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The Touch of Genius.?In Scotland
there is told a story of one Sandy
Mcintosh, who started to build a small
outhouse of brick. After the usual
plan of bricklayers he worked from
the inside, and, as he had the material
close beside him, the walls were rising
fast when noon arrived, and with it
his eon, John, who brought his father's
dinner.
With honest pride In his eye, Sandy
looked at John over the wall on which
be was engaged, and asked:
. . ''How do you. thluk I ana gettin'
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: "Fine, father; but how due ye get
pot? Yop've forgpt the door."
One glaji^e. around.him. showed Sandy
that son wt\? ,right.;. but, looking
at him kindly, he said:
> "C^h, But ye'vo got a grand held, on
ye, John! Ye'll~be an architect yet, as
sure's yer feyther's a builder."
Carefully Classified.?It is usually
the Ignorant or confused frequenters
of $ library who are responsible for
amusing mistakes, but occasionally an
overha^tghty guardian of literature
glVes occasion for a quiet smile to
those she set-res.
, ?A school teacher In a Western town, 1
wishing to extend her rather scant}
knowledge of the stories of Edgar Al- \
len Ppo, inquired at the delivery desk
of the rural library' for "The Gold
Bug," adding, "I can't seem to find It
in the catalogue, but I am sure you 1
have it. A friend of mine had It out
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The librarian glanced at 1 the card- '
catalogue drawer over which the '
toacher had been poring, and smiled ,
with 'S, superior smile.
"No wonder, Miss Smith," sh6 explained
with patient gentleness. "You
aW lotoking under "Fiction.' Turn to i
'Entomology' and -yon won't have hny 1
trouble." (
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Right On the Jpb.?A Virginia gen- <
tleman was troubled by a disobedient '
and laxy coachman, who had been in
the family a long time and was well 1
out of reach of discipline. H:e diso- (
beyed orders and neglected bis duties !
and made himself a general nuisance '
"until- in desperation his employer decided
to threaten him with dismissal. 1
. "I can't put up with you any longer," 1
he said. "At the end of tho month '
you ouni anoiner piac?.
" 'Nuther place, nothln'," was the 1
reply. "I druv yeh ter yer baptlsin' I
druv yeh to yer weddin' an' 1*11 jest
stick here till I drjve yeh tr yer funeraV*
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Far from Regular.-r-Jt was probably
the most conservative community in
New England. A stranger by the
name, of Wilkcrson had come there 1
and ift up shop and, although he
Bcemed a good business man, his
neighbors viewed him,with a certain
amount of disgust. , , .
*That man, Wilkcrson," dpcjared
one, "ought to be .expelled, .'rom our i
chamber of commerce and ostracized
besides. He's too darned radical."
."In what Way?" queried a second.
"Well, for one thing, he won't con- :
cede that every strike is a Bolshevist ?
movement"
Truthful Billy.?Billy was in tears
when he came home from school.
"Teacher whipped me because I was
the only one who could answer a ques
lion sne hrkw wie iiaso, uv ouuutu.
His mother was indignant.
"Why, I'll see her about that! What
was the question, Billy?"
His eyes lighted reminiscently.
"She wanted to, know who put the
glue in her ink bottle."
Absence Makes Mind Go Wander.?
The professor was taking his wife
through the museum of natural history
and she, although bored almost
to tears, was heroically trying to appear
Interested. They halted before
the reconstructed imagfc of the dinosaur.
"Do you realise, Agatha," he asked,
"that it is eight years since our last
visit?"
"Indeed I do, Horace," she answered,
"and how that beast has grown
since that time!"
Cause for Action.?"Looky here, Mr. !
I'opiiendick!" severely said Constable j
Slackputter, of Petunia, "the mayor
has ordered mo to tell you to cut the
weeds on that vacant lot you own over
on Wilier street. You know, Missus
Gay who lives next to it is not only a
Brass widder hut al^o, plu^pp and cursed
with considerable igtiny good looks,
^ and the weeds are so high that the
neighbor ladles complain that they
can't see what, It anything, is going
on at her house."
