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ti" * ~~~ ~ ~W BitQs I SiS 7. .1 d1CA ASWGOOD OLD N BD W RIOALD OLD IC6EOAL OH IIBD OD DAYS Whq;t N944rya Lesis tha,n alf '1%dred Resid'eis-The Good Old Dtys--Stch-0' sh Settlers--Etcellent 'Citizens. 4I'd rather today Be a tow head'ed elf Than to be this old fellow, I know as myself; To sit by a stream Where'tl' ivaters call loud, Than tQ e as I am Just one man in a crowd. That lMirries ai tries To win a goal Whose mark is' 'dollar Lord, bless my old soul. Lord bless my old soul I K am longing today For old hills I have climbed And a daisy gnomned way. That I used to know -well, Where the honey bees buzz, And a daisy gnomed way.6 Xqqw what day it was, Without asking dad: When I drifted -lpng, Through days and through ways That were bordeedith song. Oh boy, little boy Never long to grow old; The crook in the stren, And the cat birds -thof..old, And the 'days that 'gide by Are unnoticed ande,swift Wher-e the .birds sing their sweetest' And golden leaves drift Are boti6k than glory: -iild holds, For the man thit is old." Oh Memory! Memoky, thou hast _-ower to lift the veil and let the spirit Iead .us<batk to the fairy land of van isheyeus. In inemory, I am stand Augin the eopy .thir,ies 'on the hills where: afterwards dear wife and I jived4And lov9d. j"R4bed in the dreami light of dis Iant years, In clustered joys serene of other years Here friendship lights the fire and every-heart Sute of itself and .sure of all the rest Dares to be, true. As. I gaze, "Remembrance 'wake" with all her busy train'" and I see the siriall inviting, ,pretty dignified village, beautiful for -situation, nest ing betweeznthe cieeks, and inofuding Major Nanel's, the Academy,. Ban (1usiall and ,Cedar springs, fourteen springs, can you find them now? We see the Pornades hotel, the largest house in the 'viliage, the old court house, Nathan A. Hunter's and Cap taini Jack Caldwell 's on the hill south of thme village, the old locust tree and many; others. Of the tin)es that I now write about, t h6re' Aere only forty-six residences in the ,village. -.What a splendid peo ple were the inhabit ants. The vil 1age was the0 abidile plancel the most potent,moral anid religious sendment exacted in the people. ThI6 ten serv ed God and' their egiti-ty, were hon est7 hearty, ,elean ini 'ought and specem tbte frantic rushvfor wealth alm6st.lnliown,. and ife 'wns one of enjoy~otri'fwithoutt betravagance. 'Tis pleasant'tp remember them, the ma trons were sweet temperel, kiving.and lovely-7the. maidens were'"as %weet as ~rf%uned rnorni$g flo*ers, delicato as wild: roses, I9. flye or -six couples of lade arid 'lasseh 'splirg 'like pure sunsid4ef-riding, s~ihing>over' ghe roaden.tkglasses v,rtnos in their ra diant beautyr, nd frolicing in the destacy ? life p 'b npi'orming) g,hter~ aud hear full~ song, ~ on ;.te ot youthand imuy ow"'ae t aps'r gohe #b14y ' I~ he t~~ hirtids,h t~ ereldmy h~ )Rid of i clasidadrij TexAs yet iry this littb -village. of some 8ix bun drad white*p'egple, ther ire foi va i'ieties'of Methodists, . 2, : 1 rememibt t-wo love fed8ts in the oldet times in Newbgy. . tations wei'e full of 'love n 6n yoi dId not feel the brAznils of words without.em9tionl the Ifollov ess'of,eloquenna behind which )le 1no love. I- Old, time hymns (o -old time tunes sho6k the .ratArs: t.e were full of Christian love, such love ap Rev. Henry Drutinnond Aegoribes in his serrion on the greitestthing, '1.t was not ashing'of enthlisiastic emo tiori but v4s a rich, strong, vig9rou exbrOssion'of sound Cfiristian chauac teir, a palpitatingi.quivering, sensitive, living love." I It develops a sea of emotioh, and without emotion, no love, without love, no happineswl-io religion. Soipe shouted, others sat quiet hi the raptu're of repose. Some clap theirrhands, others, latigh an somd weep iViti 'tea's rolling from their eyes, laughter and tears are close companions, 'a few fainted. . There was a se4tle'rdnt of Scotch Irish, .who worshipped at Kings Creek, A. R. P. church; they were a God laying, pious people, learneI in Moses, the/Psalms, afid shorte.r cate elf1sm. The fxiled Scots settled in the north of Irefand, hence were called Scotch-Irish. "They we're a people more moved by logia. than rhetoric; more attract ive by ocute reasoning, .hin enthus lastic appeals." In an early day, the predominant roes in- Newberry were:Scotch-Irish, And th4t grA'elll eIman race (mis olled Putch); Y6i, oould tell