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FORMER NEGRO STATE SENATOR TELLS ABOUT DAYS OF 1876 How Wade Hampton reemed the State and carpetbagging days in South Carolina formed the topic of a rare interview with Greene Coleman of Charlotte yesterday when the aged . negro, once a State senator, wearing a nigh beaver hat and Prince Albert coat, was in the seventh zenith of negro heaven in the halls of the old South Carolina State house at Columbia. "Them was days when de nigger was in his glory fo sure," remarked Coleman, as he related with a relish, recollections of 1875, and '76 when the carpetbaggers and the niggers held the State of South Carolina at I their mercy; when the corridors of the State house at Columbia reeked with drunken, statesmen, when thou1 sands of dollars worth of liquors and > cordials and choice cigars were kept constantly on tap at the State house for the hundred or more nigger sen' ators and 'statesmen' and their carpetbagging friends, who conducted a reign of terror second only to the days of the Roman upheaval. The skies were overcast with dark ominous clouds of social and political } unrest back there in '75 and '76 when Wade Hampon stepped in and redeemed the fair name of the Palmetto State, with the co-operation of nai tive whites and the since-famous 'red shirts" whose loyalty and devotion to their intrepid lader and inborn courage within their blood-red shirts turned out every negro from a statesman's berth, stopped the looting of the State treasury, bridled graft and bribes and again made v South Carolina righteous and unashamed. And Greene Coleman, then a resident of Chester, S. C., and a typical negro of his day and time in intelligence and moral stamina, was elect ed to office by his henchmen and nigger votes, to represent Chester in - the State legislature. The old ne- , gro tells about it with rare frankness. He described in his own inimitable way how the niggers and carpetbaggers ran rampant with the people's ! m'ogey and with their voting power, < appropriations for anything under , the sun being as readily obtained as < a match with which to light 20 cent ' cigar purchased at the expense of ^ . the commonwealth. There were maybe, he says, 150 niggers in the halls of the State legislature back there I in '75 and '76, and every one of < them felt that it was a wonderful < time for the black race. And they j made every minute of it count be* 3 cause deep in their hearts they knew a day of reckoning would come, and when it did?they realized the negro ( would be no more in the exalted pla tw aw xuuciy uuurpeu Dy me power ' of men who stripped the State of i all it held dear and sold themselves < \l- to the highest bidders. ] Votes were sold openly and with- , out shame, ten, twenty, thirty at a . / time some for as high as a hundred j dollars and others as low as five and ! ten dollars, according to the amount 1 of graft the niggers had been told ' were available. Greene Coleman admitted without a touch of shame or remorse, that the highest price h$ j ever obtained for his vote in the 1 South Carolint State house was $100 in United States currency, and it was a "heap sight of money" to a nigger brought up on a plantation in those days. Then the former Chester negro told of the silent, mysterious, aweinspiring activities of the Ku-Klux Klan, and the terrible way in which one after another negro senator and lawmakers of the day before, disappeared as if the earth had opened and swallowed them, until th6 fear of the wraht of God or some-unseen, v unknown force turned craven the v nigger heart and his little stock of courage oozed through his skin, until it left him weak, hollow eyed and shivering on the threshold of frantic ucouaiL. j "We took our meals with the white t carpetbaggers at the hotel near the \ State house in Columbia an& slept j there, too, when we got any sleep be- ] cause there was gambling going on 1 all night and games of chance for i money and-such things, but we mix- j ed with the white folks all the time i and at night we had carriage and i spans of nones to draw us about 1 town or