Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Scottish Gil Afrf J8L * rte&m ?&% aj^^jl/s /;"''' i^mSSBrl - With the herring luilustry iu full i month Bloaters," and as the tragedy s< tish lassies, who come down every yea vest of the Eoa. The girls work In trios ^wews An Incorruptible I ' -Thief - | * J ?. j ? ' 1 '!!: ? ;j| By MARTHA McWlLLIAMS ! - I _ ? _, <&. 1(21, by McClure Newtpaper Syndicate. "Go to Jane Lauder and tell her 1 Jove her/' a robust; bass voice sang as Jane came .down the steps. She made ' ' a face at the singer, then gave him her , ' profile, a creamy cameo against her '* red sunshade, as she said: '"Why don't you tell her yourself? Uemeinber, procrastination is tliief of time? and fx<n tlmp like the present." M , "Please, . I'm slngin' to my dog Rough-Neck, trying to train bitn. You interrupted," the singer returned sadly, /"which is very bad?for both of us. 'Tention, Rougliy?you go tell, but. don't , say 't with flowers?and you Uayen'j words enough. That's lucky? sbg looks at you somp'n awful wjien youLventure on candled speech?" T)on't you mean candkl?" Jane broke in. The dog trainer- frowned and shook his head. "I know what I mean?Roughy's the one that has to find. o,ut," he said. "No% old top, listen hard. Do-r-not?say ? It?with flowers.. She has all the flowers?and then.^ome. But she has also a fine, almost athletic appetite?so recall the, time when you fetched home to me a three-pound porterhouse steak?and., repeat the performance forvher beqe-* fit." " "Sd that's how you do It! No wonder_you're such pals with Roughy." Jane cried joyously. "But aren't you silly?to share such a provider with anybody." "Dear girl, there Is method in my madness," itougnys masrer expinmeu airily. "It has suddenly dawned on ine that your oftishuess, your positive lmy Keren ce to me Is based on a craven feitr of scant ratlins. Cupid solus Is notoriously an indifferent commissary?but Cupid plus Roughy once you know what he 'can do?" "I see," from Jane. "I also see that a prosperous future will depend very much on a happy choice of neighbors. Suppose Fate ordained us to live where such dissipations as porterhouse steaks were religiously ffowbed on?" "Why! We might make out on legs of lamlt?in a pinch?or even a fine fat fowl. A real chicken I fear Roughy would keep for himself." Ex Captain Bledsoe explained. "At leijst x' he did?one time. I suppose his conscience excused him?real chickens C' being such rare birds." f "How did }*ou find out?" Jane ssked, ' >'< pretending anxiety. , Bfedsoe sighed. "He was tracked home," "That seemed to me felonl, ous?considering we were service men. * ' < But the lady, party of the other part. said we owari her five dollars?two V1 for the bird nn<l the balance for the wear and tear on her feelings at doing ^ without it." Jane swept him a enrts}*. "It's glad I am you two got your come-uppapce one time." she said in the best man nor of Nora the cook. "And hope also > It tenohod ye a lesson?three dollars of chicken neither of ye ate Is sinful extravagance." "It Is. You ought to save us from such things in future," Bledsoe ucquIi esced. Over her shoulder Jane Lander, t spoiled beauty and heiress, flung back at hlin: "I'll think about It?provided you don't put It on the ground of patriotic philanthropy." "No danger of that?Just pure plain philanthropy?which means, you know, ? love of your fellow man," Bledsoe called after her, whistling Roughy to heel and march away in the other / , direction, lie was riotous?drunken with happiness. Free from gyves that bad threatened to hold him for life. He had laughed In the face of them .