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Established 1844.
THE PRESS AND BANNER
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
The Press and Banner Company
Published Tri-Weekly
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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toet office in Aobeville, S. C.
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Six months $1.0#
Three months .50
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1921
A WRONG CONCLUSION.
The Abbeville Medium has discov
. ered evidence, it says, that it has a
circulation. It has made this discov
ery in this wise, it says: It finds that
for a period of thirty days it has car
. rjed a certain <number of lines of
"want advertsements" more than the
/ number carried by the Press- and
Banner. (When a man wants to brag
on himself he always compares him
; self with a big institution.) The Me
dium says that when a reader of &
certain paper wants anything he
makes his wants known in the paper
which he repds, and it draws the con
N elusion that therefore there are^nore
. people who read the Medium than
there are those who read the Press
and Baqner; or rather it seeks to
have its readers draw that inference.
The conclusions * of the Medium
are entirely illogical, it seems to us.
The subscription lists of the two pa
i . S e
pers, we should think, show which of
the papers published at Abbeville has
the:larger number of subscribers.
When the Medium man has his count
ing clothes on again we shall be glad
v ' 'to compare these lists with him and
r publish the results. The want columns
. ' ? of the paper show, not the number of
subscribers of the paper, but the
number of those subscribers who are
in-want of something. We are willing
to admit that there are more' readers
of the Medium in want of something
v than there are like readers of ^ this
paper. If all the subscribers of the
Medium who are'in want should ad
m
?-S-? vertise their kwants in the Medium's
i , want columns there would be no
room in the next issue to tell about
the Junior and Senior Deacons?be
; * ,
cause all the readers of the Medium
are in want?of p. good newspaper
like The Press and Banner. -
THE DEATH OF VAUGHN
The following editorial is taken
from The State of Monday. So far
as we have heard opinions expressed,
i^is in line with the general opinion
as expressed by others. It says:
"Not/often is a white man of
education executed'for a capital
crime in South Carolina, and,
though the offense- of- T. U.
VaUghn was one of extreme
heinousness, he escaped the elec
tric chair,
"Nevertheless his death was a
vindication of the law. In his
case the prosecution, though long
drawn out and tedious, was un
relenting ancj his escape from the
' fegal penalty was no more than , .
technical. He died ?or his crime,
and, though he was not legally i
executed, his death was volun
tary x only in a strained and
narrow sense of the word. Sel
. dom has any man clung to life
more persistently or given great
er evidence of the love of it. To
every possible device to avoid
the consequences of his deed he
had recourse and he illustrated
, a perseverance that did not fall
short of being remarkable. But,
after 10 years, not literally but
not less truly, he 'came to the
end of his rope' and for no other
reason than that the state of
South Carolina, through its
peace- officers, was not less per
severing than he was.
"His fate is as well calculated
to deter others from the com
mission of capital crimes as
though he had died in the South
Carolina penitentiary, and not in
* a Florida jail."
There will be those, of course, who
will blame the courts, the judges and
the lawyers for the law's delays in
this case. It is now apparent to every
one that Vaughn was not insane, or
not so insane that he was not re-p
sponsible in the law for the crimes he ^
committed. But where human life is 1
at stake, even the life of a person
rVia'rtfPfl with a heinous offense, the
authorities cannot fre too careful. We
feel that in the Vaughn case the law
has been vindicated, more fully vin- \
dicated than had Vaughn been de
nied a hearing, and investigation in 1
thp matter,of Ms sanity. There would
have been some, had he been imme
diately executed, who would not have
been satisfied as to his sanity. Now
all doubt is removed, and the prison- ^
er, as The State says, dies at the j
hands of the" law. . . j
- It is true'that Vaughn lived a long -
time. But when we remember that <
all tfrisHiitoe he was sane, and that <
even' Wtien 'h^' was free, he was. har- 1
assed notT only by a consciousness of 1
his guilt^ biit' ^y fear that he would '
one. captured, " and that the '
end would come either in the' electric 3
chair .of by his own hand, in the one ,
way or r$e other as surely as night (
follows, day, we may wonder, wh^n :
Vaughn in the last few days of his .
life <;ontemf>liated it all, whether he ]
did not see that it wouia nave ueeu
better had it ended in! the beginning, i
i ... . " *:
Certainly there is nothing in the <
years he has since lived to incite :
others to tfie^commission of crime, |
nor to lead others to think that a
guilty man may at-last escape.
