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., . / J _ . , ; :! ' ' ' y ; _ ,/ ?' : v.- 1 Abbeville Press and Banner A year. " ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21. 1915. , estabushe^ ' v : t - i t ^ # I1 BUILDERS OF ERSKINE COLLEGE \ (Rev. J. S. Moffatt, D. D.) Robert Nixon Hemphill was a son of the Rev. John Hemphill, D. D. Rev. ^ohn Hemphill was born in County Derry, Ireland, and came to this country in 1783. He had learned the trade of a tailor. After coming to America he determined to acquire a classical education. He worked at his trade, and clerked in I a store in Philadelphia, until Dy economy he saved enough money to start upon his educational course. He graduated from Dickinson College, Pa. He felt called to the ministry and studied theology under Rev. Mr. Lynn. He became pastor of Hopewell congregation in Chester, S. C., which charge included Union and New Hope congregations. He served this charge until his v death in 183? and in the graveyard of old Hopewell his grave may be seen until this day. Dr. Hemphill was first married to Miss Lynn, the daughter of his theological preceptor. His second mar? riage was to Mrs. Mary Hemphill, the widow of Dr. Andrew Hemphill. Her maiden name was, Mary Nixc/n. One of the children of the second . marriage was Robert Nixon, who * trarf' hnm TVfV 1 fit.h. 1816. * . He did not avail himself of a college education. He was the pupil ^ of Master McClerkin, a great teacher in his day. Under his tutelage Mr. Hemphill received a good Env glish education. The home of culture in which he was reared also contributed much in an educational way. He went into the store of William Moffatt in early manhood and received good training in the business of merchandising. I do not know whether he ever engaged in merchandising oij his own account During my>knowledge of him he was r engaged in farming. He had an attractive and hospitable home and a large farm near Hopewell church. He was a successful farmer and ac cumulated a considerable estate. He was fond of reading and was I -well versetj in the works of standard literature as well as in current liter- . ature. He was a man of high honor and of striclf integrity. His recognized f uprightness and his breadth of in* formation made him a man of markted influence in his community. He was a member and liberal supporter of the congregation of which his father had been pastor for so many years. Mr. Hemphill never married. A faithful old colored woman and her husband lived in the yard, looked after the home and ministered to his needs. The old colored people who had served him were devotedly attached to him. I have heard an interesting story about one of his slaves from whom Sherman's soldiers tried to wrings information concerning hidden treasure. But no amount of torture could prevail upon him .-to be unfaithful to the interests of W his old master. Nothing could more powerfully testify to the kindness and love of heart which wrought in his servants such loyalty. Mr. Hemphill was of a very jovial disposition and could see the humorous side of a situation. He was a fine judge of men and delighted in a jocular way to take off their peculiarities, faults and foibles. To some he seemed brusque. To one who owed'him a debt and was protesting % that he would pay the debt even if he had to dig it out of the ground, Mr. Hemphill replied, "Yes, when you dig it put of the ground I suspect I will be under the ground." He stood loyally by his pastor. More than once I have heard him speak in the most appreciative way ^\ of his old pastors, Messrs. Brice and Flenniken, and of his then pastor, Rev. J. A. White. He had a high estimate of the place and work of Erskine College. He realized that it was fundamental to the maintenance of the church, i LETTER FROM ; TAMPICO, MEXICO (Written by Rev. N. E. Pressly. D. D., to The A. R. Presbyterian.) I saw a caricature a few days age in one of the newspapers that slipped by the censors, which pictures to my view the conditions we are now passing. The scene is drawn on a broken, stony surface, not a sprig of grass, not a bush, not a tree, \ barrenness in all its sombre solitude. On the horizon can be seen i angry clouds that impressed the idea