< even as he had laughed In the face of v hid etuis death, always leading, though \' lie might crawl through a lmil of bullets, sparing his men where and how he might, but never sparing himself.v There seemed a magic In such hardihood?he had come hack without a scratch?without also the precious / trinkets, orders, crosses, what not? * which lie called "hardware de luxe"? that rewarded other men of no greater courage nor daring. There was no injustice in it?he had resolutely refused to tell of his own exploits. * ' More..hud begged silence of the others ' 1 A ennbftn TI?OV lltlll WHO JJllSClll urn ? ,, ...... obeyed, "not too cheerfully, until lie sflid<*To\rtiem: "Ix^ntiVto jfu bucfc ? and all ot you who lived Is Preparing Yarmoi swjng, the streets of Greut Yarmouth, Eng rene in "David Coppertield," are enlivened j from their Caledonian homes to help In j and pool their earnings. Here they are s turoQgu with me, Knowing ami feeling | that nothing can distinguish us more than the title of plain American citizen. If any of you don't agree with me I'll help you get the hardware. Scorn It? Not a bit?Just feel that It doesn't fit my peculiar style of beauty." So he escaped. Other things he did not escape. One of them, sweet and 1 1 twenty, plquantly pretty, with an j adorable way of murmuring, broken English, had made him believe himself ' fathoms deep in love! They had parted J on u promise?hers to come to him when a doting grandmother could be ' prevailed on to let her leave. He had 1 meant to keep faith?he had kept It 1 Indeed, until Jane had dawned?a sun ] putting out all lesser lights. Now Felice had written a fearblotted brief note. She could not leave ] grandmere?besides there was the 1 young count..Ever so grand a family . ?with a chateau?handsome, and deep In lovo with her, though she had not ' yet spokfn with him?hnd soon him , hut Bledsoe kissed the pnper there, albplt lie was normally vnln. < murine ring ltalf aloud: "Thank the , Lord for titles and chatetus and things, Threa rousing cheers, and tlien some, to nif the aristocracy." < Then only he set about courting June Jn earnest. Lafller he had felt ^ It would be Insult. Now In the very hack of his consciousness he wondered If Ills scruples migjjit not cost lflm his happiness. He was In no fear of 5 the ruck swarming after her, but ' John Lnpsley was the devil to beat, 3 onee his iniufl was made up not to be beaten. He had shown that overseas no less thau Bledsoe himself. ' When one speaks or even thiiiks of 1 the sun, sometimes one beholds his i rays. A motor-horn, viciously insis- < tent, wade Bledsoe turn to face Jane < and Lapsley, beckoning to him and I laughing hard. "You?you have to j show us," Jane panted: "The major i says you're an Immortal li&r?about ' Roughy, you know. Is he good and hungry now?" Bledsoe nodded. "Theh come along home with us; we'll stage a show worth money, If only you can | repeat It Thursday night." 1 "Can?but I won't. Objects of my affection are not be exploited commercially," Bledsoe protested, clambering In beside the pair: "Slinme you , haven't got the limousine Jnek," he said to Lnpsley. "But the running 1 hoard will serve In a pinch you can't) pry Koughy from anything tlint holds | ; me." Three hours later the executive j ; committee for a benefit for Disabled ! Veterans gathered after a specially fln?? limolienn imon flip Lander lawn. watching with nil Its eyes. Bledsoe, 1 standing negligently npnrt, pinched Roughy's enr lightly, sighing; "Hun-I ; gry, old top?" Instantly the (log darted away, not toward the house, hut In : : the direction, of a remote neighbor, j , Ten minutes after he came hack ! ! gagging his tail and dragging: | daintily not a porterhouse but a T- 1 ' hone steak of lordly proportions, which ! 1 he laid at his master's feet. Blednoe | patted him. hut shook his head. . i Roughy snatched up the steak, ran 1 away with It to a tiower bed, buried It deftly. If lightly, and was off again, i In a wink he was hack, tugging gali lantly 'at an unwieldy fat goose. I Bledsoe took it from hint, hut again j shook his head, silently. Off went Roughy. his legs fairly twinkling?to j return with a fine broiler, not dead j I but alive. ? Tlieu indeed there was clapping and cheering. Lapsley caught Bledsoe, shook him hard, and cried; "If only we had had him ovy yonder!" i "Would have come In handy?hut I ( ; need him here. You see I'm going to undertake the support of a family," I walking boldly to Jane's side; "so need the help of this incorruptible tldef to provide for it," Bledsoe said, but laughter drowned