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THE FESTIVAL OF OLDEN DAYS. Corn Shucking in the South in the Moon Ught Nights of November-The Famous Year '55. Home and Farm. Where is the man of three score in all the South who has not fond memories and rapturous reveries of the "corn-shucking" of the old South? In scber prose Charles Reade wrote a delightful tale of the harvest home, and in the book of Ruth we read of the gleaning in the fields of Boaz and the winnow ing in his threshing floors. Whit comb Riley in the most delicious verse in the world, aid redolent of the soil, tells of the sentiment and the poetry of rural life. At the North, or rather at the East, they had the "husking bee," but only at the South, the old South, that is iow history atid tradition,t was the "corn-shuckiing " and it was an adjunict of tlie 'instituti ii," as slavery was called. I shall n1ever forget t lie fat year 1855. Ceres and Pomona came, each with ample lap filled, and scattered pleity over the lanl, tin- I til the farmers, their wives, their \ sons and daughters, their man t servants and their maid se.1-:C vants, rejoiced and made merry. I Late in the fall when the harvest S was done and field was brown and i1 forest was naked and frost had her- v alded the approach of harsh and 1 surly wiinter-in the month of No- t vember, th glorious season of In- C dian summner, wleln the feeling of melancholy becomes deliciouts pleas ure, w\'hten the old year goes into h decay that tihe new year may be born, w\'henl fruition begins to b) die to make place for the promised t seed time of the promised spring- a time, then was the time ior the a corn-shucking, the moonlight nights s of November. But it is tradlitiol, now--- it died with slavery and was a bur-ed with it. Farmer Cassidy was an energetic and an industrious man, who ate no idle bread. His sons and daugh tere were dutiful and diligent and his slaves served as models for all! the negroes in the vicinity of Pilot t Knob and the territory round about in Barren, Green and Hart counties. 1-is fields laughed with fatness that famnous year of the '55 It is the "barrens" country be ginning on Green river at the mouth of Little Barrent and extenid ing through Kentucky to the west of south till merged into the glo rious Cumiberland valley of middle Tennessee. In Kentucky we call it the "l I'enny rile"' to dlistinguiishi it from the bluegrass. It is very fertile, and fifty years ago it was mostly virgin. When it was first settled it was alnost as bare of trees as thel\Western p)raries-hlence its name, the "i'brrens.'' WVhen Farmer Cassidy gathered his corn that seasotn of '855 it mtade an enormous pile, a very muountain, and now in the splendid Indiani summer the neighbors were invited to the corn-shucking and the succeeding feast that they might p)artake of his hospitality and re joice with him. They came with their families and their slaves and all were made welcome. I.arhy in the afternoon the work began at the corn p)ile. White and black, two and three dleep), were gathered around the mountain of p)lenty, which was crndely div'ided in halves by the laying of p)oles fronm apex to b)ase. The bands were also dlividled-multsteredl ito two coim p)anies, each captained by a black songster and( the emutlationi was which comlpany/ should first " shutck through the center of the pile. WVho that ever[heard it ever for got a ''corn sontg" as stung by the negroes of thle old slave t ies? It will be a meimory yet a littII'~le wile longer, and1( then lost forever, for it is not tn o ,ilecrlme, an,,, the s-I cial condition that made it is gone forever. It was to sound what the cakewalk is to motion. It was the germ of" ragtime"and at once plain tive and melodious. There was the leader who improvised the words and the chorus answered with ani indescribable sound not at all ut pleasant, and pregnant with wihat we might call rhythm. One leader that I extravagantly admired when I was a boy of ten used to address his words to some mysterious dusky belle