If every man guilty of crime came
so near to reaping his just deserts as
did Vaughn, we might think the law
was more ikearly satisfied in all cases.,
SOUND THE CHARGE!
(Manufacturers' Record.)
"Beat a retreat," said Napoleon to
a drummer; boy, when in one of his
battles he felt that he was losing and
that his army must retrefct in order
to be saved.
"Sire," said the drummer boy, "I
have never learned to beat a retreat,
rfut I can beat a march that will make
the dead arise and fight." He received
permission from the General to beat
a march, into which he threw "his very
soul. The tired, weary, almost de>
felted soldiers caught tfye inspiration
-1? ?? ??<1 ttri+Vi nom nnorlrj
OI tlie cnaigc, anu njvu ??WT? ? e.^
and quickened fire of body and spirit
rushed once more to the battle and <
won a great victory. i
The people of this country feel that
they have been almost defeated; dis
couragement fills their minds and
hearts. The power of the enemy has
almost reached the limit of their en
durance.\ They have been beating a
retreat, but the time has come to beat ,
a march and catch that new inspira. .
tion which Napoleon's soldiers felt at
the stirring music brought forth by (
the indomitable drummer boy who ,
knew not how to beat a retreat.
Every man who is pessimistic, or ,
who permits the discouragements of i
the hour to dominate him, is beating .
a retreat. He ig not only beating a j
retreat for his own busine&s, but he ,
is beating a retreat for all with whom, <
he comes in touch. The time has ?>m& ,
(
beat a march, to sound the charge, j
to quicker! thc'Iife blood of the na
tion once more, and out of the appar- j
ent defeat of the last twelve months j
rally for a new charge, a new crea,-.
fcive neriod of work and enit*v,. *
.... x- 1
getting the thin** that ate bahind, (
we must press forward With greater
energy to overcome the* difficulties (
which as a nation we have had to face.
Every man who draws within his
business shell, every man who can- ,
eels his contracts or pessimistcally ,
refuses to do business because of ,
fear of the future, is beating a re
treat. - *
Every man who goes ahead, who (
has the optimism of the drummer boy
and a spirit which dares to do things,
is beating a march on to victory. .
If throughout the entire nation
there can be rekindled the drummer
boy's fire, we shall soon have opti
mism and sunshine and prosperity,
where today there is pessimism and
doubt and despair.
It was the drummer boy whose
work inspired the great Napoleon
and his troops. It must be the drum
mer Doy 01 tne Dusiness worm, ine
farmer and the small merchant, and
the individual business man, who ,
beats the march and sounds the
charge rather than the great business
leaders who have halted so long.
The oWs who have suffered must <
be the ones to dare and do the most. <
The men who would beat a march <
on to victory over the threatened dis-'.
ister which they have so lonjj faced c
vill be the red-blooded men who know 1
;hat the nation cannot stand still and i
svho are determined to lead the ?
:harge. 1 * 1
The pessimist is the shirker." .
The optimist is the burden-bearer, t
The nessimist is the man who beats l
the retreat. '
The optimist is the man who sounds
the charge.
WHICH ARE YOU? . . v' .
THE GREAT SEAL AGAIN
Last night's Associated Press dis
patches corrected the assertion made
Friday that the death of James Jones
negro body servant of Jefferson Da
vis has removed, the possibility of as
iertaining the whereabouts of i;he
Confederate Great Seal, the correc
tion being in the form of a positive
statement from Richmond that uhe
Great Seal was in the Confederate
Museum;there and that it had been
identified by J. and S. Wyon, of Lon
don, who made it for the Confederate
States government. It is further stat
ed that the Jones story had long^been
regarded as a myth in Richmond.^
Yesterday's North Carolina papers
had long stones on wis ?iame:j jones
who, it appears, was a native of Nolrth
Carolina*. The Greensboro News play
ed it tip strong under headlines "Car- ]
ries To His Grave Secret of .the Ssal <
of Confederacy/'Adding later in its ]
headlines that he was faithful to the
test, would be buried in Raleigh ami ,
so on. Jones, one learns from ireading ,
this long sketch, was a native of W ar- \
ren county?that is where they tad* ;
so much trouble some months ligc?* .
and after a brief experience in Ral- 1
eigh, turned Republican and went to ,
Washington where he had held on for '
years as a messenger in the Senate's
stationery, room. The News said
"Throughout, his long life Jones
would never reveal What become of
the Confederacy's Great Seal. "Marae
Jeff" had hid it and had told James
never to tell where?and he never '
did. Veterans of both sides, newspa
permen by the dozens, curio hunter
and what not besought tym time after
time to tell but he never would tell.