of a destructive tempest. On the left FIELD DAY MEET A BiniffiSS THE PEOPLE OF ABBEVILLE ENJOY A DAY WITH THE TEACHERS AND PUPILS. ?THE WINNERS. The Field Day and Field Day Exercises held in Abbeville last Friday were a success in every way. The weather was ideal and an unprecedented crowd was in town for the occasion. The old^r people in town say they have never before seen so large a crowd /)n our streets. Many of the teachers and the contestants for the medals in declamation, came to Abbeville Thursday afternoon and preliminary contests were held, both at the High School and at the dburt House Thursday night. There were eighty contestants for the medals. The preliminary contest narrowed it down to twenty. Friday morning the big day began with the class room contests at the Graded School. Many bright and interested little children, with anxious teachers and parents, were on lian/1 tn tal-o noi*t in thp rearlin?. spelling, arithmetic, drawing, and so on. When the contests were ovc;' the awards were m^de as follows: READING. 4th and 5th grades?Janie Vance Bowie, Abbeville. 6th and 7t*h grades?Edna Bradley-r-Abbeville. High School?Althea Keaton, Antreville. SPELLING. 4th and 5th grades?Myra Williams, Antreville. yr 6th and 7th grades?Leslie Knox, Antreville. High School?Elma Dunn, Donalds. , MAP DRAWING. 4th and 5th grades?James Bailey, Abbeville. 6th and 7th grades?Mary Hemphill Greene, Abbeville. ARITHMETIC. 4th and 5th grades?Ernest Black, Donalds. , 6th and 7th grades?Neal Connor, McCormick. * ' ? After the contests were over the big parade, the crowning feature of the day, was formed at the Graded School. Each school carried one or more banners, and as they came down the street they made a moving -.p --i? 1 mass ui coiur anu ^uutmui innocence and loveliness. Abbeville's float could not be entered for the prizes, but it led, the line and was followed by five hundred handsome children. The float was an automobile, beautifully decorated in yellow chrysanthemums, with five pretty girls dressed in white, in the car, shading their faces with yellow parasols. Riding in the car were,' Misses Mary Graydon, Margaret Cox, Ruth Howie, Mildred Cochran, and Percy Leach, while Miss Margaret Perrin drove the car. Mt. Carmel had the prize wincontinued on Page Six.) essential to the progress and prosperity of the church, and an essential factor in the uplift of society. Before his death he provided that G* A f\(\f\ A A Uifi 4-A eU am1/1 /VA 4*/\ pijuvu.uu ui 1110 coiatc; onvuiu gu iv Erskine College. Having lived a long and useful life he departed these earthly scenes Jan. 27, 1891. As long as old Hopewell A. R. P. church remains, as long as Erskine ol'Avt/lr +a /I i c a V?1 occin rrc? vuiic^c olanuo i<v ui?>}/wiiijv to aspiring youth, the name of Robert Nixon Hemphill will not be forgotten.?A. R. Presbyterian. Robert Nixon Hemphill was a half brother of Dr. Wm. Ramsey Hemphill, formerly pastor at Long Cane and Cedar Springs, and at one time a professor in Erskine College, and an uncle of the half-blood of the late Gen. Robt. R. Hemphill, of Abbeville, and of Maj. J. C. Hemphill, formerly of the News and Courier, but now the head of the Washington News Bureau of The Philadelphia Ledger. of the scene stood a powerful, portly man, well dressed, well fed, -with leather leggins to the knees, dollar marks on his white vest and covered with a silk hat, displaying the sobriquet "Wealth." On the right was a burly giant, of herculean, muscular power, twice the size of the one described, poorly clad, small head, without hat or shoes, and showing a savage, gorilla like face. He was girded with a belt that bore the sobriquet "Ignorance." Between these two characters, one hundred or more feet apart, stood the figure of a delicate woman neatly and modestly attired, and on her skirts was written "Humanity." Around her neck was a huge rope that made one turn and the ends were being pulled by "Wealth" and "Ignorance."' She is the picture of intense agony; but she stood erect, as if she would not fall until the head was crushed from the trunk. Such a picture is Mexico, more real than ideal. The angry, black, electrically charged, war cloud has hung over this country for about four years, and it