The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, November 22, 1922, Image 1
Vol. 13 No. 11 / " PAGELAND, S. C.? NOVEMBER 22t 1922. Si.00 per year
OUR BORDER LETTER
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i Bj 8. M. Funderburk.
For the information of many
of his felatives, and scores of
people who knew bim in his
boyhood and young manhood
days, I Will now undertake by
Ilia nnnaant tn aitro a cVinrt hit. I
A* 19 WUO?UI| IV (tTV M ?
tory ol one Nathan Beaver, who
'is now jiving in. the middle por
tion of Texas, at a towo by the
name of Jonesboro, in Coryell
county, near where he first set- '
tied after coming to Texas, but i
has lived in several different sec- 1
tions of the slate. 1
Mr. Beaver is now neanng his <
82nd birthday and is remarkably 1
stout and robust, and no one i
would judge him to be over 60 >
years of age. - He enlisted in the
war, and as a volunteer served i
until he was wounded at the bat*
tie of Manassas in Virginia, when 1
he was relieved from service till '
he was ablg to go back into ser- 1
vice again. He told me that he '
could have remained out the bal- <
ance of the war, but his love for
the cause for which so many '
not only fought but lost their 1
lives and this for a cause they j
then thought was a righteous '
cause, but as he said to me that 1
nothing has up to this time con* 1
vinced him that he was not fivht* :
ing for a just cause, but still be- 1
lieves that the fight for the Con*
laifammf titn. akv nnhta an/1 omt 1
ivuvtavj vrao v/ui niruia, auu ?uj
one now. living, who knew Nathan
Beaver knows he was a
brave soldier. He says he nor
his immediate family had anything
in the way of property or
slaves to go into the conflict for,
except they would have been
don scripted "later on. Says he
the cloae received his honorable '
discharge at Greensboro, N. C. 1
eatrs Vio fntinrVii a nrirvrl laerKt I I
o?jo uv ivuf;ui a k\aai xi|(ui
but lost. During the war he was '
in some of the bard fought battles
and says it was miraculous
how he escaped beiug killed. He
"now enjoys talking or the years
he spent in the service of his <
country, and telling the harrow- I
ing tales of his experiences and. 1
oft the hardships during the strug- <
gle. To show.. how much he 1
loyed the cause, it did not matter J
what subject he would be talk- i
ins: aDoui, ne wouia arm into 1
the sad experiences of what he i
went tnrough with in war days, i
The writer has never met a man I
who seems more interested in I
that memorable struggle than <
Mr. Beaver. In the year of 1863 <
he obtained a furlough, came f
home and married Miss Palmiria 1
Funderburk a daughter of Hen- <
ry and Barbara Funderburk, and
left the next morning and went
back to his command. After the I
close of the conflict, returning to <
his home and wife, he remained
"there long enough to make his
third crop, and then by wagon
train, moved to west Mississippi,
and lived near his brother-in-law,
Sylvester Shute for two years,
then by the same mode of travel,
which was at that time by private
transportation, such as ox
and horte wagon, he moved on
into Texas near where he now
lives. There were bprn to him
eight children, of wnom there
are now living two sons and one
daughter. These * children all
live in west Texas and are doing
well. On December 9th 1879 he
lost his wife. Since posing his
I first wife, he hp* married four
1 - times, n&aking five wives all told.
I By the second union were born
I six children and of that number
I three are living, two srirls and 1
Ion{ ton. By the next marriage t
waa born two children, a ton and *
daughter. At I haye alteady
aid. all thete children live in I
Peanat. father of ISO Children. 1
Charlotte Observer'
It sounds almost like a fairy
tale, this story of the lowly peanut,
but it has- been left to a <
Southern chemist, a negro chem- '
ist at that, to delve into its possi- i
bilities and produce fust such an i
exhibit of the by-products of
what we Southerners have for i
years regarded as circus fruit. i
At the Four-County Fair re- i
cently held at Suffork, Va'., this j
wizard of his race showed where i
it is possible to produce from the
peanut such articles as shoe j
Klarlrtnar SuiOPt nirklpR foilpt i
soaps, fertilizer, vinegar, break- i
fast food, fuel, face cream and i
some 140 other varieties of usef ul
articles. ^
Prof. G. W. Carver is chemist j
at the Tuskeege Normal and In- <
dust rial Institute, and his display <
of the peanut by-products was the
largest ever shown anywhere, i
and needless to say, attracted i
wide attention and a variety of i
comment.