The reason evidently was of the
best. He never told because he had
nothing to tell.
x Our reference yesterday afternoon
to one theory of its fate was mafe be
fore the correction came from Rich
mond and was based on a statement
in a letter written bv the late Col.
W. H. Parker, of Abbeville, and fur
ther backed up by a statement in a
sketch of Hon. Judah P. Benjamin (
that he was the man who actually did
the defacing of the seal and dropped
it in Savannah river. If, however,
the seal is in the Confederate Muse
am in Richmond and it evidently is
there, there'is an end not only of the
James Jones story but also of the
defacing and dropping into the river
3tory. * ...
It may be of some interest to recall
nore of the statement by the late Col.
W. H. Parker, one of the most estirn
ible of men. and one who was noted
:or his extreme care and caution in
nakypg statements. The late W. P.
Calhoun, Esq., Qf Abbeville, started
iuite a controversy some years ago
n putting forward Abbeville's claim
is the last meeting place of the Con
federate cabinet. The claim <ra8 dis
. . IT
>uteq Dy vy asmr^on, Ua. In tfte imass
>f evidence collected by Mr. Calhoun
wa3 a letter from Colk Parker or rath
jd ?Mr. Parker" AS most of his old j
frieftds and clients in this section
:alle<i him.
According to Mr. Parker, President '
Jeff Davis was entertained, in the i
home of Hon. Armistead Burt while (
the members of the cabinet who we re
with him, viz: Mr. Benjamin, Mr.
Mallory, Mr. Reagan and Gen. Breck
enridge were entertained in the home
of .Mr. T. C. Perrin, prominent law
yer of the Abbeville Bar and at' oqe
time president of the Greenville .and
Columbia railroad. Mr. Parker's
statement on the Great Seal is, in his
own words, as follows:
"I have heard from Mr. Perrin aid
members'of his family that the dis
posal of the Confederate Seal ofj
State was discussed at his house af
terwards .(after the last meeting of
the cabinet in the Burt house) and he
(Mr. Perrin) advised that the seal
be defaced and thrown into the Sa
vannah river which they would cross
on their way to Washington. It was
not known whether this was done or
not.', This is all Mr. Parker says on
the subject of the Seal. The opinion
or belief that this was actually done
came from such a statement in a
sketch of Mr. Benjamin which cannot, j
just now, be located. If the makers I
>f the Seal have identified the one in
Richmond as the original that will end
ill speculation and conjecture. The
Fames Jones story has been exploded
ong, long ago.
Mr. Parker further on in his letter
stated that General Breckenridge eat
ip all night in his room in the Per
nn home writing discharges of other
japers for members of the. escort,
rhe party was escorted by a rather
:onsiderable body of cavalry. The
force was reduced daily by illness,
iesertions and discharge's. Mr. Park
;r says a Kentucky regiment, or c
remnant of it,, rode back under a
ivhite flag from Savannah river to
ward Abbeville intending to surren
ier to a Yankee force which they had
aeard had reached Abbeville in pur
suit. There was no such force there
md they scattered, each man for hiin
jelf. . . , i .
* Along with the story of the Greal
Seal there were many stories of what
became of the Confederate gold. The
imount was greatly magnified. And
in addition to this many other stories
were created as to who got it and sc
ind so on. That story can wait foi
mother time.?Index-Journal.
SELLING HOOSIERS.
I .
The Corn, had a eood stock ol
Hoosi&r Kitchen' Cabinets on handt
svhen deflation struck the 'country
He' concluded that everybody was a;
poor as he Is and that none of th<
down-trodden men would purchase t
:abinet for the good wives at hom<
Until times ;?ot better. But Sergeant'
Roy Power and Sam McCuen had i
few ideas of their own on the subject
They told the Corp. that if he woul(
only run a little advertising campa:gi
in the Press and-Banner, they woul<
do the rest. The Corp', had had i
Hoosier week once before and sol<
thirteen Hoosiers, but he said nothing
like that could be done now, but h(
was willing to "try it cnce" he said.
So Friday afternoon theJ first ad
vettisement of the Hosiers, on th<
(
regular Hoosier installment plan
appeared in this papter. Saturda;
morning the: good women of the cit:
were reading about them, and by clos
ing time Saturday night five of then
had gone out. The second advertise
mon> o nnoa'/od in fViio no nor MnnHiii
1A4VA1W MWV? VlttW
afternoon, and by Tuesday after
noon five more had gone out to mak<
that many homes happy.
