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FAITHFUL NEGRO WOMAN WHO SAW LAFAYETTE, j Mollie Williams, Old Time Ser\ant. Who Died Thursday, Did Many Good Deeds. The Columbia Stale says: Another) one of the fa'thful. oid time negroes . has gone. The death of old "Aunt' Mollie Williams Thursday night re moved a beloved old former slave, who had been a servant in severa; prominent Columbia families, ami whose life of faithful service am simple hearted kindness had extended over an unusual period. She had always boasted that she took part ir the Lafayette celebration in 1825 tthe extent of carrying a basket flowers from her mistress for t decoration of the house in which tne great Frenchman stayed, and of ho'ding up a little white boy so that ! %could see the parade go by. She never mentioned seeing the parade*her self (that was characteristic of "Aum Mollie's" kind), but she could describe graphically the floral arc!;, which spanned Gervais street. lead ing up to the "Lafayette house.' When asked how old she was at the time, she would always raise ho hand about four feet from the floor * and say, "1 stand about so high." In slavery times '.'Aunt Mollie" be longed to the Allen Jones Green far. ily and was the personal maid 01 xr late Miss Lucy Green. Among otlv "little boys" she nursed in her ea> lier years was John T. Seibels. well "known Columbia attorney, and she was regarded with respect and acection in her work of amateur sick nursing by the late Dr. B. W. Taylor. Even after she became very old, she insisted upon answering calls to the sick beds of poor negroes and whites who could not afford skilled attention. * Should her children protest against the risk of her rising from her bed in the middle of the night, no matter what the weather, she wouid answer that the Lord had appointed her to this work and she must not fail. Needless to say, she received no compensation for it. Nearlyl 30 years ago she went to work in the family of the late Mrs. J. H. Kinard and has remained there * ever since, nursing the children and the grandchildren and making hersel a valued and beloved member of the household. The old woman had 14 children, 6f grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren, most of whom survive her. She was a devout Christian and knew her Bible almost by heart by the pictures and the position of the books. o Dividends From Courtesy. About 200 men and women who were courteous and considerate in their treatment of Joseph Bisagno of San Francisco, or who without knowing him gave him pleasure, were remembered by him in his will and k have just received substantial legacies under his will. The beneficiares include actresses, waitresses, bootblacks, waiters, lawyers, judges, physicians, business men, the matron of a jail, a hat boy and saloonkeepers. The recipients of these bequests have reaped cash dividends for their courtesy. Not all polite persons arc rewarded with cash, but courtesy is a good investment. Men and women who dispense courtesy freely, doing the everyday work of life and meeting the minor crises, of everyday existence with a smile, disnlavintr fnvhpn ranrp linrlpr irritnt. ing circumstances, holding out a helping hand to individuals momentarily in difficulties, do not expect money payments for kindly acts. The kindly acts are expressions of good hearts. They are fruits of naturally frieiyjly dispositions. Such acts cannot be bought. A surly, mannerless man cannot successfully feign good temper. Jealously, selfishness, unneighjborliness cannot be hidden. Purchased politeness is a hollow, worthless thing. Truly courteous men and women do not expect pay for agreeable conduct. Their kindliness is snontane ous, unpremeditated. In every calling and trade are workers who do the best they can because their consciences and their ambitions urge them to, not because they hope to profit. And these are the men and women who oil the wheels of life and help to make the daily grind easier for all of us.?New York Herald. CITY BARBER SHOP. On account of the scanty of money we have decided to cut on some of our prices, as follows: Tonics, 15c; Clover's Shampoo, 50tf Shoeshine, 5?. Thanking all of our customers for past patronage and hoping to still erve you as your baber during the coming year, we are. Your servants, B. U. BLAKELEY. J. A. ALSTON. Proprietors. l2-28-2t. t / WHALES MUST BE SAVED Present Rate of Extermination, Threatens Industrv. If the killing of whales continues; at the {uesent rate they will be ex-' terminated before another decade, ithe warning given by Sir Sidney 1 . Harmer, F, R. S., director of the Natural History Department of the British Museum. Recent investigations carried out in the whaling areas has revealed this alarming conditions, he says. The whaling industry has survived since the time of Alfred the Great, despite the fact that there has nevei been a year known when scores < boats did not leave the ports of Eng land. France, Spain, and Scandinavia to hunt the sea animals. Sir Sidney declared in a ecent address in wine, he urged leg slation against furthei hunting of whales. 