of the name of Sally. It ap pears that Miss Sally was not kind, itid he was telling her and the neighbors what lie thought about it. There was a line like this: "I'm going 'way to lea v,e you!" Then came the chorns, rich, ronmd, sonorous, melodious and )aintive. As that died away the eader add(ressed some iniformation .o Sally of this import: 've got 111 books and ihles' Aid that, too, was followed hv he chorns half wailing, halfm ick ing. The sun set and up rose tle Ycl ow m1oon to lenid energy to the Vork and to the song Faster were he s'-ncked ems throwim inito the rib anid louder was the melody\. \s the shucking neared the tinish a ong of frenzy-soie of it douht ess due to the jug of new corn vhiskey that had occasionally assed from hand to hand during he evening--seized the whole con ourse and they worked like mad. s the last ear was shucked a shout eit up that might have beeti card for miles. Meanwhile the girls of the neigh - orhood were iii the "big room'" at ie dwelling quilting and prattling tid laughing and blushing. It was r cc between them and their weethearts as to which should be miisied first-the corn pile or the uilt. Their mothers were with drs. Cassidy in the "family room," eeply absorbed in the discussion of iighborhood matters. The kitchen vas the busiest place onl the whole >lantation and ruled with iron rods >y the best cooks in the world lie old black maimmies of the old lave times. When the corn was in the crib, vhieni the quilt was on the bed. when he feast was spread in the dining ooi, the old folks ate first, and as hey sat down to the table the ti ng of a fiddle was heard in the 'big iootm," the boy s got their ;seethearts for partners and thle lance begani. The old folks smoked md gossipp)ed till midnight and thenl wenit homie. The young folks .lanced and( feasted till dlaylight, and eveti after breakiast danced anothier set before they dispersed. But the rollick ing fun was down at the cabin---here was energy as well as the poetry of moct:on, here was the laughter that came from the happiest hearts in all the ages. "Nae Cot illon brent new frae Fran e. But hioi npipes, Jigs, strathpeys andl reels." That was the thing. We shall ne'er look on its like again. Savoyardi Letter to Jno. Scott, Newberry, S. C. D)ear Sir: Devoe is worth $4 or $5 a gallon, putt-on; how mutch is another paint wvorth? D)epends on how many gallons you've got to put.-on, to be equal to one of D)e voc. Mir. .J. J1. hlall, Shellield, Pa., painted two houses one coat, five years ago, lead- andl-oil, t ook 40 gallons, Last sunmner hought 40 gallons De voc fotr same houses; had 10 gallons left. l\lr. N. Avery, D)elhi, N. Y., owns two houses exactly alike, painted one with D)evoe; took (6 gallons. The other withI some (other; took 12 gallons. Whbat'd yotu give for those olT paiints? Bear in indic, you've got. to pay for the paint ig. Yours' tru'tly, I". WX. Di:vol-: &. Co., New York. P. 5. --The Newherry Iliardwvare Co., ' PROVB IT ANYTIMB By the evidence of Newberry People. Theatily evidenmo citizens right here at hone supply Is proof sufficient to sat i6f the g reatest, skept io. No bettei p -,of can be had Hero is a caso Read it: 0 C. Barton mill hailtd at, tht New uorry Cotton Mill says: "Doan's Kid ney Pills did tu" more good th,n any o1 tier medteiitv I evt r used They cured me of backaee after everything clse had failed. I utTertd with my l'ak for siveral viats and I ried all kinds of medieoi but it mily got worse all the tite. I tiave 14d to lose as much as iwo weeks at a time from work on ac count of the terrible' pat ini ll y back At, tilmes I cid tot s'antd stralh!lit te save my life alnd I .eetied to lose ill use of ily bik while :ne col.titnt dIll heavy pain irevtentted Imie ftrcu sleelping Or gett1ng1 VCt, inl 'Iny pOSitIon tand I wouid get, up in t,he tuori!Ig tired to Vtit, 1The kidl 110yS werti i1SoloCei'C.d atd t fitAqit-Vt inl Actiol SO titat I had to ditrag my self tI. of hetI Ajevteral 11it;es Iuiringi. a tight. I tiitid -'v rythnj1g I l011d an, r1b'keri rm linients , w r I nol i t v t '( t WtH i tt 11 t . all - en wnta-- a mnllan's at. h it h ioi o t. of business li irt I v rl ,I: tio D)o:tl-' a utu take Joing ou-t of businessi :>y January 1, 1904. 