a min's race by his n rne, 4ut -they so inter married 'that 6t",& iame i was no index to a mans. preA,ominant Ace. No wonder -by reasoi.,of thie 'tlio. the country-stood amo~ngathe- trist for in' telligenid- ep,ergy.inddstry and;moral excellence... Among the Scotch-frish Were the Crossons. Thomas,,_ffhe first one was the father of two Aons, Alexander anA John (my grandfather). Alexander' was the- proger'itor '. of thg King's Cr'eek Ciossons, and was a queer and good ;old iian. . Once ridirig.ui hasti ly to his 'son, he cried oit .in his wrath, "Oh Tom I oh 'Trn I Quoth Tom, "41 tat's the mafter .daddy.V' your sister Eli has run away and mar ried 1ill Price, and I ani going to the "Why your sister Ell has run away Hugh arid John, and foniitdaughters. Thomas wqs badly bqntI;..had large'in telligent features, w's a eouscientious indus trious, energetic Chistin- man, .drawi as a jnror for the term a' which Graham was to be. tried to stealing .J6 Caldwell's 'n*ro, the punishment being de4h. tJncle Ton' didn't kitow whether +e could 44, af a.juror in the ea'se -tMtil -he conilted Moses. In Exodus, 2S4t, chapter, 16th verse, he found that Moses,. wrote, "Andl he th'at stealeth a. .4pa and selleth him, or if'he be fond in his hands,'lhe surely .shall be put to death.'' He was then ready to try Graham. H'e ha~d one- son, James N., and two daughters, Margaret and Jane. ,I now leave my. kin, .but, will hereaftei' write morb about-'themn... There are three famnilie 'of Sloans, long Jimmie, elder at Head Springs and I6ng Jimmie's Jennie, ,hort Jin mie, elder ,at Cannon is i Creek arid Short !Jimmrie 's ,Yennie, Red , rech'es Jimrnie, bu't no 'Jennie. Sonie onIe . had robbed' Short Jim mie's potato bank. Twr nigroes, Is rael, belonging to the ;freacher, and Aaron to 'Mr. S.Th.pehr,, NetCoson and Ben McGraw were preserit; Israel acquitted' proof gainst Aaron w,Jfen S. proposed pray er.. S..announded ''Well,,Aaron, af ter takinigcounseh of~ ttfe Lord We find you guilty.'' Newt unrolled- - leather sti'ap, ltit- . Would have gn'omf it and With a bunch #f knottrdarnson 'pitungswiteltes, adniIistered to Aaior forty'lashes~ -If Isradi aid 'Agvn are livinig, tyiey will remember,. K"W. B$i)eWait, a-grandson of Tiep low Ilarris, wM ~t schoosji Nawbor ry when 'the way be'wL e f ated b.. an. Some timn'e atord ,li{re tut'ned to nis sh me .it46r . ij father t: ~Wl, ha& Qied in ,t r 0ay,* Virgli4i in lirst rogi ~ ~o&k Inf itj1W' oined c~4 A STBXOGAAP11tIR1'S1 rO' * 01 - DI1APPOiNTD kOP n men Attracted to 16* 1toj If Seroh' of Big Ba1ariso biid Great OP UtIit16i--.-_t6;W Pay ac id Wotk the Rule--adie offon rest'. Writteny One of Thell. Ne, Yrk, March 1O.-From sevei until.inine ip the morning you nMay set then; in the streets, on the suface cars, the6blevited, the subway, evei" where,in -fact, these'stenographirs 6j New York. They crowd out Of .tfig down-town elevated and subway sia. tions in great thiongs, and, haston ing feverishly along through the nar. row, crowded streets, are finally sudk. ed in by the yawning doors of the enormous buildings that. lower al each other deross the dirt 'and tumult of the street. From 'ive to seven at night they are again seen, pouring out of the great doors, crowdikig.,into. the stations, hangi,ng to str'ps in the 'trains and ears; until at last the business trafic subsides and they disappear, only tt turn up again on the following morn. ing at the accustomed place and time The are of all types and nationsli ties, young and old, pretty and plaihl stylish and shabby, gay a,d 'sombr last year on .oie acre he raised 2,2 w.atermelons, 'averaging forty poiinqs .in eight. (I send. you herevith" A Ilipping from a paper about it.) Twpthousa.d ard two hiin, dO termeloi, veighing- on, average ol foit pounds each, to on'e acre of land is a pretty. gopd crop for a dry yeat i Falls county.. That is the record kep.tby W. DoWalt who 'lives lleal Reagank Mr.;:PeWalf is sixty yesirs.old, say, e. 'hac been groi#ng *atermelons since he was 15 years of age, exdept. jng the time, he, was in the army-and he kiftws somethlug.'