has widened and grown more destructive. Poor Mexico! Every phase of society has felt the cruel, the terrible consequences. Churches have been closed, schools suspended; homes have been abandoned, pillaged., ldoted, destroyed? nffires are deserted: business is stagnant; railroads and equipages are like the wreck of a head-on collision; mills and factories are silent; brother reaches for the, death grip of'brother; widows and orphans are daily multiplied; men have no heart to work, if there was work, no incentive to plant and sow for their products are taken from them, and destroyed; fiat money is emitted one month to be declared illegal the next, and eyes look from sad faces, many are expressionless, hope has died. Wane, misery and death stalk over the land. Added to the trouble heaped upon trouble a famine threatens. Every few days some tons of flour and corn are shipped in and it is. pitiful to see the hundreds of men, wom^n and children, that gather at the closed bakeries and stands for corn, begging for bread, earnestly pleading to sell them a little cor:a. Only two or three small loaves of bread, according to size, one dollar's worth, will oe sold to one person; only two liters of corn, a little more than two quarts, ranging in price from thirtyfive to fifty cents a litre, will be sold to one individual. The leaders of this terrible devastating and cruel revolution in some way manage to get money, to buy arms and ammunition; but none to provide provisions to appease hunger. Money and capricious ignorance are crushing the vitals of the suffering nation. What proportion of the suffering does the manufacturer of arms and ammunition bear in the strife now going on around us? What responsibility has a nation peacefully watching the exportation of the death dealing instruments of war? Has the wounded and left for dead, no neighbor? The battle that will decide the capture of Tampico or its retention by the Constitucionalista forces is being stubbornly fought now just thirty-five miles distant, and the battle for Monterrey is also on. Every one is anxious and there is unrest. DR. FRED WW I HEAD OF MUM , FOLLOWING WITHDRAWING OF DR. SARGENT BY GOVER, . NOR, COLUMBIA PHYSICIAN NAMED. i (The Columbia Record.) Following hii revocation Tuesday night ">f the appointment of Dr. George F Sargent, of Baltimore, Md. ' as head of the State Hospital for the Insane, Wednesday morning Governor Richard I. Manning appointed Dr. C. Fred. Williams superintendent of the' institution to succeed Dr. J. T. Strait, the encumbent. After resigning from the board of regents, Dr. Williams immediately accepted the appointment. Christie Benqt, a promjnenlt attorney of Columbia, succeeds Dr. Williams on the board r . . ti i . .1 or repent*. i ms aaie tne appointment become? effective will be announce J in a few days. The appropriation bill provides an annual salary of $3,(000 'for the superintendent for the State Hospital for the Insane. In a statement relative to the appointment of Dr. Williams, Governor Manning says that he "allows a salary of $6,000" to the new superintendent. The chief executive stands pisrsonally responsible for the increase, standing security for it. Ee says that he will "report the matter next year to the ' legislature, to relburse me if it ' "L^i. T 1. J ft rni _ agrees 111 wuat i nave uuiie. ine , increased salary, h<*w rver, does riot allow a free, houf.e nor other perquisites, as is provided with the lower salary. Dr. Williams is one of the best known physicians in the state. He is 39 years of ago and was born and reared in York county. He was graduated from the University of Mary-land in 1899, anc. cast his fortunes with his native State. For four years ?1907 to 1911?he was secretary 7 of the State board of health. He resigned to re$uir e active practice in the city of Columbia. When asked for a statement Dr. Williams .said that he would give his best efforts, his energy and ability to make the State Hospital for the Insane one of the leading institutions for the treatment of insanity in the country. Some time ago Governor Manning announced that he would appoint Dr George F. Sargent, of Baltimore, Md., as head of the State Hospital for the Insane. After the announce-,, ment