The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, March 16, 1906, Image 1
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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
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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 - -