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SOUTHLAND STORIES j Larry liantl Gives Seine Interesting Recollections. TILLS OF THE MEN OF OTHER DAYS Pe sonal Recollections o.' Henry W. Grady, Orator and Journalist. The suiith, nor America, never pro- ! duceJ a more captivating and eloquent orator than Henry W. Grady. I have j.een hint sway vast audiences as a J field of grain before a gale, at one moment having them convulsed with 1 laughter, the next silent with the closest attention as he discussed some intricate subject, and then with tear-dimmed eyes as he depicted a pathetic scene. Grady had not only a most captivating voice and rare eloquence. but the few addresses he made wire exquisite word-paintings and yet his language was so beautifully plain, and his illustrations so vivid and pointed that he charmed and captivated alike the learned and illiterate. Henry Grady was a literary gleaner and miser. When not at work or in I conversation his mind was kept busy, i Wherever Grady went Jim Holliday, his faithful stenographer and secre- , tary, was at his side, pencil and note- | book in hand. When a bright thought j or expression flashed through Grady's mind he re|>eated it tb Holliday and lie jotted it down. Each night the secretary would read over to Grady the notes taken during the day and all deemed worth preserving were recorded, under suitable captions in a notebook kept for this purpose. So when Grady was to deliver an address i lie drew on these notes for sentences i genua in to his subject, it was like stringing pearls. Grady was a delightful companion and one of the most genial and pleasing men I ever knew. Everybody was his friend and enthusiastic admirer, and Grady loved the whole human race. 1 never heard him speak an unkind word of any one and when he dit i it could be truly said of him that In; left not an enemy behind. Grady died in the very zenith of litrfame. I was with him on a pleasure jaunt of several days and the next time I looked upon his faee his body was lying in state in an Allan|u church and an unbroken line of sorrowing J friends and admirers slowly filed by the ( flower-embowered casket. As a muni- I testation of their love for and pride in j Henry \\\ Grady the people of Georgia | erected in Atlanta a heroic bronze statue to perpetuate the memory of Grady?but the figure does not d?> hlni i justice, as it is more like llokc Smith , than Grady. But llenry Grady has a i monument far more enduring than I marble or bronze implanted in tnej hearts and affect ions of every Georgian ' and Atlantian tint will endure as long as memory remains. Grady had a soul and heart as largas the universe, and a nature so hopeful and buoyant that not even adversity cou'd daunt. Ailanta was unquestionably built by Grady and his' laith in the future ol the place never j wavered. Grady had always bee n my true and ! loyal friend and 1 never called on him ! for a favor but it was unhesitatingly J granted. He cared only for money to spend it and dud comparatively poor j and in debt. To show the great and care-free heart of Grady, one Christmas eve a j farmer admirer sent him a big fat tur- t key. After dark he started home, a ; i darkey trailing behind with bird In hand. He had gone a few blocks when he met an old crippled beggar, who approached him with tlie plea: "Mister, will you give ine a quarter to'ard gittin' a dinner for inv folks, as we ain't got *er thing ter eat at my; house?" "Sure, I will,,old man," replied (Jra- | dy, as he ran his hand into a pocket, I when he remembered that he, too, was! dead broke. After 'thinking an instant he called the darkey to him and told him: "Here, give that old fellow the turkey. His family needs it worse than I do. I'll have half a dozen invitations to dinner ! and no one will think of inviting him!" < So with muttered thanks the mendicant marched away carrying Crady's Christmas turkey. Hut no plutocrat ever got more enjoyment of the good things out of life than Henry \V. (Jrady. No trouble or adversity could daunt his buoyant, happy, hopeful spirits. Atlanta idolized him and gave him her best. (Jeorgia loved and honored him and whatever < Irady did was right with his people. I The state legislature was in session when (Irady received a telegram an-j nouncioK tin' assurance of Cleveland's election. With i nthuiastic audacity in* went to tin- capital, marched up to the speaker's desk and seizin;; his navel, rapped the house to order, and ad- : jotirned that body in the name of the lirst Democratic president elected since the Civil war. The "session ended in howling, riotous enthusiasm. At that time (Irady was editor of the Constitution and his paper owned a small cannon that f,rad\ himself loaded and tired from the roof of his office building to ce|ebiate a Democratic victory. toady loaded his little cannon to .