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r' ~ OLD SCENES AND FACES OF LONG AGO RECALLED (Continued from Page One) for several years, and there is in another part of the town the high school. And the schools now have t: . several teachers. The beautiful woodft land which stood in the rear of the school building has given way to the march of population, and there are now rows of new and modern homes all along new streets that have been opened in the days that have come since then. But the grounds have a familiar look and the old Burt home sftill stands just across the street in the apex of the triangle. This is the house in which it is said that Jeffer!son Davis held his last cabinet meeting. But the main street in front of the school buildng is being paved with cement and bithulithic and this adds not only to the comfort of the people who travel this way but also to the beauty of the surroundings. I Just a short way on the same street where once stood the Presbyterian church now stands a magnificent structure which I was told was v the BaDtist church, and the Presby Iterians built on the other corner of the same lot after their building was destroyed by fire when the elegant home of Justice McGowan was de^ stroyed. In the days of which I am writing the Baptists had a mission at this place and a small brick church around the corner. The Methodist have erected a new building but it and the parsonage are at the same \i place. I called to see Chief Justice Gary and found him in his study among law books writing . opinions. Judge Gary is interested in the human side of the law and the ethics of the profession and has done much toward (standardizing the ethics of the bar ' and in rendering his decisions endeavors to study carefully ine case ir hand and all the circumstances anc to be guided by what is right and just between man and man rathei than the technical precedents whicl may be found in decisions which were rendered by learned judges ol another generation and amid differ eijt conditions. He hc3 also deliverec many addresses which have beer quoted very largely in this and foreign lands, and they are authority or !many live subjects because when he undertakes to make an address he studies the subject thoroughly and speaks from the record. One of his , addresses has been printed in the law reports by requests of the bar, something that is without precedent in the State. When I was in? Abbeville Judge Gary was a young lawyer having but recently been admitted to the bar and opened up an office in this good old town. ' ' The bar is entirely a new bar at this time, both in person and name. In those days it was Parker and McGowan and Perrin and Cothran and then McGowan and Parker and then Cothran and Perrin and so on, but now there is not one of the name at the bar. Mr. William P. Greene, who also so ably edits The Press and Banner, has possibly the largest practice at the bap. at present. The s^me is true of the county officers. In those days Judge Fuller Lyon was probate judge, Major Zeagler was olerk of court, Mr. DuPree was sheriff and Mr. Perrin was treasurer and Mr. KpV Gibert school, commissioner and- I think Mr. Hill was auditor. I remember Mr. Gibert because I had to stand an examination to get a certificate to teach. Jack Perrin is now clerk of court. Jac'.: went to school to me and he was a bright boy and they tell me he is the nost popular man in the county. Dick Sondley is the auditor, and you know he is one of our Newberry men. I do not recall the other county officers. They have built a ' new court house and a fine city hall | in which is a large opera house, but i i nave not seen any court house that j is better than the one at Newberry I for the same money, and as for the j jail we have the finest in the state. ' I spent a very pleasant half hour [ with Dr. J. L. Martin. When I was ' in Abbeville he was the pastor of ithe Presbyterian church. He says that he had to retire from the active ministry because of his health, but that he must preach and that from the waist up he is stronger and more vigorous than ever in his life, though he told me he was 82 years old some time during the first of the present month. He has made a special study of Revelations and the Apocalypse and showed me two sermon?, from texts from these books that he had'|? prepared during the week that I was I g there. He doesn't talk like a manjlj who was weak in any particular andjg certainly mentally he is as vigorous |j J as any one who has not half as many g years behind him as Dr. Martin. Ijfj ihad not seen him in many years. He jj iwas probably instrumental in my go-|?