For 30 years Professor Carver i
lias been engaged in the develop- i
ment of useful by-products from i
soy beans, velvet beans, old-fash*. ?
ioned cowpeas, tomatoes and i
sweet potatoes, and had on dis- i
play, 6u soy bean by-products and
116 developed from the sweet <
rvrtta tr,
This old negro chemist is experimenting
all th$ time. He declares
the peanut, for culinary i
purposes, produced by its rich
milk is practically unlimited for
making tancy cheese, nut sage,
chocolate fillers, cream bon bons
and many fancy salads. Butter
can be made from the peanut <
milk. % ry*
The hfettery ofilhisold nfiam i
1st reaAnSSn^nci^in l^ear
ly struggles for an education.
n 1_ i,:.
ne luuuc iuc ucai ui 111a u^pui(unities
and woa deserved success.
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One Best Patb
i
There are many paths, but only
one best one. In that way God
leads us. If we fail going in the 1
right way, it is because .of something
in ourselves Just so far as 1
we are willing to obey God*s law,
?o far as we put aside selfishness,*
10 far as we have cherished the
right character and right motives,
to far as we sincerely seek to dp
right, we shall be led intb the
oaths and the places which are
best for us. If we fail, it is because
we are led astrav by our
own Wrong desires and motives,
is the vessel is deflected from
ler course by currents of the
>cenn.?Belfast Witness. '
Better an ass that carries us,
han a horse that throws us.?4.
j. Holland. *
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west Texas. His last wife was
1 iiMrlrttir Mr* Inlinriio Hauio on
TVIUVVVf IMIOi | V&1UUIV IV (I T B Of MU
estimable lady, who Is educated, t
ind could read for Mr. Beaver, t
Svho says be enjoys it more than ,
my one could*.- It is easily seen
>y one that she is very much in. 1
erested in Mr. Beaver's comfort
ipd happiness. Mr. and Mrs. 1
Beaver have just been spending
lomething like a week with the I
vriter and tells me^ that this is i
he first visij.of his long life, with
my of his relatives, which was
luite a compliment to us being
ible to entertain htm on his first <
hsu to oi8 many Kinsmen; He
tays i hat he has traveled exten c
lively and made many trips back
o hi - old home, but the trips
vet'e . o see, his mother and was i
i l.. u:
jui i t/msiueieu uy 111111 uy visub j
rie al. a tells me of his travels s
hrouc tout the country; but always
\. ere on businefs.
Galveston, Tex., Sept. 14, 1922. I
Continued next week. t
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY
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Special Correspondence. j
Washington.?The great Democratic
victory of Tuesday'Nov.
7, accurately forecasted by Chairman
Cordell Hull of the Dem6c
ra11c National Committee,
marks. the beginning of the return
of the people to the Democratic
party and the restoration
of that party to complete power
iq 1924. It is more than o pro
test against Republican incompetency
and failure. It is a repudiation
of the major policies
which the present reactionary
Republican Congress and administration?the
mopt reactionary
in history?have advocated
and foisted upon the people. It
is a repudiation of tarriff-robbery,
of tax-shiftmg and tax-juggling,
of Newberrytsjn, Daughertyism
and Laskensm, of reckless^p
propnation and extravagant expenditure,
of_ the alliance between
the reactionary leaders of
the' Republican party and special
privilege and of the reenthronement
of the spoils system
in government departments.