*iti nounce the re-election of .Mr. Cleveland, hilt we Democrats were defeated. When the news came in (irady wrote on a sheet of paper the wolds, "A ' ' ' " fl.iu i.-.i.ei- Ik. pasted i?v< r tlie loiieh-liole Ol Ilia' little loaded million, put it awav and stated that the Kim was not attain to In- lir? d until another iJniioeratie pi'-pidoiit was eleeli d. Cut when Cleveland was attain rlei'iid tirady had passed away, hut he lefi in his name to Ceorgiu one of its1 proudest heritages. I was at that time editing the Columbia (S. C i Hilly U>-^. ister, but went to Georgia to vote. For some time the result was in doubt, but it was understood that if the Detne- 1 crats did win the first news should be j proclaimed to the state by the little cannon that Grady loaded. I went front Athens to Atlanta to hear the earliest returns and as the reports fluctuated j | from party to party public feeling was intense ami every ear attuned to hear the voice of that little gun. It was then the news was flashed over the wires of electricity, that the Republicans conceded Cleveland's election and their party's defect. In an instant the sheet of paper that Henry W. Grady himself had pasted over the touch-hole of that little cannon wasji torn away, a match applied and the! charge of gunpowder that Grady himself had rammed home belched forth | the great tidings. It was almost like the voice of Henry \V. Grady himself i proclaiming the news. The cheers that responded to the voice of that little |' gun almost sec mcd to shake the % ternal i hills around Atlanta. Only a short tihie before Grad\'s < death, on invitation of Phil Davis, < George Grogan, myself and other friends, Grady visited Elberton (where < 1 was then living) and spent several i days with us. He delivered fourspeeci. es to immense audiences, one in Elher- 1i ton. one at a point in South Carolina 11 where the Tuga'oo and Seneca rivers . unite to form the Savannah, and two | in Elbert county. i We arranged to take Grady e n a two days' trip down the Savannah river, j using a flotilla of old-style boats, propelled by negro boatmen with noes,'; such as were used by planters to carry j their cotton to Augusta. Grady thoroughly enjoyed that trip; and acted like a boy just dismissed ' ? ? - I..,,,11,.,1 I. I rum SirmMjj. nit" 11ualn I' jiiv.u x'?? i the thousands that followed Grady to the river bank bade him farewell with i cheers and waving handkerchiefs. Hut as soon as the boat rounded a bend in the river CJrady shucked his pants and was in the river trying to duek a i darky. It war. hard to believe him the same eloquent orator whom an hour n before had thrilled and delighted thou- ji sands and had them laughing or with tear-dimmed eyes as his subject was1' amusing or pathetic. The first night our party p:.c..ed camp at llrown's Kerry on the Georgia ; side in Hart county. Soon after we I landed Graded asked me to take a stroll i with liini and walking up the road a short distance we took a seat 0:1 a log. I asked Grady wiiat his aspirations ' pointed io, assuring him that tie could! always command me to the utmost extent. His reply was: "Gantt, there is imposition or office within the gift of the j American people that I desire or would I accept. .My mission and work is to; bring together the North and South, and have; once more a united country."! That night Grady eo'leetrel the negro boatmen around him and had the-m singing their quaint melodie s. Just be-! fore I dropped off my last waking remembrance was Grady sitting on the ground with his- back against a largewhite oak tree and his colored choir standing around him singing. "Jo.su*. I Lucked in the Lion's Jaw." 1 was waked by Grady shaking mo. "Clantt, I never had anything to so touch and impress me as those negroes singing. There is a peculiar wail and pathos in their voices that nothing but forty generations of slavery could pro. dure." As he stretched himself on the pallet beside me, lie added, "The fact is, the more* I see of white folks the, better 1 like tlie darkey." NOTED NEGRO DEAD Rev. Charles Walker Was Foremost Preacher of His Race. Rev. 