wherever we wanted to go 1 with out beaver hats and our good < clothes. Uh, boss, things come easy ] even those days. i "Yas, sir, boss, I done sold my i votes many en many a time for moBt cash in sight but the highest bid- ] ever I got was $100, en I tucks it in , my jeans like all de rest. I don't , care no moah fo South Carolina den j what I could get outen it, jes like all , of de white folks en niggers in power 1 dem days. We had good liquor too j _ in our desks and out in de halls, , where we could ask folks to take ^ some with us, en we had pages fer . to wait on us like we all was lords 1 of the land." ' j Coleman described in negro ver- , nacular of the appearance on the po- i litical horizon of Gen. Wade Hampton, twice governor of South Carolina, and Hampton's mighty power and stalwart personality cleared the ; atmosphere within a few months, , drove the carpetbaggers to cover and the Eu-Klux Klan made inroads into the ranks of the pilferers of Statehood and one by one the dark senators and lawmakers disappeared as if by magic, leaving no word, writing or regrets, telling no tales but always that mysterious, inexplicable silence, after the warning, and some never even told their associates of those grewsome warnings of the fate that lay before them. "I done got scared unto death," said Greene, in relating his own experiences. "I done see dem disap pear like aey goup in smoice, one Dy one till they begin whispering 'bout de Ku-Klux getting dis one en dat, den one day I goes to mah room in de hotel whar we all stay and dere I finds a note to dis nigger a tellin' him dat if he 'spects ter live en breavf he better got so ferVay dat dey can't tell him from black smoke. Boss, did I stay dere in mah glory en recompense? Did I? No siree, boss man, jest take de fust means of locomotion dis nigger finds en takes i mahself back yonder ter Chester. En den I didn't stop. I keeps right on 1 . .* 1917-IS DANGER jj YEAR FOR SOUTHi I Twenty Million Bales More Likely I i.. r..t. . Dnnnrl P I n?n i ncin/ vsiih* vwi?| | 8ays Hastings. Atlanta, Ga.?(Special)?That 1917 is a "danger year" for the south, and that there is "dynamite in the present cotton situation for the cotton growing farmer," are the warning I words used by H. G. Hastings, presi- ? dent of the Southeastern Fair Asso elation and the Georgia Chamber of J Commerce, In an interview given to I the newspapers here urging farmers [ not to increase their cotton acreage, v "Eighteen to twenty cent cotton at j planting time In spring," he says, "is I the bait that will lure hundreds of [ thousands of farmers In the south to I each put in a few extra acres, and | should nature smile on the crop as In I 1914, we will come nearer a twenty [ million bale crop than 20 cents per r pound, for evidence multiplies daily that they are 'planting right up to K the graveyard,' as it Is sometimes ex- [ pressed. r "On the Hastings farm we don't ex- . pect to put in an acjre more of cotton I than we did last year, because we think It a time above all others to ft nlav safe. What we will increase to [ the limit of oar ability will be food, | grain and forage, beef cattle and . hogs. "The safe way is to first supply all | needs of family and stock from one's | own acres, and then pat surplus acre age in cotton. With bread and meat I in hand, and a garden producing j[ Bteadlly through spring, summer and r ] fall; with home canned vegetables and J fruits on closet shelves for winter ta- J i ble use; with corn in the crib and hay | J and fodder In the barn or stack, the f I farmer can be largely Independent of ] cotton prices in the falL The farmer j bo provided for is never 'distressed.' | j He can sit on his cotton bales with [ J nlnd at ease, and sell In his own good ] time when prices are right. 1 "With labor comparatively scarce | j md fertiliser high, any material In- f J crease in cotton acreage must neo- ] Bssarily be at the expense of food and 1 grain acres that are in reality far I j more responsible for the sooth's pres- J I Bnt prosperity than Is 18 to 20 cent p ] jotton. 