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i? afiMnin iHi rr.n?Lrfi The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, 8.C. Published Every Wednesday by W. W. Bradley, W. R. Bradley, President Vice-President Wednesday. June 3, 1914. TAG DAY. Tag day in all its glory has been set for Friday, June 5th. Its pur pose is to raise funds for the city li brary. For the benefit of those who may nnf- lrnnw thp whvs and wherefores of this particular observance, it might be well to explain that the prettiest girls in the city go about with a lot of tags in their hands and when they see a creature of the op posite sex they promptly hold him up and relieve him of whatever cash he may have on his person, and then they tag him. After that he may roam unmolested very much as a muzzled dog does after he has been made to comply with the law. Re calling one of Aesop's Fables, "it is great fun for the boys but terror for the frogs." But the city library must be sup ported, and if the tight wads will not call by and lay their offerings voluntarily at the feet of the man agement, it is but just that they be held up in the street by that most dangerous or an weapons: iemimne beauty. Let every man take warning, and let no man appear on the street with less than ten dollars in his pocket. The city library properly patron i ized and properly used can be made one of the most useful as well as one of the most instructive agencies in the city. The ladies realize this and with their usual good sense they are going to point the way to the gen tlemen. INTERPRETING THE PRI MARY RULES. There seems to be difference of opinion in various counties as to the construction of sub-division "c" of section 8 of the rules governing the primary. The sub-division reads: "In all other cases the voter must enroll in the club nearest his place of residence, calculated by the nearest practicable route and can vote only at the votiner Dlace of such club, and the territory included by this test shall be considered the club district of such club." The executive committee of An derson county and of some other counties have construed this rule to mean that it is not necessary to ac tually lay off the voting districts with metes and bounds, but distance from established boxes shall consti tute the limits of the district, the voter being required to enroll at his nearest box or precinct. This conclusion is reasonable and * is a natural inference, but perhaps when such interpretation has been made, executive committees have overlooked the following in section 50 of the rules: "In the year 1914 each county committee shall meet ut the county court house on the first Monday in June, at the call of the respective county chairmen, and pro- , ceed to lay out and designate each club district and its boundaries as i provided in these rules," &c. The , inference from this is that, consider ing the location of the voter's home with reference to the voting place, the county committee is to lay out the voting places with certain metes and bounds. THE COLUMBIA CONFER ENCE. It was noised about, as it were through a muffler, that a conference of Blease men, composed of one rep resentative from each county, would meet Monday night, in Columbia for the purpose?well for what purpose ? Some say for the purpose of boiling out the candidates for Governor, while others say that it is to outline the plan of campaign, and to make it plain that the Governor will have no particular candidate for Governor from amongst his supporters. Evidently the news editor of The State was not in the conference. Anxious readers have conned the col umns of that paper to learn who will be the Governor's lieutenant, inas much as there are several candidates anxious for the job; but the search for information is all in vain. It has been stated on pretty good authority that personally, Senator McLaurin stands very near the Gov ernor, but when they would reach an agreement there are other friends of the Governor who step in and say, No. Again, it is being said that Major John G. Richards has pretty strong backing for preference, but when he reaches for the flag, McLaurin's friends step in and demand that he march in ranks a while before je coming color-bearer. It is whispered that Solicitor Cooper while not exactly reaching for the colors is camping near by. Solicitor Timmerman, Irby, Sims and several others are well within the ranks, but they seem just now to be crowded away from the color staff. Who then will be the standard bearer ? If the Gove rnor has the po litical sagacity that we credit him ,v v ' r' " / iilhW'iirtidaMtffiiiiWi With he will maintain his original c stand to let candidates for other of- ? ficps take care of themselves. He ? will be getting on dangerous ground < if he begins to make selections from 1 amongst his own friends. But per- 1 haps "this is talking war to Hanni- < bal." 1 i Due West Commencement. Commencement at Due West is in pro- { gress today, having begun with a sermon to the graduating classes of the male and female colleges on Sunday, followed Mon day night by exercises in the literary so cieties. Tuesday, from time immemorial, has oa Kav'q Hqv whllA W?dnfi8 UCWi AUVITU no