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Couldp't Afford It.?A, thin-man resented
tlje lateral pressure of a fat '
man on .the same seat in/ the street
car. He said: 'They ought to charge
by weight on these cars.''
"If they did. sonny." said the fat
man, "you'd have to walk. They
couldn't afTord to stop for you."
Why Disfranchize Them??"I think
there ought to be a law requiring every
woman voters to be over thirty j
years of age."
"Why such a law?"
"Because none of them ever passes
that age."
Scene: Courtroom.?"How long were
you acquainted with your husband
before"j" fsnrn viqcI lifirf'v dopttapdejd
the attorney of the faff" petitioner for
a divorce.
"Ob. ,H<lldf'.t,^no1w him at all," she
replied withemphasis. "I'll say I
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!f COAST NEGROES
Thousands Live On Famous St. Helena
Island.
THEY OWN MANY VALUABLE ACRES
Oyster Canneries Give Employment to
Many People?Coffin's Point and
Fort Fremont Places of lntere:t.
By N. A. Willet in Charleston News |
and Courier.
There were in the old days no poor :
whites on St. Helena Island, South <
Carolina. The wealthy aristocrats lived
mostly, on the seaward or outer side
of the island,'eleven miles from Beaufort
and in a reglhn extending for j
thirteen miles from Coffin's Point, the (
northeast onrr.pr. now owned by ex- <
Senator Dan Cameron's family, to Fort
FremSnt, the southeast point. This
fort of cement and rock cost millions
and has a rcservn'tion of 140 acres; it
was built by our government during
the Spanish war. From Coffin's Point
eastward and outward is St. Helena
sound and beyond is a fringe of a half
dozen hunting islands and then is the
sea, while northward from the point i
one looks across broad St. Helena J
sound, seeing in the distance a fringe
of big Islands once the habitat of the
great sea island cottort industry and
leading on up to Charleston, while
westward and landward one looks
back over the great widening St. Helena
sound. Fremont fort looks eastward
over St. Helena sound and then ,
on to the sea, westward and landward
some eleven miles to Port Royal town
and Parris Island and across that most
majestic body of water known as Port
Royal sound.
Historic roints.
But these two points carry other and
edded interest. Without any doubt the
Spanish ships under De Ayloon in 1520,
coming in from the sea, landed either
it Coffin's Polpt or the Fremont fort.
One of these points undoubtedly marked
the third landing by white men in
America, Vespucius and Ponce de Leon
preceding here by a small margin.
One of these two points, therefore, is
l world-famous historical shrine, carrying
the quite venerable age of 402
years. .Beyond doubt the first island
In America, on which a white man
landed was St. Holena, and beyond
doubt the place of this landing was
either Coffin's Point or the site on
ivhich Fort Frecmont stands today.
A famous road connects these two
points known far and wide in Beaufort
lend as Sea Side road. In the old
Jaj-s it ran through an amazing wealth
af fine homes and big plantations,
svhosc owners were the Coffins, Doctor
Jenkins, the Fripps, Chapmans and
mners. aomp 01 inese nuiurx are Mini t
standing. Doctor Jenkins Is credited I
with owning the enormous number of
1,000 slaves and everything connected
with him was carried on on the same
scale. Entertainments by these people
were on the most lavish plans. In
fact, for something like 200 years this
section had unexampled prosperity.
A Tabby Church.
These people worshipped at a rich,
fashionable church near by, the White
church (Episcopal), now burnt, but ;
whose walls are still standing, furnish- |
ing probably the finest example in j
America of an ecclesiastical tabby
ruin. A nearby brownstone mausoleum,
handsome enough for the most
exclusive metropolitan cemetery and
dating about 1S10, bears the name of
Fripp. Quite different is this church
with its monuments to a large Indian
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.on a lecture tour, who urges co
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mound in the center of the island
wh'igh ihd island Indians used for1
their burying grounds, and which
not long sinre was ruthlessly broken
into and many relics lost.