'I'he Greenland variety of the whale is already thought to ho extinct, and the hunting of the last few yewjs has heen confined aiino.il entirely to the* . u..,nm*n Seas. The profits derived from the ki:I ing of these cataceans are enormouand they increase yearly as the retail price of the oil and hone increases. A fair sized whale has a ton o whalebone in its mouth, which alone is worth $10,000. It also produced about thirty tons of oil worth about $100 a ton. In the season of 1915-1 ' the oil production from Antartic whaling stations was 654,000 barrels, or about 94,000 tons. During the war this oil was recognized as,'Of vital importance in the manufacture of nitro-glycerine. It is now used in the making of soap. The principal whales caught today are a species of rorquals, or fin whales; the blue whale, and the sperm whale. The latter, the hunting ol which is principally confined to Americans, not only give sperm oil, but often contain ambergris! which is sold at $20 an ounce and used in the perfumery trade. The oil used foi lubricating the wheels of watches comes from the dolphin, and is the finest oil known. DENBY LAUDS MASONRY. Secretary of Navy Raps Secret Orders With Political Ends. (Capital News Sendee) Washington, Dec. 18.?In a speech made in ?he Nation's Capital before ? ? in 4-Via inforocf of tt 1114X3 a lUC^Uii^ Ui Wiv tuwivv* V* a new Masonic Temple, Secretary of the Navy Denby praised the Masonic Order and expressed himself as being happy to belong to it, because of its principles of toleration -and patriotism. Secretary Denby took the opportunity to criticise secret orders which aim at religious intolerance, and particularly those which put anything higher than allegience to country. He said in part: "Certain forms of secret organizations apparently ar^ designed to supersede law and enforce their will. Nothing more dangerous to the continued mental and spiritual health of the Republic could well be conceived than such societies. The fundamental law of what we turn a 'law-abiding Irountrv.' is. and must be. obedience to law. When any community or body of men or women within a community disregard the orderly processes of the law, a blow is struck at the roots of the Republic. "In this country any secret order, no mater how harmless its secrets may be, which invades the realm of politics and strives to control the destines of our country, or the government of our state and cities, is objectionable. There is no room, in a free country such as ours, for persons who wish to combine in secret and take oaths that compel them to act in concert in matters governmental. Freedom to vote without external restraint is as clear a right as freedom to vote in secret. A man's franchise is his own, no more to be sworn away than to be sold away." o Indiantown Topics. Indiantown, Dec. 18.?Miss Sallie Bartell of Lander College, Greenwood, arrived here Sunday to spend the holidays with her mother, Mrs. John Bartell. Mrs. George Lovett and Mr. John Snowden spent last week-end in Sumter. Miss Dorothy Daniel, a student of Lander College, who has been ill with a severe case of typnoid lever ior several weeks, arrived at her home here Friday, where she intends to spend several weeks recuperating. The Indiantown Girl Scouts, troop No. 1, under the direction of their captain, Mrs. Lee A. Lovett, are daily practising their play, "The Doo-Funny Family," which they expect to present to the public on Monday night, January 1, 1923, at the school auditorium. The Scouts are planning to begin the New Year aright by earning money to buy equipment that they are greatly in need of. 666 cures Chills and Fever. f Unmarked Shrines. (By William Willis Bodtlie) Oh, Williamsburg! Williamsburg! If the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Maine and Massachusetts, they had long ago been covered with monuments! I do not feel anything but the most profound reverence in using the above sentence. There arc so many sacred places in Williamsburg unmarked that one is excusable, even justifiable, in beiai:ng the county foi its negligence. There are so many places in Williamsburg county where the Muse of History would commend bn f>rpr:inn of shrines! I am thinking today especially of Indiantown church. I want to see a bronze tablet over its portals whereon something like this will b written: "INDIANTOWN CHURCH. The Lord Cod Jehovah, has been continuously woishiped at this place from the building of the First Church, A. D. 1757, until the present day. In 1780, during the War of the Revolution, Wemyss destroyed the First Church, and the Congregation worshipped