wvj 0 uw/ ) IIMMW ?? days have been set apart to the sweet girl graduates. It is so still; and the sec- ( ond day usually draws much the larger , crowd. On the present occasion Erskine, the male college, Is celebrating Its seventy fifth anniversary, and last evening, former ( graduates and old pupils from all over the ' Associate Reformed Synod, assembled at I a banquet, to renew old friendships and to j discuss the future needs and prospects of ] the college. , Erskine has in times past done a good ( work for education in Abbeville county ] and in the Associate Reformed Church. It 1 is the most Important'factor of the church 1 today, and the Synod should spare no 1 means to bring It up to the highest stand- < ard of efficiency and to the broadest field < of usefulness. i If the college is now confronted by any , danger more serious than another, it is , the fact that the church is scattered over J the entire South and church members liv a ? fKn nnllaffO llljj ub j^reut uisuuitxs uuu w?.v0v, feel little or no personal Interest in it. The duties and obligations of governing and providing for the college then falls, in large measure, on those immediately in and not far distant from Due West. Though this in a degree is unavoidable, the people of Due "West themselves should use their utmost endeavor to correct the tendency. The more the college tends to ward centralization within a narrow zone, the greater will be the burden of its friends within that zone, and the less will it be supported either in students or in friends by those without that zone. . Judge JR. ?. Hill Writes ol' Things Long Ago in Abbe vill County. (CONTINUED.) Having heretofore in these rerainis ences, had a good deal to say about certain men and women of peculiar characteristics, and of the country girl and their quilting bees, I shall now proceed to tell of some of the girl and young ladies of thiB town of Anti-Bellum times. Dr. McNeil Turner, taught a girl's school in the old academy building which stood just where the Catholic church now stands. His pupils were t made up chiefly of the girls and young ladies of the town. Those who remem- < ber Dr. Turner will recall that he i was quite a dignified man something 1 which I have always thought most ( becoming in a preacher. c On the occasion which I have in ( mind, it being the 1st day of April, the girls all assembled at the school house 1 ij. advance of the Dr. and some one t wrote on the black board, "April fool" i and then they all took their stand in s rear of the building and peeped r through the key hole and cracks to j see what would take place when the Doctor arrived. After placing his tall ] beaver or silk hat, the kind he always s wore, in its usual place, he discovered t the writing on the blackboard. Saying not a word he took a piece s of chalk and deliberately wrote on the < board?"thank you girls, for this hoi- c iday," and putting on his hat walked t out and proceeded toward his home t which was in the house on the corner > of South Main and Magazine streets? c now occupied by Mr. Harry Wilson and family. I When the girls saw this they, rush- I ed out from behind the school build ing and made chase after him like a c troop of wild comanches, which see- t ir.r the Dr hroke into a run which he a kept up until he reached home, with 1 the girls close on his heels?mind you e these were not a lot of small girls, a but were made up of grils from 12 to 18 years of age. 1 It was a most ludicrous sight and j one very much enjoyed by all who 1 witnessed it, not excepting the Dr. himself. One of those who took a con- 1 spicuous part in it is still living in t this town, in the person of Mrs. F. J. t Marshall. i So that, in all probability, the girls t nf nl-rf-v nr ni*tv-flvp vfiars aero sur- f passed the girls of the present day in nerve and fun making tendencies, as f I don't believe the girls of the senior e class of the High school in town could c muster up sufficient courage to chase a Prof. Cheatham through the Public t Square as these girls did Dr. Turner ?though if they did it would not like ly create much of a sensation as with t the present style of tangle-foot skirts, ( I Imagine that they couldn't make i much out at running, and therefore 5 the Professor would have no efars of c being overtaken. Rosa, the oldest daughter of Judge i Wardlaw, attended this school. She i afterwards married Col. Simpkins, of 1 Edgefield county, who was killed in t the Civil war. She was a very bright as well as a 1 very mischievous girl. t A girl the very opposite of her, had her seat next to Miss Wardlaw. On 1 one occasion Dr. Turner asked this i girl what use, if any, wa% made of the t lava thrown from the craters of vol- t |"> rfWnlifYTMi -itoWiiiiifrir anons? The girl hesitated somewhat o ind Miss Wardlaw hurriedly wrote on f i piece of paper, "used for curing sore r ;yes"?and the girl, in the most satis- t led manner, gave that as her answer, a tvhich caused the Dr., stern and digni- a *ied as he was, and the whole school,1 ] :o break out in uproarous laughter, j Long before the war, old Mr. Jim-(f nie Moore, who was a Methodist t preacher, organized a Sunday Scohol ;lass composed of little negro boys. A.t