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>; j-ggg _ BANKS "ON THE ROAD" " K' ' ( * Write, of Mou. Waddell ami Old >' Willingtcn. I | gJj I . . (William Banks in Columbia State) In &ese days of "efficiency," "production" and such like, do we give I;' ' full credit to the efficiency of the men 1- who dared the wilderness and its perils to give us the great state that we have? These reflections are caused by a consideration of the "buried cities" of South Carolina. Among them is old Wellington. Standing in the ' door of .the general store of Covan 4 Kennedy, at the new town of Willington, and looking due west, the eye comes to rest upon the ensemble at a distance of a mile, of a patriarchal'grove of White oaks?the site of. one of the. most famous seats of instruction in the whole hiirtory of tie United States. Here at. old Wil>. ') lington were taught by Moses Wadr dell a.great number of young men 3 whose names subsequently were em|? blazoned upon the pages of our history?John . Calhoun, William H. Crayford of Georgia, *who so nearly ? achieved the* presidency of the Unit I?. . edStatea, George McDiiffie, Hugh S. Legare, Jamfes L. Petigru, Pickens -T ? Butler, Who sat with Calhoun in the A United Stfctffe senate; Patrick Noble, ,, !' Bull, Dawson, 'Walker, Marshall, Shields, Simkins and Longatreet, of this state, together with Cobb, Gil$' ? mer, Appling -and 1 other towering ' Georgians. Ah, the efficiency of those days, and the product! Two former b pupils At one time representing ?outh Carolina in the United Statetfs genii. ate. IncomDarable. gt-.v. All that remains'of old Willin^ton is the record of the great men and < good who themselves have passed into history more than half a century ?? .gone. The heritage of such a man as Moses Waddell, and the influence of his life tpori the history ,of the entire South?for later he bedame pres% ident of the University of Georgia and his son chancellor of the Univeerisity Of Mississippi?is priceless, yet how little appreciated. The Americanism character of such men was due the discipline under which they "had b^en reared and the same inflexibility of regard for principle-which they imposed upon \ the youthful mind, Tlia so-called "cultural" stu lau&ueu ivuuy in comparison with the practical and technical but in those days,at.least there was a place for the drilling in Latin and Greek. Latin grammar, studied me, moriter, definitions of the parts of speech, declensions and paradigms, . and conjugations, regular and irregular, all committed to memory and as familiar to the student of fchose days "&e the rules of the basebah diamond are to the normal boy of today. Think of studying Latin in rhyme from "Ruddijnan's Rudiments of the Latin Tongue," a book of many expediments for the purpose of .aiding the memory to overcome - the stubborn obstacles of syntax. And yet the psychiatrists of today think they 5- nave discovered sometmng new in me mental tests they gave the recruits E- ' coming into camp during the war. All ? of those tricks and puzzles were "small town stuff" compared with the intricacies of "Rudiman's Rudiments." The days of the old schools have passed and the problem of .the . day is teaching "in the mass," and it W:/ ip a problem in which the foresighted educators would have the sympa!&?' thy of all who wish to see the mind fe ' ofthe child developed properly. When we think of Dr. Waddell and his associates having as many as 180 L young men under their training at 'C one time, when we think, of the soundness and the symmetry of the n -finished product, we must confess L . that there were giants among the . . . , I schoolmasters 01 tnose aays. Let no one mispronounce the name of this remarkable man. He disdained the accent on the last syllable as an affectation and declared that he had "waddled along thus far in i life," and he would "waddle" the rest of the way. There are many interesting anec dotes of Dr. Waddell and his school and one of the most amusing is perpetuated in '.'Georgia Scenes," thit droll book by Dr. A. B. Longstreet, one of Dr. Waddell's pupils and later president of South Carolina col^ lege. In this little story, "The Debating Society," Judge Longstreet describes the interest taken in such school work by the young men of the period. Two of the young men "fram?d up" on their mates, and proposed for debate the subject "Whether at ft BIG BRIDGE FOR DETROIT Work on Soi|?niioB Structure Costing $30,000,000 To Begin New York Times. 