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The Press and Banner. ABBEVILLE, S. C. Published Every Wednesday by The Press and Banner Co. WM. P. GREENE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, lsio. A FISHING PARTY. Accompanied by Captains Jack Bradley, Hugh Bradley, Oscar Hammond, Foster Barnwell, Raiford McMillan, Fred Minshall and Bill Greene, we went to Dyson, S. C., on Saturday last to do a day's fishing. We left Abbeville at eight o'clock in the morning and made the trip by way of Greenwood, Ninety-Six and Godsey in fine style. The roads are in good shape most of the way and it is a pleasure to drive over them. Along the road we received a great deal of information as to the country and the people who live in it from ? ' ?- -J Captain Hammona, wno is sumeuinig of an enclyclopaedia on roads, residences and people, and the country generally. We passed no farm-houses and few barns and outbuildings which did not have something of childish or other history connected with them, and it was all related to us in approved style. The fields along the roads had all been prepared with great care for the new crops, and here and there the cotton was peeping through the ground, and it presented an attractive appearance to us as we whirled along the roads. The small grain is looking pretty well too, but it is needing rain badly, and unless it gets it pretty soon, it will not do so well as it at one time promised. All along the road we met people going to Abbeville, Greenwood and Ninety-Six. Some traveled in automobiles, some in Fords, some in buggies drawn by fine horses, and some in wagons drawn by the faithful mules from the farms. We were +Viof it was the end of the rciuuiucu ?uuv ? ..? month, and being the last Saturday in the month, ration day was at hand, which meant an outing for the workers of the fields and a busy day for the merchants in the towns who sell the rations. We arrived at Dyson a little after! ten o'clock. Raiford's father was there dressed in his Dyson suit, waiting to greet us, and on the front piazza of Schumpert's store the statesmen residing in the vicinity of Dyson were seated discussing the war, politics and the state of the country. When we unloaded the ??- i?<toV<r arorriors with us, an old BCVCI1 uuonj gentleman said to us that if Carranza could see these boys he would listen to the United States. He had been reading a Columbia State, which he loaned to us for the purpose of getting an outline of the morning's news. He informed us that the people in that section keep up with the country by reading the State and the Anderson Tribune, (pronounced with a long "i".) We felt no doubt that they were well informed, and we hesitated to ask whether they had ever heard of the Press and Banner. The City of Dyson. Dyson is the largest town on the Southern Railway between Godsey and Chappells. It has about ninetoon whitA inhabitants and perhaps a few more colored ones when the brick season is on. The place has three stores, on? run by "Shump", one by Mr. Vaughn, the other one we discovered as we were leaving for home, and therefore, we did not learn the name of the proprietor. In addition to these stores, it has the McMillan Commissary, which had by actual count, nine pairs of shoes, eleven cans of tomatoes, twenty-two cans of "simons", and a proper proportion of sardines, tobacco, ten sacks flour, eight pairs of overalls, a little sugar, lard, and other ingredients and a broken sack of salt. It is presided over by Col. J. L. McMillan, sometimes called Jim in Abbeville. The commissary is located in a joint store and residence. The residence portion consists of the kitchen, a dining-room and two bed-rooms, and "Nancy," a black Due West ne' gro, is the cook and housekeeper, and she knows her business. % The Brick Yard. Soon after looking over the city, we were invited by Col. McMillan to inspect his brick-yard. Now, it is the Dyson Brick Company, (which is the Colonel's middle name), which has placed Dyson, S. C., on the map. We had not been in a brick-yard since we ware a hrtv and went to one in Due West run by Capt. H. M. Johnson, where the bricks were molded in forms and turned out to dry. The brick business then looked to us very much like hard work. But it is so no longer. Having attended Kerr's Set-back School, on Greenville Street and learned that there is science in all things, (except Kerr himself) Col. McMillan made up his mind to make the brick business a scientific occu?^ j pation, or calling, and .eliminate i everything smacking of work in it. c And he has done so. Down in the bottom land, where the clay comes from, there is an up-right steam en- * gine, which operates a cable, running * through pulleys on a post a hundred * yards away. Attached to this cable * is a scoop which is managed by one * neero man. It picks up the clay, 1 and is drawn by the cable to an overhead dump near the engine. Here it turns over, emptying its load into a small car, operated by another cable, and which is drawn thereby up an inclined track to the clay mill. There it dumps its load into the mill, and returns to receive the next load from the scoop, and so it works for the entire day with the precision of clock-work, feeding the greedy mill. The mill itself is operated by a mixer, who knows how to mix the I clay with the necessary amount of water, and to turn it out ready to be made into brick. Now instead of the molds as