'Charles T Walker, commonly said to lie the greatest negro preacher ] of his time, died at his home in Au- j gusta, Ga? Friday. Dr. Walker was vice president of the National Baptist Convention of the Cnited States; vice president of the Georgia Baptist State Convention: i moderator of th Walker association; and pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Augusta, for the past forty years, excepting five years when he was pastor of the Mount Olive Baptist church. New York City. He founded tlie colored men's branch Y. M. C. A. 1 :t.-)th street, New York and also founded the colored V. M. C. A. in Augusta, and was president of tin- latter organization from its foundation some nineteen years ago to tin- time of his death, lie lias travelled extensively in Kurope and the holy land and was the author of a number of books of travel as well as sermons. As an evangelist he was known from the Atlantic to the Pacific !~ i*..uiuii,u ! n/1 nn irtKiffL ill in* i miiu ikuwpi colored man -not even Hooker Washington?over drew larger crowds thaJl Walker did xvlien people (locked to hear him preach. His church in Augusta 1 was tlie place of worship of hundreds of northern winter tourists, anion;; them Former ^'resident Taft, John I >. Rockefeller, the late <iclieraI Rush < Hawkins; the late Dr. David (Jregjr and Lyman H. 'Joff. The institutional church at Augusta, erected l?y him, hut which was not quite completed at the time <>f his death, cost $1X5,000. 1 1 " ? Where the new I'acilic highway crosses the Canadian holder :iI Ulaine, | Washington, a gateway is heiny erect ed to commemorate one hundrid year:: J without fortitications or armies alone) tin .'{.utat miles of international boundary. Inscribed over the doorways a re I ,1< - !,.? Idii \* i i i ; mill "May These Doors Never IS<* Closed." - I'rillee Willi ill). ;'i>11 III the liillK "f Sweden, lias trapped, single-handed, l wen! \ -11die gorillas, fourteen lions ami many otliei animals, whieli In- is takini; to tie- Sioekliolm museum. ? Money often costs too much, anil power ami pleasure are not cheap. JCmerson. i BLACKSTOCK ! S. B. Lathan Writes Remlnisences of Chester Com ty Town. NCIUENTS UF SEVENTY YEARS AUG The Coming of the Raiiroaa?Recalls Amusing Scenes cf Early Days? How the Town Got Its Name, S. B. Lathan hi the Chester Keportt r. | Blackstock got its name from a 1 family <?f this name who formerly lived there and one of them was postmaster and had the office in his du'cTling. This was before any railroad was ever thought of in this section. Tile mails ! were carried by stage coach lints. 1 North of town near the Methodist church was an old field known as the I muster ground. Here one Alex Shelly, i who was a school master, poet ana captain of a militia company, assem- : bled his men ont*e a month on Saturday and instructed them in the art of war. One very amusing thing occurred f in connection with Capt. Skefy's men . of war in 1S:12. A report was circulated in the * neighborhood that the. negroes were going to rise and massacre the whites. There was not over one negro to five whites in a radius of five miles. Nevertheless, Capt. Skelly thought it wise to be on guard with bis company on duty near where the Hap - - - ,i P USl cmircil linn Hiuuuii. nu'.ui. in> o'clock they heard something running through the woods. They quickly formed rank?as the thing moving got nearer they beat a hasty retreat and formed line of battle near where Mrs. | Bell lived, and waited the approach or the enemy. But to their great relief they heard some dogs barking and hunters cutting down a tree for an opossum. Near if not on the very spot where the ddpot now stands was a wood shop run by Joe Pullet-ton. in which was rn ide and repaired spinning wheels. I i(member visiting it in 1X41) with my mother, and how wonderful it appeared to me. Whatever became of Fuilerton, or his factory I don't remember. The land in and around Hluckstock formerly belonged to J. Walker, and' was sold by him to David Hemphill, father of the late Mrs. Margaret Gaston. In 1Sr>2 it was sold by the Hemphills to George Hooper