his words. Iii _ . ? ~H 1 % 1The tmpty, "Raggedy g Stockings | What of die empty, raggedv stockings That will hang by the chimney on Qirittmaa eve, With their mute appeals from the poor little owners To the deer old Santa in whom they believe? For their share of hit presents they ask such a little, "Just a dolly to hold in my arms while I sleep, A little tin auto that runs when you wind it, A sounding red drum ot a woolly whita sheep." The only light in their dim, dark existence Is that wonderful day when old Santa will coma ( With hit treasure filled pack that he brings on hit back From hts fairyland, snowy land, toyland home. j What beautiful dreams will come to them sleeping Under the coverlet shabby and worn ; But what of the empty, raggedy stockings That will hang by the chimney on Christmas morn? 'i MRS. H. C. SEARCY, in the Chicago Thbunt. | MimtiMmmmMmm i ith Bloaters [land, famous for decade* for its "Yar n| by the smiling, rosy faces of the Scot* the preservation of the wonderful hai* a filing the herring. ' je Jt I Ah Old Time I * Christmas Carol 1r< flKHE following interesting carol la th l^jv preserved Ir?, Poor Robin's Alma- sj nac for 1695. It is of interest cs as throwing light on the material side m of the old-time Christmas celebrations, bi 'Minced" pies are referred to, It will cl be noticed?a tern* never heard nowadays. And iqstead ot plum pudding there is "plum porridge." The carol a reveals, too, that" the material for ir Christmas "decorations, was fuller in tr the old days, Including holly, Ivy, bay, 0i rosemary and' "lawrel." ti Now, thrlce-weicojne Christmas, which 111 brings us good cheer, Minced pies and plum porridge, good ale . and strong beer; , CI With pig, goose and capon, the best that h< may be, Si 3o well doth the weather and our atom- ,, achs agree. . ir Observe how the chimneys do smoak all tl about, q The cooks are providing for dinner, no doubt. a! But those on whose tables no victuals ct appear, a 0, may they keep Lent* all the rest of ' the year! 8' With holly and ivy, so green and so gay, ai We deck up our houses as fresh as the b: day. ? With bays and rosemary, and lawrel compleat, , Ci ^nd everyone now is king of conceit bl But as for curmudgeons, who will not . , be free, ?] 1 wish they may die on the three-legged & tree. st It Is ot Interest to learn that the ni well known and oft used <ouplet, "Christmas comes but once a year, D and when it comes it brings good cheer," originally appeared in a mock ? Christmas play of the Fifteenth cen- ^ t?ry. Here are the lines: 4 Bounce buckram, velvets dear, ^ Christmas comes but once a year, I tnd when it comes it brings good :heer. 9 ABOUT THE HOLIDAY GREENS s Spirit of Poetry in Laurel; Bay Associated With Victory; Holly Emblem of Good Luck. ^ JfWftf HEN we weave garlands of J mAjfl Christmas greenery,, each branch of foliage typifies d some ancient virtue, suggests a hoary | superstition and carries ti meaning fur Jf beyond that with which a decorsitor .j. regards it. According to the ancients the laurel v communicates the spirit of poetry. To A gain poetic inspiration a man should y sleep with a sprig of laurel under his A pillow. y Bay has several meanings. It has {? always been associated with victory, X while it is supposed to protect the y wearer from lightning. The withering X and shriveling of Its leaves was said {' to foretell death, which may account X for the superstition that evergreens should not remain in the house after X Twelfth night. y y The Romans used to send one an- y other sprigs of holly as emblems of X good luck. Immortality is denoted by {? the yew. For this reason it Is always X used to decorate churches at Christ- f mas time.?Tit-Bits. . X ' A CLASS AND CASTE FORGOTTEN | X Christmas Season Is One Period of the J *? Year When All People 'X Are Equal. ' A ? $ HIS Is the season of equality, the y l^jy one brief period of the year when the Christianized world y momentarily forgets class and caste. .j? Bich and poor, great and lowly, good y and bad, today stand more nearly on a 11 footing of equality than they have j * stood since the last Yuletlde, or than X they will stand for another year. ! y For this Is the Christmas season! !j< and Christmas belongs to the "chjld. | y and untutored childhood knows no j A A... T A I.?H/vntn tl.nt nisit*. 