1 "Memories are short, but wise far- | f men need only to look back to 1914 [ 1 ind see the disaster due to too much ? ] yjtton that can't be eaten, and the j adk of food that one must eat I re- E ! >eat this year of 1917, is a danger * j rear. Any farmer who increases cot- ^ on acreage and cuts food crop acres s gambling with the cards stacked TH igainst him." T1 joing boss 'till I gits across de line. 'spects ef I done staid dere anodler night dem red shirts or dem KuKLlux done kotch me fo sure." Nc Within a few days later every one >f the nigger longcoats and beaver lats had disappeared forever from the historic halls of the old State m. louse and the hotel nearby was alnost deserted, even the few carpetsaggers remaining in seclusion with Jieir doors securely locked and :hained and their sleep disturbed by fitful dreams and sounds of shots, rhe notes written by unknown hands :ontinued with alarming frequency ?nd the red shirted patrols of a*iew m, freedom and a newer state hood were risible by day and night at every corner and on every hand, until the name and fame and power of Wade rr 1 1 ill! aompbUU ucuarnc a uy rrvxu vu v?v*w street, in every house and at all times, on every lip it foretold the beginning of the end of misrule, negro power and carpetbagging throughout Ti :he length ana breadth of the Palnetto State, even then milked dry of ill its richness save the heritage -of unsullied manhood and the flower of ^ its fair womanhood, many of whom XN0 bad been openly insulted, jostled on the streets and degraded to the ienths of despaair by the growing - - J nimfaro on(i tKpir _ JU1UUCOB VI UUV # ; ...u irain, pompous, airs of superiority issumed. No one knows or ever will know low the Ku Klux disposed of socres <p}, >f negro bodies that paid the penalty for the vain exaltation, but one jy one with mysterious assistance, and at other times by fright Of't times a rough wooden casket was aid at their door in the night. Again i brief note pinned to the door, told jjj them in terse language what to expect. Those who defied the KuKlux almost without exception slept in unmarked graves within a few short days.?E. L. Cowles in Charlotte Observer. An An usher should be allowed the an privilege of assault and battery up- ha on any person who drops into a back he: seat and leaves the usher to march ha: grandly to the front of the house of without knowing that his procession had failed him. so< inj As a rule a smart baby outgrows cai it. ge * kn C?ll MRS. SUCK'S LETTER ?? To Mothers of Delicate Children t0' Palmyra, Pa.?"My little girl had a chronic cough and was so thin you could by count her nba, and she had no appetite, wh Nothing we gave her seemed to help her, So until one day Mrs. Neibert asked me to Th try Vinol, and now she is hungry all the I a time, her cough is gone, she ia stouter Ar and has a more healthy color. I wish I 1 every mother who has a delicate child would try Vinol."?Mrs. Alfbed Slack. Bu We guarantee Vinol, our non-secret Di< tnnfo. fn mftkp delicate children healthy and strong. P. B. Speed, Druggist, Abbeville, S the C. Also at the leading drug store in all South Carolina towns. dec . Vv . . J'.M ' ' ... . ' . isaaa jHfififiHfifiiafifflH jfflfiEfiSfififiHHfififiHfiE SPI II Fl !| I . The !| ^Ne - | Including Coupon l! ORT li ' J. HI I J 1 AGENTS NEW II i! "T ?ii!Ji!jmrajEjnfBJi!JZJZJZJZJHJi!Ji IE FELLOW WHO MA( CAN WHISTLE ' ie fellow who can whistle when the The S world is going wrong C> Is the fellow who will make -the c most of life; ptttt TVTNi i matter what mav hatinen. von V .. will find him brave an<5 strong, He's the fellow who will conquer ATTi~TTrtm, in the strife. AUGUST! By aatl e fellow who can whistle when the by the Cc whole world seems to frown Abbeville Is the kind of man to stand the made in 1 battle's brunt; will offer i'a got the- proper mettle, and you at Abbevi can not keep him down, day jn For he's iusf the sort thaf s need- legal hour ed at the front scribed lai le fellow who can whistle is the ^ fellow who can work, SSJf With a note of cheer to vanquish fAnTu.i.a *2 plodding care. IZ^aI 3 soul is filled with music and no b?und?d evil shadows lurk Annette V [n his active brain to faster grim aiU ?am despair. "J;??