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PACKS TORN F lt OM THK HOOK OF MUMOKV. (Continued from Page Two.) The Horseshoe Rend of dunga derived its name from the famous Horseshoe Rollinson. Ile re sided there in the long n?;o, and was perhaps the videt pioneer of West ern South Carolina. He was a great Indian tighter, (Read Simms' History of Horseshoe Robinson and you will get it complete. ) I Tile Old Path-Finders. Now. kind reader, I take pleasure in giving you tho names of some of the oki path-tinders, torch-bearers, good roads builders, Indian fighters, ? home defenders, in tho memorable years of 1700 to 1X00. These noble, j public-spirited, patriotic, old citizens who were none other than living, ? moving encyclopaedias, were Nathan iel Hull, .lames Hull, Jonathan Gilli son, israel Willison, Uncle John Dowis, 1'nole Jack Abbott, Uncle "Buck'' Abbott, Capt. G. W. Abbott, I'ncle Henry McDonald. All these good, old-time patriots were born some time in the 17 00 period. A few of them I did not know, but their old-time histories I have often heard repeated and handed down to this day. Uncle Than Hull, by hard work and economy, had saved some three or four thousand dollars, which he kept well hld. During tho dark days of reconstruction the Union colored soldiers, with their white officers, pounced down on Uncle Than Hull, demanded his gold and silver, hut the old maa, then 00 years of age, did not ante. They roped him around the neck and hung him, and hung him a long time, but the old mau refused to tell - he never told them or anybody else-where he did his banking, in tho ground. The Yankees left the old man. They said he was true blue, and they could do nothing with him. He, like the old men 1 have mentioned above, were the kind that hlax.ed the trees and laid out these first old highways of Picken? District. 1 have given you. in my feeble way. ibo outlines of my early recollections as to how the old stage roads were built. One more line as to our legis lators, as lo our road supervisor, as to our hoard of road commis sioners. Why do wo not have now, as in thu days of long ago. tho good old sign-post, mile post, hand-painted finger-board, to direct and inform Ibo stranger what road to take, and how many miles to such and such a plaee? When I was a lifteen-year old boy I helped to work these roads, bare-fooled, shirt sleeves, glad of a Chance tn be with the old slave ne groes mid tile white folks. 1 well rom em ber Ihn I I have walked up to old Richland cross roads, and there stood lite handsome old white painted sign-board, with hand and pointing finger. What did thal mean to the passing stranger? lt read: How far to Jarrett's Itridgo? Answer, lt! milos. How far to old West Union? !? miles. (There was no Walhalla then.) On another whit?? hoard, How far to Picketts C. H.? 13 miles. How far to Knox's Bridge? 2f) miles. Now, Mr. Legislator, Mr. Road Suoprvisor, Just a common, ordinary fool could never got lost, If ho could read let ters and figures. i,.ty, kind editor, how many traveling strangers are forced to stop, to-day, go off the great public highway, find some man or womln, nsk "What road must I take- how far ls lt to such and such a place?" I feel sure wc have good, honorable legislators and up-to-date and worthy Supervisor, but for the , love of Mike and my son .lakey, I j don't understand why the public ' roads are not so posted, by sign board and mile post. 1 am utterly incompetent to do this subject jus- ! alee. I will turn it over to Hie Sage of Tugnloo Valley, .1. A. Cook. Ile can perhaps handle it: I can't. This is perhaps my last attempt in my feeble way to again appear in my bodhood recollections. 1 have, on former occasions, written up the muster days of old, the Lawrence Mill convocations, of youth and beauly of the grand old times, of people and things; so I have now given you a true sketch of my boy hood recollections, of some, but not all, of the lins, old ante-bellum fam ilies whose kind hospitality and last ing friendship I greatly enjoyed. The only persons now living "when you and 1 were young, Maggie," to the best of my recollections, that en joyed the youthful pleasures of the grand, departed, lovable old South, Hong this great, grand, memorable j i ld public highway, are as follows: i Mrs. Margaret Steele Hughs, Capt. I John W. Phillips, Mrs. Agnes Steele Ellison, Mrs. Marth Phillips Low ery, Mrs. Joseph G. Steele and S. K. Dondy, Sr. 1 have written, truthfully, as I saw it and as I lived it, the history of the great old public highway, the only stage road in Pickens District; tho memorable old yellow stage ..oach; the old stage driver. Pierce Cody; the noble, public-spirited fel low citizens and their children, who built this great highway, and the precious old sign boards and mile posts, which have, long ago passed ?away, but which are not forgotten by this writer. 