and by Hooper to Thus, lioulware. In 1X4!) and '50 the railroad was graded through this place. The contract for the part running through B'aekstoek was given Dr. J. D. Douglas, who did the work by slave labor from his own plantation under Hugh Bruce as overseer. The road was completed to Blarkstoek about the 1st of July, 1851. When the first passenger train ran that far, the whole country for miles gathered to see it. j 1 suppose there was at least a thou HT1!! HH | i Jll6 a c The ir creasing poj a period L?f oars Inn ?iv? lire with a capac ity of 16, I benefits of this bivl suit". standard tor years?fou nun-skid tread Thegn VI rno nrr . t 'n rt\ 1 * r? gum-dipping earli |?S> ?' with oxua thickness i\lu car ug: inst slipping and Firestone ( I.it lihstor There are Tires W. F. JACKSC i m?n? I sand people there. As soon as it ar- j rived the crowd gathered around it for a general inspection. When one old lady leading a small hoy by the hand got opposite to the engine the engineer gave two loud blows of the whist'e. ] The boy jerked loose frt.ni the old .lady 1 and made for' the tall timbers. She followed culling "Joint, stop." The crowd took up the call, "Stop, John." And for awhile all interest was directed to the race. John was never overtaken. Shortly after the completion of the railroad to this place DeVega & DeGraffenreid, of Chester, opened a store in a wooden building where the llarlcim Mi iiMnlilc Co is iloinir hnui. ncss. J). F.int ran the busings for tliem. In about one year DeVega & JJeCraflfenreid soid out to I). Pant and Henry Pratt, who did business under the name of Kant & Pratt. Ceo. Hooper, who owned all the land continguous to the railroad station opened up a barroom, not far from Kant & Pratt's store. This was the occasion of much rowdying and fighting, as drunk men have always been the same. On the elevation near where .Mr. Sigmon's barn is located, Iliram Steele built and ran a carriage factory, tie built up a large business. Afterwards he moved it to the John Mackerel place. In 18n?J Ceo. Hooper sold out all his real estate to T. M. Boulware, who I moved to Hjackstock and made his home there. Soon after Fant & Pratt closed out their store and Hiram Steele moved his*carriage factory. The only tiling left of the place was the railroad depot and Boulware's home and it continued thus until after the Civil War. I'p to this time there was neither church or school in the plage. A. C. Elder ran a large high school at the Jack Morrison place. Hiram Steele fieir*g a devout Methodist had the circuit riders of that day and time preach once u week at his factory, generally on Wednesday evening. Mr. Steele organized a lodge of tlie Sons of Temperanee, which somewhat counteracted the influence of Hooper's barroom. One young man who was fond of imbibing determined to change his manner of life, joined one night the next morning in relating his experience to a friend, remarked, "Sam. I saw the grandest sight of my life last night, fifty grown men sitting in a row with white gloves and aprons 011. and al| sober." The war came on and the bulge was broken up. Reason Enough.?First Ex-Doughboy: "What's the idea of Slack Sylvester elaituin' a bonus?" Wasn't he workin' in a munition factory mnkin' ten bucks u day while we was in France?" Second Ex-Doughboy?"Sure, but lie say's he overslept one mocnin' and lost a day." istest Sellir n America mlar demand 1or die Firestone Standa n us t>ic volume. Our Plant No. 2 dev 000 tiros and 20,000 tubes per day cutsc iped our price to $13,95 passing on t< volume and this labor-saving plant, r plies long staple fabric?extra gurr i-atest value ever ottered cat owners. ] Cord fire Vali is .ire made exclusively in Plant No. i. cord gi.es thicker insulation. The i /re wear s most severe, give, rea; effe< adds man. extra miles of service. lord tirer art- sold at he lowest pric< y: 30si! 524.50- 32x4. $46.30: 34x4 tone Deaiers Everywhere >., R. F D. No. StiARON NEWS LETTER ' Molhudist Church Building Is faring Completion. -? sunn: street work now under way Interest in Baseball Growing?People Looking Fcrward to 125th Church Annivertary Celebration?Crops Giving Evidence of Need of Rain. ) (By a Staff Correspondent.) Sharon, Auk 1.?Construction work on the jfirst Methodist church edifice of Sharon will probably be completed 1 this week, according to a