* 40 ' Wideman, e fellow who can whistle is the within the "trump" card of the deck, city of Al Or the "whip-hand" in the par- TERMS lance of the street; chaser to ' petty cares nor trifles can his buoyant spirit check, Feb. 1, 19 For a sunny heart can never know defeat. SHE e fellow who can whistle?4ie is built on nature's plan STATE And he cheers his toiling fellow- C< man along; ere is no room for pessimists, but give to us the man R. C. BR( Who can whistle when the world R. B. Mc ?Sidney Warren Mase, t>? in Lippincott's. di^te7? IE ROMANCE KNOCKED OUT . ^ hours of i arming Young Lady Knit Socks C., on Moi For the Soldier*. A. D. 191 interest o: Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 30.?One little following nerican "god-mottier" whose notes All that d socks to soldiers in the trenches uate, lyin ve been her method of showing Township, r admiration for the brave fighters State, con 3 had the romance knocked out more or 1 her efforts. t of J. S. M In sending a pair of nice warm by Turkey :ks to a British soldier, the charm Rasor, Ea; j young lady pinned her visiting West by 1, rd inside, hoping that she might Estate Ta t a letter in turn from the un- Levied own recipient of the socks. It property c me, and as she looked at the envel- fy the afo e, she pictured a tall handsome TERMS aki-clad Adonis, carefully penning - < '1 1 LJ.L i?U*. A nissive 01 inanits wihcii migut icau . who knows what? feM* She quickly tore off the "opened the censorss" label, and this was SlimiV tat she found written inside: ck received, Lady;, ey almost fit. The Sti year one for a helmet Cc id one for a mitt. In the lope to meet you when I've done MRS. JES my bit? trix of 1 t where in hell , of R. A. i you learn to knit? J. MOO. Never judge a man's line of William G >ught by his talk. lap, Ma] * Dunlap, Pl close friend is all right until he P. Dunli ilinAn fA 1 A Ttftll nAin R- IVntili fllllvw W IvUVI JWU vv?u< ? ? ? '.M <-'$4 -'C* 7- l% ' \ - ' . - * - . -*> aaaaaaaaaara ramaizrazraranraiaraa MALI 3R FEBR Twelve Consecutive 1 Womans w Idea Quar Good for FREE PATTERN, All f WO YEARS, 95c. This Offer Lasts Durir LANDER >EA PATTERNS niziiiJHrazimmnizra % SnnBfiUiUZIMBBgg STER'S SALE. | fjab ' ' one y fcate of South Carolina, Nann ounty of Abbeville. Janie rt of Common Pleas. G & LOAN ASSOCIATION 5?bf Seville, . Dunh against . . JS REDD. - .m*s lority of a Decree of Sale g 5 >urt of Common Pleas for County, in said State, To the ] ;he above stated case, I You < for sale, at Public Outcry, quired 1 lie C. H., S. C., on Sales- this act rch, A. D. 1917, within the with se: s of sale the following de- a copy ad, to wit: All that tract complai: of land situate, lying and offices, i Abbeville County, in the within 1 resaid, containing three- hereof, an Acre, more or lets and service; y lands of Lewis McCombs, the com Pideman, Harry Young and said, th< s, being the same lot con- apply U Augustus Redd by Annette manded the same being near or BONH ! corporate limits of the >beville. Dated, OF SALE?CASH. Pur- 193 pay for^ papers^ ^ J. L. 17. MasUr A. C., S. 0. TQ T .RIFF'S SALE. ?.i lap, Joli OP, SOUTH CAROLINA, gunjap, >unty of Abbeville. Dunl _____ Dunlap, to th; )WNLEE & CO., Plaintiffs Edith I against Bigby, t DOWELL, Defendants. Saffle \ le of an execution to nve whom t ithe above stated case, I You o the highest bidder, at y?? are iction, within the legal pointme sale at Abbeville C. H., S. gnardiai nday, the 5th day of March m the i 7, all the right, title and twenty f R. B. McDowell in the above s described property, to wit: ?