< In many of its features the
election was a personal rebuke
to President Harding himself.
The Republican candidate for
Governor of Ohio, who is supposed
to have won his nomina
lion by reason ot being an administration
favorite, was defeated;
Senator Frelinghuysen of
New Jersey, the President's fellow-vacationist
and boon companion,
was emphatically and
decisively squelched; Newberry,
who obtained a- cettificate of
character ^from^ President Hording
prior to
repudiated wherever there were
Democratic majorities; Lodge,
the, administration's spokesman
in the hecate, has been humiliated
to a degree which in some
respects is worse than his defeat
_ i i
wouia nave oeen, and a recount
of the votes in Massachusetts
may add to his humiliation.
There were minor casaulties in
the presidential coterie.
President Harding had definitely
committed himself to the Republican
policies and candidates
that were on trial. He spoke for
them by the lip? of his Cabinet
officers. He gave every sign
that he regarded 1the result .as
either approval- or disapproval
of the Republican administration's
acts and omissions. The
supreme court of the electorate
bias given its decision. Mr. Harding
and the Republican Congress
stand condemned for the future
io less than for the past.
One thing lacking in Tuesday's
>leotion was the failure to give
be Democrats a substantial maoritv
lti the House.. A small Republican
majority in the House,
loweyer, is equivalent to a Dem>cratic
victory. The balance of
powerlwill be held by progrestives
and radicals who are as
nuch opposed to Republican
eactionism as the bemocrats.
Republican redbtionism has
>een checked but not destroyed,
rhe work so auspiciously begun
ast Tuesday will be completed
n 1924.
Description, of a Train of Cars
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He lived in a romote region in
kOAilon/i kit# AtiAA An g% IflVMA A/t
^vvunuui uui uu a IIUIC
:ompanied his fatbsr to a village
tear which a branch line ran.
rhe moraine after his arrival he
iaw a train go by. For a moment
ie stared at it witj) astonishment
and then, ritnnincr into thp houeo
taid:
"Fayther, fayther, coom oot!
rhere's a smiddy [a blacksmith's
bopl ran off wi' a row o' houses,
in* it s awa' doon by the back o'
he toon."
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, MORAL ISSUES
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A Great Fad
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A man may not accept Christiaoity
as the basis of his life, but
jkhere is one thins he can not de-1
ay-?that the religion of the cross
Itffhe only one that exhibits a
passiop for 8avine the lost. Othaf
religions may have their fierce
propaganda for gaining converts
Aid making ccxnqu ests. but Christianity
stands alone in its mission
ty the sin fill, the sorrowful, the
despairing. Christ alone manifests
tenderness and love for the
ifoeary and heavy laden. He
alone says of the sinner, "when
ha was a great way off his fathef
saw him and had compassion
- i i_n ?_ u i_ i
hbu rau auu icti uu uu ucck auu
kissed him.*'?Michigan Presbytia
Lessons TaoflM By Trials
^We never have mure than we
cab bear. The present hour we
afe aiways able 'to endure. As
Ottr day, so is our strength. If
the trials of many years were
gathered into one, they would
overwhelm us; therefore, in pity
topur little strength, God sends
j^SSt one, then another, then removes
both, an d lays on a third,
hayjer, perhaps, than' either;
b<B all is so widely measured to
oifr Wrenfcth that the bruised reed
.m*ver broken. We do not
Mpugh look?at our trials in this
$wfiouou8 and successive view.
Jn one is seJQt to teach us
SHBething, and altogether they
Mk a lesson which is beyond
tjtt^ower of any to teach alone.
Manning.
It fa lever wise to live in the
past There are, indeed, some
uses of our past which are helpful,
and which bring blessing.
We should remember our past
lost condition to keep us humble
and faithful. We should remember
past failures and mistakes,
that we msly not repeat them.
