The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, May 28, 1918, Page TWO, Image 2
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ABBEVILLE, S. C.
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Tuesday, May 28, 1918.
AT LONG CANE (COL.)
Some of the lawyers around Ab
Devuie nave maue sutu icpm.ai.iviu
for themselves as negro preacher:
that we decided, as times were slack
we would put out a feeler for ai
? appointment to preach a little our
selves, and try our hand at th<
same business. Bishop J. S. Morst
having learned of our good intentions
assigned us to Long Cam
Methodist Church (colored) for lasi
Sabbath. Having procured the assistance
of Dr. C. H. McMurray anc
t Col. Thomas P. Thomson as ruling
elders, and young John Lyon McMurray
as mascot, we arrived or
the scene of action about z :i?> f. m
We found $ev. Vance, the "pastor
of the church, in charge, and
we were soon notified that the meeting
was ready to be turned over to
us. A verse or two of a good oldtime-religion
hymn was sung while
the congregation "gathered" in
the churph, and when the time was
ripe, our elder Col. Thomson, gave
us a flattering introduction, after
which we harangued the people for
a half hour or so on the Red Cross
subject, and until the perspiration
turned tif'sweat, after which we arrived
at the time to take up the
collection. Having called on an
brethren and sisters who would
give five dollars to stand up, and
having given them notice to come
forward and give in their names as
well as the cash, we turned to assist
elder McMurray in making out
the necessary papers and in giving
out the badges of honor. We didn't
want to start on the two-fifties and
the one dollar crowd until we fin
ished with the big fish. But we
made a mistake right here. Because
no sooner had we turned our back
i"*
than the little fishes went out
around the net and the next thing
we knew they were drinking water
at the well. We couldn't blame
them muc'i however. The pastor
said a word in their behalf to the
general effect that he had had a
rally already that day and that all
male members had given one doilar";
and all femaleS^ad given seventy
five cents. Besides from the ease
which they got out it appeared to
us that they had seen collections
taken up before. Notwithstanding
when we had finished we had one
hundred and thirty-seven dollars,
which amount is more than has
been given by some people to the
good cause.
r>
The meeting having been duly
dismissed by the Reverend pastor,
we went down to Col. Thomson's
and not being disposed to hurt his
feelings, especially after living al
home for sometime on war diet,
we readily accepted his invitation tc
take dinner with him. We did not
do so any more readly, however
than elder McMurray and mascol
John Lyon. It appeared to us thai
they, too, had been living at home
and eating at the same place. Aftei
a fine dinner which was greatly en
joyed, as well as the "charminj
hospitality," as the women say, o:
our gracious host during the eatinj
of it, we went out on the porcl
to settle down to real enjoyment
We had hardly, however, got com
fortably seated when one of thos
vulgar gas buggies came tooting u;
the road, and we soon spied Co!
Dick Sondley at the wheel, wit
Col. Pat Roche and Col. Will Ma
Q?
gill as accompanists. They ha
heard that we were to hold fort!
they said, and "turned out" to th
meeting, and were sorry to find tha
they were too late.
Having been invited in, and not
caring to discuss worldly affairs onaccount
of the day, they merely
passed the time of the day on the
growing cotton, the goat business
and fishing, and settled down to
serious matters. Col. Roche having
t the floor naturally directed the
J conversation towards the good old
[ times before the war when people
kept salt and soap and other household
necessities in gourds etc. He
rambled around awhile among the
old grave yards and here and there
> I he stopped to drop a flower on the
; grave of some hero cf times past,
)J whose memory has all out faded exIcept
with those who linger a little
j while after their generation has
passed.
He told us also of an incident
which he learned of from his old
friend Col. Hiram Tusten. It seems
that over in Georgia or somewhere
else a family had a pet goat. It
- was about the gin house' at ginning
; time and after the ginning was
over the goat was nowhere to be
| found. The little children cried for
'jdays for the goat but it failed to
1 return. Nothing was ever heard of
-1 it until the next spring when the
, cotton seed house was opened to
, get out the planting seed and thert j
. stood the goat eating cotton seed.
^ i m x? J-J? |
j' v^oi. i listen uiun t ten, it seems,
11 where the goat got water all this
. J time, ' which puzzled 'Col. Roche
I somewhat, but Col. Sondley solved
P this by telling that the same thing
. happened with Wilson Caldwell in
I
t! Newberry County, only there were
j five goats instead of one, and by
. explaining that cattle can live with[
out water and that they fatten bet.1
ter without it, advancing the statement
that Col. Aug. W. Smith, when
. he lived in Abbeville, "was accustom-)
,'ed to stall-feed cattle for months!
| without ever giving them a drop of J
i water.