1, with them all, am glad that we lived on the side of the road, where friends were passing by. Tho great, national, modern steam roller of civilization has felled the mighty forests of our great, progres sive ago; lino farms, elegant, mod ern homes are being built all along he not-built, but anticipated mod ern highways. Just a few pleasant verses by "the man who was born "FAKE" ASPIRIN WAS TALCUM Therefore Insist Upon Gen uine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" Millions of fraudulent Asporin Tall lets were soid by a Brooklyn manu facturer which later proved to be composed maint> of Talcum Powder "liayor Tablets ol Asperlu," the u ne. genuine. American-made and Ameri can-owued Tablets, are marked wit! Hie safe: . V: yo:' Ask for and then insist upon "Bayer Tablets of Asporin" and a' ways buy them lu tho original Baye package, which contains proper (I rectums mid dosage. Asporin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticactdestcr of Salicylicacid.--adv. Which of h. Karo's "Crystal Brown" the new rich Ma] IMPORTA exact weigl by package relation to Ijn p* p Every ho? JT XVI* a.* foresting Beautifully illustrated. Corn Pi P. O. Box T. B. Hurt Dui on Hie sido of the road," like you and me: "There a: j hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; 1 There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart I In a fellowiess Armament; I There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths I Where highways never ran j But let. me live by the side of the I road. And 1)0 a friend to man. "Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of man goes by The men who are good, and the men who are bad, As good and as bad as 1; I would not sit In the scorner's seat, nor burl the cynic's ban Lot me live in my house hy the side of the road, And bo a friend to man. "I see from my house by the side of tho road, Hy the side of the highway of lifo, t ito men who pass on with the ardor of hope, Tho men who are faint with the strife; J Hut 1 turn not away from their smiles nor their tears Moth parts of an infinite plan Let me live in my house by the side ' of the road, And be a friend to man. I know there are brook-gladdened meadows ahead, And mountains of wearisome height; That, the road passes on through tho long afternoon, Then stretches away to the night; Hut still I rejoice when the travellers rejoice, \nd mourn with Hie strangers that mourn, Nor live in my house by the side of the road Like a man who dwells alone. 'Let me live in my homo hy the side of tho road, Where the race of man goes by; They are had. they are good, they are weak, they aro strong, Wiso, foolish-so am I: Then why should 1 sit in the scorner's seat and burl tho cynic's ban? Lei me live in my house by the side of the road, And he a friend to man." I have this to say on the present day conditions on good roads and great, national highways: We are iong on money, long on man-power, long on modern road-building mate rials, Hut we are very short on pub lic spirit, on old-time public, patri otic love of present, conditions. Please ?xplain what is the matter.. Tho late Capt. Wm. Steele, of whom I havo given, in my feeble way, a brief sketch, ran away from home while a young boy. joined a ship's crew, was for many years a seaman in the old days of sailing ships. There were no modern steamships in his boyhood days. I don't know when be gave it up, or how long lie was a seaman. Tho above has boen handed down to me for tho future historian to record. I wish to recall the names of one more famous old sportsman's club, famous old buntors of tho long ago. lt may bo of soino Interest to tboir many relatives and friends of this lato day: H. D. McDonald, H. \V. Hums, Dyson Holding, Dan Gordon. i \ the Three f do You Pu I White"--in the Red -in the Blue Can; "M Karo with plenty of si pie Taste-in the Green iNT TO YOU- Every can of K it in pounds of syrup contained ?S of similar size bearing number weight of contents. j to wif o should havo a copy of the in (>8-page Corn Products Cook Book. It is free. Write us today for it. oducts Refining Company 161 New York City NORRIS, Sales Representativa lding Atlanta, Gs. Wyatt Garner. W. II. Holcombe, Dr. T. S. Miller, W. W. Stribling, Wm. Rowland, Archie Smith, Hillie and Hob Smith, Baylis .Nicholson and Steve Nicholson, tien. Wade Hamp ton, James George, John McEall, Capt. A. I). Gaillard. Henry Miller, Ben O'Kelley, Ad. Ridley, John Walt, .lake Rice. They greatly enjoyed the old-time sports. To-day, in the grand old hills and dales, on the rippling streams, you will had in full bloom the red-wood vine, white dogwood, the old pink honeysuckle, the polka dot ivy, the mountain lily, the pale blue violet-all planted in Nature's Bark by our Divine Creator. These beautiful, old-time Howers- they are not cared for nor cultivated by the tender hand of noble woman. They are left to bloom all alone. Now, Mr. Editor, til i s being my last letter of boyhood recollections. If in my feeble way I have given your nearly three thousand subscribers any pleasure or entertainment, then 1 will feel that I have not written in vain. I hope that some able writer will write a full and complete his tory of Dickens District, and of her daughter,Oconee County. Our schools could refer to such history, inform ing the child r MI of peoples, places and tilings. will sell my last big Christmas rooster in order to raise the cash to pay for such a history. Now, Mr. Editor, hore is to you and your more than three thousand readers, to our noble old patriotic ancestors, defenders and builders of the glorious old South-to all I lift my old bat, light my cob pipe, and bid you all a loving farewell. S. K. Dendy, Rr. P. S.