formerly, the clay comes out in a constant stream, the thick- I nerg and width of a brick, and is i carried along on an endless belt ar- t nngement to a wheel with wire cut- 1 ters. Th& cutter-wheel is about two t feet in diameter, and is made of two 1 metal plates about two feet in dia- s meter, with a space between them < the thickness of a brick. The stream i of dirt runs between these two cir- j cular places, and is cut into bricks of 1 1 - - - ? ? - <* ft the required lengtn oy means 01 = steel wires which are fastened between the two at the proper intervals of space. The whole thing is a revelation to a man who has not seen it work. The brick are loaded as they are cut, onto a push cart with two sets of wheels, setting at right angles to each other. By the one set, the cart when loaded is pushed along tracks until it reaches the air drying sheds. It is then pushed on the other wheels and passed to the proper place on other tracks where the bricks are unloaded and placed for drying in the air. There they remain for six days, and sometimes seven, until they are in proper shape to be put into a kiln, j At the end of that time they are placed in the kiln, which is covered | with old bricks and cement and made, almost air tight, except that there are openings at the bottom reaching across the entire kiln in which fires are built for burning the brick. In order that heat may reach all parts of the kiln, of course the air-dried bricks must be laid with openings between so that the heat may reach all - * ? wn u:i^ ;? parts 01 tne Kim. wnen me mm to completed it Holds from a quarter of! a million to a million bricks, and it ' must* be burned for several days in 1 order to make the bricks of the pro- 1 per hardness. It then cools off grad- { ually, and when cooled, the outside * covering is taken off and shipments begin. Several cars a day may be shipped, and we were informed that there was demand-for all that could be made and more. 11 The boys were mostly interested however, in the little railroad carry- , ing the dirt, and all of them wanted ^ to ride on it, but we were afraid to ( let delicate boys like Jack and Hugh , Bradley and son Bill try it for fear that we might be called on to take them home in more than one piece. Getting Down to Fishing. ( By the time we had finished in- j 1 specting Dyson's great industry the s boys had arrived at the conclusion ??? +-s*ino cm fisWnfi'. and we r | Uiai 11 Woo buuv w &v 0, went, but we could not get a bite. j Evidently the fish had had one of ^ their men out watching and when he j [saw us and our companions he de- t | cided that it was Ike Walton, himself, ( and some of his boys, and the fishes all ran off and hid somewhere in the j creek, which could not be located, j j We fished for three hours and were ( (lucky enough to keep our bait un- A ovpent. hv the running wa- 7 i IHVl^OWVVt vnvwr* _ ter. By that time we were in a j humor to do some eating, not to dis- ^ cuss the subject of "cussing." We | went to the headquarters, washed ^ up and began to get good hungry, j and ready for action, when one of A the "Supers" came by and said he) had a basket in the creek and that * we would go over and get some fishes * out for the boys. For the sake of the * boys we went along, and after walk- " ling a mile, we found that the fish " had not found the basket, so we ? .marched down the hill again. < When AH the World is Happy. * j But when we got back Nancy had a things right. The big fat hen was " baked to perfection and the stuffing * and outside dressing was also right. . The biscuits were right, and so was ' I thp noffee. and the baker's bread, | and the sliced tomatoes and the "thickened" gravy, and we were right. We were invited by Col. Mc- 1 Millan to help serve the seven boys, which we did to the best of our ability, but we could never get them all served at once, and we saw the chicken disappearing, and the stuffing, and the gravy, and the tomatoes and everything else, and it looked as if we would never strike bottom. We finally did though, and then Jim and I enjoyed ourselves to the fullest. It s worth taking a day off to enjoy a *1 linner like that. E The Greenwood Way. When we had finished and were ibout to leave the Tiouse for an af-1 ;ernoon with the boys, we handed to "fancy a small token of our apprecia;ion of the good dinner which she lad just served. She thanked us, ind asked Col. McMillan of we were lot from Abbeville. The colonel in"ormed her that we had that honor, thereupon she remarked that she ;hougnt so, because uie ADDeviiie s 'mens" always "gives" her some- t ;hing, but seventeen or eighteen men E :rom Greenwood had been down j[ ;here and not one had ever given her J tnything except Mr. McMillan's bro- ;her, (who by the way is also from . Abbeville.) We advised her that ;he Greenwood people were very for- ? jetful and to remind them next time ? ;hat they were about to forget some- g ;hing, which she will no doubt do. i j More Fishing and Fun. * In the afternoon, a batteau was I irovided for the boys and after tak- E ng several rides oh the ponds under J ;he guidance of Col. McMillan, the ? )oys decided to take another try at a ;he fishing business, and we did too, Z >ut we still got no bite, and we J twore off. About that time some- I >ne of the boys discovered'some fish ? n a shallow pond and in they all | umped to catch them with their g lands. The bottom of the pond was > iomewhat