that time it was the fewest number j r jf negroes who were able to read, the t :act was the teaching of negroes to t read was rather discouraged than en tourage, and to teach a negro to write t ft-as positively against the law. I Of course none of these little ne- t groes In the old gentleman's Sunday t 3Chool were able to read, and he had Lo teach them altogether orally, and i lie did it in this way?he would give ^ them at one meeting, a number of t questions to be answered the next Sunday?and of course it was un- t '.voidable that the little fellows would l have to get some white person to tell ( hem the answers to these questions, t So on one occasion it happened that t \raong the questions given to the little ? ::egroes was, "who slew Able?" One i ,!w1? fnllnma met Rri TOn2fimore JL LUC illUC 0 jne of the two bad boys that shaved 1 )ld Dr. Branches' horse's tail, and he $ and Ed told the boy that it was old l and Ed told teh boy that it was old j Sam Cochran, an dof course the boy i believed it and he told the others. j Now it happened a short while be- c fore that an old negro man by 1 the name of Abel, who belonged to a i gentleman b ythe name of Abram i Lites, was hanged on the hill just this \ side of Dendy's bridge on Long Cane, < Cor killing his wife; the party officiat ing on that occasion being an old man s by the name of Sam Cochran, who was! t the Deputy Sheriff?the law then be- i Ing that a deputy sheriff could hang < a person, that duty not being restrict- 1 ?d to the Sheriff, as the law now is 1 or was, until the death by electrocu- ( tion was provided for. So that when old Mr.'Moore asked ] tlie question, "Who slew Abel?" they ( all of one accord, sang out "Old Sam j Cochran." I don't know certainly, but 1 [ think the old man gave it up as a ( hopeless job to teach little negroes, who didn't know their letters much i less read, the usual Sunday school J lessons. i Settling Personal Difficulties. t In the olden times men, as a gener- t ni tMn<r settled t-heir difficulties in a i urn blue. . ^ Finally- they clinched an<t Clink icales fell on top of Ben, at that the j( :rowd became greatly excited and losed in around the combatants so t hat I, Wng quite small, was unable 6 .0 see any more of the fight, but it vasn't long until I ehard Ben sing fc wit "pull him off boys." 1 Some how my sympathies were with 3en, I don't know why, as at that time, * didn't know either of the men. After the fight was over, the friends J if Ben took him down to the Gin Fac- ^ ory of Enright & Starr which stood i short distance below, to wash off, as g le was pretty badly soiled and bruis- g id up, it being an awfully hot day? md I followed behind the crowd. a I remember, as wc were going a- ( ong, to have heard Ben say, <UI tell ou boys I wasn't going to let that fel- t ow bite my nose off." g While it is a fact that Clinkscales p tad very large and prominent front a eeth. I have my doubts about his in- * ending to use them in the fight, but ^ ather suspect that Ben, having ?ot- * en enough of it, used that as a pre- ^ ext for criying "nuff." I recall another very interesting c ight which I witnessed when a boy ^ iftonriinir cphnnl nn tho "Rlno Hill " A which school James M. Calhoun vas principal. This fight was between wo little scrawny fellows well match id in size and grit. One was Charlie Dcndy, who is luitc an old man now, living in New Orleans and the other was Pat Tag ;art, brother of our fellow townsman, las. Taggart. I think he is long since lead. The fight occured in the flat which s just in rear of the power house, and vas at that time divided by a small jranch. It took place as we were re urning home from school. Speaking accurately there were two ights, and was declared a "draw" by ;ho referees. In the first engagement Charlie got :he better of the fight, but Pat was :ot astisfied and after we had crossed ;he branch he proposed to have it over ;o which Charlie agreed. In the sec \ iir iiaifi iirfii^Whfait nd engaggmSilt, afteP thsy h&d ought for a considerable time, and ieither o fthem seeming to be getting he better of it, my sympathies were .roused, and I proposed that we sep irate them, when Charlie said, "well tart ns," which we did. So we decided that it was a draw ight and made the two boys shake tands. I often wonder if school boys of the >resent day are as heartless and nean and disposed to impose upon hose smaller than themselves, as hey were when I was a small chap. , When I was about twelve years of ige I went to school to the Rev. A. A. klorse, father of Amos B. Morse of his place, walking from my home in he country. The school building stood right icross the road in front of where Mr. rVill Perrin now lives, which was lien in "the woods." The school house being too small c accommodate all the pupils, the arger boys were permitted to study )i stay out doors?they didn't do uuch studying?and in the winter ime they would build what they call id camp fires, around which they vould sit. The fire in the school room was tept up by the little fellows being sent out by Mr. Morse to gather up jrush or dead wood from the forest. : well remember on one occasion be ng sent out qn such a mission with mother little