| jing to Abbeville to teach, having g j known of some of the name by the jj marriage of his sister to Mr. Johnijj iPeaster, formerly of thid county, ?f | whose sister married James H. Aull. jg I have a Bible now which was the gj gift of the two children of Dr. Mar- jg j tin, a boy and a girl, the girl being a H pupil of mine. The gift came on the 1 14th of February, 1881, and on the 1 : fly leaf written by Dr. Martin are 3 j the Words: "See Ruth 1: 16 and 17." J 'X Another family that made a home EE 'for me was the family of Mr. J. D.11 Chalmers. Mrs. Chalmers was one of ! = 'the best women I ever knew. They i 1 :would not board me, but let me have 1 a room at their house, and rarely a ? day passed that good Mother Chal- 1 ! mers failed to have some dainty aisn j =j for me when I came in in the even-: g ing. I will never forget these good 1 (people. They had two daughters andji one son. The daughters died several | years ago and the son, James Chal- 1 | mers, died only a short time ago, be- j i jing treasurer of Abbeville county at-i ,'the time of his death. The home injl .'which they lived has passed into,j | other hands and a new and more!| elaborate mansion now stands on the 1 !spot, I g At the time of which I write Gen. | Hemphill was the editor of the Abbe- | . ville Medium and Mr. Hugh Wilson ? , of the Press and1 Banner ,the same j . two papers which are now published I . jin the town. Mr. William P. Greene | [ is the editor and proprietor of the j ( Press and Banner and his wife is the | . daughter of Gen. Hemphill. Mr. E. C. | , noixon is tne editor ana proprietor g ['of the Medium. The first newspaper ? I iwork I ever did was on the Medium | . when Gen. Hemphill went away on a | ( trip of a couple of weeks, he asked ? J me to write the editorials and other ? .{matters for the paper. I remember 1 that during the time Judge Thomas j .jThompson a citizen of Abbeville and | [ an eminent jurist and a circuit judge | 'at th* time died, and one of the first I " ? ' ss II things that I had to do was write a | ([sketch of his life for the Medium. ? /Judge James S. Cothran who was j I then the solictor of the circuit sue- | iceeded Judge Thompson on the j bench by appointment of the govern- | lor. ?? M Both the Abbeville papers have I linotype machines of course, and the | i Press and Banner has two, and the I reason for mentioning in this connec- g :tion is to say that the Press and Ban- I jner is using the electric pot and I | [was told that it bought current at 2 1 11-2 cents the kilowat hour, and here = jit costs us 8 cents, though Mr. Wal- 1 lace tells me that he pays only 6 ^ I cents, it may be on account of using I more of the curent than The Herald {and News, but the bill for the current month for The Herald and ;News is 8 cents, but even at 6 cents Sl the question that we want to ask is t] iwhy the difference even between 6 n jand 2 1-2 cents. Can not the commis- a i sioMPTB nf nnWio r* AT,?.1 tl , V* "Ui XVo All llCWUCUy jsell the "juice" at the same rate that ? lit is sold in Abbeville. Some one says v jthat Abbeville has a special contract ^ ,and that ony one other town has as ^ ! cheap a rate. I believe that town is I Greenwood. Certainly there should ^ not be such a great difference. There ^ Jshould be a reason. I notice that ef- a I forts are to be made to get a cheap- f' jer rate in Newberry so that the S j "juice" may be used for cooking and j heating. I hope the effort may be tl 'successful. e e j And then I want Mayor Blease ^ and his council to take a party of the 0 ! Newberry business men over to this ^ little town when the street paving is completed and let them see what a ^sort of streets are being builded, and I see the delegation in the legisla- , Iture is going to let the people of the jcounty vote on issuing $600,000 in ^ ! bonds for road building. In recent ijyears two counties have been cut off ^ from Abbeville, Greenwood and Mci Cormick, but the old county is still ^ alive and moving forward. v Maybe I should not have written v , all of this about another county, and L maybe it will not interest the readers t of The Herald and News, but I just c I.?,,.- - -- - couian t neip it ana here it is. If 11 you do not care to read it why just ^ pass it up. P E. H. A. n iibeiiie 1 WeN i ( Bl j We b< ?? I terested ii | you. Cor J We m 1 templatin: I tions or e I sign of th * of the co dividual c I WE SC mi mm m | a. H m | STRONO i ifllHllilfllfflllMffllHBI ON THE ROAD QUESTION. Editor Press and Banner:?It ?ems that the Good Roads Bill in:oduced by Senator Moore is beaming to put the people to thinking. I m slow to think that a majority of le voters of Abbeville County are oing to vote for the bond issue. They oted against it before more than iree to one. I don't want to De unerstood as being against good roads or I am a road man myself. I have een working my own roads to make hem good for more than forty years r.d I am on the job now, and I am or having the best plan for providing ood roads. I do not claim to be a Solomon, neiher do I claim to know more than verybody" else, but with my experince with road work, I am satisfied ' i i- -i '1 J J-11 nat six nunarea tnousana aouars, ven if well expended, will never uild more than one-half the roads to he different points from Abbeville s outlined in the bill of Senator loore. When every dollar of the ond issue is collected and spent, and ot more than half the roads built, he people of Abbeville County will nd themselves like a poor man at a rolic, wanting to dance but with othing to pay the fiddler. They will e wanting the highways finished and rill have no money to pay for the