The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, April 18, 1919, Page EIGHT, Image 8
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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
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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
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| 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
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; 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.
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| 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
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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
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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
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Portland, Oregon, / April 16.?Ex
Secretary of the Treasury William (
G. McAdoo was retained as chief
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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