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EIGHT A PRIVATE LETTER FROM DOTE TO PROFESSOR LONG dear profess: i receaved yore spiretual letar which you rote in the prest an Banar an wus glad ter heer frum you. but i seas that you is a poar judge of licker. now thear air a good menny kinds of licker in this here wurld an i has tride evry kind which i has got chanst at. then there are a good menny kinds of drinks, sich as peruner, alkerhol, Gemmaka gingar, sevrul kinds of sidars, and so on, which sum peepul drinks fur medicine and which sum drinks fur drinks. 'there are a differents in theas things frum reglar licker though, now dote smith it a judge of licker as stated and if he is ever bin in too :1" " * " ?'nt nf Ifnrn nr Rv mnes ui a nan muiw v* ?v?? w. ?? Hicker and didn't smell it, he muster had a bad coal, and he was not in this fix when he move Putman ter duwest. now had the licker bin in ther ordermorebill as staited in yore letter, or in your pigging hole i wood a knode it w?.s roun bout the time i got to the old Haddon plais and by the time i got to Duwest i wood a bin what the chilluns call "gittln hot" in playin hide and seak when i! landed in the korprate limmits of your toun if it has any. but i walked roun and roun sevrul times, took a deep draft of the Duwest air in my system an i has not smelt no reglar licker as yit, and i sais it must not be thair. I thinks it must a not bin there or it wood a not escape me. it is sade that i has the finest smeller fur the pure article of anybody, but i says i has, except far Lizzie. I bleeves she kin smell further than me specially if i has taken a drink of it. she kin tell before i start home that Dote has taken a drink, and there is wun differents between us. i kin smell it on a straight line but lizzie kin smelly jt roun a corner, in the barn loft or anywhere i hides it. , i guest sum of the boys has put off on you a botal of peruner or red lemmunade with a little alkerhaul in it, or sumpthin of that kind and not bein a reglar licker man you is fooled in the enterprise, now' if it had been reglar licker and you had been / / fe:- I ....mnnnn fl KB ** *. Wjfl """ Bni m I : I I I. I Cja^ 1 Ira. I % ? ^ 1 II'' I 9 ' I I ? r w . . . & * f ? | in good standing in the church ij | knows that it could not a-staid in: i the pijjing hole as, long as you said. ! without the stopper jumpin out the i botal, or-sumbody gittin snaik bit. i see that moast of the peepul in Duwest and all the dekons keaps i sumthin ter drink on hands at all j j times, and i also sees that brother | ! gallerway, who writes the paiper in j yore toun, is fur ther bildin of a eni terprise. i suggests a Still if youj ! wants ter attrack a good menny j I turists. you could stur up a crowd j J on yore streats at all times of the j nite and day if you wood go into I this bizness. and as you has no ! policeman, and as you foaks is used j ter drinkin common drinks, and no j buddy wood be looking iur a sun in; j Duwest it seams to me that you has| i the lokation. if you resly wishes ter I ; see me agin in yore toun x am put-; J tin you wise, becaus if there are one j i thing whitch i kin doo it is ter lo-, kate a still, and see that none of the ; licker wastes. s i heers that you teeches in the Kollage and that one of the things whitch you tells the boys is ter have, a good magination. now the still wood help you along in this here branch of yore work, because if, there are one thing which will makej a man magine he is sick, or magine, that sumboddy wants ter see him; doun town or magine that he shoodj taik a walk, or magine that sum thin! is wrong with the horse out at the | j lot, or magine anything else ter git out of the hous, and git ter where ! the stuff which the still maiks, it | is licker. an it gives a , man a good magination when he begins ter git ! reddy to go hoam. he begins ter think that bout the time the gits there his wife will axe him whar he bin. I I | and you wood be surprised how fast his magindtion works in gittin out! ' the places and lookin them over to; | see whitch has the green pasture. ! it also will help his wife's magin! ation. becaus it do not maik any ' different? whether he goas down toun j | ter git a pint of butter milk, or a. i bundle of hay for the hoss, or to | see the preecher and pay him onj sattidy nite so he will look hopeful: ! on ,sunday, or go ter git a pare of / i I shoees fur one of the chillun, or I HHBHDBBXSDHEBIEinBHBnBWl JL 1 I Id X JLVXJN/N/ sumthin like that, yore wife will magine you has,bin ter ther still, and if you brings her hoam sumthin from doun town and sais i brought you a present she will know it. she will magine she kin smell the licker which you missed if you hasnt taiken anything but a cherrie prosfate, and if you happin ter stumble roun a little, pr is a little too fussy or a! little too happy ,or play wiff one of the chillun a little, or does not, she magine the licker is dooin it an not you. in fact i believes that it work more on her magination than on yores if sich a thing is possibull, at least it seam so to me. fur this reeson i think the enterprise