During the course of his remarks,
. however, Col. Roche happened to
mention a snake. While spoaking
of snakes he told us 'of the bad
'habits his friend Sondley formerly!
ihad of coming up town every Sat'
urday evening, walking around bisj
old friends Gene McMillan and
Mike Cassidy and slipping his hand1
in their pockets and getting out a'
few of the parched goobers which!
they were always eating. Knowing5
that the Colonel was somewhat j
afraid of snakes old man McMillan
one day put a pet king snake in his
pocket on top of the goober bag
and walked around where Col. Sondley
was sitting all the time cracking
the brittle shells and rattling hunrJ
ger into Colonel Sondley's make-up j
'with every crack. Finally, the ^
Colonel took a circuit around the.
old gentleman and quietly slipped:
his hand into the pocket and hit the j
snake, whereupon as Rev. John I.J
Reynolds, colored, said in his-suit!
'against the railroad, "the panorama|
lit up."
The snake subject having gotten'
, a firm hoid on all hearers Col. Sondley
advanced to th& front of the:
rostrum and ftiadfc a few remarks j
on snakes he had seen. One of the
longest to be remembered by him
was the one he saw down in the
, Haskell woods when he and Col. L.
C. Haskell went down there to "locate
a corner". Both wore boots
: for fear of snake^, and they were
making diligent search for the cor-1
ner, when Col. Sondley all at oncej
' stepped on something soft which j
i he took for the corner. Looking'
i around, however, he saw that it wasj
; no corner at an DUt a Dig moccasin
, then in the act of striking at his
i boot leg, which it did immediately.
; Raising an Indian warwhoop the
, Colonel "lit a rag" for the open
; ground. When he had gone a litt
tie way he looked around to see if
, the snake was following when to
r his consternation, perturbation and
- utter demoralization he found that
; the moccasin, when' it struck at him,
f had hung a tooth in the tough
* leather of the boot leg, and that he
i was taking it along with him. No
sooner had he seen this than he
- hollowed for all rabbits to clear the
e track for a man who could do some
p real running. When he stopped
I. from exhaustion, he found that he
h had pulled the snake's tooth, and
he was free except that after pulld
ing off the boot, and taking off his
i, socks, and rolling up his breeches
e leg he was unable, even with the
it assistance of friend Haskell, to tell
whether the snake tooth had gone
into his leg or not, leaving nothing
for him to do except to wait and
see -whether he would die or not.
Following this account of his experience
in the Haskell woods, the
company talked over pother snake
history, including habits of the hoop
snake and others. Col. Roche informed
the company of the time
when the hoop snake made a roll
at a man standing by a tree in McMillan's
pasture, and of the man
jumping aside causing the snake to
drive its tail into the tree, and of
the tree dying before suridown, and
of other snake happenings immediately
following the Revolution.
But Q'olonel Sondley had not finished.
He had a snake story to tell
.that happened to him and Will ^iall
when he was trimming th? fig bush,
at which time as he told it a big
snake rolled itself around his ankle
several times and then looked up at
him and winked its eye. .
He also told of a cousin of his
who caught all kinds of bad snakes
and made pets of them,N and other
snake stories. In fact John Lyon
McMurray said that it seemed tc
V.fV.of r'nlnnol SrmHTev liaH "sPPTl
linn i>nov w? w*4v* ..* ? .....
more snakes" than all the othex
gentlemen gathered together fox
the evening.
Finally the conversation having
switched from snakes to c.ooters} wc
were forced to leave as we were alrady
out late enough for elder McMurray
to be called upon to give
an account of himself. We left Col.
Sondley on the floor discussing the
habits of cooters on his goat farm
below town, and it seemed to us
from the way he was laying it down
that he had just begun to talk.
COUSIN PERCY WRITES
COUSIN DAVIS
Dear Cousin?,1 have received
your letter pertaining to your wide
expanse of business. I hope it will
not prove a great Desert of Sahara
in the wind up. I have heard the
old people around Abbeville say
that Mr. Jacob Miller in his day
issued a wise saying to the effect
that almost any man could run a
sail-boat about the shore, but when
a man puts to sea, it were well if
he were a mariner. Now, do not get
panicy^when I tell you that a dreamed
I saw you in the middle of the
big blue ocean sailing round and
round and shotting at the top of
your voice for a sight of old Blue
Hill.
There is another matter about
which I think you had better seek
legal advice. You know there is a
law in this country known as the
Sherman law. Under it a man who
combines too many branches of a
business creates a monopoly and
may be indicted for running a Trust.