it was brought out in an exclusive article in the Columbia Record that there was a constitutional prohibition against the appointment or election of any but a qualified elector to office in this State. Tuesday night the chief executive gave out a statement in which he said that the constitutional limitations to his original aDnointment were notent. and w * ^ r " ' tr - - ' he withdrew the name of Dr. Sargent. Relative to the appointment of Dr. C. Fred Williams ?.s superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane, Governor Manning gave out the following statement: "Following the revocation of the appointment of Dr. George F. Sargent, of Baltimore, as superintendent of the, State Hospital for the Insane, because^it was found that he was barred by provisions of the constitution, I have appointed Dr. C. Fred Williams, of Columbia, as superintendent. "Dr. W:illiams has resigned as regent of this institution, and I have ni?n i. ? ? ajjjjuinceu ivir. i^nruiuv joeiiei as regent in hi:s stead. "The salary provided for in the appropriation bill is $3,000, and the superintendent is given a house with water and lights and other perquisites. I have found it necessary, in order to get the trained, skilled physician I was seeking for the position to allow, a salary of $6,000, but without the residence and without any perquisites. In addition to the salary pro'rided for in the appropriation bill, I will personally borrow monthly the balance of LEO M. FRANK MUST HANG Unless the Governor of the State of Georgia Shall Intervene and Par' / V don Him Or Commute His Sentence. By an opinion delivered by the Supreme Court of the United States on Mondajf, Leo Frank loses his last chance in the courts, and'must now pay the penalty of death for killing little Mary Phagan, :n the National Pencil Factory, in Atlanta, irato years ago, the twenty-sixth of this month, unless the Governor of Georgia shall pardon him, or commute his sentence nothing now stands between him and execution at the hands of the law. ( The decision of the court was read by Justice Pitney and concurred in by all the other justices ercept Justices Hughes and Holmes. Mary Phagan was employed at the National Pencil Factory of which Frank was superintendent. It was a Southern holiday. Mary had not been at the factory on the day before-to receive her pay envelop; but she had sent for it by a girl friend. Frank refused to give the envelop to the friend, making it necessary for Mary to visit the factory on the following day to receive her pay. Ahnnf. -f-arAlvp n'plnr?lr nn t.Vinf Hnv the sixteen year old girl went up to Frank's office for her pay. Nothing more was heard of her until her lifeTess body was found in the cellar of the factory, on the following morning by a negro employee. Frank was arrested dn suspicion a few days later. Since that day he has been confined in the Fulton county jail awaiting the determina-l tion of the court upon the question of his guilt or innocence. No means have been spared to save the life of the accused. Large sums o? money haveJ>een raised in Vl?C koVlal-f on/^ fVio Vioof /fkrrol falant ?**? WViiMIX UilU M1V l/Ultlll/ that the country accords has been employed in his defense. He was tried and convicted In the Superior Court of the State of Georgia, and his case has been twice before the Supreme Court of that State. Every known means has been employed to establish his innocence, but the verdict of the jury has stood. (Continued on Page Two.) Belts Cauce Appendicitis. (Greenwood Journal.) Rochester, Minn., April 14.?Appendicitis has increased from 300 to 400 per cent, because of the increased use of belts instead of suspenders, according to Dr. W. J. Mayo, world famous surgeon, who has been called to wait on the royalty of Europe. Minneapolis sur geons, however, differ from this statement, alleging that the increase of appendicitis cannot be attributed to any cause ar|d that the only possible specific cause of appendicitis could be a heavy blow in the region of the vermiform appendix. A kick from a horse would demonstrate this, they say. Due Weil's Part, r The Graded School at Due West took much interest in the Field Day and School Fair last Friday and the city of colleges and