soft and the next thing we [new, all of them were waist deep in I vater and mud, together, pushing E ! ind shoving in an effort to catch the J ishes which by this time had been jj i 'orced to come to the top on account p | ?f the muddy water. They gather- | id in about forty-five small fishes in J his way. They then undressed I tnd stormed another pond but with- ? >ut success, and after shivering ? tround for about a half hour they p :ame out and dressed for home. The >oys all gave Bill their fishes after Bill had asked us if he might not in- 1 rite them over for supper to eat the | ishes, all of which was agreed on in | >roper detail. jg And thus we spent a day full of f jleasure and enjoyment to us and to I ;he boys, and without any unpleas- J intness whatever except a small al- J ;ercation between Captains Jack m Bradley and Foster Barnwell over a \ :ertain fish-hook, which was supposed .o have some further charms for the I ishes than the other hooks just like | t, all of which was finally settled O imicably to all parties after the boys : ? lad gotten the proper amount of! nud on them in the mud-hole. Fro^n all of which we advise everysody wishing to have a good time for i day not to await Jim's second in-' station to spend a day in Dyson, S. j 0., but to avail themselves of the irst one received. . GROUND FOR HOPE. While we are not supporting Govjrnor Manning, we are glad that he is not as a man without hope. The I anterrified democrats of Mayesville, I 3. C., have endorsed him for re-elec;ion. THE CONTEST AT GREENWOOD" Speaking of the oratorical contest it Greenwood between the colleges )f the state, the Associate Reformed Presbyterian has the following to ;ay: I "Erskine lost out at Greenwood ' L he fates were against ner. ivir.: Tames Bonner did well in the speak-I ng, and was a credit to the college >ut failed to catch the attention of, ;he judges, some of them being ratehr >ld, probably did not hear so well!" We knew that old man Milledge, Uonham, and old man ' John Gary j Svans, and old preached Dement, and i >ld man Jim Park were too far advanced in years to appreciate the Due West brand of oratory, but we lad not been informed that they vere1 losing their "hearin." Due Westers were once supposed ;o be slow and deliberate in all things >ut they now call themselves "the TliU VHMi ? ********** * NOTICE. * ' Write me and I will explain * ' how I was cured in 4 days of * ' a severe case of Piles of 40 * ' years standing, without pain, * ' knife, or detention from busi- * 1 ness. No one need suffer * 1 from this disease when this * ' humane cure can be had right * ' here in South Carolina. * 1 R. M. JOSEY, Lamar, S. C. * Route 4. * ? * - * * * * * * ' =_ . (?^fp Mh. ms\ I y 1-^ W^L a ^ SCHIXJ'S r.P.OS. 4 CO. Tim Cloditt MaJoi* Biltimoro N?* Yc.rk One, two and three 1 with wide or peak lape brown, gray or blue mi 1 nels, and the ne wgray plain blue serges. In i ] are hlaf and full moha | all men and young mer g prices from $10 to $25 j FULL LINES ! Park *. THE ~?. FASHIOMffftQOl ILLUSTRATING PTCTOaMmiJWijy^THR I 1 _ 11 i i.l .i L j wno aitraci me must i J No other patterns a THE Wide, short, volum: feet, overskirts, of bil ries, Doublets and Jui Bodices, som ewith b and coats, jaunty Sp< 1830 Yokes, Breton I lars and Sleeves than Yo The F Once you have triec use any other kind. Mrs. Ja "The Store of Stj ?I?I?? High Class HEADQUARTE FOR SMART WEAR AMD' You'll find here tl : Spring Clothes-Mode signs, the latest fabric We make a specialty < take a pride in having tailors in the landstyle-makers as Schlc : the Styleplus people, their choicest to thi ssl nothing finer, better 1< lish if you personally to select it. Come i nj these beautiful Sprin; button English and C< Is, patch or plain pockets ixtures, blue mixtures, bl r, blue and black pin st] worsteds, cheviots and h< iir lined and beautifully 1 i-regulars, stouts and slii OF SMART FURNISHI er & R iRfafyHHayHHsmiH ; ? n tKp ss ! Longing Every woman kno\ and strives for it?-tl of admiration, the bute to superior style turn for a second gb In all assemblages whose costumes are: ?J Pictorial Revii lattering and admiring c< re so chic?so distinctive LATEST PARIS NOVE inous Skirts, some with lowy fulness, wing and ] npers, Drooping Should ack fastening, "Cabby" )rts Coats with novel pc ^pron Effects, an dmore space permits the telling u will see all these in_ ASHION BOOK for SUJ 1 Pictorial Review Patter JUNE PATTERNS now on slae at . is. S. Ci ?le and Quality" A > Prin ting KREfiyyaytefi^ m rs ||1 SPDIHfi !ifl VI IIIIIW FORMED jjl YOUNG MEN |j 1 1 i M le best of the new j j ils, the newest de- [ ] :s, the finest makes. 1J Df these thing's, and j j * them. The finest [1 ,'f -such" well-known I j ^ >88 Bros. & Co. and ! j have contributed ; I bock. You could get IJ.. ookiner or more stv- ! i went to New York S ? and let us show you K g Suits. -Si i Dnservative models | ] ;. A wide range of i j ue and brown flan- [ I :ipes, checks and IJ | omespuns. Coats j | 5 ;ailored. Siestofit jl ms. All grades and 11 NGS, TOO. . [| eese jj jzrajaiHranuajgizyaiHfS ' ' ' I ;cond r Look v& what it means, lat unerring sign unconscious tris, that makes you ince. i ; it the women made from ew Patterns omment. in style. :lties distended hip efFragonard drapeers, Close-fitting Capes on blouses ckets and belts, novelties in Col? of. MMFR ns you will never ndiran bbeville, S. 0. THE PRESS AND BANNER Telephone No. 10.