1 >ffer my stock of JEWELRY, WATCHES, DLOCKS, nILVERWARE, FABLE CUTLERY, and zANCY GOODS, at EW - YORK - COST - PRICE. EDUARD SCHOLTZ, JEWELER. Get the Best! 3ubscribe to The *Wberry Herald aod NoWs and The SOMClh-eklY NeW aid Courier. The best county newspaper The best general and State newspaper. All the telegraph, State and general news you can read. Keep tup with the newvs of tihe world, the nation, the State and your county. Get tihe two for a song only Two Dol lars for a year's subscription to both THEi SEMI-WEEt< rY HEIR'ALD AND Nnws. andl THE SEMI-WEaiKLY NEwsV AND) COURIER. You knowv all about The HIeraldl and News. Tihe Se mi-WeeklyNews and( Cour ier', p)ublishedi at Charleston, S. C., is the most complete and best general semi weekly you can get. It pubillishes 16 pages a week, or 104 issues a year. Gives all the telegraiphlic and State news, gener.! anld special stories. Pubscribe nto to the 'Two for Two DOLL,ARs through The Herald and Newr by iipec'ial arrangement. STLAT1E 01" SOUTH CA l-OLINA, COUNTY 01F NEWVBlERRY--IN COM lON PLEAS. Milton A. Carlisle, Plaintiff, against Elizabeth King, otherwise known as S. J. E. King, D)efendant. YVRTUE OF AN ORD)ER OF 13 the Court herein, I will sell at public outcry, at Newberry Court H-ouse, S. C., on the First Monday in D)ecember, A. D. 1903, all thle interest of Elizabeth King, othlerwise known as S. J. E. King, in that tract of land ly ing in tIhe County and State afor'esaid, ctonltaining One H undlred and Ninety Six Acres, more or less, bounded by the landls of the estat.e of Mrs. S. 1M. Oxner, Levi M. Pr'essley, W. TP. Cotield and others. Should the pur'chaser fail to comply with the terums of sale on the day of sale, the said pr1emises will be resold by the Master at the pur'chaser's i'isk. Terms of Sale: One-half of the pur chase money to be paid in cash, thle batlance onia ced(it of twelve months, with inlterest thereon from (lay of' sale, t.o ble secur'ed by tIle bond of the puri chaser('i andl a mortgage of the priemises soldl, with leavp to the puirchaser to an t ic'ipate paynmdnts ini whole or inl part from timlet to t.imel. Pu'trchaser' to pay for' p)apers' and1 recording of saime. H. HI. RIKARD, Master. Master's Omie, No 11, 103. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY--IN COMMON PLEAS. J. B. E. Sloan and Louis F. Sloan, partners under the firm hame of J. B. E. Sloan & Son, and Felicia Chisolm and Eliza E. Crawford, exe cutors of the last will and testament of Susan Hall, deeased, Plaintiff. against William R. Smith, Archie M.*Smith and Samuel W. Travers, trading under the firm name of S. W. Travers & Company, Defendants. Y VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF - the court herein, I will sell at public outcry atNewberry Court House, S. C., on the first Monday in December, A. D , 1903, all that tract, parcel or plantation of land lying and being in the county of Newberry, and State iforesaid, containing one hundred and sixty-five acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of Geo. T. Reid, es tate of P. J. Coleman and the estate of James W. Williams, deceased. Terms of sale; One-third of the pur "hase money to be paid in cash and the balance on a credit of one and two years, with interest from date of sale, to be secured by a bond of the pur hlaser and a mortgage of the premises, with privilege to the purchaser of an Licipating the credit portion inl Whole )r in part. Purchaser to pMy for papers and re :ording. i. Ht. RIKARI), Master. aaster's Oflice; November 12, 1903, -;ATJE OF SOUT .%H AROLINA, COUNTY o1 Ni'W ElIkliY--lN COMMON PLEAS. Jno. C. Wilson, Judge of Probate of Newberry County, and as public guardian of Thomas M. Werts and Margaret E. Werts, Plaintiff, against rhomas F. Harmon, in his own right, and as executor of the will of Cora D. Harmon, deceased, et al., Defend ants. By virtue of an order of the Court icrein, I will sell at public outcry, at N4ewberrry Court House, S. C., on the irst Monday in December, A. 1). 