on this spot under the open sky until the Second Church was built. The Second Church was removed in 1835 and the present building, A. D. 1922, Witts erected. In this Churchyard lie buriefl soldiers conspicuously valiant in every war in which South Carolina has participated, and men and women who have well served the State in every period of its history." I can not approach Indiantown Church without seeing the Burning Bush and hearing these words, "Put off they shoes from off they feet foi the place whereon thou standest i Holy Ground." Are there ten men in Williamsburg who know that thirty of the bravest young men ever born in this county were killed on August 27, 1780, or. Academy street, in Kingstree, between the Silverman residence and the Confederate monument, when Major James' Battalion fell on Wemyss' British soldiers and hurried them out of the county? Are there even five men in Williamsburg out of the many hundreds passing along Academy street every day who know that this spot has been baptized by patriot blood ? I should like to see a bronze tablet erected on Academy street in Kingstree that would forever remind the wayfaring man that this soil is sacred. Why couldn't we place a tablet about half way the street, possibly on the Methodist churchyard, that would tell this story to our children and our children's children? There are many other places in Williamsburg that deserve to be crowned with everlasting laurei wreaths, and I have heretofore called attention to some of them, but the two places mentioned in this article appeal to me especially this morning, o ' WOULD INOCULATE DOGS. Bill to Compell Requirement to be Introduced, To Fight Rabies. Compulsory inoculation of all dogs in South Carolina as a step toward the eradication of rabies was approved by the state board of health at a recent meeting in Columbia, and announcement was made that a bill covering this requirement would be prepared for introduction.at the next meeting of the general assembly. Decision of the board was taken following a report by director H. H. Smith, of the state laboratory, who declared: , "The rabies situation in South Carolina never improves. It is growing worse. The number of rabid animals and the number of human beings bitten are increasing every year." Asserting that the killing of dogs known to be suffering from the malady, and the muzzling and quarantining of other dogs were preventive measures that have failed to check the spread of this disease, Dr. Smith added: > "The only sensible, practicable method for the eradiction of rabies would appear to be the compulsory prophyliatic inoculation of all dogs once a vear by a single injection oi rabies vaccine at the owners expense. The report said that this method had been successfully employed in .Tannn anH directed attention to the compulsory inoculation requirement ir Connecticutt. Three persons have died of rabies so far this year in South Carolina, according to the report, which states that 725 have been given the Pasteur treatment. o William Shannon Morrison, professor of history and economics at Clemson College for thirty years, since the institution was established, died suddenly at his home on Christmas night at midnight of heart failure after an illness of only twenty minutes. The death of this venerable gentleman will be learned with : profound regret by Clemson alumina in Williamsburg as well as every oth|er county in the state. 11 i_i 111 mmihw i.i? ' r^w* ,H" t"i"!"!'rt"!"i"t"!"t"'"'"1 ;i To Our Frien , ?$%.. P;: ! l8l! ;|j T^HE approach of a iiii: * brings thoughts ill: whom we have goi jj$j passing year, shoulde: i i-hT* s ""THIS is a pretty g after all; we ar i 1 * gj: grandest country eve it: we have much to be i||: facing east to greet tl ill ing of a new and bett 11' ill: own holiday jj|i ^ happier in that ill: pleaspre of wishing ill: many returns of a joy 1 _ McGill Bi :1|: Store For Ladies I kingstre: i |s j flIIMHMH IMIHIIIIIlim WE WISH YOU? DDIKDCDOIII I IIUUI LIIUUl % and take this opport you for the libe which you have gh the year 1922. W< in ttip nast tn sprvp such goods as we a hind and keep the the means of all, an that in the year cc use every effort to I vice the same as in Again We Wish Yo Prosperous N CHAS. T "THE IMDEiSELL Kingstree, , .?* H New Year ever ;]||; I of those with ;;l; I le through the ; I r to shoulder. jlj; I ood old world, III! e living in the ll|l I r conceived, and ilj-B thankful for in ill le glorious com- 111; :er year. ill I season is made iflf | we can have the ;;E you and yours. rous season. ;;B Store Fore Men i:?j| E, S. C. i|i i HAPPY AND I ; 1923 I t :unity to thank ral patronage ren us during i haVe strived you only with ould stand bei price within td assure you j .ming we will i make our ser- I the past. 1 u a Happy and 1 ew Year UCKER I ING STORE" I a South Carolina I \ I