We should .remember / past mercies,
that we may have confidence
in new needs or trials in
I Uie future. We should remember
past comforts, that there may
be stars in our sky when night
comes again. But while there
are these trufe uses of memory,
we should guard against living
in the past. We should draw
our life's inspiration^ not from
memory, but from hopet -not '
from what is gone, but from
.what is yet to come.?J. R. Miller.
. God's Unnoticed Gifts
God's best gifts are not even
seen by those who do not make
it the constant ournose of their I
life to receive them. It takes
spiritual alertness to know anything
of what is going on in the
spiritual world of God's richest ,
workings. Without such alertness
and purpose in our lives, (
We shall no more be aware of
the wealth of spiritual blessing .
and opportunity (ha^God offers
us all the time thada blind man
going through the Grand Canyon
would be of the glories about
bim. it Das been said tDat God
never labels His choicest gifts;"
they are offered so quietly that I
they are unnoticed save by the (
few whose lives are concentrat- J
ed in an intensity of purpose to
know Him and to do His will.
But .ye may all let Christ create
in us this keenness o^ vision to
reco ;nize our blessings, and give .
us (he purpose and the power to J
lay bold on them.?Sunday \
Sch ol Times. *
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N dure tpnrhps hpnntft to know f
the uft tends.?Shakespeare. 11
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Jury Usl
FIRST WEEK
: Cheraw?J. F. McBride. W. H.
Calder, D. W. Moore, R. K.
Berry, I. F. Harper.
Court House?E. C. Rivers, W.
J. Moore, B. F. Griggs, Geo. W.
Eddins, J. D. Fiocher, D. Vaughn.
Mt. Croghan?T. B. Smith, R.
J. Mangum, J. W. Lowery, C. C.
Burck, L. B. Sellers.
- Old Store?C. L. Hicks, R. E.
Richardson, B. F. Clark, R. M.
Sanders, S. F. Ingram, B. R. Funderburk.
Jefferson?H. M. Sellers, B. R.
Threatl, W. D. Watkins, W. C.
Nicholson.
Aligaior?E C. Horton, Baxter
Blqpkwell, R. M. Beasley.
Cole Hill?John Wesley Bofcn,
A. J. Lewis, J. T. Deese.
Steer Pen?H. B. Roscoe, W.
B. Brown.
Pee Dee-?J. B. Chapman, M.
A. Biles.
SECOND WEEK
Cheraw?W. Ed. Reid, Geo.
j Walteft, W. E Hunt, Jr., E J.
Waddel, G. E Knight
. Court House?J. Oscar Parker,
Ira C. Redfearn, M. A. Sellers,
Ray J. White, Percy Rivers, D.
A. White.
Mt T IMF C^vl
mu viVKuau?uauici 1?1 OCI'
lers, I. W. Fuoderburk, C. ?.
Barker, J. T. Thurman.
Old Store-kJuy L. Watts, L.
E. Courtney, D. W. Mangum, M.
L. Davis, Brown Agerton,
Jefferson?W. S. Jenkins, S. A.
Cambell, J. F. Mungo, A. J. Kirkley.
Aligator?D. A. Morrison, H.
R. McLeod, N. W. Seegars.
Cole Hill?I. B. Merriman, G.
S. Cjsfepthaw, R: E, Sowell, Hoyt
i>SeJfeS9k^ ~*t ? *"??*
''Steer Pen?R. C. Baker, J,
%>r * -?
warren jonnson. j i
Pee Dee?A. W. Ay cock, J, T.
Chapman.
Over Ihe Hills of Dudley
Guy Funderburk.
The greenest grass I ever knew, I
The skies that seem the brightest blue ,
Are over the hills of Dudley.
The prettiest flowers that ever grew,
The softest winds that ever blew,
Sway over the hills of Dudley.
The loveliest birds that ever sing,
The welcomest bells that ever ring,
Sound over the hills of Dudley;
The dearest calls of Whip-o-wUle
Come from forests among those hllle,
Just over the hills of-Dudley.