11 is Ulli%\ 1IUIII u? u-ii[ja (11(11 I z the little ones lenrn false standards j /, of social place. | 3 In every human heart that is not ?j< calloused to all joy or sorrow, or dead V to the finest emotions of manhood and ?j> womanhood. (Mere Is enshrined some X child, either dead or living?for child love is the universal emotion of the X soul. I *? For this brief season, then, let child- X hood take our gnarled hand of {' sophistry and beguile us by the finger ! ] oaclc to a fleeting glimpse of that lotus * land of equality we once know and X can know only onfe.' V I v DUE WEST RAILROAD C ilque Line Has Never Had a Strike or an Accident. . IV PROVIDENCE HAS PROTECTED i . nly One Time in History Has Line Boen Operated on Sunday?President Is Alsq a Section Hand When Occasion Requires. A railroad 'which has had no labojr oubles in fourteen years, a raihoa<l hich lias never had an accident in its istory, a railroad which has never run train on Sunday but once, a railroad hich has never hauled a drop of whis-/ y even in pre-prohibltion days, a rall>ad which today is out of debt, such is le record of the Due West railway, icording to an interview given a reenwood newspaper man by Presient R. S. Galloway, the directing gclus of the system. | The record of the Due Wesj Railway line running from th^ quaint old colge town of Due West to Donalds, the iriction point with the Southern and icdmont and Northern, is unique in >e history of railroading in the United tates. The road is five miles long, andard gauge, using locomotives hich a few years ago would have been garded as fair sized engines. President Galloway believes, that no ' lilroad in the.United States or the orld has a record which can equal lat of the Due West railway. The rstem, if a ljne five miles long can be illed a system, is owned by t,he com- 1 iunity composed of God-fearing, Sabitlj-observing members of the Assoate Reformed Presbj^erian faith. Once on Sunday. So strict is the obhervancex of the abbath at' Due West that one of the on-clad rules of the road is that no a in shall run on the Sabbath. Only ice has the ru1e been broken, and that me only In the effort to save a human LIT. A woman was 111 and physicians deared that it was necessary -to take ir to the hospital In the shortest posble time. The roads were impassable lat particular Sabbath. Ffiends <}f ' le sick woman appioached President, 1 alloway of the Due West railway and iked if he would permit , the train to irry the patient to Donalds to board train for Columbia. In the circumances, he consented to break the rule gainst running the train on the Sablth. Calling Jim Row'and, the engieer. into his office, he said, "Jim, you 1 >n run thisi engine today but don't ow the whistle." The train was run, at the blast of no \Vhlstle broke the abbath stillness. Since that time iveral years Ugo, it has never been pscessary to run the train on Sunday. ! Since the first train was run over the tje West railway on December 24, 107. fourteen years' ago, there has nev... jpQUAl 1 GIF m uir X'mas 1921 Gifts In Our Reputation for Manj Purchases at1 % ' alKMWfKNKfl For the PEARL NECKLACES JEWELED BROOCHES BAR PINS BRACELETS airri/i Arce ncvtxunwba HAT PINS VANITY CASES LAVALLIERES FINGER RINGS LINGERIE PINS MESH BAGS WRIST WATCHES UMBRELLAS For the G BELTS AND BUCKLES I ? A , , /%U A t M C? j WftlUn inning WATCHES CUFF LINKS EMBLEM RINGS FOUNTAIN PENS PENCILS SCARF PINS Beach-Ihrie , OLD RELIABLE ROCK HILL :r been a strike or any labor trouble of any kind. There arc no brotherhoods or unions in the Due West railway system. Jim Rowland, the engineer, ran the first engine and has been running the engines on the Due Wcst'railw^y ever slnctf. When he is sick, Rowland Hawthorne, a relative of his, who is now agent at Due West, runs tjie engine. Hawthorne was first fireman, then conductor and now agent, also -0 having neen