9 P ? Definite arrangements for preliminary work on the construction of a great highway and railway bridge across the Detroit-River at Detroit were announced yesterday. Two corporations have been organized to carry out the project, the American Transit Company and the Canadian Transit Company, chartered by the Canadian Parliament. It is understood that a contract has been signed between them for joint action in financing and building the bridge, aid that plans ioi the structure are sufficiently under way* to contemplate actual construction in 1922J The American company has obtained authority from Congress to opail* WIIC liTVI| niuvu w ?m VHW* mated to cost approximately $30,000,000. The bridge will be a suspend sion span 1,808 feet centre to centre of piers, and 110 feet clear above the water. There will be two decks, with provision for two . street car tracks, two twenty-eight foot road-' ways, two seven-foot walks, four railway tracks'and space for public utility cables or conduits. Charles Evan Fowler, consulting, engineer of New York City, is hand- ( ling tne design ana construction ox the bridge. A board of consulting engineers has also, been organized with Mr. Fowler as Chairman, the other members being George H. Pagram, chief engineer, Bureau of Rapid Transit Company, New York; Wil- 1 liam H. Burr, consulting enigneer, New York; Professor C. R. Young, University of Toronto, and Colonel : C. N. Monsqrrat, consulting engineer, ' Ottawa, Ontario, who was a member of the Board of Engineers of the Quebec bridge. i X < . ffppiiTntnniqrnn 9 C ' oiADUAiu/i^u; jnuLj ? - >' r New York Telegraph. New Zealand is to have stand- 1 ardized footwear. It. is proposed to issue to all shoe manufacturers 1 in New Zealand who are willing to J comply with the conditions set out in 11 the regulations a license to place on ^ the market boots (branded "New ' Zealand Board of Trade." ' ' ^ The maximum retail price will 'be J marked in plain figures on the sole 1 of the shoe, and it will not be a breach of the regulations to sell at 1 a lower price, The stamped price 1 will provide for the cost of manu- ( facture, plus a reasonable profit to 1 i cne manuiacturer,! ana . a sumciem } sum to cover distribution. Where a retailer-or manufacturer ' employs a -warehouse to finance ljim, 1 the warehouse must >be paid for ser- ! vices without increasing the price of the <boots to the pulblic, the idea be- 1 ing to Teduce handling expenses to the lowest possible "figure and bring the retailer into direct touch with 1 the manufacturer. Theb est-quality ' chrome leather for the uppers and ' first-grade New Zealand sole leather must be used. The maximum retail 1 prices will range (from children's 1 shoes at 14s. 3d. to men's shoes at 1 33s. public election, should the votes, of faction predominate by internal suggestions or the bias of jurisprudence?" Now, any one who will undertake to parse or to analyze that sentence will readily see that "there's nothing to it," in the finished vernacular of the youth of today. The two youths who perpetrated this/query prepared elaborate arguments, one pro and con. The other members of the society were puzzled, but some were I game enough to tackle the subjeect until they "blew up" and were fined and otherwise penalize^ under the rules of the debating society. The young men who participated afterwards became famous in the history of this state. Judge Longstreet but "urerfic-ally conceals their identity under the noms de plume. For instance we readily recognize in "McDermot," one of the perpetrators of the hoax, none other than . George McDuffie, afterwards governor and United States senator