These two historic island points, th
old and amazingly rich Sea Side road,
thin costly Fremont fort whose metals ;
are now being dismantled, this old I
tabby church, and this ancient Indian |
mound are all worthy places for visit
and study.
A Violent Contrast.
A contrast more violent than that ;
between sandstone mausoleum and In- j
diap earthern mound* is the contrast ;
between the peoples of those days and
those that we find on the island today.
When the Civil war came Beaufort
land was occupied by the Northern
army, and these rich sea hsland cotton
plantation owners all left. They never
crone back, for their lands were confiscated.
Rich Northerners now mostly
own these sea side homes, farming,
in a way, through overseers aqd coming
out every winter on hunting vacations.
Let me say that the climate at
this end of the island is a most salubrious
and fine one all the year. All
of the island, save this fringe on the
sound^ is today taken up by the Gullah
negro, about 6,009 of them. Amazing
to say, there are on the island at
least 1,000 negro homes, each surrounded
by ten or fifteen acres of land,
and unusually amazing is the tenacity
with which these negroes cling to
their homes. Indeed $500 per acre
would not induce most of them to sell.
In the whole of Beaufort county the
Gullah negro does not* live on the
white man's farm, but in these ljttle
homes. They work most or tne year
on truck lands or in the oyster canneries
and plant their farms somewhat
as a side issue. Here and there we
find a little marsh horse, but the universal
animal for dragging a plow or a
wagon is the ox. You see these little
ox teams everywhere on- the island.
The negro does not mind the slowness
of the ox, for slowness suits the negro.
Moreover and above all, the ox always
finds his own feed, while food, on the
other hand, must be made and kept or
it must be bought for the horse. On
these negro farms you will find corn,
velvet beans, cowpcas, peanuts, sweet
potatoes, pumpkins and bennc?the
latter being shipped to Savannah to
the candy men.
The Oyster Canneries.
The three big oyster canneries on the
island employ each 150 to 175 hands,
and, working seven months in the yca?
are a great help to these negroes. The
payroll runs for each cannery $800 to
SI.000 weeklv. The wecklv out nut of
each cannery is something like 30,000
one-pound cans. Much of this is exported.
Oysters arc of two types, the
single shell, which is the l>ig oyster,
and the smaller bunch' oyster?there
may be six or seven shells oftentimes
clinging here together. Oysters aro
not gathered by tongs, but are gathered
by low tide direct from the beds.
The oyster boatmen bring them to the
wharf. The oysters are steamed and
quickly shucked and washed and canned
and their liquor is put in. The
can is sealed quickly by machinery
and is then cooked and labeled. The
oyster shell piles about these canneries
are immense things, being thirty feet
high and holding from 2,000,000 to 2,500.000
bushels earh. Twenty-five per
cent of the empty shells go back to
the spawning grounds for the little
oysters to grow on. Some are ground
up for chicken food and for the liming
of land, hut mostly they go to the
making of these fine roads known ns
oyster shell roads. But let us remora
rer and writer, now Ir\ this country
mpulsnry marriage for America's
glgg them health and happiness, 5 '
ber that it is the Gullah negro on this
island that makes possible this really
big oyster canning industry.
? The first government bond issue
since the war has been announced by
the treasury. Secretary Mellon offers
for subscription an issue of about
jr>00,000,000 of 4 1-4 per cent., 30 year
treasury bonds as part of the program
for refunding the short dated debt.
The new issue will be dated Oct. 16,
1022, bearing interest at 4 1-4 per cent,
annually, payable April 15, and October
15, on a semi-annual basis. The bonds
will mature October 15, 1952, but may
be redeemed at the option of the United
States after October 15, 1947. The
last previous bond issue offered by the
treasury was the fourth Liberty loan in
October, 1918. It carried Interest at 4
1-4 per cent., fo mature in 20 years
and amounted to nearly $7,000,000.