1903, the following tracts of land situated in .he County and State aforesaid, near 'he town of Newberry lying on the pub ic road to the steel bridge on Saluda iver and on Bush river- they being 3ubaivided tracts of three hundred and thirty acres and eleven-hundredths of in acre of the tract of land which is bounded by the said public road leading to the steel bridge, Mary E. Harmon, axnd Bush River, to wit: No. 1. Containing forty-five acres, more or less, bounded by said public road, estate of G. G. DeWalt, tracts No. 2 and No. 6. No. 2. Containing forty-five acres, more or less. bounded by said tract No. 1, estate of G. G. DeWalt, tracts No. 3 and No. 5. No. 3. Containing forty-seven and fifty one-hundredths acres, bounded by I said tract No. 2, estate of G. G. De Walt, Mary E. Harmon and tract No. 4. No. 4. Containing forty-four -d ninety-hundredths of an acre, bom I by said tract No. 3, Mary E. Harmon, Bush river and tract No. 5. No. 5. Containing fifty-one and twenty-eight-hundredths acres, bound ed by tract No. 4, Bush river, tract No. 6, and tract No. 2. No. 6. Containing fifty and thirteen hundredths acres, bounded by tract No. 5, Bush river, tracts No. 7 and No. 1. No. 7. Containing forty-six and three hundredths acres, bounded by tract No. 6, Bush river, the said public roadl leading to the steel bridge and tract No. 1. There is also allowved, wvhich wvill ap pearV on the subdividled tracts, a road or right of wvay of twenty feet widle, leading to the said p)ublic roadl, which right of way separates tracts No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 from tracts No. 7, No. 6, No. .5 and No. 4. Tfermns of Sale: One-third of the purchase money to be paidl in cash; the balance on a credit of one andl two years, in equal annual installments, the credlit p)ortion to be secured by bond of the p)urchaser and a mortgage of the lands, resp)ectively, with interest from day of sale. Purchaser to pay for paperms. TVhe plats are now on file in the Mas ter's office andl can be seen before (lay ofsale and will be exhibited on (lay of T 1he ab.ove lands are very valuable. Home-seekers wvill (do wvell in calling on the Master to see about same before (lay of sale. HI. HI. RIKARD, Master's Office, Master. Nov. 2, 1903. 8'TATE 01F SOUTH CARltOINA, ('OU3NTY 01F NEWV 3Rlt Y-- IN PII()BAT1E (OOUH'T. By~ J no. ( i. WVi Ison, 184. , I 'obate Judtige. W~I Ii lmA8. .1a ,i' G~gansJ as 1erk of (ioun. hi' madel -fuit, to thc LO gi.La! bii I,*t.t.Ts~ of Adriijiijs. t rat,ion a f the 'state and e Ibets of I" .um i i d lehubi er, dcceaLsed. TIhese atre thepreforie to alite and ad fimni ish all a id s in' gularp L~ the ired an: id creditols of th aid 11( u~nie RI dl e riuber, sh'-iasedI, that they lbe and aippar' b. I rew t', in thbe C oumrt, of Il'iro bate, 1o bei heldt at, Newhetrr'y Court H-Ioulse, S. C., on thbe 2 Iih I)ecemberwi next aLfL 'ter publicat.ion thei reo,f, at, 11 o'clock in thb fore noon, to sh ow cauise, if any' they hiave, why the sahd Admin (Gi ven unrder' my hani:d, th is the loth da'y [r6.8. J of November, Anno Doinn, 1903. .1 NO. C. uVtI4 N .T P. N. C.s STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY-IN COMMON PLEAS. Thos. V. Wicker, Plaintiff, against Nannie Pazan, nee Nannie Wicker, Defendant. B Y VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF the Court herein, I will sell at public outcry, at Newberry Court House, S. C., on the First Monday in December, A. D. 1903, all that piece or parcel of land lying and being situate in the County and State aforesaid, con taining One-half of an Acre, more or less and bounded by Irnds of M. A. Carfisle, R. C. Perry, Mrs. Ida Hunter and others. Terms of Sale: One-half of the pur Iiase money to be paid in cash, and the balance on a credit of one year with in terest from day of sale, the credit por ;ion to be secured by the bond of the