and one of the state's greatest orators. Others of the society were Judge Longstreet himself, the other perpetrator of the jjoke, and Jas. L. Petigru, South i Carolina's greatest lawyer; John Noble, afterwards governor and Cobb of Georgia, a man as renowned in statecraft in his day as Tyrus Raymond Cobb has been in these later years. HISTORIC TREES NAMED FIT FOR HALL OF FAME American Forestry Association Gs thers Data of Interest To File As Record. New York Times. ' *tu. ? * - Nearly a dozen historic and jage<i trees in different mparts of the coun? try have been nominated rectfntlj for 'the Hall o< Fame for Trees, instituted by the American Forestrj Association. Four of them are oaks and three are elms. Two of the trees an oak and a willow, are closely associated with George Washington. The oak is on the Hampton plantation at Santee River, South Carolina^ The plantation is owned by Colonel Henry Jfcutledge, who occupies the spacious hoihe built about 1750 by <Daniel Horry, a French Huguenot. Washington was a visitor there in 1791, and admired the oak * O so much that he prevailed on the Horry family not to cut the tree down. It has long been known as the oak which Washington Saved, ?nd Colonel Rutledge has devoted a t deal' of care to its preservation. , The willow is at Constantine, Mich. It grew from some twigs of the large weeping willows over the tomb of Washington afc Mount Vernon. The twigs W%re cut from the Washington Willows in 1876 !by 'Franklin Wells 'and Johji Jones of Constanfcine. Only one willow survived, and iVwi ?*AM f*AA wuaw ay uvw a umi^iiiuvcui/ Besides the South Carolina oak three other famous oaks (have been named fbr the Hall of Fame. One is in New Jersey, one in New Orleans and the third in Massachusetts. The last named is known as the Indian war oak. It is in Grafton, Mass., a place which figured prominently during the early wars against the Indians. " ' * , The New Jersey tree is known as the Oro as wicks oak, 'being in the bown of that name standing close to Hia maufinw limiea IhnlH. 171 1773. The church was used as a hospital during the Revolution and at one tim? was occupied toy a regiment of Hessians, The oak is one of the largest in New Jersey, having a circumference -of 26 1-2 feet at a height of three feet above the ground. The tree is 87 feet (high, having a spread of 123 feet. Thfe New Orleans tree is known as ilje McDonough oak and is a memorial tree to the former owner of the -state, who took an active part in exbending the pulblic school system of New-Orleans after the Civil War. rhe circumference of this oak at a tieight of four .feet from the ground is 27 feet and its (branches hays a spread of .124 feet. So far as is known the oldest of the trees recently nominated is "the famous Lewis Cass elm in the City Park at Elyria# Ohio. It 1s said bo ibe 250 years old, and in 1848 Lewis Cass stood beneath the tree and addressed a mass meeting of Ohio voters during his Presidential campaign. He was Running on the Democratir ticket against General Zachary Taylor. The elm is in an excellent state of preservation, having a circumference of 14 feet 5 inches at a height of four feet above the ground and is 82 feet in height. COTTON ADVANCES $5.00 A BALE ON EXCITED MARKET New Orleans, Aug. 25.?The broadest demand for cotton in many months put the price up $5 a bale by noon today in the futures contract market. December crossed the 15 cent level to 15.06 cents and Oct, rose to 14.86, where it stood 106 points higher than the close of yesterday. The ring was excited and activt from the opening and as the daj grew older was deluged with buying orders from points in the inter ior. > I The' continued drought in Texas reports of a better spot demand, th< farmers' holding movement and th< appearance in the, east gulf of Mex ico.of a storm area which, it was feared, might mean disastrous rain: fnr +Vio At.lnntvi/><s. wprp thp rnair buying influence of the session. No Beer Regulations Yet. Washington, Aug. 25.?Decisior to withhold issuance of medical beei regulations pending congresisonal ac tion on proposed anti-beer legisla tion was reached today by Secretar: Mellon in conference with Interna Revenue Commissioner *Blair. CORSETS AND MORALITY New York Telegram. * r In connection with the controvers raging in social, educational and re ligious circles anent the present lax ity of manners and morals amon; the younger generation, a corset man ufacturing conceni comes forwar I with the novel claim that corset wear . ing is a positive force for moralit; r as well as health. "Wherever you go, in these day r of a free-and-easy social atmosphere, i says Mrs. Ariel Nichols LeBday, ad , vertising manager for a nations firm of cornet makers, "you find tiv present corsetless fad a favorite tar ? get of punsters and purveyors of off tint anecdotes. The 'Old Ironsides ' and *with or without' stories?joke by which sqme of the broadest of u : were>shocked a few months ago? i have had so many wild successor ' that any would-be daring jokester who quoted the original quip woul< > doubtless let himself in for derisivi * banter as one hopelessly behind th< times. "The dance evil has assumed' thi . proportions* of ti national: problem ! With' it are associated questions <r. immodest dress and conduct. In higl schools, colleges and universities, ii the pulpit and in daily and religiou . papers from one end of the country to the other, educators, preacher and editors are thundering agains modern dress and dancing. In Nev York, I am told, there is a group oi church women of all denominations ? ? Tlfll / women Ui UlgU OUVlOi yuiuiiuu, nui have organized to combat 'the breakdown of moral standards manifested particularly in fashion involving ar excess of nudity and impropei methods of dancing.' One of our newest, and most exclusive Chicago hotels has ttaken a definite stand against the prevailing fashion and has posted signs in its cloak rooms, reading, 'Positively, no corsets checked." As timely publicity on the value of corsets to health and the preservation of a youthful carriage, ancirculating a short motion picture produced by the industrial division oi 1 the Society for Visual Education ir Chicago, which is so designed that it is free from any suggestion of direci advertising, so developed as to be nliAnrm/i* fA YV11V. entirely suiuauic XVI OUVTTUI^ W ed audiences in motion picture theatres. % / V MOUNT (Ba? SOUTHE Friday, < ? i * From all Principal i Ga., to Asheville, H tern North Carolina ; c . . o "J Eh C FROM ? S s "2 S > w cd P> 2 15 > + < M ? & Abbeville _ |$6.25|$6.75|$6.25 $5 ( Anderson _ | 5-501 6.00| 5.50[ 4 , Belton ... | 5.00| 6.00|.5.00| 4 Carlisle | 4.25| 5.50J 4.25( i 1 Donalds __ 5.75 6.25 5.75 4. Greenville . 4.25 4.75 4.25 3 ! Greenwood _|6.50 7.00 6.25 5, > Greer 3.75 4.25 3.75] 3 i I Honea Path 5.50 6.25 5.50 4 Pelzer 4.75 5.50 4.75 4 Piedmont _ 4.75 5.25 4.75 3 , Prosperity _ 6.00 6.75 6.00 5 | Seneca ___ 5.75 6.25 5.75 4 Spartanburg| 3.00| 3.75| 3.00| 2 Union | 4.25| 4.75| 4.00| 3 PROPORTIONATE f EXCURSION TICKET8 g ing to and including all I 31 EXCURSION TICKETS v I PLAN NOW for your Vac Mountain Rc Apply to Ticke 7 1 MASTER'S SALE Tho State of South Carolina, I COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE, Court of Common Pleas g L. P. SONDLEY, Plaintiff, against CHARLIE' JANIDES and J. S. y STARK, j. Defendants. By authority of a decree of sale by s the Court of Common Pleas for Ab' beville County, in said State, made in " the above stated case, I will offer for 1 sale, at Public Outcry, at Abbeville, B C. H., S. C., on Salesday in Septem" ber, A. D.f 1921, within the legal " hours of sale the following described 1 land, to wit: All that certain lot or s parcel of land situate,-lying and bes ing in the city of Abbeville, Abbe" ville Couiity, in the State aforesaid,v 8 known as lot No. 4 of the D. O'Neill s property as shown on plat - of S. B. * Rambo, engineer, dated April' '22, e 1919, the same having a two story 3 brick house-thereon, fronting twenty-five and nine-tenths (25.9) feet' on i the Public Square, and running back a distance of seventy-two and eight f tenths (72.8) feet; being bounded eii i the northwest by lot No. 3; on the ) nnrflipaot. hv lnf Nn 8 nnrl low ratii I ? ?-0-. 3 lot; on the southeast by Russell store l lot and law range lot; and on the 3 southwest by the public square. t .Also lot No. 8 of the D. O'Neill \ property lying at the rear ot the above described lot and running back I ) from the rear of a ten (10) foot al leyway, the same having a width of ' . v~ 1 ' ' 1 1837 ERSKINE DUE WE Eighty -fotr years of eontir (Unwavering Adherence .1 thorough Scholarship. . Coarseb : A. B., B. S., M. * Literary Societies Emphasi Intercollegiate Contests in worthy of comparison. . ' B Adequate Equipment and 1 l Board in College Home a1 ;j Moderate. . ,. ; , | For catalogue and Appiicat ! ERSKINE J.rr-. ;;-;yi)UE:WS . - N AIN EXC1 :k to The Good Old Dayi V I A .... rn railway , September ?oints in South Carolina endersonville, Waynesvil l Summer Resorts as foil ? >? S (8 > Si * C e a t o .5 e# X t w E o ? * b ft 2 H ; ? g sa 5 . "2 x ,8) C8 ? O a 55 w C I ^ G l2 e>3 S rt <u H M K W |J >-; I >-3 hJ .25 $5.50 $7.25 $8.00 $7.25|$7.00 $8.50 l.50| 4.5p 7.00 6.75 6.50 [ 6.75| 7.50 .00| 4.251 5.75 6.50 6.25 6,00 7.00| 1.751 4.00 5.00 6.00 - 5.50 5.25 | 6.25 .751 5.001 6.75 7.25 6.75 6.50 7.50 ok\ 5 Rnl k 95 fi.KO 5.25 5.00 6.00 "'""i ? ? -i .50 5.50 7.25 7.75 7.25 7.00 8.00 .0.0 3.00 4.75 5.00 4.r" 4.50 5.50 .75 4.75 6.50 7.00 6.o<) 6.25 7.25 .00 4.00 6.00 6.25 5.76 5.50 6.75 .75 4.00 5l75 6.00 5.50 5.50 6.50 .25 5.25 7.00 7.50 7.00 6.75 7.75 .75 4.75 6.75 7.00 6.50 6.25 7.50 .25 2.25 4.25 4.50 4.00 3.75 5.00 .25 3.25 7.00 5.50 5.00 4.75 8.00 :ly low fares from interme /ia/AD TA* TO BE ADDED) V ?*r>ai rn-wm-m - _ lood going on all trains Septeml .rains leaving destination Sunday viil be good in Pullman, Sleepin rhop IfpH. Dayaayo ation and Needed Rest in the V {sorts. Make Pullman Reservat t Agents or R. Dist , 81 sixteen and five tenths (16.6) feet, and a depth from lot N^4 to the alley way of sixty-one and sixteenth* <61.6) feet; the northwest.line being: a continuation of. the northwest line of ldt No. 4, the same being bounded , on the northwest by lot No. 7; on the northeast by alley way; on the southeast by law range lot; and on the southwest by lot No. 4 and being more accurately-described on the plat above referred to. ( The two (2) lots described above will be sold as one (1) lot. All assessments for street improvementsmust be assured by the purchaser. TERMS OF SALE?One-third cash, and balance on credit of one and tw6 years in equl installments, the credit portion to bear interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum, and to be evidenced by the bond of ll.~ -1 .? J 1?- L!- ? L | me purchaser, secureu oy iuh mortgage of the premises, with option to the purchaser to pay all cash. Purchaser to pay for stamps and papers. % THOS. P. THOMSON, Aug. 1. 1921 Master A. C., S. <L ? ' . '?? . . , ; For Best Results 'jWiZ i'r'iUife W ^goV^ LIVE STOCK REMEDIES . \, Sold by Druggists tend Dealer* ? ' . ' . 1 COLLEGE 1921 | !ST, S. C. . ? roous service. ; to Christian Character and 1 A.., Pre-Medical, Special. |j wed 0 Debate, Oratory and Athletics ij endowment. " - j| ; Cost Price in Private Homes |j ion Blank, write to *" COLLEGE, ST, S. C. V I JRSIONS 0 t , SYSTEM 2, 1921 including Augusta, le and all other Wesows: c I ? e & | .2 jg -8 Ja g 3 * -3 1 J? 5 S 1 Pi I- 03 I 60 I H I p$7,001*6.25 $5.25|$6.00|$5.00|$7.25 I 6.751 6.001 4.251 5.25| 4.00| 6.25 6.251 5.251 4.001 4.25| 3.75| 6.25 i| 5.501 4.501 3.25| 3.75] 3.00| 5.7? 6.75 5.75 4.50 4.75 4.25 6.75 5.25 4.25 3.00 3.00 2.50 5.25 7.25 6.50 5.25 5.15 4.50 7.50 4.75 3.75 2.25 2.50 2,25 4.75 6.50 5.50 4.25 4.50 4.00 6.50 5.75 5.00 3.75 4.00 3.25 6.00 5.50 4.75 3.50 3.75 3.25 5.75 7.00 6.00 4.75 5.25 4.50 7.25 6.50 5.75 4.50 4.75 4.00 6.75 4.00 3.00 2.00 2.25 1.50 4.25 | 5.00 4.25 3.00 3.25 2.50 5.25 :diate points ber 2nd, and good return- J r, September the 18th. ^ ?? , a and Parlor Cars and %* f ) Vestern North Carolina ions Early. f C. COTNER, f rict Passenger Agent,/ 'ARTANBURG, 8. C. 1 i i