wun. mo roaa since us formation. Ben Magl'l Is.now conduCtor. f . I President Pehsonally Supervises. president Galloway personally super- i vises work An his railway. He knows every inch of the five miles, of track and regularly inspects it. When a heporter Feeking-to interview him a ffcw days ago, flnuljy found him, he was directing the building of a trestle bver a small ravine. With his lopg black cb^t haqging on a plum Ipush nearby, he was lending a hand wherever needed. "I haven't got time to talk now," he told the newspaper man. "I've got to get this trestle fixed in time for the next train." President Galloway is a Southern gentleman of the/Old school; a kindly, ruddy factf, a white pointed beard, a white standing collar and neat black tie, His manner wap not brusk, but he explained politely that he must have the trpek in shape for the next train to %-vr? no Tlno r?r?iiIrl nnt hn oilf [Wiin UYCl . ly UV< YY VOW VVUIU iiv? MW VMV off by his failure to repair a trestle. But the old gentleman did talk; talked while the newspaper man followed him about as%ie assisted and dlrpcted In building the trestle. "We've never had an accident," he added. "This railroad, hns always trfled to do what was right and I believe Divine Providence has protected us and kept us from serious accident. "Of course we've had minor accident^, such as side-swiping a few freight cars, which cost us about $15 but we've nev6r smashed an automobile or run over anythincr. We have never had a damage suit In tho hlatcry of the road an& hope we never will." "Big business l.my say what It pleases about efficiency, but the Due West railway dbeys thd laws of God, and I believe a Divine WIN directs and protects us," the picturesque old Southerner and pious churchman reverently declared. % When President Galloway Is not supervising the operation of the railroad he is editing The A. T?. Presbyterian, the official organ of the Associate Reformed P/esbyterian rhurch in South Carolina. Six days be does this and on the seventh not a cog moves; he and all the rest of Due West rest or 30 to worship In the old white church. F^oad.Has Made Money.. The Due West railway has been a money-maker up until last year when it felt the business depression whichhas swept the country, President Galloway said. All of the earnings it has put back in equipment and In Improving the road. The road was capitalized JTY1^ Jj: X'mas 1921 | 2; Jewelry J r Years Goes With Yo/ur | This Store? '$ X Ladies ? FOUNTAIN PENS ? STERLING PENCILS ? DORINE BOXES ? EYE GLASS CHAINS | BRUSH, COMB AND X MIRROR SETS ? MANICURE SETS ? : wp/?ctadi c ecDi/ircc V V LUb I riUkt. yiwn ? luko TEA SERVICES ? VEGETABLE DISHES . X PITCHERS ,'j! MEAT PLATTERS ? GAME SETS ? KNIVES, FORKS, SPOONS X * Y X ' X ientlemen ' j STUDS ? TIE HOLDERS ? nAr>t/ t* 1/ M I V/CO ruur\L i r\ni v tg y clocks shaving sets military sets {' umbrellas walking canes > y ?; l/\*4t/*lwwr ^ /\ x jcwcii y v/u. i JEWELERS. | - - - S. C. $> % at $24,000 and has bought $40,000 worjh of new equipment since it began op^rLtions fourteen ytars ago. All of tho stock is owned by citizens of Due West. Efforts of other more powerful railway'lines to acquire the railway have been unsuccessful, the citizens of the community holding on to their stock, so that they coilld dictate the policies of the road. Passengers are now hauled at a loss. the round trip fare being fifty cents. President Galloway said. The mulfTpHcityi>of autqmobiles has worked a hardship on the.railroad and has cur1 tailed traffic. Trucks have also taken part of the freight, the rortd formally hauled. President Gajiioway recently placed the matter before citizens, who !agreed to cease using trucks .and toresumc patronizing the railroad exclusively. Ho now looks for bettcir times. The railroad equipment consists of two locomotives, two passenger cars, a combination passenger and express car, a flat car and affreight-car. Most ol . the freight is hauled In sohd cars belonging to other roads. The Due West railjway has po high salaried "dead head" offjclals, President Galloway explained. He is