Bearer bonds of the new issue with''
interest coupons attached will be issued
in denominations of $100, $500,
$1,000, $5,000 and $10,000, while bonds
registered as to principal and interest
will be issued in denominations of $100,
$500, $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, $50,000 and
$100,000. All will carry the usual tax
exemption provisions. Secretary Mellon
reserved the right to allot additional
bonds above the $500,000,000
amount fixed for subscriptions to the
extent that 4 1-4 per cent. Victory
notes or treasury certificates of the
series maturing December 15, 1922, are
tendered in payment. Applications for
new bonds not exceeding $10,009 from
any one subscriber will be allotted in
full but applications for an amount in
excess of $10,000 will be received subject
to allotment.
? A whippet tank which went in any
direction and performed the most intricate
maneuvers, guided solely by
radio, the geyser-like explosion and
volcanic roar of a 2,000 pound bomb
dr-nnned from an nirnlano. and a
demonstration of the new 16-inch pun
carriage which permits such a gun to
be pointed and turned almost as quick-ly
as the movie gunman handles his
six shooter?these were one of the
marvels of modern war shown at the
Aberdeen, Md., proving ground, last
Friday. The ocfhslon was the fourth
annual gathering of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers, of the
Society of Automotive Engineers and
the Army Ordnance association. About
800 persons were present, including
several officers high in the army.
Phosphorous tracer bullets, fired
through an airplane propeller over the
proving grounds, showed how an airman
can correct hls: aim in war. To
illustrate the difference between instantaneous
and delay action fuses, two
600 pound bombs, were dropped fl-om
airplanes into the water from a height
of 4,000 feet. Firing) of 14, 12 and 8:.w.u
mmo funm r\ vmi/ >n i 1 mn H rnrri;i?TPS
was one of the most interesting features
of the exhibit.1' The 50 caliber
14-inch gun on railway mount was
recently completed at the Watertown
arsenal. It represents the most powerful
railway ordnance in existence.
There was a demonstration of flashless
powder, tracer ammunition and military
pyrotechnics.
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? A nationwide appeal for funds for
the relief of the thousands of refugees
In the Near Bast has been authorized
by President Harding. The money will
bo distributed through the American
Red Cross and the Near East relief,
working jointly, and will be raised by
a special committee, headed by former
Postmaster General Hays. This'statement
was issued by the president. "A
recognized and most appealing emergency
exists in the Near East. After
full conference it is unanimously
l-i o Amnripnn Rpd Cross
and the Near East Relief, two govern- j
mentally recognized agencies, are the
logical instrumentalities through
which this relief may be extended and
it is a manifest duty that they should
take charge of the situation jointly. In
a campaign of most cooperation they
will command the facilities for most
efficient ministration. In order to meet
the situation there is created a special
fund to be known as "Near East emergency
fund.' This special fund is to
be raised by a nationwide appeal
which appeal is indorsed and will be
engaged in by the American Red Cross,
the Near East relief, the Young Men's
Christian association, Y'oung Women's
Christian association, the Federal
Council of Churches, the Knights of
Columbus, the American relief administration,
the Jewish joint distribution
committee and o'her organizations
having interests in the Near East.
Money may be sent to Eliot Wadsworth,
treasurer of the American Red
Cross, Washington, D. C.; C. H.
Dodge, treasurer of Near East relief,
111 Fifth ayenue, New York, or The
Literary Digest, 354 Fourth uvenue.
New York. A special emphasis and
appeal for funds will be made during
the roll on 11 of the American Red Cross
in November. Checks in each instance
shall be made payable to the Near East
emergency furtd."