culture was well represented in the affairs that went to make the Fair a success. Prof. J. L. Grier, Mr. Hunter Blakely and Miss Mary Kennedy, Due .West's competent corps of teachers, were in trie city ana naa witn tnem one nundred and fifteen children, and a handsome float in the big parade. This is the first year the Due Westers have taken part in the School fair and our people were delighted to have thenfi. the salary, standing security for the same and will report the matter next year to the legislature, to, reimburse me if it agrees in what I have done. "The date which Dr. Williams will assume the duties of superintendent will be announced in a few days." 1 / General News } ' ? . ' 'V H % King George of England*, axaflT'I Lord Kitchener have abandonedl Ae | use of any wines or liquors on tfeali. , table, but the English Govenuxaortt ; had half a million gallons of nnmfe>< be issued to the soldiers in thetnans? ches, as a part of their rations, for the training camps the same rations? ' of whiskey is being issued to tfiesnocruits. Drunkenness among: w?men is noticeably on the increase in England since the war. LaneE? ness and the heavy responsibiSSESr of the support of the family 'kfiSfe the men are in the army, is givem , the reason for this. ' < ' \ Mayor Blankenburg today sigpaoi fVio resnlntiftn nacqpH hw fW<?< council yesterday authorizing ram? val of the'Liberty bell to the Parema-Pacific exposition. The wfir probably will leav? here on a. sprrirfi. train July 4, accompanied1 657 24fk councilmen and other PhiladefpSiae. citizens. The bell will be c&monE' on a flat car so the people en ranfiemay have an unobstructed viewr??afc? Mrs. John D. RockefeHer left: axse estate of about two million dollars^. . and in her will just filed, she IeBrass the most of this money to charitaSkt institutions. Elach of her tibmetchildren are left one hundred! t&iaiM and. Spelman Seminary of AtSam? ta, Ga., is the only Southern instflto.? tion remembered. 1 mayor Kooerts 01 ierre JtLanre:, and thirteen others, who were enavicted recently of fraud in contrarytion with the election in that and who was sentenced to six yoaas in the Federal prison, will makes fife- > trip to Leavenworth, Kan., in a. cial car. ' / Jeff Beacham, a painter, ,, years old, committed suicide iat. ) . Greenwood on the 17th. His TKBfe was away from home on a visit; HepFlorida. He used a shotguns axscL pulled the trigger with a stick-. S. H. Hardwick, for mapy yacGS traffic passenger manager ofT feSouthern road, has retired _?e jhe? count of ill health and will mak?Sis home in Montgomery. W~ H_ X&5T? loe succeeds him., Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has hoanr i . operated on at the Roosevelt IkHgoital in J/ew York and is reported? ifc> be doing well. The natures of tfisst operation was not announced!. The proposed Dixie Higlisnasr should be of great interest to. t&e people of the South. This road" *sz2J \ be similar to the Lincoln HighAEaryv and will lead from Chicago to. 3??ami, Florida. A whole family of f|ve sons ofT tt. farmer in Orangeburg county- fcKve: been stricken with cerebro , spicsal meningitis. Three have died aaari.: iwu are nuvv ucapciaicij oiwxv. . 1 Sumter is soon to build a mortem ly appointed school in that cfty acskJ various improvements on the -oki building have been ordered, ^.fcasct $50,000 will be spent. Lander College is soon to i'nKZ&XI a handsome pipe organ. * A Distinguished Visitor.. Mrs. Adelaide Craft was one* <a?r the competent judges of the exhlEate at the School fair last Friday.. SCek. Craft came down from Due West farthe occasion. She was a Miss SEkgill and attended the College' iirnWomen some years ago. Since: fiaar marriage to Mr. Craft, she has (i-as-i making her home in Mexico, bin. wt? account of the unsettled condiuVgr: i of the country, she is in the Siar.?c and is in Due West making- iasr friend, Mrs. James Boyce, a Mrs. Craft thinks that Mr,. WOisn-i has certainly followed the Blbiiia? injunction to turn the other i&Eefc for a slap, in fact she thinks tharLfie: has turned both cheeks, sevesEttj^times seven, and that once- nais ; enough. Mrs. Craft is a bright and nitsxzr tive woman and it was a pleasure? acr. have her come down for our big;