president, treasurer, and general manager;' M. G. Clinkscales 1$ vice president; , I. Brown lee is traffic manager and evj erytbing else. Twice each year the Dye West rail way. is.,swamped with traffic?at thfcj i t fooa c1! | - BIG LB I 1 Quality | Includes Hundreds of A2 jf Thing for Chr | LADIES AND | Of York County Are Invi j J and Visit This Up-to t Values Are Offered f I ? i WE WISH 1 J Your attention to " FIT] j x and Bloomers?j ? OUR OFFERINGS in JERS X, BLOOMERS include a beautlfu v Dark Shade that can be worn?I X Dark Green, Gold Cloth, etc. Pric | FITRITE % PETTICOATS AND BLOOMERS, i y Priced at .. | PLUME BRAND y BEAUTIFUL C.OWNSt?Priced at | PLUME1] A MADE OF PINK. CUEPE-DE-CH1 ?& lace and baby ribbons?Priced | I PLUME CA % IN**FLESH, PINK AND WHITE? with hemstitched edges*?Price | PHIIJPPINE HANE 3t I.N' WHITE ON'LY?Priced as low i ! CLOUD'S MiLI | The Fall Millinery Si .t And in order to have oil] $ level by January 1st, we | stock of Millinery I AT ONE-Hi V X This Sale includes many ] | ?SHAPES AND ? t TRhMMEl) AND U; I X This announcement shoul i anything further being si ? S All Hats to Be Sold | Cloud Dry I ROCK KILL * A BIG REDUCTION i ': ON I GOODRICH ( TIRES AND TUBES Ij Call a\ and let us figure 011 j your next Tire. GASOLINE, nrre A."N"n VSAAJKJ nnjurGREASES, J. H. CARROLL beginning and 'ending of each college year?for It is the only line leading Into the college town, famous throughout the South. Due West is the Associate Reformed Rresbyterian educational center for the entijre South. In. it are situated Erskinc college and Due YVest Femal 2 college, both Associate Reformed t*resbyterian institutions. Annuaily '^tudents como to Due West from ail parts of the South. Thcri is an air abeut Due West that ' *>?*' >l.g>VflU < l- i> is peculiar to It. There-one never hurries, It is quiet, studious, even scholarly. Orj6 takes timo to dream, to bu|ld air pasties, to think. One's conw temptation la only disturbed by tlie (.ootinfr of the: f)ue West train, whistle in the , week aay. I On the sabbath a brooding^'silence settles ovet: 'tjiie community, whero'now and then tlie sing"ing of a Psalrfc may be heard., /ivMl, JMF > i ? . ' > "r , Jucfc a -Uocomotivc.?A Boston man, visiting a friend's household, found his host's son atternpon settled in the library, with d'sheet of paper before him and a pencil. claspetj in his* fist. Looking o\er the youngster* shoulder tho fAbblte saw that he, was making piqt "Well; Albert," he asked geptly,, "are you df%wipgnn online?" SJOwlj* the child looked up and slowly * he replied: "It* would take a very strong boy to draw an engine, but I 'in making a^'jtictQ^e of a locornotivt\' N? OF - J; Goods | tides That Ate Just the ;; istmas Giving, v r ' GENTLEMEN ' | ted to Come to Rock Hill | i date Store, Where Great | or Your Mofcey > | PO DIRECT j RITE" Silkr Petticoat* | IEY SILK PETTICOAT8 AND ? J selection made up of every )ark Purple, Bluq, Wine .Cpfored, :ed at only? $4.50 to $7^0 ^ SATEEN ' ? > v made in the same careful way and .]? $1.23 to $3.50 f, UNDERTHINGS ? I $1.00 to $3.50 ' ? fEDDIES | iNE, delicately trimmed with ** at .. $3.00 and $4.50 2 , lMISOLES , i ?They are heavily laced and ? only ? $2.25 and $2.75 y l-WORKED GOWNS I as 1 $3.00 Each j ^ > JNERY SALE ' I ?asoa is nearing close, x r stock of Hats at' a low wfll now offer our entire % y A ' i ' 1LF PRICE | jretty selections of | STREET TTATS ? | ]s TRIM MEI) HATS | id appeal to you without f lid. ' ?' , at 50 Per Cent Off -? | Goods Co. | g n ? ' " " ~ : :? MiiiiiiiiniiiiiuiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiirtiiiiiiiijp | a Collar saved Is a Dollar Made. | 5 AGAIN we want to call your S E ittention to the class of work we S E ire turnine out, such as Tops B = Recovered, * Curtains Repaired, ? B Cushions Rebuilt and Painting. S E A dollar saved to you means ~ S something. B Call around and get our prices. B E Best Workmanship, Best Prices, s B and Quality. x B 11 r HARDIN &fft. I L. G. Huckabe?, Mgr. ^ 5 Black Street, H ROCK HILL, S. C. | 5 S TTiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiniiiir