lessons TaoflM By Trials ^We never have mure than we cab bear. The present hour we afe aiways able 'to endure. As Ottr day, so is our strength. If the trials of many years were gathered into one, they would overwhelm us; therefore, in pity topur little strength, God sends j^SSt one, then another, then removes both, an d lays on a third, hayjer, perhaps, than' either; b<B all is so widely measured to oifr Wrenfcth that the bruised reed .m*ver broken. We do not Mpugh look?at our trials in this $wfiouou8 and successive view. Jn one is seJQt to teach us SHBething, and altogether they Mk a lesson which is beyond tjtt^ower of any to teach alone. Manning. It fa lever wise to live in the past There are, indeed, some uses of our past which are helpful, and which bring blessing. We should remember our past lost condition to keep us humble and faithful. We should remember past failures and mistakes, that we msly not repeat them. We should .remember / past mercies, that we may have confidence in new needs or trials in I Uie future. We should remember past comforts, that there may be stars in our sky when night comes again. But while there are these trufe uses of memory, we should guard against living in the past. We should draw our life's inspiration^ not from memory, but from hopet -not ' from what is gone, but from .what is yet to come.?J. R. Miller. . God's Unnoticed Gifts God's best gifts are not even seen by those who do not make it the constant ournose of their I life to receive them. It takes spiritual alertness to know anything of what is going on in the spiritual world of God's richest , workings. Without such alertness and purpose in our lives, ( We shall no more be aware of the wealth of spiritual blessing . and opportunity (ha^God offers us all the time thada blind man going through the Grand Canyon would be of the glories about bim. it Das been said tDat God never labels His choicest gifts;" they are offered so quietly that I they are unnoticed save by the ( few whose lives are concentrat- J ed in an intensity of purpose to know Him and to do His will. But .ye may all let Christ create in us this keenness o^ vision to reco ;nize our blessings, and give . us (he purpose and the power to J lay bold on them.?Sunday \ Sch ol Times. * : ^ 1 * N dure tpnrhps hpnntft to know f the uft tends.?Shakespeare. 11 > 1 c" < Jury Usl FIRST WEEK : Cheraw?J. F. McBride. W. H. Calder, D. W. Moore, R. K. Berry, I. F. Harper. Court House?E. C. Rivers, W. J. Moore, B. F. Griggs, Geo. W. Eddins, J. D. Fiocher, D. Vaughn. Mt. Croghan?T. B. Smith, R. J. Mangum, J. W. Lowery, C. C. Burck, L. B. Sellers. - Old Store?C. L. Hicks, R. E. Richardson, B. F. Clark, R. M. Sanders, S. F. Ingram, B. R. Funderburk. Jefferson?H. M. Sellers, B. R. Threatl, W. D. Watkins, W. C. Nicholson. Aligaior?E C. Horton, Baxter Blqpkwell, R. M. Beasley. Cole Hill?John Wesley Bofcn, A. J. Lewis, J. T. Deese. Steer Pen?H. B. Roscoe, W. B. Brown. Pee Dee-?J. B. Chapman, M. A. Biles. SECOND WEEK Cheraw?W. Ed. Reid, Geo. j Walteft, W. E Hunt, Jr., E J. Waddel, G. E Knight . Court House?J. Oscar Parker, Ira C. Redfearn, M. A. Sellers, Ray J. White, Percy Rivers, D. A. White. Mt T IMF C^vl mu viVKuau?uauici 1?1 OCI' lers, I. W. Fuoderburk, C. ?. Barker, J. T. Thurman. Old Store-kJuy L. Watts, L. E. Courtney, D. W. Mangum, M. L. Davis, Brown Agerton, Jefferson?W. S. Jenkins, S. A. Cambell, J. F. Mungo, A. J. Kirkley. Aligator?D. A. Morrison, H. R. McLeod, N. W. Seegars. Cole Hill?I. B. Merriman, G. S. Cjsfepthaw, R: E, Sowell, Hoyt i>SeJfeS9k^ ~*t ? *"??* ''Steer Pen?R. C. Baker, J, %>r * -? warren jonnson. j i Pee Dee?A. W. Ay cock, J, T. Chapman. Over Ihe Hills of Dudley Guy Funderburk. The greenest grass I ever knew, I The skies that seem the brightest blue , Are over the hills of Dudley. The prettiest flowers that ever grew, The softest winds that ever blew, Sway over the hills of Dudley. The loveliest birds that ever sing, The welcomest bells that ever ring, Sound over the hills of Dudley; The dearest calls of Whip-o-wUle Come from forests among those hllle, Just over the hills of-Dudley. The brightest moon that shines at night, , The truest love?the world's delight, ; Shiqes over the hills of Dudley. The wisest thoughts that mortals know, ' The clearest streams that ever flow, 1 Move over the hills of Dudley. The noblest boys that ever were, xnw truest jfins iouna anywnere, . Live over the hills of Dudley. The happiest people that ever live, The sweetest life that earth o&n give, Are over the hills of Dudley. flow He Jotfged Character "So you want a situation?" said the business man. "Yes, sir," replied the applicant." "Hum?do you ever go fishing:?" * "Occasionally." i "When wara vnn "Day before yesterday.** <j "Catch anything?" "Not a thing." " "Yon can come to work next Monday, if you like. If you keep{e >n telling the truth like that you I nay be a partner in the tirm one t >f these days." ^ Artful Alliteration t< H? re is a specimen of dramat- ? c ci iticism ns she is written in 11 Chicago: "The first scene of f< lie second act shows a forest of fa phosphorescent fungi, full of tl ascinating phantasmagorical g ire Hies, fitfully flitting fast and ? uriously,n e # IT IS SAID A man dishonored is worse than dead ?Cervantes. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.?Benjamin Franklin. Who lives for humanity must be content to lose himself.?O. B. Frothingham. x A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.?Ouida. Sabbath-days,?quiet islands on tHe tossing sea of life.?Samuel Willoughby Dutfield. A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of his early condition.?Daniel Webster. A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.?Henry Ward Beech er. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.?Bible. None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep t mem; sucn- persons covei secrets as a spendthrift covets money, tor the purpose of circulation.? Col ton. The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in his declarations, and in imitation of ' his perfections.?Burke. The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Right- , ough, it is the Very spirit of unsparing truth.?Phillips Brooks. There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking his guidance of it. or insult him by taking it into our own hands; and what is true of Deity is equally true of bis revelation. ?-Ruskin. Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together, that, at length, they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of life, which they are henceforth to rule.?Carlyle. Romance, like a ghost, eludes touching. It is always where you were, not where you are. The interview or the conversation was prose at the lime, but it is poetry in memory.?George William Curtis. Words, money, all things else ire comparatively easy to give, iwav; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possesion of him.?Lowell. Religion is not a method, it is i life, a higher and supernatural ife, mystical in its root and pracical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enhusiasm. a love which radiates. i force which acts, a happiness vhich overflows.?Amiel. We hear in th^se days a great leal respecting Rights, ? the ights of private judgment, the ights of labor, the rights of propirty, and the rights of man. tights are grand things, divine hings in this world of God's; >ut the way in which we ex ound these rights, alas! seems o me to be the very incarnation if selfishness. I can see nothag very noble in a man who is orever going about calling for lis own rights. Alas! alas! for ae man who feels nothing more rand in this wondrous, divine rorld than hi&own rights.?Fredrick W. Robertson. 4