-abouit the melon business le'deelares this is the largest single iere crop he ever saw, though he does not claim.it to be the biggest 'one ever produced. Think of it,'eighty thousand pounds of melons to one acre of d,rtI That is forty-four tons' and about five' cai .loAds. The net pioceeds of the melons sold ooted up about$00.00, though therc wg some 700,f the melbns that wer( given awef. The'seed, planted was ,Alabami-i saweets, - r. DeWalt *ould like t( know si- nyother Falls county fAr. merI e4n show agood a yield for this year. W. 11. is a ine, intrlligent, indus trious, Chrisin man, and has a vera interesting family. I am pleas'ed t( count him as my friend. Sam Ken nerly has moved to Orangr andl I iss him much. No one to talt to about Newberry. As I grasped his hand to bidI him good-bye in the dusl of the evening, a little tear, trickled out of the corner of my left eye--my~ weeping-eye. . ''There is noe love like-.the good okl love, - The lbve that sweetheart gave na We are old, old men, yet we pin< again For .the precious grace--God savt S- us. So 'we dream ahd dream .of the 'good o.Id tinies And our. hearts grow, tenderer fonder' ' As those 4Mar oldl dreamsybiig sooth n geams . Of Heaven lway off yonder." 1. . -$%%M4-.riQng eti .foregoing t found 'th1 30 eh' ioton Post love feast tomibht'is lookedfftrwar( to 'vith mnuck"inItieres~t.''thit old eus 'tomn of. 'eat,ing bread and -water,' I custom- poeo9liat- to Methodism, seemi to-havo'gone out of fashio riin most oJ fthe. city churches, (eand mght hav4 added, in cour"ny eh.J)? I want us to g MhS ~a4ritbn Iqving comn n't1 a ahk1 old sor fioe bein rliere is the -tall, stylishly dressed attractive girl, and a'gain the weary mihle aged woman who hos lost her youth in the service. Many Women Attracted to Now York. A i-reat number of tfhese woien are, of c4ourse, native New Yorkers, but' there is a large and constantly grow mil percentage of women from the West and South, most of them stenog ralphers, who leave their honies, if they have ally, and cone here to' New York, attracted by the rumors of big salaries and great lfpportunties that are to be found here. Are there such, I wonder,Alnd if' so, how are they ob tainedI A girl eomes here, say from one of the Western towns, to look for work as stenographer. First of all she has -to '.t a roon anld arrange for board 'of some descriptiou. She discovers that. the very low est rate for which she can get board ald room is $7 a week, and it' she takes a room without board it will ,cost her not less than $3 a week, if it is fit to live in. Perhaps if her re ierve stock of money is very small ,sie decides that site cannot pay $3, and instead takes a room of the size of a large packing ease opening on an aiI' shaft, or lighted only by a sky light. There will not be ro6in in this box i:or anything more than a couch beil, a dresser and her trunk, and they are a tight fit. This new unexpected environment somewhat. depresses her at first, but she reels quite certain that it will be only temporary. Having unpacked her trunk and disposed of her be longings as well as possible in this limited space, she starts out to look ,or some of the "great opportuni Tricks of Agencies. Op-reading over the' advertisitIg 'Vohi:mns of the paper -she finds there. are'whole columns of "stenographers wanted,'.' and also whole eolumns' of stotogr4phers who want - work. She thitnks this is rather strange, but does noi allow her mind to dwell too much on. the. stnographers who want work and turps her whole attention to the people *iho want stenographers. Mst of these advertisers require an answer by letter. She writes a care fully penned and- worded reply to a promising advertisement that reads something like this: "'Splendid posi tion for educated, refined young wo man stenographer-liberal salary - to rigt person." In reply she receives a postal card asking her to call at So and So's agency, whither she at once betakes horself, hoping that this may prove to he a'mething good.- Arrived there she finds that the agent has only a $0 place vacant but is. expecti,ng, a splendid opening to occur shortly with a well kilown firm. If she will pay $1 as a registration fee the agetlt will consider himself under a po'rsonal obligation to find her just such a p)lace- as shte'desires, and she rnnst come tini agaih tomorrow' sulre. Whien she has gone thle bgent sets' to wvork to concoct another adver tisemteni, this timeI intended for the "Situations Wanted'' column. This new advertisomnent will read .some what 'after this fashion: A r'efIned, educated and( thorough hy exper'ienlced stenlographler, law., lit era ry, medical or' b)rokerage experi ence, wants position .with first-class firm. Moderate salary to start in.' The Average Luck. This prob)ably catches the eye of sofnebody in search of a stenographer,' then the