fellow, we stopped at >ne of these camp-fires to warm a ittle, before gathering up our turn of vood. Among the boys at the fire vhere we happened to stop was a boy >y the name of Bill Shillito, who was :onsiderably larger tahn I was. Bill asked me if I knew how to ;kin possums, and on my telling him hat I didn't, he picked up a brush ind raked it through the live coals, )ne of which lodged in my shoe and jefore I could get my shoe off, it had )urned my foot so badly that I was more humane manner than now. s In stead of shooting each other they e used only nature's weapons. t I remember, when a little fellow, i witnessing what was known as a reg- j ular ring fight. > ( It took place in a vacant lot in rear i jf the old Methodist church which was f replaced by the present brick build- i ng; the principals being the late Ben t Williams and a man by the name of Ulinkscales, brother of the late Albert i 21inkscales and uncle of Jas. P. Clink- r scales of the Monterey section. I r ::hnk his given name was Frank. 1 The Master of ceremonies on tne i iccasion was a young man by the t uime of Power?Wm. Power, who af- t ;erwards became a Methodist preach- r jr, and at one time was presiding el- r ier of the Cokesbury Circuit, if I mis- c :ake not. r After reaching the spot where the < Ight was to take place, a ring about en feet in diameter was marked off, >nd the witnesses were required to stand on the outer edge ofthis ring, rhe two men stripped to their waists, md soon began operations. They were both powerful men and ^ f remember that where they would itrike eac hother, the places would :rippled for a week afterwards. I resolved then if I ever met up with 3ill in the country, after I had be !ome a little larger, I would give him i good thrashing, but strange to say, )efore that time arrived we had be :ome the best of friends. It happened that about three years ifter that my father was elected Tudge of Probate, or ordinary as it vas then called, and we came to town ,o live, and our home was just across he street from where Bill lived, and ve being the only boys near the same size on that street, soon became con itant companions, and consequently he best of friends, so much so that ve once took a trip to Augusta to gether without the Consent or knowl edge of our respective parents, leav- . ng home about ten o'clock at night a oot. We stayed down there about six veeks engaged in various occupa ions. Having pretty well run aground we esolved, like the prodigal son, to eturn home. This we did?but as for ne it was with fear and trembling, as fully expected to get a genuine hrashing at the ahnds of my father, )ut to my great surprise and far greater relief, when I enierea me oom where he was sitting by the fire eading a newspaper, he merely turn id his head and looking at me in a| n'ost quizical manner, said, "what's iotton wort hin Augusta?" WEST END. Quite a number of our town people are iff for Due West today to attend the Com nencement. Mrs. L. M. Fouche is in town to visit her laughter, Mrs. J. F. Bradley. Miss Charlotte Brown is home from col cge for her vacation. Miss Esther Graydon is at home for he summer after spending nine months in chool at Brenau. MiRBPR Fannie and Mary Hill Harris lave gone to visit Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jarchant, of Greenville. MLss Katherine Link home again, af er spending quite a while in Athens, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Perrin and .Mrs. lary Perrin, spent the week-end in At anta with Mrs. Edward Schoen and Mrs. lallie Calhoun. Miss ^Frances Calhoun is home for the ummer, having spent the winter at Agnes icott College. Misses Sarah, Helen and Mary Haigler re off fer several weeks' visit to friends in xeorgia. Quite a number of our people have gone o attend the marriage of Mr. W. C. Mor gan to Mrs. W. T. McFall, which will take ilace June the 3rd. Among the number re Mr. W. E. Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Joe lughes. lessrs. Sidney and George Cannon are in he city visiting their mother, Mrs. B. W. lannon. Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Davis of Augusta ame through the country on last Satur ay in their aulomobile and spent Sunday nd Monday with Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Stark. The regular meeting of the Ladies i iridge Club was held with Mrs. W. S. iothran on Friday afternoon. There was large attendance and the tables were ar anged on the spacious piazza where it ras delightfully cool aud attractive, [uite a number of games were played af 2r which a tempting course of ice cream nd cake was served. larrH Stubborn, lichy Skin Troubled j "I could scratch myself to pieces" f 3 ofteo heard from sufferers of Ecze- - oa, Tetter, Itch and similar Skin ( eruptions. Don't Scratch?Stop the 1 tchiug at once with Dr. Hobson's Ec ema Ointment. Its first application ' tarts healing ; the Red, Rough, Scaly, 1 tching Skin is soothed by the Heal- < ng aDd Cooling Medicines. Mrs. C. 1 i. Einfeldt, Rock Island, 111., after ising Dr. Hobson's EczemaOintment, j vrites : "ThiB is the first time in nine j 'ears I have been free from the dread ul ailment." 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