statement made Friday afternoon by Contractor K. W. Hope, in charge of the building. That is, it will be completed with the exception of the seats which are also to be built locally and which will re' quire several days extra to finish. The ; job has been held up for several weeks until last week when work was resumed. The church is to be painted white and even that will be done this wees. ' The church building complete will have cost the congregation about $3,600 and according to those who know about such things, It is a good Job and well worth the money. It will huve a | seating capacity of between 250 and I 300, quite adequate for the needs of the congregation for years to come. There are about 60 members in the congregation. Street Work Being Done, i Mayor D. A. Whisonant is giving hi s personal supervision to considerable street repair work that is now going on in Sharon. Just now the big Job is in n moving a lot of the small rocKs on the principal streets that have resulted from washing rains removing the thin surface that formerly covered them. The Sharon end of the Sharqn-Yorkvilie load is getting in bad | shape again because of hard rains which have washed the dirt down to gravel and Mayor Whisonant said that the council proposed to do some work on that end light away. There is a decided improvement to be noted on the streets of the town that have been worked already and the mayor ana councilmen propose to do as much r? pair work as they are financially able to do. Interest in Baseball. The baseball bug has infested a lot of Sharon people, just like it is infesting Yorkville and Clover and Koch j Hill and Chester and other towns around and some good games are expectod here' during the month of Au gust. The advertising columns of The Yorkville Enquirer on Friday carried i'a notice of a Fiddler's convention to . he held here Friday night and the uh, derstanding is that the receipts from i that entertainment will go to the base/ i I f I \ j ml ' rANDARD 3N-SKID ig Tire | rd 30x31$ inch tire over ofed wholly to this size osts on every operation. j che car owner the full This tire has been our 1 between plies?heavy Insist on Firestone. nes Our process of double missive non-skid tread, M .tiveness in holding the I ' ?s in cord $54.90. 2 to Serve You ( 7, York, S. C. j 1, York, S. C. | ball club. The Sharon Sludgers cle- 1 feated "Pacer"' Burris's "Outlaw" i team of Yorkville on the local lot Fri- i day afternoon, 11-9. According to i "Pacer." the Sharon bunch hit 'em so i hard and so often that the "Outlaws" ' could actually hear the balls whine 11 when they came sailing by. p Rain is Needed. < Farmers of the community say that the crops are beginning to need rain ' again ana. tnat me sooner 11 comes xne p better it will be. There has been prac- 11 tically no rainfall for a coup'e of weeks and cotton and corn are showing the need of it.. Despite that fact, howevet. it is a mighty good prospect and really there is no reason for com- i plaint. ' 11 Interest in Celebration. i Members of Sharon A. ft. ft. cjiurch j . and people of the town and communi- f1 ty generally are looking forward with much interest to the observance of the | 125th anniversary of Sharon A. R. P. \ church to be observed here on August I ( 18. Speakers of the occasion, accord- ] ing to the programme arranged by the committee in charge will be Rev. R. M. j[ Stevenson, editor of the' Associate Re- , j formed Presbyterian; Rev. W. A. j, Kennedy, Rev. R. R. Caldwell anC Hop. | J. S. Brice of Yorkville. The 125th j anniversary celebration will be an all, day affair and it is proposed to have ( a basket picnic dinner on the church grounds. I Let 'Em Get Away.?The Yorkville Enquirer quotes Prof. John W. Thorn- , son of the faculty of Winthrop college as saying: '"I have been struck ! with the fact that original manuscripts relating to the early history of I South Carolina are very scarce. Some ' years ago I visited the archives of the University of Wisconsin and while there I found more original papers re- | lating to the early history of South Carolina than I have been able to find i anywhere else." Quite true. Surely no other people have been as careless <in preserving their history as those of j South Carolina. The collection at | Wisconsin was made by Lyman F. 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