agent' tries to brinig the two together. If lie stueceeds in.getting' themn to come to an agreerment the re suit is 'that thme girl takes-a place at a imuch smaller salary than Rho had been. willing to work for', and has to payg the proceeds of her' first -week 'n work. to the - ageiit who 'has been of such 'service' to her. . If lie does not sudeeed,.,thie girl gets no work> and t.rids again, probably p)ayinig$h t-o an othlUi agent or to two or three other agents OeeasionhtlIy,' of course, a gi )vhlo coia a.trandMer .to the'ecity. is luecky etiough. to drop into a wvell paying platp0p'ut suchl success is rarme. The unal o x erieiree is one of 'oAg hunt in' iAering adverti'sements, and cal ifo agencies, working in 'croiWd-. edi flees for $60 or $7 a:*e'ek; notable. to get somet iing beti ter, and %filer staying on there and degenerating Into a more typewriter drifdge, orwonstantly changing about in the vain hope each (itne that the change may be for the better. Unrest Among Stenographers. People outside of the city hear about the constant demand for sten ographers in New York; if they could catch a glimpse of the hundreds of iemployed women who throng the oflee of one typewriter company cv cry morning they might change their minds about this. Perhaps one cause of the prevalent opinion that stonog raphers are very much in demand here is the fact that there is constant unrest in the stenographic world. The workers are continually leav ing their places and seeking else where, only to repeat the performance when the'new place has, in its turn, become unbearable. It might be in teresting to know why this is so. "A fact to be noted first of all in re gard to this phenomenon is that it is not. the careless, incompetent and un educated stenographers who are con tinually eddying about in this un settled way, but. the superior class of workers, the educated, conscientious, intelligent., thoughtful women, who make it. a point to know their busi ness and are there to 'iorform it. This is the class of women who do keep their places. This, too, is, the class of women who after a time become anxious to get out oft stenography and the busi ness world altogether, and get into some other line of work that will take themn as far away from it as possible. 'Thi' main reasons for this are as fol lows. Low Pay; Careless Employers. First of all, as I have said, it is ex tremely difficult to got a place that pays .any sort of respectable salary. IThe little- eighteen-year-old NeW -York girl who lives with tier paFents ids it about all she can do to dress and buy lumiches and car fare on. the salary- that is paid I her. What then is the girl to do 'who is entirely de pendent upon herself, and has to pay for board and lodging at New York rates? The superior wonmu stenographer hears that there is a great call for eduneated and cip'iscientiotus workers in New York and she hastens here only to find that her class is entirely swamped by the overwhelming iluni hers of illiterate, and.often careless mid empty-headed young girls, most of them having homes in th'e city, who are glad to work for $6, $7 and $8 a week. She finds, moreover, that the aver age New York business man is not penetrating enough to distinguish be twen her .and the members of this latter class; and that even if he did he would not be inclined to give lier any preference, as he himself is usual ly most sadly lacking in education; and since he does not know enough to use goodl English himself, or wr'ite a properly constructed let.teri, he can searcely be expected to know whether his stenographer does so or not. Whati lie requires is rapidity, the ability, in fac.t, to do two per'son 's work, and if the appllicant is very rapidl, both in heor stenography and her typewvriting, shte may perhaps get a business position that is fairly re munerative. But un fortunately many such biusiness positions are accompa nied by grave disadvantages. Lower Pay; Better Surroundings. The ofilco is probably noisy and dlirty and. constantly invaded by men who smoke, vile tobheco, wear their hants, trangress every rule of gramma'if and lelntifully sprinkle their conver sgtion with .slmang and profanity. If they have occasion to address her they do so in an offhand, impersonal way .as. though she wvere a machine put there for general"ne, or in a person at way that is infhifitely more off'ens Iv~e. Ont the o,ther' hand, it' our1 stenmog r'aphler Bnds that she cannot stand t:his