You have heard I suppose, before
the war, of the trust-buster. Well,
do not be surprised when I tell you
that the combination of the Edison
talking machine and bf yoUr' own
gives the firm of Kerr & Edison a
majority holding of all the talking
machines in the country, and you
may be indicted at any minute, unless
you are willing, at least, to
quit talking (and snoring too) in
your sleep. Please give this matter
your prayerful consideration. Now
if you were as quiet all the time as
you are at home when Mrs. Kerr is
present, you might get through,
but it seems to me after hearing
your line of talk down town and
after listening to the Edison that
something may be doing in the
trust-busting line pretty soon.
I did not hear what you said
about coming up this summer. On
that subject I am as deaf as you
were the time I passed my plate
back for another helping ~>of the
white meat of the turkey .and you
filled me up with rice and gravy.
Brother Austin would like to do
something for you, but he says the
hotel man where he was boarding
when you were up here and where
* ' "" * - ? ^ +/\n
116 Still is, says trim %vuu unnxu tw
much to the waiters when you were
here, and that you worried the cook
too much about wanting to carry
in stove-wood so you could see what
they were going to have for dinner
Then again he says that hotel registers
cost money now on accounl
of the high-price of paper and ii
you do come up and bring youi
family, and want to register th<
whole family every day, you mus(
bring your own register, as he ii
not going to waste any more pape:
Frieda He
Edison Re=C
Theme and Variations. (Pre
Hempel at the Metropolit
of the Regiment."
j A ve Maria?Cavalleria Rut
from the Intermezzo by ]
gato by Mary Zentay.
j Aloha Oe. (Queen Liliuo
Criterion Quartet.
I My Old Kentucky Home. (1
| Criterion Quartet.
1 Emmet's Lullaby. {J. K. t
I Criterion Quartet.
j Long, Long Ago. {Bayly).
STOVES AHoRAr
BHBHBiPHHRnnB
! on you.
As for your boy, Sun, I kn
your boarders stand a fine chai
; of getting their money's worth w
I your boy and his father at the
I
i ble. As for inquiring anythi
I about him the only inquiry I re
| i
: ember to have made about him v
j when I asked you last summer wh
| you and he thought you would
i an/1 r?/\+ ryaffinor q
jjav> rv kjvuuii) ?<iiu uvu gvw?t<g *
satisfactory reply to that questi<
I feel sure that there must be so]
mistake about any further inqu
j on my part. :: *'
; The furniture dealers up h<
j are getting a little uneasy ab<
j themselves. I suppose you h*
i seen that the government is ab<
I uMtVi nil nnnrofita
j IU Uiopciiow ???!#* M.. ??x
I servants. The gamblers must
I and so must the bar-tenders, 1
J idlers and all men engaged in bv
I ness which is not worth much
! the country ar.d not much of tl:
As we were coming from the W
nesday night's prayermeeting
neighbor, brother Jones, said t
he would not be surprised at a
time to see all clap-trap busin
like automobile sellers, lawyers, f
I niture dealers, fortune tellers i
j book-agents closed up and put i
some kind of profitable employmc
Now I think if I were you
would get a farm started and
that you are in the furniture bi
ness as a sideline and that ;
are a horny handed son of toil.
. will not be pleasant work this si
! mer digging ditches in France v
,! a gun shooting around you ev
,1 fifteen or sixteen seconds, and
j word to the wise should be suf
J ent. At any rate it would b
;!good idea to put the furniture b
i ness in your wife's name, and
. j be a clerk.
tj I see that uncle Jim has been
: | in Tennessee speaking for g
r! roads again. I saw a fellow
? other day who attended the m
t ing and he said he did not uni
5 stand why uncle Jim paid his
r out to Tennessee for the pur]
FRIEDA H
JOINS EC
Sj^lj^PKlJufill 'I in! Ili' oratori
mpel's
reations Creat
?c/i). As sung by Miss ^
an in ''The Daughter '
playe
Hicana. An adaption ly on
tiascagni. Violin obli- could
to pr
kalani). Assisted by work
?oster). Asssisted by , compj
with '
'mmet). Assisted by li?n r
>
^ rV . f .
4GES ^ HOME OUT
l of letting them hear what he ha<
ow> to say because he spoke so loud h<
j might have stood on the top of hi:
ice'
| barn and they could have -heart
him jtfst as well. He also said h<
to- didn't see why Mayor Mars paic
ng fare on the train as he walked al
m_ the way from Abbeville to Chat
tanooga going from one coach t?
* I the other and introducing himsel
ien j to the people. That is what make
2? j some people poor all tho time
ny. spending money when there is n<
an.' ?j u
' | necu jlux iv.
mej We are leaving home as we mai
iry this letter, and will notify yoi
when we return if it is too coo
ere for you to come up.'
jut Your cousin,
ive Percy.
jut ,
We FREE SCHOLARSHIP.