of a still in Duuwest wood be of grate assistance to you in the Cheer of Magination, an you mite taik the matar up with the other prpfess and see what they say. if i can be of any servise to you by maikin a argymint in faivor of the proposition let me kno. you mite say to them that it will also increase the number of studints which is now at the Kollags an put a lot of fellers in the post graduate wurk, and that nncfa nnma ViiorVi nn t.Vio nif wvww** vv...v I when the big runs'.are made, speci- ' ally lamp posts, and that it' wood : look like sumtimes on the rode hoam J from the still that* there air more 1 studints than there are boys. 1 i suggests that the next botal which j you gits you phoam me and i will ! run up and let you know is it true ( licker or jist commerflage. yours fur the spirrits. Dote. P. S. If you do not like the Still enterprise you mite have yore pee- 1 pul to go into a koffin facktory to build coffins to berry the solum looks born to the elders and deekins on the' Sabbuth motning which die before Monday's trade begins, i think you wood do a rushin bizn'ess in yore toun, and. ruther than miss a funeral we cood lone you a fue victums. Dote.' McADOO CHIEF COUNSEL FOR riEIRS OF MILLIONAIRE ,J Portland, Oregon, / April 16.?Ex Secretary of the Treasury William ( G. McAdoo was retained as chief ' ' V 0 W18 STR0U3E A BROS.: Inc.. balto.mi J. F. MILLER J. M. GAMBRELL Insurance Agency wts\ tttwi4-/"v t?inrt tt-l i vv c wine rue xii? surance on Dwellings, Tornado, and Automobiles. City and County Property solicited. We represent some Very strong companies. Miller & Gambrell, I Agents. | I jounsel by heirs of tlhe late H. L. Pitiock, millionaire publisher, who propose contesting the will which disposes of an estate approximating $8,UUU,UUU. wnen tne case is aocKexed finally, Mr. McAdoo, Cotton ? Fraklin, of New York, will return tc Portland to lead the legal fight. By the terms of the will the estate was left completely within th( management of 6. A. Morden and 0 L. Price, neither a member of th< Pittock famfly. MR. JAMES W. RLAKE DIES OF APPOPLEX1 Highly Esteemed Citizen of Ninety Six Died at Home Tuesday Afternoon. \ . ?? 'j Mr. James W. Blake died at hii home in Ninety Six yesterday after noon at 3:20 o'clock following i stroke of appoplexy at 10 in th< morning. He was stricken whili sampling a bale of cotton on the pub ' ' I Th< . C k. Easter's wan V | ness is always s make sure that Spring style by label Hw Hi Clothes havii such features a ing and honest * _j. ... *j JL.ei us aiu y<j ed line. Drop J. I lie square and gradually grew worse until the end came. Funeral arrangements will not be made until the arrival of a son, Mr. Julian Blake, of Louisiana, but the flAMn/iAD Tvt*/vVkaW!*rr rrrill Ka Viol A fftmAT OCX T1VCO VUttUiJ n il* MV uvtu vv?MW* row morning. Interment will be made at Ninety Six. Mr. Blake was 61 years of age and a native of Abbeville, now Greenwood county. He spent his entire life at Ninety Six, and was engaged in the cotton business many years. He was a highly esteemed citizen and the news of his death will be learned with sorrow throughout the county. i Mr. Blake was twice married, his first wife being Miss Waddell. To this union were born the following surviving children: ames W., of Ninety Six; "William C., of Columbia; Dr. Clough H., of Greenwood; Stuart, of Atlanta; Julian, of Louisiana; Robert, of Ninety Six and Mrs. E. A. Huff, of Greenville. His second wife was Mips Gilchrist who, with one daughter, Miss Lillian, also survives. Mr. T. S. Blake, of Coronaca, I I We are nc COAL 5 , Every indicatic ' will be higher j get. Better order now I ' 3 * Amos B.I 3 3' , > "l ? I ' i i Eas " TTTt )U1 1 1 . * \ . i ' I 1 1 i ' ' ' ' m sunshine and atmosph uggestive of new clothe; your Easter suit is the ] I selecting a garment mar HHfAirClLOTIf \DE BY STROUSE tc BROTHERS, INC., BALTIMORE, Ml tig this famous mark ah is quiet refinement, subsl material. v ??!? /? a cola/tfiAn I >U 1X1 UiaiVlllg O. oviwuvii J in today for a try-on. ANDERSON is a brother and the sifters are Miss es Bettie and Annie and Bin. W. B. Stuart^ all of Ninety Six.?IndexJournal. ( KEEPING THE RECORD STRAIGHT t . v Mrs. Moore Mars believes in keeping everything, straight, even to the s Mayor. She says our notice of her trip to New'Orleans was a week late and that it was not a second honeymoon but a third. She is as-handsome and charming as ever in spite of her three years of married life, t . \. ' V Subscribe for The Press and Banner. ^ i NOTICE' TEACHERS' rvAuiHiTtnu a iwai The Regular Spring Teachers' Examination will be fyeld in the County Court House at Abbeville, on Saturday, May 3rd, between the hours/of 9 a. and 4 p. m. . W. J. EVANS, ' 4-l-3t. Co. Supt. of Education. > . )W offering / x ' ' 1 For May and June Delivery / ' # )n is that coal and hard to get in your I . Morse Co. 1 ' f ' ' * ' ' V I maatmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmtfKL B H iter 1 ' H lere of fresh- S \ kg r n 3. You can , /I latest correct : H ked with the I * 251 . ?jS| tHES I vays embody 5 9 tantial tailor- || From this trust- I CO. V f