rork. I still contend that if the legisla11 va nr/Mil/J r\oPB o lonr wiioa 4-V? n uic wuuiu pass a law iv xaioc tiic ^ ommutation tax to two dollars and, npose a small tax on property, and f this additional money was spent, roperly on the roads, widening the' arrow places, and grading the worst lot Only) LJT SHOW \ I .? / elieve in co-op< i your success, ne in and "tall ivite the consid g a change in stablishing new lis bank is to n * mmunitv as w( iepositor. )LICIT YO t. UNTYSAV A. Neuffer, Pres , i i SAFE ! places, all the people, young and old for c would get some benefit for the money (told spent. If the people vote the bond jury issue they will find that the money j ^ will all be spent at once, the roads SUPP will soon wash away and we will j to 171 leave a big debt to be paid by an-i out i other generation. j you Those who are spared long enough rule will find out that there will be many fcre men who will vote for bonds to build ^ the proposed roads that will hear Gabriel's horn a long time before they hear that the roads are finished.'^ If blind Bartemus were back here he could see that there is something be-j hind this good roads scare besides good roads. ^ There was a man once who was sailo: prosecuted for stealing a cow. He Worl was taken up to the Court House entrj charged with the crime. The evi- Shos dence in the case was plain and posi- omin tive that he did steal the cow and Se take her home and eat her. When folio court came on and this defendant: of tl: was to be tried it was a hard matter ably for him to get a lawyer to take hisorent s> o a a Pir in oie+on na V? a finollv nor* I f-ViP T suaded a young lawyer to take hisj tion case, and telling him that he would tion be sure to win, the young lawyer de- Piatt cided to take the case. When the Th case came up the young lawyer made open< the best defense he could, the prose- Marc cuting attorney being an able man, Marc then made a tremendous speech for Ev the prosecution, the jury retired and woul< in a few minutes came back and re-.bond turned a verdict of not guilty. Thej servi< prosecuting attorney knew that there per c was something wrong, and told the' day rlo+'otif)ant if Vio wnnlrl toll him what! rrnhli it was, he would pay the lawyer's feeJwouU Pav Intf INTEREST v eration. We We want i it over" wit eration of tho their Banking c. n i accounts. J leet the requn i\\ as to serve UR BUSIi i INGSBAN ( R. E. Cox, Cashiei : cor lllllllliWaiiBBtliHIKliltMililil iefending him. The defendant FIFTY him that the foreman of that^ had had some of that beef for^ er the night before. It seems Sava e that there is somebody looking. n*?er? \ ers bac tor some beef in this case. Boys, coacheE had better take Davy Crockett's ment a: to "Be sure you are right" be- when S you cast your vote "then go ^rom ^ i wreckei j ?? i a* i ;of Sav; W. C. Shaw. ' mornini ERVICE MEN GET The PRIOR Rir.HT TO NftDTH curred PLATTE-SHOSHONE LAND ?7 ,Ways s ashington, Feb. 7.?Soldiers, '^pon r i wrGck rs and marines who served in the !d War, will have prior rights of, aS^' ^ r on the vast North Platte and ? hone irrigation projects in ^ g, to be opened next month. cretary Lane announced tonight. wing passage by Congress today ... , ,. . . , would 1 le joint resolution giving honor-, discharged service men a pref-! :e right in obtaining lands under Jurec* * lomestead act, that first applies- noon ai of the provisions of the resolu- ^oca' '1C would be applied to the North A pi e and Shoshone projects. I follow* e North Platte tract will be Mrs. ed to entry by ex-service men C; Mrs. h 5 and the Shoshone project C.; Wil h 13. thews, I ery man serving in the war Chariot d get a World War veteran Raleigh worth $1 for every day of C.; I "" tnfAWAcf of A Q_A P 1VT"r?c uc anu ucaiiiig mucicob at -x u-* i v., ;ent. under a bill introduced to-, C.; Mrs by Representative Osborne, Re-j C. can of California. The issue 2.; R. 1 be limited to $1,500,000. C. i Cdl | m I m sb SB are in- 1J to help I h us. I J ' se con- j ! Rela- [| fhe de- 1 rements | the in- | H' # Si NESS | ===== K B v: JSERVATIVE INJURED IN TRAIN SMASH-UP nnah, Ga., Feb. 7.?Fifty pasi were injured, scores of othlly shaken up, four passenger ; plunged down an embanknd four others were derailed, ieaboard Air Line train No. 3, ew York to Jacksonville, was d about nineteen miles south annah at 9:30 o'clock this Scause of the wreck has not ;n learned. The smashup ocabout four miles south of tation, near a small trestle. onmvino* fho nou/c r\-f f local officials of the Seaboard made up a relief train and to the scene with a number sicians aboard. Although offithe railroad estimated that ifty persons received injuries, d not believe any fatalities esult. relief train bearing the ineturned to the city this afterid a few were removed to >spitals. rt officiallist of the lniured E. P. Truedale, Kershaw, S. W. . V. Oliver, Matthews, S. liam Thomas Oliver, Mat3. C.; Mrs. E. R. Daughter, te, N. C.; C. D. Tucker, , N. C.; W. F. Fant, Hamlet, I. H. Johnson, Charlotte, N. . R. H. Johnson, Charlotte, N. i. J. A. Kell, Hendersonville, F. S. Matthews, Rock Hill, S. B. Quarterman, Limerick, S.