atmosphere, and takes a place in the cditorial departmint of some pub hishing house, or as private secretary to some man engaged in educational or literary work or something of that description, while she finds the sur roundings more congenial and less trying to her nerves 4nd sensibilities, Mho also finds that the dlaty litnin ishes in proportion as the surround. ings improve. In addition to this, she knows that no matter what sort of place she takes or how long shq stays in it she can never rise to be anything but a sten ographer. She may be a very inteill gent and eiipable woman, but no mat ter how much she gets to know about the business she will still have to sit and take letters from the dictation of some cigar smoking assistant man ager who perhaps knows a good deal less about it tha n she. Poorly TrAined Stenographro. One hears constant complaints on the part of business men of the care lessness and unreliability of stenog raphers, and,- although there are In New York thousands upon thousands of conscientious, hard working, cap. able girls, who earn a great deal more than they get, yet it is undoubtedly a fact that there are thousands upon thousands of stenographers who are not worth their salt. But there'is no telling what they might be if they were properly educated and prepared for their work, and- then sufficiently paid for their services and treated in a proper, busipess-like manner. The trouble just at present seems to be that a girl is forced out into the world before she has any weapons wherewith to flghit it, or even defend herself rI hm it. SlI Ino soio gets fhiow.H le u11bile selhool whicb, good ness knows, tenlihes her lit lo enough than she is sent to a budinies college for three or six months, and is then considered fully equipped to earn her living. Thereupon a business man, who wants to get his work done for next to nothing, engages her as steno grapher; and then 1he finds that the work is done badly he feels himself immensely injured and bitterly voices his complaint from the housetop. This, sopt . of things, might .be par donable. if it existed o'nly among fai illes that really could not afford, to. give their daughters better advant ages; but such is not the case.. L know of one man who.is 4 college pro fessor drawing a good income; whose (inughter, aged 17, is a stenographer in a dowin-town olice on a salary of $7 a week. Daughters of the Well To Do Who Work. And such eases are not at all rare the ranks of stenographers are not by any mecanis recruiited exclusively. from poor families. It seems to be the ac celited thing .just now among all class es, except the very rich, that as soon as the daughters are equipped, be it ever so poorly, to eari a livelihood they are sent out to do so, and the fathers who brought . them into the world- 'consider themselves thence-' forth freed from all responsibility. Girls, too, are impatient to get out and "earn their own living," for of coirse, the father and brothers are earning much less than they would be dloing if there were no women in the bunsiness worl, andi hen1ce the girl feels that it. is as muchl her duity as it is her brother's to start out and sup. porlt hlerself. A person who dloes not -ml lihoult among business05 omDees can~ have no( ideaj of' theO immnense numlfberS of womienl that are employed iln them. t know of onie publ)1ishinig hlouse onl 'Twenuty-t hird st reel. that does a fairly hirge plihin lg bIusiness1. In tihe com11 binied dlepartments of this -place,- with the exception of tile shlipp)ing depart - ment, there are three males employed, the publisher himself, the business mianager andl tile ofie boy. The rest of' the wyork is done by about forty women, who work there (lay after day for .$5, $6, $7, $8 and perhlaps as hlighI as $12 a week, andl the two wo men wholl oversee them got $15 each. Woman's Rush Into Business. I do not intendl to enlarge here upon the, great social problem that this condition of affairs entails, nor On the sort of pr'epa rat ion, physical, mental and1( mloral, that11 it is giving to the wos menI whio are' to lbe the wives of'tis genierationi and the mnothiers of the niext. WVhat f have aimed to dlo in thlis airticl e is merely to enumerate the facts and let each person who reads it diraw his own conclusions. A few years ago when women first started going into business life in great numbers there was plenty of very fine talk.floating about regatd ( ontinned on R'ometh Par - -