The brightest moon that shines at night, ,
The truest love?the world's delight, ;
Shiqes over the hills of Dudley.
The wisest thoughts that mortals know, '
The clearest streams that ever flow, 1
Move over the hills of Dudley.
The noblest boys that ever were,
xnw truest jfins iouna anywnere, .
Live over the hills of Dudley.
The happiest people that ever live,
The sweetest life that earth o&n give,
Are over the hills of Dudley.
flow He Jotfged Character
"So you want a situation?"
said the business man.
"Yes, sir," replied the applicant."
"Hum?do you ever go fishing:?"
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"Occasionally." i
"When wara vnn
"Day before yesterday.** <j
"Catch anything?" "Not
a thing." "
"Yon can come to work next
Monday, if you like. If you keep{e
>n telling the truth like that you I
nay be a partner in the tirm one t
>f these days." ^
Artful Alliteration t<
H? re is a specimen of dramat- ?
c ci iticism ns she is written in 11
Chicago: "The first scene of f<
lie second act shows a forest of fa
phosphorescent fungi, full of tl
ascinating phantasmagorical g
ire Hies, fitfully flitting fast and ?
uriously,n e
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IT IS SAID
A man dishonored is worse
than dead ?Cervantes.
Three may keep a secret, if
two of them are dead.?Benjamin
Franklin.
Who lives for humanity must
be content to lose himself.?O.
B. Frothingham.
x A cruel story runs on wheels,
and every hand oils the wheels
as they run.?Ouida.
Sabbath-days,?quiet islands on
tHe tossing sea of life.?Samuel
Willoughby Dutfield.
A man who is not ashamed of
himself need not be ashamed
of his early condition.?Daniel
Webster.
A man without self-restraint
is like a barrel without hoops,
and tumbles to pieces.?Henry
Ward Beech er.
Now then we are ambassadors
for Christ, as though God did beseech
you by us: we pray you in
Christ's stead, be ye reconciled
to God.?Bible.
None are so fond of secrets as
those who do not mean to keep
t
mem; sucn- persons covei secrets
as a spendthrift covets money,
tor the purpose of circulation.?
Col ton.
The body of all true religion
consists, to be sure, in obedience
to the will of the Sovereign of
the world, in a confidence in his
declarations, and in imitation of '
his perfections.?Burke.
The Saviour comes in the
strength of righteousness. Right- ,
ough, it is the Very spirit of unsparing
truth.?Phillips Brooks.
There is nothing so small but
that we may honor God by asking
his guidance of it. or insult
him by taking it into our own
hands; and what is true of Deity
is equally true of bis revelation.
?-Ruskin.
Silence is the element in which
great things fashion themselves
together, that, at length, they
may emerge, full-formed and
majestic, into the daylight of life,
which they are henceforth to
rule.?Carlyle.
Romance, like a ghost, eludes
touching. It is always where
you were, not where you are.
The interview or the conversation
was prose at the lime, but it
is poetry in memory.?George
William Curtis.
Words, money, all things else
ire comparatively easy to give,
iwav; but when a man makes a
gift of his daily life and practice,
it is plain that the truth, whatever
it may be, has taken possesion
of him.?Lowell.
Religion is not a method, it is
i life, a higher and supernatural
ife, mystical in its root and pracical
in its fruits; a communion
with God, a calm and deep enhusiasm.
a love which radiates.
i force which acts, a happiness
vhich overflows.?Amiel.
We hear in th^se days a great
leal respecting Rights, ? the
ights of private judgment, the
ights of labor, the rights of propirty,
and the rights of man.
tights are grand things, divine
hings in this world of God's;
>ut the way in which we ex ound
these rights, alas! seems
o me to be the very incarnation
if selfishness. I can see nothag
very noble in a man who is
orever going about calling for
lis own rights. Alas! alas! for
ae man who feels nothing more
rand in this wondrous, divine
rorld than hi&own rights.?Fredrick
W. Robertson.
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