MERE MENTION
The national association of Cotton
Manufacturers at its 113th semi-annual
session at Atlantic City, New Jersey,
last Friday went on record as favoring
the re-nomination of W. fi. P. Harding
as governor of the Federal Reserve I
board All known record in sustained
flight in a heavier than air machine
was broken last week when
Lieutenants John A. MacReady and
Oakley F. Kolley, remained over San
Diego, California for 35 hours, eighteen
minutes and 30 seconds, from 5:50
Thursday morning to 5:11 Friday
evening. The police of Northern
Ontario have discovered and identified
the bodies of IS people who lost.(
their liver, as the refcult of forest fires]
that raged In* that re'gion last week.
The Soviet Russian government I
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lias guaranteed to an American company
the right to prospect for oil on
the islands of Saghailen for the next
five years.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Rev. J. A. McLean has accepted a
call to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian
church of Greenwood. He
now lives at Morganton, N. C.
? Boll Gregory, a deputy sheriff of
Aiken county, was convicted Saturday
of the murder of C. F. Ilatchell and
recommended to mercy. He was sentenced
to life imprisonment.
? Wade Jackson of Birmingham,
Ala., enlisted in the United States marines,
committed suicide in Charleston
last Thursday by shooting himself in
the head with a pistol.
? A bale of cotton was stolen from
the gin of P. B. Gregory at Wilksburg,
Chester county, Friday night. A short
time previously a bale of cotton \?as
stolen from the gin of E. S. Carter In
the same section of Chester county.
? Rev. Slgfried Bromgren, a Lutheran
minister hailing from Connecticut,
has announced himself as a Republican
candidate for congress from the First
district in opposition to W. Turner
Logan of Charleston.
? The Rev. W. P. Step, Baptist
i\rnn/>Vioi> fpnm whom nfflrprs conflscat
t-d a quart of moonshine whisky as he
was returning from a country church
where he had preached a powerful
sermon, told Sheriff Rector of Greenville,
Saturday, that he was carrying
the whisky homo to his sick wife. Although
Sheriff Rector stated that he
did not think prosecution would be
instituted against the preacher in the
state courts, the Federal authorities
have announced no intention of abandoning
the charges. A preliminary
hearing probably will be given the
Rev. Mr. Step this week. He arranged
surety bonds Saturday before United
States Commissioner Williams on
charges of transporting and having
whisky in his possession. Two petitions
to United States Judge H. H.
Watkins of the Western district of
South Carolina, were drawn up Friday
by the people of Tigcrville signed by
more than 40 of the best citizens of
that community. The petition requested
that the case be fully explained
to the Feilernl judfje before Mr.
u'n? nrnseeiiterl. Sheriff Rector
stated Saturday that in his opinion the |
case against the Rev. M. Step would
not come to trial, even if there is an
indictment. "I have known this man
for a number of years," said the sheriff.
"and I know him to be an upright,
law-abiding citizen, and a devout minister
of the Gospel. He told me that
his wife was ill, and as they live a long
way from a physician his wife asked
him to get her a little whisky to mix
with seme herbs and make some medicine.
Some good friend gave him the
quart of whisky," he said. Sheriff
Rector said State Constable J. If.
Howard overstepped his authority
When he stopped and searched the
minister without a warrant.
? The second trial of Tom Harrison,
of Greenville, who was convicted of
manslaughter on a charge of murdering
his wife, but who appealed to the
supremo court and had the verdict of
the circuit court jury set aside, will be
taken up at the October term of the
court or general araaiuiis u n ia jywosible
to locate nil the witnesses, Solicitor
Smoak announced on Saturday.
Arthur 'Monk" Young, who was shot
a| the same time Mrs. Harrison was
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fatally wounded, and was a material
witness for the state, has left Greenville,
Solicitor Smoak said he had
heard that Young1 was in Asheville, X.
C. Harrison, on the witness stand at
his first trial testified that he was
shooting at Young, whom he found in
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