-1 overlooked one or two of the famous old mountain club of old time sportsmen and deer hunters namely, Abel Robins, Dry Fretwell. Bob Keys, Messiah Long, Kan Fret well. Bob Cobb, 'Lige Wilbanks, John Durden, W. G. Russell, James Nich olson. 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Do not be misled s only and having no HUNS CONTENI) KOK EQUALITY Under Terms ol' (ho Treaty-Stales Number ol' l'oints. Berlin, May 27.-Tho Herman counter-proposals lo tho terms of the treaty ot' peace will, in the open ing section, argue for tlie existence of Germany's contractural right to a peace based on President Wilson's fourteen points, because the Kolonie .mtions agreed lo a peuce on that basis, and neither Mr. Wilson nol lie representatives of any other Al lied government has since demanded that peace be established on any oth er basis. The second section will deal with the contradiction between the draft of the treaty and previous assurances from Entente statesmen and the gen eral ideals of International right. The counter-proposals will declare that the terms of peace completely ignore tho fact that Germany has replaced an "Imperialistic and irre sponsible government" by a strictly democratic one, and that Germany, in proposals for a League of Nations, has adhored to the prlciple of a limitation of armaments. "lt would be difficult to know," one section reads> "what different condi tions could have been imposed upon an imperialistic government. The solemn assurance of France, Groat Britain and President Wilson that tho peace would bo a peace of right and not of violence luis not boon kept, especially regarding territorial q uestions." t 'oun t er-Proposabi.. The German counter-proposals to the terms of tho peace treaty, as presented hy the Gorman plenipoten tiaries, include tho following points, according to an unofficial summary made available to-day: Germany offers to disarm all of her battleships on condition that a part of her mercantile fleet be re stored to her. 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In addition to tho honor Which, history will glvo to American naval flyers as tho llrst to Hy across tho Atlantic, it was with pride that naval mon pointed to tho splendid performance of tho machine, \ purely "mado-in-Amerlca" develop ment. Without a mishap of any kind, tho N. C.-I made the jump of Approximately DOO land miles from Punta Delgada to the landing tn Por tugal tn nine hours and forty-three minutes, or at. tho rato of slightly more than ninety land miles an hour. Ofllcial reports show that tho Hight was started at C. 18 a. m. (Washing ton Time,) und ended at 4.01 p. m. (Washington time.) Resumption of the (light to Plym outh as tho finish, Which was ex pected to-day if weathor conditions permitted, and lt was found that the steady driving ol' yesterday had left the engines in good shape, was re garded as of only secondary import ance when compared to the Might across the Atlantic, tho real object of all the navy's efforts. Lieut.-Com mander Albert C. Keud ?ind Ins live companions aro eager to complote the voyage at tho earliest possible moment now that the greatest ob stacles to their undertaking have been passed. Reports here showed all of tho Dyers to be in excellent physical con dition despite the strain thoy have been under continuously for more than two weeks. The (light from Lisbon to Plymouth, lt was pointed out, would be the least, difficult of any of the logs, as practically all the way the seaplane will be In sight of land, running ?ip the coasts of Por tugal and Spain, thence across the Hay of Rlscay and off the French roast. The distance is approximately 750 nautical milos, or 844 bind miles, und with an early start, should be covered In daylight. X. C.-i Decorated. London, May 28.-The crew of the American seaplane X. C.-4, which made tho llrst trans-Atlantic aerial passage, landing at Lisbon last even ing from (ho Azores, has been deco rated with tho Granu Cross of the Order of the Tower had Sword, suys? a message to the Wireless Press from Lisbon. Tho decoration was present ad by the Portuguese foreign minis ter. < Jlea vt? <'on gen tu lutes. New York, May 2S.-Vice Admiral (Heaves, commanding the cruiser and transport forco of the Atlantic fleet, to-day sent through Admiral Knapp, commanding the Ameritan ipival forces In Europe, tho following cable gram: "Lieut.-Commander A. C. Road, U. S. N\, commanding the N. C.-4: The cruiser and transport force congratu lates you and your crow on your l?reat achievement, which has nddod another brilliant page to the his tory of the navy. Wo remotnber that your first (light was from the Flag ship Seattle. (Signed) "(Heaves, Vice Admiral." Manufacturers Congratulate. 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