The Corp. walked down Tuesday
afternoon as Serg. McCuen was load
ing two, and yelled out, in his mos
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the va
that are corres
the very best v
reached the ul
est values in n<
vice consider*
We als<
of sumr
on clisp
mo?t e?
styles fc
Pt
military language, "Look here Sam,
1 don't sell all them cabinets until I
i set aside one for Big Sister. They
I seem to he going so well that I be
lieve I jtfll buy one myself."
The sale is still going on. There are
> only a few more of these cabinets
. which will be sold on the plan of a
dollar down and a dollar a week.
, When these are gone, the regular
terms of the store, where a consider
s able payment is required on deliv
, ery, will be adhered to.
If you ara thinking of putting in
,{a Hoosier and of thereby promoting
^peace and good-feeling at home and
want to do it in a way that will en
able you to have one of these fine
cabinets on terms which will make
you think someone has made you a
present, it will pay you to call on one
of these officers at the "Buy Now,
Pay Later" headquarters before the
end of the present week.
"RENDER UNTd CAESAR"
"Everybody's doing it"; that. is.
having, "plays". Even Due West has
succumbed to the prevailing epi
demic; but, as might "be expected,
makes a serious thing out of it, and
its first play has the' sober and
sClemn title of ""The Importance Of
Bemg JSarn^at*?dewberry Ubser-|
ver. """ *''
"Render unto Caesar the things
that are Caesar's"?Bro.A Wallace?
You evidently'didn't finish reading
the advertisement of the above
comedy. This was an Abbeville High
School ' production and a very
creditable one. We will be glad to
go to Newberry with the "Impor
tance of Being Earnest" if the Ob
server will guarantee expenses.
NOTICE!
TEACHERS EXAMINATION
The regular spring teachers exami
nation will be held in the County
Court House on Saturday May 7th
between the hours of 9 A. M. and
4 P. M.
Every teacher holding a temporary
permit for the scholastic year of 1920
and 1921 and expiring June 30th,
1921 is urged to take this examina
tion. ;
The usual first-grade * and third
f grade certificates will be issued by
- the State Board of Examiners, Col
" umbia, S. C. , I
By order of the State Board of
1 Education.
**- . W.J.EVANS,
t 4, 13-3^ Co. Supt. of Education.
Seasons
ixclusive line of materi
to-wear for ladies wl
Found at Th
% y
a special showing of new
elight the woman who wi
tally gay and pleasing. .
ilues are unprecedently \
spondingly low. Always
alue for the least possible
;most limit in these offeri]
ew merchandise, price, q
) announce the early
ner wear which we are
lay and which repres
xlusive models of the
>r the coming season
ulson & Hei
OFFfcR REWARDS . '/\
FOR WILLIAMS' SONS
Five Hundred Dollars for Apprehen
ion of Men Wanted On The
Murder Charge*.
Atlanta, April 12.?Rewards of
$500 each for the .apprehension of
Huland, Leroy and Marvin Williams,
who, with their father, John S. Wil- '
liams, and Clyde Manning, negro
were indicted yesterday in Jasper
county charged with the murder of
negroes were offered today by Gov
ernor Dorsey.
Announcement that Manning, who
:s under three murder indictments in
Newton, where the elder Williams
was convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment, would be tried early
in May, was made tonight by Solici
tor General Brand. " w .
N O T I C E. *
State of South 'Carolina,
County of Abbeville.
Take hotice that- bids wiU be re
ceived by tile undersigned .at the of -
fice of the County Supervisor in the
I Court House at Abbeville, S. C., at
eleVen o'clock A. M. April 26th, for a
loan of'Thirty Thousand (|90,000.)
Dollars to Abbeville County, to be
used in payment of ordinary expenses
of the County, in anticipation of the
collection of taxes, and being under .
authority of Section 1001 of Volume
1, Code of Laws, 1912, and amenda
tory Acts thereto. Loan to mature
March 15th, 1922.
The undersigned will pledge them
selves to deposit the proceeds of the
loan with the Bank making the same
and there to remain until withdrawn
in Ihe ordinary coarse of business,
provided a better rate of interest can.
be secured by so doing. -
"Right is reserved to reject any or
all bids. \
L. w. Keller, i-4
Supervisor, Abbeville Co.
J. E. Jones, ' ,
g Treasurer, Abbeville Co
April 11th, 1921.
W. A. HARRIS
FUQIERAL SUPPLIES
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