* the < tract or parcel of land sit- y?u ^ g and being in Donalds of such A ViKottiII a Pnnnhr in nniri I dians ac taining Sixty-five Acres, fi?d, pis ess, and bounded by lands thereof, addox on the North, South appoint] Creek and Estate of E. B. or guar st by Maxwell land and on you. ands of J. S. Maddox and BONH. ggart. on and to be sold as the Andorar f R. B. McDowell, to satis- j r< Shid^execution and costs. <p0 vngil. ion R. M. BURTS, You " Sheriff Abbeville County. tjje SUII 1917. foregoir " t fice of'1 ions. For Relief South C on the 8 ate of South Carolina, that t^e >unty of Abbeville. foreclosi Court of Common Pleas. W. A. ] SIE J. LEWIS, as Execu- lands de the last will and, testament sell said LEWIS, deceased, and W. the proc DTTTT A Tl Ploinfiffa mnrfo?Q(y against distribut . Dunlap, Martha C. Dun- as the G rie A. Dunlap, Sallie B. BONHi John M. Dunlap, Herbert ip. Olive P. Dunlap, Emily Andersoi ftp, Edith Bigby, Walter 'M mniiiiaEiaBnmanuaai laaaaaaaaaaaaw OFFER UARY Copies of Magazine ^55c ig February. ISON CO. ABBEVILLE, S. C. 1 \ MBBBBBfMfigBIW 7, Sarah Bigby, Luther Bigby, ts under the age of twenty- __ ears; and Mrs. Ida Cox, Mrs. j ie Kay, Mrs. Ella Davis, Mrs. H Bigby Mattison, C. Olin Big- X [. Grady Bigby, Jesse Bigby, . rt Bigby, Mrs. Virginia B. rpi, ip and L. C. Dunlap; and C. IHI gby and H. G. Bigby as Ad- sisvnta trators of the estate of W. A. ^ r, deceased, Defendants. JUSt J Defendants Above Named: C6Ilte] ire hereby summoned and re- O0Vll] to answer the complaint in . , ion, of which a copy i8 here- fflg, V rved upon you, and to serve ,Q._ of your answer to the said nt on the subscribers at their ofoVjlf at Anderson, South Carolina, _ _ rvventy days after the service 9,11(1 II exclusive of the day of each rni_: and if you fail to answer - IflJ iplaint within the time afore- Qn e plaintiffs in this action will -*-Ul > die Court for the relief de- orftoH in the complaint. ? ?or AM, WATKINS & ALLEN, 00 Z Attorneys for Plaintiffs, in w. Anderson, S. C., Sept. 30, L2- ville.1 PERRIN, Clerk of Court. ?? es anc HE INFANT DEFENDANTS, Cai C. Dunlap, Martha C. Dun- . rie A. Dunlap, Sallie B. Dun- IrTlCe in M. Dunlap, Herbert P. 1 K5 Olive P. Dunlap, and Emily lap, and their father, M. B. nill6S nri+V* Tultnni roaiMa * onrl E"INFANT DEFENDANTS; Abb^ Hgby, Walter Bigby, Sarah , md Luther Bigby and to Mrs. <* ^ * * V. Bigby, their mother, with A bllH hey reside: ' j will please take notice that and. I] required to procure the ap- , nt of a guardian ad litem or tWO 1*1 tis ad litem to represent you i u p ibove entitled action within t II tJ days from the service of the wpjj ummons upon you, exclusive * day of such service; and if 2LCYQ. 1 to procure the appointment 1 OC guardian ad litem or guar- J.4C 1 litem within the time speci- yvtilp , ,intiffs will, at the expiration apply to the Court for the q j- J. sent of a guardian ad litem , dians ad litem to. represent ll0rS6 AM, WATKINS & ALLEN, P / a C ? . . ~ A . . ' 1 i riaintiits Attorneys. D161113 in, S. C., Sept. 30, 1912. PERRIN, Clerk of Court. xTlCe Absent Defendant, L. C. Dun- J will please take notice, that f&riTli tmons and complaint in the ig action was filed in the of- prop?! ?e Clerk of Court of Comsas for Abbeville County, kd larolina, at Abbeville, S. C., yyip T th day of October, 1912, and 111C> object of this action is to pl6SlS 2 a mortgage executed by . * Bigby, deceased, upon the tO DUJ scribed in the complaint, and pafofp lands and after applying tJotatc eeds to the payment of saia e, interest fees and costs, to J ;e the remaining proceeds ourt may direct M, WATKINS & ALLEN, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. If you a, S. C., Feb. 2, 1917. be becau? 2-7-2. place. a ? . .. : . d- v . . roppomaoia {{ || i! I . or Sale e Lawson place, ining 54 1-4 acres, 2 miles from the r of the city of Abe. A good dwell(vo tenant houses, barn and good is. A good pasture ne farming land, is is an ideal home ; imeone. Can give trems. I acres land about iles from AbbeGood tenant houa1 well improved, a give good terms. $7500.00 i acres auoui two from city limits of rille, 85 to 90' } s in cultivation, dance of wood ilenty saw timber, mining streams on plantation. Ides Price $20.00 per i acres about 1-2 i?'j. _ *j i auxsiae city minus Abbeville, threefarm open on the i e, fine pasture, r wood and water. $45.00 per acre. . ive quite a lot of ng lands and city rty listed with me ,le. Come to see feel sure I can j you if you wish r any kind of real ROBT. S. LINK. are in a small place it may le you won't fit in a big