purchaser and a mortgage of the premises sold, and the dwelling house thereon to be' insured for at least two hundred and fifty dollars, and the policy assigned to the Master, with leave to the purchaser to anticilate the pay nent of the credit portion in whole or mn part. The purchaser to )ay for papers and recording same. 11. II. RIKARD, Master. Master's Olice, Nov. 10 1903. STATlC OF SOUTH CAIROILNA, COUNTY OF NXW%Vl;EURY IN COMMON PLEAS. Daniel M. Werts, Pinckney Werts, Margaret 11izhardt, Fannie Sample and Enma Snelgrove, Plaintiffs, against Martha C. Werts, P. S. Livingston, 1). G. Livingston, Elizabeth Lang ford, Lula Fellers, Alice C. Porter,. John J. Long, John Long and Olin Long, Defendants. 1PURSUANT TO AN ORDER OF the court herein, I will sell to the ighest bidder, before the court house it Newberry, S, C,, within the legal iours of sale, on the first Monday in December, 1903, the following described roperty, to wit: All that tract of land situate in the :ounty and State aforesaid, whereon lhe said David Werts lived at the time f his death, containing One Hundred and Ninety-Eight (198) Acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of the estate >f John M. Livingston, deceased, E.zekiel Taylor, G. C. Williams, the es tate of Richard Moon, Rebecca L. Pay singer, and others, and by public road eading from Dead Fall towards Bouk right's ferry, and a new cut road lead ng from the place of William Welch, Leceased, to New Chapel Church. Terms of Sale: One-half of the pur -hase money )ayable in cash and the balance in twelve months, with interest from day of sale, to be secured by a bond of the purchaser and mortgage of the premises sold. Purchaser to pay for papers. H. 11. RIKARD, Master. Master's Office, Nov. 17, 1903. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERitY IN COMMON PLEAS. The National Bank of Newberry, South Carolina, Plaintiff, against J. Lewis Ducket, Nancy Ducket, and John T. Duncan, Defendants. Y ORDER OF THE COURT B herein, I will sell to the highest bidder, before the court h'ouse at New berry, S. _., within the legal hours of sale, on the First Monday in December, 1903,.the following described p)rop)erty to wit: All that tract of landI of the estate of Lewvis Duckett situate in the county of Newberry and State aforesaid, containing One Hundred and Fifteen Acres, more or' less, and bounded by lands of Dr. R. C. Carlisle. J. C. H largreve, and Odell D)uncan and others; also all my right and interest in that tract of land of the estate of Lewis D)uckett assigned to Nancy Duckett, containing One HIundlred and Forty Five Acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of Odell D)uncan, Charity HeIr riott, Indian Creek, emd lands of T. S. D)uncan. T1ermns of Sale: One-half of the pur chase money to be paid in cash and the balance in twelve months, with inter est from (lay of sale at the rate of eight per* cent. per annum, to he secuiredl by a bond of the purchaser' andl a mortgage of the premises sol. The purchaser to pay for paper's and recording of same. II. II. RIK A RD, Master. Master's Ollice, Nov. 17, 1903. STATI'E Ole SOUJTIL C :\R ROLINA, COUNTY' OF N1 WVIRRY, IN COMMON PLICAS. D). HI. Wheeler, Plaintiff, Against Wallace Brce UIRSUANT TO AN ORDI Ithe court herein, I will sell at public outcry at Newberry Court House, S. C., on the first Monday in Decem her, A. 1). 1903, all that lot or p)arcel of land lying and being in the town of Prosperity, containing Twelve (12) Acres, fronting north on lBoyd street, adljoimmg lands of 11. S. Boozer on south, lands of J. M. Wheeler on the wecst, lands of Mrs. Waillne~e Hruce on the east. Te'rm;: One-half of the purchase money to be p)aid in cash, the balance in twelve months, with interest from (late of sale, 1to be secured by bond of the iurchaser' andl mortgage of the p)remnises sold, with privilege to the p)urc'haser of anticipating thme credit p)orf.oin m whole or'If in part. Purchaser to pay for' papersO and record(in g. H. 1I. RIKARD), M aster. Master's Ofien. Nov. 17, 103.