SO,
tilG
Two four-year scholarships n
1S1" Clemson College are reported va
*? cant in Abbeville county. Examina
ia^' tions will be held July 12. A schol
ec*~ arship student may receive aid fror
my United States government: The de
hat
mand for college trained men 1
ny~ greater than the supply.
ess
Ur" 1 CENT MILE IS FARE
ind FIXED FOR SOLDIERi
nto
int.
I Washington, May 24.?The rat
say of a cent a mile for soldiers forth
usi- duration of the war has been estat
pou lished by the railway amdinistratio
It it was announced late this aftei
im- noon. The action was taken, it wa
nth said, as a result of thousands o
ery appeals from all sections of th
a country.
fici- .
e a GENERAL SESSIONS COURT
usi" FOR JUNE CALLED OF
you
All Grand Jurors and others hai
out ing business in the Court of Ger
ood | eral Sessions for Abbeville Count;
the are notified that there will be n
eet- Court held in June. Only Equit
der- business will be transacted,
way J. L. PERRIN,
sose 5-24-2t. Fri. Clerk.
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EMPEL
)ISON 1
' 'i
: j
i most richly endowed soprano in Am- :
is what, the critics call Miss Hempel
Metropolitan Opera. A true artist, .0
ibition to have her voice preserved in
splendor outweighed all other consid- |
is. She has joined the Edison group; ;
rs. Henceforth she will sing for the ?t
istrument which can Re-Create her M
voice. . -/H*
Hempel heard Re-Creations of other . i
irtists; noted their superiority to any- <^
she'd ever heard before and decided
istigate. She went, to the Edison lab-'1 |
es; made a Re-creation; then sub-./'
it to the searching trial of the toQe ^
>he herself sang in direct comparison^
he instrument. If you've ever heard'
ice on talking machines you can conler
joy in hearing it Re-Created with
idelity and perfection that no human .
aid distinguish artist from instrument.
enough. There and then she resolved
tenceforth the instrument for her
__ 'A
he New Edison -'M
nhe Phonograph With a Soul" fl
n
now you can hear Frieda Hem- H
rot a mere imitation on a talking H
ine but Miss Hempel hersel|. H
at our store and hear the Be- H
ions listed on this page. H
ison Re-Creations should not he v H
a ana cannot De piayea properany
other instalment. If they" VH
be, the manufacturers who see^.;H
ofit by Mr. Edison's research. H
would be able to make tone test
arisons, such as we have made H
the New Edison before two milr H
nusic lovers. H
j
mr, I
FITT6K5 '/jw,wv
ij 114 WOUNDED U. S. 9H
H SOLDIERS GET HOME
i Washington, May 24.?The ar- H|
1 rival in this country of 114 Ameri1
can wounded was announced by Sur
geon General Gorgas today. Eight
> were landed the week of May 10
f and 106 the week of May 17; They
s Viavo hppn distributed at various
points for reconstruction.
-jh
] U. S. TO BUILD RH
1 PICRIC ACID PLANT H
?9
Washington, May 24.?Two picric
acid plants, the first Govern- Hi
ment controlled plants to be estab- HH
lished in this country, are to be
constructed at Little Rock, Ark., and
Brunswick, Ga., the War Departi
ment announced this afternoon. The HH
Little Rock . plant will cost about
$4,000,000.
1 The larger plant at Brunswick
r will be constructed by the Butteri
worth-Judson Company, of New
York, at a cost of nearly $7,000,- j^H
THE CANTEEN SERVICE. HB
On last Thursday, the ladies of^B|
e the A. R. C. Canteen" Service were
e called to serve troop trains passing
?- through here. The following ladies ^Hj
j?a., .r,... 4-v.ot Hoir \fr<5_
n were on uuiy iui wic*? .
*- J. C. Ellis, Captain; Miss Maggie^^J
,s Brooks, Second Lieutenant; Mrs.^^H
f W. E .Johnson, Mrs. F. B. Gary,^^B
e Mrs. Moffatt Plaxco, Mrs. Gus Leer^^H
Miss Mary Smith and Miss Louise^^J
Brown, Privates.
Miss Mary Hill, Miss Leila Link,HH
p Miss Mary Aiken and Mrs. Will^^B
Harris, Motor Service. [BH
r- The soldiers were given post^^fl
1- cards,. magazines, matches, chewi/ig^^H
Y, gum, and flowers, and all were^^H
o! pleased with the attention. Stamp^HD
;y were sold to them, and quite a num-^^H
ber of cards were written whil^^M
waiting, and mailed with letters an^^H
papers by the committee.